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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
The CHICAGO Grain Market.

CHICAGO, H., June 15-Wheat
S2B, S2B; Corn SO, 53A; Oats 40,
4O5s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
SOME STRANGE FUELS,

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 'I have eaten mutton cooked on fire of broken mummy" said the sailor. "It was in Egypt and the mummy was stolen out of a comb. The natives are always stealing mummies. They sell them in pieces to tourists. and what pieces they can't dispose of otherwise they throw into the bin for fuel.
 Mummy burns like finder, but it's . ghastly fuel. It Is as ghastly fuel as the shoe lasts what they burn in the shoe- maxim town of Lynn, where the old- fashioned and discarded lasts, glowin' in the grates, look to you like amputated hu- man trilbies.
 ''I have been in tannery towns where the fuel is leather chips. This fuel smells and smokes. It clinkers, too. forming It. self into big, solid chunks what have to be broke up with the poker every little while.
 Tn British Columbia, where fish is as plentiful as air. they burn dried fish when there's no wood handy. The oil in the fish causes them to burn we'll but the smell of this fish fuel an't to no white mans taste"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
Good Roads for Alabama.

The North Alabama Good Roads as- sociation is to meet in this city on October IT, and it is hoped that every county in the north half of the state will send a strong delegation. Direc- tor Page of the government service will attend the convention, and he will no doubt explain his object-lesson roads recently completed at Union town, Snow Hill and Anniston.
 Surely North Alabama needs better roads, and the way to it lies through study, consultation and cooperation. A strong delegation from each North Alabama county will give the reform a lift that may lead on to fine results | he value and true economy of good roads is imperfectly understood and the coming convention will endeavor to add to the stock of enlightenment O.. that important subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06

l (republan), 137O49. About 15,OOO
 votes ere cast for two socialist can
 didate and a prohibitionist, The last
 name'polled, however, but 729 votes.
 MrHearst is now the democratic
 candate, and Tammany is support
 ing i'm warmly Last year he had l the upport of the radicals of both of
 thegreat parties. If to this radical
 st,ngth is to be added the democratic
 we, he will poll about 450,000 votes, al Hughes will be left to hold
 te bag with but 150,000 votes in it.
 his would give Hearst 300,00O ma )rity in New York city. If, however, he polls 350,000 votes in New York, and Hughes gets 250,000 votes, it will be exceedingly difficult on the part of .he republicans to head him in the upstate counties, which contain a dozen good-sized cities. MT. Hearst seems a winner, but New York state is not easy to the prophets, and big ;lush fund may carry Hughes along further than is now anticipated by close observers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
Tedious Visitors.

"The wet weather we have had lately has developed a plague of flies and idlers that swarm my office all day." said an attorney yesterday.
 Isn't it strange that people don't know when their company becomes tedious? I had man come In this forenoon, a regu- lar client and he remained at least two hours after our business conversation was closed, I turned over papers, took down books, went out and came back, but there he remained. talking about matters that had not the least interest for me and very little for him.
 T remember seeing the play Lord Dundreary' acted by Sohtern. His lord ship was represented as being a sort of save him from that charge. The scene was in an office, the interview was closed, the visitor was due to leave. Instead of going, the visitor renews the topic Cutting off the speaker his lordship says, The con- versation is over; I hate a man that doesn't know when the conversation IS over'
 What would I have given today for the courage to tell my client that the con- versation was over, but I knew If l did, 1t would be all over between him and me so far as future business was con- cerned.
 1T am told young ladies have the same complaint to make about young men Who call and don't know when to leave"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH MUSIC

From the New York Sun.
 In conversation with an American visl- tor recently Plus X. declared himself well satisfied with the progress of the rehabiii- tation of the Gregorian chant in the Roman Catholic churches of this coun- try At the same time he significantly as- serted that he was not in favor of the complete exclusion of all church music other than the Gregorlan: all that he asked was that there should be nothing worldly. Doubtless 1t has been the mis- fortune of the Pope to hear the inter- mezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana' tor tured into an Ave Maria"
 These utterances in regard to the use of other music than the plain chant ought to serve to clear up misconception which has been widespread. That Plus K would try to throw back the march of musical progress more than three centuries was hardly to be believed The Roman Catholic church was the mother of modern music. Musical science was first cultivated in Europe by priests seeking to build up liturgy by their church. It was inevitable that in doing this they should little by little discover the combinations of tones lying at the basis of harmony and coun- terpoint It was equally inevitable that having found them they should utilize them. Thus they led the movement away from the plain chant and carried music toward that splendid ear in which the works of Palestrina and Orlando D'Lasso was produced.
 These compositions remain to this day the models for all composers of liturgical music. They are heard often in the Sis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
MUCH-TRAVELED REDSKINS,

From the New York World.
 A party of some sixty "traveled Amer jeans" returned Monday from Europe, where they had been personally conducted by Col. William F. Cody. They had been three years making the grand tour, and found themselves no more at home in New York than in Paris or Vienna.
 For that matter, band of Sioux h. dians is almost as much of a curiosity to New Workers as to Europeans. The stage redskln of Broadway bears about the same truth to nature as the real blanket Indian of the western plains to Broad ways conception of dramatic fitness.
 After years of careful training with Buff falo Bilrs unparalleled aggregation, of course, his Sioux are dramatic artists. That is what they are paid fon It would be a great joke on their tribe of they were to repeat one of their eastern per- formances on Dakota reservation. Since the white man killed most of their game and some of their fathers and brothers, and benevolent government took to issu- ing to them beef, overalls and blankets, it IS HO lOllStl tiiS iaSiiiSii iVi PoiitSu say ages to rush about uttering war-whoops at the sight of a white man.
 The principal noble red men who live up to the traditions of the noble red men outside of Buffalo Bills well-raked arena are those that cut up their ferocious antics in the back yards of respectable parents who do not object to having their lawns tramped down and their chickens shot so lnnG tha house is quiet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
Fiuures from New York.

Two years ago when New York elected a governor, she cast for that purpose 1.617,7S6 votes. Over one third of those votes were cast in New York city. In last years mayoralty election in the city over 600,000 votes were cast, and the registration foot ed up 647,000. In the gubernatorial election of two years ago the upstate vote neutralized the city vote and gave Higgins, the republican nominee, a plurality of about S0,000.
 The interesting question at present relates to the balance between the up, state and the city vote, and there are really no guides, no tests, no prece- dents, for the student who attempts to forecast the remarkable canvass to go by.
 In last years mayoralty election the vote in New York city was as follows Mcclellan (democrat), 22S,651; Hearst (municipal ownership. 225,l65; Twins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
Hiuh School Lecture Course.

The Birmingham lyceum has planned a course of twelve lectures, to be given in the capacious high school auditorium, and tickets for the course are offered to the public at the low rate of two dollars.
 The rate Is low because the lectures and entertainments are to be careful ly selected by Dr. Phillips and his as- sociates. Twelve entertainments at two dollars is less than seventeen cents each, and surely that is low price for instruction and entertain ment by some of the best talent in the country.
 This city should see to 1t that the lecture course of this season should be well sustained. It has not been or gagnized for profits sake, for any sur plus will go towards another course of lectures, and not into anybody's S pocket. The very best people in the lecture world will be brought here, and the course tickets should be free ly absorbed by our people. The high school auditorium should be filled at every entertainment, and in order to do that regardless of weather 1t Is necessary to place a handsome num- Der of tickets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
Hlqh Pressure Life.

'For years said man last night, 'the trend of population in the United States has been toward the cities. Peo- pie have grown tired of tbeir rural homes and have moved to the towns, where business opportunities are greater and educational advantages superior; where they could live in the midst of their neigh bors, where life is more alluring and all that makes for culture and pleasure could be found in the highest develop ment.
 Thus reople have listened to the cal, of the cities They have abandoned the country with its repose and simpler modes of life and have become immersed in a fercer struggle for existence in the con gested centers. And this high-pressure life is telling on the nation.
 Tt Is in the cities that nerves are stretched to the snapping point; it Is in the city that there is more misery than happiness, and it is there that insanity is increasing with such alarming rapidity. Scientists are gathering statistics to show that if conditions remain unchanged in a short number of years more than half of the people will be in insane asylums, and they are preaching the gospel of re- taxation as the only hope.
 But out of these overwrought con- ditions is coming the logical correction Nature has way of curing all disorders. Just as her physical forces are kept in balance so will the equilibrium of so- ciety be restored. Now she is calling her erring children, and slowly but surely some part of the tide of population Is ebbing back to her bosom"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Horse Show.


 The Horse Show at the coming State Fair will be one of the most brilliant Horse Shows ever seen in the south, and will open the eyes of all who at- tend it as well as thoroughly delight them remarked a man who loves pretty horses. yesterday.
 T have seen the programme for the Horse Show for each night during Fair week, and l must say that General Man ager Williams has arranged the finest and most varied programme I have ever seen. The premiums are well thought out and adjusted to each class and the cups and trophies are handsomer than have ever been offered before.
 "fhe Fair association has spared no ex- pense to give the people of this city the best exhibition possible, and with the free concerts every night by Kopps splen- did band, the Horse Show will be an entertainment well worth seeing. The pre- mium list for the Horse Show alone az gregates. I am told, over 5000 and, in view of the fact that the association, be- sides the above, will offer s12,OOO in racing premiums, as well as several thousand dollars for the live stock, agricultural poultry and womans exhibits, I think bama are under obligations to the Stale Fair management for the liberality and lavishness with which they have pro- vided entertainment for the coming State Fair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
GARAGE ROW,
Changes the Automobile Has Effecte d
 in Upper Broadway.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Upper Broadway, between Forty-second street and Seventy-second street, has been named Garage row by the automobillsts In the last two years automobile garages have sprung up there at a great rate.
 Most of the ground which the garages now occupy was vacant lots a couple of years ago, some with squatters' shanties on them. Then one automobile manufac- turer erected a temporary garage above Fifty-ninth street It was hit from the start, and other manufacturers followed suit and erected garages.
 At first the garages were only tempora- ny affairs, the majority being only two stories high As business increased sub stantial buildings took the place of the temporary ones.
 Each builder tried to outdo his rivals in the appearance of his garage, with the result that some of the garages resemble private dwellings more closely than busi- ness buildings.
 When all of the available vacant ground was utilized the manufacturers were com pelled to look elsewhere Some of them bought up buildings which were being used for other branches of business and transformed them into garages. One of them transformed livery stable into a garage while another purchased a flat house. and after overhauling the entire lower part turned 1t Into a garage.
 At that time the garage line extended north only to Sxty-sixth street. Today garages are being erected all the way up Broadway. One company is building at Seventieth street and Broadway.
 Most of the garages are four or five sto- ries high, with a deep cellar for storing gasoene and oil. where electric sparks or fire can't get at them
 The buildings are all of fire-proof con- struction with steel frames and concrefe floors.
 In some of the streets off that part of Broadway there is so much auto traffic through them daily that the asphalt Is stained dark brown from the oil and grease which drip from the machines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
MT. RockefelIer's Proqramme.

The Rockefeller interview in the Cleveland Plain Dealer means, when analysed, that the strong should be permitted to exploit the weak in this country without limit or regulation in order that our export trade may thrive. Private monopoly Is needful, and any attempt to control or regu- late it would be wrong and hurtful.
 He of course believes that his mo- nopoly in oil should be maintained even promoted-but in order to dis play his surprising unselfishness, he does not mention oil but he does men tion meats. He tells an astonished country that "The Jungle raid should never have been made, and that the home people should have gone on eat ing stinking, nasty and even rotten meats, to the end that our foreign trade should prosper. The real NOChelelleI udluIt, slSepeu III JTuSlS and monopolistic methods, stands out in this interview, and so does his al legged and much-vaunted Christianity. He never laid claim to any degree of humanity, and the interview does him no diseredit Tn that respect.
 He also declares himself law breaker. He boasts that he evades the processes of the courts. He de- clares the courts out of order, because they are in his opinion seeking noto- riety. This is certainly an easy way to abolish al. law that is troublesome, and to live regardless of it. But if this is not plain anarchy, pray what is it? If all did likewise, where would society soon be?
 The Standard oil magnate talks himself into positions that are abso- lutely indefensible in the plain people, whatever they may be in billionaire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
ABsENT-MINDED PROFESSOR.

From the Washington Post.
 The absent minded professor we have always with us. but George Washington university lays claim to the prize pack age. Not only is Prof. x. absent minded to marked degree. but his wife is the typical absent minded professors wife. It Is she who places his books ready for the day, she who changes the buttons to fresh shirt. reminds him of the ne- cessity of an umbrella when he starts out in the pouring rain, and she who runs out to the gate with his glasses seven days in the week.
 As usual. one day recently she prepared his morning bath, and through some over sight left the hot water spigot turned on. Prof. X. entered the bathroom. dsen- gagged himself from his bath robe, and plunged Into the tub. Instantly the air was rent by wild shrieks, and his wife ran upstairs, breathlessly inquirng the cause of such a commotion.
 "O Margaret" he exclaimed. "the wa ter is boiling hot. I am being scalded to death.'
 Where in the world are you, dear?' said the now thoroughly alarmed wife.
 Tn the tub, and the water is scalding me. What shall I do?"
 Tn such a case, my dear" responded his better half, 'I would either get out of the tub or turn on the cold wat.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
From the New York Mall.

From the New 1ork Mall.
 N\ RATUITOUS and misplaced scorn
 S is being heaped by some of our - contemporaries on the chorus man" Truth to tell, he is not an impos- ing figure in comic opera or musical com- edy. He is tolerated on the stage only as a background, merry villager, sol- dier, a brigand, one of group of col- lege students. Occasionally he gets in the foreground, playing opposite the mem- bers of> a Florodora or other sextette, but even there the smiles and wiles of his charming partner are not for him, but for the collective masculinity on the far ther side of the footlights.
 What we object to, however, Is the as sumption that just because, dramatically, he belongs to the ranks of unskilled la bor, the chorus man Is deemed beneath contempt. As a matter of fact, he fares nearly as well as the men principals in musical comedy. The trouble Is with his sex, not his salary. Who cares anything about the basso or baritone or tenor in the musical hodge-podges of the moment respectively the father, the neglected suitor and the accepted lover of the girl in thes case? These gentlemen may sing and gesticulate and attitudinize as ferv ently as they please, but the eyes and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
TRIBUTE TO SOUTHERN HOG.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 When the southern hog at last comes to the knife he dies in a good cause Men may praise the capon of France, the .'roast beef of old England,' the steaks of Chicago, and the wienerwursts of Coney Island but they do not tempt the epicure who really appreciates the flavor of old Virginia ham. Whether boiled or served in appetizing wafers, broiled in slices of rare excellence or fried With gravy that makes you smack your mouth. the Virginia ham is thing to be treas- ured and cherished by the man who loves good things to eat. From the frying pan there arises a matchless aroma that is as grateful to the smell as the finished product is delicious to the taste. Vir- ginia ham is food fit for the gods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
DOING THE RIGHT THING BY BOB.

From the Cooleemee (N. O Banner
 Miss Jennie Jones and Bob Henry were married at the Jones mansion last night The bride is the daughter of our consta- ble, Jones, who made good officer and will undoubtedly be reelected next spring He offers a fine horse for sale in an other column. The groom runs grocery store on Main street, and is good patron of our advertising columns and has good line of bargains this week. All the summer he paid cents more for butter than any other store in town. The happy couple left on the 10 o'clock train for MIL waukee to visit the brides uncle who is reported to have lots Of money ana Brights disease. Bob certainly has an eye for business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06

tine chapel. and no man could dwell long In the domain of the Vatican without coming under their mighty sway. After the introduction of the orchestra and the solo voice into the Roman mass the descent from the lofty level of Palestrlna. was gradual but sure. Styles of composl- ton utterly out of keeping with the church spirit were used, and even where there was a feeling of profound religion there, was an absence of the Roman Catholic fdea as notably in the case of Bachs great minor mass.
 Nevertheless. since Palestrina's day many admirable pieces of ecclesiastical music have been composed. and it seeraed altogether improbable that the Pope would be willing to part with these and order his church back to the mono tonous pro- clamations of the plain chant A part of every service can be effectively delivered in plain song, especially since the Soles- mes fathers have restored the correct method of intonng 1t. But there always should be room for the employment in the service of the church of the loftiest. music that human genius can create To that the church is entitled by reason of her position as the mother of modern mu- Sical art
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
Cost of Intervention.

Cuban revenues are about 5000 ,000 a month. and there is said tobe $12,- 100000 in the treasury to bein with But if Cuba must pay all the damages don, by the revolutionists b foreign owned railroads, plantations and oth- CT property, the Cuban fund will soon be exhausted.
 Even admitting that thre will be no armed resistance to American oc- cupation of the island, yet the cost of sending troops and supplies to Cuba will be heavy. If we send there 10,- 900 troops, a high treasury official puts the ultimate cost tt $50,000,000. If we send there 25,O0O men, the cost will be $100,000,OO The sum, what ever 1t may prove to De, will not be paid out at once, but will be taken from the treasury.
 To say that to the cost of giving Cuba freedom shall be added addition al millions, with the prospect of an- other revolution in the island in the near future, is not pleasant pros pect.
 Annexation or the payment of all bills connected with occupation are the alternatives before Cuba. The Ameri- can people will not stand any more Cuban nonsense when they have tc foot the bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-06
The Hunting Spirit.

"It is now that the blood of the hunter begins to run high said a citizen last night. "and the city man, who should have stayed on the farm. is longing for the old fields, the faithful dogs, the sight of fat partridge along the barrel of that trusty gun, and the throbbing heart and quickened spirits which come as the bird hutters down through the leaves and the shot is proved true.
 But the greatest torture imaginable is that which Is suffered by the man who must pass every day through the scenes of a huntsman's joys, and yet never get out to revel in it's pleasures. I speak of the motormen on the subur- ban electric cars.
 "The other day I was amused to watch a motorman on the North Bessemer line who was suffering with this fever. When we came to a wet weather pond in which a number of wild ducks were swimming, the poor fellow stopped his car, held a large crowd of passengers waiting while he got out to chunk" rocks, and when they rose to fly away, stood watching them with longing eyes, then becoming conscious, blushed red and returned to his duty
 Further on as we passed a field of low grass where flocks of quail are often feeding he opened the left hand door, slowed down the car to a snail's pace, and listened for the whir of rising GOV ey as if the old setter was there In front and the gun was leveled in the direction of his nose. At the next crossing where a car was waiting on the siding, it took several minutes for the enthusiast to describe to his fellow motorman the game that he had seen.
 Poor fellow If I could run a car would take his place and give him a week in his element"