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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
His speech sticks In my heart.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Not PREPARED to Saw.

Professor Oscar Lowell Triggs, FORM
erly of the university of Chicago.
where he taught English literature
and criticized Shakespeare and ex-
tolled John D. Rockefeller, finally out
ranking the former with the latter.
later sued the New York Sun for libel.
and was awarded at first a Judgment
OF six cents, and later on law point,
fifty dollars. In the course of the
trial Professor Triggs, who is now an
editor of a magazine devoted to liter
allure, and a popular lecturer before
women's clubs and other cultured
bodies, took the stand, and he, of
course, encountered a lawyer who pro-
oeeded to cross examine him The
New York Globe presents a section of
the cross-examination, as follows:
Q. You are a student of Shakespeare.
are you not? A. Yes, sir
@. You are very familiar with "Romeo
and Juliet?" A. Yes, sir
q. Who was Tybalt; do you know? A.
That is an examination in literature.
@, 1t is going to be such an examina-
ton as the court permits Who was w.
bait? A, | cannot answer at this mo-
ment
G. Who was Benvolio? A. He is a
character in the play
q With which bo,,ea 49,.
ed? A. Now at this moment the play
Is not fresh In my mind sir
@. What were the two houses whose
conduct were there depicted? A. I said
the play is not fresh in my mind
Q. What two great houses? A. can't
answer.
Q. Now call your attention in Act II.
Who was Mercutio? A, A character in
the play.
G. | suppose he was a character in the
play? A, At this moment | can't give
his relationship.
@. On which side was he? A. Well, I
can't say.
@. Was he on Romeos or was he on
INbalts2 A. The play has passed from
my mind at the present time, Mr. Bart
lett
@. You cannot tell us that? A. No, sir.
In the cross-examination the fact
was elected that Professor Oscar
Lowell Triggs, formerly of the Uni
versity of Chicago and now editor of
high-grade magazine, did not know
who wrote the famous couplet in MAUD
Muller" He was not, in fact, prepared
to say much in relation to English
literature. He demonstrated in a
word why he placed John d. Rookie
Teller a notch above William Shake
speare and almost any old thing
above Whittier or Longfellow. The
Triggsian method of weighing on the
one hand men in the literary world
and on the other hand men in the
Standard Oil is now plain and any
discussion of the matter is not at all
needful or pertinent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Cotton Manufacturers at Knoxville.

The cotton manufacturers of this
country met this week in Knoxville,
and the addresses covered nearly
every important feature of the giant
industry. The American Cotton Manu-
facturers' association represents the
spindles of this country, about one
| fifth of the whole number in the
world. The association had a modest
southern beginning in 1897, but its
membership now covers mills in all
parts of the country.
The chief object of the association
consists in promoting exports of cot
ton goods, and this is why the asso-
citation remains largely southern, for
the south is the chief exporter of
coarse cottons, and our exports are
almost wholly confined to coarse
goods. Our exports of cotton goods
in 1903 aggregated s32,000,000, and as
soon as the war In the Far East is
ended it is hoped that our exports of
cotton goods can be doubled, and per-
haps even more than that aggregate
can be sold abroad.
The association boldly advocates
the spinning of all American cotton in
American mills. We have at present
twenty-four million spindles. An adj
dition of eighty million spindles would
enable us to spin the entire American
crop, instead of permitting Great
Britain to spin flfty-five per cent of
the worlds cotton goods. In round
numbers we need four mills where we
have one. Jefferson county has but
one mill, and it must build three more
in order to do its part in spinning the
entire crop. Plenty of capital can be
procured for the building of cotton
mills in the south, because any we'll
managed mill in the south Is sure to
yield dividends and pay interest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

1904, including seed, is put at $685.
246, or nearly four million dollars
more than the crop of 1903 brought to
this state. The value of the entire
crop of last year is put below the
value of the crop of the previous
year. The average price of the crop
of 1904 is put at $3.50 cents, and the
average price of cotton seed at $14.15
a ton. Alabama has sixty cotton seed
oil mills that turned out 19,S0S bales
of linters.
Montgomery led all the counties in
production last year. its yield being
55,373 bales. Dallas comes next, 49,505
bales; Lowndes, 1922 bales; Maren-
go, 1866, and Pike, 1851 bales. Per-
ry and Bullock both fell below the
forty thousand-bal class.
McLennan county, Texas, made 81
09S bales; Hill county, Texas, 937o2;
Collin county, Texas, s6,241, and Ellis
county, Texas, 131, 69S bales. The
nearest rivals of the Texas counties
were orangeburg county, South Car
alma, that made 1896 bales, and
Bolivar county, Mississippi, which
turned out $3.50 bales.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
THE LAST MAN.

BY Thomas Campbell.
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,
The Sun himself must die.
Before this mortal shall assume
Its Immortality
| saw a vision in my sleep
That gave my spirit strength to sweep
Adown the gulf of Time.
l saw the last of human mold,
That shall Creations death behold,
As Adam saw her prime.
The Suns eye had a sickly glare;
The Earth with age was wan;
The skeletons of nations were
Around that lonely man!
Some had expired in fght-the brands
Still rusted in their bony hands,
In plague and famine sonnet
Earth's cities had no sound o. tread,
And ships We're drifting with the dead
To shores where all was dumb.
Yet, propbet-like, that lone one Stood
With dauntless words and high,
That shook the scar leaves from the wood
As. IL a storm passed by,
Saying: I'VE are twins in death. proud
Sun;
Thy face is cold, thy race is run;
tbs Mercy bids thee go;
For thou, ten thousand thousand years,
iihse seen the tue OF human TEARS
That shall no longer flow.
This spirit shall return to Him
That gave its heavenly spark;
Yet thing not, Sun, it shall be dim
When thou myself are dark,
No, 1t shall live again, and shine
In bliss unknown to beams of thine,
By Him recalled to breath,
Who captive led captivity,
Who robbed the grave of victory,
And took the sting from DEATH
Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up
On Natures awful waste.
To drink this last and bitter cup
or grief that man shall taste
Go, tell the Night that hides thy face,
Thou saw'st the last of Adams race,
On Earth's sepulchral clod.
The darkening universe defy
To quench his Immortality
Or shake his trust in Cod
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
HOW LONDON POLICE SET
TO WORK ON A BIG CASE

whose movements will, unknown to Them
selves, be traced for days back
That busness-like looking commercial
tarveler who lounges round the bookstal1
or near the booking office of one or more
of the great railway stations is also prob
ably man from the yard. The methods
vary according to circumstances but in
every direction there are the strong. mn
seen meshes of the police net. Up at
Scotland Yard the finger prints on the
piece of glass are being carefully COM
pared with some of the finger prints of
known criminals. For years finger prints
have been stored, and there are now on
register more than 60,OO0.
Prisoners have had to slightly ink their
fingers all around on a prepared slab.
and then place them on a piece of special
~ prepared paper turning them slowly
round by the direction of an official, until
an impression of all Ath, skin markings
has been left on the paper. Finally the
sets of finger prints are .indexed and stor-
ed away until wanted for comparison.
either with finger prints subsequently
taken or with accidental marks made by
escaping criminals, such as those left
on the piece of glass. Perhaps the finger
marks on the glass coincide with those Of
criminal who has not been seen or
mead OF for many months. An independ-
ent search is at once made for him, and
possibly some of his old acquaintance
are enlisted in the quest. He may have
been frequenter of all kinds of low dens.
Be sure that in every one of those dens
there is an official or unofficial repre-
sentative of Scotland Yard The milk
man coming up the court carrying .---e
cans may be yard man, for all kind. 81
DISCUSSES are brought into use. And a.
in score of different ways strenussa
Scotland Yard sets its silent machin afe
In motion for the cause of justice. ms
criminal who escapes from the ring fec
may esteem himself fortunate. Day IS,
day in any particular case the ring +
drawn tighter and the criminal is X
within the region of his crime There
much less undiscovered crime than is
posed. The police often know the or IA
inal. but lack sufficient legal evidence
prove the case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
From the Iandon Mail.


~ IRECTLY big, mysterious crime
U) occurs In London. Scotland Yard
l. throws over the metropolis a
strong but invisible net, from which only
the very lucky or the very clever criminal
can escape. When you consider that the
London over which Scotland Yard has
power has a radius of fifteen miles from
Charing Cross you will understand the
wonderful nature of the police organlza-
ton. Within a few hours of the discov-
cry of sensational crime, the author of
which has escaped. the six millions Of
surveillance.
Imagine terrible murder such as that
at Deptford a few days ago. The local
police Immediately communicated with
Scotland Yard, giving the facts-stating
for example, that three people had been
murdered in a house, and that fair
haired man of 40 wearing long gray
overcoat has been seen to leave the house.
From Scotland Yard these radiate to the
twenty-one metropolitan police divisions
from the IA or Whitehall district to the
"Y' or Highgate district, such facts as
the authorities in the great central build
ing on the Embankment think it neces-
sary should be known. 1t is then only a
matter of a few hours before the police
men in the streets are keeping their eyes
open for a fair-hared man of 40 wearing
a long gray overcoat. But this is only
the beginning of the work. One of the
chief detectives of Scotland Yard is on
the scene of the crime as quickly as 1t
is possible for him to get there, and pos
sibly the assistant commissioner himself
rushes down on his motor car The chiefs,
with their assistant, make thorough
examination of the place and take photo
graphs.
piece of glass bearing the marks of
two fingers is sent off at once to Scotland
Yard. 1t has been decided that the crimi-
nal is a casual laborer, and there is a
detective quietly watching every COM
mon lodging house within radius of
miles. Meanwhile one of the senior detec-
tives at the yard with memory stored
with the names of each of the desper-
ate habitual criminals who might be like
IN to commit such a crime. has SET on
foot a search for each of these men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Pay for Soldiers.

II notice that the state authorities in
Montgomery are hesitating about paying
the Birmingham soldiers who spent last
week in Decatur a full weeks pay" re-
marked an ex-officer in the Alabama Ma
tional gaurd last night.
while it Is true, as / understand Ii,
that the officers in charge ofsthe provis-
ional company received orders to report
ready for the trip on Monday morning
early, still it was necessary for the men
to spend the night in Nheir armory before
making the trip, in order that squads
could be assigned equipment issued and
other details looked after. On the other
hand many states pay the enlisted men
not less than 81 per diem for riot duty.
while in Alabama they only receive 81
cents per day. l am in favor of the sol
diers getting all that is due them, as they
certainly work hard for their pay.
I'm many states there is an appropria-
ton made for uniforms for the officers
of the National guard. But such is not the
case in Alabama. The commissioned Off
GERS in this state are required to purchase
their own equipment and it amounts to
considerable too. The regulation now pro-
vides that all officers shall purchase,
out of their own pockets, at least two
uniforms and there are many other ex-
tras, which makes the honor of being an
officer in the Alabama National guard
quite an expensive thing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
main a surplus of about ten million

main a surplus of about ten million
dollars.
Who owns this super-surplus of ten
millions? President Alexander and
Actuary Van else agree in saying it
belongs to the policy holders. 1t came
at any rate from their pockets.
But the Equitable is not a mutual
society. 1t is controlled by stock
holders, the par value of whose hold
ings are 100000. upon which divi-
dends not exceeding seven per cent
can be paid. James Hazen HYDE owns
or controls a majority of the stock
from which he receives a modest in
come. And yet he has been offered
seven million dollars for his holdings
of Equitable stock. What does this
mean? How can 100000 of stock
limited to seven per cent dividends be
worth seven million dollars? Is the
inflated value due to the supersurplus,
or to something else?
Actuary Van else, who has been
in office thirty-eight years, declares
that he has always assumed that the
entire surplus of the society belonged
to its policy-holders If this be true,
then the men who offered seven mil
lions for James H. Hyde's holdings
would either have purchased a gold
brick, or else they had Interior de-
signs not consistent with the best in
terests of the policy holders.
1t is very plain at any rate that an
investigation of Equitable affairs
should be followed by some conclusive
and controlling determination of the
interests of policy holders in funds
that came from their pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
FASCINATING BURGLAR.
Leads Friend Into Crime BY Sheer
Magnetism.

In the Sundays Age-Herald the first
story in a series of thirteen thrilling adj
ventures that befell Raffes, the amateur
craftsman, will be related. THE 1des
of March" tells how Raffes induced Bum
ny to start out on a career of crime and
how Raffles made rich haul from a
friend of his who was also a jeweler.
For sustained interest and charm of mar
ration you could not find a better story
than 1.-THE Ides of March," Read it in
The Age-Herald tomorrow morning and
you will feel like cracking a safe your
self
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
1t makes most any man feel honest not
to be In politics.
It's awful hard for a girl not to have
an innocent look If she doesn't feel so.
There would be a whole lot of money
in inventing some thing that would make
money unnecessary.
woman likes 10 contradict you when
she ought not to so you won't be sur
prised that she doesn't when she ought
TO.
There is a slight difference between be-
ing a bachelor and having all his money
left over at the end of the month, to
buy the girl he likes 81 worth of flowers
and being married to her and borrowing
car fare from her two weeks before every
pay day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
ALABAMA PRESS
Young Men Needed.

From the Huntsville Tribune.
Some of the leading journals of Alabama
are beginning to evince the necessity of
having younger men at the editorial desk.
The present editors are living too much
In the past suffering from too much
memory and oblivious that those incidents
which interest them, often fail to interest
the younger and perhaps more vigorous
element. Old men are fitted better for
consulting advisors than for efficient Lead
ership. Long laborious editorials, class
seldom read. Is one of the evidences of
advanced age.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
IN HOTEL IOBBIEs
Has Faith In This Section.

trict about once every year" remark
ed W. H. Long. mayor of carnllton, Ca.
who was in the city yesterday, and am
always interested in the Improvements
find going on.
7 have some interests in Walker coun-
ty and have sreat faith in the future Of
this section. Walker county is growing
very rapidly and is destined TO become
enc of the foremost counties In the state
in industrial development.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
BLOW TO DRAMA.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Pugilist Jeffries declares, Furthermore.
that he will retire from the drama at the
end OF the present season. This, coming
right after the death of Mr.. jefferson
and the farewell appearance of Modjeska.
will leave the drama pretty wobbly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Sure to Meet Them.

From the Mobile Register.
If there is such thing as spiritual
recognition after death, Johann Hoeh will
have an interesting time, whether he goes
up yonder" or down below" He will
probably meet wives in either place. and
1t is safe to say that explanations" will
not be altogether satisfactory
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
suRE-THlNG BET.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Kansas man has made bet that
he could invent question to which fifty
people would all give the same answer.
The experiment has been tried and it
works like charm. The question is this:
Have you heard that Smith has COM
mitted suicide?" Answer: What Smith,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Elephants In Memphis.

From the Marion County News.
The News-Scimitar is advising the chill
dren of Memphis to buy an elephant.
There are several elephants right in the
heart of that city that seem much harder
to manage than a real live one would be
for the children
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
THE cUckoo's DEPARTURE.

From the Chicago News.
Darling" whispered the ardent suit
or, may l press you with my manly
arm?''
II am from Missouri replied the
beautiful girl, land you will have to
show me-"
SHOW you what?"
Proof that you belong to the Pressers
union.''
With wild shrek the cuckoo jumped
out of the clock and flew out of the
window
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Ownership OF the super-surpIus.

President Alexander of the Equita-
BILE Life officially stated not long ago
that if every outstanding Equitable
policy were to be paid today-every
last obligation to policy-holders dis
charged and every possible contin-
eency as to policy-holders' claims
provided for-there would still re-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Takes the SWag.


From the Centreville Press.
Jim Jeffries, the champion heavy weight
pugilist, has announced his decision to re-
tire from the ring and stage. He says he
does so on the solicitation of his wife.
lie retires with the 'swag,' however.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Looks SUSPICIOUS.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Rider Haggard declares that the people
of the United States have but one fault
they are too hospitabe" We suspect
that Rider has been suffering from that
"oh. what a difference in the morning"
feeling.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

Nan Patterson is out. At last the pub
lie will cease to be interested in the
tribulations of the former "Florodora'
girl, after viewing three of the most sem
sational murder trials that have taken
place in this country during recent years.
Now for the future. Will the billboards
next season bear N gigantic letters. Nan
Patterson, Heroine of the Tombs, in Skin
te-People's Metropolitan Musical Come
dy Success, The Fireflyg" VIII her
name be prominent in t book lists of
some we'll known publishing house? VIII
she write for the Sunday papers? Will
she go on the lecture platform or retire
to the peace and virtues of private life?
Let us hope for the best.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Hard to Beat.

From the Alfalfa Mirror.
magazine writer wants to know the
four sweetest words in the English Ian
guage. Enclosed please find check" is
quartet that is hard to beat when adj
dressed to a newspaper man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Raising Hons.

From the Florence Times.
We don't know what 1t costs to raise
hogs in Alabama, but 1t costs our people
anywhere from to Is cents pound to
raise them in Illinois,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
Mr.. BRYAN WORRIED,

From the Washington Post.
Colonel Bryan says he is worried over
the treasury deficit, He may be worried
as a citizen, but as politician he is prob
ably tickled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
CAUSE For Hurry.
Hold the lid, for | am coming
Is what the President wired;
Soon the answer came from Taft.
Make haste, I'm getting tired"

The slang word dope" has had a Gu
rious career. The origin of all such ex-
pressions popular among the .'peepul' is
a matter of doubt, but it seems probable
that dope" was first applied generally to
those drugs which persons of weak calibre
use to stultify their brains. Under the
head of the original dope" could be clas-
sified morphine, cocaine, now more widely
known as coke; opium, laudanum,
choral and compounds of these drugs.
Now the word is applied to race track
"facks,' baseball literature, press agents
compositions, sporting news of all kinds,
a dozen or more soft drinks dispensed at
soda fountains and is often used in a
spirit of levity to designate any sort of
information Dope is picturesque and
expressive word. While 1t has not yet
attained to a place in standard diction-
aries and is not deemed fit for polite So
ciety, the day Is probably not far distant
when 1t will take its place in the works
of all up-to-date photographers.
The limit has been reached. A cigar has
been named after Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch" If anybody can beat
that he ought to step out into the glare
of the limelight,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

The Loomis-Bowen incident does
not bother the President half so much
as the ggray wolves of the Senate do.
How to circumvent the latter is his
chief task
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13
The Candidates.

From the Greenville Living Truth.
About this time next year the woods
will be full of candidates telling the dear
people why they should be elected to Of
flee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

No doubt there are places where
women can dress on $65 a year-in
the South Sea islands, for example,
or in Darkest Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

Hereafter John D. Rockefeller is
going to adopt new system of giving
away money, and hopes thus to pull
the wool over the eyes of his bene-
ficiaries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

Nan Patterson is ready to trans
fer the limelight space to Togo or
even to Rojestyensky. She wants to
be a baby now and has no use for a
limelight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

FORMS.

The printer locked his form up tight,
He thought of Clara's charms,
Then FASTENED out to Clara's house,
And locked hers in his arms.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

Nan Patterson would have been
acquitted if the jury had not feaNd
she would attempt at once to elevate
the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-13

The eastern tourist who reported
that he shaved with a razorback hog
every morning he was in Georgia was
probably exaggerating.