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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
THE WILD CATS AHEAD.
Bowling Clubs Score In Ten Pins at New
Amusement Hall.

Bowling has become quite a fad at
het new amusement ball. Two clubs
who ca.IIhemselves the Pussy Cats
and the Wild Cats have been
bowling ten pins.
Last nights score resulted in 692
for the Wild Cats aud 6S8 for the
Pussy Cats. The winners are kenger.
captain, Howard, Pratt, Hyde and
Strange. The Pussy Cats bowling
club is composed of Queeny, captain,
Evening, Confer, McAllister and
Dewey.
The highest score made in the
alleys was made by Herbert Dunton.
who rolled 2i0 in ten pins. The high
est in duck pins was made by John
Strohm. 10 (out of town bowler,
the highest in town, Earle White,
ll3, second highest. Harvey Howard,
III. The management of the bowling
alley has ordered two new alleys es-
pecially for the clubs. The Elks are
organizing n bowling club.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
ORPHANS COURT MATTERS.
judicial Disposition Of The Affairs of The
Orphans And Widows.

Court met this morning in regular
session with Chief Judge Tydngs aud
Associate Judges Cusack ana Abbott
on the bench, and Register OF Wills
B. II. Davidson and Deputy Register
Ernest clayton and Sheriir Iinihi-
cum, present. The following hgst
ness was transacted.
The last viii and testamt nj of James
roogood was fled and admitted to
probate by order of the Court. nr.
ii. II. can't and John II. queen are
name is executors in the viii.
Inventory OF the real estate OF Will
lam Il. Wheeler, deceased, was filed
and approved
Inventory Of the personal estate of
Mary j. Finkbine. deceased, was fled
and passed.
Inventory OF the personal estate OF
William 4. Wheeler, deceased, was
filed and dNapproved.
Account OF sales of the personal es-
tate OF Francis Marion Byrd, deceas-
ed, was fled and approved.
Report of Emily Il. Murray and
Charles NJ. Murray, administrators of
the estate oc George NJ. Murray, de-
ceased, was filed and passed.
Petition OF Richard II. League in
the matter OF tho guardianship OF
oliver j. League rs guardian for
Richard III. League, was llled, read
and granted.
The last will and testament of Jas.
5. Taylor was filed and admitted To
probate. The will was executed ON
May !, 1907, and was witnessed by
James w. owens and Sewell :. Hep
burn. lie leaves all OF his property
To his wife. Annie Virginia Taylor
and appoints his daughter-in-law,
Bertha Taylor, exocutriN, without
bond.
Administrator bond i'm the matter
of the estate of lsdmonia G. Calhoun
was fled and approved by the Court.
Inventory of the personal estate of
ledmonia q. Calhoun, deceased, was
filed and passed.
order of sale of the personal estate
of William Il. Wheeler, deceased, was
filed and granted.
Administrators account of sales and
final order of Court ratifiyng same in
the matter OF the estate of Edmonia &.
Calhoun, was fled and passed.
Executors bond of Bertha Taylor,
executrixsof James $. Taylor, deceas-
ed, was filed and approved by order
of the Court and letters of administra-
tion granted and notice TO creditors
given.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07

The Maryland State Firemen's As
sociation will hold its fifteenth an
nual convention and meet in Annap-
oils on June u, .l3 and IA, and as
this noble organization will be the
guests OF our own fire department,
which belongs TO the Association, ii
is hoped that cordial welcome will
be extended the visitors and a great
time afforded them.
For this purpose money is needed
and the Business Mems Association
of Annapolis has gladly given its in
iluence and help in the direction of
making this one of the grandest oc-
casions Annapolis has witnessed in
long time. Therefore. good citi-
zens, we come to you and ask your
aid, and invite you to place your
name on the list and subscribe such
sum as you are able TO give. Every
little bit helps.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
Foreign Officers Here.

Officers of the Belgian Army visited
the Naval academy yesterday after
noon. 1t is the first time the Acad-
emy has been visited by officers of
that nationality. The visitors were
Colonel Mischief and Commander La
failure. They were accompanied to
Annapolis by Lieut.. John II. Jackson,
of the American Navy, and after be-
ing received by Rear Admiral James
II. Sands, superintendent of the Acad-
emy, went on tour of inspection of
the institution. They returned to
Washington late in the afternoon.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
High Schools Coming

Arrangements have been made by
Governor Warfield to receive the Sc
nior classes of the high schools of
Cambridge, Easton,
Trappe, Denton and ST. Michaels on
Friday, May IL. The students will
be received by the Governor and
Mrs. wariield at the Government
House. Their visit will be in accept
ance of the general invitation extend
ed by the Governor to the senior
classes of the above named high
schools. The State steamer McLane
will convey the pupils, with their re-
spective principals, TO and from this
city,
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
Matinee Tomorrow.

There, will be a matinee at the Colo
nial Theatre tomorrow at half-past
three instead of half-past two. The
occasion is a return engagement of
tho Bohannan and Lewey Moving Pic
ture Company, which gave such a
satisfactory entertainment some weeks
ago. The pictures are the best shown,
and there is no flicker, or unsteadi-
ness. There is variety Of views
and the pictures are both entertain
ing and amusing.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
Extra Transportation.

There viii be three special trains
leaving Annapolis for Baltimore at
1919 y. m. this week. one tonight,
another special leaving here on Thurs
day night May 3, after the dinner
given by Governor and Mrs. Warfield
in honor of Mark Twain, and a third
leaving at that hour on Friday night
after Mark Twain entertainment for
the benefit of the Presbyterian Church
at the Executive Mansion. See ad. =
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
Suffering With Blood Poison

Mr.. John l.. BealI, master machinist
of the Annapolis, Washington and
Baltimore Railroad Company for many
years, met with serious accident a
few days ago. Mr.. Beall burned the
palm of his hand and blood poison de-
veloped. He is confined TO his home
on College avenue, and his condition
is quite serious. He is receiving med
ical attention from the family surgeon
and 1t is hoped with careful nursing
he may soon improve.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-07
Selling OFF Stock.

Messrs. j. II. Wagner & Sons, of 23S
West street, are selling on the stock
of a strictly lirst-class grocery store.
At the auction Saturday night much
was sold, but there still remains
much more be sold. Grocers and
storekeopers viii do we'll TO take a
look at the stock. The Messrs. Wag-
ner are closing out their business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Iron Makinq in February

The daily output of iron in Febru- ary was greater than it was in Jan nary. but on account of fewer days in February the otal of the month was 2.O47,O36 tons, as against 2,174,S01 tons in January There were three more ..-aaces in blast in February, and if still more are blown in this month production will be carried to high figures. Some think. however, there is a tendency to decreased capacity in blast.
 Alabama had twenty-nine furnaces in blast in February as against thirty one in January, and the production of the twenty-nine was 129,S tons. The January production was 145,794 tons. These figures are reasonably satisfac- 1o~--, especially in the light of the New York production. Alabama and New York are running. it should be remembered, neck-and-neck for fourth place. Thus far We are leading New York at the rate of about 50,000 tons a year, but when the big stacks at Buffalo are all in operation New York may push us out of fourth place. It is a close race. and if Alabama ex- poets to hold fourth place she must build or blow in more stacks. We have now twelve idle stacks, but they are mostly stacks that are too small or too antiquated to admit of economi- cal operation. Then, too, there is the fuel supply and car shortage to con tend with. New York appears to be the winnerb her victory may be postponed to 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
WATTERsoN's BOOK.

From the Washington Herald.
 Reports are contradictory as to the ex- act character of the literary work ''Marse Henry Watterson is engaged on in Flu rope. While it Is known that he went to the old world this year avowedly for the purpose of devoting himself to the completion of an important piece of work to be published in book form, it Is not known whether 1t is something new or the life of Abraham Lincoln he began several years ago. It is understood to be the brilliant Kentuckian's wish to make his life of Lincoln the most thorough, appreciative and authentic that has ever been written, and in prosecuting this his labor of love, he has depended almost en- tirely upon original research. Friends or MT watterson are aware that no living American has a higher estimate or the martyred President than has the Ken tuckian, who, though Confederate soldier, was not thoroughly in sympathy with the political doctrines of his section' out of which grew the civil war. It IS stated that "Marse Henry" will return home within two months, and that he Will then have ready for the press some sort of book of national importance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Growth of Auburn.

T see that the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn has reached the 6OO mark and claims to be the largest edu- cational institution in the state from the point of numbers" said an alumni of that institution yesterday.
 ''rhe growth of this institution is very significant and indicates that trend of the times toward technical education The Polytechnic institute Is principally de- voted to technical training, and 1 under stand that the departments giving man. ual training are showing the most rapid growth in attendance.
 All this is an indication of the grow ing interest in technical education and the stronger demand for skilled labor in all lines of industrial work.
 While I am a friend of Auburn and would not detract one iota from it's i'm portance, I believe I clearly recognize the need and the room for technical school in the Birmingham district
 q do not believe that a local institution of the kind would interfere in the least with Auburn, but would be of untold ben eft to those employed in the local man. ufacturing plants who desire more thor ough trai,A1g."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
CABBYS DOOM.
London's Picturesque Drivers Say They Cannot Pay Rent Demanded.

Sigma in the London Chronicle.
 l feel it in my bones that the London cabby is doomed. These new regulations, with their talk of taximeters and six penny fares, will not save him. Indeed, they only show the hopelessness of his case. He is already one of the deposed, the ghost of cabby turning into chauf- feur. most anxious and harrasseh sprite. Civilization which he has served so we'll, is killing him. In a few years he will have joined the tricycle. and the dodo, and, like MT. Kipling's exile, who pined Ito hear the handsome shurring once more through London mud" will have to feast his soul on less fanciful memories.
 It is painful prospect, but it has to be penny tubes, electric trans, telephones, and district messengers have dealt the cabby whole series of deadly blows. And there are too many of him. proba- bly, 5000 more than the business will fairly stand. The police, too, have borne hardly upon the trade. Empty cabs lettering seductively along the curb, have been excluded from the busiest and wealthiest streets These are signs and causes of final extinction.
 There are somewhere about 2,o00 men on the London streets who own the cabs they drive, and these are the compara- lively happy ones But most cables hire from a cab proprietor, paying for s hanson and two horses with the option of a third, an average of 12s. 3d. every day of the year except Sundays. That roughly, is what the Asqufth award works out to. MT. Asquith when he was called in to arbtrate the cab strike of 1894, split the year into fourteen sections, fixing for each one of them It's special rates. Thus, for the two months following August 20, when London as a social machine practically ceases to exist the cabby is only charged los. day, while for the six weeks between June and July b, when the session is in full swing, he pays 16s. a day
 The proprietor, of course, pays the rent, rates. and taxes. the wages of the stable men, harness cleaners, lamp cleaners, cab washers. and so on. feeds and stables the horses. and Is liable for all injuries to passengers. On the other hand, the cabby is mulceted for yard money" Unless he distributes tips among the stablemen he will find himself burdened with an old and not too cleanly hanson, a weedy horse. and dubious harness. Again, when he turns into public house for lunch he has to pay somebody to mind his horse. It is really an amaz- ing sociological fact that there should ac- tually exist men with no other business than that of mindng cab horses while their drivers are over the way or round the corner' Altogether the cabby has to earn day in. day out, at least 14s. or los. before he can pocket anything for him. self.
 He declares he can't do it. The pro- prietors say he can if he will only wirt six days a week. instead of taking a days holiday whenever he finds himself a little to the good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
OLD KENTUcKYs GROWTH.

From the Louisville Herald.
 Official figures furnished by the federal government shows that the increase In Kentucky's property from 1900 to 1904 was s162, ,S55, 512 The total in 1904 was $152T,- 4S6,23o; in 1900 it was s1,365, ,130,17S. Real property and improvements show an in crease from s7s5 S39, GOT in 1900 to sS59, ,247. e97 in 1904. In live stock we have moved from s7, 1855, ,OO7 to s96, 4S9, 459. In farm ma- chinery the advance has been from S15,- 3O1 ssO to s176S2,sN. In gold, silver and bullion the uplift has been from 37,765,- s15 to s41.372, sos.
 The railroads and their equipment were valued in 1900 at SIPS, ,52O. GOO; in 1904 at s155. .772. 900. Street railway, shipping and waterworks have risen in value from s5,- ss4, ,o6i tc 5s,7ls,S12 Machinery, tools and implements were valued in 1900 at s25 424,- 5ot: in 1904, $50, 9o7,1S5. All other valua- tions are cited at s235,449, S62 in 1900, and $271 ,295, s52 in 1901.
 The average value of land per acre was, in 1900, $3O.95 per acre, and in 1904, $3S. 4l. Tn, per capita valuation in 1900 stood at sS7O6i; in 1904 $379,76.
 Kentucky has made gigantic strides. It is every day moving forward. With an equitable system of state and local taxation her advance were even still more r6 pid. No ltate in the union with greater possibilities than Kentucky
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Governor Higgins and a Boss

Governor Higgins of Rhode Island is . democrat, and he does not take kindly to Boss Brayton, who has long conducted that state in the name of the republican party. It appears that in that little state a room is assigned in the state house to the sheriff of the county, and that the sheriff is a hench- man of Boss Brayton. He permits Bray ion to occupy his office and to conduct in it his disreptuable work. "He re- ceives," says Governor Higgins, "his legislative clients and visitors there; stations his emissaries at the door of your room, and he. not you, says who shall and who shall not receive admittance to that room. He acts as if he, not you. were the one to whom that room is assigned" The governor in his letter to the sheriff goes on to say: Year in and year out he has occupied ana used your OmCe TUT HIS vile purposes with your knowledge and consent. The mans continued pres sence in the capitol offers daily scan- dal to the men, women and children of the state. In the name of common civilized virtue, demand that you no longer persist in allowing a part of this capitol to be used as the headquar- ters of notorious lobbyist"
 The Providence Journal, republi- can paper of high standing. supports Governor Higgins in his efforts to put an end to the Brayton spectacle in the state house. Brayton himself is blind, but he is slill the head of a machine that pays big prices for voters in elections. and it does this so openly that the price of voters Is frequently quoted as accurately and publicly as the price of onions or limburger ct eese
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
SOUTH'S UNWRITTEN LAW

disgraeed themselves. He calls the act of the Strother brothers 'Inexcusable
 murder" He can see no good reason why a brother should resent such treat
 ment of a sister, and he adds, "so long
 as the southern press sympathizes with
 lawbreakers and judges whose spirit is
 that of lynchef. it is idle to expect that
 there will be genuine respect for law" We ask southern editors and judges. before they take Willard as an expression of northern opinion, to look up the case of "Villard's sister against Willard" They will readily see that MT. Willard, sued by his own sister and accused of taking from her money left to her by their father, is not exactly the man to interpret the aver age mans feelings toward a sister.
 We know nothing of the Willard case
 except the charges that the sister made ] and the defense which Villard's friends | offered for him-a pretty sickly defense. But we do know that southern editors, judges and juries have no right to take Willard as expressing northern opinion where sisters are concerned. On other matters. such as the propriety of chang
 ing your real name for another, etc, he may be an authority.
 But he is prejudiced when he makes
 himself the heroic, distant defender of the
 man that made mistake when he treated
 the sister of the Strother brothers lightly. We deplore violence, as aforesaid. But,
 on the whole, we congratulate the south upon the fact that it's view of a mans proper attitude toward a sister differs from that of the Evening Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
A BOSS TO THE BAR.

From the Washington Star.
 Boss Ruef is at last before the court on charges. The trial, we may be sure, will be protracted and full of nice spar rings Such a defendant always secures legal talent of high order, and Ruef Is himself an expert In the shrewd prac- tice of the law. He has run an extraor- dinary course in San Francisco, and shown in many ways an aptitude for ward politics of the old-fashioned kind Still a day of reckoning comes at last to even the most capable and successful of the bosses The last few years In par ticular have been disastrous to them all over the country. They have been .downed" right and left, and if the Call fornia boss has been little slow In meeting his fate, now that Nemesis has arrived she will probably. though late, at- tend thoroughly to his case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
WATTS RAILWAY GUIDE.

Watts' Official Railway Guide for March, 1907, beginning the twenty-second year of publication, Atlanta, Ga is just out. It contains a volume of railway schedules miscellaneous information and hotel directory al is one of the most up-to-date and unique periodicals of the south. Its time tables, distances and connections are compiled monthly and the occasional traveller can readily en- compass any journey through the south with an air of a veteran knight of the road by it's use Congratula tions are due Manager J. K. Watts for the suc- cess attained in ~iving the south a handy, ready reference of interest to the general public, now so necessary in the rapid growth and prosperity of this sec tion. No library, office or travelling bag is complete without the Guide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Summer Concerts.

"In many cities of 5O,OOO population and upward the municipal government pays for open air free concerts during the summer months, and I hope that the time is not far distant when Birming- hams mayor and aldermen will be able to furnish music in it's parks, said business man. 'In the meantime, it should be an easy matter to raise a fund by pouplar subscription sufficiently large to employ a band of eighteen or twenty pieces to give park concerts daily for ten or twelve weeks in the year. l have che southern city in mind where such an enterprise was successful. Dur in two summers a fine band was em- ployed to give the concerts. The music became so pouplar that the city council finally took up the matter and for several years included in it's annual budget SSOOO fo- band concerts. Birmingham has good brass ard reed players. and if they have summer engagements here would remain and make up band. Otherwise they will seek jobs elsewhere"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
UNIQUE IN SEVERAL WAYS.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Alabama is the first state in the union alphabetically. Sh9 is unique in another particular. She has the most venerable senatorial delegation that Is, has been or prouably ever again will be from sin gle state. In another respect she stands apart from her sisters. Should either or both find the terms upon which they have entered outlasting their spans of life, their heirs have been appointed, not by therl. but by the people whom they rep resent These are ex-Governor Johnston an6 ex-Representative Bankhead. Should life and strength hold, however, Sena- tors Morgan and Pettus will be one over 90 and the other close upon it when they come to the ends of their official service. Of course, this statement would have to be modified should they again be selected by the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-18
Cumberland Presbyterians

In Indiana good many Cumber- land Presbyterians refused to accept the terms of union with the Presby- terian church of the United States of America, generally known as the Northern Presbyterian church. They went into the courts to prevent actual union, but in two cases already de. cided they have met with defeat. The unionists of Washington and of Monroe City came out of court triumphant.
 Judge Gilchrist heard both cases
 He declared that the question of the similarity of creeds of the two churches cannot be incurred into by the civil courts, and that the action of the church judicatories in declaring that there is no substantial doctrinal d.--erence between the two churches is final and cannot be reviewed by a civil tribunal. And, further, that the Presbyterian form of government, as construed by the United States su, preme court and the supreme court of Indiana, is such that the presbyteries of the Cumberland Presbyterian church must adhere to the union when once legally consummated by the gen. eral assembly; that congregations are subject to the control of the presby. teric-. and that the members of any particular congregation, no matter how few in number they may be, who fol. low the control of the presbytery should retain title and possession of their church building and property.
 This does not leave much room for combating the union in Indiana, or for that matter in any state, and the union must now be regarded as work accomplished. The union of any two branches or denominations is a diff cult task, and the Cumberland Pres byterians have overcome all objections rcr' lily, and intelligently, and, it is to be hoped, satisfactorily.