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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

At the meeting of the Mayor and Alder dlced an ordinance to abolish the music from the various moving picture places in the city. This ordinance was adopted after some discussion.
 There has been a great deal of com plaint about the talking machines, cleo tric pianos and other mechanical music in front of these places, many persons having offices in the large buildings pro- testing.
 Following is the ordinance passed:
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
CREDITORS NOT SATISFIED. Confirmation of Sale of Lookout Prop
 erty Is Opposed.

In the matter of Lookout Mountain Iron company, bankrupt creditors repre- scented by attorneys Tomlinson & McCul- tough and k. c. Redus have filed excep- tions to the report of sales filed with Referee A. c. Birch by the trustee, Charles A. Stillnan, resisting the con- flrmation of the sale, which took place last Monday. The examination, of wit nesses is now being conducted before Referee Birch and will be taken up again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
Liuht and Telephone.

Alderman Klotz reported as follows and the report was adopted:
 The committee recommends that the matter of putting numbers in numerical order in the telephone directories be re- ferred to the light and telephone com mittee
 That the following resolution be adopted
 In view of the fact that the records of the city of Birmingham do not show where any rights to the occupancy of the streets of the city or any of them have been granted to the Southern Bell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
Judiciary Committee.

The report of the judiciary committee was adopted as follows:
 The committee recommends that petit ton of Frank Cohen for damages to horse and buggy be disallowed.
 That further time be granted on ordi- nance with reference to putting tele- phones underground.
 That petition of Nettie Green for dam ages on account of personal injuries be disallowed.
 That the city attorney be instructed to draw an ordinance prohibiting the use of water by contractors etc, from fire hy- drants.
 That the license for the year 1907 on bucket shops and wire houses be fixed at $4,0O0 per annum.
 That further time be granted on bucket shop ordinance 'artF
 That all other matters go over until the next meeting of the committee.
 That the attached ordinance with refer ence to stagnant pools be adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08

Telephone company; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham. that the city attorney be, and is hereby instructed, to invest gate fully and report to this board upon the nature and character of such rights if any exist, and the power of the city to regulate such company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
Railway and Judiciary.

The following was adopted: The committee recommends that the ordinance granting the Birmingham Rail- way. Light and Power company fran chise on Thirteenth avenue south, be granted and that the ordinance be adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
PERSONAL.

pr. Eugene Jacobs of Jacobs Phar- macy, left yesterday for Atlanta. He will personally select new line of goods. which it is proposed to introduce into the business in this city. Dr. Jacobs will re- turn tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
Masquerade Ball.

A masquerade bali will be given to- night under the direction of Prof. w. c. Mcconnell at his dancing academy, 202lH First avenue. A large number of invita- tions have been issued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
Railway Committee.

The following report of the railway com mttee was adopted: The committee recommends that the matter of better street car service go over until the next meeting of the committed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
COUNCIL ATTENDS
 ID MUCH BUSINESS Salaries of Some City Officials
 Are Increased for 1907 TO INVESTIGATE DEATHS
Committee Reports That the Telephone Service Is Very Much Better. Many Committee Reports
 Are Acted On.

The Mayor and Aldermen transacted a great deal of business in an hour and a half last night. It was indeed one of the busiest meetings held in some time.
 Among other things the finance com mittee reported the salaries for the en- suing year, increasing those of a number of the city officials and adding several names to the pay roll of the city.
 The committee on lights and telephones, through Chairman Klotz, reported that the telephone service in the city Was greatly improved, and that when pres ent improvements were completed the ser vice would be still further improved.
 The excise committee made report re- funding the license money of several sa- looms in the city. as the saloons were not considered desirable. The special oonl- mfttee to investigate the condition of the Twenty-first street bridge, reported.
 The police and sanitation committee was instructed to investigate and report on the sudden deaths that have occurred in the city jail within the past few months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
Finance Committee.

Alderman Jones reported for the finance committee, and the report was adopted:
 The committee recommends that the cost bill in the case of c. w. Austin Vs H. S. Graves, amounting to $40 .55. be or dered paid
 That the costs in case of Belle Jeffries, amounting to s3, be paid.
 That petition of J. c. Dickinson for re- fund of license be disallowed.
 That petition of Will Leeks for release from prison be allowed and that said prisoner be released.
 That Fountain Heights Baptist church be allowed to redeem improvement propo- sitions IS, 769 and 12S2, for sale of Feb ruary 15, 1906 less penalty. and reconvey- ance fees. and that it be allowed to pay proposition 6716, less 30 per cent of as sessment.
 That petition of Mary Johnson for re- fund of license for coal peddler, amount ing to $6, be refunded.
 The committee asks for further time on matter of appropriating money to build crematory.
 That the salary of the assistant city attorney be increased to $50 per month for the year 1907, the said salary and com missions not to exceed s120o per annum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
THE WEATHER.

Washington, November Flair Thurs day and Friday; variable winds. Missis- sippi; Thursday cooler in western portion; Friday fair, variable winds.
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Some Forceful Music

ON one occasion in social party gathering where
~ Jerrold was somewhat disagreeable young man
who had made himself decided bore remarked of
certain piece of music that it is perfectly delight
full. Whenever hear it | am quite carried "
For gracious sake thenl" said Jerrold. won't
somebody please play it"
In country invariably think of Holmes,
SAKE, and Prentice masters of the punning trick
Sake, who was once our counterpart of the English
poet Praed, filled his poems with double-word mean
ings which thoroughly avoided far-fetchedness-
though some say that the pun is, the better
it is.
Perhaps it is not so well known that P T. Barnum
and E. H. Chaplin, respectively pastor and pew1nan
particularly apt at this word play and the like
When the Snowman little over thirty years ago.
purchased Fifth-ave., New York, residence, Chaplin
first went there with only proximate knowledge
of its number. After arriving he asked how
he happened to find it, without consulting the direc
tory. Well, said Chaplin, Il saw P T. B. on
the door, and found it with its invitation to walk
in for l supposed the letters meant, Pull the
Bell
On visits to Barnum's Bridgeport home Chaplin
and Barnum invariably kept UP perfect fuslade
of punning Once when the chicken being
served there the words pullet (pul it, neck (neckst
leg Qeg see), and its whole anatomy gone
with, with pretty result to personal sue
cess. Finally Barrurn said to Chaplin: Il guess we
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By el BE n n

have used that fowl if not fouy pretty well
up. At any rate | defy you to make a fresh pun
upon t. Well then, said Chaplin, pushing back
his chair, sha'n't | clear?
A wel-known writer asked at a dinner
table if he would not take a little champagne.
why, certainly said he; 1T gives real pain
to omit champagne"
As Shakespeare punned ANONYMOUSLY in his plays,
and with considerable gusto there is much hkeli-
hood that he did not omit this verbal exercise when
he met Ben Jonson and his other tavern friends in
their bbulous bouts. He also was satirized by his
jealous rivals, with puns that certainly poor
enough to justify any modern pun amateur in his
difficult word practice.
George D. Prentice the famous Louisville editor
knew very well the force of word repercussions
and old files of his paper TEEN with them He once
said: | never quite certain that a lady knows
what kiss is until | have it from her own lips"
His rival editor in Louisville had reason to know
his skill in forceful commentary when they had
their political tits. This rival said at the end
of long article intended to combat Prentice that
The Democratic party knows how the land lies
this question" Whereupon Prentice, quoting
the remark, said: Yes, and the land knows how
the Democratic party lies this question"
Present and Future
SOME one cannot identify punned WELL when he
~ said: It's better to have little taffy now,
than good deal of epitaphy hereafter"
There is at least pun in the New Testament;
but it not introduced for laughter levity.
Everyone will recall it as being connected with the
of foundation But this has the flavor of
poetic parable and is of one texture with the pic
torialism of Oriental sayings
Douglas Jerrold used any occasion for his pun,
accident to himself. Having stood up in
boat off the Swan at Battersea, he fell backward
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picturesqueness even in quantity that which
is now filling up the shores of this vast northern
continent.
Social changes often come on rapidly at last,
while yet they have been long preparing AS early
1890 political party formed in New York
whose resolutions opened follows: The appro-
praton of the soil of the State private and ex-
elusive possession eminenty and barbarous1y
unjust" Elsewhere, in the document, the
hereditary transmission of wealth is described as
" a prime source of all calamities, and this move
ment, we are told, was strong enough to establish
newspapers in at least four different States.
In 1884 two thousand men appeared in line during
an agitation for labor reform in Boston. In the
same year, in Massachusetts, three thousand women
were on a strike. If there few millionaires in
those days, it is to be remembered that all wages
were lower and hours of labor everywhere
longer If the incomes of great manufacturers
were smaller, can remember when in the neighbor-
hood Of Boston, women servants or help they
were then called-sometimes too hatteringly-
could be obtained without difficulty for dollar and
half week to do work for which four five dollars
must now be paid. There then only one man
in the neighborhood of Boston who could be re-
garded millionaire, and even in his case it was
doubted as being impossible Now the rich are
richer, but the poor are less poor.
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- TO one knows when that eXasperating duplcity
N in language called punning began. Adam
- and Eve doubt had time for it and the
builders of Babel had a than sufficient supply
of its necessary materias-since all languages give
it its opportunity. The oldest Sanskrit writings
said to be full of puns There are some who say the
punning habit is a disease In England, Douglas
Jerrold, Hood, Praed, Theodore Hook, and Sydney
Smith have been it's eminent and most constant
practitioners.
1t was of the Aldermen of London that Sydney
remark when they were discussing the merits of a
wooden pavement for the streets of that city. The
comment upon their plan and deliberations was that
they could no doubt make the scheme success by
carefully putting their heads together"
Hood kept up his habit to the last, and even at
his last illness, when he remarked of it, and of his
other joking, that he did these things in order to
lively Hood"
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The Fruit of American Energy

THE very obstacles which we are encountering
are the fruit which comes of the enormous energy
which the American people have thrown into the
ordinary business of life 1t is not question
of art, poetry, rehnements of life, is it ques
ton of the preservation of the Puritan conscience,
but of the simple fact that energetic and hard
working people has not yet hit upon the proper
relation between its methods and its duties How
shall these be organized, how arranged? On the
one side the constant engagements and re-
organization of capital railroad managers hold
men futures in the hollow of their hands A hand
full of control the whole flour trade, the whole
coal trade, of great cities
On the other side, there combinations of
labor in every direction; there organizations
that control the whole mining of great States.
The Supreme Court denies the consttutionality of
an income tax. The courts deny to striking miners
the right of assembly free speech. The President
of the United States is himself called to interfere
for the settlement of local quarrels, to send
military force to protect the United States mail
through Chicago
How soon they adjusted by the very forces that
and more happens, the representatives of the
ground After once encountering evil SO vast
and seeming hopelessy intrenched the insti-
tuition of slavery, every other struggle slight,
In all perils among all msfortunes, the spirit of
enduring patriotism carries the American people
through.
Human history has been defined as being "a
compendium of the migration of races and
never before has this migration equaled in
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growth love to turn to time-worn Outline At
las on which l worked in school, more than sew
enty wears ago. an atlas finished in outline only and
scantily filled in with names often strange to
seem now incredible and yet so limited in their
range that the work seems lett halt undone
From the map of the United States more than half
the present names absent. There is no State
west of the Mississippi except Missouri and part
of louisiana but the title Louisiana Territory
spreads across and upward until it reaches the
Columbia River On the wide vacant space thus
included, a few names of Indian tribes appear
Sioux, Foxes, Kansas, Pawnees; but there are also
names of regions that almost Incredible
Iberia, New Navarro, Quivira- not now to
be found in any encyclopedia, and OF which Texas
alone survives.
turn my eyes away and then look again, see
ing in imagination this half-contnent, before empty
but filled up now with local demarcations, with
names of States towns cities, each more and more
crowded every day with men, each represented in
Congress- each having full-blown politicians, dawn
ing statesmen, prospective candidates tor the pres
idency. What tale in the Arabian Nights is SO
wonderful as that suggested by this old map to the
imagination? Who help enthusiasm for this
greatest of wonders in the history of the world?
Anxieties of the Past
WHEN we read in the newspapers or hear during
w political campaigns the timid predictions of
frightened in regard to the future of nation
we shall find our best remedy in turning back hun
dred years and finding that those terors and anxees
were once more abundant than Turn, for in
stance, to the writings of Fisher Ames one of the
ablest public men in America who served tor eight
years in Congress and declined the presidency of
Harvard college. He wrote in 1903: Our cOun-
try is too big for union, too sordid for patriotism
too democratick for liberty What is to become of
it, he who made it best knows Its vice will govern
it, by practicing upon its folly. This is ordained
for demOCraCieS.
At the close of his address on American literature
the first elaborate address that subject he wrote
as follows The condition of the United States is
changing. Luxury is sure to introduce want; and
the great inequalities between the very rich and the
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very poor will be more conspicuous, and compre
bend a formidable host of the latter.
Liberty has yet lasted long in democracy;
nor has it ended in any thing better than des-
potism. With the change of our government
manners and sentiment will change. As soon as Our
emperour has destroyed his rivals and established
order in his army he will desire to see splendour
in his court, and to occupy his subjects with the
cultivation of the sciences
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SOME PUNS AND "PUNDITS"

into the water The next morning he had this con-
versation with the Swan chambermaid;
off here"
Servant oh yes, sir, frequently; but it's not
the season yet.
Jerrold, surveying himself "Ah 1 suppose it's all
owing to a backward spring.
Servant, sharply: That's it, sir"
A favorite pun of Charles Lambs that of an
Oxford scholar who met porter carrying hare
on his shoulder. Is that your hare" said the
scholar, or a wg?"
A good pun however. was made by the English
General Havelock, when he won his great battle in
India. After he took Lucknow he telegraph to
the English office: q We in Luck now
Remembered His Verse
MOT bad one was that of the poet Campbe1l's
visitor, who, on leaving Campbells upstairs
room, fell from the top Of the stairs to the bottom
The racket made called Campbell to the head of the
sir" said his friend tbs 1, sir, rolling rapidly
A rirnng pun is the one that follows:
A famous American preacher
Said The hen is a beautiful creature
Laid egg in his hat,
And thus did the Henry Ward Beecher.
There must be many readers who do not forget
and who will recall, whenever the present topic is
introduced-Dr Holiness essay of forty wears ago
and more on "a Visit to Asylum for Aged and
Decayed Punsters" published in The Atlantic
Monthly" January 1861, and not to be found in
by N E. Dow The directors were to select a super
visor anyhow they pleased, and N. E. Howe
therefore chosen to that office. When the doctor
arrived at the door he raped on it with his cane
whereupon of the inmates put his head out of the
window, and said: Oh, you prefer Cane to A Bell
Another said Is H. G. Really editor of The n. Y
Tribune?" One asked, Why is Stephen A. Doug
las like the earth?" and the reply came: Because
he fattened at the polls
The institution had rules somewhat stringent
Certain puns could not be used at any time and
certain hours exempt from the punning
ercse. Perhaps though the most striking fea-
ture of the institution was that there were no
female punsters there. will make
single pun sometimes; but it is sporadic and
there it ends. Whoever knew one to keep at t?'
the doctor asks.
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Problems Will Be Solved

so long as the changes thus reach different classes
the situation is not so alarming. If there the
perils of the stock-exchange, the side there
is anchorage in the increasing deposits in the saw
banks. The tendency of most thinkers, in
spite of all immediate anxieties, is the whole
gone creating larger problems will be able to
solve these and shall yet be able to live up the
standard proclaimed by Corporal Prince Lambkin
in my black regiment in 1862 when he said, ad-
dressing the dusEy soldiers from barrel-top: Wen
neber desert de ole flag, boys, neber. We hab lib
under it for eighteen hundred and sixty-two years
and We'll die for it now
With some such overpowering discharge of chro-
nology at long range, every political speech might
well end.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-06
WOMAN GOES BACK FOR TRIAL
Henrietta selIet of Chicago Arrested
Here and Taken Back ON
Larceny Charge.

Henrietta Sellet. arrested by Detectives
Ferris and Dunn at 162s Dodge street Mon
day morning, was taken back to Chicago
Thursday by Officer Keogh. who came with
requisition papers. The woman has been
charged in the Cook county court with
grand larceny by Gean Hacquary, from
whom Mrs. sellet rented and bought mer-
-chandise while conducting a dressmaking
establishment at 1912 Michigan avenue, Chi
cago. with the Seilet woman at the time
Of her arrest here was Leon Zaras who
was arrested as a suspicious character, but
afterward released by the police.
The detectives took three trunks from the
room OF the Sellet woman at 1893 Dodge
street II was stated the articles alleged
to have been stolen were in the trunks.
Incidental TO the arrest OF the sellet
woman Gean Hacquary has started
through Crane & Boucher of this city, an
attachment suit in Justice Fosters court
for the settlement Of a bill OF $50 held by
Mrs. Hacquary. Constable Simpson served
attachment papers on Captain Mostyn at
the city jail 50 as TO hold the goods until
the hearing shall have been held Saturday
morning in the Foster court
Louis ]. Patti. who represented Mrs. Sell
let and zaras here, said the arrest OF the
Sellet woman was unwarranted in that she
merely owed the Hacquary woman bal
anee on a bill of goods and had no felonious
intentions in coming to Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-06
ROUSE FEELS ENCOURAGED
Speaker of House Thinks His Chances
for Nomination for Cow
ernOr Are Good.

II see no reason for not feeling en-
couraged" was the reply OF Speaker Rouse
when asked about his candidacy for the
nomination OF governor on the republican
ticket. Mr.. Rouse came In from his home
at Grand Island Thursday morning to
spend the day in Omaha in lie interest
OF his candidacy before going to Lincoln
Thursday night TO attend the meeting OF
the state committee. Il have not been
over great portion OF the state In the
interest OF my candidacy" continued the
speaker but I have letters from a large
number OF the party leaders and their
letters are better TO me than personal in
terviews. often man IL too inclined to be
careless with his promises in a mere pass
ing remark when in personal conversat ton,
but It is not so when It comes TO putting
down his promise IN writing. He usually
takes time to consider and means what
he says then. ~
Indeed, I think chances for republican
success in Nebraska are good and can
not see any ground for complaint on my
own prospects"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-06
Rule License Vote q Tie.

BLAIR Neb.. April 5.-(special AN
official canvass Of the ballots OF Thursdays
city election by the mayor and city coun-
ell this afternoon has produced results
that have astonished the anti-license peo-
pie. The count by the election boards on
election night was given by the number of
yes and mo" votes on the proposition
Of granting license for the coming year,
when the nO-license vote was 500 and the
vote in favor of license was 249 which the
temperance people took for a good achieve
ment, AS such a vote was unlocked for
by either party. The council and city
attorney today decided that the majority
OF the entire number OF ballots cast was
the winning vote, which was 6l2, and the
no-license vote OF SO6 makes an even break.
Some of the city ofiicers-elect have commit
ted themselves so far that they would vote
wet or dry as the popular vote would in
dicate. Both factions are marshalling their
forces for a bitter flght for the mastership
OF the city counci-elect before their FIRST
meeting. and excitement is now running
higher than on or before election day.