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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13

So reads the tablet. held by the beau- tiful lady. who represents Miss Bir- mingham" on the artistic cover of The Shoppers Guide of Greater Birmingham" soon to be issued by the Davis Adver- Using and Sales company, 1s1o Brown Marx building. and the publicity that will be given our city by The Shoppers Guiden has never been equaled in its history. It has the indorsement of the Business Mems league, and the Davis Advertising and Sales company have con- tracted to furnish them with 1000 copies, which the league will mail out to all the principal cities and towns on the Il rail- roads entering the city. In addition to this number 5000 copies will be distributed in all the offices in the skyscrapers, rail- road depots, ticket offices and hotels In the city. and in addition copies will be furnished manufacturers and merchants upon application to the Davis Advertising and Sales company for free distribution with the compliments of the firm stamped upon the cover The Shoppers Guide will be one of the finest publications ever issued from the press of this or any other state in the union.
 The cover design has been pronounced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Ship Stops To Aid Sick Man.

Norfolk, August PA case of appendi- citis on board the battleship Virginia was the cause of that ship turning back under forced draft to port. The i'll man was Paymasters Clerk Frederick Sher- burger. On her way back the battleship met the Yankton and the man was trans- ferred to her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
pe.pondency causes Suicide.

Seattle August 12. -Despondent because he had been reprimanded, Sergt. F. A. Bruger of the marine guard of the cruiser Tennessee, now at the Puget Sound navy ward committed suicide by cutting his throat today Bruger ran away from his ship last night after he had beer. reprimanded and relieved from duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Jurors in Calhoun Case.

San Francisco, August 12.--A dozen talesmen were examined and excused today in the trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United railroads, charged with offering bribe. A spe- cial venire summoned to appear to- morrow will bring the total number of citizens drawn in the case up to 15oO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Changes In Office.

Bogota, Colombia, August 12.-The new government is continuing its pro gramme of removing from the official service employees who had held office under the regime of President Reyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
P.,ntIno. To Be Exhibited.

Brussels, August liking Leopold has announced that he will place the moo ern paintings in the Royal Gallery on sale next November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Librarian Ia Dead.

Newark, N. J., August 12.-Alonzo l.. Church, former librarian of the United States Senate, died at the home of his son here this evening, aged 81.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13

Governor Noel states that he will leave for Washington next Saturday or Sun day, accompanied, perhaps, by Mrs Noel. and that he will be gone a week or more The governor has several important mat ters to look after in Washington, chief among which is to secure federal assist ance in the biggest drainage proposition in the United States, that proposed by the Tallahatchie drainage board in the delta section of this state. and which will reclaim more than 100000 acres of the richest land on the face of the globe. A great deal of work has already been done. and the success of the undertake ing Is assured. but help is needed
 Governor Noel has always taken a great deal of interest in national guard mat ters, and will see what can be done to- ward improving the service through bet ter training. To secure this he will urge the war department to station a retired army officer at Jackson permanently, and send one or two good drill masters to this state. whose duty 1t will be to visit and inspect all companies regularly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
MAIL SERVICE IS
 BEING IMPROVED Senator McLaurin Is Working on Plans for Railway NOEL GOES ON VACATION Governor Will Also Look After Drain age Proposition To Help the People of the Delta Section
 of the State.
NOEL GOES ON VACATION

Jackson, Miss, August 2-(Speeial.)- Senator A. J. McLaurin has received a letter from Joseph Stewart, second as- sistant postmaster general at Washing ton, in which he says:
 ''In further reference to your com munication of the 18th ultimo. relative to the proposed establishment of mall ser vice on the New Orleans Great Northern railroad at Jackson. Miss, am pleased to inform you that an order has been is sued establishing service on this line of road between Columbia Junction and Jackson, Miss. from August 30, 1909"
 Senator McLaurin has been hard at work on this proposition ever since the Great Northern began to operate its trains as far north as this city, and the business men of Jackson appreciate his interest in their behalf, just like the farmers of the state do his effortss to have cotton bagging placed on the free list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13

The American Express company has ad- vised the railroad commission that for the present 1t holds up on it's proposition to collect on shipments of empties returned to manufacturers and wholesale dealers.
 Some time ago, in July. the express company doing business in this state, filed schedule of rates with the commits sion, showing their intention of aban- donins their old rule of hauling empty bottles, casks, baskets and other recpta- cles they had once handled, free of charge. The American went ahead and put in the schedule, but the Southern and Wells Fargo did not. The commission has taken no official action in the matter, but probably will at the next meeting, which will be the first week in September.
 There is entire absence of any law to compel express companies, railroads or other common carriers to haul empties. or other freight, free of charge, but 1t has always beeu the custom of the express companies to haul emptiss free, and they will have hard time convincing the commission that any reform in that di- rection is demanded or needed.
 very peculiar case is to be heard al Fay Springs. Jasper county, next Mon- day, and 1t is possible that the attorney general will be drawn into it. the suit having been instituted, it Is understood in the name of the state.
 A few weeks since the Magnolia Range company sued out an injunction restrain ing the Wrought Iron Range company from interfering with it's business ir Mississippi. It was alleged that a gane of Wrought Iron employees followed close ly upon the heels of the Magnolia sales men who were going over the state sell ing ranges to the farmers, interfering with their business, in restraint oi trade and competitions" and contrary tt the antitrust laws of the state as found in chapter 1s or the acts of 1908, and whicf is in the shape of an amendment tt the original law.
 The Wrought Iron people have nov demanded that the injunction granted thu Magnolia concern shall be dissolved. anf the matter comes on for hearing at Ba, Springs next Monday. Senator Banks o Newton county represents the Magnolia folk while Roger Wilson of Philadelphia is the attorney for the Wrought Iror company The outcome will be awaited with interest, as the fight for business be tween the two concerns has become yer, strenuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13

Miss Laura Duffey has brought suit against the Chattanooga Railways com pany in the circuit court. The plaintiff alleges that as she was about to get on one of the defendants street cars she was thrown and fell into culvert or ditch that was several feet deep. The falling woman landed In the bottom head first and was so badly injured that she demands 5000 from the defendant com pany
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13

The Illinois Central Railroad company made some good money in Mississippi dur Ing the quarter ending June 30 in spite of the alleged hard times" as the re- port filed with the railroad commission will show:
 The total receipts given as from pas- senger service were sD1. .2e2.sa; freight bus mess. ss.os4,3s5. 43; other sources. slso4O.24. making a total operating revenue of ss. lO2, 425.6. The total operating expenses and taxes are given as g, 2,321 ,5o6.9O. and the net revenue as S76O,S38.T For the corresponding quarter last year the net revenue was s731,19o-39.
 The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, owned and controlled by the Illinois Gen. tral, reports as follows:
 Receipts from passenger service, s545.- 26.S6; from freight service, s2,011 ITO. 5s: other sources, s2o,24sOs so that the total operating revenue for the quarter was s2.o81, ,95s.e2. The tatal operating expenses and taxes were s1, ,93S, .s7, leaving a net revenue of s9s, 23875, while for the same quarter last year the revenue was $4s,- 373. 46
 The Dry Creek Mutual Telephone com pany, with headquarters at Florence, Rankin county, also makes more money than 1t could or did spend, It's receipts
 
 s1310 Last year for the same quarter the net revenue was s13.5a
 Northern newspapers have been wtr- ing their Jackson correspondents to know If Mississippi has selected the two men whose statues will be placed in Memorial Hall at Washington. Replies are to the effect that Mississippi has taken no of ficial action in the matter, but it may be put down as morally certain that Jeff ferson Davis will be one and that L. Q. c. Lamar is first choice for the other place. However MT. Lamar's selection Is by no means certain as there are scores of other men who have writ their names high up on Mississippi walls of fame, and who have hosts of champions among the present generation. The next legislature will probably settle the mat ter.
 The American Express company has ad- vised the railroad commission that for the present 1t holds up on it's proposition to collect on shipments of empties returned to manufacturers and wholesale dealers. Some time ago, in July the express company doing business in this state, filed a schedule of rates with the commits sion, showing their intention of aban- doning their old rule of hauling empty bottles casks ha s1xeta and other recpfa
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-11-04
Grandes YerdadeS

Tomamos de nuestro c0lega "La De-
moc1acia'' de aver, la information 81
guiente:
"Antes de invadir los americanOs del
Norte nuestro territorio, cOnstituimos un
pueblo energico y fuerte, acostumbrado
4 la lucha por los ideales, y hasta cierto
punto quisquilloso en- 10 que Sc refirlese
al decoro patrio.
Contra Espana luchamos, siendo Es-
pana nuestra madre por derecho de
raza y por espiritu de educaci0n.
Siempre que la antigua Metr0poll in
tentaba rebajarnos oprimirnos, Ia pro
tesla virl surgia de los coraz0nes puer-
torriqueHos.
Y esta protesta surgia por cualquler
rosa muchas veces por ell asunto mas
baladi.
Y. no ohstante, cor los nuevos domi-
nadores no Sc protesta de la mayor dt
| las extravagancias que pudiera venlrles
! en- mientes. la inconcebiblc Extravaganza
| ie eliminar nuestro idioma.
Tai idea llcvasr 4 la practica, sin que
nj un solo pueblo manifesto SUI disgusto
cuando todos 4 la vez debieran habel
lanzado el grito de protesta
Pensar en- tai abandono seria deses
norante 81 no conocieramOS ell espiritu
{ impresionable de nuestr0s c0mpatriO
tas."
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-11-04
M@W6@G@ Commercial

Costeros Isabelita, India y Ricardo
Ruiz.
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-11-04
BUQUES ANUNCIADOS

Vapor espanol Brasileno. Salio el 26
del pasado de Coruna para Puerto
Rico y Cuba. I:
Consignatarios Sobrinos de Isquier-
do y Co.
Vapor espailol Catalina. Salio el 30 del
pasado de Barcelona para esta, hacienda
las escalas de costumbre.
Cons. gnatarios Sobrinos de Izquier-
do ? Co.
Vap. americana MORO Castle Estara
en- puerto procedente de Nueva York,
manana.
Consignatarios, The New York and
Porto Rico S. S. Co.
Vapor americana Caracas. Estara aqul
procedente de New York, el II del CO.
rriente
Consignatarios, Villar y Co.
Vapor americana Maracaibo. Con des-
tino a New York, zarpara de este puerto
ell 10 del corriente
Consignatarios, Villar y Co.
/ Vapor americana Pathfinder. Salit
de New Orleans para este puerto ell ~
del mes pasadO.
Cousigmatarios, The New York and
Porto Rico S. s. Ca.
Vapor americana S. V. Luckenback.
Recalara el IL del cOrriente proceden.
te de Nueva York.
Consignatarios, .'Insular Line.
vELERos DE LA L1NEA BENNER
GoIeta americana John d. COrweN Es-
ia la carga en- New York y saldra de
un monlento a otro para San Juan y
Arroyo. =, .,.
consignatarios, 'sobrinos de .E,quia,
ga.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-11-04
1hNeV Ynk ( Porto Kte SteaB;Bp O.

Los vapores SAN JUAN" 8
PONCE que hacian la trave-
sia directa entire Pence, Maya
guez y New York, hasta nuevo
aviso saldraa del puerto de San
Juan direc&anaente para New
York los naisrco}es & aas ocho
de la maIa1a, alternando CON
los vapores CAROLINA" Y
"COAMO &se esta Eaisma Com
pa1ia-
Adniten carga = 'pasajeros.
Para mas desalles, 'dir:janse 4
yk Hss gmk { Rgts Rite.
San Juan, p. z.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-11-04

Catedral-Dias laborables: Z, 7-30 y $50
-Festivos: 5, Z, ,8,9y II.
San Francisco-Dias laborables: FEES
tivos: $50, " 7-30.
San Jose-Dias laborables: y 7-30.-
Festivos: $50, ~ 7-3O.
Santa Ana.-Dias laborables: Z y 7-30.-
Festivos: 6 Y 10.
Puerta de Tierra-Martes 7.-Domin-
gos:9.
Sagrado Coraz6n (Santurce) .-Dfas Ia
borables: 7-30.-Festivos 7-3O y9.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-11-04
Seccl6n RdIgina
SANTOS PARA MANANA

La Dedication de Ia Santa Iglesia
Cathedral, san Zacarias profeta y san
ia Isabel padres del Rautista.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-10
HANDS oFF HONOLULU.

The people of Honolulu have pro-
tested, through both houses of the ter
ritOrial legislature, against proposed
plan to have prohibition ordered from
Washington. IT is stated that a law
yer named Wooley has been to the ma
tional capital with a petition asking the
government to issue an order making
the Hawaiian islands prohibition ter
ritory. And the people there want to
decide the matter for themselves.
Which seems the fair and right thing,
too.
Honolulu people have never been rec
ognized as dangerously dissolute. The
social conditions there do not seem to
warrant the extraordinary issuance of
an order from the seat of federal gov
eminent, usurping their right to local
government. In fact, those people
are understood to be very creditable
! citizens of the United States
If they have problems-and what
country has not?-they believe them
selves able to find the solution. And
| they do not want any prohibition laws
however they may want temperance
and orderliness in the conduct of all.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-10
SENATOR ALDRIcH's ATTITUDE.

Not in many years has any newspaper
published an article of more vital inter-
est to the people-an the people-of the
United States than that report of Sen
ator Aidrich's address before the bank
ers and merchants of St. Louis, and
given TO the public in The Herald-Re-
publican of Tuesday morning.
The address should be read from be-
ginning to end. 1t is not long, and it
will remove much of the feeling of hos
tility that has been engendered to the
senator and his friends in their work for
a reform in the monetary system of the
United States.
There is the most perfect recognition
of the immensely of the task before him
and before the country. There is the
most complete admission that nothing
can be done without the cooperation
of the business and banking interests.
There is the broadest possible declara-
ton of the purpose-the advantaging of
every section, and every interest. No
one can read the address and retain a
to the work of monetary reform.
And there is no more impressive topic
before the people. Somehow, in all the
history of our nation, panics have come.
Never is there a wel-defined reason for
their coming. But there is no question
of their disastrous effects. They are
| harmful to the nation. They hurt every
member of the great republic--whether
he be poor c. rich.
In most foreign countries these finan-
| cial panics are unknown. 1t is not be-
lieved our people are less capable than
are those across the seas, nor is it likely
there are conditions of any sort in this
country which make impossible the cor
recting of this essential weakness.
For that reason the monetary COM
mission is examining the methods of the
old world; is investigating conditions IL
the United States; is asking suggestion:
of practical men in this country. NJ
man pretends to understand all about
the mooted subject. But surely no mar
nor men every approached a problem
with more frankness, with better Will
ingness to arrive at a consensus of thu
best judgment And never has a sub
ject of more Importance engaged th'
attention of public men.
The work of the commission will b
watched And, proceeding as Senate
Aldrieh is proceeding, it will gain tn
confident backing of the people every
where.
And in the end there will surely be
solution.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-10
PRETTY GOOD AVERAGE.

There were just twenty on the street
car when it stopped at the west side of
State street for the oid man to climb
aboard. He was very weak, and had
good deal OF trouble getting upon the
platform. The motorman pushed the
door open for him, and although he
came forward slowly and with difficult
nearest him, no one started to assist
him. That may have been because those
nearest his door We're far from young
emselves-although in the capable
stage of life. And old men know other
old men are sensitive. The car jerked
a little as it stopped and started again
on the farther side of State, and the
old man nearly lost his balance.
Half way down the car a young man
laughed well-dressed young man,
with a very high roll to the bottom of
his trousers.
| But another young man, nearer the
| front of the car, hurried to give his
hand to the troubled old man. Hurried
Z 10 give MN Il seat anu littl went tlOM II
the car to the next vacant place. Then
it was noticed for the first time that he
had yielded his own seat to the old
man.
The man who gave up his seat was
evidently a mechanic. His face and his
clothes had the CRIME of a mill upon
them. His entire suit probably cost
less than the rolled trousers of the
young man who laughed.
But the mechanic who wore them
was worth more than the young mar
who laughed at age and weakness viii
ever be.
And that is a pretty good average
Twenty people see age in distress, and
one laughs at it, while one helps. But
more would help if more were needed
And not more than one would laugh.
1t is a pretty good world, as you g,
along.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-10
THE SHEEP INSTINCT.

Over in Denver there is a writer who
deceives the Post into thinking his
COPY is average good stuff, and then he
turns in classics.
His latest is a thesis on the sheep
instinct in men and women who go to
the theatre. His remarks are directed
mainly at offenses on the vaudeville cir
cult He cannot understand why
auditors sit patiently through the
struggles of an incompetent workman
hoping to be accepted as an actor.
The Post man thinks the patron should
sass back at the bum actor, and then
leave the theatre.
Maybe that is what the patron should
do. But it isn't worth what it costs.
The ham actor would get a chance for
hand there which nothing down in
the bills could give him. Not many
men can talk back to an actor without
disturbing the peace. 1t is better. after
all. TO sit still and suffer.
But there are offenses which do call
for vengeance. A little while ago there
was a talking magician" al one Of the
salt Lake playhouses. He brought his
wares down into the audience. and
made the people who had paid to see
him help in his act. And his last &C
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-10
sELF-eETRAYAL.
(Nfirror.)


Mayor Guthrie at dinner in Pitts
burg, said of the grafters whom he had
exposed:
1T was not suca a difficult work to
catch them as some people think. Guilty
men, you see, always betray themselves
through their continual efforts 10 appear
innocent
Thus a professor from the Univ ersity
of Oxford at a banquet mere oae night,
drank several glasses of port. The pro-
fessor did not know this wines extraor-
binary strenC' h, and i'll all innocence re
took too much When he rose to leave
the table his legs, to his dismay, tottered
and the room seemed to sway slightly.
THE Mortified professor got to the par
Tor IN safety. He sat down in the most
distant corner. But soon his young host
ess leading a maid VINO carried her tvs }
beautiful twin babes. came to him for his
appreciation.
''The professor sat mp very erect. He
gazed at the twins CLASSIFY. Then he ar
ticulated carefully, in a hoarse, thick
voice:
What a bonnv little child "
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-10
HE HAD BEEN OVERLOOKED.

Which of you had known of the ex-
istence of John Stewart Kennedy?
No one seems to respond.
Yet when John Stewart Kennedy came
to die, the other day, he left twenty-five
million dollars to various religious,
educational and charitable institutions.
and his widow has twice as much more;
not to speak of a flock of little legacies
of from five to fifty thousand for var
ious admiring friends.
Kennedy was a Scotchman, and he
died of whooping cough The idea of a
multi-miIlionaire dying of such a dis
ease seems grotesque. He has been in
the United States since his fifteenth
year. and has been making money
steadily and noiseiessly all the time.
All the rest of the magnates have been
in the Iimelight, whether or not of their
own making. But this man calmly gets
up from the table of life, and folds the
drapery of his couch about him, and
goes to take his chamber in the silent
haIls-and then for the first time the
world observes that ne has nothing but
money.
Yet. from all accounts, he had good
deal besides. He had a quiet home, for
one thing: and there isn't divorce nor
the suggestion of q scandal in it. He
had been a member of the Presbyterian
church. but had made no noise about it.
No one ever read Of John Stewart Ken
nedv's pastor. Yet he leaves ten mill
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-10

commodating helper was rewarded with
a gross insult.
The best men in that line never so Of
Tended. Where they asked the CO.
operation of the audience, they very
carefully avoided giving the slightest
ofrense. They made friends, and kept
them. That was the manner of Herr
mann the Great.
There is the passe soubrette- who has
the spot light turned on some one in the
audience. and sings-or tries to sing
at that unlucky wight. If the victim is
a confederate. the device is dishonest.
If he is not, it is an outrage.
And vet the people stand for it.
Maybe it is fair to accuse them of being
enthralled by the sheep instinct. Sheep
are very patient. But it is to be hoped
that the time will come when the very
bad actor will get no place on the
stage: when the magician will earn his
own money without drafting patrons of
the house; and when the WORKOUT
soubrette will learn to make her living
honestly, even if she has to wash dishes
for it.