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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Shrewdness In Love.

From the Mobile Register.
 Down the winding country road walked a strange trio-a comedy and perfectly composed-looking maiden and two men, on each of whose faces one could per- ceive the influence of the green-eyed mon- ster. Their names. the reader will be interested to hear, were Miss Jones' MT. Brown and MT. Robinson.
 Suddenly, as they say in the novels, a severe thunder storm came on. Light ming flashed, and MT. Brown remarked that he was frightened.
 Here was Robinsons chance.
 What are you afraid of?" he answer ed, contemptuously "I am as cool as can be-"
 Why, of course" answered the astute Brown 'If Is.were alone l should be the same; but I am afraid for Miss Jones in this lightning. You see she is so attrac- tive!
 Robinson is still bachelor but Brown is not
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cost the country at least s5,00O.0O0 and pos sibiy twice that amount.
 It was In October, 1900. that the men employed by the late Lord Penrhyn in hls enormous Welsh slate quarries at Be- thesda struck in a body. The quarrel be- tween them and their employer had begun In 1863, and there had been numerous partial strikes previous to the great one This Bethesda strike was chiefly caused by low wages, and by the fact that the men were only paid once a month.
 The strike of 1900 holds the record for being the longest strike which this coun- try has seen for nearly half century past It went on until November, 1903, During those long three years e36iJO was lost in wages alone and whereas at the beginning of 1t we imported no slate into this country. al the end ships were bringing in over 1206 tons of foreign slate d week.
 A very odd strike began In Stourbridge in 1902. The GiRss union had gradually obtained such extraordinary and tyranni- cal powers that the masters at last de- clared that there fust be a change. There was no question of wages. The men were quite content with their pay, while ths masters would even have raised their wages had the union desired them to do so. But the men refused to allow new hands to be taken on,- and-worse than tndl-pfeSufned to dictate 10 the masters what glass should be made. As the union would not yield, the masters gave their hands notice to quit. There was no i'll feeling-quite the contrary. The men worked faithfully up to the last hour, left quietly, and went home to live on their strike pay. This strike lasted over year and has done irreparable harm to our flint glass industry. Austria has now selz- ed what was once almost a monopoly of Stourbridge.
 There have been many bitter conflicts between colliers and pit owners. The biggest which this country has seen was the South Wales strike of 1898. The strike was started by the boys who acted as haulers at one of the principal collieries suddenly throwing up their work. One hundred thousand men came out, and not pick was swung for IF days The longest British coal strike was one which began in 1920 in Earl Fitzwilliams col lieres. The original quarrel was about the use of safety lamps. The strike never ended for Lord Fitzwillams took the ex- traordnary step of closing his pits alto gether. Another long strike was caused of all extraordinary things-by ghost In 1873 the miners in a Warwickshire pit struck in a body because they had seen a ghost. and one and all declared that some disaster would ensue. They stayed out for very nearly year, at cost or oyer 930000, before the owner succeeded in pegsuading them that the so-called Luminous boy was nothing but mass of phosphorescent fungus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
EXPENSIVE STRIKES.
Labor Wars That Have Lasted for
 Years and Cost Millions.
From Answers.

From Answers.
 The worst strike-so far as results went that England has seen for many years past lasted only a month. This was the great London dock strike of 1SSs when SO,OO0 men went out for a penny an hour extra wages. London, as port, has never recovered from the disastrous effect of that strike.
 The longest first magnitude strike which has been seen in this country for a gen eration was that of the Amalgamated So- ciety of Engineers in 1897. It began on July 3, and its object was an eight-hour day. By October there were 10000 men idle. Enormous sums were distributed Tn strike pay, but the distress became very severe. In November conference was arranged between the employers and the representatives of the strikers, but 1t proved failure. The men stuck to their demands; the masters could not see their way to accept them. Week after week through the dreary winter the miserable struggle went on, and the misery became appalling Conference after conference came to nothing. At last. on January IS, 1898 the men withdrew their demand for forty-eight hour week. but even then it was not until the end of the month that work was generally resumed. That strike
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Circus Folk Most Moral.
Prom Everybody's.

r
 Notwithstanding the absence of the ar tfcial safeguards that a conventional so- ciety has ordained, circus performers are as a class, the most moral folk on the face of the earth An old circus man expressed the fact in this way;
 For two hundred years there has not been a domestic scandal nor divorce among us when both husband and wife were from recognized circus families. In every case where there has been a scan dal, either one or the other has been an outsider"
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in size and shape. the quality of the wine will suffer. For that reason they are nok made by machinery, I under stand, Ike the ordinary cory. but are cut by hand, as finer work can be done that way. These corks you see on these rows of champagne bottles cost 10 cents apiece. They are absolutely perfect"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL

Virginia Avenue and Beach, Atlantic City. N. J. Capacity TOO guests. Hot and cold sea water in all baths. Most mod ern. Central in location. The Highest finest rooms in the city The cuisine and service not surpassed by any. Orchestra. Terms: American plan s1250 per week up; s2.5O per day up. Write for descriptive folder. Coaches at all trains CHARLES E. COPE.
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H OteI Oakland

Home of the famous Salutaris Mineral Water. An exclusive family resort with the finest mineral baths in the country. All popular amusements. Write for book let telling of many superior advantages. Open until October l. Hotel Oakland, St.
 Clair, Mich. h-26-12t-su
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NEW YORK CITY
HOTEL GALLATIN

18th St., near 5th Ave. New, modern, fireproof building. Single rooms. S1.5O Up; suites, s3 up. Ffrst-class restau- rant. a la carte and table d'hote.
 T. V. BARTON, Prop. 4-17-26t-wed-su.
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POINT CLEAR HOTEL
POINT CLEAR. ALA,

PUINT CLEAH, ALA. Magnificent sea bathing. bowling. etc. New and progressive management. Thor oughly renovated and repaired. Rates s12.50 to sl750 per week. Special discount during June. Write for illustrated book let.
 CARRALL & WATSON, Proprietors
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
The Vatican Declines RuSSia'S
 Offer at The Hague
A MARRIAGE OF ROYALTY
Princess Jeanne Bonaparte Is to Wed a Son of the King lof Greece for Con-
 venence.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

Special Cable to the Age-Herald from the
 Hearst News Syndicate.
 Paris, July 2O.-The Vatican, in declin- ing RLssia's offer to use it's influence to get an invitation for it from the powers to take part in the deliberations at The Hague congress has performed political ac- of extreme gravity. In acting thus 1t has itself solved what we call the Papal Question, which is nothing more nor less than the question whether the Pope has or nas not still rights over his ancient temporal sway.
 It is evident that by his reserved at ttude Plus X has renounced his claims. Loe XIII, his predecessor in the Pontif- cal chair, at the time of the first peace conference in 1899, still elung to this mirage, and moved heaven and earth in the hope of having his pretended temporal sovereignty taken seriously and recog- nized by the powers.
 Plus x who is more mystical than the las. Pope, will not accept these little tricks to heighten the prestige of the Apostolic See. He counts upon the power of the faith and the aid of Heaven to save the church. which is today trembling on it's foundations.
 This new attitude has caused great in dignation among the "Black" Society at Rome, and the fact that the Papal ab- stention at The Hague marks the end of the attempt to regain the temporal inde- pendence of the See of Rome As hu- man power the church, think has said it's last word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Jamestown Exposition Hotels. HOTEL CHAMBERLAIN Rates; Single, $500 and mp; Double,
 @4.O0 and up. HcL33

"Poynt Comfort" Tavern Rates, Single, $1.0O and up; Double,
 $2.00 and up. European Plan. These two magnificent hotels offer the most satisfactory accommodations for Exposition visitors.
 N COOL NIGHTS NO MOSQUITOES Booklets at Offices of all Transporta- ton Companies. or address GEORGE F. ADAMS, Mgr, Fortress Monroe, Va.
 7-21-4t-su tu thu-sat
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The summer has arrived, and the social clock striking the hour of departure Ihere now remains in Paris only one cen ter of elegance-the He de Puteaux, which Is the property of Baron de Janze, which has been placed by him at the disposal or the pretty women of all countries so that they may dine well there. dance well air themselves well and f1rt from morn. Ing until evening and from evening until the middle of the night
 rms little island which is situated but a lew turns of the wheel from the citv floating, as 1t were, in the blue waters of the Seine coquettlshly done up by the Parislan damsel and reminding one of the 1alrly amid a group of peasant women. has a special attraction to foreigners in Paris, When the social season ends it is ! nere that they take refuge every after noon in search of freshness and gayety
 The American ladies, above all, almost live there, and if you could come and take walk around the place with me you would see 1t full of the most dis unguished and most beautiful among your fellow countrywomen.
 Among the most ardent devotees of tho place are Mrs. Hart Mckee. Mrs Perrv Belmont, Mrs. Vanderbilt and above all two or the most enchanting young ladies we have among us-Miss Marshall and Miss Deacon. If one did not go to Pu-
 NN-N' 'AiN Nphih NlillISiN cover ten times the road which leads there in order to be able but once to see at close range these two typs of American beauty.
 The new American ambassador in Paris Harry White. Is In search of a resi- denee worthy of the great country which ne represents. One mansion above all- one of the two or three in the capital seems to have particularly attracted his attention, It is that of the Duchess de Ialleyrand, in the Faubourg St. Germain, and has superb reception room and a beautiful garden of great size
 Here were formerly given magnificent fetes such as one rarely sees nowadays. one Of the most famous of them having been the beasts ball, so called because all the guests were disguised as giraffes lions. horses. parrots. birds of paridise. etc. MT. White with his great fortune might easily resume the interrupted tradi- tons or these splendid social entertain ments, and his compatrots, who become more numerous fin Paris every year. would be proud at being represented in France In such splendid manner.
 So their French friends will hope that the negotiations now pending between the ambassador and the Due de Vallancay. son and heir of the Duchess de Tallev- rand, will have a successful issue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

Turn your dimes into dollars. See Lovett, Hotel Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

 EI Birmingham
  all facility Resort Borden Water GEO E. DRIVER, Lessee Borden Springs, Ala. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

After having been on the point of con- tracting a marriage of love, a princess of France Is now obliged to resign herself to a marriage de convenance."
 1 am speaking of Prince Jeanne Bona parte, daughter of Prime Roland. It Is said-and 1 have every reason to believe the news Is correct that she is engaged to one of the sons of the King of Greece.
 When marrying her this young Prince Is doing an excellent thing for himself if that Is to say, Princes and Kings can now without being ashamed of the fact espouse the daughters of the plutocracy as formerly they wed shepherdesses.
 Princess Jeanne Bonaparte's mother was the daughter of M Blanc, the tenant for over twenty years of the gambling tables of Monte Carlo. It was in this trade that he heaped together his immense fortune and thus his granddaughter, Prin- cess Jeanne Bonaparte, Is the possessor of several millions.
 She brings her husband indeed dot" of six million dollars a year, which far a Greek Prince is more wealth than an Fl Dorado. We have seen many strange things In our time, but all the same we should have been astonshed even ten years ago If we had been told that a prince of the blood royal of the purest strain, should without any scruples, con tract a marriage with family whose wealth had been got at the most cele- brated and most evll-reputed gambling tables in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

Second Street, Chicago
 Rooms $1.00 per day and upward European Plan.
 This hotel Is particularly attractive to Southern families for the summer. It has delightfully."- cool and quiet location, yet easily accessible to the theatre and shopping district. 500 rooms, all with hot and cold water and large clothes closets. 260 rooms with private bath. Excellent service and cuisine. For further information write manager.
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4-17-26t-wed-su.
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LORING SPRINGS, Men.one,

Lookout Mt. 25OO it. Altitude Chalybeate, alum and freestone water fishing, hunting. swimming. boating, bow ling. tennis. croquet, music. danc- ing and other amusements. Rates reasonable.
 Chas. A. Loring. Prop.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22
But the poet had fed.
WAS NOT A DREAM

Il had q remarkable experience last
night" said the billiard-hall man.
Did you pay somebody the money
you owed him?' queried the o. guard.
mo" said the billiard hall man.
This was something that really occur
ed. I was sitting at my desk when a
quiet-looking man came in and bought
a cigar. The clock was stopped and
he asked me if l had the time. l took
out my watch and l told him the hour.
Il was just putting the watch back
in my pocket when he said: Pardon
me. but may l look at that watch?'
Il handed it over to him and he
examined it closely. That's a dandy
watch, he said, How much would you
sell it for?'
q don't care to sell it. l said. but
if got the right price for it l might.
How would $500 strike your he
asked.
"If it's worth that much to you, it's
a bargain, said l.
"'All right he said and reached into
his pocket for the money. Just then
THE alarm clock rang, l SUPPOSE
said the motorman.
No. said the billiard hall man. Just
then his keeper came along and said
he'd have to take him back to the
asylum"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.


The late Ian Maclaren, on one of his
last visits to Philadelphia told at a
dinner at the Bellevue-Startford a sal
mon story.
Just as" he said, "in the South, it
was illegal once to feed slaves on can
vas back duck and terrapin more than
a certain number of days in the week
Just as duck and terrapin were plenti-
full to the point of disgust once with
you, so with us, in certain parts Of
Scotland, salmon is so plentiful that
every one gets sick of it.
"On a walking tour in search of local
color and new dialects, my Scottish
landlords gave me salmon, salmon sal
mon, for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
till my gorge rose within me.
81 remember coming down one morn
ing in the Highlands, and seeing on
the table only a huge salmon and a
pot of mustard.
"Is there nothing else for break
fast?" I asked my host.
Nothing else?' cried he. Why
there's salmon enough there for dcz-
en-
81 know said I; but I don't like
salmon
We'll, then said he. pitch into the
mustard
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22
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Tales Worth Telling.
ROUTED,

A MISUNDERSTANDING gentleman
shabbily dressed and with long hair,
was shown into the editors room.
II have written a poem ON the dog,
he said.
what dog?" demanded the editor.
herccly.
1T Is not any particular dog" ralter-
ed the poet
do you mean to say you took adj
vantage of the dog because 1. was not
particular, and wrote your poem on
it?"
81 am afraid you do not understand
me" explained the caller, meekly IF
wrote the poem regarding the dog
But why were you regarding the
dog at all? What had it done?'
IF you will allow me to explain
had been inspired by the dogs iidel-
ity-"
IF the dog was faithful why should
you seek to hurt it's feelings by wri,-
ing a poem on it? And, again, how
did you manage to write a poem on it?
Did you have the poor brute shaved
and tattoo the verses on it's back, or
did you manage t. write poem on it?
haps YOU"
But the poet had fed.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

Not long ago The Star re-
printed from Harper's Weekly
an article by a distinguished Jap
anese which he opened with the
general statement that Japan was
10 control the cnrl1nnrcn OF the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

unparabe. In Dr. Holmes laughed the knde and heanges
laugh the whole matter and considerable length and in happy
phrase that there crime in unconscious plagiarism
that committed every day. that he committed every day, that
every alive the earth who writes speaks commits every
day merely but every he opens his mouth
that all prasngs spiriualzed shadows mutudnOu
from readings that happy phrase Of quite original
with there is nothing OF in except slight change
born of temperament character environment teachings and
caons that this slight change dentaes it from another mans
of saying it, with special STYLE makes
for the time being all the of being old mody antique and
smelling Of the breath Of thousand generations of them that have
passed it their teeth beorew
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22
A Reply From
The Japanese

Pacific and in which he proceed
give very plausible arguments support of his opinion
The writer Adach Knosuki the author of the following
rather American criticisms of Japanese bust
Tricky neagted, narroWand know well how
compliment has been caped generously by the
friends of the West upon the silent heads OF business
The children Nippon enjoy many happy hour
the expense of certain Mr. Frog, who lives the bottom Of
deep we'll and decares-and who shall call him iar?-that the
heavens nothing but blue hole about four feet diameter
that there is in the Skies but instead few pin-pon
twnkng both day and night In all this Mr.. Frog fact
he of lived long but this is the first that
learn that foolish fable of Nippon nursery
preach the wisdom Of enlightened merchants of the West But
dges The who back of this steamship company
big enough to be the promoters of a rival company
"Such then is the fourth candidate which Nippon putting forth
for the winning Of the opthe mastery of Pacific What,
pray is America doing? Dragging? Yes all know about that
But what else? All of hostile legislation make the merchant
flag of the United States enough for the Smithsonian In
stiute"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

In the course OF his autobiogra-
ply, in the North American Re
view Mark Twain this month has
a reference to his visit here in 1866.
1t seems that Twain had been
found by a friend to have stolen
for his dedication for ''TnnOCeu+s
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

Ambassador Bryce's emphatic denial
that he said anything in praise of the
Oklahoma constitution refutes one Of
the vilest ISLANDERS ever uttered against
a man of good Observation-Disclosures City
Journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

Of course we are to understand that
there is no such thing in Portland as
a fuel trust. But at the same time ev-
cry firm in the fuel business, when it
comes to a matter of price or COMPETE
ton, makes a noise just like trust
Portland Telegram.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

The Queens hospital, whatever
legal technicalities may give to its
trustees in the way of private
rights, is rightly a public insti-
tuition. 1t ought to be conducted
as such in the fullest sense of the
words If collie ,,D,,, +l,c TOW INV
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22
COMMENTS AND EXCERPTS.

Governor Hughes wants another ses-
sion of the New York legislature. Hav-
ing, with considerable exertion, tanned
the animal and taught it to do his bid
ding, the governor would like to use it
a while longer.-Kansas iCty Journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

That formidable fleet of Uncle Sans
warships is going to the Pacific merely
on practice cruise-nothing else,
Still, If Japan wants to take an admir-
ing look at them there will be no OBJ
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

lection in this quarter.-Kansas City
Journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

Split

The PERFECT aperient mineral
water 1t has wonderfully bracing
appetizing effect and its occasional
use before meals insures good health.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22

The Haywood defense is busy prov
ing that Harry Orchards claims as an
undertaker's assistant are grossiy eX-
aggeTated.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-22
When Twain
Was Our Guest


Abroad from Oliver Wendell Holmes The huomrist said
he guilty Then he tells of how found while
in Honolulu Il received liter from the Rev. DR. Rising had
been of the Episcopal church Virginia
which letter Dr. Rising made reference things which
happened the Sandwich Islands before among
things he made casual mention of the Honolulu Hotels poverty
matter of literature At first did the bearing remark
1t called nothing mind But presently it did-wth flash.
There but book in Mr. Krchhof and was the
first volume Of DR. Holmes blue and gold series
chance well acquainted with its contents had ridden
the big island awa) horseback and had brought many
saddle bos that there had been duty them
upted me to it. They kept uncched
volume of poems Of almost constantine read
them from beginning end then read them backwards then began
in the middle and read them both then wrong first
and upside down the and was infinite
y grateful to the hand that wrote it,
Here we have exhibition of what repetition do per-
sisted daily and hourly considerable where
one merely reading for entertainment without thought
OF preserving in the memory that which read 1t is process which
in the course of dries all the juice of familiar
Scripture leaving nothing but apess hul behind In
at least know the origin of the hu but in the point apparent
in dim corner of memory year then
when needed dedication promptly mistaken by
child of my own happy fancy.
Il ignorant the of the human
sealed book to yet and stupidity looked myself
tough and unorgivabe criminal Dr. Holmes told
him the whole dsgacefu affair impored him imprisoned
to believe that had intended crime
that had committed until the
awful evidence have lost his could afforded
to lose uncle Of these had surplus of them
value to but that letter beyond price beyond uncedom