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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
Mill Construction In 1904,

Out of 4S new mills constructed in the year just completed 26 were built in the south and 22 in the north, but the new southern mills contain almost nree times as many spindles as the orthern mills. North Carolina built
 mills; South Carolina, ': Georgia. ?; Iaryland, g. Virginia, 2, and Alabama,
 louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, 1 ach-total, 26 Not since 1898 have few spindles been added in the { purse of year, 216,656 all told, as gainst 1,S06,7S4 in the year 1900.
 Besides the new cotton mills eigh- zen new knitting mills were built last ear in the south, thirteen of them in le two Carolinas, and only one in
 labama. Our new cotton mill is the de" at Jacksonville, containing II, DO spindles. Our solitary knitting ? i'll was built at Gadsden, the Adams, , ad in it are ten knitting machines. ] esides these two additions, 1900 more
 ,indles were installed in the Adelaide ! ill at Anniston; 10000 in Lowe MiA o. at Huntsville, and the Central ill at Sylacauga was doubled. All id ae gained perhaps S0,000 spindles ] 1904.
 We should do better this year. Many ,. town in this state can build mill ? readily as Jacksonville did Talla-
 aga has shown how home capital can lild mills and conduct them profit
 ply. There is nothing tentative in ie industry. Every feature of it has
 cen tested in the south, even in Ala ana, and all that any county needs i.l order to build mill is a leader of
 lergy, in whom the people of the
 ,unty has confidence. Given such a an, mill will be forthcoming with
 Ut difficulty or delay. A practical
 lperintendent can be procured in any ill town in the Carolinas or in Geor- la, or even in this state. Huntsville
 as plenty of men who can success lily conduct a 10,000-spindle mill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
Birminuham's Bright Prospects.

Never perhaps has this town and district taken up work in new year under more promising auspices than those of today. The iron market IS in a remarkably healthy condition. The manufacture of steel in this district is no longer in an experimental stage, and we are fast passing from pigs and billets to various forms of manufae- tured goods The rails we make are pronounced excellent; our pipe goes to all parts of the country, and over fifty cupolas are turning crude metal into other final and merchantable shapes. This may be said to be our chief am bition at present.
 This entire district is, however, in its preparatory stage-its swaddling clothes as it were. For when the Pan anna canal is dug and the Warrior Is opened the year round, we will Wit ness a development in this district far beyond all dreams of today This will become in fact a second Pittsburg, based like that town upon the great commercial metal and upon an abund- ant fuel supply. What the town and the district is, is but an outline of what is to be-but sketch of industry and activity that the mind alone can fill in.
 The centrality of Birmingham in the cotton states will yet make this town town of trade as we'll as of industry. No other city in the south is so central in the thirteen cotton states, North Carolina and Virginia being just about as distant as Texas and Indian Terri tory. No other city is in fact centrally located. No other has the railroad systems of the south, and no other has more enterprising merchants or more capable bankers. Birmingham will soon become national bank reserve city. a great money center, and it will almost certainly become distributive point of all sorts of merchandise.
 Here will be gathered hundreds of merchants, and those merchants will here meet the local distributors of the great cotton south. This development is just beginning to be felt, and 1t will go on gathering momentum from year to year. 1t is mistake to consider this city an iron and steel center only. Iron and steel are magnets that will attract trade of all sorts.
 The development of the trade and industrial possibilities of this district falls upon an enterprising people drawn from many states and even from many countries, and as a body they are splendidly equipped for the great task they have in hand. Here they will build a trade and industrial center that will be to the south what Pittsburg has long been to the north,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
Business in the Dead Year.

What a singular year 1t was! It ln- herited depression from 1903, and it retained its inheritance throughout the first half of the year--up to, in fact, the holding of the presidential conven' tions of the two big parties
 Ordinarily presidential years are dull years in trade circles, but as soon as the nominees had been named business began to revive, and it kept on reviv- ing to the end or the year until it be- came at least a mild boom in iron and steel and railroads. and a fine prospect for nearly everything else. It began before it was known that great crops would be harvested. When the coun- try knew it possessed unprecedented crops of corn and cotton the tide Of prosperity was well advanced, and the great crops served to render the tide more sweeping and general. Nothing apparently COulu stay lue lSNlNdl III business. More gold went out than came in, and yet no one paid any at tention to that fact. A great strike occurred at Fall River, and yet it was maintained. No one took it seriously, any more than they did the president ial election. Steel common, which sold in June at S34, was advanced to about 50 before the end of the year. New York Central which was sold down to IA is now worth 142, and so on throughout the list. The blast furnaces and steel mills are crowded to meet the demand, and we turn into 1905 be- lieving that a fine revival of industry and business is before us-one that promises to stay with us several years if we do not aDuse or overwork it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
PART THAT IS PLAYED BY
 THE ISRAELITE IN FICTION

he impresses me as but a forced and me- chancal palinode.
 Quite the best description in pure fic- tion of one of the Jewish race by an English author is MT. Hichens' Amala Wolfstein, with her keen pawnbroking eyes, Decidedly the most piquant sub Ject for satire, however, is the West end Jew engaged in sloughing his East end origin. The wholly civilized Jew is proud, or, at any rate, not particularly ashamed, of his race; 1t is with the semi civilized that the rub lies; and whoever has read MT. Zangwills Children of the Ghetto" must inevitably appreciate the grotesque though heroic endeavors of the Jewish parvenu to be more English than the English themselves, one of the most splendid exhibitions to be found in the whole range of comedy. rather differ ent aspect of this phase is seen in a re- cent German novel called "Werther der Jude,' by Herr Jacobowski in which the hero Is obsessed by so morbid and exaggerated a sensltiveness on the score of the shortcomings of the race to which he had the misfortune to belong that eventually he commits suicide.
 In contrast with these more or less prosaic aspects stands tho mystic and idealistic elements of the Jewish char acter, which have found sympathetic. but rarely adequate, interpretation George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, in spite of all his romance, is but a stiff and pompous prig. More living Is Wasser- mann's Agathon Geer, the imaginative revolutionary all afire with the reform CTS ardor. It Is a Frenchman, however, M. de Donnay, who has given us the most poignant delineation of Jewish idealist, in his description of Judith in 'Le Retour de Jerusalem" of her val iant, if unavailing, endeavors to live for her co-religionists.
 But after all, idealism and materialism gre but the two extremes of Israel's character. In truth, he is harmonious compound of them both. He is gifted with imagination, but he takes care to employ it for some practical purpose. It is the Jew militant and triumphant in conflict with the Gentle, who should be the real subject for the novelist. Dis raei's Sdonia Is the complete and per- feet Jew. He is success incarnate. In the same category comes Mrs. Craigie's sketch of De Zeuill, the wealthy. pow erful Spanish baron, ito whom kings and emperors, powers and dominions were as pawns in the great struggle between Jew and Gentle." Of coarser fiber, yet full of significance and remarkably true to life, are Mir. Pinero's Frederick Mall donado and Gyp's Baron Sinai. But for the most brilliant study of a Jew we have to leave the domain of pure f1c- ton for MT Meredith's interpretation of the story of Ferdinand Lassalle in 'aThe Tragic Comedians" After all can fiction do full justice to the Jew? The romance of Israel, the pathos. the poetry. the tragedy, the comedy, all are written in the book of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
Could Shoot Them Any Way.

'I was very much amused at an old hunter down at Fayette the other day. said Alderman Harry Jones yesterday "The old man was standing near the station looking at the train and on his shoulder he carried an old fashioned mug gle loading shot gun. At his side a string of 25 or 30 quail. A drummer friend of mine asked the olo man if there was much game in the surrounding country.
 oh yes, there's heaps of it, lacon- ically answered the old man."
 You are pretty good shot aren't you? asked the drummer.
 Jes only tolerable," replied the old man.
 That's pretty good gun isn't it?' and right there he touched the old mans pride
 It sho is dandy said the old man, as he petted the fowlng piece affection ately, she can get um anywhere
 Do you shoot them on the wing, asked the drummer
 Oh yes, I shoots them on the wing the tail, leg or anywhere else; 1t don't make much difference to me-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
East Alabama Is Hurt.

East Alabama Is badly hurt on ac- count of the slump In cotton prices,
 said J. II. Smith of Coosa county yes terday. As result of the fall in prices business Is almost paralyzed- Those merchants who have cotton on hand are afraid to dispose of 1t now and farmers are not in a hurry to market what crop they have on hand. The prevailing price for cotton is now about cents' and as many trades were made in anticipation Of and 10 cent cotton you can imagine what confusion exists I was very much surprised to learn that some farmers at Macon were burning their cotton. l un- derstand, however, that only one bale wt 5 burnt and that by a crowd of men having Q good time Christmas. Every little bit counts and there is no use in wasting our product. It would be necessary to burn 100000 bales to do any good and I don't know of anybody so inclined"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
THE WATCH ON THE RHINE.

By Max Sehneckenburger. A voice resounds like thunder-peal, Mid dashing waves and clang of steel 'The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhinel
 Who guards today my stream divine?" Dear Fatherland, mo danger thine; Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine! !! They stand a hundred thousand strong Quick to avenge their countrys wrong; With hlial love their bosoms swell They'll guard the sacred landmark we'll! Dear Fatherland, no danger thine; Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine.
 The dead of a heroic race From Heaven look down and meet their gaze;
 They swear with dauntless heart, 70 Rhine,
 Be German as this breast of mffep' Dear Fatheriand, no danger thine Firm stand iny sons to watch the Rhine!
  Our oaths resounds, the river flows, In golden light, our banner glows; Our hearts will guard thy stream divine; The Rhine the Rhine, the German Rhine! Dear tFatherland. no danger thine; Firm ktand thy sons to watch the Rhine!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01

" B. cambell of Atlanta Is at the Morris.
 J. A. Hill of collinsville is at the Met ropolitan.
 B. S. Chambers of Carbon Hill is at the Metropolitan.
 D. R. Stewart of Tuscaloosa is at the Millman.
 T. S. Lodge of tuscaloosa is at the Hillman.
 J. M. Smith of Little Rock is at the HIlman.
 J. R. Hunter of Curnee Is at the St. Nicholas.
 I. w. Reckard p4 Johns is at the St. Nicholas.
 John S. Blount of Waynesboro Ga, is a the St. Nicholas
 c. O. MeGuirk of Atlanta is at the Co., lonial.
 Dr. c. H. Sherwood of Gadsden is at the Colonial.
 Charles Hit of Louisville is at the Colonial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
CHADWICkIAN PROVERBS.
, Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 word to the guys Is sufficient
 Many man is long on dollars and short on sense.
 The best signature for note Is that of a man of note.
 It takes a woman to unmake the man who is made of dust"
 Man is judged by his works and woman by her ability to worK him.
 A 5000 bank note In the hand is worth two $50O,000 notes in the safe.
 It is quite impossible to rob Peter to pay Paul-if your name is Paul.
 Credit no man with his good intentions; make hime come up with the long green. Had Mother Eve been up to date what fool she'd have made of that serpent
 woman can make of fool of almost any many is nature doesn't get the start of her.
 Old Noah wasn't much of a fnancier but he knew enough to go in when it rained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01

N ROM the time it was first pro- EO posed to admit the territories of Arizona and New Mexico into the union great hue and cry has prevailed among fanatics in New Mexico who do not want the new state to be named Ari- zona. Obviously, sectional and local jeal- ousy was at the bottom of the whole matter, but the fight Is still being kept up and some of the suggestions offered would make ones hair crimple. New Mexico is obviously impossible. In the first place it is too long, Is awkward and is so lacking in euphony that no one, not even the rankest partisan, could contend that 1t is a good name for the new state. In order to dispose of New Mexico without conferring the honor on "Ari- zona," .Irrigatia, 'Irrigante," 'Trriga" and "Montezuma' are proposed One i'm beetle thinks that "Arizonexico" would be just right. They would have "Irrigatia" and the other notifications of the word because irrigation is now playing a prom inent part in the development of the arid west New Mexico and Arizona included. Montezuma" is not so bad and is a
 
 glory at the time when Cortez achieved his conquest, but those other monstrosi- ties are not to be considered for a min ute. Arizona" whether Spanish or h. dian in origin, is the name that ought to be chosen. It is picturesque, falls pleasantly upon the ear and is sugges- tive of the peoples who first held sway on the terrltory's rather uninviting plains. However, if we can't have Arizona" 'Monteznma" is preferable to "Irrigatia. ," A rural poet already hears ''The Voice of Spring While genius should always be encouraged, 1t is rather early yet for even echoes of spring. What people are really listening for down south is the gruff voice of old Father Winter, who never fails to send us a chilAng blast, all though his powers often fail him in ihe land of cotton and the boil weevil
 It Is rumored that Mrs Cassie L. Chad wick will enter a plea of insanity when her case comes to trial It may be all right as a legal procedure to pretend that she is crazy, but she will have hard time convincing the public of that fact l An eastern contemporary remarks that there is no necessity for southern papers to wax effusive over the poems of Father Ryan. While the lines of the poet priest are lofty In sentiment and undoubtedly l good poetry. there are a few other writers to be reckoned with before Father Ryan is proclaimed the greatest of south err poets. Paul Hayne, Walt Whitman Sidney Lanier and few others did very well at the craft. Although there is some truth in the contention that the first place among southern poets is open to discussion, that Is no reason why the movement to erect monument to Father Ryan In Mobile should be abandoned It l is a good cause.
 Hear the astute politician give out an interview without saying anythingi This art of talking to a newspaper re- porter for half an hour, an hour or an | hour and a half on an absolutely non- committal basis is an art not easily ac- l quired but an art that is invaluable in l politics. Behold the man who under
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

stands how to be interviewed and you will see a successful politician. He is either a boss" or so able that he can afford to be independent of machine. Senator Platt was requested for his views on the solution of the Depew-Black con- test for the senate in New York. The astute old gentleman was asked four questions of more than passing impor- tance. He replied to each of them, but he did not answer one Senator Platt is recognized as a very skillful old bird in matters political, but when he Is in the hands of the interviewers he is truly great.
 Judge Parker has just lost the first case he has argued before the state court of appeals since his retirement from the bench. Judge Parker seems to have con tracted the losing habit He has also parted with Mary Jane,o the mascot of Esopus and the bright, particular star of the judges ioclx-a lamb that was without a peer.
 A Chicago man-Wilbur M. Poe-has written a letter to Acting Governor Gun ningham of Alabama, saying that every state in the union ought to pass law making it a felony to present the play Uncle Toms Cabin" Now if the gen. tleman from Chicago is inspired by re- gard for the "drammer s" welfare and desires that generations 10 come snail be spared the ordeal of witnessing "Tom- mera he will receive the cordial support of all theatregoers in the land-those who revel in musical comedy, as well as those who can appreciate something higher, It is probable that no other play has ever been ''butchered' more times by incom- petent companies and has elicited the talents of more second-rate Thespians than Uncle Toms Cabin" unless it be East Lynne" and ',rhe Two Orphars.' Therefore, as an unsightly outcroDping of the dramatic garden, Uncle Toms Cabin" should be eliminated. There can be doubt that the nation would well come it's departure. But the Chicago re- former has a different idea. He objects to the play because it infers that slaves were killed because they were good. In spirit of candor he says that slaves were not killed because they were good-be- cause they were bad, presumably-and the whole story is libel on the south Per haps this interesting individual has just awakened from a long nap rivaling Tn duration the doze enjoyed by Rip Van Wrinkle in the Catskills Some one ought to tell him that the Uncle Toms Cabin' matter-both the novel and the play-was thrashed over some time ago.
 Because a comedian wore green whisk- CTS and thus hurled insult in the very teeth of Erin's noble sons, he has been denied the privilege of playing in a New York theatre Some people don't know how to take a joke Of course nearly everybody knows that there are no green whislkers in Ireland, or in any other part of the world, so far as ethnologists have been able to discover Green whiskers are merely a conceit of the stage, a pleasing Advertisement inspired by the national hue of the Emerald Isle Because an Irish comedian wears green whiskers does not imply that real lrishmen have to wear them, but the manager was cautious, and he was not going to take any chances of losing his Irish patrons.
 PAUL, COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
Burning Cotton in Georgia.

The farmers of Fort Gaines, Ga.. who burned in the course of Christ mas frolic, single bale of cotton, started a fire that shone around the country at least, if not around the world. The festive ones, fortunately for themselves, had not ordered their clipping bureau to send all editorials printed about the fire they danced around, else they would have been deluged with slips, and their un'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01

From the New York Press.
 A man can go on loving a good deal longer than he can go on making love
 A man who thinks he understands wo- men is just as likely as not to invest his money in perpetual motion invention.
 man doesn't want to give his photo- graph to a girl and pretends he does; a girl wants to and pretends that she doesn't.
 It's awfully nice the way a girls hand can seem to be getting away from yours, and yet all the time be smuggling in closer.
 A girl is never sure she was a suc- cess at a ball unless some man tries 70 get her off into screened corner where she ought not to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
Newsboy Prosperous.

q began selling papers in Birmingham the first of April, and my total profits for the nine months ending this morn ing. have amounted to little over $lbO'' said bright newsboy last night.
 .I have spent s25 of this amount for my clothes. but the other $125 I have placed in the bank I intend to add to this saving until I get enough to educate myself.
 ..I expect to clear s200 during the year 1905" continued the boy, "and, if business holds out as it has for the past three months, I have no fears but that my savings will go over $20O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
KISSING IN THE THEATER.
rom te New York Press.

From te New York Press.
 New York audiences still decline to hiss, which fact may account for the rotten ress of most O. our dramas. Formerly there was no hissing in the theatre. The benevolent audience were content to yawn and fall asleep. The invention of missing is no older than 1880, and took place at the first representation of ''Aspar," a tragedy of Fonteneile. So we are told by the poet Roi in his "Brevet de la Calotte." farce was produced in Ban nister's time under the title of Fire and Water" q predict it's fate" said he. What fate?" said the anxious author at his side. What fate?' said Bannister; why. what can fire and water produce but biss7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
Hiuh Class Music.

There was a dearth of high-class music in Birmingham last season, but several great attractions are booked for the Jef- ferson theatre this winter, among them the Savage Opera company, in Tam hauser"; Paderewski, the worlds most famous pianist, and Melba, one of the worlds most phenomenal singers.
 Prices will not be exorbtant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
IN HOTEL LOBBES
Practical Cotton Picking Machine.

rfactieal cotton Picking Machine.
 There is cotton-p picking .achine now being tested throughout tke country" said Robert P. McDavid yesterday that seems destined to revolutionize the cot ton growing industry. Up to this time all of the cotton picking machines have been built on the theory that the machine itself could pick the cotton without the guid- anee of human hands. As a result ma chimes were built which would strip cot ton. bolls and all from the stalk and then 1t was just as difficult to separate the cotton from the trash.
 ''fhe inventor of this new machines has gone on the theory that a machine could be built by which cotton could be picked with the assistance of human hands and direction. This machine has a seat on each corner of what looks like a large wagon bed. There must be one man for each corner, and one to drive, making it necessary to use five men in the operation of the machine. At each of these cor ners is a flexible suction pipe of great force. The man on the corner minipulates this pipe and points at the bolls of cot ton The cotton is sucked from the boil perfectly clean and is carried to q recep- tacle in the wagon. The suction arrange ment is similar to that used by gins in lifting cotton from wagon beds. It has been shown that one of these ma chimes with five men can do the work of forty ordinary cotton pickers.
 While this machine is not yet perfect 1 believe it is destined to revolutionize the cotton growing industry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
WITH OTHER EDITORS.

Although it's plant was destroyed by fire last Wednesday morning. the Birming- ham Labor Advocate was issued on time yesterday. The Advocate has just com pleted its fifteenth year and Is one of Birminghams most successful weekly papers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01

and they will do 1t with an indomitable will and courage that does not admit of failure. In the year begun today the work will go on, and unless all signs fail the close of the year will roll up additions and extensions and arrangements that will make power fully towards the goal all see and are faithfully striving to reach.