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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
THE INTERESTING MATINEE GIRL. Moods and lenses of the Fair Ones at
 the Play Perfectly Depicted.

If any one has the impression that our susceptible young ladies do not respond to the sentiments of the plays they wit ness, he should study the six life-like illustrations of the Matinee Girl at the Play shown on the new 1903 calendar sheets issued by the Armour Packing Company, Kansas City, Kas
 These beautiful portraitures are each a study from life, made by a celebrated artist who certainly possesses the ability to portray things as they really are.
 In drawing and color the artist Is true to life, and under the six titles, Grand Opera" Vaudeville" Society Drama, Comic Opera" Romantic Drama" and Tragedy the beautiful matinee girl reflects in her pose and facial expression just the impression that the scene before her conveys.
 This artistic calendar Is one that will be preserved for its pictures long after the year 1903 has passed into history. It is really one of the most pleasing of the seasons productions and every man and woman will want a set to preserve as soon as the eye rests upon 1t. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
Latest In BIackmail.

Paris has been the home of "black- guard arts and industries" ever since the days of Villon, and now, according to the Figaro, the subtle art of blackmaIl has been carried to a higher stage of refinement by the use of the carrier pigeon. Thus the inventor: Tt is very sim pie. When you have got hold of some one by the threat of sensational revela- tions, of awkward documents. or more simply, when you have stolen some deeds which you are ready ito restore for a fair consideration you are aiways pretty sure to get caught in going to the poste restante to get the reply with the cash. With my plan there are simply no risks. You send the bird in a basket to your client with a little note to this effect, If within twenty-four hours you do not set the pigeon at liberty after having fastened under it's wing ten 1000 frarc notes, you will catch it. {" This is pleas antly called le vol au vol. "Oh, that [ had wings of a dove.' will no longer be regarded as the sigh of innocence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
SAW THE CROWN PRINCESS.
A Western Mans Impression Of
 Louise Of Saxony.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 According to his story, Kansas City man sat in the same train compartment with the Crown Princess Louise Of Sax ony when she made her sensational elopement from Prince Frederick Au- Eustus a few weeks ago. otto Zlmmer of 171S East Ninth street says he was a fellow-passenger with the princess TOT a distance of 150 miles. The princess was accompanied by her brother, ArcnduKe Leopold. A few days later MT. Zimmer saw the same couple in Paris. he says, but caught no glimpse of Andre Glron' for love of whom Louise is supposed to have left the prince.
 MT. Zimmer returned last week frem a six-week tour of Germany ana trance. It was while on his way from Dresden to the south that he saw the princess and sat within a few feet of her.
 "I was in the smoking compartment of a dining car at the time,' said MT. Znn- mer. "The smoking compartment is just large enough to accommodate six tables. It was at Salzburg that woman Of about 32 or B wears entered In company with a man apparently a few years younger. The woman immediately attracted the attention of all the men present. for 1t is somewhat unusual for one of her sex to take a seat in the smoking section. l did not at first know that she was the crown princess, but her identity was dis closed to me shortly afterward by a travelling acquaintance. When l read afterward of her elopement, the idea that she and her companion had sought the smoking compartment in order to elude their pursuers occurred to me.
 "The princess did not appear to me to be pretty. She was richly gowned, but otherwise one would not have suspected her connection with royal family. She seemed to me to be under nervous ten sion which bordered on agony She stuu!cd cautiously the features of every trav- eler in the compartment, and when oth- CTS entered she gazed upon them trem- bling She evidently was in mortal fear of being detected and captured. Had she been caught, it is not improbable that the crown prince would have sent enced her to Imprisonment in a castle for ten years, or some other punish- ment equally severe. Her brother, too, was in a highly nervous state, but att tempted to conceal his fear and to pac.fy the woman who was with him.
 When I left the train in order to take a more direct route to Paris. the prin- cess and her brother were still in the compartment. I believe now that they went to Italy, and from some port there set sail for Paris, which would be much safer for her purpose than to go the en- tire distance by rail. A few days later, while I was walking on one of the boule- wards in Paris, l saw the princess and