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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
PRESIDENT BACK
 AT WASHINGTON
HE WILL START ON THE 9TH TO TAKE PART IN GEORGIA DAY RATION-ENJoYED TRIP GREATLY.

Washington, June 1.--President Roose- welt, Secretary Loeb and Surgeon Gen. eral Rixey returned to Washington from their visit to Canton, Indianapolis and Lansing at 4:45 this afternoon. The Pres ident went at once to the White House anu the latter to the executive office, to dispose of business which had accu- mulated. The President Is to start on June for the Jamestown exposition, where Georgia day is to be celebrated on the 10th. On the 11th he will leave for Oyster Bay. where, as he said today, he hored to pass a quiet summer. The President expressed himself as having thoroughly enjoyed his trip, and as hay ing experienced a very interesting time. Good weather favored him through his travels with the exception of today, when it rained hard all the way from Pittsburg to Washington.
 The run from Pittsburg was without special incident. Everywhere the train stopped the President appeared on the platform of his private car and bowed to the people who had gathered in an tcipation of his arrival. When time per mitted he shook hands and sometimes spoke briefly.
 At Cumberland the steam whistles kept up a racket while the President was attempting to talk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Handicap Matches.

After a man gets pretty good at wrest- ling lack of suitable opponents forces him to turn much of his attention to handicap matches. These are often severe tests or strength and ability, and yet I have ai- ways maintained that if you can throw a man once or twice in a straight match, within a reasonable length of time, you can throw him oftener working at top speed within a given period, for lis en- durance is usually weakened in the first bout. Still a man makes mistakes. made one once In Minnesota, when I tried to throw a likely chap fifteen times in an hour. It was the biggest handicap l have undertaken and I went at him ham mer and tongs for the first fall. lie went down hard, he went out and he stayed down and out for over an hour, and then they took him to the hospital. thought that a pretty eays way out of tough job, and went home and had q good nights sleep. The next day I called on the stakeholder to collect. To my dis gust the other fellow had been ahead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
BURGLARS DRUG
 RECTORY INMATES
Enter Norfolk Rectory While pr. Barr Is Away and Get Off
 With $500.

Norfolk, Va, June 1-In the absence of the Rev. Barr, the rectory of St. Luke's Episcopal church, having one of the largest congregations here. was entered last night by thieves, who, after drugging Mrs. Barr her brother. Frank Stringfel- low, Jr., son of the famous Confederate chaplain scout of that name; a young lady occupying the room with Mrs Barr and the latter's aged aunt. got away with $500 in cash and several hundred dollars worth of jewelry, together with every thing else of value which Mrs. Barr had packed in trunks preparatory to her de- parture for Lynchburg tonight. This Is the fourth time the same rectory has been robbed within a brief period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
GEO. BURNHAM, JR.,
 GOES TO THE TONES
Until Monday, When Vice President of Mutual Reserve Will Be Re-
 leased on Bail for Trial.

New York, June 1.-George Burnham, Jr formerly vice president and general counsel for the Mutual Reserve Fund Life association, who was convicted and sentenced to two years in the state prison in connection cwith the recent insurance trials, arrived in this city tonight and was taken immediately to the Tombs, where he will remain until Monday.
 MT. Burnham's counsel secured an order from the supreme court today ordering release on bail pending the hearing of a motion for another trial
 Conforming to prison rules Burnham has been shaved. his mustache and side whiskers having disappeared He declared when he arrived at the Tombs that there was no hurry about the bail, and that he would remain in the prison until Mon day, when the bonds, he said, would be arraigned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
BY FRANK A. eoTcH.

As all rules of sport are continually be- ing tlnkered with, so we often find critics complaining of the freedom given the athlete in the grips of catch as-catch can wrestling. Personally, l believe that the American catch-as- -catch-can rules, as established by the Police Gazette, are the best in the world. l detest brutality on the mat as much as anyone else; I do not believe in injuring or maiming man unnecessarily The Japanese warriors, In their great battles, always, it Is said, plan to leave a single avenue of retreat open to the besieged. So in wrestling a hold should always lead to Tall, not to simple brutality. A man should always be given the opportunity of yielding. My toe-catch combination has often been severely crit icised. And yet, 1t is not unfair in catch as-catch-can wrestling, and l have never employed it without leaving my opponent free to turn his shoulders to the mat, if he doesn't like it.
 Graceo-Roman wrestling I abhor It confines holds above the waist and in this country has come to be a refuge for the big men who can't wrestle. but who are strong. We don't see Fraeco- Roman wrestlers in American nowadays like Billy Muldoon, Ernest Roeber, Charle Wittmer, men who studied and practiced the sci ence of that branch of the sport, although I consider Mjalmer Winder, the Swede, q first class man at the style
 Talking of Graeco-Roman wrestling brings to mind the style of rules which they follow in the Canadian cities. wrestled a great deal in Canada during the season of 1905-6, and l had my work cut ont winning the great international tournament at Mantreal, Ottawa and Que bes, in which over 50 of the best heavy weights in the world participated. Over in Canada, the French Canadians want Graeco- Roman wrestling in preference to catch-as-catch-can. They have created a set of rules. styled the French Graeco- Roman rules, which constitute a weird code. With only holds above the waist permitted, they bar the strangle, the hammerlock and about everything else, so that a man is almost powerless to do anything. Then they blow a whistle every few minutes and the contestants take a rest. 1 have observed that about the time the Frenchman Is getting tired the whistle generally blows. The first time I tried these rules, they confronted me with mass of humanity that weighed about 300 pounds I wrestled him down to the mat with body holds In five min utes and had him safely nelsoned when the whistle blew. We rested. Again had him close to the floor and the whis- tie blew. Five times I came exasperat- ingly near securing fall, but each time the whistle blew Once the Frenchman got me in a bad spot and the whistle hung fire for twenty minutes. Finally, I got my man locked hard and fast, and, although anticipating a blast from the tin horn every second. I got his should CTS to the mat. Then l looked up. The referee. a Frenchman. was red in the face still struggling with the whistle. Someone had stuffed a bit of paper in it, and it wouldn't blow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Prize Ring Prospects.

Somebody asked me about the prizering the othe day. I have always had the fighting bee. I've had it stronger than ever since they begun to give s50,0O0 purses out in Nevada. All wrestlers have 1t, they say. guess it has stung me good and hard. I once challenged Jeffries Fast. 1 shudder to think what would have hap pened if he had said yes. He didn't He said no. You needn't laugh. I've fought a battle or two. My first was ripper. After I had wrestled them all down in the Klondike they dug up Paddy Slavin and staked me to him in a ten-round glove bout. It was a slaughter-house af- fair. The police stopped it in the seventh round. At least that's what they told me afterward. Say, during those seven rounds Slavin hit at me 300 times, and l don't believe he missed me once. All the same, joking aside. I don't know whether I'm entirely through with the ring yet or not. Don't be surprised if you find me trying to annex that other Ameri- can championship some fine day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
McLaurin Supports Truly.

Jackson Miss. June 1.-(Special)-ln two thousand word reply to the Vicksburg Heralds assertion that prior to 1900 the state had not made a dollar out of the penitentiary convicts. Senator McLaurin for the first time shows his hand in the gubernatorial race by praising Judge Truly to the skies and asserting that he has been his staunch friend and sup porter from boyhood. Judge Truly is lugged in because the Herald had, ac- cording to the senator, "besmeaT ched him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
When Parr Lost His wla.

I had an amusing experience in Buffalo one night, when I tackled Jim Parr, the English wrestler. Like the rest of us, the British boy is a bit vain, and all though as bald as bat he usually sports a luxuriant toupee, 8 wig which supplies his deficiency of hair Jim is as clever as they make them and he kept squirrn- ing out of my grasp until l was angry clear through.
 All right. old boy" said I to myself, as he spun out of one lock I thought had fixed him securely. 'I'll stop that the next time''
 Sure enough the next time he tried the spin I grabbed him by the scalplock and hung on for the instant. You can inn agine my surprise and Jim's look of dis gust when he still continued to spin and the wig came off in my hand. The house guyed Parr and he told me afterward that he would rather have been thrown right then and there than to have had such an expose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
A Spring Rhapsody.
the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 The fabled Hebrew wanderer stalking in savage loneliness through the gloom of the dark ages, the castaway clinging to his bit of wreckage, and straining ach- ing eyes to the vacant sea line a frigate bird wheeling its solitary flight through the empty air, palm tree bending over it's shadow in the desert. Selkirk alone on his island with the enigmaticai stars and silent seas. Roosevelt alone in Cuba all of these strike in different tones the same key of sentiment which is touched by the spectacle of the first straw hat, when no other sign of spring has ven- tured forth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
worId,s Greatest WrestIers.

I was asked the other day whom con- sidered the greatest wrestlers. CndouDt- edly the gigantic Turks, Nourouleh, You souf, chaps like them. No white man can hope to cope with those 800 pound hulks, unless he can get back of them and work on their feet. I've been looking for someone to show me how to get back of them. Don't let anybody tell you any white man ever beat Nouroulah. for he didn't In America we have had a gallant array of wrestlers-Whistler, Joe Acson. Strangler Lewis, Tom Jenkins. Farmer Burns, Dan Mcleod. Charley Olson. There's a splendid seven, and thea today we have Freddy Beell, man but notch above a middleweight and yet one of the greatest on the mat. It is something to hold a championship titic n the face of such competition as exists in this country of the Stars and Stripes today. and l hope I am not egotistical when I say l am proud to have won my right to de- fends the American championship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
One of the Good ,uns, Olson.

And then, just Another word for an- other good wrestler, who is just coming to be appreciated in America. Charley Olson of St. Louis, a man whose weighc may keep him out of the first rank, but who is destined to make an emphatic ial- pression on the public before whom he appears. Olson is another physical mar vel. He weighs not much over TO pounds If that Is built tall and thin and angular They generally laugh at Olson when nc strips for a match. They don't laugh after the match is over. I esteem Olson one of the most dangerous 1aen on the American canvas. Those long. thin arms of his possess a wonderful natural strength, he has unusual powers of endur- ance. is game to the core, and he has mastered well the tricks of the sport. If Olson does not get to the top in the f.- ture, he'll come pretty close to it. don't notice that he is losing many matches these days and he is turning down no challengers
 The deceiving physique of Olson las led to many ludicrous incidents. in which he has played the star part. In Kansas City not long ago about half the wrest- lers of the continent were congregated for a tournament A boistsrous stro..g man in one of the hotel safes got to drinking bit, and loudly boasted that outside of Gotch I can throw any man
 in Kansas City" They brought Olson in and the strong man laughed at the boy of meager frame. Five times minute for you,' he roared Five times an hour for you," retored Olson, quietly. They upt up $2O0 side that last proposi- tion and stripped right there and then, In the billiard room. When they picked the> strong man up after the fourth fall. which happened in about eight minutes he was quite a sober man.
 'Nuffv' he calculated. "guess I've made A mistake There's one other man be- sides Gotch I can't throw. and this bean poles the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
HARVEY WILL QUIT
 THE N. o. & N. E. R. R.
Curran Will Succeed Old President of Three Roads, Who Returns
 to England to Live.

New Orleans, June 1.-C. c. Harvey an- nounced tonight that about the end of July he will resign the presidency of the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad, the Alabama and Vicksburg railway and the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railway. MT. Harvey is an Englishman, 6l years old, and held responsible positions with English roads before coming to this country. He will return to England to live.
 It is reported that MT. Harvey's suc- cessor will be D. D. Curran, now vico president and general manager of the three roads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Lottery Case In Mobile.

Washington, June 1.-Assistant 1. At torney General Cooley left Washington from Mobile, Ala, today on business connected with the prosecution of the Honduras Lottery company. It is un- derstood the matter will come up in the United States court in Mobile next Tuesday, when final action will be taken on the proposition of the com pany to pay a fine to be named by the government and do no more business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02

I should have to leave the subject of wrestling at any time without saying a good word for my old tutor, Martin, better known as Farmer Burns, one of the great est grapplers America has ever produced, and, yet, probably, a man less appre- ciated at his true worth than any other in the business today. I really pIaco Burns right up to the edge of the first rank of men on the mat, and but a few pounds of weight have partitioned him off from the championship The name If Farmer Burns was an heirloom to the sport when l first came out Yet he's here today. His rivals of the mat of other years have faded and gone. and yet, approaching his 50th milestone, the old Farmer Is hale and husky, and, seenl- ingly, the strength and stamina which have made him a mat artist in the ni.sn- est state of perfection have remained lln- impaired. Ask the Farmer how he mas maintained such state of physical ex- cellence despite advancing years and he will say, Avoid dissipation, boy" The Farmer never smoked nor chewed nor has he indulged in intoxicating drink; in fact, he carries his care in diet so far that he does not touch coffee or tea. his sole beverages being water and milk, Of course Burns must have been splendid.y endowed by Nature for the racking trlaik of the mat. In many ways he is onA of the most remarkably developed men | have ever seen For instance, you cam not employ strangle hold on the Farmei. with success. They have tried in vain to choke the old chap. In fact, they have suspended him by the hangman's moose, but the great protecting cords in his neCx would start bulging out and the Farmer would smile as he swung dangling at the end of the rope. Then Burns has always saved his strength. He believes in letting the other fellow do the work in match. Some of 'em start in like two year-old colts," says the Farmer, '.and we have to give 'em a chance to worff off superhuous steam But the time comes when their grip relaxes and we find they are looking for a breathing spell thenl- selves. Then We say, Now the old Farni- erll wrestle bit and, gad snpes, you know what happens next"
 If Burns has a vice, and don't know that you would call 1t vice. it is his fondness for the dance Out in Big Rock. Ia-Burns' home-the population consists of 6S1s souls, the half Is a widow, and a better half, too, they say. Well, the Farmer is high card monte at the Big Rock socials, and no one could put up a more gallant front than the old scout, as he weaves about the hall with some buxom partner on his arm, to the strains of the Blue Danube. They do say that the Farmer was once asked to .hoosei between 5000 purse for a Chicago wrestling match and the privilege of lead ing the grand march at the New York ball in Big Rock. When the bells rang out that first of January they had some other man in the ring in Chicago and the Farmer was tilting up and down the rSl- ished boards in the Big Rock town hall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Ambiguous.

From Harper's Weekly.
 At the death of a much-loved pastor some years ago. the vestry of q prominent New York church resolved to place a tablet to his memory in the vestbule of the church. In due time the tablets appeared in its place. where it still re- mains. It has caused not Il few miles; for, after recitilg a list of the former mains. It has caused not few smiles: the quotation:
 Now the people of God have rest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
St. Bernard Commencement.

St. Bernard. June 1.-(SpeciaL)- fif- teenth annual commencement of St. Ber- nard college will be held June 1S-19. An interesting programme has been arranged for the occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
When the Whistle Didn't Blow.

But I will say for the French Cana dians that they are great sports, and Montreal is Q great sporting town. They'll bet you deaf, dumb and blind on every proposition, from roulette to the direction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
GOTCH PAYS TRIBUTE TO BURNS,
 PARR, BELL, OLSON AND OTHERS

in which the wind will blow tomorrow If you don't believe it go up and wit ness the winter sport carnival on the ice some January or February.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02

It will pay you to see Whit aker before buying a piano elsewhere. He is the price cu' ter on pianos. 2105 2d aveJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Cad snipes! Farmer Burns.

of me. The stakeholder paid him, be cause I had thrown hlm but once.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Child Turning Purple.

Mary Eighotz, three years old, of
New York, is turning purple. The
doctor says she is suffering with a dis
ease known as purpura hemorrhagica
The child's mother first noticed the
changing color three weeks ago. While
bathing the girl she detected small
purple spots on various parts of the
body. Alarmed, she applied home
remedies. but the spots continued to
spread. The childs body presents the
appearance of being tattooed. Almost
the entire body is covered, with the
exception of the face, which thus far
has not been affected. While most of
the time the blotches are of mellow
purple, they occasionally change to a
deep plum color or dull red. Some
blotches are as large as a penny, 9TH
ers are no larger than a pinhead. The
disease is probably caused by a rheu-
matte germ.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
mrakttpHn uf
" 6trnt1g Mrtt :
By STAFF SURGEON A. CASkELL.
or the British Navy.

regards however
his heart been damaged his training coordination
neglected, render his large muscles useless
1t speaking purely from among
thousands that the physically strong trained
perfect giant of strength
Cambridge died from
while his who of physique
through unevenuy, him while
How often does the rong show such signs degeneration
badness premature gray strongv man
reach happy and healthy old age.
Physical culture should have bearing on the
avocation.
The first thing TO be taught all physical avoidance
and the keeping open
Carriage another detail walking and
standing.
Avoidance Of fatigue important point good walk in
the fresh with free breathing good STYLE useful form OF
physical exercise any know.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Does IL pay 20 advertise.

Does II pay 70 advertise?
The more than 5000, 900 900 that hnds
fits way to the Chicago mail-order
houses each year II garnered by
campaign OF advertising. You, MS.
Local Merchant. claim. and rightly.
that you can sell the same goods for
the same. or less money, than the
mail-order houses offer. but at the
same time you complain because the
mail-order man gets the business.
Why do they get 1t? Because they
advertise.
They not only advertise, but they
adv ertise in your field, and they ad-
vertise in your field because you do
not They select towns. or special
lines where they do not have to meet
the competition that is offered by To-
cal advertising, and they make adver-
tising pay.
We want the people to trade at
horne; we want them to build up the
home community; We want to see the
dollars kept in circulation here that
one and all of tho local people may
prosper We do not want to see the
fortunes of the city mail-order man
built at the expense Of the local COM
munity. but we know absolutely the
value of publicity, and We know the
mail-order houses will capture the dol
lars II the local merchants will not
fight fre with fire; will not show the
public what they can buy and at what
price.
Let US go back to this northern
Wisconsin town and see what oppor-
tunities the merchants there were sac
rifcing. 1t was a mill town, and in
no way an agricultural community.
There were not 20 farms within ra-
dius OF as many miles. The industry
was lumber, and the money to run the
mills came from the city. The nearly
1000 employees were paid in city
money, and with little effort on the
part Of the merchants in that town
this money might have been kept in
the town. 1t might have been made
to build . permanent prosperity. But
The Dolores star., 1907-04-12
Srra 4 Murr
mnnnrrfml Antprtra
By CAMILLE SAINT-SEANS,
Famous French Composer.

astonishing thing: these people much attention religious
The pursuit riches, the appetite power mmoerate
love of earthly joys all contrary the evangelical spirit which
breaches enuncation abnegaon humility the of
wealth. astonised when
onradc
tons.
All that there at distance like sort
something beyond the real because this of
transition because there nothing definite and all ppara
world Possibly will take centuries for if to re-
perfect FORM In the meantime should that old
world with which burden Of
which always increasing tend to pude Time
alone solve these questions When the the
place of the pale of the Little North Pole shall
reveal in the heavens the brilliant star of the % indeed
be changed.
In the meantime the terrestrial POLE the pole of cvac.
displaced.