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Evening journal., 1907-07-19

Board of Trade. There would be a
central body composed of the repre-
sentatives from the various trade
boards in the towns throughout the
peninsula, a certain membership entit-
ling each organization to SO many rep-
resentatives in the main body
II would be the duty of this organi-
zation to take up for consideration all
matters pertaining to the business life
OF each of the towns represented. The
fact that immigrants are wanted in the
lower part of this state would be
very important consideration for the
central body
Evening journal., 1907-07-19
sustained. DR.. c. C. Harmenson ampu-
tated some Of the toes.
SPOOL COTTON GOES UP
spOOIs to Cost Ten, Not Five Cents,
And Trust Is Blamed.

NEW YORK. July l9--cotton thread,
until a short time ago the most stable
in price of all the staples, selling the
country over for 5 cents a spool. is
TO be advanced again. so that the re-
tail price will be 10 cents. On May
20 there was an advance which
brought the retail price to and Z
cents.
Cotton thread for domestic use is
manufactured almost exclusively by a
trust. Increased cost of raw material
and an advance in wages is the reason
given for the contemplated increase in
price. Independent manufacturers
declare that neither Of these reasons
is a good one. for when cotton was
selling much higher than it is now
thread retailed for cents.
Evening journal., 1907-07-19
MRS. ADDICKS LOST
A VALUABLE PIN

Mrs. Ida Carr Addicl1s OF claymont. is
anxious TO recover an opal heart pin sur
rounded by diamonds. which she lost on
July IS. The jewel was in a box with her
name on the wrapper and is supposed to
have been lost either on a West Eighth
street or a Darby car. Mrs. Addicks Is Of
fering reward for ITS return to her.
Evening journal., 1907-07-19
81 10 Baltimore and Return.

Sunday next. July 81. via Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. Special train leaves
Wilmington $40 a. M; returning.
leaves Baltimore, Union Station, 6.3S
p. m. Similar excursions August 4
and 1S.t
Evening journal., 1907-07-19
10 LAX Of Temperance.

Henry W Wilbur, OF Philadelphia, VII
address a temperance meeting at Centre
Meeting House, near Centreville. at go
o'clock on Sunday afternoon.
Evening journal., 1907-07-19
In India's Ocean.

Mrs. Bacon-I see that nearly one-half
of the fishes caught in the Indian Ocean
belong to a species not heretofore descrlb-
ed in any book
Mrs. Egbert-rhat must be where my
husband goes fshingl-Yonkers States
man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31

nmber of people in that crowd had a quarter each and 1t was his business to pass that quarter from their pockets to his without using threats or intlmida- tions. He must use the art of persuasion by which to induce men who had no earthly use for potato parer to buy one and the only use they could have for the whetstone would be to sharpen their wits.
 That man measured his audience to an inch and timed their patience to a seor ond. At the psychological moment he sliced the potato as neatly and as deftly as plane would do 1t. He turned the knife end for end and made chips of the potato; he wrapped the knife and stone in a piece of paper and thrust the parcel towards man who seemed to be hyno- tized. Give me quarter said he. and the man produced the coin. In less thah five minutes he had sold twenty of those knives.
 That same combination of articles might remain In a store for years and no one ever think of purchasing them, but this man actually held people up on the street and sold his wares. These are the sort of salesmen the business house should have"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31

of 1896 and 1900, but those platforms are now ancient history and new one is needed that will define democ- racy and put imitators in the true light.
 The first national convention of next year should be made up of real pro- gressiyes and real democrats and the News-scimetar is right when it says it should precede the republican na- tional convention, and the longer 1t precedes it the beker.
 The date of the republican conven- ton will be named in December, and Immediately afterwards the demo- cratic national committee should meet to enable the democracy to assert their principles before they have been stolen by opponents who do not intend 10 carry them into effect-by men who are tied in a hundred ways to pluto cratism, but who are good enough pro gressiyes before election day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
PLANS TO STOP
 PRIVATE CRAFTS

Mayor Pro Tenn John L. Parker intends to put a stop to the practice of the city heretofore in dealing with her aldermen and other officers in matters of business. The new code provides that no employe of the city shall sell or be interested in the sale of anything to the city, and Mr. Parker is of the opinion that this section is being constantly violated. He has writ ten this letter to c. E. Peterson, city auditor; George Eustis, city treasurer.
 "Gentlemen: l beg to call your atten- ton to paragraph 13 of Section 7s of the city code. which reads as follows: No alderman. officer or employe of the mu- nicipalities shall be directly or indirectly interested in any work. business or con tract, the expense, price or consideration for which Is paid from the treasury nor shall any member of the council or of fcer of the municipality be surety for any person having contract for which bids have been submitted, shall be made to the lowest responsible bidder, who may comply with such reasonable regu- latons as may be prescribed before the bids are called for Yours very truly,
 JOHN l.. PARKER. Mayor Pro Tenn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
New Furnace and Steel Mills

The Iron Trade Review shows that in the past thirty-one months thirty Esvo new blast furnaces have been blown in, and twenty-four more arc being built, making total of fifty-six new blast furnaces since January l, 1905. The steel trust owns twenty three of the fifty-six; independent steel interests own nineteen, and merchant furnace interests own fourteen.
 The Iron Trade Review produces these figures to show that there is not an unsound property in the list of new furnaces. All will be needed as the country grows, and none of them will be menace to the iron industry in a period of dullness and low prices.
 The erection of steel works has kept step with the erection of blast fur naces, but the list of new steel plants includes but one Bessemer plant, and it was built by an independent steel interest. The steel trust Is building open-hearth furnaces only. Nor are the new finishing mills of the mush- room variety, and bankrupt competi- ton need not be anticipated in any branch of the iron and steel industry. The steel trust and the Lake Superior orc district largely control the new erections, and the steel trust at least can carry a new plant easily without operating it.
 Our regret Is that so few new fur naces have been built in the thirty-one months in the south and in this dis trict. Of the fifty-six new furnaces not over six have been built in the south. A period of hard times will not greatly affect the south because there has been no material expansion here. The south and the steel trust would readily hold their own, and the rest would line up behind them. But there is no probability of more than brief recession in prices. There will be no return of the prices and conditions that followed 1893.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
Bin Tariff Fiuhts

The republican tariff position is ut terly insincere. If the scheme of tariff taxation be wrong and indefensible eighteen months from now 1t is wrong and indefensible now, and tariff revi- sion should be begun in December next But it will not be, simply be- cause the republicans are insincere. When Congress meets in December, 1909, some excuse will be found for delaying revision until after the cleo ton of 1912. There is, in short, but orS way in which Dingleyism can be ended, and that consists in the defeat of the Dingleyites.
 Already the air Is full of the plans of the American Protective Tariff league. This league consists of the chief beneficiaries of the Dingley scheme for robbing the many to en- rich the few. They are at present con- spring to re-elect Joe Cannon speaker so that five vacancies in the ways and means committee will be filled with standpatters. They are concocting, too, tariff plank to be woven into the next republican platform. It will on Its face be a straddler, but under the surface 1t will stand for letting the Dingley schedule alone. The fight over the makeup of the ways and means committee and the tariff plank in the platform will be somewhat warm, but in the end the anti-revision- ists will win because they are we'll organized and are loaded down with money extracted from honest pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
President Parker's Coup

A coup d'etat can occur in a city, 1t is plain, as readily as fl can in France or in any other state. This goodly town is the scene of a municipal coup, and municipal coup can be as sud den and as revolutionary as one can be that affects an entire country.
 Our coup was eontrived while Mayor Ward was engaged in sightseeing and the like in the effete countries of Europe. While he was recreating, for example, in gay Paree his enemies at home were engaged in seizing the reins of government, and today they control every committee of the board of aldermen.
 So far as negative action is con cerned the revolutionaries are well en- trenched. No legislation can be per feoted without their consent. They hold a veto power. They can say that saloon licenses shall continue to stand at $500, instead of the proposed in- crease to $2500. But the Mayor has a veto power also. If the new combina- tion in the council passes an ordi- nance, the Mayor can veto 1t, and he is built on war and veto lines. It does not appear that the Parker regime can pass an ordinance over the Mayors veto, for to do that two-thirds vote is required. The Parkerites cannot muster over a crucial measure twelve votes
 This means that deadlock will be- come probable after Mayor Ward ex- changes the delights of Paris with the duties of the city over which he was elected to preside. It means that the men of the revolution will be pretty sure to make hay while the Parker sun shines. It is but another illustra- ton of the rule that when the cats away the mice will play. And they are certainly playing politics in the city hall to beat the band and Mayor Ward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
Call an Early Convention

The Memphis News-Scimetar urges the democratic national committee to call an early convention. Strangely enough the party that killed the in- come tax, that collected gigantic slush funds in Wall street, that created and stands by Dingleyism and that has promoted the formation of trusts, is stealing one democratic idea after an- other, and the News-Scimetar there fore thinks an early convention should be held SO that any subsequent steal ing can be proven by the latest demo- cratic record. Every popular policy of the republican party of today was stolen from the democratic platforms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
$10,OOo FIRE ON
 SOUTH HIGHLANDS

A fire which brolSe out this morning at 1:15 o'clock. destroyed two two-story houses on Avenue I, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. Both of the houses. which were frame dwellings, were entirely destroyed. and the loss entailed is estimated at about $10O00.
 When the blaze broke out there was good deal of excitement in the neighbor- hood on account of the crowded condition of the houses In the vicinity. The roofs of both of the burning dwellings were soon in flames, and the spread to the adjoining houses was only prevented by the prompt response of the fire department.
 The houses which burned were Nos. I'll and 1717 Avenue I, and were both private residences Mrs. Davis O'Neill occupied the house at Ill, and 117 was the home of Mrs. w. P. Acker. The frame build ings burned rapidly and the fire almost completely destroyed both. This together with the water which was poured on the fire makes the houses and contents prac- tically a complete loss
 Tho flremen did good work to keep the blaze from spreading to other houses in the neishborhood and had the water not been thrown on the flames when 1t was the fire might have proven a more serious one The loss is conservatively estimated at Sf000O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31

to 1t that those who violate 1t are brought to justice. While we are oper- ating in Alabama under new laws, these same statutes have been tried thor oughly and are In practical operation in nearly all the states of the nation. The fact Is the license system of Ala bama which provides one dollar for hunting in county of residence two dollars and fifty cents for hunting in any county in the state and fifteen dollars for aliens and residents, is considered to be the most equitable and just license systems that has ever been inaugerated in the United States.
 "Wardens have been advised to keep a close watch on 'sooners,' or those who shoot game just before the open sea- son begins; they have also been urged to be ever on the alert to apprehend those who hunt with tout first procuring a license.
 "The magnificent game and fish laws of Alabama which extend to the wild denizons and the f1nny tribe such ex cellent protection are going to be ef- forced to the very letter, for 1t Is not the purpose of the department of game and fish nor of any warden in tile state to extend any special favors to any one.
 T have been appraised of the fact that these laws have served the splen- did purpose of disarming the negroes in various sections of the state. They have become intimidated and are afraid to be seen carrying guns.
 with our superb climate and abundance of provender with the game left in the state, I confidently expect within the next few years to see Ala bama the premier game field of the continent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
Gray Discusses Prohibition.


 T don't see what can keep prohibition Lieutenant Governor Gray yesterday. T have lived long time but never yet have seen anything good come out of saloon, and l have seen a great deal of harm.
 T do not like to see such an issue forced upon the city. but when regula- ton cannot be had then 1t Is time to stop the sale of liquor. It can be stopped There Is no question about that. If the authorities do their duty the blind tiger cannot exist.
 Prohibition will carry because the peo- pie will vote against whisky. I cannot see how man could vote any other way than for the protection of the youth of our country. The day has arrived when drinking men cannot get employment from the railroads. or any of our large corporations, and 1t is time that the temptation Is taken off of every street corner.
 "The effect of prohibition on the bus mess interests need not be exaggerated. Why. when a rioh man comes here and builds a great office building the business men praise him and think he has done a great thing for the town. Think minute. Has he not vacated some two or three hundred business offices7 This causes an uneasiness in rental markets for a time, but eventually comes out all right
 The vacation of 1SO saloons will not re- suit in any more serious disturbance than the erection of an office building"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
odenylIIe Wants a High School.


 Dr, c. c. Brown and J. L. Maddox of Odenville were in the city yesterday, and while here they met Watt T. Brown of Ragland and State Superintendent of Education Gunnells, both of whom were in Birmingham.
 "The object of our meeting was to dis euss the desirability of Odenville as site for the high school building proposed by the state for St. Clair county" said Mr. Maddox, and we are assured that Superintendent Gunnells Is much inter- ested in the proposition of Odenvile which proposes not only to furnish the five acres and the school building required by law, but to add five acres more if necessary. The good women of odenville also propose to beautify the grounds and to do all in their power to bring to our town the proposed high school
 "odenville Is In the geographical and in the white center of St. Clair county, and every argument. under the law, Is in our favor. We want the high school and ask for it, simply upon the proposition that we are entitled to 1t, and can do our part We do not aspire to reach beyond our deserts and yet We are ambitious. If the state authorities will give us that school other things will follow and I am sure that Odenville, with its splendid natural resources, its water, climate, natural and moral atmosphere. will yet become town of importance. In truth we can well care for the deserving and aspiring youth of our goodly county of St. Clair. and one of these days make Alabama proud that she has a St. Clair county. We want that school. we de- serve the encouragement of the state and believe we will receive it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
A VISIT FROM THE SEA.

By Robert Louis Stevenson. Far from the loud sea beaches
 Where he goes fishing and crying, Here in the inland garden
 Why Is the sea-gull flying? Here are no fish to dive for;
 Here Is the corn and lea Here are the green trees rustling. He away home to sea. Fresh Is the river water
 And quiet among the rushes; This is no home for the sea gull.
 But for the rocks and thrushes. Pity the bird that has wandered,
 Pity the sailor ashore Hurry him home to the otet
 Let him come here no morc. High on the ea-cliff lodges
 The white gulls are trooping and cryfn( Here among rocks and roses.
 Why Ia the sea-gull flying7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
The Eqg Flip Controversy.

T want to answer what Mir Mollycod- dle had to say about making egg flips and egg phosphates in today's Age-Herald," said q soda water dispenser last night
 Tn the first place how is he gopg to put phosphate in an egg flip when phos- phate Is several times stronger than a lemon? Can you put lemon juice in milk?
 Tn the next place he says to put only straight sherry in the flip. How would you like to drink an egg flip without sweetening?
 Here Is the proper way to mako the two popular drinks. Egg flip: ounce syrupt 1 egg, dash of bitters, spice, leo, milk and shake. Egg phosphate: sher- ry, syrup l egg, bltters, spice, ice and phosphate: Shake well and add fine stream"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 If girls father doesn't trust you it's sign she does.
 Women on the stage seem to be aw- full natural compared to those off 1t.
 If the average mans ship were to come in he would have gone out the day before.
 One of the best times a girl ever has Is tn hiking how she would act if she were an heiress.
 man thinks he Is econcmizng when he outs himself down from five lo-cent cigars a day to four at two for a auartAr-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
Sieamlnq to the Pacific

The sixteen battleships that are to be conducted by Rear Admiral Evans from our Atlantic coast to our Pacific coast--from Norfolk to San Fran cisco, in other words are to cover 13,- 772 miles. not including dlyergences at ports of call. At the rate of ten knots an hour the fleet can steam over the great distance in fifty-eight days, to which some time should be added for time spent at ports of call in coal ing taking on provisions and the like. cember 15 1t should anchor in San F'rancisco's great harbor not later than March 15.
 The coaling and provisioning of a fleet that carries 15,000 men and that will need 100000 tons of coal in addi- tion to well-flled bunkers at the out set, is no light undertaking. The coal Is to be carried from this country In colliers that will sail with the fleet or meet 1t at designated points. Provi- sions will be taken on at Trinidad, Rio, Punta Arenas, Callao and Mag dalena Bay. The journey of large fleet over a course of 13,000 miles Is not without precedent, for Rojestven- sky, with fleet filled with mutinous men and poorly equipped in other re- spects, covered fully that distance. The Russian fleet reached it's destination to meet an enemy ready to meet and to destroy it.
 Why we are sending sixteen battle ships to the Pacific will perhaps never be known by the people. Some say impending changes In China are at the bottom of the movement. while others say 1t is an electioneering effort of the third-termers. Still others say 1t is but a matter of discipline and practice. There is no Japanese issue that diplomacy cannot handle, and the reader will have to select solution of the effort outside of Japan.
 What goes around the Horn will have to come back again, for 1t is scarcely possible that sixteen battle ships will in one sweep be permanently added to our Pacific fleet. If this be the plan then indeed will the cry soon arise Give us more battleships to protect the Atlantic coast' However we look at 1t, it points to a larger navy, even to one equaling all that Richmond Pearson Hobson demands 
 Minnesota statistics show that the 2-cent fare pays better than the old Scent rate, and Minnesota is not more thickly poDrla.ed than Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
Sees a New eIrmInahann.

After an absence of twenty three years, A. K. White, who Is steel and iron salesman, returned to Birmingham yester- day MT. White stated that the city did not look like the same place he left years ago, and his "reminiscences were eagerly listened to by his friends, only a few of whom know the Birmingham of which tho narrator was speaking.
 From a comparatively small place the Birmingham of my young manhood has advanced to an important and metropoli- tan city," said MT. White. If 1t were not for my sense of direction and a very few of the old landmarks I would be compelled to inquire my way about the city. Tho Birmingham of my day Is thing of the past, as dead as Herculan- cum and Pompeii, and In her place has risen a new city, of which I recognize llt- tie more than the Birmingham spirit.
 Where we stand now, there has been erected q magnificent lfteen-story build Ing When I lived hero the site was oc- eupled by the First National barIS You see the American Trust and Savings building across the street-well In my
 
 nelghbor.
 There were no pavements then. On q rainy day or night one could not so con- Veniently call a cab or take car, but there was plenty of good Alabama mud. Practically there was no depot-and I see that you are building a magnificent structure for the use of the travelling pub lic-and across from the site of tho old station were two-story wooden hotels Across tho railroad were swamps and old fields. I see too. that you have opened up Twentieth street. In my day old fields. with growth of sedge and pines, were moro numerous than the present up to date buildings. Yes. I feel like Rip Van Winkle, and experience the sensation that if l stretch my arms and rub my eyes all this metropolitan aspect will dis appear, and l will see the old Birming- ham 1 knew so we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
Street Corner studles.

Whenever l want to take lesson in human nature I stand on a street corner and observe people," said a curbstone philosopher "and if there Is anything doing which attracts crowd the oppor- tunity to make notes is unlimited.
 "A few evenings ago I stopped to see a man sell a potato pairing knife. There were about thirty people standing around and listening to the vendor extol tho vir- tues of his wares. Seevral times during his discussion he held up a potato after the fashion that a juggler holds up an egg and everyone wondered what was going to be done with the tuber. He turned 1t over. set 1t down, picked 1t up looked at 1t carefully and all the time kept on talking. He also produced n whetstone upon which he sharpened n knife.
 Now. the proposition that confronted the man was simply this: A cartatn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-31
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES

ley cars and automobiles "Waddlep is not graceful term, but in this case it applies. She really did waddle. Corpu. lency had obliterated every trace of girl lsh beauty and the precipitation streaming down her puekered face proved how sad IL Is to be fat on hot day. "Who knoWs2' unused a man who watched her progress. Perhaps. there was a time when somebody called her sweet young thing.'f