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Evening journal., 1902-08-29
Lake Vessel Burned.

Detroit, Mich, Aug. ga special
from Menominee, Mich. says; The
shore of the bay here was lined last
evening with excited people watching
a vessel in flames four or five miles
out. The figure of a man was darkly
outlined walking around on the III
fated boat A fire tug and the tug
o. NJ. Fields reached the vessel and
apparently had the fire under control,
though the boat was evidently burned
to the waters edge. The name of the
vessel is not known here.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
RAILROADS
- BALTIMORE &OHC
RAILROAD


RAILROAD
Schedule m eject May Is. 1907.
An trains Illuminated with Pintsch
light.
o. Express trains.
Trains leave Wilmington, Delaware
NEW YORK. week days. .5@. go
'l0.5S n. m; 'l21. '26s. s6.19 Royal Linn
iteds ZAP. s1O.55 p. m. Sundays, SO
'9io. 'l15 a. m; '256. '519 CRoyal Linn
ited): ZAP, 1888 p. m.
PHILADELPHIA. week days. .5.2s. $50
'645. 100. 'S.09, $40. sl053, 1857 a. m: /:
'l2H, s2b6 3.1a, Ass. s5.l9 (Royal Lam
lted), $40, T.i2, 900. 'l0.55 D. m. Sundays
.6.20, i.2O $50, $40. 1888, 'l1.35 a. m. s256
wy, 'ols (Royal LlmitedD. 65, T.42. S5e,
CHESTER. week days. $50, .s45. 40.
'S.0s. $40, 'l0.bS. 1867 A. m. Sis, ass, $40.
i.i2. 300, 'lO.55 p. M; Sundays, 7.20. S.5Q
$40. 1858, 'li.S5 a. M; 4sO, 6.S5. '742, ass
'l05o D. m.
Atlantic City. week days. .e45 and -. ~
81. M. 'l2.2l, -256 and 619 p. m. (ioyal
Limltedl Sundays, d2O a. m, s5.l9 y. m.
Cape May and ocean CITY, week days,
.9as a. m.' '255 p. m. sundays I20 a. m,
sea Isle City, week days. '6.45 a. m.
.25d y. IN. Sundays, s5.26 a. m, '256 D. IN.
Baltimore aud Washington. week days
ALA, sS.0A f1.M a. m. F12l ZOO. '3.40
AbL $40 (Roy8l ldmited), sS.0i sie.1S T.
m. Sundays, 'i14, 'S0i A. m. 'i.24, 200
$40. $50 Qtoyal Limited). 's.ei. 'l0.ia p
m.
baltimore and way stations. week days
es5 a. m. $50 p. m. Sundays, S.05 a M.
bN u. m.
Newark. week days, ala 6B. .sOi
III. "a n. m, st.2f. $50, s4b2. 612, sSOi D. m
Sundays 'Aii, 'S0i, 9O5 a. m; ia. SO
1S2. fS01 p. m.
Plttsburg. week days. .soi a m; .t5a
'l0.lS p. m./ Sundays, 's.04 a. M; 'S40
Chicago, daily. 's.Oi a. m; $40 D. m.
| Cincinnati and 81 Louis, 41f a. m
1M, lob d. IN. daily
Singerly accommodation. week days
s.55 a m; $40, 612 D. m. Sundays, 9O5 a
m; $751; 1872 p. m.
Landenberg accommodation. week days
LEAVE MARKET STREET srATTor
for Baltimore. week days. a4 D. m.
Iandenberg, week days. so n m. $50
$50 D. m. Sundays. 9.fO a. m. $50 d. m.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA for Wil
'iO56 a. m; '1250. 'iS7. ais. '3OS, All
500. $50. '5ts Royal Limited. 600. $50
'i26, '9.SS, 'il55 p. m. Sundays, '3.Sb
'7.so. 800. 1000 a. M; 1880. '1s7. 21b. 's.os
as. 'S4s Royai Limited, $50. 'z2s, 'ass
| 1890 .. m.
Royal Limlted' Is composed exciu
sively OF Pullman parlor. observation
| and dining cars. No extra fare excep
| regular Pullman charge.
Delmarvia Telephone, No. 1873.
Rates to Western points lower than VII
any other line
II. 4 MILLER. Passenger Asa=s. VII
mington, Del.
ID. b. MARTIN. Manager OF Passense
Traffic Ni -
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
Ada Gray Is Dead.

New York, Aug. 29.-Ada Gray, who
for years played the leading role in
East Lynne" died in the Fordham
Home for Incurables on Wednesday
and was buried yesterday by the Ac-
tors Fund of America. which has
practically supported her for the last
seven years. She was about so years
old. She first attracted attention in
a stock company in Albany where
she married Charles Watkins. He
died i'm 1891
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
FAILED TO SWIM CHANNEL
Holbeln Was Taken From Water When
One Mile From Shore.

Dover, England, Aug. 20. ~ Mon
tague Holbein yesterday afternoon
failed in his attempt to swim the
English Channel from Cape Grisnez
to Dover. He was taken out OF the
water when his task was one mile
from completion. Altogether Holbein
was in the water over 20 hours.
Notwithstanding his weakened con
dition, Holbein after landing walked
up the pier with the assistance of
friends. The crowd present gave the
swimmer an ovation. Holbein says
he will not again attempt to swim the
channel.
Frank Holmes, of Birmingham
started yesterday morning to swim to
France. When six miles out he was
seized with sickness, which forced
him to abandon the trip.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
FIRST MOVE IN WAR GAME
cardner's Point Likely to Be Attacked
BY Navy.

New London, Conn, Aug 29.-To-
night the first real move in the game
of war between the army and navy
viii be made. Gardner's Point has
been considered a weak spot by the
army men and one liable to be at
tackled by the navy. There is no fort
at that point, and it is only guarded
by two dismounted guns. The sub
marine mine boat Dime is dartine
about in that vicinity. which leads to
the belief that the passage OF the
North Atlantic Squadron will be inter
rup.ed by mines.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
Girls Diepiace Boys As Messengers

Chicago, Aug. 29.-The Western I'm
ion Telegraph Company has finally
decided that it Will, in this city, en-
ploy no more boys as messengers. The
boys have struck three times within
the last month. and the company has
decided that It viii employ them no
longer. Girls will be used to carry
messages in the business and resi-
dence districts. For the night work
men will be used, and men will also
be kept in the day time for the pur-
pose Of carrying messages into the un.
desirable parts Of the city. The change
will be made at once.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
FAnadsIpAI. Ia As.aIag RaIIva }
Schedule m effect May Is. 1907.
An trains illuminated with Pintsch

Time liable In eject May is. loOz
Trahns leave Wilmington (lllng street
gtzuion), for Elsmero Junction, Mont
chanin. Winterthur, Guyencourt Gran
ogue. Coasart, Chadds Ford Junction
Pocopson. West Chester. llmhrce vlio.
MortOnvdile. Contcfville and intormed .ato
stations. daily, except Sunday, at 7 % a.
m, daily iio and tbo ,. m Sundays only
SOS a m
For supleA E1versOn and tntermediato
stations. daily except Sunday, At l3b a.
m. daily. alo and A6o ,. h- Sunday only
az zlo D. m.
For Joanna. Btrdsboro. Rearing and in
hermcdiafo staadona, daily, except Sunday,
at 725 a. m. and 2.lo p m Sunday only
at SOS a. m. and 2l0 p. IN.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.
From Chestnut street and Bouth btren'
Ferries
Evening journal., 1902-08-29

NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY
EXPRESS.
Leave NEW YORK Qiberty Street,. SO
Leave e. % ATLANTIC CITY. $50 a. m.
So. Daily. "7' Sundays "r' Weekdays;
s',s Saturday. Il" VIA Subway. "h
south al 400 20" South street
Az 70" South Ct $50. "a"
South ST. $50. ID" South St., $50. "
100 Excursion
Detaficd time tnbles at uoket offices
18Th and Chestnut Sts., S3i Chestnut Sc,
1905 Chestnut ST, 900 South Sd 81, 800
Market ST. and at Stations.
Union Transfer Company Will call for
and check baggage from hotels and resi-
denceA -.
w. A. GARRETT. EDISON J. WEElSA
Gcn'l Supt 0enl Fassr AeI
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
Train Wrecked Rv a Tree.

Jackson, Miss. Aug. PA west.
bound passenger train on the Queen
and Crescent Railroad yesterday
crashed into a tree which had been
blown across the track by Wednesday
nights storm three miles west of
Jackson. Fireman Brulston, colored,
was killed, Engineer John Jones was
fatally and three mail clerks painfully
injured. The Go passengers wore
badly shaken up. Traffic was sus.
pended for several hours.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
Aundreds KIIIed ey LandsIIde.

Calcutta Aug. pa great disaster
is reported from the native state of
Nepal The rivers Baghmati and
Vishnumat overhowed their banks
and caused serious landslides in the
Khatmandu Valley. The cities of
Bhatgaon and Patna were greatly
damaged and several hundred persons
were killed.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
rhe KInn peer staIklnn.

London Aug %. - King Edward
went deer stalking on the estate of
the Duke OF Hamilton. on the Firth Of
Clyde, yesterday morning. His ma
iesty shot a stag Later the king left,
going down the Firth
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
Killed Two Children and Herself.

Little Rock. Ark, Aug. 29.-Ka.e
Wagner, wife of Ross J. Wagner. a ma
chinist, killed her two children. aged
6 years, and herself at their home in
Little Rock, by cutting their throata
with a razor. No cause is known for
the act. Their bodies were found in
the house yesterday by the aged mother
Of Mrs. Wagner.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
STEAMER ULRICA

Leaves Wilmington, 7.& a m, 1870. 3
l6 p. m.
Leaves Pennsgrove and 10 a. m. 1.so,
and D. m. Sundays, $50 a. m, l2.s0 and
5 p. m .. it Ii.i =.
Evening journal., 1902-08-29
SUMMER RESORTS
ATLANTIC CITY. N. ).
HOTEL STANLEY,

South Carolina avenue. Atlantic City.
unaer new management. Near tho beach
improved: most central location: rates
moderator special weekly; capacity, 800.
MILLER & DUNLOP. Props
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09

ment officials. 1898 doctors. Il vetern. ary surgeons. and a vast army of teachers of all sorts.
 There are 55S2 female barbers. 40 bartenders, IS longshoremen, 85 boot blacks and 1920 hunters, trappers, guides and scouts. Tn trade and trans portation there is a host of women, and merchants and clerks, besides 946 commercial travellers, 190 livery sta ble keepers and 624 coal miners. There were in the census year 19 wo- men blacksmiths and no fewer than 39,516 boot and shoemakers and re- pairers. Most of the last-named were, however, in factories. There were more women bookbinders in the cen sus year than men bookbinders. The number of women employed in cotton mills was 120,216, not including those in hosiery and knitting mills. The textile industry is, in fact, largely mo- nopolized by women workers. In the miscellaneous trades women are found until it is scarcely possible to name an occupation that women have not entered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
Washlnaton Humane Society.

''In the report of last months proceed ings of the Humane Society of the Dis trict of Columbia, published a few days | ago, 1t was gratifying to observe that out of 100 arrests in August for cruelty to ani- mals there were no less than ninety-nine convictions" said a philanthropie Wash ington man.
 q consider this a remarkable showing and one which should not be passed by unnoticed As an evidence of the splen- did work accomplished by our home so- ciety this cannot be excelled by the work of any similar society in any other city except in point of numbers of cases suc- cessfully prosecuted. Seventy-five per cent of convictions would be a fine aver age, but practically 100 per cent is very unusual.
 There is a long story of good behind these simple figures. Every arrest and conviction of cruelty to animals serves as a deterrent to persons who permit their brutal instincts to get the better of their reason. The officers of our so- ciety with their limited resources and staff deserves the highest praise for their excellent work and our police judges and the members of our police force for their cooperation in this labor, almost one of lofe, the greatest commendation.
 There are many forms of cruelty to animals but one. to my mind, of the very worst is that of the overlooking of vehi- cles and the flashing of the straining horses up inclines in the streets. I ob- served that one man was fined on eleven differents counts of employees of his who had been arrested for this offense. I am sure that those who love the horse will applaud such arrests. These cases of overlooking are usually overlooked by the average pedestrian. I do not know of a more distressing sight upon the streets than to see sweating, steaming horses, hitched to a big load of merchandise, lashed by the driver when they become stalled in a rut or on a sidehill.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
SANDALPHON.
,. Longfellow.

By Henry W. Longfellow. Have you read, in the Talmud of old, In the legends the rabbis have told
 Of the limitless realms of the air Have you read it-the marvellous story Of Sandalphon, the angel of glory
 Sandalphon, the angel of prayer? How, erect at the outermost gates Of the city celestial, he waits,
 With his feet on the ladder of light. That, crowded with angels unnumbered, By Jacob was seen, as he slumbered
 Alone in the desert at night? But, serene in therapturous throng, Unmoved by the rush of the song,
 With eyes unimpassioned and slow, Among the dead angels, the deathless Sandalphon stands listening. breathless, To sounds that ascend from below From the spirits on earth that adore, From the souls that entreat and implore
 In the fervor and passion of prayer; From the hearts that are broken with
 losses,
 Too heavy for mortals to bear. And he gathers the prayers as he stands, And they change into flowers in his
 hands
 Into garlands of purple and red; And beneath the great arch of the portal, Through the streets of the city immortal, Is waited the fragrance they she'd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
Coal or Oil as Fuel.

The geological survey will soon pub fish it's investigations of the relative fuel value of Texas oil as compared with coal. No doubt MT. Hayes paper will demonstrate the superior value of Texas oil. He will, it is reported, give 1t a fuel value of s3 a barrel, whereas it has been selling at 25 or 30 cents a barrel.
 But there is one thing MT. Hayes cannot guarantee, and that is a supply "a permanent supply-that does not have to be raised from great depths by expensive pumps. There is not today a gusher in Texas. There Is not today well of immense production in that state. A 5000-barrel well there may be, provided the pumping machin- cry be adequate. but all the current talk as to a limitless supply of cheap ofl-twenty-five cent oil-is without foundation. = Hereafter the supply of Texas oil will be limited, and every barrel of it must be pumped. The field is small, and the level of the oil is constantly falling. Who shall say the bottom will not soon be reached?
 One might think that another Rus sian supply exists in Texas, but this is mistake. There may be enough fuel oil in Texas to supply the demands of Texas but it is doubtful whether there will be more in the course of five years. Coal has not been and will not be driven out. Spindle Top cannot de- throne Old King Coal It isn't big enough, and it does not gush at all Texas will do well if it can lengthen out the supply to meet her own needs and that is all there is of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
An AnnIe Free Census

So minute is the work of the census bureau that even the apple trees of z broad country have been counted There are 210,000,O00 in the country pr 75,000,000 more than there were in 1890. There are in round numbers three apple trees to every man, wo man and child in the country, and as each tree is expected to produce a bushel of apples, it follows that each persons average supply is three bush els, and if any one has not received three bushels he has for some reason failed to secure his share of the crop. Some one else got his share.
 Alabama is not high up in the list of apple states, nor is any other cotton state. The apple thrives best in a higher latitude, although two coun- ties in Arkansas are great apple grow ing counties, and Missouri has 20,O0O,- 900 trees. or 5,000,00O more than New York, which has long been regarded as the chief apple state. Michigan ranks high in apple production, and the west is increasing each year its product. In quality, however, Niagara county, New York, still holds first place. It has 929,OS6 apple trees, and it must still be ranked, when all things are considered, as the chief ap- pie county of the union. It's apples are good when eaten out of hand which is more than can be said of the Ben Davis apple from Missouri. The latter is enticing to the eye but dis appointing to the palate, at least unti it is cooked. It should be boiled, bu' the apple grown within the thunders of Niagara Falls can be eaten with satisfaction either before or after boil ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
Women Bread Winners.

The census shows that out of 29, 285,922 persons engaged in gainful oc equations in this country 5,319,912 were women, or 14.3 per cent. of all females in the land. The percentage of women employed is steadily in creasing.
 In round figures there were in the census year 100000 females engaged in agricultural pursuits, 500,0OO in pro. fessional service, about two millions in domestic service, and 1,315,S9O in manufacturing and mechanical pur. suits. The female farmers include laborers, farmers, overseers, garden CTS, florists, fruit growers, milk farm. CTS. stock raisers, herders, turpentine farmers, wood choppers, lumbermen and raftsmen. The female turpentine farmers number 2S1 and the wood choppers 113.
 Of the women in professional life 6418 are on the stage. 1042 are archi tects, 11,027 are teachers, 34O5 clergy. men, 7S7 dentists, 2193 newspaper writers. 1910 lawyers. S126 govern
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
HARVESTING WHEAT.

C. M. Harger in Leslie's Weekly.
 Two sorts of machines are before them They are the modern reapers and head ers." The former. drawn by five horses or perhaps by three, is the more com mon. It cuts the grain, binds it into bundles and throws them off to be picked up by the laborers. The header" is a purely western product It cuts the tops off the straws, carries them up an incline and dumps them into a wagon driven alonside the machine. It is pushed ahead of the horses and the driver guides it with tiller, just like a yawl off Jer- sey." as one seagoing worker expressed it. It is an imposing sight to see a score of self-binders with their complement of workers cutting the golden grain, leaving the field bare or sprinkled with shocks the reward of the years waiting. Yet more beautiful are the long lines of stacks that have been made ready for the thrashers. the prettiest scene in a western landscape
 Night as well as day the harvest goes on. Two sets of hands take part, and lanterns are hung on the names of the horses harness to light the way after dark. So still and dry are the prairie nights that this can be done in nearly every harvest. - Thrashing comes after the cutting has been put well under way. Indeed many fields have three operations in progress at the same time-the har- vesters are cutting the grain, the thrash CTS are separating it as wagons haul it to the machine, blows are turning the stubble of gold to brown, the prepar- ation for the next years crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
COL. RULeER.

From the Alexander City Outlook.
 Tallapoosa county has honored herself in standing by our candidate in the late primary election. Her vote was practical ly solid for him. The people of his home county appreciate the large majorities given him in the first congressional dis trict and in east Alabama. While Col onei Bulger did not received the nomin- ation he and his friends have the con- solation to know that this section of the state in which he has lived all his life gave him hearty support. Colonel Bulger is always on the side of the peo- pie. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the state with practice which pays him much more than the salary of the office to which he aspired. His candidacy was based on soul desire to do some thing for the public schools which have been so much neglected, and to reduce the enormous and extravagant price of school books, which are being paid by the children of our state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
Study of Files.

'I have made study of flies and I no flies in soups served in Chicago din- ing rooms above the fourth floors of ho- tels and office buildings" said a Chi cagoan at the Metropolitan. "I find the same conditions here in Birmingham. Not only this but the common house fly can not stand the rarefied atmosphere at all above the tenth floor.
 Albert Green. chief of the stage hands at the Masonic temple roof garden, has been making some studies of the Chicago fly along original lines, and this inability of the fly to attend roof garden perform ances has struck him as being not only a noteworthy eccentricity but one of the insects chief virtues. Mir. Green-s lab- oratory is just under the roof of the temple, and in order to have flies attend the performances at all he has had to go to the lower floors to collect them. Not one fly has seemed to enjoy the perform ances. and within a few hours the halest and heartiest of the insects has given up the fly ghost without a strug- gle.
 MT. Greens findings have been borne out in downtown office buildings in Chl- cago generally. At the Young Men s Christian association restaurant on the seventh floor of the association building there is not a single screen on the wide windows, and yet fly in the restaurant long has been regarded as curiosity.
 We have tried to keep an odd fly | there on several occasions said the man. ager, but even the brightest of them never have seemed to enjoy themselves. At the first opportunity they have dis appeared, probably going out of the windows to less trying atmospheres. Really flies are so seldom seen here that the presence of one will attract atten- tion on all sides
 There's not been a fly in my office in five years says Dr. G. Frank Lyds- ton, from the eighth floor of the Chicago opera house block. There may have been a few on me in that time, but not dur ing office hours.
 Tn one of the big chemical and medi- cal laboratories on the fourteenth floor of a Chicago down town building no one connected with the establishment re- members ever to have seen a fly on that floor, though necessarily there have been substances there for test and analysis that ordinarily would have att tracted flies.
 "All of which carries with it the set tied fact that while the mosquito may still bite where it listeth, the skyscraper has limited the zone of the fly and provided surcease for the baldheaded man who can afford an after dinner nap. Hereafter the hotel clerk who prepares to send a guest up just under the roof may have an argument to bring to bear on the usual protest. and for matinee performances the vaudeville roof garden has an irresistible attraction for bald 1 heads"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Deterloraflna.

Society, that is to say fashionable so- clety. is deteriorating in all the cities with which am acquainted" remarked a man who is not considered pessimist.
 Henry Watterson Is being criticised for criticising harshly the 100. The bril- liant editor has been extreme in pro- nouncing all uppertendon tainted with immortality. He is wrong-absolutely wrong. There is as much virtue today in what Is known as society as there ever was. But it is fact that young men and young women lack the deHcacy and refinement that prevailed in years gone by.
 Here in Birmingham I have been shocked at what I considered lower ing of the standard of deeorum; young men addressing grown girls familiarly by their first names-Annie, Mamie, Susie and the like. But this is not the worst have seen young men in a state of intoxication when acting as escort to young women. Such conduct is unpar- donable and the pulpit should inveigh against it."