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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
WILL BUY THEM BACK.
Burglar Who Looted Artists Home to
 Return Jewels.

From the New York American.
 A sS0.OOO jewel robbery at The Orch ards the beautiful Southampton. Long Island. country home of James l.. Breese. the millionaire society man and artist, In winch every element of mystery has been present from the time of the disappear ance of the gems until the eve Of closing of the remarkable negotiations for their return, which is promised today, was dis- closed yesterday.
 The exact date of the disappearance of the jewelry, which belonged chiefly to Mrs. Breeze, and which was supposed to be safe in the repository In which It was usually deposited for safekeeping at The Orchards. Is not clear, and 1t is doubtful if Mr. Breese or any member of his household can set the time exactly. It was missed less than two weeks ago.
 There was no evidence of forcible en- try into the house or the jewel safe, and nothing inside the house appeared to have been disturbed in any way to give a hint that a robbery had occurred. It was without single tangible ciew upon which to begin work except a description of the missing property that the robbery was reported to the Pinkerton Detective agency with instructions to spare no ex- pense to recover the jewels.
 But almost as soon as the detectives were put to work, communication was received by Mr Breese which contained an offer to return all the property, pro- vded the utmost secrecy was observed and assurance was given that there would be no publicity or attempts at prosecution afterward. The price demanded for the return of all the property intact Is said to have been S5000
 The robbers evidently knew how high ly Mir and Mrs. Breese prized the col lection, which Is said to contain some rare pieces of great artistic value, col lected by MT. Breese. and that every ar ticle stolen had an artistic value above it's intrinsic worth.
 The compact of secrecy has been care fully observed by MT. Breese, his family and the Pinkerton agency. The detectives took up the negotiations for the return of the jewels, and have about brought them to a successful conclusion. It is stated that not even the usual detailed descriptions of the missing jewelry have been sent out to the various chiefs of police and to pawnbrokers, as is the cus- tom in handling such robberies.
 The fact. however, that a place fre- quented by fashionables has been watched by the detectives, seems to indicate the belief of the Pinkertons that they have not to deal with the usual professional classes in trying to clear up the mystery of the Breese jewel robbery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
ALABAMA PRESS

Dothan Eagle: The inner tube of Je- rome's carefully pumped up boom was punctured by Hearst which report was heard slam there and slap back
 Eufaula Times: Chicago lawyer was bold enough to say that he has seen one place worse than Chicago, but utterly refuses to state where he saw it.
 Sheffield Standard: This is the season for the resumption of bridge whist and the men must content themselves with cold lunch and leftover dinner, while their wives are at the card club.
 Bessemer Rustler; Last week the at mosphere was charged heavily with the brine from the ocean, carried by the storm waves driving them this far Those who have once inhaled the sea breezes never fall to recognize them again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Ante.eellum Community.

'rhere is a spot In the south that scarcely knows the war Is over," said man last night. That is to say, the character of the community referred to is the same as 1t was in ante-bellum days. And that is because two old fellows, only one now fine types of the old school, are the only ones who ever live there. New conditions have come and old GUS toms vanished but Waverly, Miss, still retains intact it's ante-bellum atmosphere. The only change, it may be said, is that WaYerly has now risen to the modern dignity of a postoffice.
 "'fo the negroes on the plantation Capt. William Young is still Mars Billy in every sense of the word. The feeling of the young negroes is the same as it was with their parents in slavery time; i; it is all reverence for Mars Billy. The only events that mean anything to Wa verly are the frequent visits of friends who come out to hunt and fish. Then Captain Billy turns over his house. big enough for any number of guests, and makes them have a time they never forget If they want fox hunt he turns out his pack of hounds and all his ne- groes get busy
 When the negroes themselves hunt, they go after the greatest game on earth to them, coons and 'possums. Not long ago Captain Billy in his official capacity as postmaster, received an inquiry from Washington to why he had failed to connect with the mail few days before. Captain Billy's reply was sufficiently to the point He wrote: My carrier went hunting last night, and he caught four coons and one 'possum.' Uncle Sam asked for no other explanation. He must hays known Waverly.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
KANSAS WAR STORY.

from the Eldorado lkan) Republican.
 Solomon Lanham had been to Kansas City with two cars of steers and was returning home to Oklahoma Thursday on No. 5. He was In the smoking room of the rear sleeper telling war stories , Another man entered the sleeper at To- peka.
 'At the battle of Nashville my brl- gade was ordered to charge" said Com rade Sol. "We were going up hill at lively clip, when we came to an old fashioned stake and ridered' rail fence. I was on the top rail when rebel shell exploded over our heads. A piece of 1t cut gash across my breast to the bone, and I fell off the fence as good as dead. My old bunky-we had messed and slept and fought together for three years-got hit in the head. When l came to raised myself on my elbow and not ten feet from me was my bunky. He was on his back. The blood was streaming down his face, which was pale as death. Poor Jim was as dead"
 You're a damned liar. Sol.' exclaimed the comrade who got on at Topeka. 'Sol, you old fool, you are dead I came 10 pretty soon after l was hit and looking around saw you was as dead as you will ever be. saw you die. Sol''-and they fell onto each other and they hugged and they cried and they cried and they hugged
 Where are you going, Jim?" said Sol. Going to Colorado" No. you are not You are going home with me-" And thus did Comrades Sol Lanham and James Sandetson meet forty-two years after the war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
ORATOR OF FIRST RANK.
Hughes Surprises Everybody as a
 Speaker.

From the New York World.
 No political speech delivered in years was so generally and generously com mended as MT. Hughes speech of accept ance MT. Hughes proved revelation as speaker, even to those who thought they knew him best. He developed a power of expression and clearness of utterance that will appeal 10 people who hear him on the stump. He has a full round, rich and deep voice, that will not only carry his words to the remote fringes of great crowds. but will wear well through long campaign. He proved the possession of ability to handle his voice to the best advantage, and before he had been speaking five minutes the party leaders who have succeeded the old-tlme bosses were congratulating them selves that they had a campaign orator of the first rank.
 He spoke without notes. He was per- fectly self-possessed, very much at ease and impressed his hearers. few of whom knew him personally, as most friendly and entertaining companion. When he began to speak he thrust his hands in the pockets of his dress trousers, looked squarely at the arc of men hedging him in, and with frankness and convincing directness told them that he owed ale glance to no boss. Some of them winced rerceptibly but they joined in the ap- plause that his clear-out utterances in- spired.
 His speech consumed S minutes. for he spoke with marked deliberation and paused once in while to let his pointed avowals of independence soak in When he had concluded, a demand for three rousing cheers brought flush of pleas ure into his cheeks. and his eye kindled as he saw the crowd of leaders saw the air with thSIx. arms and below "Thres cheers for Governor Hughes!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
Railroad Construction.

The railway mileage under contract for contraction or in immediate prospect in the United States and Canada is over 22000 miles, said railroad man. The aggregate of cash to be used in this con- struction and in the great projects of the American trunk-llne railways Is over $75O, COG, GOO. If the entire gold production of the world in the two greatest gold years of history were applied to this construction 1t would fall far short of meeting it.
 Tn Canada the total mileage projected is the heaviest in the history of that country. Taking the east with the west, four great companies contemplate the construction of over 5000 miles of rail- way.
 "fn addition, there have come to light since this compilation was made Ameri- can projects that will probably bring the total to we'll over ,5,00O miles of standard gauge railway.
 Inevitably oonsi i1erable proportion of the mileage will never be constructed. A great many companies entirely disap- pear, are bought off, or fail through va rous causes to complete the tasks they have undertaken. Yet, even with this deduction, It would appear that there are live and legitimate railway projects on this continent today that call for the creation of we'll over 22, 900 miles of track In the light of this fact, the years 1906 and 1907 are practically certain to go down into history as one of the most striking periods In the railway history of the western world.
 "1n the United States, the southwest leads Tn point of mileage under contract. The larger pars of this, however, is local hallway built 10 meet the necessities of sections poorly served by the present lines So far as main lines of commerce are concerned. the Pacific Coast and Northwestern extensions are far and away more important.
 "The south is experiencing a slow but thoroughly healthy growth. The Tide water railroad Is about the most inrs tant of the new lines. It is designed to rival tho Norfolk and Western the great car1er or soft coal from the Poea- hontas fields to tidewater at Norfolk. The new road may become a dangerous factor
 In the bituminous coal situation The Norfolk and Western, which Is controlled by building new branches to strengthen its position in the coal fields, and has recently created a new mortgage to raise $34, GOO for protection or aggression, as the case may be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
Reducin1 EW9 len Fortunes.

When the supreme court by five to-four vote repealed the income tax of 1894, it took away the tax most easily borne and the one which is, all things considered, the justest tax that a government ever levied. The in come tax of 1894 imposed tax of 2 per cent on incomes over and above S400O.
 The AgeHerald's Washington core spondent and the Washington core spondent of the Chicago Tribune, a republican organ, now report that the indications of the period point strongly to an effort on the part of President Roosevelt to replace the tax where it stood before five members of the SUI preme court combined to sandbag 1t.
 If President Roosevelt can add this achievement to the Panama canal to Cuba, to the Russo-Japanese peace. to the rate bill, he will certainly outdo all his predecessors in brilliant and daring work He has the courage to re-establish the tax, and he knows full we'll that public sentiment would sus- tain him in the effort.
 It is not clear as yet how he will go about it. He has not yet filled Justice Browns seat on the supreme bench, and he may have two more seats to fill in that court. He may on the other hand appeal to the country, but the submission of a constitution amend ment Is slow and difficult, and the chances are that he will await re- versal of the five-to-four decision by the court that made 1t.
 In his recent carefully prepared ad- dress at Harrisburg the President urged the need of further regulation of swollen fortunes" He advocated or rather suggested progressive tax for the benefit of "the government whose protecting arm alone enables them to exist" He should have advocated repeal of the robber duties of the Ding ley tariff whio.. more than any other one agency leads on to swollen for tunes" but he did not do this--he sim ply pointed to new income tax. He has spoken in a similar strain before, and it is not bit improbable that he who is confessedly a shrewd fore caster of public sentiment sees that the only way to maintain in power the republican party in 1908 lies in the ad- yocacy and reestablishment of an in come tax-the tax that the democrats established in accordance with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
LABRADOR SPRUCE.

Dillon Wallace in the Outing Magazine.
 In the vicinity of this camp we saw some of the largest spruce timber that we came upon in the whole journey across Labrador. Some of these trees were fully p inches in diameter at the butt and per haps 50 to 60 feet in height These large trees were very scattered, however. and too few to be of commercial value. For the most part the trees that we met with were to 8, and occasionally, 10 inches through, scrubby and knotted. In Labra- dor trees worth the cutting are always located near streams in sheltered valleya
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
DEAN OF SPECULATORS
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 S DWARD B. WESLEY, known as VO) the dean of American specula-
 tors, died at his country home, near Post Chester The cause of death was old age. MT. Wesley was in his 97th year. MT. Wesley is said to have left an estate of more than $3 00O,0O0. con- sistng of Standard Oi New Haven rail road, and copper stocks. oil interests in Western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio, and real estate in Westmoreland county, Va, and Westchester county. N Y. Al most up to the day of his death the aged financier had been making weekly trips to New York to attend to business
 He was a director and one of the organ izers of the Union Trust company of New York, and for fifty years never missed a Thursday meeting of the con cern. He was the capitalist behind the New York Times when 1t was founded. Standing more than six feet in height, with broad shoulders and massive frame. the aged speculator was one of the noted figures In Westchester county and In Wall street.
 Ills nrst money was made when he was boy of 13, selling birch beer and cakes to crowd of people who had gathered at his birthplace, the little village of Leicester, Worcester county, Mass. to see General Lafayette pass. The profits of the day were g.
 MT. Wesley landed in New York in 1925. having walked large part of the distance as his money had given out Speaking of his early experiences in New York, over eighty years ago, Mir. Wesley said recently:
 When I arrived in New York I went to the City hotel to see if could find an uncle. The City hotel adjoined Trinity church, and was at that time the finest hostery in the city. Greatly to my dlsap- pointment, I found that my uncle had gone to Buffalo. The proprietor of the place was very kind to me, however. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
 REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A city mans idea of heaven is where they don't keep the streets torn up.
 Some men have the luck to be in the ice business in winter and the coal bus mess in summer.
 It's generally safe to quote the Bible as saying things, because so few people know 1t doesn't.
 A man isn't willing to admit he is ex- cited even when he Is cussing like a pi- rate before his children.
 When a man makes love to a girl over the telephone. she cant help blushing to think how close his lips are to the trans hitter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
REMEDY FOR NEGRO DIVES.
Chattanooga Times.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 Readers of the Chattanooga Times must have been impressed with the relevancy of the resolutions adopted by the Ocoee Baptist association, presented and advo- cated by Dr. Howard L. Jones of this city, at it's meeting Friday evening at the High land Park Baptist church to the condi- tons reported in this paper of recent date with resolutions showing the con gestion of negro saloons and resorts on Ninth street.
 The resolutions referred to endorse and approve the main features of the District of Columbia excise law and pledge the nanhfrs of the association to use their innusnAD to secure sae. .passase of a sim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
PRESS POINTS

Charleston Post: Taft and tact will soon be synonymous terms. Portland Telegram: Among ships of state Cuba is like one of those that passed in the night.
 Dallas News: We now say that the Cu- bans are incapable of independent self government Spain has an "I-told-you-so' and a horse laugh coming to her.
 Memphis Commercial-Appeal A gold nugget was found in the appendix of a Colorado man recently, thus showing that our currency has become thoroughly elastic.
 Kansas City Star: It turns out that the Rockefeller family settled In Pennington, N. J.. about 200 years ago. It has been suspected all along that this family was operating under a New Jersey charter Washington Post: In spite of the fact that the new $4,00O, GOO capitol building at Harrisburg is equipped with $2,OOo,Ooo worth of chandeliers, some Pennsylvania taxpayers are calling for more light on the subject.
 Houston Post: The shooting of mili- tary prisoner, whose crime was assertion, at San Antonio, is to be regretted. De- sertion from the United States army is not a crime punishable by the infliction of death. and the soldier who was so anx- ious to kill a fellow man should be pun ished If there is any law covering the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
Blu Crowd Expected.

'"rhe crowd that will attend the State Fair and the Home Coming reception next week promises to be a record breaker even for Birmingham that is used to en- tertalning big crowds" said Secretary Babb of the Commercial club.
 People throughout Alabama like to visit Birmingham. There is much to see here and the metropolitan character of the city is more marked every year. For the Home Coming thousands of Alabamians will arrive from every section of the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
BEING A BEAT.

From The Marquette uNan) Tribune.
 Don't sneak In at ball game Up at Salina last week fellow borrowed boat crossed the river, got his feet wet and muddy, climbed the bank tore S5 pair of pants on the underbrush. got poison ivy all over his face, slipped np to the game in the park from the rear-all this, but to find out that no admission was charged to the game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

liar law for the regulation of the whisky traffic in the larger cities of Tennessee. We have several times outlined the pro- visions of that law and in our judgment the same will ideally meet the condi- tions In Tennessee, and is more especially indicated since the absolute necessity of protecting the negro against the evil in- fuences of whisky has become so appar- ent to all classes of people. The question of laws prohibiting the sale of whisky to negroes Is being seriously discussed by thoughtful southern leaders and newspa. pers with the effect that no definite con- ciusion thereon can be reached owing to the complex legal proposition involved
 The next best regulation, to our mind. 1t is possible to secure is that provided for the District of Columbia, which is an improvement on the Pennsylvania system. The chief requirement. in that law is that every man seeking to open a saloon must hrst secure the written permission of two-t thirds of the property owners In the city block on which he seeks to establish ms business, and that too on both sides of the street This requirement., it s hardly necessary to say. will not only shut out the negro saloon but will ef- feotually dispose of the dives and low resorts in every part of the city, espec- tally on residential streets In addition there are other requirements in the Dis- most effective remedy that can be ap- piled to the particular evil of the negro dive that is now giving southern cities so much concern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

profuSely the other day in Indianapolis, but he was trying to find a collar, SO nobody blamed him much.
 BREAKFAST TIME. Sing a song of battercakes, Make 'em piping hot, With some maple syrup and Butter too-a lot. Nothing ever tastes so good When the mornings cold And the butter, fresh and sweet. Has the hue of gold. When the syrup's real stuff, Not the kind. you know, That is made from chemicals Where no naples grow. My, when you are hungry, tis Pleasant to devour Batter cakes right off the stove At the breakfast hour. Then the coffee helps a lot When it's good and strong Makes a fellows stomach glad, Boosts him right along. Hilionaires seem paupers with All the gold in sight. When the mornings frosty and You've an appetite. Just because the proposed deal for tns purchase of all the distilleres by Stand- ard Oil was called off don't think for a minute, that Standard oil hasn't the price
 When you read 'scare head" these days you never can tell whether 1t is going to be about new divorce suit or the efforts of relatives to break some rich mans will. There are times when the sweetest-tem- pered man in the world is cross Fortu. nately, he Is usually at home then
 THE WISE ONES.
 A little thinking
 Now and then
 Is done by poor
 But learned men. It is believed Senator Platt has so ar- ranged matters that his wife won't strike him again.
 It is distressing to see some people with money when we know we could spend 1t to so much better advantage mirror to make everybody look young would bring a good price. Every dog has his day. but some dogs have longer days than others.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

The automobile odor will be trans ferred to airship engines when such craft become popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
MY LETTERS.

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. My lettersl all dead paper, -. mute
 and white,- And yet they seem alive and qulvering Against my tremulous hands which loose
 the string And let them drop down on my knee to-
 night. This said, he wished to have mo
 in his sight Once. as friend; this fixed a day in
 spring To come and touch my hand "a
 simple thing. Yet wept for 1t! this, the papers
 light Said. Dear, love thee: and I sank and
 ouailed As if Gods future thundered on my past. This said, l am thine,-and so Its ink has
 paled With lying at my heart that beat too
 fast. And this . O Loya, thy wprds hava ii ill ays4fee. If what this said, I dared repeat at lastt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

Russia should not exalt herself be- cause we have one Atlanta. Russia Is a conglomerate Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

John D. Rockefeller has returned to life full of advice to the people whom he has exploited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

This is Indian summer weather, and fine cotton-piel1ing weather. We may have an ideal October after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

New York has no United States Sen ators, and yet the state is happy, pros porous and highly political
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

The mob center has been transfer red from Alabama to Arkansas. It IS at home in the wild and woolly west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09

Denatured alcohol is the coming fluid for light and fuel and power pur- poses. Alabama should catch on early.