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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
FINDER OF kLoNDIkE.
Drinking His Life Away Under Gov
 ernment Sanction.

Seattle Cor. Detroit News.
 Taglsh Charley, the Indian who first found gold on Klondike creek and re- ported it to white men, and who, partly the payment of s5OO0 and the granting by the Dominion government of the privilege of drinking whisky, which is denied to all the other red wards of the country, is drinking himself to death
 At the same time the Dominion gov ernment is gradually securing the rest of Tagish Charleys fortune in the way of fines Bruce White of Minneapolis, who has just come down from White Horse, tells the story of Charleys down. fall The Indian shows his appreciation of the privilege to drink as much as he desires of any fluid by getting as drunk as a white man every day. He is regu- larly arrested and is regularly fined and set at hbery Charley had s1O00OO a few years ago.
 Charleys friend and companion and former partner in the klonulke, Skoo- kum Jim sought to obtain the same priv ilege. but was refused, though he offered slO,OO0 The refusal turns out to be a further advantage for Charley, as Jim looks after him every day until he is ripe for police interference. The last day MT White was in White Horse he was present at an interview between skoo- kum Jim and the attorney who makes formal application daily for Charley's re- lease. Jim was told, after the lawyer had learned the hour of the arrest, that Charley would not be ready for libery for another half hour.
 This case is probably unique in the world Charley feels that he has been generously rewarded by the Canadian government, while the latter is gaining a large amount of the Indians fortune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
Roosevelt and Arizona.

The personal appeal that Mir. Roose welt makes to the people of Arizona to accept statehood in partnership with New Mexico will scarcely be needed. He is moved by sentiment He once lived on the great plains and In the Rocky mountains. He raised his famous Rough Riders, who largely made his political fortune in the far. west territories, including Arizona and New Mexico.
 But the people of Arizona will not be moved by sentiment when they go to the polls next November. They will consider the advantages and disadvan- tages of the union of two vast terri tories in one state The stretch of area is something enormous and many person would live and die in the proposed new state without once get ting within hundreds of miles of the capital.
 It Is of course easy In MT. Roose- welt to favor a state that could send but two democratic senators to Wash ingston, instead of two states that would send up four good democratic senators. MT. Roosevelt does not stop to think of the mileage that would be- come feature of the proposed state. The proposed state of Arizona would not be as large as Texas. but it would rank close uD to it. No other state would equal if in area. No other state should. States should be of convent ent size, and above all else there is no reason why the scheme to rob the dem- ocratic party of two senators should be carried out, even if the President does favor it. Arizona will not have to wait long to gain admission to the union. The democrats will in the next five years gain control of Congress, and when they are in power they will come into the union as other terri tories have been admitted and no partnership scheme would be neces- Sarv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
MIR. BRYAN WOULD WAIT.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
 When John Alden presented to Priscilla the pleas of his friend, Myles Standlsh, the gently sarcastic maiden naively ask ed why he didn't speak for himself. MT, William J. Bryan's statement, in which he says that there are other claims be- sides his which the democratic party ought to consider before choosing its Presidential candidate, is not parallel with the Incident of John Alden's com mission, but it's certain effect will be to intensity the enthusiasm of those who have sealed him for their own.
 Mir Bryan properly waves away a crown of the style and material of which he is necessarily ignorant. Caesar, in thrice refusing that proffered adornment must have entertained the prudent doubt that it would fit-at that particular time. Wearers of crowns are justified in in- sisting upon having their measures taken. and not too long in advance of the use.
 Mir Bryan humorously describes the reasons why he would rather wait be- fore assuming the attitude or office of a candidate for the Presidential nomna- ton in 1908. He can well afford to wait, and he counsels his party that 1t can afford to do likewise-faithful, just and wise advice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
Peculiar Glasses.

'I have a pair of glasses" remarked man, which have peculiar tricks. Not quite like the ones Poe wrote about; they, don't give things such a roseate ap- pearance as to make you fall in love with your grandmother for a girl, but some how or another they seem to affect my property sense. When l wear those glasses I can hardly tell your things from mlne..
 Now. I know I am not crook, but several times these glasses have made me take other peoples money. You see they are prisms. We'll, I was in a store the other day buying some things and what appeared to be my change when the bundle was handed me was lying on the counter. I reached out for It, put it In my pocket and never would have given the matter a second thought if the floor walker hadn't held me up. I tried to explain to him about the peculiarity of the lenses, but I don't think he knew anything about optics. You understand when prisms get a sideways focus on an object 1t sometimes appears to be right in front of you when in reality it may be at a sharp angle off to the side. Well. | don't know, I can't explain. No. l haven't got prisms on my hands"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
In Bohemia.

Said a Bohemian: "At the peculiar hour of half light when dawn coming up dyes the heavens q deep indigo, when birds are singing in the trees and all nature is awakening to the glories of new horn day and the Greeks are roasting peanuts that is the time when a news paper mans inwards long for pie. His soul, long separated In its eternal quest for truth. rushes back into it's carnal trappings and is cognizant of a void which can best and cheapest be filled by pie The hollowness is a palpaple reality but the pie is only a fair Grecian dream for the Athenian will not deliver the goods on credit. And Mike the Roman keeps an inventory on his bananas. Alas they are fastened to the stalk with tive-cent alabi-3 for 5. Wherefore the Epicurean falls into a reverie.
 "He bethinks him of the time when his gastronomic patron roamed the classic shades of the grove. the internals of him prappllng with food from the kitchen of the gods and the soul of him dallying with the nvmphs of Homer. He hies him then to the Roman Mike and thinks to awaken a flash in the pan as to the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome" But Mike like his forebear could divide all Gaul into three parts and would give him only one banana. The other two he kept awaiting the five-cent piece
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
BESSIE JOHNSON STAGES PLAY
Daughter of Mayor of Cleveland Makes
 Bow as Playwright.

From the New York World.
 CleVeland-Rehearsals were begun Mon day on the playlet by Miss Bessie John son. daughter of Mayor Tom Johnson, which is to be put on at the Coliseum the atre next week as a curtain-raiser.
 The young actress has gone into play writing seriously, and with determina- ton to see her piece given the best pos- sible presentation, she resisted Manager Harry D. Kllne's request that she assume the leading role herself. She Is collabor- ating with Stage Manager Ira D. Hards in tine production and will give her al en- ton to the staging.
 "Betty's House Party" as the play is called, is a bit of legitimate comedy, which upon the pretty plot of girl to bring about an avowal from her backward lover. She is an American and he an English duke. but in spite of the large array of precedent to the contrary he so dreads failure that he refuses to put his fortune to the test.
 In the emergency the artful Betty con- hives with her friends and appears at the house party in the rsle of her younger sister. The romance rolls on smoothly to a fitting climax with many delightful situ- ations.
 R. c. Herz and Miss Marjorie Wood of the Coliseum Stock company are to fill the leading parts. The three remain ing characters will be interpreted by Miss Helen Tracy, Miss Mary Roland and Har- rison Ford
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
For State Senator.

The announcement of Nathan L.. Miller as a candidate before thea pri- mary for state senator is promising It not only shows that the primary race is becoming active, but that the people will have good names before them when they go to the polls MT. Miller is at once a man versed in law and public affairs. and his integrity is beyond question.
 Jefferson county is the most popu- lous and wealthy senatorial district in the state, and too much care can not be taken to send to the senate for a term of four years one of it's best citi- zens. No man is too good or too highly cireumstanced to serve this dis trict in the state senate. MT. Miller Is a man who has long taken an ac- tive interest in the affairs of city, county and state He has never looked down from any imaginary heighth upon public affairs, upon poli- tics. He is in short an American citi- zen and sovereign, free alike from cant, affected superiority or demagogi cal taunt.
 The Age-Herald welcomes him to the list of aspirants for state sen atorial honors. The district is to be congratulated upon his candidacy, and the voters will not be apt to say when they go to the polls on August 2S that their choice is narrow and unsatisfac- tory. There are already three aspir- ants in the race, and the gates are still wide open.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
Birmlnuham's Humane Society.

All who are interested in the pre- vention of cruelty to animals, whether men or women, should keep in mind the meeting to be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the rooms of the Jef- ferson County Medical society on the third floor of the city hall. It is not to be a meeting for the gathering or funds. but it is to be meeting for the purpose of awakening an interest in the care of animals In this city-in the nroylsion of food, and especially water, for them, in efforts to prevent the overlooking of beasts of burdern, inc crowding of GOODS, the barberous picking up of dogs and other ways in which mas Is frequently cruel to dumb creatures.
 The meeting should be asked to consider an extension of the work to children. for we have no Gerry society here. Acts of cruelty to little children could be prevented, and the meeting to be held this afternoon should take the subject up, and discuss it, and act upon it.
 It should also say to every police men that it is his duty to act In cases of cruelty to animals when Officer Bennie is not at hand. At present many officers seem inclined to shift the entire responsibility and work 10 Officer Bonnie, who necessarily can not be present in all parts of the city at all times. Every officer should con slider 1t his duty to prevent alike cruelty to animals as well as to chil- dren. They can do much to lessen the two evils.
 Let us hope that the good ladies and the clergymen of this city will not overlook the meeting to be held this afternoon. Their presence and cooperation are desired. Their help is needed It is to be meeting that seeks the better care of the helpless, and good people should go out of their way to attend it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
From the New York Herald.

R/1N ONKEYS, subways and a wreck. IV tigers, rhodendrons and ice cream soda were some of the things seen yesterday by the seventeen most popular girls in the south. It was their verdict that New York was alto gether lovely, that every street was a. f6ir and that Broadwts with 'ts m4liens of lights, was a vista of illuminated "cute- ness"
 AIT had come rem the lard of the mag nolia and the lander as guests of newspaper in chattanooga, which had or ganized the popularity sweepstakes in which they had won over 800 competitors One of the contestants received 2,0O0, ,000 votes, and 1t is no wonder she did. The others were praised by hundreds of thou sands of ballots. All Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee was interested. and after this trip Is over there will no doubt be ln- corporated the Tri-state Admiration Com pany. Unlimited. If it isn't it ought to be.
 Just to show what is thought of the "seventeen most popular at hone t may be said that Chattanooga caused their spe- cial train to be laden with 17OO ba.;les Of soda and ginger pop. 300 Nearolltan ice cream bricks and 100 pounds of honbons. That may havts been the reason why tue young women closed their eyes and walked rapidly away in Bronx park yes terday afternoon whenever they saw an Ice cream soda booth Hardly had they finished their first sightseeing automobile ride than they were saying: 'I sutenly do like youah city. It is the lovelest place north of Mason and Dixon's line. It sut- enly is.'
 Mrs. c. M. Willingham of Chattanooga, who is well known in southern society, was the chaperon of the party, and two well meaning and hard working gentlemen connected with the management of the newspaper acted as dragomen. They took turns in counting and called to each othed from time to time after the manner of Mississippi river pilots, something like this:
 "One shy! Two shy! Everybody stop!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
Rain on the EspIanade.

"The Third avenue electric esplanade is pretty sight on a rainy night" said a citizen who claims to take an interest in things that are a little outside of the ordinary. "On Saturday night when the heavy rain was falling I happened to cross this avenue where 1t is intersected by Twentieth street.
 "'rhe block under the myriad incan- descent electric bulbs was then washed absolutely clean by descending waters and the gutters ran almost curb deep. Traffic was suspended; the expanse of furnished light was unbroken by the passage of a single vehicle Looking upward at the lights, it almost seemed that the musi- clans fantas of the golden train was being realized. And down below where a few belated pedestrians scurried along the lights In the windows cast their shad- ows in fantastic silhouettes across the rain-swept street"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09

perity of the country. The appropria- tions for the present fiscal year ex- ceed those of last year by $6O,000000. An issue of $25,OO0,00O in canal bonds will reduce this to s35,000,000, so that repetition of last years prosperity would leave a deficit of but $9,000.000. Prosperity might indeed bring receipts and expenditures out even.
 But will prosperity last? Many things, such as bank clearings, railway earnings and pig iron production say it will, but for some reason Wall street is distrustful and prices of se- curities are wobbly and uncertain. Best of all the crop outlook Is bright. and if the outturns of wheat, corn and cotton are heavy prosperity and in dustrial activity will be maintained throughout the fiscal year, no matter what Wall street thinks or does.
 It is difficult to account for the pres ent bearish state of the stock market Instead of summer bill movement the contrary appears. As it is the un. expected that happens in Wall street we may have a bull movement in the fall instead of a decline created by higher money rates induced by crop movements. But we may import gold to an extent that will meet fall de mands, and if big crops are harvested there is no reason to anticipate any thing but a continuance of prosperity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
MAKE BEST
 HUSBANDS, SAYS A LORD

of violets of the roadside buttercup. 1t express herself as fond on some happy occasion in the past-an occasion which she may have forgotten until reminded of 1t through the thoughfulness and sentiment of her husband
 Those are some of the reasons why our men make American women better husbands. Your women are filled with sentiment; they must have f1attery; must have affection, and when the American gets to taking too much for granted the stupid Englishman comes in and flies off with the American bride"
 Referring to the American woman in letters, Lord Northcliffe accorded her the highest praise. Your American women are today the worlds leading rovelists," he said. Take Mrs. Whar- ton, who writes so charmingly; Mrs Craigie, Mrs. Atherton, Baroness von Hutton-she, too, Is an American girl and what wonderful work they have all done for letters! The American woman Is a wonderful production, for she can do so many things so well. But in llt- erature she is truly great
 Lord Northciffe is registered at the St. Regis. He will be in New York for a week.
 Alfred Harmsworth has had a remark ably brilliant career At 20 he was poor and struggling journalist; at 90 1 millionaire and before he was 40 he was made a baronet, and is now known as Alfred Lord Northcliffe in the British peerage. He was created baronet in 1904
 He is the owner and editor of the Lon-' don Daily Mail. one of the most influential newspapers in England. His London house in Berkeley square Is the center of very brilliant coterie of distinguished people, of which his wife, now Lady Northcliffe, is the leading figure. She Is looked upon as one of the most beautiful women in Lon don, and her wit and brilliant repartee are among her greatest charms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
The President is Oyster Baying.
BRIpE-ro-HE OF A SENATOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 No trace of frivolity fingers about Miss Josephine Boardman, who soon will be- come the wife of United States Senator Crane of Massachusetts. She has been identified with the more serious element of Washington society ever since her de- but ten or twelve years ago. She is a bookish young woman and once aroused the amusement of her friends by studying Hebrew as relaxation from mental strain. Miss Boardman cares little for dress, and though she is almost twenty five years the junior of her husband-to- be. she is fitted eminently to occupy a place among ,h, matrons of the Senate set" Mrs. Lodge, wife of the other Mas sachusetts senator, Is erudite her spe- cialty being Greek. In Miss Boardman the Bay state will find it's reputation for learned women sustained She is already half a native of the old commonwealth. as her father, William E. Boardman, has owned n home in Manchester for more than twenty years and her summers have been spent there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
PREcEDENTs FOR MIR. BRYAN.

From Harper's Weekly.
 MT. William J. Bryan was well ad- vised and was acting in pursuance Of some striking precedents when he un- dertoolx A foreign tour soon after the beginning of MT. Roosevelts second ad- noinistration. It was certain that his movements in distant countries would be recorded and would thus keep him full in the public eye, while at the same time his remoteness and lack of definite and carlv information concerning events in the Tinted States would absolve him from the necessity of pronouncing Judgment on them After Franklin Pierce entered the White House in March, 1853, James Buchanan, who was determined to De the candidate of his party for the Presidency in 1S5s and who foresaw that the dem ocratic party in the north might be rent asunder by an attempt to repeal the Ms souri compromise, accepted the appoint ment of minister to England, which at that time. when there was no submarine cable. was much farther off than Japan ia today. He was thus relieved from the necessity of identifying himself closely with either of the wings into which his nartv was split by the Nebraska bill. He remained abroad in the position of phil osophic observer until the time came to prepare for the democratic national con- ypntion of 1856, when, with nice Judg- ment of opportuneness, he resigned his office. still fresh in remembrance is the extended tour of the world made by General Grant from which he returned in time to be the candidate of more than three hundred enthusiastic delegates to Chicago in 1880 for third term. If Col onel Bryan means to come back to the United States this summer, we fear that he is not evincing the sagacity exhibited hy the veteran Buchanan and by the ex- pert advisers of General Grant In the course of two years many untoward things may befall Presidential boom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
BELLIES OF DIXIE ARE
 "SEEING" GAY NEW YORK

Don't you take that carl Two shy! One Shy! Here she Is. Were you lost, kinder gartner? All aboardf'
 Isn't 1t grand to ride about this town ?, said one of the girls.
 Tt certainly is. And this morning when I was on the horseless bus and listened to that interesting young man-nyl what fine language he does use!-he showed us where the Vanderbilt Twins lived, and then we saw the house where that gentle man places a white rose every morning on the breakfast table for his wife long gone. Sweet and romantic, isn't it2 Ghl I do indeed take fancy to Kew Yorkl'
 Luncheon was served at the official abiding place, the Hotel Flanders, in West Forty-seventh street and after that the most popular seventeen went by the sub- way to Bronx Park Geological garden. They spoke kindly to the primates and clapped their hands at the sight of Rajah, Bengal tiger, with stripes which they said made him the "ruggiest" thing which they had ever seen. To the black leopard and the spotted one, placed for the sake of contrast in the same cage, they gave high need of praise.
 Look at the pelicans," said one whom they called 'the kindergartner "Oh, girls doesn't this remind you of the St. Louis expositionp'
 Everything they saw-the trees, the shrubs and even the splinters of wreck on the Bronx terminal of the elevated railroad-the seventeen found repleted with novelty. They went last evening to the Wistaria grape arbor. The members of the party are Francis Gunter, Bridge port; Alva Hale, Atta1la; Demi Denis, Huntsville; Jessie Henderson and Blanche Mcfarland. Dalton. Ga. Mary Tricks, Rossville Ga, Flora Copeland. Soddy, Tenn; Flossie Blackburn, Cleveland. Tenn; Margaret Erwin, Lookout Moun- tain; Alice Magill, Dechard, Tenn; Blanche Allison, Pauline Hancock and Catherine Robinson, Chattanooga; Hattie Hunter, Johnson City, Tenn; Catherine Dietzen, South Pittsburg, and Elizabeth Price and Daisy Sartin. Jasper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
MIR. ROOTS OPPORTUNITY.
Inc Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 In South America generally the United States Is distrusted when it is not frank ly hated: while since the Spanish-Amer- ican war this suspicion or enmity has been intensified by fear, for which an- other reason was found in the Panama incident and some of President Roose- velt's 'big stick" talk which was in tended to apply to Venezuela alone. all though all South America semed to think the coat fitted 1t. Our southern neighbors prefer Europeans to us, and commercially and socially all their rela- tions are with Europe instead of the country which has protected them against that same Europe for the better part of century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Should Provide Place.

There should be some place in Birmlng- ham where destitute people who come to Birmingham on the trains could be sent. said man who spends much time at the union passenger station. Frequently women come to the city without money and miss connecting trains. This leaves them in the city without money and mo- where to spend the night except to sleep in the waiting room at the station
 Tt Is not possible to send these people to the city jail. The warden cannot take them at the Jail unless there Is some charge made against them, and even then there are no accommodations for them.
 "The city frequently has to care for such strangers as other cities do, and think some arrangements should be made for a place where such people could be sent for a day and night, or even two or three days, until they can get out of town"