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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
TRADE CONTINUES
 GENERALLY GOOD Confidence Is Unimpaired In the Larger Markets CROPS ARE ENCOURAGING Situation Is Not Without Drawbacks, as South and Southwest Have
 Been Affected By Too
 Much Rain.
CROPS ARE ENCOURAGING

New York, July s.-Bradstreets tomor- row will say:
 Trade continues good, confidence is un- impaired, buyers are arriving in the larger markets, cereal crop reports, despite rains in some winter wheat and corn-growing sections, are encouraging; country trade promises to be heavy, industrial lines are becoming more active calls for harvest hands absorb large part of the flowing supply of labor and the long drawn out discussion regarding tariff matters prom ises to be soon ended.
 On the other hand the general situation Is not without its drawbacks. Cool or rainy weather has retarded retail trade over a good part of the country, particu- larly in the central west, south and south- west, where floods have also deterred rail- way traffic and injured crops and country trade. At the same time clearance sales are pretty general and these tend to stim- ulate business where normal weather con- ditions prevail. In wholesale and jobbing lines current trade is of a midsummer character and reorders are comparatively light. Moreover the high prices that have prevailed for raw material suggest small profits on many manufactured articles Collections range from poor to fair, though there are special lines which re- port prompt settlements
 Business failures for the United States were 1S2, against 1s3 last week.
 The weeks failures in Canada number N, which compares with 22 last week.
 Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week aggregate 1.412.s13 bushels, against 1,ao.S4s last week.
 Corn exports for the week are 47,4lS, against S,551 last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
BULL|SH OUTLOOK
 IN COTTON WORLD Recent Rise In Prices Is Not
 Considered Too Rapid BIG DEMAND IS EXPECTED All Opinions Point to a Small Crop and Much Larger Consumption Than
 Ever Before With Prices
 Very Much Higher.
BIG DEMAND IS EXPECTED

New York. July s.-A sharp advance in tention to the staple. The rise was due largely to the recent government crop report putting the condition lower than ever before in a July report. Excited speculation has lifted prices to high rec ord prices for the season. Of late the speculative trading has been stimulated by heavy and continuous rains in the At lantic states. notably in Georgia, and by hot, dry weather in Texas, where maxi mum temperatures have prevailed In many sections day after day of 100 to log and in some cases 1o4 to 1Os degrees, the latter in Ellis county, the banner cotton county of Texas. The soil of Texas was generally fortified against July and Au- gust drought and hot weather by normal rains during the winter and spring. The result is that many sections of that state are sending complains of the high tenn peratures and the lack of needed show CTS and rains. In the Atlantic states rains have been so persistent that the crop, already pretty badly in the grass, cannot. it is said, be cleaned fast enough. Trade is improving Spinners have been buying January and March contracts. Some dealers who had sold futures against the actual cotton have covered their hedges at losses rather than part with their supplies. Chicago and other western oenters have at times been active buyers. The south and Liverpool Wall street and New England have also bought. Enormous liquidation at the tempting ad- vance has been rapidly and to all appear ances easily absorbed. The spot markets have been more active at rising prices.
 As futures reach new high levels the bulls aspirations mount Formerly 10 cents was the goal, then Il. then 12, and now 1t is 13 to 16 cents.
 They predicate a further advance on an expected record-breaking consumption coincident with a moderate, if not short crop. They believe that a new epoch Is opening for the cotton trade of world. America has practically a monopoly of the worlds cotton future. The spindles in the world have within few years enormously increased. Cotton, as helping to supply one of the three primary ne- cessities of mankind must, 1t is contended, advance with wool and silk. the demand for which, like that for cotton, Is an- nually increasing with the growth of the worlds population and the spread of civilization to the remotest corners of the world. Cotton has advanced nearly s2o bale since last October. There is no short" interest, or next to none, and of late the speculation has gone wild and become more or less dangerous. On all good setbacks in prices. however, the mar ket has absorbed the offerings with a readiness which 1t must be confessed has made many of the regulars stare Wall street and Chicago have latterly sold heavily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Dun,s Weekly Review.

New York, July 9.-R G. Dun & Co., weekly review of trade tomorrow will say:
 No one can now question the substan- tial character of the revival in the iron and steel trade which Is rapidly rising to high water mark levels. The output of the principal producers has already come within a moderate percentage of full ca pacity.
 Corn will probably give an unprecedent- ed yield; the cheapness of money and the fact that the tariff bill has been passed by the Senate-these are the conspicuous features of the business situation. Nat urally they serve to strengthen the new born confidence and to encourage new enterprises. The maintenance of the trade revival is all the more remarkable be- cause this is the usual season of crop uncertainty and midsummer mercantile dullness.
 Revision of cotton goods and cotton yarn prices in an upward direction is un- der way, and many lines of goods have been temporarily withdrawn from sale pending more settled market. Pur- chasing in cotton goods markets was limited considerably as a consequence of the current government report on cotton condition, and by the active cotton specu- lation. While higher prices are consid- cred inevitable, purchasing conditions are not of a character to warrant an immedi- ate rise in prices to the cost levels war ranted by current cotton values The large corporations producing worsted dress goods opened their spring lines at moderate advances ranging from to IS per cent.
 Buying in all dry goods lines were gen. orally conservative, despite the belief that textile lines are all tending higher.
 Further advances have scored in the market. Leather buyers continue to op- crate at advanced prices in all kinds of leather, especially in heavy weight stock, but business is now less active than a week ago. owing to many shoe factories having closed down for stock k-taking pur- poaSs Buyers are arriving in the Boston shoe market, but have not as yet op- erated to any great extent.
 Shipments for the week show a slight increase over the week previous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Mortoaue Sale.


 Default having been made in the terms of the mortgage and payment of the in- debtedness secured thereby which said mortgage was executed by Newman D. Lacy on the 7th day of May, 1908, to the undersigned mortgages, B. and s. Stein- CT, to secure the debt therein named, and duly recorded in volume 506, page d of the records of mortgages in the of- flee of the probate judge of Jefferson county. Alabama, on May B. 1908, said mortgages under and by virtue of the power and terms of sale contained in said mortgage have elected and do hereby de- clare the entire debt secured by said mort gage due and in accordance with the terms of said mortgage will on Saturday, the 24th day of July, 1909, before the court house door in Birminghah, Jefferson coun- ty, Alabama, at public outcry, offered for sale and proceed to sell within the legal hours of sale for cash, the following described real estate situated in Birming- ham. Jefferson county, Alabama, to-wit:
 Lot fifty 6G by one hundred and forty GAO feet on Allen street in the city of Birmingham, Ala. beginning at point on the east side of Allen street one hun dred GOO feet south of the intersection of the east line of Allen street with the south line of Marshall avenue: from said beginning point run eastwardly and at right angles to Allen street ono hun dred and forty d4O feet to an alley: thence south along the west line of said alley fifty 0bo) feet; thence west at right angles one hundred and forty dD) feet to Allen street: thence north along the east side of Allen street fifty (5W feet to point of beginning; 1t being the prop erty heretofore conveyed by Turner R. Weak1ey and wife. sEffie M.. to under signed Newman D. Lacy by warranty deed dated June 1. 1905. recorded in the probate offioe of Jefferson county, Ala bama, in book S95. page 359: being the property described in the above described mortgage.
 B. and s. STEINER, Mortgagees. q T. RUDuLpH. Attornex. 6-2t8t-sA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
FOR RENT.

SOUTHSIDE. rooms, two-story dwelling, all modern conveniences, 1901 South 12th street, at $25 per month rooms, cottage GIT 18th street. rooms, two-story, 140S 10th avenue.
 FOR RENT-NORTHSIDE. rooms, cottage, BPS First avenue (West End).
 5 rooms, cottage, 1907 Park avenue. rooms, cottage, 2608 7th avenue. s rooms, cottage, S09 26th street. { rooms, cottage, 285 Tompktns avenue. rooms, two-story, 1905 7th avenue. e rooms. two-story, e24 18th street. 18 rooms, two-story, 720 Fist street |. A. HEINEkE R. E. q |. A. CO.,,
 AGENTS. Phones E. 14 N. Hst st
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
FatherIess Children Aided.

Carlisle Ky, July 9.-Through contrf- buttons of many people in Kentucky and neighboring states, the children of Hiram Hedges. the only victim of night riders in Kentucky, have been given their fath- CTS farm free of debt upon which to make living. Hedges was killed on his door step by band of alleged night riders in March, 1908, and he left his 26 acres encountered. The fund applied on the mortgage amounted to about seO0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
GALLOWAY COAL co. Miners and Shippers of Coal Office 1222-3 Brown-Marx Building.
LEGAL NOTICES

Notice.
 AS required by section 19 of city ordi- nance regulating the inspection of weights of the city of Birmingham, notice is here by given all peddlers or vendors of ice, coal charcoal, milk or any other mer- chandise bought or sold by weight or measure to call at the office of the city inspector of weights and measures on the corner of Twenty-third street and Morris avenue, between July r and July 22, 1909, between the hours of 10 a. m. and p. m and have their scales and meas- ures tested and sealed as required by law A. J. HALL,
 Inspector of Weights and Measures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Nioht Riders in Operation.

Union City, Tenn, July 9.-Contrary to expectations no effort was made to se- cure the release of the 40 men in jail, in- dicted as members of the band of night riders, who murdered Capt. Quentin Ran kin, when court convened today and an adjournment was taken until September, thereby postponing the trials until the fall term of court. Arthur Cloar, one of the eight men whose trial was reversed by the supreme court, is said to have contracted typhoid fever in jail at Jack son and was ordered transferred here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Hawaiian Newspaper Enloined.

Honolulu, July 9.-By the terms of a temporary Injunction granted by Judge William J. Robinson today, the Nippu Jiji, official organ of the Japanese sugar plan tation strikers, Is restrained from publish ing articles of an infiammatory nature calculated to incite the strikers or their adherents to violence. The injunction also restrains the strike leaders from in- terfering with laborers at work on planta- tions, from using threats or other acts of intimidation and from maintaining boy cots against any merchant not in sympa- thy with their agitation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Bid Deal In Timber.

Roanoke. Va, July 9.-A big timber land deal was closed at Tazewell, Va, today between the Yellow Poplar Lum- Der company and c. L. Ritter of West Virginia, by which Ritter purchased 20, GOO acres of timber lands lying principally in Buchanan county, Virginia. including all of the machinery, timber rights, etc., of the company. The total consideration is $500000. New territory will be opened up by standard gauge railroads, one to run from Doran to Whitewood, a dis tance of IA miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
SPECIAL BARGAIN

SPECIAL BARGAIN S35OO-New Groom colonial cottage at Princeton with all modern improvements, electric lights and cabinet mantels throughout; rooms papered in handsome crepe and ingrain papers; plumbing complete; terms $1000 cash, balance monthly; lot 50x14O. Apply to
 H. M. ROBERTSON
 2026 First Ave.
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FOR SALE
$10,W0

$10,o00 S6x10o on 1st avenue. between Fist and 23d streets.
 $1ooo will buy three of the finest lots in Avon- wood (Avondale).
 $7000 25 lots near East Lake car. cement side- walks to them, would trade for other property, has house and barn.
 $3150 8 lots and 5-room house, East Lake, will trade. 5-room cottage, walking distance, North Highlands. will sell. trade or give 1t to you if we like your looks
 WANTED Have you a piece of property that for some special reason you could sell cheap, s50o0 to $5, 600? We have buyer hungry to buy a bargain.
 $20,000 Corner 1o0x12o. 9th avenue. renting for $10O month.
 $1oooo Lot 5ox1so. Fifth avenue house. renting $70 month.
 $20,0o0 Will buy bargain on 1st avenue, s5 feet front.
 $215O, $30OO, $350O, $440O win buy choice lots on South Highlands.
 @4600 to $5500 Buys nice and S-room homes, Norwood district.
 $2260, $2850, $3f5o, $4500 Gets some of the prettiest new homes in Woodlawn, West End and Princeton.
 14H PER CENT. Lot lex190 with houses, white people on the front, Avenue F. LOUIE REESE REALTY CO.,, Bsu esA Nk a kvA Peoples s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Nine Hours for a workInu pav.

Raleigh. N. O.. July 9.-A s-hour work ing day is to be asked of the Seaboard Air Line railroad by the machinists. car mon, backsmiths and boilermakers of the entire system. A conference to take place between representatives of these trades and the superintendent of motive power has been arranged to take place in Portsmouth on Monday. A reduction from ten hours to nine hours will be asked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Same old Business,

Houston. Tex, July Swallowing tho announcement from Austin that $2,000,- 900 company would be organized to take over the Waters Pierce oil company prominent oil operators in this city deny that this Is being done, but declare that many stockholders in the company will be present at the sale and buy the prop erty in, reorganize the old company and continue business in Texas as usual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE. 40 acres s. R. 95k miles south of city; s60o; terms one-third cash, balance long time, if desired, with interest; in origi- nal timber. 25 lots and 4-room house. Sayreton, 5000 cash. Northeast corner 11th Ave, south. and 18th street, 70x130: rents for s62 50 per month; $1O,300, terms easy.
 L. @. PETTYJOHN. Phones 11O1 and 465. is261z Sd Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Report of Massacres Untrue.

washington. July s.-John H. Grout. American consul at Odessa. has cabled to the state department that there is no foundation for the reports that Jews are being massacred at Bessarabia. The con- ditions throughout the country, fthe dis patch says. are quiet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Killed In Train Wreck,

Ocala, Fla, July 9.-David L. Haddock of St. Petersburg, Fla. was killed last night when a passenger train on the At lantic Coast Line was derailed at Mican- apy Junction. Paddock was standing on the rear platform. The first and second class cars were wrecked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
Notice to Contratcors.

Sealed proposals for repairs and add- tions and plumbing to central wing of dormitory of the Alabama Girls Indus- trial school will be received at the office of the president at Montevallo, Ala, till R o'clock. noon, July 10 1909. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the president at the building. and may be obtained of the architect Charles W. Carlton, Il and IS Caldwell building, An niston. Ala The right is retained to reject any or all bids.
 n w PAI. I.MER Prosidenf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
WANTED-FEMALE HELP

W1NTTDEYoung ladies wishing to make money to go to Alaska Yukon exposition
 by canvassing in this city; references and small bond will be required. Ad-
 dress W-s4 care Age-Herald. 7-s-at
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WANTED-HELP

ONE or two desirable parties can secure good paying position with us if they can show good references and are men of energy. Singer Sewing Machine Co.,, 2123 Sd avenue. Birmingham, Ala.
 6-11-sat-sun-St D-Stenographer: must be rapid, accurate, competent, able to read dicta- ton perfectly; to the right party who is willing to learn We will advance ac- cordingly; salary $5 per week to start Address P. O. Box 94 city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
ONE GENT 4 WORD

RATES-0ne cent Il word n dayy no ad. taken for less than 25c for first inser- ton. Cash must accompany order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
HAMILTON COLLEGE For YouuU Women.

For foung WOmens Lexington, Ky, 41st Year, Branch of Transylvania University. Select Home School of the Blue Grass Region. 26 in Faculty, from best universities, e-acre to Eastern Colleges. Also standardized Junior College Course. Music Art, Elo- cution. Catalog.
 Hubert G. Shearin, Ph. D., President, Box U. 6-1b-26t-tu-t th- sat
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WANTED-BOARDERS
5010MS Ind 6oard 556a 6f6 aTe. 7e1,s0i

ONE or two gentlemen or couple can secure delightful board in private fam
 fly on the South Highlands; location most desirable in city; large, beautiful room and all conveniences. Address R-16 care Age-Herald. 6-19-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
PERSONAL

NOTTCE-Any soldiers wanting to regis ter for the openings of government res- ervation land in Montana, Washington and Idaho will see 1. J. Duncan and r. J. Gaines at Green and Head Store, on 2d avenue, between Ath and 8th streets, from 10 a. m. to 2 p. n., Satur- dav July 10
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!, For New York or the east, take Seaboard; two trains daily:
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WANTED-SALESMEN

WANTED-SALESMEN
 W1NrED~Fifteen experienced salesmen to sell stock proposition. Commission basis. Apply room 1150 Brown-Marx Bldg. 7-3-Tt WANTED-A young man to open branch office in Augusta, Ga. for a con- cern introducing an office appliance of great merit Permanent position and good pay. Call at Room 122 Hillman hotel, between and 8 p. m. Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10

ROOMS and excellent meals. Bell phone 3197. Phelan flats, 20lS 9th avenue.
 7-4-7t NICE rooms and board reasonable. 1872 7th avenue, north. 7-9-4t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10

SEE the Peerless Plumbing and Heating
 company for prices on plumbing. 306
 22d street, phones 257S. 5-20-th-sat-tu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS

GRADING work to sublet; IS miles; good team work. See or write Burke &
 Joseph. Rome, Ga. i--7t MUITIGRAPH letters, notary public and typist; prices right, quick delivery. soo First National 7-e-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10

WANTEHDNMen to learn barber trade;
 few weeks required; best paying work within the reach of poor man; can have shop with small capital; wages $12 to $20 weekly; wonderful demand for barbers;
 catalog mailed free. Moer Barber Col lege Atlanta, Ga 7-1O-6t
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EXPERIENCED railroad man wants po- sition; can fill and will accept anything from car clerk to station accountant; prefer small town Address l.. W. B., Box 396 Birmingham, Ala.
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WANTED-An experienced collector for rental and insurance business; must be able to furnish good references and bond. Address RIA. care Age-Herald.
 7-lO-2t
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WANTED to take charge of home office for accident health and life in- surance company; must understand bookkeeping and one with some insur- ance experience preferred. Interest in
 company if desired. Give age, experi- ence, reference and salary wanted. Ad-
 dress PEA care Age-Herald. 7-10-tf
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WANTED-MALE HELP

IT T
 WANTED-Railway man clerks, postof- flee clerks carriers. Salary $500 to S1600 Examinations In Birmingham November IT, Preparation free. Write for sched- ule. Franklin institute, Dept 2-D Rochester, N. Y 7-7-28t
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-15

An interesting study of college FL
trance Requirements in Theory and
Practice" which appeared In The In
dependent presented long list Of uni
versitles and colleges at which very
large percentage OF the students were
admitted with conditions. One OF thess
institutions which took In more than
80 per cent on these terms, formerly
insisted that all conditions should be
worked Of before the student could
enter the freshman class The appli-
cants had 10 pass examinations, nc
matter what school they came from II
they took the examinations early In the
summer and failed In certain studies
they worked on those studies through
the summer vacation and tried again
at the opening OF the college In the fall
II they failed this time in whole or
In part they were kept out until they
could make good With the system
changed, entering with conditions has
become the rule, and such a history
emphasizes, we think. some of the
points that are made by John G. Bow
man. the writer Of the article in The
Independent II the purpose of the
colleges Is TO increase the student roll
II Is no doubt successful, but the ques-
ton naturally arises: what signin-
canoe have the requirementsT They
are, as Mr.. Bowman says, not a real
minimum, they are at best an osten-
sible minimum. any part Of which Is
liable In most colleges TO Temporary
suspension and occasionally TO complete
abrogation." There is no standard
worthy OF the name, but merely a pre-
tense at a standard. The requirements
look big In the catalogue, but the dis
cretion that In used takes all the fervor
out Of them and reduces them to an
absurdtty. There is no real eo-opera-
tion between the secondary school and
the college, but an excellent opportu-
nifty is offered for passing along the
unit II numbers alone Ia the object
Mr.. Bowman il right in saying that
the college has embarked upon q dan
gerous course which threatens its sin
certify and It's efficiency" On the other
hand, If the printed requirements are
unreasonable, ut Is time not to make
exceptions that confuse all standards
and demoraliEe students, but seriously
to face the problem of organizing pre-
paratory education on basis that is
really vital and indispensable, and OF
devisng machinery capable of en-
forcing It"