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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16

pages, and an energetic translator can | accomplish his task in a few weeks. Keeping in mind the payment he is to receive, he hustles through the work as rapidly as possible, with the natural result.
 As soon as an author makes a hit his works are thrown into type here one after another as quickly as they can be turned into English The trans lator and printer alone read them, and in many cases there is no criticism passed upon the execution of the work
 One woman in New York has been known to translate at the rate of eighty week she succeeded in filing a contract calling for the translation of TWO 300- page books in French.
 Some years ago when Belot's "Stran- glers of Paris made Il hit abroad, d cheap publishing house in New York began printing the authors other books. A writer who was noted prin- cipally for his speed was hired 10 take the work and he received S35 for each book he translated. From six to ten days was all he required to accomplish the translation of volume.
 There are scores of men and women in New York working for $30 or 40 d week translating the sensational French books of the cheaper sort. There is continual demand for these novels because they are generally re- garded as daring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16
PENNsY,s ODD "BoWL FIeHT.'
College Rush" Whose Like Can Be
 Seen Nowhere Else on Earth.

Julius Chambers in the Brooklyn Eagle.
 The annual "bowl fight at the Univer- sty of Pennsylvania is due to occur in few days 1t is unlike any college rush in this or any other country. The event has a record of more than thirty years, and was a spring feature until lately. The contest generally occurred when there was ice or snow upon the ground. It is an out and out fight between the freshmen and the sophomores Its trophy is large, deliberately constructed wooden bowl. made of transverse sections of mahogany or walnut firmly glued together.
 When the Hateful morning arrives, ush- ally Saturday, freshmen and sophs ap- pear in canvas or pigskin jackets. into which they are tightly laced Otherwise they are stripped to undershirts and t~ous- CTS. Quite a business has grown up In Philadelphia owing to the demand for these bowl rush" jackets. The canvas or leather jackets are greased with tallow, so that one man cannot hold another.
 When the referee calls time the heavy bowl is brought into the yard or perhaps taken to Franklin field, which lS near by. A committee of sophomores are charged with that honorable task. They have furnished the bowl and the duty of the "freshes' is to take it away from the upper classmen and to bear their captain in it, after which the trophy is taken to a large powder, near for the purpose, and broken. The possession of a piece of the captured bowl is as highly treasured as is the ownership of the wood- en spoon at Yale.
 When the big dish is placed on the ground the expeetant freshmen, already lined mp for the rush, learn for the first time who has been chosen to be 'Defend- CT of the Bowl" This is the highest hon. or that the sophomore class can bestow fexrA rA,ifo afb
 He steps out in front of the bowl and confronts two or three hundred freshmen the leather jackets of many of them shining like brazen cuirasses. He is inn raedatcly surrounded by a picked guard of forty athletes, all of whom have been selected for some known act of prowess in the gymnasium, on the water or upon the field Far out at the Hanks are ranged other members of the second year class.
 Exactly as on the football gridiron, not a move is made by the attacking party until the word is given by the referee. Then the freshmen begin to move upon tine resolute body of bowl defenders. In less time than is needed to write it down, the general melee follows
 The freshman who once fastens his fin gers upon the rim of that bowl will hang on despite any amount of punishment. He may be jumped on, fallen upon, dragged away-indeet, force in any form, except
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16
An Inherited Falling.

From December Harper's.
 The caller who drops in for half A minute had exceeded the time limit by about four hours and there was no pros pect of immediate relief. when the small boy of the house came in for the third time during the afternoon and stopped in engagement at seeing the visitor.
 "Ain't you gone yet?' he asked frankly 'e Bout time for you to be goin'. amt lt?"
 Hush. Freddie" cried his mother. in distress You mustn't mind what he says. Mrs. Jones; children don't seem to know any better than to blurt the truth right out sometimes do theyr'
 Whereupon the caller gathered up her dignity and departed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16
A.. G. P.

crossed, and of the stream you'll be com ing to d mile further along on the road.
 With a map. in short every feature O. the country near and far is revealed to you. You know not only where you stand at the moment, but with intelligence the country round about as far as the eye can reach. region new 10 you it is ali the more interesting because of it's novel; ty. but the enjoyment you find in 1t ls vastly broadened and heightened by the Illuminating knowledge you gain of it from the map.
 Invaluable as a guide. the map is scarcely less to be esteemed in it's capa- city of companion and friend, for tell ing you of what you see. 1t makes you, in a way. most pleasantly acquainted where othrwise you might be simply a passing stranger.
 T never go walking without a map
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16
From Malaria.

From the San Francisco Argonaut.
 One day man. apparently white, came into the best restaurant in Atlanta. The head waiter looked him over and thought he had negro blood in him. In fact, he was very light quadroon.
 Here. your' the head waiter said; you are colored!"
 "oh, no, aint,' the man replied, mot in the sense you mean.''
 But you are mighty dark
 q know l am. but that is because I am a Malay
 The head waiter was nonplussed. He looked again, and then asked suspicious ly: What is a Malay? Where is he from?'
 Why said the man, easily, "Malays are from Malaria"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16
In a Show Window.

From the New York American.
 New Rochelle. the most popular one night stand where the new show may be tried on the dog" and famous as the place that is "forty-five minutes from Broadway" is shocked. All of Thanks giving eve Jack Reid a loca. character slept in the show window of Grabs sa- loon in Main street, beside live pig
 A crowd guffawed abous the window, while Reid gave the lie to the coupet, 'Laugh and the world laughs with you. Shore, and you sleep alone.''
 Sometimes Reid snored alone. Frequent ly the shoat made it unanimous, and the bar did a thriving business.
 pr. Dalrymple passed, and then po- liceman arrested Reid.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
BACK In HOME TOWN.
FUGITIVE Ex-MAYoR OF PATER
SON, NJ. j., RETURNS.
Alleged EmbezzIer Refuses to Inn
plicate Anyone Else In Crimes
Orphan salesgirl Inherits Large
Fortune from English Uncle.

Former Mayor William E. Belcher, of
Paterson, y. j., who surrendered himself
at the county Jail in that city the other
day, after having been a fugitive from
justice for about a year, told the story
of his wanderings. lie said he went to
Bartlett, \. H., to recover from rheu-
lnatism and stopped there for time I'M
der an assumed name. Il have been in
Boston and in the White mountains" he
said. Only once | left the country for
a short trip to Canada. 1 have been in
nearly every State in the Union since l
went away. ! have not seen a face l
knew since | left Paterson. | am glad to
be here, although | am a prisoner"
What have You done with the money
you gotE" he was asked. That's a sub
ject of which | am not willing to speak
at this time replied Belcher. IF the
100000 is gone, some one else must have
got it and blamed it on me; but L shall
duplicate no one in what l did | shall
stand alone. The stories that | am going
TO implicate several officers in the city
government are false" A dozen indict-
ments have been found against Belcher,
in which he is accused of embezzling
about 100000 The Manchester Build
ing and Loan Association, of which he
was president, was forced to 90 into bank
ruptcy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
FLYER ENGINE IN RIVER.
New York Central Pacific Express
Wrecked by Landslide.

New York Central Pacific Express
Wrecked by Landslide.
4 landslide one mile south of New
Hamburg, y. Y, caused the wreck of the
New York Central Pacific express train
at II 80 o'clock Sunday night, killing Ed.
ward Wells of Albany, the engineer anG
Edward Warren of New York. the fire
man. About a dozen passengers were in.
jured, none of them fatally. The engine
jumped over the embankment into the
Hudson River, while the cars were hurled
into tangled mass and the three tracks
were torn up for over 100 feet, complete,
~ blocking traffic.
The wreck was the worst that has oc-
CURED on the Hudson River division since
the New York tunnel disaster. 1t seems
miraculous that there was no fatalities OF
serious injuries among the passengers, es.
pecially among the twenty or more men
who were in the combination smoking and
baggage car, which, when the locomotive
turned over after blowing for forty feet
into the great heap of gravel which had
fallen down upon the track shot upward
and then turning almost at right angles,
came down with a crash across all three
tracks.
Fireman Warren was dead when he
and the engineer were lifted out of the
locomotive, which turned at right angles
from the train, darted across the track
and, turning on its side. lay on the en-
bankment with the front of the boiler in
the river. The engineer died three hours
later.
The second and third coaches were
slightly telescoped, but of the eight cars
that composed the train only the first
three left the rails, although the track
was so badly twisted under some of the
others that the cars inclined to one side
and the panic among the 100 passengers
was at first general throughout the train.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07

one of the artistically classic structures
in the stricken city. About twenty years
were spent in its erection, and the cost
when completed was close to S7,000,000.
The building covered nearly three acres,
its dome stood 335 feet above the level
OF the sidewalk, and this majestic piece
of architecture was crowned by no.
bic figure of Progress. A subordinate
dome over the semi-detached hall had
been praised by critics for its symmet-
rical grandeur. The great towering
dome is seen standing supported by the
iron structural columns. This is most
interesting picture of the disaster at
San Francisco. as showing the effects
Of both earthquake and fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
News of Minor Note.

Roy Ferguson, Is years old, Of Candy,
Mimi. committed suicide at Sioux Falls,
S. u.
Brooklyn, y Y, is to have a $1,000
600 Roman Catholic cathedral after the
general style Of Notre Dame de Rouen,
France.
District Attorney Jc~ome OF New York,
in Georgia address. scored the action of
President Roosevelt in criticising a fed
eral judge.
A scarcity Of Autographs is threatened,
as the 1900 photographers Of the country
may strike If their demands for shorter
hours are refused.
The battleship Rhode Island, which was
in collision with steamer at No.rolk,
Va. was only slightly injured. Two guns
and their mounts were damaged.
Joseph yargo was shot and killed after
leaving a Buffalo. n. ". saloon, and
william Pennington, Joliet, H., and
Samuel Price, The bartender, were de-
tanned.
Maie Spencer Willard, wife Of Rev.
Earle s. Willard and daughter Of Prof
l.. X. Spencer. the originator Of the spen-
ecrian style Of penmanship. was granted
an absolute divorce on The ground OF cru
city at Newport News, Va.
The president Of the Independent To-
baeco Company flied charge with Com
missioner Garfield in Norfolk. Va, in
which it IS alleged thar tie American To-
baeco Company Is guilty Of gross discrim-
nation against he Southern States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
PAY s132,a23,o FOR FIRE.
Amount Represents Actual Insur-
ance Loss at Frisco.

ance Loss at Frisco.
State Superintendent of Insurance
Otto Kelsey of New York has made
public the results of his investigation
as to the losses of fire insurance COM
panies in the San Francisco disaster.
All joint stock fire and inland ma
rine insurance companies uransacting
business in the State were called on
for a sworn statement as to their losses
in California. The companies were
asked for the gross amount of insur-
ance involved in risks destroyed or
damaged, the deduction for amount to
be recovered from the reinsurance the
deduction for estimated salvage, the
total deduction and the net amount of
loss as shown by the records June 80,
1906.
The New York State companies, for
ty-Seven in number, show the gross
amount of insurance involved as $41,-
1100G9: the reinsurance to be recov-
cred, S10,S34,795; the estimated sal
wage, $7.137, 1873. and the actual amount
of loss. 500, 13S. 900.
Returns from other joint stock fire
and fire marine insurance companies,
eighty-four in number, SNOW gross
amount of Insurance, $50, 423, 704; rein
surance to be recovered, So. 1870 167; es-
timated salvage, S11,35S, 425; actual
amount of loss, sol. 9S3, Ill
The foreign companies, thirty two in
number, made these returns: Gross in
surance involved, S101,302, 533 reinsur-
ance to be recovered, $50 2S1 sos; esti-
mated salvage, $15,31S,S59. and actual
loss S57,701 500. The gross amount of
Insurance involved by all companies
wasS222. S36,307 the reinsurance, $685.
240T71; salvage, $33,S14, 46S, and act
ual loss $132. S27,067.
The company with the largest loss is
the Hartford Fire of Connecticut, ac-
cording to the report. Its loss is &c.
1S6,701.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
DOUMA LEADERS HIT.
ACTION STARTED AGAINST SIGN
ERS OF vIBORG MANIFESTO.
Members of Late Popular Legislative
Body May BE Sent to Mines or
Immured in Reconsideration
Among Troops.

The public prosecutor in st. Peters
burg has started proceedings against
the members of the lower house of par
lament who signed the viborg mani
festo.
The charge under which the signers
of the manifesto will be brought to
trial is violation of article 100 of
the criminal code, which provides for
attempts to overthrow The existing
government" This is virtually high
treason. The maximum penalty is hard
labor in the mines
No arrests yet have been reported,
and the constitutional Democrats do
not anticipate anything approaching
punishment of their representatives. 1t
is understood that the arrested will be
admitted to bail pending trial The
constitutional Democrats are chiefly APP
prehensiye that the possibility of pros
ecution held over the heads of their
leaders will render them ineligible for
reelection, in the same manner that
Prof. AIilukoff and NJ Hessel and 9TH
ers were excluded from the last lower
house.
Socialist and radical members of the
late house may have to cool their heels
in cells for a long time and thus be
prevented from continuing the full
tiedged revolutionary agitation upon
which they now are embarked Many
of these eX-members now are living UNI
der cover in the houses of friends in
st. Petersburg or have gone into hid
ing in the provinces.
Governments Action Not Explained.
The motives of the government for
abandoning its attitude not to prose-
cute the signers of the Viborg mani
festo, as set forth recently by Premier
Stolypin in an interview. is not stated,
but evidently it was Influenced by the
need of doing something to counteract
the effect of the Viborg address. This
has attained an enormous circulation in
the provinces, in spite of the greatest
efforts on che part of the administra-
ton to prevent its publication.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
RUSH ARMY TO MEXICO.
Carloads of Soldiers Pass Through
Fort Worth for the Border.

Twenty-one cars loaded with federal
troops have passed through Fort Worth,
Texas, en- route to Mexican border posts.
1t is believed the government is strength
ening the posts in anticipation OF the
threatened uprising in the sister republic
The War Department in Washington is
ominously silent regarding the massing OF
regular troops along the Mexican border
Every effort at secrecy was made and the
arrival of the soldiers at Fort WORTH
Texas, was the first intimation TO the pub
lie that the situation in Mexico was re-
garded as threatening. The government
realizes that there is bitter hatred felt by
the lower classes Of Mexicans toward all
foreigners, and especially Americans. This
feeling was brought to a sudden climax
at Cananea recently when an attack was
made on the Greene mining properties.
This attack, which resulted in several
deaths, was fomented by the revolutionary
party Their organization has extended
to all States of the Mexican republic and
a general outbreak is regarded imminent.
SO dangerous has the situation become
that a few days ago President Diaz sum
moned the governors of the various States
to the City of Mexico to consider ways
ana means for suppressing the threatened
uprising
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
DYNAMITE SUICIDE FOR LOVER.
Youth. Thwarted, Ties Explosive
About Neck and ExpIodes 1t.

On Washington avenue, the main thor
oughfare of Wellington, Kan, IN front OF
the Wellington National Bank, Graham
Dibbs, young railroad clerk, blew him
self into eternity with dynamite. Love
for Rosa Bonhetz, a beautiful girl who
did not return his affection, prompted the
deed. Dibbs told a friend with whom he
roomed that he was going TO kill himself;
the friend thought he was joking. Dibbs
bought a quantity of dynamite, placed 1t
in a sack, tied it around his neck, and SET
fire to fuse attached Spectators were
Mortified by the impending tragedy, but
were helpless to prevent it. From safe
distance they watched the fire creep closer
and closer to the fatal bag. Then, as the
young man, seeming TO realize his fate at
the last moment desperately strove 20 tear
the bag off and throw it from him, there
was terrific explosion and the unfortu
nate young man was blown into atoms.
Where he stood there was a grewsome, gap
ing hole in the street, but not piece OF
his body was recovered. So terrific was
the force of the explosion that Windows
were broken block away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07

A manifesto to the peasants of Rus
STA has been issued in the joint names
of all the various labor, socialist, and
revolutionary organizations, including
the representatives of these OrganiZa-
tons in the defunct lower house. This
manifesto declares that the hopes re-
posed in the lower house of parliament
have been blasted by the diabolical de-
signs of the crowd of grand dukes,
courtiers, and wealthy land proprietors
assembled around the Emperor, whose
only purpose can be the maintenance of
their power over the people. BY dis
persing the elected representatives of
the people and arresting and imprison-
ing them the government has declared
war on the nation, and a struggle is be-
ginning in which rivers of blood will
flow and for which the criminal gov
eminent is responsible. The people
must not spare the government
Alleges Betrayal of People.
This manifesto further accuses the
government of betraying the fatherland
by invoking the aid of German and
Austrian troops. The people therefore
are urged to remove the local author
ity everywhere, to replace it with men
elected by themselves and to confscate
all state funds. The troops also must
conform to the orders of those elected
by the people. The workmen in the
towns, the peasantry, ana all toilers
must, in conjunction with the troops.
seize the liberty and take the land
which the government has denied them.
The land thus possessed must be hand
ed over to the popularity elected local
authorities pending the elaboration of
a new land law.
Rebellion Breaks Out Among Troops
From Poltaya was reported the first
serious revolutionary outbreak involv-
ing the army. The outbreak followed
the arrest of several soldiers discovered
in a house known to be a meeting place
of the reyolutioEaries. After the ar
rests the entire first battalion, accom-
panied by large crowd. paraded the
streets in defiance Of the military au-
thorities. The soldiers proceeded TO
the military barracks, where they seiz-
ed several guns and marched with them
to the prison the political prisoners
are confined in. At this stage all the
remainder OF the Poltaya garrison were
called out
A dispatch from Helsingfors, Fin
land, says that a portion Of the garri-
son of Sveaborg. Finland, mutined and
that a long and sanguinary struggle
took place between the mutineers and
the loyal troops, in which the rebels
are said TO have been victorious. The
mutineers, it is added, are now in pos
session of the fortress. Many were
killed or wounded during the fighting.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07
HEADLEss BODY TELLS A CRIME.
CHASTITY Find in Ohio Berry Patch
Causes Much Excitement.

Causes Much Excitement.
Much excitement prevailed at Leavitts-
burg Ohio, the other day as a result OF
the finding of the headless body of man
in a berry patch. The head was later
found in a nearby hay field. Both BODY
and head were badly decomposed. In the
pockets were found letters showing that
The man was Albert Kennedy Of Ellis,
MO. He had recently been living at Man
tua, where a brother now resides. Ken
nedy is known to have had $500 just be-
fore his death. Only 20 cents and sill
yer watch were found. Kennedy went
"est few weeks ago TO sell his farm and
he intended to bring his daughter back to
Ohio with him. If his daughter accom-
panied him she has disappeared. The VIC
tim was seen in Kansas City on June 70.
Ii IS supposed that he was inveigled away
from the station at Lea vttsburg, where
he was to have changed cars, and then
killed for his money. He was a temper
ate, quiet man, about 80 years old. His
unclaimed baggage, checked through from
Chicago, has been held at the Mantua sta
ton for two weeks.