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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
MAKER OF MELODRAMAS
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 nN PETAL to the primitive emo- "VA tiOns of humanity and you
 have the secret of writing successful melodrama," said Owen Davis, just at present busted with the rehearsals of some eight companies in eight different new melodramas from his pen
 T will have seventeen melodramas on the road this season, eight of which are new.
 You know the life of the melodrama is short. It scarcely runs beyond 0 sea son.
 There are rare ones which do have two out now-'Chinatown Charley, in it's fourth year. and Nellie. the Beautiful Cloak Model. in it's third.
 Managers, however, do not care to nun short of melodramas and they keep 1he playwright working overtime in order to have a ready-made supply in case one fails.
 "The name has a great deal to do with the success of a play of this kind.
 Take, for instance. Nellie, the Beau tiful Cloak Model There is not a su- perfuous word in that title It could not be called The Cloak Model Such a title has no individuality. You couldn't call it The Beautiful Cloak Model because 1t still lacks character. But when you call it Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. it means something to every eye. To the mind and imagination spring up a fund oft tpo to it4ct baf Ia tit1a means, and the crowds go in to see just what Nellie, possessed of beauty, which causes her to be set upon a pedestal as model of all that Is perfect in woman, does.
 ''l have another play, running at present in Pittsburg, called Edna, the Pretty Typewriter You see the significance of the adjective pretty instead of 'beauti- ful or handsome Pretty is an ad- jective universally applied to typewriter girls. We don't wish to change what the vast bulk of humanity call her.
 ''The audiences who pack the melo- drama houses really believe what is trans bring, no matter how impossible some action of the play may be. l went down opening night of my Convict 999' and sat in the audience. There is a scene where a woman has q fight with a convict in a cellar. There is nothing in it but a table on which is burning a lamp. During the quarrel the lamp is put out and the woman, for safety, gets under the table The criminal whips out a gun and shoots at the four corners of the room to find out where she 1t. By some accident the footlights, which should have gone out, were turned down only quarters. The woman was plainly visible to the william, yet he shot at the other three corners of the room, and when it came time for the fourth corner to be shot at the woman screamed
 "A young woman leaned over to the one sitting next to me and asked: What is the matter with him? Why don't he shoot her?' An! don't you see he is blind?'
 such remark.
 T have running at the Fourteenth Street theatre play called "A Chorus Girls Luck in New York
 Tn this play I depict all possible con- ditions of the chorus girl. take the au- dience behind the scenes and show the dressing-rooms, but I dare not show the girls as they appeared in the Chorus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
Have Had Too Much Prosperity.

Henry Clews in his weekly financial review of Saturdays date says: The shrinkage In Wall street values has al- ready exceeded s9,ooo, 100000. This is large ly due. not to President Roosevelt's pol icy or his actions in connection with cor porations; for similar disturbances have taken place in London and elsewhere. English Consols for instance, are lower today than they have been in the history of the nation. As a matter of fact, we have had in this country too much pros perity for several years, causing an over doing In all channels of work, construc- tion and speculation. In other words, there has been too much business for cap ital, credit and transportation. Values had become inflated. and in the meantime there were many evidences of corporate dishonesty which shocked confidence by the revelations that cropped out from time to time. Mir. Roosevelts policy has been forced upon him by these develop ments. While thep enalty now being paid may be bitter for the excesses that have taken place, the situation will be sound- CT one in the end and all interests will be established on a more conservative basis Great prosperity has forced upon corporations a larger amount of business than they had the ability to handle: hence the flooding of the market with securiteis to obtain the means to meet the emer- gency and the excessive issues from that source. It Is plain to be seen, there- fore, that those who blame Mir Roose- welt for all our troubles are in error Actual conditions have been mainly re- sponsible, We have beer -Anfronted with conditions. not theories
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A wedding Is a very pleasant affair un- less you are the bridegroom.
 The chief reason a man objects so much to swearing off is everybody wants him to.
 Generally a girl falls in love with a particular man because there isn't any other handy to fall in love with.
 nice thing about vacation is the good excuses you have to get rested up from it when you are home again.
 When woman has very small feet it's a sign she doesn't have to fib so much about the size of shoes she wears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
POETRY IS LOOKING UP

wretch who "drest in purple"-a color much affected by men of convivial han- lts-a and deckt with gold gets up from gorg1ng sinful meals, a drunken sot... But there are some who are not para sites. Lightfeast for example. is a stoc,sv young fellow:
 His shanks are round
 And sound
 Weighty, freighty,
 Sinewy, sinuous.
 Many of pr. Neefs poems are rather Anacreontic. Among them are verses in which he pays his respects to the Nixie, the Nautch girl. the Ellie, and the Bac- chosmaid. This last Is probably what a chorus girl is called in Ellenville. Ten thousand tomaps bright. bright and twinkling," he will give to his "skittish dancing Nautchmaid." No footnote in- forms what the value of toman IS In American money; but ten thousand of them would surely make a handsome present.
 Travellers will be interested in two poems, one of which gives a graphic ac- count of the General Slocum disa ster. while the other tells of '"The Midnight Train" After approaching the frightened poet,
 sporting snorting up The steaming steed screams stoutly hip,
 hip, hup,
 To the midnight ghouls who answer the
 loud shriek.
 drowning accident described in short poem called Maria" is not we trust founded on reality for Maria and the poet sank on a ship, while her "mois- tening look betrayed the fact that sine loved him, as a "creaking shiver crept through the hull" And then, Maria, l felt thy soul-waves surging against mine own, while loud Jupiter rovered." The last poem in the volume is ono ITO Ssemyon Jacovevitsh Nadson," which opens thus: Thou sangst thIne song in far more ponderous tongue" and furthermore declares: Thine song-like music of the rain in
 spring
 Aroused but green-eyed envy's venomed
 sting
 One gets an impression that MT Mad son must have been very unfortunate man But the poet himself Is an illus tration of his own wise observation that "a poetic genius should have liberty and a wide playground for his spontaneous ebullitlons-though naturally not without the sanitary restraint whiC all art im- poses."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
From the New York Post.

From the New York Post.
 1 Wo volumes of verse coming at IVY almost the same time from two
 of our literary centers should encourage those who have been despond- ent about American poetry. Songs After Noon' is by Alvin B. Bishop of Boston; the other is "The Strife of Life" by the Rev. Dr. Gotthold August Neef of Ellenville, N, Y. MT. Bishops poems are redolent of flowers and sprightly with the gay talk and play of little children, while Dr. Neefs muse is rebellious against present social conditions, and de- scriptive of sorrow and often of passion ate love. If MT Bishop had been born in lowlier station, he would, one feels, have made an excellent gardener. He writes of morning glories, dandelions, the flower of which uncloses when morn re- turns, the seeding, the weed, the bower and the sun-kissed blossom In the forest We do not have to read his pem, Let me have children around me-" to know that he is fond of them.
 Children of a larger growth have sometimes engaged his attention, for he relates that one day he picked up a peb- ble near the sounding sea, and placed it next his heart-probably in his waist coat pocket-and it grew rounder and fairer to his view, until one day it had "become the pearl called Love" Hence he says elegantly: Dear girl thou vert the pebble and thou art the pearl" MT. Bishop speaks of animals as well of plants. flowers, children and pebbles; he mentions the following fauna of North America; Lambs birds. horses, birdles, minnows the black tomcat, the "tethered cow" robins, orioles. nightingales, pig eons the donkey and the goose.
 Dr. Neef's poems are earnest and emc- tional in character. They are dedicated to six persons who from a sympathetic and responsive heart have assisted and inspired struggling talent" Two of these are ladies' three are artists, while the sixth is MT. Mark Popkin of New York "Foreword' states that the author is a Ph. D. and clergyman, and he has written both, German and English verse, that he has passed through "the school of criticism in two countries and ian guages." and that "a critic well known on two continents" has officially de- clared that Dr. Neef is a poet Of no mean order" Indeed. a letter written by the poet himself to one of the morn- ing papers says that "Neef'' has been pronounced by an admirer to have writ ten in both tongues poems rich and re- splendent in color"
 Like his Boston contemporary, this poet is fond of flowers. His learned appeal to the honeysucke begins "Oh Lonicera, and there are verses addressed to the chrysanthemum. the lotos and the tube rose. Five stanzas sing the praises of the prairie flower with the haunting re- frain:
 Prairie O Prairie.
 O what a shame.
 Born on the prairie
 Minus a name.
 His poem entitled. My Song is a fierce but not a cruel attack upon wealth and power "I write" he says, not to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
HYMN TO THE CREATION.

By Joseph Addison. The spacious Armament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spal.gled heaven, shining frame, Their great original proclaim; Tn unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creators power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up and the wond rou
 tale,
 And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tdings as they roll, And spread the news from pole to pole What though. in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball? What though no real voice nor sound Ami6 found? In re oice, And yoice, Fore inc, The diviD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
Sunday Work.

Look at that labor force rushing work on the improvements of the Louisville and Nashville on Sunday" said man at the depot yesterday. "It don't look as though the old Ellen N Is much afraid of the outcome at Montgomery when 1t is up and doing seven days in the week, spending thousands of dollars right here In betterments, and thus getting ready for increased business.
 By the way, these Improvements are going to prove quite ornamental to this part of the city and add largely to the tax list"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

gy which in other times sought a more serious object Is apparently as satisfac- tory to the participant as political plotting and decidedly more advantageous to so- ciety. Prince Charlie very likely in this year Of grace would find in ballooning or motor car racing or polar or African
 exploration a zest quite equal to that of leading the Highland clansmen to Cullo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
ASKING TOO MUCH.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 They were trying to explain to the Aus tralian bushman the principle of the curved ball.
 That's all rot" he said. Tt is easy enough to throw a boomerang so it will turn around and come back to you, but nobody can make me believe you can throw a round ball so it will describe a curve. These nature fakers make the tired!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
Straw Voting in inc Central West

Straw Voting in The CentraI West
 The Chicago Tribune has just com pleted the first straw vote of the pre- limlnary presidential campaign. It boiled 1700 editors, congressman and chairmen of state and county commit tees-all republicans-in eleven states of the Central West. Of the 1700 men addressed, 1435 answered, and the vote stood as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

come warm and better and at present the indications are that the inter- ests" will be lined up solidly in favor Joe Cannon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
JOHN D. AHEAD. AS USUAL

From the Baltimore American.
 John D. Rockefeller gets s7S95 from Uncle Sam for going to Chicago and telling Uncle Sam what he didn't know Query: Who's 1t?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

The Tribune claims that the vote comes from men in touch with the re- publioans of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa. Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas. No vote was sought except from rep resentative men. The light vote for MT. Roosevelt is due to the belief of republicans that he will not again con sent to become a nominee. Taft is no doubt the choice today of the Central West, and if Hughes should secure the greater share of the Cannon vote he would prove a good second, and thus be in good position to become the nomi- nee of the republican party. At any rate the race is pretty well confined to Taft and Hughes, and one of them will no doubt become the republican stan dard-bearer in 1908
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Morocco Is full of wouldbe rulers and sure-enough fanatics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

When John D. Rockefeller sent in bill for $73a5 as a witness the amount should have been credited on the fine of S29.24O.0OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

The innocence of the Standard Oil is something astonishing. See it's re- cent amphlet manifesto, written, per haps, by Chance Day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

A grade crossing in a city is alike a danger to the railroad and to the people. They should be weeded out or rather covered over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

The president of the United States and Theodore Roosevelt are in accord every time on every subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Frost in the Adirondacks and in the Northwest, and doubtless too at the North Pole. Fall is marching on and summer Is waning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Georgia expects next year great re- turns from peaches, melons and pre- scriptions under the new prohibition laws
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Uncle Sam is about to buy three more islands-this time in Panama bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Platt and Depew warmly admire Attorney General Bonaparte, who re- gently said he had no intention of re- signing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Fairbanks continues to tour the country, refrigerating 1t as he goes. He gathers more views of scenery than votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

William Jennings Bryan's reply to Taft is next in order. It will appear in The Commoner, but all rights are not reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

The Boers must have plenty of loose change, for they are preparing to give King Edward the Cullinan diamond at a cost of a million dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Mark Twains jumping-frog story may have lost some of it's humor when 1t was turned into Swedish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

An importer of picture post cards in New York has failed, and this is re- garded as a sign that the fad has reached it's climax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Senator Foraker Is no longer poten- tial in Ohio. He may yet go to join Platt and Depew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Wall street may as well cease to have panics, for no one sits up to take notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Schmitz has ceased to be 'Frisco's mayor, but no court has declared that Abe Ruef has ceased to be it's boss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

Governor Hughes new baby will be able to walk and to tallz-in March, 1909.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

The favorlte sons will be strong in the first ballot of the republican na- tional convention, but in the second ballot they will begin to get wobbly preparatory to disappearance alto gether
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

All political aspirants nowadays are either trust-busters or trust-boosters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26
Prairie, O Prairie.
 O what a shame. Born on the prairie Minus a name.

His poem entitled. My Song" is a fierce but not cruel attack upon wealth and power. q write" he says, not to .agitate. nor "anarchize,H nor ''anathe
 matize" Yet he calls man "a parasite of this fat earth who gluttons on it for a while, and describes the "heartless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-26

No nature writer will receive { Nobel prize.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-15

These stories lack confirmation, but
they serve to heighten the vigilence of
Warden Whitney and his deputies.
Reports from the prison say that
Orchard is in good health and condition
and that he continues his reading along
religious lines, that he will unques-
tionably repeat his confession in court
and that he is ready for the fate made
certain by his confession.
Boise, calm in ordinary circumstances
sleeps today under a new Sunday rest
law, operative for the first time. Base
ball. one of the few exceptions of the
new moral close season, attracted many
of the participants in the case. Hay
wood received his family under the
trees on the court house lawn and for
an hour watched his youngest child
play with litter of Spitz puppies.
Pettibone looked on from a barred
window and in the group on the lawn
Sheriff Hodgin strolled with few of
his deputies. Attorneys Richardson and
Darrow came later and talked for a
time with their client. Tonight Clar-
ence Darrow, of counsel for the defens0
lectured at the Unitarian church, his
theme being, "Walt Whitman, Poet. -
1t required imagination to construct
and realize the great tragedy that
moves forward here tomorrow; the
grass carpeted prison yard, the streets,
the scenes the people, in the Sunday
calm would contradict the idea, but the
coming and going of counsel, witnesses,
deputies and detectives at the offices
of the attorneys for the prosecution
and defense proves the activity of
those interested on either side.
Governor Gooding, who spent the last
few days on his extensive sheep ranch
near Shoshone, returned to Boise this
morning
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-15
CONSTABLE IS
AFTER SALARY
JAMES R. RUSSELL SUES
ESMERALDA COUNTY.
$3.50 Due Him as Salary-The
Commissioners Fight Case.

GOLDFIELD, May IA difference
as to the matter of fees has led to a
friendly suit by former Constable Jas.
M. Russell of Goldfeld against the
county of Esmeralda. Mr.. Russell
alleges that he served as constable in
Goldfeld from March /, 1905, to Oc-
tober 30, 1906. During this time, he
says, he presented bills to the county
commissioners for 13,s1575, of which
sum $9,S61.05 was paid leaving a bal
ance due of 1884, for which he asks
Judgment. statement of facts, signed
by the attorneys of both plaintiff and
defendant, accompany the complaint.
The answer fled in the case simply
denies that there is any sum owing to
Russell.
1t appears from the statement of
facts and complaint that Mr.. Russell
claimed that he was entitled to the
same fees in criminal cases as those
paid to the sheriff, while the commits
sioners took an opposite view. This
is the only point in the case upon
which the court will be called upon to
decide.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-15
UR CONTEMPORARY ACROSS
THE STREET Is IN ERROF
resent Legal Matters Between Owners
Of the Paper Has Nothing to Do
With Present Management.

A suit in the Second Judicial District
Court in which Thomas Nelson. John G.
Taylor, James r. Harvey, Thomas Me-
Connell, A. Reinhart and r. T. Evans
are the plaintiffs and the Winnemucca
Publishing company, corporation, the
def ndants, was filed yesterday. This
action, which our contemporary improp-
erly calls a suit against the Silver
State, was brought by the above men
toned defendants, who are also mem
bers of the company against whom the
suit was brought, to secure from the
corporation moneys which the indi-
vidual members have advanced to the
company and to secure a Judgment
whereby the Silver State plant will be-
come the property of the respective
members who have advanced the
money.
The statement that the Silver State
is being sued, or the insinuation that
the present action has anything to do
with the present management of the
paper is entirly erroneous and absurd.
The Silver State is now entering one
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-15
SAM DAVIS STILL
HAS HIS TROUBLES

CARSON, New, May 13.-The trou-
bles of Sam Davis and the Nevada
publicity committee as still far from
settled, for though it is understood
that the attorney general has an
nounced that the committee is eatitled
to room for its work in the capitol
building, still the room has not been
provided.
1t will be remembered that when the
committee applied for quarters in the
capitol it was refused by the secretary
of state.
The matter is still dragging and
though much valuable time has been
consumed since the committee was
authorized to act, nothing has been
done.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-15
ROSEBUD'S FIRST
ORE Shipment
GALA DAY IN HISTORY OF
CAMP ROSEBUD COMING SOON.
Officials of the Company Now Arrang-
ing With Railroad On Rates for
Transportation Of Ore.

Phil Blume arrived from Rosebud,
Via Lovelock, last evening and states
that preparations are now being made
for the first shipment of ore from the
Brown Palace mine at Rosebud. The
officials of the company are now nego-
tiating with the railroad company to
secure rates on ore transportation and
when these arrangements are con-
cluded the shipments will follow.
The first shipment of ore will be a
gala day in the history of Rosebud and
the residents of the progressive camp
will suitably label the shipment after
it is put on the cars with the name Of
the famous camp from whence it comes
and it's value per ton.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-15
lat "SUIT AGAINST
THE SILVER STATE"
Has Nothing to Do with the Present Manage
ment--.The Paper is now Entering upon the
Most Encouraging Period Of Business
Within Its History

of the most encouraging periods of it's
existence and the management of the
paper was somewhat taken aback when
the startling information was read that
it was being sued. It's thoughts few
wildly over the men and events of the
past who have been criticized. The
sheriff IS office, the commissioner IS
office and others passed in quick re-
view but to conjure up proper
reasons for cause for action was
impossible. just at this time when the
management of the paper, to enter a
field in which it has been seriously
handicapped in the past because of a
lack of facilities, are preparing NEW
AND GREATER SILVER STATE, the
suit information caused little thrill
of heart failure. While the subject of
the improvements which will be insti-
tuted is dismissed at this time until a
short while in the future, the "suit
against the Silver Stateo will bear a
little further investigation.
Newspaper men are prone to err, and
no man who has knowledge of the
business will hold aught against a
newspaper error. Error sometimes
brings notoriety, and to that reasoning
we have settled in our mind why it was
that TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS in the
town OF Winnemucca were added to our
list yesterday.