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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
ON THE RACE TRACK.
At Louisville,

Louisville September 2S.-Form players had a bad afternoon at Douglas Park today, Marshal Ney being the only first choice to reward the talent. The card was not a very attractive one but the attendance was quite large.
 First race, about six furlongs, selling, for -olds-Re Redwood HOG Moreland) 12 to 1, won; Fargo. 106 (Aubuchon) to 5. second; Pinta. 106 (Cherry) 12 to 1, third. Time. 1:14 4-5.
 Second race, five and half furlongs, sell ing-Mont Albon. 1oS (Rlce) to 1, won; Livius. 110 (cherryD to 1, second; Fleet Ing star, 1O9 (Aubuchon) to ?, third Time, Ill 3-5
 Third race about six furlongs selling Oasis. 109 (Wishard) IS to 3, won; Pos ing, 1O9 (Moriarity) to 5, second; Nal leable. 110 (Rice) 9 to 1, third. Time, 114 3-5.
 Fourth race mile and twenty yards, selling-J. P. Mayberry IA (Rice) 9 to 2 won; High Bear, 1O5 (Cherry) 30 to l. second; Veto, 114 (Moreland) 12 to 3, third Time, :50.
 r tn race six furiongs-Western, 101 ,rry) ' to 1, won; Grace Larsen, 104
 1reland) Il to 5. second Light Wool
 (Wishard) 10 to 1, third. Time, 19
 Sixth race, mile and fourth, selling Marshal Ney, no (Callus) to 5, won The Only Way. 99 Q<eys) IS to B. second Peter Nathaniel, 105 CMoreland) to l third. Time, 214 3-5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29

Half a dozen of the silver cups which will be given as premiums at the horse show during the State Fair arrived yes- 4erday and are on exhibition at Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's, where the inscriptions will be placed upon them. The cups vary in value from s25 to S75 They are beauu- fully decorated and are the most valu- able ever offered by horse show in Ala bama.
 Another handsome cup ,s on exhibition at the fair office It is offered by R. L.. Williams for the best foal of 1906 of Gen eral Lee, the show stallion of the Her mitage stud at Nashville.
 c. M. Cook has been designated as the official programme publisher for the horse show and fair. He will issue handsome souvenir programmes of both the horse show and the fair Mir. Cook had charge of the programmes last year.
 The heavy rains yesterday deluged the fair grounds and the track and stopped all work there. The Improvements and eX- tensions are so far along that no delay will ensue. The buildings and fences have all been whitewashed, and with the ex- ception of little patching to do here and there, and some excavation work for the horse show arena. there is little more to be done except to continue the work on the track. The track is already getting to be in tiptop condition and in a few days this will be ready for all horses and horsemen who wish to use it in training for the fair races
 number of Birmingham people whc intended going up to the fair and horse show at Columbia, Tenn, this week were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
LAST SLAVE-SHIP
Was Run Into Mobile Bay and Burned
 In 1859.

S H. M. Byers, in Harper's Magazine for
 October.
 Many things can be forgotten in forty seven years, and probably few Americans remember the story of the slave-shlp Clotilde that was run into Mobile Bay and burned one dark night in 1859, and how its cargo of slaves was dumped off into the canebrakes and left, some to be picked up and sold, some to wander about and starve, and some to die of homesick- ness.
 Notwithstanding that it all happened close to Mobile, scarcely any one in this year recalls anything of the facts Only in an. old scrap book of a friend could I find a single printed word about them; and when this friends daughter had once been to the strange settlement, and had described some of the peoples habits of life in a charming little dialect sketch the dramatic situation seized upon me A burning desire possessed me to see these remarkable people face to face. A chase followed among the old negroes of Mobile, for somebody had said I would find among them certain man who knew of the Africans He also knew the road through their settlement. The fates were kind, and at last I found a white man who, in the old Confederacy days, had often been to the settlement, knew the Africans well, and, in fact, at a certain time had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
DuN,s REVIEW.

New York, September 2S.-Dispatches to Dun's Review indicate that in almost every instance business has made fur ther progress in the right direction and even better things are expected of the future Textile. industries at Philadelphia are well employed, collections are irreg- ular. Mercantile lines at Pittsburg con- tinue active and jobbing trade is satsfac- tory. Jobbing business Is more quiet at Baltimore. Retail trade has been retarded at Atlanta somewhat by local conditions, but wholesale and jobbing conditions re-
 main normal. Collections are still slow at New Orleans, there Is very active demand for all classes of commodities from manufacturers and jobbers and the movement of merchandise continues of larger proportions.
 All manufacturers at Louisville are fully employed and jobbers report diff cuty in getting deliveries, while pay ments are prompt.
 St. Louis reports the outward move ment of freight taxing the capacity of the railroads and business is more active than in the same week last year Whole sale and retail trade contlues far for the season at Kansas City and collections are reasonably prompt.
 More seasonable weather at Chicago stimulates retail Ifdue III nedVy WelSnl wearing apparel and there Is no de
 crease in activity. Retail trade at Gin. cinnati continues to improve. Bank ex. changes this week at all leading cities in the United States aggregate 42,6S1, ,9O1, 100, an increase of 13.2 per cent over last year. For September the average daily 1 bank exchanges are $47S 794,0O0 against S397 114,000 in September last year. The September figures also show a reasonable and satisfactory gain over August
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
INVITATIONS FUR
 GOLF TOURNAMENT
Best Players in South to Come
 to Birmingham
HANDSOME CUPS OFFERED
Arrangements Are Being Made to Hold the Largest and Best Tournament Ever Held In the South,
 October 11-13.

The programme for the golf tournament to be held by golf players of the Country club October H. 12 and IS, has been com pleted. The tournament in many ways promises to be the largest and the best that was ever held in the south. It will oongregate the best players in the south ern states, and probably a number of good players from the north, east ard west Hundreds of invitations, both to clubs and to individuals, are being sent out, and enclosed in each is a programme of the tournament.
 Every golf club that is a member of the American association has been ten- dered an invitation to send individuals or teams to Birmingham, and the individual members of the club here has extended personal invitations to their friends.
 The cups offered as the trophies at this tournament will be the handsomest ever offered in the south, and among the hand somest offered at any club tournament in the country. They cost several hundred dollars and are considered very handsome There are nearly a dozen cups.
 George Oliver, chairman of the general arrangements COIliulilACSy oeNAN sNSN1+~N' that the links were being improved and put into excellent shape for the tourna- ment. Work is being done that probably would have not been done in five years but for the tournament, and to the desire of the local golfers to have the best tourn- ament ever held.
 The visitors will be elegantly entertained. They will probably lunch and dine at the club every day, and on Friday night & banouet will be rendered them by the local golfers. The prizes will be delivered on Saturday night after the finals have been played.
 The start in the qualifying round will be made on Thursday morning, October Il, at 7:9O o'clock. Thursday afternoon tho first round on the matches will commence and Friday morning the second round on the matches will commence. The semi fianals will commence Friday afternoon and the finals Saturday afternoon, the prizes being delivered late Saturday aft ernoon.
 A putting contest will be held Thursday night at S:90 o'clock under electric light This is the novelty feature of the tourna- ment and will be played similar ip every feature to a regular tournament.
 The 'Lakevlew" cup is offered for the first flight, and also a cup for the runner up.
 The Red Mountain" cup Is offered for the second flight. and a cup also for the runner up
 The "Highland Cup" is offered for the third flight, and a cup for the runner up
 The "Dubslxies Cup is offered for the fourth flight with no cup for the run ner up.
 A very handsome cup is offered for the lowest score in the qualifying, and an- other cup is offered for the second lowest score handicap cup Is offered for the lowest gross score and another for the lowest net score. A team cup is offered for the team having the four lowest scores. and also q cup for each member of ths team
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
INSURANCE MEN GIVE
 REYNOLDS GOLD WATCH
He Resigns as Tariff Association Stamp Clerk--Presented With
 Token of Remembrance.

George D. Reynolds who for the past
 three years has been the local stamp clerk for the Southeastern Tariff associa- ton has recently resigned that position
 and yesterday afternoon a number of fire insurance agents of Birmingham met
 in the office of John G. Smith & Co and through Captain Smith presented him with a handsome gold watch as token of their esteem. MT. Reynolds will here after be assistant to W. J. Dangaix, gen eral agent of the Agricultural Insurance company. with headquarters in Birming- ham. As stamp clerk he Is succeeded by w. c. Rader of Alexandria, Va, for whom the retiring official in an appropriate speech of thanks for the remembrance from the fire insurance agents, bespoke the same consideration which had always been shown him in that capacity. Mir.
 Rader responded briefly saying that he would be satisfied with having faithfully , done his duty as stamp agent of Birnhing- ham if upon retiring from that position he could have the same assurances of l the good will of all the agents as had been accorded to Mir Reynolds.
 
 holds Captain Smith paid the following graceful tribute:
 You see before you here this afternoon the local agents of Birmingham, your | friends who have known you so long ] and worked with yon in the business. We have heard with regret that your resignation as stamp clerk of Birming | ham has been accepted by the tariff as- soclation and that you will soon leave us to take up new work in other fields, so we have called you before us today to
 speak to you, not as stamp clerk, but as a private citizen, and in doing so we want to ask as a precedent that you forget all unpleasantness we may have
 had in passing daily reports, that we may talk to you as mutual friends. That we appreciate you as stamp
 clerk as a gentleman and a citizen, our presence here today will testify. Now
 that the time has come that we must part, we want to say to you; carry with you in your new fields our love, friend ship and esteem. In parting with you
 we want to say that we appreciate the
 fact that your duties among us have been hard and often unpleasant things
 have arisen that you have, in manly
 way. brushed aside and met the expecta-
 tions of the Southeastern Tariff associa- tion. the co<panies and ourselves and we are now all ready to say, Well done
 thou good and faithful servant
 We are unwilling to see you leave us without some token of our esteem and friendship as man. hence the agents here assembled have commissioned me to present to you this beautiful watch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
At Gravesend

New York, September 2S-Tipping, at 40 to 1, won the Sea Breeze selling stake, mile and one-sixteenth, the feature at Gravesend today. Frank Lord and Sea Salt were the winning favorites Sum mary:
 First race, about six furlongs-Franls Lord. 97 CGarner), 3 to 2, won; Killaloe, 9S (Koerner), to ?, second; Halifax, 126 (Miller). II to D. third. Time. Ill.
 Second race. selling, about six furlongs- Blondy. 97 e. Ross), 6 to won; El Do- rado, 97 (Horner), F to 1. second; Royal Breeze, 97 J. Hennessy), 16 to 5. third. Time, II 3-5
 Third race, mile and -half-Red Friar. 119 (Martin). to 1. won; Lancas- trian, 120 (J. Hennessy), 30 to l. second; Angler 124 (shaw). to 10, third. Time. 2.S6 4-5. ..
 Fourth race, the Sea Breeze stake, sell ing mile. and one-sixteenth-Tipping 9S QGarner), 40 to 1, won: Wes, 100 (Finn), to l, second; Rye, 100 (Miller), 10 to 2. third. Time, 14S 3-5.
 Fifth race, five and one-half furlongs- Koza Salt, los (Garner), 13 to B. won; Sur veillance, 1OS (Martin), 6 to 1, second Lady Vincent, los (Hagen), 20 to l, third. Time, Los 3-5
 Sixth race, selling. mile and one-six- teenth-Ed Ball, 10S co. Ross), 6 to 1, won; Annetta Lady. 104 (koerner), to 2, sec ond; John Lyle, 10S tNIileo. to ?. third. Time, 1 AS 1-5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
RETAIL TRADE Is
 GROWING BETTER Storms in South Interferes
 With Business CEREAL CROPS ARE GOOD Car and Engine Shortage a Source of Annoyance and Tends to Become
 Acute-oemand for Pig
 Is Quiet.
CEREAL CROPS ARE GOOD

New York. September 2s.-Bradstreets tomorrow will say:
 Distributive trade is still of a very large volume, but there is enough IT, regularity to prevent broad generalization. The close of September finds the usual evidences of subsistence in wholesale trade but retail trade is better on more season able weather, except at the south. where severe storms have stopped cotton pick ing. checked movement and retarded col- lections.
 Cereal crop reports are rather better, shipping having been resumed at the northwest, where quality has been saved and cutting of a record crop Is now gen. eral.
 Industry generally was never so active and there Is much complaint of backward deliveries, particularly of iron and steel and dry goods ordered for fall and win ter delivery. Car and engine shortage are source of annoyance and tend to be- come more acute. Demand for pig iron is comparatively quiet. supplies for prompt shipment and higher prices, are paid where quick delivery is assured. While new buying of steel rails has not been active, the railways figure largely on placing orders for steel cars.
 Demand for wire and nails is firmer and prices are up $1 a ton. Copper Is higher, Leather and hide markets are stronS-
 Business failures for the week ending September 27 in the United States mum Der 165 against III last week and 1855 in the like week of 1905.
 In Canada the failures numbered 27 against 28 the corresponding week last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
Luckily.

From Harper's Weekly
 During the Sapish war while the battle- ships were on blockade at Santiago, 1t was customary to load the six-pounder guns every evening to protect against possible torpedo boat attack. While the triggers were being eased down, one of the guns ,on the Massachusetts was acciden- tally discharged, the shot passing over the quarter deck of the Texas which was lying next in the blockading line. All the officers of the Texas were on deck smok- ing and talking when the shot passed a few feet above their heads. Almost be- fore it struck the water a signal was started on the Texas from its command. ing officer, Captain Jack Philips, to the commanding officer of the Massachusetts. The signal was, Good line. but a trife high"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
Continuous Newspaper.
From The Ration.

From Ine lSatlOn
 The Frankfurter Zeitung. in many re- spects the ablest newspaper in Germany, and it's leading financial daily. has just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its establishment. Originally founded as a commercial Journal it has become the foremost exponent. of liberal political be-
 liefs, toadying to no one in authority and
 unstnted in its censure of narrow bureau- cratic methods of government. Had this paper been founded in Berlin 1t could hardly have become the power it is Bis marck would have thrown all his influ-
 ence against It. But Frankfort, the seat of great culture and wealth, was in the forties and fifties the geographical cen-
 ter of the German liberalism which sur vlved the revolution of 1S4S-'49, and there- fore, even in 1856, a fruitful field for the new newspaper. It is interesting to note in these days of business office and sensational Journalism that without cater ing either to the advertisers or to sean dal lovers the paper has been a decided pecuniary success. It's great establish ment Is one of the sights of Frankfort and its circulation outside of that city itself is, we believe. unexcelled in Ger many. In respect to its special corre- spondents. the world over. it is truly the London Times of Germany. As far back as the sixties it had it's own representative III ANVN iNi h, anu us hiStusSlOIS oI AIleI- ican business affairs have been notably fair and intelligent. The same care and attention have been bestowed on the pre- sentation of financial news from other DOT
 tions of the earth; not even the Argentine
 Republic Is too far away for its affairs
 to be covered by occasional well-informed
 letters. But for the foreign reader the Frankfurter Zeitung has one defect-the
 habit of publishing several distinct edi- tions, which are in themselves senarafe
 editionsa Hence the delivery of the parts
 goes on all day; after the first morn
 ing paper there may be six or seven more, only to be followed by several four
 or six-page evening issues. all totally dif ferent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
Fortunes of Words.

T run 1T uti-
 The acceptance in certain high quarters of modified form of spelling for 300 of the words now in common use recalls the following lines from Horace's "The Art of Poetry" as translated by Francis New words, and lately made, shall credit
 claim, If from a Grecian source they gently
 stream; For Virgil sure, and Varius may receive That kind indulgence which the Romans
 give To PIautus and Caecilius; or shall I Be envied, if my little fund supply It's frugal wealth of words, since bards
 who sung In ancient days enriched their native
 tongue. With large increase? An undisputed power Of coining money from the rugged ore, Nor less of coining words, is still con-
 fessed.
 If with a legal public stamp impressed. As when the forest, with the bending
 year, First sheds the leaves which earliest ap-
 pear, So an old age of words maturely dies, Others newborn in youth and vigor rise. We and our noblest works to Fate must
 yield; Even Caesars mole, which royal pride
 might build, Where Neptune far into the land extends. And from the raging North our fleet de-
 fends That barren marsh. whose cultivated plain Now gives the neighboring towns it's vari-
 ous grain Tiber. who taught better current yields To Casesars power, nor deluges our fields; All these must perish, and shall words
 presume To hold their honors and immortal bloom? :? Many shall rise, that now forgotten lie; Others, in present credit, soon shall die, If custom will, whose arbitrary sway Words, and the forms of language must
 ohey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
Snake In a Bird caqe.
London Daily Mail.

From the London Daily Mail.
 A curious story of snake which points an old time moral comes from the little village of Althorne. near Burnham on Crouch, Essex.
 A boy placed a cage, made of a box covered with one-inch wire netting. which contained some young birds. outside his house. When he went to feed the birds in the morning he discovered a large snake coiled up in the cage and all his birds gone.
 The snake, which had little difficulty in entering the cage, was unable to get out when 1t had eaten the birds. man who was attracted by the boys shouts quick ly destroyed the reptile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29

had them under his control as a Confed- crate officer.
 A drive of half a dozen miles over an elevated plank road and through a wilder- ness of trees and water brought us out to the clay hills by the Alabama river
 There was cluster of saw mills close by in the "piney woods,'' and beyond these many negro cabins in rows. But their occupants were the common negroes, working in the mills and of recent ar rival. It was little they knew of the real Africans" as distinguished from them- selves. After much inquiry, and much running about the pineys, and the pa thetic-looking Confederate breastworks that still stretched sullenly for a mile and more through the woods we came to a few African houses. They were only dilapdated cabins, but surrounded with truck gardens and rose bushes. Hardly dozen of the old Clotildes victims are alive, though numbers of their children live near the settlement and have inter married with the common negro.
 Few of the captured ones had been more than twenty at the time of their enslave- ment and all remembered the horrible details If they had been experiences of recent time. They were more stall wart in appearance and of finer physique than the American negro whose ancestors have been long in bondage. Their eyes were brighter too, their voices even softer and more 'melodious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
CUPS FOR HORSE SHOW
 ARRIVED ON YESTERDAY

disappointed by the rains. Telegrams from Columbia state that with the exception of the opening day. last Tuesday, there has been no fair yet, the fair and horse show at night being rained out. It has en- tailed heavy loss to the Columbia Fair association.
 Having been cheated out of their fair at home, the delegation of Maury county Tennessians to the fair here in October will probably be larger than ever before. as quite a number of Columbia people had already signif1ed their intention of coming to the Birmingham fair before the heavy rains ruined their home fair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At Detroit: Detroit. 4; Philadelphia, :. At Cleveland: first game), Cleveland, o; New York. ?; (second game), Cleveland, 2; New York, 1.
 At St. Louis: St. Louis-Boston game postponed: wet grounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

At Brooklyn: Brooklyn, 6; Pittsburg, 5 Cirst game); Brooklyn, 0; Pttsburg l (second game).
 At New York: New York S; St. Louis. ?. At Boston: Boston. l. Cincinnati ? O2 innngs).
 At Philadelphia: Philadelphia, 8; Chica- go. I.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29

and beg of you to accept the same and wear it with pleasure to yourself and in remembrance of your many friends in the local agency business in Birmingham who have known you so well. Take this watch and as you travel up the hill of time, compare notes, and remember us, and see before you start down the hill that you have squared your actions with all mankind and are ready for that beau tiful promise, Be thou faithful unto death and l will give you crown of life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-29
Heaby Damage 10 Cheap
 Pabing Caused By Rain

The city fathers are seriously consider ing the matter of discarding all paving save that which is permanent" and guaranteed for ten years or more.
 According to those who think that it is unwise to put down any more cheap paving, the cost in the end is a great deal more than the more expensive but permanent" sort.
 ''rhe heavy rain," said an alderman discussing this matter yesterday. Twill put the city to an expense of $50,0OO if all the repairing that should be done is done. The rain has played havoc with tine cheaper grade of pavement. It never pays from the view point of the city, to adopt cheap paving As it is at present, the city puts down the paving at the expense of the property owners, the agree