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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
AT A MASKED BALL.

From the Cassell's Journal
 The following conversation was over heard at a ball recently. Two middle aged ladies were discussing a certain young one. The first said she was just as unpopular as she was plain.
 "Is that so?' exclaimed the other, in surprise.
 "Why yes" the first insisted "She is a perfect wall-nower'
 But at Mrs. BIS ball last week." said the other, T understand she danced every danee''
 "So she did''
 Well, then--''
 "Ah! interrupted the first, but it was a masked ball"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
CANE DOOMS SHAKESPEARE

poet, he was a plunder-bunder and an oppressor of the common people Bernard Shaw's attitude was familiar But for once Theodore -Dunton aligned him- self with the high priest of iconoclasm and assailed Shakespeare for slanderlng Macbeth.
 Still we were stubborn. Not one of those mighty men shook our faith in the idol that had not been so bespattered since the days of Voltaire and the Eng fish hexamater grinders of Queen Anne's time. But fath has it's limitations Our eyes are opened at last. For Hall Caine has said the final word
 Excepting "a few isolated passages shakespeare's plays are neither good for doctrine nor moral guidance not good as pictures of life and not even good as dramatic art" Yet charity is not absent from the heart of Caine. He would save one-ffth of Shakespeare's work. Let his thirty-seven works be thinned to seven," is the judgment of the master of man
 Let none dispute the sentence No gap will be left in literature by the blot ting out of those thirty feeble things Their base metal will be replaced by purest gold. That noble list, headed by ''The Christian,'' already numbers at least ten. And Hall Caine is still writing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
IS SEVERE ON SENATE.
rom the Boston Herald,

From the Boston Herald,
 Bart Kennedy, the noted English nov elist told in New York a story about the Senate.
 q heard this story in Washington" said MT. Kennedy. "and I have every reason to believe that 1t is true.
 "A senator hurried into the Senate chamber one morning early and said to page:
 "'Young man, did you find a $lO bill on my desk last evenings? I wrote a let ter, intending to inclose the bill, but somehow I failed to do so and left it be- hind on the blotter.'
 ".Yes, senator said the page, taking out his wallet. I did find that bill, and here it is. And it's a lucky thing for you, sir, that none of the other senators happened in before I sasu Gf<
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

N LAS. poor Shakespeare! we thought WD1 we knew you we'll But we were
 mistaken. We fancied you a fell low of infinite jest Instead of that, you are merely a joke, at which wise men laugh scornfully. If you existed at all, you were neither poet, dramatfst nor phil osopher. You are as obsolete as the Mon roe doctrine in the mind of Burgess. There was doubt before the night of De- cember 2, 1906. But at the hour when the Players club of London listened to the one impeccab1e authority of literature, the fame of the swan of Avon died. Shakespeare was slaughtered by the man whom he resembled. Henceforth he may be remembered only as the unworthy Elizabethan who looked like Hall caine.
 We were so befooled that we were not convinced when Tolstoi told us that all Shakespeare works were trivial and immoral" We did no more than sigh at the loss of a fellow Shakespearean when the Berlinese Beibtreu, who once proved that Bacon did not write the plays, came forward and declared that Roger, Earl of Rutland, did. It was not pleasant to be told by an English antiquarian that Shakespeare was snob and tuft hunt CT and that his coat-of-arms was spuri- ous. Nor was it consoling to learn from Ernest Crosby that instead of being a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
Trusts Thrown Out of Court.

;. The Wall Paper trust got more than it bargained for when it sued a Gin cinnati firm to recover $57,O00 for goods furnished by the trust. The defendants pleaded in the United States district court that the plaintiff was a trust, from which he had been compelled to buy at trust prices. The testimony went to show that the plain tiff was one of the most exacting trusts in this country. The disrict court held at once that, as such, it had no stand ing in court; that it could not use the court to collect it's bills, and it's suit was summarily dismissed. It took an appeal to the court of appeals of the United States, and in that court the judgment of the district court was pre-emptorily affirmed, and the trust was kicked out of court.
 When trusts see that they cannot cOlleCC DlllS tney VIII elluer become more exacting and oppressive, or else they will be reorganized. At present it is difficult to say which policy will be adopted. The Cincinnati case will perhaps bring them to one course or the other. The Cincinnati case prac- fica1lv closes the doors of the courts to the trusts so far as bill collection is concerned, and that is a step for ward at any rate. The next step against them should be towards the door of the penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
Bowling Contest.

"we are to have a bowling contest one night this week with a Memphis team, said member of the Apollo Bowling club.
 "The record here is held by Meeks, the baseball player, who made 2So out of a possible 300. We have team of five hard to beat Yes, all good bowlers use one special ball, and a variation in the weight of balls with an expert would affect the score he made. This ball l carry in this hand pocket is 15A pounds in weight, and I do all my bowling with it.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
A Sad Case.

.eHe will never get over the habit or using cocaine or morphine" said doc. tor. pointing to a familiar street figure.
 His is a sad case indeed. He suffered from terrible accident and it was nec- cessary to use drugs to alleviate his pain After the worst was passed, poor fellow he could not shake off the habit. l know he has manfully struggled against It, has tried so-called cures, always hoping, but he will never be free again. He IS very gentle and affectionate, and has many friends who give him small sums to buy lunches with. daresay It does not all go to the lunch counter, but whats the difference? He isn't half as bad with his dope as very many men sound in body who fill up on whisky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
 REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 It is almost better to be married than never to have been engaged.
 If a girl has the toothache she'll try to account for it in some romantic way
 If parents had been the kind they tell their children to be they would have been freaks.
 A nice thing about being conceited is the more people think you are fool the more you think they don't.
 There is nothing that makes really good woman so triumphantly virtuous as 10 go out to dinner and have something wrong with her hostess cooking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
THERE'S NOTHING TRUE BUT
 HEAVEN.
Rv Thomas Moore.

By Thomas Moore.
 This world is all fleeting show
 For mans illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, decitful flow;
 There's nothing true but Heaven. And false the light on glory's plume, As fading hues of even; And love, and hope, and beauty's bloom. Are blossoms gathered for the tomb There's nothing bright but Heaven. Poor wanderers of a stormy day
 From wave to wave we're driven; And fancys flash and reasons ray Serve but to light the troubled way There's nothing calm but Heavsn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
Transmission of Sound.

"One can get fair idea of wireless telegraphy here in the Florence" said a travelling man. My room is on the in- gside with a window which opens out into the court. Now, when the wind is in a certain direction you can hear the noise of the locomotives under the depot 'shed when standing at the window just as loud and distinct as if you were undA' the she'd The windows are screened with fine netting and metal frames and the transmission is remarkably clear to the point of startling"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Travel Not Heavy.

Saturday and Sunday the travel was comparatively light" said depot at tache. Perhaps it ithe calm before the storm. for, you know, when the holiday tide starts from Birmingham it is great rushing throng The express employees will be the hardest worked men, but the baggage men don't have any easy time, to be sure I expect to see the largest travel in and out of Birmingham from the 2Oth to January l that has ever passed through these gates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
PRESS POINTS

Youngstown Telegram: If the evidence in the trial of Shea at Chicago is sus- tained. union labor owes it to itself to have a thorough housekeeping without delay.
 Columbia State: Governor Magoon says he will force all the corrupt officeholders in Cuba to resign. My, my. Why didn't MT. Roosevelt turn him loose in New York first?
 Pensacola Journal: The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks that "all the para graphers should sign a pledge never to mention Boni again." With Boni's null tiplied troubles it would be unlkind for the press to desert him at a time when he Is in such need of their sympathy.
 Columbus Ledger: In discussing the Panama canal The Birmingham Age Herald says that the President has the satisfaction of knowing what he is talk ing about. He also has the satisfaction, if it be a satisfaction, of knowing that few others know anything about it.
 Dallas News: Monopoly is a upas tree with poisonous flowers at the top and tap root that goes deep into the ground. Its power to disable and destroy insects can not be done away with by looping off a twlg here and there or by blowing a bushel of hot air on the bush. There is only one way to do it. Cut the tap root, which tap root, by the way, is called protection"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
HOW BONI SPENT MONEY

fish, and the letters read were originally written by Boni in English.
 Cruppi summed up by saying that Coun- tess Anna was perfectly willing to pay the tradesmens bills, but refused to set- tie the claims of dressmakers and furni- ture dealers who had never delivered goods to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Peary went eighteen months without a cold in the. Arctic regions, but he took one in New England in the first twentyfour hours he spent there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The mixing of sawdust in breakfast foods will be ended on January 1, when the pure-food law goes into op- eration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The Harvard athletes collected in the year just ended $127,559, aud yet there are some who think they play ball and row for their health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Senator Morgan has given up hope of ever seeing the Panama canal fin ished, and some other people have done likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The President simply wants the navy kept up to it's present standard, but this will never satisfy Captain Hobson or Fighting Bob Evans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Rip Van Wrinkle" has earned $5,- 000,000 on the stage and "The Old Homestead" s4OO0,O00. These two plays head the list of moneymakers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Minister Grip of Sweden has left wegian, and new dean of the diplo- matic corps has been installed. Grip had been on deck since 1889.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The old-fashioned turkey dinner is fast becoming as extravagant as ter. rapin and champagne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

When Stuyyesant Fish coined the phrase "the anarchistic rich" it is be- lieved that he had E. M. Hartman in mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The discharged negro troops and the Japanese pupils are the two live issues in Congress at present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The man who runs daily is said to be the man who has full stock of health on hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Santa Claus is believed to be on the way. Fortunately, he is not depend ent upon railroad schedules.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Great financiers are born, not made, for George B. Cortelyou becomes one while you wait.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

A Cincinnati church has discovered a new step to efficiency. It pays the pastors wife salary, also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The charge of the light brigade was as nothing compared to the charge of the shopping brigade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The laundering in the message is for Root in the appendix and for Taft in the index.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The Presidents message should not be criticised as literary document. It is strictly business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10
ALABAMA PRESS

Eutaw Whig and Observer: Everything is going up but subscription to news papers, Why, Congress is even trying to come up on our newspaper postage.
 Elba Clipper In France the death pen alty has been abolished. We might as well have no death penalty in most coun- ties in Alabama, as the extreme penalty is seldom meted out to criminals.
 Talladega Reporter: John w. Gates says he sees no reason why Birmingham should not be a city of 100000 in habi- tants in a few years. Well, if she is, what's the matter with Talladega? Say 30, OO0l
 Montgomery Advertiser: A contempor- ary remarks that "the Olga Nethersole kiss is touring Kentucky" but we are not informed if it is one of those fare- we'll tours that some actresses are so fond of.
 Sumter County Call: The railroad of fcials promise to correct delays in sched- ule from Birmingham to Washington and
 
 improve on the schedule between Bir- mingham and Meridian. Leighton News: A Birmingham pastor got a lacking up' at the Methodist con- ference for playing golf. It seems that he is such a good player the local papers published his picture in golfing costume, and this shocked the proprieties of some of the Told timers" It's best, sometimes, not to do a thing too well. Tuscumbia North Alabamian: A story from Birmingham says that Walker coun- ty will try to annex part of Jefferson. No doubt Walker thinks 1t is better an- nexer than Bessemer is a maker of a new county Anyway Jefferson could af- | ford to let Bessemer have a county of it's own and it would not be a surprise if the next legislature creates a county out of portions of Walker, Jefferson and Tus- caloosa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

MT. Bryan also has hammer out for the Presidents message.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The message is to have several sup plements, including one on Panama and the wild folks the President met there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

It is rumored that the glucose trus has surrendered in Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The New York Mail says thru" is an insult to the English language.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Senator Depew is trying to appear perfectly at home in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The good old summer time is lin gering in the lap of winter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The ship-subsidyites are beginning to hold up local measures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Tolstoy and Hall Caine have en- deavored to put Shakespeare out of business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The Japanese incident is considered more than tempest in tea chest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The cold waves of the present win ter seem to have lost their strenuous ness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Eutaw Whig and Observer: Everything is going up but subscription to news papers, Why, Congress is even trying to come up on our newspaper postage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

After this month consult the labels on your food products.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Elba Clipper: In France the death pen alty has been abolished. We might as well have no death penalty in most coun- ties in Alabama, as the extreme penalty is seldom meted out to criminals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Standard Oil officials have not yet forgotten how to smile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Split infnitives are not, alas. elimi mated by clipt spelling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

The Caruso incident in New York is closing reluctantly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Japan no doubt found the message pleasant reading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-10

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, post office as second-class matter under act Of Congress March 8. 1879.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
RECOVER GOLD
IN OLD HULL
Ship Golden Gate, Beached Near
Manzanillo in the SOS, Has
Much Hidden Treasure
Aboard
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Nov ga special to
the Herald from Guadalajara says
d. F. Richardson, capitalist or
Pennsylvania. and r. C. Johnson,
Delaware man, have secured from the
Mexican government a concession for
the recovery of the gold that still re-
mains in the hull of the Golden Gate,
the American ship that was beached
on the coast of Colima, a short dis
tance from Manzanillo, i'm the winter
of 1862.
Mr.. Richardson Is now i'm this clty'
Mr.. Johnston recently left San trah~
cisco for the scene of the wreck ac-
companled by divers and other ASSIST
ants.
The Golden Gate was on the way
from San Francisco to New YORK ana
carried nearly $l,500OO0 i'm gold com
destined for New York banks. When
heading toward Manzanillo nre broke
out aboard the vessel and IN attempt
to save the passengers the snip was
run ashore. However, nearly TWO
hundred persons were either burned
to death or drowned.
OF the amount aboard the snip pe-
tween $500, 600 and 100000 was reeoV-
cred some time later
1t is said that there still exists m
the hulk of the vessel at least SoV0VVO
in gold.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
WHOLE TOWN is
ORDERED TO MOVE
Special to The Herald.


SOUTH McALESTER, l. r., Nov .26.-
In deciding the case of the Sans Bols
Coal Co. VS.. T. f. Malloy ct al, Judge
w. II. Id. Clayton at Poteau was forced
to render judgment which will result
in the practical abolition of one of the
most thriving little towns in the new
state-the settlement of Chant City.
Chant City is built upon segregated
land and upon lease belonging to the
Sans Bols Coal Co. The town has popu-
lation of 1000, twenty stores, schools,
churches and everything which goes to
make a prosperous village, but all of
this time it has existed in violation of
the law, and its citizens have been in
truders.
The clause of the Sans Bois lease read
that If the company allowed anyone to
settle upon the surface of the land, their
lease would be forfeited. The department.
of the interior called the company's at
tenton to the town of Chant City and
in order to save their lease the company
had to bring eviction proceedings against
the residents of the little city.
Few of the towns in the coal belt are
in any better fix legally than the un-
fortunate little town whose citizens will
have to desert their homes in obedience
to Judge Claytons order Not one of
them has any title to the townsite and
If relief legislation is not forthcoming
soon every town will meet the fate of
Chant City,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
WANT THE POLICE TO
SUPPRESS TILLMAN
Ry Associated Press.

CHICAGO. Nov. 26.--A committee of
negroes. headed by Rev, A. j. Carey,
pastor of Bethel M. E. church, called
upon Mayor Dunno and requested
that he use the police force, if neces-
sary to prevent the delivering of am
ator Tillman Tuesday night. on the
ground that the address would be a
menace TO public safety.
Mayor Dunno. after receiving the
committee, wrote a letter to Mrs.
Adele Keeler, secretary of the Chicago
Union hospital, for the benefit of which
Senator Tillman is to speak, declining
to act as chairman of the meeting.
~ am a believer i'm the orderly pro-
cesses of law and cannot agree with
Senator Tillman in the views he holds,
and therefore / must decline to accept
the chairmanship at the meeting" ne
said
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
VERMONT WOLVES FATTEN
UPON SHEEP or FARMERS
Special to The Herald.


EAST WALLINGFORD. VT. Nov 26.
If any one has an idea that wolves
are not becoming numerous in the
mountainous sections of Vermont he
has only to question A. j. Newton and
c: d. Childs, prosperous farmers of this
village. Doubters will be told that
these men have lost sixty sheen within
the last few weeks, and that the ma
rauders are wolves. The matter has
already been called to the attention of
the county fish and game warden and
will be reported by him to the state
commissioner
Messrs. Newton and Childs at first
thought that bears were responsible
for the disappearance of their docks,
but they soon became convinced that a
pack of wolves was roaming in the
vicinity and set a watch which proved
their suspicious correct. Several eff
forts have been made to slay the
thieves, but they cling to the heavy
TIMBER during the day and come down
10 the farms only at night. Now poison
will be used.
When Vermont was settled by
pioneers from Massachusetts and Con-
necticut wolves We're the greatest pests
next to Indians and many man was
torn to shreds by the vicious packs
Later on a bounty was paid by the
state for their determination and men
made business of hunting them with
such good effect that they gradually
disappeared. From 1850 until five years
ago not a single wolf was reported
After that one would be seen now and
then and whole towns would join in a
hunt
About this time the bounty law on
all noXious animals was repealed, and
when a wolf was reported the hunters
let him go. 1t is probably for this rea-
son that they have begun to increase.
AS yet they are seen in the heavy tim
Der only or about farms skirting it, but
lNA 60,
numerous again unless a concerted ef-
fort be made to eXterminate them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27

ton, 36qA25; shipping wheat, st25di.30
milling, N3501. 30; feed barley. 81 05dl. l2ia;
brewing, H.O7lk61.17lk chevalier S1.10a
l3Oi red oats, 125d1.65; white, N.45Ml so;
mtddlings, SIS. 00629.00 mixed feed, S23 0Od
24OO; rolled barley, sl75; rolled oats, HOC
@S.Wi wheat hay, St70O@20.0 90; wheat and
oat, Sl3.00d16.00; wild cat, 50 90Odi300; tame
oat, Sl5Ma1I00; alfalfa, $s.00d120O; straw
55d75c.
Receipts-F'lour 1190i wheat $3.50; bar
ley, 15i oats, 500; beans, 7203; corn, IL;
potatoes, 1895; onions $40; bran, 1900; mid
dlings, 16O; hay, SS7; straw, 5; wine, 30,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
ACTIVITY IN THE OIL FIELDS
Product of independent Producers
Acquired by the Associated
OIL Company
BY Associated Press.

BAKERSFIELD, Nov. 26.-As a result
of the new contract made Friday night
product OF the independent producers in
the Kern river oil fields, work has been
begun in this oil district with renewed
activity.
mant for months because of the impossi-
bility to exist at the prevailing prices,
have resumed operations, giving employ
ment to many men, and Increasing the
output from the fields.
The first payment on the 900, 600 bar
rels in storage which was sold at 20
cents cen VIII be made December 20, when
of the independents. Many companies
have signhed their intention to declare
dividends upon payment of this sum. The
second payment of 100000 will be made In
April, which will be the occasion for the
declaration of a second dividend
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
Dried Fruit Prices
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK. Nov. 2G.-The market for
evaporated apples continues firm with
prices showing an advancing tendency;
nlgh choice are quoted at Slac choice, ~,
@Sc; prime in cases 73@73sc
Prunes are in good demand with choice
ranging from Base for California grades.
,Apricots are scarce and firm with
cholce quoted at 16c; extra choice, lie;
fancy, 1S6J20c
reaches are firm in tone with few crop
choice quoted at 12c; extra choice, 121sc;
and fancy at 13c.
Ralsins are unchanged and in fair de-
catels are quoted at 71k0Shc; seeded
ralsins, 7@10c; London layers, S1.G501. .75,