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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
Streets Are Very Dusty.

Birmingham business men cannot ap- preciate the excellent street sprinkling service the city is giving them this month. until they get out on the us- paved streets thatAnever have any water on them except when It rains,p said a suburban resident.
 Tn some sections of the city the dust is the worst I have ever seen 1t at this season of the year. The situation is greatly improved'in some quarters by the residents sprinkling the street in front of their premises. but as whole the un- paved streets that are used extensively for heavy traffic are almost unbearably dusty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
sousA's FIRST CONCERT.
In Which Figures Shirt Much too
 Big for the Soloist.


 From the New York Daily Telegraph.
 Persons with long memories inform us that MT. Demosthenes began his career as a stump speaker by throwing yards of verbosity at the sad sea waves. John Philip Sousa's beginning as a public per- former was much more ludicrous than the beginning made by MT. Demosthenes Sousa made his debut as a violin soloist, and his first public appearance was in a luratic asylum. Sousa tells of series of mishaps which prevented him from mak- ing a bowling success of his first ap- pearance.
 On preparing for the affair, the musi- cian, then eleven years of age, found he was minus a white shirt. He sought his instructor, and was soon equipped with garment several sizes too large for him. Ineased in the ample folds of his instruc- tors shirt and with a startllngy ex- panse of white polished linen under his chin, Sousa tripped out on the platform. He lifted his bow. Several pounds of shirt accompanied his arm. and when he began to play the garment wabbled around his neck in a most annoying manner. After a minutes playing the fn- ture bandmaster found himself too small for the garment and unable to manipu- late both the violin and the shirt at the same time with any degree of comfort or grace. He fled incontinently.
 A luncheon was held after the per formance." and Sousa was, of course, in- vited. His instructor said
 This luncheon Is given in your honor The very bad performance given by you deprives you of the right to partake of food Kindly starvel"
 Sousa feigned to eat. He says he was very hungry, but the eye of his instruc- tor was upon him, and he left the table with a Tavenous appetite.
 Then he went home and wept.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
A PRAYER TO JESUS CHRIST FOR
 THE COMING CENTURY.

By Pope Leo XIII. rendered into English
 by Andrew Lang. Renowned in letters, famed in art, The age recedes; of many a thing Won for mans good from Natures heart Who will may sing. The glories of the faded years I rather backward glancing mourn The deeds i'll done, the wrongs, the tears Of the age outworn. Red wars that reeked with the blood of
 man,
 Wide-wandering license, sceptres rent, Fierce guile that threats the Vatican These l lament.
 Where is the glory, stainless, free, City of Cities. queenly RomeY Ages and Nations kneeled to thee, 4ae Pontiff's home Woe for a time of Goddess lawsi What Faith. what Loyalty abides? Torn from the shrines, the ancient cause To ruin glides.
 Listen, how Science wildly raves Around the altars overthrown. Brute Nature. with the world for slaves, Is God alone!
 Not made in Gods own image now Is man-'tis thus the wise dispute But sprung from one same cef, they VOW. Are Man and Brute. o blinded Pride on chaos hurled o Night proclaimed where Light should be Obey thou Him who rules the world, Man, and be free!
 rIo oof,, tc f1,a U-rutf, the I fife He only points the Heavenward way He only frees the soul from strife If men obey.
 Iris He who led the pious throng But now to Peters dust divine; Of faith to live through ages long, No empty sign!
 Jesus. the Judge of years to be. Direct the tides. the tempest still. And make the rebelious people free To work Thy will. Sow Thou the seeds of happy Peace, All evil drive from us afar And bid the rage and tumult cease Of f'hateful War.
 The minds of Kings and Peoples mold, Thy word may all enjoy with awe: Be there one Shepherd and one Fold, One Faith, one Law My course is run. long ninety years, Thy gifts are mine: Thy grace retain; Let not Thy servants prayers and tears Be poured in vain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
No Cash In Slnht.

The Standard Steel Car company, in it's bill of complaint filed at Gads- den, gives away the story of the dis aster, except that 1t does not state that the syndicate bought the control of the southern plants for the purpose of unloading them on the American Car company-a little scheme that fell through because the American Car company knew thing or two itses
 But the bill of complaint shows quite enough to condemn the entire course of the syndicate that the Standard Car company is said to have devised and fathered. The Standard company is a Pennsylvania concern tLat makes steel cars at Butler, . town about fifty miles from Pittsburg. The Southern Car and Foundry com pany was New Jersey corporation, dating from April 6, 1899. In Decem- Der, 1902, the Pennsylvania syndicate gained control of it. And in all that time it had but $150,OOO of working capital, which, says the bill of com plaint, twas almost immediately ex- pended" This was in April, 1899, and never in the course of its subsequent history did 1t procure any more work ing capital, although it's business ran far into the millions each year. It did not accumulate working capital from profits, for the bill of com plaint filed by the Standard Car com pany shows that 1t has no cash on hand-no assets that are available no credit-nothing but debts and we'll mortgaged materials.
 These facts sworn to and presented to the court in the course of an appli- cation for a receiver, sufficiently ex- plains the wreck that has occurred in the four plants. No great industry can be carried forward without working capital, and the want of it has shut up tho four plants and created much distress. The fault lies not at the door of the south, but directly at the door of the men who were conduct
 
 ing great plants on "hot air" and cash sales. The end was inevitable. The tightness of the money market per haps precipitated the crisis, which could not have been long warded off at the best.
 But the welfare of the Pennsylvania syndicate is not important What they intend to accomplish is not clear ly apparent but the distress created by their cashless operations is appar- ent, and there are those who will at tempt to cast the blame upon the south, when in fact it should rest upon the Pennsylvania syndicate lat attempted to conduct the plants with out any cash in hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Charles Nj. Pepper, Special Commissioner,
 in the Outlook.
 The Pan-Ameriean or Intercontinental railway project has had long wait. Its turn seems nov 10 be coming.
 The broad events which are converging and are focusing the Intercontinental rail- way project as a measure of the not removte future are the changes of a po- Itical character which have come since the results of the spanish-Amerlean war established 's- international relation of the North American republic to it's neigh bors on the south.
 Then there is the coincident fact of New York striving successfully for supremacy as the money centre of the world The $500, O0o0Oo American gold which has gone into Mexico has overhowed naturally in that country into railway building. and it is simple process for It to flow on south with the geographical current.
 A final, determinate and positive factor, and one which gives promise of the ear Hest results, Is the construction of the isthmlan canal With this government enterprise under way there is the cer- tainty of private projects for exploitation and development, and of these railways on either side of the canal reaching out in- to Central America and into Colombia are sure to be the outcome. They will form links In the Pan-American route
 Thirty years ago and more United States consul in South America Hinton Rowan Helper. began the agitation for. three Americas railway Others also took up the idea When James G. Blaine's dream began to take form and the first international conference of American States was held in Washing ton in 1ss9-90. the Pan-A American rail- way project was strongly urged by him.
 This conference as first step recom- mended an international survey Presi- dent Harrison. in full sympathy with MT. Blaine approved the project as vast but practicable. and recommended to congress the appropriation necessary for this purpose. which was made. This fund was supplemented by the various governments
 With this authority, three corps of en- gineers were placed in the field under the direction of a commission of which MT. A. J Cassatt. of the Pennsylvania railroad was chairman. The surveys were made under the immediate super- vision of William F. Shunk, eminent in his profession. The results were em- bodied in a series of reports, which covered the territory from the northern border of Guatemala and along the Andes to the northern frontier of the Argentine Republic. Estimates also were made for projected surveys and connec-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
New York Press.

From the New Iork fress
 It's awfully exasperating the way a shirt waist looks as if 1t were going to tell everything, but stops short off right at the most interesting part.
 It takes a woman to be too busy to darn a pair of stockings because she is making some underclothes to go with a new pair when she gets them.
 When man sits down to meal hav- Ing all his favorite dishes. 1t is time for him to get suspicious that his wife Is planning a raid on his pocketbook.
 A woman will believe saint If he tells her what she does not want to believe; she will believe the blackest villain if he tells her what she wants to believe.
 Just when woman thinks her hus- band is being impressed with sermon is generally the time he is thinking what difference it would have made if he had filled that flush the night before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
About Persons.

L. c. Cardinal of Montgomery is stop ping at the Hillman.
 B. w. Whitfield of Nauvoo is regis tered at the Morris. J. B. Blackwood of Gadsden is at the Metropolitan.
 w. L. Walters of Alexander City Is at the St. Nicholas.
 Andrew Deyo of New York Is stopping at the Hillman.
 J. L. Pallard of Scale is stopping at the Morris.
 Carroll Rosenborough of Union Springs is registered at the Metropolitan. S. A. Story of Buffalo is at the. Hlll- man.
 chas. I. Graves of Alexander City Is at the Morris.
 T. H. Moore of Tuscaloosa Is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 
 J. W. Gates of Memphis is registered at the Morris.
 T. A. King of Decatur Is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 Mir. ThaclS Phillips of Talladega was In the city yesterday MT. Phillips is as- sisting in the construction of the Eas, and West railroad and states that work is progressing rapidly and satisfactorily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
Alabama Crops.

R. E. L. Nell. the-SyelI known news paper man of Selma was in Birmingham yesterday. He has been to Atlanta after making a general observation tour of the Alabama "cotton belt"
 He said: While cotton is from two to three weeks late, 1t Is in fine shape and the stands give a most hattering promise of a good crop. Unless there are unusual rains in August I think the cotton crop of Alabama will be heavy. The corn crop is assured, and instead of being obliged to buy seed, as was the case last year, we will have some to sell Montgomery county was the banner county of the state last year in the mat ter Of cotton ginning and has now more gins than any other county, but Dallas county will, think, equal, If 1t does not exceed, Montgomery this year in the yield of cotton.
 "The farmers of the state say that the oat crop Is unusually good. All things considered. if the favorable con- ditions continue all the Alabama farmers will take their families to St. Louis next year, and be able to stand the Mid- way without going broke'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
Easy to Guess.
phiIadalnbia press

From the Philadelphia Press.
 she--I want to get box of cigars for a present to - clerk-Yes. Miss. Does your friend like a mild or a strong one?
 she-Oh. any kind will do, so they're cheap.
 Clerk-Yes. madam. Shall I send 'em home to your husband or win you take them with you2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
No pullness at the Hotels.

"The midsummer dullness in the hotel business has been later than usual in starting this season. said well known hotel man.
 July is considered the dullest month in the year for our business, because there are so few travelling men out on the road during that month but up to with in week or two ago there has been very little diminution in business of Birmingham hotels. While it is some what quiet just now, there is every indi- cation that business is going to hold up well throughout the summer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
Fluctuations in siocks.

Prices of stocks, railroad as well as Industrial, have gone off from twenty to forty points, the average fall since January having been about 32 points. yet prices are far above those of that year of depression, 1897, as the fol- lowing table shows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
Interest Aroused.

From Brooklyn Life.
 ''Running an auto must be exciting" said the friend
 Tt is" said the owner. Every time you stop you wonder if the machine will start again when you are ready"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Kansas is never altogether happy Even if she succeeds in harvesting her wheat \she sees there will not be cars enough Ito carry it to market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The papal electorate is limited, but it is perhaps none the less representa- tive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Slump follows slump in Wall street, the endeavor being to reach the level of 1897.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Cold waves in the east are said to emanate from Judge Parker's icicle factory. Georgia is still benumbed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The new Marconi telegraph Is pole less also. It simply shoots a spark into space, and lets it go at that,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Cuba wants to borrow $S5,000,000, and she should apply either to MT. Brown of New Orleans, or to the bears oi Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

General Miles will not mind retire ment, for he can still wear his assort- ment If uniforms on many occasions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Grover Cleveland is still trying to avoid the democratic nomination for the Presidency, preferring to fish and to abolish race suicide
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

MT. Roosevelt has enlarged and beautified the White House, and MT Cleveland is of course duly grateful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Tho seven derelict islands off the coast of Borneo have already cost in printers ink and cable tolls far more than they are worth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The just and the unjust suffer alike in the prevailing squeezing out or water. the promoter alone escaping unhurt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The literary center has shifted from Boston to Indiana, and the lyncning center has gone the same way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Judge Lynch's attention is called to promoters who attempt to conduct big industries without any working capi- 4aI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Judge Lynch does not at any rate recognize government by injunction Give him his due.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Judge Lynch's jurisdiction now ex- tends to several additional states, but the nature of his rule has not been bettered a particle. It is still anarchy pure and simple.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Mother Jones leads her campaigners in a trolley car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Circuit Attorney Folk has started the procession of boodlers towards the penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

President Roosevelt sympathizes with Mother Jones provided she Keeps fifty miles away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Fish stories from Buzzard's Bay will now be more abundant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

General Miles outrode Paul Revere, but Paul picked afterwards the best poet reporter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The punk burners at Oyster Bay are not remnants of torchlight pro cession. but are one and all mosquito fighters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
NEW WORKERS TO REACH
 BUENAS AIRES BY RAIL

tions with the railway systems of Bra gil and Paraguay. as well as for branch across from Colombia to Venezuelan sea ports
 When the Second International Amer ican Conference met in Mexico in the winter of IsO1-o2. the Intercontinental Railway was a leading theme Reports showed that the international survey in several instances was being used as the basis for railways under construction. and in other instances it was being test ed for variations and branch feeders which might prove reoe'sl in the develop rnent of natural resources. It was shown that the Mexican system was almost complete. and that the time was not far off when New York, Chicago or San Francisco would be in direct communi- cation by rail with the heart of Central America. Other information told how the gaps were being closed in South America.
 Since these reports were made the line from Cordoba. near Vera Cruz. has been completed to a junction with the Te- huantepec Isthmian Railway, and the Mexican government Is pushing the con struction of the Pan-Amerlcan line from San Geronimo south toward the Guate- malan border. When this work is a little further advanced, the Guatemalan government will take steps to close up the gap of thirty miles necessary to bring It's railway system to the frontier of Mexico.
 The government of the Argentine Re public has pushed the building of it's rail- way lines from Jujuy formerly the north ern terminus. till they are now close to the boundary of Bolivia, and Bolivia also Is encouraging the extension of it's sys- tenn south along the route of the inter- continental survey so as to connect with the Argentine system. Chilli, which has a most extensive railway network. is en- couraging the trans-Andean project that will bring Santiago into through rail con neetion with Buenos Ayres Peru is also having an era of railway building, some actual, more in prospect. By the end of the present year it is likely that the gaps between New York and Buenos Ayres on the inter-continental route will not aggre- gate more than forty-seven hundred miles as against fifty-two hundred miles when the last reports were made.
 This is the status of the subject as it exists today No Illusions cloud 1t. The broad fact is that the government of the United States and the governments of the other republics are disposed to work In unison, and with this cooperation and encouragement the links in the inter con tinental American railway gradually may be welded together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

central A. J. Earling of the St. Paul. William H. Truesdale of the Lackawanna and Marvin Hughitt of the Chicago and Northwestern.
 President Burt of the Union Pacific is understood to receive s35,O00 a year. George B. Harris of the Burlington rail- road receives a similar sum- A. B. Stick ney, head of the Chicago Great Western. IS also believed to receive about $s5 otO year. President Joseph Ramsey of the Wabash is credited with drawing a salary of $oOO0 a year. The smaller railroads pay from $15,OOO year upward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Sentimental young people can sec the comet up to midnight. Others see it at g D. m. and go to bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Oyster Bay Is still one lap ahead or Buzzard's Bay in solving the race sui- eide problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The attempt of some Pittsburg spec ulators to conduct four ear-building plants in the south without working capital shows at least their confidence in the earning capacity of southern industries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

Ohio is about to electrocute a man who has killed five wives. He is no doubt insane, but Ohio has no con1- denee in that brand of insanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23
SUMMER GIRLS POWDER RAG.

Favors 1t Above Tiny Powder Puffs and keeps it h Her Stocking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

A. D. Glass Is the only authorized trav- ding representative of The Age-Herald in lts circulation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

The simmer girl this year Is powder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for thar purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-23

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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-13
The "Gorman Sbool."

Mr.. German thinks the issues of the
next Presidential campaign will be
1.-THE Tariff, economy and honesty, !"
which the New York "Times" SAYS
"good issues II you can get them ac-
cepted by your opponents, and then
adds that the record Of the republi-
cans on economy and honesty is 'squite
as good as that of the democrats of
the German school. But when it
comes to the Tariff-well, we had a
Tariff of the ''Gorman school" and
we probably will not take another
course of instruction in the same
school.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-13
Mighty Big Hog Fl CURES.

One of those famous hog sales was
pulled off the other day at Macy, last.
ing three or four days, during which
time S75, 900 worth of breeding hogs
were sold. Top Chief was sold in six
teen shares, and at the rate paid for
the shares he is worth about S22, 900.
1t is said John F. Kepler, of Whitley
county, was one of the investors. At
the way the hog market has been de-
clining one would think these comb
nation sales.at Macy and Disco would
glSO show decline in interest and
price; but the price is climbing up
ward instead. These sales may be
bonafide, but there are lot of people
who shake their heads at the figures
reported.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-13
he DELUDED THAT LAWYER
Man In Rustic Attire Who Got . Legal
Opinion at Way Down

Anderson, Ind. Aug. 10-A man In
rather rustic dress and with homely
and plaintive expression called on VIII
lis s. Ellis, of this city, for legal ad-
vice concerning partnership business,
and Ellis finally concluded that his
client would be entitled TO a one-third
share in whatever business he fol-
lowed, according to his story of the
trouble. The man asked the amount Of
fees for advice, and Ellis said that he
would be easy, and would only charge
mis- client 50. This was promptly paid
That was early in the week The man,
whose name had not been necessarily
needed in the matter. called again and
inquired If Ellis = II held the opinion
he had previously expressed, and the
lawyer affirmed his former. decision.
WELL" replied the old man, ''our
Marion lawyers thought about the
same way. and will just go back
and tell them they can bring suit for
me-"
But what is your business; have
you got any money involved?'
"Oh, yes" drawled the caller, "our
company has about $4,000 in the
banks at Marion, and l 'spose our fac
tory is worth that much up at Fair
mount"
There were no more words. Ellis
sat motionless for long time after his
client had departed. He learned later
that his client, whom he only charged
81 for advice, Is one Of the wealthy
men of Grant county, and has large
block of stock In Paramount factory.