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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The HIS are winners-Hughes in
New York and Harahan in the Illinois
Central.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Moore, the weather man, is to be
reprimanded, but not for the weather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

AFTERMATH.
Election day is over now,
The voters had his say.
A few have settled all their bets,
And some will never pay.
In looking Ger the battlefield
Where parties fought and lost
And summing up expense accounts
To see how much it cost
The days and nights of weary toll,
The long, heart-rendng grind,
The bitterness and epithets
That lesser men don't mind
The daily duties cast aside,
The charge of fraud and scandal
The wise mans ready to ayow
The games not worth the candle.
No newspaper office can be run success
fully without an office cat and an offic
boy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Mr.. Hearst won't have a thing to do
now but look after his newspapers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

George Gould can manage railroad
but he never could manage Count Boni
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The north pole is in no haste to be
discovered
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

About the only objection to President
Harahan is that he looks like Morgan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Thaw is to be our post-election SEN
sation.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TINES

THE COMMON SENslCURE
He was a dyspeptic
And groaned with a VI
Until a new trouble
Scared it clear out of In.
He thought he would die ure
OF this and of that,
Attic fine picture
OF health and so fat.
Methinks, foolish people
Who vow they are i'll
Could quickly recover
If they had the will.
Since one who iinagines
He's going to the bad
Is bound to feel creepy
And weepy and sad.
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Somehow, we can't believe that Cupid
has much to do with the love affairs of
millionaires and chorus girls.
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Don't be surprised II you should dream
that you see a turkey kicking up his
legs on a platter.
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TILE -AUE-dI
The republicans may yet conclude to
adopt Richard Croker and make him
perhaps their candidate for president.
They love him.
Eight stone maidens ON Cleveland $
new federal building are too fat and
are having their superfuous flesh
chiseled off.
The Ute chiefs are going to talk the
matter over with the big pale face in
Washington as soon as he returns from
Panama.
The weather bureau says that the
grounding is rank failure as a
weather prophet, likewise the goose
bone.
Blenheim needs behind IL Wander
bilt fortune, for 200 servants are
needed to keep it in good condition.
The Monroe doctrine has friends in
this country who will not let Chicago
professor talk it out of existence.
--s.--
The lining-up for 1908 is now in or
der, for there is not much else of y
political nature before the country
Commander Peary will make another
dash for the pole, and it may as well
get ready for an intrusive visit
Peary was not able to bring the pole
back with him, and we are getting
along very we'll without it,
The voting machines in New York
enabled the news gatherers to hurry
in the decisive figures.
Papa Roosevelt said that he was
glad that Nicholas won out, and he
probably told the truth
There are no infidels in Fort Wayne,
Ind, but there are ice men in summer
and coal men in winter.
|
The chief objection to the stage vec-
sion of 1.-The Jungle" is that Upton
Sinclair is playing in it.
Seems to be hard year for the
editors" remarks the Atlanta Journal.
Most years are.
! A. Comstock is supervisor of art, and
Atlanta may decide to appoint super
visor of literature.
The HIS are winners-Hughes in
New York and Harahan in the Illinois
Central.
The modern playwright could dramat-
ize a boiler factory, if it wasn't for the
noise.
George Gould can manage railroad,
but he never could manage Count Bonl.
Moore, the weather man. is to be
reprimanded, but not for the weather.
Mr.. Hearst won't have thing to do
now but look after his newspapers.
|
Mrs. Eddy Is human DelHS dleSr
| ALL Just like the rest of us.
/
The rate bill may yet prove TO be a
bill to regulate Hartman.
No more KS are required from good
citizens this year.
The north pole is in no haste to be
discovered.
LEGEND OF CITY OF MEXICO.
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me-" continued Mrs. wilkins, we've
got into the 'abit Of tall1in' a bit too
much about other peoples dirt. The
London atmosphere amt nat'rally
there's a gOodish few as seem to think
1t is One comes across free-born
Britons ere and there as I'd be sorry
to scrub clean for a shillin and find
my own soap" 1T is a universal fail
ing Mrs. Wilkins" I explained. IF
you talk to a travelled Frenchman, he
contrasts, to his own satisfaction, the
Paris 'ouvrier' in his blue blouse with
the appearance of the London laborer.
''I daresay they're all right according
to their lights" said Mrs. Wilkins, but
it does seem a bit wrong that II our
own chaps are W1llins and anxious 10
work, after all that they've done, too,
in the way of getting the mines for
US, that they shouldn't be allowed the
Job" again, Mrs. Wilkins, 1t is dift-
cult to arrive at a just conclusion"
said. ssThe mine owner, according to
his enemies hates the British work
creatures feel towards the noble and
virtuous. He viii go to trouble and
expense merely to spite the British
workman, to keep him out Of South
According to his friends the mine
owner sets his face against the idea
of white labor for two reasons. First
and foremost. it is not nice work; the
mine owner hates the Lhougnt OF ms
beloved white brother toiling in the
mines It is not right that the noble
white man should demean himself by
such work Secondly. white labor Is
too expensive. If. for digging gold,
men had to be paid anything like the
same prices they are paid for digging
coal the mines could not be worked.
The world would lose the gold that the
mine owner is anxious to bestow upon
it. The mine owner, following his own
inclinations. would take a little farm.
grow potatoes. and live a beautiful
life-perhaps write a little poetry A
slave to a sense of duty, he is chained
to the philanthropic work Of gold
mining. If we hamper him and worry
him the danger is that he viii get
angry with us-possibly he will order
his fiery chariot and return to where
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of theirs, to benefit the human race.
Nothing can be obtained in this world
without money That's true" said
Mrs. wilkins, with a sigh-'sFor gold,
everything can be obtained. The aim
OF the mine-owning archangel is to pro-
vide the world with gold. Why should
the world trouble to grow things and
make things? Let us" say these
archangels temporarily dwelling in
South Africa, dig up and distribute to
the world plenty Of gold, then the world
can buy whatever 1t wants, and be
happy"
There may be flaw in the argu-
ment, Mrs. wilkins, 1 allowed, Il
am not presenting it to you as the
last word upon the subject. am
merely quoting the view of the South
African mine owner, feeling himself
much misunderstood benefactor of
mankind Il expect" said Mrs.
wilkins, shrewdiy, they are just the
ordinary sort OF Christian, like the
rest of u.s. anxious to do the best
they can for themselves and not too
particular as to doing other people in
the process .'I am inclined to think,
Mrs wilkins" I said, that you are
not very far from the truth. A friend
OF mine a couple of months ago was
very bitter on this subject of Chinese
cheap labor. With his strong denun-
citation of the proposal one was bound
to concur. 1t was founded through
out upon the highest ideals. A little
later there died a distant relative Of
his who left him twenty thousand
South African mining shares. He
thinks now that to object to the i'm
portation of Chinese is narrow minded,
illiberal. and against all religious
teaching. He has bought an abridged
edition of Confucius, and tells me
that there is much that is emo bling
in Chinese morality. Indeed, I gather
from him that the introduction of the
Chinese into South Africa will be the
saving of that country, The noble
Chinee will afford an object lesson to
the poor white man, displaying to him
the virtues of sobriety, thrift and hu-
mility. I also gather that it will be of
nee himself The Christian missionary
will get hold of him in bulk, so to
speak, and imbue him with the higher
theology, It appears to be one of
those rare cases where everybody is
benefited at the expense of nobody. It
is always pity to let these rare op-
portunities slip by
We'll, said Mrs. Wilkins, ''I'Ve
nOthin' to say agen the Chinaman, as a
Chlnaman. As to is being a 'eathen,
Well, thrOwin' stones at a church, as
the sayin' is, don't make a Christian Of
you. There's Christians I've met as
couldn't do themselves much arm by
changing their religion; and as to
cleanliness, well, I've never met but
one and e was a Washerwoman, and
I'd rather ave sat next to i'm in a
third class carriage on a Bank 'oliday
than next to some of EN-. Seems to
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the way some of them talk in our
Dlock you might run away with the
nolon-that is, if you didn't know
'em-that work was their only joy
said to one of EN-, the other evening
a man as calls isseIf a brass fnisher
though, Lord knows, the only brass he
ever finishes Is what his poor wife
earns, and isn't quick enough to hide
away from im-WeH, whatever 'ap-
pens. says 1t Will be clever of EN-
II they take away much work from
you. It made EN- all laugh that die, -
added Mrs. Wilkins with a touch of
pardOnable pride "Ah," continued the
good lady, tits surprising 'OW content
ed they can be with a lictIe, some Of
en- Give EN- a ard working woman
10 look after them, and a day out once
a week with a procession of the unem-
ployed, they don't ask for nothing
more.
There's that beauty. my poor sister
Jane was fool enough to marry. Serves
'er right, as I used to tell her at first,
till there didn't seem any more need to
rub 1t into her. Shed 'ad one good
usband. 1t wouldn't ave been fair for
her to have had another, even if there'd
been a chance of it, seeing the few of
EN- there is to go round among so
many But it's always the same with
us widows, if we 'appen to ave been
lucky the first time, we put it down to
our own judgment-think we can't
ever make mistake again; and if we
draw a wrong uus as the saying IS, we
argue as If it was the duty of Provi-
dence to make it up to us the second
time. Why, I'd "a been making a fool
Of myself three years ago If e 'adn't
been good natured enough to call one
afternoon when was out and hook IT
off with pound eight in the best
teapot that 'ad been soft enough to
talk to i'm about; and never let me
set eyes on i'm again: God bless 'iml
'E's one of the born -tireds. e is" con-
tinued Mrs. Wilkins, ''as poor Jane
might ave seen for 'erseIf, if she 'ad
only looked at i'm. But that's court
ship, all the world oyer-old and young
alike so far as I've been able to see it:
the mans all eyes and the woman's all
ears. They don't seem to ave any
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AN EASY VICTORY.
WasEburn Gets Scalp of state Normal
Basket Ball Team.

Another scalp bangles from the belt
of the Washburn basket ball team
They acquired this addition to their
many trophies in an easy fashion at
the skating rink last night by defeat
ing the experts in the game from the
State Normal college to the tune or
"a to 8. Had the Washburn boys
played as hard and fast in the second
half as they did in the fBst, there is
no telling what the final score would
have been In the first half they
actually smothered their opponents,
rolling up a score of 21 points to J.
and with the game so well in hand
they naturally soldiered bit in the
second half and only scored 1S points
while they allowed their rivals to run
few weeks ago these same teams
clashed. at Emporia, and the Wash
burn lads won in a hard fought game
by score Of 81 to .92. With this
game in mind, they had prepared
but the opposition given them was
fragile. This may have been due to
the fact that the members of the Nor
NAL team were a trff1e stale, having
played a hard game the night before
with the Baker university team, which
they lost by a score of So to II. Stale
or not, they played like lot of nov
ices. With more than a dozen tries
for free goals the best they could do
was to toss four of them, and as for
field goals they only got two of them,
and both of these were thrown in the
second half by Elmore, who substi-
tuted for Shuey during that period.
Remarkable aggressiveness and
team work was displayed throughout
the game, especially in the first half,
by the members Of the Washburn
team, and in individual playing it
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would be difficult to say who excelied
Milice and Captain. Hope played with
a vim and accuracy which elected ap-
plause and cheers from from the hun
dred persons who were present. Cap
tain Hope was all over the court, and
some of his throws for field goals
which counted, were out of the ordi-
nary T. Tice, who tossed the ball
when the Washburn team had a try
for free goals, rarely missed a chance
During the second half there was
quite a bit of rough work, which was
started by King, one of the guards on
the Normal team, and shortly after
he began these tactics it was necessary
to call time while he recovered from
a bump he received by making con-
neetion with the floor. Taken all in
all, the contest was not a good expo
sition of the game, principally be-
cause it was so one-sided. The teams
lined up as follows:
Washburn. Normal
Hope (Capt) forward. ... Horner
H Tice 1890 forward .Shuey,
Elmore.
Milifce- -..-..-. center .... Partridge
Montgomery. .. guard ..K King
+. T1ce guard .Cowan (Capt.)
Mr.. Claire Turner. assistant physical
director at the Normal college, acted
as referee, and tht umpire's duties
were looked after by Mr. Merle Cain.
member of the high school basket
ball team
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DOESN'T OWE EAD0LLAR.
Annual Report of the BIackay Com
panies Is Made Public.

Boston, Mass, Feb 1.-THE annual
report of the trustees Of the Adaekay
companies has been issued and states
that the companies owns a part or ali
Of the capital stock Of "a prosperous
cable, telephone and telegraph COM
panies in the United States, Canada and
Europe, including the Commercial ca
bic and Postal Telegraph systems. The
report further states that the Mackay
companies is one OF the largest stock
holders in the American Telephone and
Telegraph company, commonly known
as the Bell Telephone company and that
during the past year it has acquired
control OF the North American TeIe-
graph company which for 20 years has
owned and operated q telegraph system
In Minnesota. Wisconsin, Iowa, and II
hnois- The report nows that the
Mackay companies has no debts and
and 81, 800. 400 common shares. During
the past year 81 SIS coo preferred shares
have been issued in exchange for shares
IN other corporations paying as much
or greater dividends than the CORES
ponding dividends on the Maekay pre-
ferred shares
The report states that the income OK
the constituent companies IS largely fn
excess Of the amount required to pay
the Mackay companies dividends. The
excess is used for extensions and Ee-
serves. The trustees state that they
confine themselves in their investments
to frst-class cable telephone ana tele-
graph stocks.
The laying OF a fifth cable In the Az
lantic ocean and the establishment Of
cable communication with NeWfound-
land and the laying of the new cables
to China and japan are referred to.
TIE trustees are: Clarence H. Aaclxay,
William w. Cook, George 6. Ward,
DumOnt Clarke and Edwin c. Platt
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KILLED IN HIS HOME.
Denver Business 8Ian Shot in Presence
of His Family.

Denver, Feb. 17=Morris L. Caplin,
who operates an auction business here,
was murdered in the dining room of
his home last night by masked man,
who entered for the purpose of rob
berry. Caplin was engaged in a game
OF cards with his wife, daughter and a
friend. The holdup walked in unan-
nounced and leveling two revolvers at
Caplin demanded his money. When
CapIin emptied his pockets and his
wife had turned over all the money
She had, the robber ordered CapHn to
give him the money he had received
from the days business. Caplin
reached under the. table, evidently for
a stool to throw at the man, when the
latter fired. the bullet striking Caplin
in the heart, killing him instantly. The
robber then backed out of the house
and esca ped.
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in the minds of thoughtful people. The
power Of the story and the human
strength and cheerfulness of its main
idea have been praised by many critics.
Robert Davis and sam Dickinson,
the rival machine leaders of Jersey
City, thought that Mayor Mark Fa-
gan's marriage last fall might tend to
estrange him from the rank and file of
the voters who had elected him over
the heads of the two organizations.
But the event has proved the contrary.
Everyone knows how they hOcked to
the mayors New Years reception, and
how Pagan gave the women pennies in
seal DocketbOOks. and the men roses.
His marriage they say has brought him
closer to the people than ever, and he
is with them as much as ever. It would
be hard for one who has read Lincoln
Steffens' Pagan" in the January Nc
Cures. to imagine the gentle mayor
sighting a great public trust even for
his newly assumed domestic duties.
Pastor Wagner, author Of The Sim
pie Life, has begun. in Harper's Bazar
a series of papers which should be of
vital interest to American women In
these papers the great Frenchman
gives for the first time the result Of
the close studies he made of American
girls and women during his recent
visit to this country. His few criticisms
are kindly and his advice to women is
invaluable. His urst article appeared
In the February number of Harper's
Bazar.
The Harpers are reprinting this week
their fine set of Mark TWain's com
plete works, known as the Hilcrest
edition This edition, which is the one
authorized by himself, contains twenty
three volumes, a special feature being
the series of phOtogravure portraits of
the author, taken at periods when the
different volumes were being written.
Many illustrations by well known art
lists and biographical criticism of
Mark Twain and his work by Brauder
Matthews. as we'll as the finest press
work, make this a notable edition.
A new honor has come to DR. Henry
van Dyke He has been chosen to
deliver the grafton on University day
at the University of Pennsylvania
Last year President Roosevelt delivered
. this oration and some years ago Presi-
dent Mckinley was the orator of the
day. University day Is celebrated on
the 22d of February. Washingtons
birthday, and the grafton will be de-
livered in the Academy of Music IN
Philadelphia. DR. Van Dyke will speak
on washington and the Men Who
Served with Him.
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I replied. whether he be Chinee or
any other he is always up to tricks.
Was not England specially prepared
BY an alI-wise Providence to Illustrate
these knavish tricks2 Which of such
particular tricks may you be referring
70 at the moment, Mrs. Wilkins ?''-
Wen, 'e's comm over ere, isn't he.
SIT, to take the work out OF our
mouths. as it were We'll. not exact
" over here, to England, Mrs. WiIk-
ms, explained there's talk OF his
pelng introduced into Africa TO work
e. tI Ine mines there IT'S funny
thlns, said Mrs. Wilkins, "but to ear
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Many lowpreed imitation baking powders upon te
ket These made aum should be taken
avoid them alum poison be taken in the food
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

other senses left ,em. ran against i'm
the other night, on my way 'ome, at
the corner of Gray's Inn Road. There
was the usual crowd. watching a pack
of them Italians laying down the ash
phalte in 'Olbcrn, and e was among
EN-. E 'ad secured the only lamppost
and was leaning agen it "Hullo," I
ses, glad to see you 'aven't lost yer
job. Nothin' like stickin' to it. when
you've dropped into somethin that
really suits YOU What do you mean,
Martha - e ses- 'E's not one of what
I call your smart sort.
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II Y " = HAT is all this talk
w "a W ear about the
"a "a 81 Chinese ?" said Mrs.
WHAg Wilkins to me the
" other morning. We
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he came from well, e can't take
the gold with him. wherever e goes
to-" argued Mrs. wilkins. You talk.
Mrs. Wilkins, said, ''as If gold were
Of more value to the world than is the
mine owner" We'll isn't tt" de-
manded Mrs wilkins. ITS a new
idea, Mrs. wilkins" I answered; at
wants thinking out"
IER0NdE- K -JERoME.
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Those who are writing biographies
OF the late Henry Harland viii PROB
ably fail into the common error an q
state that his birthplace was ST
given in who's Who but Mr Har-
land himself is the authority Tor the
statement that it is Inaccurate MT
Harland was born, as "Who's VINO .
states in 1861, but the question OF
the place is complicated by the fact
that Mr. Harland himself disagrees
with the records Before court OIL
law Mr. Harland would have had to
confess that he was born IN prosalc
Brooklyn, but otherwise would never
admit it. He always claimed as the
place of his nativity NorWich, con
necucut. which town he called the
rose, not only of New England, but of
the world" He wculd explain this
disagreement with the records by say
ing that he was born i'm Brooklyn
only by accident. not by rights, con-
sultati0n, or authority.
Says the February Critic: There
seems to be an effort nowadays among
authors to get strange titles for their
books Sometime agO Mr- EIdgley
Terrence published little book
called "The House of a Hundred
Lights" Now Mr.. Meredith Nicholson
goes him several better with a new
novel called "The House of q Thou
sand candles. by the side OF "a
thousand candles a hundred lights
would make little showing in the dark.
Now let us have THE House of Five
thousand Electric Lights"
Tt is reported that George -Ade,
playwright fablist. and farmer, is to
have g surprise thrust upon him on
his return to this country i'm the shape
of nomination for congress. Re
Gently too. town in Newton county.
Indiana, AIDES birthplace, has been
named for him Indiana delights in
heaping honors upon her authors.
Though A1r Ade has forged far ahead
since his first fables We're written,
these little volumes still have a con-
stant sale New editions We're recently
printed by the Harpers.
Few short stories of late have Gre
ated a deeper impression than Frances
HOdgsOn Burnetts THE Dawn of a
Tomorrow which appeared in the De
cember and January numbers of Scrib-
ner's Magazine. It is not only one of
the most remarkable things that Mrs.
Burnett has ever written. which is
certainly giving it high praise. but it is
also peculiarly expressive of many
ideas which are coming more and
more to the front at this present time