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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
FIRE IN TEXAS.
Compress With 2436 Bales of Cotton
 Totally Destroyed.

LaGrange, Tex, February 27.-The com press owned by Messrs. Schumacher, Rosenberg 2 Co. and the lumber yard of the Alamo Lumber company at this place, together with 243G bales of cotton stored in the compress were destroyed by fire this evening. The total loss is estl- mated at $200OOO, partially covered by insurance.
 The loss to the compress is estimated at S5O,OOO with insurance $2i000 and to the lumber company $17,OoO, partly in- sured The largest individual losses were sustained by Messrs. Morgan Brothers and Crawford, and Byrnes, who lost 600 bales of cotton each; H. w. Garrow X Co. of Houston, who lost 300 bales. and Legler 300 bales.
 The balance of the cotton stored in the compress was owned by local firms The cotton was only partly insured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
Sam Jones May Assist.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Februar y27.-(Spe- cial.)-It was reported here today that Sam Jones, the noted evangelist, would come to Chattanooga to assist in the can didacy of Fred W. Hill who seeks the nomination of sheriff. MT. Hill was for merly chief of police and claims that his dismissal from that position was due to influence brought to bear upon city officials by the whisky and gambling in- terests In the event that Sam Jones is prevailed upon to come it is likely that the election will be the most exciting ever waged in this county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
Pope to Create Cardinals.

Rome, February 27.-It is asserted that the Pope has expressed his intention to hold a consistory during the first fort night of April and create some cardinals as there are now twelve vacancies in the sacred college. The cardinals will include Monsignor Lorenzelli, the former nuncio at Paris and Monsignor Rinaldini the nuncio at Madrid which will enable the latter to assist as cardinal at the mar riage of the King of Spain to Princess Ena of Battenburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
RESPITE IS ISSUED.
Rawlings Appeal Is Pending In U. s.
 Supreme Court.

Atlanta. Ga. February 27.-(Special)- Governor Terrell today extended the re- spite of J. c. Rawlings, his two sons, Jesse and Milton, and the negro, Ali Moore. all under sentence of death for the murder of the Carter children in Lowndes county, from March to May 1.
 This action was necessary since an ap- peal in their behalf is now pending in the United States supreme court. and has been set for a hearing on April ?. The murder of the Carter children was one of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in this state, but every effort has been made to save the murders from paying the penalty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
MAY RAISE LID.
St. Louis Police Have No Authority to
 Act Outside City Limits.

St. Louis, February 27.-The decision of the supreme court yesterday that the po- lice of the city of St. Louis have no au- thority to act in the county outside the confines of the city, has occasioned much speculative comment in racing and liquor circles. Rumors are circulated that an attempt will be made to operate race tracks this summer, and likewise the fa- nous Sunday Hid" may be lifted in the summer gardens in St. Louis county.
 The raids on Delmar race track and also on the summer gardens alleged to have violated the law by selling liquor on Sunday were led by Captain McNamee of the St. Louis mounted police.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

Louisville, February 27.-The heaviest snow fall in years was reported this morn ing from various sections of Kentucky. The storm was particularly severe at Owensboro, where the city was in dark ness all night on account of the destruc- ton of electric light wires, communica- ton by telegraph and telephone was in- terrupted and business interfered with. Twelve inches of snow is reported at Mt. Sterling and Catlettsburg. Many head of cattle perished of exposure near Mt. Sterling. In Lexington and through out the blue grass region the fall amount ed to six inches and in Louisville the official record of precipitation is five and half inches. The storm which began about 8 D. m. continued throughout the night and was followed tonight by clear ing and somewhat colder weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
Gotch Defeats Roders.

Kansas City. February 27.-Wrestler Frank Gotch tonight defeated "Yank" Roders in Convention hall in this city, winning the first fall in eighteen minutes, and the second in nineteen minutes, e. ch-as-catch-ean.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
Spring Medicine

The best is Hoods Sarsaparilla. It is the best because 1t does the most good.
 While 1t makes the blood pure, fresh and lively, it tones the stomach to bet ter digestion, creates an appetite, stimu- lates the kidneys and liver, gives new brain, nerve and digestive strength.
 An unlimited list of cures-4o, ,366 tes- testimonials in years proves its merit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
GEORGIA PEACH CROP
 IN GREAT DANGER
Kentucky Experiences the Heaviest Snow Storm In Years-A Foot
 of Snow In Places.

Moultrie. Ga, February PA o'clock tonight the temperature is down to forty two degrees, and is falling rapidly. A sharp wind is blowing from the northwest and there is a strong probability it win be freezing by morning. Practically all peach and plum trees are in full bloom, and there is but little hope entertained for their escape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
Steamer Reaches Port Safely.

Baltimore, Md, February 27.-The steamer Indiana, from New York for Baltimore, reported from Sparrows Point. Md, as ashore, reached this city late this afternoon, having sustained DO damage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

Mrs. Ellis lnjured.-While getting off of street car yesterday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock Mrs. Annie Ellis fell and was injured. She was carried to St. Vincents hospital, where she had medical attention. Mrs. Ellis was resting easy last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES

Itching, Blind, Bleeding, ProtrIldins Piles. Druggists arc authorized t, re- fund money if Pazo Ointment falls to cure in 6 to IA days. soc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

SPECIALIZE meet the wishes of those who prefer medicine in tablet form. we are now put ting up Hoods Sarsaparills in chocoate-coated tablets as well as in the usual liquid form. By reducing Hoods Ssrsaparilia to a solid extract. we have retained in the tablets the curative prop critics of every medicinal ingredient,
 Sold by druggists or sent by mail. 100 doses one dollar c. I. Hood Co.,. Lowell, Mass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
Headaches and Neuralgia from Colds

Laxative Promo Quinine. the worldwide Cold and Grip remedy removes the cause. Call for the full name and look for sig nature of E. W. Grove, 25c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

Looking for son.-A letter has been received from the mother of J. w. Me Coy at police headquarters asking for information as to his whereabouts. Mr Mccoy was formerly employed, the letter says, at the Birmingham rolling mills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28
CITY ITEMS

Carried Pistol.-Harry Hawkins, a negro, was fined $90 and 180 days in the police court yesterday on the charge of carrying a pistol.
 Ball for Orphanage.-The entertain ment at the Elks' Home last night for the benefit of the Orphanage was a social and financial success. There was a euchre party and then dance. The attendance was large.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

Postoffice Employees checks.-As- sistant Postmaster Blakemore yester- day signed the checks for the salaries of the employees of the postofice, the clerks in the railway mail service and the rural mail carriers. The Birming- ham postoffice is the disbursing office
 The payroll of the local office now amounts to about S4O,0OO per month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

A Conductor Hurt.-A conductor on an Avondale and Fountain Heights car and a passenger had a little difficulty last night while the car was en route to the city The conductor was thrown against the rear door, it seems, and he sustained injury by broken glass. No arrests were made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

When it prints good. 1t is a good cut The GawR Engraving Co
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-28

pr. Phillips In LoulsvlIe.-Dr. J. H. Phillips, superintendent of public schools left Monday night for Louis vile, where he will attend the annual meeting of the department of superin- tendence of the National Educational association. Dr. Phillips is vice pres ident of the department, and is on the programme.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-08
As to Business Property.

The investment feature Of the market is
not lost sight Of entirely, even during a
period of dullness, and now that there Is
beginning of a revivai of business after the
usual summer inactivity this factor Is again
In evidence. According to current gossip
there are several deals in various stages of
progress involving the transfer in the title
of pieces of F street property and Of one
on G street. In the newer section Of the
business district to the north Of G street
and In the vicinity of 18th and 14th streets
there are several projects being discussed
which would mean not only transfer of
ownership, but also important changes in
business locations.
1t is found that there is consider able in
terest manifest among business men, espe-
cially those looking for new locations in
this section, and that they are willing to
consider higher figures for rentals than was
supposed could be obtained. This circum-
stance naturally has bearing on values as
the appreciation In the earning capacity Of
the property is noted.
1t was the intention Of Mr.. Owen when
the north side of New York avenue be-
tween 18th and 14th streets to have the
building fitted up for his business which Is
now located on l1th street between Penn
sylvania avenue and E street. He has found
however its rental value is greater than he
had calculated upon, and SO he has about
come to the conclusion that he might better
stay where he is and rent his new holding.
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Bank Of Chicago which has just been taken
in charge by the Illinois state bank exam
liner, the poor savings depositors" are
spoken of, most of whom are foreigners,
and were thrown into wild panic when
the doors Of the institution were closed.
Whatever may be the cause of this sus
pension or the offense of the men who
controlled and managed the bank there is
doubt. No banking institution should be
permitted to hold itself out as a savings
bank and invite or receive deposits as such
and use the funds SO received for ordinary
loans or in any OF its commercial banking
operations. The functions Of savings
bank are entirely different from those of
commercial bank. and the two should never
be confused: A savings bank proper is not
in the banking business at all, and the use
OF the term is unfortunate, as It confuses
the mind regarding its functions; but I'm
stitution for savings" sometimes adopted,
is clumsy and does not succeed in establish
ing its distinctive character in the minds
of the people.
But the essential thing is not the word,
but the institution, and its character should
be established by law. A savings bank
should be a bank for savings exclusively,
and its deposits should be carefully safe
guarded and not used promiscuously in the
loan market by its trustees or by any
bank in which it's funds may be deposited,
except such balance as it may have in
vested for current use. In the ordinary
bank the depositor surrenders control Of
his money. 1t belongs to the bank and he
becomes its creditor. In savings bank
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Rebuilding San Francisco.
From the Philadelphia Ledger

The demolition of San Francisco inflicted
grievous loss upon property owners, which
will be partially compensated by insurance;
but there are others who will reap sub
stantial benefits in the opportunities af-
forded In the rebuilding Of the city About
$4,000 buildings were destroyed. The cost
Of rebuilding was lately estimated at $780,
100000. OF this vast sum $50 OO0, 600 will
be paid for labor. skilled and unskilled
The San Francisco wage scale shows that
the workmen now employed there are re-
ceiving the highest wages paid anywhere
in the world at any time for like services
About 10000 men were engaged in remov-
Ing the debris and in the work of restora-
ton at the beginning of this month. A
third Of the number, attracted by the high
wages arrived during the last three
months, and the influx will increase until
the normal wage rate Is restored.
The high wage rate and the increased
and increasing cost of building material
particularly of lumber, will bring the cost
price Of houses now being erected in San
Francisco to a much higher figure than
would have represented the cost Of similar
buildings erected before the fire. The gen.
eral level of wages Of skilled and unskilled
workmen is at least so per cent higher than
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Railroads Only Eighty Years Old.

From the Four-Track News.
We have yet two decades to walt be-
fore we can celebrate the centennial an
niversary Of the birth of the railroad 1t
is a wonderful record, that eighty years
of rapid transit development. 1t has revo-
lutionized the world, commercially, So
cially and Intellectually. The Atlantic
and Pacific have become near neighbors:
the inaccessible and therefore valueless
plains of the west have been penetrated
and brought into touch with the markets
Of the world; New York and Chicago,
that in the pioneer days were weeks away
from one another, are now but eighteen
hours apart.
The railroad has entered Jerusalem; 1t
has pierced darkest Africa; it is crossing
the sands Of Sahara; 1t scales the sides Of
Vesuvius 1t bridges the most forbidden
chasms and tunnels through mountains
and under rivers. The whistle of the To-
connective is the voice of progress! The
rails over which it runs are the steel
bands that bind nations into a great COM
mercial brotherhood.
The rapid development of the world
along every desirable line since the loco
motive became a factor in human affairs
is all the argument necessary to prove
the railroad the greatest of all civilizing
influences. comparison of the past
eighty years with the thousands of CEN
turtles preceding furnishes an eloquent
proof of the far-reaching, uplifting, in
dustrial, ethical and educational value Of
the railroad.
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AS AN INVESTMENT
SOME CHARACTERISTIC OF
REALTY HOLDINGS.

For those who can afford to buy, i'm
prove and hold real estate, there is no
doubt that this form of investment, every
thing considered, offers the most stable and
one might say, the best form in which
wealth can be put. If one considers the
present position in the world Of those whose
ancestors secured and held real estate of al
most any kind, the attractiveness Of tn s
form Of investment is very evident. Few Of
those now alive know anything of how the
Russells, the family of which the Duke Of
Bedford In England is head in the present
generation, acquired their landed property;
but to one who stands at Russell Square,
near which is the British Museum, and
wanders around the little park for half
mile in either direction, the wisdom OF hold
ing real estate is apparent. This properly
has been in the hands of the family prop
ably since the Norman conquest.
There has been no generation in this
thousand years when the property was not
of great comparative value. Today it is
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Korea's Mania for Schools.

From the Korea Daily News.
or late the movement for starting schools
In this country has almost amounted to a
mania. We find them springing up on all
sides. and there is scarcely a Korean OF
wealth or position who has not become
patron of an educational establishment Of
some kind or other.
It is to be feared that some OF the enthu-
siasm which Is at present being manifested
will wear OFF In the course of time and that
some of the schools will perish either from
want of pupils or from want of funds. The
movement Is however. undoubtedly a
strong one. as all enlightened Koreans
fully appreciate the TACT that until az
least primary education becomes general
throughout their country they cannot hope
to emerge, once and for all. from their
present oppressed condition.
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Growth Of the Telephone.

81
Hello. Central!" was first heard in 1878.
Today the exchanges are numbered by the
thousand, the telephones by the million.
Various industries unknown thirty years
ago but now sources of employment to
many thousands Of workers, depend en-
tirely on the telephone for support. Numer-
Gus factories making lead sheathing, dyna-
mos, motors, generators, batteries, office
equipments, cables and many other appli-
ances, would have to close down and thus
throw their operatives into idleness and
misery If the telephone bell should cease
to ring. The Bell companies employ over
$1,000 persons and, it may be added, pay
them well. Many Of these employees have
families to maintain; others support their
parents or aid younger brothers and sis
look to the telephone for their daily bread.
These figures may be supplemented by the
number Of telephones in use (5,69S, OO0). by
the number Of miles Of wire 6043 COO, in
the Bell lines, and by the number of con-
versations 4,479, $780, 00), electrically con-
veyed in 1905. The network of wire con-
meets more than $4,000 cities, towns, viii
lagos and hamlets.
Such tremendous growth as these sta
tistics show would imply not only steadi-
ly increasing appreciation Of the telephone
but would also suggest improved instru-
ments, more skillful operators and better
service. There would be no Hattery in such
suggestion. Electrical science has under
gone radical reformation since 1876 Tele-
phony has raised the utilization of electric
ity to the height of a profession. OF course,
such advances have not been won without
cost. Fortunes were spent In experiment
and investigation before dollar came back.
Communication by the first telephone was
limited to few thousand feet. Now con-
versation can be carried on by persons
1000 miles apart. Tomorrow long-distance
lines will span the continent; and the day
after oceanic telephony will be a common
place of mercantile routine. But science and
money had to collaborate for years before
they could work the miracle of enabling
BOSTON and Qnna ha to talk tngether
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in the heart of London, and the Duke of
Bedford is the richest man In all Eng
land. If his holdings around Russell Square
were all stretched out in one long line they
would reach for very many miles There
are dozen streets running out from the
little square for one, two or three blocks,
all solidly built up with three and four
story brick buildings, almost every one of
which Is boarding and lodging house. On
the square stands immense hotels, and in
every direction there are miles of premises
used for retail business of every imagin-
able kind. The total rents for this Bedford
property run into many millions.
The Astor Beginnings.
The wealth of the Astors Of New York
was acquired in the same way. It was all
made out Of real estate. The first Of the
family to arrive in New York came from
Holland. and his entire wealth is said to
have consisted of about dozen flutes,
which he brought over, packed in the bot
tom of a little trunk. John Jacob Astor's
first enterprise in New York was small
bakery. Mrs. Aston did all the work, and
Aston himself sold the product Of her toll,
pretzels and small cakes. which he carried
on top of his head Later he went into
larger enterprises and finally became a
merchant on a very large scale, having
But the family millions were made out Of
real estate.
When the Astors were of very little con-
sequence In New York the Livingstons
prominence. One Of the generation of Liv-
ingstons just passed away. stood about fifty
years ago at the head Of Veasey street, and,
looking down toward the river. said:
my grandfather owned almost every lot
on both sides Of that street from Broadway
to the Hudson. When we wanted to go to
watering place for the summer we sold
q lot The Astors never went to a water
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10TH STREET PROPERTY.
Corner Site Bought by the Carnegie
Institution

The announcement made during the past
week of the purchase by the Carnegie In
stitution Of large building site on 10th
street, where it is the intention to erect an
administration building of the institution.
created a good deal Of interest. In addition
to the Importance of such a step from the
standpoint of the material progress Of the
city, this transa ction Is also of consequence
for the reason that it means the building up
Of one Of the vacant corners Of thorough
fare that is regarded as one Of the hand
soonest in the city.
Taken in connection with other recent i'm
provements along that street, it may be re-
garded that 10th street has entered upon a
new phase Of it's career. On the next block
to the south two new residences belonging
to the class of large houses are in course
of construction. A permit has just been
taken out by Mr.. o. G. Staples for the i'm
provement of his property at the southeast
side of the circle by the erection Of a resi-
dence. Still farther to the south is the
home of the National Geographic Society,
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is usually considered in estimating the cost
Of building.
The cost Of lumber Is one of the serious
considerations at San Francisco. The sud
den demand upon the lumbermen Of Wash
ington and Oregon to meet the exigency
there has reduced the lumber supply at
other points to such an extent that build
ing operations have been greatly retarded.
Since the disaster Of April IS the lumber
men Of the Pacific coast have given San
Francisco orders preference. with the re-
threatened at Los Angeles. one of the most
active building centers in the country. 1t
is estimated that 1000, 600 600 feet of lumber
will be required for the rebuilding of San
Francisco. A few years ago this supply
would have cost about $50. 100000. 1t may
cost more than s40.OO0.000 now. In the re-
port of progress at San Francisco 1t is
noted as significant that those who were
formerly heavy investors in buildings seem
to be moving slowly in improving their
ruined property.