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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-01
Latest Issue of Advance.

Much interest attaches to the June
number of Advance. because the first
prize story of the Advance short story
contest is published in this issue. The
three prize winning stories were written
by Catherine Jewett of East Brierfield,
Maine, I. M. Pittman of Birmingham and
Cora M. Norman of Boston. Miss Jewett's
story took first prize and is entitled THE
Yellow Dragon and the White Man
Cod" 1t is published in the June num-
Der of Advance.
Great interest was taken in the con-
test and stories were received from all
parts of the country. The judges who
picked out the three winning stories were
j. b. Babb and Chapel Cory. These
gentlemen state that they were surprised
by the number of excellent stories re-
ceived, but both judges agreed that Miss
Jewett's story was conspicuously in the
lead
In addition to the prize story there is
the usual offering of crisp, reading mat
ter and the cover design, a yellow dra-
gon, Is not only unique but artistic.
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Winner of the Kaiser's Gun.

The Atlantic the winner of the Kai-
ser's cup, is a three-masted auxiliary
schooner. She was designed and built
in this country, and her owner and
captain are both Americans, and even
the crew in the race was American.
She was butt in 1903. In appearance
the Atlantic is every inch a racer AL
though 1855 feet long she carries ire
mendous spread of sail. Last year she
won the Brenton's Reef and the Cape
May cups. Both were sailed in light
winds, but in light winds the Atlantic S
great sails help her through the seas.
She had never sailed across the At
lantic, but no doubt she had every
thing set in the light breezes that blow
at this season of the year over the
broad ocean.
Captain Barr, whom Wilson Mar
shall, Atlantic's owner, selected TO sail
the race, was born in Scotland, but he
is now a citizen of this country. He
had defended the Americas Cup in
three races, and his reputation ex-
tends to both sides of the sea.
The first over-the-ocean yacht race
was sailed in 1866, when the Henri
eta, owned by James Gordon Bennett,
won 1t. The Henrietta covered the
distance in 10 days p hours So min
utes. In 1870 there was another ocean
race. The English schooner Cambria
won it, but she took % days hours
IL minutes to do it. In 1901 the En-
dymion crossed the sea in 10 days 20
hours SO minutes. The Atlantic's time
was 70 days and IL hours, which will
doubtless long stand as the shortest
actual transatlantic yacht passage
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Destructive Insects.

The Agricultural Department puts
the annual damage done by insects IN
this country at $7S5.OOO, 900! This sum
is so enormous it almost staggers be-
lief, but the Agricultural Department
is prepared to sustain with facts and
figures its aggregate.
The chinchbug is the most expen.
sive insect in the long list. 1t is only
a third of an inch long, but it, is long
enough to levy on the growers OF
wheat, corn and other cereals tax
each year of sixty million dollars. The
grasshopper comes next, his levy be
ing just about fifty million dollars a
year. 1t attacks all kinds of vegeta
ton, and orchards also. The Hessiar
fly whose maggots feed on young wheat
costs the country forty millions year
sometimes more, but rarely less.
For fourth place among destructive
insects triangular contest has sprung
up, the contestants being the corn-eal
worm. the cotton boil weeyil, and the
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Housion's Experiment.

The city Of Houston, containing
ABOUT $4,000 inhabitants, had been per-
picked with a city administration in
which graft was more apparent than
efficiency. The citizens at last came
togther, and a movement was started
which has resulted in a new charter
that promises 10 work wondrous
changes in the prosperous Texas city.
Under the old charter the city had
dozens of officials each of whom was
in the habit of relieving himself of
misdeeds by charging someone else
with responsibility to the people. The
new charter cuts the number Of re-
sLonsible officials down to six-the
Just six and no more. The six will
be aided by clerks, but the six and no
more must answer to the people for
the conduct of the public business Of
the city. All six are elected by the
people, and all six can be held respon-
sible for all that occurs in the city
hall The aldermen and controller are
charged with certain specific duties,
and the mayor is practically left TO
answer for the multitude of Delinquent
cies and waste and inefllciency in the
city government.
Houston has adopted the new plan
in the hope that it can in that way
obtain clean and energetic govern
ment. When 1t had dozens of officials
nothing was we'll done. Houston's ex,
pertinent will be watched by other
cities that are suffering as Houston
once did from responsibility, waste
and corruption.
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officers and trustees a commission Tor
the work they do, like the agents who
secure the business and make the success
of the company? l could not answer
these questions satisfactorily to the poll
cy-holders; and so, about two months ago,
| wrote to Thomas A. BuclSner, vice pres
ident of the New York Life, TO please
answer these questions SO that | could ex-
plain to the policy The policy
holders in a purely mutual company ike
the New York Life claims to be, have q
legal and perfect right to have these
questions answered The only reply have
ever received to the questions was that
nv contract as agent for the company
mas been Cancelled.
Now from the editorial in The Age-Her-
aid IT appears that officers of the New
York Life are drawing salaries from the
policy-holders money of 100000 down TO
sci. 900 each-this includes a large list OF
officers
Ten thousand dollars would be nne
salary for the president OF the New York
Life and 5000 would be handsome sal
aries for each of the other leading officers,
the same as a congressman.
A better plan would be to pay each Of
ficer commission on the work he does;
this Is the purely mutual plan. Yours
truly, JOHN L. nal.
Albertville, May 30. 1905.
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viii Reach Ten Million Tons in First
Half.

From the Wall Street Journal.
The pig iron production of the United
States will exceed 100000 tons for the
first half of the year. This will be the
greatest production ever made in any
half year
Allowing only 100000 tons production
for May and the smade for June, the total
production for the six months period will
be 1O2Sl, 54l tons. as against S,1734S the
first half of 1904, ., 1867 the first half of
1903 and S,s0S,574 tons in the first six
months of 1902.
Production in May will probably reach
100000 tons In June 1t should fall on
several hundred thousand tons. because
of the half year clean up and annual re-
pair period Yet it seems exceedingly
conservative to estimate the two months
production at 100000 tons.
The production of anthracite and coke
pig iron for the first four months this
year and the total production by half
yearly periods for the last three years
show as follows lin tons)
First four months. 1905, 7,231'5A tons.
First half, 1904, s,173.43s tons; 1903, 9,7ol-
1861 tons; 1902, S,sOs,574 tons.
Second half, 1904, $685. 95 tons; 1908 s.
3O1, SS5 TONS 1902, 9ol2,7aS tons.
Total 1905, 7,2Si.541 tons; 1904, 16,49' 'oSS
tons; 1908 1S,OO9252 tons 1902, 1I'S2l, SO7
tons.
In the first four months TINS year the
United States has made about ~ per cent
of the total yearly production IN iSi'
about 40 per cent of the 1908 total and Al
per cent of the total in 19O2.
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SENATOR MORGAN ON WINES.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Senator Morgan is an advocate of the
general use of wines as food" said a
state official as he turned to his desk
and produced a circular letter signed by
Paul Garrett of Norfolk, Va, as Director
of the American Wine Growers Assoca-
tionp
"A number of these circulars came to
me-" said the official, from Senator
Morgan with a request that they be given
general distribution. presume he en-
dorses the matter
The printed matter is an appeal to the
American people to regard wines as food
rather than as intoxicants.
"At time when the whole country Is
aroused over the question of temperance, .
the circular begins. "a few facts of his
tory In demonstration of a theory may not
be out of place. This theory Is, briefly
stated that pure wine is a food, was so
intended, and is so used by a large per-
centage of the civilized world And 1t Is
interesting to note that whenever so used
the question of intemperance as to alco-
holic liquors never arises; and that
wherever there Is not a boun-
tlful supply OF pure wines useu as
food there exists great intemperance in
the use of alcoholic drinks, and there is
a constant agitation on the subject of its
control. The experience of older nations
would seem to Indicate that this will
probably continue until a proper coneep-
ton of the part that fruit and pure fruit
products occupy in the solution of this
problem
Then follows statistical data illustrating
the extent TO which wine suppants
meats, coffees and teas as we'll as alco-
hodc liquors in the various countries
of the world from which it is deduced
that wine drinking is one OF the most
hanaficfal of all foods
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Openinu the Warrior.

Major Craighill recently stated that
work on the remaining locks in the
Warrior would be completed as fast
as river conditions permitted, and
when this was accomplished the
stream would be open for navigation
to small steamers and barges the year
round, thereby giving to New Orleans
and Mobile excellent facilities for the
movement of Alabama bunker and
CRATE Goals.
Tuscaloosa is waking up to the pos
sibilities of navigation. A line has
been organized to barge coal from Tus-
caloosa to both Mobile and New Or
leans, and new coal mine near the
river was opened last week. Tusca-
loosa will have the benefit of slack
water navigation at least two years
before an open river is carried to the
railway bridges-to the junction of Lo-
Gust and Mulberry forks. When navi-
cation is extended to the railroad
bridges the heart of the coal area in
this district will be directly benefited.
1t is none too early to begin to get
ready for the coming of water trans.
portation--a blessing that Pittsburg
and West Virginia have long enjoyed
and fattened on.
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DIFFERENCE IN TIME.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Courier-Journal yesterday morning
in its 4SO edition had dispatch oateo
Toxic, May 20, 2i5 p. m, which eihpn'i
sizes the difference in time between that
capital and places in the United States
Toxic is in east longitude 1883 degrees 40
minutes. Louisville is in west longitude
So degrees IS minutes, but our standard
time is that Of the ninetieth parallel. This
makes a difference of 229,oio minutes III
longitude. The difference in time Is iouf
minutes to the degree, or an hour ior
every fifteen degrees. The total dinerence
therefore, between solar time at TOXIC
and standard time at Louisville is 10
hours. is minutes and 40 seconds. conse-
quently. 2:l5 p m. Monday, TOXIC TIME
was 1856 10 Sunday night in Louisville.
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met the superior training of the Japanese
personnel in their ships, together with
other points of superiority In their ships,
would mean a complete and decisive vic
tory for the cause of the Mikado. But
from the navy department the President
received information which led him to be-
lieve that Rojestvensky had fairly good
chance, at least and in this opinion Mr..
Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy, like
wise joined.
Mr.. Morton voiced the sentiments of the
President when he said tonight: The les
son of this naval battle is an indisputable
argument for expansion. | mean not only
construction but instruction. We cannot
afford to stop building ships for false
economy We must keep up our target
practice. we must continue our maneuvers
and drills undated, we must take adj
vantage of every opportunity to improve
our powders, our guns and all conditions
relating to the efficiency of the fleet.
What would not the Russians now
give for three of our battleships? They
would pay anything for them. Target
practice is expensive. but no money is
spent with better results. The object OF
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From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
ff IT HIS means we should increase
- wv our navy" is the substance
of the remark which President
Roosevelt made when informed early this
morning that Togo had swept clear the
eastern seas of Russian craft. All through
Washington this sentiment was echoed
not only by naval officers and govern
ment officials, but by civilians and even
by members of the diplomatic corps, who
have observed the tendency on the part
of Congress to curtail the annual naval
appropriations in favor OF river and har-
Dor improvements and public building
projects President Roosevelt was sur
prised at the news, for he had believed
that when the great fleets met there
would be hard but not one-sided hight
There are only two men who can right
fully say Il told you so' to President
Roosevelt. They are Admiral Lord Charles
Beresford of the British navy, and Rear
Admiral Robey ID. Evans, United States
navy, commander in-chlef of the Ameri-
can North Atlantic fleet. They both told
the President not long ago that 1t was
their confident belief that when the fleets
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bourg, France, June 10, 1S64-Alabama,
Confederate cruiser, sunk after an
hours fighting.
LEPANTO (near Corinth), October 7,
157l--Don John of AUSTRIA commanding
the fleets of Spain. Venice, Genoa, NAL
ia and Plus V, utterly defeated the
Turks. The Turks lost most of their
fleet and $4,000 men.
LAKE ERIE, September TO- 1s1s-Ameri-
cans under Perry with nine vessels
captured a British squadron of six YES
sells under Barclay.
LA HOGUE, May TO- 1692-French fleet
under Admiral Tourville destroyed by
the English and Dutch under Russell
and Rookie The French lost twenty-one
men-of- war
MESSINA. July 81, 171S-Spanish fleet of
twenty-nine sail totally defeated by the
British.
MOBILE BAY, August 5, 1se4-Farragut
forced his way into the, harbor and de-
feated the Confederate fleet.
MANILA BAY May l, 1S9S.-Amerlcan
fleet under Dewey utterly destroyed the
Spanish fleet.
NEW ORLEANS. April "a. 1s62-Farragut
attacked and silenced the forts, and city
was occupied by Union forces next day.
OFF SCOTTISH COAST, September %,
1779--Captain Paul Jones with the Bon
homme Richard and the Pallas cap
tured the Scraps and the Countess of
Scarborough after eleven hours fight
ing.
OFF JAPAN August IA. 1904-Russian
Vladivostok squadron defeated by the
Japanese the cruiser Rurik being hunk
and the other Russian ships reaching
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
About Insurance Companies.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
The editorial in The Age Herald today
entitled. Life Insurance Salaries, con-
tains valuable information which the
policy-holders of the New York Life have
long been trying to extract and obtain
from the officers and management or the
company. / have been an agent ana pol
icy-holder of the New Yorl, Life for sew
eral years. The company is mutual and
the policy holders are told by the Of
ficers and management that the policy
holders control and manage the anairs Oh
the company. | have never met policy
holder in the southern states that has
ever voted or been consulted about the
management of the affairs of the COM
pany.
The past winter when the Equitable
management was being publicly aired
many of the policy-holders OF the New
York Life asked me as agent the follow
ing questions: What policy-holders vote
and elect the trustees and officers? What
are the salaries of the trustees and Of
tcers? Who fix and authorize the pay
nent of the salaries? Why not pay the
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An Early Riser.

Mayor Ward rises early nowadays
A morning or two ago he turned up at
the city hall at the hour of 4.
Three policemen were at that time sit
ting in chairs tilted against the alley
wall.
At 4.01 o'clock the chairs were empty.
There is precedent for this early rising
business in men who hold official posi-
ton" said one of the wise ones" yes
terday. Peter the Great and Louis NJ
were given to it, as was also Theodore /,
when police commissioner of New York. .
All of which explains why it is that
this saying is current in birmingham Of
fcialdom
&c. b. w. will get you eff you don't
watch outl''
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IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Submarine Mines Helped Togo.

Nicholas Catagano. who was formerly
in the Italian navy, where he served
four years on torpedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers. said yesterday that, in
his judgment mines played an important
part in the naval battle in the Korean
straits
Under favorable conditions" said he,
whitehead and other torpedoes will
travel only 500 yards. While the torpedo
toat destroyers did magnificent work for
Togo. I think that admirals plan was to
confuse Rojestvensky and force his fleet
a train or field of submarine mines.
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IN BoUK1R Battle of the Nile),
V1 August l. 179S-French fleet I'M
der BrueyA defeated by the Eng
lish under Lord Nelson. Nelson's men
captured nine French men-of-war and
burned two. The French ship Torrent
was blown up with Brueys and 1000 men
on board only seventy or eighty es-
Gaping.
ALEXANDRIA. Egypt, July IL, 1882
Bombarded by the British fleet and for
tifications destroyed.
BAY OF GIBRALTAR, April %. 1907
Dutch gained a bloody victory over the
Spanish.
CAMPERDOWN, October II, 1797-Dutch
feet defeated by the British.
CARDENAS, Cuba, May IL, B9S-Ameri-
can ships entered the harbor and bonn
barded the town and Spanish boats.
Ensign Bagley and four other Ameri-
cans killed.
CAPE FINISTERRE. May, 3. 1747-French
fleet of thirty-eght ships taken by the
British under Arson.
CIENFUEGOS. Cuba, May IL, 1S9S-Bom-
bardment and cable-cutting by Ameri-
can war ships.
CONSTITUTION AND GUERRERO.
August 10, 1S12-Latter ship, British, de-
stroyed by the American frgate.
ENGLISH CHANNEL, June 2, 16j3-Dutch
and English fleets under Van Tromp
and Blake respectively engaged in
decisive battle with 100 sail on each
side. The Dutch lost seventeen ships;
their fleet was dispersed. The engage
ment was completed off Holland few
days later, when Van Tromp was killed.
after losing thirty more ships.
AND ALABAMA, off Cher
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overtaken in the library. on tie veranda,
in the church and even on the trolley car,
although the danger is small at bali
game when the home team has got to
win" Now there was nothing to show
that the Chattanooga youth snored with
malice aforthought; yet the jury forced
him to relinquish twenty bones" What
with Indiana denying our right to smoke
cigarettes. temperance cranks rampant
all over the land and Chattanooga court
filming a man $40 just because he snored
in church. It appears that the privileges
of the American citizen are being
abridged.
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OFF HARwICH, June 8, 1es5-British
defeated the Dutch, the latter losing
thirty-two ships.
OFF BORDEAUX, December L. 1854
British and French fleets, numbering
1870 sail in all, engaged, the French be-
ing utterly defeated.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May u, 1888
Forts bombarded by Admiral Simpsons
squadron.
SANTA CRUZ, Canary Islands, july 25-
26, 1797-English and French fleets
fought; Admiral Nelson lost his right
arm.
SANTIAGO, July 8. 1s9s-Spanish feet
under Cervera destroyed by the Ameri-
can fleet under Schley.
SINOPE. November 30 1s5S-Turkish feet
destroyed by the Russians.
SPANISH ARMADA, July 1929. 1855
Fleet consisting of 1872 large ships and
number of smaller ones, manned by
$4,000 men,, engaged by British fleet
under Howard Drake and Hawkins
The Spanish lost thirty-five ships and
1900 men and their fleet was dispersed.
TAGUS, September 3, 1S0S-Russian fleet
surrendered to the British.
THAMES, July 1926, 1666-British de-
feated the Dutch, the latter losing TWEEN
ty-four men-of-war and 1000 men.
TRAFALGAR, October q, 1S05-British
fleet under Lord Nelson defeated the
combined French and Spanish fleets un-
der Villeneuve. There were eighteen
French and fifteen Spanish ships against
twenty-seven British men-of-war. The
French and Spanish lost nineteen ships.
YALU RIVER, September II, 1S94-The
Chinese feet was destroyed by the Jap
anese.
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Sheriff Moore on Politics.

j. S. Moore. sheriff of Walker county,
vas in Birmingham yesterday on his way
home from Denver, where with his
brother Walter Moore, he had gone to
visit his nephew. Walter Moore, Jr., who
is III with tubercular trouble. Mr.. Moore
reports that his nephew's condition is
rapidly improving and he hopes the young
man will soon recover his strength COM
pletely.
In commenting on things political last
night at the Morris, Mr. Moore said
Il am for DR.. Cunningham for governor
and Colonel Bankhead for anything he
wants. Colonel Bankhead can go to
Congress from the Sixth district as long
as he will stand for reelection. In a race
against Captain Hobson, he will win
easily. In case of a vacancy in the United
States senatorship, Colonel Bankhead will
get the place, and he will get it because
he deserves the promotion. l believe
that DR.. Cunningham will be our next
governor though | admit Mr.. Conner is
looming up dangerously for that position"
About Persons.
Mack Cheney of Admission was in Bir-
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permitted to learn of the engagement 1t
appears that torpedo boats and subma-
rines also played a prominent-a very
prominent part IN the defeat of the Rus
sian fleet. Swarms of small fighting craft
proved too much for the splendid vessels
of Rojestvensky and contributed in no
small degree to the success of Togo. In
fact experts seem to think that the battle
of the Korean straits marks a new epoch
in the use of submarines and torpedo
boats for attacking purposes. However.
the battleship will continue supreme for
some time to come provided the man be-
hind the gun knows his business.
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The parents of young Siegfried Roebling
We're much excited because the boy de-
cided to have taste of genuine 'shobo-
ing" Yet, since he has been found, little
the worse for his experiences, one can
not but think that 1t would be a good
thing If more of the ''pampered darlings"
of the rich could try the road" for
awhile as Segfried Roebling did. This
youngster had enough adventure and
hardship to last him for some time. and
the chances are that it will prove of SUBJ
stantial benefit. There is nothing like
learning that the world is not a place
where everybodys nest is luxuriously
feathered, and where there is always
some one to grant your every wish. Most
of us learn this lesson early in life, others
do not until it is too late, and still
others never do.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
1t is hard luck to be too good to be
appreciated.
The good children are always sick and
the bad ones always making you wish
they would be.
II is a sign II is real lace when a
woman never wears 1T for fear some
thing will happen to it,
Burgling isn't half as dangerous as II
seems when you think of gambling in the
stock market.