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The Bright Side.
From the Boston Post.

T TUTII lIIt BUSIOII TUSIs
 W. J. Oliver, the lowest bidder for the construction of the Panama canal said of contract that a friend had lost:
 'Oh, well. there's a bright side to ev- erything. Had you gotten this contract you might have lost money on it. All things have their bright side. It is like the case of the rejected suitor.
 Oh, Mabel the youth moaned. bury ing his face in his hands, after his re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
EXPRESS WRECKED
 PASSENGERS HURT
Buffalo and Cleveland Train Hits a 4 Freight Near Little
 Falls, N. Y.

Utica, N. Y. May 2l.-The Buffalo and Cleveland express westbound. ran into a deraled freight train four miles east of Little Falls at 1:40 this morning, and all but the four last Pullman coaches were thrown from the track. It is under stood ten persons were injured and the engineer and fireman were quite badly hurt.
 An ambulance from Little Falls has made several trips to the scene of the wreck. carrying the injured to that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
Italian Trackman Strike.

New Haven May 20.-Italian trackmen employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway to the number of 1000, went out on strike, following the refusal of the road to grand a demand for a 10 per cent increase in their wages, which are now $i 50 a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
Street Car Strike Unchanged.

San Francisco, May eO.-rhe street ear situation today was unchanged from yes terday. Only few cars were running on ten lines, but no serious trouble had been experienced up to noon. The com pany is well satisfied with the situation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
Quebec Strike Settled.

Montreal Quebec, May 2O.-4ie long shoremen's strike was settled tonight, the men returning to work on the terms of- fered by the steamship companies, cents over rates formerly paid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
Great Britain and Japan Agree.

St Petersburg. May 20.-Agreements with Great Britain and Japan, according to the Slovo. are about to be concluded. It is expected that the agreements will be signed simultaneously within two or three weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21

jection, make it easier for me to bear. can't you, dear? Yes, Will Mabel gently answered. I snore terribly '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
PHYSICIAN TOOK
 MORPHINE AND COCAINE
WAS CURED AT
 JAMES SANAI0RIUM
MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AGO.

pr. A. M. Mcconnell of Union City, Tenn, Tells of His Visit to James Sanitorium, Memphis, Tenn, How He Was Cured of Morphine and Cocaine Habits, and Recom-
 mends the James Treat
 ment to Others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21

The best haIf-tons cuts arc made by the Gawk Engraving eompanv. AsS AA.AiA n,,ilAIAA-
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Slana.

The most difficult work solicited. HszDss faRA. of cnnrnA
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NO other thing than the deserted an
~ pearance of the Street of the
Spenders is required to tell one that
summer has struck. New York. The
Street of the Spenders is a little less
than third of a mile long, yet it is
probable that more money is spent
there for pleasure than in any other
locality of similar extent in the world
1t is an ultra-fashionable thorough
fare, lined with palatial buildings
worth millions. Except in summer,
an average of 5000 pleasure vehicles
pass through the street each day, and
perhaps $500 of these are there be-
tween the hours of six o'clock and
midnight, when the clubs, the dining
places and the bathrooms are in full
swing.
At one end of the Street of the
Spenders are Delmonico's and Sher-
rvs, at the other end the new $1,000,
900 Astor hotel. Between them are
some of the finest and most exclusive
clubs in the world, the St. Nicholas,
the Racquet, the. New York Yacht,
Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, the Bar.
association and the Lambs. Frequent
ing their favorites in this list are the
Vanderbilts, the Astors, Clarence H.
Mackay, Payne Whitney, James
Hazen Hyde, the Belmonts, Wood
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-19
TRAGIC FATE BLIGHTS
LIFE OF AMBASSADOR

I T is the irony of fate that at the
L height of his career, with no
blemish on his reputation, and
through no fault of his own,
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, should
German ambassador, should stand
upon the brink of diplomatic and
social oblivion. But such is the
tragic fact. A cancerous growth, ter
ribly disfguring the ambassadors
face, has apparently ruined beyond
repair career full of promise and
the social prospects of his beautiful
American wife, and it is understood
here that Germany will send another
ambassador some time within the
next six months.
The baron caught this infection of
the face, the nature of which physi.
clans do not seem to understand
clearly, during his service for the
kaiser in India, and within the last
year it has developed in the hideous
fashion peculiar to such attacks.
spreading we'll over one side of his
face. He has, however, made a brave
fight from the start, appealing to the
foremost medical authorities of this
country and Europe for aid, and his
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-19
STREET OF THE SPENDERS
SHOWS SUMMER Is HERE

bury Kane, ]. P. Morgan, C. Oliver
Iselin, Elihu Root, when he is in town,
Joseph Choate, w. Gould Brokaw,
Foxhall Keene and, in fact, all of
the men who have won or inherited
fortune and fame.
It is said that nobody walks in the
Street of the Spenders save those who
serve-the others ride That is true
only in the winter When summer
comes, as now, many plebeian
strolls down the thoroughfare and
sees in it little to differentiate it from
thousands of others in the city, for
those to whom the street is the recep-
tacle for the overflow of wealth-the
profits of great commercial enter
prises, the wealth of millions in the
west or the graft reaped from politics
have gone to other lands or to sea
coast or mountain side, and the pedes-
trian sees nothing that tells him of
the magnificent entertainments cost
ing thousands sometimes hundreds
of thousands of dollars given there
almost nightly when the rich are in
town. You can't find the Street of the
Spenders in the New York directory
Look under West Fourty-fourth street,
and if you want to see it, it won't take
you long, for it extends only from
Fifth avenue to Broadway
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-19

WAS Vice President Fairbanks born
W in log cabin? This great ques-
ton, which threatens to become
an issue in the next presidential cam
paign is causing excitement among
the sons of Indiana. In "The Life and
Speeches of Charles Warren Fair
banks by w. H. Smith, is shown
picture of a log cabin in which the
vice president is reported to have
been born
The authors son, William Wolff
Smith, in reply to a recent article in
an eastern weekly, has taken up the
assertion that the autobiography is
inaccurate and that the picture is
one of series of fakes resorted to
for the purpose of promoting the vice
presidents political ambitions Will
liam Wolff Smith has issued the fol-
lowing statement:
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MEN BUSY CLEANING AND
PAINTING WHITE HOUSE
HE White House will be spick and
span, on the outside as well as in

r HE White House will be spick and
span, on the outside as we'll as in
side, when the presidential family re-
turns from Oyster Bay next fall
Twenty painters are now at work on
the old building.
The White House is constructed of
Virginia sandstone, which is exceed
ingly porous. Mrs. Adams, the first
mistress of the presidents house, as
it was then called, complained bitter
ly to her friends of the GOODNESS and
dampness of the building during her
first winter there There were no
stoves or other heating apparatus ex,
cept the large CRATES in the executive
residence then, and the roads were so
muddy that wood in sufficient auan,
tity could not be hauled to supply tue
crates. This condition was overcome By
painting the sandstone with a coat Of
white lead. Each year this has been
repeated, until there is a layer more
than a quarter of an inch in thick
ness on the walls.
Last year, instead of putting on an
other coat of white lead, a chemical
preparation was used to cleanse the
walls. This caused the paint to crack
and in many places peel off, making
the building 3unsightly. 3 r
L The painters are now engaged in
scraping off the century's accumula-
ton of white lead. When this is done
the building will receive several coats
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-19
PRESIDENT ORDERS CUT
IN CANAL ZONE EXPENSES
w ASHINGTON.-By direction Of

w ASH1NGTON.-By direction Of
w the president there is to be sn-
other reorganization of the isthmiaa
canal commission. This time the
principal branch of the commission
affected will be that in Washington.
which has been executing the orders
Of Chief Engineer Goethals with
reference to the dispatch of labor and
supplies to the canal zone. Now,
however, the president has given inl-
perative instructions that the most
rigid economy consistent with the
highest degree of efficiency" shall be
the policy. AS result an order has
been issued aboli shing the auditors
office and placing the work of auditing
the accounts of the commission under
the auditor for the war department..
The purchasing business will be in
trusted to an officer of the army.
Joseph Bucklin Bishop of New
York, who has been in charge OF the
Office here since the reorganization
some months ago, may proceed to the
isthmus and perform the duties Of
secretary there. The advisability of
this action is now under considera-
ton. The president has stated en-
phatically that Mr.. Bishop must be
retained at his salary of $4,000 per
annum. David r. Ross, purchasing
agent, and Ernest S. Benson, general
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erty held by Trinity and property
upon which it pays taxes range from
$40,000,000 to $1OO,0O0,0OO The best
of these estimates seem to be those
that most nearly approach the latter
figure.
In the control of this vast wealth
the % wardens and vestrymen of
Trinity are absolute. The actual man
agement is left in the hands of a COM
mittee of half a dozen men. No re-
ports are required to be made to the
state or any church authority An
annual report is prepared and is
opened to the vestrymen, but they
are allowed to see only such books
AS are mentioned in the report. The
list of persons allowed to vote at Trim
ity church elections is secret
Trinity's holdings consist in large
part of West side tenements, and it
has often been criticised as an in
considerate landlord These buildings
are old and ages behind the times
Some were originally fine private
dwellings that have been rearranged
to accommodate several families.
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auditor, who also received $4,000
each, have resigned. The former will
probably be succeeded by Maj. Hodges
of the engineering corps of the army,
whose army pay will be increased to
$4,000.
1t is said the president expects
criticisms of the canal administration
during the next session, both from
Democrats and from representatives
Of that element in his own party
which is not in sympathy with his
policies generally. AS rigid economy
is the surest way to avoid just criti-
cism, he has instructed Secretary
Taft to cut expenses to- the bone,
while at the same time seeing to it
that the dirt is kept flying.
Secretary Taft has forwarded to the
president reports showing that, ex-
elusive of $50,000,000 originally paid
to the French company for all it's
rights in the property, there had
actually been spent up to last March
only about $34,000,OO0 out of a total
appropriation of $145,000,000 The
total sum appropriated for actual con-
struction is little over $74,000,000.
Thus the commission has available
for purposes of construction about
$40,000,000 with which to operate un-
til congress authorizes the expendi-
lures for the next fiscal year, begin
ming July 1, 1908.
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American Expansion.

Evidence accumulates that the Unit.
ed States is expanding in influence
and that American devices are abroad
in the world. Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills of Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
is competent witness In his bacca-
laureate sermon to Rutgers college
students, in the course Of an allusion
to the growing power of democracy,
he said that during a recent visit to
England he stopped at a hotel in Lon
don where he rode up and down stairs
IN an American elevator, ate rolls
made OF American flour, dictated cor
respondence to an American stenog-
rapher who wrote on an American
typeWriting machine, and heard all
London talking about the American
president. He could have amplified
the statement and gone into detail
showing how American appliances,
productions and ideas enter into the
everyday life Of the English people
and to greater or less extent into that
OF many other nations, but his pre-
sentation Of the matter will carry
significance not to be lost, The
American impress, says Troy Times,
is being stamped all over the EARTH
ana THIS means positive if not obtrus-
I've furtherance of democratic ideas.
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American Architecture.

If architecture is frozen music"
American architecture has been q
medley of Yankee Doodle The Ar
kansas Traveller" and 'ragtime." Al
ter the colonial period, which gave us
fine specimens of public and private
buildings, there followed two genera
tons of bad building, the result of
sudden growth Taste had little place
in country working night and day to
erect necessary shelter. That America
is advancing in all the arts is to be
expected The outlook for architec-
ture is especially hopeful. A commit
tee appointed by the American lnsti-
tutes Of Architects has reported that,
Ion the whole, architecture is being
taught in America with a broader
view, and in certain respects more ef-
fectively, than in any other country"
There are reasons why this good
teaching will count in practice, thinks
Youths Companion. The architect diff
fers from other artists in that his
practical studio is millions of dollars
worth of materials. Tha6 studio, the
means Of developing the art is afford
ed by the amount, diversity and cost
illness Of American building. There is
a general improvement in taste and
increased respect for expert opinion.
Rich builders, individuals and corpora
tons, losing much of the arrogance
which money breeds toward all forms
of service, show disposition to give
the architect free hand to work out
his ideas, and not merely produce as
hireling what the patron orders. We
may look in another generation not
only for great art in public buildings
and costly dwellings, but for the re-
action of great things on little, for the
disappearance of the salmonpink
dwelling beneath the jig-sawn porch
of which the American has erstwhile
been proud to sit Finally, since archi-
lecture, dependent on native materi-
al and landscape, is an indigenous art,
it invites the architect prominently
among artists, to create original, ma
tive types. The future may produce
buildings of distinctively American
beauty
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plucky effort to prevent the disease
from spelling his diplomatic career
has won the keen sympathy of Wash
ington people.
The baron hurried across the water
as soon as congress adjourned last
spring and subjected himself to
heroic course of treatment at health
resorts. From these places he went
to the German Spas for the help they
could give him. Reports tina: have
reached this country, however, are to
the effect that he has no mole than
held his own. The Disagreement con-
tinues. His friends here, then, felt
no little apprehension when they saw
notice that Baron and Baroness
Speck Won Sternburg had beea COM
manded to take breakfast with the
kaiser. Sure enough within a day or
two after the ambassador was the
guest of his ruler German paper
which frequently has the right tip
on court affairs published a report
that Sternburg would lie recalled.
This was denied very mildly, indeed,
by officials of the German foreign Of
flee. They stated that ttere was no
intention to recall Stecnburg lat
present." or words to that effsct.
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has not shown it while in the Tombs
The officers and guards of the lambs
say that, in their opinion, Thaw is
perfectly able to understand all about
his own case, and certainly is able to
confer with his counsel concerning
the preparation for his second trial.
If Thaw is all that, then he is able
to go to trial, as far as the law is
concerned.
Since his confinement in the Tombs
Thaw has proved model prisoner.
The authorities have no trouble with
him. He lives up to all the rules He
knows, too, that by obeying his keep
ers he is entitled to all the privileges
such place affords To be curtailed
of these privileges would, indeed,
prove a great hardship, and nobody
knows that better than does Thaw.
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at mat struck him
ana ns midway
no railroad
speaker who opposed Gore the
party ending
Many Thousands We Will
ana ne took
ana oy which
ne sa where have landed them?
s"er the hell The
was cheeed
holding
were uttered
and his popularity
pgn was considered the most eloquent Oklahoma
was elected the territorial
lawyer knows Greek
to use in his peeches, and always is interesting
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-19

A BRAHAM HUMMEL, convicted Of
IA subornation of perjury in the
Dodge-Morse divorce scandal and
serving sentence of one year in the
Blackwell's Island penitentiary, is to
go free. His pardon will be the price
OF the aid he gave the district attor-
ney's Office in the trial of Thaw.
To clear the way for his pardon his
appeal from his conviction was with
drawn recently by his own counsel,
Delaney Nicoll, who announced that
there would be no one to oppose his
application for pardon. All the re-
credited lawyer have been dismissed.
This was done by District Attorney
Jerome in return for Hummel's serv-
ice.
Hummel swore against Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw in the matter of her famous
affidavit accusing Thaw, which she
testified, that she didn't write. Shar-
ing Jerome's immunity bath with
Hunlmel were all the other persons
under Indictment because of their
connection with the Dodge-Morse
case. They included former Supreme
Court Justice Edgar A. Furstman,
who was Mrs. Dodge-Morse's attor-
ney; Charles F. Dodge, Mrs. Dodge's
first husband, and Edward M. Brack-
ell, a, private detective in Howe &
HummeIs employ, who helped to keep
Dodge in Texas and out of New York
The indictment against Benjamin r.
Steinhardt, Hummeps partner, who
died the other day, was also dis
missed NO.
81 The district attorney personally APP
peared Ia Justice Giegerich's court
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-19
CONTROVERSY OVER THE
FAIRBANKS BIRTHPLACE

Much was made of picture in
the book representing the house in
which Mr.. Fairbanks was born. AS
the house was burned a few years
after his birth and no picture had
been taken of it, Mr.. Fairbanks at
the request of Mr.. Smith (my father)
made rough pencil sketch from
memory which was dressed up for
publication This, Mr. Smith says,
is all the connection Mr.. Fairbanks
had with the picture.
In the autobiography Mr. Smith
says Mr. Fairbanks was four years of
age when the cabin was burned, and
1ndianians are pointing to the asser-
ton that Mr.. Fairbanks can sketch
with accuracy building that was de-
stroyed when he was four years old
as a demonstration of his wonderful
memory.
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- Two years Fast.
Snakes" said Lover, the zoo
Keeper, have been known 70 do
without food for two years. l know
personally a South American anaconda
that in seven years has only eaten
four times-that is to say, two meals
per annum.
THE noctule, a bat, fasts regular
ly seven months out of the 12. But
the noctule, while fasting, hibernates,
and OF the snake this can't be said.
AN antelope can live 20 days with
out food, an eagle % days, badger
30 days, a horse 25 days, a dog 35
days.
But that is nothing. A crocodile
can fast two months, scorpion three
months, bear six months, chanlele-
on eight months and a viper ten
months.
How do I know all this? These
facts are easy to learn Scientists
have proved them time and again in
the various geological gardens Of the
world =.
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Mr. Knsey in the
and"
his letter
"The
manshp
decreed
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RICH TRINITY CHURCH
IS AGAIN UNDER FIRE
NEW YORK.-Trinity church is un-
~ der fire again, and it has, as usual,

NEW YORK.-Trinity church is I'M
~ der fire again, and it has, as usual,
been as serene under the lombard
ment as Gibaltar would be if peppered
by broadside Of popguns.
Trinity is the richest church
corporation in the world, and it
is in regard to the riches of
the church that the fuss is about,
What the wealth of Trinity is and
what is done with it's income has
been burning issue for more than a
century. 1t is standing mystery in
New York.
The property of the church is held
by Trinity corporation, and it is a
close one. The extent of it's wealth
is secret recorded in the corpora
ton books, and they are open only
to few Of the higher officers.
Outsiders cannot get a complete
view of the church holdings, because
much of the property stands on the
tax rolls in the names of persons to
whom it has been leased for long
terms Estimates of the church prop
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Three-Wheeied Autos.

Three-wheeled motor vehicles have
number of advantages, but it has
been found very difficult to introduce
them, mainly because of the radical
departure in the appearance, which
suggests an old-fashiioneds, baby coach
or wheelbarrow more than anything
else. A very determined effort was
made to popularize this style of auto
mobile in this country some time ago,
and later, with more success, in Eng
land. "A fire, apparatus built on these
lines has recently been put into serv-
ice as part of the fire department Of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-07-19
THAW ENDS HIS FIRST
YEAR In TOMBS CELL
HAVE been in the Tombs prison

I HAVE been in the Tombs prison
1 just one year," said Harry K.
Thaw the other day. 1T is long
time. had hoped to leave this place
long before now. l feel that when
get my next trial it will result in an
absolute acquittal. l am positive of
it,
Thaw has not made known who his
senior trial lawyer will be the next
time. That it will not be Delmas
Thaw has made known to his init
mates in the Tombs. He thinks now
that he made grave mistake when
he chose Californian to represent
him before a New York jury. But
who his choice will be is not a mat
ter of public knowledge.
If Thaw is insane, as some of the
experts testified at the last trial, he