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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06

de injun gets daffy over one of de COILS
i'll de show and wants to take her out
to his tepee and make her his squaw
like dem we see de pictures of in de First
reader. But wen de gang of guys wot
has been hangin' out wild Strongheart
gifts next. dey all give him de cold Shout
der and tell him dere is nothin dom, be-
cause he is an injun and no injun can
marry a white woman.
IBIS makes old Strongheart mad as
thunder and he gives dem all de CLASSY
eye. Den he makes a big speech and tells
'em all dat he is de only mug and dat
dey can all go back to de alfalfa for
dere's. He says he's goin' to pop de ques-
ton to de goil anyway. Den dey all gets
togedder and knocks him. Dey is GER
tainly a low-down bunch, for all dem
guys wild the long coats and de dinky
caps wot has been pertendin' to be his
pals goes back on him. Dat is, all ex-
cept one big fat guy who is peach. Dis
fat guy tells Strongheart dat he is for
him, and he trows a hot line of CUFF
into the other gazabos till dey is all
ashamed of themselves.
Next the football guys has de meetin
and Strongheart gifts on to de stiff wot
fixed up de gag wild dem signals, and he
has dis guy write a fake Telegram so
he gifts wise to his handwritin', witch Is
de same as de address on dem signals.
Den he gifts all de bunch around and
puts dem wise to de gazabe and dey
starts in to beat his block off, but Strong
heart calls de turn and says that dey
win fire de guy out of college anyway.
so dey let's him off and he sneaks for
de wings.
Den in de next act old Strongheart
Butts into the COILS house and gifts her
all alone and he goes up and looks at he"
and she jist trows her arms around his
neck and dey is sure fixed for keeps. And
Jest wen old Strongheart Is gittin' ready
to make grand sneak for his tepee wild
de goil, anudder Injun butts in and hollers
at him. De nudder Injun says dat Strong
hearts old man. who Is de chief of the
tribe, has kicked the bucket, and dat it
is up to Strongheart to come back and be
de real king over all de udder Injuns.
'Strongheart is in de game all right.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06
Cocktail That Cost $500, 900.

From the Saturday Evening Post
A well known promoter was invited by
friend to have cocktail before dinner
the other night at the Waldorf.
''Cocktail?' snorted the promoter in
dignantly Ibid hear you say cocktail?
Don't use that word when you talk to
me, if you wish to remain my friend.
Cocktail Do you think I'm Rockefeller"
Not; but"
did you have a notion that l hold it
disgrace to die rich? Well, If you do.
don't l can't afford to pay a million
and half for cocktail oftener than
once a month. and that's what one of
those devil mixtures cost me last week.
Yes, Bill, S15O0,OOO Explain? Cert The
other day, l was here in this same identi-
cal cafe talking business with party
of men from Canada, who had a mine to
float. l listened to their story and as
they had been vouched for by friends
whom 1 trust. and besides which l
wasn't separating myself from cents, 1
believed them. told them I'd turn the
trick for them. They wanted only about
S150,00O for 1t. l became quite enthusiastic
as l thought of the fat and juicy curb
market in our midst, and suggested
100000 share company, par value of same
s. each. Those blooming Canucks de-
INJURED at this. They said they didn't
want any water in theirs, and asserted
that 100000 shares, at five bricks per, was
ample in their estimation. Did you ever?
| stuck out for 6O0.000-it was only $780,
OOO-but they insisted that 100000 shares
were enough There was a deadlock and
! suggested cocktails-I ordered them n
was not my first drink and 1t made me
feel so good-natured that l gave in to
them. That stock went in a week.
could have sold million shares. leave
alone 100000 the cocktail made me con-
sent not to issue. Cocktails? Take one
with strong dash of prussic acid. will
your
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06
Hard Times for Hartman.

The machinery of the interstate COM
merce commission was also set in motion
before the close of the old year for the
investigation of e. Fl. Harriman's Union
Pacific Southern Pacific merger.
The United States government has long
camped on Mr.. Harriman's trail. and
means to throw some light on the series
of transactions which have converted
Hartman, the son of a poor minister
and clerk in a brokers' office when most
boys are still in grammar school, into the
most powerful figure in railroading this
or any other country has ever known.
Mr.. Hartman is the boss of about 81
700 900 900 of vested wealth, of about 25,000
miles of railroads, numerous steamship
lines and enough employees to populate
several small cities. He makes or I'M
makes communities. giving them pros
perity or transferring it to some other
place.
Hartman has been riding on the crest
of the top wave of prosperity for nearly
forty years and for reasons of it's own the
government is going to do some probing.
which will incidentally throw light on
how he does It, That isn't the chief pur-
pose of the governments inquisition, how
ever. What the government has set out
to do is to prove:
That the Union Pacific Railroad COM
pany and the Southern Pacific Railroad
company are naturally competing and
parallel roads, and that their joint own
ership or control is contrary to the Sher-
man antitrust act on the ground that
competition is stifled and trade restrained.
If the government makes out case
and gets a favorable decision in the
courts, as it did in the Northern Securi-
ties case, the practical result of such
decision will be:
That the Union Pacific must rid it
self of the 000 of stock of the
Southern Pacific which it owns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06
New Year Prospects.

To the toiler the new year should be
welcome. With the great wave of ma
terial prosperity that has swept all over
the United States in the past few years
a prosperity that refuses to regard even
a billion-dollar Congress as spend
thrift-has come a raising of wages on
the part of many big firms and corpora
tons and a resultant pouring of money
into the Golfers of their employees.
The year 1907 started with consider
able increase in salaries among the larger
corporations that is expected to be fol-
lowed by similar increases all over the
country. Most of the great railroads,
such as the Pennsylvania, the New York
Central and the Erie, in the east. and
the Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul,
the Southern Pacific and the roads hav-
ing their termini in Chicago, in the west.
announced weeks ago their willingness to
put in force higher schedule OF wages
on January l. and with. few exceptions
have already made public the new scale.
So, too. with the Standard Oil company.
the United States Steel company, the cot
ton mills of Fall River and other So
called trusts
or the railroads, the Pennsylvania.
which has the largest mileage In America,
and which employs in Its various divis-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06

w HEN Henry +. Harris produced
Nv "Strongheart." William C. de
Miles comedy drama, in Boston
last year. with Robert Edeson in the title
role, the critic of one of the Boston pa
pers. on his arrival at the theatre. found
a ragged little urchin outside the door
asking the different patrons to take him
In to see the show. The critic bought him
a seat in the gallery, and after the play
asked him for his criticism. Here it Is
IBIS here Injun was de whole show
around one of dem big colleges, and all
the COILS WIS., stuck on him and all de
college stins fought he was de big noise
cause he was de best halfback in de foot
ball team. He was havin high Old
time and was chnnin the COILS just as he
was a real white guy. Everything would
have been all right but dere was cheap
snort dere who was stuck on one of de
coils in de show and he was tryin' to
beat anudder guys time wot stood better
wild dis bunch of rags So he gifts dis guy
in de hole by lending him so much dough
dat he can't pay it back. Den he makes
wrong move and bets bunch OIL com
on the other team.
f..Den you know what dis gaZabe does?
He was certainly dirty mean, for he gifts
all de football signals for his own team
wot his rival has wrote and sends dem to
de other football team Well, wenn de
game comes round de team wild de Injun
is getting de worst of ii and between de
halves de manager of de other team blows
in and pipes eff de deal. He gives de letter
TO de Injun, and wenn de Iniun sees de
signals was in de handwrittin' of his pal
he won't give up de paper Den de low
4.s... sefxr. i
Iniun de double cross. He commences
knoclxin' dis here Srongheart to de cap
tain till dey won't let Mr.. Injun play.
Dat tickles de other stiff to death.
hut de team wins widout the injun and
den dey appoint meeting to lind out
x,,bo cont de signals But before de meetin'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06

trusts and trust officers. The most con-
spicuous example of the application of
the law was the indictment in Ohio of
John D. Rockefeller on a charge under
which, if convicted, he might be sent to
jail. Hardly less prominent are the in
dictments found only last week in New
York city against George w. Perkins,
who was the financial brains of the
New York Life, and his colleague on the
finance committee of that corporation,
Charles s. Fairchild. They are charged
with forgery in Juggling the accounts of
that corporation.
Railroads have been Indicted and con-
victed of rebatng, although railroad Of
ficials have escaped punishment. Ice trust
promoters bribers have been sent to Jail.
A United State senator has lost his seat
and taken up residence in cell for
statutory crime. The Standard Oil trust
has nineteen indictments hanging over
il and is threatened with proceedings 20
dissolve its existence under the Sherman
act.
First of all life insurance alleged GRIM
mails to be convicted is George Burn
ham, Jr., vice president and counsel OF
the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance conf
pany. On December II a jury found him
guilty of the larceny of $500 of the COM
pany's funds
Robert A. Granniss and Walter r. Gill
lette, former vice presidents of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance company, were in
dicted on June II. In five indictments, DR..
Gillette is charged with forgery in the
third degree and in one with perjury
committed before the grand jury. Gran
Mss is charged with forgery in the third
degree and with a mlsdemeanor.
Railroads felt the force of the anti-re-
bate law in the year 1906 as never before
The New York Central was one of those
most severely punished. 1t was arraigned
in the United States circuit court in
this city on May g. on a charge of con-
spiracy to violate the Elkins law for CIV
ing rebates to the sugar trust. In DC
tober and November this railroad was
convicted and sentenced to pay fines ag-
gregating $1S00O0. The sugar trust was
also convicted and heavily fined officials
of the railroad company are under indict-
ment in this case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06

ions nearly $4,000 men, was the first to
take up the policy of raising wages. Be-
ginning on January l, every employee of
this system, east and west of Pittsburg,
who is now in receipt of salary less
than $500 month. will enjoy 10 per cent
Increase. This will add $4,000 900 annual
ly to the expenses of the railroad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06
In the Wrong Shop.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Doctor said the visitor with the fur
lir ed collar, there's something the mat
ter with me-
Well, responded the doctor. Il knew
that when | saw you as Hamlet last
night. but | can't do anything for you.
Curing hams is out of my lins.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06
Pleasant DisappoIntments
the washington Star.

From the washington Star.
How do you like your new motor
CARP
First rate answered Mr. Cumrox.
But I hear 1t has had a way of break
down IN the middle of a Journey
1T has. But that's all right Most OF
the social functions mother and the girls
were taking me to l didn't care much
about In the first place"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-06

opening and The bill of fare has shrunken
to mere shadow of its former self;
while the staff has been reduced to the
minimum requisite for law and order, the
stockholders have received no dividends
on the enterprise, which made an era in
the city's history.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26
TOOK UP CASE or SAILOR
Wanted Facts About City
Home md WOuudcd MINI.

Committee Wanted Facts About City
Home and Wounded MINI.
Alderman Elicit, at a meeting OF the
Committee on Relief OF the Poor, yes
terday afternoon wanted more definite
information about the report that the
City Home had refused to take In Fred
Rich, a sailor. who was badly wounded
Thursday night. The ambulance was
called to tile First Police Station. but
DR.. Strole at first declined to accept
the wounded prisoner.
Assistant superintendent Brandes,
explaining for the home. said that the
newspaper accounts were not correct.
that the physician agreed to accept the
prisoner provided an officer accompanied
him. He said Rich wa very drunk.
The management OF the home, sensI-
tive because tof recent developments
which have kept 1t in an unpleasant
light, thought that II was not getting
a square deal. AS The Times-Dispatch
showed, however. there was difficulty
In getting the ambulance corps to take
Rich. and finally Police Commissioner
Manning insisted that he BIO removed
to the home for treatment, severely
condemning the institution for its
policy.
Rich Is still at the city Home, and
Will not be able to leave for a couple
OF DAYS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26
LCVENSTE|N TRIAL
TO Be HEARD TO-DAY
Jointly Indicted With Charles
Gunst by the Grand
Jury.
cRuTcHFIELD WILL DECIDE
Many Witnesses for the Com
monwealth Summoned for
9:3o O'Clock.

Isadore Lovenstein and Charles
Gunst, jointly indicted on three counts
on the charge of defrauding the city In
connection with bids to supply the City
Home with wood, will appear for trial
before Justice Crutchfield in the Police
Court this morning at $50 O'Clock. 1t
Will not be n jury trial. Justice Crutch-
field will hear the evidence and decide
the case; but If an appeal is taken it
will go to the Hastings Court.
Commonweaith's Attorney Folkes will
represent the prosecution. and Mr..
Harry NJ. Smith will represent the de-
PENDANTS. Witnesses who testified be-
fore the Committee on Relief Of the
Poor and the grand jury viii be put on
the stand again. Lovenstein and Gunst
are confident of acquittal. and that,
indeed. Is the opinion of many who
have watched the case from it's begin
ming. The evidence showed beyond
Question Of doubt that the bids were
opened by somebody, although 1t is said
that 1t Will be still more difficult to
establish the identity of the person or
persons who tempered with the bids,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26
FRAYsER is OUT OF RACE
IIechler and Turner Now the Only Cam
dldates In the Field.

|AL ~ IN o.. NLL
IIechler and Turner Now the only Cam
didates In the Field.
Treasurer w. B. Frayser. OF Henrico
county, yesterday withdrew his appli-
cation to run for the treasurership OF
Henrioo county in the general election
on November 9Th. Mr.. Frayser's app
pllcation was made on condition. That
Is, he would have run for the posi-
tion should Mr.. Hechler have been.
mittee or otherwise have been de-
clared ineligible for the office. AS it
stands now. Mr.. Hechler is the nom-
inee OF tho Democratic party. and
lth.re is hardly the slightest doubt
but that he will win.
This leaves In the race only Mr..
Hechler and Mr.. j., B. Turner, who
elected some time dgo to run inde-
pendently. MI. j.. j. Rennte stated yes
terday. that. he had not entered the
race. though 1t was currently runored
ut the courthouse Thursday afternoon
that he would run. Mr.. Rennie. how
ever, denies the rutlor.
The Henrico County Democratic
Committee will met next Tuesday at
noon, when, 1t is understood, the sup
port OF all the Democratic voters for
Mr.. Hectler will be asked. It Is also
rumored that a purse will be gotten
up to defray the expenses OF the cleo
tton for Mr.. Hechler, and that there
Is q movement among the followers
OF Mr.. ,Hechler to give a torch light
procession Tonight in honor OF the par
ty nominee. ar
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26
TROUBLE FROM COFFEE
Beginning to learn about the
Drug.

Coffee treated me so badly that l
want to tell people about 1t, and II
you can use my letter, i will be glad.
II am As years old and have drank
coffee all my life. I have felt bad for
years and I did not know what allied
me. Sometimes I would have to press
my hand against my heart, I would
be In such pain and 7 got SOL could
hardly do my work. My head would
feel heavy and dizzy, and many q
time.I got so blind I lust had to drop
down or else I would have fallen.
" felt bad allSoyer. Ny feet woul6
swell II hurt me. A friend of mine
asked me to try Postum and stop
drinking coffee. I tricdSthe Postum,
but 1t was some DAYS before I got hold
OF the right way to make IT. My heart
disease and dropsy disappeared and I
got entirely we'll
There is much In making It, It
has to be boiled longer than, ordinary
coffee, but when I got 1t made good, It
was fine. and now ! Wouldn't have
coffee in my house at all. ] am sure
that Postum saved my life, and I am
now perfectly we'll, ! send You tho
names OF about twenty people that
have been helped by leaving OF coffee
and using Postum Food Coffee"
It's worth while TO read 1.-THE Road
TO Wellvillei" IN pkKs.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26
SALARY-GRABBERS
TO GET COLD DEAL
Members Of Council Sick Of
Constant Appeals for
Advances.
READY TO QUIT COMMITTEES
Said That Chairman Lynch Was
Always on the Jump to
Dodge Applicants.
READY TO QUIT COMMITTEES
Unless fewer applicatlons are \

Unless fewer applications are made
by city employees for. increase in
salaries II is likely that one or more
active and influential members Of the
Committee on Ordinance. Charter ana
Reform will resign. Chairman John
j. Lynch, who has devoted much OF
his time to city affairs, quit that po-
sition. and 1t was said that one rea-
son why he a done go was because
he was worried to death by high
salary grabbers. Mr.. Lynch will re.
main on the committee. but will bs
sbuject to less annoyance. as the app
pltcants seem TO think that the chair
mans word Is law. Hereafter they
Debney. Newspaper talk about thu
heavy demand from certain depart
ments for more wages makes the head
officers rather sensitive.
But Council Is feeling that way, too.
and IL the avalanche keeps up the
whole batch OF them will be dumped
under a general resolution that there
will be nothing. doing for a long term
OF years. In connection with the aE-
plication for lifts In the police de-
partment it was brought out by
Councilman Umlauf that the clerk
was raised from $500 to $1,000 about
two years ago. and his new request
for 1880 got 1t Just below the chin.
The increased cost OF living is adj
yanced as a reason for paying a little
more to the city employees. but if
everybody got what everybody wants
there would be a deficit long before
the end OF the fiscal year.
With the rush OF applications on
general principles many worthy em-
ployes are apt to be left at the post.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26


sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
The order of exercises will be as
follows.
saturday, October differentiation,
beginning at 2 2. NJ. and continuing
as long as may be necessary. Confess
sion again Sunday morning before Z
O'Clock.
AT Z "A. NJ. Sunday the devotion prop
err will open with High Mass. during
which all the people Of the parish are
expected to receive Holy Communion.
This is in accord with the wishes OF
the Pope. who desires that all the
faithful of each parish of the world
receive Holy Communion on some one
day of each year.
AT 8 F. NJ. Sunday the Rev. James Z.
Collins. pastor of Harper's Ferry. and
formerly assistant OF the Sacred Heart
Church. will preach on the Holy Eu
charist.
on Monday at s o'clock A. NJ. High
Mass will be sung In the cathedral at
one Of the side affairs.
AT s P. M. Monday the Rev. Father
D. F. Coleman, pastor of Manchester.
and. like Father Collins. a gifted ora
tor and well known in Richmond, will
preach the second sermon on the Holy
Eucharist. The services Sunday n
Monday evenings will close with bene-
diction of the Blessed Sacrament.
The forty hours devotion will close
Tuesday mornin. with High Mass n
procession Of the Blessed Sacrament
at 9 O'Clock. Present indications point
to the largest attendance of any forty
devotion yet held in Richmond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26
POSTPONE JoHNsoN's CASE
Omccr Charged with T~respass
and ResistlnE County officer Eubnnk.

- - Z VIII AGtbDHRU
and Resisting County officer Eubank.
Policeman CLIFFORD johnson appeared
before Squire j. r. Lewis, OF the Hem
rico County Magistsrial Court. yester-
gay morning on the charge OF t%respass-
Ing on the property OF the Richmond
traction Company and OF resisting mr.
rest at the hands OF County Constable
James n. Eubank. Counsel for the de-
tense, Messrs. Gilbert Pollock ana John
Lamb, asked for a continuance to Mo-
yember 9Th, as some of the witnesses
10. the defense were absent-Captain
Iomiinson.. of the detective force, and
William Chapman.
The arrest of Policeman johnson by
the county officer Is said to be the
outcome OF a ng-standing quarrel, lin
which Eubank got the worst end OF
the bargain. Eubank was once held
UP ut a police picnic by Policemen
Johnson and Kellum for taking some
bread and brunswick stew. The direct
cause OF the arrest In the present case
was the fact that Policeman Johnson
passed through the gates of the State
Fair Grounds on his badge and took
MS seat on a car with his two little
girls; Eubank noticed this. and Or
dered the Richmond officer of the car.
Johnso got off the car, but defied
arrest, and the coun constable did
not push the matter. johnson was ar
rested the other day in Police Court
County Constable Burch. Mr.. john
son has many friends. and Is q popular
man on the Richmond force,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-26
SECRETARY GARFIELD HERE
Secretary OF Interior Passes ThrouRI
City En- Route to JnIncato1yn.

secretary OF Interior Passes Through
City Ell Route to Jamestown.
With the Hon. James r. Garfield,
secretary OF the Interior. Mrs. Garfield.
their three sons. the secretary's moth
er and several guests on board. the
lighthouse tender Maple. sailed for the
jamestown Exposition this morning at
8 o'clock.
Secretary Garfield and his party, cx-
ccept his sons. who came from Nor
folk on the Maple. arrived from Wash
ington Yesterday evening and drove
straight to the boat and spent the
night on board.
The Maple locked hero late Thurs
day evening. III has been cruising
along the James for several days. Be.
sides the Garfield boys, Mr.. Lederly,
secretary OF the Lighthouse Board, and
MS wife were passengers on board
the tender from Norfolk here. They,
came ashore here and return.
ed to Norfolk by rail.
Mr.. Garfeld's trip Is solely for pleas
ure. He will land at the exposition
and other points around Norfolk and
the bay. and expects to arrive in Wash.
ington Tuesday morning.