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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
"DUTCH" MEIER
QUITS THE PIRATES

PITTSBURG, Pa, February 14.-Arthur
Dutch Meier, the former Princeton star
who was the inf1eld utility man for the Pr
rates last season, has retired from base
ball, according to letter received by Pres
ident Dreyfuss of the Pittsburg team yes
terday afternoon.
Meier in his letter states that his relatives
have persuaded him to quit playing profess
sional ball. and he will devote his future to
business. although he expects to play semi
professional ball in Chicago during the COM
ing season.
Meier has returned his contract for next
season to Dreyfuss unsigned. Dreyfuss will
not consider Meier contract jumper. even
though he does play in Chicago with the
semi professionals next season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
BASE BALL NOTES.

There are forty Indians at Carlisle try
ing for the ball team. Wonder If they can
get nine good ones.
'Spit-bali' Bob Ewing is to be dropped
by Cincinnati, and If he is not transferred
to Boston he will likely go to Toledo.
Columbus will have four former big
leaguers on its pitching staff next season.
They are Wicker, Robertaille, Townsend
and Veil.
The Pittsburg club has released Pitchers
Case, Mokiman, Manske and Maxwell
Others are to follow within the next few
days.
Every Cincinnati player is satisfied with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
Fog Machinery in Need of Repair.

Commander Edward Lloyd, jr., o. s. N,
inspector in charge Of the lighthouse serv-
ice on Chesapeake bay and the Potomac
river and other tributaries of the bay, has
given notice that the fog bell machinery
in the lighthouse at the Hoopers Island
station, on Chesapeake bay, has become
disabled, and until the damage can be re-
paired the signals will be struck by hand in
thick and foggy weather. Repairs to the
machinery will be made in -ew days.
The lighthouse tender Holly, Capt. Miles
which has been employed in supplying the
light stations on Chesapeake bay, with
provisions and other stores, has completed
that task for the present and has arrived
at the lighthouse service station at Ports
mouth. Va. !.
The Sewell Point shoal buoy, frst-class
can, which went adrift several days ago,
has been recovered and was replaced on its
station Monday last.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
Fast Basket Ball Promised.

A game which is likely to be one of the
most holly contested games of the season
is scheduled at the Y. NJ. C. A. gym. next
Saturday night at $50 o'clock when the
fast team from Carroll Institute will line
up against the local association team
The association boys are gradually get
ting around to shape again. as Fowler is
putting up a good game in center and
holding down very well the place of Billy
Haight, who was injured in the game
with the I'd Regiment, which has neces-
STATED his absence from the team and
game. These two teams are old rivals
and always put up game that is inter-
esting to the spectators. The lineup:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
Smith Signs With Chicago.

SHARON February 14.-Frank Smith,
pitcher for the worlds champion White
Sox team, is spending a few days at his old
home in Grove City. He is working out at
the gymna of the college and assisting
in coaching the college candidates. He re-
cefved his contract from the Chicago team
a short time ago and signed it to play the
coming season. He will leave Grove City
for the City of Mexico to join the worlds
champions on March g. He will be accom-
panied by his wife. Jimmy Williams of the
New York Americans is also expected at
Grove City to work out, and also assist in
Goa ching the college team.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
Protest Against Confirmation.

Ralph H. Riddleberger Of Norfolk. va,
has filed with the Senate committee on
post offices protest against the confirma-
ton of 8. B. Carney as postmaster at that
city. Mr.. Riddleberger makes charges
against Mr.. Carney as assistant postmaster
and against the method of securing his APP
pointment, and declares that in many ways
he Is unfit for the position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
BILL REID PLEADS
FOR COLLEGE ATHLETES

BOSTON. February 14.-Innuenced by the
agitation among some of the authorities at
Harvard relative to the adjustment of in
tercollegiate athletics as far as the college
at Cambridge Is concerned, William T. Reid.
who recently resigned his position as foot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
AMATEUR UNION
SUSPENDS SPEED SKATERS

NEW YORK. February 14.-The Amateur
Athletic Union yesterday notified all its
branches throughout the United States and
Canada that all the ice skaters who COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
MARTIN SUSPENDED
FOR "QUEER RIDING"

NEW ORLEANS, February 14.-Jack
Martin. rated one OF the cieverest jockeys
in the country was suspended yesterday
by the stewards of the Crescent City Jockey
Club for the balance of the winter racing
season. The sentence bars him from both
local tracks.
Martins suspension followed closely on
the action of the City Park stewards, who
placed him under the ban yesterday for
four days because he ''fouled' Princess Sue
while riding Gresham. His severe punish
ment was due to his poor horsemanship on
the horse Orly II at the Fair Grounds track
during its last meeting.
Orly ii was a well-backed favorite at
the time, but miserable race and
finished far back in the ruck among q lot
of cheap selling platers. The horses poor
performance caused his owner. Pat CIVIL
to sell him. The stewards were dissatisfied
with Martins riding on that occasion and
investigated the race. Their ruling yester-
day is the result.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
GOLF, BASE BALL
AND OTHER SPORTS

quence, but despite all the advice of kind
friends to do so he has steadily refused to
bring out that putter again. He says that
it has done its life's work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14

/ A Lost article advertised prompt.
ly in The Star Will be returned "
" found by an honest person-moss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
Is Under Contract.

johnson and Frank Farrell of New York
this season. In their combined stable are
such great horses as Roseben, DR.. Gardner
and Clark Griffith. These men admired
Martins riding SO much last year that they
engaged him for 1907 at a big salary. This
decision to hire him was made after James
II. Diamond JIM Brady had harshly
criticised him for his jockeyship on Foun
tainblue in the Fatbush, which caused
Brady to substitute Willie Shaw on all his
horses.
Martin declared last night that he
thought he was harshly treated by the
officials in the Orly II case, and blamed
the horse, an erratic one. for his defeat.
He stated that he would leave for New
York at once to take up his work with the
Johnson Farrell horses.
The racing at the City Park track yes
terday afternoon was void of any sensa-
tional features. The eastern plungers lost
many large bets when James H. McCor-
mcks Royal River was beaten by Duchess
of Montebello for the fourth race. The
former was made a top-heavy favorite on
the strength of past trials She was the
better horse and should have beaten
Duchess Of Montebello. but was badly in
terefered with three times and was nosed
out on the past.
Old Toboggan, at 8 to 1, minus the heavy
bandages he wore when he ran poorly in
his previous races, showed great speed in
the sixth race and beat such fast sprinters
as Emergency and Lens easily. He led from
start to finish.
The Summaries.
First raee-Three and one half furlongs, selling:
Englanderl, 5 to 2, second Lady, Hapsburg, 05
Wordy Girl, Lady Baldur, AUX Hila, Ting Fang,
Dancing Sunray and Fare also ran.
Second raceaFonr fnrlongs Manchester, lis
Is to /, second; Billy BowIegs Ill tShiling), 8 to
2. third Time, 0.4s15. Furioso and Finaneler also
ran.
Third receive and one-half furlongs:. Ben
Strong, 112 tCherry) to 4. won; Autumn Flower,
90 (sutlerl, to l. second; Rose Hart. SO tskirvinl
IL to /, third. Time, los. Storm, Banker, Paul.
Nancy, Tom Morgan, Sir yagrant, Glendover and
Doc Kyle also ran.
Fourth race-si1 furlongs. DR.. Mack, 1o4 tshil-
lng), Ia to 8. won; Hannibal Bey, ITO (Enganderl,
even, second; Jake Sanders, 100 Cherry. to ],
third. Time lib. Alencon, Ruth Nolan and
Lille Turner also ran.
Fifth race-si1 furlongs; selling. Lady vashti,
ITO Cherry, to 5, won: Naughty, 95 (Skryin) IL
to i second; Rustling silk, 100 Austin), l2 to l,
third. Time, 1l5h. Miss Anable. Shelach, Ina
Gray Bell Toone. Louwelsa Annie Davis, Tele-
pathy, Viperine Mary Prim, Kate Pitt and Sarsa-
parilla also
Sixth race-One mile and seventy yards: selling.
l0S Cherry, IL to 8, second; Belden, 95 (Hagan),
20 to 1, third Time, l.48. Kittie Plat. Dixie
Andrews, Grosgrain, Florizel, John Garner and
Nine also ran.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
John Williams Case

John Williams killed ex-Senator Hipp, and he was sentenced to death on July 27, 1906. He has since been in the jail of Jefferson county awaiting the efforts of friends to free him from the shadow of death by declaring that he had become insane after sentence of death had been pronounced against him. They sued out writ of habeas corpus, which was granted by Judge Weaver. The supreme court has de- cided however, that all steps in behalf of the prisoner should have been taken in the circuit court of Cullman county. Unless other papers are filed in the case the prisoner will be resenteneed in Cullman county.
 The supreme court fairly suggests the power of the circuit court in Gull man county to inquire into the pris- oner's sanity at the present time, and to stay his execution if he be insane until he becomes sane again.
 The decision of the supreme court confines applications to stay an execu- tion to the court and the place of trial That is all that is decided, but even this is important and in the interests of the orderly course of law. Inter- ference by outside judges with the sentence of a court would certainly prove demoralizing, and the supreme court has decided that efforts of that nature will not hereafter be lawful in Alabama.
 The subsequent steps in the Will Hams case will undoubtedly be more personal and less legal than the appli- cation before Judge Weaver had be- come. The law is now well settled, and the sanity of the prisoner becomes matter that may or may not be in- vestigated in Cullman county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
KiIlinu Frosts in April

The cold wave did no damage in the southwest. It was confined to the southeast, and every state from the big river to Virginia felt it. Early vege- tables and fruits and early corn and perhaps some young cotton plants were visited by 1t, but the resultant damage may not, however, have been material All damages can perhaps be made good except the damage to young peaches and other fruits. The evidence Is not clear as to the extent of the damage done in the fruit-growing sections of the south. The peach orchards of this state and Georgia have not been def1- nite1y heard from, but the hope Is en- tertained that the foliage was sufficient to protect the young fruit. All accounts seem to agree that the peach blossoms north of Tennessee and the Carolinas are killed, and this will render the need of a fruit crop in the cotton belt doubly important and valuable.
 Further returns will be awaited with interest from the Elberta trees in this section and in Georgia, and if they prove to be undamaged we may set the April frost of this year down as a kindly one after all. Coming so sud denly after a warm, almost hot. March it was keenly felt, but it is quite pos sible that 1t did not rob the trees in the peach-growing sections of the south of an undue proportion of fruit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Graft at Panama

Congressman Rainey of Illinois did not find everything serene and lovely and high-toned at Panama. He found there a scandal second only 'to the bum meat scandal of the war with Spain." Meat is handled so carelessly in the heat of the isthmus that it has to be served with a strong garlic dress ing or gravy in order to make it palat- able. While the commissariat is sup posed to serve food at cost, the stew ards, says MT. Rainey, are ordered to make a profit of $50 to $60 a week. Shoes that cost at home $S a pair are sold by the commissariat at $8 a pair.
 Graft is rife somewhere" says MT. Rainey in conclusion, and as he is a member of the Sixtieth Congress it becomes his duty to prod the republi- cans into a search for 1t. He can either secure a search for 1t or a refusal to investigate the manner of conducting the commissariat at the isthmus. Uncle Sam furnishes the money, and the slick citizen should not be permitted to work the perspiring diggers for graft purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Business Prosperous.

Business was never better" said w. A. Brook of Virginia, who spent yesterday in Birmingham. MT. Brook represents large manufacturing concern of Pittsburg, and visits Birmingham two or three times a year. ''We have had a long period of prosperity, and I am glad to say that the end of it is not yet in sight" continued MT. Brook. General trade is in such q healthy condition that Wall street panics come and go without the industrial world being affected by them. 1 believe the pres ent year will be marked by the same solid prosperity that we enjoyed in 1906.
 Birmingham is pushing right along, and every time I am here l am i'm pressed with the improvements made since my last visit. While l have little time for sight seeing, I observe that Bir- mingham's population is spreading out, and that it's residence sections are being more and more attractive. From a busi- ness viewpoint Birmingham Is one of the strongest cities in the country"
 MT. Brook owns and cultiyates a fine farm in Culpeper county, Virginia, just outside of the town of Culpepeg. or Gull peper Court House. as it is still called. Speaking of farming said MT. Brook my manager found the same trouble with negro labor that many of the farm CTS in Alabama gre experiencing The negroes on my place were provided with comfortable quarters, were we'll fed and well paid. They remained on the farm all winter when there was little work to do' but as soon as spring came they went off and found employment on the railroads where larger wages were paid. This con- dition of affairs became so unsatisfac- tory that my manager got rid of the ne- groes altogether and now employees only white men, We have had no difficulty in getting all the white labor we need. Even my wife employs only white women i'll the house. Being born and reared in Nir- glna, she thought she could not get along without negro servants, but after sine made the change she could not be ln- duced to go back to the old way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
Defeat of Mayor Dunne

In a poll of nearly 350,000 Mayor Dunne has been swept aside by about 13,OOO votes. No doubt the selection of delegates to the next democratic national convention, and new city charter and a score of other matters entered into the contest, but it was after all street car battle-a battle that the straphangers decided. As they voted so the election went.
 Mayor Dunne and the democratic party stood for immediatae municipal ownership by means of condemnation in the courts. This would have involved the raising of a large sum of money, and also vast exten- sion of municipal patronage In city none too clean in that respect.
 Candidate Busse and the republicans stood for an acceptance of the street car ordinances passed by the city coun. cil over the mayors veto and submit ted in referendum at the election just held. Those ordinances were ac. cepted by 10000 majority. and those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
On South EnsIey Line.

My business calls me to Ensley fre- ouently," said D. r. Turnbull, manager of the Birmingham Bell Telephone ex- change, and every time l go to the Steel City 1 am struck with the wonderful development that is in progress. Ensley is building up very fast and the country between that city and Birmingham is being thiclly populated. l was stationed in Birmingham as assistant manager of the telephone exchange three years ago. The suburbs were growing then l was transferred to Lynchburg, Va, and came back to Birmingham as manager last summer. The improvements in the mean time had been marvellous Hundreds of stylish dwellings have been built along the South Ensley street car line all the way from Birmingham to Ensley. and within the next two or three years the two cities will be like one.
 "The Bell Telephone company is com pletlng a large branch exchange in Ems ley. The marvellous growth of the Bir mingham district is well illustrated by the rapidly increasing demand for tele- phones Birmingham as q city is gain ing on Atlanta and from q telephone point of view, it will be ahead of Atlanta within the next three years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

velt.Harriman correspondence is really a lodging around New York which was part and parcel-an essential part of the national campaign.
 That the money in question was raised is beyond doubt; that it was applied in New York as MT. Hartman states is also beyond reasonable doubt; that similar slush fund will be gotten together next year'is also beyond rea- sonable doubt. What is the country going to do about it? What are the republicans in the Sixtieth Congress going to do about it? There are no wings on Theodore Roosevelt now. He is but man, wholly human. He is a man familiar with slush funds. "The money" says Alton B. Parker, raised by My. Hartman and contributed by the life insurance companies, aggregat- ing s350,00O, was but drop in the bucket as compared with the total con tributions of railroads and other great corporations.
 Is this method of carrying elections to go on? If so, the republic is virtually abolished; elections are farce, and a plutocracy is in control, and Hartman was it's White House mouthpiece until stenographer took off the lid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
sIERE's LATEST BOOK.
From the Washington Herald.


 Ambrose Bierce, Washingtons widely known author, has just brought out a new "The Monk and the Hangman's Daugh- ter' short, weird, and thrilling story. The authors great mastery of English was never exhibited more convincingly than in this volume. A peculiarity of Mr. Bierce, which distinguishes him from most other authors, is that he has never had the desire to write 'the best seller" In point of fact. his friends know that this strange, chivalric, painstaking stu dent and indefatigable worker would con- sider that book a failure, which, bearing the imprint of his genius, should gain wide popularity. Artistic to his finger tips, he entertains very hearty contempt for the applause of the millions, because he believes the billions are too busy with the grosser affairs of life to acquire an application of art. He Is not a prolix or voluminous writer, and considers five hundred words a day enough for anybody to write whose work is fit to read.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 When the average man tells the truth it's sign it doesn't cost him anything.
 If the average mans wife talks he says she is noisy, and if she doesn't, sulky.
 It pays to give your wife an allow ance if she will let you keep on owing it to her.
 What a woman likes about a man S brains is that they aren't @ match for her instinct.
 When 8 woman has a lot of stockings she isn't afraid to use for fear they'll wear out it's safe guess she's a bride
 The way to make a woman happy is to make her think she does you.
 The way for man to be an ideal husband is for his wife to become a widow.
 The crying of woman's baby sounds sweeter to her than the singing of any body else's.
 A woman believes everything in the Bible except on the page where the. date of her birth was recorded by the fam fly. .aa
 It's thoughtess for a woman to give a man a lock of her hair when she may change the color of the rest of 1t later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04
ALL LIFE PROTECTED.
The Burmese More Humane Than
 Modern Society.

From the Youths Companion.
 Modern society boasts of it's organiza- ton for preventing cruelty to animals as the outcome of civilization. Across the water is an undeveloped country whose people need no such encourager of kindness Protection of all life is as natural to the Burman as his breath. To be merciful to the beast is no halfway precept with him, and the little child re- spends to it as readily as the average English speaking boy gives action to his impulse to stone a squirrel or kill snake. Yet there may be drawbacks to living in 0 country where all living creatures are respected after the manner MT. Fielding describes in "The Soul of a People"
 Never were any people so kind-hearted as the Burmese, SO hospitable, so char itabe in act and thought and so gentle with all animals.
 All the butchers in Burma are Indian born; no Burman will kill COW or a bullock, or sell meat. There is no law now against such practice, but no re- spectable native will kill for food, sport or revenge. Fowl and fish are, indeed, sacrlfied for eating purposes but every one despses the fsherman he is a sort of outcast, and the staying of fowl is done reluctantly.
 A Burmese lady married an Englishman who kept ducks for his own table. One day she went a visit to a friend and took every duck with her, bestowing them on various households where she knew they would be allowed to live and be treated with kindness. Then she re- turned and confessed to her husband that she could not bear the thought of their being killed. .,.
 MT. Fielding was much troubled by tho house sparrow which infested the roof. Finally in desperation, he shot at them with rifle. His neighbors remonstrated.
 You should build a sparrow cote" they said, when he tried to excuse him. self. Then they would leave you in peace. They only want to mako their nests for their little ones"
 If q Burmese woman walking in tn , fields should see scorpion. she would not think of killing it.
 Poor beast.' she would say. stepping aside so a $ not to injure it. Tt has never hurt me; why should 1 injure it?''
 If an insect is troublesome in the house the Burmdn will carefully catch 1t in his handkerchief and put it outdoors. It is hard to get the servants to rid the house of ants. They will kill the most deadly of the vipers. but even many of the poisonous snakes they will not slaughter
 MT, Fileding met once two little boys carrying a jar and seemingly much inter- , ested in it's contents. He asked what was in the jar, and they showed him a lot of baby vipers. They had chanced to find a nest when the mother was ab- sent-she would have killed the lads had she been there-and they had secured all the little snakes.
 What are you going to do with them?" asked MT. Fielding.
 show them in the village And then?"
 "Why, let them go. of course.' If an animal is i'll or hurt a Burman gives it the best of care, but never kills it to put it out of misery.
 Poor beast,' he says. Let him live his little life.' and he gives 1t grass and water until 1t diAA .tst