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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Travell'd gallants
Railroad [ arninus in May

The railroads show a gain in gross receipts of $22,296,a05 as compared with their receipts in May 1906. The net receipts do not hold up quite so stoutly as dc the gross receipts, but even net receipts were increased 17h per cent over those of May in last year.
 The gross earnings of reporting southern roads in May last aggregated $22,4S3,32S, as against $20,S56,252 in the preceding May. The gains were smaller on the southern roads, for all show an increase. The eastern roads show an advance of 19.6 per cent, and the hard-coal roads one of 27.9 per cent while three other divisions-tho northwestern, the Pacific and the southwestern-cont gains, each of which is in excess of 20 per cent. The central-western roads and the trunk lines furnish increases of IS per cent and 17.3 per cent, respect ively. The southern roads contribute an increase of 7.8 per cent.
 Pessimistic talk from Wall street is idle and unavailing while gross re- ceipts are increasing, for such re- ceipts are an infallible test, of the volume and weight, ssnd trend of gen eral business There are no signs on the railroads or ir the factories of hard times or of a material depression of any sort, and so long as railroad gross receipts continue 10 increase there will be none.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Trust-Maje Goods in Texas

The big, broad, prosperous state of Texas is up against an act of her last legislature, now adjourned without day, that promises to keep business men in that state blsy. The act in question makes it a felony for any body to sell in the state goods made by a trust. No Rockefeller oil can be sold there without bringing the seller face to face with the penitentiary. No steel made by the excellent MT. Corey's company can be sold there, and the list runs along to nearly all the things in daily use. Oftentimes the storekeeper can not distinguish between a plain manufacturer and a trust, for some trusts are secretive and are lowering near the monopoly line without perhaps crossing it.
 Private monopoly has been permit ted to go on practically unchecked until it makes nearly all needful arti- cle. Between Dingleyism aud years of refusal to enforce the Sherman anti trust act the trusts have multiplied until they fill and control and exploit the land. They have become so numer- ous under the protecting wing of Dingley,sm and republicanism it is in deed doubtful whether the Texas law can be enforced.
 Texas is at any rate in a disturbed coalition. Merchants are between the trusts and the penitentiary, and they do not know which way to turn. The enforcement of the law cannot be restrained by federal injunction, for 1t is wholly an interstate matter, and it is well-nigh impossible to raise 8 federal question in connection with it..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23

fight the issue to the limit, whatever that may prove to be.
 The railroads between Chicago and the Missouri .iver nave 100 much horse sense to get into any such muddle as exists in North Carolina. They have adopted a flat 2-cent rate, and all special rates to state fairs, or to clergymen or in cases of charity are abolished.
 The best remedy that the situation affords is found in a frank and full &C., ceptance by the railroads of all laws, because in that way alone can the prevailing anti-railroad sentiment be modified and modified. To pursue the opposite course is but to increase and aggravate existing public senti- ment. The railroads in the west see what's the matter, and they are deal ing with a difficult and trying senti- ment in a practical and sensible man. ner The probability is the railroads of the east and south will get their eyes open to plain facts after while, and then the rate problem will be gradually worked out in business like manner. The final outcome would then be acceptable to all concerned, including the railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Keep Attorney General Busy.

To the Editor of The Age Herald
 Whatever may be said of the short comings of the present Alabama legis- lature, they have not failed to make busy man of the attorney general, and from indications In your Issue of the 22d inst. they seem inclined to keep up the pace. The bill of Senator John W. Overton, which you mentioned un- der the sub-head of "A Loaded Stick" ''to allow the railroad commission to establish a Sunday freight train law" would be a loaded stick of the boomer ang order and the commission would certainly get 1t back in the neck. We have but one law making body and It's powers cannot be delegated to anoth CT branch of the government. The rall- road commission can only execute the laws as they are handed cut by the legislature, and the present outlook Is not very optimistic as to their ability to do that. As long as the railroads can take the fourteenth amendment from the negroes and tn cir counsel hold out their spiel on "confiscation" and ''Confiscatory" Governor Comers hob bies will enjoy a state of "inocuous dessuetude." Between the railroads, capitalists, preachers and the common masses of the common people, to say nothing of the whisky men, this legisla- ture will go down 4n history as a re- markable one.
 JOSEPH SALISBURY.
 Blossburg, Ala. July 22, 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
FOREMAN OF JURY
 RAISES BIG KICK

Mobile, July 22.-(Special )-Col r. P. Davis, foreman of the jury In the Charles Schimpf case, made public today his re- marks made to the court upon the dis missal of that jury Saturday evening Alter stating the manner in which the jury was treated by deputy sheriff and served with food by two burly, greasy negroes, rocking with precipitation, he says that one of the jurors, MT. Sandose, on account of whose illness the jury was dismissed was made i'll by eating some greasy fried eggs, which with ham and bread and butter was served to the jury for dirner Friday He emphasizes the statement that they were treated more like cattle and convlcts than like reput- able citizens and no attention was paid to the request of those of the jury who asked to be allowed to buy food for themselves.
 About eighty members of the Ala bama Press association. on their an nual outing, arrived in the city about 1:S0 o'clock this morning on the City of Mobile" from Montgomery. This morning they were escorted by a com- mittee of local newspaper men to the steamer Fairhope and were taken over the bay to Point Clear, where they spent the day and will spend the night returning to this city tomorrow morn ing. when they will be given a trolley ride about the city and a sea food dinner at Monroe park at noon Much oratory Is expected to flow.
 There was a conference held this morning in the city hall between Mayor Iyons, City Attorney Boone and Tax Collector Langan for the purpose of deciding upon some remedy for the situation the city will be placed in through the passage of the municipal code bill which Is now pending in the Alabama house, after having passed the senate.
 The trouble Is due to the wording of section 107 relative to the assessment and collection of the city taxes, and if the bill passes the city of Mobile will have to borrow between four and five hundred thousand dollars to carry her over the period intervening between the time the city taxes that have already expired and been collected and the time for the next assessment and collection of the taxes. Under the provisions of the bill, Mobile will be without any tax money until De- cember, 190S After full discussion of the matter 1t was decided that the mu- nicipal code bill will have to be amended, and City Attorney Boone left for Mont gomery tonight in order to secure the de- sired amendment to the bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
A House of Detention.

"I am of the opinion that the sug- gestion of a house of detention is a good one," said judge of the criminal court.
 All misdemenors do not involve nor al turpitude; all felonies do. Now In criminology 1t Is a well established fact that the moral sense Is the guard ing principle. Moral turpitude may be a matter of suggestion even to a man of limited knowledge; In fact more so. If there could be a house of deten- tion established 1t would do much to tighten the pressure on the Jail; 1t would do away with a large outlay for jail improvements; 1t would likely not put the stamp up many men of hay Ing been in jail, stigma that hardens some and makes them more indifferent to the commission of offenses against the law"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
The Passinu Thronq.

If you want to see life In all of it's ups and downs, you want to go Into the hotel business" said Riley D. Cronk of the Birmingham
 we have many trying experiences to go through. There Is the young woman who Is caught between trains or bad connections and Is forced to stop at hotel over night Then the travel ing man puts up and goes the gaits, loses his job and owes the house for weeks high living.
 "The people who are disappointed at the letter that never came are without number and all in all the life of hotel keeper Is one that compares with that of the newspaper man that sees much of the life of which the pub lie knows nothing of"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
From the San Francisco Call.

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 @ HE story of man, who, though kOD sick and alone in a cabin in
 the Kuskokwim region of Alas ka kept diary in which, he set down notes of his daily sufferings, while he prayed for the arrival of his partner, who never came, is told in letter received by Miss Jane Porter from her brother. Bert Porter. of Nome. Bert Porter said the story was brought to Nome by man named James Bayne, together with the diary and the personal effects of the man, who died alone after thirty-five days of recorded suffering. The name of the un- fortunate man was Al Melhern of Seattle.
 Bayne explained that Melhern, with his partner Fisher, had gone into the Kusk okwim country prospecting, and that Fisher had left Melhern to go farther up a river. The two had an agreement that Me1hern would follow Fisher and rejoin him on March 1.
 While Fisher was gone Melhern was seized with cramps and later with paraly sis. and was laid helpless in his dreary hut. For a while he was able to move about a little, to procure water and light fire, but as the days passed and assistance failed to arrive even that pow CT left him and only the strength to write a little in his diary describing his tor lures remained Praying for Fisher while his nunlbed fingers were unable to scratch a match,s he made the daily entries in his book.
 Gold and thirsty" he wrote finally OF April g. and for the next three days there appeac only the ditto marks that show he was still conscious of his position. On April the help he had longed for came, but they found only the emaciated and frozen body, from which life probably had departed on the night before.
 Fisher. though he missed the arrival of Melhern on the appointed day, was im- mediately afterward taken with scurvy and was unable to send back a party in time. As soon as he could do so he organized and dispatched the relief ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Dies In Court Room.

Montgomery, July 22.-Julia Edwards a negro woman, was brought into the re- corder's court at Columbus, Ga., for fight ing today. As she was arraigned before the judge she looked about the court room In horror, grasped her breast and sank to the floor. Examination showed that she had died from heart failure, result of the excitement of the court room. She was 40 years old and had evidently never been in a court room before. She looked all the time as if she thought she was going to be the victim of some calamity, and when the judge told her to stand up her eyes opened wide, and with a gasp her life went out. She was to all ap- pearances a healthy woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
The O'RejIIv Monument,

G. Moretti, the sculptor, arrived from Talladega yesterday and is registered at the Florence. He completed the O'Reilly statue recently and 1t Is now in Birmingham.
 Next Sunday will be the third ami versary of Father o'Reilly's death. The statue Is to be erected at the grave of the lamented priest near the St. Vim cents hospital. T can have 1t set on It's pedestal this week and ready for unveiling Sunday, If the committee sees fit to have the exercises on that day" said Mir Moretti.
 The statue Is of heroic sixe and weighs ten tons. It was shipped In an Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic car and was brought here over the Sea- board tracks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
FreIuht Trains Collide.

Montgomery, July 22-Two freight trains on the Louisville and Nashville railroad ran together at Owassa. in Conecuh coun- ty. Alabama, last night, resulting in tear ing up both engines badly. Engineer George Green of one of the crews was slightly bruised by jumping. Otherwise there was no one injured. AS the crash came between the switches, there was no delay of trains, the side track serving to keep the line open. The wreck will be cleared by night. The wreck was the result of a mistake in orders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
BY THE RIVER,

From the Chicago Record -Herald.I A green spot by a rivers brin,
 A man without care; A pensive maiden close to him,
 A day superbly fair. Green branches lightly swayed above
 By breezes cool and sweet; A tale of knighthood and of love,
 Glad looks that often meet. A hand within another laid.
 A sigh, whispered word; A man without a care. maid
 Whose breast is strangely stirred. A sky without single fieck
 On all its broad expanse; A wasp upon the maiden's neck,
 A busted-up romance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Cavalry Troops.

T am much pleased" said Captain Stewart of the cavalry troop, that l secured horses in Montgomery for my men who go into camp there August 8. It saves the cost of transportation to the troop an item of $50.
 "I wish the merchants would show the same interest In the military that two of the largest corporations have; these give the cir men ten days holiday with pay and this has a tendency to encourage the men to take an interest in the National Guard"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Mobiles Dilemma,

Mobile, July 22.-If the municipal code bill now pending before the Alabama leg islature becomes a law in it's present shape, Mobile will not be able to collect any more taxes until December, 1908. and the taxes for this year having been col lected under previous laws. she would be forced to borrow half million dollars to tide her over. After a conference between city officials today, City Attorney Boone left tonight for Montgomery to have the bill amended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Fourteen Persons Poisoned.

Memphis, July 22.-A special from May field, Ky. says: Edwin Seay, his two sons, E. c. and Merritt Seay, and the members of their families, fourteen per sons In all, are in critical condition at Fottsvile, suffering from ptomaine pols- oning as a result of eating Ice cream con- taining the poison at dinner party at the home of the elder Seay's daughter. B. C. Seay, one of the persons i'll. is one of the most prominent attorneys of West kentuckN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Mark Twain Back Home.

New York, July 22.-Samuel l.. Clem- ems (Mark Twain) arrived from London today on the steamer Minnetonka He presided at concert on board ship at which resolutions were adopted congrat- ulating Captain Leyland for his hand ling of the steamer so as to minimize a collision with bark, soon after be- ginning the voyage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BAsHELoR,

From the New York Press.
 The cheaper advice Is to get the more 1t costs you to follow it.
 A woman thinks having a good figure depends on her admitting 1t.
 When girl tells her mother on a man who tried to kiss her it's a sign it isn't true.
 A man can't help admiring the pretty clothes a woman wears unless he pays for them.
 The reason a woman can always fool man is she is yer sa stupid as to try to do 1t with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Father and Son Drowned.

Memphis, July 22.-A report to the News Scimitar from Little Rock, Ark, says: While attempting to rescue his son, Rob- ert Lane Clark, merchant of this city was drowned in the Arkansas river yes terday afternoon. The body of the son has been recovered but that of Mir. Clark has not yet been found. The father and son were bathing when Robert got over his depth, and In an effort to res cue his son both were drowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
PIaninq Mill Burned.

Shreveport, La, July 22.-The blaming mill of the Sabine Lumber company at Sewolle. La, was destroyed by fire lats yesterday. entailing a loss of sso, ,OOo we'll covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. Fifteen million feet of lumber in the yards was saved by stren- uous fire fighting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
DIARY TELLS OF HORRORS

petition, but it arrived a day too late. Entries in the diary found with Melhern's body and copied by Porter down to the last entry are as follows:
 March 2-Mlld, but sick.
 March 3.-At cabin.
 March 4-Snowing.
 March 5-Mild, and at home.
 March Mild. Cramps.
 March s-At cabin. Fair
 March 9-Snowing, but warm.
 March 1O-snowing. Very sick.
 March 11-Home. Mild.
 March 12-Mild. Very sick
 March 13-Storming Very sick March 1Estorming. Very sick.
 March 15-Storming Very sick. March 16-Fisher expected me up on March 1, so I have been expecting him since March B. He must be sick.
 March 17-Hardly able to move. March 1s-Fair, but very sick.
 March 19-Not able to light fire
 March 2O-Not able to light fire March 21-Tried to get up. Impossible March 22-Can't move. Out of wood. Looking for Fisher.
 March 23-No fire, no water; nobody to help me.
 March 24-Can't move. Nothing to eat March 25-Cold, hungry. Praying for some one to come.
 March 26-Expect Fisher. No fire no water Cold and thirsty.
 March 27-Can barely move. Cold. March 2s-Cold feet. Dipped up snow which sifted down the stovepipe. Tried to melt it with candle to get drink. March 29-Thirsty, cold. Expect Fisher. Praying for some one to come.
 March 30-Cold and thirsty.
 March 31-Cold, thirsty. Out of fire. April 1-Cold and thirsty.
 April 2-Cold and thirsty.
 Melhern's effects when sold at auction, brought $250. His papers showed that he held powers of attorney from many res- idents of Nome, and letter containing $10 with instructions to use the money to pay taxes in Seattle also was found
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23

Eastwood, John Swift. Ed Larkin, D. Easton steward, F. Funk; second stew ard, A. Mack; stewardess, E. Harris; DOT ter, A. Stickley; steerage steward, w. T. Lawrence; baker, A. Schneider; chief cook, Charles Won Rooster; second cook, Frank D. Davis; messman, W. T. Ed steen; pantryman, E. Dreyer: steerage watchman, J. J. Fogarty; walters, c. Hol- na( A l.. Blocker, J. H. White, Robert Engman, c. s. Hawley, c. Murphy, Alex andro Carrera, R. J. Alley, J. G. Alley, A. Cadorette
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Editors Arrive,

Mobile, July 22,-About 100 members of the Alabama Press association arrived here from Montgomery, and are spending the night at Point Clear. They will re- turn in the morning and will be given a trolley ride and sea food dinner at Monroe Park at noon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23

Richard Croker has declined the na- tionalist nomination for parliament for East Warwick, Ireland. He got an overdose of politics In this coun- try, and he wants no more of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Many Visitors,

Huntsville, July 22.-(Special.)-The big best crowd that has ever attended, the encampment of the Third regiment at Camp T. w. Pratt was out on Sunday. and they witnessed the review of the reg iment by Adjutant General Bibb Graves. There were several thousand visitors and the big field was full
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Attention Called to Injustice.

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 The Age-Herald of Mondays issue was a fine paper for a Monday paper. much above the average. A pity 1t is that It was marred by paragraph of about ten lines. Many of your readers passed 1t over without notice, perhaps. Some of them possibly read 1t as commendable piece of reportorial work, Lest I for get" let me give you the heading, Jews Play Cards" "Six Jews were found en- gagged In the baneful practice of playing cards on Sunday" etc. Will you tell me, Mir. Editor, whether there was any ne- cesslty for putting a distinguishing or distinctive label upon the six men found violating -the law? Will you tell me whether or not men or women who might be Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, if found violating the law, would have been designated by their church affilia- tions? SAMUEL ULLMAN.
 Birmingham, July 22 1907.
 To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 In your issue of July 22 l observe the following head lines: Jews Play Cards" Now, objection is not made to the publication of the facts In this case, it is news and belongs to the pub lie, but why secularize? Do not cer- tain Christians play cards? Do they not play on Sunday, and are they not sometimes arrested and fined. Does the fact that the parties referred to In your recent issue were Jews, make the offense any more repreh ensible? Is it any greater reflection on the Jew as a sect, than it would have been on the Christian, had the case been re- versed, would the denomination of the parties arrested been mentioned had they been Christians? Is this equal Jus tice or does it not smack of prejudice? We know absolutely nothing about the case In question and my sympathy Is not with those who so flagrantly trans gressed the laws. My remarks are not to be construed as in the least con- donng the offence committed against the laws of the state and of society, but we do in no uncertain tones protest against the attempt made by the head lines" to this article to bring appro- brieum and disrepute upon the Jews of this entire community.
 If Christians, as a sect shall be con- demned because of the acts committed by one or more of their number, then let the Jew bear the same burden, but not otherwise. It Is not right or Just to condemn an entire community be- cause of the overt acts of a few, nor should 1t be in the case of religious sect. E. Il. LOPEZ.
 Bessemer July 22, 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
Lono Distance photooraphv.

Cambridge, Mass, July 22.-Prof. Perci- val Lowell. director of the Lowell ob- servatory, has sent a dispatch to the Harvard observatory officials in which he says: "Martian double canal Gihon photographed by Lampland and also by me-"