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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
PATENTS COVER UMBRELLA.
Notwithstanding the Fact That 15,ooo,
 900 Are Made Here Every Day.

From the American Inventor,
 Up to a few years ago. 1t is said, only seven patents on umbrellas had been is sued in the United States in 100 years.
 The ribs and stem of an umbrella are generally made In factories having a spe- ciality of these items and are sent thence to the real manufacturer. Here, first, the man whose work 1t Is to assemble the parts inserts a bit of wire into the small holes at the end of the ribs, draws them together about the main rod, and puts on the ferrule.
 In cutting the cloth about seventy-five thicknesses are arranged upon a split ting table, at which skilled operators work. In another room are girls who operate hemming machines. A thousand yards of hemmed goods is but q days work for one of these girls. The machines at which they work have a speed of some three thousand revolutions a minute.
 After hemming the cloth Is cut into tri- angular pieces with a knife, as before, but with a pattern laid upon the cloth. The next operation Is the sewing of the triangular pieces together by machinery.
 The covers and the frames are now ready to be brought together In all there are twenty-one places where the cover is to be attached to the frame in the average umbrella
 The handle is next glued and the um- brella is ready for pressing and Inspection. By far the greater number of umbrellas today are equipped with wooden handles. A large variety of materials may be used however, such as horn, china, bone, agate. pearl, ivory, silver and gold. Gold and silver quite naturally enter into the con struction of the more expensive grades of umbrellas, some of which, in price, have been known to bring as high as $150 or 800
 A wooden handle may likewise be ex- pensive, depending upon the quality of the wood used. Ebony, petrifed wood, fir, oak and elder are as well known to the umbrella man. Fifteen million umbrellas are made every year.
 The umbrella has been developing rap idly during the last few years We pick up even a cheap one nowadays press a button and the top spreads itself like an eagle ready for its flight. We are going away, and an ordinary umbrella Is too long to put in OFT grip. We find among our assortment of umbrellas and para sols one that Is meant for just such an emergency, and which, in most accom- modating manner folds up to suit the size of our travelling bag. Other new ones lock with key. Some spread their shade over eight or nine feet of territory, and manufacturers aver that these are but a few of the improvements which we may expect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
Where Information Came High.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Andrew Jackson g., appointed sun veyor general of Montana territory by President Grant, arrived In Helena, the capital, early In the seventies. His mili- tary record and his genial manner made him a great favorite with everybody To- wards the end of his term, feeling in duty bound to make a special effort to show his appreciation of the hospitality he had enjoyed he decided to give a banquet to his Helena friends. He completed his programme for the function. but the pro viding of the right sort of liquid refresh ment worried him somewhat. Finally. deciding upon champagne frappe as the proper thing but in doubt how to prepare it. he remembered an old war comrade Colonel C.! who had always shown himself an expert In supplying good cheer at headquarters on festive occasions Knowing the latter's address. he wired him as follows:
 Helena, Mont, 1S7--. Colonel C., - Street, New York Wire me your receipt for making cham pagne frappe. Answer paid.
 (Signed) "A. J. S-." In due time came the reply:
 New York 1S7-- "Gen. A J. S.. Helena, Mont. Freeze it. you damned fool.
 (Signed) "C--. Telegraph tolls were rather high in Montana in those days, and the informa- ton cost just s5.50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
SHAW OR CORBETT?
More of Latter in Stage Version of
 Prize-fighter's Story.

From Everybodys Magazine.
 There doesn't seem to be very much of George Bernard Shaw in Stanislaus Strane's stage version of "Cashel By ron's Profession save the central idea The story is one of the brilliant Irish mans earlier works. In this dramatic form one misses Shaw's clear, logical thinking his biting wit, his fantastic presentation of truths. The most interest ing feature of the play is, perhaps, James J. Corbett, who plays the hero. In the part of the young prize-flghter, who takes his profession very seriously and who wins the young heress, he acts with an intel lieence. wholesomeness, naturalness, lightness of touch. and a sincerity that entitle him to serious consideration as a comedian. He does not suffer seriously besides so finished and artistic player as Margaret Wycherly, who has won distinction in the old morality play. "Ev- eryman," and in ". B. Yeats poetic dra- mas"-The Players"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
ORIGINATOR OF COAL TRUST.
Franklin B. Gowen One of Most Able
 Men of Ills Time.

Tt was Franklin B. Gowen," says Hart ley Davis in "The Coal Trust, the Labor Trust. and the People Who Pay" in Everybody's. "already shown to be a man of mark in the coal country, who made the next important move in this history, and who Is. after all, responsible for the coal trust of today. Men now say of Gowen that he was fifty years ahead of his time. In his conception of the power of consolidation he was undoubtedly a pioneer; but in the matter of an mmac- ulate integrity and patriotism, he had strangely little in common with the finan- ciers who later adopted and perfected his views. By buying valuable coal lands and operating the mines themselves. the Dels ware. Lacka wanna and Western and the Delaware and Hudson had already laid foundation for permanent pros perity when President Gowen, in 1871 united thirteen different properties in the Philadelphia Coal and Iron company But whereas the two railroads had had no other idea than of lending stability to tker own interests. President Gowen's action, taken in the face of strong opposI- ton from his associates, was the express sion of n vast impersonal ambition The later supremacy of the Philadelphia and Reading far more than justified him. and iouay lhls iodu Ho" o"hs outright Hore than sixty-three per cent of the unmined anthracite
 Tt Is a curious commentary on the later development of finance that this ear ly move of the coal-trust pioneer should be noted by the railroad men of today. not only for its wisdom but for what they consider it's Quixotic honesty. Forty mill lions WIS the price paid by Gowen for his coal properties. and he turned them over to his railroad for precisely what they cost him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
Indian Territory Humor.

From the Kansas City Journal
 A good story is told on John R. Thomas of Muskogee, a well known lawyer of that city, who was formerly judge of the Western district One night Thomas found himself in a shabby little town which had no hotel Desiring to stay all night, he asked a lounger in front of a grocery store where he might find ac- commodation The lounger went inside Of the store which was run by an Indian When informed that there was nian outside who wanted a place to spend the night. the Indian asked:
 "Who Is the fellow?"
 Judge Thomas" was the reply.
 Well, if that's the fellow he had bet ter pay me what he owes me before ask ing me for any favors.
 How is that?' querled the lounser. 'Is he in debt to youP"
 Yes" replied the Indian. When he was judge at MusSogee l was brought be- fore him for selling liquor. I was con victed and in sentencing me he said. I will give you sixty days in jail and 100 1 got the sixty days all right. but he never came across with the $10o.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
THERE IS MONEY IN MELODY.
Compositions That Have Made For
 tunes for Music Publishers.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Ever snceCharles Daniels (Nel MoreD at one time a resident of Kansas City, sold his composition. "Hawatha," for a sum in four figures, many unknown com posers have published their own compost tions in the sincere belief that their par ticular intermezzo, waltz or two step would become famous when once offered to the music loving public On the other hand many representative music publish CTS are always ready and eager 10 pay q snug sum for a composition after 1t Is published in a small way by the com- poser, provided 1t shows any indication of becoming hit by proper handling, which proves conclusively that no matter how good composition may be 1t re- quires the skill of competent publisher to make it hit. Over q million copies of "Hiawatha" were sold by the publisher who purchased the copyright and
 from MT. Daniels. Mir Daniels dec
 to sell his latest compositions. N
 light" and Silver Heels. but rec
 royalty, which insures him n comfortaDie income Peaceful Henry" q compost ton by Harry Kelly of Kansas City, and published by a Kansas City firm was sold for large sum to q New York pub fisher. who claims the sales reached 200,- GOO copies Creole Beles" was purchas- ed from ]. B. Lampo for S50o by Detroit publisher who afterwards sold over half a million copies. The fact that "Creole Beles" netted the publisher thousands of dollars after 1t had been purchased from MT. Lampe for $500 inspired him to try for another success He has written sev- eral numbers since, but was not rewarded until recently, when Jerome II. Remck & Company paid him s5.000 for his charac- teristic march two-step called Happy Heine which appears upon nearly every dance programme, and is now whistled everywhere. A writer of this city recently attended a ball where Happy Heinie" was played, and for1 warded the following chorus to Al Tra- hern, a former Kansas City song writer, who is now connected with the New York music house that purchased Happy Heine" fA
 You. you. lay me on the heart,
 You pou lay me in mind;
 You you give me much pain,
 Don't know now good you am.
 This chorus has been taken up by tns public probably because f. Is so meaning less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25

From the New York World.
 IMAGINATION has clothed the courts
 of the kings of France since the last crusade with a glamour of wealth and splendor unparalleled in our own days. Their palaces have been pictured as perpetual panoramas of magnificence that contemporary milhonaires for all their lavish expenditures have not re- produced Yet, according to Vicomte Georges d'Avenel, in the Revue des Deux Mondes, their incomes were relatively small compared with those of present. day merchants and bankers of France. After painstal1ing research he proves that 'the very rich of today are six times as rich, or those of equal fortune are twelve times as numerous, the richest men of the 'ancien regme;' they are ten times as rich or twenty times as nu- merous as the most opulent princes of feudal times." At the same time the la boring classes, the people who live by the work of their hands, are twice as rich as theIr ancestors.
 Under the Third Republic 1000 persons have incomes exceeding $40oO0. Of these 1000 there are $50 with incomes of more than s100000, 120 have an annual revenue of more than $200.OO0. fifty more than s6Oo,OoO and about ten more than S10OO,- OoO
 For purposes of exact comparison M. d'Avenel estimates all fortunes and in ,omes of bygone times in terms of their Equivalent value today, not as mere nom- hal sums. Up to the end of the six ieenth century he shows, no one had an in come of $1,0O0,000. Louis TX, in the exceptional year of the crusade of 1251 spent $775,O00 After the Hundred Years war in 1450, Charles VII.s budget was $212, 600. In 1516 Francis l., noted for his taste for luxury, had only $259,000 for his person and his court. Napoleon III. s civil list amounted to s5,000.000, but Louis XII. had less than s4,000.000 for all ex- penses of an extravagant court. Riche- lieu and Mazarin derived tremendous in- comes from their privileges, Mazarin leav- iny by will nearly $40,000000 to the King, who refused it and let it pass to Maza- rin's eight nephews and nieces Except these three no person up to the time of the revolution enjoyed an income of $1,OOO,00O, and the revenues of Richelieu and Mazarin were subject in fact to charges really connected with the state. Mime. de Maintenon during the twenty years of her reign received $14.000,0OO, but did not leave enough to pay her brothers debts.
 Most of the royal princesses from the thirteenth to the fifteen century received
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
THE AvENGER'S VISIT.
What Happened When Two Sworn En-
 emles Finally Met.
rom the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 They called him Eole because way back in the days whtn the blood ran warm in his veins he made a sensational bet on "Freddie" Gebhard's famous racer Time has not dealt kindly with Eole. but he clings to the horses. Sometimes he Is in funds. sometimes he is not but during the racing season he always can be found at inc track. and in winter he conducts a noolroom in the Tenderloin.
 If was an hour before the horses would he called to the post for the first race fin New Orleans and Eole and his employees had finished preparations for the daily rush of customers.
 Eole was In a reflective frame Of mlnd A name in the afterroon paper spread before him on the table had called up a host of memories. Then, too, he remem- bered certain signs and omens that day, which foretold the coming of trouble and the trouble was associated with that name. It was not formidable name at tbat-merely William Stevens.
 Like all gamblers. Eole was super stitious. and the appearance of that man, coupled with the violent itching of his nose. the fact that a cross-eyed man was the first to encounter him he left his house and moreover. black cat had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
A "Hoodooed" Train.
Carthage (Mo) Correspondent Kansa City Star.

Carthage Mo) Correspondent Kansas
 City Star
 ''Twentyfour hours" was the way the time card read on the first passenger train between Newport Ark. and Car thage which was due ilere Sunday. The train was exactly tive ty-four hours and thrty-five minutes late. Landsides powders weighing two tons lay across the tracks, and washouts caused by a heavy two days rain are part of the causes of the delay. Near Mount Olive. Ark, the locomotive struck a powder weighing two tons. The engineer and fireman had time to reverse the engine and jump. The speed was twenty miles an hour. The fireman, Henry B. Jones. was picked up unconscious; the egineer Bob" Pennington, escaped with few bruises The passengers were unhurt The front trucks of the engine were smashed.
 Near Cotter the train was long delayed by cave-in. Track walkers had discoy- cred this. however, and stopped the train. A powder rolled down the mountain north of Cotter. The engine. by means of chains, removed 1t. All day Sunday and Monday 1t rained. and last night. as the train reached Aurora, 1t encountered the snowstorm. which held It back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25

Lowell Otus Reese in Leslie's Weekly. N a cabbage leaf in small gar
 den two Bugges were having a O debayte.
 "Thys cabbage is ye whole world.' said one Bugge q know whereof I speak, for lo my father & hys father before him dwelt hereon & both were eminent astronomers. & itte is written in their memoirs thatte thys cabbage comprseth ye whole world & all beyond is spayce.'
 Theme didde ye second Bugge wax wroth for so much denseness mayde hym lose ale patience.
 My great-great-g grandfather he sedde, was philosopher. Also he was an ex- plorer; X once uponne a tyme, so 1t Is wrytten, he travelled manic yards & found a fence Ye fence, in hys opinion, was ye border of ye world, & I, being alsoe a philosopher. am firmlye of ye sayme oplnion.
 And ye first Bugge loste hys temper completelie. "Beshrew thee for a bald headed old Buggel" he shieked. .Itte Is an evidence of senility when a man of thine age turneth loose dope like unto thatte & calleth lite sciencei Go get ye q job moving weeds"
 ''For a chew of cabbage" sedde ye other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25

crossed his path just before reaching the poolroom, was conclusive evidence that there was trouble brewing for him.
 As for Stevens-well Eole had occasion to know him. and he readily dvined the object of his visit to the city Stevens and Eole had a long standing difference, and Eole realized that the return of his enemy could mean but one thing. His meditations were interrupted by the entrance of Maxey. the lookout who came up the private stairway. leading from the saloon below.
 There's a man down stairs who wants to see you said Maxey. "Hc asked for you under the name of Burlington. Do you want to see him?"
 ''Is he is a big fellow with black eyes and black hair and a smooth face and sort of a swing in his walk?" asked Eole
 Hes got q black beard said Maxey, You've got the rest of his number, all right He said he saw you coming in here. but I told him he must be mis- taken"
 "All right" said Eole, "Ill go down and see him." ell opened a little drawer in the desk before him, took out a re- volver twlrled the chambers a few times to see that they moved smoothly, and stuck the weapon in his right hip pocket Then he followed Maxey to the lower floor
 The door of the private stairway opened into the rear room. Eole paused for . moment, drew a long breath and then stepped briskly into the barroom. The black bearded man at the counter wheeled round Eole's hand dropped swiftly to his right hip
 Burlington" said the visitor, q want word with you in private.'
 This way" said Eole. cool as ice, and he stood in the doorway and let Stevens walk into the back room. The two men sat down on opposite sides of a small table.
 "Its been long time since I've seen you. Burlington" said Stevens, fin his heavy. unsmiling way.
 "It has" said Eole, and then the ln- sfincts of the host rising paramount he pushed the button and ordered a drink
 Stevens drank the mixture slowly and judicially.
 Burlington" said he. "I got message the other day which made me wish to reach New York without delay"
 1T can guess what you want" said Eole. his hand again at his hip Then he added doggedly you can have 1t right now, Stevens"
 Darlington said Stevens, some friends of mine have good thing at New Orleans that's going to come off to- day. I have $500 to get down on it. Can you place it?"
 Eole heaved a great sigh of relief
 Stevens. he said "let us have anothe- drink. and then-why, man. I'll get down 5000 so- y0c .e you vass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
THAT sEAeoING RABBIT.
Worried Slate Till He Found Out All
 About 1t.
. New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Tom Slate, skipper of the scow Maggie and Me, saw to the warping in of his craft at the foot of the West Thirteenth street yesterday afternoon. Maggie. the wife whom he married under what the river front considered peculiarly romap- tic circumstances eighteen months ago, put her head through the little window of her floating home and studied him long and hard.
 Tere was a danger signal In Toms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
His Wisdom.
Q Columbus Dispatch.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
 After King Solomon had offered to cut the famous infant in half the mothers were so tickled over his tact that they wanted to elect him judge of the nexi baby show.
 "Not for mine," exclaimed Solomon vigorously q wouldn't be judge at a baby show for all the gold in my mines. "
 'But we thought you were so wise, T insisted the mothers.
 "I am, ladies. and that Is the very req son why I decline to be judge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
Helping Him On.

From the Catholic Standard and Times. Now for my part" said Mir. Timmid, tentatively. "I wouldn't dare think of marrying"
 Why not?" eagerly interrupted Miss Ann Teeck.
 Because I haven't any money"
 But she suggested helpfully, couldn't you Ket soyneb0Av to lend you a nttlef'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
TAYLE OF YE TWO BUGGES

1 Bugge, T would swatte thee with ex- ceedynge greate vlgor'
 Theme they elinched
 Ye combat was long X deadlie. Other Bugges viewed ye strife afar off 6 seddo how shocking to see two olde Papas con tending over somethynge ye which nc Bugge alive wisteth of, God wot they sent for ye Police.
 Now itte came to pass that a Bird was flying over ye garden. He heard ye Two Bugges cursing x stopped to investigate.
 My breakfastp' quoth ye Bird, & flew away with ye two of them.
 "Alas' walled ye Two Busges as ye Bird bore them over mountains X lakes of whose existence they never dreamed. Here have we two old Skates been spending our lives fighting over something X 1t taketh death to show us we neither knew what We were talking about" & so ye Bird swallowed them up.
 & thys, deare children, is ye lesson we gather from ye saddle tayle of ye Two Bugges;
 First Kazip Never fight unless you have an even break to win something.
 Second Sneeze lite taketh Death to make some people see some thhynges arlght
 Third Burble: Meme are worse than Bugges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25

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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-08-23

We hear of a lucky accident on the
Topf farm seven miles west of Ute
lucky because the accident was so
great and the resultant inconvenience
so small. A little girl stepped on a
defective board over an old we'll SO
feet deep, and the board broke with
her letting her into the we'll. About
half way to the bottom there are cross
braces to hold the curb in place, but
she slipped through these without in
jury and dropped into the water be-
low. This was about eight feet deep,
but when she came to the surface of
the water she clung to the pipes
and held herself above the water un-
til her mother went a half mile to
neighbor's for help and the help,
came When they got her out of the
we'll she was able to walk to the
house and seemed unhurt except for
being tired and cold. Charter Oak
Times.