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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
out-of-Town Shoppers.

Though the weather has been disa-
greeable this week the city has been
crowded with Christmas shoppers
from out of town" said a clerk of
one of the local hotels yesterday.
"All the hotels seem to be filled and the
streets are almost in jam from morn
ing to night. Hundreds of visitors come
in during the morning AMI leave in the
evening, but many remain over for one
or two days, and they seem to be MAX
ing extensive purchases.
1.-THE people from all sections seem to
be prosperous as the people In the Bir-
mingham district and are spending money
freely. This heavy influx of shoppers has
been going on for some time and is in
creasing as the holidays approach"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
scHMITZ is READY.
Unwilling for More Delays and Says
Trial Can Proceed,

San Francisco December 1s.-Mayor
Eugene 2. Schmitz announced in court
today he was through with delays and
was ready for trial This statement came
apparently as a surprise to Abraham
Ruef, who promptly leaned over and con-
ferred in whispers with his attorneys.
Rudolph Spreckles was again on the
stand today. Attorney Aeh questioned
him at length concerning a street car
system that Mr.. Spreckles and his father
contemplated building
The witness stated that he considered
building a road because, as a citizen of
San Francisco, he objected to seeing the
streets of the city turned over to the
United railroads, or to any other corpora
tion or person. He was asked several
questions, to which objections were Offer
ed and sustained, whereupon Attorney
Campbell announced that the motion was
submitted and that his client was ready
for trial. ut is understood now that. the
trial of these defendants is to be sep
arate." asked Heney.
YES" answered Attorney John ]. Bar
ratt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Mr.. Ormond Here.

NJ. T. Ormond, an alderman of the city
few hours last night. He said that Tus-
caloosa was interested in the municipal
bill recently framed by Judge ]. j. May
field, to be presented before the next leg
islature. This bill affects towns of only
the second class, in which Tuscaloosa is
included
According to Alderman ormond the bill
is not suited for Tuscaloosa. He states
that one provision calls for two alder
men from each ward. He is of the opin-
ion that one from each ward is sufii-
cient.
Mr. Ormond reports Tuscaloosa in a
healthy condition, and that things in the
Druid City are booming.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
MAIL CLERKS BANQUET.
Postoffice Employees and Mall Clerks
viii Have Social Gathering.

The postoffice employees and postal
clerks will give a banquet on Decembs r
26 from $50 to II o'clock in the Olympia
hotel
The occasion will be purely social ami
speeches, music and regulations will be
the order of the programme.
The following arrangement committee
has been appointed:
Toastmaster, George NJ. Howle; oon1.
mittee, E. p. Green, ]. II. Strong. w. II.
Helms, NJ. P. James, r. w. Smith. Felix
Wood, G. NJ. Howle, John NJ. GoudlocS.
j. c. Deitz, J. L. Nichols.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Italians Are Released.

Atlanta. December 1S.-(Special.) D
James Martini and Toney Moodzer,
two Italians from the Bowery in New
York, came near creating another peon-
age case here today. They were
brought down here and their railroad
fare paid that they might work for the
Gate City Terminal company. They
refused to work, it was stated, and
we're arrested by the police upon COM
plant of employees of the company.
Martini said all he wanted was some
thing to eat, and Moodzer declared he
would go to work if he was given a
pair of shoes. The company officials
agreed to supply the necessities and
they were released.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Prominent Mexican Dead.

City of Mexico, December 1s.-Ventura
Martinez Del Rio, a Mexican prominent
in financial and railroad circles, died to-
night of heart failure. He was a brother
Of Pablo Martinez Del Rio, who with
Minister of Finance Limantour is accre-
dited. with bringing about Nthe railroad
merger. Senior Del Rio was well knowa
in Europe and in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Have Located Third Man.

Atlanta, December 1S.-(Specral.j >
The police think they have located the
mysterious third man" who was at
5301s Marietta street Sunday evening
and who was implicated in the killing
of John Dodgen, bailiff. No arrest
has yet been made, but they are ac.
cumulating evidence upon which TO act.
The three women who were in the
house and the man Jordan who was
there with them are still under arrest.
but no definite solution of the crime
has yet been announced.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Fatal Shooting In Mississippi.

New Orleans, December 1S.-A Mag
nolia, Miss, dispatch today tells of the
fatal settlement of long standing
feud between two cousins, Henry III.
Hurst and John T. Stewart. They met
while driving on public road. Hurst
turned his team across the road so us
to block his cousins passage and then
said to Stewart: 81 am going to Kill
YOU. The speaker flashed his revolver
into view, but his action was antici-
pated by Stewart, who fired first.
shooting Hurst dead.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Female suffrauists In Jail.

London, December 1S.-Eleven more
female suffragists today elected to
spend Christmas in jail rather than
pay small fines for creating disturb
ances within the precincts Of the
House of Commons last night. The
women received their sentences hilari-
ously, apparently proud, of joining the
so-called "sauffragettes" who already
are In prison.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

London, December 1s-King Edward was
guest at dinner tonight of Mr. and Mrs.
William George Cavendish Bentinck.
where Agnes and julius Zancig, thought
readers, whose performances at a music
hall here is now the talk of the day, gave
an exhibition. King Edward himself en-
tered with much zest into the performance
and personally tested the powers of the
readers. He expressed himself as amazed
and delighted with the seanec and invited
the Zancigs to buckingham in order to
enable Queen Alexandra to witness their
nerformance,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Removes Disabilities From Jews.

ST. Petersburg. December 1S.-Emperor
Nicholas has approved the bill of council
OF ministers removing the disabilities of
Jews. BY the bill Jews are permitted to
live in the country as well as in the cities
within the pale and certain restrictions
placed on Jewish merchants and artisans
in cities outside the pale are removed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Four Men Hurt BY a Car.

Atlanta, December 1S.-(Special.)-
In street car accident at Cherokee
and Glenwood avenues today four men
were slightly hurt. They were Con-
ductor G. Fl. Meadors, Motorman
Schank and Policemen Hannah and
Pearson, the only occupants Of the car
The car in some unexplained manner
Jumped the track at the corner and ran
into the sidewalk. While no bones
were broken, the four men were badly
bruised.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

From the Washington Post;
In twenty years, according to John W.
Gates, Birmingham, Ala, will have 1000,
600 population. AS he never bets less
than a million, he tries to be consistent
by making estimates on the same scale.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
To Take Mills at Wesson. Miss.

New Orleans, December 1s.-Filing of a
charter of the New Mississippi Mills COM
pany, capitalized at 100000, was an
nounced today. President John H. Full
ton said that the company was organized
to take over and operate the cotton mills
nj WessOn Miss
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
R. c. Burns Is Appointed.

City of Mexico. December 1S.-R. c.
Burns was today appointed general west
ern agent of Mexico Central, with head
quarters at Los Angeles. The appoint
ment is effective January l. No success
sor to Mr.. Burns, as general agent of the
Central in this city has been chosen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
THE SHOPPERS.

Shopping, shopping, shopping,
Morning, noon and night
Buying, buying, buying
Everything in sight.
Looking out for presents
That will suit our purse,
Verify, the scramble
Couldn't be much worse.
Shopping, shopping, shopping,
Up and down the street,
People stepping, stepping,
Stepping on our feet.
Jabbing us with elbows,
Pushing right and left,
Acting like galoots, of
Senses quite bereft.
Shopping, shopping. shopping.
Gazers everywhere,
Pricing, picking, hauling,
To the clerks despair.
Seems as If frenzy
Has the blooming lot.
Do your shopping early?
That's all tommyrot.
Shopping, shopping, shopping,
&c, It's quite a job!
Spend a day in buying
Just one thing-um-bob.
Everybody's ratified,
All are going broke.
Friends, this Christmas shopping
Isn't any Joke.
'Millionairephobla," little children, is a
new disease discovered by Chancellor
Day and means an inclination to bite
millionaires.
WOMAN.
Men talk about her, dream about her,
sing a hOnt ber urrita a bni1t har and fin
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
Las Chipas Mine Sold.

City of Mexico, December 1S-It was
reported at Cananea, according to the
Herald. of that city. that the sale of the
Las Chipas mine was consummated last
week. The sum said to have been paid
for the mine Is S3,ooo,00o.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
AIgecIras Convention Ratified.

Madrid, December 1S.-King Alfonso to-
day assented to the ratification by Spain
of the Algeciras convention on Moroccan
reforms TIE Heildo says the minister of
marine has received demand for 1000
reinforcements at Tangier.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Mr.. Justice Moody is the nations
Christmas present, for he took his seat
in the Christmas season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Cardinal Richard of Paris is So years
old and he is the official leader in the
clerico civil war
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Secretary of the Navy Bonapartes
last effort was plan for a $6,000,090
battleship which he threw at Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

There was a time not long ago when
1t was unusual to see a woman in
quick lunch emporium in Birmingham.
but now she hops UP on stool and
blithely calls for ham-and-eggs with mol
glance at the voracious feeders all
about.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Queen Alexandra has to draw the
line somewhere, and she draws 1t at
the women who smoke coffin nails.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Secretary Loeb and the stenogra-
pliers are probably black in the face
by this time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

In 1906 the prize ring got fourteen
victims, which is not bad showingAn
comparison with debrutalized football.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Birmingham and Atlanta are making
a stout pull for the sub-treasury, with
Birmingham slightly ahead in the pull
inO
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Spanish authors get $12 sometimes
for a book of 300 pages. They ought
to immigrate to this country and hire
a press agent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Baseball players are quoted higher,
at advancing quotations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Senator Clark of Montana is retiring
from politics to rest on his oars-but
the last word is spelled differently-it
is Cores"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Even as 1t is, lot of people arr
going to wait for Saturday night, get
their pay envelopes and then make a
Garrison finish.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Andrew Carnegie gave Princeton
lake, but he cannot have his name en-
graved on it except where it is frozen
solid
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Rats ate up the seat of a Connecticut
mans trousers. Fortunately, he was not
wearing them at the time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

The first prosperity tip for 1907
comes in report of the condition of
winter wheat. 1t stands at 81, which
is high.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

A Montana man married six sisters
one after the other. This is the live
Hest case Of marrying a family that
the record discloses. -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

One of President Roosevelt's distin-
gushing characteristics is a bent for
rushing in where former Presidents
feared to tread.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

New York shelters fine pianist
whose name is Zoltan de Takach
Gyongyoshalaszy. That name is an
advertisement in itself
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

The waterways movement gains
strength in the country daily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

The Storers know now what comes
to one who monkeys with a strenuous
buZz-saw.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Honolulu is seeing things again. 1t
sees more than Dowie did in his palm
lest days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

"Shop early and often" seems to be
the rule this week among Christmas
shoppers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Los Angeles is to hold worlds fair
in 1915 to celebrate the opening of the
Panama canal. and Birmingham should
hold one in 1919 to celebrate the first
centennial anniversary Of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
by trying to put their arms about
CHARITY

CHARITY.
Merry Christmas, Carrie Nation.
Merry Christmas, Cassie c.
You, too, Chauncey NJ, altho they
Would have you to twenty-three
Merry Christmas, Thomas Plat and
John d. R., wish for you
Christmas greetings, Bellamy and
She who got you in the stew.
Merry Christmas to the ninnles,
All the fools and cranks we know.
From the greatest to the smallest,
Both the high and very low.
Merry Christmas to the magnates,
To the grafters and the gang,
To that host of well known persons
VINO, some say, deserve to hang.
Let your mood be sweet and kindly,
Fill your heart brim full of cheer,
Wish them well-the speckled beauties
Christmas comes but once a year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

There are thousands of men in this
country whose life histories would
make admirable reading, if they but
had Mark Twains genius for autobiog-
ranhV.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Let us not become eXcited-those
Japs may be in Honolulu for then
health.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

The Peary explorers pronounce this
beastly climate, comparatively speak.
ing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Just to show what an optimist we are.
we won't worry bit because there Is
scarcity of moose antlers and not the
slightest chance in the world of our
getting pair of snowshoes for a Christ
mas present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

No one has yet told us what the
zenith city of the Salton sea is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

The whisky dealers claim that Santa
Claus is buying from them, too.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Some section of the w. c. T. U. is
having a fit every day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

If ex-senator Brown had lived Maude
Adams would have had stepfather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

of the country is checked and in many
instances deadlocked. The freight car
situation outranks all other problems
in many places, states and sections,
and there is not single state in the
union that does not feel the lack of
transportation facilities at the present
time. 1t is becoming palmer each sue
ceeding year that the business of the
country is outgrowing its railroads,
and that its waterways must be brought
back to usefulness and activity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

A FILLER
There's a smile on the phiz
OF the man who gets his,
But never, by heck,
When it's in the necKi
Such slang we detest,
But when we're hard-prest
Wen do anything
To fill up, gosh dingi
Holiday cheer-a rahi rah! on Christ
mas day
Beer in tablet form suggests lone after
each meal"
PAUL. COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19


The auditors report did not include
the valuation of slaves, and they were
worth, at $500 each, 2OOO0O,O00. The
assessed values of 1860 were about 10
per cent of true values, and it Is thus
seen that the value of all property in
1860 was just about $SO0,000000. We
have, therefore, overcome the losses
of a great civil war, and added about
20 per cent to the wealth of the state.
The census bureau estimates the
population of Alabama in 1904 at 1854 :
SIT, and the per capita wealth at that
time was, therefore, $494. The per
capita wealth is less than 1t was In
1860, but the aggregate value of the
state is higher. The estimate of the
census year was made In 1901, and II
is wholly within the truth to say that
today Alabama is billion dollar state,
and is headed towards a duplication OF
that materialistic condition aided not a
little by a development of the natural
resources in this district
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

"oh, that all lobbyists could enter
the congressional corridors in raiment
as spotless as Mark Twain's!" cries
the Houston Herald. Well, it is merely
a question of nerve and the laundry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
! understand fury in your words,
But not the words.
-OfbeIls
Alabama's Wealth

This official estimate should be com
pared with the auditors report of as
sessed values, made In 1860, as fol-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
THE CoIORpD RRoTuER

On Christmas day you will be touched
So often, SO to speak,
By Rastus, that the only way
Is just to take a sneak
To some obscure and lonely spot
And there discreetly hide,
Until that christmas gift" remark
Is safely laid aside.
A thief In Iowa ate some poisoned pien
that were left to catch him and now
wants to prosecute the woman who made
them for violating 4he pure food law.
In the language Of our office boy. Kin
yer beat dat?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post
office as second-class matter under act
OF Congress March 8, 1879.
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CAFES, CONSISTENCY.

Few Senators die and none resign
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King Oscars complaint is really ole
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w. ID. Lanier and A. ]. Eaton, Jr.. are
the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives of The Age-Herald in its
circulation department
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Men talk about her, dream about her,
sing about her, write about her and fin
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SlAF1a>
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slaIiaEHs
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

retorted, stepping down into the path again,
whether this creature is cow, or whether
it's something worse that wears horns and
get it out of here, and L want you to keep it
out, or I'Ahave it shot, if l have to sell my
house to pay for it, Now!"
"Ef you'd jest keep your gate shet-"
Gate shut y snapped Aunt Chaly ''Yo ou
this COW out, and don't stand there making
silly remarks!"
Mr.. Braxley naturally understood the man.
agement of his COW better than anybody else,
and by pretending that he was very ar xious
to have her go through one Of the windows
he contrived to get her through the gate and
Once outside she raced off down the hill.
81 hope she'll jump off High Rock into the
river and break her neck! remarked Aunt
Chally, she watched the animals career
from the front gate.
''Mr. Braxley doesn't seem to care what be-
comes Of her, for he's gone up the hill" said
Mira. There will be more trouble before
long, if he isn't more careful"
"Theres always trouble with that cow of
him much;" Mrs. Burrus replied, with her
nose in the air"
''It's the horse mean this time He has
left his horse and wagon standing unhitched
all this time in front of Mr. Browns house.
There is little child in the wagon, and he
keeps striking the horse with the whip"
"Yes, that is BraxIey's horse" said Aunt
Chally, after taking a good look from under
her hand. "And he's got that little boy in
the wagon that's boarding with Mrs. Brown
this summer But you needn't be afraid of
that horse running away. He wouldn't go
out of dog trot if wild Indian were after
him"
"Oh, auntie, he will run" cried Mira, a
moment later. did you see him kick that
time? There, he has started! Oh, dear! he's
runninp aWaY"
GAS sure's you live!" Mrs. Burrus exclaimed,
running out into the road. 81 didn't think
old Dobbin could run. WE'LL | declare for it!
Braxleys live stock is on the jump TO-DAY.
Whoa! Whoa, Dobbin"
"Oh, that baby! that poor baby!" said
Mira, wringing her hands helplessly. "That
horse will go off High Rock into the river; /
know he will'
By this time the runaway had come quite
close to where they were standing The ami
NAL was pounding along in clumsy enough
fashion, but at perilous rate of speed for
all that; while the wagon bounced and clatter-
ed behind him.
Running down the hill, at hopeless dis
tance away, came Mr.. Braxley and Mr.. Brown.
shouting at every step; and standing together
where the horse had started from, were Mrs.
Brown and the baby's mother, both scream
ing franticaly
On the wagon7seat, holding on desperately
! with both hands, was pretty little boy of