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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Schlitzer Is a Puzzle.

Washington, May 11.-Pitcher Schlitzer was a puzzle to the Washington batters today and Philadelphia won handily,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12

COTTON STATES LEAGUE
Played To a Draw.

Meridian. May 11.-(Special. )-Meridian's new catcher, Fuller, played a star game behind the bat today. The new left handed pitcher Snyder made his initial appearance in the box for the locals, but was taken out in the fifth inning, Billiard replacing him. Snyder, evidently tired, allowed seven hits during his short regime innings he officiated, gave up but one hit, and that a misjudged infield fly that should have been captured by Dobard. Monroe's runs were made, one in the first and one in the second, and were both on errors. Meridian tied the score in the fifth by punching three hits. This being the first ladies' day in Meridian, there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
Boston Shut Out.

Boston, May 11.-Newton did not allow a hit until the ninth inning today shutting Boston out 3 to O. Burchell also pitched a fine game, striking out Il men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12

Summary: Hit by pitcher, Cummings Bases on balls, Yerkes 3, Cummings Struck out, Yerkes 5, Cummings 4. Tim' of game, 7:57. Umpire Brown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

At vicksburg; vicksburg 5, Gulfport 1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
DrennenS Annual Buqqy Auction Hundred Vehicles a Pub

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
----sos------------- FAMOUS FOLK AS FLOWERS.

From the New York Press.
 How beautiful my Helen Gould is this morning; her color is superb. And dear old Lawson .is gayer and bigger and sweeter- snnelling than ever. I think Mrs. vanderbilt is far handsomer than Mmc. Carnot, don't you? But there's nothing anywhere to equal Edna May"
 The florist was talking about his prize blooms. And leading his patron down aisles of lovely color and delicious scent he resumed:
 You kick because I charge you an X for big matinee bunch of winter violels. Well. do you see that splendid tea rose over there? That's the Mrs. w. J. Grant. She sold in '95 for $500O. You wouldn't have paid it for her, would you? This Alice Roosevelt rose commanded ssO00 on it's debut. Lovely pink, isn't it? It is the best decorating rose on the market. Here 8 the. Helen Gould-$7OOO-bu not to you, eh? That is the Mime. Chatenay, S40o0. And, if you like chrysanthemums, cast your eye this way-it is the Mrs. Astor- and reflect that the pioneer of this species brought $45OO And here is the highest priced flower in existence, the superb Lawson pink, ssO,O0O. Beside that your $1O bunch of violets doesn't seem so costly and rare now, does it?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
Presidential Pay and Allowances

It may be little surprising at first sight to see in black and white the statement that the cost of maintaining a President in the White House is nearly S500,000 a year. Royal families over seas cost more but America is not running a race with the effete east in that respect.
 The first item in the American bill of costs is $175,0oo for the maintsn- ance of the Mayaower and Sylph, two steam yachts that are kept at the Presidents disposal. They really have no other work to do.
 The next item is s25,000, sum voted by Congress to pay the Presi- dents travelling expenses in these days when free passes and special trains are forbidden. The detectives that surround the President cost s40,000 a year. The other items need not be mentioned. Including the pay proper of President, s5O.oOO, they aggregate S472,OO0.
 This, however, does not seem large sum when the civil lists of European states are placed alongside it. King Edward receives for his personal use s2.35O.000, and even King Manuel in little Portugal receives s567 900, and King Leopold of Belgium s660,O00. Theodore I is outranked in this re- spect by nearly every crowned head, but America need not and does not ape royalty in the matter of allow ances and castle expenditures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
Outlook Briuhter.

No man prominent in the financial world is more conservative in expressing his opinions than Henry Clews, and no man perhaps has a truer insight when 1t comes to business conditions. In his weekly letter of Saturdays date Mr. Clews says
 "The better undertone noted in these ad- vices for the past two weeks Is now bearing fruit in higher prices. Very fair advances have already taken place in many of the best stocks and there are in- dcations that the improvement will make still further progress. unless checked by unforeseen circumstances. There is also a better tone in business circles generally. Pessimism is moderating because depres- sion appears to have reached its limit; and purchasers are taking hold more free- ly at the lower price level. which has freouently been established with much less disturbance than expected two or three months ago It is very generally recognized that while luxuries may be dispensed with, people must be fed and clothed about as before. It is also rec onized that few If any of our markets are cumbered with a surplus of goods, and that the general .curtailment of pro- duction in manufacturing circles has served to prevent the accumulation of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
Foruot the Tau.

Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise came in for an illustration on Nineteenth street early this afternoon" said a man last night. "A young man was walking along this thorougffare from Second avenue toward Third avenue, re- splendant in a bran new suit of clothes. Noticing that every one he passed was gazing smilingly at him he gradually be- came uneasy and glanced at his wearing apparel and fingered it nervoudy. The smiles kept on greeting him, ana in final desperation he seized the bacl of his coat and bringing it around so that he could see it, discovered that he had fot- gotten to remove the tags from hs hand me-down' with the stock marks and price figure of 5000 distinguishable at dis tance of several feet. He jerked them off quickly and then tore up the street as fast as his legs could carry him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
IS THE RICHEST INDIAN

kun and his associates secured the services of Hill in getting options on other vast tracts of land for them. He was well paid for this work and was able to purchase outright the many thousands of acres upon which he had secured op- tions to buy on his own account
 The building of the railroad was be- gun, and as each mile of track was com pleted tine land adjacent thereto and ex- tending back for several miles came into demand for farming purposes, and it's value doubled, trebled and quadrupled in a short time. In the meantime Lon Hill was buying more land and loading him. self up with options to purchase still more. The land which he had bought for and s1.5O per acre went to s5 per acre before the railroad had reached Brownsville. When the line was finished and the influx of investors and home- seekers began land values mounted high CT and higher
 MT Hill just now is completing a sys- tenn of irrigating canals and ditches to ir- rigate 10000 acres of his land. The main canal is more than 25 miles long. and runs from the Rio Grande to a point a snort distance east of Harrington. More than 25 miles of laterals are being bui1t All of this land is to be planted in sugar cane Three large sugar mills are to be erected to care for the cane crop when the land is placed in cultivation. Sugar cane In the Rio Grande valley grows to height of F feet, and tests show that each stalk yields one and one-third pounds of sugar. One acre of cane will make about 12,oO0 pounds of sugar, worth about 4 cents a pound.
 In addition to his vast landed holdings Hill owns the town site of Harlington. This place is situated at the junction of the main line of the St. Louis, Browns vile and Mexico railroad and it's branch line, which runs to San Fordyce
 Hiss is married. He is devoted to his wife and children. Concerning his early life he says:
 T punched cattle in Indian territory when young man. I saw the need of an education and had acquired a fairly good start in that direction when I entered the University of Texas. I was 27 years old when l began to study law I went through the University of Texas and graduated in the law department of the University of Texas, and I am now 4S years of age"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
WOMAN AS SHE IS ADVISED.

From the New York World
 That was a dear thought which Mrs. Mildred Manly Caldwell gave to her sis ters of the National Society of Ohio Women at the Waldorf. Call your little part in life a picture" she said, and paint it with all that is in you"
 Now this happened at Wednesday lecture in Lent; therefore each Ohio sister felt in the sky parlors of her soul the consciousness that she was getting good counsel It entered into no mind there present 10 reflect that of such advice and many other kinds the American woman in general gets more than anybody elss on earth.
 If there Is a woman in this land who does not know how to be beautiful. how to be healthy, how to keep a cook, how to limit her waist measure how to kesp qne's husband in nights. how to save money, how to make ones own hats how to make jelly that will jell and how to relax" for the rest cure. then that wom- an has not listened, that's all. A famous French editor has warned her against fatal fiirtation-if she attended to his words-and an English suffragette has told her how to deserve a vote. And as to her duties as a mother there are avail able constantly the wise counsels of the President.
 If advice in all quantities and varieties can produce perfection, the American woman ought to be perfect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
Love's Invisible soul.
 -Trollus and Cressida.
What Should Be Reduced

Instead of demanding a reduction in the number of southern congressman and electors the Taftites in Ohio should Lave demanded a lessening of the number of delegates to republican conventions. "This scandal of the south" says the Philadelphia Inquirer, an out-and-out republican paper, 'is already in evidence. In several of the dyed-in-the-wool democratic common wealths, from which republican cleo toral vote is never given, preparations are under way to send two sets of del egates to the Chicago gathering. Fed eral offceholders and non-officeholders are arrayed against each other, and no matter which side wins the democratic strongholds are bound to exert great influence in the nomination of the re- publican candidate for President. If Ohio wished to work a reform, why did it not aeclare in favor of basing the representation in future national conventions upon the actual republi- can vote cast? Such a plan would place in the hands of the great republi- can states the power to make candi- dates and would reduce to minimum the influence of southern officeholders, who are usually under orders. Fur thermore, it would eliminate the scan dal that so frequently crops out in re- publican national conventions and that threatens to assume vast proportions this year"
 But the Ohio platform, revised if no written by MT. Taft, offers demagogi cal sop to the negroes, while it does not refer to the delegations from the south that have not a shadow of an electoral vote behind them. The req son is plain-Mr. Taft hopes to corral the southern delegates. He must do and the scandal will then be in full bloom, for the machine-made southern delegate representing nothing and mo- body will have made a presidential nominee. Fortunately a republican nominee is not booked this year for a term in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
A Viruinia Editor

w. s. Copeland, for many years the principal editorial writer on the Rich mond Times-Dispatch, has accepted a prominent position on the staff of the Richmond News Leader, one of the most widely circulated papers in the south. No man in the editorial pro- fession in Virginia is more highly es- teemed than MT. Copeland. He is at once happy and virile and is a thor oughly equipped newspaper man in ey- cry respect. He would be an acquisi- tion to any journal and the News Leader is fortunate indeed in securing his services.
 The editorial articles in the News Leader have been invariably bright and sane and with MT. Copeland added to the staff its editorial page will be- come all the more attractive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
OCEAN EDITORS TRIALS

he could find nothing to rhyme with Lon possibly Venezuela, and even that rhyme had its limitations
 He had to let it go. Space still yawned. l At the height of despair came the fol- lowing:
 At least 24 soldiers of the foreign le gation perished in the heavy snowstorm. of February 9"
 An inspiration here. A French paper of date a week back lay on his desk Here was a brief report of an engagement between French and Arabs, in which 300 sons of the desert were killed. Herr Rabien merrily dragged that in, neck and crop.
 This was so good that the editor took an hour off for rest and recreation. When he returned he faced a fresh crisis. No news had come in and the hour of going to press was at hand There were still several inches to fill He went over all the dispatches and stuffed them full of words, as his chefs at the moment were stuffing their capons Still space re- mained
 Action was necessary. He went out On deck and interviewed an officer. When he returned he sat at his desk with a pleased smile and turned out a page of copy as follows:
 'Moonset tonight at 11h 35m.
 Sunset today at 4:56 p. m.
 Sunrise tomorrow morning at 6:55 a. m."
 Then followed figures telling the pas sengers how many times they would have to walk about the deck to cover a mile. There was still hole left. Even the paragraph showing how many feet there were in a land mile and a sea mile failed. The consideration of showing how many feet there were in several thousand sea miles as a means of covering paper with printed figures suggested itself, but there was not time to compute that Despair. Then, just as the paper was going to press with a gaping bloteh of white in the starboard column the following came in%
 "Losti A gold veil pin with pearls. If found pleace return to the steward or to room No. 49S.''
 Herr Rablen seized it gratefully. He could have shaken the hand of the loser of the pin. He inserted it, and then placed cut of an eagle below it.
 The hole was filled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
AMUSING NAMES OF BRITISH INNS

From the Outing Magazine for March.
 The little inns which we have passed gong from London to Scotland and even the wineshops. gloried in pre- tentious names which were generally displayed in illustrated signs hanging on brackets. We had great fun in watching for these odd signs and writing down some of the most un- usual. We passed The Red Bull" and in neighborly proximity "The Red Cow" and The Dun Cow" sir John Barleycorn" was near enough to hear 'The Five Bells" and just beyond this. as if not to be outdone in the bell line, the proprietor of one inn had called his place The Ring O Bells" Later we passed "The Easy Chair" and Wait for the Wagon" The Nag's Head" The Spread Eagle" and down near the end of the list we have re- corded The Black Boy" and The Head, Hand and Stomach"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
Greater London

The Birmingham get-together spirit has spread widely. It has even reached London, and an effort is to be made to create by act of Parliament Greater London, containing more than 7,000- 900 persons. The county council at present governs the administrative county with population of about A. 5O0,0O0. The present London has Charing Cross as it's center and the city lies within a radius of about five miles. The new bill will sweep in the entire metropolitan police area-in other words, will change the five-mile radius to one of 15 miles. Charing Cross will remain the city's central point The Greater London will con sist of the counties of London and Middlesex, together with parts of Sur rey, Kent, Essex and Hertford.
 The present London was formed 20
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
NleHT-AN APosTRoPHE.

From the Lilac sunbonnet-By s. R.
 Crockett.
 Whatever is too precious, too tender, too good, too evil, too shameful, too beauti- full for the day happens in the night. Night is the bath of life, the anodyne of heartaches. the silencer of passions, the breeder of them, too, the teacher of those who would learn, the cloak that shuts a man in with his own soul.
 The seeds of great deeds and of great crimes are alike sown in the night. The good Samaritan doeth his good in stealth; the wicked one cometh and soweth his tares among the wheat The lover and the lustful person, the thief and the think CT, the preacher and the poacher are abroad in the night.
 Yet nevertheless both light and dark ness, day and night. are the accidents of a little time. It is twilight-the twilight of the morning and the gods-that is, the true normal of the universe.
 Night is but the shadow of the earth, the shadow of the central sun. When the soul of man goeth its way beyond the confines of the little multiplied circles of the system of the sun, it passes at once into the dim twilight of space. where, for myriads of myriad miles there is only the gray of Gods earliest gloaming, which existed just so or ever the world was and shall be when the world is not. Light and dark, day and night, are but as the lights of a station at which the train does not stop. They whisk past, gleam- ing bright but for a moment and the world which came out of great twilight plunges again into it, perhaps to be re- made and reillumined on some bright eternal morning.
 It Is good for man then to be oftentlmes abroad in the early twilight of the morn ing. It is primeval-instinct with the pos abilities of thought and action. Then if at all he will get a glimpse into his soul that will mayhap startle him. Judg- ments in the face of God justly angry seem more likely and actual things than they do in the city when the pavements are thronged and at every turning some- one is ready for good or evil to hail you ssfel1ow'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
High Class Orchestras.

There are number of good symphony orchestras in the United States, but only two of them are composed of artists every one of whom must give his services ex- ciusively to the organization which em- ploys him-the Boston Symphony and the Theodore Thomas orchestra of Chicago said musician. The former is backed by Colonel Higginson, a wealthy music lover of Boston, and the Chicago or ganization is fully endowed. It used to be that these costly orehestras came out of each season with large deficits. but they are now self-supporting
 Frederick Stock, who succeeded the late Theodore Thomas as conductor of the Chicago orchestra, is giving thorough sat isfaction. He is not a showy man, but he is an able musician, and has turned out to be a great leader. Musical people in Birmingham will recall Mir. Stock as the sub-eonductor when the orchestra last played here. He was one of the second violin players. but in one of the numbers when the orchestra accompanied a solo, ist, Mir Stock directed.
 Max Ffedler, who has been appointed conductor of the Boston Symphony as successor to Dr. Karl Muck, is distin- guished for his catholicity of taste in music. While he is favorably disposed to modern composers. he won front rank in Europe as an interpreter of the older classics. He was famous as director of the Philharmonic concerts in Hamburg.
 Tt is an interesting fact about Mir. Fielder that he is the first conductor the Boston Symphony has had since Hem schel, who is better known in concert than in opera. Gericke came from the Vienna opera house. with little or no con- cert experience. Nikisch and Paur came from the municipal opera in Leipsig, and neither Of then. had any great experience in concert work. pr. Muck came from the royal opera in Berlin, and while he had done considerable concert work dur ing his career, he was pri arily an oper- attic conductor, a fact whid did not make his first season in BostonIAny too easy, for the compilation of "A Different pro- grammes is not simple tax, even when man has made a specially of concert work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
Maonetism of Baseball.

"Notice how a man will declare at the end of one baseball season that he will never look at another game and then when spring opens up again cant Keep away from the ball ground to save ms life," said Tom Burden yesterday aft ernoon 'eThat man is an illustration of 1t. Two years ago when Birmingham won the pennant he saw nearly every game played here and at the finish de- clared that he was so sick Of baseball that he would never see another game. But with the opening of the next sea- son he started towards West End park again. It was the same way last Sea son. In September he felt the same sick ness and said that while he had failed to stick by his oath last summer that he would swear that he, would never go to another game. Saturday afternoon went to the game and he had one If the front seats"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
THE BROWN JUG,

By Francis Hawkes. Q721-1777. Dear Tom, this brown jug that now
 foams with mild ale Qn which l will drink to sweet Nan
 of the vaie), Was once Toby Fil1pot. thirsty old soul, As e'er drank a bottle, or fathom'd a
 bowl In housing about twas his praise to ex-
 eel, And among jolly topers he bore off the
 bell. It chanced as in dog days he sat at his
 ease, In his flower woven arbor, as gay as you
 please, With a friend and a pipe puffing sor-
 rows away, And with honest old stingo was soaking
 his clay, His breath.doors of life on sudden were
 shut, And he died full as big as a Dorchester
 butt. His body when long in the grave it had
 lain, And time into clay had resolved it again, A potter found out in it's coverts so snug, And with part of fat Toby he formd
 this brown jug; Now sacred to friendship, and mlrth and
 mild ale; So here's to my lovely sweet Nan of tho
 valel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16
About Persons.
ANOTHER GRIM RECORD.
Harvest of Death by Boiler Explosions
 in Single Year.

From the Hartford Times.
 Not less than All boiler explosions oc- cured in 1907 in the United States and the adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico. This is the grim showing made by the Locomotive, which is the organ of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and In surance company, and which makes an annual practice of compiling and analyz- ing the statistics of boiler explosions. On the average more than two boilers blew up every business day of the year.
 As a result of these explosions 30O per- sons were killed and APO others became subjects for the doctor, but not for the undertaken. It's a curious fact that in 1907 the greatest number of explosions oc- cured in the short month of February and the smallest number in the long month of May.
 The Locomotive supplies some im- pressive totals. It shows that since 1879 S5l2 boiler explosions have occurred, and that they caused the death of S4S3 per- sons and the injury of 12.7s4 others.
 This record, based on facts that are alike ugly and unadorned, is mighty sug- gestive. The boiler is a good servant but bad master. If it is properly con- structed and rightly cared for, it is safe enough. If it is built in faulty manner, or if defects are allowed to go uncor- rected, or if 1t is managed by incompe- tent or reckless men, 1t becomes a grave peril. The lesson which crops out, un- bldden, from the statistics gathered by our enterprising contemporary, is so plain that 1t teaches itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-16

years ago. and at that time all of the city was taken in. but the growth of 20 years has covered large districts with streets and houses, It Is estimat- ed that the growth in seven years has added 553,000 to the population.
 The county council will have to pro vide senools for fully a million chil- dren if Greater London becomes fact, and it will have the names of 100000 persons on its pay rolls. It owns trol- ley lines and if it goes on acquiring public utilities twill soon become the biggest public machine the world has ever known.