davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1907-01-04
GARDEN E1ss s'i.- Mats. wed. and Sal; sI5,
L NEW OLD FASHIONED COMIC OPERA.
tine STUDENT KING

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE.
This Evening S. FEDORA - Cavalirri, Alien,
MattfeId Jacoby; Caruso. scott Paroli. Begue Muhl
mann Dufriche Noghera- Conductor. Nigna.
Sat Att Jan .. .. I.AKME-Seulbrlch. Jacoby;
Rousseere Journet. Snsrd Bars. Conductor. Bovy.
Sat Eyg. Jan tpop. prices. at :+5. SIEGFRIED-
Flescher-Edel, Krkby -Lunn. Rappold; Burran Van
Rooy. Goritz Reiss. Blass Conductor. Hertz.
SIN EVG, s., POP PRICES
GRAND SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT.
RICHARD WAGNER PROGRAM.
SuloIss; Fcisrher-Eie. Homer. Alien; Burgstaller.
Reiss. BlaSs. Luhimenn, Bars Gunther,
Entire Metr. Opera Orchestra. Conductor. Hertz.
Mon Evg. Jan :, At :. LtClA-Sembr!cn. Simeolt;
Caruso. Straccari. Journet. Cord. Nigna.
Wed Evg Jan IA ROMEO Ell JULIETTE-Far-
Jacoby RousseeTe. PlancOn Journet Smard. MuhI
Rovy.
FRI Evg, II. :. LAFRICANA-Fremstsd
Rappold: StTaCCiaTi. PlanCon.
IQann. Conductor. Nigna
WEBER PIANO USED
New-York tribune., 1907-01-04

WEST POINT y. Y. JANUARY 5. 1sO7.-sEALEo
w Proposals tpIicae will be received here untl
10 o'clock noon January 1907 for the construction
Travelling specifications
in this office. The T. ). the night TO aeceps
proposals thereof ofns
and specifications furnished application Address
Ouartermaster. Point. n. y.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-04
MONDAY. JANITARY I
OUTGOING STEAMERS.

To DAY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Man Without q Country

William f. Walker, the defaulting
bank treasurer of New Britain, Conn,
Is a wanderer over the earth, seeking
obscurity and forgetfulness. He has
been dropped" says the Hartford
Times, from the Baptist state con-
vention. of which he was the treas
urer.
"TIe has been dropped from the Off
cial position which he held in the
Baptist church of New Britain.
HE has been dropped from the
New Britain Board of Underwriters.
"He has been dropped from the
Grand Army of the Republic.
HE has been dropped from New
Britain altogether"
It Is plain that the greatest punish
ment of this self-convicted man is eff
Placement. He is outside of society.
He stands annihilated except In the
respect or mere living, and an amman
is equal to that task
Such men often tire of fleeing from
their wrong doing, and Walker may
indeed at any time surrender himself
to the officers of the law, prefering
Incarceration to isolation and the
loneliness of his own conscience. He
is left alone to his own conscience by
which he stands convicted, and legal
his suffering. A man without a coun-
try, without society, without recogni-
ton, is indeed one on whom remorse
doubtless preys necessarily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
LUXURIES IN CAMPING.

From Camp Equipment" by Stewart
Edward White in The Outing Magazine
However closely you confine yourself
to the bare necessities. be sure to in
clude one luxury. This is not so much
to eat as for the purpose of moral sup
port. 1 remember one trip in the Black
Hills on which our commissary consisted
quite simply of oatmeal, tea, salt and
sugar and q single can of peaches. OF
course there was game. Now, II we
had found ourselves reduced to meat.
mush, oatmeal pones and tea, we should
after a little have felt ourselves reduced
to dull monotony. and after a little more
we should have begun to long nightly
for the feshpots of Deadwood. But that
can of peaches lurked in the back of our
minds. BY its presence we were not
reduced to meat, much, oatmeal pones
and tea. Occasionally we would discuss
gravely the advisahility of opening 1t;
but l do not believe any of us down
deep in his heart mean 1t in sober earnest.
What was the mere tickling Of the palate
compared with the destruction Of SYM
boil
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

manned In its little pigeonhole IL the
San Francisco school incident had not
put the President behind It. 1t was
passed In a hurry under undue press
ure, and the south will have to get
along with its provisions as best it
can until Congress meets again, when
perhaps the gold brick features of 1t
can be repealed or amended.
lust at present some one is reeded
who can construe Mr.. Bonaparte when
he CONSTITUTES the new law. But TAX
ing his opinion as a whole it must be
held to say that an immigrant whose
passage money has been paid by Il
state can come in. 1t goes without
saying that no individual will ever be
punished for using his money to build
up his own section of the country.
Z he Lodges attempted to hamper the
south, but the administration is at
tempting to remove the shackles de-
vised by them, and it will doubtless
accomplish the task
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Thaw's Mental Condition

The district attorney in the Thaw
case is trying to make it appear that
the prisoner was sane when he shot
White, although he holds he Is insane
now. The lawyers for the defense
claim he was insane when he shot
White, although they hold he is sane
now. The inconsistency of either
theory is apparent. Neither Is I'M
possible. but both are alike full Of
improbability.
Mr.. Jerome's application for a lun-
acy commission is at any rate con-
fesslon that he cannot see In sight
verdict of guilty from the jury, and
he desires therefore to transfer the
case from the jury to a lunacy COM
mission.
After all, will a lunacy commission
know more than a jury about the pris-
oner's mental condition at the present
time? For that is all that can be sub
mitted to It. And IL the evidence
shows that Shaw was insane when he
shot White Is he not entitled to at
least a verdict of acquittal? All the
talk about the prisoners incom-
potency in advising with his lawyers
is much too attenuated for serious
acceptance. His side of the case Is
well conducted. 1t Is the Jerome side
that needs betterment The district
attorney has won no glory in this no
torius case, and when he asks for
commission of lunacy he practically
seeks an appeal from the present jury.
The alienists of the millionaire
world do not weigh heavily on the
mind of the plain juryman. He sees
one set of high-priced alienists Offset
another set, and he Is apt to disregard
both, and to proceed at once to de-
eide the case on the evidence that is
not expert Mr. Jerome does not want
a decision of that sort. The entire
alienist business is an outgrowth of
bloated wealth. Poor men are tried
without them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

From the Boston Herald.
F. you say here of a man that he Is a
"mealer," there Is no doubt as to
I the meaning of the word. There are
roomers and there arc mealers and there
are boarders. The mealer may be clothed
in fine linen and fare enthusiastically
every day; he may sit down to "soop and
fish, and a hot jint and growsis and
wines of rare and costly vintage" with
Ices, with froots from Greenland's Icy
mountains and Injy's coral strands" He
may take his meals in basement room
whose window displays the sign: Turkey
and Ice cream Sundays" In either case
he may be a mealer, and at summer
resorts he Is sometimes hauled
mealer."
There is no installing the meaning of
the word, you say. But in England there
are other mealers.
A man or an inferior animal-inferior
according to the scale arrogantly adopted
by men-rnaY eat only one or half a
meal a. day. He or it Is a mealer. The
word in this sense was not unknown in
the United States a half century ago.
We quote from that Invaluable work.
1.-THE American Poultry Yard" by Daniel
Jay Browne of New Hhampshire-no gen
tlemen's library is complete without it:
Certain hens are called Monositae Chat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

ties because he has shown that he
may be able to carry New York.
But the physician who inspires
direst terror in the Wall street heart
is DIR. William jennings Bryan of Ne
braska. Dr. Bryan's method of treat
ment has been well known for years.
1t is as simple as it is forceful, and it
has met with such general approval,
outside of Wall street, that the dem
ocratic party, judging from present
indications, will nominate him and do
its best to give him chance to DEM
onstrate the efficiency of his prescrip-
ton. Mr.. Bryan appears to have
smooth sailing, so smooth, in fact
that the country for the next year is
likely to get its sole political enter
tainment from the bitter warfare be-
tween President Roosevelt and Wall
street over his successor. or course,
we are for the democratic candidate
first, last and all the time. But as
there must be republican candidate
we rise to suggest the name of Long
Charlie Fairbanks, M. D., of Indiana.
1t would be a real pleasure to pluck
his shingle and carry it off as a trophy
Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Charmed With Birmingham.

"Of course 1 had heard a great deal
about Birmingham and the Birmingham
district, as 1 have several friends who
are interested In the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad company" said Theodore T.
Johnson, vice president of the washington
Life Insurance company who spent yes
terday here. But | had always heard
them talk chiefly of coal. iron and steel,
and 1 was not prepared to find SPLEEN
dldly built city with its miles of wide
and well paved streets its extensive street
railway system. comfortable hotels with
cafe service which is satisfactory in every
respect, towering office buildings, elegant
clubs and last, but not least, the beauti-
full homes of your citizens.
II was most pleasantly struck with
all thees features of Birmingham, and
likewise with the indications on every
side of a thoroughly up-to-date and pro-
gressive municipality. This city attracts
the stranger and impresses him with evil
dences of its modern spirit and the de-
termination to go ahead.
"As l said before the beautiful homes
in Birmingham impressed me. Mr.. Came
ron showed me around the business and
residence portions Of the city, and I was
particularly struck with the residences.
found many on the mountain side and the
natural lay of the land gave them ad-
vantages from an architectural point of
view that labor and expenditure of money
could not have given. These homes on
the Highlands are indeed picturesque
your business streets are regularly laid
off, which is a great advantage. especl-
ally to the stranger, but when one gets
into the residence sections the same regu-
larty is purposely avoided, and the
effect is charming to the eye, Nature has
delt kindly with Birmingham both in It's
deposits of minerals and In Its topography
for home sites.
Il regret that ] did not have more time
to stay in Birmingham and study the
conditions here. see more of the city and
district, and become better acquainted
with your people, but there Is one thing
certain: I am coming back as soon as the
opportunity presents itself and as fire.
quently thereafter as l can
Mr.. johnson was on short visit to W.
]. Cameron and was returning to New
York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Builders Busy.

Architects and builders are busy this
spring" said A. ]. Krebs. within the
past three years many handsome struc-
tures-business houses and dwellings
have been erected and many more will
be In course of construction this year.
There is a marked improvement In the
character of construction In Birmingham.
Fewer flimsy houses are built and in
the majority of large buildings only the
best material Is used and every one Is
impressed with the attention now being
given to architectural style In Rirming-
hams early days the average mercantile
building was severely plain. 1t was en-
tirely devoid of artistic beauty. But all
this is changing. No one thinks now of
erecting a large store building without
having an architect design facade that
Is ornamental as well as substantial
Even some of the warehouses and freight
sheds reveal architectural taste. The diff
ference in cost between a plain front
and an artistic facade is comparatively
small. The Bell Telephone building is
one of the finest specimens of mer-
camille architecture on aesthetic lines and
the front cost little more than a plain,
ugly mass of brick would have cost
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
THE TWo-CENT RATE.

From the New York Sun
The following exhibit of passenger rate
legislation this winter. or within the last
year, and rate reduction by decree OF
commission, shows how generally the 2
cent standard, or an approximation to it,
has been applied rigidly to the widely
varying conditions of railroad travel in
the United States:
Pennsylvana-Two-c bill passed by
the house and is pending in the senate
ohio-Two- cent law enacted last year.
West virginia-Two-cent bill passed.
North Carolina-Two and quarter cent
bill passed.
Alabama-Two and half cent bill was
passed.
Acknowledgement bill was passed.
Texas-Two-cent bill passed.
Kansas-Two-cent bill passed
Nebraska-Two-cent law enacted.
North Dakota-Two and a half cent bill
passed.
South Dakota-Railroad commission au-
thorized to order two and a haaf cent rate.
Indiana--Two-cent bill passed.
Illinois-Two-cent bih passed the house.
Missouri-Two-cent bill passed.
Iowa-Two-cent bill passed applying to
roads earning $4,000 a year gross per
mile.
Minnesota-Two cent bill now pending.
Wisccnsn-Rate of 2Hs cents fixed by
railroad commission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
South Cardinals Policy Upheld

Attorney General Bonaparte twists
this way and that so that it is difficult
to tell whether he is going or coming
out of the Lodge immigration hole.
He appears, however, to say that I'M
der the new law which goes into eff
feet on July state may prepay the
passage money of an immigrant, and
that an individual may contribute to
the states immigration fund, although
a society or association cannot do SO.
If an immigrants right to come in is
questioned he must be admitted even
If it be shown that a state paid his
passage money.
The Lodge bill was drawn to serve
interests in the east who desire to
maintain their advantages over the
south. They do not desire to see the
southern cotton mills filed with
abundant white labor. They do cot
propose TO have any immigrants com.
ing in from whom they cannot take
toll. The entire bill is saturated with
s--tern ideas and eastern wblms. The
great south and the wide west were
A1nored in it. and it would have re-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

is, one mealers or such as eat only
once day" The use of the word in
this scrse is not common
But II you should describe Mr.. x as
a mealer to an Engllshman he would
have the right to infer that Mr.. X. had
pledged himself not to drink wine, fire.
water. ale, beer or any cordial except
at a meal. This use of the word is not
a dozen years old. We believe that the
Church of England Temperance society
has q pledge that prohibits drinking be-
tween meals and we remember efforts
made In this country to restrict drink
ing In a similar manner. Yet the meals
MAJ be very long drawn out, or they
ma. be many, for we have seen mealers
of this kind whose breath always smelt
of fireworks. Did not an Oxford under
graduate describe his Sunday as IAN I'M
percept' Bile gliding from meal to neal?
There was an old glutton and two
handed drinker in Orange county, YER
mont. years ago. He was taken to task
by the minister OF the village for the err
ror OF his ways. Henry, you are like
unto the beasts that perish. Why do
you drink so much 'fWlel, you see
I have to- 1 eat so much" But why,
Henry, do you pig it so with your food?"
II have to, OH my honor, / can't help
1t; you see I drink so much" Henry
was a mealer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Galveston 0utranks All

The first six months of the cotton
year extend from September / to
March 1, and in that time Galveston in
the list of cotton export ports easily
leads all the rest Out of 6,361 1897
bales exported in the six months Gal
weston shipped away 2,647,663 bales;
New Orleans, 1,516,274 bales; Savan-
nah, 749,353 bales; New York, 300,924
bales. and Wilmington, 2S5,316 bales.
These five ports are the leaders. Mo-
bile sent out 1852 bales, and Pen
sacola, 125,947 bales. Mobile Is the
sixth city, and Pensacola the seventh
city of the list.
The table just published not only
shows the decadence of New York as
a cotton port, but 1t also illustrates
the vitality of tide-swept Galveston.
When the tidal wave had left the
city desolate, no one believed 1t
could be securely protected and re-
built up to its former standing, but
all It's former records of business
seem puny when contrasted with its
records of this year. Doubtless its
total exports of the cotton year will
20 beyond 100000 bales, worth per
,haps $175,ooo,ooO. In cotton exports
Il stands today without rival, and its
exports of corn and wheat are also
rapidly increasing. Galveston is the
marvel of the gulf. It's record of cot
tor exports promises to stand as the
CHER port record until it can itself
make a better one. New Orleans is
now playing second fiddle in the mat
ter OF cotton, and the empire Of
Texas at last outranks the mighty
Mississippi valley in that respect.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
1t is the things we didn't do that we re-
greet most.
A bluff is all right as long as you
can fool people with 1t.
Men with soft snaps don't realize what
hard world this is.
Fools who butt in where angels fear
to tread usually get what they go after.
The weigh of the transgressor depends
on whether he Is buying or selling.
Money will do great many things
but it will not remove the freczles from
a mans conscience.
Grass seldom grows under the feet OF
man who keeps on the sidewalk or IN
the middle of the street.
1t IS much easier to tell people that
there is no use in worrying than ii Is to
tell them how to avoid it.
Men are always telling what they would
do under certain circumstances, but wher
the aforesaid circumstances happen alons
they dc something different.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
CAN'T STAND KEROSENE.

From the New York Sun.
II never knew until this, winter" said
the superintendent of dog and cat hos
ptal chow thoroughly most animals de-
test the smell of kerosene. Several times
the steam heating apparatus In this place
went on a strike and We tried to raise
the temperature by means of an oil stove.
The smell of the oil produced a regular
mutiny among the animals. Cats are
particularly sensitive to the odor of kero-
sene. Next door to my house Is a sta
tionery store which has been heated all
winter long with an oil stove. In the
beginning of the season the proprietor
owned a fine cat that seemed well salts
fled with his comfortable quarters. No
sooner. however, was that stove lighted
than the cat deserted the stationer and
sought home for the winter In steam
heated fat farther down the street. He
comes back once in while on a visit,
but the smell bf the oil prevents his be-
coming regular inhabitant of that
store -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
The National Doctor

Although Wall street seems to have
almost recovered its normal health, 1t
is fighting shy of another dose OF the
strong anti-corporation concoction
that DIR. Roosevelt carries in his med
icine case. The patient has sent more
than one ambassador to the White
House doctor to tell him that it
couldn't stand another dose, all of
which does not seem to have greatly
impressed DR.. Roosevelt. Like the
good old family physician, who tells
you that the medicine is bad, but
you'll feel better In the morning, DR..
Roosevelt is viewing his patient with
satisfaction. For all he has said to
the contrary, it may be inferred that
he considers its sick spell and its re.
dictionary symptoms the proper signs
of returning health.
Meantime we are told in our dis
patches from New York that Wall
street is seeking new physician for
1908. In the street" it Is case of
any old doctor but one of the Roose-
welt school. II the street" cannot
get a physician to whom anti-corpora-
ton drops are unknown it at least pre-
fers a physician who administers his
remedies in homeopathic doses. Any
number of the saw-bones coterie,
young and old, have exhibited symp-
toms of White House mania. There's
old Doctor Cannon. strong of word,
but weak Of medicine. There Is
Charles w. Fairbanks, M. D., who has
grown tall and adept in the art of per-
hitting the patient to have his own
way so long as the attending physi-
clan is getting his pay. DR.. Shaw
must not be overlooked, for he is well
yersed in the science of medicine as
applied to corporations. DR.. Shaw
knows just when treatment is needed
and when treatment is not needed.
This symposium would be incom-
plete, absurdly incomplete, without
the name of DR.. Elihu Root, physician
extraordinary to the financier. DR.
Roots principal qualification is tha.
he is able TO tell the patient when an
illness is imminent and how to escai .
it. There are half a dozen or more
eligibles that we could name, but
these few examples will suffice. There
Is another celebrated specialist We
have not mentioned, but he is of the
Roosevelt school and for that reason
ineligible. We refer to DIR. plain
Bill Taft, the surgeon of the Philip
pines, and there is, too, Governor
Hughes. M. D.. who is full of possibili-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
ALABAMA PRESS

Baldwin Times: The Alabama legisla-
ture has protected the fish and the girds,
but the pale-faced children of Mr.. Conner $
cotton mill can look out for themselves.
Montgomery Times: AS long as Wall
street panic can be kept confined to Wall
street, there is no reason for the rest OF
the country to get scared.
Collinsville Courier: A worldly minded
Missouri editor has won much applause
from the galleries by declaring that 1t Is
no more harm to catch fish on Sunday
than to run down chicken on that day
for the preachers dinner.
Mobile Herald: The awarding of sixty
three Carnegie hero medals today sug-
gests that one man has been overlooked.
He is the fellow who dared to announce
that 81 .9S is a plenty for a woman to pay
for her Easter nat.
Montgomery Advertiser: Ex-senator
Burton. who has been serving a term in
jail for grating and little peccadilloes of
like nature, declares that he intends to
vindicate himself just as soon as he re-
gains his liberty. We do not at present
remember a man who needs it any worse
than Burton does.