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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

ison on the gain of about s1,3Oe.OOO in gross earnings for July The net was slim, however, practically all of the gross increase being absorbed in Op- erating expenses.
 London bought 2o,OGJ shares on bal Iance in this market yesterday. chiefly of the grangers. Sales were about a third of the total and represented pprofit taking on purchases made on the other side at a, somewhat lower level.
 stop-loss orders were reached in New York Central after 1t passed 1O4. The story goes that 1o,0oO-share pool sold it down to 9e from 1O1, but all the stock was taken tip and transfer red into odd lots for investors. The pool covered at 1o4, and then shorts. who had sold down from 11O, com menced to buy in their stock.
 The advice of Bostons loQuacious operator to buy stocks was the chief check on the market as viewed by traders, who pointed out that in ma jority of instances where he had made these free utterances stocks had de- 'clined after slight rise. The result to traders had been anything but sat- isfactory.
 Out-of-town bank statments show a loan reduction, and the reports of con- dition on August 22, where available, indicate the same tendency. Careful investigation will reveal at least a 10 per cent. curtailment in the loaning Accommodations of banks throughout the country compared with those eight months ago. New York bank loans were $765, ,11S,O 900 on May 20 and SIP, ,121,O5S at the date of the last call.
 The cotton crop for the year 19O6-7, which ended on August 31 last, was the second largest in the history of the trade, being exceeded only by the production of 19O4-5, amounting to 1S,- 624,029 bales, The outturn for 1906-7 according to Superintendent William V. King, of the local Cotton exchange, was 13,53994S bales.
 The days developments added con. siderable force to the theory that oui troubles of August were of character ! to avert the troubles which must other wise have fallen severely on Septem' Der.
 The reduction in the price of Copper to IS cents pound was regarded as good thing for the market, as it vii tend to increase business generally, al well as the consumption of the metal | At IS cents a pound, there is a profit it is said, of fully g cents pound or all that the Amalgamated Copper com | pany puts out,
 The sub-treasury deposited with thu banks about $1, 200 900 yesterday. Time
 money was nominally easier, but very dull, with a tendency to hold funds II
 reserve for the city bond sale. The out 1 look for that event to-day was very | flattering. It is quite possible that tli' 1 40,000,00O will be oversubsrribed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

There was a strong market in Atch- ison on the gain of about s1,30eOOO in gross earnings for July. The net was slim, however, practically all of the gross increase being absorbed in op- erating expenses.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

London bought 2o,OU shares on bal lance in this market yesterday. chiefly of the grangers. Sales were about a third of the total and represented pprot1t taking on purchases made on the other side at a somewhat lower level.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04
JEWELERS.
MATCHES OF WnRrn

Tn choosing such constant comm lon as a Watch, one should be cara to select the best and buy only al store that guarantees every watch sl
 We have large assortment of liable movements and fine cases il you may choose from.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

Vladimir De Pachmann, the famous Russian pianist who will soon begin his farewell tour in this country, has been the proud recipient of every honor that could possibly fall to the lot of a pampered and popular piano prince. He treasures in grateful re- membrance decorations and orders which kings bestowed on him, the costly presents and enthusiastic friendship of female scions of the royal houses, and the long series of resounding triumphs won before audi ences from Tiflis to Tacoma, and from Sebastopol to San Francisco.
 However, there is one graceful tri- bute to his genius which De Pach- mann never tires of telling about. and he ayers that it gave him greater pleasure than all the kingly honors and millionaires' gifts showered on him during his world wide travels.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

The one-act play, "A Light From St. Agnes" written by Mrs. Flske, is to be presented in Italy in both dra- matic and operatic forms Through his American agent, Dirce St, Cyr Roberto Bracco, the Italian dramatist has secured from Harrison Grey Fiske the right to translate the play. Puc- cini the composer, is 10 make it the theme for an opera, for which Braceo will probably prepare the librettO.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

In "sappho and Phaon," Bertha Kalich, whose career began on the operatic stage, will sing two lyrics, written in the Greek style by Profess sor A. A. Stanley. The poetry of Sappho herself was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of the Tyre.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04


 Schuman Heink's Mission in Art!
 Schumann Heink, who will sing in the New Haven theatre on Oct. 31, was recently asked What is the mission of art ?" ITO give pleasure to the critical judgment and to the cul- tivated and the uncultivated senses at once-is it not so? Very good: then, shall not the artist who gives the most pleasure to the largest number of people be the real artist, rather than one who gives the same enjoy ment to but few? When I hear the great artists sing in the splendid orera houses of Europe and America bring to the ear of those who can af- ford the high-priced temples of mu- sic their gift of song, I long to have their art placed within the hearing of the poor. If I could give the world the gift I should like, it would be to endow free seats in every opera house | in the world where those who suffer from the sorrow and disease called poverty might gain the help and hear ing of song as it pours from the luIOdIS Ol lllS great SIHSoIS. pelleN6 there is as much art in good singing of the simple music and the popular songs as in good singing of the rich and matchless scores of those com posers whom we call the great mas ters.
 "As a matter of personal satisfac- ton, I, of course, prefer for my own enjoyment, to sing the difficult roles that make demands the most exacting upon ones powers And so, for the pleasure of the song, I most enjoy singing classic music-the vast rolling melodies of Wagner and his brother immortals in the Walhalla of music but I love the tender, simple song, like the folks song of Germany and Hungaria and the songs by our own Americans like Mcdowell, Chadwick Parker and the English songs of Ron- aids and Elgar. These and many oth- CTS have added to my repertoire of songs for my coming concert tour and all of my songs by the English and American composers, I shall sing in English, for the benefit of the great number of people who attend my concerts
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

Harrison Grey Fiske has engaged Charles Cartwright, the noted Eng fish character actor, to appear in Mrs. Fiskes support the coming season. Mir. Cartwright originated the part of KIeschna in pLeah Kleschna," when Mrs Fiske produced that play at the Manhattan theater MT. Cartwright will have an important role in Mrs Ffsks new play, to be produced in December. He will also originate a powerful part in the one-act play by Roberto Bracco, the American rights of which MT, Fiske has secured. The Bracco play is entitled The Sins of the Fathers" MT. Cartwright during the Autumn will make a starring tour in England in dramatizations of sev- eral Dickens works. On the conclu- sion of this tour he will come to America to join Mrs. Fiske's com- pany.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04
Notes From inc Green Room.

"In Old Kentucky" began it's fif- teenth season in St. Paul a week ago playing to the biggest receipts in many years. The popularity of this remarkable American play shows no signs of waning. One of the chief reasons for its success Is that it has always been kept up to higR stand ard.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

In regard to published statements concerning John Mason's engagement for this season Harrison Grey Fiske says that he has released MT. Mason from contract to continue under his management at the desire of Augustus Thomas, in whose play, to be produe- ed by the Shuberts, there is part which MT. Thomas wrote with MT. l Mason in mind.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04
RECRUITS FOR BIC LEAGUES PURCHASED AND DRAFTED O'Rourke Goes to Cardinals, Wilson to Athletics, o'Con-
 nor to the Pirates.

Cincinnati, Sept. 3. - The national baseball commission last night issued the following list of drafted players:
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

The days developments added con- siderable force to the theory that our troubles of August were of a character to avert the troubles which must other wise have fallen severely on Septem-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-04

The sub-treasury deposited with the banks about $1,2Oo,oOO yesterday. Time money was nominally easier but very dull, with tendency to hold funds in reserve for the city bond sale The out look for that event today was very fattering. It is quite possible that the $40, 100000 will be oversubspribed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

Other uses of electricity are almost too familiar to mention. The whole matter Is still a scientific marvel The business man in his office looks at an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
BRIDE OF THE CAUCASUS.
Escorted To Her Wedding With Much
 Music and Merrymaking.

Henry Nevinson in Harper's Magazine
 The sound of low music is heard along the valley. Here comes the bridal procession itself, crowd on foot bearing company. In front walks merryman, holding out long wooden skewer in either hand On one skewer are slabs of bread transfixed; :; on the other, fragments of cooked meat, cooling in the autumn air. At his side trots friend with dripping wineskin under his arm-a bagpipe full of mirth.
 - One foot of the skin is united. and only held together by finger and thumb. For every passer-by on the road must drink and each must take his bit of bread and meat from the skewers, that, having enjoyed the kind ly fruits of the earth, he may wish the bride fertility and go upon his way in pleasant mood.
 Behind the hospitable food and drink comes music. most lavish of the arts, pouring itself out, as the birds sing, to all who are near enough to hear. Usually the musicians go on foot be- fore the brides carriage, but if they can borrow an extra cart, 1t is cer- tainly easier to keep time together when one has not to watch the rocks upon the road or wade knee deep across the river beds.
 Last comes the bride in bullock cart or two-horsed phaeton. shaken, but giorified. Her head is dressed in Geor- gian fashion. Round the top of her head Is shining black ring, much the same in effect as the ring that Zulu chiefs enweave in their hair. On each side of the face long curls hang down, usually false, for they are frankly at tached to the ring, and form a huge article of commerce in all Georgian towns. Over rings and curls and all floats the characteristic white gauge veil, trimmed with lace along the edge for the happy, but shorn of all beauty for widows or for the mother whose baby Is dead. So the bride comes, and at her side sits the next prettiest girl of the village. to keep her in counte- nance and divide the gaze of inconsid- crate or too admiring males.
 While the ancient ceremony is cele- brated inside the church the music continues, and boys keep up a dancing at the door. Then the procession is reformed, the bridegroom mounts the cart himself beside the bride, the sim pie house of wood and stone Ia reached and he carries her over the threshold into the scene of her new life. There sne will winnow and dry the maize, hang the tobacco leaves In the loft, help with the vintage and the beasts. work the wooden loom, give her hus- band food, and rear children to repeat the way of life with little change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
John johnson as a Baseball Player.

From Current Literature for January.
 John left school to help his mother She took in washing and John delivered the washing. Two years later he got job as clerk in grocery store and then prevailed upon his mother to quit her job and let him support the family. One would think that an eapy eXperi- ence of this sort would have hardenel and soured the boys character. Being the son of a common drunkard in vii- lage where everybory knows everybody else is about as undesirable fate for q boy of 13 as one can conceive of. But here was one fact that saved him from an excess of ridicule and persecu- tion. There wasn't lad of his age in St. Peters that could beat him playing baseball. He would come home from his work day after day and make his brother stand up against the wall fin the back yard while he practiced stralgh arm pitching. There. is no chance for a boy to become a pariah in an, American town if he can get swift ball over the homeplate and can wield the willow for an occasional home run. The governor Is still base- ball enthusiast, and only second to his interest in that Is his interest in foot ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29


 about as much worn q the tantalum.
 And this new substance which tha " lizard electricity has produced will itself be used in the electrical industry to supplant the present carbon fla- ment in the electric lamp. Tantalum does not melt below 5200 degrees Eah. renneit, and will therefore give a much better light than carbon, since an in- crease of only POO degrees in the melt- ing point of the material used for the ilament nearly doubles the amount os light.
 When all Is said and done the arrival of the electric age means greater effi- ciency and power In all commercial fields. Horses may still be drawing loads in New York's streets in spite of MT. Edison's prophecy. but as each new year brings nearer the disappearance of coal and wood the world gets fur ther into the electric age, whose future is assured as long as rivers shall con- tinue to run down hill and develop the power compared to which the slaves of Aladdin's lamp were pygmies. Elec- trIcity has pretty nearly abolished dis tance with It's two mile a minute trains and It's telephone connections, which travel from New York to Chicago in less time than the human voice would take to go across an ordinary room. It has, in fact. given old Father Time many knockout blows An electrician of international note recently remarked. Fife single agency of electricity has increased the span of mortal life, judged by what can be accomplished in it, to many times that of our fore fathers. Judged either by communi- cation, transportation or production. we through electricity, can do more in an hour than could they in a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
.BRYAN'S CHANGES AGAIN DISCUSSED Electoral Votes Analysed With
 1908 In View ABOUT DOUBTFUL STATES New York Not Admitted To Doubtful CoIumn-Nebraskan In Order To
 Win, Would Need Many
 Doubtful States.
ABOUT DOUBTFUL STATES
BY SEWELL HAGGARD.

New York, December 2S-(Special.)- Some weeks ago a feeble protest was raised in this correspondence against the movement in the south to aid in forcing the democratic party to renominate MT. Bryan for President. Nothing was said against MT. Bryan or the policies he represents; the matter was discussed purely as a question of party expediency The question then and still is "Is MT. Bryan the strongest man the party can nominate; has he any chance of election If nominated?'
 Seemingly the south answers this ques- tion with the declaration that not only is Mir Bryan the strongest man, but that he can be elected. Ned Brace in his column In The Age-Herald two weeks ago said that he had found the democrat ic situation in Washington all one way: that the unanimous opinion was that MT. Bryan would be the democratic nominee. In regard to MT Bryan's chances of election Ned Brace said:
 Among the republicans the antagon- isms and discord within party lines is intense. The anti-Roosevelt people are open in saying that they would rather see Bryan President than Roosevelt or any other man that ne might name. For this reason it appears to an outside ob- server that the democrats have a most excellent chance of selecting the next President.
 'It seems to be MT. Bryan's time" The sentiment of the weekly press of Alabama seems to be represented by Robert M. Rawls of the Athens Courier, who says:
 Roosevelt is the only man the repub- licans have that could possibly defeat MT. Bryan. With him eliminated, Bryan is sure to be the next President"
 Undoubtedly both writers believe that they are right; but the sentiments they express are so remarkable in view of MT. Bryans two past campaigns for the presidency and the conditions that pre- vail at present. that one cannot refrain from calling their attention to some cold facts.
 In 1896, the Mckinley campaign, Mir Bryan received 176 electoral votes, and MT. Mckinley 271. In 1900 Mir. Bryan received 155 and MT. Mckinley 295. In 1904 Mr. Parker received 140 votes and MT. Roosevelt 336. Figuring upon the ap- portonment act of 1900 there will be 476 votes in the next electoral college; nec essary to a choice 239. The problem that faces MT. Bryan is where to get these votes. What are the doubtful states? Here is list of states that MT. Bryan's friends are counting on:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29


 If he carried all of these states' he would still be three votes short of the necessary 242. In connection with this list of doubtful states it must be remem- bered that MT. Bryan has never carried California, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland or West Virginia, and that he lost Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming in the last election. If past performances are to be depended upon there is very little chance of his carrying any of these doubtful states except Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming. Giving him these three states in addition to those regarded as certainly democratic he would be 55 votes short of election.
 It would be silly to put New York as a doubtful state. It Is being said that MT. Roosevelt is not as popular here as he. was before the money panic, but if this Is true 1t certainly cannot be said that MT. Bryan's popularity has increased. The very policies that have made Wall street MT. Roosevelts enemy are the policies which MT. Bryan declares the President has plfered from him, and it is most unlikely that Wall street would support a man even more radical in his views than the present occupant of the White House. If the reports that have reached-here are correct Indiana and Iili- nois, both of which states have large financial interests, have the same griev- ance against MT. Roosevelt that is voiced in Wall street. But for the benefit of enthusiastic democrats we will place Illi- nois and Indiana in the Bryan column and he will still be 13 votes short of election.
 Thes are actual facts and if any one can logically twist the table around in such a way to give MT. Bryan chance we should like to see the figures. For the sake of making the record complete we are giving Mir. Parkers electoral vote. It should be understood, however that all the figures given so far are based on MT. Bryans two campaigns. The +ot f1IIa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29


 During the latest year covered by federal reports electric transportation lines in the United States carried six times as many passengers as the s'eGr1 lines, although the mileage of the lat ter was approximately eight times greater. Yankee push, which has built trolley line to Egypts pyramids, the earth's oldest monuments, Is today carrying electric transportation all over the' world. Every year. through this agency alone, the electric age Is being brought to new millions. Even in places which have heretofore been re- garded as only semi- electric .ty, projected by American push, is bringing aoout a new era.
 So that electricity is indeed the greatest modern miracle worker. The telephone has come into so common use that some of the popular wonder at its marvelousness has disappeared. Yet it still remains a magical instrument conferring on mankind favor for even the suggestion of which people would have once been torturod.f
 In less known fields, too electricity is working magic. There IS the cleo q ical furnace. of which it's inventor said that it would produce q tempera- ture twice as hot as Hades." Human nerves which find a few hundred de-  grees of heat unbearable and death producing can convey no idea of what temperature of 72O0 degrees means. Compared to this bar of rcd hot iron is cool. The tremendous neat obtained by the electric furnace has made it pos sible to reduce to metallic form the element known as tantalum so named because of the difficulty of separating 1t from it's ores. A curious and inter esting substance, indeed. It Is so hard that even the diamond accepted as the hardest element of all. makes little i'm pressinn upon it's surface. In a recent experiment a sheet of tantalum one third of an inch thick was put under a diamond drill revolving 5000 times a minute. At the end of three days of continuous boring. this drill, which cut into ordinary substances as though they were putty. had not gone through more than one-third of the plate. As 0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

Remember, if you don't at- tend our Removal Sale you miss exceptional offerings in fine hand-tailored suits and overcoats; $27.50 values for $18.40. Come and see them.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Total

In this Kentucky is given to MT. Bryan, although recent events seem to indicate that it is a doubtful state. ~-Maryland Is also doubtful, having twice voted against Bryan. But granting that MT Bryan car ries Kentucky and Maryland he will still be 69 electoral votes short of election. From the following so-called doubtful states he will have to obtain the neces-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

electric clock and takes an electric car Tor his home. An electric bell is at his door; electricity lights his house and perhaps warns it, too; 1t may even cook his dinner. All the while the tel ephone keeps the man in touch with the world wherever he goes. Even the milk left at the door in the morning Is handled by electric mach inery in the Gairy whence it comes: the flour in the bread is produced by electrical ma chinery; the cloth which covers ones body owes it's debt to the subtle vibrat- ing medium.
 Indeed, the time has apparently come when an old saying must be revised, for today, at any rate, 1t is electricity which makes the world go round. all though some scientists find that love is an affair of subtle electrical currents herein Uncle Sam has outstripped Cupid and Is again to the front. Amer ican industry In the production of electrical apparatus is conquerlng for eign fields. The Western Elec.ric man agement, for example, has foreign plants and offices scattered throughoug the worlG--in Japan, In India. Africa In scores of cities and dozens of coun- tries, all busily engaged in furnishing foreigners with apparatus for project ing converse tions. For just as in the United States the manufacturing as. socatc of the Bell companies is busily engaged in enabling people to talk, so in foreign countries it Is furnishing telephones for just the same purpose! A hundred different tongues may be spoken through these instruments, but they all bear the imprint of Uncle Sam's energy and all bear striking tes- timony to the manner In which cleo trIcity makes the commercial world go round.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

IOtal 1W It will be noted that Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana and Nevada, all of which states were for Roosevelt in the last election. are placed in the Bryan column.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

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