davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
TO Europe by Rail.

Now that peace seems probable the
efforts to link Europe and America by
lines of rails are to be renewed. On
the European side of the sea Baron
Loicq de Lobel is actively promoting
the enterprise, and on this side of the
sea some Omaha capitalists are at
work The Omaha capitalists have
asked for a charter under which they
can build a railroad through Alaska to
Boring straits. Baron de Lobel pro-
poses to see that a railroad Is built
from the Siberian railroad to the other
shore of Bering straits.
Already the surveys for the tunnel
under the straits have been begun.
The soundings show that the bottom
of the straits consists of solid rock,
thus rendering the tunnel project
mere matter of time and money.
separate company is to be organized
TO bore the hole under the straits. At
the narrowest point the width of the
straits is about forty-five miles, and
the depth of the water does not exceed
30 fathoms, or about $50 feet.
The tunnel can perhaps be COM
pleted as soon as sea-level canal can
be at Panama, and the two will give
America all the great transit facilities
that the continent admits of. Doubt
less both will in the long run be con-
structed. and they will both change
the world in several material respects.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
IN HOTEL IoBBIEs

"Pointers" on the Little Rock Team
In the grand stand at West End park
yesterday afternoon sat a man who had
seen the Little Rock team play against
Atlanta.
Before the game began he confded these
pointers to a few who sat beside him;
"A train rolled into Birmingham yes
terday morning and a baseball team got
off the cars"
Little Rocks principal weakness is
their ability to drive the ball straight
to the right field left field and center
field fence"
1.-The team that beats Little Rock
single game from now on till the end
of the season will have to send more
than six men around the bases"
.All the batsmon are good hitters. Some
are merely better than others
when facing the pitcher, they look
more confident of making hit than any
other players in the league"
Their speciality is putting a erimp into
the reputation of pitchers on the opposing
teams"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
Taxes on Mortgages.

The tax on mortgages, real and per-
sonal, is but fifteen cents on a hun
dred dollars, and yet it yielded last
year $59,32199. New York has just
passed law taxing real estate mort
cages one-half of one per cent in lieu
of all local taxes on such evidences of
debt. One-half of the tax in New
York goes to the state treasury, and
the other half to the localities in which
the money is collected. The law is
searching, because the mortgages are
each and all recorded, and true
amounts are stated in them.
In Massachusetts the policy has
been deliberately adopted after full
discussion, of exempting all mortgages
from taxation, because such a tax
would mean double taxation for the
man in debt. He would have to pay
taxes on the mortgaged premises, and
the lender would take precious good
care to see that in some way the bor-
rover pays the tax on the mortgage
he gives. He is bled at both ends of
the debt process, and wealth enjoys It's
usual advantages. So it will be in
New York. So 1t is in Alabama. but
the tax in Alabama is not at all bur-
densome.
The counties that paid one thousand
dollars or over as tax on mortgages
were these: Jefferson, $1S,575; Mont
gomery. $61O1; Mobile. 1887; Tusca-
loosa, $1165; Dallas, s1161, and ETC.
wah, $1124. No other county paid in
thousand dollars. Etowahs payment
is as surprisingly large as Mobiles is
small, but there is no accounting for
discrepancies among sixty-seven coun-
ties
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
IN NORWAY

From the New York World.
On pay-days saloons are closed and
savings banks open until midnight
Servant girls hire for half year at
time by contract at public registry
office
There is a telegraph box on every street
car. Write messages, put on right NUM-
Der of stamps and drop in box.
Young farmers can borrow money from
government at per cent.
Practically no illlterates. Men perhaps
the finest in the world physically. Army
service UNIVERSAL only 2.S per cent of
youths rejected for physical defect.
Health splendid. Death rate for men,
1873; because of dangerous fishing; for
women. 1915. Average expense of living
less than any other civilized country
perhaps. Average wage earnings sSs a
year.
More reindeer than horses, more sheep
than cows.
Illiterates-Two men In thousand In
Sweden, In Norway and Denmark. Is
In Prussia, which wants to Improve"
Norway and Sweden by dividing and
ccnquering them; 1876 even in England.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
THE cosTLlEsT CORNER LOT.

From the New York Times.
The highest price ever paid for land
in this country was 1880 900 for lot
eighty-five feet square, now occupied by
the American Surety company's building
at the corner of Broadway and Pine
streets. The corner lot cost s267 81 a
square foot, which is at the rate of
eleven and one-half million dollars an
acre. An even higher price, 800 square
foot. Is asked for the southeast corner
of Broadway and Wall street, the most
valuable piece of ground in America.
which Is at the rate of $17.40S.000 an
acre. There have been two or three other
sales of property in London at a higher
price. but under peculiar circumstances.
Therefore, it may be considered the most
costly section of Gods footstooh
The New York club recently sold its
building at the corner of Thirty-ffth
street and Fifth avenue for $500, 200, and
north side of Forty-third street between
Fifth and Madison avenues. The club
paid $4,000 for the property in 1887. 1
am told this is the highest price ever
paid for uptown property, although the
point of land between Broadway and
Fifth avenue at Twenty-fourth street.
now occupied by a drug store, is held AT
higher figure. The New York club lot
is 32x100 feet. with a surface of 5000 square
feet. which is about $50 square foot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
ENCOURAGING IMMIGRATION.

Ftcm the Montgomery Advertiser.
An important meeting is to be held
In Birmingham" said a member of the
Montgomery Commercial and Industrial
association yesterday, when business and
professional men from all sections of the
state gather to discuss the best means
of inducing good class of citizens from
the east and west to locate In Alabama.
This is a matter that cannot be press
ed home too strongly to our people and
l have much hope for the future. The
negroes are leaving the cotton fields more
and more every year. Right now there
Is not sufficient labor on the farms of
Montgomery county to cultivate the crops.
we must have different class of labor
or our farms will go to waste.
1t Is encouraging to note that the
railroads are emphasizing immigration
more than ever and that a central agency
y soon to be established In Birmingham
u carry on the work in more intel
lieent and systematic manner"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
KNOX AND THE SENAToRSHlP.

From the Montgomery Journal.
There are a lot of people and newspa-
pers concerning themselves about the pos
sible candidacy of John B. Knox of Cal
houn for federal senator. The Huntsville
Tribune. for instance, rises 10 say
1.-The boom for Hon. John B. Knox for
United States senator Is shade pre-
vious. Mr.. Knox should not be ushered
into this ring until Senators Morgan and
Pettus indicate their pleasure. The best
thing that Mr.. Knox could do is to declare
conditionslly, saying he was fifst for Nor
gan and Pettus, then for himself"
Apparently Mr.. Knox is not troubling
himself about what the newspapers are
saying concerning his rumored candidacy.
Mr.. Knox has been a warm friend of Sem
ator Morgan, and has helped him over
many close places in his political life.
Mr.. Knox has never thrown a stone in the
political pathway, so far as we know, OF
Senator Pettus.
Both the senators are growing old in
the service of their people, their party
and their country. They have both had
the highest honors their own state could
confer upon them. Senator Morgan first
took his seat In the federal Senate March
5, 1877, having been first elected TO sue
coed George Goldthwaite and has served
continuously ever since. Ills term expires
March l. 1907, and he will then have
served his people thirty years in the fed
eral Senate, the greatest deliberative body
in the world.
At that time Senator Morgan will have
reached his SD year, and it is barely pos
sible that he has concluded not to be a
candidate for reelection. If that is true.
no one is so likely to know 1t as Mr..
Knox. To him Senator Morgan would
most likely first confide such a grave
secret.
But if the senior senator has not made
up his mind not to be candidate again,
and has made no such admission even to
his closest friend, Mr.. Knox. perhaps Mr..
Knox will strive for the seat of Senator
Pettus. who is now serving his second
term in the Senate. anu who will be IS
years old when his present term shall
expire March T. 1909.
Mr.. Knox may have concluded that he,
too is growing old. that time flies and
that he had better get in the game II he
ever expects to realize his one great am
bition.
The next legislature meets January.
1906. That legislature will be called upon
to elect two senator's. whose terms will
expire in 1918 and 1915 respectively.
II ever the ambitious younger men of
the state expect to reach the federal Sem
ate surely they can't wait longer.
Surely they may be acknowledgements
much we may love Senator Morgan and
Senator Pettus, and however much we
may be determined to send them back to
the federal Senate, where they reflect such
| great honor upon the state-for declining
to wait till 1913 and 1915 shall have come
and gone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
L TRUTH, A THRIFTY TRADER.

c. L. Edison in the Kansas City Star.
Old Hank Brown was trader right
He could beat you out of yer sense a.
sight.
He traded busted breakin pillow
Fer an old three-titted sway-back cow
The COW had calf and he snapped the
two
For that moth-et mule of Andy Drew,
A runt sow pig with pick axe snoot
And an old corn planter came to boot.
He traded the kit for team of nags
And movin' wagon-top in rags,
walkin' lister, a grindstone, too,
And two-wheeled dump cart, almost
new:
A riding bride. some clover seed
And a sore-eyer calf of the Short Horn
breed.
Well, he ambled round and he talked so
That he traded 'em off fer a threshin'
mchine.
Then he snapped that outfit, fust we
knowed,
Fer an eighty down on the ?ingtown
road.
Ready to move on the place when. pshaw!
He acquired town lots In Wichita.
Snapped those lots fer a big hotel
Up in st. Joseph, we heard tell
So all us folks in the town now,
When we think Of Hank and his sway
back COW,
And the tradin' genius what ne nad
Why, 'twouldnt surprise us none, egad,
To hear that the Russian war was done.
That old Hank Brown, the son of gun,
Had bluffed the poor old car until
He had closed deal to suit his will.
And had snapped fer the hull dern
shootin' match
A dutchy or two and later patch.
And Hank in the throne room all done.
Scheming to swap fer a better throne.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
Southern Cities

William Brooks, a St. Louis travelling
man engaged in the paper business said
last night that in proportion to its size
Birmingham is easily the most pros
porous and busiest city in the south,
Il have for the last six years been
travelling extensively In the southern
states" said Mr.. Brooks, my business
taking me through Alabama, Tennessee
Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana
and Texas. think my experience in the
cities of these states enables me to form
an accurate judgment of them. 1t is clear
TO me, as 1t is to all other travelling men,
that Birmingham is, relatively speaking
the most prosperous and progressive city
In the south. There is more of vim and
dash to 1t than there is to many another
city twice its size.
"A great many persons believe that
Birmingham is to be in time the largest
and greatest inland city in the south.
l see that William e. Curtis predicts
that Memphis will hold that honor. He
says that Memphis will, hundred years
from now be one of the four great cities
on the continent. New Orleans is going
ahead wonderfully, and l am one OF lhose
who believe that in thirty years it will
have a population of 1,000,000 Texas.
my native state, is making great progress
though there is at this time a slight de-
preston all over the state. due doubtless
to storms. Birmingham gives one 'the
idea that you are having flush times
here"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15

Birmingham last night renewing old &C
auaintances and attending TO matters OF
a personal nature.
T. H. McAiichaels of sylacauga is in
the city.
]. A. Clifford, the proprietor of the
Norris hotel, returned to Birmingham
Yesterday morning from a visit of four
days to Savannah.
Peyton Norrell of Jasper was here yes
terday,
G. T. McIlhenny of Talladega is reg
istered at the Morris.
William Dobbs of Meridian is in the
city
r. l.. King of Admission is at the Nor
ris.
John r. Ryan of Corona, was here
yesterday on business.
F. NJ. Dobson contractor of Mont
gomery, was in Birmingham last night
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
Give the Negroes a Chance

From the Montgomery Journal
When Theodore Roosevelt come to
Montgomery there ought to be some
arrangements made TO give the colored
people of Montgomery an opportunity
to meet him, and shake him by the hand.
The white people should not monopolize
his time Theodore Roosevelt If con-
suited, would give every man a square
deal, regardless of color, or such interest
ing occasions and whatever arrange
ments that are made for the entertain
ment of Roosevelt during his two hours
stay in Montgomery ought to provide
a part II not half that time, devoted to
friendly greetings with the representative
negroes of the city
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
Better Schools Wanted.

From the Admission Evening Star.
AS was expected, Calhoun county yes
terday voted for the one-mill school tax.
The majority was not quite so large as
was that in Gilmore county, but it was
considerably above the average and close
to the record that Gilmore made. OF this
record calhoun county has cause to feel
proud. We people who reside in the
county have known that there was much
here of which to boast. We have known
that in the county there are men of
progress. The action at the polls yester-
day heralded this information to the
people who have not known so much
OF the progressive spirit. II was simply
another move giving proof of the fact
that Calhoun has a conspicuous place
on the list with the most progressive
counties
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
War on Mosquitoes.

From the Union Springs Herald.
Most of the mosquitoes of the city are
raised in barrels of water kept in ware
houses, depots. and around the public
work shops, and around the homes of
even some of the citizens themselves.
1t is very easy matter to exterminate
the mosquito and prevent his raising
in such places by putting enough kero-
sene oil on the water to cover the sur
face.
We believe while the council is taking
every precaution to guard the health
of the city, it would act wisely to pass
an ordinance requiring all vessels con-
tanning stagnant water to have oil put
on the water. and see that the ordinance
is enforced
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15

HS0ANCE there was a young man
~ whom the leading merchants
called hustler" He worked
all the time and he did not spend any
money. The habits he had didn't cost
him anything while the clothes he wore
were painful and the amount of fun he
had was nihil. This youth shaved in a
drygoods store for six years, saved up
several hundred dollars and invested the
money. After a while he began to go up
He knew all about commissions, divi-
dends, interest and the little game of
promoting" so that 1t was not long be-
fore his fortune began to attain to sub
stantial proportions. The years rolled
by and the youth, now become a man,
took day off to get married In the
natural course of events there were chill
dern but their father was a direction in
so many corporations that he didn't have
time to talk to the kids and was sur
prised when time came to send his eldest
boy to college. The capitalist had learned
how to work in his younger days and
he kept up the lick all the time. He got
richer every day. In fact he got SO rich
that his habits were exploited in the
Sunday papers. He was interviewed he
was quoted In anecdotes and he was a
power in the land. Still, the capitalist
never had any time to enjoy life He
began TO get old. but he kept on making
money After a few more years, while
his wife and daughters were doing
stunts In society and his boy was hav-
ing adventures with a big red automo-
bile. the "old man. quit. He died in
harness" Then there was a fight to
break his will Verify, what's the use?
Much interest attaches to a Forthcoming
book by Senator Albert j. Beveridge.
which will be published next fall. The
title of the book will be 1.-THE Young
Man and the World" 1t will contain
much sensible advice to young men and
will consist of a series of very striking
articles which the senator recently con-
tributed to an eastern publication. The
substance of Senator Beveridge's advice
to the young men is, Never whine. Be
thoroughbred" That is a tip well worth
consideration The world pays homage
to a thoroughbred. We need thorough
bred men and thoroughbred women. You
will find plenty of them at Louisville
Friday when the Confederate Veterans
parade.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
School Tax In Calhoun.

Sidney j. Bowie of Admission, represen-
tative in Congress from the Fourth dis
trict expressed his qualification while
here attending the immigration confer
ence that the school tax of one mill had
been adopted in Clebourn county.
This tax said Mr.. Bowie, will in
crease the county school fund in the
amount of $4,000 annually and will enable
our people to have at an early date the
best possible schools that can be pro-
vided. l have always been an advocate
of improved educational facilities, and
rejoice that our people have voted Sc
emphatically in favor of taxing tnem-
selves to educate their children properly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
Striking Points of Similarity.

MY attention." said a prominent law
yer yesterday, has been drawn to tho
fact that not few northern newspapers
deplore the dissolution of the union be-
tween Norway and Sweden on the ground
that 1t tends to impair the principle, or
at least the policy, of territorial empire
a policy and principle that gave the
north a potent rallying cry at the time of
our great civil war.
There are. In fact, points of striking
similarity between the secession of Nor
way from Sweden and that of the south
forty-five years ago from the union. Each
had entered the union of its own volition,
and each held that 1t might withdraw the
moment occasion required 1t to do so in
defense of its constitutional and national
rights Each was, in point of population,
the weaker portion of the union of which
it was a part. The fiscal policy of the
north in 1861, like that of Sweden today
was in favor. of the protective tariff. The
fiscal policy of the south in 1861 was, like
that of Norway today, in favor of free
trade.
1.-The south lost its struggle by reason
of the fact that it was supposed through
out Christendom to be championing the in
stitution of human slavery. In other
words, the north had the advantage In
Europe of being on what was supposed to
be the right side of a great moral ques-
ton.
mo such issue is involved in the Sc
cession of Norway from its union with
Sweden. The question of territorial in
tegrity is, however, surely involved. But
for the fact that Norway will become a
republic, | am inclined to think that the
government at Washington would discour-
age Norways action"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
1t is surprising the way your wife Will
let you have your own way when 1t is
hers
The average man would be content to
forego more pleasure IL he could have less
pain.
1t Is better to trust something to be
mistrusted than to mistrust something to
be trusted.
Women are very good card players, con-
sidering what good conversationalists
they are at the same time.
A woman imagines she would be very
girlish looking II she weren't so undeceit-
full about the way she dresses
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

The question of suitable evening
clothes is still to the fore. Apparently it
Is one of these problems that will not
down, yet what is the use of losing sleep
over the matter? The only way to get
rid of the dress suit" incubus Is to
eliminate such wearing apparel entirely.
Whether this contamination is brought
about soon or in the dim and distant
future. it will be frivolous and devoid
of national import.
Among the genuine ''mints" and gold
Mines terms figuratively applied to good
business enterprises, there is none which
sLrpasses the establishment of the sun
burned child CT Italia or Greece who
sells popcorn and candy at summer
resort. The profits of such a business
are so enormous, comparatively speaking,
the returns so sure and the demand SO
persistent it is no wonder that a peanut
and popcorn wagon has proven the step
pign stone to many a snug fortune.
DIR. A. Conan Doyle-also Sir A Conan
Doyle-is reported to be busy with a
new book He is non-communicative and
lHe WOfiu can only guess what MS next
work will be. However, the ehar=os are
that he won't produce a Chez equal
to that of Mr.. Sherlock Holmes. Dr.
Doyle got to the top in his particular
field some time ago and since then he
has not been able to go any hisher.
Among the picturesque and interesting
characters to be found at the Confederate
veterans reunion in Louisville. none will
attract more attention than the old
darkies who cast their lot with the south
and fought with the men who wore the
gray. The old negroes are always show
cred with attention, which often takes a
very substantial form. and they inva-
riably have the time of their lives"
Rabid negrophiles who theorize without
knowledge of facts might learn some-
thing by attending a reunion of Con-
federate veterans.
Since DR.. Parkhurst first gave signfI-
canoe and popularity to the lid this
term has spread all over the cs.stry
and instead of being confined to the city
of New York, has become national. The
lid is a figure of speech but it Is not
every man who can sit on the lid" They
who do the trick win fame quickly.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15

1.-THE pig iron market continues quiet
but within the past few days inquiries
have been in evidence and brisk buying
movement will soon set in" said man
ufacturer.
birmingham iron is still quoted at
$3.50 for No. 2 foundry, but sales have
been shaded below that price. | think 1t
is safe to say that July l Will find No.
up to $l3. The consumers have about
used up their stocks of pig metal, and
when they rush into the market again
the price will certainly advance"