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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
New York Mining Stocks,
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
Showed Signs of the Usual Summer
Dizziness.
Special Cableeram 20 The Star.

SpecIaI UabIfgFAm o Inc Staf.
LONDON, July 22.-There has been al
most no business on the stock exchange
this week. and the tendency of prices has
been toward a lower Lowell
The cause most effective in producing this
dullness and depression has been doubt that
the peace negotiations between Japan and
Russia Will result IN ending the war This
doubt has grown out of the expressions at
tributed to NJ. White. who. according to the
understanding here, has not so much appe-
tite for peace as It was assumed he had.
1t is believed now that there will be no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
THE FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

BERLIN. July 22.-Prices on the boerse
today generally were slightly weaker.
PARIS, July 22.-Trading on the bourse
today was Irregular. Prices had an up
ward tendency Russians were buoyant on
M. Whites arrival here.
Russian imperial tours were quoted at
81 and Russian bonds of 1904 at 500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

important change in the situation of the
London stock market until It shall be made
clear that Russia looks on the peace nego-
tiations as the actual beginning OF peace.
Such demonstration. 1t is thought, will
not be made before the expiration Of the
midsummer holiday season. which has just
set In. So II Is expected that the next two
weeks will be exceedingly dull on the stock
exchange. '''S
Consols and other home government se-
curities have exhibited markedly the effect
They are all lower than they were d week
ago, and cOnsols actually sold below 90 yes
terday. when to the depressing influence OF
the far eastern outlook was added that Of q
political crisis at home.
British railway stocks were also almost
uniformly lower, as their dividend declara-
tons are rather disappointing. American
railway stocks have followed the course OF
the New York market, and changes in the
quoted prices have been based on New York
transactions rather than on the limited
dealings here
Foreign government issues, except the
Russian and Japanese stocks, have been
firm.
The mining shares have been dull and
droopy during the week.
By Associated Press.
LONDON, July 22.-Business on the
stock exchange during the past week
showed signs of the usual summer dull
ness. Ccnsols and other first-class securi-
ties We're buoyed up by cheap money for
a while, but yielded gradually to the eff
feet of the rumors regarding the dissolu-
ton of parliament, lack of support and the
bulls reducing commitments prior to the
settlement. The fact that gold was going
abroad helped to moderate the decline. The
feature among foreigners were Argentines.
which experienced a small boom on re-
vlval of the favorable outlook.
Americans We're more than ever neglect
ed. being affected by the lack of Wall
street support. Union Pacific was bought
early in the week on dividend anttcipations
and United States Steel received attention.
owing to the reports Of favorable trade
prospects. But the changes throughout the
list We're moderate. Money was plentiful,
which caused discounters to reduce rates
somewhat. but the gold going out to South
America will probably cause a hardening
soon. 1t Is thought that France Is reducing
her balances OF cash in London, which with
the low exchange allowing purchases of
gold is taken to indicate preparations to
assist Russia to raise loan when peace Is
declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
Pointer for Life Insurance Agents.

From the Mitchell tOre) Sentinel
Perry Shrum had the misfortune acct
dentally to shoot himself through the arm
last week, making very painful wound,
but is recovering fast. 1t would be a hard
matter to kill Perry unless you cut his
head off and hid II from him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
Coal Company Incorporated.

ALBANY. N. Y. July 22.-The O'Gara
Coal Company of New York city local min
ing). canital. $6,0O0.o00. was Incorporated
today. The directors Of record include
Thomas F. O'Gara. L. ]. Walsh. Arthur
Knowles and w. A. Beaverton OF Chicago
and James Kerr of Clearfe,d, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

ket firm, but the demand at the present
level of prices has proved to be light.
Bonds were duh and irregular.
United States bonds were unchanged on
call.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
.ixMonths Gree

THE MINING HERALD. Leading mining and
financial paper, giving valuable Information
mining and oil industries principal companies best
stocks. and showing how immense
profits may be made absolutely safe invest
ments. Write for IL today.
A. L. wIsNER 4 CO.. 90 Broadway. New YORK.
apl6-Su. 26t, -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

The sleuths are hot on the trail of the
big insurance parliamentary and lubricating
fund. In trying to get at the bottom of
that $685., 900 loan carried by the Mercantile
Trust Company for and on account Of the
Equitable Assurance Society a direct con-
nection may be established with the dis
tributing end of this mysterious fund. For
years 1t has been one of the half secrets
of the street that certain OF the insurance
companies contributed to slush fund of
large proportions, and that its distribution
was intrusted to a very quiet and secretive
gentleman with offices on Liberty street
This reticent party was supposed to have
close connections with Albany and other
state capitals, and to be a citizen worth
looking up about election times, or when
campaigns were being organized for the
selection of candidates for the legislature
and important state and municipal offices.
mo. my son, that uproar you hear is
not occasoned by an escaping menagerie.
1t is Theodore Prices roars of baffied rage
on discovering that a man cannot sue a
cabinet officer for personal damages infict-
ed in the discharge of official duties
A trader of the actuary stamp discovers
that American Tobacco common bought
twelve years ago at AZ would now stand
the fortunate holder 500 share on the
investment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

The country then was only entering upon
period of remarkable prosperity and de-
velopment OF natural resources. a period
which seems to have no end. Hence the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

willingness to lay away the owpriced
stocks of today as the best method in sight
of making a gamble on our national prog
resS.
Mr.. Hartman will after all make that
earth-girdling tour. If he moves accord
ing to the latest public schedule he will
sail from San Francisco for the far east
August 2, putting in the preceding ten days
or two weeks inspecting his properties west
and south of Omaha According to program
he will be gone several months.
Erie and Brooklyn Rapid Transit are two
of the most conspicuous examples of prop
critics in need of huge expenditures of
money to bring to fullest efficiency magnifi-
cent qualities. Both corporations are pour
ing millions upon millions of money every
year into improvements and betterments
Not a dollar of the huge sums disbursed
goes to waste and one of these days share
holders will get the benefit as in the case
of other great systems where similar tactics
have been pursued
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-04-25
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the
annual meeting OF tue stockholders
Of the Perth Amboy Gas!jght Co,
for the election Of directors and the
transaction of such other business
as may properly CONC before the
meeting will be held IL the Office
of the company, Linden ST., Perth
Amboy, n. J., Monday, May I,
1905, At I o'clock p. III.
a. +.
to767 AK i.3t Secretary.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-04-25
The weather tomorrow: F

We close SO every evening. SATURDAY at 10.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
Mr. Weatherly on the Problem.

The Age-Herald prints this morn
ing the address of Mr.. Weatherly at
the commencement of the state uni
yersity, and it asks careful reading
of it on the part of those to whom
today's issue may come. 1t asks this
because the address is common
sense clear-headed discussion of Ala
bama"s gravest problem.
Mr.. Weatherly esteems homogenei-
ty in a state as highly as any one can,
but he frankly, bravely admits that
immediate homogeneity in Alabama is
impossible. The negro is here to
stay. He is an American citizen, and
ten or fifteen millions of American
citizens can no more be deported TO
Africa than they can be to the moon.
They are here to stay, and they
should be educated alike for the good
of the south, and because education
will facilitate and hasten their even
dispersion over the entire country
While that process is progressing we
should do our best to attract immi-
grants who will of necessity be
whites In that way Mr.. Weatherly
hopes in the great long run that a
homogeneous white Alabama will be
established.
The problem is not one of the next
election. 1t is not one of the present
century alone. 1t is one of the long
future, and if everybody clearly sees
what is feasible everybody can in his
day do his part in the solution of it.
Mr.. Weatherly's address is timely,
practical and valuable. Read it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
The State Fair.

Now, that contracts have been
awarded for the State fair buildings,
the work of organizing for great ex-
hibit of Alabama's resources next fall
will be pushed rapidly.
The State Fair and Exhibit asso-
citation has an authorized capitaliza-
ton of $4,000. OF this amount some
thing like $4,000 has been subscribed,
and the full amount will probably be
subscribed within the next few days.
Thirty thousand dollars might insure
creditable exhibit, but if we are TO
have fair of exposition rank the
association should have at its disposal
not less than $4,000.
The men who have already sub
scribed have done so in a generous,
public-spirted way, believing that an
industrial and agricultural exhibition
on broad lines would be of inealcula-
bic benefit to Birmingham and the
state at large. No business man in
this community should withhold his
support when he is asked to become
a stakeholder
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
What the Home Team Needs.

The lovers of the national game in
this town can almost see the fiutter
ings of flag that has thus far been
kept in the state of Tennessee. Not
until now has that honor been within
our grasp, and the question presents
itself: "Why not reach out and get
n?"
Several things are in our favor. We
have an excellent manager who holds
the confidence of the people and the
stockholders. We have fine pitch
ing staff, one not equalled perhaps in
the league. We have a good outfield.
We lack but one thing, namely, an in
field that can bat as we'll as field the
ball in fine style and with a reasona-
BILE degree of accuracy.
1t is, it is true, easier to call for a
superior infield than it is to secure
one but it cannot be impossible in a
wide and large country to sign two or
at least one superior infielder, who
can also hit the ball.
The management can maintain a
fine spirit, and also business, in this
town by simply bringing its infield up
to the efficiency of its outfeld and its
pitchers.
There is no more to be said. Once
let the patrons of the game in this
town-and their name is legion-see
that the management is seriously en-
deavoring to pull the infield up to the
standard of the rest of the team and
all will also imaginatively see the
streamer flying again in Birmingham.
Manager Manning brought it here. but
that was thirteen years ago, and an.
other pennant is certainly due us
after waiting spell of that duration.
We can get it, or rather we will begin
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25

committee, draws a salary of $4,000
and the only service he appears to
have rendered consisted In increasing
James H. Hyde"s salary to 100000.
Should such salaries be taken from
the pockets of policy holders? That is
the real question. This is one of the
reasons why life insurance compa-
MES take two dollars from policy
holders and return to them but one,
as the New York Life eonfessedly did
last year
District Attorney Jerome and At
torney General Mayer propose to use
the preliminary report of Mr.. Hen
dricks as a basis for action in the
courts, and if they do their duty
without fear or favor they will cause
the Equitable attorneys" to explain
what services they rendered to that
society, or else they will cause them
10 pay back the money they took
wlthout mercy from lean pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
TornadOes Not Increasing.

Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the
United States Weather Bureau, dis
.cusses in the Geographical Magazine
the weather and weather eccentrici-
ties. He says that the most careful
study of the records does not show
that tornadoes are increasing Neither
are they decreasing.
The truth is, nothing that mere man
can do on the earth's surface, whether
it relate to the clearing away of for
ests, or the cultivation of land, or
artificial drainage, or the stringing
of electrically charged wires or the
laying of thousands of miles of rails
none or all of these things restrict or
materially modify chose tremendous
forces of nature that surround our
earth and control our storms and
climate" The attempts to dispense
clouds by cannonading was simply
ridiculous, and all the scratching of
the earth's surface by puny man have
no perceptible effect upon the dread
ed tornadoes.
Mr.. Moore does not, it is plain, eX-
pect any better remedy against tor
nadoes than the cyclone cellar and it
cannot be carried in ones pocket
ready for an emergency. We may be
sure, however, that the danger is not
increasing except as the towns that
may be hit by them are increased in
number. The climatic conditions
stand apparently unchanged and un-
ehangeable.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
Superintendent Hendricks Report.

The report of Superintendent of In
sllrance Hendricks is sad reading. 1t
discloses one great round of grating,
and it is the poor helpless policy
holder who is compelled by cruel Cir
cumstances at home and extravaganza
in New York to foot the bills. Fully
ninety per cent of all policy holders
in life insurance companies are men
of small, or at any rate Of moderate,
means Out of the 100000 policy
holders of the Equitable Life $4,000
of them are men who would not in
any table be considered rich men.
Sad as the report is as to the pay
ment of pensions, and the payment
of salaries to dead men, and the like,
sadder still are the exorbitant sala-
ries flung away to this man or that
salaries that are presumably still
being paid, for no information to the
contrary has been given out. For sex-
ample, Chauncey NJ. Depew ditec-
tor and a member of the executive
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25

1T is well that there be an era OF re-
form in Birmingham. Mayor Ward
shakes dry bones and makes merry
with the misehieyous like he rides that
Bncepbalus steed of his in a fox chase.
He is well bent on doing something and
he fears nothing in the doing. He has re-
tired from his business connections; dis
solved his copartnership, retired from out
side profit and is doing duty for his city.
His antf-graft ordinance has been adopt
ed, but in shorn shape. He dressed it IN
a garment of persian lambs wool of per-
fectness. It covered everything to the
queens taste, so to speak. But it came
forth as a law like a shorn lamb. 1t
means little actually as 1t is. 1t hit back
wards and hit hard: but merely called
attention to the possible past Yet it is
well as 1t is in that it acts as an order,
SO to speak, for electric headlights for
the locomotives which are to draw the
cltys fast trains Of the future.
Let everything be competitive. The city
should get for itself and the people who
make it and pay for its conduct and it's
-
everything. 1t should print its ordinan-
oes where it can get them printed in the
best medium for the cheapest money,
wherever that be- 1t should provide the
best water for public consumption and
fire protection at the cheapest price. 1t
should give the cheapest gas and the
cheapest electric light and the cheapest
md hoe CT
thing done should be open and above
board. Committee meetings of adermanie
committees, should be open, and all state
ments explanations and doings made pub
lie. The doings and affairs of every city
belong to the public as well as the doings
OF bank belong to its directors and
stockholders. The man who pays or helps
to pay the freight is entitled to know
what he ships and the amount paid for
the shipment Business is business Let
Mayor Ward hew to the line and have
the chips fall as they will.
Obliterate the bombastic. Let it not OBJ
secure the real If there be wrong right it.
Make Birmingham a model-a well regu-
lated, a real town of real people and real
acts, regulated for the right.
Well. the miners union and the operators
union, and the commercial operators, and
the open shop fellows, and all of them
have righted themselves like unto yachts
and yawls and schooners and cat boats
after a squall and all are now sailing be-
fore the wind for the goal OF prosperity
T., ,,1o
body has talked who would talk, have had
their remarks printed in bold, black type,
and all the world of birmingham is bloom
ing like unto the bloom of olden times.
When everybody is satisfied there's no
use in further talk The yachts are sail
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
nThe CONGO Free State

Have you read The Story Written of
the Congo Free State by Henry McEl-
lington wack and published by Put
nams?s asked a bookworm yesterday at
the Morris.
mo? Well, you ought to read it, 1t
is one of the most interesting books re-
Gently published. Mr.. Wack is an Amer
ican member of the New York bar.
lie lived for several years in England,
went thence To Belgium and plunged in
to Congo Free State business. The King
of the Belgums gave him access to all
the documents on the subject in the
archives of the Belgium government. He
made an exhaustive study of the subject,
going from Brussels to the Congo coun-
try and studying conditions there at
close range.
"In his book Mr.. WaclS treats of the
genesis, of mid-African civilization, Stan
leys and King Leopold's conception of
the Congo Free State the founding of the
Free State in the Congo, the early Bel
gian expedition, the waterways of the
Congo. the horrors of and the Arab slave
trade. The Belgian conference, the Bel
gian campaigns against the Arabs, the
suppression of slavery and the admins-
tration of the various departments of the
government are touched upon in illumin-
ating chapters. Besides this the book
sets out Complementary the work done
in ciyilizing the whole Congo territory.
Mr.. Wack disellms any intention of
favoring the King of the Belglans unduly,
but it is difficult to read his book and
not to feel that it is a brief prepared in
defense and gorihcation of Leopold"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
That Weather Observatory.

The government wants a place in
West End park on which to build an
ornate and attractive weather observ-
atory. Why should not the request
be granted?
Put in the center of the park it
would not lessen the space needed by
the children. 1t would crowd out the
fountain only. and as the city cannot
afford to buy water for use in that
fountain, no material injury would be
done to anybody.
a. little patriotism is needed at this
stage Of the proceedings. A weather
observatory and Sorecasting station
for the southeast, should be located
in this town. 1t should not be driven
to Atlanta or Chattanooga or Macon
or Montgomery it should be erected
here. The way to secure it is to give
it ground to stand upon. Congress
man Underwoods labors and the use
fllness of the observatory in the
years to come should not be disre-
garded,
The government prefers West End
park, because it is nearer the post
Office. Let us be patriotic, thinking
OF the town as a whole rather than of
the whlms or passing fancies of a
few
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
med BRACE TALKS ABOUT HOME MATTERS
UPPERMOST in THOUGHTS OF THE PEOPL

ms onward before full wind with sails
set and crews merrily singing songs o.
joy and satisfaction.
Farley breezes in the bow, with legs
crossed. behind a pipe of peace, full filed
with old virgina's best. telling stories to
Flynn and Clemo Of how easy 1t was for
Sherlock to do it when it had been figured
out in advance.
Bacon, braced upon the starboard bow
Of racing automobile, with the wheel
under full control skins merrily by blaz-
Ing furnaces and coke ovens, curls smoke
from a perfecto, tells his port bow neigh
Dor of the joys of life of prospective divi-
dends from the doings of the doughty
steel plant and the four hundred and
ten ton furnace, and of how there's some-
thing in life after all.
And Maben, always happy and making
fer the men who will some day monument
him, is merry. telling stories of interest
about how it was brought about-and say
ing good things about all good people,
while working all the time and reaping
each day reward for those with him and
under him-a good man of good stock,
whose wisdom is always we'll worded.
And there is Buek-a little fellow in
furnace stock capacity. but big, generous
and jolly, who knows life and its merits
satisfied thoroughly. smiling. comfortable
and happy-nalzing money and enjoying
It.
All the others of all sizes, weights, per-
suasions and humors are satisfied, happy
and content No one INDUCES in vitri-
olthic nor venomous adjectives about the
other as occurred a year ago. but all adj
jectively are optimistic, even of the others
virtues and the sky is creseendo and
opaleseent
Well be it.
Now look ahead to the succulent stocks
that promise to smack and smoke and
blaze forth about the staff that is the
real stuff of the Birmingham district.
The staff will stand Soidity is here
and there is something for everybody
who believes in the real bumptiousness
OF the Birmingham district. 1t has full
right, all things considered, to so be.
Let there be no speculative advice in
the above-it is but practical
All that is here well handled is good
so long as We cling and hang together
| and make what fight we have to make
with one another in the privacy of the
| back alleys rather than in the glare of
the public streets, where all the world
looks on and applauds the punishment
we would infict upon one another.
The great Sam Randall once gave good
advice to his party in Congress when he
said Gentlemen, fight as you will in
party caucus, but in public be as one
man"
! So with Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
Mr.. Mason Here.

Henry Lowell Mason of Boston, vice
president of the Mason & Hamlin COM
pany, is spending a few days in Biz
mingham. While in the city he is being
entertained by Manager j. 70. Shelby of
the Cable Piano company
This is my first trip south" said Mr..
Mason yesterday 81 have just visited a
majority of the larger cities in the south,
but have found none that surpass Bir-
mingham in enterprise. | am especially
impressed with your wide streets and ave-
nues, and the city appears to be wide
awake in every particular.
Several months ago 1 decided to make
visit to all of the large houses of the
Cable company in the south and l came
here from Knoxville. This company APP
pears to be doing we'll throughout the
south.
There seems no doubt but what Bir-
mingham is a music-loving city, and this
fact is indeed interesting TO ne. While
here 1 have had long and interesting
talks with Professor Grambs Mr.. Adolf
Damn Peterson and others OF course
making the acquaintance of musicians
constitutes a great part of my pleasure.
| understand that your public schools
make a feature of musical instruction, and
the members of the school board are to
be especially commended in this