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so do l. I've seen him on his native heath. Hops. an old and woll-seasoned bloodhound might be able to trail 8 brick cheese across a pool table with out getting lost in one of the side pockets, but no young and compara- lively inexperienced one could.
 "The bloodhound starts out with the best of intentions. His red tongue lolls from his low rallish jaw. He is baying like a-like a bay tree, we'll say. Close behind him comes de- termined posse of deputy assessors and shipping clerks. All looks bright for the capture of the miscreants who have blown open the safe of the Second National Bank after feeding the night watchman part of a linoleum door mat. The wretches have but a few hours start. On, Ring, On, Queen!
 At the critical moment the track is crossed by another trail. But it is de- tected by the unerring noses of the sagacious and relentless beasts. In stantly they turn and make off jn a fresh direction and four hours later, after a relentless chase, they run to earth the beaten and exhausted fugi- tive. It Is a field mouse!
 Well, house dogs often ketch boi- glers," protested the head bell-hoy. Just the other day seen where"
 "Yes, I know" continued MT. Me- Bean. You raise the faithful house dog the same as a member of your own family, only more carefully. You allow him to bring home his chance acquaintances You smile at his fancy for hiding aged beef bones in the pi- anola. You permit him to hold Old Home Weeks for the fleas You pamper his discriminating appetite. He ob- jects to leftover vittles and you buy for him the choice tenderloip and eat the cold mutton yourself. Hops. the fellow who wrote it that two could live as cheap as one didn't mean that one
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is given in The Housexeeper for Septem- Der That ito the manner born is cor rect is evident from the context of the phrase. which occurs in Hamlet. Act 1, Scene ". While Hamlet and his friends. Horatlo and Marcellus. are waiting on the platform outside of the palace for the possible appearance of the ghost of the dead king. the noise of a flourish of trumpets and the roar of q cannon are heard In explanation of this Hamlet savs.
 "rhe King doth wake tonight and takes
 his rouse. Keep wassail and the swaggering up-
 spring reels: And as he drains his draught of Rhenish
 down
 The kettle drum and trumpet thus bray
 out
 The triumph of his pledse
 This allusion is to an actual practice at banouets among the ancient Saxons and Danes. of proclaiming with salute each time that the king drained his goblet. Therefore. 10 the question ''Is 1t GUS tom?" Hamlet replies:
 "Ay. merry, is't. But 10 my mind. though I am native
 here.
 And to the manner born-lt is a custom More honored in the breach than in the
 observance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
BY IRWIN s. COBB
G.s.C.o.C.-C.s-C..-C..-e
CT SEE by the papers the license

<<Y SEE by the papers the license
 bureau reports more'n two
 A hundred thousand dog owners" ]" remarked the head bell-boy.
 Its a terrible thing," said Mclean, the chief clerk.
 What's terrible thing?" asked the head bell-boy.
 "A terrible thing that so many we'll meaning, though, perhaps, feeble minded persons should be owned by dogs. My heart goes out to those two hundred white slaves in this fair city of ours"
 What started you off, singing the sad verse;" said the bell-boy. You aint got no dog, have your"
 No. and no dogs got me, either" said MT. Mclean. q return thanks daily that there are no such outward and visible taints of insanity in my family. Hops, the surest way to lead 8 dogs life in this town is to try to lead the dog. In the extreme south, now, where coon dog that has con- sistently held himself aloof from the mango and other foreign entangle- ments is valued considerably higher than colored person and has an even better chance of casting vote, there may be wisdom in the course which impels the Caucasian sovereign of eight acres of sorghum cane and cow peas to fill his front yard full of deep voiced hound puppies and prominent elbows and open faces. But why I put it to you, in the great, crowded metropolis, does a maiden lady resid- Ing in hall bedroom that would be just the right size to contain framed crayon portrait if the crayon portrait was framed flat-why, I ask you does she cucumber herself with an ostensi- ble dog that's almost as much comfort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

"HAT Trebizon Is not so fascinat-
 ing a town as it's fascinating name
 ! seems to imply, anr as certain comic opera Princess of years past would naturally make us believe, put that on the whole, the southern coast or the Black Sea is full of picturesque tnd romantic surprises, is part of what Jus tus Miles Forman learned in the course of the six months tour from which pie turesque and romantic surprises, is part or the six months spent in the southern Black Sea region-practically an un- known country to Americans. MT. For man went from place to place. just as fancy dictated. travelling for most of the time in the sailing craft of the natives. but making incursions into the interior whenever tempted by particularly all turing mountains or streams.
 If is the custom of MT. Forman to snend half of each year in travelling, and he always aims to reach distant and out of-the-way places. It is Of America, how ever. that he most loves to write. rather than of distant and little known lands and his latest novel, "A Stumbling Block" is of present day America and Americans as was also his Buchanan s Wife" published last year.
 Tn a recent article in an English perl odical by AnqreW Lang, ne tahes iilehu- ,v issue with Mir. Howells in regard to some views expressed by the veteran American concerning the kind of char ecters now popular in fiction. But all though differing in a friendly way, from some of Mir. .Howells' judgments, Mr. lang feels frank and cordial admiration for him.
 .No man has written more in the high er criticism of modern novels than Mir. Fovells' he declares. His knowledge of them is cosmopolitan. Spanish Italian, French, Russian. and. I dare nay, Fin oish. Romaic! and Portuguese novels are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
OPINIONS OF THE HOTEL CLERK

perhaps muss up his hair slightly but no more. Such flows of information as I have heard emerging from him from time to time made me think of a z-coumn in a dictionary. But even so, until he contracted the deadly dog habit he was doing very well for the society in which he moved. He started with small, reasonable dog. But, in time, he became so addicted to the vice that when he changed back in cool weather from heavy dog to light dog he caught cold. NOW, be- hold his lamentable state-belng i'm posed on by a tyrannical canine or augmented size. Any day, I'm expect ing to hear that he has committed sui eide on account of being discharged without reference by his present proprietor, The Great Dane.
 With q horse It's different! You take a race horse, now. l never took the right one, but you might. You see his picture on the sporting page. You hurriedly scan that long, serious head, those almost invisible eyebrows and them full bangs, worn low on the fore head and at first blush, you think it's photograph of princess of one of the reigning houses of Flu rope. Then you look again, and you say to yourself: No, 'tis not female member of the royal family of Den mark. tis a horse' And so you be- gin to take an interest in him. You read of his peerless record on the turf and you go down on the track some day when he's running and make the acuuaintance of stable-h hand who Is in a position to know all about him by reason of having enjoyed the friend ship of his ancestors on both sides for several generations, and you bet your money on him, and lose.
 And. as I was saying. lose; but even after he contracts the habit or being detained to an extent which
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off his upturned legs and then go back to the bench show and report progress on the part of the Reception Commit tee.
 You may have read of the thrilling conduct of the noble and flea-bearing Newfoundland which, when its master is in peril of drowning, plunges into the flood and rescues him. l had a third cousin once who was perfect Bosco when 1t comes to devouring such tales as that. And he owned Newfoundland and likewise had a penchant for making an idiot of him. self. Just being plain, domestic idiot would never satisfy him. He had to be one of the large, imported, golden rusSet California idiots, with pink net ting tied over the top of the basket.
 "So one day he casually overturned a row boat in which he was riding in order 10 be rescued by his Newfound- land. He felt that it would be con- paratively simple task for the cour- ageous animal, because he didn't swim himself.
 And what did that splendid New foundland dog do? Did he plunge in? He did, Hops, he did! He plunged in with a loud splash. And then some time after he had dragged my cousin out as he was going down for the third time, the fearless brute swan ashore, well-nigh exhausted, but still holding between his faithful jaws a straw hat worth thirty-nine cents. And after that, although faint and weak from exertions, he went right back and dived down and saved the iron anchor of the row boat. His master was still draped across barrel at the time, but I remember now as if twas yesterday how I patted that grand creature upon the head with a scantling.
 "Then, there's the bloodhound. You know about the bloodhound and his invaluable services to mankind? Well,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
A Compromise.

From September Llppineotts
 Four year-old Gordon was the devoted owner of a cloth doll called Maude. from which he could not be parted even after 1t became SO dilapidated that thte other members Of the family would have ds- pensed with its company without mur- mur. One morning he started on walk with his grandmother, and as usual Maudie was hugged close In his arms.
 "Oh. Gordon" exclaimed his compan- idn. do throw that dreadful looking old doll away and grandmother will buy you a new one,
 An azonized expression spread over the little fellows countenance. "Oh, grand mother" he replied sadly. "1 couldn't throw Maudie away but I'll try to loso hAs."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

lated by Lionel Strachey Alice in Blum derland.' by John Kendrick Banss The Uprising of the Many" by Charles Russell; Famous Stories Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie; 'rhe Road to Happi- ness" by Mrs. Van Court Schuyler' and Artificial Soft Paste Porcelain by Ed win Barber, in their Art Primers se- ries
 Elizabeth Robins. author of that almost masculine novel of life in the Klondike, "The Magnetic North has written a story of different locality and subject, which will be published in the fall by F. A. Stokes Company It's title Is 'un- der the Southern Cross" and 1t relates in her own words the romance of charm ing girls sea trip from San Francisco to New York by way of Panama. She des- cribes in a qquant manner her ardent woong by a young and fiery PeruVlan baron whose methods are interestingly strange to American readers. The book is very beautifully Illustrated In colors by John Ray. who seems 10 have studied the characters of the story with pa tience and insight only too rare among present day artists.
 Among the autumn publications Of F.. A. Stokes Company there will be novels by Francis Hodgson Burnett, Harold Bindloss. Elizabeth Robins, Weymer Jay Nils and Dufield Osborne There Will also be special gift edition Of Ihe Garden of Allah.' by Robert Hichens. This edition will contain thirty-two full Uage illustrations of unusual beauty from nhotographs of the scenes of the novel taken for this purpose. The book Is printed on special paper with wide mar gins and has handsomely designed binding.
 The Uncle Remus" stories, which for years have delighted young people are al last to be Brought out in a sort of picture book form. which should extend their nopularity to a still wider circle. This should include even those young people who are not able to read, and those older people who are too busy to read. The volume to which we refer is entitled 'Un-
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cle Remus and Brer Rabbit" and Is to be published by F A. Stokes Company this fall. It contains many amusing ad- ventures of Bre'r Rabbit, by Joel Chand- Ter Harris. and large full-page illustra- tions in color by J. A. Condo, whose work all know who have read MT. Harris stories before. The pictures are very abundant and their bright colors attract the eye and persuade the most indiffer ent person to delve into the book.
 A little story is being told of rather pleasing incident which occurretd as a result of the perusal of Anna Katharine Greens detective story "The Mayors Wife" by two young people in Chicago.
 The gentleman In question having found the novel interesting sent q copy to a clever girl friend, who Is more than attractive to him. The lady enjoyed the book. and In writing her note of thanks and appreciation, transcribed her message in the cipher used In the tale. On the envelope she wrote house and street number in plain English, but used the characters of the cipher in spelling her admirers name. The young man lives on an avenue which crosses a business street that Is largely occupied by Chinese laundres and restaurants, and the mall carrier of the district who delivers much matter to the Celestials. jumped 10 the conclusion that the peculiar appearing name on this letter must be Chinese so he took 1t to one of the laundrymen to be interpreted Hop Ling was deeply inter ested but emphatically pronounced the letters absolutely unrelated to his lan- guage
 The carrier then presented the note at the proper address saying. Heres a letter from some heather foreigner who has used your number by mistake. know it isn't for any of you people,"
 Fortunately the lover himself was present and recognized the handwriting in the address. He claimed the missive, and then devoted three days to digging out the hidden meaning of the delightful communication.
 The Baker & Taylor Company. who are the publishers of "Dimbie and l." announce that Mabel Barnes-Grundy is working on her new book. and for this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
REALN OF BOOKS

all familiar to him, while, if there Is promising young 'flctionist, he humor- ously adds. "among the Samoyedes or Eskimo MT. Howells is the man to lend him an applauding pair of hands And he refers, with genial usefulness, to the fact that he and Mir. Howells are literary brethren, because the degree of Lit D. was conferred on both of them by oxford University a few years ago. Are we not both doctors of letters-both simultaneously taken. as the man said, in fagrante D. Litto?'
 Mistaken reference is so often made to what is termend the "epitaph written by Mark Twain for his wife" that it is worth while to set the matter straight. The epitaph referred to was not placed upon the tombstone of Mir. Clemens wife, but upon that of his daughter. Susie. It was not original with Mark Twain. but was taken by him from little poem written some fifteen years ago by an Australian poet named Robert Richard son. It appeared in a book of poems by Richardson. which was published in Ed inburgh in 1s93 under the title of "Wil- low and Wattles.
 The verse used as the epitaph is as fol- lows:
 "Warm summer sun, Shine kindly here,
 Warm southern wind,
 Blow softly here
 Green sod above.
 I.'a light lie light.
 Good night. dear heart.
 Good night, good night
 The verse has so often been referred to as being Mark Twain's own composition t Iod ba pap of | an actual author of it carved upon the stone. Doubleday. Page & Co. announce Me- moirs of an Arabian Princess" trans
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He Discusses Domestic Pets


leaves the talent in doubt whether he's finishing last in the first race or first in the last race. you still hold him in the memory. You find tickets on him when you go to the bank to ask them to renew your note, and you murmur his name, as it were, softly. Event ualy you hear Of him drawing a car with his ribs standing out prominently in a xylophone effect; and even after that, he comes back to you disguised as bottle of liquid glue So you keep in touch with him. and have something to remember him by long after you've caught even on what he cost you.
 T have. myself, invested in horse. flesh, Hops. although the goods were never delivered. But as to Fido. I have different feelings. once knew a worthy man that had been the friend and companion of the same dog for eighteen years. In time. the man lost his teeth. but the dog kept his One day the man got tired of having his face fold up on him like a concertina when he ate spoon vttles. So he went 10 the dentists and that evening when he came home proud and happy be- cause his nose would no longer try to dislocate his chin when he took bite of boiled mush, the dog. his companion for all these years, dashed out to meet him-and chewed several rectangular slabs out of him. He was almost de- voured before he could furl the new crockery and be recognized.
 Didn't you ever see dog you'd want to own?" asked the head bell boy.
 "Yes, I saw one yesterday on Sixth Avenue l wouldn't mind having if had room for him." said the Hotel Clerk.
 Where did you see him?" asked the head bell-boy.
 At taxidermist's, said the Hotel Clerk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

purpose is living in retirement at Pro Tem.' Marple. Cheshire, England. The second edition of "Dimble" is now on the press.
 It Is interesting to note that in 'I'he Story of Joseph" to be published this fall by the Baker x Taylor Company, George Alfred Williams, the Illustrator, supplies a foreword on Egypt. giving, az 1t were q background of the people and the life of the various castes, describing the existence of q Pharaoh the priests, the soldiers and the husbandmen. the last class being the one with which Joseph had so much to do.
 The September publications of the Ba- ler & Taylor Company include the fol- loving titles: Life of Japan." by Ma sujl Miyakawa; "A Man of sark" by John Oxenham; "The Story of My Child hood" by Clara Barton. of Red Cross fame and "Jnana Yosa." Part 2. by the Swami Yvekananda.
 Frederic Mistra, whose memoirs are to appear this fall from the house of Baker & Tavlor Company, has been a winner of the Nobel prize which, with q singular devotion 10 the cause to which he has given up hls life he bestowed on tho foundation of museum In Aries. where are 10 be preserNeu lHe HiphuIhehls' rei- ics, weapons. costumes, etc. of the prov ence It is interesting to know that Mir Roosevelt has been warm admirer Of Nistral and an agreeable correspond ence has been exchanged between them His memoirs are devoted to his early life only. and tell of the publication of Mir ellle,1 which Gounod adapted as the libretto for lis opera of the same name There is a short summary of Monsieur Paul Mareton which brings the history of Felibrge up to the present day The work will contain many very interesting illustrations.
 Following l.. Phillips Oppenheim's new novel, "A Lost Leader " Little, Brown & Company will publish a new story from the pen of Fred M. White. another popu- lar English author. entitled ''The Neither Millstone." Mir. White Is the well known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
To the Manner Born.

Whether the word be manner" or Manor" in the often used quotation, IS a question frequently asked. The answer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

The Globe edition of the English poets. probably the best known and most widely used of all such editions. Is 10 appear this fall in a new series to be designated as "'rhe New Globe Poets" At the same time the works of Byron are to be added to the series. with an introductory bio graphical sketch by the late Sir Leslie Stephen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

author of "rhe Crimson Blind The Slave of Silence" and "The Midnight Guest" His latest story, "fhe Nether Mlllstone." displays his signal ability as a delft weaver of plot and counterplot' winch lead the critics to hall him as "one of the princes of fiction The Neither Millstone' will be published Sep tember 21st.
 Arthur Strnger. who is spending the summer on his fruit farm in Canada. is poet as well as a novelist, and the best of his verse that has appeared In the leading magazines. together with entirely new poems. will be published this fall. One of Mir Stringers novels, "The Wire Tappers. Is to be draHalHen tIls autumn.
 Mi. E. V Lucas, the London novel Ist. essayist and editor, has already shown himself q versatile and original literary worker, but he has never had a happier inspiration than that which Is embodied in his forthcoming book. ''rhe Gentlest Art" The art alluded to in the title is that of letter writing, and the volume is an anthology of the most entertaining letters in the language.
 Not only are the famous letter writers of England-such as Walpole. Chester field Lamb, ct al.-represented, but the great letter writers of fiction are also included. Mir. Lucas aim has been to make the volume entertaining and anus ing from beginning to end. and, consid- ering the material on which he may draw, he would have little excuse If he failed.
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The Baker X Taylor Company. who are the publishers of "Dimbie and l."
 announce that Mabel Barnes-Grundy Is working on her new book. and for this
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1907-06-04
Sc HA IKSTALADO Ell TELEFONO EN-
BARCELONETA.
Ell l0Vsn manatlefO Lopez SIGsrdd alGanzt su IL
tulo de m6dlGO, con nOtas sOhrssaIsntes.
Ode mWestrO cOrrespOmsGl.

JUNO 2.-Ha llegado esta localidad
proesdentes de los Estadog Unidos los
apreciables jovenes don Fernando Suria y
don Gerardo DeBpiau.
Ell empleado de "La Dsmocracia'
don J. Lastra nos ha honrado con una vi
sta, cont5ndolo desde hoy en- Ell ndmero
de nueEtroS amigos.
Ell joven manatie1o' don Rafael Lo
PEI Sicard6 que ha hecho su cRrrera de
m6dico en- los Estsdos Unidos con notas
sobreSRlientes llegar6 mediadoB del mes
? varioB amigos de BaTceloneta iran sa-
ludarlo & San Juan.
va Be ha instalado squf 81 tel6fono y
Ia noticia ha pToducido mucha algeria en-
la jurisdiction.
-Ha fAllecido en- este pobIado la Beno.
rita Julia Arroyo, DANA muy simp6tica ?
virtuosa y su entierro aaisti6 numeroBa
concurrencia.
LAS espilituales y encantadoras Eeio'
Titas C6rdova D6vila y Quintero Sc han
despedido para Vega Baja.
Ell telegraista se1or Cruz ha Bido
trasladado JuncoB.
-HsmoB estrschado la mRno del apre.
ciabIe doctor ViIlsmil que ha salido para
Gurabo desempefiar Ia titular de squsl
pueblo.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1907-06-04
ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA
DEPARTAMEATO DEL LIBTERIOR
Ofcina del Superintendent dc O6ras
PubEeas.

Proposiciones en- pliegos cerTados para
adjudication en- pdblica subasta del sunni.
nistrC, medida = entrega de 1000 metros
cdbicos, mas menos, de pisdEs tTiturads
para Ia construction de los Kilometres %
al q, carretsra ndmero 2. Reyes Cat6ii.
cos & Vega Alta 30 sdmitirkn en- esta Of
Gina hEsta las II q. m. del dfa Is de Ju.
Mo de 1907 en- que se abIirGn pdblica
menta.
TodoH los dstos ueCesarios So dar6n en-
ests ofcina donde ss encuentran de mani
6esto todos los documentOs que han de re.
CIR en- Ia contrats y pOdFan recrg4r los Ii.
citadoTes los modelos de proposiciOnes que
han de presentar.
La administration SO reserva 81 derecho
de Techazar cua!quiera todas las pFopo.
siciones.
Por Orden del Comisionado del l terror,
J. J. Jim6nez, Superintendents Of Public
Works. San Juan, P. R, Mayo 81 de
1907. n. 2-S v. 3.