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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

W D. Lanier. c. L. Stricklin and W M Sutherlin are the only author ized travelling representatives of The Age-Herald in its circulation depart ment.
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The new mayor of Chicago will serve four years at $1S,000 year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

It is possible to put a niclle in the slot in Birmingham and get a hard boiled egg, but you can't get a room that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-04

It is said that only one American in seven hundred is college bred by which we can see that good old ''hoss" sense is still running this country.
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ALABAMA PRESS

Sylacauga Advance: The baseball man. agers are receiving their usual share or free advice from the fans.
 Mobile Herald: The railway magnates who are calling on President Roose- vel. are not urging him to run again.
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Florida Times Union: The west is de- voted to Roosevelt, but the trainsmen of the west will not consent to federal ar- bitration. It is not patriotism that thinks a man good enough to be President who may not be trusted with a question of
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala'' postofice as second-class matter under a of Congress March 5, 1879.
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Washington Bureau Age-Herald 1421 c street. N. W.
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It is planned to give a banquet in Pitts burg tonight at which twenty-eight honest men will be present. The population Of Pittsburg is approximately 5OO,ooo.
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At any rate. President Roosevelt has discovered that D. H. Hartman is no mollycoddle.
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p. ". RARRETT ~ ..... Editor
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Galusha A. Grow did very well in life for a bachelor. He wasn't crusty, either.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
ABOUT STAGE FOLKS.

James X. Hackett has secured the
American rights to Materlinck's "The
Blue Bird" but the expenses of pro.
duction are said to be so heavy that
it is by no means certain the play will
be seen here Perhaps it Is not un.
reasonable to doubt the dramatic
value of a piece that is so largely de.
pendent upon costly stage accessories.
Howard Kyle is to create the lead
ing role, that of "Sylvanus" Rebbings,
an ardent reyivalist, in Henry Arthur
Jones new play, The Galilean's Vic
tory" Following the precedent es-
tablished in the case of "The Hypo.
critics." the play will be produced in
America before it is offered in Lon.
don. The premiere will take place at
the Lyceum theater, Rochester, in
September.
Miss Florence Reed. the daughter
of the late Roland Reed. who was for
a time leading woman of the stock
company at the Chicago opera house.
viii appear in l1 H. Sothern's com.
pany next season She will have the
leading role In his revival OF dun
dreary." fs;Nt
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
SLEEP AND DEATH
BOTH NATURAL OCCURRENCES
AND WITHOUT PAIN.
Reasoning Proves That There Can Be
No Consciousness at the Instant
of Either--Working Of
Natural Law.

The phenomenon called sleep may
be summed up in the following propo-
sitions, says u writer in the Cosmo-
politan:
First-Slcep Is temporary death OF
the functions of the sensitive system,
due to exhaustion by fatigue.
Second-This death is temporary
because the vital system continues to
perform its functions during sleep and
restores the sensitive organs to their
normal condition.
For our purpose death may be CON
sidered under three heads, natural
death, sudden death and death from
disease. Natural death is death from
old age. 1t differs from natural sleep
only in degree.
The gradual loss of sensibility by
the sensitive organs which precedes
sleep now takes place in the vital
system, and all the organs pass into
permanent sleep together. There can
be no pain preceding or at the mo-
ment VI such death, any more than
there is pain preceding and at the mo-
ment of passing into temporary sleep.
Sudden death may be defined as
death due to a sudden injury from
without or within the body sufficient
to destroy at once all irritability of
both sensitive and vital organs. 1t
requires no argument to prove that
a person who is suddenly stricken
dead can suffer no pain. The ele-
meut of time must be present in or
der to suffer physical pain, and in
the sudden death of "A person the ele'
ment of time is absent,
We come now to consider the third
and by far the most frequent form
OF death, namely, death from disease.
AS soon as disease is established,
dying begins, which is but a more
rapid than natural ceasng of all SEN
sibilties, accompanied with more or
less suffering, according to the cause
which produces it, This dying and
suffering, called disease, must termin'
ate either in so-called death, which is
insensibility to it, or in recovery
which is the removal of the cause of
it. But in any event the suffering has
been endured, no matter whether the
final termination is death or re-
covery,
No one is conscious of or can recall
the moment he passes from waking
into natural or temporary sleep. Nor
shall we, by supreme agony or in
any other way, be conscious Of pass
ing into permanent sleep.
Being born and dying are the two
most important physiological events
In the life history of our bodies, and
we shall know no more about the lat.
ter event at the time 1t occurs than
We did about the former.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
THOMAS AT REHEARSAL.
How He Modified the Voice Of Young
Singer.

Cyril Maude, the London interpreter
of "The Earl of Pawtucket' found his
intercourse with the author of the
play, Mr.. Augustus Thomas, an inter
esting experience.
Every one in the theater was de.
voted to Mr.. Thomas" said Mr.. Maude
one-evening while making up. 81 have
never known an author more patient
or more painstaking or more keene to
see when the slightest thing was
wrong and how best toyset it right.
"He has such a delightful way of
putting things, too felt little bit
bothered about something and he
helped mo out of the difficulty in mo,
ment.
"One Of the young Americans in our
company has very deep bass voice
beautiful voice really, but not quite
sufficiently under control for our Eng.
lish notions, at all events. It seemed
to fill the theater to overflowing, don't
you know, but It was such personal
matter that | hardly liked to say any.
thing about it to the actor so / con
suited Mr. Thomas ON the subject.
"A once he said: Don't you worry.
Leave 1t to me-.
Accordingly, when he was running
through his notes with the company
at the end of the act, and making va.
rious suggestions, he beckoned to our
friend with the beautiful voice, and
said to him: See here, laddie, this is
only small playhouse, remember,
You had better put mute on that G
string of yours
"The voice has been delightfully."-
subduod ever since" .nt-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
PRICE OF STAGE SUCCESS.
Many Stars Pay for Popularity with
Their Health.

Richard Mansfield will not be able,
because of the imperfect condition of
his health, to resume acting for an
other year at least. Annie Russell has
gone to a country place in Maine,
where with her husband, Oswald
Yorke, she will kill time till next De-
cember. Her health has given way.
FRITZ Scheff has returned to the stage
after. an absence OF longer duration
her health kept up. Olga Nethersole
has gone to Switzerland, there to re-
cuperate from an illness that almost
laid her low. Ethel Barrymore, whose
last tour has been interrupted several
times by illness, now announces that
II her health permits she hopes to be-
come a prima donna in opera instead
of going on as an actress, and she is
told that she must take the best pos
sible care of her health.
True It is that the price that is paid
for success on the stage is high
price.
The first places in the profession
are gained at the expense of great
physical and mental fatigue, to say
nothing of the sacrifice of comforts
and conveniences.
Mental collapse has been the price
that some of the brightest ornaments
of the stage have had to pay. Maurice
Barrymore, whose wit was as keen
and flashing as rapier, yielded to
death in a madhouse. Joseph Muir
phys old compeer, Scanlon, whose act
ing in Irish plays brought him a for
tune, went insane. The strain of in
sanity that ran through the great the.
atrical family of Booth caused the
tragedy of the murder of President
Lincoln, and it embittered the entire
life of Edwin Booth
But while the percentage of the
actors who have gone mad has been
large 1t has not been so large as has
been the percentage of those who have
thrown away the greatest chances that
have come to them to become great,
Edmund Kean, who by many stu
dents of acting Is called the great
est actor that ever lived, was fol-
lowed all his life by the devil of in
temperance. 1t was his intemperance
that wrought such evils in the Kean
household that 1t became necessary for
Charles Kean, the younger to leave
school and become an actor that he
might support his mother
Many actors since the days of Kean
have loved their bottle, and many of
these actors have fallen by the way
side in consequence. Now some of
these players never drank at all until
they went upon the stage, 1t is like
ly that they drank afterward because
of the exciting and stimulating inhu-
ences of the playhouse, influences
which always are accompanied by and
placed in direct contrast with periods
of depression and loss of hope.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
.LAPPS ON DECREASE
REINDEER ALSO GRADUALLY
GROWING scARcER.
Herd Sold for Strong Drink-Nomad.
ic People Rapidly Diminishing,
; But No Other Nation Can
4 Take Their Place.

Washington.-Th Lapps are de-
creasing In number. The most SAN
guine estimate of the numbers of the
entire race in Norway, Sweden and
Russia does not place them above 54,-
900. BY some the number is placed
far lower on the strength of trust
worthy data. In Norbotten, the num-
ber of Lapps is 5000, of whom $500
are nomad Lapps and 500 settled,
since, a certain number of Lapp fam
lilies have abandoned their wandering
habits, have built habitations here
and there, and have endeavored, with
more or less success, to initiate the
life of the Swedish settler.
That the race must die out eventu-
ally is certain, and its diminution may
be very speedy, though its complete
extinction may be still far off, since
there is no race that can possibly take
It's place on the high reindeer fiaell,
Yet even here we come upon factor
which has, perhaps, hardly been recl'
oned with. We mean the decrease OF
the herds of tame reindeer.
This has been going on in the last
quarter of century with striking
rapidity. In one district alone In the
last 12 years the reindeer have dimn-
ished from an estimated 10000 to an
estimated 1000. This decrease is eX-
planned variously. The commonest and
most plausible explanation which car
ries the authority of men well quail
fed to Judge, Is that the demand for
reindeer flesh, which has been brought
nearer to the Lapp by the opening of
the Bohemian railway, has tempted
them to part with the deer at rate
too rapid for their production,
The herds of reindeer, which are
taken off the high fiaell down to their
winter quarters, are now within four
or five days of Stockholm, and there
is a good demand for reindeer flesh. 1t
is said that the Lapp, who is no more
able TO resist strong drink than any
other half-civilized man, is piled free
ly with brandy, and in that state will
part with his reindeer for trifling
sum, or even for fresh bottle of sDir-
its or two. And he goes back to his
f1aell stripped Of half his herd, and
with nothing to show for 1t.
But there is another cause also al
legged, and that by equally good au-
thorities. 1t is said that Swedish state
education is having upon the Lapp the
effect which not uncommonly follows
the early stages of learning. Every au-
tumn Swedes and Lapps alike send
down their children to the nearest ma
tlonal school, where they remain for
the winter months, the Lapps in most
cases having "seminaries" to them
selves. And 1t is declared that in the
case of both races alike, after few
years of this training, the youngest
generation when 1t comes to the age
OF choosing its way of life, shows an
unwillingness to return to the hard
outdoor life Of the homes in the in
terror.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

some OF the youthful memories that
she recounted.
Our talk turned to the subject of
childrens quaint misunderstanding of
Biblical metaphors and parallels, and
she told an amusing story on this
head
"She said that a little boy came
home one day from school in a bad
humor. Another boy, Jack Jones, had
given him a thrashing, and he wanted
revenge.
Oh said his mother, don't think.
of revenge, Willie BE kind to Jack.
Heap Goals of fire on his head. Then
he will become-your friend.
Willie thought he would try this
till the next day at recess. Just as he
was buying a lemon pie for luncheon
Jack appeared and said:
" Look here, licked you yesterday.
but | didn't give you enough. Now I'm
going to lick you again
And he planted hard blow on Will
lies little stomach.
Willie gasped and grunted, but in
stead of striking back he extended his
pie to Jones.
Here he said, in a kindly voice,
III give you this. l make you pres
ent of it,
Jack Jones, in glad amazement, fell
upon the pie greedily, and it had soon
disappeared,
Gosh, it was good he said What
did you give it to me for?'
Because you struck me, said the
heaper of Goals.
Instantly Jones hauled off and
struck him again.
Now, so and get another pie, he
said"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
a Bunker Hill Gun.

Alonzo Smith of Skowhegan has an
old gun which was used in the battle
of Bunker Hin, 13l years ago. Many
who fought on the American side on
that 18th day of June aftcrward came
to Maine to settle. among them Biley
Smith, private in the Second New
Hampshire regiment. Mr.. Smith, the
great grandfather of Alonzo Smith OF
Skowhegan settled in Cornville in 1890
and his grave is in the orchard on
farm near where his grandson, Clark
Il. Smith, now lives. The musket
which Biley Smith carried at Bunker
Hill was among his effects brought
to Cornyille, and on his death passed
into the hands of his son, David, and
was by him bequeathed> to his grand
son, Sylvester Smith. A few years
ago, when Sylvester left for the west,
he gave the famous old musket to
Alonzo Smith of Skowhegan who now
treasures 1t as family heirloom One
remark made by Biley Smith, in relat-
Ing his experiences at Bunker Hill,
has been handed down to his descend
ants to the effect that he felt some re-
pugnance at first in shooting at the
redcoats as they came up the slope,
but after the first few shots he could
as easily take aim at British officer
as he could at a partridge. The gun
itself is in working order barring the
loss of the flint, and could be easily
reequipped for actual use.--Kennebec
Journal.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
Ae could Also Sea rhen,.

James K. Hackett, who Is at present
in London, says he found one funny
story in recent number Of Punch,
Here 1t is:
"An old boy who had just recovered
from hard spree met pal and was
telling him about 1t.
lit was awful he said Tn all
right now, but for more'n week
there We're big green beetles with
canary bird heads crawling all over
me-
"'Hold on yelled the other old
soak. brushing at his shoulder, you
aln't got over It yet There's one OF
The blamed things now!'"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
Mental Medicine.

A somewhat eccentric physician who
recently died would order patients to
take walks, say, daily, on the left side
OF the street, returning by the other
side; another he would order to arise
each morning at a certain hour and
eat cheese with ginger beer: another
to take supper precisely at midnight,
and eat only apples; or he would in
struct the patient to put Just so many
grains OF salt on the egg he was to eat,
and part his hair in different way
each day. His object was to get the
mind of the patient on something else
than symptoms, and this sLheme
worked well In many cases, especially
when the patient was suffering from
melancholia.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
Bees in His Wlndpipe.

Lexington, Ky.-B. f. Ferrill, I
farmer living near Danville, narrowly
escaped death after he had sucked {
mouthful of bees into his windpipt
while removing honey from a beehive
He was using a large wooden pipe
blowing smoke into the beehive tC
keep the bees from stinging him
While inhaling Though the pipe he
accidentally sucked in several bees
choking almost to death.
Ferrill coughed up the bees, but mo-
until after they had stung him in his
mouth and windpipe. Medical attention
was necessary to reduce the swelling
in his throat and save his life.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
Used the Wronq OIL.

When Robert Edeson walked into
his garden at his country place in Saa
Harbor a few mornings ago he found
his gardener with small oil can lin
bering up the lawn mower.
Where did you get that oil?" asked
Edeson.
In the cellar, sir"
I'VE had no machine oil in the Gel
lar"
II know it, sir"
"Well, what are you using?"
The oil from the Italian can
found there"
MY Italian oil! My salad oil! StoI
1t, man. Stop it, l brought that all
the way from Rome, and it cost me
as much as your months wages"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

Special train leaves Marion 7tD6
a. m. Returning boat leaves De-
troit $500 p. m. Special train
leaves Toledo Magnolia street
dock $500 p m - - -@ ~. w-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

Greek Cruelty TO Animals.
Cruelty to animals is practiced Ia
such an extent in Athens that one
German tourist declared 1t completels
spoiled his pleasure in his trip.
a. 81 Ntv. Tzamn a
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
SCHEME THAT DIDN'T WORK.
'coaIs Of Fire" Had No Effect on
Jack Jones'.

( Mrs Fanny Crosby, the author of
hymns is still, though 81 years old,
In first rate health.
mot long ago said a New York
clergyman, Il visited Mrs. Crosby In
Bridgeport. and found her exceedingly
entertaining. L shan't soon forget
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28
Fisherman Finds old Wreck,

Dunkirk, n. Y,-Gus Ormsby, {
fisherman, while lifting his nets of
Van zuren Point, in Lake Erie, dis
covered the wreck of the Dean Rich
mond which was lost with all OF
board In October. 1898 The Daa,
Richmond has cargo of lead an
copper ore valued at 100000.
Ws-aJ~~e. -, - 49,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
TREASURER TO KEEP THEM.
Judge Pollock Decides About the IIIi-
nois Life Securities.

The $579, 1890 in securities of the ILL.,
nois Life Insurance company, which
were placed on deposit with the state
treasurer as a form of protection for
it's Kansas policy holders will remain
within the state and in the hands of
the state treasurer, decides Judge John
c. Pollock
The securities in the form of bonds
and mortgages were placed with the
state treasurer by the Illinois Life at
the assets of the Kansas Mutual Life
Insurance company and with it the pol
icies held by the Kansas company of
the insured living within the state.
The value of these securities at that
time was 1852 1924, but with elapse of
years there has been a natural incre-
ment to these holdings.
No effort was made by the Illinois to
remove the securities until the assessors
reported them on the tax roll for taxa
ton purposes. Suit was then instituted
against T. T. Kelly, then state treasurer
and c. H. Luling, superintendent of in
surance, to compel them to turn over
the securities to the insurance COM
pany.
The securities being within Shawnee
county were naturally assessed by the
assessors of this county. Finally the
county commissioners agreed to a COM
promise by not assessing the securities
to exceed a value of $50, 900 if they were
not removed from the confines of the
state.
The case was argued before Judge
Pollock this last May.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
OUR WARRIORS QUIT.
Major E. w. Wellington and Others
of X N. G. Hand i'm designations.

Announcement was made today by
Adjutant General ]. w. F. Hughes OF
the resignation of Major E. w. Well
ington, Second infantry, K. n. G., and
of First Lieutenant and Battalion-Ad-
jutant Waldo +. Wellington, son of
Major Wellington, both of Ellsworth,
Kan. from their respective ranks with
the Kansas National Guard. Major
Wellington leaves the state militia on
account of ill health. Severe attacks
of rheumatism have untitled him for
military duty. Lieutenant Wellington
resigns because of pressure of outside
business which leaves him insufficient
time for his duties.
Brevet First Lieutenant J. r. Cree
of Company D, First infantry, Paola
has also resigned. because of lack of
time from his business to attend to the
duties of the guard.
The officers of the Second infantry
will elect successors to Major yelling
ton and Lieutenant Wellington at the
time of the state rifle competition at
FIT. Riley on July 8.
The state rifle competition will be-
gin July and continue a week. There
will be about 125 marksmen in at
tendance. all of whom have won high
rank in the company competitions of
the Kansas National Guard. Besides
that there will be IS markers, scorers.
cooks. and camp attendants, making
about eco people who will go into
camp during the rifle competition. The
eighteen men getting the highest score
in this competition will attend the ma
tional competition to be held this year
in Illinois.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
THIS is A HOT DAY.
Real Summer Weather Appears to Be
Here Again.

AT Z o'clock this morning the mer-
curry stood at 76 as it did until 10
o'clock following a night of muggy,
sleep destroying temperatures mixed
with gales and electric storms, and
threatened precipitation which, how
ever, failed to visit this particular sec
ton of the state though numerous
showers fell over the state.
The sun has BEEN shining most of
the morning. though great white
bletches of clouds break the bluen ess
of the sky in every direction. The
temperature has been climbing stead
lily all day and though there is cool
wind blowing from the south at the
rate of IL miles an hour, an electric
fan is as inviting as On a midsummer
day. There is a likelihood that differ
.ent sections Of the state will be visited
with thunder showers during tonight
and Tuesday and that there will be
a perceptible drop in the mercury.
The temperatures for today were:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-24
SUES FOR Big PROFITS.
Missouri Man Wants Ten Thousand
for Western Kansas Commissions.

A suit involving the big advance in
the price of western Kansas land was
filed today in the United States circuit
court 1t also involves the methods
followed in settling up western Kansas.
George A. Davis, of Missouri, seeks TO
recover from Louis c. Ahlborn $10,160
a part of which was alleged profits lost
as, the result of failure to put through
a land deal in Greeley county, Kansas,
in which 2240 acres is it claimed was
owned by Ahlborn and to be sold to
Davis.
The contract for the sale is alleged
to have been made on May 4, 1906, the
price fixed being 1920. OF this amount
it is stated $1,000 was to be in cash
and the remainder was to be payable
by the first of March, 1907. Davis claims
he paid down $3.50 and that later ALL
born repudiated the contract to sell.
He seeks to recover $8,710 Ss increase in
the price OF land which he lost by rea-
son of the reputation, $500 in expenses
in showing prospective customers tracts
and $3.50, the amount paid down on the
purchase which it is claimed has not
been returned.