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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
RAILROAD OWNERS.
Stockholders Arc Many In the United
 States.
Dr. Charles M. Harvey in Leslie's Weekly.

Dr. Charles M. Harvey in Leslie's
 Weekly.
 Sweeping generalizations and deduc- tions collapse when put to the tests of facts. The railroads of the United States are not entirely owned by the Harri- mans, vanderbilts, Morgans, Hils Goulds, and the other magnates with which their names are popularly asso- ciated. Approximately. the Pennsyl- vania road at this moment has 60.0OO stockholders. the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe has 25.000. and the New York Central has 23000. The roads are owned by the 100000 or more persons who hold their stocks and bonds, who are scat tered all over the country, and who com prise all sorts and conditions of men and women. So 1t is with the steel trust, or, to give 1t its official name, the United States Steel Corporation. Gary. Perkins, Prick, and others are among its officials. but the 100000 persons residing in every state and territory, who own that com bination's stocks and bonds, have a voice in the appointment of those officials and are decidedly interested in the com pany's fortunes. The Standard OH has over 1000 owners or partners-whatever you may call it's stockholders.
 It Is the same in the case of the mines, steamboats, street-car systems and the rest of tho great interests of the coun- try. Each of these activities stands for a sum of money which bulks large in the aggregate. When divided among their hundreds, their thousands, or their hundreds of thousands of shareholders, the sums which they represent to their individual owners are seen in most cases quite moderate. Some of the persons hold 6 large number of shares-larger than dozens or hundreds of others in the aggregate-but the great bulk of them are very far from being plutoorats. Moreover, the bonds of all these interests are also distributed among a large num- Der of persons. Many thousands of owners of stocks and bonds arc women.
 Many millions of dollars of bonds and stocks are held in trust for women and children. The number 50 held, and tho number held in small sums by fndivid- uals, are constantly and rapidly increas- ing. This is especially true at the pres ent>time. Speculation Is relatively dull. The operations on the great exchanges are small compared with those of recent times. This shows that far larger number of the stocks have been bought outright and are held as investments than was the case in any previous time. More than a third of the 10000 persons who hold stocks of the United States Steel Corporation are employees of the many scores of mills and mines which arc represented in that combination. In the approximately 1000 national banks. with a capital of s1,ooo, 1000. there are about 100000 stockholders, a fourth of whom are women. Yet according to the popular view, the national banks are owned by their officers and directors
 The 100000 stockholders of the var ious corporations of the United States were only about 100000 ten years ago They are likely to be 4,oc0000 ten years hence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
From the New York Telegraph.

From the New York Telegraph.
 Broadway sporting men were pretty generally agreed yesterday in discussing the case of one Martin Bell, who is now in the bankruptcy courts that if as set forth he lost s100,O00 in one nights play at faro bank he comes very near holding the recent record. Big faro games in the east are like Holsters in Ireland, there aren't any more. But there have been plays that top MT. Bells and the big amounts in most cases went to tho house.
 "I saw Phil Dwyer," said an old Broad way card faneier last night. make the biggest losing in given time that I ever heard Of It was up in Saratoga when Canfelds palace was in it's hey dey.
 Dwyer, with big roll, sat down to play
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Court News.

At the police court this morning. pre- sided over by Mayor D. F. Sugg, a num- Der of cases were disposed of. James Thompson, a white man, who operates 8 soft drink establishment at Wylam, was fined $50 on charge of violating the pro- hibition law The case against Pat Buch- field, charged with the same offense, was continued until Monday morning. He is charged with acting as agent for liquor house, which he denies. It Is stated the ruling of Judge Thomas G. Jones of the federal court in reference to shipments from another state will be invoked
 At the inferior court Col. w. W. Short ridge waived examination on two charges against him. assault with a weapon and carrying concealed weapons. Judge c. G. Camp fixed the bond at $20O and $500. respectively. The bond in both cases was promptly made. The cases will be tried in the criminal court next fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
BIG STAKES AT FARO

at in the evening. He said he felt lucky and wanted no limit. The roof forthwith was made the schedule. Dwyer began in moderate way and he lost. Then he doubled and later doubled again as his losses Increased. It was precisely at Il o'clock that he got up a loser for just s110,000.
 He merely remarked that 1t wasn't his night and walked out" a director of the Saratoga track said.
 Reginald Vanderbilts reputed losses, which came out about the time of the drunken kd' incident in the Garfield trial, ran into the hundreds of thousands, but large proportion of the play was at the wheel. In this connection the play of John Sanford in Canfeld's place is worth remark Sanford played the wheel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Special Church Notices,

Dr. J. W. Stagg. president of the Ala bama Synodical college at Anniston will occupy the pulpit at the first Presby- terian church at the Il o'clock service Sunday morning. The pastor, the Rev. H. c. Kegley. will preach at the First Presbyterian church, Birmingham, having been invited by the committee on new pastor for that church. There will be no morning service at the Baptist church owing to the absence of the pastor, the Rev. o. P. Bentley. who is conducting a revival at Dothan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Meanest Man on Earth.

From Everybody's Magazine.
 Crate barber to customer as he seats him, in chair)-"You see that guy going out the door7"
 (Customer)-''Yes. What of it?"
 (Barber)-"He's the meanest man on earth.''
 (Customer)-''What has he done?"
 (Barber)-"Why, the scoundrel sat in my chair for half an hour and never told me he was deaf''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
"ls Pants Art7"

From Everybodys Magazine.
 Of course, there is dispute of some years standing as to what Art really is. For e long time was joyously entertain- ed by sign a few blocks from where I live. It read Paragon Pants Are Art. !" Recently it disappeared, because, as I have been told, there was dispute among the partners, some of whom main tained 1t should read Paragon Pants Is Art! There was no difference of opin- ion, however as to the main issue.
 l fancy there would be as much diff fculty In convincing the cultivated pub- He that newspaper has not the right to review play on it's merits as there would be in persuadlng 1t of the art value of pants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Church 9erYlcea.

First Methodist church, Avenue c and Twentieth street, the Rev. B. B. Glasgow pastor-Morning services at Il o'clock. Evening services at 7:45 o'clock. Sunday school at 7:B o'clock. g. m.
 First Baptist church, Avenue G and Eighteenth street. the Rev. O. P. Bentley pastop-Morntng service at Il o'clock. Evening service at 7:45 o'clock. Sunday school at S:45 o'clock, a. m.
 First Presbyterian church. Avenue c and Nineteenth street, the Rev. H. c. Kegley pastor-Morning service at Il o'clock. Evening service at 7:S o'clock. Sunday school at 7:45 o'clock. a. m.
 First Christian church, Avenue F and Twenty-first street, the Rev. P. H. Dun- can pastor-Morning service at Ii o'clock. Evening service at 7:45 o'clock. Sunday school at 8:6 o'clock, a. m.
 Cumberland Presbyterian church, Ave nue I and Eighteenth street, the Rev. L. A. Reagor pastor-Morning service at Il o'clock. Evening service at 7:4 o'clock. Sunday school at 8:45 o'clock, a. m.
 St. Anthony's church (Catholic), Avenue H and Twenty-flrst street. tho Rev. F. Doyle rector, tho Rev. Paul Klitch as- sistant-First mass 8:SO o'clock, a. m. i; second mass, 10:s0 o'clock, a. m. Sunday school 3:30 o'clock. p. m.
 St. Johns church (EpiscopaD, Avenue E and Sixteenth street-Morning service at Il o'clock. No evening service. Sum- day school at S:45 o'clock. H. w. Wallace superintendent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
NJ, 1 FURNACE IS AGAIN LIGHTED UP Two More Open Hearths to Be
 Operated TO FIGHT ANNEXATION Ensley Commercial Club Will Get in Touch With Loglslators-Joy
 Riders Arrested-Personal
 and General News.
TO FIGHT ANNEXATION

Ensley. July 1o-(Special)-No. 1 fur nace of the Ensley blast furnace plant was put in operation today and in few days will be making iron. This is the best indication of returning prosperity as with the starting of the blast furnaces the continued operations of the steel mill is assured. In addition to this 1t Is officially given out that another furnace will be put in blast at an early date.
 No. 8 furnace has just been completed and is ready for operation. This fur mace has been rebuilt and equipped with all the latest modern devices and Is the most up-to-date furnace in the south In fact 1t Is stated by experts that no more modern furnace exists in the coun- try. It is also announced that owing to additional orders for steel rails two more open-hearth furnaces will be put in opera ton. The resumption of the furnaces is very gratifying to the citizens of Ensley and strongly indicate that the plants will soon be running at their iuil capacity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
EnSIey Department


Connellsville Pa, where he has been on & ten days visit to his old home
 Mrs. ". P Rasco and son, Arnold, are visiting relatives in South Alabama.
 J. H. Sheldon Is able to be at work after several days severe Illness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Joy Ridera Arrested.

This afternoon about 6o'clock while five young white men. who hailed from Bir- mingham, were having a ''joy ride" in a large automobile around the streets of Ensley they fell into the clutches of the law and landed in the city jail. where a charge of disorderly conduct was dock- eted against them. The young men were having high old time and showing evil dences of having freely partaken of .'con- versational water" They all made bond and will be given hearing before Mayor Sugg on Monday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
DIVIDEND NOTICE

Savings depositors are re- quested to leave their pass books. that semi-annual in- terest may be credited therein.
 BANK OF ENSLEY
 Ramsay & Mccormack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Personal and General.

Mrs. Thomas R. Walker left this morn ing for Chicago, where she will take Q two weeks course in music at the new School of Methods. Gaa
 Master Harold and Charles R. Walker left this morning on a visit to th6ir grandfather at Meridian Miss.
 MT. w. c. Ovsrstreet\ as been called to Huckabes. where his wife who is visit ing relatives is seriously i'll with typhoid fever.
 Miss Maggie Warner of Hayneville and Misses Jamie. May and Maggie Thomas of Letohatchie are visiting friends and rel atives in Ensley.
 J. w. Minor med lest night from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
To FIoht Arbitrary Annexation.

The commercial club of Ensley, through Its president. J. M. Perkins has pre- pared a circular letter to be sent to the different senators and representatives throughout the state protesting against the proposed arbitrary annexation of Ems lev under the terms of the King Greater Birmingham bill The facts are plainly set forth including the result of the re- cent election regarding this issue. strong committee has the matter In charge and an earnest and active cam- paign has commenced to preserve the in- tegrity of Ensley as an independent muni- cipality.
 The letter contains many interesting statistics and shows the individuality of the steel city of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Harblson-WaIker Plant.

Work is being rushed on the Harbison- Walker Refractories plant near Vivian and the big plant is rapidly nearing com pletion. Few people have any idea of the extent of this plant or the nature of the product that will be manufactured. The company will manufacture all kinds of fire brick, tiles and other materials used for the inside of furnaces.
 They will employ large force of skilled workmen when in operation. which will add to the material prosperity of Ems ley. The Southern Iron and Steel com pany is getting ready to put the rod and wire mill in operation. having a force of workmen engaged in cleaning up the mill.
Evening star., 1909-09-05
On the Trail of the Ta11apoosas
By Nelson Lloyd
Drawings by Arthur William Brown

TT was simply by accident that the Tallapoosas
honored Six Stars with visit. Colonel Candy,
- the celebrated scout made that clear in his lee
ture Indian life and medicine. To Willie Calker
it than accident. He guiding
hand somewhere, beyond above the valley; for he
always had felt himself destined to become famous
Of course, the boy had never heard of that noted
frontiersman until he had driven into the village
the head of the tribe; but that not to be
dered at, for at best Black Log out of the way
valley and much that happens in the world is missed
by the county paper. As the Colonel not SO
modest as he was brave Willie not left long in
ignorance. Then there was Chief Red Cloud to bear
out the glories of his employer and the thin little
who took the tickets offered further assurance
that not only was Candy man known and feared on
the plains, but the Tallapoosas were the most
like of nations.
TT was not strange that Willie should see guiding
hand and welcome the tribe with open arms that
evening when they drove into the village unhitched
their two canvas covered wagons in the meadow by
the mill and pitched their tent Shy and wondering
at first he hovered for long time the opening in
the fence through which they had entered their
camping ground; but they spied him and graciousy
invited him in. They let him drive tent pegs. One
Evening star., 1909-09-05

description. He not regular Indian. Better
still, he had been stolen child and adopted by
the Talapoosas. According to legends in the tribe
his father had been tomahawked, and his mother
and several other little ones had perished at the
stake; but he had been saved by the daughter of
a Chief Jim had no idea just who he was He
hoped to know some day. He felt it in him that he
himself
Here he whispered his secret to Willie He had
curious mark on his back which he believed would
lead him to place and fortune. He would show it
when Red Cloud was not looking Willie could not
see that the Chief watching at that particular
moment; but Jim explained that either the Indian
or his squaw always had eye on him lest he should
away. Colonel Candy and the ticket had
crawed under the canvas and were getting the pole
up, and then burst of shouts brought Red Cloud
and his wife hurrying to the spot to he with the
guy ropes, SO there was no opportunity to see the
mysterious mark to hear further of Jms story
into it in his lecture next day with great orna-
mentation.
OTHERS came from the village to the tribe;
- but somehow the of the arrival had not
spread abroad until after the tent up. Willies
work with the pegs had placed him in peculiarly in
innate relations with the visitors Colonel Candy
himself recognized this. He expressed appreciation
by giving the boy adults dose of the Talapoosa
Indian Vegetable Miracle in payment for his work.
and later in the evening publicly acknowledged the
debt by letting the lad stand at his side by the fire
while he related a few of his adventures to Martin
Holmes and little group OF worthless from the store
That was great day in Willie Calker's life. STILL
it is doubtful if he would have thought of making
closer the relations then existing between himself
Evening star., 1909-09-05

interrupted this flow of thought with the injunction
Don't forget to feed Tiger and mind the one eyed
Writing wearied him He sat down the bed
to think of something else that needed saying; he
lay back on the bed that he might think it better.
He out the plains crouchng behind a rock
selling his life dearly to Tallapoosa band; he
leading Candy and his scouts against herd of
buffalo He was in Six Stars, the sunlight flooding
kitchen.
THERE must have been in Willie Calker's inmost
soul feeling OF doubt He told himself again and
again that his decision to join the tribe finally
made but back of it all there reservation
The note was safe in his pocket. But doubt disap-
peared when Colonel Candy lectured That tie
boy stirred by the scout was wonder. All
Six Stars gathered there in the tent, nearly
hundred, with the pilgrims from Buzzards Glory and
Popolomus, and the unanimous verdict that tie
speaker most interesting. A dance by
Red Cloud and Laughing Waters, with their six
ragged children all in paint and feathers, had first
given the people glimpse OF real Indian ways.
Then the Colonel was eloquent. When he had told
them of the customs of the Tallapoosas of few of
his own adventures on the plains, and his daring
deeds, he introduced Jim, who stood at his side
bowing spasmodicay. He described the capture
of the settlers train by Red Cloud and his warriors
the burning of the pale faces at the stake, and the
And now that baby had grown into one of the most
daring scouts on the whole frontier!
The Colonel having stepped aside, Jim retired
for moment, and then cautiously back into
the tent circulating several times in front of the
spectators, lis rifle ready for instant use, and
hand to his He seemed to conclude that it was
safe, for after building small campfire he lay down
for the night. Hardly could he have been asleep
when there fell upon him Red Cloud and his family
reinforced by the ticket man, who had abandoned
his post to don the paint and feathers of the
Tal1apoosas. They overpowered the scout, bound
him to the central pole of the tent, and with much
whoopng and shouting, stood off and slot blank
cartridges at him till he expired.
Candy let canvas cover fall about him from the
top of the tent, that he could disengage himself
in secuson without destroying the illusion created
among the spectators by this scene from frontier
Evening star., 1909-09-05

into the darkness at countless threatening Indians
He did not dare to click the trigger, lest he
his mother in the next room; but every time he
pressed his finger to the guard imaginary bullet
found its way to the heart of an imaginary redskn
How splendid it would be to wear buckskin breeches
with kind of fringy feather things ornamenting
them, to wide sombrero like Colonel Candy
and to have belt sagging from his waist, with his
revolver ever ready at his handl
Ut course, the medical side of Indian life did not
appeal to Willie That eliminated from his
picture. He was for the prairie The Ta1lapoosas
were now making for the plains; their leader had
told him They had been working among the
great towns the Susquehanna, educating the
people in the life of the frontier, and spreading
among them the blessings of the Vegetable Miracle
That they had visited small village Six Stars
was the merest chance. 1t resting place on
They going to work up that river to its source
thence over the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh. Beyond
that the wild!
Willie began to sketch out his future in his mind
AS starting point, he wrote to his mother farewell
note on bit OF wrapping paper just to see how it
would look. When he had finished he felt that it
SO fine it would be pity not to send it. To
part from her hard, he wrote but he felt it time
for him to get out into the world and do something
Not till it came to leaving did he know how much he
thought of her. But it best! Willie liked that
phrase. He had read it somewhere, to be sure: but
it fitted here we'll that he printed to give it
phasis that his mother could understand. But it
was best He not going forever In two years
he would come back and claim her and take her to
his ranch in Arizona, and perhaps if she liked it
he could let her have trip to Philadelphia Pros
poets like these must soothe the pang of parting. He
Evening star., 1909-09-05

peg led to a dozen
others and to the
bosom of the In
dian family; SO he
soon found HIM
self working as he
would have spurn-
ed to work when at
home.
Home work was
prosaic. Here was
real romance! This
was adventure!
Red Cloud and his
squaw Laughing
Waters, sitting
smoking in the
shade of one of
the wagons, with a
troop of tattered
brown youngsters
frolicking about
them, were not all
that he had hoped
for; but they were
of the wild. Then
there was Jim.
What the others
lacked in the way
of feathers and
war paint, Jim
compensated for
with his gift of
Evening star., 1909-09-05

and the Tallapoosas. Pney Kallaberger first
brought the idea to his mind. Piney always the
imp of his darkness. AS he stood at the Colonel's
side, listening to the stories of life the plains
Willie the little fellow huddling under the pro-
tecting arm of Moses Pole. He pretended not to
notice so unimportant person. However much
Pney impressed by the others grandeur, he had
fear of him. for little later Willie strutted
home to bed young Kallaberger ran at him from the
shadow of the mill.
Are you goin' to join 'em regular?" the imp
whispered.
Willie should have ordered Pney away In his
inmost heart he felt it, but his tongue his ruin
"They have asted me-" he said.
Evening star., 1909-09-05

MS was a pure notion porn OF success
and pride. Such a subject had not been
broached by either Colonel Candy or Jim
or the little man who took the tickets, and
he suspected that Red Cloud and his
family had no authority to speak. In an
instant he regretted the words, He saw
their import. They committed him to
break all home ties and strike for the
prairie and real life! 1t was not the
opinion of Piney Kallaberger or Irving
Killowill or any of those little boys of
Six Stars that he cared for; but what
would the fellows up at Buzzards Glory
lads of his own age, say when they heard
that he had been asked and had not gone? !?
There was only one answer: He was
afraid!
Il wish they'd asted mel" Piney
whispered
Willie kicked at him, and he disappeared
into the darkness.
THE boy could not sleep that night.
I For hours and hours, it seemed, he lay
there on his bed thinking it all over, and
then he crawled forth and lighted his can
die. From bureau drawer he took his
revolver, fondling it. How brightly it
cleaned in the light! What a pity SO
beautiful a weapon could not be conse-
Grated to some better service than shoot
ing at a mark or rabbits! He aimed it
The Marshall republican., 1909-10-15
NELSON

We have learned that the vacant
lots between j. d. Moulton's hard
ware and L. NJ. Haynie's drug store
on Main street will be filled with
three modern business structures,
Mr.. Haynio contemplates building
a two story structure with the up
per story finished off for a hall.
DR.. Shucks office building and the
home of the new bank will finish
filling the vacant space, the latter
two it is said will DO OF one story
in height.---The home OF John
Cullen near Ridge Prairie caught
fire Monday morning about
O'Clock by a defective chimney and
burned 10 the ground. The family
saved most OF the furniture in the