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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
STANDARDS COMPETITORS
 CHARGED WITH CUTTING

oil?" asked Mr. Kellog, the government inquisitor.
 The witness found himself obliged to admit it, saying that his company was compelled to do so in order to meet the demand.
 Many persons in that section" he argued, think it looks better in the lamp and is more exclusive than common white oil"
 N. V. Waley, Lynchburg, Va sales man, named many dealers in Illuminating and lubricating oils and gasoline in his section, who, he said, had bought their supplies from Standard competitors at prices that were so greatly reduced they could not refuse. On the other hand, the witness declared, he never had made any cuts to do business.
 .'The Standard had the business before it's competitors came into the field,' he declared "and there was no reason why it should make cuts."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
A RECORD HONEYMOON.

From the Pall Mall Gazette.
 M. and Mime Eugene Gruard have started upon the last lap of their honeymoon. The Gruard honeymoon began 12 years ago. On their wedding day the two started from Paris to walk around the world, and having traversed- Europe, Siberia, Japan, North and South America, and North Africa. they crossed from Dover to Calais on Saturday and got into the straight for home good deal fresher than Dorando. A prolonged test of this kind should leave no doubt as to the success of the Gruard mar riage, as all will agree who know how a walking tour tries tempers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
THE DEAD MASTER.

By John Erskine, in the Century Maga- zne No singing chord of youth was dumb, No star of youth was dim; It seemed so long ere age should como, I kept light watch for him Light watch OCT heart and nerve and
 eye,
 His entrance evermore- And To! the shadow stealing by, Found an unguarded door! I dreamt of far-off fields well-fought, Fierce battle, victory bright; T shall have praise from him."
 thought.
 ''Who taught me first to fight" Then I remembered as a breath Blows the dry rose apart; For, To! the sudden roucn of death Had aged me to the heart!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
 REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A good way to get girl to marry you is not to be able to support her.
 The only thing needed to mark a man as a bore is for him to have good sense.
 A woman has such imagination she can tell by the way man has his hair cut that he admires her.
 There's hardly any way q man can flat ter woman more than to tell her ishe doesn't seem to eat as much as a blr5-
 No matter how many times vol 'iss somebody else's sister it always test 's different, and no matter how few tin cs your own sister always the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
.OU NEVER DO.

 You never hear of woman joining the ancient order of anything.
 UBIQUITOUS. The hard-working dollar Is ever on the go; Iris hunted up and down the land By people high and low The hard-working dollar Can't take a holiday. Because there are so many things For which we have to pay The hard-working dollar Has oft been called curse; It makes the babys cradle rock And orders out the hearse.
 ---
 EASY. He forgot himself" I'm not surprised And why?" He is so Insignificant
 TALENTED. 'Is he cheerful giver?' He's too much of a diplomat for that" What do you mean?" Hes a cheerful borrower"
 ACHIEV EMENT. Though the world is old and life is old, There's a welcome waiting still For the advent of each new recruit To the ranks of the great T will!'
 A PULLMAN PERIL. "Grubber attracts a great deal of at- tention when he travels" How is that?" 'Ie snores.'
 EVEN THEN. Even on the shadow days Still a promise gleams Through a rift in sorrows cloud. Where the golden beams Of the sun are glancing down On a stricken world And the army of defeat, With it's banners furled.
 AGAINST ODDS. What's the racket in- the flat abCve?' Mrs. Scrapper is changing her mind" !"
 DON'T DO IT. When troubles thick, around you, Don't you worry; If petty griefs confound you, Don't you worry. No matter what the day may bring,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

New York, September 16.-The Standard Oil attorneys brought out a great deal or testimony of indiscriminate price cutting by competitors at the continuation today of the hearing in the government suit. Witnesses from Maryland and Virginia were placed on the>stand and they ar raigned several independent companies, prominent among them being the Red "C'' Oil company
 Edward c. Eitel, a special agent of the Standard oil company, charged the Red "Cv oil company not only with cutting the price in regard to get trade away from the Standard in his territory, Vir- ginia, but also with coloring it's oil with a red dye and representing to the more ignorant people that the colored oil was both better illuminant and safer to use in the lamps.
 Docs not the Standard also sell red
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
About Persons.

Birmingham has passed ahead of At lanta in another instance, this being the transfer of the office of the commercial agent of the Toledo, St. Louis and West ern railroad and the Chicago and Alton railroad from Atlanta to Birmingham. Frank A. Eisiminger is their genial com mercial agent and arrived from Atlanta a day or two ago. He has established headquarters in Room POS, Woodward building
 H. C. Hunt arrived in Birmingham yes- terday and immediately assumed his duties as city ticket and passenger agent of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlan- tic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Just go ahead and have your fling Old time will cure misfortune's sting,
 So don't you worryl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The Pennsylvania railroads tunnel and subway system in New York has progressed until the officials feel just fled in announcing its full operation on the first day of next May. It out ranks all works except that at Pan anna.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

To this will be the money that shoppers from the agricultural sections of Ala bama and Mississippi bring here. The outlook for the retail trade is indeed bright.p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The man Gregori who fired at Major Dreyfus in the Pantheon last June has been acquitted He thus loses all chance of becoming a martyr or hero, and will soon be forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmineha-1 people who are leaving heme for a vacation trip should have The Age-Herald follow them and thus keep informed about what is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Age-HeraId will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as often as desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

A discharged laborer in Europe moved pin in tunnel, causing the heads of the bores to miss each other by 26 feet, and the contractors to lose SS75.0 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Oyster Bay has the tent and the guns for an African hunt, but the big game is lacking while the circus sea- son remains open
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The flying machines are too promis- ing to be used in the slaughter of man. kind in war They are needed in peace ful pursuits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Mr. Harriman's and the Standard OH magnates' corporations by the Presloeht was because his eyes at last were opened and he had attained an appre- citation of the serious character of the offence which they had committed III helping to swell his campaign fund? IL may be so, but it is equally true that Harriman's corporations were not the first victims of an aroused conscience, nor did Mir Hartman attain to emt- hence on the list of undesirable cll- zens for some two years. When he was finally singled out from other great contributors for excommunicatlon can not be absolutely proved But the let ters which the President wrote to MT. sherman upon MT. Harriman's refusal to help elect another republican Con- gress afford food for reflection.
 Party WfII Protest.
 Assurances are said to have been quietly given that the republican party will in the future continue to foster and protect, as it has in the past, the Interests which, in return for the benefits afforded, have supported 1t and continued it in power.
 My friends it is not too much to say that 1t is the highest duty of the hour to make a continuance of these relations impossible; that the first step is to take away in this democracy all possibility of further corporate contri- buttons to party campaign funds to the end that no corporate managers may be led by self interest to purchase the right to levy tribute on the people. And to accomplish this there should be en- acted in every state and by the Con- gross statutes punishing With fmpr1s- onment all persons concerned in the making of. corporate contributions for campaign purposes.
 "The people of the United States must look to the democratic party for this relief. The democratic party must af- ford it them. The opportunity is pre- sented in this national campaign. The state of New York is perhaps. the most important element in the result sought to be attained. The opportunity pre- sents itself now and here. May we not earnestly trust that reunited, har- monious and victorious democracy will avail itself thereof?
 "The election of MT. Bryan and MT. Kern through the assistance of the elec- toral vote of the state of New York will go very far to secure this underlying, earliest and most important of all The many needed reforms.
 for once it becomes apparent that the people recognize the gravity of the evil, and have determined to cut 1t out root and branch, no party will dare to stand in the way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The large hotels in Europe feel the dearth of travellers from the United States. The depression shortened the crop of globe trotters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
MONOToNY.
A PREvARICAToR.

If all the world were rose-strewn, Wed weary of the rose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The Grosscup decision is outclassed by the George Gray decision in the amount and importance of the stake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Secretary Bonaparte must expect to become another Methusalah when he says he is going to fight the oil trust to a finish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

If the aeronauts should hold a na- tional convention this year, Orville Wright would become a national nomi- nee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Orville Wright has whipped the laws of grayitation, and he does not care who knows it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Cholera is now epidemic in St. Peters burg. Cholera and absolutism and drumhead eourtsmartial are a bad com bination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Esopus and Fairview are becoming cordial, and MT. Bryan may visit Judge Parker at his country home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The Chinese cannot honestly claim they invented the aeroplane over 6O0O years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Orville Wright is said to look like pictures of Christopher Columbus, or would If he had a ruff around his neck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

He always leads the conversation. ? "Yes; about two laps ahead of the facts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Several baseball teams begin to see that stern chase is a long and diff cult chase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
Gee, I'll bet he's happyl'

Louis."
 Gee, I'll bet he's happyr'
 A HOPELESS CASE. I never was so indolent In all my life before; If Opportunity should knock, I wouldn't ope the door, But just remark, Come in, come in" All in languid way. And if she came and offered wealth I'd moan, I'm tired today. Just write your plans upon this pad Pleace do-now, that's a dear; Your voice is sweet and yet you fail To make your meaning clear. Must I go out and work and work Until my heart Is dead? Oh, tell me some more easy way To win my daily breadl And if she scorned me, as she should, Think you that I would weep? Not much-rd prop my feet up high And gently fall asleep.
 GOOD COPY. q have here some twice-told tales" "If you can guarantee that they haven't been told more than twice, they must be pretty fresh and I'll take 'em.'
 IMPROBABLE. "He claims his wife drove him to drink" .Tll bet she didn't have to use s whip"
 DENIED.
 The democrats say
 Iris all pure twaddle,
 That William H. Taft
 Will win in a waddle.
 NY0 noI1IeT OIr TT T wonder what that boy is thinking about?'
 "He is probably planning what he'd do if a certain schoolhouse should burn down."
 STONY-FEATURED. q understand that the Indians are learning how to dodge taxes.' "They have good swearing-off faces, all right"
 PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. Doctor, do you think my illness is serious enough to justify me in settling up my affairs?' ''Um-well, you would be justified in settling your account with me"
 MORES THE PITY. And here's a thought
 To cause regret:
 Nobodys spanked
 C. Castro yeti
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The man who reads all the capdi- dates say has no time for anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Speaker Cannon begins to see that the country does not love a standpat- ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
United States Steel Corporation.


 "Things have been looking brighter and brighter ever since the miners strike was ended August 31," said a finaneier, "and citizens of Birmingham must have been especially cheered when they read Pres> ident George G. Crawfords list of Ten nessee company improvements to be made at Ensley
 "It is a rule of the United States Steel corporation, which owns the Tennessee company, not to say that this or that work will be done until the money for such work is available Many large m- provements are projected for the Ensley division and they will be carried out in the course of time, but when President Crawford announces that certain inn provements are authorized, work to begin at an early date, that settles it. The improvements referred to will call for an expenditure of s1,5O0OOO to S2,OOo,OOO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The Wright brothers believe that the way to fly is to start up and stay up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Aeroplane factories will soon become a feature of the American landscape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

Oryille Wright wins prizes in flying contests, not in beauty shows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
GOOD COPY.

GOOD COPY.
 q have here some twice-told tales" "If you can guarantee that they haven't been told more than twice, they must be pretty fresh and I'll take 'em.H
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
In Walker County.

'I spent day in and around Jasper this week and it was my first visit 10 that section of Walker county in re- cent years" said a Birmingham man. "Jasper was a revelation to me. Thirty years ago Walker was known as a very poor county, but now it Is one of the richest in Alabama and Jasper, the coun- ty capital with a population of 3OoO, IS destined to be a large city
 Jasper is well off in railroads and it's splendid commercial resources are based on coal, lumber and agriculture. Its mer- chants are progressive and finer lot of people one never sees.
 ''From Jasper I drove seven miles to Manchester, a great lumber camp, the property of the Manchester Lumber com pany, made up of Chicago capital This company owns something like S0000 acres of heavily timbered pine land It owns and operates an immense modern plant sawmill and blaming mill-at Manchester and the Alabama Central railroad, run ming from Jasper to Manchester, artl whose objective point is Decatur The headquarters of the lumber concern are in Chicago but the company is ably rep resented at the plant by Albert Russell, general manager, who, although under 30 years of age, is known as high class able lumberman. He is an alum nus of Chicago university and having an aptitude for mechanics, readily tooK to sawmill machinery. MT. Russell 'is assisted in his large business affairs by Capt. w. N. White, as superintendent The latter was formerly prominent cit izen of Birmingham.
 "The Manchester Lumber company en- ploys about 250 men, most of them white. and all, white and black, receive pros perity wages. Seven exceptionally skilled mechanics who take care of the band saws, get $7 a day each. MT. Russell said that his company's business had been improving recently and that after the election he expected it to improve still further.
 "In travelling over the Frisco between Birmingham and Jasper I was struck with the evidences of returning industrial activity The train on which l rode was filled and passengers were getting on and off at every station. All signs of the panic and the strike seem to have disappeared.
 "On my visit to Jasper I found live in- terest in the good roads movement and in the Walker County News agitation for a boulevard all the way from Jas per to Birmingham-a distance of fl miles. Such a highway for buggies and automobiles is feasible and certain it is that no improvement would be more popular"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
WHEN IGNORANCE Is BLIs

"A man blew through town yesterday who said he was unacquainted with St. Iouis''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The new aeroplanes will be called "orvilles," 1t is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
IMPROBABLE

IMPROBABLE. "He claims his wife drove him to drink" .Pll bet she didn't have to use a whip"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
DENIED

DENIED. The democrats say Iris all pure twaddle, That William H. Taft Will win in a waddle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

The man Gregori who fired at Major Dreyfus in the Pantheon last June has been acquitted He thus loses all chance of becoming a martyr or hero, and will soon be forgotten. l A discharged laborer in Europe moved a pin in tunnel, eausingNthe heads of the bores to miss each other by 26 feet, and the contractors to lose SS75.O0O.
 Oyster Bay has the tent and the guns for an African hunt, but the big game is lacking while the circus sea- son remains open. The flying machines are too promis- 1 ing to be used in the slaughter of man. kind in war. They are needed in peace ful pursuits.
 Secretary Bonaparte must expect to become another Methusalah when he says he is going to fight the oil trust to finish. | ] Cholera is now epidemic in St. Peters burg. Cholera and absolutism and drumhead courtsmartial are bad com bination. 1 If the aeronauts should hold a na- tional convention this year, Orville Wright would become a national nomi- nee.
  The Grosscup decision is outclassed by the George Gray decision in the amount and importance of the stake. Esopus and Fairview are becoming cordial, and MT. Bryan may visit Judge Parker at his country home
 Orville Wright has whipped the laws of grayitation, and he does not care 1 who knows it. The Chinese cannot honestly claim they invented the aeroplane over 5000 years ago. Several baseball teams begin to see that stern chase is long and diff l cult chase.
 The man who reads all the capdi- dates say has no time for anything else.
 Speaker Cannon begins to see that the country does not love a standpat- ter
 Aeroplane factories will soon become feature of the American landscape.
 The Wright brothers believe that the way to fly is to start up and stay up.
 OrYille Wright wins prizes in flying contests, not in beauty shows.
 The new aeroplanes will be called "orvilles," 1t is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

You never hear of woman joining the ancient order of anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
NO DOuRT OF IT.

NO DOUBT OF IT. T wonder what that boy is thinking about?'
 "He is probably planning what he'd do if a certain schoolhouse should burn down."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-30
SUICIDE ATTEMPTED
BY IDAHO FARMER
Policeman Finds Win0na Agri-
culturist Unconscious in
Golden Gate Park
Wounded Man Admits lie Shot
Himself and Talks of
Being Swindled

Mortaly wounded and unconscious.
II. A. Laye. a farmer OF Winona. Idaho.
was found in Golden Gate park yes
terday afternoon by Policeman Thomas
Hyland- A revolver was found beside
Laye and when he regained conscious
ness at the central emergency hospi-
tai he informed the police that he
made an attemptson his own life.
After Identifying himself and ex-
planning that the two bullet wounds
in his face and chest were lf-inhicted.
Laye stated that he had been swindled
out of large sum OF money by two
confidence men whom he met shortly
after he came TO San Francisco two
weeks ago.
Laye lapsed into Inconsistencies and
very little hope is felt for his recov-
cry by the hospital physicians. The
bullet which entered his chest pene-
trated one of the lungs. Laye regis
tered at Hotel Anthony in Fourth
street October Is. Believing Laye to
be mentally deranged the hotel man.
ager. telegraphed the police at Winona
Monday asking them TO notify his
family.
kilograms reached the local police
Wedn esday night asking that Laye be
held until relatives could reach the
city. Detectives Bunner and Freel
went to the hotel yesterday morning
but Laye had left. He is about as
years of age and is said to be quite
wealthy
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-30
ATTORNEY c. HI. POMEROY
SELLS OLD HOME SITE
Transfer Is Made Through the
Agency of j. w. Wright
&. 70

Carter Pitkin Pomeroy. the we'll
known attorney. has sold the lot on
which stood the family home. and
though the agents, ]. W. Wright &
Co., have not given out the name OF
the purchaser, nor the figure at which
the property was taken, it is under
stood that another buyer is In the
market. The lot Is on the northeast
corner of Hyde and Clay streets and
is 68:9x137:6.
Several sales have been made by the
San Francisco land company through
the agency of j. w. Wright, which
include the following:
San Francisco land company to Dan
iel Power, lot south side of California
street, 1926 east of Ninth avenue, 25x100;
$4,000.
San Francisco land company to NJ
Pearl, lot on east side of Eighth ave-
nue., 10 feet south of California street
25x120; s2.175.
San Francisco land company TO NJ
l. Block, lot on the east line of Ninth
avenue, 125 feet south of California
street, 25x120; $2.175.
San Francisco land company to J. b
Maginnis, lot on the east side of Ninth
avenue loo feet south of California
street. 25x120; $2175.
San Francisco land company to F. A.
Wells. lot on the east side of Ninth
avenue, PA feet south of B street, 25x
120: $500.
San Francisco land company to Gus
tav E. Thunberg, lot on the east side
of Ninth avenue. $40 feet north OF C
street, 25x120; S1,750.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-30
CITIZENS STATE BANK
DECLARES A DIVIDEND
Receiver Issues Checks to De-
positOrS Amounting to
$4,000

The Citizens state bank is the first
of the San Francisco banks that went
into liquidation to pay a dividend TO
its depositors and creditors. A 10 per
cent dividend was declared.
Checks were mailed yesterday to
every holder of an approved claim
gainst the bank. The total amount
TO be paid is 5000. The condition of
the books of the bank has made 1t ex-
ceedingly difficult for the receiver to
collect many of the loans, as they were
made without security.
A license to conduct a banking bust
ness was granted to Kamikawa broth
ers Of Fresno by the bank commission
ers yesterday afternoon. The new bank
will open the first of the month with
a capital stock of $4,000. $4,000 of
which has already been subscribed and
paid in. The officers of the new bank
are:
r. Kamikawa, president; K. Kami-
kawa, vice president; NJ Kamika wa,
cashier; K. Eezina, secretary.