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GabbIers Speculate.

The gabblers find basis for much artless
speculation in the fact that William
Rockefeller. j. Pierpont Morgan and w.
X. Vanderbilt are In Europe. To hear the
talk one might think Europe Is an hotel
or club house and that everybody who
goes to Europe must, perforce. meet daily
and nightly In confidential intercourse.
The burden of the witless Wall street
conversation of majority of tapecrimp-
ers is about the wonderful things the
above named trio are conspring TO do
each days session producing a new set of
plans Each days output of little tattle
on this subject is accepted as gospel and
works to the profit Of the commission
grafters. The gulibilty of the back
woods buyer of gold bricks and green
goods is arc light intelligence to that dis
played by the army of producers In
Wall street
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02
THREE FEATURES
1OF STOCK MARKET
Schiff and Morgan Have at Last
Shaken Hands
IL
ENDS A LONG STRUGGLE
Union of Kuhn, Loeb 6 Co. and ]. P.
Morgan & Co. May Mean oustins
Of Harrlman-Wall
Street Gossip.
ENDS A LONG STRUGGLE
BY w. G. NICHOLAS,

New York, April 1.-The big market
story Of the hour includes the public an
nouncement of a working contract agree
nent between the long estranged houses
of j. p Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb
g. Co.; a supposed further widening of the
gap between E. H Hartman and GER
tain mammoth interests he has in part
been representing for many years, and
thirdly, a mysterious but seemingly earn
est cunning for some big plunger or
plungers believed to be oVer-extended on
the bull side of stocks. There are other
issues and features almost as important
as these, but the three mentioned seem
TO stand out In boldest relief In the
background Is a knowledge that steady
progress is making In the magnificent
plans for further railroad consolidation
and closer harmony of interests between
the financial powers in control of the
several Important railroad systems of the
country
In the estimation of Wall street, Kuhn.
Loeb & Co. have for the last two or three
years fully equaled the house of }. L,
Morgan & Co. in financial Importance,
but 1t is nevertheless a signal triumph
for the Jewish bankers to receive formal
recognition of that fact at the hands of
their great rival. For ten years and more
Jacob II. Schiff, the master spirit of
Kuhn Loeb & Co.. has been unrelentng
In his attacks upon the Morgan citadel.
FAVORED with powerful foreign alliances
and with the money support and frlend-
ship of Standard Oil interests he cap
tured redoubt after redoubt in the finan-
ral world and forced recognition all along
the line. The last to publicly admit the
commanding genius of the foremost
American Jew was the arrogant king
of high finance so long undsputed in his
supremacy, J. Perpont Morgan. The two
have shaken hands over the chasm and
their forces are for the moment working
together. Whether or not the union VIII
be enduring is an issue upon which Wall
street entertains radical differences Of
opinion. And well 1t might, for the two
big 'uns are temperamentally opposites
In almost every respect. Mr.. Morgan is
Napoleonic in his methods BY nature
he prefers to fight in the Open The rec
ord shows that he delights in bold assault
and in spectacular campaigning. He is
overbearing in business, preferring to
beat down opposition rather than spend
his time In argument or persuasion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02
Gold Standard In Mexico.

Mexico has 81 last adopted the gold
standard and has begun d slow and easy
adjustment to the new condition. The
reconciliation of silver as its standard
basic money and the governments align
ment to the gold standard is the greatest
achievement of the Mexican republic un-
der the Diaz regime. II is certain to be
followed by the investment of still more
millions of foreign money in the devel-
opment of resources of that nation. The
gold production of Mexico will more than
double In the next two years and there
will he corresponding progress in other
directions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02
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Cheap Rates
To California.

Colonist tickets to California and
intermediate points will be sold daily
via the L. & N, until May 18th, at
rate of 934.5o.
COLONIST TICKETS TO THE
NORTHWEST will also be sold daily
until May 18th at very low rates.
ROUND TRIP HOMESEEKERS
TICKETS to The west and northwest
will be sold via the l.. & N. on the
first and third Tuesdays of each
month at extremely low rates.
For further information and rates.
apply or write to
P. Sid Jones. District Passenger Agent.
r. G.. PIERCE. Travelling Passenger Agt.
C. r. Feeley. City Passenger Agent.
Both phones s25. Birmingham. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02
Wall Street Gossip.

The withdrawal of government funds
from the national bank repositories dis
turbs only those who do not understand.
The government is paying out more than
II receives In current revenues, and on
the first of July there will be unusually
heavy disbursements, that being the be-
ginning of new fiscal year and the date
for the distribution of more cash than
on any other day of the year. The treas
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02
A Willing Worker.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ma, what are the folks in our church
gettin up subscription for?"
ITO send our minister on a vacation to
Europe this summer"
"An' won't there be no church while
he's gomez
mo preaching services I guess
ma. l got s1.23 saved up in my bank
can give that?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02
Butcher is Humorous.

From the Chicago Journal.
Look here, butcher. this meat is half
bone
''You are mistaken. sir. That is good
meat"
"Botherationl Do you suppose l don't
know bone when l see it? I say this is
bone,"
Yes, certainly that's bone. The bone
Is bone but the meat isn't. You said
the meat was half bone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-02
LOUIS SAkS. CI0thier to the Whole Family.

bodies many of the qualities of courage,
audacity, cleverness and experience
which would go to make an ideal cavalry
commander in Wall street. That was a
position long held by Keene. Mr.. Keene
now prefers quieter effort and the street
would welcome the spectacular appear
ance of another great commander in the
cavalry branch of market warfare.
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along providing 1t does not bear the
brand of Wall street. The $4,000. 900 Storey
cotton swindle Is an illustration in point
Still very little sympathy need be wasted
on the losers. They had the money to
gamble and the spirit to get 1t in action.
II il had not gone into the Storey get
rich-quick scheme it would have fed an
other set of brace dealers. so what is the
difference? 1t might just as well go to
Menlin and his typewriang accomplices
as to the swindling bucket shops.
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Tourist Sleeper
TO
CALIFORNIA
VIA
Louisville & Nashville R. R.

A through tourist sleeper leaves Bir-
mingham every Monday at APO P. NJ
for San Francisco. California. going
via the l.. & N. to New Orleans and
the Southern Pacific
For reservations. and other informa-
titn, call on or write
P. SID JONES, r. G. PIERCE,
D. p. A. G. p. A.
eoth Phores ELS. birmingham, Ala
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Best on earth or anywhere else. The
Gawk Engraving ca Peonle's phone 2a
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Seventy-Nine Gents.
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We think YOU will agree that is eavaganee make them home when
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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
The Modern Way.

After having wished an old friend
godspeed on voyage to Europe New
Yorker returned to his office and there
engaged himself with the daily mat
ters of his calling. Six hours after the
sailing Of the steamship he read a list
Of her passengers and found therein the
name of another friend, one whom he
knew quite as we'll as the man he had
seen off.
"Wish I'd known this" he said to
himself, his eye rowing regretfully from
name to name. Gould have introduced
them; too badw
And then the spirit Of the twentieth
century awoke within him, and he
smiled. Catching up a bit Of paper, he
wrote something hastily upon 1t, called
one Of his office employees, hurried
him off and sank back contented In
his chair. Six hours out Of port, with
New York far astern, the liner was
rushing along the eastward ocean lane.
Then her wireless apparatus began to
click. and in a few moments one OF the
deck stewards was searching the ship
to deliver this message:
John Smith. S. S. -, at Sea-Use this
as introduction to my friend James Jones
a fellow passenger Of yours. DICK
New York Post.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
ouaker City Small Boy.

You can't lose the kids. The other
day a youngster entered the store OF
a prominent business man in a town
near this city and approached the head
of the house with the remark:
"Say, mister, don't you want to buy
a ticketY
whats it for" asked the business
man.
"Its for a fair we're goin' to have
to buy baseball suits for next sum-
mer," was the reply.
"Tm selling tickets, too" returned the
business man, with a smile. mine are
for the supper that is to be given for
the benefit of the church. Suppose we
trade"
The boy looked at the merchant with
undisguised delight. he had heard OF
the supper and could hardly bunch up
the words quick enough to say;
"rll go you, mister"
The trade was quickly made, and IL
was not until some time afterward that
it dawned on the business man that
the tickets sold by the boy were rated
at 10 cents each, while those e was
selling for the church supper retailed
at 80 cents.
The boy was 40 cents to the good
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
Poverty of British Bishops.

If proof were needed Of the accuracy
of the bishop of London's statement
that the members Of the Episcopal
bench, Notwithstanding their large sal
aries. often find it difficult to make
both ends meet it is furnished by the
will Of the late bishop of Worcester,
which has just been proved.
DIR. Perowne, who died at the advanc-
ed age of eighty-one, was bishop Of
Worcester for ten years, and during
that time he drew 100000 by way Of
stipend, and yet the most the bishop
seems to have been able to do was to
live up to Micawber's ideal of keeping
his expenditure just within his income,
for the gross value Of his estate is re-
turned at no more than fl, 120, which
very probably represents little more
than his life insurance.-London Chron-
icle.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
eenaraffnQ Them.

"In the old days, when the capital OF
Alabama was located at Tuscaloosa,
there was a good deal of open gam
bling at that seat of legislation" said
a southern man. ut was the custom
in those times for men Of all grades OF
society to risk their money at games
of chance, and the lawmakers who
gathered at Tuscaloosa were among
the best patrons Of the gaming tables.
"The proprietor Of one of those re-
sorts, wishing to keep the state solons
separated from the ordinary customers
of his place, put up a big sign In the
apartment devoted to faro, POKER
roulette and the like, which read:
"Members OF the legislature please
take the table to the right; gamblers
take the table TO the left. It's hard to
tell you apart. "-Washington Post.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
Ru.,sin on Women and War.

Mr. Ruskin at the close Of q lecture
on war made the following remarks to
the ladies present: "Only by your COM
mand or by your permission can any
war take place among us, and the real
final reason for all the poverty, misery
and rage Of battle through Europe Is
simply that you women, however good
and religious, however self sacrificing
for those whom you love, are too self
ish and too thoughtless to take pains
for any creature out Of your immediate
circles.
LET every Christian woman who mas
conscience toward God VOW that sne
will mourn for his killed creatures. Let
every lady in the happy classes OF civ
ilized Europe simply vow that while
any cruel war proceeds she will wear
black-a mute's black-with no jewel
no ornament and l tell you again no
war would last week"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
Our Moral Progress.

In the matter Of embeZzlements'
defalcations. forgeries and bank wreck
ings our takings in 1904 (omitting Mrs.
Chadwicks exploits) were $4,742,5O7 as
compared with $6,562 165 in 1903. That
shows improvement in morals or else
diminished activity in business. POS
sibly as the distance from the great
boom years increased the distinction
between t. ne and mine became better
accentuated. AS we stole less last
year. so also we gave away much less,
our total Of gifts and bequests Tor
1904 being $46,OO0,0O0 as compared
with S7G,OOO,OOO in 1903 and $123yOOO,-
600 in 1901. Easy come, easy go. Mr.
Carnegie. however, was able to disem-
barrass himself of more than $11,OOO,-
600 last year. ]. D. Rockefeller was
apparently less fortunate, unloading,
so far as recorded, only S1461, ,OOO'
Ninety-six colleges between them got
S21 ,235 900, or nearly half of the whole
amount given.-Harpers Weekly.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
HALF FALSE JEWELS.
How One Diamond Makes Two Each
as Big as the Original.

as Big as the Original.
The lapidary was splitting dia-
nond He leaned forward with intent
brows. His tiny machine buzzed ike
o bee. A delicate and shining dust
arose. .,,
Then suddenly everything was stliied'
and the diamond, split in halves, lay
in the lapidary's white, thin hand.
cont of one diamond" he said, Il am
going to make two, and each OF these
two will be as big and brilliant as the
original one was"
AS he scraped up the glittering DUST
he explained:
First | will make in paste en- exact
duplicate of each Of these two halves.
Then I will Join to the bottom Of each
genuine half its artificial complement
making the junction so carefully that
no one will be able to perceive 1t. FL
nally I will mount these two half raise
and half genuine stones. Each tnen
will appear to be altogether genuine.
Their paste foundations will not de-
tract in any way from their brilliance:
The owner Of the big diamond VIII
have two big diamonds.
"The making of fake jewels" the lap
idary said, "is an interesting study. DO
you know what the best fake pearls
are made Of? They are made OF fsn
scales-silvery and iridescent fish scales
pasted on the inside Of balls OF glass.
The fish these scales come from Is
called in France the ablette and In
England the bleak. 1t is smaller than
a minnow. Its scales must be picked
off by hand, and only a small portion
of them can be used. 1t takes lS,ooo
ablettes, or bleaks, to yield pound OF
scales. New York Telegram.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
MUST EAT ARSENIC.
Otherwise Makers of the Poison
Could Not stand Its Fumes.

Could Not stand Its Fumes.
Eating of arsenic is common in Styr'
IA. The Styrians say that arsenic
makes one plump and comely and gives
one strength for great exerton, such
as running or mountain climbing
Syria, in Austria, gives the world
vast quantities of arsenic. The manu-
facture of this drug is indeed the main
Syrian industry. They who make
arsenic eat it, as a rule, for they say
that only the arsenic eater can with
stand the arsenic fumes.
These makers and eaters Of the drug
are comely. They have blooming ana
clear color. They look much younger
than they are.
"The foreman in a certain arsenic
factory told me that In his boyhood,
When he first went TO that plant he
was advised to begin to eat arsenic lest
his health suffer from the fumes" says
q toxicologist. "He did begin, and his
first two or three small doses gave him
q sharp pain. like a burn, in the stom-
ach, and this pain was followed Dy
tremendous hunger and a violent, dis
agreeable excitement. But as his doses
increased in frequency and size their
effect became pleasant. There was no
longer pain or excitement On the con-
trary, there was rayenous appetite, as
well as a mood Of joyous activity
wherein he could do three mems work.
This chap, by the time he got to De
thirty, was taking four grains OF
arsenic a day. He looked at thirty
with his clear pink and white color, no
more than twenty-three. He was as
robust as a blacksmith. But he SAID
he would die at forty-ive or so, that
being the age at which all the styrian
arsenic eaters die"
The drug is a preseryative, and IN
gtyria when graves are opened bodies
are found to be as fresh six or seven
wears after interment as on the day
they were lowered into the earth.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
nedicatinR a Christian Home.

The Rev. William Colbert Detling OF
Cleveland has prepared an interesting
service-that of dedicating Christian
home. He reasons that the home
might be dedicated to Christian work
quite as much as the church, and he
has prepared a simple liturgical sery-
ice with this in view. This Christian
home dedcatory service, as he calls 1t,
consists of an appropriate hymn,
Scripture reading and responsive sery-
ice in which the pastor pledges the
home to the service Of God. A prayer
of benediction follows and then the
appropriate song, "Home, Sweet
Home"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
The Placid Life.

The late Adeline Sergeant wrote
about seventy novels and stories, but
her first book was collection Of verses
published when she was a little girl.
Here is a morsel from this piece of
childish imagination:
Oh, could wish to be
An oyster in an Indian sea!
No fear. no care, no toll, no strife,
With nothing to enjoy but life
A passive life, a negative, painless life,
Free from joy lori woe or strife.
Oh, I could wish to be
An oyster in an Indian sea!
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
He Wooed Through Mothers Cakes

He Wooed Through Mothers CAKES
When Nine. Ella Russell, the Englisn
nrima donna, was recently In Madrid
she received every day at her hotel a
neat little parcel Of cakes. They were
good cakes. but not out Of the ordinary,
and never once was there a line or
word about the packages to give
clew as TO the sender. This continued
ND TO the last night she was to sing,
and then came the denouement
AS she left the concert hall she was
accosted by a small but naughty man,
who swung off his great soft hat with
n flourish worthy Of an ancient Castil-
ian hidalgo.
"Think not, gracious lady," he an
nounced, while Nine. Russell stood 81
lent in very surprise, that | have fall-
ed TO see and honor your notice OF un-
worthy me. For twenty nights your
voice has charmed me. For twenty
nights YOU have not failed to seek me
with those wondrous eyes in the top
most gallery. For twenty nights l
have not slept for the thought of thee.
NV mother has bakery here In Mad
rid. I am my mothers only son. And'
here he knet in the street, his hand
upon his heart-"my life and fortune
are at your feet"
"Yet | went home" said the song
stress.-Success.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
Ca(rna9e
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. ID. ID.

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 12.-Under tnep
figure of a river the preacher shows I'M
this sermon the benefits that accrue tob
men who serve and obey God. Thea
text is Isaiah Xviii, Is, "Then had thy
peace been as river
What art thou doing, o prophet OF
Israel? Art thou taunting thy people
with the blessing they had missed
through forsakng God and disregard
ing thy teaching? When trouble
swoops art thou one of those who say:
Il told you so? If you had only taken
nv advice you would not be in the oil
ficulty you are In today. If you VIII
make YOUR bed out Of thorns and
thistles instead Of rose leaves, theh
unon the thorns and thstles you must
lie" Are you like an executioner VINO
upbraids and derides the trembling
murderer whose life he is soon 10
strangle with the rope? In drawing
your enchanting picture OF peace now
ing like a river before Il people harass-
ed by powerful foreign enemies ana
disturbed by internal dissenslons are
YOU not merely adding to their Distress
rs the mirage Of the desert aggravates
the thirst of the dying traveller! Are
you saying to your miserable people:
Look at those beautiful banks water
ed by the river rich in fora and tune
full with singing birds. They would
have been all yours If you had not
wandered into the desert of sin, but
now they are lost to you forever"
"Ah. no." says the prophet Isaiah, III
is not to aggravate their thirst that l
tell them of this river, but to invite
them TO return to the way from which
they have wandered; not to exult over
their misfortunes, but to warn them OF
the consequences of sin. l am not
here glorying in the suffering of God $
fallen ones. My river is not composed
Of the black waters of the river Sty&,
but from the flowing crystal waters OF
the river of life. | am like a loving
father whose wayward son has dlsre'
garded warnings and has slnned ana
brought himself into trouble and the
father sorrows with him and pleads
with him to repent and assures him
that If he will forsake his sin his WICK
edness shall be forgiven and his peace
shall be like n river, as though he hac
never sinned." May God help us as
vyo use .he banks of the Jordan or the
Rhine or the Tiber or the upper
Thames or the banks Of our own po
etc Hudson for a sacred pulpit. Suci
q river bank today may become al
sacred a pulpit as that in the chance
of Westminster abbey or st. Paufs O
Canterbury cathedral, even thougl
bishops hand has not -eonsecralso =
or ecclesiastical convocation dedicated
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-18
FAMILY FINANClERlNG.

Tney tell me you work for a dollar day!
How IS it you clothe your boys on such payS
7 know YOU will think it conceted and queer,
But do it because l good fnancIer
There's Pete, John and Jm Joe, William and Ned,
A half dozen boys to be clothed and fed
I buv for them all plain vlctuas to eat,
But clothes buy only for our son Pete
When Pees clothes al small for him to go on
Nv wife makes them over and gives them to John,
When for John who they have grown out OF date
She lust make them tor jim who is eight,
When for Jim they have become too ragged to hx,
She lust makes them for Bill who is six,
And when for young Bill they will no longer do,
She inst makes them for Ned who is two.
So YOU see if l get the good clothing for Pete
The family is furnished with clothing complete,
But when Ned got through with the clothing ard when
He has thrown them aside what do you do with them!
Whv once more we 60 round the circle complete
And begin to them for patches for Pete,
Rnt where dear friend you buy clothes that wear
From Pete down Ned without rip or tear?
7 40 down to GLICKS-his stock is the best,
He can suit the whole family, my wife and the rest