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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
E. T. Shaw & Sons, Undertaken r Green Undertaking Company.
Backed By Chemist.

Professor Wiley. chemist for the United States government, has endorsed Green River whisky. He endorsed 1t after a thorough chemical analysis. If you want pure. natural, handmade whisky drink Green River. sts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

Thousands whom it has cured vouch for the value of Hoods Sarsaparlla as a cure for catarrh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
Keep Feeling Natural.

Green River is a natural whisky. If you want to keep feeling natural get a bottle of 1t for Xmas. ss'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
How to Make Eqqnou.

There are many ways to make 1t and many kinds of whisky. Green River beats 'em all. sss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
THE WEATHER

Washington, December 21-The follow ing Is the forecast for Alabama:
 Fair Friday Saturday increasing cloudi- ness upht to fresh south winds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
NOTICE

Patrons of Dealers in Cen. tral Market will please order Christmas supplies Satur. day. for Market will be closed all day Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

In the last few days MT. P. M. Vance has been the recipient of substantial gifts from Confederate veterans of Camp Har- dee, as tokens of their appreciation of his readings before the camp. MT. Vance has contributed number of entertaining and valuable sketches to the Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

For the finest wines, liquors and brandies go to Gum Drug Co, 2Ol7 Ed AvenuS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

F. c. Guthrie of Nashville. president of the National Casket company, spent yes terday in the city on business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
Local Weather Data.

LoCaT WtdthcT OdId.
 Birmingham. December q. D. m. Maximum temperature hs Minimum ternperature . . .. :. 47 Mean temperature :. .. :. g Normal temperature D. .. 43 Deficiency of temperature since Jan- uafY l.. .o1o Rainfall since 4 D. m. yesterday p Rainfall since January l.. .. .. .. 49.4 Deficiency of rainfall since Jan- uary l.. o'o4
 Weather Report.
 Temperature and precipitation as re- ported at the weather bureau for select southern stations during 24 hours ending at 10 a. m.: Precip-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

Addison w. Lynch has gone to John ston, S. C.. where he will spend the holidays with relatives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

Suits against the Republic Iron and Steel company were dismissed in the city court yesterday by the defendant paying the costs. These suits were filed by Thad Brasfield. two cases; A, J. Bras field two cases. and J. l.. Brasneld' two cases
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

Housewives!
 Have yeu tried itP ADbrosia Flour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22

The following marriage licenses were is- sued yesterday: J. c. Love to Hattie Powell. Thomas Price to Ella Glazer. David Stephens to Ambalon White. George K. Burgin to Blanch Williams. W. J. Hand to Delphia Collier. John E. Wilson to Lucy Knsler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-22
PERSONAL

Harrington Jones, former sporting edi- tor of the Atlanta Journal, is registered at the Morris.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
THE EDISON ACCUMULATOR.

The chief interest which attaches to the
storage battery on which Mr. Edison has been
working for more than four years grows out
of the possible usefulness of the invention for
traction purposes. AccumulatOrs having lead
plates perform admirable service in power sta
tiOns, where weight is not Objectionable, and
where no mechanical agitation is liable to in
jure them. 1t is in the operation of automo-
biles, heavy trucks and streetcars that the
greatest disappointment has been experienced
with them. Rapid deterioration results from
one cause or another Renewals become neces-
sary, not all at once, but with sufficient fire.
quency to add greatly to the original cost AS
a result, the lead battery is much less used
for vehicles now than formerly. Brewers and
other manufacturers who once drove their
trucks with electricity have gone back to horse
power Gasolene has obtained almost a mo-
nOpoy in the propulsion of pleasure carriages.
And in America there is probably not solitary
streetcar line which a storage battery is
in service.
Mr. Edison claims for the nckel-and-iron
battery that it is much lighter than any lead
accumulation Tests made three years ago in
dicated that he needed from fifty to fifty-three
pounds per horsepower, but he now thinks he
has reduced the weight TO forty or forty five.
Some of the old lead cells weighed more than a
hundred pounds per horsepower but the best of
them were appreciably lighter. If, then there
has been saving of anywhere from 10 to %
per cent in weight, the distance over which
vehicle can run on one charge will be CORE
spondingIy increased. 1t looks as If at least
that much gain had really been effected, and it
may prove that the advantage is even greater
The saving in weight, though will, in a measure,
be offset by an increase in bulk. \ nickel-and-
iron battery capable of carrying a given charge
will occupy a trife more space than lead
battery having a similar capacity
The other great merit 10 secure which Mr..
Edison has striven is durability. He has
claimed that one of his batteries, properly
cared for would be in as useful a condition at
the end Of Il year as at the beginning. Let us
hope that his expectation will be realized. OF
course, it will not do 10 accept fully the en-
thusiastc predictions of the inventor himself.
Extensive trial by disinterested persons IS
necessary to corroborate his forecasts 1t is
TO be desired that enough persons will
pertinent with the device in the next twelve
months to demonstrate its qualities thoroughly.
Mr. Edison says that he has not solved the
problem of the heavy touring car. but he is
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.I

3
Newport. r. l.. Aug 4-The biggest social gath
erlng in Newport to-day the reception given
this afternoon by Mrs. William Rocker. at Hawks
hurst. her villa in Kay-st-. which attended BY
all OF the cottage colony. The reception was from
to o'clock. and there was constant stream Of
carriages and automobiles entering and leaving the
place The house was profusely decorated with
American Beauty roses. while the lawn there
tents. which were used by the for sTnOk-
ing and under one of which KenlIworth. the palm
list. entertained the guests who wished their
fortunes told MuIlaly's Orchestra was present
from the Casino. furnishing music throughout the
reception. Earlier in the afternoon Mrs. Rocker
entertained at luncheon
Announcement was made to-day OF a number Of
large gatherings which take place the latter
part OF the month
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt viii give dinner
Dance she calls it, the evening OF August
2s. in honor OF her daughter. Miss Gladys Wander
bt. This is the first thing Of the kind that mas
taken place at the Breakers IN a number OF years
Other affairs are dinner dance for Miss Pauline
French on the evening of August Il. by Mrs. F. o.
French: ball by Mrs William G. Rocker on the
evening OF the 18th, and a ball by Mrs. Pembroke
Jones. in honor of Miss Sadie Jones. the
ing of the 25th Other large affairs 10 be given.
but these the only for which the dates
have been selected
The entries for the Newport Dog Show close on
the 18th inst. and the directors feel that IL will be
the best show ever given in Newport. There viii be
to the money prizes. which amount TO 5000. there
will 125 special prizes. The judges selected
Messrs. Dole HanIey and Goldman and Miss Whit
ney.
Gatherings to-day a luncheon by Mrs. Peter
D. Martin and dinners this evening by Mrs David
King Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mrs. Pembroke Jones and
Mrs. George L. Rives. This afternoon there was
French reading at the house of Mrs e Rollins
Morse by VI. Perrin, which largely attended.
and card party was given by Mrs E l. Ludlow.
James Hazen Hyde will end his Newport visit
tomorrow. returning to New-YOrk-
General F. d. Grant viii arrive at Newport on
Sunday and will be the guest of Mrs Charles H
Baldwin He comes TO Newport TO make an insPec-
ton of the fortihcatiOns-
Mrs. Davis Prescott Hall is the guest OF her
mother, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. at her home in
Portsmouth.
Registered at the Casino to-day were J. L Van
Allen. Sumner Gerard. A. de T. Jones. Lydg HOyt
and R Fulton Cutting.
Mr.. and Mrs Lewis Iselin are the guests ot
Colonel and Mrs. Delaney Kane.
K. P Budd is the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Gcelet.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Woodward. OF New-YOrk.
are the guests of James T. Woodward
Mrs. J. Edward King is the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs
Oliver Hartman.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
SHOTGTN OTARANTINE.

lshmael had positively pleasant time OF IL
compared with the experience which New-Or
leans is now going through Not only adJoln-
ing towns, but outlying parishes (Which I'D
Louisiana correspond to countes) in the same
State, have put boycott that city. Two
large parishes have gone so far as to Interfere
with the transmission of the mails, as well as
of passengers and freight, thus defying the
federal authorities. Inasmuch as mailbags can
be placed altogether above suspicion by fumi-
CATION, such an extreme policy is unwarranted,
and the national government would he justified
in resenting it promptly. However, the busi-
ness men of the Crescent City are probably in
cOnvenienced by the obstruction to communica-
ton more than any one else; and there is
little poetic justice in letting them suffer. New
Orleans has treated the rest of Louisiana out
rageouSy in allowing yellow fever to get n foot
hold within her limits She deserves all the
punishment she is getting. In fact, the more
vigorously this is imposed, the better she will
remember it. There is an important lesson for
both the municipal administration and the resi-
dents of the chief city on the Gulf to learn
and it should be impressed on their minds
that they will never forget it.
New Orleans now knows enough about yellow
fever to be able to keep herself entirely free
from it. She is almost as fortunate in this
respect as New-York. To be sure, the species
of mosquito which disseminates the germs of
the disease fourishes in Semi-tropical climates
and does not in the latitude of the metropolis;
but the stegomyia would not be able to make
anv mischief unless it had encouragement
There are localities where the winters are so
warm that the transmission of germs from man
to insect and from insect to man can go on
without interruption all through the season
In New Orleans this is not the case. rev
mosquitoes hibernate there, and become the
parents of countless offspring the following
year The period during which they remain
dormant, however, is long enough to render
them innocuOus.
If any of them, before crawling into places
of refuge for the winter, have become inocu-
lated, the virus which they carry seems to lose
its potency. A bite by one of these survivors,
after a return of warm weather has stimulated
them to consciousness and activity, is appar-
emily not attended with any unpleasant conse-
quences. Only when a fresh human victim has
arrived can either mosquito which has hiber-
mated or one of its progeny become infected.
There can be little doubt that in New Orleans
every outbreak of yellow fever, great or small,
originates in the admission of person from
some distant point where the disease is preva-
lent. Exclude such persons, and the city would
be immune Much can be, and should be, done
toward the suppression of the mosquito by the
same methods which have proved successful
elsewhere But a vigilant quarantine alone
would undoubtedly prove sufficient protection.
When will New-Orleans people get their eyes
open to that fact?
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
SIR DONALD WALLACE ON RUSSIA.

1t affords us peculiar satisfaction to have been
able 10 print in The Tribune the exceedingly
interesting and instructive interview concern
ing Russia and Russian affairs with which this
journal has been favored by Sir Donald Mac
kenZe Wallace. No introduction of Sir Donald
was necessary TO our readers, who know him
well as probably the greatest living authority
ON Russian affairs and as an engaging writer
and talker on that subject but it may perhaps
not be amiss 10 emphasize as of especial sig
nificance the facts that Sir Donald, while dis
tinguished subject of the nation which has
often been regarded as Russia's traditional
opponent is personal friend of the Car and
decidedly Russophile in his sympathies; and
that while he speaks of Russia with the su-
preme authority of personal knowledge ac-
quired by long residence and experience in that
country, he at the same time does so from the
point Of view of Anglo-Saxon civilization.
In his kindly references TO the present Car,
Sir Donald gets at what seems TO us to be the
very pith of the matter and one Of the strong
est of arguments for the substitution of consttu-
2 nonalism for autocracy in Russia. Nicholas II,
lie says would make splendid constitutional
sovereign, but has not the qualities necessary
in a successful autocrat Precisely; and the
latter statement may be made concerning nine
out of every ten men. There are those who
think benevolent desponsm the best of all
governments but even they condition their doc
trine upon the despots being benevolent. The
trouble is. Of course, that you cannot always be
sure Of your despot. The chances are over
whelming that he will prove not TO be truly
benevolent, or else not strongly enough des-
pofic Men who are strong enough TO eXer-
else absolute personal rule, and who are good
,epougb TO make that rule invariably for the
greatest good of the greatest number of their
subjects. are so rare as 10 be entirely outside
tbe male of practical consideration. But only
bv fhe reigning of such men can autocracy be
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
Netp.Senaas'ss Daiin Qribn,fe
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-AH Saghalien is in possession or
the Japanese, the Russian Governor, seventy
officers and $500 men having surrendered. -
Rains have checked operations OF the main ar
mics in Manchuria,, though General HasegaWa
has apparently resumed his march on Nladl-
yostok: Japanese warships are reported off the
fortress Three shots were fired without
effect at NJ. Stolypin, Governor of Sarator
Province; Cossacks killed thirty strikers in the
Caucasus and the disorders in Ekaterln0slav are
spreading. - Advocates of liberalism are
apparently in control at Peterhof, thirty-four
clauses of the scheme for national assembly
81 having been passed by the council. - The
executive board of the English Cotton Masters
Federation decided TO urge the members to resist
the operatives demand for an Increase or wages
DOMESTIC.-New- Orleans decided TO ask the
federal government to take charge of the yellow
fever situation; 1000 refugees from New-Or-
leans reached st. Louis; Louisiana naval re-
serves captured two Mississippi quarantine pa
troll boats and made several prisoners. -
NJ White visited President Roosevelt yesterday
ar Oyster Fay: he was accompanied thither by
Baron Rosen, the other Russian plenipotentiary;
arrangements were completed for the formal
introduction of the ENJOYS Of the hostile powers
TO each other to-day by the President aboard
the Mayhower, off Oyster Bay. - Secretary
Wilson gave up his vacation and will stay in
Washington all through the investigation of the
Department of Agriculture. - 1t was an
nounced at Washington that the tribal schools
fn Indian Territory would soon be closed from
lack of funds - Government reports showed
an increase of more than 81 600 600 in the in
ternal revenues of this year over those of last
CITY-Stocks were strong. - A warrant
was issued for the arrest of Mayor William H
Belcher Of Paterson for embezzlement. -
The Equitable is said to have fallen off $1,000
600 in new business in the first three days Of
August, compared with the same period
year ago; the loss for the year is estimated at
N S50000000. - Midshipman Jacksons father
Nj went TO Montreal in search of the young man
" On a clew from that city; the missing man
is now subject to court martial for being absent
without leave. - Friends of Robert w. Girls
well, who was killed in the subway Thursday
night, declared that he had been attacked by
vertigo, and did not commit suicide. - Two
cases Of smallpox We're reported among negroes
living in a tenement house in Harlem. - 1t
was announced that a typhoid fever epidemic
was feared at COney Island - Two boys
under sixteen years old were arrested on the
West Side on charge Of burglary.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Partly cloudy, probably rain in afternoon. The
temperature yesterday: Highest, 81 degrees:
lowest fS
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
FUNDS BADLY NEEDED
Plenty of Fresh 4ir, but Still Chil-
dren Suffer.

Not child was sent to the country yesterday by
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund The expenditures are
already greatly in of the receipts and IL has
been found necessary TO call halt in the work
There are nearly one thousand children booked TO
leave next week. but unless contributions 10 cover
their transportation received Immediately they
will have to remain at home.
The heavy gloom overhanging the office OF the
fund was partly lifted yesterday by the receipt
of contributions on Thursday amounting to SS4a. II
the money continues TO come in at the same rate
the fund will be its feet.
This is the best time Of the to send chill
dren the country. The harvesting season IS az
hand and fruit and vegetables in great abundance
await the onslaught of the little
Then again the children that have already en-
toyed their fortnight vacation have TO endure the
heat of the remaining weeks, and the benefit they
derived from their outing is partly lost before they
assume the duties of school. while. the other
hand. those that go away during the next three
weeks will fully fortified begin the school
year
On account of the lack OF funds three large
parties that TO have gone TO the country next
week had TO be cancelled. The people of one place
where party of forty children was TO have been
received. were disappointed that telegram was
sent learn the of transportation. and efforts
being made to raise the necessary money
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
SIGNS OF TEMPERANCE.

Much interest has been excited in England re-
Gently by the decline of the national drink bill
and the decrease in consumption of intoxicating
and especially of strong distilled beverages. In
1904 the consumption of spirits was less than
half what it was in 1900, while that of beer was
also smaller. The national drink bill is still
large, but it was last year SS5,O00,OOO less than
five years before. One of the largest restaurant
firms reports that while it is serving more GUS
toners year by year, it is selling less beer, wine
and spirits. The cause of this change is an in
terestng matter of investigation.
According to Board of Trade officials, 1t is
closely connected with general business cOndi-
tiOnS. When the country is prosperous there Is
much drinking; when it is unprosperous drink
ing decreases. Thus, in 1894, when the country
was suffering business depression, the consump-
ton of strong drink small, and with return
ing prosperity it steadily increased for five
years, until 1899, when the South African war
broke out and the tide of prosperity turned.
Since then prosperity has been waning, and
drinking has correspondingly decreased 1t is
quite possible that this explanation contains
some truth, though it would tax credulity to be-
lieve it completely accounts for the very marked
changes of the last five years.
Another explanation is put forward by some
well informed and judcious observers, which
we should be glad to accept as applicable to
America well as to England-that is, that the
growth of other forms of entertainment has Won
people away from mere drinking places. Out
of door sports of various kinds, musical and
theatrical performances at low prices and great
amusement establishments like those which
have been built at COney Island and have so
greatly changed the character of that resort,
have been multiplied in recent years. Myriads
of people. it is argued go to them and spend
their time and money there, instead of merely
standing at bars or sitting around tables and
drinking. 1t seems entirely probable that such
influences are potent and are doing much for
the promotion of temperance.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
MIR. REID ENTERTAINs AMERICANS
Ambassador Gives Luncheon to Number
of Visitors to London.

London Aug. 4.-Whitelaw Reid, the American
Ambassador. entertained at luncheon to-day a
number of Americans who are visiting London
The guests included Congressman Charles E. Lit
tlefield, of Maine Congressman James B. Perkins.
of Rochester, Justice Gildersleeve. of the New
York Supreme Court; Justice Wiswen, of Maine.
Postmaster William R. WILCOX. of New-York, and
Mrs. Wilcox; Charles H. Boynton. of New-York;
Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan. of San Francisco; Robert ].
Wynne, the American Consul General Professors
Wilcox Huffcut and Hull OF Cornell University;
Mr. and Mrs Haldeman. of Louisville; Clayton
Johns. of Boston. and Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke.
director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New
York. and Lady Clarke.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-05
RECONSTRUCTING CITIES.

THAT new world which is the old" is setting
in some respects cOmmendable examples of
progress to the newer world this side of
the Atlantic. Haussmann more than a genera
ton ago showed us in Paris how to replan and
reconstruct a city. Vienna and Berlin have
since continued the lesson. Now London is
taking it up with extraordinary enterprise
The last few years have seen many radical
improvements in that city, but they are only
the beginning. royal commission now recon-
mends a generalSNidening of important thor
oughfares and tA construction of two new
avenues, 40 feet wide with total length of
nine miles. traversng the heart of the metrop-
oils at right angles to each other. That gigan-
tic undertaking will cost, perhaps, $150,000, 600,
but there is a prospect of its being taken up
and pushed promptly 10 completion.
Such examples Of municipal enterprise should
not go unheeded by New-YOrk. We need some
such improvements here sorely as they do
in London. If Nassau-st. or Wiamst were
wdened, through the creation of arcades or
otherwise, relief would be afforded to almost
intolerable congestion, but at the suggestion
of such work the average New-Y Yorker weak
ly gaSpS "Impossible." 1t would be Il great
Improvement 10 have 5th-ave. widened, If sim
ply by the removal of projecting steps from
the sidewalk and the utilization of all space
to the building line, but to any such sugges-
ton the common reply is 1T can't be doner'
The FlatbuShave. extension in Brooklyn has
long been sorely needed, and has been talked
of for more than twenty years but its reallza-
ton is still in the dim and distant future 1t
would vastly facilitate traffic to construct new
avenues running north and south between 9Th
ave and Gth-ave. between Gth-ave and 7th-aye
and between 7th-ave. and Sth-ave. and we
can remember that thoughtful and competent
engineers have estimated that in the case of
some of them, at least, the ephanced value OF
the property fronting on such thoroughfares
would probably more than repay the cost of
making them. But such proposal which in
London or Paris would be approved and full
filed without hesitation, is here regarded as
mpracticaby Utonian.
Perhaps il is in New-York. To Judge by the
way this hustling and enterprisng city has