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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
FAMOUS PRISON WHERE
DANTES WAS CONFINED

refused to eat or drink. With a piece of
| charcoal he wrote on the wall the torture
which he endured He died on the twelfth
day
John Paul, a sailor, for slapping his
commander, died in 1779, after thirty-one
years Of captivity
| "Marquise De Lavalette, the minister of
! finance under Louis VIII, for disloyalty
to the King.
ALBERT Campo, for having published the
secret of a prison which he had discov-
! cred.
Paul and Louis Martel, imprisoned for
| life on the suspicion of murder.
"Boissow, a religious fanatic, who made
an attempt upon the life of a Protestant
nobleman.
'Lajolais, for an attempt to assassinats
Consul Napoleon before he became En-
peror.
Prince Casimir, brother CT Ladislas VII.
King of Poland. imprisoned by Napoleon
Z on having betrayed the French and
serving the Spanish.
Louise PHILIPPE D'Orleans, father Of
King Louise Philippe, for siding with the
revoutionists In 1893.
'Mirabeau, for general INSTRUMENTATION,
dueling and publishing inflammatory writ
ings aaginst the Royalists.
"Chevalier De Ballesterous, consul from
Spain at Bayonne, imprisoned by order of
Napoleon 1. for opposing and interfering
with the introduction of the Napoleonio
law codes.
This castle was crowded with political
prisoners sentenced during and immediate-
ly before the revolution of 1888. when 1t
was possible for the leaders to order the
arrest and Imprisonment of any citizen
without trial and upon suspicion or
"trumped-up" charges.
Napoleon l., during his early reign, SEN
fenced many of his opposers to this iso-
lated dungeon.
I'm 1858 over 400 persons, principally
political agitators, were imprisoned here
for an attempted plot to overthrow the
government and as late as 1871 during the
commune, 500 were massed together in
this limited space, sentenced as partici-
pants in the revolt against the govern
| ment
Since France has become a republic
new prisons have been erected through
out the land and the dungeon on the lie
DIFF is now deserted, but its dark and
grewsome history Of the past can never
be blotted out.
Il left it with an indelible impression
after having been conducted through the
empty prison cells"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
Interesting Brochure.

An interesting and instructive brochure
entitled 'The Mission of Francis Scott
Key to Alabal- a In 1881" by Thomas
Chalmers McC 3rvey, has been received at
this office Colonel McCorvey holds the
chair of history and political economy
at the University of Alabama and his
paper is Reprint No. 6 in a series issued
by the Alabam;. Historical society.
1t was Francis Scott Key who wrote
the national anti EN-, THE Star Spangled
Banner" and his mission to Alabama in
1888 was to represent TIL federal govern
ment in negotiations resulting from a
conflict of federal and state authority in
the district lying within Alabama which
had been coded to the United States by
the Creek Indians In the treaty of
Cuseta, made in 1892
Colonel Mccorvey gives a lucid and
scholarly account Of the events connected
with Keys visit to Tuscaloosa. Carefully
prepared notes make his pamphlet of un-
usual value.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

II E. JENNER gives description
IO)I to the Milwaukee Wisconsin o.
III the castle made famous by Alex
ander Dumas in his novel of Monte Girls
to-"
"who has not read the Count of Monte
Cristo and formed an opinion as to its
possibilities? l had my doubts regarding
its truthfulness for the terrible tale seems
to appear exaggerated and impossible, but
l am now convinced that Dumas has in
tended to place before us fairly accurate
picture of the grewsome prison of bygone
days.
During my travels In South France
while stopping at Marseiles, l had an OPP
portunity to join a small party In a
steamer plying between the city and a
group of islands in the Mediterranean sea
belonging to France The smallest OF this
group, a solid rock, not more than a
quarter of a mile in circumference, rising
almost upright out of the water and ac-
cessible only on one side by steps hewn
into the rock. is known as the lie diff.
ION this rock is built the celebrated
prison or castle which Dumas has immor-
talized in his Monte Cristo.'
The keep or dungeon was constructed
in 1929 by King Francis l. to imprison his
captives after the victorious battles with
his adversary, the Duke Of Bourbon, ans
subsequently used for centuries by the
later kings as a state prison. 1t was
known at that time as the Bas.ile of the
South
1.-THE outside walls are 10 feet thick.
In the middle Is a small open court suffi-
cient to give light to the entrances of
fourteen encircling cells, which are divid-
ed by partition walls 10 feet thick. and
can be entered by one small opening from
the inner court
Directly opposite the entrance to the
court Is the cell which was occupied by
Edward Dantes, made famous by Alexan-
der Dumas as the hero--the Count of
Monte Cristo.' Dantes and the Abpe Faria.
who was sentenced by order of the Pope
as a conspirator. each passed sixteen
years of their lives in these cells.
1.-THE suffering of these and other I'M
happy prisoners who were confined here
must have been horrible. TIE cells lack
air and light. The walls, ceiling and floors
are Of solid stone and escape was utterly
impossible. 1t being veritable sepulcher.
In going through the psison one feels
that from behind these walls you hear the
cry of suffering-the last breath and rat
tie of those who died in despair.
All of the other cells are labeled with
the names of the most prominent prison
ers who had been incarcerated therein.
Among these were:
"Bernardot, a rich trader. who had been
arrested on suspicion of having designs
against Cardinal RichelIeu. lie resolved
to die of starvation. and for eleven days
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
Miniature Railroad Popular.

Although 1t rained last Sunday, the
opening day at East Lake park small
matter like inclement weather could not
keep the crowds away from the minia-
ture railway" said Manager Semon. This
is an amusement enterprise that has been
started at the lake for this season and
promises to prove immensely popular.
"All Sunday afternoon the people we're
riding arounu the lake on the miniature
railway, regardless of the downpour. En-
gneer Stone of the East Lake Scenic
Route was kept busy making trips and
when darkness fell 1t was found that
the amount Of money taken in was far
beyond the most sansuine expectations.
1T is believed that il last Sunday had
been a pleasant day the miniature rail-
way would have been gswamped with
traffic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
New EnqIand Cotton Mills

President Wa1msley of the New
England Cotton Manufacturers asso-
citation Is a man who delights to
mount the rostrum. Instead of whis-
Ting to keep his courage up as he
goes along in the New England grave
yard, he mounts the rostrum and I'M
bosoms himself He assures New Eng
land that its cotton industry is not
languishing, and will not languish at
any time that can be foreseen.
He admits that New England is
pressed by southern competition. and
in the contest that has arisen New
England is far alike from the cotton
and the coal fields. He sees, however,
hope in the fact that New England
rivers will soon be harnessed to fur
nish electrical power for it's cotton
mills, thus cutting out the fuel prob
lem altogether. New England, too, is
land, and the cotton mills of the latter
are exceptionally prosperous.
President Walmsley tells the New
England people, however, that they
should get ready for long and trying
struggle. Their mills, he says, need
undermining, some of them reaching
back to the days of Samuel Slater,
nearly one hundred years ago He
appeals to the labor unions to see that
no obstacles are put in the way of the
installation of improved machinery.
Besides new machinery and electrical
power, President Walmsley asks for
more technical training of young men
into whose hands the mills will soon
come. These changes, together with
more liberal treatment of operatives
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
THE WHEEL.

By Tennyson.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower
the proud
Turn thy wild wheel through nNsAsne
storm and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor
hate.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile
or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or
down;
Our hoard is little but our hearts are
great.
Smiles and we smile, the lords Of many
lands;
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own
hands;
For man is man and master of his fate.
Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring
crowd;
Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the
cloud
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor
hate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
Bridal Couple Create interest.

There are few things in the world
people never tire Of" said a commercial
traveller at the Morris last night. Ev-
erybody is interested in marriage. Few
people grow too old o. too surfeited with
the affairs of the world to revive and
take notice when Hymen unites man
and woman.
Il was on a sleeper the other night
when a bridal party boarded the train.
was in the smoking compartment doing
a little wooing myself but at the shrine
of Lady Nicotine, when without warn
ing, | received an old shoe. 1t whizzed
past my head, and a handful of rice
found Judgment in my hair, down my
collar and ali over that end of the car
On stepping into the aisle | found all the
passengers haa been treated to a dose
of the rice, and the bride and groom
were just receiving a farewell shower
from their friends The bride looked
as if she had been 'hazed' to the point of
absolute Indifference, but the groom was
bored and freted
"Of course they were the eynosure of
every passenger Quite a number of
ladies' were on the train-women of ma
ture age-and they eyed the couple with
more interest ttan any other passengers.
l wouldn't have been surprised at any
interest shown by party of young peo-
pie, but l think these elderly women
who had had honeymoon of their own
should have e1rbed their curiosity, but
the last thing l saw when leaving the
coach about II clock was an iron gray
coiffure protrudng from the green cur
tains and pair of inquisitlve eyes look
ing down the aisle towards No. TO-"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

a class of recipients of the most SEN
sitive Washington GLADDEN. sort. Let
the millionaire. adds the Mail, "toil
upward, doing good and gaining credit
in grade after grade while giving Of
Tense to none. until he has achieved
the distinction of having his gifts
found acceptable by those whose good
opinion gold could not buy"
No doubt the Mails graduated scale
is philosophic and truly just, but it
should not be adopted until the mil
lionaires have been given an oppor-
tunity to be heard. They may desire
to change the classification in small
particulars, and The Age-Herald sees
no reason why they are not entitled
to word showed in edgewise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
WATCH THIS BOY.

From Centralia (N1o) Courier.
An exchange asks what has become
of the boy in patches?' Why bless your
soul. he is out on the farm hopping
clouds sixteen hours a day. He will come
to town after "a while to run the banks
and the stores and be the successful law
yers and preachers and physicians. Don't
worry about the boy in the patches. It's
the slick-looking, store-clothed nicely
groomed lad you want to inquire about.
He's the fellow that's going to drop
through a crack in the sidewalk out of
sight one of these days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
He Plays the Jewsharp.

Every one should Ia 2 some means
of musical diversion" said a somewhat
prosaic citizen last night at the Morris.
When I was a boy I learned TO play
skilfully on the jewsharp. 1t is the only
musical instrument that I know any
thing of. For more than forty years now
it has given me almost daily delight.
When business is ever for the day and
l have nothing else to do, and yet feel
as though | don't wish to be doing MOTH
ing, take out my jewsharp and while the
time away
1T puts me in a good humor with
myself, and with all the world. For
that reason l think every one should
know how to get harmony out of some
sort of musical instrument, be it a piano
or a jewsharp. The world would be hap
pier Of this were the CASE
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

n the Architectural Record for May
appears a most interesting and en-
! tertaining article by ]. Robbie Ken
nedy. Under the general caption of THE
Greek Revival of the Far South Mr..
Kennedy describes the beautiful old man
sons of Tuscaloosa which have made
that town famous in song and story. Mr..
Kennedys home is in Tuscaloosa. He is
an architect and artist of much ability,
and the stately dwellings which he writes
about have been familiar to him from
boyhood. The paper is magnifieently IL
Illustrated with views of some of the most
handsome examples of Greek architect
ure in Tuscaloosa, including the presi-
dents mansion of the State university, the
Battle house, the Spencer house, the old
state capitol, the Snow home. the i'm
posing Cochrane mansion and the old Gov
errors mansion All of these homes are
remarkably we'll preserved, and while no
picture could do justice to the simple dig
nifty and chaste beauty of design which
distinguishes them one may CLEAN some
idea of the structures that make Tusca-
loosa one of the most pictureque towns
in the south. Nowhere could better OPP
portunities be found for the study of a
style of architecture which has become
Enthusiastically southern.
The announcement is made that the
Hon. Seth Low, former mayor of New
York, has purchased farm in New DIRK
state and will establish himself there to
live the simple life, conduct a stable and
breed blooded cattle. What an ideal life
for our retired statesmen and politicians!
After the storm and stress of political
battle and the strenuous endeavors neces-
sary to head off investigation commit
tees there must be 81 netting both at
tractive and appealing in the life of a
farmer The secret of what to do with our
ex-Presidents might be solved by making
them farmers. Grover is too old to learn
new tricks, but In the future the scheme
might prove feasible. Mr.. Low deserves
the enthusiastic applause of the people
for deciding on agriculture and stock
raising instead of literature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
~ pay, as follows


This table shows in short that sal
aries in the richer colleges average
about $4,000. In colleges less large and
less rich salaries range from $1,000 to
$500, the latter sum being a maxi
mum in not a few colleges of wide
reputation 1t should be mentioned,
too, that the highest salaries in all
colleges are paid to law professors or
in the medical school, or in some
branch of a technical school, The pro-
fessors in the Harvard law school, for
example, receive salaries ranging from
$3.50 to $4,000.
Salaries have been increased in all
colleges in tho last thirty years, and
DR.. Thwing thinks the salaries of col
lege professors now stand at about the
salaries paid to clergymen in the re-
spective college towns. Some physi-
clans and some lawyers earn more,
but the average earnings of either
class of professional men does not
probably exceed the salaries paid to
those alongside them who fill AGA
demic chairs.
The subject acquires fresh interest
from the fact that Mr.. Carnegie pro-
poses to pension aged college pro-
fessors-a proposition that is every
much-needed gift.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
hitched to a Star.

From the Tuscaloosa Times Gazette.
Birmingham is setting her stakes high
but we hope her ideal of progress will
be realized. BY the time the population
and wealth measure up to those of Pitts
burg we may confidently expect few
more people and a surplus dollar or two
in this neck of the woods.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
POPULAR FALLAcY.

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal
That a white man should be the first to
suffer under Kentucky's new chicken
stealing law comes as a severe blow to
an old tradition. No doubt, Just because
people miss their favorite pullets or hear
speaking in the hen house they jump
at unwarranted conclusions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
One way to be clever is not to think
you are too ALTERED clever
A man feels cheaper about swearing OF
than for being locked up in a police sta
ton for not doing 1t.
A woman would rather not be rich and
have them think she wasn't.
A woman is never so afraid of catching
cold in the wet when she has on 16S'
shoes and openwork stockings as a man is
In rubber boots.
When a man goes out without an UNI
brella and gets caught in a rain ne acts
as IL he ought to be allowed to sue the
government for having a weather bureau.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
THE TIM e.
From Puck.

From PUCK.
Mrs. cLubberty-Phwat tonne is ut
Murty? Die clock stopped dhe-day.
McLubberty docking at his watch)-
Nome o'clock me dear.
''Whoy Oh fought ut was tin, at laste"
"Uts niver more dhan noine o'clock at
dhis tonne in dhe avenin''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
Time to Run.

From the Admission Hot Blast
A Colorado clergyman says that the
world has but two more years to exist
and a professor of an eastern univer-
sity declares that the United States will
be ruled by an emperor in twenty-five
years Isn't it about time to take to the
woods?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

"The fatal gift of beauty" What a
trte and hackneyed phrase that has come
down through the avenues of time and is
brought into play by the headline artist
every time some worthless rake goes to
the dogs for lack of will power. OF all
the excuses in the human category none
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
Good Old Days.

From the Gadsden Times-News.
Speaking about 1.-The good old days.
the only kind we'd give a snap for would
be a return of those days werein we were
a barefoot boy, clad in roundabout and
headed for grandma's over Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
One EXPLANATION.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Senator Proctor of Vermont says maple
syrup doesn't taste as good now as 1t
did when he was boy. Perhaps they are
using an inferior brand of corncobs now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
ALABAMA PRESS
The Rub.

From the Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette.
Nan Patterson probably didn't kill Gaze
sar Young, but it is hard to find sympa-
thy for woman who was carrying on a
love affair with another womans hus-
band.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

In Pittsburg multi-millionaires who
go home at o'clock in the morning
are carted off to the police station and
locked in with hoboes. 1t is a very
democratic town, and deserves to
prosper.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
A SAFE PLAY.

From the New York Herald.
Fashion writer says the up to date wo-
man has taken to half hose. Smart hus-
bands will get up first" hereafter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

The quartette that sang to young
Rockefeller's class for $40 a week has
been discharged. John d., Jr., is no
doubt trying to make up for that
European trip.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
Pay Of Professors.

President Thwing of Western Re-
serve university discusses in Harper's
Weekly the pay which college pro-
fessors in this country receive. He
presents a table covering the larger
and richer colleges, showing the sal
aries they pay, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Chicago and Warsaw are full of I'M
rest and guns, the storm centers OF
the world now that the war in the far
east has lapsed into inocuous deseu-
tudp
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

The theatrical trust may be gen
tlemens agreement, but the members
of it are the new kind of gentlemen
who believe in getting all there is in
sight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Nine hundred new variable stars
have been discovered. They are not
theatrical stars, although the latter
are extremely variable.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

In western Kansas the Parsifal COM
pany makes the intermission long
enough to let the people in the audi
ence go home to milk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

John e. Gowdy aspires to be the
governor of Indiana. Like our own
Cunningham, he doesn't mind saying
that the place looks good to him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03
HEAVENLY HOGS STOLEN.

From the Enterprise (Ore.) Cheftain.
Two fat hogs were missed from a hog
pen recently in Paradise. Somebody had
better look out, there are breakers ahead.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

The fish this spring are kinder to
Grover Cleveland than the women
who are beginning to assail his rhet-
oric. 5000 words long.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

We are prone to talk about Darkest
Russia but the presen. aspect of the
transfers strike in Chicago is enough
to give us pause. From all reports the
first day of May as quieter in st. Peters,
burg than it was in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Catalogues from Florida are selling for
40 cents each in Boston and are in de-
mand. There is nothing of an emotional
nature in this announcement 1t Is mere
ly another reminder that diversified farm
ing pays in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Private Secretary Loeb kills no
bears and gets no vacation. He gets
sued by Miss Mae Wood, which Is ex-
citement enough.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

1t is reported that Garfield has the
oil trust badly faded in California, but
that is speaking figuratively.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Edward Atkinson probably intended
to put binders on his women who are
to dress on $65 year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

The photographers have been very
of Admiral Negobatoff's
name. although the temptation to pun
is immense.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Paderewsk will not be able to pun
ish any pianos for some time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Marie Cahill has entered the Lillian
Russell class as a high-handed scrap
per and is out of ut Happened In
Nordland.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

If the remaining red men of the west
have any enterprise they will hasten
forthwith to sign contracts for engage
ments along the Trail at Portland. 1t is
hardly probable that the Lewis and Clark
exposition will open for business without
a wild west show
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

Alas, the public school teachers are
not professors! They deserve to be,
or something better.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

The citizens of Eden, Ala, will wear
straw hats this summer just like
everybody else.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-03

The New York stock market is try
ing to brace up after a long spell of
dissipation with its necessary relapse.