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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

M] oRsTY- 'IsI EIGHT EIGHT years ago, when a :" youth of IS, Henry Irving made
 his first appearance as an actor on the boards of the old Sunderland the atre.
 If ever an actor was born to the stage Henry Irving was an instance. Not only did he become distinguished actor, but he founded a new school of acting. He 1t was who did away with the stunted styles of the setting forth of character and in- cdent then in vogue. who threw the light of nature into the darkest corners of both tragedy and comedy and in doing so increased the mordant powers of each. He believed that the highest phase of the art of acting was impersonation, and to this end he used all his powers. He went back to fact and history, and fol- lowed the authors meaning from his sur vey of the natural materials whence he drew his characters. The long gallery of the portraits which he set forth in an actors medium are more than six hun dred. Many of these were of course, small parts played in his early days, but some are sufficiently great to mark not only an enormous energy but seem ingly endless resource.
 So long as he was an individual player he could not show whole plays as he thought they should be shown-with all parts complets and in harmony and pro portion each with and to the other. It was for this reason. rather than from ambition or desire of gain, that he took the care of management.
 Trxrtn In the Lyceum theatre what in many other countries is done by the nation. the mu- nicipality or the court. And his single handed venture made his theatre, as well as himself, illustrious and known over the civilized world. To the services of the stage he first sought for and gained the aid of great artists in the production of his plays. A quarter of century since such men as now are glad and even proud to join in stage collaboration did not have such views Up to, the sos the artists who devoted themselves to the stage could alone be counted on by ambitious managemepts. But then came. at Iryings g call, men who had already won great fame. Such men as Sir Laurence Alma Tadema, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, sey- mour Lucas. Keely Halswelle ana Chss Cattermole were willing to give their art their love, their experience and their iin- aginatlon to aid in great stage work.
 In the matter of stage lighting every scenic artist of his time and or tne iu- ture owed, and still owes. deot or gratitude of Henry Irving. He first taught them how to produce soft effects with various colored lights thrown one through the other;N to use together gas light and limelight. both ''open" and con cenntrated lights: to produce silhouette effects by turning down or UP certain portions of the footlights, and so leaving the edges of the stage in comparatively dimmer light. All these things are now adaiy,s matters Of general Knowledge and general use. But In the survey of an artistic lifetime t Is but just to call to remembrance to whom they are due. Such musicians as slr Arthur Sullivan, Isif Charles villiers Stanford. Sir Alex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
St. Mary's Church.

"At St. Mary's-on-the Highlands last Sunday night was inaugurated a new departure-as far as Birmingham is con cerned-in the musical character of the service. That is to say, the service was fully choral throughout, In addition to which organ and vocal solos were intro duced In the place of the usual address or sermon" said a church musician.
 'The whole service was exceedingly in- teresting. The principal features being a devotional and effective musical setting of the magnificent and Nunc Dimittes by Dr. Bradley, the organist and choirmaster of the church, whose masterly rendering of a number of organ solos was highly enjoyed Miss Lena Jackson and Miss Mamie Lee each contributed a sacred vocal solo in a highly pleasing and de- lghtful manner. The singing of the choir was singularly good throughout A sim liar service was announced for the sec ond Sunday evening In each month throughout the winter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
MELANCHOLY.

By John Fletcher. Hence. all you vain delights. As short as are the nights
 Wherein you spend your folly! There's rlaught in this life sweet, If men were wise to see 1t.
 But only melanchoiy; o sweetest melanch6ly!
 Welcome. folded arms and fixed eyea sight that piercing moftifies, ss7 look thats fastened to the ground A tongue chained up without sound. Fountain-he and painless. groves,
 Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks. when all the fowfs Are warmly housed save bats and owls!
 A midnight bell, parting groan-
 These are the sounds we feed upon:
 valley. Nothing's So dainty sv.>t '~--'
 apcbQly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
MALE NovELIsTs's AasoRDlTlEs.
From Outlook.

FTU1H OulIUUh.
 One of the most infalllble signs of an average mans work is an entrancingly beautiful heroine who generally also con trives to be beautifully dressed. at least as her creator fondly imagines. At any rate, woman does not make penniless or nearly penniless girl dress as if she had hundred pounds year to spend on her wardrobe. A man in drawing a very young girl almost invariably makes out that she has eaten far too much of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. as much as he himself would have eaten at a similar age, for instance. which Is altogether absurd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

vent football players from biting eac,, other. ihe numper of incipient plots unearthed py detectives and laid at the door of Fatriek Grove show that gentleman to be remarkably versatile, or else the detec- lives are fertile in invention. DON'T LET THEM KNOW YOU KNOW. When neighbors talk about themselves And blow as neighbors blow.
 Just keep your counsels to yourself- Don't let them know you know. When eer you meet man who tallc
 Puts on a lot of show,
 Altho' he's empty as a gourd-
 Don't let him know you know. You'n find a lot of tricks and sham.
 In life, both high and low. i4.s But when you read a rascars mind,
 Don't let him know you know z For things are never as they seem-
 If you want friends. go slow
 Whate'er the faults the others have.
 Don't let them know you know. It was a unique sight presented by the streets of Birmingham Saturday after noon when a matinee performance of Buster Brown" was given. Tots of all ages and sizes, swarms of them, filled Second avenue after the audience had been dismissed from the Jefferson. On every face was stamped conviction. They had seen Buster and '.Tige.' Not the picture Buster and not the picture Tige,' but real boy and a real dog. There was nothing more to say
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 Chicago police regard the stories of the ''Back Hand'' society in New York as myths. Chicago and New York were always skeptical of each other.
 HE WON'T DO.
 The optimist a winning chap,
 Deserves to go up higher,
 But an optimist that we don't like
 Is-ahem,- ,-the cheerful liar
 A St. Louis woman has been using a megaphone to lecture her husband. She doesn't know that the baseball season Is over.
 Congressman Landis says that football Is worse than cockfghting. Sure thing!
 WE'D LIKE TO KNOW
 Gn the Hall of Fame) The fame that Edgar Allan Poe achieved Will grow from year to year, a.fi But tell us what Maria Mitchell did Just whisper in our ear. It Is reported that the Filipinos expected Miss Alice Roosevelt to wear a crown. Perish the thought! Suppose 1t were the fad for American girls to wear crowns and each was trying to outshine the other Wouldn't the man behind the purse have just cause to feel Respondent? '.f. A scientist in whom the springs of life are withered says that love Is on the wane. Sentiment is yielding to advanced civilizations; romance is thing of the past and in the future matches will be made on scientific basis. with view to physical congenfality When this severely practical state of affairs comes to pass we hope to be playing on golden harp.
 YOU'VE BEEN THERE. Oft in the stilly night.
 Ere slumber's chains had bound him He stumbled over sindry chairs And swore aloud. ''.Confound themr' It is mistake to think that the devil spends most of his time loafing around Newport in the summer and Washington Tn the winter. He can cover more terri. tory than the most ubiquitous press agent
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
Movement of Iron.

Nothing perhaps speaks more eIo- auently for the soldlty of Birmingham than big shipments of iron at high prices" said Otto Marx last night
 This morning as I was hurrylng to my office 1 saw a Seaboard train of twenty cars of pig iron, drawn by 8 doble mogul engine, headed eastward. The cars bore Sloss-S Sheffield company placards
 "A train of Iron is always inspiring. am told that the pig metal is moving in large lots every day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
Richmond,s HospItaIltx

When 1t comes to entertaining distin- guished visitors no city acquits itself more credltably than Richmond'' said a member of Birminghams Virginia colony. 'The first president to visit the capital of the old Dominion after the war was MT. Hayes Since then MT. Cleveland and General Harrison were guests of the city and now Richmond Is prepared to give President Roosevelt a royal well come.
 ''The grandest banquet eyer attended was the one given in Richmond to Cleve- land There were five hundred guests at the tables and the affair. including the flowers and music. cost $140oO. I learn from the Richmond papers that great banquet will be given in honor of Mir. Roosevelt.
 Richmond is a strong military town. A full brigade of the National Guard Is stationed there and all the soldiers and all the Confederate veterans will parade as an escort to the President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
About Persons.

Martin l.. Semon, manager or the Bl)ou theare, left yesterday for Richmond. He will return Friday, accompanied by Mrs. Semon and Jake Wells Semen +Ah -'A- "---
 E. R. Milton of Evansville. Ind, is at the Hillman.
 Tracy Lay of Montgomery Is at the Metropolitan.
 Alex Troy. a well-known attorney of Montgomery, is stopping at the Morris.
 L. B. Graham of Chattanooga Is at the Hllman.
 S. E. Stewart of Hartselle is stopping at the Morris.
 G. H. Davis of Gadsden is at the Met ropolitan.
 A. P. Smith of Carbon Hill is at the Morris.
 Prof A. L. Fealey of Cullman is stop ping at the Hillman.
 F. w. Burke of Boston is at the Nor ris.
 M D. Selden of Memphis is registered at the Hillman.
 Joseph Q. Thompson internal revenue collector of Alabama, left yesterday for South Alabama, where he goes to look after business interests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
A HEART THRoH.
,e Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 The boy. Culver, Is one Taggart who will commend himself to public esteem. Perhaps it is only in child's heart that one can find the love Tom Moore de- clared,
 T know not. ask not. if quilts in that
 heart. | but know that love thee whatever
 thou art" sfffN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

story was only about ten years ago) has had an epidemic of yellow fever. It is now up to Atlantans and the 'steemed constitution, with this eminent authority against them, to give the world some real proof, insead of empty boasting, that yell low fever cannot exist in the town of Atlanta"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

IS probable that something in the
 nature of jolt was administered to Thomas Dixon when the Richmond News-Leader and the Richmond Times Dispatch refused to grow ecstatic over the dramatization of 'The Clansman," which recently had its premiere in the Virginia capital. MT. Dixon has allowed his tenn per to get the better of him and makes a grave mistake In charging that the two Richmond papers are unfriendly to him because he opposed the Ogden move ment. Being f1edgling in matters dra- matic, 1t is but natural for him to be- come heated under the caustic criticism which The Clansman" has received. hut he will accomplish nothing by trying to reply to his critics. '"rhe Clansmans in novel form Is little more than literary claptrap. while the dramatized version of the story is melodrama of the most pronounced type. The News-Leader does not believe that MT. Dixon's play will ever make the efforts of Shakespeare, lbsen. Sudermann and Shaw seem rubbish in comparison. The Rev. MT. Dixon has simply received a thrust of the gaff and does not like his medicine. NN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
Joke on Atlanta.


 Notwithstanding the repeated boasts of the Constitution and other Atlanta papers that yellow fever cannot exist in the pure atmosphere of Atlanta, 1t is we'll authenti- cated that at least one epidemic of yellow fever has ravaged this chosen city of the Lord" said H. K. White yesterday.
 Atlanta papers have tried to make the world believe that the corporation line of the Gate City of the south, which is circle, as is well known. is a sort of charmed circle-a deadline. so to speak upon crossing which the stegomyia fasci- ata would immediately fall dead That this claim Is unfounded Is now shown by eminent medical authority-no less than pr. A. Conan Doyle himself-one of the most famous doctors in the world today In his last Sherlock Holmes story, The Mystery of the Yellow Face in last Sundays Age-Herald, the fact of yellow fever in Atlanta is established in a cop- versation between Sherlock Holmes and his client, which I will quote:
 |" Kindly let me have the facts, MT. Munro. said Holmes with some impatl- ence.
 '' Well, then, l will tell you what I know about my wife's history. She was widow when I met her first. though quite young-only 25. Her name then was Mrs. Hebron. She went out to America when she was young. and lived In the town of Atlanta. where she married this Hebron who was lawyer. They had one child, but an epidemic of yellow fever .-.,-. o,,t ;n At,o nta and both h,,.ls and child died of it. This sickened her of the town of Atlanta. and she came back to live in England
 There you have #. The most eminent medico-literary authority in the world pr. A Conan Doyle-that the town of At land In recsnt yesrp (for the time of this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The burial of Prince Troubetskoy, a conservative reformer, was the occa- sion of renewed agitation in Russia. That country is full of unrest wher- ever there is intelligence enough to grasp the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Miss Goldie Yell of Minnesota Is ac. cused of Kidnapping 2-year-old boy A woman with name like that ought to be loud talker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Oil has been marked up ten cents a barrel, and some college or other big charity expects to become the bene- ticiary of the new tax, which is com pulsory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Professor Behring deserves a high place in the worlds regard if he has conquered '''the white plague"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
EXISTENCE PROVED.

From the Charleston News and Courier,
 A sad event that took place in New York the other day has established the fact that there was Mir. Carrie Chap- man Catt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The Fall River cotton operatives are in fair way to get back that old cut in their wages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Mrs. Stevenson of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union says that openwork stockings are sinful. They are also decidedly interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

High Episcopalian authority in New York has decided there are no female angels. This decision is not binding outside of New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The republicans have actually caught man who is willing to accept their empty nomination for mayor. His name is Wins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Corsets for men and crinolene for women are trying to butt into fashion able society. Anything is possible in degenerate age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The presidential tour will begin to- morrow morning in the finest of Octo- Der weather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The Portland fair Is thing of the past, and the stockholders will receive a dividend of oyer 30 per cent. Some fairs pay expenses and some do not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Ship canals even at Panama can not be dug with fountain pens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Duluth is now troubled with timber wolves. That town must be a regular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Richmond is to be composite of color and bunting when the President ar rives there. The historic city will outdo itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The cranberry crop has caught the complaint of the apple trees, and Is short.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The country's get-rich-quick oppor. tunities seem to be confined at present to insurance offices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

A correspondent of the Alabama En- quirer signs her name "Blue-Eyed Kate" A fellow could write a poem about a name like that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Over in Augusta a gambling house was raided that had not been molested for thirty years. You never can tell where the lightning is going to strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

There is no truth in the report that "Christy" Mathewson has been ten dered the Flatiron building. As a matter of fact, he owns New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Charley Schwab has big bank ac- count, and that is all the qualification Nevada calls for when she selects a United States Senator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Ether with the flavor of highball ought to become popular with people contemplating having themselves cut up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

It is very seldom that there is money missing without being accompanied by a man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

New York is the real seat of Rus sian radicalsm, for 3O,O0O ultra revo- lutionists from that country live there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

October has thus far been full of fine weather and insurance revelations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Henry Irving's remains should rest in Westminster Abbey, even if some future lordlet is crowded out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The coIored brother has endorsed MT. Rockefeller, and 1t is up to him to give a chicken dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Banker J. Edward Simmons says there is universal carnival of dis honesty in high places. He means high feenance in high New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Wire gauge and mosquito netting will soon be quoted below par.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Candidate Pattison is giving the Herrick machine the race of its life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Bishop Potter seems to be the only friend and supporter of the insurance grafters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
To THE llNksl

From the Savannah Press.
 It is nearly time to hie yesels to the links-both the golf and the sausage varieties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

When the negro problem is solved we won't be here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Trust-busters are organizing a trust in Iowa to control the telephone. It Is merely human nature The most. rabid trust-buster would not turn down the chance to be a trust magnate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Tom Lawson Is shaking his gory pc at the insurance missionaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The Indian summer is yet to come. One light frost does not make a win ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The hospitals are ready to receive the footballers fresh from the gory field
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Messrs. Gaynor and Greene will win ter in Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

The chrysanthemum Is in bloom, and this means that the football season is ripe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Another prizefighter ends his career "broke." Alas, too many go the gaits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

In the meantime, Edward c. Cunliffe continues on the move, and the de- tectives are sill nosinE around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Governor Herrick has hoisted dis tress signals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Dothan Siftings: Secretary Shaw says that we must have an elastic currency. Yes, we should have 1t at once We need currency elastic enough so that even newspaper man can grasp enough of the stuff to meet current expenses, i'm cludng grocery and coal bills and still have enough to be able to buy a Christ mas gift. Secretary Shaw knows what we need
 Montgomery Advertiser: It must re- quire thick hide for newspaper to an- nounce, as the Philadelphia Inquirer does, that 1t is "the only republican paper in Philadelphia" It Is case, one would think where a newspaper would be glad to say that silence like poultice came" I other words we see nothing to boast of in being a republican in Phila- delphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Sheffield Standard: Red hair. according to the fashion authorities. will be popular this season. The red-headed girl has always been popular, though it is her red disposition. with its vivacity and aggres- siveness, that charms and allures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
TAKING IT EASILY
Scandal, scandal. everywhere, Seems we are all possessed, But the people causing 1t
 , Do not appear distressed.

The publishers Of Edward Arlington Robinson are distributing broadcast pos tai cards bearing an extract from Presi- dent Roosevelt's review of MT. Robln- sons poem. entitled "The Children of the Night" There is nothing like having a. President to boost your game. Mir Rob inson is trying to get where Parson wag- ner got. a young woman athlete of Toronto is professional spanker and makes money by assisting parents who tell the truth when they say to the prospective victim This hurts me more than It does you." No matter how poor specimen of hu- manity he may be, man nearly always finds one woman who will believe in him.
 THE REASON.
 Vanity fair
 Would seldom be late
 Without a hat --
 To keep on straight. Grover Cleveland says that Tboros Jenerson gives magnificent performance TT tHP V dH BlnKle or role which JO- seph Jefferson played with honor. The dramatic critics were not so compliment ary. as a whole. but MT. Cleveland runs counter to these experts without the ouiy- CT of an eyelid.
 MISS Mary Johnston, formerly of Bir- mingham, and a novelist who has won fame and fortune with her books. is a physical wreck, with scant hopes of ever being well again She Is paying the price Of success The roses of life become ashes when the capacity for enjoyment no longer exists Htists tH
 HE ALWAYS SPOKE HIS MIND.
 Fathers gone, but not forgotten.
 Never shall his memory fade;
 Tho he was a bit profane,, he
 He always called a spade a spade. Tn football game between Trinity and New York university a Trinity player bit a member of the opposing team. Presi- dent Roosevelt should immediately set the machinery in motion which will pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Headland Post: The editorial pages of the Atlanta Copstitution and the Atlanta Journal look badly blurred from the use of the many paragraphs set in black face type to make what they are saying of each other look bigger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Item; Perhaps MT. Rockefeller would like to have for his epitaph:'It was d-d mean of Ida"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Mobile Herald: Really, life Is too short and deeting to waste time with several upstate papers to whom the wish Is father to the thought that Robinson will not be candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. .i21 c street N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17

Eastern business office. rooms 45 to 50. Inclusive. Tribune building. New York City; western business office, Tribune building. Chicago. The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents foreign advertis- ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-17
Bram Stoker in the Pittsburg Post.

M oRTY- years ago, when
 S youth of IS. Henry Irving made his first appearance as an actor