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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-21
tIa!verIy,s MInstreIs.

Real, blacl1faced nlintrelsy has never
lost its hold on the affections of the thea
tire goers, and the coming of Haverly's
MINISTRIES will be awaited with much
pleasurable antielpations.
Haverly's Mastodon minstrels come to
the Jefferson theatre next Tuesday matt
nee and night. The eastern press heartily
praised the performance. and judging
from what the critics said In their write
up on the show, the patrons of the Jeffer-
son theatre me expect an artistic enter
tainment with as much mirth, music and
melody as will be heard or seen in any of
the latest comic operas or musical ex-
travaganzas.
Billy Van, the minstrel man," who is
the star comedian, has a reputation so
well established that little more than the
mere mention of his name Is necessary.
His monologue this season is described as
somewhat altogether unique. Mr.. Vans
assisting fun makers are Eddie Leonard,
late of Primrose & okstader's min
strels, Eddie Mazier Dan Waldron, Per-
ron Somers, Jake Young, Fred Gartelle,
Gene Marcus, Johnnie Conley and Frank
Young
The vocal soloists include II. William
Moore. the Canadian tenor, George M.
Vail basso profundo, formerly of "fhe
Bostonians" and late of 1.-The Runa-
ways" DERRICK J. Voigt southern lad,
William l.. ThOrne, baritone, FRANK
Coombs, lyric tenor and Samuel Nanke-
VILE basso contralto.
The first part setting represents the ex-
terror of the fine art buildings by night.
with mechanical lighting effects, showing
this building illuminated The subject Is
taken from the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position to be held In ST. Louis this fall.
The olo is made up of minstrel special
ties, and includes Billy Van, in one of his
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kings, Mazier & Conley and in a singing
and talking act, Marcus & Gartelle. the
Young Brothers, acrobats, and Eddie
Leonard and fifteen song and dance ar
lists in a clever sketch entitled I'm the
Moonlight"
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nival on the Broken where the electric
fluid plays an important part, ending IN
a shower of electric fire, and in the clos
Ing scene where the angel Marguerite Is
bearing the form of Faust heavenward.
~ The 5ijou.
MY Friend From India" will be the
bill the ells-Dunne-Harlan company
will offer at the Bijou this week and It
gives promise Of being one of the biggest
successes Of this organization.
The fact that the company possesses
the ability to take play like MY
Friend From India ana turn 1t into a
musical comedy, Is interesting. 1t was
never intended that the comedy should
be used as a musical Offering, but when
the rights of production were secured it
was determined that it would be next to
useless to offer it as a straight comedy.
Music was secured and put in at the
proper place. In Brooklyn, when the
piece was played there, one Of the New
York dramatic papers thought the pro-
duetion so clever that much space was
devoted to 1t.
MY Friend From India" tells of the
adventures of a young man about town,
who has brought home a barber whom
he has picked up on a spree. 1t, Is nee
essary to account for the presence of the
stranger and with the knowledge that
a missionary is expected from India. the
barber Is presented as MY Friend From
India" A lot of fun and trouble comes
with this, that is made stronger when
a real missionary from India puts in ap-
pearance.
The attraction Is very strong and the
musical offerings will be new. The
management has arranged for several
new musical members
In making the assignments for the
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the apple of his eye and he intends to ac-
quire youth himself and marry the young
lady until Piola promises to take him to
a fountain which will make him young
again.
The second act of the comedy opera
finds al of the interested persons in
Spoopiuland, which is ruled by a queen of
SURPRISING loneliness, who announces
that she will marry none but an old man
of experience. When Dodo l. and his
encourage are taken before her as prison
ers. she sees in him the man she has
been waiting for and. as she pleases
Dodos fancy, the woorg speeds right
merrily until a conspiracy is Matched and
Dodo is given a drink from a spring
which is indeed a veritabe fountain Of
youth. Presto, the old king, is trans
formed into a boy. This pleases Dodo,
but the queen will have none of him.
Again the conspirators come to the res
cue, for with the idea Of drowning the
favorite they throw him in the same
spring and by It's marvellous powers he
is again transformed into the decreplt
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cast Little Chip has been given the prin-
cipe comedy role, and Mary Marble will
be prominent in the work. David An
drada, Robert Harry Maude Poole,
Pearl Tormie and others have been well
placed.
The musical offerings will give work
to the Musical Maidens, and there will
be a series of surprises.
my Friend From India" will be pre-
scented every night this week with the
usual matlnees Tuesday Thursday and
Saturday.
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"Kinq Dodo."

The plot of king Dodo," the Pixfey
& Luder's comedy opera which will APP
pear at the Jefferson theatre Monday
night under the direction of Henry W..
Savage is not alone funny but uncon-
ventional as well. King Dodo L., of
Dodoland, is possessed of the idea that he
would like to regain his youth. To this
end he does all sorts of foolish things,
such as having the. calendar set back the
trifie of thirty years and keeping his court
physician in constant dread of a violent
death If he does not discover for him the
elixir of youth. A young soldier of for
tune. Piola, has had the temerity to fall
in love with the kings ward Angela, and
proposes to marry her. To this King
Dodo objects most strenuously, for she is
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ADJUSTMENTS.
AT THE JEFFERSON

Monday evening--"King Dodo."
Tuesday matinee and evening
Haverlys minstrels.
Wednesday matinee and evening
.aThe Storks."
Thursday matinee and evening
"Faust"
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NOTICE.

The entertainment to have been given
by Myrtle Rebekah Lodge, No. 80, has
been postponed indefinitely. owing to the
serious illness of one of our sisters, Mrs
M. e. Holt. The members are requested
to attend the regular meeting Monday
evening. SISTER MAY ROBINSON,
NohIe Grand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-21
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF COMING PLAYS

1.-THE Professors Love Story" the
cleanest, brightest comedy ever written
by the author of Little Mary" THE
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325 N. 10Th ST., City Hall.
Commencing Wednesday. Feb. 24th

Suchovowsky's world-famed painting
Mana" has been pronounced by every
civilized community on the globe to be
the most UNIQUE, FASCINATING and
WONDERFUL PICTURE OF THE
AGE.
Absolutely the only work of art of its
kind in the world. During the past eigh-
teen years has been exhibited in ENG
LAND, GERMANY, FRANCE AND
AMERICA Was one of the biggest sue
sesses of the Worlds Fair, Chicago, and
has everywhere been overwhelmed with
the highest praise and admiration from
the press, people and critics of two hem
ispheres.
On exhibition daily from 10 am. to 10 pm.
ADMISSION:
From 10 a. m. to p. m.........5 cents
From D. m. to 10 y. m.........l5 cents
Ladies' admission, 10 cents. All day.
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, All week with usual matinees-'My
> Friend from India
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old monarch he was when the queen of
the Spoopju people lost her heart to him.
Dodo is of a forgiying disposition and
when he finds that the queen will be his
he gives everyone his blessing and his
kingdom to Piola and Angela, telling the
former to go Into the king business on
his own account" Thus all of the com
plications happily are adjusted.
Mr. Savage has given king Dodo' an
elaborate production and there is a large,
well trained chorus of pretty girls who
have good voices and can dance
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its production In London and had Miss
Barrymore In view for the title role.
Miss Barrymore went to see the play In
London while she was abroad last sum-
mer and came home full of enthusiasm
for its possibilities. Many critics have
compared the play to Sweet Lavender"
A love scene between Miss Barrymore as
Kate Curtis and Bruce McRae as Heath
Desmond Is said to be as dainty and ex-
quisite as anything of the kind TO be
found In modern comedy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-21

is also Miss Youlins nnderstudy and is
possessed Of as sweet and powerful
voice as she is pretty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-21

The Dewberry Sta
tionery and Office
Furniture Co, 2039
Second ave, are the
retail stationers in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-21

Admirable Cfiehton" and THE Little
Minister" J NJ. Barrie will be seen here
soon with Harry Beresford in the stel-
lar role. that of Professor Goodwill -
the kindly. lovable reoluse whose imag-
nation leads him to believe he Is ILL., but
whose complaint in reality is love. How
the cure Is completed is worth seang
Beresford has made quite a reputation
by his natural, easy methods, his awk-
wardly graceful personality and his true
and quiet methods in playing pure higa
comedy.
pantomime. farce, and acrobatic feav.
lures in abundance are the elements OF
The big trick production, THE New Zig
Tag Alley which will be seen at the
jefferson soon.
Miss Grace Van Studdiford has some
beautiful numbers in the latest De koven
comic OPERA RED Feather" notably
o1he Merry Cavalier" and THE Garden
of Dreams" Mis- Van Studdford will be
remembered as the best prima donna the.
Bostonians Opera company ever had. ~
ziegfeld. Jr., has given her a splendid
supporting company and production We
are told that Is the finest seen this sea-
son It will be presented at the Jeffer-
son theatre Thursday evening, March 3. .
'Cousn Kate the new comedy IN
which Ethel Barrymore is appearing this
season Is said TO afford Miss Barrymore
a role more suited to her winning per7
sonality' than any she has ever had,
"Cousln Kate Is the work Of Hubert
Henry Davies. a young English play
wright and was originally produced In
London. where 1t has had an unusually
long run. Mr.. Frohman secured the Am
eriean rights to this comedy even before
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nuR RlH THE WORLDS
GREATEST
NHIVH PICTURE.

Fresh from it's latest triumphs in Bal
timore. where during the recent engage
ment of twenty weeks the receptions
were attended by over 10000 people.
Mana can be seen daily for two
~ ut
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Read the Post saloon bulletin. 212o First
| avenue. 1-8i-su-t tI-th- If.
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First Appearance in Birmingham of the
q. Original Painting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-01
China Adopting Civilized Ways.
From the Philadelphia Press.


IF China continues to send its young
men to the United States. England and
other countries to be educated it Will In
time become what may be called a thor
oughly civilized country. An illustration
of THIS tendency is furnished in the good
work of the Chinese minister at Wash
fngton, who was educated in the United
States. in the bringing in of the empire
of China as a signatory of the Geneva
convention. That involves an agreement
en- the part of China to observe the rules
of civilized warfare and renders possible
international cooperation in the care of
the wounded.
The government of China has not only
become one of the signatories of the Ge-
neva convention but a Red Cross Associ-
alton has already been organized under
the auspices Of the empress dowager.
who gave substantial evidence of her
sincerity in this movement by personal
subscription of the equivalent or ABOUT
$4,000 The influence of Japan Is having
q great effect on China Her rulers are
able to see how Japan has become grea.
nation in comparatively short time. ana
Japanese instructors are becoming numer-
GUS in China.
Japanese are drilling the Chinese troops.
and no doubt the next war will show the
Chinese to be much more effective than
heretofore. But II they have higher aims
and adopt Japanese methods in dealing
with foreigners there will be no grounh
of complaint against China. That seems
to be the present tendency of the empire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-01
LABRADOR A BARREN WASTE.
But for Fishermen No Human Being
Would Break Its Solitude.
Ftcm the Boston Transcript.

FIcm the Boston Transcript.
The coast of Labrador is the edge of
vast solitude of rocky hills, split and blast
ed by the frosts and beaten by the waves
of the Atlantic for unknown ages
grand headland, yellow. brown and placK
in its nakedness, is ever in sight, one to the
north CT you and one to the south. Here
and there upon them are strips and patches
of pale green MOSES. lean grasses anu
dwarf shrubbery. There are no forests
except in Hamilton inlet. Occasionally
miles Of precipices front the sea In when
fancy may roughly shape all the structures
of human art
More frequent than headlands and per-
pendfcular sea fronts are the sea slopes
often bald and tame, and then the perfec
ton Of all that Is picturesque ana ro tanx
Wales that wind up from among them from
the sea have a summerlike and pleasant
air.
One finds himself peoping these regions
and dotting their hills, valleys and wild
shores with human habitants. but a sec
ond thought, and a mournful one IL Is. teIls
that no men toll in the fields away there,
no women keep the home on there; no
children play by the brooks or shout
around the country schoolhouse, no oees
come home to the hive, no smoke curls
from the farmhouse chimney, no orchard
blooms no bleating sheep flock the noun
tain side with whiteness and no heifer lows
in the twilight.
There is nobody there. there never were
hut a miserable and scattered few, ana
there never will be. 1t Is great and ter
rible wilderness, thousands of miles In ex-
tent and lonesome to the very wild animals
and birds Left to the still visitation of the
light from the sun. moon and stars and the
auroral fires it is only fit to look upon ana
then be given over to its primeval soitari-
ness.
But for the living things of its waters
the cod, salmon and seal which bring
thousands of fishermen to its waters ana
traders to It's bleak shores. Labrador would
be as desolate as Greenland. The time is
now coming when with good steamship
accommodations the invalid and tourist
from the states will be found spending the
brief but lovely summer here. nol"i'i-
etond,ns its ruggedness and desolation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-01
Secrets of Old Roman Bath.

From the London Chronicle.
Women used to lose their hairpins thou
sand years ago much in the same way as
they do today. That. at least is the I'M
preston one gets from the antiquities fouho
during last year at the Silches,er eAc"'"
tons. -,
The most interesting discovery was the
building which formed apparently the prin-
cipaI baths of the Roman town. the ex-
ploration of the baths yielded number or
architectural fragments, including a small
altar, portions of capitals and bases. part
of a large basin of Purbeck marble and
some singular pieces of metal
In a filled-up hypocaust were found at
least 100 bone pins. which had evidently
been used to adjust the back hair of Roman
women who used the baths. Probably they
had been dropped in the way woman
throughout the ages has shed pins, and
were collected by the keeper of the baths.
Some of them are quite three inches long.
and would make passable hatpins for the
present fashion.
A pair of gold earrings with uncut green
gems so bright that they look as IL they
might have just come out OF jewelers.
shop In Bond street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-01
Man and Nature.
From the New York Tribune.

It is not easy to apprehend the fact that
human life on the globe is dependent upon
such Incidents cooperation with birds
or the collateral evolution of certain plants.
Yet 1t has been asserted by scientists that
human life, If possible at all on the globe.
would be at a very low stage but for the
coexistence Of three or four families Of
plants-the cereal, the solanum, the palm
and the rose families. Wherever we turn
we find ourselves in interdependent rela-
tons with these four allies. The palm
alone, with its ancient representatives In
the coal era, gives us not fewer than one
Thousand varieties of valuable fruits and
ftbers. The solanum family gives US the
potato, the tomato and tobacco; the cereal
family gives us rice, on which one-third Of
the race mostly subsists; oats and corn for
ourselves and our domeSticated animals, as
well as wheat and rye for bread, and the
true grasses for animals. These last are
simply undeveloped cereals. The rose fam
lily gives us nearly all the fruits in our
orchards and gardens. as we'll the no
blest OF the flowers that adorn our lawns.
Some representatives Of each one of these
families are found over the larger part of
the habitable globe.
An important evolution Is still going on
in plant life. We are more likely, however,
to note the appearance of noxious plants
than the development of those Of sterling
merit. These very weeds indicate a strug-
gle for existence, IN which struggle the
oversight of man Is required. Out Of the
crowding occasionally comes a plant of
marvellous benef1cence, like the potato In
fact the greater part Of human effort Is
exerted in selecting from what nature pro-
duces and destroying the poorer product.
Most of the finer apples, plums and cherries
could not have struggled into dominance
over the wild and the Grabbed fruit with
out our assistance. We are still getting on
with second rate things in our gardens and
orchards. because we have not had wit
enough to prevent some Of the choicest
from being lost. The work OF Mr.. Bur-
bank in California is valuable not only for
what he is directly producing for US in the
way of new and finer varieties of fruit, but
for the Inspiration which he is giving to
the people everywhere to experiment for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-01
SIMPLER AND CHEAPER MEALS
Favored by London Society People
When Dining at Restaurants.

From the London Express
growing inclination Is noted among the
patrons of West End restaurants To snend
not only less time, but less money. On the
uihhers which form a delightful prelude
to an evening at the theatre
Feople nowadays prefer a few courses
quickly served an Express representative
was informed at the Criterion yesterday
dhey wish to go straight to the play
AFTER dinner and they have no time r.
waste over the long and wearisome sue.
indulged." y
"A similar story was told at Hatchett,s
The demand is for simple wholesome
Englsh dinner. 1t has also been observed
llat the custom of families dining out Is
growing. Sunday being the favorite day
,o Inc prslerence OF society for simple din
nefs is not attributed to any motive of
economy; it Is rather regarded as a re-
set"
Asparagus a. los. Cd bundle and straw
berries at 2os. have ceased to attract.
Green peas at SIS. or 9s. pint are voted
bad form and other once popular out
of-season delicacies are no longer sought.
Inc days when a man would pay f3
Tor mangum of champagne. too. have
gone, said the head of West End res
taurant. Now he looks carefully at the
WINE list. and orders a bottle of light
wine at 5s''
restaurant proprietors have quickly per-
eelv nsGo the changing tendency. The ag-
sressiveiy smart restaurant is being left
TO the aggressfvely smart people, and the
calculating proprietor seeks to cater for
quiet good class patrons
Another change is that Saturday to Mon
day visits out of town are on the wane
Friday. Saturday and Sunday, once regard
ed as "off- nights" have become busy times
In the fashionable West End resorts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-01
DRINKING WATER.
Obtained in the Desert by Tapping the
Wonderful Cactus,

From the National Geographical Magazine.
The marvellous strength of desert plants
Is well known. but We are al loss to ex-
plain the source reason of their lux
uriance in regions where only few inches
of water fall during the year. and that lit
tie is Immediately drunk up by the torrd
sun. What enables the yucca to thrust It's
head through thirty feet OF gypsum sand.
or the barrel cactus to store enormous
quantities OF water and to hold the water
for months, perhaps years. the sumac
to cling so tenaciously TO its ground VIII an
everything else is swept away, are ques-
tons which none an satisfactorily answer.
No less marvellous and inexplicable is the
mesquite shrub. which sometimes has roots
over fifty feet long. and other desert plants
whose hairy coverings and resinous coat
ings prevent the evaporation OF DISTURB.
These secrets may soon be discovered, how
ever. as the Carnegie Institution has estab-
Ilshed desert botanical laboratory at Tue
son to study them.
1t was among the desert hills west of
Torres, Mex. the Indian cut the top from
plant about five feet high. and with a
blunt stake of palo verde pounded to a pulp
the upper six or eight inches OF white flesh
in the standing trunk. From this, handful
by handful, he squeezed the water into the
bowl he had made in the top Of the trunk
throwing the discarded pulp on the ground
By this process he secured two or three
quarts Of clear water. slightly salty and
slightly bitter 10 the taste but OF far bet
Ter quality than some of the water a desert
traveller Is occasionally comp elled to use.
The Pupago, dipping this water up in his
hands. drank It with evident pleasure and
said that his people were accustomed not
only 10 secure their drinking water In this
way In times OF extreme drouth. but that
they used it also to mix their meal pre-
paratory TO cooking 1t into bread.