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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
At tho Jefferson.


 ..The Storks," comparatiyely unknown musical comedy in Birmingham, played to two large audiences yesterday at the Jefferson theatre. From the beginning to the end there is a running fire of jokes, funny lines and clever eomeS k by no less than seven cor all of whom were good in their .rts. The pro- duction is stronger in comedy than music, although "Tootsle Wootsie,p ''Flirtie Little Gertie' and That Was the Last That I remember have rather catchy airs.
 Many musical comedies and straight comedies claim a laugh every minutes, but The Storks'' comes nearer to doing this than any other. There are no very big laughs produced during the perform ance. perhaps, but they are frequent and of the variety over which the audience will still chuckle after leaving the the atre.
 Gus Weinburg has the leading comedy role of the play, that of the Bungloo, but he Is hardly as clever as Gilbert Greg ory, as Slingnuff the court shoemaker. Weinburg has peculiar mar ferisms. and it requires some time to catch on" to his way of doing things After that he inn proves in one's estimation considerably. He fails completely to get the real mean ing of All Right" which Is the key word to most of his comedy.
 George Mckay has peculiar part even for eccentric comedy in Fizzlewitz, the royal depository of hard luck stories. He Is good.
 Many women have come to Birmingham this season heralded as beautiful and much has been written about them, but not one, it may be said, has been so per feet in face and form as Miss Alma You lin. Every feature of her face is per- feet, and she would make an ideal model for even the greatest of sculptors. In the song Rosebud Queen" she vas dag zling under the bright spotlight Not only Is she pretty, but she Is also possessed of rich voice, clear and full of sweet ness.
 Not so pretty, but still a pretty and, clever little actress sis Miss Olga Won Hatzfeldt, who plays the part of Violet. She has good voice, and is very gracefu! in her dancing.
 Miss Dorothy Choate. as Peggy. the In- quisitive daughter, has a very good part for comedy acting, and she does most of it well, but some of 1t is overdone. She l has looks and size for slch a part. l The chorus contains some good looking women. and some shapely ones. but they were hardly dressed as handsomely. or with as much taste as could be expected | in a company of this size. | There are several telling ballads in the play. Sweet Penelope" Sad is the | Whippoorwill," and Song of the Night'' are among the prettiest. The latter Is we'll rendered by Thomas Cameron, who has a | splendid voice. but no ability as an &C., tor for the light role he essays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
DROP IN COTTON
 IS SENSATIONAL Rumors Cause Trouble at New
 Orleans. BULLS WERE SELLING OUT Small Spectators Assist In Bringing on Itself the Very Break
 In Prices It Had
 Feared.
BULLS WERE SELLING OUT

New Orleans, February 24.-Rumors on top of rumors were the chief cause of a sensational break in the cotton market today. Early in the morning after bril- liant opening with prices strongly on an upward trend, dispatches came from New York saying that the bull leaders were selling out. Prices promptly showed weakness. When the market had recover ed to an extent more rumors came, this time telling of numerous failures in the capitals of Europe.
 Prices fell some more and they kept on following until at the close they were "A to 79 points lower than the highest level of the day. and 1T to 50 points lower than the close of yesterday in March. May and July. At one time prices were 93 points lower than the highest levels in May and July, but toward the close the market showed a stronger tone with a consequent recovery.
 Market Opens Steady.
 The market opened steady and 60 to 61 points higher than yesterdays close. The bear were not in evidence at all, appar- ently being satisfied to lay quiet in face of the strong statistical position A batch of buying orders came from host or smaller speculators who bravely put the recent panics behind them. Numerous NlSlIOfS from lne tObDliy anu 1iO0dS about the entrances of the exchange gave the market something of the appearance 1t had before the memorable slump of few weeks ago.
 Like a thunder clap out of clear sky, came the news from New York that the bull leader was selling out It took about three minutes to transform the cotton exchange from an orderly but busy trad ing floor into a seething, yelling mass of humanity. Messengers scurried in all directions bearing orders from the small speculators to sell out their holdings. By showing such haste In getting out, this class of spectators brought upon itself the break in prices that it feared
 Stop Loss Orders Reached.
 Stop loss orders were reached and the ring went wild with brokers trying to sell out at as slight losses as possible The first burst of selling over, prices showed a disposition to improve. Bears had been soding the slump and they showed a disposition to take profits and this together with fresh buying by bull leaders, caused a momentary reaction.
 In a short time the bears had another inning, and they forgot all about taking profits in their eagerness to make more Cables from Paris told of failures in Paris, Vienna and Berlin. This caused another nasty scramble on the part of longs to get out, and sent prices down still further.
 Toward the eolse, the market had a soldout appearance. It was also quiet CT. The big bulls were as calm and con- fldent as ever but scores of smaller spec ulators had been wiped out in the breaks of the day
 Just before the close. the tone became somewhat stronger Leading bull inter- ests bought in quiet way and this to- gether with profit-taking by shorts, brought about recovery of about 15 points,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
DIR. Y. E. HOLLOWAY,
Physlcian ana Surgeon.

Three-rourths oi the persons who
 come to me to Ret [ cured of Syphilis. Gonorrhoea, Gleet.
 Structure. Loas Manhood and other private diseases have tried to ae ( well by using 3th- CT means. Why no t come as soon as you find that you are aflictedi It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25

' All week with usual matinees-"My :.
 . Friend from India"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25

the Bljou. when the Wells -Dunne- Harlan company will present My Friend From India. The company has improved steadily in the play and at each perform ance the audience has seemed to enjoy it better than before.
 The amusing situations of the second act, and the scenes which lead up to them are so well worked out that there Is con- tinuous laughter for the audience. The specialties are also very good this week, and Frank Johnson is getting good deal of applause in his.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
Funeral of Mrs. Wood.

Tuscaloosa, February 24-(Special.)- The funeral of Mrs. Bernard A. Wood who was formerly Miss Maebelle Me Eachin, was conducted at the Presbyte- rian church this morning at 10:30 o'clock and the church was filled to overfiowins with sorrowinf friends The Rev. John VanLear conducted the services and the remains were laid to rest in the family vault in the Evergreen cemetery. The pail bearers were G. A. Searcy, J. M Foster, Tom Garner, J. I. Harrison, w. A Collier, Walter Gully, R. E. Rodes and C. B. Werner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
"Faust."

Lewis Morrison will appear as Mephisto in Faust at the Jefferson theatre this afternoon and tonight. He is said to have a good supporting cast.
 It is claimed that this is the last tour of Morrison as Mephisto. and that after this year he will have another play, if he Is before the public at all.
 The electrical effects in Faust are said to be very fine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
"Red Feather"

Orders for seats are coming into the box office of the Jefferson theatre for the production of Red Feather" which will be seen here Thursday evening, March 3. Miss Grace Van Studdiford and the orig inal company from the Lyric theatre, New York will present the opera. Over a hun dred people are concerned in the produc tiop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

The firm of F. w. Robert & Go. was dis solved on February 16, 1904, F. H. Smith retiring F. w. Roberts will continue the business of board, hitching and feed stables at the old stand. Twenty first street, between Avenues B and c. Peo- ple's phone 29s. Bell 24sO, 2-23-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

The State of Alabama, Jefferson county
 Probate court, 17th day of February,
 1904-Estate of Rudolph Ehrman. a
 minor
 This day came Turner R. Weakley, exc cutor of the estate of Minnie I. H. Ehr- man, deceased. (the said Minnie l. H. Ehrman in her life time being the guar dian of the estate of Rudolph Ehrman, a minor) and filed his account vouchers, evidences and statement for final set clement of the guardianship of the said Minnie I. H. Ehrman.
 It is ordered that the 22nd day of March. 1904. be appointed a day for making such settlement, at which time all parties in Interest can appear and contest the same, if they think proper. J. P. STILES, 2-1S- -3t-thu. Judge of Probate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
ADJUSTMENTS.
AT THE JEFFERSON
AT THE BlJou

Thursday matinee and evening Faust"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25

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 Address or call at Rooms 1012 and 101A new First National Bank building, corner Second avenue and Twentieth street. Take the elevator.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-25
The BiIou.

There has been an unusually large sale of seats for the matinee this afternoon at
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
vote. show Populurity.

Election returns are true measures
Of mans personal or political popu-
larity. In districts where all elements
OF society are resident the canvass
shows the esteem in which candidates
are held. The Eleventh congressional
district of New York is typical, rep
resentative cosmopolitan community.
Within its boundaries is part Of the
west side, whose residents work hard;
part Of Fifth avenue, where wealth
and ease abound, and part of the
Broadway business section.
This is the district that elected Will
liam Randolph Hearst as it's represent
alive in congress by the largest major
ity ever given to representative in
Greater New York. The figures are
interesting. Representative Hearst re.
ceiyed 26,953 votes, 1912 more than
his Republican opponent. The same
percentage given to Bird S. Coler, the
candidate for governor on the same
ticket, would have elected a Demo-
cratic governor Of the Empire state.
Mr.. Hearst's majority was 5000 great
er than Mayor McClellan's one year
later. and the same precincts gave Mr..
Hearst 5000 more votes than Judge
Alton B. Parker received, and the lat
ter had the advantage in that the Re-
publicans did not nominate any one
against him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29

It Is the duty OF the Democratic par
y to eliminate the opportunities OF
speculative trusts, like the steel trust
and the shipyard trust, that deceive the
public and take the peoples savings IN
exchange for worthless watered stocks.
1t Is the duty Of the Democratic
party to prevent the recurrence Of the
present national situation, in which we
see the wages of tens of thousands Of
workers in one single trust reduced In
order to swell the profits Of manipula-
tors and stock jobbers.
1t is the duty of the Democratic
party to ally itself with the legitimate
with their aid to overthrow the Repub-
lican party, which has sold itself to
the criminal trusts.
None will welcome Democratic sue
cess more gladly than the legitimate
business man, who finds it more ard
more difficult to exist under the throt-
ting influence of the trusts and their
growing control Of legislation, money
and opportunity.
To the commercial traveller, the bust
ness man. the mechanic whose wages
are cut, the local banker in constant
danger, to every family that has had
its living expenses increased or its saw
ings absorbed by the criminal trusts, l
would recommend study of the char
acter of Andrew Jackson and his polit-
ical methods.
To all Democrats and Democratic
leaders Andrew Jackson stands proof
Of the value of principle in the win
ming Of victory.
If it were possible in the coming
campaign to choose our candidates in
the history of the past, should not ad-
vocate the choice of some so called
conservative" nonentity, without mo-
tive OF inspiration save desire for Of
fee; should urge the nomination Of
Andrew Jackson, because he was not
afraid of money illegally intrenched,
because he knew how to fight and how
to win.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
Selling and Buying.

The department of commerce and
labor recently published the statement
that the average cost of living in Amer
lea has increased 16 % per cent. This
statement is based undoubtedly on
wholesale market quotations.
Since Nov. /, 1903, there has been an
average reduction Of wages throughout
the manufacturing centers of the east
Of 10 to 20 per cent. Flour and other
foodstuffs have increased in price since
the same date.
The price Of newspapers in the great
cities has been reduced two-thirds in
fifteen years. The cost of producing
them has increased. Notwithstanding
these conditions" says William Ran
dolph Hearst, my papers pay hand.
some profits. and wages are higher and
the hours Of toll reduced"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
Inanstrinl Economics.

Trustworthy statistics declare that
the productive capacity of every indi-
vidual American who works has been
multiplied 125 times in the past cen
fury by the perfection of labor saving
machinery.
Government experts who compile In.
dustrial data assert that wealth is in
creased in America at the rate of $40
a day for every person who works.
Many trust managers now eliminate
consideration of workmen as individ-
uals. The mechanic is considered an
automaton-a part of the high speed
machine-and the longer it runs the
more profit is made.
The manager Of the Homestead Pa.)
Rolling mills, the armor plate factory
Of the steel trust, said in congress re-
Gently, Owe have only three laborcrs
In our mills-fre, water and electric
ity."
II find no difficulty in running my
newspapers and starting new ones on
the eight hour day." said Representa-
tive William Randolph Hearst in con-
gress. "My establishments run twen.
ty-four hours a day, but the individ-
ual. employees work only eight hours"
A congressional resolution to inves-
tigate the beef trust brought out these
facts: Stock raisers get too little for
cattle, consumers pay too much for
meat, ranchers are robbed by the COM
bination which keeps down the price
Of beef on the hoof, retail butchers
cannot sell at profit, dressed beef is
higher than three years ago and the
producer gets less, the cost of handling
meats from ranch to block is reduced
Who gets the benefit
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
To Make Law Enective.

Among the important bills before
congress is one restoring the imprison-
ment clause to the Sherman antitrust
act The Elkins amendment eliminat-
Ing imprisonment for violation of the
law, which passed the Fifty-seventh
congress-, left the act practically value
less SO far as trust magnates are con-
eerned. House bill 1854, introduced
by Representative William Randolph
Hearst Of New York, restores the i'm.
prisonment clause.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

A delegate convention of the Democrats of
the State of Iowa is hereby called to be held at
Des Moines on WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1904, for
the purpose of selecting Four delegates at large
and twenty-five district delegates 1.-TWO from
each Congressional districp 20 represent the
Democrats OF the State at the National Con-
vention to be held at st. Louis on July 6, 1894.
and to transact snch other business as may
properly come before the convention.
The ratio of representation will be one dele
gate at large from each county and one dele
gate for each 200 votes or fraction of loo or
over, cast for the Democratic candidate for
governor at the last general election.
The several counties will he entitled to the
following delegates:
Chickasaw.. .....11 Clayton....... ..."14
AFayette 12 Floyd. ............:
Wlnneshiek. $3.50. -. Q Worth. ............. Q
All voters who endorse the principles of the
Democratic party and who intend 10 support
its candidates are invited to participate in the
selection of delegates to this convention.
By order of the Democratic State Central
Committee. A. L, JAcKsNN.
N. &. ROBERTS, Chairman.
Secretary.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
Civil War Veterans.

The latest compilation by the pen.
Rion office estimates that the number Of
veterans of the civil war now living is
$4,000. OF these S79.522 are drawing
psnsions. - :, y.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
Over-Mork Meakens
Y, Your i Kidneys.
Unhea..ny kidneys Make 1mpare Blood.

All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
Contract Holds Good.

Contfact Hobs Good.
The supreme court has decided that an
ante-nutial contract made in this state
is enforced indefinitely. Margaret and
John Bonbright were married in Des
Moines IN 1899. Prior to the marriage
they entered into a contract by which
the wife was to be paid $1,000 out of the
Bonbright estate. The husband died,
and the heirs sought to set aside the
ante-nuptiaT contract. The lower court
here sustained it, and the supreme court
has decided that ante-nuptial contracts
In Iowa are collectable, as against es-
tates as well as persons.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
Settled the Question

The senate committee on appropria-
tons practically settled the question
Of whether the school for the deaf
should be removed from Council Bluffs
by voting, ten to FIVE, not to recon-
mend for passage the bill providing for
commission to relocate the school
within 100 miles of Des Moines, and rec
ommending for passage the bill to ap-
propriate $250,0o0 to rebuild the insti-
tuition at Council Bluffs. which burned
two years ago.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29

him. Knows weIl-rnhny a one 70 MS
cost-the character Of the speculative
trust, with its enormous imitation and
overcapitalization, its remorseless rob-
bing of the public, its cold blooded get
rich quick schemes.
There is no doubt as to the character
Of this trust, it Is known by Its works,
by its stealing Of the accumulations Of
husband and wife, its despoiling Of the
children's future, using as bait the
names Of criminal ''respectables."
The duty before the Democracy today
is to fight the criminal trusts, to cut
down and root out the evil power Of
that predatory wealth that seeks to
supplant government Of the people by
government of the pocketbook and the
lobby.
The criminal trusts must be destroy
ed because they menace prosperity,
They menace real prosperity, the pros
periy of all the people, the prosperous
growth Of the nation under popular
government.
No man needs to be told how firmly
the trusts have intrenched themselves
in government. These trusts are abb
sorbing more and more the power that
should be the peoples.
Jackson found himself face to face
with the great bank reaching out for
national power. He was told that this
bank claimed frankly the right to a
certain number of representatives and
to certain number of senators in the
American congress. He answered,
with his own peculiar emphasis, that
If there existed in the country such q
governing power outside the govern
ment he would destroy it.
And he did destroy it.
How puny was the power, how puny
the representation iii congress of that
bank which aroused Jackson's deep
and fatal indigna ton!
Any one of a dozen big trusts today
exceeds in power the boasted influence
Of that bank. The sugar trust, the beef
trust, the coal trust-any of the trusts
that need to create legislation or to de-
feat legislation for the convenient rob
bling of the public have their tame
men. their hired attorneys. in office.
The bank of Jackson's day tmidly
claimed the right to small share in
government, and Jackson killed it for
its temerity.
What would he say to the swarm OF
trusts today, whose individual and
combined influence, whose paid or ter
rorized servants, in or out of Office
constitute the governing power in the
national administration?
If Jackson was needed in his day
how much more is he needed now
with the fearlessness that made him
do his duty as he saw 1t!
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-29
Governors Appointments.


Gov. Cummins has announced ap-
pointments as follows: State pharmacy
commissioner, to succeed N. T. Hen
dirk, of Columbus Junction, B. F. Keltz,
of Webster City; state labor commits
sioner, to succeed himself, E. D. Brig
ham, of Des Moines; state dairy COM
missioner, to succeed himself, H. R.
Wright of Usage; state fish and game
warden, to succeed himself, George A.
Lincoln, of Cedar Rapids. The appoint
ment OF Mr.. Keltz as pharmacist commits
sioner places two of these officers in the
Tenth district, Fred A. Russell, of CAL
houn county, having been appointed last
year. The third. Fletcher Howard, came
from the Eleventh district, but now lives
here, az required by law.