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The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
TELEPHONES RING OFTEN.
ChesnpeaIse Company shows Good
Earnings for Last Year.

Earnings for Last Year.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company yesterday sent a correct report
of the business of the year 1907 TO Con
gre9s. In letter accompanying the re-
port is was stated that. owing to the
fact that the previous report sent 20 Con-
gTess ON January 9 last had not been
exactly correct in that the month Of
December was bat estimated, the second
report has been forwarded.
The earnings OF the company for the
year are Jplaced az Sl.0S4, 500 from teIe-
phones and Se47lS from real estate. The
total is S1Ii9.S5s.0S. The expenses are
given az S9.97S53a. The net earnings are
placed al Sl99s561l9. the depreciation AT
a-3,-1-l2 leaving a revenue balance of
So, 1896 for The year
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
want DoIliver Bill Changed.

Senator Gallinger yesterday presented
in the Senate a petition from the citizens
of North Washington asking that the
Dolliver school bill be amended to give
the appointing power to the Commission
ers and be passed
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
Earnr lflIiinrr He.er,..l..

The Senate Military Affairs Committee
yesterday ordered a favorable report on
q bill accepting donation Of land known
as the Palisades, ON the New Jersey
shore Of the Hudson River. opposite New
\ AorN' as military reservation.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
May Appear at Tokyo Fair.

A bill providing that the United States
shall participate in the Japanese Expo
siton to be held In Tokyo In 1912, and
appropriating sS50000 for the purpose, was
introduced IN the House yesterday by
Representative Hayes of California
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07

London, Feb. 6-The report egraphed
from Halifax yesterday that the British
squadron in the Pacific is to be materially
increased is officially denied here.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07

A bin was introduced by Representative
Of Kentucky, yesterday. prohib-
iting the transportation of trust made to-
bacco products in interstate commerce.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
WHAT DOES CONGRESS DRINKS
Representative Acheson Wants Only
Spring Water Used in Capitol.

spring water Used IN capitol.
Representative Acheson, Of Pennsylva-
MIA, who is trying to bring about prohibi-
tion of the liquor traffic in his State. has
brought his temperance views to Wash
ingtOn with him.
He disapDTOves strongly OF the blind
pigs" now said 10 be in operation in the
Capitol. Mr.. Acheson would put an end
10 this Illicit traffic
He introduced q bill yesterday providing
that the committee rooms and other
rooms connected with the House shall. be
supplied with pure natural spring water.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
HOUSE.

The House considered the Indian apprCpriation
bill and fually permitted debate upon that much
refered-to measure. An amendment rToposed by
Delegate smith. Of Arizona, affecting non
reservation schools was defeated
The committee arose at AS, and the House
adjourned until to-day az noon.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
EASILY MIXED
This Prescription Said to Pre-
vent Weak Kidneys.
PREPARE REMEDY YOURSELF

Splendid Medicine foe BacLaehe aud
en-ReIieves Long Standing Gases
of Rheumatism, and There is Not
Sufferer ia the World VINO Can
Afford t0 Leave IL UntrIed.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
Chronic Bright's Disease
Completely Cured.

Over twenty several prominent doctors gave Up
Mr. HOsmr die with what they called incurable
brlghts Disease Notwithstanding this Mr. com.
petey cured by Warmers Safe Cure Has return
attack and has enjoyed vigorous health twenty years
This proves that Bghs Disease durable properly treated
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07

Mr. HoSners letter written August 2h 1890 also one lust
received from him Denver CoO reproduced There are thousands
OF similar cured by Warmers Safe Cure throughout the world
This can be said of no other medicine
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
BILL STILL IN THE AIR
Traction Measure Not Fin
ished by Committee.
MAY NOT COME UP MONDAY

Several Amendments to he Dis
cussed-MeetinE This Morning VIII
lures SettIed-UniveTsaI Transfers
Provision on Ticket Basis Adopted.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-07
GOES FOR CORTELYOU
CulbersOnSays He Broke Law
on Five Counts.
CLAIMS BANKS HELD MONEY

Little Used for Circulation Purposes
and Less To Aid Interior Banks,
Declares senate Minority Leader.
Aidrich Bill Calculated to Increase
Opportunity for Speculation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
SLEEPING ON THE PIAZZA.

Dr. Thomas McAdam in Country Life in
 America.
 It costs about $50 Ito screen veranda large enough for a family of four to sleep on. The three grades of wire netting cost about .66, s10.3O and $24.3S, respec- lively, for a roll 100 feet long and yard wide. The first may last two seasons and the second four, but the copper wire is the only rustless and permanent thing. would never be satisfied with anything else. It is maddening to have fly screens rust to pieces after a single season. I would rather have mosquito netting if couldn't afford copper.
 The cost of an outfit for winter sleep ing in cold countries is about s30 to s50 including cot and mattress, but if it saves you $200 in doctor bills and adds inn measurably to your happiness you cannot afford to do without it. The main item is the three down eomforters, which give a maximum of warmth with minimum of weight, so that the limbs never feel oppressed. Then you need woolen blanket the width of your bed and twice it's length, because this is to inclose the comforters and protect the feet from ex- nos11re
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
A RICH NATION.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 One trillion and a half, sum almost beyond mortal conception, represents the national assets; the money in circulation amounts to SG,25O O00,O OOo and that in the federal treasury to Si5,2465O0. The value of domestic merchandise exported is $1 ,s53. O00. and that of all manufactures $14802 147, ,00O The farm wealth of the country produced in 1907 is, in round fig- ures. $7.412, GOO; the added mineral wealth for the year is s30O0, GOO eco. It has been pointed out with truth during the October panic that the national pros perity is not based on Wall street and it's workings but more deeply on the country's vast agricultural production. If this is the case-and it surely is--an in ventory of the various crops reveals fig ures to comfort and cheer That he who reads may learn, the values of the va rious farming industries are presented herewlth Wheat, s5O0, ,O0O, eco; cotton, sG75,- GOO 900; corn. $l,350,OOO GOO; hay, s6G0, ,000,
 900; poultry and eggs. $600. .000, 900; dairy products, si73,765,OoO; live stock. s4,s75,OOo,- OOO The sum representing our commerce with 1orelen nations Tn l@i mas more than trebled in the past three decades, and this year is the third running in which both exports and imports have totaled more than 1000, GOO O0O. This statement of our national assets, this inventory of the fun damental prosperity of our country and it's constituent states relieves all carping care, all need for financial worriment. It is something mare than encouraring-it is insg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
'Possums In Demand.

''Possums are as plentiful this season as they have been for several years past, and the market price has advanced from three to four hundred per cent said Col. w. c. Lawrence, a veteran locomotive engineer on the Central of Georgia, and the only man at the throttle ever ap- pointed on governors staff. "A year or two ago we could buy all the possums in sight for % cents a head. This sea- son the price is 75 cents to s1.
 ''There is a very brisk demand for possums and this accounts for the rise in price. I can remember when the little animal had no commercial value. It was considered delicacy in the country and especially in the negro quarters. But now hundreds of possums are shipped to market every season and they are quot ed as regularly as any other food product l happen to know that & certain meat merchant in Birmingham has handled 200 possums within the past three weeks. Shoat is good eating but possum is better"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
NEW YEARS IN MANILA.
The Day Is Mixture of July Weather,
 Music and Jam.

From the New York Press.
 To Occidental eyes New Years day in Manila is a strange ola podrida of Christi mas, Easter and Fourth of July. The day is ushered in with early mass, celebrated in the cathedral, which is attended by all the women attired in old clothes, and the poorer class barefooted, and the wealthy in somber black, with black mantillas or mediately after breakfast everybody be- gins to brink and preen for callers Raven locks are plastered into elaborate cultures with cocoanut oil and crowned with red or yellow blossoms, or in the case of a maiden who expects her lover to pay his respects to her on the New Year with the sweet starry flowers of the jasmine, which are called throughout the island the flowers of San Paquita," who is the patron saint of lovers. Stiff trailing skirts of gay brocade and antebellum cut are donfed. wide flowing sleeves of em- broidered pima gauge and ample necker- chiefs of the same filmy material are ad- justed, and there is a tinkling of many bangle bracelets as the fair ones seat themselves to wait the arrival of the first caller. His entrance is the signal for the jam pot to be brought in. This takes the place of the steaming punch bowl of other lands, and is passed from hand to hand, each one taking a spoonful no more, and everybody using the same spoon. It would be considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette to refuse to partake The jam is followed by coffee, which is served, very black and strong and is half sugar. Strong black cigars are next produced, and everybody lights up, including the hostess. It is a shock to the Occidental mind to see young girls of 15 or Is puff ing away at long cigars but everyone smokes in the Philippines The Spanish women usually confine themselves to cig arettes.
 Many of the callers bring their guitars or mandolins, and there is always little music. Some of the convent bred girls are really excellent performers on the harp or piano. but pianos are always out of tune, owing to the damp climate. Im- promptu concerts are organized and oc- casionally there is skirt dancing, in which the Filipino women ecel, many elderly danes who are '1ieavyweights'' executing tho difficult native dances with grace, agility and ease which would turn a New York or London music hall artist green with envy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
ST. AGN E S.
Alfred Tennyson.

By Alfred Tennyson. Deep on-the convent roof the snows
 Are sparkling to the moon; My breath to heaven like vapor goes; May my soul follow soon! The shadows of the convent towers
 Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours
 That lead me to my Lord; Make Thou my spirit pure and clear
 As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year
 That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are solid and dark.
 To wonder shining ground; As this pale taper's earthly spark
 To wonder argent round; So shows my soul before the Lamp,
 My spirit before Thee; So in mine earthly house l am,
 To that hope to be. Break up the heavens, o Lord! and far.
 Thro' all iyon starlight keen, Draw me- thy bride a glittering star,
 In raiment white and clean. He lifts me to the golden doors;
 The flashes come and go; All heaven bursts her starry floors,
 And strews her lights below, And deepens oh and up' the gates
 Roll back, and far within For me the Heavenly Bridegroom waits
 To make me pure of sin, The Sabbaths of Eternity,
 One Sabbath deep and wide A light upon the shining sea
 The Bridegroom with his bride
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10

be more elastic than the Aldrich plan and it would certainly afford a higher degree of security and therefore of confidence. It would be to large extent guaranty of all deposits in national banks and to that extent it would prevent hoarding or any of the other fantastic tricks that followed October g.
 The Fowler plan is up against the Aldrich plan, and the two houses are to be the scenes of the conflict. The House plan has a better chance to be- come a law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
MT. FowIer's Assets Currency Plan

The House committee on banking and currency has decided to report the Fowler assets currency plan. This plan is wholly unlike the Aldrich plan that is before the Senate. The Aldrich plan authorizes an emergency issue of bank notes based on state or city bonds, while the Fowler plan looks to the retirement of all present bank notes, and the issuance instead by the banks of currency based on the gen eral assets of bank. Each bank is to receive from the government guaran- teed credit notes to the amount of it's capital stock. These notes will be taxed ? per cent year. Each bank is to deposit with the United States , per cent of its average deposits and
 per cent of the credit notes it takes Jdt, the object being to create a na- tonal guaranty fund of $500,000,000 to secure both depositors and note hold CTS against loss. The United States bonds that now secure circulation are to be returned to the banks, or rather the government will buy them, issuing fsr that pukpose the money in the
 ranty fund.
 plan proposed would certainly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
Congressman Taylor on Waterways

Congressman Taylor's speech before the Commercial club yesterday shows that we have in him a valuable man in an important place. He gave up a fine position on the appropriations committee because he believed he could better serve river state on the rivers and harbors committee, and he proposes to do his best for our riy- CTS and our excellent harbors.
 All he asks of his friends and neigh bors is cooperation on harmony lines, and common sense and practicability in the formation of plans. Chairman Burton does not support non-feasible plans. He supports those plans that promise to bring relief to the greatest number. He is ready, and so is MT. Taylor, to support the practical and the feasible.
 This district should line up solidly behind MT. Taylor. He will work un- ceasingly for any plan that is feasible and that promises to be helpful. The opening of the Warrior to and through this district is the task in hand here, and we should get together to urge additional appropriations for opening the Warrior Every lock and dam that is built brings us that much nearer to the usefulness of the river. Let us agree to ask for slackwater navigation to the two railroads, and when We have secured that we will then be ready to formulate a new programme.
 MT. Taylor lives on the Warrior, and he is our friend, always provided we keep to the practical and the feasible. He and Oscar Underwood pull together in that respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
Atlanta's Population.

q recognize tre fact that more import ance has been attached to census poplila- ton in the last 20 years than was Tor merly the case" said a commercial traV- oler. but I was surprised to read in the Atlanta papers articles which made It ap- pear that unless it extended its limits the Georgia metropolis would be out chased by Memphis and Birmingham, and that such a thing would be an irreparaple blow. One of the papers speaks or AL lanta's position as perilous.
 "I do not blame the people Of Atlanta for being eager to make creditabie showing in the next census, but l tnink they are taking the matter too seriously Atlanta as it stands today will have a population of fully 1000 in 1910. IT It annexed it's suburbs it would not take ln more than 5000 or 1000 people. perhaps, and SO few it seems to me hardly are worth while. At least the matter Is not Of sut- flcient gravity to bring on hysteria.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
Iron Production of 1907

Despite the large decreases in pro- duction in the last two months of the year the output from the coke and anthracite stacks footed up 25,399,792 tons, as against 24,S74,184 tons in 1906 The charcoal product is not included in the figures for either year. The year just end&was therefore record maker. It stands as the greatest iron making year in our entire history.
 Over 70 furnaces were blown out in November and December At the end of the year but 154 were in operation, as against 226 in operation on Novem- Der 1. Here is a reduction of just about 33 1-3 per cent, and it goes to indicate that the output at present is at the rate of about 16,000,0O0 tons a year. The full figures of 1907 will, however. soon be at hand, and so will the figures for December and January. Th&report of a greater general reduc. ton than one-third is, it is plain, not upheld by the figures that come direct from the ironmakers themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
The Bad Nickel Returns.

T gave you that nickel when you came out" said a Powderly car con- ductor last night to a passenger, who had just handed him a badly dam aged 5-cent piece. I've been trying to get rid of that old nickle for over week. but it ain't no use. Every time l pass it off to some one else it comes right back again in a few hours.
 i've actually turned it in at the of fee twice, and it manages to work back again in a day or two. It comes back and this makes the fifth or sixth time have passed it off and received it back since then.
 Tt seems to be travelling up and down this line. Whenever l give it to a person, he generally waits until he sees me and hands it to me again for his fare. just as you have done to- night The thing is beginning to haunt me. I gave it to one old lady last week and the next day she boarded the car, and l knew she was mad the minute she got on. It didn't need any guess ing on my part to know what was coming. so I went to her to collect her fare. knowing that nickel was com ing home again.
 "she almost threw it at me and said Young man. you think you may be smart in trying to cheat an old wom- an. but old Satan will skin you in the end. Take this old nickel and give me a transfer right now, or the first thing know you'll be cheating me out of it..
 ..See what reputation m collecting on account of it, I'm going to take the nick el and bury it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
AN OLD PARIS THEATRE

gargoyles project from It. The doors also are of dark wood and are copied from Fifteenth century patterns. This kind of thing might be thoughtEincongruou in any ordinary theatre, but here 1t seems to add a piquant flavor to the perform ance. On the floor of the house, back of half dozen rows of comfortable stalls, are five private boxes shut off by nov able trellis-work screens. For people who want to see the performance without be- ing seen these. .retreats are highly conven- tent. There are circumstances under which even the most gorgeously dressed society woman would prefer to pass unob- served, and foreign sovereigns visiting Paris, who are officially supposed to be spending a quiet evening indoors, some times find their way behind those friend ly Grand Guignol screens without the public being the wiser.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10

when he will visit Montgomery to be present at the hearing in the federal court of the states answer to the injunetfons granted at the instance of the Louisville and Nashville against the enforcement of the passenger and freight rates imposed by the legislature.
  Charles I. Graves of Alexander City is at the New Morris. s. p. Irby of Selma is at the New Morris.
  M. F. Laumus of Montgomery is at the New Morris.
  o. D. Street of Guntersville is at the New Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
AROUND THE COUNTRY

Newark Star: Still, the terrors of leap year may have been overdrawn.
 Florida Times-Union: Latest scandal in high life-Teddy Bear eloped with 1907.
 Knoxville Sentinel: Governor Hughes fame seems to have spread to this neck of the republican woods.
 Washington Herald: The Norfolk Land mark has an editorial on Where Secretary Taft Slipped Upp The seismograph should show.
 Houston Post: The whisky in Georgia that wasn't sold on the last day of the year is now a drug on the market Now let the union do it's worst.
 Chattanooga Star: Why so much talk of race suicide when statistics prove that over 4OO,0oo,0OO salty pins are manufac- tured annually in America alone?
 Washington Post: "There is plenty of fight left in the democratic party" says Colonel Watterson. Democrats keep it all in the party, where it will do the most harm
 Pittsburg Sun: Those doctors of fin- ance who diagnosed the Seaboard Air Lines case before they considered the symptoms have only covered themselves with suspicion.
 New Orleans Times Democrat Presi- dent Roosevelt's letter to Admiral Brownson indicates the writer's fear that there are some undesirable citizens upon the official roster of the navy.
 Montgomery Advertiser: The New Ha- ven Register wants to know if Roose welt has become such mollyeoddle as to need a champion. That isn't it; the champions think they need Roosevelt.
 Providence Journal: Out of P operatic performances in New York this week, five will be devoted to the works of Verdi. Despite various interesting novelties, the Grand Old Man of opera seems to hold his own pretty well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-10
MORE ABOUT "HAMLET.r
lefty May Irwin Says She Can Make
 the Weight.

Herbert Corey in the Cincinnati Times
 Star.
 New York-Looks as if Eddie Foy and May Irwin were going to cop the prize offered for the person getting the most publicity during the year 19O7 E. H. Hartman had it nailed down for time, but Elinor Glyn and 'Three Weeks" came along, and sent Eddie to the discard. A protest was threatened against Mrs. Glyn, on the ground that her methods were unfair, but that was finally headed off. Then Eddie Foy got into the game with the assertion that he would play Hamlet" and Miss Irwin tearfuly in- sisted that she'd be the swellest little "Opheia'' that ever was crossed in love by a bug-house further. q see this Foy person says I can't make the weight" said she indignantly. He's dip py, that's all. Worms in his cocoa, sure. I can be good and strong at the weight, just go bet on it-but it'll be my weight, and not the weight this featherweight comedian has picked out. Lemme tell you. I've got lot of new ideas about 'Pheely' up my sleeve. I'm going to play her in a straight front, for one thing. And then I'm going to rig up prop sofa, so when 1 faint it'll come down with a crash That's the way to make an impression on the house. And if l can decoy this Foy person onto the same stage with me, I'll have Marks, the lawyer, come on and threaten him with breach of promise suit. And when he goes dippy, I'll get appointed admins trator of his estate, or something. But nix that wet thing for me at the finish. The every thought of drowning myself makes me i'll. If I croak at all, I'll use gas, and I'll leave a note for the land lay with enough change to pay for It. I'll kA Ialt