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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
THE INVASION OF THE TEDDY BEAR" New Play UphoIds the Cause
 of the Del|ies Is A FANTASTIC STORY "The Toy Maker of Nuremberg Is Pleasing To Lovers of Children and Dolls and Fairy
 Tales.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Last summer Austin Strong made call on J. M. Barrie in London. When he en- tered the room he said, MT. Barrie, | just passed through Kensngton Gardens and told a duck l was coming here to see MT Barrie. Barrie? Who's Barrier said the duck. I though it rather funny for him not to know you
 What color was that duck?" said Mir Barrie.
 And the conversation, so begun, con tinued so for two hours. They talked en- tirely about those things which stupid grown-up people who have forgotten, call unreal Perhaps they talked about MT. Strong's new play, "The Toy Maker of Nuremberg which was produced at the Garrick Theatre last night. For it belongs to the same dear kingdom of unrealty- it is a play MT. Barrie would love and only a lover of Mir. Barrie could have written. And, oh, best of all! it cham pions bravely and eloquently the ancient cause of the dollies against those up- starts, the Teddy Bears. It is O plea for the sanctity of the toyland home.
 But do not suppose that in this play the dolies or the Teddy Bears come to life and walk about. They live. but in the sweet soul of the old toymaker of Nurem- berg and in the souls of the little children who love him. Sitting by his high win- dow that looks out at the great church clock Cor rather, the church clock looks in, just like a big face) in room that might be out of Hans Christian Andersen. the toymaker has all his life made dolls and put red hearts in them so they could love a mamma.
 But over in Kansas City, in America where the dollies went, came craze for Teddy Bears. so his employer told him he would have to make Teddy Bears or have his salary cut in two. And he left one of the wild beasts for a model. And then the toymaker addressed it. He didn't so much refuse to make such toys because there was no scope for art In them as because it was all wrong for lt- tie children to love and cherish them more than dollies. all wrong and against na- ture. He grew eloquent about 1t, and the audience rose and applauded him. A lt- tie more and they would have rended the Teddy Bear limb from limb. And jolly well right it would have served him, too!
 Now the toy maker had son David. who painted the eyelashes on the dollies. and he loved the employers daughter. But he was poor and so the employer would have none of him for a son-in-law and when he tried to elope discharged him and his father too. They were about to sell their house and set out for Amer ica with Nebuchadnezzar. the dachshund. to make their fortune in year on a ranch tthey took Nebuchadnezzar to herd the cattle). when Adolph, the elder son. who had gone to America 20 years before. arrived in a motor car. He was rich not German rich, but real American rich, he said. And what do you suppose?
 He made his fortune by cornering the Teddy Bear market He was the Teddy Bear King Thus the. ends of justice were served. You may be sure David got his sweetheart and the old toy maker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

Commencing Dec. 2d, South ern Railway will operate through sleeper to Jackson vile, leaving Birmingham on afternoon train, the direct line to Florida with steamer con- nections to Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
FOR SALE

fSSG~NST~~GS~~ Ss>>~->>>>>~~~--~>~>-1e~ & Sons. 11-2-tf FOR SALE--At a sacrifice: lot 50x190. well situated at West End good new 4-room house, also good lot in half block of car line in the best part of East Birmingham, with beautiful 3-room house, with hall and 66 feet of porch, also new 3-room house, with good lot, half block of car line
 in Kingston. All of this property is in good white locality. will sell all these places, if taken quick, for 5000. The three places are worth nearly 5000, but the owner needs the money, and is willing to sacrifice the property to get it. There is a mort gage on each place that can be as- sumed by the purchaser. The balance must be in cash Can use certified chack. Must sell as a whole. will not divide. s. Bethea & Co.,, No. 2027 Sd avenue. 12-1-2t FOR SALE Furniture for rooms; nice furniture; everything needed for house. keeping will sell very cheap. Call at rear. 1920 N. 17th street. 12-f-2t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
ONE GENT A WORD

ltATIcs--one cent . word |. day, no ad. taken for less tkan 26 cents for nrst insertion. Cash muxt accompany every order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
 WANTED-MALE HELP

GENTLEMAN wishes lady partner for
 vaudeville act Call at St. Charles hotel
 between 10 and 1 o'clock Monday moin- ing
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Rooms-WANTED--Board

WANTE O--By man and wife, 3 unfur- nisheN rooms on second floor, north side town preferred. H.. F. o. Box 1s5. 12-l-St
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ONE GENT A WORD.

RsTES-one cent . word . day, no ad. taken for less than 25 cents fos nrs' insertion. Cash must accom- pan every order.
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MONEY TO LEND
REAL ESTATE


 FOR SALE. so acres sl00o-11la miles south of city; l5 acres cleared. balance in original timber. Been offered s4,S0 per acre for the tim Der and to cut nothing under 10 inches in diameter; Broom house. stable, fruit trees. etc. FOR RENT--1900 11th Ave. S.. rooms bath, gas and servants house. 7-room house, Elyton, large lot anG stable. $l5.
 l.. G. PETrYJOHN Phones 11GI and 465. 1S281x 3d Ave
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RATEs--Oae cent word day. ns sd. tnken for ;es than 25 cents for nrst Insertion. Cash must accOmpany every order.
BUSINESS CHANGES

A SPLENDID Business Opportunity-To continue a china, glassware and house furnishing business at Decatur satIs- factory reason for wanting to sell. Ad- dress Box 395, Decatur. Ala 11-27-7t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

WANTED-You oung men to prepare Tor examination for railway mail and other government positions. Superior instruc- tion by mail. Established IA years. Thou sands of successful students. Sample questions and How Government Posi- tions Are Secured" sent free. Inter- state Schools, Cedar Rapids, la.
 11-25-30t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

WANTED-50oJ men to buy S3.50 shoes at Chamblee Bros. Panic Sale at SPAS.
 n-1o-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
WANTED-MALE HELP

MANTED-For united States army, aeie- bodied unmarried men, between ages Of q and 35; citizens of United States of good character and temperate habits who car speak, read and write Eng fish: men wanted now for service in Cuba. Apply to recruiting officer. "a North 2oth street. Birmingham, Ala.
 7-1-to-l2-3l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
ONE GENT A WORD

RATES-One cent . word . days as sd. taken for less than 25 cents fos nrst insertion. Cash must accompany every order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

MoNEY-We handle the financing of good enterprises and credtable projects The Bankers Bond Company Pittsburg. Pa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

YOUNG lady wishes a position as office assistant. Have no experience in short hand, but have some knowledge of book keeping; am willing to begin on moder- ate salary. Address A, care Age-Herald.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

$220o-One-half cash, balance one and two years at per cent buys beautiful lot on South 2Oth street, near Five Points; this price for quick deal only; call at once or you miss it. B. F. Eborn, 1903 1st avenue.
 WANTED-Parties with money in banks. subject to check, to see us about desir- able loans that will pay them the un- usually high rates of interest prevail ing now, but an opportunity that will not last. Jemison Real Estate and In- SilrnOpe CO .f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
ONE CENT A WORD.

RATES-One cent a word n day. nc nd. taken for Iess than 25 cents for first insertion. Cash must accompany every order.
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WANTED.

sHAvING-lOc at 1921 4th avenue. s-ls-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

He made his fortune by cornering the Teddy Bear market. He was the Teddy Bear King, Thus the ends of justice were served You may be sure David got his sweetheart and the old toy maker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02

TS<SS~SCT~IS~~sIS~~-~y ~y>~>->>>~>>>~~~~~~~>->~- FOR SALE-Nice st .nhope. cheap. Fies
 & Sons. 11-2-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED-5Ooo men to buy -s1o overcoats at ss. IS at Chambles Bros. Panic S%e.
 u-l5tt
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REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE.

2117 First Avenue. Phones 1923.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19
Where the Doll Comes From.

Doll-making did not become con-
spicuous as an industry in the Thurin-
gian Mountains until the middle OF Ine
nineteenth century, when citizen OF
Sonneberg brought from London a
doll which was regarded as a great
curiosity. 1t had come originally from
China, and its head, legs, and arms
were movable. This furnished an
inspiration to the ingenious Thurin-
gian toy-makers, who promptly i'm
proved upon it. Up to that time they
had made dolls only OF wood and
leather, but soon they evolved the
wax head-aI first a crude article, the
wax being applied with brush, but
later brought to high perfection,
thanks, it is said, to an accidental
discovery. A man engaged In making
the heads dropped a thlmble into his
pot OF fluid wax, and, on taking it out,
found it covered with smooth and
beautiful coat of the substance. He
was not slow to sieze the idea, the
result being the adoption of the dip
ping process, the final touches OF
color being put on with a camers-
hair pencil. Later on the movable eyes
and closing lids, to feign sleep, were
added, and the fleece of the Angora
goat was substituted for human hair
in the making of wigs, holding its
color and curl much better, the doll.
as it is known today. thus assuming
its final and highly artistic form.
Dressing the dolls after they are
made has become an industry in
which numbers of women and girls
are employed. For the small, inexpen-
sive dolls, little chemises, finished
with a ruffie of lace around neck and
arms, are made by hundreds and re-
quire no skilled labor for their con-
struction.-Rene Bache, in the Circle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19

lions on an average answered an alarm
a day for two days and on the third
they rested.
To be fair it should be said, how
ever, that the two New York IN
panies cited were exceptionally busy
The average of calls year for a New
York fire company is about 800.
The other extreme Is found in the
case OF South Beach hose company
No. on seaside boulevard between
Ocean avenue and Sand lands, South
Beach, Staten island, which consists
of one four-wheeled hose wagon man.
ned by eight men. Hose No. an
swered one alarm in 1906, and II
wasn't false one. either.
An interesting point shown by the
records of the fire department IS
that the firemen in Harlem and the
Bronx are for the most part kept so
busy answering alarms, false and
otherwise. as their brothers downtown
excepting a few companies in the
heart OF the east side. Brooklyn's
firemen are not nearly so busy as those
of Manhattan. averaging only about
twothirds as many calls year.
Truck No &c, installed only few
years ago at 1884 East i14th street
Manhattan, answered last year no less
than 95S calls and did duty at more
than half OF them.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19

1910 Ior~Durnins alconoi, rauaius q
s--.SS a4ea-dlSQ ESsOAulions q 1Aaa..-.S
- 800 $3.50 ---saly Colnprsss.Hs LAs
@--1ISC, nave 6IsSA. SACeliSnI AS.yulLS,
L. InIs onIy sOSs ~ ln4lcate the JILL
s4.edOl.aty "a aaCOuO. lOI duloa1oUAie
iiIoeors a. now UuliL. out q rev
AA4eInod Oh altering me cnaracLeris-
tics o. aiconoi BIIHouI impalrng ILs
Iu1I value, mas been devised and COW
cred by letters patent issued 10 +. W..
barker ana thomas L. WnIIe, OF New
1ork, On december 20, ISvo.
DrIeny, the barkerNhite sysCen.
consists In yaporIzing alcohol In a
caroureter OF the ordinary gasonue
type aud passing the vapor or aIco-
MOI, mixed with the proper volume o.
air, through calcium carbide. Com
mercial alcohol always contains wa,
Ter, usually to the extent OF abCul
ten per cent, and this water Is Az
sorDed by the carbide, whereupon
acetylene gas Is liberated by the car
Dide, mixes with the alcohol vapOr
and air and is carried into the clyIn-
der.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19
Japan Makes Study Of Pottery

compete with foreign lotteries has
been one of Japan's hardest nuts to.
crack. The work of investigating
Japanese clays and perimenting
with different combinations of them
lis now going on under government as
sistance in the wonderful laboratories
and shops of the department of ce-
ramics, In the Toxic Higher Technical
Schools, in the ceramics section of the
Arita Art and Industrial School at
Saga, and in the plant of the Pottery
School at Ishikawaken.,
According to Prof G. r. Richards of
Teachers College, secretary of the
National Society for the Promotion Of
Industrial Education, the Toxic school
is one of the few places in the world
where the study Of pottery on highly
scientific basis is possible. On the
side of chemical investigation of ce-
ramics this school ranks with the
best Of American or European insti-
buttons.
In its courses full instructions IL
given in the technology Of clays and
earths, glazes, pigments, and firing.
Especial attention is given also to the
ldeveuopment of new wares, and to-
the combination of earths and COM
pounds for this purpose. At the same
time, the pupils receive ample shop
training in design making, decorat-
| ing, and firing porcelain.
III other words, Japan is doing for
her pottery interests what she is do
ing for fisheries, brew cries, agricul-
ture, stockraising, chemical and engi-
lneering enabling those who
are to take part In the development Of
lose industries to learn at home at
the hands of the state the best of Eu-
ropean and American discovery.
In the United states, with twice as
many people as Japan, and with a far
greater market for ceramic products,
there are few schools which teach
more than pottery handicraft and dec
Grafton. AS far as is known there are
only two universities in the country
which pay any attention to the indus
trial chemistry of ceramics.
One is Ohio State Univ ersity at Co.
INDUS, where Professor Orion is CIV
ing courses dealing principally with
the technology of fire brick and encaus-
tic tile, which are local industries.
The other is at Alfred University, Al
| fred, New York, where Professor
Binns is carrying on advanced work in
ceramics.
Most of the experimenting is done in
the private laboratories of the manu-
featuring concerns which are search
ing mainly for new glazes for orna-
mentalspottery. The pottery industry
in this country, IKE many other indus
trial activities, seems to be behind
Japan in recognizing the Importance
of industrial education and has made
little effort to induce State Legisla-
lures to make grants for schools to
develop State pottery deposits.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19
Mrs. Carriers Bankruptcy.

New York world-Mrs. Carter did
not pawn her soiled gowns for twice
their value with trust company con-
trolled by herself and buy other new
gowns with the cash; she did not rob
an estate for money to buy new thea
ter and try to sell the stock in the
theater to pay back the stolen money
before it's loss was discovered; she
did not take over the garage, form a
stock company, call her s53 debt an
asset and start In to get rich quick In
other real estate. She did not open
a bank In the box office. go broke on
stock gambling with the deposits and
let her dearest friends get their money
out Just before 1t closed. Apparently
this is one of those good-or at any
rate comparatively innocent-old
fashioned failures where the harassed
one buys what she personally needs
and has unanticipated difficulties In
paying for It, Mrs. Carter Is to be
complimented Her case may be rec
commended to take the taste out
after reading of the antics Of rea
high finance.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19
New Gas Engine Fuel.

Since the passage of the measure
providing for the removal of the in.
ternal revenue tax ON deuatured al.
cohol little has been done toward
bringing this fuel into the market as
competitor OF gasoline. So writes
Howard Greene in The Technical
World Magazine. AS matters stand
at present, alcohol is not In post
ton to compete with gasoline as a
fuel for internsl combustion engines.
Chief among the engineering rea-
sons for this state Of affairs Is the
fact that alcohol. vaporized and mixed
with air. burns slowly as compared
with the combustion OF gasoline
vapor. To use alcohol advantageously
The engine SPEED must be low and
the compression high. Stationary mo-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19
Took the First Gable.

William F. Shiebler, who received
the first message over the Atlantic
cables from Queen Victoria to Presi-
dent Buchanan on Aug. IT, 1858, died
lately of a complication of diseases at
his home, 753 Greene avenue, Brook
Ign, says the New York Herald. Mr..
Shiebler was telegraph operator at
the white house during the civil war
and received important messages for
President Lincoln and Secretary OF
War Stanton. He saw Mr. Lincoln as
sassinated.
Since 1872 Mr. Shiebler had been in
the jewelry business with his brother
at Maiden lane, Manhattan, The firm
is known as George w. Shiebler & Co.
Mr.. Shiebler was born In Baltimore.
Nd. on Aug. 25, 1871. AS boy he
entered telegraph office in Washing
ton, d. c. He soon became an expert
He was taken into the services of the
government in 1858. He was en-
ployed in the white house when the
first Atlantic cable was laid after two
other attempts had failed.
He received the message from
Queen Victoria and handed it person
ally to President Buchanan. The mes
sage was: Europe and America are
united by telegraph. Glory to God in
the highest; on earth peace and good
will toward men," The message was
sent from Valentia, ireland to New
foundland, and overland to Washing
ton.
In Ford's theater in washington. on
April II. 1865. Mr. Shiebler saw the
hring OF the shot by John Wilkes
Booth which killed President Lincoln.
He rushed to the stage in an endeav-
or to prevent the assassin from get
ting away. He was handed the revol-
yer with which the president was
killed and turned it over TO q police
man
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19

Joseph Jefferson, and Mrs. John Wood
we're his associates in early days. 1t
was at the Olympic theater In Bou-
cicault's The Long Strike that his per-
Torrance of Lawyer Moneypenny
gained him the reputation he never
lost. NJ. Stoddart met, during his as
sociation with James Wallack's com
pany, Matilda Phillips, whom he sub
sequently married. His children never
followed his profession.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19
Gu, Out Drink.

A theatrical company headed by one
of the better known actors. lately was
disbanded and the time which had
tsen secured for II was Cancelled, and
simply because the managers decided
that the question OF the probable so.
briefly OF the star was too problemat'
&c for them to bother about.
An actress who has been leading
member OF several OF the best COM
panies Of the day and who Is starring
this year, also has been warned by
her managers that the slightest indul.
gence on her part in the pleasures OF
the table will be punished by can
collation. ~ her tour.
Times change and manners change
with them.
II was not 50 long ago that Knox,
the English actor who played Glenal.
won better than he played anything
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19

The japanese government, to make
a single new plate, is expending
large sums of money and employing
scores of technical and chemical ex-
perts. This plate is not a huge steel
affair which, as armor on battleships,
will resist the high explosives anu
hardened shells of other nations.
It is possibly an eighth of an inch
thick and so fragile that shot from
a bean shooter would smash 1t into
fragments, and yet the making OF the
plate, Japan believes. is all that inter
feres with her supremacy ir OF
the greatest commercial lines
The plate is not in an! a
|secret-millions of them are made
openly at Trenton and In New York
State, and turned out by thousands OF
tons in Germany. 1t is simply the or
binary china ware dinner plate, from
which most of the eighty million
Americans eat their daily meals.
Yet Japan, although her potteries
can turn out the most delicate of egg
shell porcelains, the most beautiful of
glazes. the most shapely Of vessels,
decorated with exquisite coloring, is
baff1ed by the ordinary kitchen plate.
The scientists of Japan know just
what that plate is made OF, how it's
glaze is applied, how it is fired and
decorated. All that they lack, they
think, is the right sort of earth in ia
pan to duplicate it at a price which
would give them the foreign market.
And the Japanese government, be-
cause it believes that the right sort
of clay can be found, or made by CON-
bining known pottery material, has fol-
lowed its usual course of establishing
government pottery schools and elab-
crate clay laboratories.
This lack of proper clay is irritat-
ing to the japanese manufacturer.
The Japanese ceramic chemists, try
as they will, cannot mix native earths
into a mixture which will give the
durability of American and German
clay pits.
When Japan wants a particular
thing in an industrial line she relies to
obtain it almost wholly ON one method
the industrial education of her own
people to make that thing. First, the
Japanese government sends experts
all over the world. These experts,
often Japan's leading technologists,
serve as mere laborers or as unskilled
craftsmen in factories of Europe and
America, simply to gain information
about industrial methods.
The next step is to use this informa.
ton in the government industrial
schools and, with this knowledge as a
beginning, to encourage the students
and scientists to go ahead In the ma,
tional shop and laboratories and dis.
cover fer themselves improvements
which trade rivals have not hit upon
The clay problem in its application
to making common crockery ware to
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-12-19
hands through it giving it the dis
heveled appearance Of the portrait

hands through it giving it the dis
heveled appearance Of the portrait
He said further that in making the
enlargement for the Autograph the
portrait was somewhat idealized, and
much Of the natural ruggedness OF Mr..
Lincoln's features was smoothed out.
Whether this man was correct in his
belief as to the origin of the portrait
it Is undoubtedly true that it is con-
siderably idealized, as will be seen
from the copy, the portrait while re-
tanning the essential features which
are so well known, nevertheless max
ing him far handsomer man than he
is currently reported to have been.
And yet Mr.. Read, who had seen
him often as young man, always
said that it was an excellent likeness,
and that it looked just as Mr.. Lincoln
did at the time he made his famous
debates with Stephen A. Douglas. on
Oct. 10, 1858.