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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Telephone Expansion.

Henry B. Gray, vice-presdent of the Peoples Home Telephone company re- turned yesterday from Youngstown, O., where he had been to confer with H. H. Stambaugh, president of the com pany "The Peoples company" said MT. Gray. lis operating $500 telephones in Birmingham and is arranging to expand it business on a larger scale.
 we have recently completed an ex- change at Woodlawn and are going to install our service at West End and at East Lake. The telephone Is yet in it's infancy and no other utility will grow so fast. perhaps, in the future.
 'I talked recently with the general manager of the Southern Bell Telephone company. His company has about 5000 subscribers in Birmingham, including the exchanges of the Louisville and Nash vile railroad and other large corpora tions In 1899 the company had only 900 subscribers here. The general manager informed me that the Bell company Is making plans for expansion. had estl- mated for 36,000 telephones in Blrming- ham ten years hence. The estimate for Bell telephones in Atlanta ten years hence was 22O00 As corporations take a strictly business view of things, the estimate for Birmingham as compared with the estimate for Atlanta is prophetic of our future greatness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
RuNYAN's LAST RESTING PLACE.

From Pearson's Weekly
 John Bunyans tomb is in the vast burial ground of Bunhill Fields. originally call- ed "Bonehill Fields" probably from the quantity of bones, which, as Maitland tells us, were transported thither in lb4o. This Is now closed as a cemetery. but the forest of tombs shaded by young trees is green oasis in a black part of London.
 Near the center of the Puritan Ne cropolis," a white figure, lying upon a high modern altar tomb marks the grave of John Bunyan. He died at Snow Hill from a cold taken on a missionary ex- cursion, August 31. 1888, aged 50.
 Macauley in one of his essays says: '.The spot where Bunyan lies is still re- garded by the Nonconformists with a feeling which seems scarcely in harmony with the stern spirit of their theology. Many Puritans, to whom the respect paid by Roman Catholics to the tombs of their saints seems childish and sinful, are said to have begged with their dying breath that their collins might be placed as near as possible to that of the author of "Pil- grim's Progress"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
CooIies in the South.

Congressman Wiley is in the Philip pines. a member of the big Taft party. He studies problems as he goes along. and already he sees reasons why coolies should be permitted to enter the Philippines. and he is inclined to think coolie labor will yet be needed in the cotton states of this country. We will soon be asked to supply the world with twenty million bales of cotton year, and we will lack the labor to pick 1t out to say the least.
 The change in Congressman Wiley's views justifies the hope that the ad- ministration will yet be forced to ne gotiate . reasonable treaty with China, and that the Senate will ratify it. The Chinese students are masters of the situation iu China, and we must either
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
THE STAGE AMERICAN.

From the London Saturday Review
 real American would have helped the play in place of that ridiculous stock figure which on the English stage has for so many years done duty for American men. Always blatant, always cool, al- ways resourceful. always ready with dreadful funniments in the manner of Max Adeler. that stock, figure duly creak- ed it's joints under the label of Flaw throne, U. S. A" Thirty years ago, be- fore the development of steamship nayi- gation. it was natural enough that En- glish playwrights should be content with this figure. But nowadays, when Lon- don. throughout every summer, is over flowing with real Americans. 1t certainly does seem strange that our playwrights can give us nothing better than this one old battered simulacrum.
 So far as I know, the one playwright who has made an attempt to portray an American from actual experience of Americans is MT. Bernard Shaw. Hector Malone in Man and Superman," Is an admirable study. Not only has MT. Shaw used his ears, and delicately reproduced typical modern American peculiarities of speech, instead of offering us a jargon which is as remote as starred and striped waistcoats from reality. he has also en- tered thoroughly into a typical modern American soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
from the '. ashington Post.

From the '. ashington Post.
 N ex-confederate soldier who
 W served in the southern army with distinguished galiantry was telling a group in the Riggs House some Interesting stories of the days that foi- lowed the surrender of Lee.
 .T went to Memphis to live" said he, ..after Appomattox, and was one of those who helped organize the Ku Klux Kan. I have never been ashamed or my con nection with that celebrated organization for 1t did a tremendous lot or good III Tennessee. Gen. IN. B. Forrest, the great est cavalry chief who ever rode ihto battle. was supreme commander Of the K. K. K.,' and whenever Forrest issued an order 1t was obeyeo to the ietter' The order had a supreme court, or whlcn Gen. Albert Pike, the illustrious Mason was chief justice, and this court al wave sifted testimony for and against any accused person before punishment was inflicted. Two prominent newspaper editors of Memphis were also members of the court. The total membership Ill the regularly organized Ku klux hians of Tennessee was not less than 'z'Wo' and never in the history of the world were men more closely banded or more loyal to each other.
 .I was a member of the 'klan' for at least five years. and my separation rom it was caused by change of residence. In that time I am positive that the sen tence of death was inflicted upon but three men, which goes to show that the Ku Klux did not mete out summary ven geance on small offenders. Nor were it's members. except in rare instances, citi- zens of low repute. On the contrary only men of good character were in- vited to join, and General Forrest was particular in seeing that only those Of discretion and temperate habits were made members.
 ..But Tennessee, at the time of the ex- istence of the Ku Klux, was in radical hands; scalawags and carpetbaggers ruled the land to its sorrow, and Parson Brownlow, then governor, had a law passed which made it a capital onense for any man to be convicted of ku klux- ing or of belonging to the order. He even imported detectives from Chicago, who were instructed to find out all about the mysterious band which sent forth it's warnings in letter ornamented with skulls and cross-bones and daggers, and whose doings struck terror to the hearts of white and black miscreants alike. "One of these detectives came on to Nashville. He was a bright fellow and ambitious to make record. Brownlow gave him his orders, and he set out to discover things by pretending to be a rabid southerner. who was keenly anx-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

treat China justly and fairly, or lose a trade already great and that might be come far greater.
 If the congressman who are mem bers of the Taft party will have next winter the courage of their convictions the San Francisco sand lot politicians can be pressed back, and a just policy adopted towards China. We would not treat any other nation as we have treated China. She has no navy, and she cannot therefore resent in war the manner in which we have treated her students, merchants and high-caste tourists while travelling in this country. All she can do is to boycott our goods, and this she is proceeding to do to the, great damage of southern cotton mills. Northern mills are not particu- larly hurt by the boycott. If they were, Congress would be expected to act speedily. Southern mills are diff ferent. They may have to wait upon the need of keeping Cawfornia republi- can, which is after all the real secret of our outrageous treatment of China
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Health Before Trade.

Surgeon General Wyman of the ma rine hospital service has forbid the shipment of bananas from New or leans. The reason why he does this is, bananas attract mosquitoes, and ba- mana cars cannot be fumigated without destroying the value of the fruit He therefore refuses to permit the banana distributions to distribute at the same time fever mosquitoes all over the country.
 Mobiles quarantine is in state hands, and it is regulated to sr. the fruit trade that has beyond doubt brought upon the south a deal of trouble and a greater loss than the entire banana trade is worth in a generation. Ala bama towns can however protect them selves by prohibiting the importation or bananas. In this way the state guar antine can locally be brought up to the reasonable and just regulations of the marine hospital service.
 The stable door has been locked Tn New Orleans, but the marine hospital service came into authority there too late to prevent the public health from being stolen and trampled down by the fruit trade middlemen. The marine hospital service is no respecter Of ba- nanas or of any other article of trade. It proposes to the best of its ability to safeguard the public health, and the sooner sanitary matters in Alabama are placed in it's hands, as has been done in Georgia, the better for all of us. We should get out of the hands of the fruit trade, and into the hands of a service that conserves health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
THE HAUNTED PLACE.

By Edgar Allen Poe. In the greenest of our valleys,
 By good angels tenanted, Once fair and stately palace Radiant palace-reared its head. In the monarch Thoughts dominion It stood there! Never seraph spread pinion
 Over fabric half so fair. Banners yellow, glorious. golden. On it's roof did float and flow; (rhis-all this-was in the olden Time long ago. And every gentle air that dalled, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, winged odor went away. Wanderers in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically
 TO lute's well-tuned law,
 Round about a throne. where sitting (PorphyrogeneD In state his glory well befitting,
 The ruler of the realm was seen. And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing.
 flowing,
 And sparkling evermore, troop of Echoes whose sweet duty Was but to- sing, In voices of surpassng beauty, The wit and wisdom of their King. But evil things. in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; fAh. let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolateD And, round about his home, the glory That blushed and bloomed Ia but a dim-remembered story
 Of the old time entombed And travellers now within that valley Through the red-litten windows, see Vast forms that move fantasticafly To discordant melody: While, like a rapid ghastly river.
 Through the pale door, hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh--but smile no moro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The average farm or town property Is not assessed for taxation in any or the states named at much, if any above 35 per cent, and 1t cannot there fore be said that the railroad assess ments are unjustly low-certainly not until valuations of non-railroad prop erty are raised above 35 per cent.
 The value of the railroads of the country is put by the census bureau at s11,244,S52,O ,O00. Eleven billions Is a good deal of money. and recent in- creases in the values of railroad secu- rites has added, it Is estimated. three billion dollars to the figures Of the census bureau, bringing the present market value of our railroads up to fourteen billion dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
May Have Extra Session.

"We may yet have an extra session ol congress- said Congressman Oscar w Underwood last night, "but it is begin ming to look a little doubtful. At ont time l was practically sure that Presi' dent Roosevelt would call an extra ses' sion, but 1t seems from the reports tha are being sent out that there is con siderable doubt in Washington as to what action the President will take.
 There Is, however, no telling what tht President will do. He may consider ar extra session necessary or he may de- eide to hold any important questions ovei until the regular session of congress-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Wall Streets Boom.

The outlook for big crops and there fore for big railroad earnings, Is lead ing to a steady and strong upward movement of stocks. Some railroad shares are making new records, and yet in this Wall street boom the lambs are not present as yet in large num- bers. They generally, however, get in at the top, when the shearing by the bears is begun.
 All things however promise long, strong bull market. Crops are large; every factory is full of orders; money is plentiful; peace in the far east may be near, but whether it be near or remote, affairs at home are in a pros porous condition. If the boom is not carried too far, there is no reason why the country should not enjoy another prosperous year. Overspeculation and over-booming of securities generally lead to liquidation, which means re- turn to a normal level. Present prices for railroad shares are plenty high enough, and if the public will keep out of Wall street all will be well. Every sort of invitation is extended to the lambs to come into the market, but us far they have not responded freely. This is the hope of the market. May they continue to stay out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
THE CAT DIED.

The following is special to a New York paper from Tinto Falls, and indi- cates the present stage of the news mar ket:
 Miss Cora Shuts wanted to get rid of her cat. Tabby, last week.
 She did.
 Miss Shuts started out in her car- riage with the cat She found a nice place by the roadside where she could drown poor pussy
 Then Miss Shuts stood up and pre- pared to cast Tabby into the depths. She lost her balance and fell. So did Tabby
 But Tabby was underneath.
 Miss Shuts weighs 150 pounds.
 The cat will not come back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
ALABAMA PRESS
Addlcks in Journalism.

From the Selma Journal
 J. Edward Addieks of Deleware owns the Dover sentipel. He has announced that he will no longer be content with merely directing 1t but that he proposes to become it's editorial writer. The Cas- man will doubtless stir things up when he begins to write political editorials and tell what he knows about men and things in the state which he has cor rupted and brought to political shame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

From the New York Tribune.
 Kansas is proud of its corn crop New stories are printed In the state papers daily to show its wonders. Here Is It. tie fable from a Kansas City paper; T never would have believed that KaLsas was so heavily timbered," saio an east. erner who was riding through the state on the Sante Fe train the other day. Guess you all bettah look agin, boss, said tile rorter as he glanced out of the window That's eawn, an you alfs goi about a hundred miles of It to go through"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 You can make people believe you have a very fine judgment by always asking theirs.
 It's smart baby that knows enough to save pp si. its cries tlli tue rntd ile cf tho night.
 No woman ever reads anybodys VIII in newspaper without hoping her name got in somehow.
 An awful easy way to get girl 10 marry you IS tv have her mother tell her she ought not to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
WORLDS WEALTHIEST COUNTRY.

From Leslie WeekIy.
 In the half a century from 1850 to 1900. when the population of the United States increased from 2s.0O00OO to 76,oO0,O0O. or multiplied three and one-third times--a rate of increase far beyond that of any other great country--its wealth expanded from $7,000 000, 900 to $94,0o0.000,0o0, being multiplied more than thirteen times. No other country closely approaches the United States in wealth. From the most trustworthy data obtainable, this is how 4i,o r,rincinaI countries stand in 1a0h:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The Doukhobors could get along very well in the summer time but their pe' culiar ideas regarding clothes are apt to cause suffering in winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

It is reported that several of the mutinous Russian sailors who were auoard the Potemkine will take a tour of the European music halls. The Rus sian navy must be more up-to-date than was at first supposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Kentucky is furnishing Pittsburg with some of it's best ministers. The Blue Grass state is also supplying Pittsburg with some of its best whisky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Ida Tarbell has been complimented in some quarters by having her name turned into verb. To be idatar- belled is to be held up by public senti- ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Versatile sato.

From the Montgomery Times.
 As press agent for the Japanese peace envoy party Mir Sato is glowing and at times astonishing success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The area of Oklahoma and Indian Territory is 10000 square miles, (not 704 ,000), or about one-half more than the area of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

It was a great joke when London said that President Roosevelt paid $4 suit for his clothes. MT. Roosevelt pays more than that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Mrs. Clarence Maclzay has been elected to the school board in her
 town, and she is now considered a good fellow and an all-round fence builder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The governor of Texas does not pro- pose to have any appendices in his household, for two sons and daugh- ter have already been operated on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Railroads as Taxpayers.

The census bureau has just issued A bulletin showing the value of rail- roads in each state, and the percentage of that value which is assured for tax alton. The record of five neighboring states is as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The bitterness of labor strife is snown when the children of union men will not go to school with the children oi non-union men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The origin and testing of pie is still under discussion, and Pittsburg's pie machine is but an incident of a funda- mental discussion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Captain Hobson and Congressman Underwood have been asked to be- come the orators of the coming Labor Day celebration in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The Coal Barons must have imbibed some of Atlanta's justly esteemed ozone when they played that double header.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The dove of peace while sailing over Portsmouth, N. H., encounters a great deal of cloudy weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

An Iowa couple took trip to cir GUS for their honeymoon and thus set an example that should be followed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Messrs. Witte and Rosen do not seem to have heard from Mukden or the sea of Japar..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Mosquitoes will not reform. Good mosquitoes, like good Indians, have to die first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Dr. Morrison, the London Times cor respondent at Portsmouth, hopes to be- come the Richard Harding Davis of England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The Esperantists still think they will be able to correct the mistake that was made at the Tower of Babel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

King Peter Is still wondering how much longer he will be allowed to re- tain his head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The proposed extra session of Con gress does not suit the holders of privi- leges, and they have crushed the life out of It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The open shop and openwork gar ments are not necessarily ralated, al- though both have been investigated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Career BIiehted.

From the Mobile Herald.
 Too bad. The four hundreds palmist was arrested on charge of theft just as he was getting his hand in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

It is not Tom Taggart who wants a divorce, but the plaintiff is young army officer from Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Shaw proposes to contest Indiana retort with a campaign in Iowa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Tim Sullivan thinks King Edward a pretty good sort of chap. The king Is no doubt pleased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

New Orleans should begin to study this coming winter the ounce of pre- vention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

New Orleans is praying and sweep ing. It would not hurt if the sweeping occupied a little more time than the praying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The grafters of even Tweed's day were mere pikers alongside the Phil adelphia article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The Russian transport Anadyr is nearing Libau. The Anadyr won fame by escaping Togo in the sea of Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Shaw is seeking votes in the negro states, while Taft is sticking to the Philippine route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The Mikados illlstrious ancestors are proving as skillful in diplomacy as in war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Paris is not in favor of skyscrapers and Paris is wise, even if she is a trlhe volatile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

M. Witte will work his bluff assidu- ously this week, but in the end he will accomplish nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

District Attorney Jerome, alas, smokes cigarettes. Scratch his name off the list of presidential availabilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Father Time continues to favor Uncle Russell Sage, who never footed any policyholders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The Czar is fond of French novels. He also thinks very well of French loans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Norway votes to secede, and Sweden will not fight to keep her in the old union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The Czar rules over 125, ,7S0,682 peo- pie and he does not find the job a cinch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

In Pennsylvana the honest men are lining up against the dishonest ones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

The growth of pay rolls should al ways be promoted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Secretary Taft makes a first-class press agent for Uncle Sam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

There is no particular hurry abou burying Paul Jones' He will keep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Peary will be envied for at least another month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

Short-weight grocers always hav' naughty clerks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15

It's gay at Saratoga. We'll. yes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
corrects Mistakes.

''There seems to be misunderstanding here regarding the quarantine regulations in Tennessee said R. c. Ralston, of Nashville, at the Morris hotel last night. Several people have. asked me since arrived here yesterday if they would have any difficulty in getting into Nash viile. and some seem to think Nashville
 was interested directly in the request for federal aid in maintaining the quar- antine sent to the government by the Tennessee state board of health. As a
 matter of fact this request made by the
 board only in the interest of Memphis and other Tennessee points which are
 quarantned.
 Nashville Is open to all, no mat
 ter where they may come from. We do
 not fear yellow fever there. and I don't see why you should fear it here in Bir- mingham. The climate here and in Nashville is practically the same, but am not doctor and there may be con ditions here of which have no idea about Persons. T. M. Peterson of Montevallo is at the Morris
 ]. P. Northrup of Greensboro. is in the city.
 Henry Meikle of Baltimore is registered at the Morris. J. H: Darius of Montevallo was here | yesterday.
 c. E. Wilson of Russellville was In
 Birmingham yesterday. | l G. Fl seabury of weturr'.a ,hs