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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-29
Opposing the Philippine Bill.

Tobacco interests were heard today by
the Senate committee on the Philippines
in opposition to the pending tariff bill.
A. Strasser of the Cigarmakers' Interna-
tional Union, of Chicago, and J. L. McFar-
land of the Shade Growers Association,
of Florida, were the speakers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-29
Liverpool Prices.

LIVERPOOL. January 29-Wheat, spot
nominal; futures dull; March, 6s. 1Osd.;
May, 6s. sad. Corn, spot quiet; American
mixed new. As. 21ad.; American mixed old
As. SKID; futures dull; January, As Dad
march, As. 11sd.; ;. May, As. 23sd. Hops in
London Pacific COAST, steady, f2 10s.af3
los.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-29

Mrs. Frank w. Shattuck. wife of the pas
tor of the Advent Christian Church of Wit
man, Mass, was burned to death last night
In the parsonage through the overturnine
of a lamp.
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Today's Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today for
redemption, $1,394, 9S5. Government re-
ceipts: From internal revenue 81 2O2 095;
customs, S93S, $50; miscellaneous S141,796
Expenditures, 5000 900.
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Material Contraction in Activity
of Today's Dealings.
TRADING HAS FlRMER TONE
Substantial Advances in Some Indi-
vidual Securities.
EUROPEAN MARKETS CHEERFUL
Money Conditions Showed Further
Observation-Disclosures Lost Quite
Heavily to Subtreasury.
TRADING HAS FIRMER TONE
EUROPEAN MARKETS CHEERFUL


NEW YORK, January 29.-There was
material contraction in respect of activity
In todays stock market, but on the other
hend the trading displayed frmer tone
than was apparent almost at any time dur
ing last week. The unsettled tendencies
which characterized last weeks closing
dealings were continued to some extent at
the opening of business this morning. after
which a steadier tone developed which re-
suited in substantial advances in a number
of individual securities.
II was apparently the case that operat-
ors with bearish procfflivities and corre-
spending market commitments had count
ed upon a repetition o fthe liquidations
which on one account or another had
characterized last weeks transactions.
There were few vesuges of selling of this
character in todays stock market, noting
which, covering of short contracts in
evidence practically throughout the busi-
ness session. and il was probably the case
that great many of the advances in prices
which were scored were caused by buying
OF this character.
The European stock markets had a gen
orally cheerful tone and were apparently
wholly uninfiuenced, that is to say, I'M
favorably, by the political or other circum-
stances which are now occupying attention
abroad. Buying for Paris account was re-
ported in the London stock market. and
American railway shares were generally
quoted somewhat above parity with New
iork's closing figures of Saturday.
The Money Market
Operations here for foreign account had .
however. trifiing net results. Money mar
ket conditions showed some further relaxa-
ton, both for demand and time loans al
though transactions in the latter were
characterized by considerable activity.
The banks have lost quite heavily to the
subtreasury thus far during the current
clearing house week, an unfavorable ball
than baing tot
up to this morning. Rates for foreign ex-
change showed Scant alterations.
There Were practically no developments
of consequence over Sunday relating to the
stock market at large Individual securi-
ties, the definite announcements respecting
the local traction merger having been prac-
tically forecasted. Such gossip and discus
sion as accompanied the dealings in one
stock or another were mostly of tine same
personal and technical character as was
heard during the past fortnight.
The leading features of the railway list
in respect of strength and activity were
Union and Southern Pacific st. Paul, Mis-
souri, Pacific, Reading and Southern rail-
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LONDON. January 20, 4 pm.

Bar silver, steady, 30Ad. per ounce
Money, 3aaa4 per cent.
The rate of discount in the open market for short
bills is 3is per cent.
The rate Of discount In the open market for three
months bills Is 3a,a 1916 per cent.
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New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs & Co.. bani ers
and brokers, 1419 F street, members New
York stock exchange. Washington stock
exchange and Chicago board of trade.
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Equitable Trust Company, New York, Trustee

Applications will be made to list bonds on the
Stock Exchanges of New York and London
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHI
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
Grious' Successor.

Il would like to know who will be the
successor of A. Griggs, who recently re-
signed as superintendent of the Alabama
Great Southern railroad" said large
shipper yesterday Two men occur to
me, r. e. Boswell, superintendent of
transportation. who was formerly To-
Gated in Birmingham as treinmaster, and
C. f. Hickey, superintendent of the Gin
cinnati division of the Cincinnati New
Orleans and Texas Pacific at Lexington.
Both of them are well known here and
l believe either of them would make
good superintendent.
~ regret to see Mr.. Griggs leave the
Alabama Great Southern He Is one of
the most congenial men connected with
any railroad, he has all kinds of friends
and has always a good word for every
body. He Is typical railroad super
ntendent, big and gruff looking, but with
a heart as large as his body. He has
friends innumerable in Birmingham.
MIR. Griggs has been here several
years and he has had great success with
the Alabama Great Southern. The road
is in excellent condition and he will de-
liver 1t to his successor in first-class
shape from Chattanooga to Meridian"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08

and the amount each contributed 60
the enormous slush funds of those
years.
The republican party has made 1t
plain that it does not propose to fur
nish the facts, and the people can get
them in but one way-the election of a
democratic House of Representatives
next November. The House of the
Sixtieth Congress will be convened on
the first Monday of December, 1907,
and it can send for persons and papers
that will put before the people in sixty
days the whole truth.
The people are entitled to the whole
truth, for every cent of the money re-
lated to their affairs. They will ac-
cept no general statements from Sec
rotary Cortelyou or any one else. The
truth, the whole truth, must be forth
coming, and only a democratic House
of Representative can elicit it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
French Popular Victory.

The 1862 ACCOMPLISHMENTS in France
elect by general manhood suffrage sol
deputies every seven years, and the
chamber thus made up cannot be dis
solved at the will of a premier or of
anybody else. Each ACCOMPLISHMENT
elects a deputy and one additional
deputy for each 100000 of population
in excess Of 100000.
The chamber thus elected is the
source of political power in France for
seven years. When the chamber and
cabinet disagree, the cabinet goes
out of office, not the chamber of depu-
ties. There is also in France a senate
or upper house chosen in more select
manner, but it possesses very little
political power. 1t resembles in that
respect ,the House of Lords. In the
election which took place on Sunday
for deputies the moderate republicans,
the TdulCdlS anu tiit iSd'IiohioIo, SdCl
consisting of several groups, put can
didates before the voters. There were
over 1000 candidates for the sol seats,
and one result is second elections,
for a candidate for deputy needs a
majority vote In order to win.
But the returns show gains for the
Bloc or combination of radicals, rep
resented by the Sarrien cabinet. No
doubt exists that the Sarrien ministry
will he sustained. The victory is one
that will be celebrated by all radicals,
including the socialists, and it means
that France is moving more and more
towards popular government. 1t points
to an income tax, to pensions for the
aged, and to a complete separation Of
church and state.
All movements in all parts of the
world make for popular government
No exception can be found, and before
the century is closed the world will be
in the hands of the people, who will
have secured manhood suffrage and
direct voting. Even the United States
is headed that way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
Prissn-Gate Home fer The South.

The trend of effort Is distinctly to-
ward the betterment of fellow-creatures
in this world. All begin to see that
this world offers wide field for altru-
istic endeavor, and Leigh Hunt tells
us that the Abou Ben Adhems in this
world will lead all the rest in the next
world
The Salvation Army is Abou Ben
Adhem in the concrete. 1t seeks to
help the helpless, and in the course of
its deep studies it has decided to estab-
lish in this district a Prison Gate for
the use of the south. The Army has
one in the east and also in the west
and now it proposes to build up one in
the south. 1t will take ex-convicts,
who are whites, as they step from the
door of the penitentiary, and place
them In its home. This home will
embrace a farm, sewing school, a
laundry, machine shops and small in
dustries to be developed as experience
may dictate-the object of the whole
being the transformation of the ex-
convict into a useful citizen. 1t is to
come in between the pententiary and
the rude, unthinking and suspicious
world. 1t will endeavor to prevent the
ex-convict from becoming a danger or
nuisance to society
The Prison-Gate home is a dream Of
Judge Feagin's, and the Salvation
Army in its practical and comprehen-
sive way proposes to turn that dream
into reality in the south. The better
ment of humanity is good work. 1t
involves no dogma, no contention of
any Sort it simply calls for love of
ones neighbor and for the expenditure
of a few needful dollars especially at
the outset. The Salvation Army should
receive here the aid that 1t has a right
to expect. 1t should receive aid from
those who are willing to help those
who are willing to help themselves,
those who prefer to get on their feet
instead of slipping back into crime.
The appeal of the Army for subscrip-
an
trict
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
Back 10 the Mines.

1t seems to be determined that the
resumption of work in the anthracite
mines of Pennsylvania is to be begun
on Monday, May IA to last three years
under the award of the strike commits.
sion which was organized three years
ago at the instance of President Roose-
welt. Judge Gray was its president
and guiding spirit.
Tho settlement of the hard-coal
trouules 'nsures peace in the coal
mimi districts for perhaps three
years to come, for the chief soft coal
districts had accepted the scale pre-
sented by President Mitchell. The
wisdom and skill of President Mitchell
stands again vindicated He became
convinced that public sentiment would
not sustain strike against the award
of the strike commission, and he led
the miners into an acceptance of its
terms for term of three years. The
operators demanded a three-year set
tlement, rather than one of two years.
The miners preferred the shorter
term.
The settlement has not only averted
calamity, but 1t is one that will go
far towards maintaining prosperity in
this country. Labor disturbances are
always harmful, and when the country
sees there are to be none in the imme-
date future, all industries and all trade
will feel beneficial impulse Peace
and prosperity are now assured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
THE THREE FISHERS.

BY Charles Kingsley.
Three fishers went sailing away to the
west,
Away to the west as the sun went
down:
Each thought on the woman who loved
him the best
And the children stood watching them
out of the town;
For men must work. and women must
weep,
And there's little to earn, and many to
keep.
Though the harbor bar be moaring.
Three wives sat up in the lighthouse
tower.
And they trimmed the lamps as the sun
went down:
They looked at the sauall and they looked
at the shower
And the night-rack came rolling up
ragged and brown.
But men must work. and women must
weep.
Though storms be sudden. and waters
deep.
And the harbor bar be moaning.
Three corpses lay out on the shining
sands
In the morning CLEAN as the tide went
down.
And the women are weeping and wringing
their hands
For those who will never come home to
the town:
For men must work and women must
weep.
And .he sooner It's over the sooner to
sleep;
And xoodhy to the bar and its n1nanins
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
Talks About Rirminqhan1.

For even the casual observer who
chances to be here, Birmingham has an
appeal that captures him ere he is aware
and for him who approaches in a serious
mood and with penetrating judgment
sees, the city's treasures and vast posi-
biltfes, Birmingham casts a spell that
never wears off," said c. H. Weland
from Greensboro, S. c., who is stopping
at the Hllman.
Birmingham has all the attractive ele-
ments, continued Mr.. Weand, that
Pittsburg had to start with. What hap
pened there will happen here. There have
been thirty-two millionaires turned out
of the Carnegie company in Pittsburg.
Before many years the same thing will
be done here. The only thing is its absurd
to ship the raw material away from
Birmingham. If the people don't build
industries to take care of their product
outside capital will. It's too good a
chance.
II am completely in love with Birming-
ham. The other day | went over your
new High school with Superintendent J.
III. Phillips. Well, l am a member of the
board of education of Greensboro and
when | got back to the hotel | wrote tine
superintendent at home that | would
give anything If he could see this school
here. Just to see 1t l feel is we'll worth
my trip to Birmingham. 1t is absolutely
the greatest school of its kind that |
have ever seem and the man who planned
it, worked for 1t and built 1t, DR.. Phillips,
is worth as much to Birmingham as
the school itself
II never saw the democratic spirit so
beautifully developed and fostered as l
saw 1t at the High school. In the manual
training department, for instance, | saw
the son of a banker, the son of a car
penter and the son of miner working to-
gether on a wooden coat hanger, and at
the restaurant or lunch room where can
be had sandwich and a glass of milk
for cents, the pupils eat together side
by side. Now don't you know when those
boys grow up there can be no class dis
tinctlons. Men who eat together in time
know and love each other. The boy who
gets to be a mine owner has respect for
the miners work, because he has worked
with him side by side here in this High
school,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
THE POE MONUMENT.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
We are glad to note that Mr.. Charles
Marshall Gravess suggestion for Rich
mond monument to Edgar Allen Poe has
taken definite shape, and that actual
work toward this end is shortly to COM
meuce. The Poe Memorial association,
including as its incorporators some of
the best known and most distinguished
men in Richmond, has received its char
ter of incorporation, and is prepared
to receive funds for the associations
purpose. Poe. with all the high tribute
his genius has received from discrmi-
mating critics everywhere, has been some
what neglected in the way of more
formal and public recognition. Stored
urn and animated bust have been Of
fered to him sparingly; though he himself
has reared him, like Horace, a monu-
ment more lasting than bronze, it is
eminently fitting that the friends of lit
erature should see to ii that he does
not lack this outward and visible symbol
of admiring remembrance. And nowhere,
certainly, could a suitable memorial to
this first of American poets be more
appropriately placed than here in the
city which is most closely connected
with his life and name.
So we wish for the new association the
completest success and bespeak for them
the most cordial support of the COM
munity. Poe has gone where our testi-
monies In marble cannot affect him great
ly, perhaps, but 1t is not too much to
say that in so honoring him, we are
doing no less than honor to ourselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
CAR LINE TO BIRMINGHAM.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
A travelling man was talking in the
lobby of a downtown hotel last evening.
1T is strange to me-" he said, that
while the interurban traction system is
being developed to so great an extent in
the north, and is also being introduced
in the south, that there has never been
suggested a traction line between the
cities of Montgomery and Birmingham. 1t
Is true. the distance between the cities
is great, but distances equally as great
have been covered by the systems in
the north, and | notice that down here
In the south line is now in the planning
between New Orleans and Mobile, and
been already completed.
There a number of towns between
here and Birmingham which, should
judge, would furnish a good revenue on
the line while it is being constructed.
The trade between these two centers of
Alabama Is now something enormous, and
this trade Is bound to increase rapidly as
the state develops. In Ohio Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and
other states. there are roads which are
as long as a line between Birmingham
and Montgomery would be- and often
these lines connect points which would
not furnish as much traffic as would
these two Alabama cities. And yet, all
the roads seem to be paying good divi-
dends on the capital invested, and |
have never heard of an interurban line
which had once been firmly established,
which has ever failed to do enough bust
ness to pay for everything put into it.
There is going to be money In it for
some one some day, when such a road Is
started"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Regarding HomIcides.

Il lived in Richmond, Va. nearly
twenty-five years and during that period
the number of homicides there did not
average more than six a year. said a
well-known citizen of Birmingham
Since coming to Birmingham l have
counted as many as fifty murders in
Jefferson county in one year. This dis
trict is getting a bad reputation and
the pistol toting habit is undoubtedly at
the bottom of It, Richmond, as every
body knows, is a typical southern city.
But the men there who carry concealed
weapons are few indeed. 1t never occurs
to an orderly citizen of Richmond to
carry gun. Public sentiment, TO say
nothing of the law, does not tolerate
pistol toting l think the time has come
when public sentiment in Birmingham
should make 1t next to impossible for
reputable men to go about the streets
armed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
Campaign Funds and Public t.,

The bill that Congress proposes to
pass accepts the principle of publicity
so far as the future is concerned. 1t
is a good bill for the future. reason.
ably good bill at any rate. The repub-
lican party should not be expected TO
pass a drastic bill on the subject.
But the country needs something
retroactive in the way of facts. Retro.
active facts are wholly defensible
even if retroactive laws are not. What
the country wants is the truth, the
whole truth, concerning the campaign
contributions of 1895 1900 and 1904
and the people will not rest until they
have the names of all contributors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
am trusted with muzzle, and en-
franchised with a clog.
Much Ado About Nothing
CRUSHING Competition.

While the powder trust sandbagged
Individual customers no attention was
paid to its operations, but when it as
sailed Uncle Sam also he proceeded TO
investigate its methods. The powder
trusts methods are not at all novel.
All trusts have simply copied the early
and the late plans of the Standard OIL.
All plot to crush the life out of the
lesser concerns, until they are brought
to a point where they will sell their
plants for a song in order to save from
the wreck anything at all.
The government has secured the evil
dence of R. S. Waddell, formerly the
manager of the powder trust, and his
evidence as detailed in Mondays Age
Herald should be read by every one
who desires to know how the trusts
that have arisen under the protecting
wing of Dingleyism and republicanism
operate. The evidence in question
does not wholly relate to distant fac
tories. A good part explains the work
ings of trust methods in this district
how prices are cut In genuine Stand
ard-Oi fashion until competition is
eliminated-how they are then raised
until all losses and expenses are re-
couped from consumers, who are com
PEELED by all trusts to foot all such
bills.
The exposures in the powder trus
are not bit exceptional They are
strictly Standard Oilish, which set tho
pace, and the fashion, and which
stands ready to poke fun at the Presi
dent and to defy the rest of the coun-
try. It's vicious methods have been
extended to nearly all the leading
branches of business until competition
in industries has well-nigh become a
lost feature. For this we are indebted
primarily to Dingleyism. republcanism
and Standard-Oilism, three triplets
with but single thought and that is
plunder--the plundering of the many
for the benefit of the few.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-08
BELL GIRL WoEFULLY GREEN.

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The bell girl in hotel service is dis
tinctly metropolitan innovation. In less
than year she has not only established
raison d'etre as an industrial factor,
but furnishes material for one of Broad
ways most successful dramatic produce
tons. If she continues to make history
at this record-breaking speed humorous
versfer will soon have volume to take
the wind out of his latest offense. "The
Thrills of Bell Boy" in 1.-THE Tribula-
tons of a Bell Girl" Coming without
precedent into hotel service Ribbons Is
having much to learn-much that the
greenest buttons would know by In
stinct. Fancy a bell boy guilty OF the mai
vete of the bell girl, to whom a gentle
man caller gave a note to deliver to a
patron of the womens hotel slipping at
the same time into the little, outstretched
hand a quarter. THE lady kept the note,
sir, but she said she didn't want the
quarter" said Ribbons presenting to the
gentleman tray on which shone the
rejected quarter.