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New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
JERSEY CITY POLICE STOP PLAY.
Proctor's Manager Arrested-Sunday Per-
formance Was for Benefit of Catholic Home.

William F. Walsh. manager for Keith Proctor's
vaudeville house in Jersey City, arrested at the
theatre night. charged with violating the vice
and immortality act. A performance was to he
given for the benefit of ST Josephs Roman Catholic
Home a week ago the police permitted a Sunday
performance for the benefit Of a German hospital.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

Sec to IL that the Republican registration is
not light this fali just because il is an "off
year" Judges, assembynen and aldermen ara
to oe elected. To vote for them you must rsois
ter. Do not put it eff. You may lose vour
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

Don't forsetl! This is the first day Of regis
tration for the coming election. Register to-
day! Delay is dangerous. Run no chances OF
losing your vote. Your vote must be counted
for good government this fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

For three days the "swoppin' con- tinues and "circus' lemonade, water melons, and oftimes truth, are the greatest sufferers. One wonders where the men get anything to eat. Lunches and the women are left at home-it is distinctly a man-and- boy holiday, in wh ich women have no part.
 The place generally chosen for the meeting is a small town, where there Is some chance to get food and water but sometimes it Is held near a church or school house centrally located. and the day set for it Is ed abroad for weeks ahead. Some are attended by as many as two hundred men and boys and all the scum of the land for miles around, in the shape of horse or mule flesh is ridden, pushed or pulled into 8 vacant space-they are seldom strong enough to pull a buggy. It often hap pens that the trip to the meeting place proves too much for an animal and he is dragged to his resting place.
 After two or three days the meeting breaks up and the long journey home ward Is begun, there to dream of large crops and high prices until cotton pick ing or corn 'shucking" begins. He who arrived with an animal or two is probably riding home with neigh bor he has swindled. satisfied because he will have that much more feed for his good mules. His tobacco has gone the way of all good tobaccol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
AT A HORSE SWOPPIN
BY J. E. STANLEY.

After crops are laid by" it is a GUS tom in some parts of the south for the farmers to meet once a year. and have what Is termed "a horse swop
 pin" On this day not only good and sorry horses" and mules cahnge hands frequently but harness. pocket knives, watches chains and most everything ina ginable change hands at least once. The "swoppin'" fever seems to pos
 sess the attendants completely and even tracts of land sometimes suffer. The shrewdness so necessary for a successful horse trader Is manifest at this yearly exchange" and unless one has his wits about him he Is apt to find himself with sorry animal on his hands, with no chance for getting rid of him. Generally, the animals brought together on this day are old and worn out, or have long been the victims of some disease. and few, if any. men are ever benefited or worsted by trade. The day is really more of holiday than anything else-a sort of relaxation from the strain of hard work during the season, and crop con dtions and prospects are forgotten for a time in the enjoyment of visits so easily paid to neighbors as much as forty miles away. Occasionally a man will come riding one and leading an other worn out horse or mule. and his sole object is to get rid of them. It matters little to him what he gets in return-his one object Is to get rid of those animals. Tobacco sometimes satisfies him. Then he is ready to take his place among the visitors. chew his .ebacco and go home empty-handed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Dreamer Takes Japnt Into
 Realms OJ FatheY Webtnne
BY JAMES B. KEELING.

ueposlted upon one of the dozen checks In my territory. While these turtles were being placed in position on my side of the board a dozen more sharks came rushing up to Father Neptune's side each bearing a lobster In it's mouth, which 1t proceeded to place in position in Father Neptunes terri tory. Then another shark came rush ing up with small sword fish in it's mouth, which 1t handed 10 me. I did not want to take it but Father Nep- tune said: That is to move your men with and I took 1t. though rather gingerly. Another shark brought Father Neptune a swordhsh and the game began.
 T punched one of my turtles with the sword fish and it moved to the next space. Father Neptune touched one of his Holsters with his and it moved to the next space. I moved again and he jumped Again l moved and again he jumped. l moved the third time and this time he took two of my men. Finally he got me down to one man while he had all twelve of his scattered about the board with a space between each cue. He had forced this last man of mine down to the extreme single corner and only had one move to block me completely or jump he if l moved.
 But during all this while my sweet little mermaid had not forgotten me. Her long tail formed the alternate space from the space upon which rested my man, and while Father Neptune was busy in moving another lobster she managed to shake the lobster which occupied this space off onto the space directly in front of my turt1e, giving me a jump. l quickly made the jump, then saw it was a double and then a triple, then another, 1 kept on jumping and jumped every lobster. Father Nep- tune at this jumped up with a roar. and then began whistling. At his whistle whale came rushing through the water and stopped at Father Neptune. 1 jumped back In fear while the beau tiful mermaid had again thrown her arms around my neck. Father Neptune pointed a long and bony finger at me and roared Back to dry land with him. The whale rushed by me. stopped and drawing back his tail let 1t fly out to- wards me. Oh! the force of that blow It sent me rushing through the green water like the rush of a torpedo boat Up to the top went while the mermaid clug to my neck and sang that strange sweet song. At last the top was reached, but l kept going up, carrying my mermaid Up with me. Still going up, higher and higher. Then
 T woke up standing upright in my bed Everything was deathly quiet. I looked out the window and saw that one of my neighbors had gone to "Old Bess' and had stopped her mooing by tying a rope around her month and nose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
From the Providence Journal.


 LIBRARIAN in Cleveland calls at
 A tention to a fact which should be tolerably well known. although it evidently strikes Linn as having a flavor of novelty. "A,e are obliged" he says ''to watch the daily papers studiousy in order to keep prepared for the demand fo~ certain books.' Many persons, that is to say, read not for thepleasure of reading. but because some particular cir cumstance has called their attention to a particular book. Thus, whenever a prominent author dies, gets married, or tigueres prominently in the newspapers in an., way there Is sure to follow in a day or two a greatly increased demand for his books" and the same thing hap pens when a popular novel is dramatlzed "I should think" adds the librarian in- geniously, 'it would pay an author to keep doing something every little while that would place him in the public eye"
 Keep doing something! Is the gentle man from Cleveland ignorant of the num- Der of literary regulations that have been made by just this process? It has been said Cynically that the way to succeed in literature is to succeed in something else first, This was once paradox, but the time gives it proof. The magazines are full of contributions by experts" of one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
AUTHORS IN LIMELIGHT

l.nd and another who cannot write Stat masni nominis umbra, The poor profes- sonal writer may easily feel that he is thrown in the shade by the great names tLat fill the table of contents. His only hope is to keep doing something besides usng his pen. Where would MT. Hall Calne be if he had simply written books ,? Or Miss Corell? Or MT. Richard Hard in1 Davis? They havekept doing some thing, and two continents resound with the fame of them, Nay, the Cleveland librarian has but to look oyer the border. ing Davis? They have kept doing some thing more industriously than any of their fellows, and the bruit of their achievements fills every ear. No wonder th0'e who hand out books to an eager public have to watch the daily papers studiously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

stretched out close by me and things looked pretty blue for me. The six po- ucemen surrounded me and said lot or things to me in Spanish. some of which 1 understood and some l didn't l tried to explain what had happened, but they seemed determined to arrest me. l hadn done anything to be arrested for so l toox things into my own hands l drew my 'forty-hve' and threw 1t down on the men. swinging it around all of their noses.
 Now. you boys come along with me- I said to them In my best spanish:
 "They understood that lingo all right. lined them all In front or me anu marched them down the street and across to another street and Into the Guardlala hotel. where I was stopping.
 Here, you tell these policemen to leave me alone or some of them Will get killed I said to the foorwalker ol the hotel. You can also tell them that will see old man Diaz, the preslaeht' In the morning and fix up this thing
 "The foorwalker told the policemen all that said and they cleared out of the hotel in a hurry. Next morning l went armand to the palace and saw President Diaz. I told him about the occurrence ol the night before and he offered 10 iire all of the policemen implicated III .'is affair. but didn't want him to do that.
 
 We find 1t necessary to contradict the that apparently preNais with some of our friends. that this com many Is interested in the Blrrhinshaiii company lhe harrls Transfer and Warehouse is in no way, manner. shape or form connected with that company. nor have we been at any time In the past .,
 on the other hand. we still have the frst-class baggage patronage or the town. and with an office at both sta tions, we will continue 10 renoer the me satisfactory and efficient service that has at all times been our stand ard.
 HARRIS TRANcFER WAREHOUSE
 COMPANY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Bids.

Bids will be received in writing for all privileges at the second annual fair of the Alabama Agricultural association at Vandiver Park, Montgomery, Ala, commencing october 24 and ending No- vember 9. 1907. These bids will be opened and contracts awarded on August 27 The association reserves the right to reject any and all bids. ROBERT TAFT,
 7-H-6l-su Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Real Cut Prices Named il

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 IA cut corner fringed spread, CE $20O values, special price. ........ EaUV
 IA Bed spreads, $1.75 values, 90 SDocldl NE - ~
 1a7ss 7ss3sn 1ai"s asa spsea finish D"'A towels lDC
 A good 36-in bleached domestic, 15c e6 Ia
 1O-4 bleached pepperell sheeting, 46o 3712c value, special ............V VVU
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
EASEMENTS BY THE PRESS.

zler X Dozier have already acquired in the line of their profession but we know them to be brother Odd Fellows and can be relied upon to carry out every promise they make to those needing their services.
 Mountain Home: The press of Blrming- hail and all over Alabama speak in the lighest terms of Drs. Dozier & DoZier, as physicians, surgeons and gentlemen. am we have no hestancy In r.commend- ing them to our .atrHns.
 Meridian Star: Drs. Dozier X Dozfer of Birmingham are the most worthy and distinguished physicians in their line of practice In the state of Alabama
 Masonic Guide: Drs Dozier & Dozier come from a family of prominent physi- clans and with their full store of medi- cal knowledge and large experience In the profession can be relied on to treat disease in a most successful manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
White Goods and Wash GoOG

5000 yards lawn batiste and Swiss worth 15c to 25c per yard, special at dmn
 pretty quality of linen suitings, 36 inches wide worth 20c per yard, special gEn at per ydIu HWY
 36-inch English long cloth, 12 yards to the bolt, worth $2.50 per bolt, special 2 0E per DOlI ......-. nn e1 -
 30 inch checked Nainsook, all size checks
 worth 15c per yard, special at dfaa
 27-inch white welt Pique, very pretty quality worth 15c per yard, 10ln special per yard ................ lE2G
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
A Big Line of New Remnants
 for Busy Buyers Tomorrow

The best dress calicos all fast colors, Sc ys'sf', ys4G flor: for per ,.... ............. !4sc
 The best solid oil colored calicos, all M7n colors, Sc values, for yard. .............@S .@SHO
 Solid coored chambray ging 03a hams 15c values, for yard. .V4V
 Solid colored Manchester dress T7a chambray, 1212c values for yard ..... 8U
 Best dress percales all good fast sna coors, 15c values for yard. .hOV
 A beautiful quality of dress percales, 34-n. ydiss. viSs; all fos gesa ys1d lengths, laAo .75c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

Age-Herald: Drs. Dozier & Dozier's long standing record and approved abili- ties entite them to the proud distinction of standing at the head of their profess sion.
 The Birmingham Ledger: Drs. Doz- fer and Dozier are without doubt the best known specialists in the South, and their fame is due entirely to their great skill.
 The Birmingham News: This firm. Dr. Dozier & Dozier, has been doing business in Birmingham continuously for a number of years and they have yet to be accused of having dealt un- fairly with patient in any way whatsoever. They are both gentlemen of the highest type and carry their honor and gentlemanliness into their business.
 The Southern Odd Fellow: We cannot aCl anything to the reputation Drs. Do-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

The very best zephyr dress ging- %n hams, at per yard. ............ .EVO
 Bates Seersucker, the best known wash fabric, in small stripes, checks and large, fancy plaids, worth 15c, special SN Ia at, per yard .......... ...........H H&2V
 Galatea, for skirts, suits, school dresses and boys suits, all new patterns 0fha and colors, per yard. .......... .EOO
 Large fancy plaid suitings, worth GSnM 1212c, special at per yard .B0U
 4O0O yards lawn, beautiful quality for 121ac, special at per 7ln yard ........ .............. 2O
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-27
E. H. HARRIM N AGAIN
 DECLINES ID ANSWER
WILL NOT TELL COMMISSION OF PERSONAL TRANSACTIONS
 IN STOCKS

Would Not Say Whether He Bought
 Any Union or Southern Pacific During
 the ''DeIayed Dividend" Period--Gives
 Explanation of Conditions That
 Caused the Dividend to be Delayed
 Declares Fish Was Deposed Because
 of Misconduct of Company's Funds.
 New York, Feb. 26-An assertion that Stuyvesant Fish was deposed from the presidency of the Illinois Central be- cause of misconduct as to the funds of the company; continued refusals to answer questions relating to individual stock transactions; explanations of the transfer of 3OOOO0 shares of Southern Pacific stock to William G. Rockefeller during the attempt of James R. Keene to secure control of the road, and of the delayed announcement of the divi- dends in Union and Southern Pacific; attempts by the government to show that the Union Pacific charges unfair rates, stihes competition in the vast territory trayersed by its lines, and that it's dividend of ten per cent, and it's expenditure of $24O 100000 on better ments came from an unfair toll on its patrons; an academic discussion of rail- road regulation by high authorities on either side, that ran from plea for legalized combinations of railroads un- der government supervision to sug gestion that the government control railway stock issues; a charge and an admission that the misconduct of the railroads created the popular anger that moves determinedly for their reg ulation; charge that no other coun- try in the world is so hostile to large transportation interests; an assertion that the purchase of Southern Pacific by the Union Pacific had given the southwest ten years advantage in de- velopment that the failure of the Un- | ion Pacific to secure the Northern Pa- ciflc left the northwest ten years be- hind where it would have been if con- 1 trol had been obtained
 Ending with a remarkable scene where the government and the man stood confronted, all these were events that male to-day's session of the inter- state commerce commission with Ed ward IT Hartman as sole witness a memorable one. It gave vivid and in- timate realization of the problems of swollen wealth and railroad regulation, and the participants, their utteranes | and the circumstances gave it impor- tance. It made notable addition to the financial history-light and dark of the time.
 Mir. Hartman again occupied the stand throughout the entire day, and again was his examination in chief conducted by Frank B. Kellogg of St Paul, Minn., special counsel for the government. The statement of the wit ness as to Stuyvesant Fish came in the middle of the morning session. MT
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-27
Continued on Sixth Page.)
NEW JoB FOR SHAW
Secretary of Treasury Elected Presl-
 dent of Carnegie Trust Go.

Secretary of Treasury Elected Presi-
 dent of Carnegie Trust Co.
 New York. Feb. 26.-Leslie M. Shaw of the treasury was to-day elected pres ident of the Carnegie Trust company of this city, the election to take effect March 5.
 The following statement was made public after the meeting of the board of directors of the Carnegie Trust com pany, to-day:
 secretary of the treasury, Hon. Les lie M. Shaw, was this afternoon unani- mously elected president of Carnegie Trust company of this city by its board of directors,
 "Charles G. Dickinson, who organized the company, and had up to this time been it's president, induced Secretary Shaw to become president and resigned in his favor. MT. Dickinson accepted the first honorary vice presidency of the company, and continues as a mem Der of it's board of directors and exec utive committee.
 "Secretary Shaw will assume the presidency March upon his retire. ment from President Roosevelts cabi- net.
 An increase in the capital stock oi the company has been authorized tc $1, 5OO,OOO with a paid-in surplus oi $75OOOO
 "Frederick Lewisohn, of Lewisohr Brothers, was elected to the board"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-27
BAS NOT AIDED JERoM E.
Statement in EveIyn's Mothers Behalf

Statement in Evelyn's Mothers Behalf
 ---AIways Sent to Sunday Sshool.
 Pittsburg, Feb. 26-Charles J. Hol- man issued statement to-day in be- half of his wife, mother of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, concerning young Mrs. Thaw's early training. Holman denies that his wife gave District Attorney Jerome statement or that MT. Jerome used a statement from Mrs Holman with which to embarrass young Mrs. Thaw on the witness stand. The state ment is as follows:
 From the time Evelyn was fifteen months old until she was eight years old she was sent to Sunday school in Tarentum, Penn. After that the fam fly removed to Allegheny, and she was sent to the Calvary Methodist Episco- pal Sunday school for three years. Aft CT that her father died, and her moth CT removed to Cedar avenue, Allegheny. While living there Evelyn was sent to Sunday school with the children of the next door neighbors. Her mother re- moved from Cedar avenue, Allegheny, to Highland avenue, Pittsburg, and Evelyn went to the nearest Sunday school, which was at Baptist church in. Highland avenue. She was always sent to Sunday school as long as her mother had control of her.
 Her mother never left her daughter in care of any man at any time. The public has heard but one side of the story. They have no right to express an opinion. We expect nothing else from ignorance, but educated people are supposed to weigh the evidence of both sides of a story before giving an opinion, Furthermore, MT. Jerome has no afidavits from Mrs. Holman"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-27
NO MORh STEEL TIES.
Pennsylvania Road Orders Remainder
 of Them Removed.


 Philadelphia, Feb 26.-General Man ager Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, has ordered the re- moval of all steel cross ties now in use on the line of the Pennsylvania rail- road. This Is the result of the recom- mendation of the special committee ap- pointed by the general manager to in- vestigate the wreck of the Chicago 1S- hour train near Mineral Point on Fri day night, when many persons were in- jured.
 The committee says:
 "We are unable to definitely account for the cause of the accident. but the best reason for it that we can advance is, that at the point where the derail- ment occurred some foreign material became wedged between the flanges of the left rar tender truck wheel and the inside rail.
 We are of the opinion, on account of the lack of positive evidence as to the cause of this derailment. and on ac- count of the fact that the damage sub- sequent to the derailment was more serious than would have been the case with wooden ties, that the remaining steel ties should be removed"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-27
Continued on Second Page.)
HOT KILL GRAND DUE E.
Alertness of Guard Probably Saves
 Czar's Second Cousin.

St, Petersburg, Feb. 27.-The Novoeg Vremya this morning publishes a sen- sational account of the foiling gof an- other plot upon the life of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, president of the council of national defense and sec- ond cousin of Emperor Nicholas. This plot is said to have been discovered shortly before 8 o'clock last night, the time scheduled for the arrival here of the imperial train bringing the grand duke from Tsarkoe-Selo. A guard pa- trolling the track near the station at the St Petersburg end of the line caught a man dressed as workman in the act of placing a wooden box in the middle of the track at a point 200 yards from the imperial pavilion,
 Aided by the darkness the plotter fled, vaulting the fences that barred his way. He thus escaped to the cab of an accomplice who was lying in waiting nearby and drove away.
 The box on the track was found to contain an internal machine of enor- nous power. The mechanism was de- signed to cause explosion from the viz bration of thetrain as it passed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-27
M,VLY AoWHtRE TO BE SEEN
Stories of Four More Survivors of the
 Larehmont.

Providence, R. T., Feb. 26.-There were thirty-five panic-stricken people on the deck of the steamer Larchmont when she sank, although the lifeboats had been put off and Captain McVey was nowhere to be seen, according to the stories told to-day by four surviv- ors of the Joy liner to the investigat- ing board of United States steamboat inspectors of Providence. All the sur vivors examined to-day were propped up on cots at the Rhode Island hos pital.
 David Fox, of Bridgeton, N J., who was rescued from piece of the hur- ricane deck by fishing schooner, said:
 'There were at least thirty-five panic stricken people rushing about on the hurricane deck I heard a man say that boat had just left, and that there were no other boats to be got ten off. The captain was not in sight. In few moments the steamer sank, and the hurricane deck broke away D
 MT. and Mrs Harris Feliman of 29S East Ninety-ninth street, New York, and Tony Rasiekavitch of Central Falls gave similar testimony