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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
The Great Hermann.

T have been painting pictures on Win dows and mirrors as an advertisement for theatrical companies for number Of years" said Frank Du Coin, represent ing Barney Gilmore, who will play "A Rocky Road to Dublin" at the Bijou next week. q started In a peculiar man her. The Great Hermann, the original old man. picked me up in New Orleans years ago and started me out to adver- tise him.
 'I travel about a week ahead of the company and paint advertisements on prominent windows I use water colors in which l mix little beer. The froth of the beer gives the paint more body and 1t will not wash off
 But the elder Hermann was the only greatest magician He accomplished stunts which no one else has ever at tempted He was an originator, while others are imitators. The others are bunglers beside the old man. He died about eight years ago. I was painting a sign on window when I was handed a telegram announcing his death. was grieved. Hermann was always good and kind to me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
GroundIess Rumors.

There are not many yellow journals in the South, am glad to say but few are given to printing rumors that have no foundation" said an old rail- road man.
 T frequently read in a paper published in a nelghborlng State, rumors of rail- road changes. I wait to see If the changes are made. In nine cases out Of ten nothing comes of them. Here Is an example: It was persistently rumored In a certain paper that President J. M. Barr of the seaboard was going to quit that line May 1. MT Barr told me the other day that he was not going to sever his connection with the Seaboard May 1; that he expected to remain with the road for some time to come.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
WOMAN AMONG cANNlBALs.
Savage Life in Remote Regions of the
 New Hebrldes.

Miss Beatrice Grimshaw has penetrated into the very recesses of cannibal land in company with missionary guide, the Rev Mir. Boyd, and saw the savages "clothed, as usual, in their native impud- ence and a cartridge belt" and displayed a curiosity and courage which were truly remarkable in a member of the gentler sex
 Her escort was a Presbyterian mission ary who. with his wife, had been there for ten years, and who had managed to reduce considerably the death rate from intertribal quarrels, says a Sydney cor respondent of the Chicago Daily News He appears to have been another Tamate, as Chambers was universally called by the natives of New Guinea, with a per feet genius for going unarmed among the fiercest cannibal tribes and soothing the intertrlbal differences which, but for his presence, would undoubtedly have led to war
 On one occasion a hundred savages in full war paint. armed with guns and pol soned arrows, surrounded MT. Boyd's house and threatened to Kill him because a certain sacred weapon had been pulled out of tree and had weather had en- sued. The missionary. we are told, walk ed out into the middle of the hideous company and told them that he had nothing to do with the question. They listened to him and were convinced. and went peaceably away
 The description given by Miss Grim shaw of the toilet of one of these Inter esting cannibals made up for dance is as follows: Ills head dress was "a very neat arrangement in powdered white wood ash, giving him an extraordinary resemblance to a Sydney barrister.' All of these delightful personages, 1t seems, were fully armed with rifles, which they well knew how to use. The poisoned ar rows were not always Tn evidence, but when they were used death was said to follow invariably on the ninth day.
 Miss Grimshaw seems to have ingra- tated herself with the natives, some of whom had never seen white woman before They allowed her to photograph their idols, their sacred mummies and even themselves, the photographs bring ing into prominence the peculiar native custom of coinpressing the head with spirally wound cords
 In one graphic sentence Miss Grim shaw paints savage life as 1t really is; '"The women of Malekula," she says, are bent and misshapen with the enormous loads they are obliged to carry, and their expression is. If possible, still more de- graded than that of the men. Pleasure of any kind is thing unknown to them; there is nothing for them to enjoy from the pandanus- -plalt cradle slung over the mothers shoulder to the grave. which is only hole scratched in the surface of the earth, unnamed and unnumbered-if indeed any one takes the trouble to bury the poor corpse at all.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
souTHERNERs AT MT. pAJo.

From the Nashville American.
 The officer In direct command was A Colonel Duncan of Texas. Captain Rivers. Tennesseean. led one of the attacking columns. captain from Georgia led another. The most seriously wounded officer was an Alaoamian' Among the privates killed was Tennes- see boy. Southerners do not wantonly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
RIRMINeHAM,s MAYOR.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The Mayor of Birmingham understands his powers and is not afraid to exercise them. Last week he closed three promi- nent saloons for violating the Sunday closing law, and they are still out of business. Sunday he got two more. At this rate Birmingham will be a prohibit ton town in a few weeks. It Is really refreshing to see a Mayor who Is not afraid to go up against the whisky ele- ment in enforcing city laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

slaughter women and children or kill pris- oners, and any assertion to the contrary is an infamous falsehood. The. dough- faced critics who are attempting to re- fleet on the honor of the American sol dier' as some of them are attempting to do. will probably condemn the officers Of the law who are trying to run down outlaws and murderers in the Indian Ter ritory. Squaws who had rifles in their hands and who were dressed like the bucks were killed in the fight at Wounded Knee. and the soldiers were denounced for 1t by this same class of featherbed critics, The American troops performed an un- pleasant duty at Mount Dajo, and are al ways ready to do their duty whether 1t be pleasant and safe or disagreeable and dan gerous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
GOOD NIGHT.
By Shelley.

Go od-night? An, no; the hour is i'll
 Which sewers those 1t should unite;; Let us remain together still,
 Then 1t will be goodnight. How can I call the lone night good.
 Though thy sweet wishes wing it's flight Be not said. thought, undersstood,
 That 1t will be good night To hearts which near each Other move From evening close to morf,ing light, The night is good; because my love,
 They never say goodnight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
GREAT ACTORS, OLD AND NEW.

From the London Chronicle.
 Dr. Furnival, though he remembers Macready, Is by no means prejudiced In favor of the past. T remember vividly seeing Macready in Lear" he said T don't think he was so very much better than some of our living actors He was more affected than affecting. and almost as hammered the late Sir Henry Irving was Phelps too I remember. of course He was a competent. sound actor, but very solid and uninspired.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
Street Signs.

Birmingham is without question the best laid out city in the United States, said visitor at the Hillman yesterday but by all means the streets ought to be lettered and numbered. stranger could find his way about the city without diff culty if he knew his alphabet and could when he starts. But if some one tells count, provided he knows where he is you to go to Twenty-ifth street, or Eigh- teenth street, you have to find out from him what street you are then on. The city ought to mark and letter the streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
mn the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Nine times out of ten judgment against doing thing Is being afraid to. try
 man falls in love with a girl because he wants to. he marries her because she wants him to.
 woman hardly ever has a better time than when she has two different reasons for a good cry.
 It makes a woman have an awiul sympathetic way with man to be some body else's widow
 The reason some women like sto have their husbands smoke is they don't know what they would do instead Of II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
Florida Season Good.

Joseph Loveman leading young busi- ness man of Jacksonville, Fla is at the Metropolitan. and reports successful Florida season.
 we were somewhat afraid at one time" said Mir. Loveman, that the mild ness of the northern winter would inter- fere with southern resort travel, but as matter of fact we have never had more profitable season. Our fruit and 'vegeta- ble crops have also been good, so alto gether my city is quite as prosperous as Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
Bishop Allen.

The Right Rev. E. P. Allen. bishop of Mobile. is in Birmingham, and will re- main here over Sunday He will visit St. Pauls church Sunday at high mass. On yesterday the bishop paid visit to St Marks church at Thomas and St. Catherines church at Pratt City. The church at Thomas was built by the Ital- ian colony at that place.
 The Italian congregation at Thomas numbers about $50 souls. The Italian men work at the coke ovens and are said to be excellent workmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
THE FlRsr ANlLINE pYE.

From the London Telegraph
 It is fifty years ago since William Henry Perkin extracted from coal tar the first of the anlllne dyes-'mauve." The jubilee of that event is about to be celebrated and honor done to the discoverer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

fl HAVE devised a plan to get rid of
 people who are continually trying
 to break into print" said Bir- bingham advertising expert. @The scheme Is this; I propose to start q newspaper which would be printed exclusively for It's contributors and would have no out side circulation. Every man and every woman who now haunts the real newspa- per offices with copy on topics ranging from the price of cotton to race suicide would be forced to write two columns of stuff every day for my paper I would name the paper the Auger, for reasons sufficiently plain, and every contributor would be forced to read the stun written by all the other contributors. Fine and Imprisonment would be imposed on any person attempting to make any other than a contributor read the paper In this way amateur scrbes would get so sick and tired of the rubbish printed every day in the Auger that they would never again have the temerity to enter a newspaper office with a communication. It would be a great relief to editors"
 Dame Nature and the miIliners are striving to outdo each other In spring "crea tions."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

often In newspapers nowadays is not the Standard oil monopoly It is the human system which is supposed to be greatly run down at this time of year.
 MODERN FINANCE
 Wind and water.
 Nerve and cheek,
 Make magnate,
 So to speak
 Don't try to bandy words with news- boy, bootblack Or a butch" on a train. While it is doubtless true that a sucker Is born every minute, don't overlook the fact that swindler to look after him is also born.
 Spring had just arrived q see that the poets have already made my presence known said she. and took off her wraps. Altho the single life Is expensive enough some people insist on leading double life.
 A man drinks when a woman asks why doesn't he stop when she asks?,' queries subscriber. That's easy-his thirst.
 woman was furious the other day at Paris Ill, because she couldn't change her marriage license for a divorce de- cree. = 5-
 BATH ROOM TRAGEDY. Just a little cake of soap. Nothing wrong in that, hope? Yet 1t caused a lot of woe To man and laid him low Listen, stranger. while we tell What one evil time befell Pcor old Blinkers. good and kind Who wore glasses-was half blind-- Starting out to bathe one day . In a tub-the usual way Dropped the soap, 1t sank from viaw. Causing troubles not few Poor old Blinkers tried to grope For that gay, elusive soap. sss Once he dived and bumped his head. But the soap? Away 1t sped Grabbing here and there, he swore. Now behind and now before. Then he cried, "The devil take. sss That confounded slipping caker' Up and down the tub he slid, Hurt himself, was all he did Knocked his shins against the sides Water rose in waves and tides, Put the bath room in mess Filled Mrs. B. with great distress, Till she pounded on the door Asking why the tub spilled o'er Then did Blinkers. now half dead Leave the tub and crawl to bed Ten days later B. came round But the soap was never found
 In the second week of next month Bir- mingham will have it's first circus day and the pent up feelings of those who love the sawdust ring will be set free. From the north and east come reports of the great shows up there which are preparing to take the road with won ders and "thrillers" gathered from all quarters of the earth. All the old features that were best will be retained this year and number of new feats of daring al- most benyond human comprehension will be exhibited to the multitudes. The cir GUS magazine has now become reality and like the handsome railroad publica- tions of the day, exploits In a most ar- tractive manner marvels to be found un- 4 der the big tent. PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

The groundhog's vindication stands complete in the northern states where they have from twelve to twenty-four inches of snow. The yindication was late, but the groundhog Is gratified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

A Yonkers contractor circled the earth with no other baggage than a handbag, but he had to wear a cellu- Ibid collar to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Russia is holding her first elections, and already the cry of fraud" is heard from one end of the country to the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
NEVER FAILS.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Sometimes 1t would seem that the sweetheart crop is about the only one that never does fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Senator Bailey and John Sharp Will Hams are trying to avoid the look of self-consciousness while the talk of a southern man for president is going
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

The groundhog extended his stay of six weeks to April 1, when he can come out safely on one line or the other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

A Chicago pastor says that many hymns are unfit for Sunday use, thus getting in line with the Chicago idea of denouncing everything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

It doesn't pay to be an anarchist. The rule of nihil nisi bonum does not apply to laerr Most.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

The entire Algeciras outfit should be shipped on the dry dock Dewey, and then it should be turned. adrift
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Secretary Taft has lost fifty pounds since he began to wrestle with the su- preme court problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

A theatre Is to be established in Cleveland to "try out" dramas. A suitable name would be "The Dog"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Platt, Depew, Clark and Schwab- these are to be New York's four sen. ators as things look now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

"Is Parker 'jollying' the south?" asks the Atlanta News. It doesn't make any difference whether he Is or not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Andrew Hamilton knows what con stitutes newspaper halo, altho he has never worn one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Senator Depew is thought to be spending a few weeks with his great and good friend, John D. Rockefeller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Among other troubles, Patrick Grove is now being sued for a divorce-by his wife, of course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

SURE SIGNS. When the soda Water clerk Starts to working With a jerk; When professors" Pounds the keys. And the buzz fans Start breeze; When the girlles, Dressed In white, Lap up soft drinks Every night; When the Willie Boys on hand, And the merry Picnic band; When we swear it Is crime Not to hunt Cooler cline; When we mop our Rocking brow And. perspirlng, Oft avow That we never Saw such heat Its a scorcher, Can't be beat When it's boiling, Steaming hot, C. Then it's summer Time, we wot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Mrs. Bellamy Storer, 1t appears talked too much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Cats were embalmed in ancient times; now 1t is beef.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Any pain below your diaphragm may cause you to be opened by Omaha surgeons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

The winter of 19O5-o6 is overstaying it's welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

A poet is now making decent liv. ing designing womens hats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

It Is safe to say that Judge" Ham ilton is going out of the yellow dog business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Up north the early vegetable is gain ing growth and value under blanket of snow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Rockefeller money is all right after Immigration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

General Wood may have been trying to serve subpoenas on those Moros.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Last call for March poetry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Charlie Schwab would make a pie turesque senator from Bullfrog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24
uNDER THE AUTo.

UNDER THE AUTO. The automobile life, methinks, Brings honors and renown. The only trouble Is that we Must live 1t upside-down. While Montgomery may have 100000 mosquitoes in the year of grace 191O 1t Is doubtful if she will have that many peo- pie.
 'Who can tell?" asks an Alabama poet. We guess Andrew Hamilton.
 JUST A WORD.
 Spring Is here.
 Drink Bunk beer. Hats off to Girltown Alabamai To re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Hats off to Girltown, Alabama To re- store the equilibrium we should also have a Bacheloryille.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

The system" you see mentioned so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, post office as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1872
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Washington Bureau Age-Herald 1421 G street. N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-24

Spring had just arrived. q see that the poets have already made my presence known said she, and took off her wraps.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-01
The Passing Of the Law.

TO the Editor of Journal and Courier,
In the days Of the reign Of the BIZ
cycle as king, there were many ordin-
ances enacted for the regulation of
their enthusiasts, and the safeguarding
Of the less fortunate pedestrian. And
In those days these enactments were
less faithfully enforced. But with the
passing years and the decline of the
bicycle fever to a normal traffic one,
at least, of these regulations apparent
ly became more honored in the breach
than in the observance. In days of old
the ringing Of a bell was required upon
approaching any street crossing. To-
day such action is fnfrequent enough
to startle one upon hearing a bicycle
bell.
by actual observation of a total of
200 bicyclists who passed that most
crowded of all New Haven corners.
Church and Chapel just twelve were
noted who rang their bells. The others
nave calmly gone to sleep upon the
matter of law, and. there seems to be
no vigilant citizen to wake them up.
Such action Is fraught with a physi-
cal danger to multitude of our pedes-
trians. Moreover aoqniescence in the
passing into oblivion of the enforcement
of such regulations is also a danger.
Eternal vigilance sthe price of liberty
also of safety and life.
May someone arise and lead our wan
dering laws back into their own
PEDESTRIAN.
New Haven, November 80, 1905.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-01
The Ambulance System.

TO Editor Of the Journal and Courier:
OF late many expressions of opinion
have been heard from citizens Of New
Haven regarding the ambulance sys-
tenn of the city. We should like to
speak for these people in your columns,
They are we'll acquainted with the
workings of the ambulance in other
cities and say that the system in New
Haven is behind the times, being both
antlquated and out Of date. The wag-
ons belonging to the hospitals are kept
at local livery stables and Outlines the
work of getting them horsed and sent
to the scene of an accident is so slow
that the chances are greatly against
the injured person who ought to be
carried to the hospital with the ut
most dispatch Then again the horses
are not trained to the work. as those
are in Bridgeport and other places,
and this also is a detriment to efficient
service. The fact is also that many
times the hospital wagon might be
away at west Haven or other suburb
an places and could not reach the scene
Of tho accident for hours after 1t
should be on the spot Regarding the
police ambulance 1t is said that often
when it is required the horse will be
out with the patrol wagon. Here, again,
another serious delay arises, because
the ambulance cannot be sent out until
the home has returned from bringing
in some poor unfortunate to headquar-
tiers. Tho present wagons are also said
to be Anticipated and not up to date as
far as equipment is concerned. 1t is
the opinion of many that this import
ant branch of the eity's work ought to
be looked into by those having an in
terest in proper first aid to the injur-
ed The up-to-date ambulance is gen
orally equipped in the same manner
as the fire department The horses are
trained for this work and are never
used for any other purpose, They are
ready with attendants to proceed to the
scene of an accident in just the same
prompt manner as does the fire depart
ment to a conflagration.
AMBULANCE.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-01
AN EARLY WINTER DINNER.

Beginning early in November the
market offers us fresh pork and
sausage. In large cities, where cold
storage facilities are unlimited pork,
can Of course, be had any time of
years but it should be taken into con-
sideration that at best it is less easily
digested than other meats, owing to
the fact that its fibre is not striated
aus we find it in beef and mutton. 1t is
also greasy meat, hence better adapt
ed to cold than hot weather AT the
same time, when properly and care
fully cooked, it has a delightful flavor
of its own, hence. its popularity. A few
years ago we would have added that
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-01
PROFIT SHARING.
Employees to be Benefited at Howe &
Stetgon's


Employees to be Benefited at Howe &
Stetson's.
Something new is the object Of con-
slant searching on the part Of mer-
chants, and in the profit sharing" sale
to be instituted in the Howe & Stetson
stores next Tuesday morning Messrs.
Shartenburg & Robinson of Pawtucket.
owners and managers of the company,
have hit upon this plan and are using
1t in their Pawtucket store, where they
are celebrating their twenty-iifth an
niversary by such sale. In the profit
sharing sale one per cent. Of the gross
sales for the week is divided among the
employees of the house. Coming just
before Christmas, this sum will prove
quite convenient and appreciated aid
in the Christmas shopping Of the
clerks.
The sale will be marked by innumer-
able bargains and will be all the more
welcome coming just when goods are
high and holiday prices usually reign.
Every department will share in the
sale, which will be of profit, not only
to the clerks, but to the customers.
To make the first week in December
further memorable a blanket sale I'M
precedented in the annals Of New Ha-
ven will be inaugurated on Monday
morning Six hundred pairs Of blank
cts, handsome manufacturers samples,
with not a second or a soiled one in the
collection, will be sold at phenomenally
low prices, ranging from SO to $12 be-
low actual value.
Taken all in all, next week will be a
very busy one in the Howe & Stetson
stores.