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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

Much, of course, depends upon the ore
used Furnaces that melt rich ores
naturally produce more than the fur
naces that use lean ores, some not av-
eraging more than 80 per cent of iron.
The Iron Trade Review thinks the
London estimate of $4,000 tons from
an American furnace in 1908 is erron-
eous. 1t thinks the error grew out of
the heavy reduction in the number of
sacks in blast at the close of 1903,
and that when everything is consid-
erel the average annual production of
an American stack should be put at
81 ,256 tons, or about 165 tons day.
There are several furnaces In this
country that make more than 300 tons
day, or something over 10S,000 tons
year, but the number of such fur
naces Is not great, because almost ev-
cry stack must be out of blast about
two months In every year on account
of refining or other repairs. A fur
mace in this district that has an av-
erage output the year round of 200
tons, or $4,000 tons year, would be
great producer, and would probably
win the first prize of the district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
Southern Influences at Washinuton.

The Age-Herald prints this morning
an article showing among other things
that up to the time of the civil war
this country was dominated by south
ern influence. In President Madison's
two administrations every cabinet
portfolio was filed by southern men,
and every subsequent cabinet down to
the civil war period contained south
ern men. That was the formative pc
Rod of the republic, and the record of
southern statesmen In that period can
not be erased without celebrating the
best achievements of our public life.
The civil war decided that the couIl-
try is to be one indivisible whole. to
the end of the republic, which, let us
hope, will be the end of time. That
war did not take away the qualities
in southern men that We're beneficial
to the republic In the seventy years
that preceded the war The qualities
they brought to the public service then
are as available now, and 1t seems to
be as unjust to the republic as well as
to the south itself to shut out from the
so ss-nment the sols of the IL en- who
had 1rcved themselves IN the first
seventy years of the country exist
ence capable, honest and efficient
Mr.. Roosevelt, whose mother was
southern born and bred, is President
of exceptional strength and independ-
ence, and he seems to be the man and
this seems to ne the occasion when
the boycott of southern zen In the
ma CT al government sh ,G.1 be called
off. A start in an impartial national
direction Should a. any rate be in
Gugurated. Tie south I'D. it is true,
representation r. the Cleveland cabi-
nets, but aside from that this wide
section of the country has in the forty
years that have elapsed since the war
been largely outlawed and alienized.
This is unjust and, what is more, 1t Is
un-American, and the republic certain.
ly is not benefited by depriying its
great cotton-growing section of due
political representation In It's coun-
ellis. Especially should sectionalism be
abolished in the cabinet, and there
should be someone in that inner body
who would speak for and represent the
land Of Washington and Jefferson and
Jackson and Monroe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
You shall mark
Fever in Conecuh County.

Castleberry is located on the line of
In the midst of strawberry fields. It
Is south of Evergreen, in Conecuh
county, near the line of Escambia
county. The distance from it to Pen
sacola, Mobile or Montgomery is about
one hundred miles.
How the infection was transported
to the strawberry lands of Conecuh is
net as yet disclosed. Two deaths have
occurred, and no doubt new source
of the fever-a focus-has been estab-
lished, but focus In the late days of
October does not mean that sub-foci
will be reported amid the fields that
yield the luscious fruit of April and
May.
Florida has quarantined against
Conecuh and Escambia counties, and
Georgias new quarantine order in
cludes Mobile, Baldwin, Monroe, Con
ecuh, Covington and Escambia coun-
ties. The Mississippi quarantine
against Mobile and Whistler still
stands.
The state guarantees are whimsical
at the best. There is no rhyme or
reason in them. Mobile Is as free
from fever as Atlanta or Jackson, and
yet both Georgia and Mississippi have
declared it infected.
Mobile itself should lead in the
movement to substitute through con-
gressional action sanity in quarantine
regulations for ecce-tricity and local
favoritism. Mobile can no longer af-
ford to decker over the banana trade.
1t has better things to handle than
bananas, and the fantastic guarantees
will cause it, no doubt, to second the
movement that looks to national pro-
lection against disease at the ports
conducted with fairness to all inter
ests and all cities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
he Unitarians,

Inc action of the executive committee
or the lnterchurch conference to be held
In New York next month barring Uni
tartan delegates is naturally causing lively
discussion In religious circles" said lay
man.
Il have not heard any of Birmingham
ministers express their views on the stu
alton, but l can readily imagine that the
majority of the clergy throughout the
United States will uphold the committee
While all well informed persons know
that the Unitarian society is distinguished
for its high moral standard and for the
scholarship of its ministers, the fact that
untarians reject the doctrine of the Trim
ity, and therefore deny the divinity of
Christ would. 1t seems to me, make Uni
tartan delegates out of place In a body
called together for the purpose of defend
ing evangelical Christianity and stimulat-
ing revival of faith in Trinltarian
dogma.
THE Unitarians are sometimes said to
be the successors of the Arians of the
fourth century but strictly speaking this
Is not true. Arus, the presbyter, who
threw the early church into commissions,
believed in the divinity of Christ, but
opposed the doctrine that the Son was
equal to the Father. The Unitarians of
the seventeenth century had gone many
steps beyond the Arians and the advanced
school of Unitarianism of today Is ex-
tremely rationalistic.
1.-THE Unitarans as a denomination
have always been numerically weak but
intellectually strong. Altruism has always
been ruling principle with Unitarians
and from human point of view, no
higher minded, no more philanthropic peo-
Pile ever lived. The Unitarian society of
this country has given us such men as
Charming, Longfellow. Emerson, Haw-
thorne and Lowell. Yet when 1t comes to
church affiliation do not think the Uni
tarians should take umbrage because they
are not admitted to the Interchurch con-
ference"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THINGS OF
INTEREST ABROAD AND AT HOME

cost the other seeking rest and recreation
VINO are extravagant to prodigality
.Parisians like Americans. They make
Paris in the dull summer morths. The
cafes theatres park resorts and other
places are filled with them. The Partisan
cafe, as rule, expects the American to
kick about his bill, and as a consequence
adds on several francs which, when the
Kick comes, are taken off with profuse
apologies. If there is no kick, the amount
remains and is put in the category of
an extraordinary profit
In London not so many overtures are
made to Americans. They are accented as
they come, but are not made much ado
about. Yet in August and September, were
1t not for Americans, London hotels would
not be profitable
In former days prices were moderate
In London and Paris, but today they are
almost as high as they are in New York.
Indeed. the general trend of prosperity
seems to prevail there as here, and one
who wants the best must pay for 1t just
as one pays in New York.
or matters political the absorbing sub
Jects in England in September were the
offensive and defensive alliance between
England and Japan and the entente cor
dial between England and France. BY
virtue of the first. England will materially
strengthen herself in the far east, and
will really. in a measure, be the domi-
nant factor In trade in that section OF
the world. The latter means thorough
friendship-as far as such can be-between
England and France. In Russia's defeat
France has almost dropped her and be-
come exceedingly friendly with England
As to America, all of England and
France, according to the press of the two
countries, is ringing with the praise of
Roosevelt for his success In bringing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
HUMAN HAIR STOCKINGS.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
They were black stockings, thick, stift,
iustrous and the price mark on them was
SIS.
from China the dealer said. "From
northern China. Every family has a few
pairs of human hair stockings there.
iney are worn over the cotton stockings
they are too prickly to be worn next to
the skin--and, properly treated they last
a lifetime.
THE Chinese exporter who sold me
these stockings said that when a child's
hair Is shaved In Northern China the hair
is preserved in a special hairbox of lac
quer. As soon as the box is full enough
the hair Is taken from 1t and pair of
stockings is woven. Such stockings have
sentimental, almost a religious value,
and they are rarely parted with.
1T would be safe to say that there are
not six other pairs of hair stockings on
sale in America"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
Big Questions Before CONGRESS.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt's annual mes
sage and public sentiment will as
suredly fill the calendars of Congress
with big bills. These matters will
certainly come up in one form or an
other:
l. The deficit.
2. Tariff revision.
.. Railroad rate regulation and re-
bates
4. Campaign contributions.
5. Supervision of insurance.
6. Reciprocity treaties.
T. Santo Domingo.
8. Venezuela
3. Peace by arbitration.
The list may be doubled when all
the returns are in, and the White
House return will surely place some
new and interesting issues on the con-
gressional calendars. AS things look
now Congress will have so many big
questions before it excuses can read
lily be invented for deferring and final
~ defeating all of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

7 SEEMS natural to get back into har-
ness again and talk to people you
know, even If you do have to put it
in cold type. 1t has been more than two
months since have been able to say
what really think. But a rest is a very
good thing at times. and especially when
one gets far away from home.
Well, l met lots of Birmingham people
over in London and Paris. They all
looked like they wanted to get back to
Birmingham. My old friend, b. NJ. Allen,
was over there trying his American
French on Partisan storekeepers with
the usual result-10 per cent increase on
all prices for his efforts at French; when
if he had spoken plain English they
would have understood him better and
the prices would have been normal.
William Frye Tebbetts, the collector OF
the port of Mobile, was not great sue
cess in Paris. but was prime favorite
with the London West End tailors.
And Erskine Ramsay, that prince OF
good fellows, came within an ace of being
knghted in Great Britain. AS matter
of fact there are almost as many Frs
kines and Ramsays in Burkes Peerage az
any other family in Great Britain.
Charles McCreery was there also, study
ing Austrian steel making methods and
incidentally having a good time.
1t really appeared in both London and
Paris, In August and September, that all
the south was there. 1t was admitted at
one time that 100000 Americans were in
Paris and fully 10000 of them were from
the south. There were not enough steam
ships to bring them home, and many had
to wait from one to two months TO get
passage back.
One finds two classes of Americans IN
Pars-one of the touring variety who
want to see everything at the minimum
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

ABOUT peace between Russia and japan.
Roosevelt is looked upon in both Eng
land and France as one of the great men
of the world
nut atter all our Birmingham is really
the greatest place in the world. No other
place on the American continent, or any
other continent, has progressed as Biz
mingham has In the past several months.
Iron Is high, cotton Is high, and Rir-
mingham real estate is in greater de-
mand than at any time in the history of
this community. The Illinois Central com
ing into Birmingham means much for the
district. Already its investments here
have been far up in the hundreds of thous-
ands; and two additional steel n,ants
two pipe plants and number of other
big industries, besides office buildings
and hotels, are Immediately prospective.
In this connection, 1t may not be amiss
to incidentally mention the fact that the
iron companies of the district are be-
coming jointly owned, and that some very
large expenditures are contemplated in
the near future. The railroad and man
ufacturing interests are getting closer to-
sether' and very large allied investments
TO the material benefit of the district are
in view
really one of the best things about
birmingham Is the street improvements
now being made. If they continue. Bir-
mingham will be as attractive as a resi-
oehce town as 1t now is as a business
community.
at any rate the more seen of other
places the better Birmingham appears
to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
Christmas lows.

"Children's toys are coming into the
market rapidly now" said well known
Chicago toy salesman at the Hotel Hill
man yesterday. "As the Christmas sea-
son approaches dealers in the things that
delight children will be loading up their
shelves, for 1t is work of several weeks
to get the displays ready in a big store,
even after the toys have been bought.
Have you noticed the phenomenal strides
made in the manufacture of the mechan-
ical toy? The amount of thought and
experiment given to the completion of a
new mechanical toy equals that given to
the making of greater and more practi-
cal things than play-pieces. Take an
automobile speedway, for instance, with
three finely finished toy automobiles
spinning round by their own power-isn't
it wonder? Men had to think long
time in order to reduce science to such
a small compress and have the result
perfect.
There will be the usual number of
topsy-turvy toys this year. and, of course,
novelty remains about the same from year
to year, changing only it's outward form
The principle is always the same, that
Is simply applied to a different sort of
object. What becomes of the old toys
Why. like extravagant men, they get
broke And some times 1t takes them
longer to get broke than it does men,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
INTERESTING FACTS.

From the Cleveland News.
Celery originated in Germany
The chestnut came from Italy.
The onion originated in Egypt.
Tobacco is a native of Virginia.
The nettle is native of Europe.
The citron is a native of Greece.
The pine is native of America.
The poppy originated in the east
Rye came originally from Siberia.
Oats originated in northern Africa.
Parsley was first known In Sardinia.
The pear and apple are from Europe.
Spinach was first cultivated in Arabia.
The mulberry tree originated in Per
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Next to widows children are the most
innocent
A girl falls in love as easily as a man
falls out.
People who have no bad habits seem
to think there is no fun in the world.
If a man can't spend all his money ON
automobiles he will find it easy enough
getting married.
Maybe people would crowd to the
churches the way they do to the theatres
~ thav %~S tn nay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
AIabama's Great Fair.

On Monday week the finest horse
has ever held will be duly opened, and
each Albanian should begin at once
t. do what he or she can to make it
hugely successful. strong pull all
together will accomplish a great deal
and that is what is needed now.
The management has planned the
fair wisely and well. 1t has spent
money like water, and 1t has had at its
command all needful funds. This fact
is something unique in the history Of
Alabama fairs.
This state was never more prosper
GUS than 4. is today. Our lumber mills
cannot I'LL their orders. Every day is
opening more cotton bolls. Every mill
a mine is crying aloud for more
laborers. There is development, and
progress. and prosperity on every hand
and all this good fortune should be
reflected and represented in the states
great annual festival.
Let us then begin to talk of the fair,
to anticipate its attractions, to make
II in word huge success. We can
do this by pulling together. The horses
will be there, and so will the other ex-
hibits, and the exhibition as a whole
will be surprise to all and source
Of pleasure and instruction to vast
number.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
,ased per furnace. as follows:

Large furnaces have been erected
freely in the United States, and small
ones have been as freely abandoned.
No doubt the American furnaces are
productive, but the figures of the Lon
don journal are by no means accurate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
Heflin Reunion.

Solicitor H. P. Hefiin and Drs. Wyatt
and Howell Heflin have returned from
Roanoke where they went to attend the
annual reunion of the Hefn family,
which took place last week at the old
family homestead near Louinia. 1t is the
custom of this distinguished family. to
is on the birthday of the venerable DIR.
w. L. Helm, who is in his 18th year
and the other occasion is in the form of
reunion at the old home in Randolph
county.
DR.. Helm and his seven stalwart sons
have for the past several years met at
these reunions without emitting a single
year. In the Hefiin family there is one
Congressman, two lawyers. two doctors.
two preachers and one farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
Blast Furnace OUTPUTS.

The Iron and Coal Trades Review,
published in London, discusses the av-
erage annual output of stacks in the
various countries, using two periods
to show how productiveness has been
increased per furnace. as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
status Of the Firm.

From the Dallas News.
Miss Oldthing and Mr.. Gayboy are
going to become partners for life
IF that's the case she'll be the senior
partner and he'll be the silent one."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

Colonel WINS, the republican candi-
date for mayor of New York, Is a man
upon whom fame has not yet been
thrust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
Sour.

From the Chicago News.
Edwin-No, they never get on, now that
they are married, and yet they courted
under the shade Of the old apple tree
Katharine-Indeed! Well, 1t must nave
been a crabapple truce.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
About Persons.


7. r.. Moody of Memphis is stopping at
the Morris
f. L. Mullen of Louisville is at the Nor
ris
p. A. Ellis, prominent business man
of Warrior, is registered at the Metro
politan.
w. l.. Ware of Huntsville is at the
Hilman.
M. Strauss of Montgomery Is In the
city
S. It. Walker of Selma is stopping az
the Morris.
L. l.. King of Livingston 10 ut the
Metropolitan.
w. w. Fisher of Prattville Is In the
city.
J. T. Pope of Belle Ellen Is at the
Morris.
b. C. Faircloth of Memphis is at the
Hillman.
A. ], May of Atlanta is In the city.
Il u Norton has returned from a trip
to Las Vegas, N. NJ. His many friends are
concentrating him on the improved con-
diton of his health.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
THE oLp-TlME FIREPLACE.

Frank l.. Stanton in the. Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The stoves an the Steamboat git me
These wearisome wintry days!
Gimme the old-time chimbly
The backlog an the blazel
l want to sit where the oak-fre CLEANS.
An tell old stories, an dream old dreams!
The steam-heat-it says nuthin'
The stove hides dreams from sight;
But the flames of the open fire
Sing songs of a winter night!
Settin' there, where the bright light
streams
tell old stories, an dream old dreamsi
III.
Youth comes back with its roses
AS I dream by the freside late,
The face of the old-time sweetheart
In the starlight at the gate!--
Old times-old loves. In. the hrelight's
CLEANS -
The old, sweet story-the old sweet
dreams!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

DIR. Garvin, formerly of east Tennes-
see, is going to make the Aldrichites
hustle for money again in Rhode Is
land.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

After all, the McCurdy family did
not take all the cash lying around.
They became content when they had
tucked away a few odd millions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

securing of the lesser Industries easier,
but they do not obyiate work on our
part by any means. We should wake
up, and proceed to invite small indus.
tries to come here.
1t is estimated that out of the large
membership of the Commercial club
there are one hundred members who
could each attract thither small In
dustry by organizing a company and
by subscribing for from $4,000 to $780,
600 Of its stock. They would not sink
dollar but they would on the other
hand be apt to make an excellent in
vestment, while they added to the
general prosperity, thereby increasing
the values of their own property.
Nashville has secured In that way
one hundred small industries Why
cannot Birmingham? The question is
before you, men of Birmingham. There
is but one way to get such industries.
Some inducements must be extended,
otherwise Memphis, Atlanta and Nash
Vile will gather them In.
The republican national committee
has 100000 on hand, and yet it re-
fuses to return the money stolen from
policy holders, the most of whom are
in needy circumstances.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
Conditions in Alabama.

1.-The Birmingham fair and the Selma
fair, which so closely follows it, should
furnish the best industrial and agriculture
al exhibits that have been shown in the
history of Alabama" said Will 7. Sheehan
last night. Alabama is in the best finan-
cial condition it has been in since the
pioneer days. Ten cent cotton and pig
iron at sls ton are inspiring to trade"
Mr.. sheehan who IL in Birmingham to
write special letters to the Montgomery
Advertiser on the remarkable Industrial
development of the Birmingham district
during the past three or four years, has
had an unusual opportunity of getting a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

Policy holders are philanthropists.
and philanthropists should not expect
to get their money back. 1t is needed
elsewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

President Roosevelt stopped blood
shed In the Far East and he has be-
come conceited enough to think he can
stop it on the football field.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

The New York managers who are
to abolish orchestras should go fur
ther and abolish about nine-tenths OF
their plays
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

Poe's raven is perched on tree
just outside the AL of Fame, waiting
until all the New Englanders are
showed into inches.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

Ossified checks are not rare, but an
ossified neck together with an 0ssified
conscience Is novelty. Chicago has
the man who has the neck and con-
science
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15

Chauncey Depew's appearance be-
fore the Hughes committee is the big
event of the future in insurance mat
ters