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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-24
Popular for March.

In the March issue the West is well
represented The long novelette, by VIII
liam Macleod Raine, which opens the
magazine, has for its hero a college-bred
outlaw, a Vllon of the desert, who makes
a picturesque figure. Then there is a
short story by George Randolph Chester,
called "The Failure of Blue Pete in
which a detectives humanity is arrayed
against his duty. THE Internal Femi-
nine" is an amusing cowboy yarn by b.
NJ Bower The life of the lonely sheep
man of the West is depicted in Arthur
Paterson's story, "A Son OF the Plains.
These are all Western tales, vigorous,
we'll told, clever; but there would seem
Arthur W. Marchmont has a story based
upon the revolution in Russia; 7. jenkins
Hams has a sea-story that will thrill you;
there is a Horse" story, by George 9.
jerks Haiti is the scene of an adventure
yarn by Hesketh Prichard; Charles X.
Moser tells of how love upset plan for
vengeance evolved in San Francisco S
Chinatown; a new series of serio-comic
stories, called "Plantagenet Hook: Hero,
by George Bronson-Howard. contain the
adventures of a man on whom heroism
was forced; w. b M. Ferguson's Strange
Cases of a Medical Free-ance" are in
the nature of a disclosure, and must
arrest attention; 'Slinky Bill" by Martin
A. Flayin, makes an appeal to the man
gifted with a sense of hunor, and this is
only one of severed very funny tales in
this issue
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WITH THE MAGAZINES
Ainslee's for March.

Anslees Magazine for March contains
a novelette,, a serial. eight short stories,
essays. poems, and critical reviews or
new plays and books. The principal fea-
ture is the continued story, Her Son,
by Horace A. Vachell. This is a story
which grows in interest with every page,
and promises to be all that has been
claimed for it. Next in Importance Is
Dorothea Deakin's novelette,, 1.-The Wish
lingering Roy Norton has story with a
Western setting, called "Nodsawana." 1t
has a child-interest which gives it a
somewhat pathetic turn, and should not
fail to make its appeal to women readers.
L. Frank Tooker contributes his share of
humor to the number in his down east
tale called 1.-The Sinner" Broughton
Brandenburg has one Of his Lawrence
Rand detective stories called 1.-THE Mys-
terry of the Framework Bracelet" Edith
Macvane has one of the best of her char
acterstic stories, with a French setting
and characters, entitled 'Rosemonde'
A strong and dramatic love story is
Francis Willing Wharton's Food for the
Bear" Johnson Morton adds to the hui
morous element of the number with his
story. "The DIAL and Mary b. Mullett
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ond choices. Tres Joll went to the front
as the barrier went up for the feature
of the card and made runaway affair
of it. Track heavy; weather cloudy and
threatening.
First race, four furlongs-Ida May, ia
Cd. Austin) 16 to s. won; Hollow, III
(Shilling), 8 to 2, second; No Engine, 1903
PerretD, II to l, third. Time, 40 SO.
Second race. FIVE and half furlongs,
purse-Mike Sutton, liz Cherry, 2 to ),
won; Chancellor, 109 (Shiling), to /,
second; Jim Simpson, 100 (Austln), 10 to 1,
third. Time, 10 2-5.
Third race, six furlongs-Sorre1 Top 80
Dearborn), 10 to 8, won; Bone Brake 101
(Shreve), to l, second; Rustling Silk. 105
Cd. Austin), to 1, third. Time :16 %.
Fourth race, mile municipalities Joli,
SO CA. Morgan). to l, won; Terms Rod, 101
(Rice), s to 5, second; Wing Ting, los
Burton), to l, third. Time, 1:42 80
Fifth race, mile and seventy yards-J.
D. Dunn, 100 (Burton) 5 to l, won; Rein
Regent, 9S (Englander), 3 to 1. second,
Flip, 100 (Skirvin), 8 to 5, third. Time,
1:47 40.
Sixth race, mile and three-sixteenths,
selling-Belden, 101 Dearborn, 2 to 5,
won; Cursas, 101 Murphy, 10 to 1. sec
ond; Leta Duffy, 101 CIV. Allen, s to l,
third Time 2.O3 Ia
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March Smart Set.

Arthur Stringer, whose work in recent
years has grown in strength and impor-
lance, is the author of the novel which
opens the March number of The Smart
Set. 1t is a love story of absorbing inter-
est entitled Creeping Rails depicting
the passion of a wealthy woman for a
musician who, in the end, proves worthy
of her love. Mr.. Stringer has done no
better piece of work and this story Will
win him added admirers.
John q. Neihardt, new writer whose
name is becoming known to magazine
readers, is the author of a very short but
powerful story, entitled "Mignon." 1.-The
Bashful Elder" by Grace MasGowan
Cooke, is a humorous story of rural life;
Semus MacManus contributes another of
his Irish tales, For His Towns Sake;
and van Tassel Sutphen, a modern Iowa
story Other writer's of short fiction are
Yorke Stevenson, Harriet Gaylord. Cecil
Carlisle Pangman, Edward Clark Marsh,
Walter e. Grogan and Mary Harris.
The essay is entitled ION Making Be
lieve"-a paper full of quiet humor and
much sound sense, written by Arthur Sui
Ivan.
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CITY ORDINANCES.
Improvement Ordinance No. 277.

Improvement Ordinance No. 277.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS
All owners of lots or parcels of land
AUDITING on the west side Of Eighteenth
street from Ninth avenue to Tenth ave-
nue., are hereby notified that the side
walks along the aforesaid portions OF
Eighteenth street have been paved and
that the book of assessments for said
public Improvements has been delivered
TO me and is open for inspection in my
office and that the Board OF Mayor and
Aldermen will meet at its regular place
of meeting in the council chamber on
Wednesday. the Goth day Of March, 1907.
at 8 o'clock, p. m, to hear and determine
any objection or defense that may be
filed in my office before the time OF SAID
meeting or which may be then made by
the owner of the property proposed 10
be assessed. or his attorney, against the
assessment or the amount thereof.
J, c. MURRAY. City Clerk
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Their Tiny VILLAGES.

Possibly two or three. or even a dozen
such shelters constitute village; posi-
bly, this Is surrounded by waffle fence
or even low stone fence, intended to
exclude the pigs but generally so broken
as to admit and retain the pigs about the
houses. The village is generally construct
ed up In the hills, and away from the
coast, and is always concealed among
thick trees, to guard against attacks by
neighbors. Or In some cases villages, also
for safety's sake, occupy tiny islands ly-
ing Off the shore of the bigger islands,
by an intricate system of surely very in
effective loose stone walls.
Wherever the village is situated the
garden where the man grows the vans.
taro, and native cabbage, and possibly
a few cocoanuts and a few pumpkins.
which form the sole ordinary food of his
family-manhesh and pork are, after all.
only for occasional feasts-is situated on
the low rich ground near the sea. To this
garden the native with his family, re-
sorts at early morning and he goes there
with the full consciousness that the peo-
pie from the hills or from the islands.
as the case may be, often are, and always
may be. creeping up under shelter of
the trees to shoot him or his with rifle
or poisoned arrow. Or. perhaps as often
when the gardeners easy task for the
day is done, he, in turn, gives vent to
his sporting instincts by creeping away.
always under the shelter of the dense
tree growth, on the chance of getting
a shot at some man. woman or child OF
q not too distant village"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-24

Statesmen" Senator Taylor pays a loyal
and beautiful tribute to his former fell
low Congressman, General Joseph E.
Johnston. John Trotwood Moore, in his
series, History of the HAS, gives the
record and pedigree of several members
of this noted family in a rarely humor-
Gus ghost story. Each of the editors also
contribute a special department, teeming
with their respective Municipalities.
Hayne Davis, Southern lawyer In New
York, who was secretary of the American
delegation to the international Peace
Congress held in London last sumeer,
writes a full account of the proceedings
of this body and the resolutions offered
William Jennings Bryan and John Sharp
Williams. Men of Affairs include
sketches of DIR. Chassaignac of New Or
leans John c. Winston. of Philadelphia
Robert j. Fisher. of Athens, Tenn; and
Joseph Forney Johnston, of Birmingham
Ala.
In additional to the historical series
on the Napoleons, by Mrs. Anna E. Wood
and Mr.. Moore's Andrew Jackson novel,
1.-The Measures of a Man." there is a
paper of absorbing interest on 1.-THE First
Two Governors of Mississippi" by A. c.
Chase.
A special February feature is found in
the poem by Mr.. Moore, to Washington
and a daintily decorated valentine
| Toast" by Ethel M. Lackey. The success
of the Alabama artist, Frederick A.
Brdgman is the subject of an interesting
account by Lillian Kendrck Byrn, illus
trated with his Salon pictures.
Perhaps the most popular and thor
oughly typical department in the maya
zine is that devoted to Little Citizens Of
the South" The pretty children shown
are splendid types of the New South.
Fiction Is represented by "Old Wash"
Because" a storiette by Catherine Carr,
"Mellie's Man" and the serials mention
ed. The poems contain the true Southern
flavor" Historic Highways of the South"
contains a drummer boys story, "a Boy
at Shiloh" and is a graphic picture of
the stirring scenes of April 6, 7 and s,
1862
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Broadway Magazine.

Contents for March: Cover design,
Sigurd Schou: Frontispiece, The Kinneys.
Special articles-"New York and the Pres
idential Situation" Erwin Wardman; IL
Illustrations from photographs made Tor
Broadway Magazine. Bridge Whist-A
Social Riot" Anne Rittenhouse; illustra-
tons by the Kinneys and James Mont
gomery Flagg. "Parkhurst-The Isiah Of
broadway" Reginald Wright Kaufman;
illustrations from photographs. art for
Dollars" Samuel Swift; Illustrations by
Howard " Brown. "A Group of Artists
Wives" Elsie Lathrop Illustrations from
paintings "The Plays of the Month"
William Bullock. Short storles-'The Lit
tie Sister. Pomona Penryn; illustrations
by w B. King. 1.-THE Development of
Senator Sorghum" f. f. Bowles; illus
trations by Howard Giles. "The Mistress
of His House." VIM. Hamilton Osborne;
illustra lions by Ike Morgan.t"Three Par 8
fGenius," Rupert S. Holland illustrations
by Dan Groesbecl5 "rhe Burgular Who
Couldn't Go Out Nights" Walter s..
Hackett illustrations by L. Adams Scarf.
Sweet Dreams" Harris Merton Lyon;
illustrations by Merle Johnson. THE
Bond of Years" John Barton Oxford;
illustrations by Merle Johnson. IAN Ex-
detrimental Affair."" Edna Kingsley Wal
lace: illustrations by Merle Johnson.
Poems Songs of New York, Charles
Hanson Towne; MY Lady Friend
Ethel NJ Kelley: March Secrets Edna
Kingsley Wallace; THE Guest" Edwin
L. Sabin; 1.-THE Pool" Witter Bynner; IL
lustrations by F. l.. Bennett. Depart
ments-"The Month in New York" Illus
Comment" 1.-THE Sharper Edge = The
Reward of Honesty Wells Hastings;
'Animosity Explained Harry Irving
Horton; Locals, Tom Mason"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-24
LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice.

Notice.
To the Stockholders of the Kilby Frog
and Switch Company;
The board of directors of said company
on the 2eth day of January, 1907. passed
a resolution declaring that it is desirable
to increase the capital stock of said COM
pany from $4,000 to $4,000. and called
meeting of the stockholders of the said
company to be held at the Office of the
company In North Birmingham, Ala, on
Thursday. the 18th day of February. 1907.
at II o'clock. noon, to take action on
said matter, and you are therefore noti-
fed that said meeting will be held at
said time and place above named for
said purpose.
Dated this Goth day of January. 1907.
WHITFIELD CLARK.
1-27-30t Secretary and Treasurer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-24
CANN|BAL RACE BUT
SHOW T|M|D|TY
People of the New Hebrides
Are Not Savages
NUMBER Is DECREASING
Have No Sense of the Value of Human
Life, But Live In Constant Dread.
CanribaIlsm Is Pastime.
other Facts.
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
A picture of a most remarkable race,
of whom very little is known in this coun-
try-the cannibals of the New Hebrides,
from whom the "Kanakas" are drawn-is
given by Mr.. Everett Thurn, high COM
missioner for the western Pacific, in an
account of a visit to be paid to the
islands in the summer. His report is at
tached to the correspondence between the
home and Australian governments rela-
tive to the recent convention with France
as to the New Hebrides, which was is
sued recently as a Blue Book.
There can be no doubt" observes the
commissioner, that these natives have
decreased very greatly In number since
the days of De Bougainville and Captain
Cook, and that this decrease is now TAX
ing place at much more rapid rate.
Nothing can change, and, therefore, save
the race as whole from determination
In Its struggle for existence with the in
coming European race; and the most that
can be done Is to save as many indiVid-
uals as possible by absorbing them
through the missionaries, or through the
labor traders. into the stronger race. and
to alleviate, as far as possible, the death
struggle.
The New Hebrldeans, as when first
seen, are not race, but d collection of
small fragments OF different races for
tuitously Drought to these islands by the
winds and the waves from distant places
In the seas to the eastward and the west
ward. Generally each group of families
for that Is really the most definite desig-
nation that can be given to the social
unit he
Immediate neighbors on the same small
Island, or at most on the next; each group
differs, too, in its habits and Its simple
arts, and even in physical appearance.
Each lives as a stranger in a strange
land, having as little as possible to do
with Its eighbors-unless, possibly, 1t
wants a neighbor as an article of food.
Nor, as rule. has each group any chief,
except such as may for the moment con-
trive to exercise most personal influence.
Nor either within each groupfi or within
the groups as a whole is there anything
representing law even in its most elemen-
tary form.
Full of Imaginary Fears.
BY a strange msconception and abuse
or terms these people are often spoken
Of as fierce savages constantly ngaged
in internecine war They are not savages
in the ordinary connotation of the term,
though they are 'sayages'--i. e., 'silvages'
or people of the woods'-in tho true
sense. In place of being fierce, they are
as timid people as any on the face of the
earth, hardly venturing beyond their own
villages for fear of an imaginary enemy
behind each bush, and for fear almost
Of their own shadows. They wage no in
ternecine war, but being absolutely with
out sense of the value of human life
i nj
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TayIor-Trotwood Magazine.

Unusual interest attaches to the Feb
ruary issue of the Taylor-Trotwood Mag
azine, combining, as 1t does. two great
Southern magazines. Commencing with
the frontispiece, a spirited war scene by
Gilbert Gaul, Ma, illustrating Thorn
we'll Jacobs interesting serial, THE
Shadow of the Attacoa." the number is
full of good things. The leading article
describes the jamestown Exposition, the
author, James Hines, Giving much inter-
esting detail concerning the object and
progress of the Ter-Centennial and photo
graphs showing the buildings and
grounds. Continuing his series of char
acter studies of Southern Heroes and
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Clever Advertising.

From the Florida Times-Union.
Eager-IIow did you create such a de-
mand for your patent medicinef
Quack-Just advertising sufficiently.
Eager-But didn't 1t cost almost for
tune to advertise?
Quack-Oh. mol Just got the police to
order the drug stores not to sell 1t on
Sundays.
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Take Up Sixteen-Hour Bill.

Washington, February 23.-The
House committee on rules today re-
ported rule permitting the taking up
of the so-called sixteen hour bill for
railway employees, and has amended
the House substitute to the FaFol1ette
bill so that the changes are first in the
interest Of the people; second, in the
interest of the employees. and the final
analysis in the interest of the rail-
roads
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Terrible Revenge.
From Pele-Mele.

From Pele-Mele.
Nine I.abarlue--I saw Nine. Paul hav-
ing a great alteration with your COOK
this afternoon.
Nine. vincent-Yes. l am not altogether
surprised. Just fancy, she had the nerve
to copy my last new hat.
Nine Labarlue-Well, what did you dor
Nine. Vincent-I gave mine to the cook.
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Croker Must Pay Costs.

Paris, February 23.-George ,Crocker
Of San Francisco has been non-suited
and condemned to pay the costs of his
action to recover 100000 from DR..
Doyen, which Mr. Crocker paid to the
physician in 1904 for treating the late
Mrs. Crocker for cancer. TIL court de-
cIared it could not decide the question
of the reasonableness of the fee, but
only that of the validity of the con
trapt
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$23,50o for One Picture.

New York, February 23.-Two hum
dred and thirty-six pictures, bringing
total of $162,9S0, were disposed of
at the Disher sale tonight. The highest
price paid was $23,50O, given by an
unnamed purchaser of Matters por-
trait of Mime. Adelaide, daughter of
Louis XIV"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-24

has an original love tale in Love Among
the Platforms" A special feature of
this March number is an article by the
celebrated pianist, Josef Lhevinne, called
.'Musical and Personal Reflections"
which, as the title indicates, is in a sense
bioeraphical
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Beckwitb In Huntsville.

Huntsville, February 23.-(Special)
Bishop G. M. Beckwith of the Episcopal
Diocese of Alabama is here on an Off :
cial visit to the parish and conducted
services in the Church of the NATIVITY
tonight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-24
Stockholders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Ger
mania Park association will be held on
Thursday, Mrach 7. 1907. o'clock p. m.
AT Dunker's hall, 20s North Twentieth
street. HERMAN HENTSCHEL, Pres.
FRANK F. HARMS, Sec. 2-10-4t-su
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Hot Springs Results.

Hot Springs, February 23.-Three favor
ties. two held at almost prohibitive odds.
won at OalSlawn today. Two of the other
races were taken by heavily played sec
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WAGON Company Is Bankrupt.

Milwaukee, February 23.-The Four
Wheel Drive Wagon company Of this
city went into bankruptcy today The
assets are $4,000 and the liabilities
$4,000. The Wisconsin Trust COM
pany was appointed receiver.
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Martial Law to Be Stringent.

Warsaw, February 23.-Martial law,
which it was intended to abolish on
March 1, has been ordered to be en-
forced more stringently and to be pro-
longed Indefinitely on account of the
robbery of tn postoffice here yesterday.
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Test this all wool suit, ready
to put on; fine in fit, great in
quality; former price $40, now
$1475. Marley & Bauman, 1924
First ave.
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AGENCIEs-H A. Meyer, Syracuse,
n. Y; Columbus Buggy Co., Columbus,
o.; w. N. Brockway, Homer, N. Y; l..
Hollander, Amesbury, Mass; Stude
baker Bros. Mfg. Co, South Bend, Ind.
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represent furniture, and there are abso-
lutely no cooking utensils, for all cook
ing Is done simply by heating with hot
stones in a hide dug In the ground.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-08
RUSH TO COOL PLACES
ON FIRST HALF HOLIDAY.

The exodus from the city was heavy last
Saturday, the first half-holiday of the
summer, and before 2 o'clock the streets
in the centre of town looked as they do
on Sundays. The heat drove multitudes
to seashore and inland resorts, and every
railroad station and steamboat landing
was crowded will pleasure-seekers flying
from the heat of the city's sidewalks.
A very large percentage of those leaving
the city went to Asbury Park or other
places along the coast, some Of them to
emain over Sunday and others to return
late at night. The Coney Island steam
boats were crowded each trip down and
back. many of the pleasure-seekers re-
naming aboard the vessel to enjoy the
sail and a Whit of sea breeze before re-
firing.
The various transportation companies
reported today that the traffic was of
record-breaking proportions for the first
half-holiday, but what the actual figures
were could not be estimated. Trunks by
the hundred and thousand were shipped
by each railroad, indicating heavy vaca-
ton traffic, The outbound vacation parties
will continue from now to September,
when the great rush homeward will
swamp every railroad and station with
mountains of returning baggage.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-08

1--WE just been talking to Nellie NJ,
said Kitty, as she reached for n glass OF
iced tea which Mary was serving to three
or four girls In the cozy living room a day
or two ago. Kitty's announcement was
heard with much interest, for Nellie NJ Is
a ~favorite with all the other girls ana, pe-
sides, is greatly admired by the young men
In her set.
"oh. 1 haven't seen Nellie in an age.
How Is she? What is she doing? askeu
Grace, who Is always ready for any little
gossip that comes her way. Not that
Grace is given to the sort Of gossip that
Injuries; she simply likes to know JUST
what is going on in her circle.
"Well. poor Nellie Is In n terrible guam
dary,' W Kitty. "That young
Jackson chap who has been paying her SO
much attention wants her to marry him'
Nellie likes him and is quite willing 10
change her name to Jackson, put her
mother objects just because she thinks
Nellie has dramatic talent. She wants her
to go on the stage; not as a real actress,
OF course. but as a render OF hlgh-eiass
comedy. She thinks Nellie has ability and
is foolish to think Of marrying and throw
ing away a career as she puts II.
"Do her people object to young jack
son r. asked Mary, who had been an In
terested listener.
"Oh, no. replied Kitty. they don't OBJ
ject to him any more than to any other
man that would want to marry Nellie
That's why Nellie is so heartbroken, she
doesn't care for the career her mother mas
planned for her; she wants to marry MT.
Jackson, but at the same time she don
want to disobey her mother"
1T seems absurd to think her mother
would try to make her go on the stage,
especially when 1t might cause her I'M
happiness argued Mary. True, she
might enjoy a few years fame. but what
would it all amount to II h was not
happy? The chances are that she would
live the remainder Of her life uncared for
and lonely, and neglected by just the very
ones who would urge her to such a step.
She might have success In the beginning,
but popularity is sure to run its length
In n little while; then one is sure to be
If Nellie is wise she Will marry;
then she will have some one to take care
of her, and It's more than likely that her
people can be won over"
How wise you are, Mary. You always
know what's best to do" said Grace. as
the girls spoke their gratitude for the re-
tea and took their departure.