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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
ELECTRIC ROADS.
Effect of Their Increase Upon Distribution
of Population OF Cities

of Population OF Cities.
Although The fact of the rapid extern
sion of electric railways TO connect neigh
boring towns and cities is generally
known, the actual extent of the move
ment is not yet realized outside of eng
neering circles, A street railway journal
states that within a year 100 companies
have been formed with the intention of
building an aggregate of 3457 miles of
road, and in some of these enterprises
the construction is already far advanced.
The shortest of these interurban lines is
two miles and the longest between Belle
fontaine and Lima, O., 100 miles. Two of
eighty and two of seventy-f1ve miles are
among the long distance lines planned.
Among the numerous other effects of this
widespread development, its influence
on city rentals is already most signifi-
cant. When the electric road came on
the scene the suburban owners were de-
lighted. They predicted that the clean,
quick mode of transit would bring up the
price of lots in the small towns near the
cities, and hitherto inaccessible proper
ties, with plenty of trees and grass, and
pure air and sunlight around them, would
be brought within the reach of the DWELL
ers In crowded cities In this respect the
electric railway has more than fulfilled
it's promise The benefits 1t has conferred
on poor people and those of moderate
means are incompatible. Twice as many
of these can now have homes of their
own as formerly. But the advent of the
trolley has had one result that nobody
thought of. 1t is bringing down the price
of rentals of city property. The country
is growing at the expense of the city.
Few men will live in close, cramped quar-
tiers when for the same money they can
rent or own a whole house and reach
their city employment in good time And
so 1T comes about that the hygenic thin
ing out of city populations, which health
statistics and philanthropy have never
been able to accomplish, is being achieved
silently and effectually by modern me-
chanical science.-New York Times.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
ON FOREIGN HUSBANDS.
Views Which Ought to Be Bminently CIR
ifuinn To Enrar.u O1nc

Views Which Ought to Be Bminently Graf
flying to Every Ono.
The engagement of Miss Vanderbilt
and the Duke of Marlborough has been
taken by the London Spectator as text
for quite a lengthy sermon on interna-
tional marriages. 1t is quite a temperate
discourse, and even quite fiattering to
both the men and women of America.
There is" SAYS the Spectator, in
speaking of the usual English sutton for
American girls, mo reason why, though
he regilds his eoronet he should not be
heartily in love. The American girl is
not foreigner; she is usually beautiful,
with a beauty that all men recognize;
she is as straight In conduct as any Pu-
ritan; she is, while young, as entertain
ing as any girl in the worlds and her
usual foibles-the first of which are
certain superficiality and self-will-are
precisely the foibles which belong to the
aristocratic training. She has no rela-
tives who are troublesome, for the Allan
tic rolls between her and Them she is
never despised in the circle which re-
ceives her; and opinion, which weighs
heavily with both sexes in their mar
riages, halls the bridegroom as having
made a notable and worthy conquest.
So far from wondering at the English no.
BILE or statesman who marries in America,
we wonder that he marries anywhere
else; he gains so very much, and there
are so few drawbacks to his choice
To decide why the American girl should
choose a foreign sutton, however is a more
difficult task for the Spectator. 1t says:
THE American sutton is often as pol
ished as the European; he is usually
much better Observation-Disclosures not
being by any means the strong point of
the European aristocrat; he is richer
rather than poorer, and while he Is at
least as eager lover, he is by the con-
sent of two continents, a rather more
devoted husband. Why, then. Is he
passed over for one who comes from
the outside2 We fancy the tradition and
literature and the unaccustomedness
have something to do with it, and that
the higher society of Europe has, for
the American girl, something of the
charm of Romance, as of an undiscovered
and better country in which it will be
pleasant to undertake an adventure. The
thirst to try the experiment is a natural
emotion with something of poetry in it,
as well as love of adventure, and we
hardly see why the American girl who
elects new, and as she thinks, so bright
life, should be accused either of snob-
bishness or of overvaulting ambition"
What could be more satisfactory than
this? American girls are charming-irre-
sistble; American men fine, and Ameri-
can title=hunters only fired by venture
some, poetic romanticism.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03

time both the starboard and port watches
lad been on deck.
You see a sailors life isn't such a pleas
ant one, but still there seems to be a GER
tain fascination about 1t, for a sailor rare
ly ever leaves the sea for job on shore.
The norther blew itself out during the
night, but there was still wind enough
for me and an ugly sea was still rolling
end continued to roll until we struck the
Florida strait and passed in the lee of
the Florida keys, group of low coral ISL
ands, on the largest of which is situated
Key West.
After it was all over with it was pleas
ant enough to think of that storm in all
of its awful grandeur; but take my adj
vice. don't ever wish to see storm at sea,
unless you have a good boat under you
and east-iren stomach. When the cap
tain told me that a storm was coming 1
was secretly glad of it. 1 had always
wanted to go to sea and witness first
class storm. Well, / have come, have
seen and was conquered.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
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Homes of English Authors.
westminster Review.
There is a good deal Of truth in Goethe S
LII.
WHO the poet will understand
Must wander thro the poets land"

.
couplet:
"Who the poet will understand
Must wander thro' the poets land"
Much can be made clear in an authors
work by knowledge OF where he or she
lives, for ideas are necessarily largely
drawn from environment. Mr.. Thomas
Hardy lives in the heart of his beloved
Wessex, at the quaint town of Dorchester
Mr.. George Meredith has a charming
chalet on Box Hill, near Dorking Mr.
Walter Besant has built himself a
commodious house in Frognal Gar
torhood are DR.. Parker and many
other thinkers and writer's. MRS
w. K. Clifford, author of Aunt
Anne" and other well-known stories,
mostly spends her days in Kensington,
occasionally visiting Haslemere, which
district figures more than once in her
tales. Mr.. w. E. Norris lives at Torquay,
a town which is credited with having the
wealthiest Inhabitants of any place of its
size in England. Mrs Oljphant used to
be found at Windsor, where she was
more than once visited by the queen, but
now lately she has been writing In the
south of France. Dr.. George Macdonald
resides at his beloved Bordighera, where
the inhabitants greatly esteem him as
distinguished ornament to their society
Mr.. Rudyard Kippling has his home at
Brattleboro, in the United States. Mr..
George kissing is one of the many brain
workers who affect Surrey; he used to
live at Brixton, but has recently gone to
EPSON. Mr. Barrie gave his address wit
tily to Mr.. Zangwill once in these words.
II am always at Kirriemuir, except when
the papers say so' Kirramuir Is the
original of 'Thrums." Miss Ada Ellen
Bayly, better known as Edna Lyall,"
has for some time been an inhabitant of
Eastbourne, a favorite resort, too, of
Miss Adeline Sergeant. Mr. James Payn
has for months been missed from his
favorite haunt the Reform cldub. He
resides in Mazda Vale, where he has been
a prisoner, owing to Ill health for some
time. Mr.. William Black alternates, like
Mr.. G. A. Sala, between Brighton and the
metropolis. Mr.. Blackmore cultivates ap-
pies and pears to the distraction of the
boys of Teddington, where he is literally
known by his fruit" Mr.. Grant Allen
favors Hindhead, near Haslemere, with
house not very far from where the late
Professor Tyndall lived. Mr. Swinburne,
with his close friend, Mr.. Theodore
Watts, lives over Putney Heath, over
which he may often be seen striding.
Mrs M. L. Woods, whose "Village Trag-
edy" is still in steady demand, Is res
ident at Oxford, where her husband is
head of q college. Mrs. Humphrey Ward
left Haslemere for Tring.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
sHERMAN's RECORD.
His Various Double-Dealings With the FL
nancial Question.

New York Evening Post.
Senator Shermans latest deliverance
on the subject of the national finances
ought not to be taken too seriously 1t
is impossible to know, at any particular
time, whether his utterances on the
stump represent his real views or not
Thus, in 1863 he Joined hands with Ben
Butler and George Pendleton in declar-
ing that the government bonds were pay
able In greenbacks, and he said that the
bondholders were censurable for demand
ing payment in gold. He was the author
Of the imitation bill of 1874 that was We
toed by President Grant, with the slight
difference that he wanted the greenback
limit put at 1882, 200, 900, while the bill as
ume of greenbacks had been reduced to
1856, 900. 900 by law prior to 1873. During
the panic. of the latter year Secretary
Richardson had reissued $26 o00, 900 of the
redeemed notes on his own responsibility
without authority of law. Senator sSher-
man proposed to sanction this act of
imitation and violation of law, and report
ed the bill for that purpose Senator
Schurz moved to put the limit at $685.
100000 where 1t was before Richardson
raised it,. Mr.. Sherman voted against
the Schurz amendment. He also voted
against the amendment to raise the
amount to s400,000,0O0, but this was in
serted in the bill, which passed both
houses and was vetoed by the president
1t is true that Mr.. Sherman voted against
the bill, as amended, and he also voted
to sustain the veto, but 1t was a differ
ence Of only s120000oO The terms of the
veto message were directed against the
bill as well as the one which actually
passed.
1t would probably be safe to say that
Mr.. Sherman has been, one time or an
other, on both sides Of every important
question Of finance that has been before
the country in the past thirty or forty
years. He was secretary of the treasury
when the silver reconciliation bill was
before congress, in 1878. and he gave his
influence in favor of that measure by
testifying before the finance committee
that its passage would be an aid to specie
resumption. We do not overlook the SER
vices he has rendered to the country in
the course of this checkered career. As
senator and as secretary he was largely
instrumental in the resumption Of specie
payments, perhaps more so than any,
body else, and for this he will always
have due credit. The criticism that will
be visited upon him Is that he habitually
mlsleads people who are less we'll in
formed than himself when he sees, or
thinks that he sees. a political advan-
tage in doing so. The result is generally
more damaging to himself than to any
body else. because In every case he loses
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Tonic

A Pleasant Lemon Tonic.
For bilousness, Constipation, Malaria
Colds and the Grip.
For Indigestion, Sick and Nervous
Headache.
For Sleeplessness, Nervousness and
Heart Disease.
For Fever, Chills, Debility and Kidney
Disease, take Lemon Elixir.
Ladies, for natural and thorough or
ganic regulation, take Lemon Elixir.
Dr. Mozleys Lemon Elixir is prepared
from the fresh juice of lemons COM
bined with other vegeta BILE liver tonics,
and will not fail you in any of the above
named diseases, SOC and 81 bottles at
druggists.
Prepared only by DR.. Motley Atlanta
Ga,
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03

Be Jackets before buying
others will see how much 10"
Our styles Jackets qualities be beaten
as eas thew arem mad
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
At the Capitol.

I have just taken the last of two
bottles of DR.. II. Mozley's Lemon Elixir
for nervous headache, indigestion, with
diseased liver and kidneys The Elixir
cured me. 1 found it the greatest medi-
cine ever used. ]. II. MENNICH
Attorney, 1925 F Street, Washington,
n q
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
Lemon Hot Drops.

Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore throat, Bronchitis, Memarrhage
and all throat and lung diseases. Ele-
giant, reliable.
rs cents at druggists. Prepared only
by DR.. H. Motley, Atlanta, Ga.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-03
TAKE NOTICE, TRAVEL
ING PUBtICi

Breakfast is now served at
Union Depot Restaurant as
early as 5 O'Clock for passen-
gers leaving on early morning
trains. 3-eod-lm
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-15
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRIcUIr
. TuRE WEATHER BUREAU, SAN FRANCISCO, De-
cemoer ID, 1895, 8 P. M.-Weather conditions and
general forecast: LIZ
The following are the seasonal ranfals to date
as compared with those of same date last season:
Eureka lilo last season 11.76; Red Bluff 4.70,
last season 6.5S; San francisco 2.S7 last season
III; Fresno Al, last season 50; San Luis Obispo
S32 last season GIL; Los Angeles 1.03. last sea-
son S.3S; San Diego l-3l, last season LBS; Yuma
80, last season 2.1O.
The following maximum Temperatures are re-
ported from stations in California to-day: Eureka
b2, Red Bluff 40, Fresno Dc, San Francisco So,
San Luis obispo so, Independence "a, Los An
geles 81, San Diego "a, Yuma ID.
san Francisco data-Maximum temperature So,
minimum A, mean so.
A storm of considerable intensity, which was
mentioned this morning being central in the
vicinity of Vancouver Island appears to be
central in the west portion of British Columbia
but is sinking somewhat southwark. High
southerly winds have prevailed from the Cali
fornia boundary northward with dangerous gales
along the w aShington Coast. The rain area ac-
complaining this storm has already extended as
-ar southwark as Eureka and will probably reach
san Francisco by Sunday morning. Rain will
probably occur in California as far southwark as
monterey ana possibly farther. Showers are likely
70 occur In the elevated sections of Southern Cali
fornia, throughout the entire Sierra Nevada
region and eastward through Nevada. High south
east winds Will prevail on the California Coast
from Point Arena northward, the wind shifting to
southwest during Sunday.
Storm southeast signals are DISPLAYED from
Point Arena northward
Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours
ending midnight December Is, 1895:
Northern California - Rain, except cloudy in
extreme south portion: somewhat warmer in the
Interior, except stationary in the extreme east
lortloni fresh southern winds becoming high Oh
northern coast.
Southern California-Generally cloudy and some
what threatening, probably without rain station
airy tenperature; fresh westerly winds, becoming
Southerly in north portion.
Nevada-Fair, except showers in northwest por-
ton somewhat warmer in the northeast portion.
Utah-Increasing cloudlneSS and probable rain
or snow IN north portion Sunday night; somewhat
warmer.
Arizona-Fair; stationary temperature.
san Francisco and vicinity-Lght rain: sta
tlonary temperature; brisk 10 high southerly
II II .,,x.o,- r,oraoo.. naso;o,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-15

coin, pkgs express, cs holdings 26 ship knees;
Fl lumber, 800 SKIS potatoes, 546 bxs apples, o
SKIS black sand, 10 cs cheese, II SKIS bark, 8 kegs
butter. AZ pkgs mdse
Watsonvflle-372 SKIS oats.
Santa Cruz % pkgs mdse, cs cheese, SO dds
lime -,
Pigeon Pont-1O bxs butter, 25 drums IL cs
cheese, IS bxs apples. l34 SKIS flax.
UMPQUA-Per Lily-1300 cs salmon, 20 bbs
butter. 1000 SKIS wheat, 1000 SKIS oats, lumber.
COnsignees.
Per Arago-Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch G Il
Worden q Co.. De Bernardo & Co; ii Cain q Co;
Hilmer. Bredhoff & Schulz; Wieland Brewing co;
Marshall, Teggart & Co; Z ] Lanning: Murray q
Stenhagen; Nash d Co; Jas Neylan: Pairpoint
Mfg Co: F. II Smith: + Buell. d Co; o G " Co;
Standard Oil Co; Sanborn, Vail d Co; Union Brew
cry: Wells Fargo Il Co: Thomas Loughran
Per Arcata-Thomas Loughran; Ross q Hewlett;
Jansen, Rose & Heney; Marshall, Teggart q 20;
News Co; Bandon Woolen-mils: . d Co;
Western Meat Co: Haas Bros; II Dutard.
Per Gypsy = Fl Dutard; Dairymens Union:
Solomon; II Cowell & Co: Brigham, Hoppe d Co;
Tillmann & Bendel; Norton. Teller 81 Co; johnson,
kittle 81 Co: McDonough Il Runyon.
Per Lily-Tilmann d. Bendel; Getz Bros q Co;
Gardiner Mill Co; Hume 81 Hart.
For Ldts shipping Intelligence See Thirteenth Page
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-15
THE COMMERCIAL WORLD.

opened 60ssc, declined to 60c, where it closed,
12c under yesterday. Estimated receipts for Mon
day 202 cars.
CORN-Corn was weak and without the least in
dication of Immediate Improvement. The spread
great permit OF further widening. in view OF the
immense supplies yet to come forward. heceipis
to-day were 525 cars There was no corn taken
from store. Liverpool cables were quiet and 140d
12d lower. Export clearances amounted to l4S-
391 bushels. MAY corn opened at 2S1ac. declined
to and closed at 2S1sc, $sc under yesterday. Es-
timated receipts for Monday. 500 cars.
OATS-Eary were relatively stronger than
either wheat or corn, although the dropping dspo-
Sition in those grains was not without detri-
mental influence Elevator people were good buy
were also the ''shorts." There was nothing
in the situation any radical change in the
bearish sentiment other than the enlargement OF
the ''short" interest. Later in the session weak
ness became prominent with the same parties sell
ing as had previously been buying. Receipts were
22S cars May oats closed Sc under yesterday.
Estimated receipts for Monday 243 cars:
FLAX-Was steady. No. /, cash, 94!4994I2c;
December, 9312c, nominal: May, 9s14@9S1ac.
Receipts were 81 cars.
PROVISIONS-Pr Product prices were possessed
of quite little firmness this morning. The hog
market advanced 21a@5c, and that constituted
the basis for the strength of provisions May pork
closed 71ac higher; May lard and ribs each &C
higher
Closing Prices.
WHEAT-December. 561sc; January, 561ac;
CoRN-December 25l4c: January, 25ssc; May,
oITs-December. 1890: January, 17c; Feb
ruhTyf i lCs may 1SC'
PoRK-December, 81 go; January, 81 So;
LARD = December SIS Is; January, SIS 30;
RIBS = December, $4 80; January, 81 80;
May, 81 521a.
BUTTER-The butter market was quiet to-day.
The offerings were light and prices were firm and
unchanged.
EGGS-Receipts Of eggs were moderate. When
strictly fresh they sold readily at 2012@21c per
dozen; icehouse brought 1312@l5c
MONEY-Was 5@512 per cent on call and 60
61s per cent on time loans. New York exchange
sod at sc premium.
Livestock.
UNION STOCKYARDS, ILL. Dec. 14.-Only
q few cattle were offered for sale to-day and they
were disposed of at steady prices. The demand
for hogs was good. Chicago packers and Eastern
shippers were buying, and as the supply was light
prices ruled little higher. The sheep and lamb
markets were steady at yesterday s prices.
CATTLE = Receipts. 600 Common to extra
steers. So a 5 90; stocKers and feeders, 81 25(9
g 65: cows and bulls. ST 50@S so: calves,
So 5O@6; Texans, So 70613 65.
HOGS-Receipts, 5000. Heavy packing and
shipping lots, SO 45@3 60: common TO choice
mixed, SIS 1898 so: choice assorted. SO 50@3 STA;
light, So 40@3 5 8; pigs, 50 4O@3 SIS.
SHEEP-KeceIpts, $500. Inferior to choice,
81 1898 40; lambs, 1904 40.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-15
DRIED FRUITS, RAIsINs, NUTS, ETC.

DRIED FRUITS Dealers are looking for re-
moved activity after the close of the year.
The following prices rule on the Fruit Exchange:
Apples, 21a@3c q ID for auartered, 3@31ac y ID for
sliced and 414@5c for evaporated; Peaches 4fd5c,
ana 51a(96c q ID for fancy: peeled. In boxes. l2@
13c: Prunes, 4c for the four sizes, 6@61sc - ID
for 4o@bO's and 5@51Rc for 50@60s; Apricots, 71a
@S1ac for prime to choice and 9910c D ID for fancy
Moorpark; Figs, black, 3@312c p ID for pressed
and 2@212c for impressed: White Figs, 31s(041ac
p ID for pressed in sacks, and 5@6c in boxes
Pears, &c % ID for evaporated halves, 4@61ac for
quarters; Plums 312@41ac for pitted and 1a@
21ac for unptted: Mechanics, 5@Bc o ID for prime
to choice and 619c for fancy.
RAISINS AND DRIED GRAPES Prices are
follows carload lots, T. b. San Fran
cisco: London layers, 90c@s1 p box; four-crown
loose. 334c q ID: three-crown, loose, 21ac: two
crown. 214c; seedless sultanas 314@31ac: seedless
Muscatels, 214@212c; clusters, 81 35@1 50: De-
hesa clusters 81 1902 25; Imperial clusters, So 80
OF 10: Dried Grapes, 234c p ID.
NUTS-Chestnuts, l0@121ac: Walnuts, 70Sc
o ID for No. hard and 9t991ac for softshell, Job
blng lots; Almonds, 6@71ac for Languedoc and S1a
@10c for paper-shell, iobbing; Peanuts, 31a@4c b
b for california; Hickory nuts, 5(96c; Pecans, &c
for rough and sc for Polished Filberts, 8@9c Bra
zil Nuts 71a@8c % h; Cocoanuts, 81 50@5 p 100.
HONEY-Comb, 10@12c q b for bright and 8@
&c for lower grades; water-white extracted, 5@5ac
p ID: light amber extracted, 414@4A; dark am
Der. DC: dark, 2@3c.
BEESWAX-25G26c "a m
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-15
CHICAGO MARKETS.

CHICAGO, ILL, Dec. l4-"Longs' ana "shol.s
g., ,rboat seveued mn their trades for the week to-
day. The business assumed liberal proportions ana
for half holiday there was an unusually active
session. The liquidation OF iTong" property eVentu
ally proved greater than that OF "short ana pricfS
advanced several fractions. NO ADVANCE oi ou'5
ido interest apreared and the opinion was that The
nasr approach OF the holiday season was making
itself felt Liverpool cables we're weak TINS Inor
ing the effect of which was naturally ae9
urices kere.5 Receipts in the Northwest were "a
cars against lola on last saturday ana $40 90.
ago Chicago received 1913 cars and Inspected OUT
Fxnort clearances for both coasts for the week
were moderate at 2.45S,000 bushels Compare
rive statement OF California stocks OF wheat ief SIA
tsesr9 showed mat on December l, 1895. they were
smaller than on any corresponding date except
1891 within that period. Atlantic seaooara eisa
apces for tsyenty.four hours were light ~ 25l,ooo
bushels Closing Continental cables were s, uh,
cham ed to lower a liberal increase IN the vlsioae
supply estimated fer Monday. afay "hea'