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Franklin the Bon Vivant.

Prof Albert II. smyth in Putnams
Monthly
Twice week he dined with Madame
Brillon at Moulin Joli every Saturday
with Madame Helvetius at Auteuil and
more irregularly, but stu frequently,
with Madame d'Houdetot at Sanos. lie
was a social creature and loved cheerful
companionship-ehess, conversation, and
music-nor was lie. maugre the govt and
the gravel In any wise averse to the
pleasures of the table. His dinners at
home when he entertained his friends ON
Sunday at Passay were carefully studied.
and his household accounts speak of
large and wise purchases Of the best vim
tages of France. His appetite for saw
dust-pudding belonged only to the days
of his apprenticeship. At sixty he was
fond of an afternoon of salt fish and
brandy at the George and Vulture with
Anthony Todd. and was rather proud Of
discomfiting Lord Glare at claret-
drinking Ten years later he made care
full collections of menus, and declared
that he would rather bring back from
Italy a receipt for Parmesan cheese
than the rarest inscription that archae-
olgy had unearthedA A glass or two of
humor, but before the dinner was over,
he confessed to Mrs Hewson. he often
drank more than a philosopher should.
He was particularly partial to the wines
OF Burgundy, and brought on access Of
govt with the copious draughts of Nuts
with which Cabanis piled him at Auteuil
But he was also fond Of madeira, and
liked to gossip with his friend Strahan
over the second bottle.
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John D, Sure of Heaven.

Chicago Correspondence New York World.
John d. Rockefeller is sure Of the great
final reward, according to the Chicago
Theosophists, because he has become an
adept in one line-that of making money.
Dr. Eleanor NJ Moore, high
priestegs and high thinker of the local
branch of the Theosophical society, eX-
planned last night how a business man OF
the Rockefeller Carnegie or Lawson type.
with great proficiency in his particular
line. was working onward to the final hon
or OF "the great white company" or. as
the Theosophlsts say, the Elder broth
ers"
On the other hand. very pious little
orthodox preacher of the ordinary prayer
and sermon variety, with nothing to dis
tingulsh him but his goodness. has a
much simmer chance. and Is quite likely
to slip a cog and in the next stage Of eyo-
luton find himself removed back.
The topic DR.. Hiestand-Moore labored
with was the hypothesis Of adeptcy.
Adopts she explained were those persons
of proficiency which reached perfection.
Far removed from the gross and material.
they lived on an astral plane far above
the bowling mob in "A rapt and bissful
contemplation of spiritual things. The
way to the adept class was by proficiency
along one line.
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Wis was elected a member of congress.
From that year to the civil war a great
deal of the Davises' time was spent in
Washington. Mr.. Davis served as senator,
as secretary of war under President
Pierce, and then as senator again. In the
preparation of some of his ablest speeches,
1t is said his wife rendered him valuable
assistance.
When he withdrew from the senate in
January, 1861 he and Mrs. Davis went
back to Mississippi and the next month
the delegates of the seeding states, In
convention at Montgomery, Ala, chose
him president of the Confederacy. He
went at once to Richmond. and his wife
began packing up their belongings, to fol-
low him. Her journey was turned almost
into a triumphal march. She went by way
of New Orleans, and there a military COM
pany presented to her bouquets of violets.
The color of the violets, she relates, filled
her with a sort of superstitious dread.
In her memoir of her husband Mrs Da-
Wis tells of their life in Richmond during
the great war. She tells how the flag
captured from the Merrimac was brought
to ner, and how the discovery that it was
damp with blood made her sick and sor-
rowful over the dead and dying Of both
sections" 1t was in wartime that one of
her children was killed by fall and she
writes of the accident thus:
ION April 80 I left my children quite
well. playing in my room, and had just
uncovered my basket in MIR. Davis office
when a servant came for me. The most
beautiful and brightest of my children,
Joseph Emory, had in play climbed over
the connecting angle of a banister and
had fallen TO the brick pavement below.
TIe died in few minutes after we reached
his side. The child was Mr.. Davis hope
and greatest joy in life"
With the struggle near its end, Mrs.
Davis left Richmond. Later she was
joined by her husband at Washington,
Ga. For the first year of his imprison-
ment she was not allowed to be near him,
but In the second the order excluding her
was Withdrawn. 1t was In connection
with this Imprisonment that Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis last came into public notice.
A year or two ago the old controversy as
to whether General Nelson A. Miles had
ill-treated Jefferson Davis was revived.
General Miles said Mrs. Davis had
thanked him for his kind treatment of her
husband, and Mrs. Davis denied having
done so,
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Profits In Philippine Tobacco.

Thomas e. Evans in Lesles Weekly.
Tobacco has played a most important
part in the history of the Philippines.
No other industry has done so much to
support them In the past, and at tho
present time no industry contributes
more to the support of the insular gov
ernment in internal revenues than to-
bacco. The Cagayan valley has pro-
duced tobacco for the government man
ufactories of Spain and Austria for more
than 40 years. For 1O1 years of this
time Qrom 1871 to 1892 when the to-
bacco industry was a monopoly of the
Spanish government, the taxes or reve-
nues from the production OF tobacco in
the Cagayan valley paid half of the en-
tire expenses of the insular government.
During the time of the Spanish monopoly
1t was the intention of the government to
force the natives to raise not only more
tobacco, but q better quality. In this
they succeeded.
What can be done in this line by pri-
vate companies is we'll emphasized by the
success of several companies organized
after the adjustment o fthe Spanish
monopoly, and some Of them even since
the Spanish war The largest of these
companies is known as Cofnpania Cen
eral de Tabacos de Filipinas, or, as known
In English, The General Tobacco Com
pany. The stockholders of this corpora
tion reside mostly in Spain, although
there are a few in the Philippines. One
of the largest stockholders is the Mar
qus de Camillas one of the wealthiest
men of Spain. This company grew SO
rapidly and made SO much money out of
the cultivation of tobacco that today it IS
one of the largest commercial enterprises
In the Orient. 1t is capitalized at three
million pounds sterling, on which 1t is
paying heavy dividends. Many of its en-
ployes are stockholders in the corpora
ton, and I know of instances where they
have received more money In dividends
m
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The bodies of all but two of the ten
men who were burned to death Friday
morning In the fire which destroyed the
home of Mrs. E. E. Watley. No. 1881
Third avenue, in which twenty boarders
men and conductors in the employ of the
Birmingham Railway Light and Power
company, have been sent to the former
homes of the deceased.
In the charred and unrecognzable com
dition of the bodies it has been impossible
for the friends and relatives of the dead
men to be positive as to Identification
except in one or two cases. but the ten
names of the men who lost their lives In
the fire being known the coroners jury
decided that the best obtainable proof
was sufficient as to individuals, and the
eight bodies held at Lige Logs under
taking rooms have been sent to the fol-
lowing addresses:
G. c. Preston, age %, unmarried. re-
mains sent Saturday afternoon to Gull
man, Ala.
w. N Nichols. age 81, married, remains
sent Friday afternoon, Fort Payne. Ala.
]. e. Livingston, age SO, married, re-
mains sent Friday afternoon to Admission
e. D. Caldwell. age 81, unmarried. re-
mains sent to Huntsville at noon Satur-
day.
d. B. Neal. age 81, unmarried. remains
sent to Huntsville at noon Saturday.
w. B. Taylor, age %, married. Knox
Vile.
Ollie Hines, age 49, single, Knoxville
Tenn.
Gordon Burns, remains sent to Garden
City at noon Saturday.
Owing to the fact that no relatives of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
JOHN |. SULLIVAN
AS A PHILOSOPHER
Former Champion Says World
is Living Too Fast
COUNTRY FOLK FOR HIM
They Are the Only Real Old Fash
Ioned People Now AIive-Too
Many Fakirs In the Box
ing Game.

ssemphis, Tenn.-John L. Sullivan in
sists that he will keep his word about re-
firing forever from the white and red
light districts of all the large cities.
The former champion, who spent a
week here after putting in many weeks
among the county fairs and provincial
audiences, giving an exhibition of spar
ring with Jimmy Barry. and a mono
logue thrown in. says that he has struck
a new vein for making money in his best
friends. the planters, farmers. and peo-
pie of the rural districts.
1.-THE whole world is living 100 fast"
says John l.. "They make money in a
hurry in the white light and spend 1t
faster than they make it in the red light.
I have discovered. several things since /
have been mingling with the common
folk, as they call the country people
They are the only real old-fashioned hon
est folk in existence today, and if you
don't believe it just get on the platform
with me when those honest. rugged peo-
pie come up to shake my hand. Look in
their eyes and receive the same hearty
handshake they give me and you will
lose all confidence in the salved, greasy,
grinnfng humans you meet in the big
cities today
Charlie Rich was prince of good fell
lows said Sullivan. land he could have
my last dollar in the world If he needed
1t. would have been a rich man had 1
taken his advice shortly after the fight
with Kilrain. I could have purchased
Mississippi pine land at so cents an acre.
It's worth more than $50 an acre now,
but while poor Charley owned thousands
of acres then, they tell me even his old
sawmill Is mortgaged nowadays.
They don't make fighters nowadays
like they used to. There are too many
men in the business now that ought to
be in Jail. They have Wallets, managers,
and boosters, and lot of others, who
have never stuck up to my motto of BE
on the square and you will get reward
without dying
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TROLLEY CAR HITS
STRING OF FREIGHTS
Motorman Has Narrow Escape From
Death and Several Passengers Are
Bruised Near Fair Grounds.

Splinters flew along the track of the
Birmingham Railway. Light and Power
company at Ann station last night about
1920 o'clock when a trolley car leaving
the fair grounds loaded with passengers
ran into some freight cars which had
been pulled out Of the grounds and were
standing on the main track.
The front end OF the trolley car was
crushed in and but for the fact that Mo
torman J. e. Jones seized the handle and
swung around the side of his car. 1t is
probable that he would have been killed
He suffered a bad cut under the eye
and a sprained leg. Several passengers
received slight bruises. A member of
Kopps' band got cut on the nose.
The car was put out of business. The
accident was caused. the motorman said
by the display of white light instead
of a. red one, at the rear of the freight
cars.
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MRS. DAVIS A DEVOTED WIFE.
Was Her Husbands Constant Com
panion and Adviser.
From the New York Times.


On. his way to a political meeting at
vfeksburg one December day s. years ago
Jefferson Davis paid visit to his broth
er's place the Hurricane, near Natchez,
Miss The host. eager to entertain his
brother, sent saddle horse to the Howell
home to bring back a pretty, 1S-year-old
girl who had Just returned from school In
Philadelphia. That was how the man who
came to be president of the Southern Con-
federacy met Varina Howell, and two
years later they were married.
From then until Jefferson Davis died,
in New Orleans in 1889, his wife was with
him in peace and war. AS devoted to the
Confederate cause as her husband him
self she could hardly be persuaded to
leave Richmond when Grant began to
close in around 1t in 1865. Mrs. Jefferson
Davis was her husbands constant assist
ant and adviser And her tribute to him,
a memoir in two big volumes. still sur
wives valuable historical record of the
doings in Richmond from 1861 to 1865.
Mrs. Davis was born at Natchez on May
z. 1926. Her grandfather was the govern
or of New Jersey, and her father was a
clerk in the Bank of the United States.
AS young girl she went to Philadelphia
to school. and It was on her return home
for the Christmas holidays that she met
Jefferson Davis. He was widower then,
80 years old. and Just at the beginning OF
soon after she met him Varina Howell
said:
ct do not know whether this Mr.. Jeffer-
son Davis Is young old He looks both
at times; but believe he Is old. for from
what / hear he is only two years young
err than you are. He impresses me as a
remarkable kind of man, but of uncertain
temper. and has way of taking for
granted that everybody agrees with him
when he expresses an opinion, which Of
tends me; yet he is most agreeable, and
has a peculiarly sweet voice and a win
ming manner of asserting himself. The
fact is, he is the kind of person I should
expect to rescue one from a mad dog at
any risk. but to insist upon a stoical in
difference to the fright afterward. I do
not think that I shall ever like him as |
do his brother Joe Would you believe
It. he is refined and cultivated, and yet he
is a democrat!
The wedding took place February 20.
1s47 and in that same year Jefferson Da-
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ALL BUT TWO OF THE TEN
BODIES ARE IDENTIFIED

the deceased have appeared it is probable
that the two bodies held at Shaw &
Sons will be buried in Birmingham. They
are supposed to be the remains of c.
b. Henshaw, age "a, married, of Knox
VILE; and w. T. Mall, age p. unmarried
OF Chattanooga.
The three men who were injured by
jumping from the second story of the
burning house and taken to st. Vim
cents hospital, are reported as doing
well and are expected to shortly re-
cover from their injuries
The coroners jury will meet again to-
morrow to look further into the cause
of the fire the origin of which Is still
unknown, though a clue has been found
which it is said. may lead to the solu-
ton of the mystery.
However. Chief Bennett of the fire de-
partment and Assistant Chief w. P. Wal
ton are of the opinion that the fire was
the result of accident and not of incen-
diarism. C. w. Austin, fire Inspector of
the city and local representative of the
Southeastern Tariff association holds the
same version. He believes that a drunken
man, one of the boarders, who is said to
have entered the house just before the
fire broke out caused it by upsetting
kerosene lamp.
Captain s. A. Middleton Of the fire de-
partment, who reached the fire a few
minutes after the alarm was sent in,
said: IT can't say that think the fire
was of incendiary origin, but it was GER
tainly the most unusual fire I ever saw.
The building was a mass of flames in a
Inn Zoo ION tn hot af,7
all sides. can't understand how 1t was
that ten men should have lost their lives
in a two-story house where there were
so many exits"
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CADETS MEALS BY "WIRE."
West Points Electric Kitchen Inter
esting Feature of Academy.

Mrs c. R. Miller In Leslie's Weekly.
The first thing which attracts ones at
tention is the electric potato peeler-a tub
like machine with revolving knives
busnel of potatoes Is thrown In at time
a button is pressed and in the space of
five minutes the tubers fall into another
tub. neatly peeled AS four or five bar
rels of potatoes are used every day, the
labor saving of the apparatus will be
readily understood. This machine espe-
cially interested Prince Fushmi during
his inspection of the military acamedy,
and several bushels of potatoes were
pared for his amusement. One hundred
and fifteen loaves Of bread every twenty
four hours, and nearly 1000 rolls, with &C.
casionally fifty cakes. Pies are used once
a week. and 1875 are baked.
There is an electric bread mixing ma
chine with tunnels through which the
flour water and yeast may flow accord
ing to the wish of the baker. The loaves
are also cut and rolled by machinery,
the whole baking being done witl-- a
hand touching the bread until 1t comes
from the oven and Is placed on the cool
ing racks An electric dough divider Is
used for cutting rolls. The dough is
thrown on an iron plate, and a cutter
drops, separating it into pieces of the
size required for each roll. These are
quickly transferred to pan and are
set to rise.
The eggs used in cooking are beaten
by electricity and the silver used in the
dining room is polished with brush run
by the same motive power. Dishes are
washed by placing them in wire rack
and touching lever which causes the
rack to sink into scalding water, where
the dishes are cleansed. Another lever
fits them and they are turned out on
trays to dry.
Ice Is made in the basement and comes
from the freezers in fifty-pound cakes.
The sterilizing machine is an electric APP
paratus, and with its aid 1870 gallons of
milk are sterihted every morning. The
milk is poured into a large can and
heated to 1870 degrees, which kills the
bacteria, and in less than three-fourths
of n minute Il is cooled to g degrees.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
GLASS DOOR KNOBS.
And Glass Knobs Generally Are Again
Finding Favor.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
I'VE are now selling" said a hardware
man, more anu more glass door knobs.
This doesn't mean, you understand, that
brass and bronze knobs are going out of
use, but that glass knobs are again
finding favor.
.'Once glass knobs were familiar on fur
niture and doors-this Is a revival of an
old fashion. Formerly glass knobs were
produced in colored as well as in white
glass, light yellow being the color most
commonly seen in colored glass knobs
The glass knobs of today are all white,
and these are made in cut and pressed
glass and in many sizes, for doors and
for bureau, stand and desk drawers, for
all the uses to which knobs are put.
Glass knobs commend themselves for
their own cleanliness and they are also
more easily kept clean than marble knobs,
while cut glass knobs glitter in the light.
Glass knobs in either old or new styles
may easily be beautiful. besides being in
the old styles quaint"
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Woman,s Tonoue Never Sins.

From the st. LOUIS GIObe-DemOcrat
did you ever see a woman who slut
teredT'
did"
They are very rare" said the physi-
clan. II think 1t is safe to say that the
average person passes through life with
out ever meeting a suffering woman.
There are two reasons for this. First,
woman naturally--I don't know WHY'S
less liable to the disease of stammering
than man. Second, If she develops this
disease, she sets out with the determine
ton to cure Sherself, and she succeeds;
whereas careless man. rather than take
the trouble of cure, will go stammering
on to the end"
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From the London Globe.
Some find one way to the stars and
some another. but it may be doubted
If anybody yet has hit upon the idea
of shooting himself into space with a
gun. This novelty in human dynamics
mas been reserved, says the Newcastle
chronicles Paris correspondent, for
NJ Santos-Dumont, and is the outcome
of the necessity of getting himself, like
Tom Bowling. up aloft without taking
up too much space on terra firma.
Most skyflyers have needed good
long run along the earth to get the air
into their wings. Paris, however, is
getting too crowded for this, and SO
M. Dumont has designed a sort of
gun" by which he launches himself
upward with force nearly three times
that of his own propeller. Powerful
springs give him the leg up" and Off
flies the machine.
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done its worst to prevent it. Yes. the
world loves successful love, as It fawns
on anything that has conquered 1t. 1t
loves also pity that costs it nothing. But
that 1t loves a lover, for love of love,
is simply not true. If it were true.
there would probably have been no love-
stories, for the drama of love has mostly
come of the conflict between the lovers
and the world. They had to count the
world well lost to win each other. 1t was
so in the days of Tristan and Iseult, and
so 1t still is in the days of Rudolph of
RaXa ria.
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BIRMINGHAM MAN ELECTED.
Manly Is Vice President of American
Casualty and Surety Agents.

indianapolis. October 20.-The American
Association of Casualty and Surety agents
closed its annual convention today after
deciding to exclude insurance brokers
from membership. The following officers
were elected:
Presldent-H. NJ. Coudrey, st. Louis.
First Vice President-C. F. Manly, Bir-
mingham, Ala.
Second Vice President-C. Fl. Hood,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Third Vice Presdent-E E. shipley, Gin
cinnati.
ecretary-Thomas R. Dugan, Louis
vile.
Treasurer-E. Van Truyll. Bay City,
Mich
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NEGRO Kills officer's Assistant.

Alexandria, Va, October "a negro
said to be William Johnson, tonight shot
and killed Charles T. Smith, son of Lieut..
James f. Smith of the Alexandria police
force, while Smith was endesvoring to
assist in the negro's arrest. The negro
made his escape. Intense excitement pre-
walls, and it is feared the murderer will
be lynched II caught.
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Pope Receives Spaniards.

Rome, October 20.-The Pope today
received with the usual ceremonies the
Marquis Ojeda, the new Spanish am
bassador to the vatican, who present
ed his credentials and also an auto
graph letter from King Alphonso The
pontiff expressed the desire that the
traditional friendship between the yati-
can and Spain be maintained and
strengthened.
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Sunday afternoon grand
sacred concert by Kopp's Mil
itary Band, including church
chimes and vocal solos by Miss
Schwartz, from 3 to $50
O'Clock in the grand stand at
the Alabama State Fair
Grounds.
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Buck Ewinq Is Dead.

Cincinnati, October 20.-William Buck
ingham Ewing, known all over the United
States as Buck Ewing, famous base
ball catcher, died this afternoon at his
home in this city. Death was due to dia-
betes and paralysis. Ewing was a native
of, this city but was connected with the
New York National League team longer
than any other single baseball club. He
leaves a wife and a son and daughter.
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Her Experie nee.

From the Chicago Daily News.
The pretty widow had finally induced
the bachelor to propose
Darling" he said, II fear 1 am not
worthy OF you"
''Oh, dont let little thing like that
worry you" she replied. You'll get over
1t few weeks after we are married"
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Miners Fire at Workmen.

steubenville. O., October 2o.-Twenty-
five disgruntled miners of the United
States Coal company at Plum Run today
fired from hillside into party of min
ers being led to work by Superintendent
Cox. Two were slightly wounded. Sheriff
voorhees, has been summoned from Column
bus,