The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-13

i York theatrical managers are sending to Milwaukee for the purpose of recruiting their beauty brigades." It is not stated whether the young lady who adorns the pages of our magazines as an advertise ment for sehlitz. is the style wanted, but no doubt the crafty managers would not be adverse to signing a corps of these fafry-like maidens. It Is interesting to note the movement toward the fresher and more vigorous life of the central west and northwest which Is now being made in search of handsome young women for the stage. Nothing Is so pleasing as novelty and if a bevy of Milwaukee damsels are really exported to eastern markets they will make hit among the ehollies.
 
 Princess Ariimahinihini Pomare. a daughter of the late King Pomare of Tahiti. has arrived in this country. Am eriean people are always glad to welcome deserving visitors, whether they be royal or not, but the young lady from Tagiti will have trouble in receiving her mail regularly and in addition will furnish agonizing moments to the proofreadera and typos of the land in which she is now sojourning.
 The cumulative Frenchman has been outdone in Havana. A lawyer and a revolutionary general recently fought a duel in that city with pistols, but the car tridges were loaded with wax bullets and no harm was done to either side It is reported that the trouble was caused by ha aII of inc ot,t- fv. the island of Cuba. Modern duels at best are hardly more than farces and when such weapons are used as these fighters employed the> affair is ludicrous. The bloody pistol duels of the early days in the west were meant for business and there were no prelminaries. A modern shooting affray is something to be avoid- ed but a modern duel is very harmless excitement
 If Madame Therese Humbert has not yet been the heroine of a story she de- serves place in fiction. which will no doubt soon be accorded to her by writers win lurid imaginations. All the world knows that the woman worked colos- sal swlndle and yet people cannot but admire the coolness, the resourcefulness, and the splendid daring which she has displayed. The account of the Humbert reign in Paris Is more entertaining now than a great many stories that are print cd every day. It takes a woman to win heavy stakes without betting any money and Madame Humbert has demonstrated her ability in this kind of game, for a time at least. The woman adventurer of our novels with her crimson garments. huge black plumes in her hat, and won- derful voice, who dazzles the habitues of the green cloth, pales into insignih- canoe by the side of Madame Humbert.
 A dispatch from. Hamilton, Bermuda, states that the camp of irreconcilable Boers on Hawkins island has been broken up and the prisoners turned loose to subsist for themselves. Seventeen of them were landed at Hamilton. They are men of good physique and 1t is feared that they will become troublesome. The spark of patriotism still burns in the hearts of these sturdy men but they present a pitiable contract when arrayed against England. Seventeen men against an empire! The Boers made a sturdy fight and one that they may well be proud of but it is folly for them to con tinue open hostility toward England. The hopes of the Boers will never be con- quered but most of them have accepted as conclusive their struggle against stronger power.