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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Baseball as a Saftey-Valve.

Allen sangree. in the September Every
 body's,
 The fundamental reason for the popu- Iarity of baseball is the fact that 1t is national safety-valve. Votaire says that there are no real pleasures without real needs. Now q young, ambitious and growing nations needs to let off steam.' Baseball furnishes the opportunity. Therefore it is q real pleasure.
 But the outsider comprehends nothing fthis Baseball" he argues loftily, ''is q game for people whose minds are va cant, whose imagination Is dull. who, Of necessity. seek diversion because they have not enough soul leavening to be company for themselves.'
 In the face of what occurred at tho opening game at the Polo Grounds this year, the enthusiast hardly knows how to gainsay this asperslon. Commissioner Bingham having unexpectedly withdrawn all police protection, a whole army of fanatics estimated at 15.00o charged on inc field just when New York was on ths point of overhauling Philadelphia. What did that thronR care for victory or de- feat Who was John MeGraw pleading that he might finish the game, when l5,Oo0 mortal dynamos surcharged with pent-up emotion, energy and democratic enthus- iasm were bent upon expressing them selvesl This way and that swept tho multitude, fans. bugs and rooters pommel- ing one another with cushions, jubilating, yelling, making q sieve of the weikin- physically and mentally getting every thing of the system" That is what baseball does for humanity. It serves the same purpose as a revolution in central America or a thunderstorm on hot day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
lN TIE GREAT CHAIR UhDERa HE PORTRAIT OF .JAE OLD ! COLONEL SAT JUDGE PYNchEON' 6oLT UPRI0HJ AND DEAD

This set Holgrave off into long line of metaphysical and psychological talk, facts, speculation and theory-for he was still very young man, and, moreover, he was a young man who had not found his place In life. It was not his fault, for he had sought 1t diligently, never sticking to one thing long. Just now ne was practicng the then new art of "da- guerreotypist" for a living, and ilrung with Fourierism by way of diversion. in his culture and want of culture; In his crude wild and misty philosophy and the practical experience that had coun- teracted some of it's tendencies; In his magnanimous zeal for mans welfare and in his recklessness of what the ages had established in mans behalf, the young man might htly stand forth AS the repre- sentative of many compeers in his native land.
 Shall we never get rid of this past?' said he to Phoebe as they sat by the m-r- gin of Maules well and saw the evening shadows fall over the Seven Gables. Tt Hes upon the present like giants dead body. In fact it is just as if a young giant were compelled to waste all his strength in carrying about the corpse of dead giant Just think q moment and 1t will startle you to see what slaves we are to bygone tmes-to death, 10 give it the proper word. A dead man sits in our judgment seats and the Ilving judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead mems books
 We laugh at dead mems jokes and cry at dead mems diseases, physical. mental and moral. And we live in dead men S houses as, for instance, in thIs House of
 Seven Gables"
 And why not?" asked the simple vll- lage maiden to whom half of the young mans rhapsody was Creek But she liked to hear him talk that way.
 In the summer house Clifford sat with half closed eyes listening to the pleasant voices of the young people and gazing at q great white rose bush whose Anowy blooms climbed up one corner of the ancient house. In the shop Hepzibah was making mistakes in change and prices,
 which 1t would take Phoebe all the next
 day to straighten out again. Yet all four were happy-Clifford in the roses and in the young life and love that he saw developing before him; the young
 people in their own companionship; and Hepzibath in the knowledge that her brother was happy.
 "The fact is" said Holgrave by way of l parting chunk of solid wisdom that each generation should be obliged to build it's own house. When a man dies his house should be destroyed For a man to build a house for his posterity Is
 as absurd as ordering a durable suit of clothes for his posterlty." Phoebe, though she did not agree with the youth at all. was impressed with the profundity of the remark You speak as if you believed
 that Wizard Maules curse was really
 over this old house." laughed she. q do" earnestly replied Holgrave. Look at those gables. Under them have been, for the greater part of three centuries, perpetual remorse, constantly defeated hope, strife among kindred strange forms of death, dark suspicion. unspeakable disgrace. It all comes from
 trying to found a family"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

glancing at chicken, the solitary off spring of the ancient fowl family of the Pyncheon breed, which had perched itself on Phoebes shoulder. Tt is be- cause you are a Pyncheon."
 My name is Phoebe Pyncheon," replied the girl with some reserve. "I did not know that my cousins garden was under another persons care"
 Yes" said Holgrave. "I dig and hoe and weed in this black earth for the sake of refreshing myself with what lit tie nature and simplicity may be left in it after man has so long sown and reaped here. My serious occupation Is of lighter nature In short. I make pie lures out of sunlight and am your cousins lodger."
 After this breaking of the ice, Phoebe while driving hard bargains in the little shop, would often wonder if that most interesting young man were in the gar den.
 One night Phoebe heard her cousin talk ing in the dusk of the old oak parlor with a stranger-tallSing low and solemn, but with a certain joyousness and sweet ness in her poor old cracked voice never thelcss You need not light the lamp, Phoebe" said Hepzibah And you have stayed late in the garden and-and go to bed now" Then Phoebe knew that Cliff ford had arrived-come back to life from his great tomb of thirty years. Gradually she had learned the story. When the story Is unpleasant there are always enough people to hint it or tell 1t out right.
 The next morning at breakfast she saw him--poor faded, querulous, a hopeless remnant of the Pyncheons! The love for the beautiful was still strong in him. He had arrayed himself in the same old dressing gown in which he had been painted by Malone when life and the dressing gown were bright and new The grim, frowning visage of the withered Hepzbah seemed to jar on Clifford. but the fresh youth of Phoebe delighted him and rested his tired eyes-eyes grown tired from waxing at things unlovely for three decades.
 After breakfast Clifford would sink into an easy chair and sleep or drowse until noon. Then he would like to be led by Phoebe into the garden where in an old summer house by the pool which Hol- grave had repaired he would sit and dream and doze for more hours He would often gaze Into the pool, often seem to see strange visions there, and often with inquiring eyes would look at the young photographer
 But clifford's eyes never liked to meet those of Holgrave. There was something peculiar about the photographers eyes when he gazed at one intently. He mad the gift of mesmerism-or the curse of it. He knew his strange power and once when he told Phoebe of it and she laughed at him he fixed his eyes on her with a gaze that made her feel drowsy But no, I will not exercise the power" said 1olgrave with sudden upward motion of his hands that sent Phobe wide awake again.
 You are as bad as the old Maules," laughed Phoebe. T have heard it said that Maule could always influence the dreams of Pyneheon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

not stay in Pyncheon House-its master is coming" It appeared that Phoebe had never heard the sad story of Clifford Pyncheon; 1t had been kept from her and Hepzibah had not the heart to tell 1t. She went away and got the old minia- ture by Malone, however, saying: "This is Clifford's picture. And, cousin Phoebe, since after all I have said, your cour- age does not fail you perhaps we need not part so soon. You are welcome. child, for the present to such home as your poor kinswoman can give you.
 Thank you, cousin" returned Phoebe, simply; "I am shopkeeper today" And so she was, and for the succeeding days.
 It was a marvel to HepZibah how the girl managed 1t; she seemed to have natural talent for business, she added to the stock in the shop and increased it's variety; had the till full of coin at night and sold more In a day with her bright smile than old Maid Pyncheon with her frown would have disposed of In a week. Then there was the gar den behind the house, such an old, neglected garden-so choked With roses and hollyhocks run riot, and beyond it a little vegetable patch that showed some marks of care. In one corner were a few hens of an ancient breed, as old as the Pyncheons and, like the Pyncheons, pretty well run out. The hens seemed to partake of the general character of the old house and the old family-highly respectable but cum bering the earth without a sufhcient excuse.
 Phoebe must needs take the garden under her care at once. As she stood in the freshness of the morning beside the little fountain in the center Of the tangled place and looked down into it's bubblng waters, for one moment sne believed the old legend concerning It. For thfs was "Maules Fountain" When the wizard had built his house beside it. it had been a fresh, sweet fountain. Rut after Maule had been executed and Colonel Pyncheon had built his great Uouse of Seven Gables on the site Of Maule's hut, the water turned bracklsh, and brackish it was to thls uay. Ahu 1t was said that any one or the race of the Pyncheons who looked into the nooI could see strange sights-a pro- cession of the crimes of their ancestors mass above the pebbly bottom. Old Wizard Maule had bewitched 1t ana cursed it to the use or the fyncHeohs'
 Phoebe had asked Hepzibah if there were any of the descendants or Wlzard Maule now living, and the Old Malu had answered that as far as she Knew, the race was extinct; the Maules had always been humble people. hard worked and died and finally disappeared. But as Pho stood looking into the pool she began to see strange WaVerlhs shanes in it. and at last she caught the sbadowy form of a man looking up at her with strange, compelling eyes; ana she thought why, she could not tell that old Maule's ghost looked at her from the pool. But 1t was not the wrath of the wizard. It was only the reflection of very flesh and blood voI,ng man. Mir Holgraye, the taker Of daguerreotypes.
 .s,rht little fowl avs you high com pIiment" said the youth, with smiie'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Didn't Interest Him.

From Success Magazine.
 A prominent Bostonian recently put up" at his ,lub a Chicago man bearing letters of in'roduction from a common friend.
 After G;pir1 ihe wa were lounging in the club hbrary When the Bostonian chanced tu ask.
 "By the way. what do you think of the "Origin of Species 2'
 Never read it, was the reply of the man from Chicago. Tn fact. old man. I am not in the least interested in hnau- cil subiectS."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Hawthorne began "The House of the Seven Gables" six months after he had completed "The Scarlet Letter." He was then fully launch ed at a writer of romance and intended his new story to be an improvement on what he had done before. He thought that he had sue ceeded, and declared the story "as good AS anything l can ever hope to write"
 The House of the Seven Gables" did indeed. have most gratifying recep tion from the public but to most read CTS it will always take second rank with 'The Scarlet Letter." For some reason the new story was popular in England, which gratihed the author. As boy his ambition had been ito be aD author and have my books read in England"
 Hawthorne drew largely on traditions concerning his own family for this story His great grandfather had been a magistrate in Salem at the time of the witchcraft craze, and a curse had been pronounced on his family by one of the victims who suffered on Witches Hill. Altogether "The House of the Eeyen Gables is a weird story, full of ghosts, hereditary curses and sudden deaths. Phoebe furnishes all the sun shine in the tale, which, like most of Hawth horne's, Is almost too full of son. bre shades. And yet who would light en single shadow?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Next Sundays one-page classic will be Eugene Aram," by Edward Bull Wer-Lytton.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
SAYS ADAMS IS
A POWER IN GAME
ATTORNEY IN A PLEA TO JURY
DECLARES HIS PERIL is A
SMALL ISSUE IN CAPITAL
AND LABOR STRUGGLE.

Wallace. Idaho. March i-"Steve
Adams is only a pawn in the great
game that is being PLAYED. The pros
ecutOrs in this case do not believe
Adams is guilty. They never did be-
lieve IT," So declared Attorney Rich
ardson today in his plea to the jury
10 acquit Adams Of the crime Of kill
ing Fred Tyler He based his plea on
the theory that the state is only max
ing use Of Adams FOR the purpose Of
cC-yicting others. that this trial is
but a minor Issue in the great fight
between the Mine Owners Association
and the Western Federation Of Mine
RS
The feature Of Richardson's aid ess
was his severe denunciatiOn Cf de-
tectives IN general and Mcfarland IN
particular RI hsrdsOl denounced
the methods used by Mcoharlsnd in
obtaining a confession by working on
Adams feeling and affection for his
wife and family
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
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ORUCGED GIRLS;
ALMOST LYNCHEO
ARTISTS MiSTREAT
SIX YOUNG MISSES IN MARI.
ETA, oHlo-ToWN STIRRED
OVER OUTRAGE.

Marietta. O., March "A lynch.
ing cmed imminent here this even.
ing when large crowd of people sur.
rounded the city Jail, where Walter
w. Savage of Syracu.e, n. Y. and his
accompice, Andy Coruthers, we're i'm.
prisoncd
Savage is an advertising sk tch ar.
tist and has been here about a week,
occupying a window in the Dime Sav.
ing Society building. He has made a
specially of getting y2ung girls to al.
low him to make heir pictures.
About / O'Clock this afternoon he
had six young girls. between the ages
of II and "a years old. in his room
gave them whisky. wine and beer and
admin tered some kind of a drug. At
6 O'Clock this evening the police dis
GOV red that cmething was wrong
and upon investigating found all six
Of the girls unconscious lying on the
floor. The girls and the two men. Sav.
age and Coru'hers. having been found
in the room. were taken to the city
Jail
Physicians we're summoned to make
an examination of the girls and ono
tics were administered. and at about
Z o'clock they had partly regained con
sciou ness. The girls claim that tho
men fore d them 10 drink. The ply
sicians are convinced that two of the
girls are the victims of an attempted
assault. and at this time are in do bt
as to the others as they have not a
yet completely recovered from the ef-
fects of the drug
Under guard Of the entire p-l'ce
force the men were rushed TO the
county jail. which is on tn fifth floor
Of the courthouse building The sher-
III and his deputies. assisted by TIE
police s-e guarding the two prisoners.
and al this time il seems hat lynch
ing will be avert d. although the feel
ing 4 The poyulsce IS ,eTg intense
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
SAYS SUIT IS TO
AID MRS. EDDY
SONS ATTORNEY DENIES THAT
BILL is INTENDED TO GET
HER FoRTUNE-woULO RE.
FUSE OFFER OF COMPROMISE.

Dcadwood S. n March i-Re2ari.
ing the reporr that Ms EdIy. iu 79
effort o. stop Clover sui-. has sem.
Rev. 7 G. Tomlinsou with an offer rf
S254nH0 if De- viii srop d. -urt. and
TO make mo- objection 10 any VIII bis
mother may max Glover saws .
have received n0 such offer aud aulid
not consider such an OFFER if it were
made
Judge Benne- local unset for
Glover aid This suit was NOT
brought by Glover for mon 3. or for
the purpose of obtaining any money
from Mrs. Eddy through s1ch means.
but honesty and cc1scientiuusly for
the protect % Of Mrs Eddy and her
property
Tomiinsun was here in January.
"a hen b. spent some tim ia Lead fo-
purposes which have not been made
public
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
CARDINAL FLAYS
YELLOW PAPERS
SAYS uNCLEAN JOURNAL SHOULD
NO MORE BE ALLOWED IN
HANDS OF CHILDREN THAN A
POISON VIAL.

Baltimore, Md. March i.-CardinaI
Gibbons today in sermon denounced
"salacious journal and newspapers
printing Objectionable adv rtisements
Taking as his subject Spiritual Read.
ing he said.
Never admit into your homes any
newspapers or period cal which ycuii.
la,es obscene news and liccnio
scandals
There is ON kind OF literature iu
" hieh we all indulge and of which We
pariake a. regularly and with much
relish as our daily bread without
which life would be duh aud tedious
"a literature which has become ai-
most a necessity of our daily life ]
fer TO the daily newspaper Now.
there are good and bad journals as
there are clean and unclesn animals.
NO kind Of litegatle works more
mischief Sin community than sala-
cious journals They contain no. only
news natter. but also advertisements
of a most objectionabI. character.
Many Of The youth Of both sexes
have learned from this impure ~ o-u-
tain their first lessons in the dark
mysteries of human depra,ity. Adyer-
{ semeH.s which pai1t in glowing col
o-s the attractive { atures 0f danger
ous haunts of amusement Advert o.
mcnts Of patient medicines and other
drugs whose object is to defeat tte
inezorable laws f nature and Col
What a rrible responsibility those
publishers assume who admit into
their papers such in. idious persons.
You would nof permit a vial of
POI son to remain on your mantelpiere
lest it might iladvetently fall into
the hands OF some member Of y-ur
household
Why then shouHf-you not dis- gard
those highly seasoned novels which
may be agreeable to morbid sppe'i.r.
bri which defie the imagination and
cuf1etIe ;ls soul
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
ROOSEVELT S SON
IS DOING NICELY
DR.. RixEY SAYS ARCHIE. I'LL
WITH DYPTHERIA is NOT IN
SERIOUS CONDITION. SAIL.
ORS SEND FLOWERS.

Washington. March i-Dr RiXey
visited the White House tonight and
as he was leaving said Archie ROosc
welt is getting along nicely His
condition is not serious. The other
children have been isolated as y O.
cautioHary measure and / do not be
licve there is the slightest danger or
them contracting the disease"
DR.. Lambert returned 10 New York
tonight The sailors of the presi-
dents yacht, Syph. today sent Archie
a bunch of flowers. Mrs Roosevelt
remains slmost constantly at her
sons bedside and all social engage
ments at he White House have been
Cancelled
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
TAKES POISON; CUTS THROAT.

Waynesburg, Pa, March f.-Sher
man F. Grim county treasurer and
former di. trict attorney made an at
tempt to commit suicide today. lie
swallowed morphine, severed the lig
aments and arteries of his lift wrist
and cut his throat five times His
condition is critical
Mr. Grim was manager of the Way
nesburg team OF the Pennsylvania,
Ohio aud Maryland Baseball league
and is said to have lest heavily in the
venture.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
RESENT HOLD
UP;;|S SLAIN BY
TRAIN ROBBERS
TWO MEN AT POINT OF REVOL.
YER, ROB PASSENGERS ON
MISSOURI PACIFIC.
LYNCHINC MAY FOLLOW
If Men Are Captured--Negro Coal
Miner Killed and White Man
njured-only About 500
and Watches Secured.

Pittsburg, Kansas, March 1.-The
Missouri Pac fic passenger train
which left here at 1920 this evening
was held up by two men in disguise.
Lou Jeff, culored miner. was killed
because he protested, and w l.. West
lake, OF Toledo Ohio, who with his
wife and two children had been Wis
iting relatives in Kansas was shot
through the hand by a stray shot,
fired at the negro.
The men We're disguised only with
false mustaches and goatees, They
boarded the train here at the station
and began working the train as soon
as il passed the Kansas City southern
shops. They commenced at the smok
ing ear, and one walked ahead with
A calibre revolver in each hand,
and quietly asked the passengers to
shell out t. the man behind. who
was closely followi- 2. They were
not far behind the train auditor and
followed him into the ladies coach
Negroes Fatal Stand.
w men lUCg came 10 JeIi Ill AHe
ladies' coach he at cnce grasped the
idea that it was hold up and after
the auditor had passed him he pulled
a revolver and took shot at he fore
most robber, who shot twice al him
The first shot went wild and struck
Westlake, but the second shot struck
the negro in the head ANA killed h,m
Instantly They thcG quietly made
the auditor stand and deliver and hur-
riedly left the train as IL entered the
yard at Cornell
Westlake, the wounded passenger.
was taken to Liberal, where ifis hand
was dressed by a surgeon of the com.
pany. A switch engine with posse
of officers was sent TO Cornell which
is four mile from here
The country surrounding PittsburG
is thickly settled, and is dotted with
scores OF villages and mining camps
II is reported that news that a. miner
was killed by bandits has spread rap
idly and that The miners are aroused
and will make an attempt 10 capture
and lynch the men.
There were few passengers on the
train ana the robbers secured only a |
little over 500 in cash and few
and reyolycrs.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
KELLY AND RYAN FIGHT.

Rochester KY. March i.-Hugo Kcl-
ley and Tommy Ryan fought six
rounds here tonight 70 a draw. Kelly
had the advantage of m first two
rounds but Ryan forced the fighting
in the fourth and succeeding rounds
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-05
|ROQU0|S TRIAL
WELL UNDER WAY
EIGHT JURORS SECURED FIRST
DAY TO TRY WILL J. DAVIS
FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
TO PROBE THEATRE FIRE
In Which Nearly 600 Pershed-Ex.
pect to Fill Jury Today and
Start on the Evidence at
Once.

| Danyillc, III, March 4.--More rapid
progress than was expected wag made
during the first day # the trial Of viii
~. Davis of Chicago, cha3 ged with the
manslaughter in connection with tn,
burning Of nearly six hundred persons
in the lroquois Theatcr Chicago, Of
which he was manager
Eight jurors were accepted when
court adjourned this evening. Not
NOR than half the yenire Of ~ had
been examined and it is now believed
the jury will be found tomorrow.
Judge f. r. E. Kimbrough will hear
the case. Assistant States Attorney
Barbour will conduct the prosecution
while Mr.. Davis is presented by Al
fred S Austrian. Levy Mayer and JOS,
eph b Mann.
Expects to Get Jury Today,
we anticipate no delay in getting
jury said Mr. Barbour today Il
think the jury will be completed be.
fore noon tomorrow. In the afternon
the attorneys will maxi their open.
ing speeches to the jury. For the state,
Mr. Buckingham will deliver the OPP
ening address Aside from the numer-
GUS grounds on which MI Davis Is
charged with manslaughter, it isn't
generally known thai h opened the
theater and allowed it to be packed
with people every day before it was
finished. The plumbing even wasn't
completed tha day of the fire. The
building was without fire protection
or precaution.
we have a witness who will swear
that the ventilator above the stage,
which the law requires to be kept op.
en. was wired shut and that the day
after the fire workmen were seen re-
moving the fastenings which held the
ventiatlr closed The case probably
will be on trial about month.
Many to Testify for State.
the state has summoned 200 wit
ncsses Graphic narratives of the aw-
ful experience will be told by surviv-
ors. some OF whom were frightfully
burned
"One witness. whore name thus far
We have not made public. will be a wo
man who was 50 terribly burned that
she hasn't been out of her house but
a few times since the fire. Her maid
has to accompany hsr everywhere
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