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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19
BELFAST.
Hard Luck Ball Story-Two Accidents
Personal Notes.

Belfast, Me, May 1S.-(SpeciaD.-It was
a story of hard luck, that ball game Sat
urday between the Belfast High and the
Garden High on tie Congress street
grounds. A sad christening for the new
suits and the new bleachers, however, as
it Is a well known fact that a team never
wins the first game played in new suits,
it is to be hoped that there will be better
results in the next game. The Belfast
High will go to Freedom Wednesday af-
ternoon and play Freedom Academy.
Capt Ed. Eames of Islesboro is suffer-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19
New York Money Market.

New York, May 49,
Prime mercantile paper 31a0l4 per cent.
Sterling exchange easy at 4S7.15 for de-
mand and at 4S5.05 for 60-day bills.
Commercial bills 4S4As
Bar silver 52H. -
Mexican dollars A.
Government bonds steady.
Railroad bonds strong.
Money on call easy at 1@lA per cert. !;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19
Boston Produce Market.

Boston, May IS.
FLoUR-Unchanged; spring patents
]. 60Gt6.00
CATS--Easier; No. clipped white c..
HAY-Jlnchanged; choice 21.500022.00.
MILL FEED-Easier.
SPRING BRAN-2S.0N02S50
MIXED FEEDS. 75Gl3O.50
PORK Dull; medium 17.75@1S50.
LARD-Quiet; 10$s.
BEBF-Firm; whole cattle 10@K.
LAMRS-Firm: spring 121aM14
VEALS- Firm: HOE.
BUTTE;R-Easier; northern 23l@m24
ENTHUSIASTICALLY: York state 15Gll5l..
FGGS-Steady; choice 21@22; western IS
019'a.
POTATOES-Quiet; Maine white s56p3O
STGAR-Steady on a basis of $40 for
granulated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19

dairies 15M19.
EGGS Firm, at market. cases included,
14h10&i; frsts 49,: prime frsts 1914.
CHEESE-Stcady; 10n12K.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19
Chicago Cattle Market.

Chicago, May IS
C!ATTT.E-RecniptS estimated about
1906: market steady to 10c lower; steers
5uT.25
HOGs-Reccipts estimated about $4,000;
market steady to 5M7iAc. higher; choice
heavy shipping 5.40I5E0.
SHEEI'-Rccepts estimated about 3D.
0M: market lower: sheep 415G,6; lambs
6.3GcfI.3o; ycarlings 5.50GIG.75.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19
Help the Bowels
Gentlv-Do as Nature Does

When pain follows physic you are do
ing the bowels an injury. You are
wrecking the stomach, too.
You ere causing the bowel lining to
harden, just as the skin gets callous
under irritation.
Then the bowels cease to supply their
own laxative, and you have consti-
patton.
Harsh physic also inf1ames the stomach,
and the result is dyspepsia.
Constipation and dyspepsia are gener-
ally due to salts, castor oil or cathar-
tics.
You can &c! the same help without the
slightest danger of injury.
Cascarets am just, As effective. Yet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19
New York Cotton Market.

New York, May IS.
Srot closed quiet. Middng uplands II;
do. gulf 1l.25. Sales 5000 bales.
Galveston firm, IL 3-16: Charleston
steady. 1CHs; Memphis strong, lbs; New
Orleans firm. II SIG; Savannah firm, II.
Net receipts for three days 13,';45.
Exports to Great Britain 1851; to France
5643. to the continent Is, 666
Stock All go.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19

Boston Stock Market.
Boston, May IS.
Adventure Observation-Disclosures. 2k
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19

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RAWHIDE WILD 0vEEE3 BIC, Strike
Band Of Almost Pure Gold Uncovered
on kearns No 2 Block.
PhenomenaIy Rich Quartz Opened Up in Drift Of
70-Foot Level Of the Lease.

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
FIvE.cENT THEATRES.

From the New York World.
The strike of vaudeville performers
and moving picture operators under en-
gagement at the "fiye-cent theatres" in
Chicago is interesting chiefly as dis
closing the existence in that city of
more than 800 places of amusement of
this character. If that is the number In
Chicago, what is the total for the entire
country? There has been evidence before
this of the popularity Of the "nickel-
odeon' drama. Lawsuits to determine
questions of infringements of copyright
through moving picture films have limited
at a competition with the regular play
houses the real extent of which is now
indicated.
The hve-cent theatre reduces theatrl-
cal amusement to a minimum of cost for
the pleasure-seeker. No question OF side
walk spectators concern the manager
or his audience. 1t is the something
just as good" idea applied to the drama,
and it's success shows that it fills
want. And can it be truthfully alleged
that patrons Of this form of entertain
ment are less well rewarded in proportion
to the price than frequenters of more
ambitious playhouses?
Tho mushroom-lil1e growth of this
industry furnishes another illustration of
the possibilities of profit in the Amer
lean nickel to those who possess the art
of attracting 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
The CARNIVAL SPIRIT.
Absolutely Essential to the Successful
Amusement of the Crowd.
From Everybody's Magazine.

From Everybody's Magazine
There can be no carnival without
speed. To keep up the carnival spirit
everybody ana everything must be on the
go" The moment a crowd OF folk
who are slowly meanderipg around catch
this spirit they walk faster, they laugh,
they spend money. they have good
time. I instruct my "talkers" to be al
ways on the alert and to interest people
while they are approaching. Mills won't
grind with water that's past is an old
motto, but good one. 1t applies to the
business of amusing the millions perhaps
more than to any other kind Of human
activity
Bad weather kills the carnival spirit,
and on rainy days the Snowman must
fight hardest to maintain a pretense or
gaiety. have made 1t a rule to keep
my attractions running just the same In
a rainstorm as in the sunshine and as
an evidence of the curious and timely
reward the allegiance to this principle
has frequently brought me I need tell
only one story
I reached the gates OF Luna at $50
o'clock one night two years ago when
rain was falling In torrents. Just as
entered the park all the lights went out
and j met a crowd Of employees on their
way home / told them to stop, ordered
them back to their posts, sent for the
manager, told him to turn on the lights,
and sent word to the five bands to get
back into their uniforms and start play
ing. 1 had made 1t a rule to keep faith
with my public, and, although 1t costs
$500 night to light Luna, l thought the
chance that the next train might bring
to Coney Island half dozen people who
would expect to find my place open ana
ablaze with electricity was worth taking.
Within five minutes, as if by miracle,
the weather changed, the rain ceased, the
stars came out. and people began to
stream in. Within the next hour nearly
i, 900 people paid admissions to Luna. II
had not insisted on a pretense Of gaiety
they would have gone somewhere else.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
Conditions Better.

'I believe that the south is responding
to returning prosperity more rapidly than
the north and east" said A. I'll. Ford,
president of the Birmingham Railway
Light and Power company, yesterday. Il
have Just returned from vacation spent
in the north and east, and 1 took &C.
casjon to talk to number Of people on
the subject of the return of prosperity,
and they agreed that conditions there
were not as good as they were in the
south.
Everybody, however, seemed to feel
that the ertire country was going ahead
now, and that conditions would be normal
again this winter. No one is looking for
q big boom. but all expect steady,
healthy growth Of business and a return
OF prosperity.
II have enjoyed the vacation, but l am
glad to be back in Birmingham. Every
thing here seems to be prospering and the
tone Of business seems very much better
than when l went away"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
Good Year After All.

Yesterday prominent banker in speak
ing of the marked revival In business
said: 1.-THE year 1908 will turn out to DO
a good year after all. 1t started with IN
dustrial depression as result OF last
years panic, but there have been no
failures in Birmingham worth mentioning
Business began to improve in the spring
and by the early summer the iron COM
panies were fast getting back to normal
operations. Then came the miners STRIKE
but that did not cause a single furnace
to stop. and no sooner was the strike
called off than business here revived
with wonderful bouyancy. 1t Is more &C
tive now thar it was year ago. Every
body is optimistic and in view OF the
steadily increasing pay rolls and the vast
improvements in progress here, our 1ah
trade should be exceptionally brisk.
"The volume of business during the
next three months promises to be very
large-large enough to make up for de-
preston of the first three months OF the
wear"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
Boil WeeYilS And AnthracnoSs

With anthracnose marching this way
from the east and the boil weeyil from
the west, Alabama cotton is between
the devil and the deep blue sea, and
there is no panacea, no relief, no
chance of escape. Our great cash
crop promises to be caught between
great pests, for the bolls that escape
the insects from Mexico may become
infested by the germs of anthracnose.
This picture of the situation may be
unduly gloomy, but it seems to be What
the future possibly has in store for US.
There is, however, one way out,
namely, do more truck growing, plant
more fruit trees, study diversifcation
of crops. We should do this with or
without pests in sight, and the situa-
ton admits of ample preparation for
the change. Neither the insects nor
anthracnose will be apt to spread over
this state before 1911. We have two
whole years in which to get ready to
meet both pests, and those two years
should be years of study and prepare
ton
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
Out with II boldly, truth loves open
dealing.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Hot Finish In The Leagues

The baseball season is drawing to a
close. 1t is a season in the national
game unsurpassed for hot races all
along the line. for large profits in the
big leagues at least. and for general
interest on the part of the fans. In
none of the leading leagues is there
or has there been a walkover for pen
nant honors. Indianapolis won the
pennant In the American association
by an eyelash, and Baltimore fought it's
way to the top in the Eastern league
by a few points only
1t will thus be seen that the sensa-
tional finish in the Southern league
was not exceptional. Nashville wins
the pennant because it's team played
good ball throughout the entire season.
The pennant goes to the strongest all
round team after season Of good. con-
sistent sport, and hot finish.
The home team got poor start ana
1t fell to the bottom, where it stayed.
The lesson the season will not be lost
on the home association. The attend
ance at the home games fell as rapidly
as the points won did of the home
team. Both were far below par. But
both can be regained next season if
personal feelings in favor of players
are discarded. Two new pitchers on
the Wilhelm level are needed in order
to organize a f1rst-division team from
the very outset. This is what this
town needs in this emergency.
The interest hereafter will be cen
tered in the two big leagues. There is
no walkover in either. The flag may
go to New York in the National league
and to Detroit in the American league,
but the margin is small and the result
will be doubtful down to the last con-
test in October.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
SETTING HISTORY RIGHT.

From the New YORK Worto.
To the implied charge by Mrs. Astor
that he does not wear socks, Speaker
Cannon retorts: Alexander and Caesar
had no socks, and I guess the original
Aston when he was trapping fur ami
mails wasn't troubled with many Socks
Uncle Joe is doubtless correct as re-
CARDS his classical examples or SOCK
less celebrities. But he petrays de-
porable ignorance Of recent American
history when he says that the "original
Astor' was a trapper. John jacob was
originally a butcher and afterward
fur trader. He came to this country
from a German village when under 20
ana dealt with the Indians. trading his
peddler's wares for pelts. Incidentally
within six years he had accumulated
fortune of size to invite the criticism OF
party opponents II possessed by presi-
DENTAL candidate. There is good pre-
sumptive evidence that he wore SOCKS.
These facts are related In the inter-
est OF accuracy and to correct false I'M
nressions In the school rooms of Dam
Vile. III. and elsewhere. The spectacle
Of a great statesman disseminating mis-
Information among the youth OF the Land
Is sufficiently painful. A speaker OF the
House of Representatives IN particular
should be better versed in the rudiments
OF American social history.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20

that makes up the sum total of benefits
of a public school education. The dis
cipline he or she undergoes there and
the education of contact with other
children is an essential part OF a
child's education. The public school is
larger as a rule than the private school,
and the discipline is more impartial,
and both make for better citizenship
in either a boy or a girl. The school
is, in fact, a miniature republic, and it
is there the child becomes a citizen of
the world. It is difficult to say which
is the more beneficial, the discipline or
the school room or the discipline of the
school yard at recess time and after
school is out. In both, however, the
child is taught the lesson of society,
the lesson of getting along comfort
ably together, and this lesson is more
important and far-reaching than one
about the agreement of nouns and
verbs or one about the bounds oil
mighty Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
THE FAMOUS CONRAD KoHRs.

From the New York World.
Three days ago Conrad Kohrs was
unknown to fame. His name was not IN
"Who's Who" 1t had not been given in
the list of best sellers. He had not
written for the magazines. He was not
one of Senator LaFollette's 100 mill
lionaires.
Suddenly a man bearing conrad
Kohrs' name was discovered way out
west 1t does not appear to have peeh
his own fault. If anybody's 1t must
have been Mr.. Bryan's or Mr.. Tart s.
They had been disputing as to who Is
the rightful heir to My Policies. IL
Conrad Kohrs is really a cowman out
in Montana he ought at this time OF
year to be shipping his beef steers to
Chicago. Beef steers ought to be tat
by September, and prices for prime
stock have been good for several weeks
Anyhow, somebody at oyster Bay had
heard somewhere of Conrad Kohrs. Just
how does not appear. nor what he had
done. But a letter was sent addressed
to Conroad Kohrs. Helena, Mont and
signed Theodore Roosevelt. 1t decided
in the course of three columns Of news
paper matter that Mr.. Taft is the
rightful heir to My Policies. OF course
it leaked out officially and has not yet
been denied.
The letter might just as appropriate
ly have been sent to any one of thous-
and republican politicians, to Frank
Hitchcock or to the manager of the re-
publican campaign literary bureau In
the Metropolitan building. 1t was ad-
dressed to Conrad Kohrs. But If you
| read it through carefully from begin
ming to end you cannot tell who Conrad
Kohrs is whether he is married, has
children, what is his cattle brand, or
anything about him. For anything the
letter shows he might be sheepman.
Unlike e. II. Hartman or Bellamy
Storer or Dollar Jim" Sherman or the
many other correspondents of Theodore
Roosevelt, Conrad Kohrs remains a
famous man OF mystery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
TWO DOLLARS A WORD.
Mr.. Roosevelt Not In the Same Class
With Mrs. GIyn.

From the New York Mail.
A publishers announcement makes 1t
quite clear that the pay which President
Roosevelt is to receive for his African
hunt stuff Is not the top-notch price
for literary lucubrations, by any means.
The price agreed upon for the jungle
story which the President is to write Is
81 per word. This is good pay, as de-
scriptive matter usually goes But there
is a richer reward for another kind or
descriptive matter, and woman is reap
ing 1t. This woman is Nine. Elinor Glyn,
the author of Three Weeks"
This thrilling work contained about 55,-
900 words not counting the words whose
necessary omission was indicated In the
pages of the book by lines of stars.
Nine. GYMS receipts from royalties up
TO the present moment are placed at $780,
900. which would represent yield to the
talented authoress of s1.63 a word.
And as ''Three Weeks" is still selling,
It is probable that the stuff 1--WE here use
the word this time in its original and
direct Significance, and not as technical
term) will net her as much as 81 word.
The President, therefore, Will receive only
one-half of Elinor's prices.
Milton sold the manuscript OF Paradise
Lost for SIS. That was all he ever got
for his work on it--except Immortality.
As the poem must have contained about
5000 words, we can see how far Milton
fell below the Three Weeks" standard.
BY using his personal pull, DR.. Samuel
Johnson managed to obtain SEQ, or about
$780, all told. for Goldsmith's "vicar Of
Wakefield" Without Johnson's influence,
the publishers would probably have paid
Goldsmith about SIS for 1t.
These distinguished writer's knew very
little about the art of getting UP really
popular book. Or perhaps 1t would be
more correct to say that If they knew it
they were unwilling to practice 1t. There
were warrior before Agamemnon, and
Three Weeks" before Elinors. Doubt
less the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turtles had their own. But no century be-
fore ours has had an eK-President shoot
ing lions and tigers in an African jungle
and that is a quite legitimate reason why
the story of such an experience should
be worth, in the market quite one-half
as much as a paprika romance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
RIO DE JANEIRO LEADS.

From the New York Telegraph.
We consider ourselves tolerably up
to date. and I suppose we are In some
things, but l had to admit, for the benefit
of a man from Rio de Janeiro, whom l
met last night at the Hoffman house,
that his town had something on New
York in the matter of police devices.
"Our police department" the senior told
me, has just put up $50 call boxes at
prominent corners, all connected by wire
with the central office. Any citizen in
good standing can have key which will
fit all of these boxes. and the keys are
numbered and registered in such man
ner that the police can always tell who
has made use of them.
1.-THE citizen who wants police help in
a hurry opens the box and adjusts the
hand on an indicator at fire. riot am
bulance" or whatever he desires, and the
call is instantly registered at headquar-
tiers. The citizen then gets help as quick
ly as the hurry wagon can carry it to
him."
In a town where the policeman is never
to be found when and where he is want
ed, this new call box might be palpabie
hit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Active Real Estate Market.


Improved conditions are reflected IN
every branch of trade in Birmingham
and In the real estate market activity
has been notable since September /
Robert Jemison, Jr., said last night that
within the past 30 days his concern alone
had negotiated sales totaling 100000 he
said that one of the sales he made was
a $4,000 transaction for an out-of-town
investor and that significant fact about
it was that the trade was consummated
during the miners strike when the STU
alton here looked gloomy.
Il stress this $4,000 SALE" said Mr.
Jemison, Ito show that investors have
confidence in Birmingham, regardless OF
any temporary disturbance or depression.
And after the strike was ended business
revival came with rush.
s. E. Thompson. another prominent real
estate man, remarked yesterday that
business In Birmingham was looking
brighter and brighter every day. me
Birmingham Realty company has sold TINS
week $4,000 worth of property" said Mr.
Thompson, land the prices have been
upward and, strong. Most of the lots
sold were in and around Hanover Circle
on the South Highlands, some of these
sites bringing s10O front foot. Prosperity
has returned and it would be strange IL
1t were otherwise in Birmingham. Inc
large improvements being made by the
Tennessee company and other industrial
concerns. the entrance of three important
railroads into the Birmingham district
this year, the erection of a great sky
scraper in Birmingham, contracts for two
additional steel frame buildings to be
awarded within the next few days, and
two more steel frame buildings projected
all these evidences of progress to say
nothing of many of new enterprises or
smaller scope certainly make for good
times"
Mr.. Thompson handled the Atlanta
birmingham and Atlantic railroads real
estate business in the Birmingham as
trict and has paid out in Jefferson coun-
ty upwards of 100000 for that line lie
says that the Atlanta, Birmingham ana
Atlantic is not In the market Tor adol-
tional property: that the company mas
about all the property it needs at this
end of the line and it is understood that
only especial bargains would tempt the
management now.
"Changing the subject from real es-
tate" said Mr.. Thompson, while l was
away on my vacation this summer
was In Detroit and other lar away Cities
and was struck with the interest which
northern neonle were taking in Mayor
Wards City Beautiful movement ana
especially in his block societies. NOBODY
referred to the strike in the Birmingham
district, but many persons asked me
about Mayor Wards block societies. II
made me prouder than ever OF Blrmlhg-
ham when I found that outsiders were
ready to applaud what they regarded as
the work of q wide-awake, up-to-date
southern mayor"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
The CHORUS GIRL.
Joseph Medili Patterson in "A Little
-4..- ~ thu Rfch"

Joseph Medili Patterson in "A Little
Brother of the Rich
"Weli, It's you and other men that
mako girls wear tights. Girls don't
wear 'em for the fun of 1t, but because
YOU men pay 'em to. And they've got
to have money to live. You pay girl
ss or IS q week In store to stand up all
day and sell goods till she's ready to yell
at night, she's 80 nervous, and you offer
the same girl s1s week to wear tights
and dance and sing In chorus. Do you
wonder that those that can choose the
chorus? Let me tell you one thing. Mr..
Man. If had to do II over again, I'm
damned IL I'd ever go into store WORK
at all-Td light out straight for the
chorus. We women have got to do what
YOU men want US to to live. anyhow-you
nay us three times as much for show
ing our legs as for selling your wives
hardware. I'm sick of all this DUNK
about the chorus girl Let me ask you
one thing? Which is the decenter propo-
party opponents IL possessed by OF presi-
working for her liying-and WORKING
hard, too--or the rich ioafer in the bald
headed row who comes night after night
to look at her-and tempt her II no canf''