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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
The Money Market.

Henry Clew's Wall street letter for the week ending Saturday, says:
 Previous to Secretary Shaws offer to deposit s26, COG, ,0OO with the banks until the monetary pressure Is over. operations in the stock market had been materially checked by a series of adverse influences. Continued high money rates; practical cessation of gold imports; disturbances in Cuba, and the opening of an exciting political campaign all contribute to im- pede bullish operations. While there had been no change In general conditions af- fecting the prosperity of the nation, there was a decided abatement of the bullsh feeling so prominent two or three weeks ago. The monetary outlook remains the key to the situation, Indications continue to multiply showing the tremendous ex- pansion of credit in the United States. The last statement of the national banks in the United States. giving their condition on September 4, shows that the loans of these institutions have increased over $500 100000 in about a year. During the same period deposits have increased abou. $3S0 0O0, GOO, while cash reserves decreased $40, ,000, GOO; the reserves of the country as whole thus being below any time with in the last two years Nor is this all. Ow- ing to our increased facilities for borrow ing abroad, our own banks are no longer a true index of the credit situation. It Is a fact, which cannot be too carefully kept in mind, that we are depending upon for
 
 far exceeding that of any previous year. Carefully made estimates indicate that our borrowings abroad now aggregate be- tween s4OooOo.0O0 and $500, 100000, or fully s100 100000 more than the unusual figures reached two years ago. Such an astonish- ing expansion of credit certainly calls for great caution, notwithstanding the many satisfactory conditions which exist at home. -
 There is nothing unsatisfactory in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
PULLMAN STOCK.

From the Boston Transcript.
 :, The Pullman company stock has made a new high record, selling up to 266, an ad- vance of 2.50 per share in two days and of $4S from early July. Once more there is expectation of division of the large surplus, accumulated in excess of per cent dividends paid. The theory that some kind of a plum" to shareholders was coming led to a rise last year of BPS in price just before the annual meeting in October, and disappointment at nonaction caused a decline of $40. Now 1t develops that in the year just ended the company earned approximately over IA per cent with which to pay s, that 1t has accumulated some $27,0O0,000 surplus since the last is- sue of new stocq and division of sur plus at the time of the combination with the Wagner company in 1s99 Sale of it's real estate under court order will add to this heavy surplus. and as there is dis position in Illinois to tax the surplus. the belief that distribution Is about due is strengthened. Once more the street ar gues that "the tape tells the story" It is wonderful company. this Pullman; 1t has had a great share of the heavy busi- ness caused by railroad demands for equipment. Always a prominent invest ment security In New England-somewhat over one-quarter of the stock Is held in this section-it Is unique in the list of stocks in that it sells on basis of but per cent net return at current high price. Our most select "gilt-edged" rail- road issues here. like Boston and Provi- oil NJ England stocks net more than this. and they are free of tax to the individual stockholder in this commonwealth, which Pullman Is not. It Is a great record for an industrial" but, then, there are few industrials in its class, or few stocks generally. Stockholders have had no rea- son to complain; Pullman has treated them lberally in the past. and now it seems likely to give yet another substan- tial distribution in some form.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
At Pensacola.

Among the officers of the Salvation army in Birmingham attending the southern congress of that organization Is Capt. R. Norris commanding the Pensacola corps. Captain Norris is just from Pensacola. He was there during the terrific storm of last Wednesday and Thursday, which &C., cording to current report damaged Pen sacola alone to the extent of upwards of a million dollars or more A like or even greater damage resulted to Mobile, and many towns along the Mississippi coast suffered approximately.
 Captain Norris said: "The most impress sive thing about the storm from the point of view of the spectacular was the sight of deep-draught ocean-going vessels which, being driven helplessy by the ter rif1ce gale, rode into the streets of the town on the waters of the bay. Many of them were stranded several hundred yards from the water front. Two fishing smacks, drawing eight feet, were left in one of the city parks. There are as many, perhaps. as fifty vessels of all kinds with In the town. Practically all of the houses facing the bay were swept away.
 "The loss of life when all are account ed for will probably exceed fifty. At one time Wednesday night water must have been fully twelve feet deep in the streets as far back as three blocks from the bay.It was about o'clock that the storm was at its height Rain was coming down in torrents, and so great was the force of the wind that water was blown through the crack under my front door fifteen or twenty feet down the hall.
 "Wednesday afternoon storm signs were unmistakable. The sailors knew what was coming and anchored their vessels, fishing smacks and tugs and other larger ones way out into the bay, which at Pensa- cola is about five miles wide.
 But even the weather-wlse had not counted on a gale that would blow at the rate of eighty miles an hour, and prac- tically all these craft anchored as far out as possible were carried inland. The worthy again.
 'To illustrate the speed with which some of these ships made their inland voyage through the streets of twelve foot of water, a man who lived about 100 yards from the bay was trying to comfort his wife Wednesday night by telling her that the storm which was then raging, would soon blow over, when they saw the hulk of big vessel loom up out of the dark ness, the town lights were out, and the next instant they were struggling in the water. The house had been struck by the vessel and demolished. Both the man and his wife clung to timbers and were saved"
 The storm did not cease until the next Thursday afternoon.
 Many old longshoremen say that this was the worst equinoxial storm they ever saw.
 The life-saving station at Pensacola was swept away. All of the fisheries were destroyed and many of the business houses suffered great losses. The Louis- vile and Nashville docks and grain ele- vator were demolished. It will be long time before Pensacola recovers.'
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and spends that amount in publishing them annually.
 Owns one magazine that cost half million dollars. farm paper and a paper devoted to motoring.
 Has served two terms in Congerss, and though member spent but one day there- in during the last session.
 Has over four thousand people on his payrolls, and over ten thousand directly or indirectly in his service. Pays three men a combined salary of Sl2,OO0 a year, the exact sum paid by the United States government for the services cabinet
 He pays one man. Arthur Brisbane his chief editorial writer, a salary of $52,OO0.
 Paid out s150,OOO in an effort to head the national democratic ticket in 1904, and re- ceived 204 votes.
 Spent s65OOO in his race for Mayor of New York
 In the coal trust investigation he paid out S6o,OO0 and the ordinary expenses of his law department" maintained almost solely for the purpose of busting trusts" etc, is s21,0o0 a year.
 Married poor girl, whom he educated. and has one child, boy of years.
 Owns several ranches. mining property, etc.
 Has three homes, in New York, San Francisco and Southern California.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
Good Roads.

The North Alabama Good Roads associa- tion, which meets int his city on October 1T. promises to bring together one of the most representative body of men that has met in Alabama In a number of years. Pro- bate judges in fourteen counties in Ala bama have appointed delegates composed of the leading and most progressive citi- zens In their respective counties.
 Many of the probate judges and county commissioners have written Secretary J. A. Rountree that they expect to attend and bring good delegations from their coun- ties. President iRoden is very enthuslas- tic over the coming meeting and hopes to arouse a great deal of interest of good roads in every section of the state.
 Several good roads machinery com panies have written that they desire to exhibit their road working machinery at the convention, and have already applied to the State Fair engagement for space. General Manager R. M. Williams of the State Fair has rendered an invitation to Secretary Rountree to have the conven- ton meet in the grand stand at the State
 
 bly, be accepted.
 The secretary received yesterday a list of delegates from the probate judges of Calhoun and Walker counties:
 Calhoun-J. c. Sproull, Anniston w. H. McKleroy, Anniston; M. B. Wellborn, An- niston; D. P. Maynes, Oxford; James A. Weatherly DeArmonville; w. A. Scar brough. Choccolocco; E. D. McClellen, Piedmont; M. N Coker, Ohatchie; J. N. Webster, Duke; Sam w. Wright, Jackson vile; J. W. Ray. Earlaton; L. J. Morris, Morrsville.
 Walker-J. R. Kilgore, J. F. Anderson, H. A. Roberts, J. H. Lowell, J. M. Will Hams, l.. A. Owens, W. A. Beard, J. M. Sherrer, M. L. Leath. F. R. Lacey, H. B. Gravellee, James Garner, James W. Shep- erd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
Reform By Label.

The meat inspection bill goes into effect October l. and the pure food law on January 1. At present label reform relates chiefly to meats, and the sec retary of agriculture has laid down rules based on truth. A label on meats must not, after October 1, be mislead- ing in any particular. A cut of a rooster, for example, must not appear on cans or packages that contain oth- CT meats. Virginia ham must here after be slaughtered and prepared in Virginia, and so on to the end of the chapter. Strange to say, extract of beef must hereafater be made from beef and veal loaf must be made from veal only, instead of any old thing on hand.
 When the pure food law goes into effect on Januray 1 there will be some chance at least that people who have acquired the patent medicine habit will know what they are consuming, and this will be true also of articles of food.
 It is revolution against dirt and , ,deleterious substances, and if the sec
 etary of agriculture stands firm, re. form by label will prove one of the most valuable reforms this country has ever known. The manufacturers are kicking, but the more they kick, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
Public Ownership In Ianan.

Japan has practically decided to take over seventeen railroads. Only six will, however, be purchased this year. The six are Just about 1900 miles long, and the government will pay for them 24S,O13,s21 yen, or st23,- 5Ov.ss3. No money will be used in the transaction, for the railroads have agreed to accept government bonds bearing per cent interest. The bonds are to be handed over in the course of the next five years.
 The following table shows the cap ital, construction expenses and pur. chase price of the lines to be absorbed thIs year:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
IS THE KAISER A MENACE?

potency fashioned with that metioulous carefulness which thirty-fve years ago made Germany invincble on land. The state organization at his disposal Is as- surely the most efficient and the most intelligent in Europe. Nor is 1t only in administrative perfection and material re- sources that the Kaiser Is strong. lie ia strong. too, in the character and qual- ities of the people over whom he rules. a vlrile, sulremely capable nation, thrilled with the consciousness of being on the crest of the rising wave, and looking for ward to the future with an almost defiant assurance of success. Circumstances, moreover, have singularly favored him. So long as the Dual Alliance retained its full vigor the position of Germany, diplo- matically as well as strategicaly, was to some extent that of a beleaguered for trtss.
 The collapse of Russia and her profound internal distractions have all the effect of raising of the siege. Fortune has achieved what no diplomatic dexterity could effect and the danger of the simul- taneous bursting of those storms on both Hanks that could alone snake the Ger man empire is now averted. Powerful. therefore, in all the positive elements of national might, the Kaiser unexpectedly finds himself yet more powerful in sud- den freedom and spaciousness. in relief from a desperate strain, in new and untrammeled scope of action. As he looks across the chessboard of European and near-eastern politics, there is hardly a move which he is obliged to acknowledge as closed to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
From the Springfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
 H HERE Is no question anywhere of IVY the great strength of Hearst
 among the masses of urban vot- CTS in New York state. He has caught the crowd, and how he has done 1t is a fact to be reckoned with. None of the opposing politicians are allowing them selves to be deceived by the notion that the Hearst strength is all on the surface and merely the trumped-up thing of lib- eral money expenditure. The shouters may be hired, but back of the fireworks and the shouting Jerome and the others discern dark and menacing body of solid public sentiment which Is revolting against the regime of monopoly privilege for private profit.
 Its existence was revealed through the amazing Hearst or municipal ownership vote at the last New York City election and that lends probability to the supposi- tion that 1t may be the great supporting fact of the present Hearst movement. Hearst has money and is using it freely but those against him have or can com mand a great deal more, and have never been backward in using 1t for their own ends. Yet the comparative impotency of their money Is admitted.
 His money will not account for the Hearst demonstration; and no one will claim that either his personality or garish journalistic methods will account for it. His strength with the voting masses with out doubt largely lies in the fact that he has come down from a position of great wealth to champion on a countrywide scale, the demands of organized labor and definite policies for the overthrow of pri-
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Sydney Brooks in Harpers Weekly.
 @ HERE can hardly be much doubt 9 as to which powe, it is that dom sr- gone by since Napoleon's too-famous pro- phecy yet Europe is neither republican nor Cossack. She is much more on the way towards becoming German. Germany engrosses her thoughts. and Is the start ing point for all her speculations. From St. Petersburg to London the world of in- ternational politics waits expectant upon the German lead. When the Wilhelm strasse intervenes in any question, that question acquires at once a new seriousness and the extreme cleverness with which all Germanys moves are calculated, the sus- picions and the ignorance that surround her policy, and the formidable power that She can always summon to enforce her Gecrees, invest her every action with h far-reaching anxiety. Europe is wonder ing whether, as in the past it has been forced to combine to resist the over weening predominance of France of Spain, and of Austria, in the future it may be called upon to coalesce against the dictatorship of Germany Even to- day dictatorship Is hardly too strong a word. The Kaiser holds at his moment a position of actual and potential power almost Napoleonic in it's range and eff fectiveness. He Is the head of the great est and most scientific army in Europe
 and perhaps in the world. His navy
 though outnumbered by other fleets, and though lacking the stimulus of maritime traditions, Is an instrument of admirable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
IF THOU MUST LOVE ME.
h Barrett Browning.

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for loves sake only. Do not say T love her for her smile, her look her
 way Of speaking gently-for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes
 brought A sense of pleasant ease on such day" For these things in themselves, beloved,
 may Be changed or change for
 so wrought, May be unwrought so.
 for Thine own dear pity's wi
 dry A creature might forget
 bore Thy comfort long. and iN
 thereby. But love me for loves
 more Thou mayst love on, thr H4
 nity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
Choosing a Profession.

'If had a son to start out in the world I would make him horse jockey or a ball player, in fact anything but a useful member of society,"" said an elderly citi- zen.
 We think the salaries paid to our gov ernors, judges senators, generals. ad- mirals and public officials are generous, but prize fighter will make in one bat tle' more than generals salary will amount to during the course of war, and a baseball pitcher is better paid than a vlce-admiral
 "A London newspaper says that Mrs. Langtry known as the Jersy Lily, gets $2500 a week from a New York theatre for twenty minutes acting every night.
 ''rhe man or woman who can invent some means of amusing the public will reap d golden harvest, while the educa- tors, benefactors and protectors of the country can barely support existence. Talk of topsyturvydom, here you have the very quintessence of it.
 What inducement has the young man to labor and study along useful lines when he sees the threadbare coat and sunken eyes of the scientist and con- trasts them with the bloated body and be- jeweled attire of the professional fun maker?
 Observing these things, the college stu dent of today gives more time to athletics than to study In the hopes that he may develop into a professional and join the ranks of the easy and opulent who neither spin or toil."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE.

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 A sweet young thing has written a novel. It is a wonderful performance. Take this passage. "All of a sudden the beautiful Alicia continued to sit on the sands, gazing out upon the briny deep, on whose heaving bosom the tall ships went merrily by, freighted, ah, who can tell with how much joy and sorrow and pine lumber and emlgrants and hopes and saIt Aeh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
REFLECTIONS OF A eAcHsLoR.

From the New York Press
 A man thinks he is mighty good to his wife to let her think he is.
 When a man talks about accepting" a job it is a sign the salary is small.
 A man has to holler loud to get any one to take stock in his virtues.
 The only men who oon't waste good deal of their money are those who ha~r' t it to waste
 There is hardly anything that can shock a sentimental girl more than to find the way a poet can like steak and fried po- taties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01

The Nippon Railway Is S61 miles long, and the Sanyo is 405 miles in length. What the distinction is be- tween capital and construction ex- penses is not stated, but 1t Is plain at any rate that a liberal price is to be paid by Japan for the railways she has decided to purchase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01

flrmer become the lines in Secretary Wilson's face, and the chances now are that the label on food packages, and even on patent medicines, will hereafter tell some plain truths.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
Ia there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturng heart7
 -Mldsummer Nights Dream.
Family RudQets.

Harper's Bazaar began 1t, and now gets, all going to show that current expenses are increasing, and that com. fortable living on less than $1200 a year is fast becoming impossible.
 A woman in Binghamton, N. Y. whose husband gets $500 a year. found that the upward tendencies of necessaries compelled her to dismiss her servant =. only the washing and scrubbing done by an outsider. Here is l. get:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
By Robert crozier Long.

By Robert Crozier Long.
 N EXT week Nicholas II will hold O the most important council that
 has been held in Russia since the winter palace conference of 1881, when. after the assassination of Alexander II, the eloquence and persistency of Constan- tine Pobiedonostseff, proeurator of the holy synod, broke down the constitutional plan and entailed for the empire twenty five years of unrelenting repression.
 The Czar has summoned his relatives and a few intimate councillors. M. Stoly- pin, the premier, will attend, but the gathering is essentially family one There will be half dozen grand dukes Count Ignatieff, M. Pobiedonostseff and Colonel Putiatiu, nominally the Czars secretary, but In reality a parsonage of immense weight in political crises
 The grand dukes, who for years past have been ignored as advisers of the crown, will once more be asked to give their views on three alternative policies: Either to concede genuine reforms, to let things drift until the convocation of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
MlNNlE's SINCERE PRAYER.

Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree" Tn
 Everybody's Magazine for October.
 There had been a dressmaker in the house. and Minnie had listened to long discussions about the very latest fashions. That night when she said her prayers. she added new petition, uttered with unwonted fervency:
 And, dear Lord, please make us all very stylish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01
MEANING OF w. R. HEARST

vate monopoly privilege which have com- nlsnded themselves to the sound judgment of older communities than our own.
 And he gains added sympathy in New York state from the stupid, idiotic action of republicans and conservative demo- crats alike in blocking a recount of the votes cast at the New York City elec- tion.
 Hearst, then, is merely the symptom of new and highly disturbed political condi- tions. He has managed to make himself an exponent of an outraged public sense of justice in relation to the industrial domination of privileged monopoly and the gross inequalities in wealth dstribu- ton which flow therefrom. He cannot be put down without substituting in his place not merely a stronger and more impress sive character, but one which will stand for good measure of the radicalism that accounts for the Hearsts and the Bryans and the LaFollettes. This is the fact which confronts the New York democ- racy
 The influence making for revolutionary reforms in politics and industry have been resisted to the extent of giving them a force and impatience which admit of lit- tie delicacy in the choice of men or meth. ods to bring about their ends Whether or not, then, the New York democracy takes up with the man who aims to smash 1t deal of their money are those who haven't month seems to be in for an ugly politi- cal contest touching upon the stability of great vested interests; and it is contest which will sooner or later extend into all the states and engage the coun- try for many years to come.