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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
ENORMOUS EGG CROP.
over Forty-three Million Crates Are
 Produced Annually.

The egg and poultry earnings of the United States for one recent year amount ed to s2S0,O00,000. Such an amount Is suf- ficiently amazing as it stands, but you don't get it's full significance until you study the relative financial values of other "industrials' ., We lind, for instance, that the total value of the gold, silver, wool anc sheep produced in America during the year in question was $272, 434.315. The sugar production of the country the same year was but $20, 100000. That part of the wheat crop used at home. which may consider the most valuable of all our lg- ricultural products. was worth s22s,oO0, ,oOO
 The great American hog, as consumed at home and abroad, brought s1S6,529,0S5. The value of the oat crop was s7s.9s4,so0. Pota- toes grown in the United States were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17

entire bull campaign in Reading. which carried the stock from 45 to 126, he had a line of 950.O0 to 100000 shares of that speciality and cleaned up millions of dol lars. At the time he was an active bull on the other anthracites as well as Erle and Georgia Centrals He took part also in the swinging bull movement of the steel issues and Is still very confident of higher prices for the stock market as a whole. It was Blumenthal who start ed the import movement in gold this week, taking $1,250,0oo as his initial ship ment. Some of the bears on the exchange said the deal was wholly for market ef- feet and of itself showed actual loss. I his sort of talk Is always heard at the beginning of gold tide either way. MT. Blumenthal. being admittedly one of the best foreign exchange specialists in New
 York, was probably able to distinguish the direction of the international cur rent fhat'a all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17

P. SID JONES. D. P. A
 R. G. PIERCE. T. P A.
 U. R. FEELBY. c. P. A. Both phones s26 ..-..-.-. ..-... l.-.
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valued at nearly as large a sum as were the oats The produce of tobacco plan tat.ons were estrraseo to be worth sS5.- 579,225. Ctton, the dethroned king of staples, could show only s25s.16l,64o, as against the magnificent earnings of its feathered rival. The crops of flax, corn, castor beans, hay, straw. and so forth, couldn't, all told. come within measure al le distance of many millions of the youltry earnings
 The hens eggs produced in this country annually would fill 43,l2I,000 crates, each of the latter holding 36o eggs: also. 2 train of refrigerator cars to carry these eggs would be nearly 90U miles long. Fur thermore, 1t would take 107,S1S such cars to make up this train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
copper Consolidation.

Associations are seriously on for a con- solidation of Amalgamated and United Copper. The discussion has advanced be- yond the point of mutual acknowledg- ment of the desirabuity of union of in- terests, and has reached tue stage of earnest effort to find basis for an equit- able interchange of securities. The sug- gestion has been made that one share Of Amalgamated for two shares of United might be fair. Neither side has baked at the proposition and each is apparently
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
Moruan's New Investment.

MT. J.. P. Morgan Is said to have put s1. .5oo,ooo into the new Gotham hotel. Some of his friends are in for sums ranging from $5o.0oo to s15ooO0 each. Frank Ben nett. in whose behalf this handsome in- vestment was made, endeared himself to MT. Morgan while conducting the Ar lington at Washington, D. c. Bennett is a first class hotel man, and by avoid ing the mistakes of his rival across the street Q1aan of the St. Regis) may make q go of the big undertaking He will have trouble, however. educating the public to Mir. Morgan's pronunciation of Gotham. The autocrat of Wall street in sists on emphasizing the O and giving 1t the full round sound in contradistinc- ton to the customary Goth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
and GO.
 GREAT DEPARTMENT STORES

in price and style, suited for just this point the season
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freak has been made aware of the inside purposes and programs or the Messrs. Rogers. Rockefeller and Stillman. The tactics employed by the raiders on this last occasion have been so nearly identi- cal with those of the two previous at- tacks that the attention of the whole Street was called to the similarity and much unfavorable comment resulted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
elrmlnuham Trunk Factory,

department of the Birmingham Trunk Factory on Nineteenth street. reports business exceptionally brisk this month. MT. Keefe is one of the best known and most popular citizens of Birmingham and his friends are gladly giving him their patrouage. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17

Our guarantee goes with every plano we sell and be. sides we save you from $50 to $lOO.OO on a purchase. E. E. Forbes Piano Go, 1909 Third Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
Colonel oreene's New Pipe Dream.

Col. W. G. Greene has had another pipe dream. This time he imagines he has sold a little Mexican railroad to the Rock Island system. The colonel telegraphed the dream on from Mexico and it was promptly and emphatically denied by the Rock Island spokesman, who character ized 1t as absurd and utterly without foundation. By the way, frost and flood seem to have again struck that wonder wul placer mine of the colonels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
BlumsnthaI Great Operator.

George Blumenthal, active head of Laz- ard Freres, has developed into the great est operator on the Stock Exchange. His name is very little heard of out of the street. but among active traders he Is recognized as one of the important fac- tors in the market. During almost the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17

To Larger quarters. We will remove Oct. lst to 2O24 3rd Ave. Jemison R. E. & Insi Go.
The Washington times., 1905-08-27

man. of that decent respect for the
opinions of mankind which is inbred
in every Scot that he should not have
been satisfied with any makeshift
Moorish divorce, but should have
gone home and accepted the decree
only when ii was admitted that he
was entitled to il according TO the
standards of the country and the
civilization that he was born TO.
Still it was a pity that it had to be.
for TO all appearances the Maclean
family life was all that was delight
full. There were three daughters and
a son; the girls said TO. be strikingly
handsome. The menage was noted
for its hospitality; and Kaid Mac
The Washington times., 1905-08-27

Not that Sir Harry Maclean has
lacked diplomatic influence. He
taught the Moors how to shoot. He
did more than that; he impressed
upon them the value of discipline
not British discipline, but a degree
of discipline undreamed of before
his time in what the Sultan of Mo-
Eocco digpified as his army" He
looked over the defenses of such of
the cities as were capable OF defense,
and SO far as he was allowed the
means brought them up to date. II
was he who bought the big guns
which are today the pride of the fort
at Tangier. He reorganized the army,
re-armed it, and drilled It into some
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The young Sultan came TO tAs
throne with little knowledge of the
world beyond the walls Of his harem,
but he had sense enough to recognize
that Kaid Maclean was the strong
and safe man on whom he should
lean for support. AS the power be-
hind the throne the influence of the
Scotchman became greater than ever.
And twenty-five years after Harry
Aubrey de We're Maclean had resigned
her maiesty's commission, her majes-
tvs ministers thankfully remembered
that ne was still a British subject
and called him nome that they might
bestow on him a knighthood.
At fifty-seven Kaid Maclean re-
mains most imposing looking per
son Thickset and powerfully built,
with hair and beard frosted with sii-
yer, he wears his splendid Moorish
robes with dignity, and his blue eyes
flashing out from under his turban.
where one expects to see black ones,
inevitably attract attention. His
active life has left him as hard an
nails. He is far more agile than most
men OF forty. and il is said frequently
spends nineteen hours out of twenty
four in the saddle. He is the best
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but probably his parents did not fore
see his career when they bestowed the
name upon him-was then captain in
one of her majesty's regiments sta
toned at Gibraltar. He came over
10 Tangier on a visit, and made some
thing of hit with Sir John. II
struck him that this might be the very
man the Sultan was looking for, and
il was too good chance TO extend the
British influence to be let slip. More
over 1t was evident that if British
soldier didn't get the job. a French
man would. or, failing that, Ger
man. So he looked up Captain Mac
leans record-and there is so perpet-
ualIy something doing IN one part or
another of the British empire that a
man who has been seven years in the
service is bound TO have a record
and finding it satisfactory, offered him
the job.
The young man jumped at the
chance The Scottish foresight saw
in IL far greater opportunities than
were likely 10 come to him in the
British service, without more infiuen-
tial friends than he could boast of.
SO he resigned her majesty's COM
mission and accepted that of Ell Has
an, Sultan of Morocco, father of the
present Sultan. That was in 1876,
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OF course, his influence with the
Sultan excited much jealousy, and
there were many who watched his
career with the green eyes of envy.
A Military Mission from France
was placed ~at his majesty's dispo-
SAL" but all efforts to undermine
Kaid Maclean's influence and au-
thority proved futile. He accompa-
MED the Sultan on many expeditions
against rebellious tribes, and was
with him on that last dread march
from Marrakesh to Rabat when the
Son of Mahomet," a weary and
broken old man, succumbed to the
hardships of forced passage across
the Atlas mountains against a people
in revolt
1t was imperative that the death of
the Sultan should be concealed until
his favorite son had been proclaimed
his successor lest sorne usurper
should grab the vacant throne. So,
with Kaid Maclean marching by the
side of it, the body was borne on
state litter, and the sheikhs and khal-
ifas paid homage to the poor clay
under its trappings Of green and gold
just as though it were their royal
master alive and powerful. In secret
the body was carried into Rabat at
dead of night through a hole in the
wall
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thing approaching European ideals
and efficiency.
And by attending strictly TO his
own business, and attending to il
thoroughly, by not butting into court
politics. nor yet allowing himself TO
be drawn into court intrigues. he
taught the Sultan the value of Saxon
loyalty and steadfastness, and a few
years brought him vast influence in
matters diplomatic as we'll as mill
tary. In fact it was the value of this
influence TO British diplomacy that
brought him his knighthood in 1901
1t seems pity that he should have
come such a matrimonial cropper-
and yet 1t is characteristic of the
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and the story of his rapid rise TO his
present elevated position reads like
a page from a romance, rather than
an actual record of events culled from
an age as prosaic as the present 1t
is story without parallel unless it
be I'm that Of Henry w Denison, the
Mikado's adviser, which was told
week or two ago In The Sunday
Times. Both careers show the Anglo
Saxon as the school teacher, leading
backward nations over the border
land of barbarism, and fitting them TO
take their places in the ranks OF
civilization and progress. But the
military career is always more thrill
ing than the diplomatic or legal.
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is law to the fierce tribes.o Moors who
dwell in the deserts Of Africa. Like
Warren Hastings he has occupied a
position of great trust and has so
borne himself in his high Office that
ali have feared and most have loved
him" His thirty years of power have
taught the fiercest of the Sultan's
subjects that at last a man has come
to the Moroccan court-a far different
specimen of humanity from the effem-
mate rulers reared in a Moorish
harem to which they had been accus-
toned
The late '.Son of Mahomet," Ell Has
san, King of the Age and Prince
of Believers" hsd his failings and
many Of them. But he possessed the
power of discernment He looked
upon his armies and saw that while
they were splendid fighters and total
strangers to fear, they still fell short
of the standard when compared TO
the military forces of the Western
mo, Erchies. Then it was that be
conceived the idea of having his sot-
diers instructed in the art of wer by
an .infidel.
He confided his pet scheme to the
late Sir John Drummond Hay. at that
time British minister to Morocco.
Harry Aubrey de We're Maclean-
sounds like Laura Jean Libbey hero.
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lean was always more than ready to
entertain any of the few Britishers
who came his way. That one of
these should become a suitor for the
hand of one of his daughters was
natural and right enough; but that
fellow-eountryman. and a guest
should abuse his hospitality, and use
the suit for his daughter as a blind
for the pursuit of his wife, was a
sad blow to the Englishman's faith
in English honor. Yet that was the
story he brought to the English
courts, and the English courts after
due investigation gave him his
divorce.
For many years a younger sister
The Washington times., 1905-08-27

80 THIN the month there
k-1 has been paid to the
efzN W majesty of the English
eStl{ fSS law the most striking
S=s& mark of respect record
ed in modern history
For out of respect for its forms and
procedures, and for no other reason.
man who is above the law-the chief
of swarthy army and the ruler of
an Eastern empire-has traversed des-
erts and crossed an ocean to accept
the ruling of British court of jus
tice, whereby he secures his release
from woman who has abused his
confidence and sullied his honor.
A remarkable career has been
brought into the limelight of news
paper notoriety as a result of the
equally remarkable divorce suit filed
in London court by Kaid Sir Harry
Maclean, chief military adviser to
the Sultan of Morocco and by vir-
tue of that Office greater than the
Sultan-the power behind the throne.
Thirty years ago Maclean was an
inconspicuous subaltern in British
regiment stationed at Gibraltar He
was without influence and without
prospects Today ne holds the govern
ment of Morocco in the hollow of his
hand-he makes treaties and conducts
diplomatic negotiations, and his word
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was an important member Of Sir
Harry Maclean's Moroccan household,
but she died of cholera during an
epidemic about ten years ago One
of the things that has established
Kaid Maclean in the hearts of the
people as he was already established
in the esteem of the Sultan has been
the untiring efforts of both himself
and bis wife in behalf of the victims
Of the cholera epidemics which are
of almost annual occurrence there
Meanwhile in his thirty years resi-
dence in Morocco without changing
his faith or ceasing 10 be a canny
Scot, Maclean has been TO all intents
and purposes : Moor. He roamed
the wild country with the nomadic
court, and was often the only link
between FL Hassan and the ministers
of the powers who sat with folded
hands at Tangier.
The Washington times., 1905-08-27

THIN the month there
has been paid to the
majesty of the English
law the most striking
mark of respect record
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-20
A. & M. COLLEGE.

The Catalogue of the North Caro-
lima College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts shows 13O students of
Agriculture, SO of Civil Engineering,
60 of Electrical Engineering, 73 of
Mechanical Engineering, 25 of Cot
ton Manufacturing, 33 of Chemistry
and Mining, and So of Mechanic
Arts. Young men desiring practical
industrial training would do we'll to
write for catalogue to President
Winston. West Raleigh. N. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-20

average, but as forty-six million
money orders were issued IN the
United States last year, even on tnis
basis twenty-three million hours OF
time was lost to the productive IN
dustry of the country, IN going
through the process of purchasing
them. Allowing ten hours for a day s
work. three hundred days in year,
the labor of nearly eight thousand
men for one year was thus lost TO
the country in buying postal money
orders. The additional loss OF time
accruing to those who collected the
orders at post offices, was another
serious item.
Resides these losses of time and
patience to the people, it has been OF
fcially demonstrated that the entire
money order service is conducted at
heavy cost to the government be-
yond it's returns in revenue. he
ports of the Auditor for the Post
Office Department show that the as
certainable expenditures for money
order business by the Department
exceed the receipts therefrom by
more than $5OO,0O0 per annum. There
are various other items Of expense
| not accurately ascertalnable, when
would largely increase this loss.
| The most improbable feature OF
the system is the issue and payment
! of orders of the smaller denomlna
tions. Nearly or quite one-half OF
the forty-six million orders annually
issued are for less than $3.50 each
On these the government receives
fee of three cents each, all of which
it pays to the issuing postmasters Il
of the third or fourth class. Post
masters of the first and second clas
do not receive the fees, but are al
loewd compensation for clerks VIII
do this work at an estimated cost o
more than double the fee thus re
ceiyed. Hence, all the clerical WOE
at the paying post offices and the &C
counting Office at Washington, i
done at a total loss.
The use of post check currency
which has been almost unanimousl
approved by the press of the coun
try. and which is provided for in
bill now pending in Congress. woul
relieve the people from this great in
convenience and the governmen
from these losses. It is hoped an
believed that at no distant day, tn
bill which was last year recommend
, ed bv the Post Office Committee Q
the House of Representatives, wi
, be favorably acted upon by our ns
: tional legislators.
THE SENTRY.
NorE.-Responsibility for the opinions an
| ntterances OF 1.-THE Sentry" ts assumed b
), | the Sentry Box Bureau. OF S26 Vernon
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-20
ALI Men Should Know of the Defects
in Our Postal Service.

nartment has for nearly year past
been constantly under fire from guns |
of large calibre, loud noise and con-
siderable execution. In the Old
fashioned bombardments OF cltles'
breaches were made in the walls
through which the enemy might hno
entrance and through which at least
the operations of the people within
could be observed. New-fashloned
puns carry further and hit harder;
The modern dynamite shell tired
from a distance of fifteen miles,
striking in the heart of city, would
probably reduce everything contain
ed ON a square mile of ground to I'M
palpable atoms.
The effects of the bombardment OF
the Post Office Department have not
been to annihilate it. But serious
breaches have been made and the
Sentry has obtained a view OF things
going on within which carry convlc-
tion that there are many faults In
this boasted system.
One of the postal branches not
specifically involved in the "scan-
dals," but brought under observation
indirectly thereby and directly by
other means, is the money order sys-
tenn. This business, which is no part
of the original post office plan, Is
growing so vast and developing so
many defects that earnest efforts are
being made to devise an acceptable
substitute for at least the smaller
denominations.
The postal money order service IS
admittedly complicated and cumber-
some to the people. The process of
procuring at the post Office money
order, with all the red tape surround
ing that process. has long been a
cause of complaint to patrons. The
following dialogue, said to be the
record of an actual transaction,
poinetdly illustrates some of the IN
conveniences which people suffer:
'1 want to get a money ORDER" she
said.
sPlease make out the application
replied the clerk.
sWhat application? I just want
to send fifteen dollars TO-
"Please fill out the blank"
d Z will you please
fill it out for mew
"I can't. It's against the rules
ooh, dear me, I don't believe 1 can
What do you do frstg'
':Write the date"
"Now let me see, is this the tentf
or the eleventh?"
"The tenth"
"I thought so, but I wasn't sure
What do T do noW2o
"Write the amount to be sent"
'It's fifteen dollars"
EeWell, write it on the next blan
line"
GLOW easy it is after all. No'
what do I do?"
And so it goes, until each particr
lar blank has been laboriously file
in by the fair one, at the dictatlon Q
the long-suffering clerk. This is pei
haps an extreme case, but under tn
most favorable circumstances the1
is a vexatious loss of time in secu
ing these orders at the post office.
has been estimated that at least ha
an hour is wasted by everv purchase
of money order. including the tin
lost in going to the office waiting II
the order, and returning to the star
ing point This seems to be a 10
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-20
RED POLLED CATTLE,

Best for Milk, Butter and Beef. Smooth
blocky, and very handsome. The most use
full of all breeds. Five very fine young Bulls.
Some Heifers and Cows for sale. Also ma
ture Bull.
Bears and Sows are the greatest priZe-w1n-
ners of the breed, and sold for from $500 to
SIS; in the West they would cost you from $40
to $50.
ARROWHEAD STOCK FARM,
SAML B. WOODS, Charlottesville, Va.
Proprietor.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-20
THE SENTRY.

NorE.-Responsibility for the opinions and
utterances Of 1.-THE Sentry" ts assumed by
the Sentry Box Bureau. of S25 Vermont
avenue, Washington, d. 9. EDITOR.