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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
THE STEEL MARKET.
Orders for Material for War sup
plies Continue Heavy.

h steel market has entered the
month OF August under more encourag-
ing prospects than have existed in the
trade at any time since tho Improvement
started. Incoming orders for steel for
conversion into war material lave been
maintained at a high rate.
There are large Inquiries before tho
market at present for railroad equip
ment from abroad. II was stated yes
terday that agents representing the Rus
sian Government arrived in this country
10 purchase large supplies OF railroad
equipm, nj n ammunition.
Domestic demand for commercial steel
shows Indications OF b~etterInent. The
structural mills in some districts are
very busy and new orders are coming
in at a fair rate. A better demand from
the railroads has been predicted.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
GOSSIP OF A STREET.
Wall stre., "H,phenates."

wall street holds its "~hyphenates. as
IL terms them. in especial regard, point
ing them out as examples vt the triumph
OF teasun over mere patriotism. Inc
term "hyphenates" Is used TO ~esisnat
certain spectators Of German nation
alitv or origin who have been piunslns
wildly and successfully in the war
stock market by day. and by night con-
gregating in "hyphenated" quarters up
town to condemn thu export trade OF
this country IN munitions N wal ana
drink confusion to the kalser's enemies.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
C%OTrONSEED Oh.

Prices showed advance in cottonseed
oil, partly due TO the nervousness OF
shorts. The August delivery was quite
strong early and held a good premium
over the later months. while the offer
.ngs Of spot oil were comparatively
limited. Tenders continued small. In
the afternoon quite a strong upward
movement developed, largely on covering
of shorts. and The close was about the
highest of the day. The advance was
credited TO the anxiety of shorts owing
70 the small offerings and the ~unfavor-
able Government report on cotton.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
THE COPPER MARKET.
Holiday In London Causes Cu~~r'
tainty About Prices.

Owing 10 holidays abroad there was
no london market for mesals yesterday.
Without the influence ~ London Metal
Exchange quotations copper producers
we're hard put to determine tho price for
the metal.
According To persons just rsturned
from the ~connecticut Valley, the bras s
manufacturers Of that district have been
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
NEW CITY NOTES.
Coru Exchange Rank Promotions.

Frederick T Martin. cashier nr the
Corn Exchange Bank, has been pro-
noted 20 ne a v,ce-presldent and Ed
ward =, Malmar, who has been assis-
tant cashier. viii assume the duties OF
cashier.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
THE BALTIMORE MARKET.

BALTIMORE. Aug. e-Execution Of a
selling order in Houston Oi sent the
price of from 11is 10 10. Consolidated
Power was Arm. The summary
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03

'Psr value. $50. 'E1 divtdsnd,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03

Total sales to-day, 500 400 shares. Same day 1914 Exchange closed
Where n &c" follows n quotation II indicates a sd or orer FOR 70 shar-s
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
RAILWAY EQUIPMENT BONDS.

sex Il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
A StupendOus Undertaking

"The continued effort of the German war office to pierce the Russian frontier may mean that the Kaiser has undertaken one of the most stupendous tasks ever record ed in the history of warfare" said w. M. Russell. an observer of military af- fairs.
 With historical precedent showing the invasion of Russia practically an impos-
 sibility. military experts have been of the opinion that the German offensive against the Russians was more of the na-
 ture of effort to relieve the Slavish menace than a serious attempt to crush its eastern neighbor. It begins to look,
 however. as if Germany is manipulating to bring Russia to her knees and force her to effect if possible, a separate peace With Russia disposed of Germany might well be able to turn her full attention to the allies in the west. In other words. it appears that the Kaiser, realizing that
 the failure of his plans to crush France and then subdue Russia, had reversed his programme of war. The conquest of Rus sia would be by far the most difficult un- dertakng of the war, and its outcome will be watched by critics with intense inter- est"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
THE CHATHAM RABBIT

From the Charlotte (N. O Observer
 Editor Ike London or the Siler City Grit has made up his mind that the Chatham county rabbit shall be exploited at the state fair. to the end that the pub lie may come into a better appreciation of Chatham's proud asset. Drawing from some of the facts on shipments from Siler City alone, he shows that in five ye IS nearly 115,000 rabbits were shipped to outside markets, the best year having been 1912, when the shipments amounted to 26, 06O The Grit states as an indica ton of the value of the rabbit crop to the farm CT boys of Chatham that the rabbits net them 10 cents each. The Grit declares that Chatham is not ashamed of her rabbit crop. 1t being merely a side issue and a
 source of ready money. The Grit, itself uses the rabbit where newspapers in other parts of the country would use the rooster, and one of the flour mills of Chatham
 has a brand of patent fioIr called "The Rabbit" the sacks bearing the picture of
 a Molly cotton tail Notwithstanding the July rabbit hunt led by judge of the superior court. The Grit gives out the assurance that the rabbit crop this fall
 should exceed the number shipped last winter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
American Poles Rejoice

Although the stongest sympathies of American Poles lie with England and France, there was great rejoicing among them over the fall of Warsaw This they consider to be promise of future independence. The Russian government being autocratic and the German constitutional, the Poles be- lieve that the Kaiser will be forced to give them at least some degree of self government, which will be the opening wedge for later independence. This hope is encouraged by the fact that at the outbreak of the war Ger many permitted the consolidation of all Polish troops, numering more than fifty thousand, under a Polish com mander in chief. It is claimed that Grand Duke Nicholas had promised the same treatment to the Poles fight ing under the Russian flag, but gave them instead Russian commander. It is hoped that the Polish legions now fighting with the Austro- Germans may form the neucleus of a great Polish army which will win Poland's s ultimate freedom.
 The Poles present the curious at titude of favoring the allies on the west and the Teutons on the east. This is due, however, solely to the expecta- tion of material gain from the Ger mans, as opposed to the continued rule of Russia. While Germans cul- ture is admired by the Poles, they con- sider her brutal.
 The future of the Poles is one of the most interesting problems connected with the present war. A nation of tragedies, the victims of repeated spoliation and robbed of their former great power, they have never ceased to dream of being free again, holding to their dream through almost in- credible vicissitudes. Out of the war that has rent Europe in twain and ap- palled humanity by it's horror, it is predicted that great good will come Perhaps the long-deferred hopes of Poland will be realized. ...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
WHY IS FLAX CONTRABAND.

From New York Journai or Commerce.
 Is anything contraband of war because any belligerent power chooses to declare it to be so for purposes of its own? Ger many's excuse for sinking the American vessel Leelanaw is that it was carrying flax to the port of Belfast, it having made that article contraband few months ago. Belfast, as is well known, is thriving center of the linen indus try and the flax going there was raw material for the manufacture of linen fabrics. There Is no reason for sup posing that any other use was to be made of it and it is not clear what use could be made that would aid specially in warlike operations. We are not aware of any use of the linen made at Belfast or elsewhere that is serviceable for military purposes It may be useful or ornamental in dress uniforms but so may silk or pearl.
 Great Britain has pretty strong reason for making cotton contraband, but has thus far refrained out of respect for neu- tral rights and desire to maintain friendly relations to the United States. But cotton is largely used in making high explosives of particularly deadly character. There would be much more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
From the New York Times.

hSiAi ehC AsCo oi liIHeS.
 THE incorrigible Bryanites the pro-
 fessiona1 and amateur pacifists,
 ~ and the rest of the Alluded who blink the facts, hold that. in case of need, which they choose to believe inn probable, the long work of providing the United States with adequate inili. tary and naval defense can be done somehow. miraculously, in day, ap- parently by the sudden, spontaneous rising of "the people," untrained, un- armed. But among Americans of intel ligence and foresight there will be strong approval of President Wilson's determination to formulate and to rec ommend to Congress a programme for the enlargement and increase of the army and navy. After the reports and estimates. soon to appear. of the Sec retary of War and the Secretary of the Navy have been thoroughly pondered. MT. Wilson means to confer, on his re- turn to Washington, with the chairmen of the military and naval committees of the Senate and House. He will seek and his power of temperate, convincing statement and triumphant suasion are famous-the hearty cooperation of these chairmen and committees. When Congress meets the plan will be ready and, as the session goes on, hewill strive to overcome the opposition, whether springing from honest misapprehension in his party in Congress or from misin- formation tinged, it may be, with soureG ambition and personal malice outside lected, unacceptable instant duty.
 It Is unfortunate that MT. Hay, chair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
County Not to be Divided

Jefferson county will remain I'm perial Jefferson"-a any rate during the life of the present legislature.
 This was certainly no time for a revival of the old agitation. There are too many important measures pending which affect this district for the leg islature to consider seriously any proposition for splitting the county.
 Senator Judge knew whereof he spoke when he gave assurance Satur- day that there was not the remotest chance for the passage of either of the bills on the house calendar seek ing a change in Jefferson's boundary lines. Yet the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was right in taking nothing for granted when it met re- gently to protest against any new county legislation.
 In the preamble to the resolution adopted by the chamber it was stated that there was reason to believe the overwhelming sentiment of the citi- zens of the county was opposed to "a subdivision of Jefferson into several parts," and that statement was in nowise exaggerated. And it is grati- flying to learn that the same view ob- tains at the capitol.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
AN AUSTRALIAN EVENT

From the Concord Monitor. Despite the drain upon it's resources of
 men and wealth. war has not stopped the progress of the world grinding British em- pire.
 What is hailed as inaugurating new
 and important era in the industrial devel- opment of the Australian commonwealth was the laying at Blanchtown on the 1 River Murray, June 5, of the foundation stone of the first lock of a great system of l locks and wers, which will harness this great waterway to the better use of the l Australian people. The system together with the water storages at Lake Victoria
 and Cumberoona, will provide for irriga- tion on a huge scale as well as the use of the Murray waterway for trade and commerce.
 What the Nile is to Egypt, and the Mis- sssippi is to the United States the Murray
 is to Australia. The Murray river system is one of the longest navigable ones in
 the world, at times for more than 5000
 miles.
 When carried to completion, the project will open up about 100000 acres of cul- tivation. and it is estimated will bring in to 750,0oO persons.
 The cost will be about s21, ,000 900. Some l idea of the extent of the scheme may be gathered from the fact that in South Aus tralia. the Lake Victoria reservoir can be
 made to store 22.OO0, GOO cubic feet of water
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
Remember Good Roads Days

Monday and Tuesday of next week are days set apart by Governor Hen derson's proclamation as Good Roads Day-days when the men of Alabama are asked to contribute by their brawn to the improvement of the country highways. The crops are laid by and every farmer can we'll afford to spend the two days designated in working on the roads.
 Although much progress is being made in building modern highways highways of hard bed-that are as good in winter as in summer, it will be many years yet before the old dirt road disappears entirely. And it is the dirt road that should receive especial attention in the coming week.
 With comparatively little. toll rough places can be made smooth, small culverts that are clogged up can be cleaned out and side ditches in bad condition can be repaired.
 AS result of the work that will be performed Monday and Tuesday every dirt road in the state should be in such good shape as to be comfort ably travelled at least until the miry season sets in.
 Let no one able bodied man for get his duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
Melons Plentiful

"The consumption of melons in Bir- mingham this season has become un- usually large" remarked J. D. Heflin,
 but the supplies available, 1 believe, are more than adequate to meet the demand.
 "The southern and central portions Of the state have produced abundant crops of both cantaloupes and water melons which have been placed on the local market in great volume. Big shipments have also been made to northern and eastern markets. Canta- loupes, it is true, are being grown right here in Jefferson county in suf- iicient quantities to supply the local demand at the present time, but the supply will be exhausted within a month or so, and then the melons will be shipped here from elsewhere But at the present time all kinds of home raised melons are exceedingly abun- dant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
THE NATIONAL DEFENSE

man of the House committee on mill tary affairs, is, or lately was, aversd to a sufficient increase of the army It Is unfortunate that MT. Kitchen, o MT. Daniels North Carolina, the proba ble successor of MT. Underwood a. chairman of the House committee or' ways and means and leader of the mal jority, is or lately was, averse to [ liberal policy of battleship construc tion. It is unfortunate that too many members of Congress would rather at Boggs' Four Corners or the improves ment of the navigation" of Tadpole creek than vote for an imperious nal tional necessity. It is not wholly unfor. tunate, it may turn out to be fortunate e that the dethroned and discredited BrS an, saturated with pretty, eirenic senti9 ments. and burning with mischief, VII utter the several million words that airse in him in opposition once more to vital interest of his country.
 It would be fruitless to reason witf the master of unreason. Men like MT Kitchen and MT. Hay, however and ali the moderate and sesible men, will presumably listen to reason Public opinion will speak. Politicians will obey.
 It is for the republicans in Con gress loyalty to hold up MT. Wilson $ hands, If his policy of national de- fense be equal to expectation, to try to better it, if betterment it needs, to deal with this momentous national non partisan question patriotically, na- tionally. as Americans and not as re- publicans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
First Visit Since 1900

Birmingham has made remarkable strides since I was last here in i9O0' said Henry l.. Brumley of Chicago. This dis trict was starting on a great forward movement. but Birmingham as I recall it was still without modern office buildings and it had little of the metropolitan ap- pearance. Now I find here a real city. It's residence sections are especially attrac- tive. In fact, this is city of beautiful homes and beautiful bouevards And the business center is handsomely built up.
 "A new tide of prosperity is setting in and Birmingham will probably grow faster between now and the next census than in any period of five years in it's history"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
NOBODY WANTS CONCREss

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Nobody wants Congress just now. The
 international situation could not be re-
 ieved of its tension by the presence of representatives and senators, for they would be much more likely to complicate our foreign relations than to assist the President in his delicate business of avoiding trouble abroad. Nor would dor nestle affairs be helped if Congress should assemble The country has had much experience with it in the last six or seven years, having seen 1t sit more than half the time since 1908, and it has been more of a harmful. than a helpful influence.
 Business has hard enough job to raise itself up without having the additional burden of Congress on it's back. Tn theory it is very pretty to talk about the value of the peoples counsel in their govern ment's difficulties. but hard experience has taught the country that the talk is
 mainly theory. In practice Congress is bore at it's best and a mighty serious
 menace when it is doing anything to at- | tract attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09

Justification in making cotton contra band than flax, though it would inter- fere more seriously with neutral trade. If contraband is to be made by a mere declaration of one belligerent, then any thing may be contraband that would be of any use in an enemy country, how ever harmless that use.
 Great Britain is trying to prevent trade with Germany by a blockade, which is one of the recognized methods of warfare, hut Germany is not blockading British ports It is trying to prevent trade with them by destroying any merchant vessels that approach them. If the vessels are neutral the only excuse necessary Is that they are carrying eontrabacd. If any thing can be made contraband by calling it so. all protection of neutral vessels seeking to trade with enemy ports can be taken away without a blockade. This is one more evidence that international law and established principles count for little when the real occasion comes for applying them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09

tion in quality means danger to workmen. and (of equal importance) inferior guncot-
 ton. Black gunpowder has a driving value
 considerably smaller than that of gunco.-.
 ton, and would place the enemy at too
 great a disadvantage by shortness of,
 range and the volume of smoke given
 out at each shot. In addition to this the
 modern rifle and gun are nothing less
 than scientific instruments, and are, like
 the explosives factory, the result of years
 of careful experiment and trial. Con-.
 sequently they also require regularity of
 treatment.
 As to the collection and use of S, ts
 and general wearing apparel it would have' a disastrous effect. Wool Is now plao ed on the contraband list, and soldiers must| wea, something. There will soon come al time when all the uniforms will be madel largely of cotton. No less than 100000 tonsl of cotton are required to clothe 10,000 900
 men with one outfit each, and in Germany
 and Austria there are over 10oOOo,OoO peo- pie who also need clothing
 It has been suggested that the Germans
 might use wood pulp. But in view of what is stated above, and the impurities present. in wood, a consignment of trees to an explosives factory would be equivalent toI a successful bombing by aircraft. Although late. it is within our power eventually to starve the German guns.
 Cotton cannot be grown in Germany and
 she is therefore at our mercy in this re. spect.
 T.ynr tI,o 1,- 1n freely going in. and has had the effect of prolonging the war. It has given the
 enemy the means to force the Russians back and hold us off German soil, and 10 carry out what we are now anxious to do-that is, to save mems lives by spending shells. Shortly there will be
 new crop ready for shipment.
 Now. let us make it quite plain. by de- claring cotton contraband, that nothing is to go to our enemies, and stop those
 enormous imports going by neutral ships to neutral ports. and thus make the block
 ade more of blockade<than it is at pres-
 ent Should America take exception to the matter, then letius purchase the nor-
 mai annual imports of Germany and Aus tria. The sum involved is less than ESQ., 100000, no more than the cost of the war for one week. By declaring cotton abso- luts contraband we shall stop that prodig- ious expenditure of ammunition by tho
 enemy to the detriment of the allies. As
 mattero stand at present, the government
 has put interests other than those of the empire before the lives of our men, and every man killed or wounded is the victim Of imported cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-09
WHAT ARE WE HERE FORT
From the Pittsburg Gazette.

From the Pittsburg Gazette.
 Probably no sane student will pretend that we are placed in this world by mere chance. And if we are not here by chance we are here by design. And if we are here by design we are here for a purpose. And if we are here for purpose the rational presumption is that that purpose is for good and not for evil. There is wide diver sity of opinion as to the right or wrong of certain things, but there is no substan- tial disagreement as to what is elemental ly good and what is fundamentally bad.
 We learn what they are as we attain the age of discretion and the ability to dis crimnate. The civilization of today-our very environment-teaches us as our years advance. So while we may not be able to determine in all respects what we are here for there are precious few of us so mentally deficient or morally blind but that we know we are not here to work evil We may be certain that the contrary is the case.
 If, then. it is evident that we are here for wholesome purpose, what form shah our interpretation of that purpose take? What shall our response be? This pur- pose must not be narrowly construed. That would be simply to adopt the pro- gramme "eat, drink and be merry as the rule of life It would be assuming that man lives to himself alone, whereas any of us who have lived long enough to learn know this to be impossible. We are here for something higher, broader and better than that. We have duties that are im- perative. We have responsibilities in- volving others, evasion of which means the injury of ourselves or somebody else. We have obligations to society, to the community. the state and the nation. We have an influence some other life or lives. Is our walk and conversation what 1t ought to be? If not, we are not
 living up to what we are here for. We are here also to do our share toward hu- man progress toward growth and ad- vancement along every legitimate line, in some fashion to live that when the end comes it shall not be to the relief of our household and acquaintances, but to their genuine regret