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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-09-08
Richmonders in New York.

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NEW YORK. september Prince
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Hellstern. Miss NJ A. Toye and r. O..
Nelson and wife. Broadway Central L.
A. Page: Hotel Astor. A Pizzini. New
Amsterdam. Miss G.. Jones ANA G. :
Peers: St Denis. L. =. Goodwin: Grand.
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-09-08
Attempted Suicide.

lSnecial TO The Times Dispatch
BLUEFIELD. w. VA September T.
@. w Painter. travelling salesman for
Rouse. Hepstone & Co. OF Baltimore. at
tempted suicide at his room at BluefieId
Inn. to-day by drinking a quantity OF
laudanum. after protracted spree OF
about "a weeks duration
Physicians were summoned and hopes
are entertained for his recovery Pain
ter's home IS at Dublin Va, where he
has wife and one daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
Alaska's First ELECTION.

Yesterday Alaska held her first ter
ritorial election, for Congress before 1t
adjourned had conferred on it full ter
ritorial rights. 1t is now territory
as much so as Arizona or New Mexico.
Yesterdays election was held to elect
a delegate to the Fifty-ninth Congress,
and also one to the Sixtieth.
The area of the new territory just
about equals that of the country east
of the Mississippi river, and the reader
can readily imagine what stumping In
the Alaskan area must be. 1t is diff
cult to go from one district to another
from one city to another, for Alaska
has at present at least a dozen ambi-
tious cities. The total white popula-
ton cannot be less than $4,000.
Both parties have organs, but no one
organ has a circulation beyond its own
mining district, and no one knows
whether the new territory will go re-
publican or democratic. Both sides
claim a majority Of the voters. The
independents had two candidates In
the field in yesterdays election and
they may possibly defeat the party
candidates. The miner is naturally in
dependent, and whoever promises to
do most for Alaska probably won in
Yesterdays election. The bringing of
Alaska into line is no ordinary event,
and after while perhaps the present
territory will be knocking at the door
as a state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15

No. 2 foundry iron for delivery in
November and December has been ad-
vanced to Sis, Birmingham. Thus an
increase of two dollars ton is estab-
lished over the prices of two months
ago. There is still a strong demand
for the metal, but another advance of
two dollars a ton is not probable be-
cause 1t would invite the importation
of iron made in England or Germany.
If the price of iron remains unchanged
in Germany iron could be imported
proftably when No. 2 foundry goes to
$3.50 a ton, Birmingham.
The outlook for the first half of 1907
is full of promise. The truth is, No.
2 foundry can be sold today for deliv-
ery in the early months of that year
on the basis OF $14 a ton. The three
great iron producing countries will
each make a new record this year, and
yet IN all three thSie 10 SViohS "0
mand for the product The United
States will turn out this year 24,500,00
tons. as against record Of 22,992,3SO
in 1905. England will make 10,500,0 900
tons as against record of 9,592,737
tons in 1905. Germany is considered
good for II 100000 tons this year, as
against 10,9S7, 623 tons in 1905. These
three countries make four-flfths of the
worlds iron. and while they are turn
ang out enormous quantities OF It, yet
they are not creating a surplus. All
the year 1907 at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15

our crops. "Our crops last year." says
the New York Times, ''approximated
in value all the gold produced in the
world in thirty years. This years
crops are worth more" The lowest
estimate puts the value of this years
crops at six billions, a sum so large the
mind cannot grasp it, 1t is idle therefore
to consider the moving of such gigan-
tic crops. Here in the south we all
know what a task it is to move and
market the cottHn crop, but that is a
light task alongside the moving of our
colossal wheat and corn crops.
These crops mean that prosperity
will stay with us at least until we know
what the season of 1907 will bring us
in the form of cotton. wheat and corn.
Every steamship will go out loaded
with our agricultural products, and
every available railroad car will be
needed to carry those products to con-
sumers here and elsewhere. The
farmers will have full pockets, and
they will keep the merchants and
manufacturers busy in supplying their
wants of various sorts. In short, the
times will be good, and the purchasing
power of the American people will be
at it's highest. There is no cloud on
the commercial horizon, and the traffic
managers gathered in Chicago are re-
ported to have said that they have
"given up looking for dull seasons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
BRYAN lN 1886 AND 1905.

From the New York World
In 1896 Bryan carried all of the trans
Missouri states except Oregon, North Da-
kota and California. In the last-named
state he received one electoral vote. Yet
a change of a trifie over 5000 votes
from the democratic and populist columns
to the republican might have cost him
six out of ten states in that section where
his strength lay in the one issue of free
silver.
Bryan's majority over Mckinley was
only 223 in South Dakota, $50 in Wyom-
ing, 6439 in Nevada, 12,49S in Washington,
2,935 in Nebraska and 1860 in Kansas.
A change of 1904 votes, to be exact.
might have lost him these six states with
their thirty-two electoral votes and raised
McKinley's vote in the electoral college
from 271 as against Bryans 176 to 1903 as
against Bryan's IA.
Every one of the ten western states that
Bryan carried in 1896 has since become
republican so strongly and safely that
today he could no more carry any one of
them, not even his own state, Nebraska,
than he could establish free and unlimited
coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to l
with or without the concurrence of any
other nation. In 1904 Roosevelt's majority
over Parker in Colorado was 34,5S2, in
Idaho 29,9OS, in Kansas 126,093, in Mon
tano 1853, in Nebraska S6,6S2, in Ne
vada 1856, in South Dakota SOFIA. in Utah
29,031 in Washington 73442, in Wyoming
II ,563
All of these western states that Bryan
carried in 1896 will elect congressman this
fall, and Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,
Nevada, South Dakota and Wyoming Will
choose governors.
Would 1t not be wiser for democratic
state conventions to wait until after the
November elections to see whether Mr..
Bryan's candidacy and popularity will
change any of the states now republican,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
OUT WITH THE BUCKET SHOP.
The bucket shops must go.

The
young
the banks in his keeping
of the call for margins
unate fellow threatened with He pecuated
than Exposure position
scented itself like n
all sides of HMM his notices
before him poor
counted from the banks
Deeper and deeper he went until
gambling the
wheel the player
bucket there He
The bucket has old the south than
all other combined
Alabama likewise. The movement made and Is
swelling Aldermen take
ter tonight
Issue bucket licenses
that it will be adopted Then the legislature
Nathan MIers leadership
Georgia This appears In full seems
selling Of investment at
grain gambling
the quicker Birmingham Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
Prices and The Tariff

The prices of staples are still adj
vRncing. At the opening of the pres
snt month sixty-five articles were
higher than they were one year ago,
twenty-four were lower, and eighteen
remained unchanged. The prices of
107 staples, covering all the neces-
saries of life, are trihe over As per
cent higher than they were in 1896.
At no time in the last fourteen years
has the cost of living been so high as
It is today.
Although crops are large and prom
Using, including the corn crop, the
prices of beef, milk, pork, hams, eggs,
and cheese were all advanced In the
month of July This shows what COM
bines can accomplish in the teeth of
great crops. Coffee, sugar, tea, salt,
rice, and tobacco were also advanced.
Supply and demand are not the sole
makers of prices, for the modern trust
can Guido either in putting prices up
So long as the people have not sense
enough to tear down the Chinese Wall
that bears the name of the late Mr..
Dingley, so long they must have priv
ate monopolites. and private monop-
olies mean higher prices and an in
creased cost of living. 1t is idle to talk
about curbing them. while we retain
the tariff scheme that renders posi-
BILE nine out of every ten of them
Those who desire to reduce the cost
of living should keep their voting arm
ready to smite Dingleyism at every OF
portunity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
Good Times to Continue.

The government reports just issued
promise us 772, 264 900 bushels of wheat
and 2,713,194,000 bushels of corn. Oats
will be harvested in abundance, and
the cotton crop will meet the demands
of a naked world. The wheat crop
promises to be $4,000 900 bushels larger
than the record breaking crop of 1901,
and the major part of it is harvested.
Only spring wheat remains to be gath
cred in.
Not only does the wheat crop hold
out the promise of cheap bread, but It
promises to add one hundred million
bushels to our available exports. Be-
yond doubt we have this year made
more wheat than Russia which is our
only great and near rival In wheat pro.
duction Last year Russia grew $685.
$4,000 bushels, and it is not believed
her crop is larger this year because of
disturbed conditions. In 1904 she out
ranked us in wheat growing but this
year we probably outrank her by at
least one hundred million bushels.
There is world of solid wealth in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
Additional Court Facilities.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Report has come to me today that a
petition is being circulated and an en-
dorsement of my opponent for the demo
cratic nomination for state senator
asked and that the statement is being
made as an inducement to get signers
thereto, that l am opposed to increasing
the court facilities for this county.
l wish to say that 1 am and have been
for several years In favor of an increase
in the court facilities of our county. and
this fact is generally known. All persons
making contrary statements misrepresent
me The author of said report has never
made any inquiry of me as 10 my posi-
ton. NATHAN l.. MILLER.
August a. 1906
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15

against It, In the House the bill went
through unanimously.
The President recently boosted that
he had signed eight great measures.
Besides those already mentioned he
named the consular reform, Panama
canal legislation, joint statehood and
naturalization bills. Only one of these
was in any sense of the word a party
bill. In the Senate % democrats and
10 republicans united to defeat 20 re-
publicans in pushing through a state
hood bill that left Arizona free to stay
in or out of the union. In all the eight
bills there was not therefore any divis-
ion on party lines. Not one of them
was a party measure or a party vic
tory. Every one of them would have
been passed as readily If the demo
Gratis had been in control as they were
with the republicans in control. The
chief difficulty in passing each was the
overcoming of republican opposition.
That had to be met and Modified in
one way or another, and then each of
the eight bills went through without
opposition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
Eiuht Non-Party Measures.

The republican party, which has been
in partnership for a generation with
trusts of one sort or another, is claim
ing credit for the passage of the rail-
road rate bill, the meat-inspection bill,
the pure food BILL and the free alcohol
bill. In very truth these were non
party measures. The facts are plain
and uncontestible
The railroad rate bill was passed in
the House by vote of 346 to 7, all the
negative votes being cast by republi-
cans. In the Senate the vote stood II
to 8. One of the negative voters is a
republican, and the other two are our
own Alabama Senator'S, who opposed
the bill on states rights grounds.
The meat-inspection bill was passed
without a roll-call in either House or
Senate. 1t went through technically
speaking unanimously, although the
newspaper reports on the day of pas
sage said that one democrat in the
House was opposed to it.
The free alcohol bill was also passed
without dissenting vote in either
House No division was called for, the
roll was not called.
The pure food bill was passed by
the Senate, the vote being IS to 4. One
republican and three democrats voted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
Gas In Alabama.

North Alabama promises some great
things in the near future in the produce
ton of oil and natural gas" said W. L..
Ellis of the Alabama Coal and oil COM
pany at the Morris hotel last night.
"A large company operating in Madison
county struck gas yesterday at 400 feet.
The supply is said to be about one mil
lion feet per day. This company has eight
wells near Huntsville, all furnishing large
quantities Of gas. The company was boring
for oil but striking gas in such quantities
that the boring was hindered, the wells
were plugged and others begun with like
results.
"A few days ago the company secured
gas franchise from the city of Hunts
Vile. and now follows the striking of an
unusual quantity of gas within mile and
a half Of the city. The first wells sunk
are several miles from the city.
1.-THE Alabama Coal and Oil company is
preparing to mine coal in Walker and
Winston counties, but later on will sink
some oil wells"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15

FRlSco's CROP OF GENIUS.
Second Only to New York In vigor and
Freshness OF Its Literature.

New York is of course the great Ameri-
can market for literary wares, says e. S.
Martin in Appleton's Magazine. There is
also u measure of hospitality shown to
writers and their products in Boston,
Philadelphia, Chicago and Indianapolis.
But San Francisco for thirty years past
has beaten all four of these subsidiary
literary centers in the freshness and vigor
of its inspirations.
1t has had an ocean of its own to
stimulate its imagination, a new country
behind and about 1t and an adventurous
and virile population that likes to
live its own life in it's own way and
dream and live its own romances.
1t has had money too. 1t has sent out
its ENJOYS to view the world land a good
many of them have stayed away, and
because it has been one of the worlds
great starting places and landing places 1t
has viewed habitually from it's own door
step pretty much every kind OF human
creature that has been worth looking at.
Altogether, San Francisco has been like
no other city of our republic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15

~ FEMININE celebrity of the stage
AY1A who has had experience and
seems to be well informed of the
Saets asserts that tights are insanitary.
Furthermore, she creates anxiety by pre-
dieting that the time is approaching rap
idly when they will be obsolete. On just
what grounds the charges against tights
are based Is a matter of some doubt to
one who has never worn them and does
not know professional ethics. Such gar
ments always did hold a subtle appeal
for the eye. When worn numerously on
the stage beneath suitable lights and
carried through those maneuvers over
which press agents rave, they serve a
purpose which could not, perhaps, be 50
happily advanced In any other way. Va
riety is. demanded in these progressive
times and it may be that the doom of
tights is sealed, for we have remarked
more than once here of late a tendency
on the part of fathers of musical comedy
to use skirts instead. One can readily
imagine tights making last stand in bur-
lesque houses and then eventually flick
ering away into the obseurity of a past
epoch. When that day comes to pass
there will be no need to censor the bill
boards and the qualifications required
of a chorus girl will be more than figu-
rative.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
Government Bills.

'Have you ever tried the strGAgth OF
the paper on which the government
makes it's money!" said Ben Freeman
last evening. ut is stronger than the
average citizen lmagines Once upon a
time man offered me thousand dollar
note if l could twist it in two pieces. l
thought at first that he was merely
joking. but when he insisted | tried. I
thought it would be easy. However, 1
started twisting the ends, and soon got
the note into a tight wad.
II twisted and l twisted, but it did not
come apart. l finally gave up in disgust,
and the laugh was on me. Try it some
day A bill of less denomination is just
as difficult to handle'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
IMPORTANT BIRMINGHAM ISSUE.

From the Alabama Christian Advocate.
A fight is on in Birmingham for the
better regulation of the saloon evil, and
naturally the people who are concerned
as to the moral interests of the city are
anxious as to the result. At a recent meet
ing of the city council an ordinance was
adopted prohibiting pool tables and SIM
liar games from being operated in con-
nection with saloons. The saloon In
terests are protesting against the enforce
ment of this law, and an effort for its re-
peal will be made at a meeting of the
City Council Wednesday evening of this
week
Mayor George B. Ward stands for the
enforcement of this law and we trust that
a majority of the council will stand with
him.
The Advocate has on several occasions
commended Mayor Ward for the fearless
stand he has taken for the enforcement
of law and the moral betterment of Bir-
mingham. He deserves commentator.
and should have assurance of the en-
dorsement of the best citizens of this
city.
The ordinance recently adopted means
much for Birmingham. 1t is designed to
do away with the social feature of the
saloon, cut out the dice, cards and pool
games which makes these places loafing
rooms for the idle and criminal classes
of the district.
Mayor Ward in recent statement says:
are informed on such matters estimate
that 80 per cent of the arrests come from
and are caused by these dives"
The interests of Birmingham call for
this ordinance. This city has an unenvia-
BILE reputation before the world because
merely a financial standpoint the people
of this city should demand such an ordi-
nance. The cost of extra police force need
ed and the expense of the prosecution of
these cases is no small item when we
consider that these conditions are respon-
sble for four-ffths of the arrests. At
a time when workmen are needed by
practically every industrial plant and cor
poration in the district these places are
encouraging idleness and giving a means
of livelihood to the criminal classes.
Have they any claim, therefore on the
people who are making Birmingham, the
men who are investing their money here,
the citizens who are law abiding, indus
trious and sober? VIII the interests of
these people who are doing most to injure
the name of our city outweigh the claims
of our best citizenship Let the people of
Birmingham who are leally contributing
to the progress of the city speak out.
Let Mayor Ward and the men who stand
with him know that they have your sup
port and your active endorsement in this
matter You have right to be heard,
and the interests of the city demand that
you speak.
Birmingham leads the cities of Ala
bama in material progress. Let her lead
in the more important matters of safe
guarding the life and property interests
of her people. Citizens of Birmingham,
you have your opportunity here. Stand
by your Mayor and the men who with
him are committed to this ordinance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
FOREVER.

By John Boyle O'Reilly.
Those we love truly never die,
Though year by year the sad memorial
wreath
A ring and flowers, types Of life and
death,
Are laid upon their graves.
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead:
A friend he has whose face will never
change
A dear communion that will not grow
strange
The anchor OF a love is DEATH
The blessed sweetness of loving breath
VIII reach our cheek all fresh through
weary years,
For her who died long since, ah, waste
no tears.
She's thine unto the end.
Thank God for one dead friend,
With face still radiant with the light Of
truth,
Whose love comes laden with the scent
of youth,
Through twenty years OF death.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Summer Cigars.

Since it is our habit to adapt ourselves
to the heated season in the matter of
clothing, food and so forth, why not
smoke summer cigars?" said a man last
night.
For this purpose the stogie nils the bill.
It also lessons It, as you viii find, at the
end Of the month But merely as an aid
to solid comfort the stogie is the limit.
Compared with the heat of the regulation
1o-eenter the stogle Is a gentle zephyr.
1t hasn't quite the same air of dignity
as big cigar, but a mans dignity some-
times melts any way with his collar
"stogies make plenty of smoke, too.
When you get them started they burn
like punk That may be one of the in
gradients. Any how they are cooling A
big cigar, like a miniature furnace, not
only keeps you hot about the nose but 1t
burns up the oxygen which you should
breathe. The stogie is the solution of the
summer smokers troubles"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-15
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden News; In most cases it does
not profit a man very much to be a near
relative of a multi-millionaire
Mobile Register: The The car feels
that after all strong government is a
good thing to have about the house.
Admission STAR One by one the state
conventions indorse Bryan for president.
In fact, the party seems practically
unanimous for him. With Bryan and
Roosevelt It will be a battle worth seeing.
Montgomery Advertiser: An es-
teemed contemporary wastes half a
column of editorial space to prove that
Roosevelt has been inconsistent on the
tariff. We say wastes" because his in
consistency and lodging has been too
plain to need proof
Mobile Herald: Montgomery is go
ing to work with a will for
the purpose of increasing the popu-
laton of that city 100000 by the
year 1910. Last week brought more babies
to that city than ever before so the Ad-
vertiser says. That beats foreign immi-
grafton
Mobile 1tem From what can be
learned through the exchanges. Edi-
tor Horace Hood, of the Mont
gomery Journal seems to be in the
lead for the position of state auditor,
which is to be voted for on August q.
Editor Hood is a brother of Mr. Law
renee Hood a well known and highly re-
spected citizen of Mobile. and his vote in
this county promises to be unusually
heavy, his friends being confident that
he will lead the ticket with Mr. Conner.
Montgomery Journal There are
now in the United States nearly
five million of women who are en-
gagged in gainful pursuits, such as mer-
camille, Industrial and professional. This
is good showing, when it is remembered
that it is only in the recent past since
woman has entered these occupations.
Until within the last half century in this
country women were restricted to such
occupations as might strictly be termed
domestic service, with the possible ex-
ception of labor with the needle. The
United States has taken the lead in open
ing the paying occupations to woman,
and the action of the United States gov
eminent in giving employment to women
in the departments at Washington has
helped along wonderfully this work, and
as the country grows, the opportunities
for women In business, and in gainful
occupations increases proportionately, and
women have proven themselves equal to
their opportunities.