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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
AMERICANS FREED
 FROM B|G PRISON Nothing Is Found to Incrimi-
 nate the Prisoners LAXNESS IN DISCIPLINE Letters Were Sent to Friends Outside With Comparative Ease Through the Underground Postal
 Route.
LAxNESS IN DISCIPLINE

St. Petersburg, October 21.-William Walling of Indianapolis, his wife and his wifes sister, Rose Strunsky who were arrested and taken to jail last night be- cause of their association with the mem- bers of the Finnish progressive party. were released this evening. The police found nothing among the papers of the trio to warrant detaining them No con- ditions are attached to the release. but MT. Nalling and Miss Strunsky intend to leave St. Petersburg on Wednesday. They say they have practically finished their work in Russia. All their papers and manuscripts have been restored to them.
 The officials this evening expressed re- gret at the arrest, which they say was ordered upon the report of an over-zeal- ous spy who had ben shadowine the Finnish revolutionists with whom the Americans had been associated. The two women prisoners were confined for 94 mousse Tn prison overcrowded with young women revolutionists They were conducted to a small cell, eight bv ten feet but they said this evening they had suffered no especial discomfort during. their arrest
 As soon as 1t was rumored in the in stitution that two American women had ben brought they began to receive visits from the other prisoners. They held q regular reception in their cell and related the latest history of the outside world to the chorus of eager women who crowded to see them
 As soon as the order for their re- lease came this evening, the news became known throughout the entire prison and the two sisters were given a great ova- tion as thet took their departure.
 MT. Walling was assigned to a separate cell in the detention prison Nominal " he was not permitted to communicate with anybody, but he found no difficulty in getting letter out to the America n embassy, making use of the .'under ground postal service maintained by the prisoners who were aided in this practice by several subventoned warders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
The Twentieth-Century Church.

From Leslie's Weekly
 The institutional church is doing splen- did work. but is not further development possible? The idea of costly church building as place of merely ceremonial worship is a relic of barbarsm; splen- did edfces devoted solely to such uses are monuments to the old heathenish idea that the worship of God consists in out ward pomp and display. Christ himself preached on the mountains and in the fields; must His disciples of today preach in cathedrals? Church members In many of our great cities are weekly solicited for contributions to home and foreign missions and the manifold phlanthropies of tie church, and it is we'll that they should give of their abundance. But is 1t not a pity that less well-to-do worshipers should be called upon for chuch expen- ditures which they can i'll afford, or per haps kept out of. the churches by reason of their inability to make them, when the interests on the churches unproductve real estate investments would go far to- ward providing funds for these noble pur- poses? Has not the time come when the churches should either utilize their ex- pensive sites. in part at least, for busi- ness purposes or sell them and devote the larger part of the proceeds to prac- tical Christian uses? Would there be any incongruity In having a modest share Of the church property devoted to assembly rooms, while other portions were put to business purposes? Then the property Of our churches. administered on business principles. might yield such returns that church philanthropes would flourish as never before. salaries sufficient to at tract and hold the ablest men in the ministry might be pair. and practically and spirituality might go hand in hand in the forward march of the church of the twentieth century,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Woman Elected Director.

At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Remington Typewriter company, two nsw directors of the conn pany were elected, one of whom was Miss Mary E. Orr, a lady who entered the em- pIoy of the company as stenographer 19 wears ago.
 It is noteworthy that the Remington Typewriter Co.,, which was the pioneer in opening a new field of industry to women is also the first corporation to elect a woman to one of the highest positions of trust within its gift. Miss Orrs election as a Remington director is recognition of long and meritorious service. 1t is also in a larger sense a recognition of the part played by the woman stenogrspher in the development of the typewriter business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Pleasure at Health Resorts.

Professor Cook of the New York Post Graduate Medical school says that cen- turies of experience have demonstrated that in certain disorders, mineral waters, intelligenty used. are a better curative agency than drugs. and that Europeans have not failed to appreciate their re- sources of this character. Some of the springs, such as the Apenta of Buda-Pest. Hungary. are conducted under scientific and medical supervision. It has often been said that American watering resorts are given over more to recreation and en- tertainment than to the study and care of the visitors health
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
ON THE RACE TRACK.
Latonia Results.

Cincinnati, October g-Three favorites won at Latonia today. In the last event. Stroud and Bitter Brown fell at the last sixteenth pole. Jockeys Taylor and Pow CTS were slightly injured. Track fast. Summaries:
 First race, six furlonss.- purse-Macias, Ill tTrotter), 6 to l. won; Stonenan, 1l2 CHeldeD, ) to l, second. Lady Martha. 109 e. Koerner), Sla to 1, third. Time. 1:O1 1-5
 Second race, six furlongs, selling-Air- ship. l19 co. Koerner>, to 5, won; De- vout, 122 (shillng). 3 to ?. second; Bert osra, 119 (HeideD. 25 to l, third. Time, 1:l5 2-5.
 Third race one mile, purse--Harting, ss (E. Martini ? to l, won: Prince Ahmed. 10s CT. Taylor). to 1. second; The Clans man, l05 e. Koerner), [ to l, third. Time. 1S9 2-5
 Fourth race, six furlongs. selling-Mc- Chord. 1l9 C. Koerner). Il to 10, won: Merrlck, 119 (Pickens). to l. second; 1; Bensonhurst l19 GIeapy), 30 to 1, third. Time. 1:l4 1-5
 Fifth race. six furlongs purse-Albert Star. l05 e. Koerner), s1a to l, won; Joe Moser, iO1 q. Lee), Il to 10, second Tir- hood. 94 (Ellenor, 40 to 1, third. Time, 1:143-5.
 Sixth race. mile and a quarter, selling Belle Scott, 99 tPickens). 1 to 1, won: Rio Grande, 1Os e. Koerne), 3 to l. second i; King of Troy, loo GA. Minder s so |, third Time, 2:0l l-5.
 Latonia Entries.
 First race, six furlongs-Anna Rus kin, Beautiful Mayo, 97; French Nun. My Queen of the Roses, Maid Mili-
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MEETING WITH IRVING.
Beginning of Long Association of Two
 Great Players.

From Ellen Terry's Recollectons, In
 McClures.
 One very foggy night in December. 1867 it was Boxing day, I think-I acted for the first time with Henry Irving. This ought to have been great event in my life, but at the time it passed me by and left mo wrack behind.' Ever anxious to improve on the truth, which is often de- void of all sensationalism people have told story of Henry Irving promising that if he ever were in position to offer me an engagement l should be his leading lady, but this fairy-story has been i'm proved on since. The newest tale of my first meeting with Irving was told during my jubilee. Then, to my amazement. 1 read that on that famous night when l was playing Puck at the Princess, and caught my toe in the trap, "a young man with dark hair and white face rushed forward from the crowd and said: Never mind, darling. Don't cryi One day you will be queen of the stage. 1t was Henry Irving.
 In view of these legends I ought to say all the more stoutly that until I went to the Lyceum theatre, Henry Irving was nothing to me and I was nothing to him. l never thought that he would be- come great actor. He had no high opin- ioI ol my dctlnB! ne mas said since that he thought me at the Queens thea ire charming and individual as a woman. but as an actress hoidenish. I believe that he hardly spared me even so much definite thought as this. His soul was not more surely in his body than in the theatre, and I, woman who was at this time caring more about love and life than the theatre, must have been to him more or less unsympathetic. He thought or nothing else cared for nothing else. worked day and night; went without his dinner to buy a book that might he helpful in studying or a stage jewel that might be helpful to wear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Jamaica Results.


 Jamaica Race Track N. Y, October 2l Gretna Green a neglected outsider in the betting at 10 to 1 won the Pierrepont handicap. the feature of the opening at Jamaica today. Brookdale Lymph, the ' to favorite, went out to make. the pace and led to the stretch, where Gretna Green moved up and won by a neck.
 Summaries:
 First race, six furlongs-James B. Brady, 102 (Miller). ? to g. won; St. Ilario s3 tE. Dugan), to ,, place. second; Tar tar Maid, 94 (McCarthy), g to 10, show third. Time. 1:l4 2-5.
 Second race. one mile and sixteenth Poquessng, 1o3 (BrusseD, 15 to 1, won Merry England. 1M (McCarthy). to 1, place, second; Marster, 1os (B. Burns), even to show, third. Time, 1:tS
 Third race, handicap, six furlongs- Quadrille Ill (Delaby), 20 to 1. won; se- well, 126 (E. Dugan), to 5, place, second ; Zienap, 104 CMiller), 1 to to show, third Time, 1;13 1-5.
 Fourth race. the Pierrepont handicap all ages, one mile an an eighth--Gretna Green, 104 (Miller), 10 to 1, won; Brook dale Lymph, 1l9 (E.a Duga), to 5. place, second; Bedouin, 1l3 tMcCarthy), ' to 10, to show. third. Time. :53 2-5
 Fifth race. selling, one mile and a six teenth-Royal Lady. 100 tBrusseD. il to 10. won; Pins and Need. les. 95 (Mc- Carthy), to ,, place. second; Killicrankie. 95 ,tDugan). 1 to 3, to show, third. Time, 1:47 4-5.
 Sixth race, two years. five and one-half furlongs-- Berry Maid, 107 (H. T. Jones). 20 to 1, and 8 to 1, won; King Cobalt ,1l5 CMartin). ? to l. place. second; Aimee c. 1O7 (Buxton), to ?. show. third Time, :07 3-5
 Jamaica Entries.
 First race six fllrlon ngs-Explosiou 1o6. Hessian. Bell Wether. 113: Rosimiro, 115: Ban Yah, Ill; Orfano. no; LaJeunesse, Norbitt 106; Miss Angie. l04.
 Second race, one mile and a sixteenth- Bad News. 10S; Ostrich. Voorhees,. An drew Mack, St. Valentine 99; Littleton Maid. 97: Golden Shore. 115; Royal Ben, 95: Huncky. SS.
 Third race. one mile and sixteenth Right Royal. 120;a Juggler, 1lS; Tommy Waddell. 117; Okenite. 110; Altuda, lo9; Moonshine 105; Earl G., 1o4; Tennis s3.
 Fourth race. the Gowanus stakes, six furlongs-Clover Crest, 1i3 Don Enrique, Lady Anne. 1oo; Oraculum. Tom Me Grath. 1O4: Trouble Maker. Royal Onyx, 1os Momentum, 1O2; Yorkist. Hand Zarra. Belle of Iroquois, Alteration, 100; Ace High, 9o.
 Fifth race five furlongs-square Deal. Lord Hike. 100: Kings Hill, Pass Him out, Algier. Fire, ottoman. Russell. IT,, George c. Hall. 9T; I<nockirby. Andocher Millstone Neptune. a1 Work and Play. Jim Nutwood, High Class, 92.
 Sixth race. five and a half furlongs- Ida D. i04: Whiptop, 9s; E.dina as: Queen of the Hills. 92; Springheel, Kingessing, 90; Inspector Bird, Marion Louise. Re quite. Ss; Gay Crisell. 70: Louise Cava- naugh. Night Mist, Silver Ball, Black Owl Eydent, s4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Notice.

mass meeting of the citizens of Bir- mingham under the auspices of the Col ored Citizens club and Business league will be held at Dr. IT. c. Mason's hall, 1n71s Third avenue. Tuesday night. October P. at o'clock. You are hereby urged to attend this meeting. the purpose of which is to discuss prohibition. where by the voters might be intelligent as to how to cast their ballots. This meeting was to be held at the Congregational church, but owing to recent notice that the meeting was objected to by part of the trustees, it will be held at place above mentioned Speakers of the evening are Rev r. G. Ragland. C. c. Carer- ton, Dr. Y. G. Mason, T. s. Samson. ]. O. Diffay, J. P. Evans. John A. F. McCon- leo. president; J. w. Coleman, secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets to Atlanta for tonight's train and trains Monday, 21st, limited Oct. 28, 1907, at rate of $5.25. Go the quickest and best route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

The whole campaign on in Jefferson county l open, well-regulated and taxed saloon vs. the unre ed, speaking, non-taxed tiger. For which will you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
CALICO" CLOTHES
BALI LOON CUP RAGE
 BEGINS ON TIME
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 pinnacle and remained there until the balloon was well under way.
 This was regarded as a good omen by the local enthusiasts. The scenes attending the start and preparations for the race were unique in American his tory. The day was one of brilliant sunshine with just touch of autumn in the air. The nine balloons were arranged in two rows. five being on one side of the central line and four on the other. For four hours before the starting hbur gas was pumped simultaneously in the bags from skeleton of specially constructed pipes. Six of the competing balloons were still visible when the St, Louis ascend ed and the crowd awaited and watched in the coming night until the last of the yellow globes had disappeared. Then came hours of waiting for pos sible reports of the wandering aero nauts.
 The first of these came to the As sociated Press from Bonne Terre, Mo, 60 miles due south of St. Louis It was to the effect that balloon had been seen over that place at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The report was believed to refer to some vagrant or test balloon, rather than one of the cup contestants.
 Another report came in a dispatch to the Associated Press from Effingham, H.. 20 miles due east of St. Louis that a balloon passed that place at 7;3o to- night. It was nigh in the air and traVeling fast in an easterny direction. This same balloon, or one of the contestants, was seen from Mason H.. 12 miles below Eff 1ngham.
 Another report came from Taylorville 1ll, near Emingham, 10 the effect that two balloons passed over that place. Pana. H., reports three balloons there at o'clock tonight
 Order of the Start.
 The official order of the start was as follows:
 German balloon. Pommerin, 17.OO0 cubic feet capacity; Oscar Erbsloeh pilot, Pro- lessor Clayton aide.
 American balloon United States. 72,l5o cubic feet: Maj. II. B. Hershey pilot, A. T. Atherholt aide.
 French balloon. BIsle Dc France, 1000 cubic feet: Alfred Leblanc pilot Edgar W. Mix aide.
 German balloon Dusseldorf. 11.000 cubic feet: Capt. Hugo Von Abercron pilot, H. Heidmann aide.
 English balloon. Lotus II. 75.250 cubic feet: Griffith Brewer pilot. Lieut.. Claude Brabason aide.
 American balloon America, 710o0 cubic feet; J. C. Mccoy pilot, Capt. Charles Dof Chandler aide
 Frenche balloon, Anjou, 79.500 cubic feet: Rene Carnier pilot Charles Levee aide.
 German balloon. Abercron 50,oo0 cubic feet; Paul Meckel pilot; Rudolph Denig aide.
 American balloon. 770O0 cubic feet; AL len R. Hawley pilot, Augustus Post aide.
 Two Balloons Seen.
 Jacksonville, Ill.,. October 1.-Two bal looms passed over Jacksonville tonight lights in the baskets being plainly vis- ible. The first balloon passed at 7;3O D. m. about 5000 feet high, carrying a red light and going northwest. A second bal loon, travelling so near the earth that the voices of those in the basket could be heard, passed at 1115 o'clock. Those who heard the pilot and his aide talking could not distinguish what they said. This balloon carried a green light. and was going northwest by west. Jacksonville is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

to tell your musty Summer Suit to "dusto
 Perhaps you think because we are recognized as the Young Mans Shop, all our clothes are "faddish. o
 Oh! no. We're tremendous ly keen for style, of course, but we realize that tastes differ as widely as do the poles.
 Lots of conservative gar ments here for the conserva- tive man.
 CALICO" CLOTHES
 Suits, SIP to SEQ and up. Overcoats, $10 to $25 and up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
FOOTBALL RESULTS

University of Tennessee 4. Clemson 0.
 Texas A. and M. Il, Louisiana State university 5. >>.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22

If you want the best advertising cuts try the Gawk, Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
The Birmingham Visitors.

though much work much discipline and much teaching is absolutely neces-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
Latonia Entries.

First race six .furlongs-Anna Rus kin, Beautiful Mayo, a7; French Nun. My Queen of the Roses, Maid Mili-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
The Line,uIp.

Summary: Time of halves, 20 minutes. officials, Rowbotham, refree; Walker umpire. Pritchard, head linesman; Stick ney and Watkins, timekeepers. Touch downs, Stone 2, Shipp 3. Lanier 1, Will Hams 1, Evans ?. Goals, Shipp 8, Evans 9 Drop kick, Hannon. Field goal from placed kick, Evans.
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The falls are among the great scenic
spectacles of the world. Their height Ia
about 2O feet and the fall is broken about
midway in the descent by "A wide ledge of
rocks, so that the water drop is in two
cascades.
In breadth the falls doubtless exceed any
others in the world, being about 5000 feet
or roughly two and a half miles in width.
This. however, is not an Uninterrupted
waterfall. for islands intervene Just as Goat
Island separates the American from the
falls at Niagara.
The falls are thus much higher and wider
than Niagara. but they do not carry so
large an amount OF water. No other falls
give a more impressive conception Of power
and grandeur than the beet scenic parts of
the lguazu cataracts.
The improvements are being made ac-
cording to the plans of Charles Thays. the
Director Of Parks and of the Botanica
Garden in Buenos Ayres. Driveways viii
wind around through the forest and the
other magnificent sub-tropical vegetation.
Paths will lead to every point OF vantage
where the most picturesque views may be
enjoyed, bridges will span the gulches n
there will be hotels To suit different
pockets; casinos. baths. an administration
building and other structures will be
erected. This il to be n playground for
the world. and the Government will protect
every natural feature. including the
splendid forest. The purpose Is to pre-
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FALLS OF THE ICuAzU IN ARGENTINAs NEW NATIONAL PARK.

under George IL. to 800. And then came
the deluge. The Lords had themselves
anticipated il at the Hanoverian succession.
They then resolved that their numbers
should thenceforward be limited, and that
the Crown should be deprived of its pre-
rogative to make new creations. But this
resolution was passed over without serious
notice, II not without remark. Probably
George l. would not have understood Il
ever IL II had been translated to him, and
under George ii. a peerage was Walpole's
highest bride.
1t Is To George III, however, that we owe
a most disproportionate share Of our exist
ing peerage. Simon de Mortfort summoned
twenty-three temporal peers 70 his MEM
orable Parliament. George III. created
22S. William Pitt, said a contemporary,
made them out of second rate squires and
fat graziers, caught them in the alleys Of
Lombard street and clutched them from
the counting houses OF Cornhill."
There we're Representatives of 146 Of George
I.'s peers in the House Of Lords at the
time Of the first Reform bill, and the
bulk Of them, Of course, voted against that
measure.
The creations of George ", numbered
~sixty-four, and those of William w. num-
bered forty. When Queen Victoria had
been twelve years on the throne there were
448 peers. In a little over twenty years the
number had passed the five hundredth mile
stone. and now-those who talk of a confer
III tiC tWO hObHc1 may ike 70
the number is 80 great and the
Tory preponderance Is so heavy that a
conference would place Mr.. Balfour in q
majority. even with a House OF Commons
like the present.
The hereditary peerage is like the Cabinet.
II has grown up outside the law. There ia
nothing in the Constitution comforting on
the holder OF a peerage the right to sit In
Parliament and take part in legislation. IL
is one Of those rights" which ave been
snapped up. like commons and roadside
spaces. There were no lords by letters patent
OF creation under the Norman kings.
, h occupant of the throne summoned
such men as he wanted, and, they sat while
the great Council, or Parliament, lasted.
II did not follow that they were summoned
for he next similar assembly. Many OF
them. indeed, had lost their heads or their
estates In the interval. But even the
letters patent did not confer the hereditary
right TO a part In the making of laws.
Before they took IL into their own hands the
peers used 10 complain because they had
not received writs OF summons.
.The House Of PEERS" IL was long ago
said, has maintained It's existence by
usurping an influence over the representa-
ton Of the people which IL has turned to
It's sole ad~vantage.'
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serve the wild and primitive aspects of the
whole park as nearly intact as possible.
One OF the most celebrated mon Of the
Argen tine Republic ia DIR. Francisco Moreno
who has Just retired from the dictatorship
Of the La Plata Museum and who figured
in Santiago de Chile and London az the
Ar gentlne arbiter in the long boundary
dispute between Chile and Argentina. His
Government several years ago. as a national
recognition of his public services. presented
to him twenty-five square leagues Of land
in Patagonia On the shores of Lake Manuel
Huapi.
Upon his request he was permitted to
return to the Government three square
lea CUES Of the grant to be turned into an
Argentine national park. He said that in
all his travels he mad never seen a region
that surpassed this mountain lake and its
surroundings in natural grandeur and
beauty.
Thu physical phenomena Of the region
were beginning to attract the attention Of
travellers of other nations who were find
ing there rich opportunities for fruitful
study, and the marvellous beauty of the
lake, the torrents and waterfalls, the gigan-
tic forests and the lofty peaks Of the Andes
with their eternal SHOWS, all helped to
make a geographical situation Of trans
cendent attractiveness
To make The region accessible the rail-
road must he extended from Neuquem to
the lake. a distance OF about $50 miles,
This Improvement is not far away.
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several friends and one Of the architects.
l was delighted with the facade Of the house
n rushed up the steps to the piazza to
open the door and go inside.
That door looked wrong in some way
the minute i laid my eyes on it. | realized
what the matter was when | started TO
go in. The door opening was I'm all no
higher than the bridge of my nose. To
enter IL was necessary for me TO stoop.
| turned and looked at the architect. he
was staring In Openmouthed astonish-
ment at the result OF his mistake.
al cannot explain how such a thing hap
pened.' he said, except that my foreman
is a very short | always walked
through the windows when | came to visit
the house, and | suppose that in that way
! did not notice that the main door was
at least a loot and a half too low. l can
only apologize and promise to do the best
| can to remedy IL Immediately"
That was not dangerous" said a man
who heard the recital of this mistake.
into, My house was finished and looked
all right. We moved in late in the spring
and everything went swimmingly until
the autumn came. Then il was time to
build a fire. There was a large p Chin
ney place in the drawing room and we de-
cided to try IL. The first attempt brought
a cloud OF smoke which we could not ac-
count for. although it filed the room to
s~uffocation.
Every time We built a fire the smoking
began about twenty minutes after il was
lit. As the weather grew cooler and the
fire was a necessity / sent to New York for
an expert to xanine the chimney.
he found that the architects who bull