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New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
WORK WANTED.

WORK WANTED.
BOOKREEPER. STENOGRAPHER AND
TYPEWRITER-Six years experience,
6S4 CoIumbus-ave.
OFFICE CLERR.-By intelligent, neat ap-
pearing colOred woman MUNROE. 115
West 6Oth-st-. LIST floor west
REFINED young woman. accomplished
musician. wishes engagement for summer
out OF town to play and sing for invalid or
person needing musical companion, refer
ences. Address P. v. 1.161 Fulton-st..
Brooklyn.
sTENOGRAPHER-B thoroughly conpe-
firm in Berlin. Germany; references fur
nished- Address Miss NJ. as Pear-st-.
Buffalo. n Y
STENOGRAPHER-B lady: highest ref
erences, eNpe-ienc in general lines, in
surance. construction, electric. etc; would
make engagements to substitute; good at
figures. owns new machine GENERAL
TELEPHONE OPERATOR.-By young
lady experienced; moderate salary. Ad-
dress Miss CARRIE BRUCKS. S57 VII
lCughby-ave.. Brooklyn
TEACHER-Lady. former public school
teacher, desires pupils: coaching or rssu-
lar instruction IN school or elementary COL
lege branches; highest references. THOR
OUCH. 81 West I36th-sJ-
YOUNG LADY. teacher IN public school.
desires pupils during the summer at Far
ROckaway OF other resort; excellent refer
ences- Address EXPERIENCED. Tribune
Agency. 2,542 shave
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
WILLIAM R.-IN PTRsU.

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~ ne County q Se@ York ucsice is hereby
al having claims against william z
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g present with thereof.
sc-Derx q their place Of Al
o-sce Guthrie. C-avarh Henderson, So 20 Wall
Street Borough Manhattan the City OF New YORK
cz before the 10Th day July
New YORK. l0Zh
LOUISE TgLLINGEAS-
TTI.ILNCE
LOUIS LIE STANTON.
GUTHRIE cRANATH & HENDERSON Attorney for
Execzto-s. Nc 20 Wall Street Borough az Manhattan
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New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.

ST, BAB7THgl gMEW'S
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU,
2l1 East 42d-st. First class domesttcs are
supplied. also managing housezeepeTs, ma
irons governesses, tutors. etc
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08

GARDEN E-R-By German. married. -
family full la-ge u zeu-I-rlzn's place:
green houses les highest reference ..
FORESTER Fairfield. conn
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08

GARDENER and Iandscap4 work. est
mates and designs for new places zd-
dress WILLIAM BOX 341. Far Rockzzay.
LOrE Island
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
SITUATIONS WANTED.
EN- ale

4 LADY wishes % place hs- compeyenS
waitress whom sne can highly rVcllIl--
mend or as chauberUa-c- Cs--- - E.aal
5sd-s-- present employer -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
RETROSPECTIVE -AND PROSPECTYE. .

Six In August fse Herald that had perhaps extreme sbb, captions being few and far bet~een like
 The upbuldng of upbuidng have hand in hand upbuldng fairly begun anniversary AaeHerald was Issued from that the work Each has brought fine Aeeead and in this dsct prosprna each other sharing generous
 As in the past It be In the to the welfare of this of the districts activities proposes to eclipse all years helping every enterprise knowing that Its they n past.
 In the next through opening government of the Warrior with International to world position Ths sthmian have direct tire Mississippi valley. These fact In the decade that Hes before
 Age-erad
 great changes will any circumstances, whether Iron be selling hait ndssOIuby together and put hem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
Horse and Mule Trade.

Nearly $4O0000 has been spent in Bir- mingham within the past twelve months for horses and mules" said a prominent dealer in horse flesh. This is nearly three times as much as was ever spent here in any former period of twelve month. I account for 1t in two ways First there is an improvement of fully 100 per cent in the class of animals used in this section, and In the second place there has been a large increase in the number used. The estimates to be ob- tained on the classes, prices and num- ber of horses sold are: Fancy horses, si50 to $500 each, 100 sold in the past year. Combination saddle and harness horses, $50 to $40o, 50 sold. Family horses, $150 to $500, 100 sold. Business horses, $75 to $250, 200 sold. Heavy draft horses, $50 to $225 100 sold. Light draft, single delivery, $l0O to $20O, 126 sold Farm horses, $50 to $100. 200 sold in past year.
 This makes a total of nearly 300 horses sold here during the past year at prices ranging from $50 to $500 each.
 There has been an advance in the price of farm horses of about 35 per cent in the year, and that ranges on up ac- cording to class until an advance of price of nearly 10 per cent is shown in the fancy horses
 ''There has been an equal advance in the class of mules and the amount of money paid for them in the past twelve months, and their price ranged from $40 to $25O each.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
The new comets twin tails are not conspicuously bright.
NEW LEADERSHIP NEEDED.

From the New Orleans States.
 If anything can. the speech delivered by MT. William J. Bryan at Chicago last
 Saturday should convince the rank and
 file of the democracy that victory for the
 party in the Presidential election next
 year is impossible unless the twice-de-
 feated and talkative leader is complete
 Iy unhorsed in the national convention
 of 1904 and the party nominates broad
 and conservative candidate upon plat
 form embodying the time-honored prin-
 ciples of the democratic party. We do
 not mean by this that the democratic
 party should again turn to Mir. Cleveland
 as its leader, but, on the contrary, it
 would prove a godsend for the democra- ey were it possible to have MT. Bryan chosen as high joint commissioner to
 settle something in Dahomey and MT.
 Cleveland to perform a similar service in faraway Tibet.
 While MT. Bryan has talked himself out of the consideration of even some of
 his most ardent admirers and lately has degenerated into a common scold, all efforts to force upon the party the lead ership of MT Cleveland will be productive of mischief only. There Is much more than a reasonable hope or the uemOcrdle eleciluB lno president next year if they can get to- gether, but the case is hopeless unless the
 party makes the fact quite clear that it is done with strife; that Cleveland and Bryan must either take their places as privates in the ranks or get out of the party's pathway. In other words, it's only hope of success lies in entirely new leadership. It must turn from both Cleveland and Bryan to some broad
 minded and able man who has no griev- ances, no heart-burnings and no ene-
 mics to punish. There are hundreds of
 such men in the party and from them
 the candidate must be selected in 1904.
 The issues are already at hand upon
 which to wage an aggressive and enthu-
 siastic campaign, and in view of the highly strenuous and spectacular record
 of the present republican administration
 and its manifold scandals. there is every l reason to hope for a democratic victory 1 In the Presidential contest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
Action of the ConcIave.

The current reports as to Cardinal Gibbons action in favoring reaction ist candidate as a successor of the late pope, and especially in opposing the candidature of Cardinal Rampolla, should be accepted with caution. Any such policy on his part would be at variance with the breadth and liber- ality of his previous career, and it is more than probable that his attitude at present Is not correctly reported.
 Cardinal Rampolla Is a Francaphile, and he Is regarded as the leading candidate. He has served as papal secretary of state sixteen years, thus crossing many plans and making many enemies. But all intelligent men recognize his skill and his deyo- ton to the church, and all desire to see the church maintain friendly re- lations with France, and these con alterations may outweigh personal feelings, and make him the successor of the pope he loved so well and served so faithfully.
 His chief opponent is now thought to be Cardinal Vannutelli, who is re- garded as a conservative, but his chief feature at present seems to be that he is a rallying point for all who do not like Cardinal Rampolla. Not much Is known in this country concerning the two vannutellis, both of whom are cardinals, but really the popular esti- mates of cardinals do not count for much. The seventy members of the l Sacred College know, as the outside public do not know, the all-round fit- ness and mental freaks of their brother members, and they will no doubt endeavor to select one who will unite all conflicting elements while antagonizing none.
 Possibly those wAo desire man who will extend the spiritual influence of St. Peter'g chair, as Pope Leo did, will gain the upper hand, and in that case Cardinal Gotti, prefect of the propaganda, may be chosen. He is the head of the Carmelite order of mendicant monks. But after all Ram polla, vannutelli and Gotti may so balance one another that a dark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
Today's Issue.

Today is the banner day in the cir culation of The Age-Herald. It is safe 10 presume that today's issue, full of facts and figures of Birmingham's past sand present, and of prophetic coni- dence of its future glory, will be read by quarter of million of people. It Twill circulate and be read over the entire country, and many of this issue will be this morning mailed abroad and read with wonder by friends across the sea.
 Of course we do not pretend to base Ehe circulation of The Age-Herald on today's issue-we print and distribute nearly 30,OO0 today-but we simply, in hs modest a manner as our pride will permit, desire to call attention to the fact that The Age-Herald is abreast of and sharing all the good things in she prosperity line that are coming Birmingham's way, and we confidently expect a bona fide circulation of SO,- poo in the near future.
 Every part of the work of today's industrial supplement was done in The a ge-Herald office, even to the en- graved headline, which was made in our engraving department, and the borders set on our Mergenthaler ma chimes. The press work and folding was done entirely on The ge-Herald's mammoth perfecting press, which prints, cuts, folds and counts in mag azine form as well as in regular news paper form.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
BILL NYE's JOKE.
he Kansas City Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 James whltcomb Riley went to Phila- delphia recently to sit to John s. Sargent for his portrait. The sittings were in John Lambert's studio on south Seventh street. Mir. Riley. during one of them, said:
 Bill Nye and I once played good trick on New York millionaire Twem- low was the fellows name, and he was an insufferabie snob-insufferable. All over his house hung family trees. ances- tra1 portraits, crests and coats-ofarms. You'd have thought him descended in a direct line from at least hundred earls.
 'It happened in New York one day that Nye was upset by a dray and rolled about in the mud. When he got mp he was a sight his clothes were in rags. his shirt and face black, and his hat without rim.
 Let's go and see Twemlow' he said, suddenly Think how disgusted hell be to see me in this rig
 "We went to Twemiow's house and a fiunkey in knee brooches answered our ring.
 "'Mr. Twemlow is not at home fe said
 "'Oh, very we'll said Nye. Just tel him that his uncle from the workhouse called
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
NED BRACE IAI-KS=ABOUT THE GROWTHOF
 BIRMINGHAM AND SEVERAL OTHER THINGS


 have, and the needs are being rapidly supplied. We have probably one hundred miles more of cement sidewalks than we had this time last year. and many more paved streets. and better graded streets stin there are some bad ones yet; but the good mayor of Philadelphia fame is doing the very best he can now to earn that in- crease in salary.
 Speaking about Birmingham, there Is with today's issue of the sAge-TIerald supplement-an Industrial Review-which might not be interesting to the reader of pure romance, but for the practical-mind- ! ed 1t will be found to contain a great amount of condensed information, setting forth what the Birmingham of the pres ent day is made of There is information accurately depicted about practically every industrial enterprise in the BIrm- ingham district While It may not be ab- solutely complete, it, in large measure. tells the story of Birmingham.
 Besides the building of manufacturing enterprises. the development of coal mines and other things, much of the growth of Birmingham has been in home building. The records show that during the past year 200 houses have been built in Birmingham; within the past two years the total of new build ings is 4O0O Of this number, a very large percentage are residences and of the residences a large proportion have been built as homes. In other words, those who live in them. own them. It Is true that many have a mortgage indebtedness upon them but that is the case in praeti- cally all cities
 Birmingham Is becoming a city of homes as well as enterprises.
 It is useless for anyone in Birmingham in legitimate business to be alarmed over the New York stock market situa- tion. The great slump in stocks means nothing but that a whole lot of specula-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26

ton, and the coal production to figures beyond ten million tons year. No one then expected to see in so short time 2000 houses erected each year, and skyscrapers were much too wild to become even the subject of dreams.
 What will the next five years bring us? It will bring us an Open Warrior -open the year round to slackwater navigation, and the man who can name the meaning of such an achieve ment in district like this must be bold and. far-seeing. When only 35 or 40 cents a ton separates our products from tidewater, giving us the whole world as market, the limit of production and possibilities becomes indeed vast. Who can define 1t? Who can set bounds to itY
 The opening of the Warrior will precede the opening of the isthmian canal, and these two events will de- termine the scope and work and des- tiny of this district in the next five years. We are passing out of local environments and railroad limitations to worlds position. This Is what the next five years has in store for us, and hard as the task of forecasting was five years ago, it Is still harder now.
 All events are pulling together and the next five years will assuredly give us not only a waterway to the sea, but 1t will give us waterway to the vast Mississippi valley at Guntersville. This will perfect the transportation system of the district, rendering it in- vincible, and enabling it to work out it's full destiny This may seem lit tie hay at present, but 1t will assured ly become fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Delightful Summer.

While northern cities have been exces- sively hot this summer, Birmingham has been favored with unusually delightful weather" said an old citizen. ''The fact is Birmingham Is an exceptionally pleas ant place nearly all the year round-sum- mer as well as autumn. Seldom are the nights too hot for comfort.
 Northern people who have never been here in summer have an idea that Bir- mingham is as hot as Havana. Years ago it was with some difficulty that me- chanics were induced to leave Pennsyl- vania and other northern states for Ala bama. They said they were afraid Bir- mingham was too hot for them. Since hundreds of northern wage workers are now living and thriving here, their friends left behind are not so slow to learn that Birmingham Is highly desirable place of residence. All who try the Birmingham district this summer will readily acknowl- edge that is not so trying as Philadel- phia, New York, Milwaukee or Detroit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
Health In Jones Valley.

In Atlanta streets cannot be exca- vated and thrown up, or even great bodies of earth moved, without creat- ing some bad effects upon public health, and in Savannah and a host of other southern towns such work is Forbidden by law in the hot months of the year. But in Birmingham the chief work of that nature is done in the hottest months with impunity and with the utmost abandon.
 N Why is this? This latitude of ours Is well advanced towards the tropics, and our elevation above the sea is less than 700 feet And yet no perceptible malaria is evolved when the earth is disturbed in the streets of this city amid dense population. The singu- larity of the case is a matter of inter est to the curious.
 The best explanatory theory ad- vanced relates to the presence of we'll nigh thirty per cent of lime in the chert that Is everywhere present in this valley. The presence of so much lime eliminates the gases in the earth, which are well known to be the chief breeders of what is called malaria" in the absence of a better word. If these gases do not contain the malaria mlcrobe they at any rate lessen the vigor of all who breathe them, thus enabling the microbe to gain foot hold for mischief Microbes have as rule an uphill battle in the systems of the strong and vigorous.
 The subject is not susceptible of exact demonstration, but If the lime fiji our soil does not set free it's gases, what, pray, then renders excavations ip July and August in this town harm less and innocuous, when they are known to be full of hurt in towns of like latitude? This is @ poser indeed, unless the theory that lime is our friend be accepted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26

N MOTHER year in the history of VN The Age-Herald has passed. Six
 years ago this date, the writer assumed it's control within that time Birmingham has prospered materially. The Age-Herald has grown wonderfully It's advertising and circulation have more than quadrnpled in volume.
 The more see of Birmingham-the longer I live in 1.-the better like 1t. There is a snap and a go about 1t, which one finds in no other southern town. There is energy and industry here. Men think quickly, and act. New enterprises are planned and constructed In Birming- ham while in other places they are be- ing talked about Birmingham is opera tive. And those who operate with intel ligence prosper. I don't know of any thing attempted in Birmingham within the past six years on reasonably intellf- gent business principles which has not succeeded.
 l happen to know a young man who came to Birmingham several months after I located here. and who brought Wiln HliIl q Ntfy LEW liiodsdAd dolAdiR eA borrowed money. He invested 1t in mak- ing a manufacturing plant. I happen to know that this young man within the past several months has invested nearly s10O,OO0 of surplus which he has accumu- lated, in local bank, real estate and other stocks. while his manufacturing plant continues to prosper and earn handsome ly.
 This young man Is one of many who have found opportunity here to prosper and accumulate when applying them selves wisely to business.
 There are opportunities in Birmingham greater today than ever before. Values have fuctuated widely here 1t Is true, be- cause this Is yet young town. But every month there Is something more substantial than there was the previous month. There is much we need, 1t Is true; but much we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
Taxes and lax Values.

The assessed value of a single Ala bama county has risen to $4S, S,000,0 ,000l The valuation of the entire state last year stood at s295,611, ,7S6, so that the great leading county Is toting about one-sixth of the burden of CT counties.
 If the assessed valuations of Mo bile and Montgomery counties be added together, Winston and Coosa and Walker would have to be cast in before Jefferson's aggregate would be reached. The entire Black Belt just about equals in assessed values the imperial county of Jefferson, and in point of growth and actual profits it Is far behind the states primal imperial county.
 Jefferson is in the state auditors office equivalent to Conecuh, Coving- ton, Coosa, Cullman, Crenshaw, Dale, Fayette, Franklin, Fillmore, Geneva, Greene, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Marshall, Russell, Monroe, St. Clair. Pickens, Randolph, Washington and Winston-twenty-two all told, and at the rate Jefferson is increasing it will soon be equivalent in assessed values to fully thirty counties in the state.
 The weight of Jefferson is best shown in it's state tax bill. Last year 1t paid into the state treasury $247,- 900. This year it will be about $271,- 900, and there is one county, Winston, that pays in but little over S4000. In poll taxes Jefferson paid last year s16,097, while Washington paid but $sS1, and Russell $79s.
 There are some discrepancies not easily explained. Although Jefferson contributes to the treasury more than double the sum Montgomery pays in, yet the latter drew out last year school moneys to the amount of s39,- 146. while Jefferson received back but $46,441. Even Lowndes received $24,- 635 in school moneys, and Lowndes' total contribution to the treasury was but $21, ,121. In other words, Lowndes as an unit is not only not taxed at all, but it receives a bonus or donation of about $3500 for being county in the state. But hunt for seeming inequi- ties and inconsistencies would be end less, and without useful purpose Like the consumer big Jefferson bears the brunt of taxation, and gains in return comparatively little. The new con stitution is built that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD
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devoured only 50O0O, which was not even a nominal catch. Maryland has 2S5O square miles of water, 2OOO of which is salt. Be- meath the 2O0o square miles of salt water crawl several hundred million crabs. and every year sO,0OO,OOO of the crustaceans are caught, sent to market and devoured. This is pleasant news to bon vivants who relish things that smack of the sea. Thir- ty million crabs is no small number, when we come to think of it. and the Elks will no doubt be strongly tempted to have another convention in Baltimore where the crabs are so plentiful and other good things are to be had without trouble.
 From Chicago comes the story of an Evanston professor who spent eight years of his life in compiling thousands of pages of manuscript for a new edition of Goethe, only to consign the entire fruit of his labor to the waste basket and begin over again to prepare "clear and simple" edition, using only the sim plest notes. Attention is called to the fact that the scholar was willing to let his learning rest on it's merits without displaying 1t to the public in a bulky volume pleasing comparison is drawn between this professor and the Chicago professors who are so fond of springing sensations upon an unsuspecting public.
 Maud Goune, the Irish Joan of Arc, is in sad predicament. When Ireland would be gay in honor of King Edward and his queen she hangs out her black flag to show that she at least would not do honor to the ruler of the hated Eng fish race. Such defiance from one lone woman in the light of present events is really pathetic and a trlne ludicrous. Un- der latter day conditions Maud Come is without a job, an heroic figure who would be capable of great things if she were only given a chance to show her mettle. She has sworn to fight always for Ireland's freedom but it begins to look as if her desire will never be re- alized. At any rate it did no good to insult the royal visitors from England in a style that resembles the picturesque doings of mediaeval times. P. c.