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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
RAILROAD NOTICES.

To Chicago, ss.ool To Peoria. se.41i
To ST. Louis, $14.26!
Take the Minneapolis & ST Louis IA
nous North Star limited;'' through
compartment and standard sleepers, buff
fet library and chair cars and coaches
This Is the newest and best of limited
trains. Try it. Special train leaves st.
Paul Union depot at 8 p. M. Monday,
August 10th. Call on J. G. Rickel
Ryan Hotel Block" st. Paul, MINI.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
HaIf Eare 70 PIttsbura and RETURN.

On Aug 1st, End and Bird the Chicago
Milwaukee & st Paul Ry. sell round trip
tickets to Fittsburg at one fare for the
For particulars call at City Ticket Office,
365 Robert street. or address w. B. Dixon.
N w. P. A.. st. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29

that we will increase our Indebtedness
to Europe this year. can say def
nitely that in case there should be any
squeeze during the next two months,
the treasury department will offer
prompt relief to legitimate financial
interests"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
$500 TO CHICAGO.

This low rate now in effect via Chicago
Great Western Railway No intermediate
POINT higher For further ftd information ap
ner Fifth and Robert Streets st. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
Best Flshina Is on the Omaha.

Low excursion rates any day with still
lower fishing rates every Friday and Sat
North Western line. City Office, $50 Rob
ert street. Either phone. $50.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29

sale Aug. 1st, End and 3rd. Return limit
Aug. 31st. Via Wisconsin Central Rail-
way. City ticket office 373 Robert street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
Americas Great Double Track Scenic
HIuf1WaY.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad. Luxurious
Trains running on limited time. Route OF
the Black Diamond Express.
Stop-over allowed at Niagara Falls on
all through tickets to New York and
PHILADELPHIA.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
DIED..

ISLER-In st. Paul, Tuesday, July 2S,
Willie Isler, aged twenty three years.
Funeral 115 4rs IRON y 1alloran n, d Murphys,
80. at 8 a. m. Interment at Mendoza.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
Colorado and Utah Rates Cheaper Than
Ever.

In arranging for your summer vacation.
why not go to Colorado or Utah. The Min
neapolis & st. Louis Railroad has the
shortest line and best service and will sell
tickets at half rates for the rounu trip to
wood Springs, Colorado. Salt Lake and
Ogden Utah, from June l 10 September
30. good to return to October IL. Get full
information at the ticket Office 39S Robert
street, st. Paul, MINI.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
ANNOUNCEMENT.

DRUIDS-An Druids Of
St Paul are requested to come to their
respective halls on Thursday, July 30,
will be made for participation in fra
ternal parade at st. Paul Midsummer
carnival. By order of committee.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
Tho fomnuc Palmer House Java n e
IU6 lQislUu0 and Mocha Coffee Ib u y

Gas Mantles. 25c
Use Schoch's Home made Bread, Layer
Cakes and Pound Cakes Just as good as
you can make them yourself The clean
est and purest bakery goods made.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
Payment of Poll Taxes,

The registration in Jefferson county
is nearly $4,000. This is less than it
should have been, but this number
will answer reasonably well, espec-
tally after it is supplemented with ad-
ditions brought in under new elec-
tion law.
But this month a new duty arises.
In order to vote at the city election
and at other future elections delin-
quent poll taxes must be paid, and
they must be paid in the present
month. They can be paid in February
or in any other month of this year,
but such payments will not enable the
person paying them to vote. In order
to vote this year he must pay this
month all poll taxes that are due. He
must pay in short the poll tax that
became delinquent on October / last
and also the one that became delin-
quent on the first day Of the previous
October-two in all. All men between
the ages of 81 and As must pay these
two taxes-three dollars all told-this
month In order to vote for city off,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
BUYS RAILROAD FOR SENTIMENT.
Frank Gould May be Saving for M. 3.
FIynn's Widow.

From the New York American.
Frank Jay Gould, by buying control OF
the Virginia Passenger and Power COM
pany, is carrying out one of the few SEN
timental deals ever made by old Jay
Gould
This company embraces the Richmond
Wa.) street railway lines, which were
controlled by Mrs. Maurice Bennett Flynn,
widow of the New York contractor and
county democracy politician, under whose
lead the control of the city was all but
wrested from Tammany. His wife was a
daughter of the late Theodore Moss, one
of the commission that put the electric
wires under ground in New York.
Flynn died. suddenly dozen years ago.
He was supposed to be very wealthy
but when his estate was appraised 1t was
found he left little of considerable value
except the Southern street railway line.
Interests averse to the Flynn holdings
tried to crowd the widow out of control
of the took. She appealed to Jay Gould.
There was some sort of a bond between
the financier and the dead politician. and
Jay Gould was going to marry Mrs.
Flynn, but 1t never came to more than
the story.
During his lifetime Mrs. Flynn was not
again disturbed In her ownership of the
Richmond Street railway stock. but the
traffic business has developed since then.
and it is probable that among the keen
and predatory railroad spectators Mrs.
Flynn. who is still alive, got into diff
culties once more, and that Frank Jay
Gould. by taking over the property, is
again aiding her.
Mr.. Gould himself announced the pur-
chase of the property. The terms were
not made public.
The company has s30OO,OO0 stock and
$40 100000 bonds. 1t owns 122 miles OF
traction railway and an electric line %
miles long between Manchester and Pet
ersburg.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
PEARsoN,s NEW YEAR GIFT.

Chicago Telegram to the st. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The New Years benefactions of DR..
d. X. Pearsons to the various institu-
lions of learning In which he is inter-
ested will add $4,000 to the total amount
of donations he has made during his life
time, and possibly more if certain schools
and colleges fulfill stipulated conditions
made at the time of DR.. Pearsons' offer
of assistance. The schools to which DR..
Pearsons will turn over funds for endow-
ment are:
Illinois college, Jacksonville, ILL.,, $780,
600; Fargo college, Fargo. N. D., $50, 900:
the West Virginia Conference seminary,
Buchanan, w. Va, $4,000; Paramount col
lege, Wichita. Kan, $4,000.
Several other colleges will be benefited
if they can show before New Years day
that they have raised the sums of money
required of them by DR.. Pearsons
DR.. Pearsons says his object has been
to endow the poorest and most struggling
colleges located where educational adj
vantages are most scarce.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
Price of Meat in Chicago.

The statement put forth by the Chi
cago packers, who constitute an in
formal beef trust in the suspense of
the merger, seem to have little to rest
upon. These statements were made in
order to shift the Lame attaching to
high meat prices to the retailers, but
careful investigation made by the
Chicago Record Herald shows that the
meat trust is still holding up prices,
although corn is selling at about forty
cents bushel.
1t appears that the packers have
not reduced the prices or Texas beef,
corn fed, a particle. If anything, says
the Record-Herald, the prices of such
beef are stronger" than they were
two months ago.
The price of poorer grades of beef
have been lessened, but the prices of
all corn-fed beef have not been lower
ed, and the Record-Herald states that
the prices Of beef, at retail, in Chi
cago, are as follows: Porterhouse
steak, 16 to rs cents a pound; sirloin
steak, IA to Is cents per pound; round
steak, 10 to IA cents; roasts, 10 to 20
cents a pound, with chuck roasts
about IA to Is cents pound. The
carcass, or wholesale, price for beef
to retail butchers ranges from 51a to
10 cents pound.
1t is very plain therefore that the
meat trust does not propose to con-
slider the price Of corn a factor in the
case. 1t proposes to hold all corn-fed
beef up to present figures, regardless
of great corn crop, public sentiment
or anything else. The trusts own this
country at present, and are exploiting
it to suit themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
From the Washington Times.


From the Washington Times.
The United States treasury will start
the New Year with more gold in its
vaults than this or any government has
ever held at any time before. There is
now in the treasury building in Washing
ton and in various ub-treasuries through
out the country, s615. 31s.s67 in gold
These holdings are four times as much
as the present holdings of the Bank Of
England, one and one-half times as much
as is held by the Bank of France, four
times as much as the Imperial German
bank holds. and nearly twice as much
as the Imperial Bank of Russia pos
sesses.
The stock of gold in the United States
December l was 1890. 67s. 772, showing a
monthly average increase since the close
of June of s7,e15, 6s6. Since January 1, 1898,
there has been an annual average gain
of s107, 500 in gold.
This stock and this Increase are be-
yond comparison with any records else
where. Only five countries other than
our own have in their stock of money so
nlucl as soO,UU,VU IN gold. line average
annual gain of the United States In the
last four years in gold is 1866 $50 more
than that of the United Kingdom, France,
Germany. Austria-Hungary, and Russia,
combined. Taking all the countries of Eu-
rope together, great and small, their net
average annual increase for these four
years Is $685. 425,000 which is s12, 1858, $50 less
than that Of the United States.
In discussing this tremendous inflow of
gold into this country before the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement of
Science this afternoon United States
Treasurer Ellis H. Roberts spoke of the
effect of this plethora of the precious
metal on our currency. on prices and
wages. and on our world relations.
Cautious f1nanciers, he SAID express
alarm at the tremendous imitation which
has taken place In recent years, and
which Is still going on. The total crcu-
lation per capita In this country is $685.
and the share of gold In it is A. 81 per
cent. In no other land are checks and
the like instruments of credit used so
much as here, and 1t is to be remembered
that the currency serves for only 10 or
at most Is per cent of the volume of
transportation. With that standard Mr.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
Mr.. UNDERwooD's STANDING.

From the Mobile Register
The report from Washington to the Bir-
mingham Age-Herald is that Mr.. Rich
ardson will relinqush the office of lead
er of the minority in congress. He is
said to regard it as a thankless position.
The democrats mentioned as his success
sor are John S. williams of Mississippi,
Missouri and o. w. Underwood of Ala
bama. 1t is not state pride alone that
gives Mr.. Underwood our preference. He
has shown the qualities of leadership and
the party would do well to profit by mis-
services. The excellent company with
which his name is associated shows the
high standing he has In the party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
Business Conditions.

THE stock market. as well as general
trade, started the new year we'll just as
l had predicted. remarked a man who
some times trades in Wall street.
THE following remarks made by Hen
ry clews Saturday strikes me as contain
ing much sound sense:
The year opens under somewhat DIFF
Cews. Then the top of the boom was
not in sight. Today it has beea fairly
passed; at least so far as Wall street is
concerned. While the industrial com.
mercial and agricultural interests of the
country continue enjoying great prosper.
ity, Wall street is soberly contemplating
Its past excuses. The period of ins oxica-
tion is over; the depression following has
also fairly passed off. but the rank and
file are still bordering over the xtraor
binary doings of the last few years and
endeavoring to return to more normal
conditions. The result Is a somewhat
confused though not unpromising out
look
A look into trade conditions shows
that the volume of business continues on
an enormous scale. The growth of popu-
lation and the spread of prosperity
among the masses mean a great con-
sumption of the necessaries and comforts
of life. to say nothing of luxuries In de-
mand by the wealthy. The spirit of Law
ishness is abroad in sharp contrast with
former spirit of economy; and this
alone is strong trade stimulant. In
many cases production, rapidly as 1t is
increasing in various lines, has failed
thus far to overtake consumption, and
so prices continue high. All the chief in
dustries are actively employed; and If
profits are declining. the volume of or
ders shows no diminution. Everyone has
been expecting reaction in the iron
trade; yet the great steel corporation is
still rushed with orders and has plenty
of business In sight for months to c,nc
in spite of increased competition; the de-
velopment of the country and new uses
for iron setting aside all calculations
based upon former standards. The same
is true in many other lines of industry.
old establishments and new ones being
fully employed, with no immediate pros
pect of oversupply. In the agricultural
field similar conditions prevail.
AS for conditions within the stock
market. they show distinct Improvement.
OF course national prosperity is the bed
rock of values on the stock exchange.
speculative excesses of the last few wears
naturally produced the recent severe re-
action. But Wall street has commenced
discounting all the good features again.
and is now recovering from the forced
contraction that followed the imitation of
1901 and 1907
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
UNCLE SANS. LARGE
STORE OF PURE GOLD

Roberts measured the enormous imitation
now in process in the United States.
The expansion of business. excessive in
not few branches, is a natural result.
Out Of 1t in large part grew the danger
Gus exploitation of gigantic industrial
corporations. An imitation of currency
breeds imitation of credits. arouses to ac-
tivity promoters and spectators. The
check which was recently applied made
plain the danger. The extensive liquida-
ton, the nervousness over the congestion
of new stock in the hands of organizers.
the dread of unknown evils. are not
healthful conditions. They expose the
wild schemes, dubious companies, excess
sive capitalization, the frenzy which is
not business.
Yet whatever perils may befall.. what
ever crash and ruin may come in the
early future, they cannot involve the cur
rency. They may reduce credits. clip
margins from stocks, paralyze enterprise
for time Even if corporations shrivel
and banks totter, all our. money will re-
main fortified in gold, sure and stead
fast.
With other things equal large addi-
lions to the currency carry up the prices
of commodities. Notable advances have
taken place in the prices of articles OF
necessity during the past five years, as
much as % or 30 per cent The burden
falls heavily at once on persons with
fixed salaries and limited incomes. who
can find no offset.
Real estate, excepting in favored forms
of choice locations in Cities. has not i'm
proved in earning capacity as a rule.
There are thus large classes of our peo-
pie to whom this imitation is an evil
without palliation. Efforts for better
wages in these conditions are natural
1t is conceivable. Mr.. Roberts said,
that our wages and prices of commodi-
ties may be carried so high as to build
barrier seriously to check exports.
That peril confronts us. but the danger
line is some distance ahead. If Ameri-
can skill and energy can keep ahead of
this rise we can hold and tighten our
grip on foreign markets. but too great
an imitation of our curt ency even by gold
will negative this.
So he concluded the inflow of gold is
not without its hazards, but the Ameri--
can people are sane enough to make
gold not only the symbol of prosperity;
but its stout defense.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
WHEN THE LAMP is SHATTERED.

BY Percy Bysshe Shelley.
When the lamp is shattered,
The light in the dust lies dead:
When the cloud Is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lutte is broken
Sweet tones are remembered not:
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot
AS music and splendor
E Survive not the lamp and the lutte,
The hearts echoes render
No song when the spirit Is mute
No song but sad dirges,
Like the winds through ruined cell.
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman's knell
When hearts have once mingled,
Love first leaves the well-built nest;
The weak one is singled
To endure what II once possessed.
Love! who bewailest
The frallty of all things here.
Why choose you the frailest
For your cradle your home. and your
bier?
Its passions will rock thee
As the storms rock the ravens on high;
Bright reason will mock thee
!. Like the sun from tia wintry sky
From thy nest every rafter
VIII rot, anu thine eagle home
Leave thee naked to laughter,
When leaves fall and cold winds coma
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
GREAT PIGEON RANCH
NEAR LOS ANGELES, CAL.

mum. The average price per dozen for the
birds is about SO, sometimes ranging up
to $40. The expense of maintaining such
an enormous flock is not inconsiderable,
as, contrary to what might be supposed,
the pigeons do not forage and fly far afield
to feed, rarely leaving their home, thus
forcing their owner to keep them In good
condition. To accomplish this the birds
are fed three times a day, each meal
costing approximately for all s5, so the
annual food bill is about $500. The food
consists mainly of wheat, screenings,
boiled meal and stale bread. The daily
screenings, eight sacks of wheat and
many gallons of boiled meal. The bread
is an additional fattener given during the
week.
Being conducted on scientific principles,
the sanitary condition of the birds is ex-
cellent. Once week every corner of the
great building is dsnfected by forcing
carboc acid and water into every crew
ice while the nests are treated to a COM
pound of sulphur and insecticide which
keeps them free of parasites. Hundreds
annually for nesting purposes, which is
scattered on the ground in the morning
by the men and soon carried away by the
nesting birds. No more interesting place
in which to study the habits of pigeons
could be imagined as here every peculiar
ity of the bird and all it's stages from
the egg to death from old age ard the
various diseases the pigeon is heir to, can
be observed. The male birds select a
single mate and are constant. Young
birds begin nesting when they are be-
tween five and six months old; and when
two eggs have been deposited the hatcn-
ing season begins, ending in eighteen
days. The pair divide their time in
this duty, though the female has the
greatest burden, being virtually relieved
several hours a day.
The young birds are fed by the mother
with the pigeons milk of fancy for a
while, soon eating grain. and In less than
of peppers "woolies," "squealers." Civ
en- them by various owners, and became
squads and marketable. The SQUAD be-
longs to the class of game birds that can
be eaten continually, differing from quail
and grouse and birds of more pronounced
individuality; hence the public does not
tire of them and the supply is never quite
up to the demand, at least in Southern
California, shown by the fact that de-
spite the enormous output SQUADS are
still In the class of luxuries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
SEATS IN NEW YORK THEATRES

From the New York Sun.
Who would have thought that there
are seats enough in the New York thea
tres to hold every night the population
of a city? About $1,000 persons can be
seated in the theatres, and in the holiday
week. which is the most prosperous one
in the year to theatre managers, there
will doubtless be evenings on which ev-
cry one of these seats will be fned. But
even this number is not thought large
enough to supply the demand, and,
when the playhouses now under way are
completed, there will be seats enough to
accommodate $1,000 persons. OF course,
there are few evenings in the year when
all of the seats now available are &C.
cupied The theatrical facilities of the
city are, nevertheless to be increased
by 25 per cent within the next year. Not
New Workers alone are counted on to
supply audiences for all these theatres.
The city has a floating population of
nearly 100000, according to the usually
accepted estimate, and these transient
jewellers do more than their share of the
theatre-going. The hotel population at
the approach of night inclines theatre
ward to a man. At least, that Is the
theory on which New Workers are COM
PEELED to pay advanced prices at the
hotels for theatre tickets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-05
Railroad Building in 1902

The Railroad Gazetts puts the
new railroad mileage of 1902 at
6,026 miles, as against 5,36S miles last
year. These figures do not include
second track, sidings or electric lines.
They represent the additions during
the year to the steam mileage of the
country, which now exceeds 100000
miles. Not since 1883 has the mileage
addition of 1902 been exceeded.
In Alabama this year 101.7S miles
of new track have been laid down,
chiefly in the piney wood section of
the state. Last year the new mileage
was 99.5 miles, so that we have done
q little better this year than we did
last year. In the year to come the
Seaboard mileage will be recorded,
and perhaps the extension of the
Louisville and Nashville to Hunts
vile, and possibly a Birmingham
branch of the Illinois Central, which
is much desired.
The leader this year was Oklahoma,
which secured $40 miles. Texas
comes second with 4S6 miles, and then
in order follow Arkansas, the Indian
Territory and Georgia. The last
named built $50 miles last year, a
portion of which consists of the
Brunswick and Birmingham, a line
headed this way. All in all Alabama s
mileage in 1903 promises to be at
least 100 miles, and it may reach 200
miles.