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The sun., 1905-12-07
POCkETBOOk CAME BACK.
Mr.. vincent's Queer Experience With Two
JOstling Men on a Car Platform.

When George n. Vincent, who has an
Office at Sixth avenue and Twelfth street
started for his home in Newark at 0 O'Clock
last Monday night, he had 500 in his pocket
book in his hip pocket. He boarded a
Christopher street car for the D. L. Il w.
ferry and stood on the platform along with
seven or eight other men.
At Hudson street he became aware of
the fact that some one was lostling him
with unnecessary vigor, Managing to
turn his head he saw a tall dark man and
a short, light man who looked keen enough
to turn pocketbook trick on rear plat
form. Another block passed and on the
spur of an elbow dug savagely into his back
he became suspicious. His ha:d shot TO
his pocket; it was empty
Instead of acCOsting the tall, dark man
with the cruel elbow, Mr.. Vincent grabbed
the little light haired man, who stood beside
him, and demanded his pocketbook. The
man protested, but Mr.. Vincent dragged him
to the street, and threatened him with all
sorts of things if he didn't give up.
Il amt got your money; but perhaps he
has, said he fair man, pointing up Christie
pher where the tall, dark man was eisurely
sauntering along.
Mr. Vincent started after him and the
tail, dark man began to steam up Little
Mr.. Vincent began to trot and the dark
man skipped up the street like a yearling
goat. Presently Mr.. Vincent got close
enough to hail him, but the man dissp-
peared in a saloon. Mr.. Vincent reered In
didn't like the looks of the crowd and went
on to Newark.
When Mr.. Vincent turned up at his office
Tuesday morning he found on his desk a
long, brown envelope with five two cent
stamps in the corner posi- ma rked Station b.
He onened it and found his pocketbook
with the contents intact.
Mr.. Vincent has no other explanation
than thai the man dropped it and some
honest man picked it up.
The sun., 1905-12-07
Negro Murder suspects Arrested.

KINGSTON, n. Y, Dec. 8.--Cornell Van
Gaasbeck a ne gro suspected Of numbering
Oscar Harrison, a white man, Sunday
night at Vandae, near Woodstock, was
arrested at Cairo Greene county this after
noon. Van Gaasbeck had walked about
twenty-five miles over the Overlook Noun
tain from Ulster into Greene county. The
murderer man was found in the negro's
shanty with hls head battered in Tuesday
mornlng Arthur George and Hiram Canine,
negroes, who lived in a shanty near where
the murder was committed, suspected
alsc, are under arrest.
The sun., 1905-12-07

FITTINGS FOR DESK OR LIBRARY TABLE
STATIONERY REQUISITES OF BRASS OR LEATHER,
INCLUDING DESK SETS AND TRAVELLING CASES; GOLD
SILVER AND GUN METAL PENCILS STATIONERY
IN APPROPRIATE BOXES.
The sun., 1905-12-07
90. Altntt1tt g. On.
ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS.

Porcelain Vases and Framed Porcelans; Large
and Miniature Bronzes; Marble Busts and Statuettes;
Pedestas and Cabinets Bronze Electroiers;
Library Table Lamps Clocks and Clock Sets;
Limoges Enamels and Ivory Miniatures and
variety Of objects for Cuno Table or Cabinet.
The sun., 1905-12-07
HEARTLEss CORPORATION sTrNG
Must Pay Mrs. Green $500 for Scaldns
Her Own Feet.


Albyna Green janitress at 2s4 Avenue B.
got verdict for 500 yesterday in the Su.
preme Court before Justice Blanchard and
jury against the New Amsterdam Gas
Company for an assault committed Oh her
by John Rooney, a m ter inspector
Mrs. Green said sne had been awakened
early one morning. by a furious knocking
at the door. Arming herself with poker
she inquired who was there, Rooney,
from without, told her she must he crazy
to obstruct his entry, whereat she went for
him. Rooney grabbed her poker hand and
forced his way in, she testified. Then. as
she remembered it, he hurled a ii yhted lamp
at her, and she retaiated with kettleful
of boiling water. ler aim was poor and
she 81 al ded her own feet For this scalding
she sued for 500, COO dana yes.
Rooney denied that he had done anything
save protect himself from Mrs Green \
vigorous attack, he complained that he
was scalded himself,
The sun., 1905-12-07
Citizens Drive Away hank Robbers,

FAIRLASD Ind, Dec. 6.--Aroused by a
terrific explosion early this morning, citi-
zens found that four robbers had blown
open the safe w the bank OF Robert Smith
Twenty shots were exchanged between the
robbers and citizens. The robbers were
frightened away beft re they got any money
The sun., 1905-12-07

FANS UMBRELLA HANDLES AND JEWELED
NOVELTIES.
Fans in Old French Designs. painted after the
styles Of Louis XIV Regence Gncluding hand
painted Watteau Fans) Louis XVI and the
Empire also Lace and Vernis Martin Fans,
Umbrella Handles Of Gold and Silver. Carved
Ivory. Rock Crystal and Gun Metal. Jeweed
Collars Lorgnettes and Chateaines Antique
Beaded Bags. with jeweled frames; Novelties in
Jet and Cut Steel
The sun., 1905-12-07
FOR SALE.

S.Ss-----sS Billiard and Pool Tables Soidly
Yf1sVEaST7pU made high grade goods. Light.
" ming, accurate, durable cushions
Decker, est. 1850. los East 9th o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
"ls that the Iaw?"
 Merchant of Venice.
Passing of the Locomotive.

Electric locomotives are to be placed, as soon as they can be con structed upon the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad, between New York and Stamford, or about fifty miles of track, and the expectation is that they will soon thereafter draw trains from New York to Boston. The New York Central has decided to use electric locomotives over forty miles of track leading out of New York city. The Long Island railroad has decided to abolish the steam locomotive alto gether, and the tunnel lines of the Pennsylvania in and about New York are to be equipped with electric power.
 These changes are significant. The roads in question are strong, pro- gressive companies, and what they adopt will be widely adopted in other parts of the country, especially where. 
 water power is available for the pro duction of electricity. The locomo- tives spoken of are of the strange sort No great railroad can afford to depend upon the energy of a wire. for any ac- cident to that wire would paralyze the entire system. It has not been thought that the storage system had been improved to the point of feasi. bility and efficiency, but it certainly has been If the companies named in this article are willing to spend large sums in securing it's installation.
 This beginning means the passing of the steam locomotive, which has served the country excellently about three-quarters of century. It has been more useful than any other one thing to the men who developed the country, and extended it from sea to sea. It was the pride of the last cen. tury. but 1t and George Stephenson must give way to the wizard power of Edison and other electricians of the new century. Nothing is stable in this world. Nothing endures except nature herself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
Good Weather and Good Crops.

This country will have a great deal to be thankful for when Thanksgiving day comes next month. The harvest season has been fine throughout. The entire country is enjoying delightful October. It ripened the corn and it is opening daily the top cotton bolls. Tho frosts have been too light to do any harm to the crops. The corn had been hardened against 1t, even in Min nesota, and 1t did not harm the un- opened cotton bolls.
 It is impossible to count the corn crop as the bales of cotton are counted at the gin, but the department of az riculture estimates the crop at 2,707,- 00J,000 bushels. The largest previous crop was that of 1902, when 2,523 ,000,- 900 bushels were grown. All the other cereals were produced this year in liberal quantities, and when the food CIOpS dIe dSSlSSdteu It ib oCSu lhde the present year has been more fruit full than any of it's predecessors. The year 1905 will hereafter hold the record in that respect.
 These food crops. together with the cotton crop, is what underlies our splendid national prosperity. When the farmers have great surplus pro- ducts times cannot be hard. When the farmers have money to spend, not only the merchant, but the manufac- turer, is kept busy, and that is the condition of the entire country today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
Tribute to Newspaper Men.

About the only genuine pleasure have in going about the country ahead of a big circus, when I am off duty" said J. J. Brady at the Birmingham yesterday afternoon, 'Is meeting my old newspaper friends in different cities. I have just come from Memphis, where I ran across some of the boys from New Orleans, to say nothing of the Memphis fellows. and I re- gretted it very much when the time came to say goodbye. But here I am in Birmingham for a few short hours, and 1t is the same story over again. The man who wrote that poem about Familiar Faces should have a monument erected to his memory. They are like oases in a desert to a man who is travelling about the country all the time.
 "When I reach Atlanta, however. I ex- pect to find nothing but strangers as I have never had the privilege of making that city. I am told they are like all news paper men, though, and that is enough for me-
 MT. Brady Is connected with the Ring ling Bros shows, which appear In Bir- mingham this afternoon and tonight. He left yesterday for Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30

rivers and harbors bill or through the sundry civil appropriations bill.
 This great country is emphatically one of fine rivers and splendid har- bors, and 1t is certainly a mistaken policy to neglect their full develop ment. Such policy would not be even suggested in any other country. Our natural facilities of transporta- ton should be brought up to their greatest possibilities. It Is waste to neglect them. It is not real economy, and a rich. big country cannot afford to ignore it's waterways and harbors. The country should wake up to the great value of natures work, and money should not be dealt out In niggardly manner when any improve ment of known uses is before Con- gress. The country needs in an age of mbinations all the natural ad- yantages 1t can muster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
Business Situation.

Henry Clews, in his Wall street letter of Saturdays date, says:
 Tt is very evident that the local mone- tary situation requires watching Our bankers may be depended upon to keep the situation as comfortable as they can. but there are so many elements to be con- sidered, some of them beyond their con trol that the outlook is exceedingly un- certain. No permanent stringency is to be expected, but firm rates seem inevita- ble, and even desirable as restraint upon unwholesome speculation; condi- tions being not entirely unfavorable to occasional spasms. which would be any thing but welcome to overloaded specula- tors. The only other factor of weakness Is the exceedingly high prices which many stocks are now commanding and the consequent temptation to realize The coalers, for instance, are selling at what seem exorbitant prices This may be due to the extraordinary activity now shown in the coal trade or to excessive specula- ton. or it may be due to some unknown plan in progress between the great pro- ducing companies. Certain it is that the process of centralization in the coal in- dustry Is still going on, as evidenced by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
MRS. HOUSTON DIES.
Was Wife of One of TuscaIoosa's Most
 Substantial Citizens.

r,,..oloosa October 29.-(Special.)-Aft- ar an illness of some two weeks Mrs. W. A. Houston passed away this morning at her home on Greensboro avenue. Mrs. Jouston's condition became most serious last Monday and since that time there has been little hope of her recovery She was the wife of w. A Houston, one of Tuscaloosa's most substantial citizens and was a consecrated worker of the Raptist church. of which she was mem- her. The funeral services were held at the home this afternoon by Rev. l.. O. Dawson, at o'clock. The remains will be sent to Selma tomorrow at 7:3o o'clock, where they will be inferred.
 D. H. Eddington, one of the most pop ular students at the state university for more than six years. is in the city. His presence is noted with much pleasure.
 Miss Stella Harris will give a Hallow- cen recital at the studio on Monday aft ernoon.
 The Rev. L. O. Dawson, who has been conducting a series of meetings at the Baptist church at Auburn, has returned.
 Thomas Garner. editor of the Times Gazette, is spending a fortnight in Otto- wa, Kan.
 The spurt in the price of cotton during the past two or three days made yester- day one of the busiest days of the fall. Farmers are still inclined to hold, but much of the staple changed hands during fba day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
Very Fine State Ealr.

Considering the limited time which the management has had to convert vacant field into fair grounds. the State fair this year is very creditable,' said pr. J.. H. Phillips last week.
 But when the improvements of several years accumulate and less construction work is required. we should be able to have a most excellent state exhibit. Each year after this the efforts of the manage ment can be devoted to improving, re- modelling and adding to the grounds.
 With the liberal support which the merchants and the public have given the fair. an annual State fair in Birmingham should be good investment. The grounds themselves are excellent, and when the improvements grow each year, they will hardly be surpassed in this section of the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
Rivers and HarborS.

The leaders of the two houses of Congress have agreed, so it is stated, that there shall be no rivers and har- bors bill at the coming session of Con- gross. This means. no doubt, that one will be hurried through at the short session which meets one year later. Each Congress, as a rule. passes one rivers and harbors bill, ana it would doubtless be better to pass 1t during the long session. But the lead CTS have, it is said, decided otherwise.
 The sundry civil appropriations bill will be utilized to cover the contracts that are conducted on the continuous contract plan. The opening of the Warrior is on that basis, and no doubt its needs will be duly attended to. whether money has to come through a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
From the Denver Post N BATH VALLEY is beginning to V5U give up its dead again.

From the Denver Post.
 N BATH VALLEY is beginning to VJ give up its dead again.
 A Every summer it lies there under the smiting sun and beckons-beck- ons to men to enter and to die, and men heed it's beckoning and go and never come back again.
 A few struggling searchers wander Hst- lessly out into the terrible heat and find a stricken body or two, almost always within crawling distance of the water. for want of which they died. but until the October sting Is on the air even the men who live on the deserts limits will not venture too often into the place of death.
 They are going now, and they are find- ing the poor fellows who laughed at their warnings and disappeared into the sim ister purple of the distance never to laugh again.
 So far it is estimated that at least fifty men have died there of thirst and fear this summer.
 Death Valley lies stretched like dying snake along the borders of Nevada and California.
 It is fifty miles long, thirty-five miles broad and 1t Is called Death Valley be- cause the first white people who ever went in there were thirty when they en- tered and twelve when they came out, and the eighteen young, vigorous men died in a few days, hideous haggard wrecks of what they were.
 Since that time the Valley of the Dread full Thirst, as the Indians named it long ago, has counted it's victims as a devotee counts his beads on rosary of coral and pearl.
 Peg Leg Smith found a ledge rotten with glinting gold there one fearful day, years ago, and when they found him, run ming round and round in the desert, way ing his arms, trying to swim in the blue water he thought he saw all around him. he had his pockets full of the rich est quartz ever seen in California, the land of rich quartz
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
IN HOTEL. LOBBIEs
Artificial Butter.

Let no one" said Fulton S. White yes terday. think that the cows are making all the butter consumed in this country. If they gave milk all day long, instead of twice ? day. they could not meet the de- mand, and much bread would go unbut- tered.
 Whether we like 1t or not. artificial butter has become a necessity, simply because the population has outgrown the cows. About 5o,oO0.Oo pounds of oleo but terine and the like are made and consumed in this country a year It goes onto the table, at times at anyrate, of high-grade hotels.
 ''rhe artificial butter, If a good article, contains a percentage of milk or cows butter, and it pays tax to the federal government, and each package must show on its labels exactly what is within. These provisions do not, however, destroy the industry, and the manufacture of artificial butter was never more prosperous than it is today.
 Tn the country as a whole one-third of the butter consumed is of the artificial sort. In the south over one-half of the butter sold is artificial butter. The one is as wholesome as the other, provided the best brands are selected. The true and the false are equally healthful.
 Restaurants that use artificial butter are required by the oleo law of the last Congress to post sign In plain view an- nouncing the fact, and a failure to do this may subject the proprietor to ar rest and heavy fines"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
A REMARKABLE NEWSPAPER.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 The Sunday Post-Dispatch Is purchased and read by more people, in proportion to the population of it's territory than any other paper in America. Printed west of the Mississippi, in thinly peo- ,,ed rAs,on as compared with the east and north, 1t has circulation every sun dav which is eoualled or excelled by only two. napers in the United States outside of New York city, where the possible constituency is a million for every one hundred thousand in St. Louis. one or the two is in Boston, the center or d population so dense that the entire state is mere suburban territory The one other is in Chicago, which has nearly three times the population of St. Louis. The circulation of no other Sunday paper constitutes a percentage of the popula- tion to which it caters even approximatins that which the Sunday Post-Dispatch hears to the number of residents of it's territory.
 st Louis at the last census had 575,- GOO people and 1t contains fully 100000 people now. Few large towns are within hundred miles. Yet the Sunday Post Dispatch, which sold only few thousand Sunday papers on it's natal day, now sells 9so. 7o1 papers. St. Louis has possibly 100000 homes, and it is plain that few Of these. humble or palatial, fail to avail themselves of the information. education and entertainment furnished by the news. art and humor departments of this pa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
IRVING DIED POOR.

From the Chicago Journal.
 Sir Henry Irving had abandoned his plan for another American visit; he felt he could not stand the strain. Man chester doctor who examined him three weeks before his death says his heart was so weak 1t was an absolute marvel how he sustained the exertion of single performance, but his spirit and will were indomitable. He absolutely refused to rest, though fully aware of his perilous condition. His friends, knowing his ab- sorbing devotion to his art, believe he wished to die on the stage.
 It Is believed he left only few thou sand dollars, which will be absorbed in paying debts. He habitually gave away a considerable percentage of his income in charity and his death Is a grievous loss to his large band of pensioners. Though he was on speaking terms with Lady Irving and she always went to see him in new plays, she entirely eliminated herself from participation in the funeral arrangements, and H. B. Irving acted throughout as representative of the fam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
A MOOD.
By Amelie Rives

By Amelie Rives If is good to strive against wind and ram In the keen, sweet weather that autumu
 brings. .. The wild bird Hicks not the wet from
 her wings, In eladder fashion than I toss free The mist-dulled gold of my bright hairs
 flag,
 What time the winds on their heel- And all inc tempest Is friends with me. None can reach me to wound or cheer; sound of weeping and sound of song Neither may trouble me; l can hear, But the winds loud-- laugh, and the
 sibilant, strong, Iu,led rush of rain through the sapless
 weeds,
 O rare. dear days, ye are here again! I will woo ye as maidens are wooed of With oaths forgotten and broken creeds! Ye shall not lack for the suns fierce
 shining With the gold of my hair will l mako
 ye glad; For your brown. red forests give no re-
 pining-
 Here arc my lips: will ye still be sad? Comfort ye. comfort ye. days of cloud, Days of shadow, of wrath, of blast I who love ye am come at last Laugh to welcome me! cry aloud! For wild am as thy winds and rains Free to come and to go as they; Loves moon sways not the tides of my veins; There is no voice that can bid me stay. Out and away on the drenched, brown leai Out to the great, glad heart of tho yeari
 Nothing to grieve for, nothing to feasl Fetterless. lawless, a maiden frsei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
SINISTER DEATH VALLEY
 CLAIMS MANY VICTIMS

When lie spoke the tongue of human speech again he tried to tell where the ledge was. but all he could remember was miles of green and purple and pink moun- tains crowded in around him till he went mad from fear and thirst and loneliness.
 From that day to this men have saddled burrors and ridden out into the glittering desert mad with the hunger of the gold they know is hidden there.
 The big strikes in the Goldheld and Bull frog districts, out there in the alkali, and the wild gleam of shifting sands, have lured fortune hunters as moths are lured by the cleaning of a lamp.
 The little dried-up villages on the edges of the terrible waste have been alive with eager-eyed men fitting out to prospect, and this fall the old prospectors, who know the moods and tempers of the great land tiger that crouches on the border or human life there in the beating sunlight, are finding their white bones bleaching in the green and gleaming sand.
 A well known judge from Wisconsin dis appeared into the phantom haunted place few weeks ago.
 "Ill be back in five days he told his friends, who watched him go; and I'll bring you some quartz from the Peg Leg
 He did not come back, and his friends fitted out an expedition and started to look for him, They have never been heard from.
 The cold October nights have come even to the desert now, and the shadows of the early nightfall lie on the burning sands like a cool hand on a fevered skin. and the searching parties are starting out to look for the bones of the men who have died in the terrible desert since summer has smtten 1t.
 At least thousand men have died there of heat and thirst and terror since it was named Death Valley. Yet never summer comes without it's waiting victims eager to try the fearful flight for life for the sake of little more gold to shake in the face of an indifferent world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 It takes more courage to confess you haven't any than brag.
 The more man speculates the less he has to figure on what to do with the money.
 Sometimes a woman is so afraid that her husband is not sleeping well that she wakes him up to ask him.
 woman could understand d man pay ing so much for a box of cigars if it was to put in the bureau among his clothes
 A man takes as much pains with his plans for fishing trip as his wife does with those for their daughters wedding.
 A girl never likes d man to hug her if anybody is going to know about 1t.
 good way not to get excited is not to try to explain to your wife what you are going to vote for.
 woman doesn't have to know very much to know enough to pretend she knows less than the man she picks out to iatter.
 About the time man begins to realize that he can't understand his own children he has to begin to learn the same thing about his grandchildren.