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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
Steel Shares Active.

In no section of the market has mani-
 pulauon been more strikingly apparent
 than in the steel shares. Under the mas
 terful direction of MT. keens and his as-
 sociates big Steer as the preferred
 is called, was marked up $3o share and
 the common about $14 share. Many are inclined to think that the movement is not yet over. but on that point there is a decided difference of opinion. The
 earnings of the company have been cut and slashed remorselessly within the
 year, yet the preferred is now selling within a few dollars share of the range at which the great distribution took place at the height of the company's prosperity Then pig iron vas selling around sl7 a ton. It broke below s10 and is now selling around s1l. There has been no doubt substantial improvement in trade conditions. but the industrial sit uation is as yet far from being satisfac- tory and the advance in securities prices is very generally held to have out run the logic of trade position
 Very properly and legitimately the se- curities based on southern railroad prop critics are very strong. Reports which have flooded Wall Street of the wonder ful development of the south and south west have made a profound impression This impression Is emphasized by the knowledge of a large cotton crop and of prevailing widespread prosperity effect ing every class throughout that great region. The resources of the south and southwest are endless and now that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
A SAFE LETTER.
How One Business Man Sent His
 Money Safely.

From the New York World.
 'I send money by mail every week to my mother in Ohio," said the business man. ''I don't send it by money order or by check, or even by registered post just put the bills in an envelope along with my letter and send the whole thing by regular mail"
 But" urged the sane friend, you take big risks of having your letter opened somewhere between New York and Ohio and the money pinched.'
 ''On the contrary, I take no risk at ali.
 But hardly a week passes that don't read of letters being opened py dishonest mail clerks somewhere in the United States and cash stolen.
 Not letters sent the way l send mine l put the money in the letter, seal the envelope and address it. Then l write in the lower lefthand corner in red ink:
 This envelope contains s20 in two SIC bills numbered-and-.
 Not a mail clerk on earth dares to open that envelope. They all take 1t for trap and the letter and money are as safe as if their trip was escorted by a regiment of infantry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
Public Eauer to Buy.

Now that the market has been estab- lished on cOnspicuously high levels the public is falling over itself to buy the securities 1t could not be induced to touch only few short weeks ago. To what extent the lead has been taken over cannot now be correctly estimated It Is true beyond doubt however, that the distribution of securities at the ad- vanced range of prices has been very large. If the market activity can be kept up at high pressure q couple of weeks longer the process will have been finish ed and the curtain may be rung down upon another sensational act in the ever moving Wall Street drama.
 The public will have once more been Handed with the goods There will be no longer need of market manipulation on the upside except for the specialties which are never out of the control of clques and pools. The big interests of the street having pocketed their profits on phenomenal campaign can turn their attention to other things. It may be dis covered that they have other uses for the money of depositors and that it will be imprudent to have so much capital loaned out on stock collaterel in Wall Street. A calling of loans in that quarter is more than likely to occur and then will begin once more a season of so-called
 
 shearing season will be resumed and the lambs will again be called on to part with their fleece
 It Is the same old game, played in the same old way by the same old crowd on the same old public. The thing is done with almost automatic regularity and sameness.
 Nine out of ten people in Wall Street are convinced that the speculative excite ment will be maintained until after the election in November Whether or not it will continue beyond that period is a question upon which a great variety of views may be heard. Hopeful ones are confident that the stock market will move upward and onward indefinitely and that business conditions warrant such expectations. They maintain that prices should never have gone as low as they did and that the proper equilibrium will not be established until prices go very much higher. The reactionists and the bulls each mass impressive facts and arguments in support of their conflicting theories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
PUBLIC AS USUAL PAYS THE FORFEIT Wall Street Interests Cheerfully
 PoCketing Gains IS A GREAT RUSH TO BUY Now That Market Has Been Estab- lished on High Level Lambs Are
 Falling Over Each Other
 to Get Securities.
IS A GREAT RUSH TO BUY
BY ". G. NICHOLAS.

New York October 23-The play in the stock market is unfolding beautifully and without hitch in any part of the stage mechanism. The big inside interests hay ing boosted the market 20 to 90 points are transferring their speculative lines to the public and cheerfully pocketing their enormous profits The process of unload ing is yet far from complete, but 1t Is well along and little remains to be done except to keep the props under prices until after the presidential election and continue whooping things up, thereby in- spring the populace to still greater spec uative activity
 The public has been in the market on a very large scale for the last week or ten days and during that period has taken over immense lines of securities which were scorned three and four months ago when the stuff could have been had at a bargain counter quotation. Taken all In all the campaign now on has been the most remarkable and successful ever en- gineered in Wall Street. At the begin ming the floating supplies of stocks were well concentrated in the possession of the great financial powers in control of the banks, trust and insurance compan- les. With the power and leverage at their command the king of the street act ing in concert had little difficulty in put ting through a tremendous manipula- tive campaign and in reaping colossal profits. One stock after another was skillfully moved into leadership and the securities were manipulated with the precision of a military maneuver. The insiders took no risks and in their cam paign employed the capital and the credit of the chain of powerful fiscal institu tions over whose destinles they had dis cretion The deposits of hundreds of thousands of men and women were theirs to loan and practically unlimited facili- ties were extended to the manipulators of the stock market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
EARL B0yETT. COV|NGT0N COUNTS MERCHANT PRINCE ROS6 in Ten Years From a P|OWbOu to a Man Of Fortune Conducts a Biz Store at Opp and Is a Friend to th6
 Farmers.

ciaries of his wisdom. He is the farmer 8 friend, today he is giving them 10 cents a pound for cotton when it is only worth 9ss in New York. giving the farmers the benefit of several cars of short sales. Who else would be so generous but Earl Boy cit.
 He is buying more cotton than all the business firms of Opp combined. On last Wednesday he bought fifty bales from the wagons, paying as high as lO.l5 Tor it. He stands high in the order of Ma sorry, and although he is not member of any church, yet the vaults of his charity stands ajar and unbolted even, and suffering humanity are never turned away empty.
 As Dewey sent his mighty projectiles in search of disobedient Spaniards and sunk the floating shiploads of cruelty and missiles of death, so Earle Boyett yields the sceptre of honest weights and measures, first class goods, quick sales and small profits into the unconscious hearts of e&tortioners and selfish com petitors, and sinks them to the bottom | of oblivion, and puts them out of business.
 MT Boyett has some enemies like all hustling men will have, but it is more due to llI of jealous rage in business than a personal grievance. and their writhing efforts to lock his wheels of progress only serve as a stimulant to make him launch out into deeper waters of the great ocean of the commercial world. and he only laughs at their folly.
 A casual peep into his place of business and to see the crowded aisles between his counters and the hustling busy clerks who are polite, courteous, and as clever and accommodating set of statesmen and salesladies as l ever saw behind the coun- ter. and the heavily laden wagons con veying the purchased articles to glad wives and happy children one can see who is doing the volume of business in the little city of Opp.
 When Earl Boyett is away from town the farmers feel his absence In q decline in the price of their products and espe- cially cotton, which is the most impor- tant article of commodity at this season of the year.
 number of farmers have been heard to say that "If Earl Boyett were not in Opp they would haul their cotton to some other market" and to see them com- ing in with their samples of cotton like the busy bees with their little morsel of sweets, tells the tale of woe which seals the destiny of his neighbor and compet tor in business.
 Mr. Boyett is in the bloom of man hood, being about 20 years old. and a few years ago he married Miss Sybil daughter of MT. and Mrs. R. Tillis, and 1t is happy union.
 To exceed his father-in-law in wealth seems to be the pinnacle of his ambi- tion' but Mir. Boyett, you will have to ascend few more rounds in the ladder.
 May your efforts be crowned with sue cess. and happiness attend you and yours. 70. R."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
Queen Bees Worth S2Oo.

From the New York Herald.
 Just as there are valuable strains in horses. cattle and other stock, so there are varieties of queen bees which are worth many hundred times their weight in gold. The most valuable strain Is the Italian, and many Italian bee farmers demand and receive without question prices ranging from $50 to $200 for a sin gle queen bee of certain kind. Such bees are sent all over the world. The owner of bee farm near Ottawa, Can, goes to Europe annually and brings back with him bees of an aggregate value of thousands of pounds. He is enabled through the agency of an Italian firm to effect an insurance upon, the most valu- able of his queens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
vanderlip's Speech Important.

The speech by MT. Frank A. Vanderlip, mouth piece of the National City Bank and the Standard oil interests. was tor tured Into an incident of market import ance. After it's dellverance the verdict of the speech was that 1t presented a sensible view of the business situation, but that 1t hardly merited the conspic- uous place given it in advance of the speculative element If MT. Vanderlip really reflects the views of the Standard Oil group of financiers and speculators then it must be plain that this formd- able factor Is at the moment taking a hopeful look into the future. The eau tionary signals raised by the Standard oil oracle may foreshadow a healthful reduction of loans in Wall Street with an accompanying check to speculative fren- zy. The frenzy was all right so long as the Standard Oil group had goods to sell. but now that disposition has been made of the stuff the need of cooling off be- comes apparent to the representatives of the Petroleum party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23

ment steady and continued progress is looked for. Headway is making toward further railroad concentration in the south and special attention has lately been directed to the probability of an early concentration of interests which have been slowly working together for months and years. This tendency may not be regarded as wholly to the advant- age of the producing and shipping inter ests of the south, but it is certainly held to be for the advancement of the financial and fiscal condition of the prop critics themselves. Wall Street takes that view of the case and cannot at this time be shaken from it. No fears are felt or renewed popular agitation against rail road consolidation in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
UNDERGROUND SECRET.
How an old Waiter Is Supported by
 His Fellows.

From the New York World
 '"rhe waiter who eyes you wolfshly as he hands you your change, and whose one aim in life seems to be to rake in the rakeoff, does not strike the average New Yorker as being a man of heart, said Judge Wauhope Lynn last evening as he was finishing dinner in d Broadway restaurant. 'But in this very cafe there $ d case of generosity and charity going on every day which is as lavishly and as tactfully conducted if It's participants were millionaire diplomats instead of mero walters.
 'Dou you see that stuff in the little plate over there? It's called 'piccalilly, and it's served as a sort of relish with steak. It's made of chopped pickles, cold slaw, etc.. highly seasoned It's easy enough to make or to buy, and it's re- eipe is in d dozen cook books. The man who makes it in this particular restaur- ant is an cld semi-paralytc ex-waiter. He was a smart fellow in his day and had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23

The boy who plowed an OK ten years ago is now the prince of merchants in Opp and all Covington County.
 In 1894 MT. I. E. Boyett. who is now the leading merchant of Covington County. and the peer of all competitors dn the little city. Opp, was blowing an OK, together with his two brothers, for the care and support of his parents who were then very poor.
 In 1895 he mortgaged the crop to Hen derson & Co., of Andalusa, for supplies, He sold the crop of cotton for Az cents per pound, and after the mortgage was settled he had $2100 left.
 MT Boyett the same year went to An dalusia and worked as Deputy Tax Col lector for MT w. A Woodham who was at that time Tax Collector of Covington County.
 In the fall of that year he worked at day, until the merit of his labor increas' ed his wages to s2.5o per day.
 He bought out the mill in July, 1897, paying s13OOO cash and the remainder on installments. In October he sold the plant and had s1.OOo left over expenses. Of that amount he loaned MT. J. D. Hen derson $So0Co He worked for Henderson Ss Co. at a salary to suit the critical times, saving small pittance of his wages, and in the fall of 1900 he became a member of the firm of "Boyett Brothers & Rodgers" who did a fourishing busi- ness in Andalusia.
 In 1901 he came to Opp while the little town was in it's swaddling clothes, and did a business the volume of which was about s5O,OOO
 In 1902 through the close attention to business and an untring ambition to lead and unswerving efforts to expand in business, he increased the volume of his business to sl5O,00O, and in 1903 he held his own 'annexing branch house in An dalusia, which combination will reach, if not exceed sl75,000 in 1904. His actual worth is now near s75,000.
 As Abraham Lincoln pounded the tim Der into rails so Earl Boyett plowed the soil while pulling the bell cord over "Old Bully's" wolfy back.
 As Daniel Webster searched for knowl- edge over the dim rays of a pine knot fire, so did Earl Boyett pierce the dark, mystic future, by unveilng it's hidden treasures of wealth while burning mid night oil.
 As Moses led the poor, starving. down. trodden children of Israel out from under Egyptian bondage and gave them pure water from the rocks by the smite of his rod so has MT. Boyett smote the rock of high prices on mercantile values, and ppAxcy, and the farmers are the benef-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
Bucket Shops Distressed.

Bucket shops and bucket shop systems with headquarters in New York have been going through a protracted season of hard sledding. They have lost bls money, although there have been com paratively few failures in that parttcu- lar department of gambling. Many or the central concerns are strongly backed and those in control find 1t pays better in the long run to take punishment ana pay customers their winnings than lay down. The players are thereby lmpued with a sense of security and are less prone to draw margins and winnings. As long as the players let their money remain in the shops and double up or eX- tend their operations the bucket shops run small risks, for they are certain ultimately to freeze out their customer and make clean sweeps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23

made some, and they said = had knack of piccalilly making and nobody had ever made it so good before. The boss is going to keep me on at my old pay just to make p.ccalilly.
 '"ro this day he has corner of the kitchen to himself and there. with great secrecy. makes the daily supply of pie calilly for the restaurant. He hasn't the faintest notion that part of the weekly pay and tips of his former associates go regularly toward making up his salary, They support him and have done so for two years. Moreover, they make it a rule to repeat to him apocryphal speeches of patrons, in which they shower wild cpl ourean plaudits of his wonderful skill as a picoalily maker. Somehow, l feel like giving a bigger tip here now that 1 know how part of 1t will be used.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23

cess. The next day, however another party consisting of four European gen tlement, With a large number of coolies, surrounded the jungle and succeeded in arousing the tigers, which managed to escape through the line without giving the hunters an opportunity of discharg- ing their bullets.
 They pursued the animals and made them swim across a beel It is matter of regret that the brave failed to hit the animals while they were struggling in the water. although d good number of shots were fired The tigers got to the other side of the bee without en- countering further opposition, and fell up- on the said Nidan Patni, who was graz ing cattle near his house and killed him on the spot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
Bonds Are Absorbed.

Throughout the Jurors in the stock market there has been a continuous and uninterrupted absorption of bonds for in- vestment account. This demand has been going on in all quarters. BaoNs, trust companies and bond h1uses report a large counter business. while sales on the exchange have be n )f unusua! vol ume. The supply oc glt-edse ho"''s hav- ing been practically exhausted some time ago activity has eit tc;ed in the middle class issues, these ranging in price from 70 to S5 and 90, while issues selling around and slightly above par are licked up in any quantity almost as soon as offered There is hot competition among the bond houses for securities of that grade and class
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23
The Drawback.

From the Brooklyn Life.
 Old Gentleman-Since your uncle left you that legacy, Mrs. Casey, you must find your path in life much smoother
 Mrs Casey-Shure, Oi dunno, Sor. o' foind the more ye hoy to ate, the more dishes there is to wash.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-08-31

sional committees headquarters be moved
from Washington TO New York. and II
Is Mr.. Sheehan who Is regarded by mem
bers OF the committee as responsible for
the committees failure 20 accomplish any
thing.
Chairman Cowherd IL not now opposed
TO the suggested removal but he has de-
ternined that IL he moves his head
quarters TO New York Il will not be 10
become a mere understrapper OF the ma
tona committee.
'If l am to be chairman, / must be
chairman In fact as we'll as in name"
ne said today. 'I want whatever credit
there may be I'm victory and am willirg
TO take the responsibility for defea."
The apparent suspicion I'm Mr.. Cow
herds mind is that Mr. Sheenan End
others want TO bring the congressional
committee TO New York to make IL a
mere subordinate branch OF the national
committee. This is the thing against
which Mr.. Cowherd protests He is per-
fectly willing to cooperate with The ma
ii nal committee. but he wants 10 run 'he
congressional campaign himself.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-08-31
WILSON
URGES A
FULL VOTE

Barre, VT, Aug. 31.-Seeretary James
ture was the central figure at a WELL
attended Republican rally in the City
Hall last night.
The keynote OF Secretary wilson's ad-
dress was emphasis OF the country's
property under a Republican administra-
ton and warning lest apathy result in a
falling off OF the normal Republican ma
torities I'm the coming state and national
elections. He said in part:
THE prosperity OF this country is great
er than ever before. The workingman OF
Vermont knows that wages are 100 per
cent higher here than in any other coun-
try on earth. For this reason 10000 for
eigners annually land on our shores. Dur
ing the las three years OF Mr. Cleveland 4
administration 100000 laborers were idle.
II Judge Parker is elected this fall those
undesirable copditions are likely to re-
turn.
Judge Parker was frank enough TO
tell us In his speech OF acceptance that
II elected he would attempt 20 reduce
the tariff. Then down would go your
wages. Judge Parker has said that the
gold standard was irrevocably fixed by
Republicans and will be irrevocably fixed
so long as Republicans remain in power
Judge Parker would promise the Fill
ipnos independence as soon as he is elect
cd. We are trying, 10 accustom them
20 the self-government under which we
are working ourselves. giving them
schools and teaching them TO grow tho
products of tropical countries FOR which
we now pay hundreds OF millions OF dol
lars. There has never been time since
Deweys victory in Manila bay when we
could honorebly leave them TO their fate
The Democrats call us imperialists. bu:
this Democratic idea OF imperialism is the
biggest fraud and humbug ever put upon
the American people. The common people
believe I'm Roosevelt. and in every state
from the Alleghanies TO the Pacific slope
will cast its electoral vote for him in
November.
The only danger to be avoided Is that
OF apathy. and / urge upon the Re-
publicans OF Vermont the necessity OF
getting out the full Republican vote. not
only In the national. but In the state
election OF next Tuesday"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-08-31
MARRIAGE
CAUSES
SUICIDE

New York, Aug. 3i.-Unable TO live
without her boy Mrs. Amelia Adams,
an elderly widow. living in comfortably
furnished little fiat on the third floor OF
No. 226 East Eighty-hfth street, ended
her life yesterday with Illuminating gas.
The body was found lying upon couch.
the head resting upon a sofa cushion.
upon the silk cover OF which had been
worked Charles Dana Gibsons well
known picture Hearts are Trumps." On
the wall opposite the dead woman were
a number OF photographs Of her boy. She
could have seen these while she was
dying.
On a table near was slip OF paper
on which was simply written the address
''3S7 West Forty-ninth street" This
proved TO be the home OF her son, Ed
ward Adams.
Young Adams, much against the will
OF his mother. married on June 28 last He
Is a locomotive cleaner employed In the
yards OF the Grand Central station. After
his marriage the young man and his bride
went TO the Forty-ninth street house to
live
Mrs. Adams brooded over what she con-
eidered her sons desertion, though he
tried In every way to comfort her. She
had been a widow three years and she
told neighbors that the loneliness was
more than she could stand. On Friday
last the young man called upon her and
she seemed then more reconciled TO his
marriage.
Yesterday morning the Janitress OF the
house noticed the odor OF gas and traced
IL 10 Mrs. Adams fiat. Policeman Hurley
entered the locked apartment by climb
ing up the rear fire-escape. The woman
had been dead some time.
Young Adams was much upset by his
mothers tragic death.