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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
GOULDS ALL ATHLETES.
, New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 George J. Gould is a firm. believer in sports. He is not only an expert polo and tennis player himself but is deter mined that his sons shall be athletes. Tears ago. MT. Could laid out plans for the bringing up of his family So suc- cessful have these plans worked out that his two eldest sons are rated among the best polo players of the country. The second son, Jay, although but + years old, is the champion court tennis player of the United States, and is now in Eng land, where he will compete for the championship of Great Britain. which is in reality the worlds championship.
 It was not accident, but design. that made the two Gould boys sturdy ath- letes Neither of them is really robust, but they have constitutions hardened by open air exercise. At his country home, at Lakewood, George J. Gould taught his boys how to swim and ride as soon as they were able to do so in safety. The best instructors were engaged, and the father set the example himself.
 By the time the eldest boy, Kingdom, was Is, his brother, Jay, being one year younger, the lads were classed among the best polo players in the country, in addition to being expert cross country riders With their father and Benjamin Nichol they appeared on the polo field and held their own with the veterans of the game. ~.-s
 The appearance of any prominent Eu- ropean expert in sports in New York meant one or more visits to Lakewood.
 Kingdom Gould, although older than his brother, Jay, is not as good tennis and racquet player as the national cham pion. but he is superior polo player to his brother. The pair are about equal as cross-country riding. In their sports the young men are joined by the sister, Marjorie, who is an expert horsewoman. The other Gould children are being brought up on similar lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10

It would have been pleasant feature or this incident had Douglas won the maiden, since misfortune i'll suits so fine devotion as those adoring lines de- clare The words were given their lovely melody about 60 years ago by Lady Jane scott and it is so expressive, that it seems part of the tender lines.
 The present occupant of the Maxwell ton house Is descendant of the Laurie family and the old home contains many relics of the famous beauty. There arc few more famous ,personages in the world than Annie Laurie, whose. grace and vir- tue Will be sung as long as the language endures There are tunes that are fash 1onable; that appear for awhile and catch the fancy, and then pass off but Annie Laurie' Is not one of these.
 That song grows in favor. It touches the heart with a gentleness and warmth that makes it a part of the human af- fections. Start the song of Annie Laurie in little company and right off the talk ceases and the eyes brighten for it is living love song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
Standard Oil to the Bar.

Charges accumulate against the Standard Oil-charges relating to un- l fair advantages, rebates and other ille- gal acts devised to crush competition and to set up huge monopoly. The public is tired, however, of charges. What it wants is the strong hand of the law. It wants the offending trust called to the bar.
 The indications now are that the federal government does not intend to be trified with in this matter. Congress neglects to cure the Humphreys deci- sion in the beef-trust cases, but this need not stay the hands of the govern ment in fighting the Standard Oil.
 Recent reports go to show that the state of Ohio and the general govern ment propose to work together in a grand effort to bring the Standard Oil and it's officers to justice, and to pun ishment A concern that boldly squelches competition on all occasions acts in the very teeth of law and all justice, and it will be strange indeed if a way to bring it to justice cannot be found. Heretofore campaign con tributions have stood in the way, but these have, it is believed, been elim- mated
 The President is calling to his aid the authorities of Texas, and the au- thorities of Kansas are already .en- gagged in battle with the octopus. The entire country seems to be lining up to the terms and spirit of the Presi- dents special message, and especially to the charges contained in it. The government is in fact committed by it to an effort to make those charges good in the courts. MT Garfeld's re- port is full of grave charges, and pros cautions are the logical consequence Either the charges against the Stand ard Oil are true or false, and the situ- ation absolutely calls for prosecutions of the most searching nature. Nothing | less will serve the cause of justice, maintain the dignity of the presidential office, and meet the reasonable ex- pectations of the public. May the coming investigation be strict, fair, i'm partial and comprehensive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
The Commercial Club.

The meeting of the Commercial club at interest inasmuch as nominations for of ficers will be made.
 This will be the first nominating meet ing in recent years when no cut and dried ticket will be presented" said an old mem her of the club. "There is no slate of will be placed in nomination for president and Robert Jemison, Jr., will also be placed in nomination for president
 "AIr. Bowron and MT. Jemlson will each have many supporters and no one can say whicn will be declared the candidate. MT Bowron's tried experience in affairs and his broad mind certainly fits him for an ideal president of the Commercial club. MT. Jemson's ardor and his pro- gressive ideas make him a typical repre- sentative of the younger business set. There will be full turn out at the meet ing and while the proceedings will be friendly they promise to be lively
 G. w. NJ Taylor of Norfolk, represent ing the Southland Magazine, is in Bir- mingham. The Southland is high class publication and is steadily winning it's way to the front
 Norfolk is growing rapidly" said MT. Taylor, "and will give a good account of itself in the next census The James town exposition will bring thousands of visitors to Norfolk and the city will be we'll prepared to receive them."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
MADE AUTHOR FAMOUS.
One-Time Office Boy Gives Richard
 Harding Davis Real Snub.

From the New York Evening Sun.
 Sixteen years ago this spring, when MT. Richard Harding Davis was a ''cub re- porter on the Evening Sun. there was a small sad-faced copy boy in the office of whom even the managing editor stood more or less in awe.
 For many moons MT. Davis was this kids ideal of all that newspaper man should be; whenever the stentorian lungs of MT. Davis rent the air with cries of "Copy Copy!"' there was Daddy" Reaper. a small-sized Johnnie -on-the- ready to convey the sheet of manuscript hot from the writer straight to the city desk.
 So great was Daddys admiration for MT. Davis and his work that on one occa- sion, when the ''Van Bibber" stories were running. the youngster paraphrased MT. Davis style so successfully that when one of the editors chanced to find Daddy iaboriously scribbling on manuscript called "van Bibber's Christmas Dinner, ' he published the story, bad spelling and all, right alongside of one of Mir. Davis own stories.
 In the course of a few months "Galle- gher," MT. Davis first successful maga- zine story, appeared, and from that day Daddy Reaper had no further use for him. but why no one ever knew until the other day at the Jamaica races, where the truth at last came out.
 MT. Davis had entered the betting ring cautiously, down the dead line." when suddenly his eye fell on the young man, who was holding the slate of John Reaper x Co.,"
 were on their way to the post and the scramble to get their bets down was turn ing every better into a sort of impromptu center rush. MT. Davis rushed toward the man on the stool, exclaiming: "Why. hello, Daddy, how are your
 But the Daddy of others days merely raised his eyes coldly, fixed MT. Davis denly yelled at the top of his lungs: You get to h-l out of here! Can't you see I'm busy?'
 MT. Davis, completely repulsed. retirel precipitately, humming softly to himself: .It Was Not Like This in the Olden Days" and five minutes later, when the rush was over. MT. Reaper, turning to his side partner, remarked: Say. that feller Davis had nerve to come and talk to me. Say, when was a kid I made that feller famous up to the Evening Sun.
 .He wrote them Van Bibber yarns, but nobody took no notice of them until one day wrote one and they printed it. and 1t made a great hit. Even then he wasn't satisfied
 ''One day he got out of me some past events in my life, and he wrote 'em into story for Scribner $, and even then he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
France and America.

Sunday is election day in France. In those districts in which an actual majority was not given for any candidate at the election of last Sunday, May S. new cleo tons will be held on Sunday, May 9,' said lawyer.
 "The present president of the republic, NJ. Fallieres, was inaugurated on a Sun day, that being inauguration day as well as election day in France In this coun- try Sunday is legally dies non for court proceedings, contract making and business agreements. In Westchester county, New York. very recently the legal point was raised that all fines imposed on Sunday for reckless automobile driving were void. When our presidential inauguration day, March 1, falls on a Sunday, the inaugura- tion takes place on March 5. To almost the same extent that Sunday is observed in the United States as a day upon which political functions are suspended, in France it is the one day in the week most favored not only for elections but for political meetings and for political cam paigning."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10

greatly needed heavy and general rains, and they came in ample volume on the three last days of last week.
 The chief crop interest now turns upon the acreage. The department of agriculture will estimate the condition and acreage of the crop up to May 9, and the report will be given to the public in the first week in June. It is expected to show an increase in acre age, and to foreshadow twelye-million- bale crop.
 The government report will not take into the reckoning the scarcity of labor or even the extent of crop diversifica- tion. At the best the forthcoming re- port will be a guess at the truth, and official guesses have not proven in the past to be much better than unofficial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
RainfaIIs and inc Crops.

Planting is practically completed, and the seeds in the ground now have the aid of sufficient moisture. This may be said to be general condition in the cotton belt. A dry April permit. ted farm work to go on in handsome manner, and a wet spell in the opening week of May has put germination and growth in a promising condition.
 Alabama got the benefits of four days of rainy weather, and scarcely a county went unblessed by it. Fully sixty ol our sixty-seven counties acknowledge . suficiency of moisture. This state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
IN MEMoRIAM.

From the Mobile Register
 One year age yesterday, May !, 1905. departed this life Col John l.. Rapier, president of the Register company and director of the business and editorial policy of the paper. It is a year that has been short seemingly in the passage of time, but long in It's cares, it's demands, it's business experiences, especially to those who took up his work where he so suddenly laid 1t down. What we have missed, next to his genial association and conversation. has been his wise advice. and his sound decision in emergencies, which never failed. Rarely has there lived man who was so seldom deceived by false logic as he. His clearness of view was remarkable, while his sincerity of purpose could never be questioned.
 Time has but accentuated the feeling of the loss of the services of such a man. We pause now, at the end of the year. to lay new tribute of respect and love on his grave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
Civic League.

''The Civic League, which was organ ized a year or two ago, for the pur- pose of creating more wholesome pub lie sentiment in Birmingham in regard to law and order. seems to have died a natural death,' said a church member. 'I hope the league will be revived. Every good man should become member of a law and order society, and help, by his influence, in a concerted movement to break up the pistol toting and homicide habit. Never was united action more needed here than now.
 Unless homicides are less frequent, Birmingham will be injured considerably to say nothing of the moral aspect of the matter. This is a busy town, but men should take time to lend helping had to every movement making for the better ment of the community
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
The Man Who Butts In.

q want to register another kick against the man who butts in remarked a young man about town last night. "The last 'butinsky' I encountered cost me a round dollar. though, incidentally it wasn't silver.
 Tt was this way, 1 had three dollars, specie, the other day. and was chinl1ing them right merrily, for it's not very often I've got so much at one time, when up walks an acquaintance, who just has to say something all the time, and remarked: That dollar in your right hand is coun- terfeit.' Of course I denied the allega- tion, and the man who buts In said again it was no good. l threw it down on the stone pavement to prove it good. When to my discomforture it counded fiat and leaden. It was bad. Now you see I can't conscientlously spend that dollar. So I'm out a dollars worth of fun. It's all on account of the man who butted in, too'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
ON sALLlNG IN LOVE.
R. l. Stevenson,

R. II stevenson.
 Two persons. neither of them, it may be, very amiable or very beautiful, meet, speak little and look a little into each others eyes. That has been done dozen or so of times in the experience of either with no great result. But on that occa- sion all is different. They fall at once into that state in which another person be- comes to us the very gist and center point of Gods creation. And all the while their acquaintances look on in stupor and ask each other with almost passionate em- phasis what So-and-So can see in that woman. or Such-an-One in that man? I am sure. gentlemen, I cannot tell you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A mans own funeral is expensive. but it saves him lot of money afterward.
 The amount of work a boy puts into baseball would raise lot of potatoes for him to eat.
 Every man would be a prohibitionist if there was as much fun in it as being the other kind.
 A baby is never as pretty as his mother says it is. and hardly ever as ugly as the neighbors think.
 When woman gets 10 a certain age without any man ever having asked her to marry him she is always talking about what a terrible tilt she used to be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Herald: James J. Corbett has whipped a man. Hope this doesn't en- courage him to enter the ring again.
 Gadsden Times-News: There are said to be 27OOO men on the pay roll of the Panama canal. and yet there is more mud than dirt flying.
 Mobile Herald: When President Castro pays his promised visit to the United States. he may be sure of a warm recep- ton at the office of the Asphalt trust.
 Anniston Hot Blast: Every ten hours some New Yorker kills himself. Every two days somebody kills New Yorker. The chances of staying alive in the old town are thus only fair to middling.
 Gadsden Journals: The Birmingham tragedy is only one more lesson of the evils of the pistol 'toter" The concealed weapon nuisance must be. abolished if decent people are to have any rights pr safety
 Selma Journal: Congressman Bankhead continues to be spoken of as a candidate for succession senator. If the Colonel enters upon such race just after the hot campaign he will show good grit and nerve and astonishing staying powers.
 Alabama Courier: The friends in North Alabama are urging Judge Oceola Kyle of Decatur to offer for associate justice of the supreme court at the August election. He has the matter under consideration and if he decides to enter the race all other aspirants had just as well pull off for he is one of the ablest and strongest men in the state, and has back of him record as a jurist that has made his name a household word throughout the Eighth judicial district. He is strong in every county in the district where he served the people we'll for some time, and no man in the district could poll as strong a vote for associate justice of the supreme court as Judge Kyle. He is well known throughout the state and his cleo ton would almost be assured, if he only announces himself. His friends in Lime-' stone would roll up large majority for him over any other aspirant.
 Mobile Register: There were misgivings in New York when the Nsubterranean secrets of San Francisco's Chinatown were laid bare by the fire. Next to the Pacific coast city New York has the largest Chinese population among Amer iean cities and its Celestial quarter, while not as extensive, has all the external characteristics that the San Francisco quarter had before it was destroyed. New York has awakened to the fact that it's Chinatown may be built tier upon tier below the surface and that 1t may have buried secrets: and the local improve ment board of the Bowling Green dis trict has submitted a plan for estab- fishing a park in the area now occupied by Chinatown, at an estimated cost of s731 900. The price will be cheap if it obliterates Chinatown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

And the futures very bright When fellows had his dinner And he's feeling out of sight. Stay on the sunny side of the street in winter time and look for the sunny side of life when the winds of diversity blow Crossing the ocean is not expensive, un- less one gets into a transatlantic poker game.
 Lets quit work and go to heaven!" cried the chief of police at Carrollton. Ga., thing easier said than done. ''If the tide of immigration keeps at it's present height" said the stork at Govern or's Island, 'Tll soon be able to quit work and take a rest''
 LUCRE It makes the wicked world go round Money
 It's hard to earn and never found Money.
 Root of evil? Certainly. Yet we work quite cheerfully Hoping our reward may be- Money
 Ihls time next month a host of college graduates will be confronted with the problem of making a living. An accommodating Virginia man killed his wife at her request If the Shoot case is ever settled wa won't be here
 
 A little cleaning of the straw This is a tip for you Will make your last years Panama Look quite as good as new Silence prevails at a woman's congress now In session. It is a chess congress Many man thinks he has appendicitis when it is only the colic The real automobilist looks amused when fined in court for speeding.
 REPENTANCE.
 Needles and pins,
 Needles and pins
 When mans ailing
 He thinks of his sins Robert Fitzsimmons has been offered the position of chief of police in a New Jer- sey town. The exercise would do him good PATTI, coO1y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
Decelll-

Prices are still depressed, but the situation is hopeful, for the San Fran cisco disaster has been discounted, the hard coal miners are going back to work, Russia and France are quiet
 the growing crops are full of promise, the gold inflow is well maintained, the criminal course of the trusts is to be curbed, and the general trade and in- dustries are prosperous. The crops of wheat, cotton and corn will determine the course of prices and the condition of business in the immediate future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
CRACKED ICE GONE TO WASTE
,rom the Boston Herald

From the Boston Herald.
 Simeon Ford has 8 story of New York hotel man whose cafe and rathskeller are the resorts of bohemian set This boni- face was spending his vacation in Maine. when one evening he was kept in his hotel by a terrific storm. The windows of his room were broken by hailstones of a size generally compared to hens eggs.
 It happened that the proprietor of the hotel was in the room engaged In conver- sation with the New Yorker during most of the storm The hotel man observed that his guest appeared to be iaboring un- der great emotion, so asked:
 Does the storm scare youf,
 Mot exactly" was the reply, .but it does tear my heartstrings tossee so much cracked ice wasted on a prohibition state. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
ORIGINAL ANNIE LAURIE
 WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
rom the Ohio State Journal.

From the Ohio State Journal.
 N WRITER in Munsey again cor V rects the persistent impression which most people have that Annie Laurie, the bewitching subject of very sweet song. was the creature of a sentiment, She was a real person and her portrait adorns the walls of Max welton house, in secluded part of Scot land. She was born of a good family and spent her chilhood in handsome home. She was beauty, of the austere and dig nified type. which did not, however in terfere with her loveliness shining out from every part, for she was graceful as well as beautiful.
 Her lover, William Douglas, wrote the words of the pleasant lyric that cele- brates her personal charms. but it was not his good fortune to capture this live ly maiden for whom he was ready to die. Another young laird, possessed of more of this worlds bounty, won her heart, and Douglas bestowed his affec- tions upon another and was more sue cessful with the new sweetheart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
Athens Female College.

The annual commencement exercises of the Athens Female college will be held In the college chapel May &, 9 and 90.
 This institution is one of the most popu- lar and flourishing in Alabama, and it's finals always attract wide attention. The college has had an exceptionally pros porous year, and the next session is fnll of nrOmise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
TO HELEN.

By Edgar Allan Poe.
 Helen, thy beauty is to me
 Like those Nicaean barks Of yore, That gent = Der perfumed sea, The wea.s, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs. have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. To, in yon brilliant window niche How statue-lke I see thee stand. The agate lamp within thy hand! An. Psyche. from the regions which Are holy landt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10

Maxim Gorl1y has cancelled his Amer. ican engagements. and he will no doubt soon go where social lines are not so rigidly drawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10

Louisville has bartender who can deliver an eloquent oration over the grave of friend and mix cocktail with equal facility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-10
ANOTHER ONE.

From the Louisville Herald.
 ''Our own Hobson is a bigger man." proudly claims the Birmingham Age-Her- ald, "any day in the week than Ohio
 Nick Longworth any day in the week. But just look at Kentucky's Ollie James.