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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
Coffee Market.

New York, August H.-Coffee-spot rio firm: No. invoice, Sk; mild steady; Cordova; lvtsl3c.
 Futures opened steady at unchanged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
RAILWAY SCHEDULES

ras. ns the arrival and departure of passenser trains at the union station Birmingham: s'a''on'
 0Enective July 2s, ioo6.)
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
EAST LAKE

Grand Sacred Concert Sun day afternoon at East Lake by MemQli's Concert Band.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
Cotton Seed oil.

New Orleans, August H.-Cotton seed oil steady; prime refined. in barrels, 2S11c: off refined, in barrels, 271sc; prime crude. loose, 23c.
 New York, August 17.--Cotton seed oil easy prime yellow, 30@30Ac. Petroleum steady. Resin quiet. Turpentne weak.
 Memphis, August 17.-Cotton seed oils, prime crude. 22a221kc off crude. nominal; prime summer yellow, 2bc; off summer yellow, nominal; choice cooking, less than carload lots, nominal; prime meal, s22. 50; off meal, $21 50; prime cake, s22.50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
Seahoard Air Line

Baltimore, August H.-Seaboard Air Line common B asked; do preferred l2 asked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
New Orleans Cotton Market

New Orleans, August 17.-Spot cotton steady Sales, 225 bales, including 50 to arrive and 75 f. O. b. Quotations un- changed. Futures opened steady. with prices to points down. An unfavorabIe weather map and improved conditions in Liverpool and New York caused a brisk buying movement immediately after the first call and prices advanced rapidly. not only were the early losses recov- cred but an additional advance of about 25 points was made. The Improvement held to the close, the list showing net gains of 24 to 26 points.
 New Orleans, August 17.-Cotton futures very study; August 10.3s bid: September, 10 4l@10. 43; October 0.49Q10. 50: Noyem- Der, 10.51d10.53; December fo. 55Q10 5s: January 10 s1d1o.s3; February, 10. s7or1o .s9: March, 10. 79q10.s0
 New Orleans. August 17.-Cotton steady. sales, 225; ordinary, 11-16; good ordinary SA: low middling 9z middIing. 1o9s: good middling. 10 11-16; middling fair. II: re- ceipts, 24SS stock, 78.002.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18

The Gawk Engraving Co. makes the beet cuts. Phone Peoples 276.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
Metal Market.

New York. August 1.-The London tin market lost ground slightly closing at a149 los for spot and e14S IFS Sd for fu- lures. Locally unchanged, s325OQS2.s5. Copper higher in London. spot e69 los and futures, f69 6s 3d. Locally un- changed Lake and eectrolytic, $1562h @15.s71s; casting. s15.2b@l55O Lead steady at s46o04.70 in the local market and un- changed at e1S 1ss 9d in London. Spelter higher at e24 15s in London; locally quiet at $5. 70q5.s0. Iron was unchanged abroad. Glasgow closing at 50s Sd and Middlesboro at As 4lkd. Locally unchanged; No. northern foundry, sl6.25917. %; No. 2 foun- dry northern. s15.75a16.50; Ne. foundry southern, $15 75dDls.75; No. foundry sou thern soft $15.60QD16.4 .45
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prices to an advance of five points in sympathy with steady cables, continued smaller receipts and frosts reported in Santos. Moderate realizing by Wall street longs prevented any further lm- provement early, but later a demand from trade interest for September helped prices and also seemed to encourage ln- creased support from outside sources. Closed strong at an advance of 16d25 points. Sales. 204,650 bags. September, $7. 15G5725 December. s7.4b017. .55; January. s760 March H.7od7.so; May. s7S5@795; July, $500. A considerable portion of the business represented further exchanges from the near to late positions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18

cARROLLTON SHORT LINE ...sfL.
 NAY cOMPAEY.
 SCHEDULE
 Effective June l5. 1905. Mo- 1. No. 4 5:4S pm. .Lv. Reform, Ala. Ar. .l2 :25 D. m. 4:0. pm. .Lv..,.. Stansel .....Ar. .12:05 D. m s:2S p.m.. .Lv.. Carrol'ton ..Lv. II :50 a. m. 4:43 p.m.. .Lv.. Carronton Al II :e5 a m. 4:b8 pm. .Lv.... Dillburg ....Ar. III :15 a m. o.. p.m.. Ar. Aliceville ...Lv. III :00 a m. First-class passenger trains meet and connect with al. main line Mobile & Ohio trains
 For further information apply to
 JOHN T. cOcHRANE
 Pres and Gsnl Manager.
 Carrollton. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
TYBEE The Queen of all South Atlantic SeashOre Resorts

Tybee Ga.. is IS miles from Savannah. and is req led quickly and comfortanly by the Central of Georgia Railway.
 For further information write or apply to, H. H. Fell. T P. A, lasl Y st avenue. .Rirnninxham. Ala. .i>s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
BIrmI.. .sham a Atlantic Railroad.

Trains Nos. and daily. Nos. and 10 Sunday only. All other daily except Sun day
 Close connections made at Talladega with Eastern Alabama to Pryton. Close connections with Seaboard Air Line at Coal City, and Southern railway at Pell City for Birmingham and all eastern points. J. F. FLEETWOOD. FELIX A. VOGEL, Supeript
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wool, 3SG40c.
 Beeswax prime, 26c. Tallow S425.
 Sheep skins. 25@s5c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
THE LOCAL MARKETS
Local Cotton Market.
Local Iron Market.
Local Securities.

tCorrected by J. "A. Caldwell & Co,
 Bell ohonc 244)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA

Arrival and departara of trains at Union station, Birninghdm. Ala, effective Janu- ary s' l~b 9Jth Meridian time:
 DGPAkrCkE5. For Columbus. Macon, Arericus anu AiDduy ........................e6 e6. 70 A m For eoiumous, Mac' Albany, Augusta and Savannah .4oo nm
 AHF .YALS. From Savannah. August Macon. Albany and Columbus .Io.fs nm From Savannah. Augusta, AL bany' Macon and columJusz .12:o5 nm Daily. Nesflbulcd drawing buffet sleen- ins cars between Birmingham and Sa- vnnnah vie Columbus and Macon on trains leaving Birmingham at 400 D. m, = and arriving Birmingham p:o5 D. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-18
Hides and TaIlow.

hides, 1eQl7c: dry salt hides, 14Q15c.
 ci4ar pnuashAd wool A@apcf vaAls4d
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Total sales for tn day i.le4ooo shares.
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CLOSING STOCK LIST.

Sales. High Low. Close.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
JAPAN,s GREAT DREAM.
TO ReOrganize China on Western IdenIs the Ambition of the Mi-
 kadO's EmDire,


 The astounding ambition of Japan has been first disclosed by Baron Ken taro Kaneko in the February Worlds Work, in an authoritative article on The Far East After the War" It is no less than the total reorganization of China, under the direction of the Island Empire. Baron Kaneko writes: Re- cognizing the difficulties that stand in the way of reformation, China must begin not with the moral regeneration but with the physical transformation Of the land; the first step must be the geographical reconstruction of China ; Natural barriers now prevent trade and intercourse: they must be cut through and broken down; modern engineering skill must perform it's gigantic tasks in the Empire of Gray Ages, and every district must be given quick and easy communication with every other. Rail- ways must connect the outlying prov inces with the capital at Pekin, and through Pekln with the world at large. Like the veins Of a great leaf, they must radiate from the Yangtse Valley, reaching rivers and uniting towns. In land China will be brought to q real ization of power in the central gov ernme1t. and to a knowledge of the world.
 This accomplished, China must be led
 
 system of education resembling that of the United States. She cannot afford to discard her own classic thought or literature; to do so would be to throw away all on which she shas to build: but neither can she afford to preserve her traditional ideals unminglcd with the ideals of the West: and that she may learn and understand the thought of the West, the English tongue and the English literature must be taught In her compulsory schools--the litera- ture because it embodies modern thought, and the language because in the Orient no other Is so useful or so much spoken.
 The Reconstruction Of the Government,
 This gradual reconstruction must be extended to the Government At the central capital. Pekin, there should be constituted a council of state, in which should sit the cabinet ministers and the viceroys of the eighteen provinces The council should pass upon all im- portant questions of national concern. subject only to the veto of the Elm peror There would then exist a body competent to determine public policy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31

business was liable to be overdone, as in the case with all promising occu- pations. and that many would engage in it without adequate understanding or forethought.
 The clements of risk which enter into prfvateering are doubtless great, and to some extent baffie carculation. In this it only shares the lot common to all warlilSe enterprise, in which, as the ablest masters of the art repeat edly affirm, something must be al- lowed for chance. But it does not fol- low. where sagacious appreciation of well-known facts controls the direc- ton of efforts and preparation is pro- portioned to the difficulties to be en- countered, that a reasonable measure of success may not fairly be expect ed. Heedlessness of conditions or recklessnes of dangers defeat effort everywhere as well as in privateering; nor is even the chapter of unforeseen accident confined to military affairs. In 1891 the courses followed by the en- emy's trade were well understood, as were also the characteristics of their ships of war in sailing, distribution and management. Regard being had to these conditions, the pecuniary ven- ture, which privateering essentially is, was sure of fair returns-barring ac- ctdents-if the vessels were thorough ly well found. with superior speed and nautical qualities. and if directed upon the centers of ocean travel, such as the approaches to the English channel, or as before noted. to where great highways cross, inducing an accumula- tion of vessels from several quarters. So privateering can be made pecuni- arily successful, as is shown by the increasing number and value of prizes as the war went on,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
THE SAN JOSE SCALE.
A Single Female Insect Will Be the
 PrOtenitOr of Three Billion YOunr in n Year


 The life history of the San Jose Scale. the greatest insect pest of modern times, is most interesting romance of nature and a tragedy as well, says Q writer in The Garden Magazine. Commencing in June for a period of approximately six weeks the females continue to produce young, each aver aging about 400, or from nine to ten every twentyfou hours.
 The newborn wanders forth in search of favorable place to establish itself, and within relatively few hours Con an average a little over twenty-seven) settles at some convenient point and works its slender, hair-Iike beak through the bark. If it be a female, it never moves from this spot, and soon loses legs, antennae and eyes and becomes virtually an animated pump drawing the vital fluids from the tree.
 The female insect requires about thir- ty days to attain maturity, and the male from twenty-four to twenty-six; thus the round of life may be com pleted in from thirty-three to forty days. Detailed studies made at Wash ington show that four entire genera tions are normally developed in a year. The fecundity of the insect, in con nection with its ability to produce a number of generations annually, re- suLts III an enormous increase, and 1t is estimated that single individual may in one season become the progen- itor of over three billion. It is no won der that many trees succumb to the fearful drain.
 The San Jose Scale has been recorded upon large number of food plants, but is very injurious to comparatively few. The fruit-trees-peach, pear. plum. cherry and apple-are preferred in about the order named Currant- bushes are very subject to injury, and among ornamentals none are worse af- fected than Japanese quince. Lilas, snowberry, willows and some other or namehtals are also liable to serious in jury. Care is necessary to prevent damage to the trees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31

and means of quick communication be- tween the central government and the provinces: the viceroys. therefore. would be held strictly accountable for the speedy and efficient enforcement of na- tionaI mandates within their jurisdic- tion. and central government would be- come effective. Tn recognizing the commerce of the Empire, China must first of all devise a uniform monetary system, suggested lately by the Govern ment of the United States. Only in these reforms lies the hope of preserv- ing China, and through that. of mak- ing possible in this vast territory and among this innumerable people the spread of Western civilization.
 That these consequences depend up- on the success of Japan in the present struggle goes almost without sugges- ton. Japan, and only Japan, stands in the Far East for the progressiveness of the West-for freedom, for liberalism, for peace. for higher civilization.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
ROBERT ALEXANDER DEAD.
Was m Esteemed Citizen aud Inauen
 tiaI Mason.

tial Mason.
 Columbus, Ga, Jan. 3O.-( Special. )- Robert II. Alexander, aged S2 years one of the dost prominent. planters of Harris County, Ga, died yesterday at his former home near Crimes He was an influential member of the Masonic fraternity. A wife and five children survive him. The funeral services oc- cured this morning. conducted by Rev W. T. Brantley. He was buried with Masonic ceremonies
 The missionary institute and meet ing of the Methodist preachers of the Columbus district began in Talbotton today. Several ministers from this city are in attendance. pr. J. w Sho- city are in attendance, Dr. J. w. Shoaff. pastor of St. Paul Church, delivered an address before the institute tonight.
 C. Fl. Allen. a well known citizen of Gtrard. died yesterday at his home in that city after an illness of d week. of pneumonia. He was 34 years of age and unmarried. A mother. three broth CTS and three sisters survive him. The funeral occurred today.
 In communication published this afternoon Charles Jewett Swift an nounced that the Blue Springs Company will soon submit this city a dehnite proposition regarding the furnishing of q supply of water for fire and domestic purposes by a gravity system,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31

his body. He was carried to his fath- CTS home and fingered until Friday. when he died. Hc was a promising young man and his untimely death has caused great sorrow in the neigh borhood.
 There was nothing done at the far mers meeting here today the New Or leans meeting having called for mass meetings throughout the cotton grow ing States for February II. took the place of any action at the contemplated meeting here today. Butler will have rousing meeting on February 1lth There will be some distinguished speakers present. and the delegates who attended the New Orleans conven- ton will tell all about it.
 company of business men from Bir- mingham have formed a stock company capitalized at $l5,00O. and have bought up several hundred acres of some fine farming land at Dunham. this county. and are busy getting the ground ready for setting out an immense acreage in strawberries. The name of the new corporation is the Brazelton Strawber- ry Company. This, together with the one recently organized at Boiling and at Garland will place Butler way up in the list of counties shipping berries to Northern markets
 Many thousands of peach trees have been and are now being set out near Greenville. If this proves to be good fruit year. a number of cars of this fruit will be shipped from this sta tion, and the number will be increased every year after, until full train loads will go forward.
 Rev T. Fl. Jones of the Methodist orphanage at Summerheld. was here. yesterday and occupied the Methodist pulpit. There was no preaching in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
Country Life fin America,

The February number of Country Life in America has some fascinating studies of grouse, both in photographs and text. Blue grouse, sage grouse and ruffed grouse are treated of in the intimate accurate way for which Josef Brunner is famous, and his photo graphs reveal careful detail work on wings and feathers. F. c. Holtzoper gives the philosophy of interiors in Q delightful article on Living Rooms Gala Rooms and Chambers showing the possibilities of these rooms. if the designer and inhabitant combine sci entlfically and artistically. The series Country Homes of Famous Ameri- cans" has proved so popular that de- mands have been flooding the publish CTS offices for book on the subject. Mir. Oliver Bronson Capen deals with Bryant and his home in this issue and shoBs how exactly the house was adapted to the man, An article that will attract all horsemen and all anna teurs, who find interest in horsefiesh. is contributed by the expert, Philip Colt. It Is entitled "Fhe Education of n Saddle Horse" and tells how a per feet gaited animal is made out of the crude pony. The. Fullertons tell their experiences with poultry in Fresh Eggs All Winter" proving that an amateur need not fear zero weather. Wilhelm Miller writes on Wind Breaks for Country Homes." Theo- dore l.. Mead tells how he solved the dread Florida frosts by a thermometer connected with an alarm. so that sleep became impossible when S4 degrees r. was reached. "A Frost-Proot Orange Orchard" is the title of this up-to-date story of pluck. Ernest Thompson Se- ton will win the heart of all lovers of outdoors by his "A New Deerhunt with the Bow" where he describes a game that ought to become universal A wooden deer that leaves tracks and has the power of locomotion Is trailed down and shot to the heart. Profes- sor C. W. BCrkett continues the mo- table series The Vital Facts of Agri- culture" with a practical article on Tillage Tools.
 One of the genuine national perils- quite as real as any trust crlsis-is the insect invasion of our trees. In the van of the attack is the San Jose scale. Spraying Tall Trees tells how to meet and conquer this menace. MT. Walter J Travis has an article on the problems that the golf world has to face, and he has a solution for them. Mir. Arthur N Jervis writes on The Automobile in 1905," showing that the popular estimate of sales Is wrong. Results of Horse shows tells how American buyers have to resort to the English market for American-bred horses--a paradoXical situation that has arisen from the desire for blue rib bons instead of a permanent stock.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
THE GARDEN HOE.
The Modern Wheel Implement That Has
 Superseded the Bnck-BendinE Hoe.

The Modern Wheel Implement That Has
 Superseded the Bnck-Bending Hoe,
 The wheel hoe is the most important garden tool invented within a century; at Least. one gardener thinks so-a busy housekeeper, who has undertaken the entire case of the garden as a means of health and pleasure, says d writer in The Garden Magazine. What can it do? Almost everything that hands. hoes and rakes can accomplish, and does it better and faster. My wheel hoe has one small wheel and four kinds of attachments-rakes, scrapers, cultt- vators and blow. Think of the differ ence between that and taking d stroll between your rows of vegetables, push ing that light-built, easy-running gem of a tool-the wheel-hoe! The only time mine has been really hard to work was when I tried to blow too deep, or run 1t uphill. or turn tough soil; although this work was hard to do. it would have been impossible with any other hand tool.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
South & North Alabama Railroad Company. Notice Ot Special Meeting of Stock
 holders,

In pursuance to resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the South & North Alabama Railroad Company, at a meeting held at the office of the Company, in Mont gomery Alabama. Saturday, January 2ist. 1905. notice is hereby given that special meeting of the stockholders of said CA poration was called by the directors t~-reof, and will be held on Tuesday, the 2lst day of March. 1905; at the office of the Company, IA Commerce Street, Montgomery Alabama. at twelve o'clock, noon, to eonsid- CT and act upon resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors, submitting to the Louis yille & Nashville Railroad Company, a prop osition looking towarl the sale of ali the railroads, properties. rights. privileges and franehises of the South & North Alabama Railroad Company to the Louisville 6 Nash viIle Railroad Company.
 c. ". cRAIK,
 Secretary. South 6 North Ala. R. R. Co. Montkomery. Ala. Jan 21st, 1905. 30t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
IN NAVAL WARFARE.
Elements of Risk In PriVateerfnE 4
 nnuhfIaaa Gpa.f

Elements of Risk In PriVateerinE Are
 Doubtless Great. Captain A. T. Mahan in Scribner's.
 The adventure of a privateer is of the nature of comme ercial project or speculation, conducted by commercial men upon principles of mercantile call culation and profit. The vessel and her equipment is matter of great ex- pense, which is expected to be enum- erated by the probable chances of profit after calculating the outfit, in- surance' etc, as in a regular mercan- tile voyage.
 MT, Jones would doubtless have ad mitted what GalIatln alleged. that the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
Died In CnInhnnne.

Cullman. Jan. 3O.-(Special. )-Henry Murlett, better known here as Cover nor Murlett. was found dead in the city ealaboose this morning by Marshal Schneider. who went to carry his break fast. Murlett was put in the cell last night for drunkenness. He is a we'll known character n Cullman, coming of a good old family, but he has been a heavy drinker for years. He was about 45 years old. The coroner pro- nounced alcoholism as the cause of his death
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
ANNmJNcEAFENT.

?. C. Randolph hereby announces himself as a candidate for mayor of Montgomery subject to the Democratic nomination. anc he is pledged to no individual and to nc fnterests
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
FOR ALDERALAN, WARD THREE.

hereby announce myself a candidate for reelection for Alderman from Ward Three. subject to the action of the Democratic if NATHAN LoBMAN
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
FOR ALDERMAN, WARD FIVE.

I hereby announce myself a candidate for reelection Aldermen from Ward Five subject to the action of the Democratic primary.
 c. A. GRIFFITH.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31

I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Mayor of Montgomery, subject to the @ntion of the Democratic Primary.
 A. c. FORBES
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
FOR ALDERaAN. WARn sIx.

I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection as Alderman from Ward Six subject to the action of the Democratic pri- mary.
 tE JAMES J. SULLIVAN.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
FOR ALDERMAN, WARD FOUR.

I hereby announce myself candidate for Alderman from Ward Four, subject to the action of the Democratic primary.
 w. ". SEIDLE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
FOR ALDERMAN. WARD sEvEN.

l hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection as Alderman from Ward Seven, subject to the action of the Demo- cratic primary.
 tf J. l.. HOLLOWAY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31

city except at the Methodist and Epis- oopal Churches. Rev MT. Clarke of the latter church, has many warm ad- mirerS here. sH.,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
BOY ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
Unexpected Discharge Of Gun Ended
 Young Mans Life.

Young Mans Life.
 Greenville, Jan. 30.--(Spectal )- News has just reached here of the ac- cidental killing last Thursday of Her bert Luckie. the 1S-year-old son of Mir. Walter Luckie, near Monterey.
 The young man was out hunting and placed his gun on the ground with the muzzle resting under his arm. The gun was discharged the load entering
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31

Marconfs thlrtieth birthday is due on April 25. The inventor began his experiments with wireless teIegraphy on his fathers estate near Bologna nearly twenty years ago. He was still a boy when he succeeded in sending his first wireless signal a distance of q mile.