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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Longest Tunnel on Continent.

THE boring of what will be the longest
tunnel In the United States. and one of
the longest in the world has very recent
ly been determined upon by the Central
Pacific Railroad company" says ]. Mayne
Baltimore in the Technical World Maya
zine.
Chief Engineer William Hood has fin-
ished plans and reports for the proposed
gigantic six-mile hole to be bored through
the Sierra Nevada mountains, in Califor-
MIA, short defiance west of the town
of Truckee, Arizona.
1.-THE object of this great tunnel is to cut
down the present mountain climb of 7017
feet by fully 1000 feet, and thus eliminate
many of the present curves and much of
the grade. Chief Engineer Hoods reports
contain some notifications of his first
series of surveys, made some years ago,
and these will doubtless be approved by
President Hartman; and work, 1t is ex-
pected, will very soon be commenced on
this great tunnel.
1T Is estimated that the tunnel will
cost not less than s10,0OO,O0O and that
among other things it will cheaper the
annual expenses OF operating trains over
the mountain division by fully 500. 600
Being, over $4,000 feet in length. the tun-
mel will be one of the longest In the
world, and certainly the longest In the
United States. The longest now In ex-
istence on this continent Is the 1900 foot
bore In the Cascade Range In Washing
ton, on the Great Northern railroad
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Benefits of Food Adulteration.

Professor Stillman of Stevens institute
who recently gave a dinner at which
most of the viands were manufactured by
chemical means, believes that much food
adulteration is not really harmful" writes
Lawrence Perry in the Technical World
Magazine.
I sent my boy to the store to buy a
pound of the cheapest raspberry jelly
said Professor Stilman, by way of ex-
planning his beliefs. The boy brought
back something which looked and tasted
like raspberry jelly, but which never saw
berry. 1t cost twelve cents. The cheap
est possible cost for raspberry jelly-it
has been computed-wouldb be thirty cents
a pound-the real raspberry jelly, l mean.
That represents the bedrock cost. aside
from the labor cost and the profits. Now
I analysed that raspberry jelly and found
1T was made of apple pulp after the cider
was squeezed out glucose, and few
other materials. 1t is true that Ii would
not appeal to the educated palate, but
1t brings the luxury of raspberry jelly
within the reach of the very poor. 1t
was entirely harmless; 1t was nourishng
The only harm was the fact that 1t was
labeled raspberry jam, when it should
have been labeled as an imitation
could give you many other instances of
a similar kind; but to no different pur-
pose' -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
WHY POE LEFT WEST POINT.
Hid in Sugar Barrel, But Was
Caught.

From Success Magazine
Several army officers were sitting in a
New York hotel, recently, discussing old
on the instructors who used to put them
through their PAGES.
81 shall never forget old Professor
Church, exclaimed one. HE always i'm
pressed me as being about a hundred
years old, and l guess he was pretty we'll
along, because one day, up in the lib
rary, when I happened to be looking at
a portrait of Egar Allan Poe he informed
me that he had thaught the poet mathe-
maties, and explained how the young
man came to leave.
ut was as much of a crime in those
days as now for cadet to be off limits
without permission. 1t meant dismissal.
Poe, being an untamed spirit, couldn't re-
sist the temptation to take chance now
and then and run down to resort at
Highlands Falls. He'and four other cadets
stole off late. one night, and were having
a high old time, when they heard a squad
from the. Point coming down the road.
You can imagine the wild scattering. Two
cadets sought the cellar, and two more
the rooms above; Poe was small and was
lifted into a convenient sugar barrel. The
other fugitves were quickly discovered.
1t was an afterthought on the part of
the lieutenant in command to lift up the
lid of the sugar barrel. He dragged
Poe out, and marched him, with the
others. off to the guard house. He had
offended before, and was regarded as the
ringleader In the escapade. and SO his
career as soldier came to an end"
And mighty good thing it was" ex-
claimed one of the listeners, for the
world of lettersr'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Most Nervous People.

From Leslie's Weekly.
More and more the health of the Amer
lean people is receiving needed attention.
In the Lowell institute, Boston, DIR.
James Jackson Putnam, M D., professor
of neurology in the Harvard Medical
school, Boston, is delivering a course of
eight lectures on Certain Prevalent Ner-
vous arrangements and the Outlook for
their Prevention He ranks among the
first of living authorities on nervousness.
Americans are the most nervous people
in the world which means both that
they are tn. most vital, living, forceful
people, because people live more in their
nerves than in their muscles, but also
means that Americans are most exposed
to debility by excessive emotionalism and
by over-work. Frenzied finance, as q
characteristic of business means ''bedlam'
to many business men. The number of
professional men who are breaking down
in youth and middle life is steadily In
creasing. Professor Putnam says that
"the tendencies of the present day are
to increase nervous constituencies" that
this Is pre- eminently nervous age Wor-
ry, not work, is the great danger, and
1t has been said to be characteristic of
modern life" Professor Putnam also
says that 1.-THE whole problem of the re-
lation of the mind to the body needs re-
statement" In such reinstatement will be
found the secret of the growth of So
called Christian Science, and also the cor
rection of its errors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
What Women Wear In Paris.
eanor Franklin in Leslie's Weekly

Eleanor Franklin in Leslie's Weekly
Just now the boulevards and the Bots
de Boulogne the cafes and the theatres,
are filled with women all brand new in
sunshine finery. And never In the world
have fashions been so saucy and self
aSsertive or womankind so bent upon
making the most of life. That's Paris
and New York. 1t is different in Lon
don, where occurrences attains Its best
success-and no English maid need re-
greet the possession of her peculiar eharac-
teristc. To be positively French. just
now woman must wear a wee bit of a
hat perched up on a mass of wavy hair
and tilted down to the very tips OF we'll
kept eyebrows. All the trimming must
be in the back. and there can't very well
be too much of it. And 1t must be bright
and-perky. l can think of no better word
to express the necessary crisp jauntiness
of 1t; and the face beneath 1t must wear
look of expectant happiness, else 1t
will become an incongruous creation.
Then, too the gown must be in keeping.
Something bright and tight and braided.
The skirt must be short enough to dis
close a pair of pretty feet in high-heeled
shoes of the same color, and the whole
being inside these remarkable clothes
must exhale cheerfuness. 'sTiils is the
French girl in the yellow sunshine on
the Paris boulevards. I didn't dream of
writing a fashion letter. but one can
not ignore the Parisienne In connection
with the subject of Partisan snnbeams.
because she reflects such loads OF them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Glass Bridge Half Mile High.

Colorado will possess, within few
months. the highest bridge in the world
over the deepest chasm in the Rocky
mountains, writes Elihu Palmer in the
Technical World Magazine.
The bridge is being constructed over
the far-faned Royal Gorge of the Ar
kansas river; and the Royal Gorge is the
narrowest pont in the also phenomenally
famous scenic Grand Canon of the same
stream-the great gate, as 1t We're,
through which the Arkansas river emp
ties its enormous accretions of water,
very soon after the same have been gath
cred from the melting SHOWS, 100 miles
above, in the vicinity of Leadville, onto
the plain once known as The Great Amer
lean Desert
AT the point in the Royal Gorge where
the bridge Is to be stretched, the abysmal
rent in the earths crust Is but so feet
wide at the bottom and 23O feet wide at
the top. The walls rise almost perpen-
dicularly for a distance of 1890 feet. and
are granite. decomposed and iron-stained
until the colorings blend into innumerable
pleasing effects upon the senses
The bridge will be built of steel and
glass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
The Fate of Cities.

From the New York Mail.
Sooner or later, it seems, every city in
the country is sure to have its great ca
lamity. New York has had it blizzard
Charleston its earthquake, Galveston its
deluge, Johnstown it's flood, Chicago and
Baltimore their fires, New Orleans its pes
thence, st. Louis its cyclone, Pittsburg
its riots, Paterson its dread trinity of
flame, flood and tornado, the cities of the
lower Mississippi Valley their freshets,
and now San Francisco and the sister
cities of the coast ruin in earthquake
and fire. Somewhere every year 1t seems
to be the cast that the destruction that
befell the ancient cities of the plain is
to be repeated, to awaken the same SUI
perstitious dread and remind humanity
that God made the country and man
made the, town."
Why is 1t that the lament, Babylon
is fallen. is falen,' must be uttered every
year? The reason is as prosaic as the
force of gravitation, but it may be, as
formidable as that force working through
an earthquake shock. Where multitude
of people are gathered together the forces
exist for converging a calamity that
would disspate itself unnoticed in a will
derness or a pastoral country. A great
city means great population to dis
seminate contagion. 1t means site on a
navigable river that may be murderously
overswollen in a freshet, or on a bay of
the ocean, out of which stolen tide
may come As for the wind, it 'bloweth
where it 1isteth," and a storm that in
a farming country might uproot a few
trees and unroof a few cottages, in a
city may topple down walls on a sleeping
population and lend wings to the death
angel of fire.
The life of the ordinary Individual con-
t.i,, SIN NIL ff.tr 1nvfc hut f,ft
may live for hundreds of thousands of
years, and sooner or later something will
happen to it that will be matter for his
tory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
GAJoN WAS NOT LYNcHED.
So Declares Ivan Ivonvltch Narodn,
in Chicago.

Chicago May 6.--"Gather Gapon has not
been lynched by Russian anarchists. On
the contrary he is in Switzerland, alive
and well. as 1 positively know" said Ivan
Ivanovitch Narodny, in an address before
a socialist gathering on the Northside
this evening.
Narodny came to the United States with
Maxim Gorky to spread the propaganda
of the Russion social revolutionists, and
was substituted for Gorky as the prin-
cipal speaker at the socialist meeting on
account of Gorky's illness. The meeting
was held under the auspices of the In
dustr1al Workers of the World as a pro-
test against the arrest of Haywood and
Meyer, of the Western Federation of
Miners, in connection with the assassin
alton of former Governor Steunenberg of
Idaho.
Narodny added that only last Monday a
mutual friend in Washington, d. c., had
received a cablegram from Father Gapon.
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sociates, said they we're somewhat en-
barrassed by the attitude of their chair
man, Mr.. Gardner. The clever South
Carolinian said he was reminded of a
story applicable to the present situa-
ton
There was an old irish woman who
had do-nothing SON named Danny
Nevertheless the fond mother was very
proud of her boy and encouraged him
in his idleness. Subsequently Danny join
ed local militia company whose prin-
clpal attraction was its gaudy uniformI
There was a turnout of the company on
st. Patrick's day ana the fond mother,
with several of her neighbors, assembled
on the sidewalk to watch the parade
LAS the troops filed by ME fond mother
exclaimed, enthusiastically: Look at that
for you'll See my boy Danny how fine he
looks in his uniforml What a beautiful
soldier he is. and every other member
of the company Is out of step but
Dannyr"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
NEGRO KILLED.
Dispute Over Game of Cards Results
FataIly-Negro Surrendered.

Charlie Motion and Fred Bunham, two
negroes employed by the Houston Biscuit
company on Twenty-eighth street and
Avenue E, got into a dispute last night
at the house of Henry Howard on Avenue
d, between Twenty eighth and Twenty
ninth streets over a game of cards.
The result was that Bunham had his
juglar vein cut and died a few minutes
later. Motion went to the warden's office
and gave himself up to Policeman Nix,
stating that Bunham had attacked him
with a knife and that he bad cut him in
self-defense, not intending to kill him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
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San FRANCESCA VIII Rise Again

Jasper in Lesles Weekly.
Eventually San Francisco will rise again
in Its glory. OF that there can be no
doubt. And it's recovery may be more
rapid than we anticipate. In no other
country could great city re-establish
itself so easily and so quickly. The great
wealth of the Pacific coast has witnessed
marvellous development during the past
decade. Its rich mineral districts, It's
boundless areas of cultivated SOIL its
fruitful orchards, Its profitable oil wells,
and all its wonderful natural resources.
combine to make 1t one OF the wealth.
est sections of the country. 1t has a
prosperous, Industrious. hopeful and
buoyant people. 1t has wealth In re-
serve and abundant credit, and with these
the work of rehabilitation will proceed.
And this will mean tremendous demand
for building MISUNDERSTANDING, brick, and
especially iron and steel. II will mean
plenty of work and good wages for an
army of craftsmen. and 1t will mean a
new, better, more beautiful, and greater
city at the Golden Gate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
coIorinas Prohibited.

Washington, May 1.-THE department of
agriculture today announced that inspec-
ton of recent expectations of maccaroni,
noodles and similar products has shown
these goods sometimes contain chemical
preservatives such as fuorides which are
regarded as injurious to health and that
after June next no importation of mac
caroni colored with maritus yellow or
other colors forbidden by the Italian law,
or preserved with fiuorides. or other pre-
servatives injurious to health, will be
permitted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Body Is Found.

New York, May 6.-The body of Eijiro
Nahano, the 23-year-old son of wealthy
hotel in this city April 2S. was found in
hotel nthis city April %, was found in
a creek running between Bergen and
Hudson counties, New Jersey. A reward
of $25O0 had been offered for informa-
ton as to Nahanos whereabouts. He was
supposed to have had $1,000 in cash with
him. Tonight only s1.35 was found in his
clothing. His gold watch was missing. Ma
hanoi was seen near Fairview, N. j.. the
night of April %, when he displayed a
roll of bills.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Battle Of Flowers.

Mexico City. May 6.-Under bright sun
and in the presence of tens of thousands
of people the Battle of Flowers took
place today on Avenue Juarez, and in
the afternoon beneath the ancient cypress
trees of Chapultepec park at the foot
of the historic castle. The spectacle was
a beautiful one as decorated automobiles,
carriages, bicycles etc, passed the re-
viewing stand, where was President Diaz
surrounded by his cabinet ministers, and
the diplomatic corps. The display was the
finest of its kind ever seen here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Welded In Columbus

Columbus, Ga. May 6-tSpecial)-
Frank A. Perryman of Birmingham and
Miss Kate Louise Patrick of Columbus
were married in Columbus at the parson-
age of ST. Luke Methodist church, the
Rev. o. F. Cook officiating. The groom js
a young druggist of Birmingham, for
merly Talbot county, Georgia, boy and
the bride is an attractive young lady Of
this city
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
The Tabah Affair.

Constantinople, May 6.-The Sultan has
attempted to reopen discussion regard
ing the Tabah affair. but the British am
bassador has declined to do so. 1t is re-
ported that the Sultan wishes to sub
nit the question to The Hague. Owing
to the intervention of the feast of Mulud.
no reply to the note presented to the
Porte last Thursday by Sir Nicholas
O'Connor, the British ambassador, is ex-
pected before Wednesday
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Dies In Church.

Nashville, May 6.--Mrs. Mary Catherine
Smith died suddenly in Christs Episcopal
church tonight. just before the opening
of the evening service, the congregation
being dismissed in consequence. Mrs.
Smith was supervising the robing of the
vested choir when she complained of a
shortness of breath. and died in a few
minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
ciuarmakers VIII Strike.

Boston, May cit was announced at
the headquarters of the Cigarmakers un-
ion tonight that arrangements were COM
plete for the strike of cigarmakers which
will be instituted tomorrow to enforce
the unions demand for wage increase.
1t is thought that about 1900 men en-
pIoyed in the six principal cigar factories
in the city will go out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
out Of STEP. !.
From Success Magazine"

FROM SUCCESS XAdsdAihc
At recent banquet of the promoters of
the proposed Jamestown exposition, a
committee of congressman were the guests
of honor. After the visiting statesmen
had been entertained in true Virginia
style an effort was made to do some mis-
sionary work to convert Representative
A. F.. Gardner OF Massachusetts, chair
man of the committee on expositions, to
support the jamestown demonstration.
Representative LegaTe of South Caro-
lima, speaking for his congressional as
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Southern Railway Co.
Schedule in Effect April 2s, 1906.

ScheduIe IN EHect April ~, 1906.
Trains leave Birmingham as follows:
$40 a. m.---No. 80. for Atlanta, Washing.
ton. Baltimore Philadelphia
New York and the East. Pull.
man Drawing Room Sleeping
Car. Birmingham to New
York. Dining car. Birming-
ham to Atlanta.
500 a. m.-No 10, for Montevalo, Ma
plesville. Selma and way sta.
lions.
1925 D. m.-No IS, for Columbus. West
Point Winona. Greenwood
and Greenville; also Sheffield
and Florence and North Ala
bama points.
$40 D. m.-No. 10, for Cordova. Oakman.
Corona and way stations; alss
Blossburg.
SOS a. m.--No % for Admission. Helm and
way stations; also Rome, Ca
$50 d. m.--No 80 for Atlanta. Charlotte.
Richmond. Washington. New
York and the East. Pullman
Sleeping Car Birmingham to
Richmond. Ha'
DOS D. m.-No. "a knniston. Atlanta ana
way stations; also for jack
sonville and All Florida points
also Talladega. Ala. Pullman
sleeping car birmingham to
Brunswick.
IN On n m-No. 81. for Columbus West
Point, Winona, Greenwood and
Greenville Pullman Drawing
Room Sleeping Car Birming-
ham to Greenville.
f0:35 D. fe-No. 81 for Selma, Mobile and
way stations Pullman Draw
ing loom Sleeping Car Biz.
mingham TO Mobile.
IL 80 o. m.-No. 9S, for Atlanta. Anniston
and way stations. Pullman
Sleeping Car. Birmingham to
Atlanta. Sleeping Car can be
occupied at Union station s:%
p. m
For detailed information and sleeping
car reservations apply passenger office.
Morris Hotel Building Telephone so6z
Bell and ST. Peoples.
]. N. HARRISON. DiN. Pass AT
r. b. CREAGH. Trav. = ass It.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Governor Assassinsted.

Ekaterinoslav, May 6.-The governor
general of Ekaternoslav was <assassinated
Saturday evening by six unknown persons
who fired voleys from revolvers and es-
capped.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
The PAPER Ace.

From the New York Press.
Did you know that paper overcoat
has been invented? Truth. The patent
is applied for. 1t sheds water like a
ducks back and is as givey as plush.
The paper age" is near at hand, and
in all probability 1t will be more wonder
full than the iron age" the steel age
or the "stone age"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07

London, May GA dispatch to news
agency says that the British fleet under
Vice Admirak Charles Beresford has ar
rived In Phaleron bay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07

Ell Paso. Tex. May 6.-Aquila Triplet,
wanted at Omaha In connection with land
fraud prosecutions, was arrested here to-
day by a United States secret service
agent from Omaha.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
CARROLLTON SHO.,T LINE RAIL
WAY COMPANY.

SCHEDULE
Effective June Is. 1905.
No. /. -, q
SIS pm. .Lv.. Reform, n. AR. .12:25 d m
4o5 pm. w.. Stansel ....Ar..12:s5 o n.
428 pm. .Lv.. Carrollton ..Lv. II so a. m.
4:43 pm, .Lv.. Carrollton Ar u :35 am.
1858 pm. w.. Dillburg lar. .n:i3 q. m.
5:25 pm. Ar. Aliceyille ...Ly. IL: 100 a. m.
First-class passenger trains meet and
connect with all main line ,-obile & Ohio
trains.
For further Information apply to
JOHN T. COCTl.ANE.
Pres. and Gen'l Manager.
Carrollton. Ala
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES

Showing the arrival and departure OF
passenger trains at the Union station. Biz
mingham:
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-11-22

N. F.. Sagely, of Nolan county, Tex.
arrived this morning from Nolan coun
ty and are here seeking work.
j. E. Thompson wife baby, of
Hagerman nave been here several
days and left this morning for Big
heart, o. T. on a prospecting trip.
Don't go to the Woman's Club mus
icale tonight. 1t has cen postponed
indefinitely. 1t
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. W~eirtheimer,
who have been here for two weeks
IN a honeymoon visit, left this morn
ing for Oklahoma City where they ex-
pect to make their future home.
c. w. Potter, who says he is an i'm
migration agent for the Frisco rail
road in good weather, left this morn
ing for his home in Bowling Green,
KY. He mas been here a week seeing
the country.
1. H. Burney, attorney for the Tex
as Cattle Raisers' Association, who
has been here since Sunday attend
ing court, left his morning for his
home in Fort Worth. The case in
which ne was interested was contin-
ued un&il next term.
The Salvation Army will serve a
Thanksgiving dinner in its new hall
ON the corner of Pecos and Second,
on Thanksgiving Day, from 11:30to
$50. Turkey and chicken will be
served. Tickets 35 \cents. Proceeds to
go to the building fund. 25tf
MI. and Mrs. J. T. Oman left this
morning for their home in Morgan
field, KY, having spent several days
here prospecting. They were pleased
with the country, the temporary bad
conditions Notwithstanding. and Mr..
Oman will return before Christmas
to continue his investigation with a
view of investing and locating.
N. B. Licnliter, a mining man and
operator from Joplin, Mo-. who mas
been here and in this part of the Ter
ritory for several weeks looking into
| the mining prospects here, left this
| morning for his home. He is great
Iy pleased with New Mexico and ex-
poets to return for an extended stay
later in h winter, when he will in
vest.