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New-York tribune., 1907-04-05
TO ORGANIZE NEW NATIONAL BANK.

new national bank is being organized by busi-
unss men in the region OF Madison Square, il Is
learned but no details concerning the institution
have vet developed II Is said that the bank is 70
he entirely independent Of any other bank
New-York tribune., 1907-04-05

The pamphlet report OF the Chicago. Indiana &
Southern Railroad Company for the fiscal year
ended December 81 last has been published The
income account compared with the previous year
is follows.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-05
METROPOLITAN WEST SIDE ELEVATED.

The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad
Company. OF Chicago, has issued its annual report
for the year ended February 2s. 1907. The income
account compares as follows:
New-York tribune., 1907-04-05
NATIONAL LEAD.

The National Lead Company has issued its an
nual report for the year ended December 81. 1915
The income account compares as follows:
New-York tribune., 1907-04-05
BONDS.
COBALT STOCKS.
rae FEDERAL TREASURY.

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~ ihe beginning Of business to-day was as
RESERVE FIND
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New-York tribune., 1907-04-05
ACTIVE CURB STOCKS.

INDUSTRIAL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
Coal Weiuhinu in Iowa

Iowa has recently passed laws re- nuiring all railroads within the state that carry coal in carload lots to weigh it at the point of shipment, the consignee to be furnished a bin of lading showing the gross, tare and net weight of each carload. The emp ty car must be weighed. On the pay mcnt of a fee not exceeding one dol lar the consignee may have a carload reweighed at the destination point. The Iowa law provides that when a car is weighed on track scale 1t shall be uncoupled. It must be clear and unhampered at both ends. A vio- lation of the law subjects a railroad to fine of S125 per car.
 The short weight bills are popular, and several of the states are moving to secure one. There are no special grounds for complaint in this state, but no doubt when the next legisla- ture meets some one will lay before it a short weight bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
MILLS RUNNING.

From the Iron Trade Review.
 Mills shut down for the annual mid summer repairs and over.haullng are gradually getting back into operation. and the end of the week will probably see majority of them again on their record-brealxlng grind to turn out material to meet the extremely heavy demand of consumers for shipments on old contracts The very hot weather has cut down mill production to some extent, and the same condition is true of the coke region, where difficulty is being experienced in finding men to perform the work around the ovens.
 New business has been light all along the line, with the single exception of steel bars The tonnages of steel bars have individually been small, but the total has been good, and specifications are very heavy. The face that the present time is between contract periods, as well as the well known bought-up condition of most consumers Is responsible, together wirh the vacation period and inventories. accounts for the Hull In all branches of the business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
------------es--------- THE "ACTINGS" ON GUARD.
Not a Single Cabinet Officer Left in
 Washington.

New York-A special to the Times from Washington says:
 For the next sixty days the national government will be run by proxy. With the departure of Secretary C/.- telyou and Postmaster General Meyef from Washington for their summer - cations, every responsible head of the government is out of the city, and the weighty problems of state are being solved by the assistant cabinet officers.
 Of the acting heads of the nine ex- ecutive departments, five are proteges of President Roosevelt, and all, with the exception of General Ainsworth who is acting secretary of war, have been trained in the Roosevelt school of politics. Three of the hot weather cabinet ministers-Bacon Murray and Hitchcock--are members of the Presi- dents exclusive "Tennis Cabinet'
 The man who Is al-powerful at the white house during these hot days Is Rudolph Forester. the assistant secre- tary to the President, who, since he got his training under MT. Cortelyou is past aster in the art of keeping silent in about seventeen different Ian guages. It has been rumored that in the event of the retirement of Secre- tary Loeb next December MT. Pores ter may go up one step higher
 The acting members of the caf- ct today are: Secretary of state, Robert Bacon; treasury, J. B. Reynolds; war. Gen. r. c. Ainsworth; navy, Truman n II. Newberry; attorney general, Chas. w. Russell; interior, George w. Wood run; postmaster-g general, Frank H. Hitchcock; agriculture, Willett M Hays; commerce and labor, Lawrence O. Murray.
 Acting Secretary of State Bacon. as substitute for the senior cabinet mem Der, is the highest government officer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
THE FAIRBANKS BOOM.

From the New York Sun.
 Millions are already on the cir way to visit the ancestral seat of the Fair banks family at Dedham. For 270 years that has been the capital of the Fairbanks clan. From 1t Fairbankses have swarmed. By marriage and de- scent they are related to everybody; and the strong feeling of kin Is all in favor of him whom the people love to call Buttermilk Charley.
 Through the Beaurivages he is con- leynes or Mullinses; therefore he Is dear to all the descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, who in clude, we believe, most of the white population of the country. He Is re- lated to the Karlsens, Varensens and Faerbanksens of the northwest, to the
 Fitzwarrens of Normandy and Ire land, to the Carols, as his Chris tian name Carolus shows; to the Klar- damms of Franconia, to the Bellarpas of Romagn and intimately and inex- tricably to the Smiths of everywh ere. A "conservatiye estimate" of the Fair banks vote due to relationship alone Is account the various pilgrim. pioneer, colonial and revolutionary organiza- tions.
 The fame of the cocktail legend grows faint. Pure, healthful, invigo- rating, tile ButtermillS Boom gurgles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
More Liqht

While Birmingham boasts of pure water, great sewer system, excell- ent street car service and miles if finely paved streets 1t is deficient in street lights in outlying residence sections. Many streets are almost in total darkness at night. There is scarcely a ward that does not call for more light.
 There is no excuse for any city having dark streets. Certainly pro- gressive city like Birmingham should not fall behind in the matter of illu- mination Arc lights are not expen- sive and since eve4y street light does good police duty 1t is false economy indeed not to have one on every cor ner
 Forty or fifty additional lights are needed as the city pays only $70 a year for each street light in outlay would be comparatively small while the protection to life and property would be great to say nothing of the question of the city's good name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
From the Boston Transorll

From the Boston Transcript
 N s with ballooning, so with protec- PV ton against lightning, since the first identification of lightning with electricity by Franklin, within two decades of the ascent of the first balloon, the art of protecting human life and hab- itatons from It's visitations has remained about stationary. There is nothing bet ter today than the metal rod. either of iron or copper, with sharp points pro- jecting a little way above the object to be protected. The great Washington monument has served for continuous light ming experimentation and record under the auspices of the scientific men of the weather bureau. If there be any advance to record in the protective devices against lightning it is through the experience ob- tained on the monument. It is 555 feet high and stands in the center of flat and well watered grounds, precisely the com bination of conditions believed to attract the lightning. About twenty years ago the lightning rods upon 1t were re-en- forced by connecting the pyramidal cap of aluminium by network of copper wires uniting the four main copper lightning rods with one another and with the up- rights supporting the elevator machinery, and arming the whole system of copper wires about the cap with some 200 copper points distributed at a uniform distance of about five feet. There had been one damaging lightning stroke which left it's mark upon the monument, but since that multiplication of points and close con nection with the metals in the interior of the monument, not another one. in England this year, owing to the recent wholesale killings of cattle and sheep in the fields, it is seriously proposed to equip any large trees so situated as to be re- sorted to commonly as a place of refuge by cattle in a storm, with lightning rods which shall present, at a height slightly above the highest branches, an array of metal points. It is urged that the ex- pense Is trifing for such a precaution compared with the loss on the cattle. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
NatjonaI Conventions

The edges of the country were once considered when city had to be selected as the meeting place of one of the great po- litical parties of the country, but the cities of the middle west are now preferred. They are more access sible to the delegates. All must pay fare next year, and it is safe to say that no city on tidewater will be the seat of national convention. The middle west has monopoly of na- tional conventions. Only once since 1872 has a convention been held In a city on tidal waters. The republican convention of 1900 that nominated Mckinley and Roosevelt sat in Phil adelphia. We give below the list since 1852:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
Passenger Rates

Tn the whoriwind and sweep of the anti-railroad legislation of the period efforts were made to reduce passen- ger fares in over thirty states, and the efforts have been actually carried into law in twenty-one states. Two-cent rates were decreed in Arkansas, h. diana, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Two and one-half-cent rates have been es- tablished in Alabama, Wisconsin and North Dakota. North Carolina has t--o and one-quarter cent rate. West Virginia has a two-cent rate for rali- roads over fifty miles in length. Iowa adopted a sliding scale ranging from three cents down to two cents' Mlchl- gan has a two, three and four-cent rate. Kansas, Maryland and MISSES sipi have two-cent rates for mileage hooks. Georgia and South Dakota have put the subject in the hands or their respective railroad commlsisons' The new Oklahoma constitution calls for a two-cent rate. Massachusetts Kansas and Virginia are considering rate bills.
 The reduction movement failed to .ao,ro affirmative votes in the last
 ,tures of Arizona, Florida, Maine. South Carolina, South Dakota lew York and Texas. In New York a two-cent bill was passed to be vetoed by Governor Hughes.
 Test suits have been begun in ten states, and the suit in Minnesota Is regarded as the pest test of the con stitutionality of reduction acts. In Ar kansas. Kansas, Michigan and Wis nonsin the railroads are giving the new rates fair trials. The trial Of
 o-cent law in Ohio is over year old. and the railroads in that state nre said to be receiving more reve- nue from passengers than they did when three cents was the common rate
 In order to bring order out of chaos he principal western carriers have ae-eed upon a general complianc with state laws by adopting flat tYo- cent basis. This agreement went into operation last Saturday. This agree ment is confined to points between Chicago and the Missouri river. The roads east of Chicago have not deter mined what policy they will adopt toward the two-cent movement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
LIGHTNING AND DANGERS

is declared by Professor Artfeld of Eng land, however, that the burying of cattle destroyed by lightning is whoBy bit of superstitious rustieity; and that if the carcasses are promptly drained of theft blood, as in ordinary slaughtering there is no difference in the meat thus procured from that obtained in the ordinary way.
 It is believed that the mortality from lightning is greater than is commonly supposed, since except in Germany and France the facts are only partially col- leeted and tabulated by governments. In England they only "estlmate" as yet the totals of lightning destruction, and the number of cattle killed in the field is placed at about 600 annually. Twenty eight deaths were recorded in 1871, in 1875 r, and in 1877 only 10. In Prussia the number of deaths per million of inhab- itants on an average of fifteen years, is 4; in France and Sweden, 3, and in the United States about 5. Our rate Is high- CT than that of most countries owing to the large proportion of our agricultural population. In 1898 the number of deaths recorded by the statistics of the weather bureau was S67 and injuries 491. Nine hundred and sixty-six barns and 735 dwellings, were destroyed and about 1900 head of cattle horses sheep and hogs the approximate money loss being $1 ,5O0,- GOO. And yet the authorities tell us that in the United States there are few flashes so intense that good lightning rods of continuous metal well inserted in the earth will not afford effective protection. This is not necessary in the city built in close blocks, with metal cornices and roofs and spouts abounding; but in the country the same authorities unite in saying that good lightning rods, in good repair and with furnished points on the roof corners are eminently desirable things to be provided with. Tall factory chimneys and steeples and all such struc- lures as tower above their surroundings should have their lightning rods as q matter of course. and have them con- structed most carefully and inspected often to keep their joints intact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
SMITHS DOMINATE SOCIETY.
Social Register Locater Reveals H'en
 Social Position of the Clan.

From the New York World
 Society is led throughout the county north, south east and west. by the an- cient and honorable family of Smith, as is shown by the Social Register Locater, the first number of which was published yesterday.
 This volume Is a compendium of the names of persons of social prominence in twenty American cities and has been pre- pared with painstaking care. It consists of an alphabetical arrangement of S4,5OO names, together with the cities where the persons reside This furnishes a clew to many sources of information concerning those whose doings are of interest to so- ciety in the principal cities of the United States.
 Of the Smiths, there are found to be 556 all told, while the Browns, who number S46, come next in prefermen. The Joneses number 262, while the Robinsons have 173 on the roll of the select elect, to quote Miss Carolyn Wells. The numerically predominant names in New York are as follows: Smith 163 Brown, 1S7; White, S6 Morgan. S4: Clark, S1; Robinson. 81 Taylor. S0 and Miller, s6. Boston has only five Smiths and sixteen Browns, but the Hub has twenty-two Williamses, forty-four Peabodys and forty-four Cool idges.
 New York has the most Smiths. and 40 per cent of the Browns, while Balti- more is a close second in the possession of the clan of Brown. The Smiths predom- mate 1T Philadelphia, with a battalion of 123, although the Riddle family, which is so much a part of the City of Brotherly Love, has seventy-two members. The Joneses are to be found everywhere, ex- cept in Providence and Oakland. Oak land has nobody at all in society named Jackson. Baltimore Is entitled to have the most Jenkinses present at any large social function. In Chicago the Walkers follow the Smiths in preference, while in Provi- dence the name of Aldrich is the open sea- same to society. Pittsburg has the most Laughlns The Smiths are at the fore in St. Louis and St. Paul and in Minneapolis the question of prestige is tie among the Washingtons, Winstons and Wood- worths.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
MIR. HOBSON.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Even those persons who entertain the scantiest possible sympathy for the bellicose views and tendencies of Rich mond Pearson Hobson will be compell- ed to admit that his impetuoslty is at least engaging. Indiscreet as 1t Is his habit to be- there are nevertheless certain spontaneous and cratic quail ities about this eager young statesman which are distinctly fascinating.
 That he is given to extremes. no one will attempt to deny. That was dem. onstrated in the temerlty which he dis played in the Merrimac incident al San tiago; and while the country has for given his innocent excesses when he was swinging around the osculatory circle, 1t has not forgotten them. They are recalled now, not by way of cen sure, but merely as throwing a side light on his excitable and rash atti- tude in respect to the relations be- tween the United States and Japan.
 In truth, the whole affair may be properly dismissed with the prevalent comment, Its only Hobson." Japan may not quite see into this, but it is so well understood in America as to dis pei all fear of diplomatic entangle- ments through the utterances of Ala bama's irrepressible statesman and hero.
 An insistent clamor for war with Japan by a congressman of the United States might, as an abstract proposi- tion, be looked upon as a source of mis- chief and fruitful of danger; but not when the congressman is Hobson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
The Art of Glass Making.

This city has developed most won derfully in four years" said U. D. Gergerman, manager of the Sterling Glass company of New York, who is at the Hilman.
 'I lived in Pittsburg at one time and there are many points in common between the two places to my eye. I would like to live here. You have many very hand some establishments that would be a credit to any city. I have some friends who are thinking of coming here and locatnfg and I shall certainly advise it.
 Glass making is a very interesting process, particularly cut glass. In mak- ing glass eight-tenths of the crude ma terial is lead and one-tenth Is sand with a little silver. The materials are melted in great heat in what we call a pot holding say 1900 pounds. We find that old glass helps the product just as old rails are used In making new ones.
 "The glass is divided into three grades: The top of the pot. the middle and the bottom. The top of the pot is used in making the finest cut glass, the middle makes table ware and tubes for drug gists and the bottom. bottles and electric light bulbs. If we wish to make rich red glass gold is used for coloring
 Glass is distinctly affected by the day. If it is dark and cloudy the glass Is left in the pot or the quality is seriously affected. If a very strong sunlight is out doors the glass will have a pink ish tint. So you see that glass is dis tinctly the creation of light and atmos- phere, much as a plant.
 Tn making cut glass the shapes are modelled The pieces goes through many processes from having the figure of de- sign sketched by an artist in pigment. Then a wheel with sand and water cuts the rough, another whel of wood using pumice for cutting and then cork wheel with putty to polish. Lastly a brush wheel to reach the finer cuttings and to polish to crystal brilliancy.
 Tn the making of ordinary glass ware and bottles steel blow pipes are used and steel gloves in shaping. It is wonderful how dextrous the glass blowers become Of course 1t takes a pretty good pair of lungs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
A MIDNIGHT RACE.
the Commercial Appeal.

loH the commercial Appeal
 We fell asleep in a chair at Grand Junction last Wednesday night on onr way home from Memphis in our usual soaked condition, and let our train leove us. The hotel clerk told us to go upstails ana take the room on the right side of the nall with lamp burning low He said ne was crowded and we would have to double up with man. We went up and pulled off our things and went to he'd without waking our bedfellow, who was sleeping sound with the sheet over his head to keep off the muskeeters. Before We fell into the arms of morphine we seen d young lady and a young gent come in ana set down by the winder. At first they talked so low we could not hear what they said. Finally we heard the little miss say: Willie, ain't you 'shamed to try to KISS me right here whare we air setting up with dead person." We felt awful cureous. We slowly reached over and touched the nose of the man wus in bed with. and seen at a glance he wus dead alright. We rig up instantly, and it WIS a race to finish twixt us three fer the bottom of the steps. It is useless to say we wus furst past the post by two lengths We didn't skeer that couple any wurse than the corpse skeered us We walked through the country to Bolivar and wired for our clothes by express
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22

revision. The standpatters say it means December, 1909, but If the country goes republican will they not say that Dingleyism has been rein dorsed? Early" would then mean December, 1913.
 The issue plainly goes over to the campaign of 1908 to be fought out along with private monopoly and the like. Not even MT. Roosevelt will be able to induce the republicans to take up the subject in the sixtieth congress which will meet in the heat and furry of a presidential race. No matter how vigorously the president may discuss the tariff we may all be sure that the issue will abide with us when the campaign of 1908 comes on. The republican party has permitted Dingleyism to finger on and it must next year face the consequences of it's neglect If tariff taxes were not Of the sneak or indirect sort-if they were collected as plainly as other taxes are-the Dingley tariff would fall in thirty days. The average man does not know when he pays tariff taxes, and he does not see the larger share of those taxes go into the oyer- filled pockets of the tariff benefici- aries. It is in large part a scheme to take money from consumers to put in other mems pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
STEAM FLOWS IN ALABAMA

faces, but the rear wheels are of about fiye feet six inches in circumference, while the front are only three feet across. The rear whels are set with two sets of cieats, placed along the wearing surface. The two engines are very much alike in ah essential details.
 Tyo men are required to run this raction blow, as it is called an engineer anu a fireman. Everything is modern in all respects, with the exception of water facilities But inconvenience in this quarter must be borne with, as such arrangements on portable engine are necessarily unsatisfactory, especially on a farm where heretofore everything has ben of the cruGest.
 This is the description of the traction engine. When engaged in blowing or such work, the blow is coupled to thd engine. The blow used consists of six revolving discs which, in favorable soil, cut d furrow of about four inches in depth. A sower Is sometimes attached to the engine, and works in connection with the blow, planting the seed as the soil is turned
 About 10 acres a day can be covered by this engine, thus proving its great ef- fleiency. It thus does the work of three, four, or even more, plowmen But It's efficiency is almost offset by the cost of the skilled labor required in running it. and also the amount of coal neces- sary. MT. Borden says that from fifteen hundred pounds to a ton a day are used. The engine was manufactured by the Huber Manufacturing company of Ma rion, Ohio.
 This is the first of such improvements on Marks plantation, and the old hand labor of the negro is still used in ev- cry other department, and even bears the brlnt of the blowing. The negroes work along with the labor saving engine bliss fully unconscious that every "chug- -chug' of the traction blow strikes deeper blow at the present institution of the shiftless, incompetent negro labor, and that the first steam blow marks the beginning of the introduction of the many labor saving devices that are being used in other agricultural sections and that, In the South will prove a solution of tha ever growing problem of scarcity Of farm labor.