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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Dun's Weekly Review.

New York. July 2.-R- G. Dun's weekly review of trade tomorrow will say:
 Aside from labor difficulties at the sheet and tin plate mills. all reports re- garding iron and steel are most encour- aging.
 Evidences of improved conditions con- stantly multiply prices advancing on sev- eral products, while manufacturers show more independence in accepting business. This Is indicated by their reluctance to take orders for distant delivery at cur rent quotations and specifications, in many instances being confined to early shipment Activity in seasonable fabrics and made-up garments among retailers marks conditions in the dry goods trade
 Wholesale departments are enlivened by the semi-annual clearance sales at which the buying is strong enough to clean up open stocks of staples and many lines of semi-fancies.
 Knit goods and hosiery are in better re- quest for spring delivery and duplicating for fall showed an increase. Cotton goods remain very firm with some further advances noted. The largest sellers of woolens and worsted are dong good business for future delivery on the lines for spring that are opened. Staple taffetas in silks are being ordered freely from some large mills for next spring 8 delivery. but there Is not sufficient early
  advance business already booked for fall offsets to a large degree the disappoint- ment felt at the quiet jobbing business of May and June.
 Shoe conditions continue quiet, the price being a disturbing factor and some con tracts held back pending ad1ustmenfl Shipments for the current week were practically the same as last week. but still show an increase of 3S9,063 cases so far this year as compared with year ago.
 Hides still advance owing to improved quality. and both packer and country hides are about Ac firmer than week ago. The scarcity of supplies Is also a strong factor.
 Both the sole and upper leather mar kets reflect the firmness of the raw deal- ings and prices are higher.
 Tanners are curtailing in some in- stances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Give the Children Suoar.

Children may eat too much sugar and they may also stay too long in their bath tub or in the creek when they go in swimming, or get tanned or a headache from playing too long in the sun, or chilled by staying too long in the open air; but is that any sound reason why they should be deprived of sweets, sun light, baths and fresh air. or discouraged from indulging in them? All that is need cd says Dr. Woods Hutchinson in Sue cess Magazine, Is little common sense regulation and judicious supervision, not prohibition or denunciation Most of the extraordinary craving for pure sugar and candy, which is supposed to lead the av- craze child to inevitably founder him. self if left to his own sweet will and box of candy, is due to a state of artifi- cial and abnormal sugar starvation, pro- duced by an insufficient amount of this invaluable food in its regular diet. Chil- dren who are given plenty of sugar on their mush bread and butter and pud- dings, a regular allowance of cake and plenty of sweet fruits, are almost free from this craze for candy. this tendency to gorge themselves to surfeit, and can usually be trusted with both the candy box and the sugar bowl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
CAPT. FRANK HATCH AND :.
 THE SWAPPING TURTLE

Saint Paul, July 2-June has come. The bass are biting. The trout have given up the werm habit and are turn green and many a strong man is polish ing his office chair with nervous rest lessness while the devil-tempter with fishing rod sits in the corner holding up three fingers and grinning. It's awful.
 But up at Sylvia Beach things are do- ing. Since the Ice went out this spring Capt. Frank Hatch has been assiduous- ly cultivating the acquaintance Of one of the finest snapping turtles in Minne- sota He Is eighteen inches long and al- most as broad and has neck that LOOKS like a ham sausage after 1t has wrink- led in the heat of the sun.
 The captain loves animals, and the po- ltteness with which the turtle has reg ularly appeared at the end Of the COCK and waited until he was invited to par take of the leavings after the captain nightly Ash cleaning sprees won first his regard and then his affection. The tur- tie reoiprocated, and has recently De- come so tame that every time the cap tain calls, he comes tearing along the grassy bottom and rising to the surface waits with a most affectionate express sion for the tidbit the captain has in store: a piece of yellow perch or a cou- ple of fins from bass. The choicest morsels and those which the big turtle has seemed to especially regard are the backs of the common sunf1sh. after they have been dressed of scales and ms, and these he tastily chews with con tent and joy so apparent as to wiring the profoundest admiration rom any animal lover who watches.
 The turtle was absent for several days about a month or so ago, and when he appeared there was an enormous dognsh following him. The captain hates dog fish and gave the turtle his tidbit and left the dock But the chore boy as- serts that immediately afterward he saw the turtle pick several choice morsels and carry them into the deeper water where the timid dogfish waited. After several minutes he was able to see that the turtle was delivering the choicest bits to his strange companion, ana oh servation of different days convinced him that an affection had sprung up be- tween the turtle and the fish. He re- ported to the captain, but then captain simply sniffed.
 Now this is what happened afterwards as the captain tells 1t:
 "I didn't believe the chore boys tale although several times I saw that big turtle with the fish close by. I noticed though, that the turtle didn't come quite so quickly to my call Then some | thing queer happened A little boy
 came up with his mother for a few days
 and amused himself most of the time by fishing off the dock. One afternoon about o'clock heard an awful noise down there and from the terrible splash ing I figured at once that the little fel- low had fallen in and went down with a rush, and what do you suppose? That i boy had anchored his hook into the jaws of one of the bieeest dogf1sh YOU eyer saw and was landing him, hauling him up inch by inch on the shelving, sandy beach. I was mad, of course. and started in to help him land that slippery 1 reptile, and just as got my hands into
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
COBALT SWEPT BY
 DISASTROUS FIRE

Cobalt, Ont. July 2.-Ffre swept through Cobalt today causing loss estimated at between $S5o,oOO and $4Oo.OO, at least one death and the injury of six persons. It is estimated that 2Oo0 persons are homeless tonight.
 Starting in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant the flames spread rapidly and were soon beyond control Stores, saloons and other business structures were con- sumed, and both sides of the street for half a mile were burned. A strong wind was blowing and the use of dynamite was resorted to to check the flames. It was during the use of dynamite that the one fatality occurred. A foreigner. unidenti- fled, rushed into a building just as charge went off.
 With the assistance of the fire appa- ratus from Haileybury and New Liskard the fire was gotten under control late to- day. Of the loss not more than one-tenth Is covered by insurance.
 Several missing are children. but 1t is thought they will turn up safely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Let sIeepinu Germs Lie.

Did you ever realize what a danger ous thing 1t Is to clean house in the spring? According to Success Magazine a writer in the London medical journal The Lancet, insists that spring cleaning has many possibilities for evil If not properly conducted. Dirt and dust are full of disease breeding germs but how ever dangerous these creatures may be when lodged in the woodwork or com fortably settled in under the hall car pet, they are much more ferocious this writer insists. If stirred up, and irri- tated. and sent flying through the air If we can't keep our houses clean as we go, we had better let them stay dirty This writer's rule is to "let sleeping germs lie"
 What house would look like after 40 years of total abstinence from spring cleaning, we leave to our women readers to fudge. Yet we venture the assertion that there is one creature who would find the situation entirely satisfactory It disikes the annual cleaning ceremony 1t hates to eat cold suppers off the kitchen table. and beating carpets is to it an abomination. It will doubtless make capital out of the Englishman's warning against the perils of house. cleaning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Revenues of Churches.

cTOIu the bOOkkeopeT.
 The revenues of churches differ largely according to the sect. The income of St. Patrick's cathedral parish of New York, the most important Catholic see in the United States, with the exception of Bal timore, the seat of, Cardinal Gibbons. reaches no higher figure than $75, 900 an- nually, while Grace Episcopal church can depend on $166, 900. The Catholic clergy, though they so through the longest and most arduous training for their profess sion, are the most poorly paid, the sala- ries in the metropolis being from $400 to $500 yearly, the archbishop and his att tendant priests at the cathedral receiving no more than S1o,0O0 all told. It is Q well known fact that the late Archbishop Corrigan steadfastly refused to keep the private carriage which his confreres thought necessary adjunct to his rank. preferring to travel about tho city in cabs in order that he might save an extra sum for his private charities.
 One of the highest salaries in this coun- try was that paid the late pr. John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, who received SIS, 900 year. In the ming ling of classes, the Fifth Avenue Baptist church and the Episcopal church of St. Georges present two of the most striking examples. In the former, the redoubtablo John D. Rockefeller passes the plate, and in the latter J. Pierpont Morgan per- forms similar service, each being asso- oiated in this duty with men whose mod est incomes for the year would not bear comparison with the value Of one golden moment in the time account of either magnate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
NEW RAILROAD TO
 BE CONSTRUCTED

Paducah, Ky, July 2.-Articles of in corporation were filed at Metropolis, H., 12 miles below Paducah yesterday, by the Herrin Southern railroad, which Is capitalized at s100,0Oo The ineorporators are: Dan Willard, Chicago, vice presi- dent of the Burlington; F. E. Ward, Evanston, H., general manager of the Burlington; J. NJ. Deering, Ed A. How ard and l.. B. Larson, all of Chicago, the latter being engineer of the Burling- ton. The road will be an extension of the Burlington from Herrinsville to the Ohio river at Metropolis, a distance of 57 miles. It will cross there by bridge and come to Paducah. going south. It is said work will begin at once.
 The Burlington has bought much prop erty in Metropolis for terminals. The road has a line built from the gulf to a point in Tennessee and will be built 300 miles to link the two lines and thus link the gulf and Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
STRANGER FOUND
 DEAD IN DEPOT

Yuma, Ariz, July 2.-Papers found among the effects of stranger found dead at the Southern Pacific station to- day indicate that the body is that Of Sir Arthur Carl Stepney of London, an English baronet of large estates and a scientist of distinction.
 The man arrived in Yuma yesterday and registered at the Southern Pacific hotel as W. c. Stepney of Seattle To day he was found dead in the train conductors room of the station A coroner's jury reached a verdict that he came to his death from excessive use of alcoholic drinks. Gold and sil- yer to the amount of several hundred dollars was found on his person. A deposit slip on Los Angeles bank Tor s13OOO was also found among his e1- fects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
TOBACCO COUPONS
 WILL BE BARRED

Washington, July 2.-Decision to coupons in tobacco and snuff packages and practical agreement to increase most of the provisions of the tobacco schedule of the administration portion of the tariff bill were reached at long session of the republican members Of a subcommittee of the finance commit tee today. The increases will be made not only on the tax proposed in the House bill, but on smoking tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and snuff.
 The House provision relieving farm CTS who manufa stbre their tobacco into twist from the tax requirement. has not yet been taken up.f fbut the indlca- tions are unfavorable to the acceptance of the bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Khrc TafHs Health Better.

Washington, July 2.-President Tart IS aaliqhted with the progress Mrs, Tart ,s ,,,a,,fnv toward recovery. For the first time in six weeks the mistress VI 'Ne White House lunched with the fresioei' vesterday and appeared to be qulte strong. Her physicians have promised the President that she will have completely rerained her health within the next two months. The President will take his Wl1e to Beverly, Mass, a few days hence and is hopeful that the cooler atnos- nbere will promote her recovery. III View view of Mrs Taft's better health II was , announced at the White House that the president will make his Pacific coast trin during the fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Cock Flohtinq LeqaIixed.

Havana, July 2.-The house today passed the bill legalizing cock fighting, which was immediately signed by Pres ident Gomez. The lottery bill was re- ferred to a special committee. Both all of next week. During the session today sharp words were exchanged ps- tween Senor Monleon and Speaker Fer rera, the former accusing the speaker of lack of respect to the house. Fer rera declared himself insulted and after adjournment sent his seconds to thoso of Senor Monleson. Permission has been granted to American residents to explode fireworks on the Fourth of July. Hitherto this has been illegal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Priest Kills Himself.

Denham Springs, La, July 2.-News of the suicide, supposedly. of Rev. Seve. Catholic priest fthe French set tlement church, 25 miles south of Dem ham Springs, was received here tonight. It is believed Father Seve set fire to his house and then shot himself. The tragedy occurred last night. The neigh bors, seeing the home of the priest partially enveloped in flames, rushed to the scene. Before reaching the house they heard a pistol shot and upon entering the burning building found Father Seve lying dead on the floor of his bedroom. The priest, it is said, had been acting strangely for several days, and 1t is believed that his mind was unbalanced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
A Wild Animal Farm.

M F. Kendrick of Dover Colorado has a farm equipped for the rearing and sale of wild beasts. The enterprise bears the title of the Kendrck Pheasantries and Wild Game association It grew out of the novel exhibit of the City park in Den ver which MT. Kendrick maintained en- tirely at his own expense, because of his love for wild game. Many thousands of dollars yearly went to the develop ment of MT Hendricks hobby. What was a fancy has become a substantial business institution.
 For the first few years only animals native to North America will be reared, but eventually lions, and even elephants will be bred The farm is now stocked with deer, elk. antelope, bears mountain goat. etc, and 16 acres of ground are utilized ir the venture.
 MT. Kendrlck says that 1t does not cost any more to produce q pound of buffalo or elk than 1t does of cattle or sheep. Buffalo meat sells at from 50 cents to s1 a pound, elk meat bringing nearly as much. The association will not lack a market at these prices if geological parks and game preserves do not take the entire output.
 The United States government is taking great interest in Mir. Hendricks farm. It will cooperate with him by telling him how to cure or prevent any disease with which he Is not familiar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Eirst Prohibition Tangle.

Memphis, Tenn, July 2.-The trst local tangle as result of the coming in of statewide prohibition in Tennes- see confronts Justice of the Peace Coleman and his legal advisers, and tbev are in a quandary as to which or the two laws to obey. In answer to replevin Justice Coleman ordereu lo ue seized a quantity of liquor Proceuute in such cases is that the goods aetacn- ed must be advertised and sold at pup lie outcry. On the other hano, tne prohibition law declares It Illegal lo sell liquids containing alcohol The so- lution is not yet in sight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
.HOT WEATHER AIDS
 GENERAL TRADE
Some Very Heavy Fall Sales
 Are Reported In the West
IRON AND STEEL ACTIVE
Some Finishing Mills Are Stiffening Up Prices of SteeI-Building Is Very Active and Lumber
 Reports Are Good.

New York. July 2.-Bradstreet's tomor- row will say:
 Retail trade has been helped by hot weather. holiday orders and clearances. but there are reports from many centers that the spring and summer turnover Is behind expectations.
 All western cities report fall bookings larger than last year by various per- centages, and some advices are of un- precedented sales for next fall. At large eastern centers the volume of business done by first hands fin dry goods Is said to be little below the best which occurred in the first half of 1907.
 In industrial lines the gains previous ly shown seem to be held. Iron and steel are active. hardening of values Is noted and some finishing mills are acting much more independently toward those backward in filing specifications. Building is as active as heretofore, and there are rather better reports coming from the lumber trade and especially in the south and on the Pacific coast
 The shoe and leather trades are show ing more activity. though ordering is still conservative. High prices rule in hides and in manufactured leather.
 Business failures during the last week ending with July l were 213, against 223 last week.
 Wheat including four. exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending July l, aggregate 1,S10,64s bushels. against 1,600.642 last week. For the 53 weeks ending July 1 exports are 16S,S75,- ss1 bushels against 2o3. .S72, SS6 in the core spending period last year.
 Corn exports for the week are 1851 bushels. against 51, ,SSS last week. For the 53 weeks ending July l, corn exports are 2s16S, ,56S bushels, against 45, 294 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Customs utles,Increasing.

New York, July 2-An improvement in the finances of the custom house at +his nlace is shown in the report or Collector Loeb and indicates that the recent shaking up given his depart mont has been a success. The duties collected on passengers for June were S92,3S125, the largest ever paid ln TOT that month. Heretofore the dutles on baggage during the month or June have averaged between S5O,Ooo ana S600OO. The receipts from customs fines, penalties and forfeitures TOT June, 1909 were S45,764.S9, as com pared with S5,466SS for June, l9os. The report shows that customs lnpect, ors are going through the baggage or incoming passengers with tne-tootn c0mb
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
Shirt Waist Campaign.

Waco. Tex. July 2.-several of the larg- est dry goods firms throughout TeXas have entered into an agreement permit ting their male employees to wear shir' waists without coats during the summer months while waiting on customers Ihls agreement was reached after the women clerks had been granted permission to o,,ear dacollette behind the counters, the proprietors stating it would De unjust u the men clerks if they were required tc wear coats. An effort is being made to have all leading Texas retail houses te enter into the agreement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
NAMES OF WARSHIPS.
Poets Not Honored Except in the Navy
 of Italy.

From the New York Times.
 Italy Is building two new warshfps of the Dreadnought type, and will name them Dante Alighieri and Leonardo da Vinci. France to be sure, has a Mira beau Diderot Voltaire, in its fleet of battleships, but no Racine, no Moliere no Troyon. If great FTenchmen happen to be renowned in letters France will not on that account neglect to honor their memory by naming ships after them. England honors no heroes of peace and few of war in naming her ships It has a Lord Nelson. of course, and a King Ed ward, a Prince of Wales, and a Prince George. It has also an Agamemnon, a Caesar, Jupiter. Mars. but no Milton and kaisers among its ships, and honors the memory of vanished gods like Odin and mythical heroes like Beowulf.
 It Is natural, however. for Italy to be proud enough of Its poetry and art to associate them with patroitic glory and national defense. Italy Is indeed the land of song and art, and her poets and paint CTS are her greatest men. Dante is not a bad name for battleship. The great poet was a man of wrath. verily. and a nan of might. Leonardo was peaceful enough, but the marvellous variety of his genius, his supremacy in so many artistic fields, justifes the use of his name for 1talys second Dreadnought. Not 8 man of war, to be sure, was this artist, but he painted the Mona Lisa, and what a world of danger to mankind turks forever in her eyes
 For our warships the names of states and the names of towns suffice, except for the torpedo boats, which are named generally, for persons. It Is just as we'll We might name ships after Presidents, but never after poets. A Longfellow, a Whittier or Bierstadt would seem out of placefin our navy. We do not remem- Der even fishing smack or a ferry boat names Shakespeare. But England ought to follow Italys example to the extent of naming one of its marine destroyers after Rudyard Klpling, for he is the very incarnation of the British military spirit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
MURDER OF BOY IS
 MOST ATROCIOUS

Knoxville, July "A special to the Sem tinel from Cumberland Gap, Tenn, says David Moore and wife are in the Jones' vile, Va, jail. where they were taken last night to escape probable mob vio- lence at Erwin. Moore is charged with having murdered Harry Lee Nutshell. his 5-year-old stepson. The boy died last Sunday and was buried and Moore is said to have stated that he died of fever.
 No physician having attended him. however, suspicion was aroused and the body was exhumed yesterday. The head and body was found to be terribly bruised and the boys mother made a confession, in which 1t Is said she charged that Moore had caused the boys death. It is said Moore compelled the child to car ry lumber from sawmill with which the coffin was subsequently made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
SPRAYING GlRAFFE's THROAT. Doctor at Bronx Zoo Had to Use a Bi.
 cycle Pump.
rom the New York World.

from the New York World.
 Animal society at the Bronx zoo recent ly was much interested in the domestic troubles of Romeo and Juliet. It had been reported that the giraffe lovers, since being turned out of their house for the spring. had quit speaking. Dr. .. Reed Blair went over to investigate. He found Romeo suffering from severe sore throat.
 Romeo throat takes up about one- half of his entire anatomy, and the doctor had much trouble treating the sufferer. He rigged up spray with a bicycle pump and went to work to spray peroxide on the seat of the trouble Dr. Blair was not certain last night that he had sprlnkled the proper spot but he used enough med icine to maintain throat hospital for a week.