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The San Francisco call., 1905-06-13

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The San Francisco call., 1905-06-13

NOTICE IxvfTT&C BTDs FOR SALE or
FIRST CONSOLIDATED MORTGAGE FIVE
PER CENT SINKING FUND Thirty
YEAH 0Of,b BoSIJs OF THE BAY coUN-
T1Ea POWER COMPANY
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-13

TONOPAH MINING EXCHANGE.
Following were the sales on the San Fran
cisco and Tonopah Mining Exchange yesterday:
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-13

NOTCH TO TaR PUBLIC.
NcttE<RN the furniture packer has
severed hts connection with 'Mchsnrys 5
teNfrrs. and Transfer CO" and is doing hasi.
ness At 10o Sstter st tel Main aeas state
nients 10 the contrary notw(thstanatne
JAS, MofiENKN.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
STORIES OF QUEER PETS
OF KINGS AND QUEENS

which, probably, to certain extent. conn
pensated for the loss of her favorites.
queen Mary of England, in spite of her
reputation for cruelty, was very devot-
ed lover of birds and animals. and was
never happier than when surrounded by
ner pets. Chief among her favortes was a
white lark, for which she paid threepence
to the woodman of Hampton Court, and
which would perch on one of his mis-.
tress' fingers and pour oct his Ii,
soul In song" But the lark had DANGER
Gus rivals in the royal affection, the most
formidable of which was an alligator.
which his mistress fed daily from her
own hand.
James ]. had wide range Of animal IA
vorites, which included an elephant. i've
camels a fawn, white gyrfalcon. and
birds and dogs innumerable. Queen Eliz-
abeth's affection was divided between her
dogs, singing birds and monIloy VS.; and the
merry monarch was such a bird lover that
ne lined the road ON the south tide of ST.
James park since known re Birdcage
Walk, with aviaries for his feathered pets.
which he fed daily, while ne was almost
equally devoted to the tame ducks in the
park, which afforded him infinite amuse-
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Fire Nervousness.

"Do YOU know we hremen sometimes
have a peculiar malady that might be
DESIGNATED as fire nervousness = said
a member of the department.
what does 1t feel like? Well 1t Is TINS
way: We seem to get the idea or feel
ing into our bones that there Is going
to be fire and we just can't shake 1t
off until the fire really comes, and 1t
usually does 1t Is kind of premonition
1 suppose but the signal Is seldom a
false one.
eve may not have had a call all day
and the night may seem quiet enough
but the feeling will sometimes come
over us and at such times sleep Is I'M
comfortable and broken. The least noise
arouses us and even the horses seem to
be on the alert for something doing
This feeling is more common on Sat
urday nights than at any other time,
perhaps accountable to the fact that
our largest and most disastrous fires
have come on Saturday nights and early
Sunday morning.
II suppose all firemen are subject to
these attacks. 1t seems to be contagious
in our hall, for when the feeling comes
over one of us all seem to be affected,
and not only the men but the horses
as we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Russian Church and State.

A remarkable story has been cabled
across the sea from st. Petersburg.
The state is not demanding. as in
France, separation from the church,
but we are asked to believe that the
church is demanding separation from
the state. Metropolitan Antonius of
st. Petersburg asks the Holy Synod to
original canonical freedom. AS the
procurator of the synod is an aggres-
siye defender of autocracy it is diff
cult to accept the cables tory in all
its length and breadth.
1t is, however, plain that social UNI
rest exists in the Russian church as
well as among the Russian people. The
vast empire is stirred to it's depths
when the metropolitan Of st. Peters
burg calls for church assembly that
will establish an hierarchy with no
Car in it. Russia is indeed shaking
off the grand dukes and bureaucrats.
and likewise the Gar.
1t is not known, however, that the
movement extends beyond a group of
metropolitan clergy. The peasant and
his priest have heretofore been on ex-
cellent terms, and there is no evidence
at hand going to show that the docile
peasant has changed his ideas of
church and state. He is too poor and
trodden upon to indulge in any such
luxury.
But Antonius of st. Petersburg has
much method in his madness. He as.
serts that "only a church free from
external influence can hope to check
the spread of other faiths and creeds
in Russia and retain the nation in the
faith of the fathers" This means that
those discontinued with autocracy will
soon become discontinued with the
Russian church unless the two dissolve
partnership. This goes to show that
events are moving fast in Russia, and
that another year of unsuccessful war
would be pretty sure to put Russia on
a new basis all round.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Southern VS.. Northern Ports.

The Wall Street Journal is pessimis-
tic when it discusses New Yorks eX-
port trade. "For the last few months"
1t says: Immense quantities of corn
have been shifted to New Orleans, and
the outlook is that that city on account
of it's elevator facilities will continue
TO hold that trade regardless of the
fact that the Determinations of the
rate war have been removed" This
is an acceptance of the fact that
shorter distances and down-hill grades
are to have due weight: In the past
pull" and combinations were more eff
fective than distances and grades, but
the latter pair are coming at last
into their own. The Journal is wholly
correct when it says grain shipments
will continue to be made from New
Orleans.
New York still retains, however,
Tie DebL 1dtlllilto iOI onlpPihS ooeh
products as meal, cotton seed OIL
etc." adds the Journal. Exactly what
is embraced in "and so forth" cannot
be readily ascertained, but it will be
strange indeed if the distinctive south
ern products Of our oil mills must be
wheeled over expensive rails to New
York to find there transportation to
foreign ports. If New Orleans lacks
excellent facilities for shipping such
products. it must get them, for 1t is
an expensive tax on the southern
farmer in the last analysis, to carry
his products to New York for shipment
abroad. He should protest, and the
oil mills naturally will.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Immiurants at New Orleans.

Out of about 100000 immigrants adj
mitted to this country in the last fiscal
year. less thai. one per cent were
landed at New Orleans. Only 4946
we're diverted to New Orleans, OF
which number Alabama secured 1896.
Alabama has a good opportunity to
secure immigrants at New Orleans,
hut neyt to none at Ellis Island, where
all things are "set up" to turn new
arrivals to the northwest
1t is proposed to build a great mod
ern immigrant station at New Orleans.
The needs of the south, and the growth
of the south, and the Panama canal
all call for the building Of such sta
ton at New Orleans. 1t Is due the
south. It would be good for the en-
tire country. It would relieve to some
extent the growing congestion OF east
ern cities. It would be better all
around. II Inc SDuiu, VI az iNo9t IN
cotton states viii pull together in this
matter New Orleans can secure the
building of great immigrant station,
ana the growing commercial import
ance of New Orleans will soon attract
q considerable number of immigrants.
There Is no reason why 100000 i'm
migrants should not be landed at New
Orleans, or 10 per cent of the incom-
ing tide. Alabama would secure from
that number about 10000 year, and
we could readily assimilate that num-
Der. and De ready in the following
year for as many more. In short
time this state could thus be equipped
with large number of white farmers,
and then the acreage in cultivation
would be increased. At present 1t con-
stitutes but a fraction of the states
entire area-about nine million acres
out of 32,462,0SO acres.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Prosperity Everywhere.

When April came in reports came
also showing that conditions of I'M
exampled thrift exist in every part of
the country. Mills, furnaces and fac
tories are crowded with orders, and
the wheat crop is full of promise.
Money is abundant, wages are high,
and there is not a speck in the COM
mercial sky. The steel trust is prepar-
ing to increase the pay of the army of
men employed by it, and the outlook
is for more money for all.
1t is to be in particular building
year. An active building boom is act
ually launched in all the cities of the
country There is scarcely an excep-
ton. This district will share in this
boom. 1t always does get slice of a
building boom, and it will get a big
slice this year. During the calendar
year fully two thousand houses will be
eTeCltu III iul5 Couheyy inCiuuluS
great cotton warehouse, twelve-story
hotel, Masonic temple, big high
school, and at least fifty store build
ings, and vast number of residences.
Bradstreet's contains reports from
one hundred and eight cities, and all
report activity in the construction Of
buildings. The reports from the 1903
cities point to the expenditure for new
buildings in 1905 of sass, 900, 900, an In
crease of Is per cent over the expendi-
lures for that purpose in 1904 Brad
streets puts the total aggregate of the
country for new buildings this year at
six hundred million dollars, 60 per
cent OF which will be paid out for
labor, and 40 per cent for lumber,
brick, stone, hardware, iron and paint.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
MAGIC WHISTLE
Caused Trouble in a Missouri Town
and Was Removed.
Macon CMo) Correspondence Chicago
Chronicle.

Macon CMo) Correspondence Chicago
Chronicle
The City Council has ordered the
scheech-owl whistle. now on the water
works power house over on the river,
brought back to town and replaced on the
electric light plant SO as to sound the
tocsin for fire
The whistle was removed from the town
power house last year as a health precau-
ton. The engineer became Fascinated over
the noise 1t made and blew It on all &C.
caslons. If there was nothing to blow it
for he turned it loose anyhow so as to
keep his hand in. The operation of q
screech-owl whistle grows on one like
whisky. But no Kelley cure will restore
to normal conditions the man who has
fingered the valve of such a horror and
lived. He becomes addicted to sthe habit
for life. Men who needed the money Of
fered to be engineer for nothing but to
secure the weird privilege of footing the
dirge whistle.
The first night the screec howl whistle
was unhinged here 1t broke up a COL
ored revival meeting. Dogs howled lugu-
briously and rolled ever in the streets.
Horses butted their heads against the
walls of their stalls. As the days went
by and the engineer Increased in prof.
cheney temperance men took to hard drink
and preachers quit damning cards and
dancing In order to devote all their time
to the greater evil.
To describe that whistle is beyond tile
ken Of mortal man. The strongest work
of pen and ink would be as thin air com
pared to the thing itself. 1t started With
a mournful cadence like Rachel weeping
for her loved and lost Then 1t would roll
up its sleeves, moisten its hands and send
aloft a twisted wall that would SHAKE
the stars and bend the handle of the dip
per. 1t wasn't exactly whistle nor was
1t a screech. 1t was a sort of mixed
melody like somebody had opened vat
of boiling water ON a roomful OF tom
cats and the cats Immediately began talk-
ing about It,
That awful blast has been known TO
make a red-headed girls hair turn golden
and to cause premature badness where
raven locks had fourished.
The citizens stood it for week. Then
they rose up as one man. The whistle was
SVHe out u to"h III uiSS idce' II was
coupled to the steam pipe over the water
works plant down on the river, since
which tipe no fish have come nearer than
five miles of the reservoir and the real
screech owl has gone out of business be-
fore its sinister mechanical rival.
And now the council is going to bring
it back to town and limit its use to
fire alarm. The code agreed on is; One
blast First ward; two blasts, Second
ward; three blasts, Third ward; four
blasts, Fourth ward; five blasts, Fifth
ward. and six blasts means that Missouri
has returned to democracy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04

Spain and France are acting together
in Morocco, and all acknowledge that
1t Is Frances task to abolish anarchy
in the country that adioins Algeria.
The visit of the German Emperor 10
Tangier has greatly irritated France,
and any attempt at new combination
of Russia, Germany and France for the
purpose of squeezing Japan out of any
of the results of her victories is now
doubtless impossible. France will not
join Germany in any enterprise what
ever, and she will carry out her Mo-
roeean policy despite all that Germany
can do to change it. Morocco will be
brought within the French sphere OF
influence. 1t will in time become a
French province, thus rounding out
and completing the vast African pos
sessions of that country. England is
willing So is Spain, and Germany
will perforce have to accept the situa-
ton.
Chancellor Won Buelow, speaking III
the Reiehstag, recently declared that
the open door" must be maintained
in Morocco. France proposes to do
this. But when the German Chancellor
went on to say that Germany would
continue to deal directly with the Sui
tan of Morocco he distinctly repudiated
the French protectorate. 1t is this
speech together with the Emperor's
visit that has enraged France. Chan.
cellor Won Buelow rejected the Anglo
French-Hispano bargain, although the
three countries are the only ones close.
~ concerned in Morocco. Spain lies
across a narrow strait; Great Britain
holds Gibraltar, and France owns Al
geria. The three countries are agreed,
and France will carry her Moroccan
policy into full effect. Germany can
protest and NEEDLE, but she cannot
fight England and France.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
HIS EXCEPTIONAL TRUSTS.

From the New York Sun.
The Man has arrived on the Hour. The
Crisis Breaker is ready for business.
Hamm, ]. S. Hamm, has hung out his
banner on the outer wall of Monopoly
Mr.. Hamm wishes to represent the
Third Mississippi district in Congress- His
platform is great and good. We weep
proud and happy tears as Hamm takes
up tenderly an old love, the initiative
and referendum, and a new love, the
recall He would have international
control of corporations. He would add
power to the interstate commerce COM
mission, abolish the state of Utah IL 1t
refuses to be good, provide fer the elec-
hiate grafters, and let no lawyer talk
more than six minutes in court.
These are thoughts of great value,
worthy cogitations; but one glorious plan
of his transcends them all In height and
value:
abolish all trusts. except trusts organ
lied by farmers to raise the price of cot
ton"
This is limited revival of the old court
smashed antitrust law of Texas and
some other states that forbade all trusts
but those of farmers and laborers It
is really founded on the impregnable prln-
ciple that my trust is good. all other
trusts are wicked"
Hamm is the trust regula tor for whom
millions yearn. We watch him rever-
emily as he hits the stars with his sub
lime head
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Affairs in Morocco.

The opening of Morocco to civiliza-
ton. and the development of her re-
sources under the open-door plan of
the Franco-Spanish treaty would have
proceeded tremendously if that uni
versal meddler, the German Emperor,
had not appeared on the scene. He
STAYED but two hours at Tangier in
Morocco. but it is plain he means mis-
chief. M. Delcasse, the French min
lister for foreign affairs, says, however,
that the French policy towards Mo-
rocco will be maintained. She will
preserve order, and Sultan Ab-dul-Aziz
will assist in the operation. England.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
A EFT oE JAPAN.

Anita Newcomb MCGEE in the April Cen
fury.
Later that day. at a hamlet which
could boast no officials and no societies,
yet where our train stopped ten minutes,
there stood a typical country schoolmay-
ter, with his female assistant and their
twenty elementary pupils. In very broken
English he bashfully told me he had been
teaching his pupils about benevolence and
charity, and how these virtues were ex-
emplified by our coming so great dis
lance to aid the people of another land
TO impress the lesson more deeply on
their memories, lie said, he had brought
them to see and greet us. An incident
like this throws a vivid light on the
Japanese mind and ideas of education.
One of the most remarkable things In the
Japanese character is the combination
Of that fiery heroism in battle, of which
all have read. with the gentleness, cour-
tesy and supplemented almost childlikc
frankness, which was shown to us.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Rev. Mr.. Rarnett's Sermons.

The Rev. Frank Willis Barnett, editor
of the Alabama Baptist returned yester-
day from Hot Springs. Ark. where he at
tended a meeting of the Baptist Editors
association. Tie meeting was well attend
ed, and the members of the association
had pleasant time.
While Mr.. Barnett was away a burglar
entered his office In the Hood building
and broke open two small portable iron
safes. These safes contained no money,
but were filled with sermons. In one safe
were manuscripts OF doctrinal dlscourses
and in the other were manuscripts of prac-
tical, pastoral sermons. The burglar took
the sermons from their resting places and
left them on the floor. THE safe-breaker
did not even compliment me by carrying
one of my sermons away with him. .
laughingly remarked Mr.. Barnett yester-
day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Baseball PLAYER and Editor.

W. II. Parker. editor of the Bessemer
Hustler' and for a long time backstop
FOR the Memphis Southern league baseball
team is perhaps one of the most loyal
fans In the Birmingham district. Mr..
Parker attends every game played in Blr-
mingham and no one is a better booster
OF the home team. Occasionally Mr.. Par
ker writes an editorial on baseball, which
is always accepted as authoritative ana
which Is quoted widely all over the eoun-
try.
In my opinion" said Mr.. Parker "Bir-
mingham will have a good team this year.
The practice games of the season mas
demonstrated that Manager Vaughan mas
corraled some excellent material. l kne"
Harry Vaughan when he was the BACK
stop Of the Cincinnati team, and eonsiG-
err him one of the best baseball men ir the
country"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
LOVE AND RATTLEsNAkEs.

Charles II. Lummis in the April Atlantic.
Chona had smiled A real smile, OF
white teeth and personal eyes, and not
the mere facial efflorescence with which
one may favor the purchaser of one 5
wares. And there's such a difference One
often jumps at the rasp of a harm locus;
or the scurry of lizard among dry
leaves, and wonders if-if it was -? But
when d-Man-With-aRattle moveth
Alright that bony miracle of his tail, and
the dry skirr goes forth that is as mag
ical in it's effect on every living creature
as in the mechanics of it's utterance-why
then no one ever wonders. You know it
means you. And If the more dangerous
serpent that doth bite us all has as many
false alarms, he is as unmistakable wher
we come full upon him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
"ParsifaIu ak,

'Parsifal" is in the air. Mr.. Lauder the
famous pianist, win discuss and illustrate
'Parsifal' at Pollock-Stephens institute
tomorrow afternoon and night. Next Mon
day night Adolf Damn Petersen will give
an informal talk on "Parsifaf at the
Gable company's recital hall, and week
or two later he will give lecture recital
"Parsifal will be presented at the Je1-
ferson theatre on Thursday, April ~, py
Conrieds Opera company from the Metro
politan opera house of New YORK. II
will be by far the greatest operate per-
Torrance ever given in this part OF the
country Grau, the predecessor of conried'
gave "Lohengrin" here three years ago
with his Metropolitan opera house COM
pany. He brought chorus of $50 and an
orchestra of Al, and number OF Famous
principals. Conrled brlnsA a chorus Il
over 200 and an orchestra OF 81, and great
principals.
II heard a man say that Conried would
not bring his full company to Birming-
ham," said a musician. That remark
reminded me of the stories we used TO
hear about the circus. The full circus is
seen only in the large cities boys would
say. When it comes south Ii IS spilt up
etc That idea of the circus was not true;
neither is 1t true that Conrled Is on the
road with only part of his company
The persons making such remarks are
simply green and behind the times chi
cago went wild over Parsifal as pre-
scented by Conried's company. Conried VIII
present Parsifal in New Orleans just pc
fore coming to Birmingham, and what
will be good enough for New Orleans
will be good enough for Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
A GONG OF YESTERDAY

James Whitcomb Riley. pipes o. Pa
of zekesbury."
But yesterday
l looked away
Ger happy lands. where sunshine lay
In golden blots,
Inlaid with spots
OF shade and wild forget-me-nots
But yesterday
o blooms of May,
And summer roses-where-away?
o stars above;
And lips of love,
And all the honeyed sweets thereof!
o lad and lass.
And orchard pass,
And briared lane. and daisied grass!
o CLEAN and gloom,
And woodland bloom,
And breezy breaths Of all perfume!
No more for me
Or mine shall be
Thy raptures-save n memory
No moreno more
Till through the door
or glory CLEAN the days Of yefe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
Real Estate Market,

1.-THE local real estate market continues
to be firm and active. with an upward ten
dency," remarked an investor yesterday
while central property is considerably
higher than 1t was six months ago, II is
not inflated by any means, and will seek
higher level before summer.
Real estate here is nothing like so high
as 1t is in Atlanta, and from all accounts
in the newspapers outside of Alabama
Birmingham has a greater future than
Atlanta, although Atlanta is a solid city
and has bright future.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-04
England Initiating the Lobster.

From the London Times.
This country follows the Procedure OF
the lobster. At intervals the lobster casts
his shell, and until a new one grows he
is absolutely helpless, and has to conceal
himself in a hole. This is our case; only
we have no sheltering hole. We get an
equipment. usually in hurry. and at alb
normal cost. We take no note of what
science is doing until some fine day we
discover that our equipment is as worth
less for defense as Nelson's Wooden walls
would be against modern ironclad. Then
we appoint a committee, which discovers
a number of things previously known to
all other nations; we provide ourselves
with a new SHE'LL. lucky IL nobody at
tacks us in the meantime, and then we go
to slee1 again.