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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
Ladies' Underwear

What we wish to emphasize here is simply those features which you would see in moment, were you looking at the garments instead of this ad They are bargains of quality, in material in workmanship, in finsh in everything that enters into the building of perfect garment.
 Ladies' Gowns made of good cambric, in the short sleeve, chemise style, neatly trimmed in ruffe of the same material. A garment of special goodness ...................5 .5Oc
 Ladies' Gowns, made of nice quality Nansook, having yoke of wide embroidery insertion and tucks, full length, full width for. or...... 89c
 Ladies' Gowns, made of best cambric with yoke of embroidery insertion and tucks; high neck, three quarter length sleeves, finished with dainty embroidery ruffles .............. S125
 Ladies Drawers made of cambrc or Nansook. some of them trimmed with embroidery ruffes, in pretty blind or open work patterns others with lawn ruffles, trimmed with lace insertion and edge One of the best of the good values ....... 5Oc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
Household Goods

These are values in needs and wants not in wishes and fances The reductions mean lowering of actual expense, saving in lifes necessities and a cheap way of supplying what the home demands.
 72x90 Bleached Sheets, heavy firmly woven, with linen finish. They are made of best quality s-4 Vermont sheeting, with large hens, and are priced 75c Monday, Special ..............5 .50c
 45x36-inch Pillow Cases to match the above sheets. These of heavy sturdy bleached quality and sell in our Wash Goods Department for
 18c. Monday, Special ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l212c
 Regular $125 Crochet Bed Spreads heavy, firm ly woven, and shown in neat Marseies patterns Monday, Special ...................- 95c
 18x36-inch Hemstitched Huck Towels pure Irish linen, in plain whte with red or blue borders. Reg ular price, $500 dozen Monday, Special, S2'25 dozen, or, each ......:.:............ 2Oc
 72-inch Table Linens, both bleached and un bleached pure Irish and German linens, frm heavy, and will stand hard service. Regular 75c and
 85c Monday Special ................... CSC
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
 ADOPTS SCHEDULE

Little Rock, February 22.-( (Special)-- The Southern league spring meeting was adjourned tonight after banque at which Governor Pindall was the guest of honor. The season schedule proposed by Pres- dent Kavanaugth was accepted after much debate in preference to the one proposed by President Chambers of the Montgom- cry club. The Coleman schedule was con- structed hurriedly and was not in shape for the directors to act upon immediately. It's principal feature would be the short ness of the teams stays in any one place. either at home or abroad. Mileage was not considered. President Kavanaugh' s schedule was notable for having clipped 5000 miles off the mileage of the previous year. Mobiles demand for $1S0O reim- bursement for cost of breaking loose from the Cotton States league into the South ern league was postponed for action until the next meeting.
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LAUDATION FOR
 SPEAKER CANNON
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1)


 alone, which have contributed to the con- ditions which at present confront us.
 ''The first is condition of worldwide existence, where the credit of the nations has been stretched to the breaking point; the second, a condition peculiar to this country, which the President helped to light, but for the existence of which hs was no more responsible than he was for the Indian plague-a condition which disclosed to the amazed and angry eyes of the American people, that some of the great corporations which existed by their sufferance, and supposedly for their bene- fit were being managed upon system of bringandage, which, to use the expression of a constituent of mine, would make Jesse James look like a pilSer.'
 Some of the calumniators of the Presi- dent, have said that he has attacked all American corporations and all American business men. When and where has he ever done so? challenge any one to point out in any speech that he has ever made, in any message that he has ever sent to Congress. single word or single sen tence. which can be by any possibility construed as an attack upon any indivld-
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Special attention tomorrow will be directed toward Skirts; the skirts with all their themo land
  a term. dveryin
  
  material in
  $500 5000 $15.oo
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ual, however wealthy, or any corporation however great, provided only that the wealth was accrued honestly and that the corporation was managed decently.
 Sanity and Conservatism.
 They say that he is not sane and con- servative. If sanity, according to their definition, consists in upholding brigand- age, then I hope that he is not sane. If conservatism consists in allowing dishon- esty to run rampant in the management of certain great corporations, then I am glad that, according to that definition, he is not conservative.
 ''The Presidents course was required not through conservatism and foresight alone, but resolute courage, for it has meant an attack upon the interests of some of the most powerful men in the country and 1t would have been easier for man less truly conservative than he to have failed to have turned on the light or having done so, to have yielded to the storm which the turning on of the light aroused. It was the same kind of cour- age that it took to make possible the building of the Panama canal, it was the same kind of courage that it took to in terfere in bloody war between two of the great nations of the world and to insure q permanent and lasting peace between them.
 "Who are the stricken? They are the very men whose methods could not stand tine glare of the light. Their cry is indeed filling the land. But the cry of the stricken is an expensive proposition to make heard. The fines of the stricken for violating the law of the land are expen- sive to pay Their bills are heavy. No wonder there is weeping. wailing and gnashing of teeth
 "These men who purport to represent the business interests of the country tell you in one breath that confidence is neces- sary for business progress. and in the very next breath they tell you that con fdence Is impossible under present condi- tious--that under the laws which Con- gross has recently passed, nndar the poli- cies of the present administration. there can he no confidence in the business com- munity.
 ''I say to you that 1t is just such state- ments as these published throughout the land that tend, if anything would tend. to shake confidence to prevent it, If 1t can be prevented. from being restored. These men are the real enemies of every honest business man. They are the real enemies of American institutions. This country Is all right. The great body of our citizenship is all right, and you can no more stop our progress than you can change the sea. Already business confidence is returning every day. busl- ness is improving.
 "Only few days ago 5o,000,Ooo bond issue of the city, of New York was sub scribed for almost 10 times over. Times are improving daily. The croakers and the pe~ simists will soon find their occupa- .ion gone"
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Silk Specials

Don't forget that Tuesday we will sell 5000 yards of $125 Black Taffeta, 36 inches wide, at 89c the yard. It will be sale all day, after 9:3O a. m, and not one yard of it will be reserved for any one before that time
 Tomorrow Special-The greatest of all values in 27-nch All-silk Pongee in the beauty of it's nat ural shade, also in tan, in light blue in gray, brown, reseda, and Copenhagen. Monday 85c oOO yards of Natural Shantung Pongee, 36 inches wide, for the sweest of the spring season waists shirt waist suts coat suit This silk is shown in the natural shade only, and it's value is $1.25. . Monday, as long as 1t lasts ...............$1 $10O
 table of Fancy Silks, without question the strongest values shown you in these dainty materials Their combinations are of tan and brown tan-and- garnet, tan-and-navy, tan land Copenhagen black and-whlte, ue-and-white, and brown -and-whte Their values are 75c and S9c. Monday, Special 59c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
WOOIen Specials

On a center table tomorrow will be display of Woolens which were bought for early selling. They were bought as leader for the department, thing which we could praise, and advertise, and sell as something extra and unusual Here they are: The best products of the world $ foremost manufacturers 45 inches wide, and showing the leading shades for the new season in their grandest make-ups. Navy brown, Copenhagen wedge, gray, tan, and green with just faint line of silver, green or red to bring out the pattern in shadow effects They will cost you $1.25 and $150 the world over.
 Monday y...................... SlO0
 Another great special for the day will be Priest leys 56-inch Black Sician, in the $1.25 grade. We will run this material for the one day only
 at ...r................. 9lUU
 Fancy Mohairs, 45 inches wide, in the new shades with sef-colored stripes. The regu-
 lar $100 kind. Monday Special. ............. .75c
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Eight Button Glove Special

In the first place, the 8-button length glove is good and correct for spring wear; in the sec- ond place, these which we are about to price to you are the most perfect fitting glove we have ever handled. Chase kid in tan, black, and white, which sell for $2.5O Monday,
 Special ................ ....... $1.50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
A Dandy Bingham Special

Standard Apron Ginghams sell for 815c here and everywhere. They are staple at that price, and always in demand at that price. But listen! Tomorrow and Tuesday we will sell these same ginghams in fast col ors, of all size checks of blues and
 browns, for ..................... .51ac
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to the Chicago convention. The com mittee went on record as favoring Vice-President Fairbanks as the re- publican presidential nominee. The state convention will meet in Waco, Tex, on May 26.
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ual, however wealthy. or any corporation, however great, provided only that the wealth was accrued honestly and that the corporation was managed decently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
Two Button Glove Special

These comprise a lot of the short gloves in and champagne Some of them are slightly spotted, but not in any way damaged. They are the genuine Jouvin Chase Kid, and sell for
 $1.50 Monday, well just look at the price. .79c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
Meeting of Republicans.

Fort Worth, Tex, February 22.-The executive committee of the reorgan- ized republican party, composed of both white and colored members of that party, met here today to arrange for convention to send delegations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
Infant Shoe Specials

This is where the little fellow gets a chance, and mother gets delighted. TO pairs of Infants Red, Brown, Black and Patent Button and Lace Shoes (Laird- -Schober, and Mrs. Kings Kant Slip makes). Regular $1.00 and $125 grades, sizes 1 to ,, Monday,
 Same as above, in sizes 4 to 8,
 Monday .................... SlzO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23
FRENCH DRY CLEANING CO.
 AT THEIR OWN FACTORY

The French Dry Cleaning company has secured new factory on the corner of Second avenue and Fifteenth street. All work taken in at their Nineteenth street office will be done there. Several weeks ago this company lost their plant by fire. Their new quarters are larger and machinery entirely new. Their factory Is now absolutely fireproof. They are pre- pared to do the very finest cleaning and dye work.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
LET THE CLOUDS BLOW OVER
absence Cure" Works Wonders In
Cases of conjugaI Jars.

When symptoms set in of an out.
break of conjugal jars-which may
happen sometimes in the best regu.
lated families-it is a capital plan for
husband or wife to go off on solitary
holiday for a few days, to let the
clouds blow over.
If two persons start jangling and
getting on one another's nerves, an
absence cure" works wonders. Both
have time for reflection and repent
ance. So If you and the husband are
irritating one another like mild mus
tard poultices, go and stop week
with friends.
Don't discuss your grievances with
the hostess; calm down, forgive and
forget, and stay away till you can re-
turn in love and kindness.
Short separations taken at the right
moment, would save thousands of hot
tempered young couples from drifting
to the ranks Of the ''unhappily mar
ried,"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
Copyright, 1906, Bobbs- Merrill Cos
SYNOPSIS.

Arthur Warrington American consul
70 Barscheit tells how reigning Grand
Duke attempts TO force his neice. Pr,n-
cess Hildegarde, to marry Prince Dopple-
kim, an old wldower While riding
horseback In the country night oVertaltes
him ard he seeks accommodations I'm a
dilapidated castle. Here he finds Prn-
cess Hildegarde and a friend. Hon Betty
Moore, OF England. They detain him to
witness mock marriage between the
princess and n disgraced army officer
stelnbockl done for the purpose OF foiling
the grand duke Stenbock attempts to
Kiss the princess and she Is rescued by
Warrington. Stelnbock disappears for
good. Max Scharfenstein, an old Amcrl-
can friend of WarringtOn's reaches Bar
schelt- warrington tells him of thu prin-
cess Scharfenstein shows Warrington
a locket with a picture of woman in
side. IL was on his neck when he, as "A
boy, was picked up and adopted by his
foster father, whose name he was given
He believes IL TO be "A picture OF his
mother. The grand duke announces to
the princess that she Is TO marry Dopple-
kim the following week. During a morn
lng's ride she plans to escape. She meets
Scharfensten. He finds purse she has
dropped but does not discover her iden-
lily. warrington entertains at a public
restaurant for number of American
medical students, Max arrives late and
relates an interesting bit OF gossip to the
effect that the princess has run away
from Barscheit. He unwittingly offends
native officer and subjects himself to
certain arrest. Max Is persuaded to take
one OF the American students passports
ana escape, The grand duke discovers
the escape OF the princess. She leaves a
made 70 stop the princess at the frontier
betty Moore asks for her passport She
asks Warrington for assistance In leav-
ing Barscheit, and invites him To call on
ner IN London. Max hnda the princess In
the railway carriage She accuses him
OF following her
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17

terically to her heart. She feverishly
tried to unlatch the clasps.
You need not open it," he said
quietly, even proudly. 81 had no
thought of looking into 1t, even to
prove your identity"
Pardon! l did not think. / was SO
crazy to see 1t again" She laid the
purse beside her. You see," with an
hysterical catch In her voice, FALL the
money | had in the world was In that
purse, and only heaven knows what
misfortunes were about to befall me.
There We're, and are, thousand
crowns in the purse"
"A thousand crowns?"
I'm bank-notes Thank you, thank
you! l am so happy !"-clasping her
hands Then, with a smile as warm as
the summers sun, she added: "You
may-come and sit close beside me.
You may even smoke"
Max grew light-headed. This was as
near heaven as he ever expected to
get.
open your purse and look into It,"
he said. I'm a brute; you are dying
to do SO"
May I?"-shyly.
Then It came into Max's mind. with
all the brilliancy of dynamo spark,
that this was the one girl in all the
world, the ideal he had been searching
for; and he wanted to fall at her feet
and tell her so.
"Look!" she cried gleefully, holding
up the packet of bank-notes.
Il wish" he said boyishly, that you
didn't have any money at all, so could
help you and feel that you depended
upon me-"
She smiled. How a woman loves
this simple kind of fiattery! 1t tells
her better what she may wish to know
than thousand hymns sung m praise
of her beauty.
But even as he spoke chill of hor
ror went over Max. He put his hand
hurriedly into his vest pocket. Fool!
l Ass! How like a man! In changing
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17

his clothes at the consulate he had left
his money, and all he had with him was
some pocket change
The girl saw his action and read the
secret in the look of dismay which
spread over his face.
You have no money either?" she
cried. She separated the packet Of
notes into two equal parts. "Here!"
He smiled weakly.
Take them!"
NO a thousand times. no! | have
watch, and there's always a pawn
broker handy, even in Europe"
You offered to help me" she in
sisted.
1T is not quite the same"
Take quarter of it,"
mo. Don't you understand? really
couldn't"
One, just on them" she pleaded.
An idea came to him. VERY well: |
will take one" And when she gave it
to him he folded it reverently and put
ii away.
II understand" she cried "You are
JN9h sums W hptp ~ 9Ou uOA lulcHu
to spend it at all. Don't be foolish"
81 shall notify my friend, when we
reach Doppelkinn. that | am without
funds, and he will telegraph to Ores
dem
Your friends were very wise in
sending you away as they did. Aren't
you always getting into trouble?"
Yes. But l doubt the wisdom of
my friends in sending me away as
they id,"-with frank glance into
her eyes How beautiful they were,
now that the sparkle of mischief had
left them!
She looked away. If only DoppeI-
kim were young like this! She sighed.
Can they force one to marry in this
country" he asked abruptly.
When one is in my circumstances"
He wanted to ask what those cir
cumstances were, but what he said
was: us there anything L can do to
help youi"
you are even more helpless than
am,"-softly. 'If you are caught you
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
Going Back to the Sailor.

In San Francisco the campaign
AGAINST rats, as spreaders of the
plague, is a subject of universal dis
cussion. A conversation reported by a
writer in the Call shows that the topic
has reached even the children.
"Wot they hunting up all rats for?"
Jaw, don't yer know nothing? Rata
has the plague, an If you see one
you'd better look out. cause you'll get
It, too, maybe"
III you just see rat do you get It ?"
Jaw, don't yer know nothing7
You've got the plague when you've
been bit by flea what's been bit by a
rat what's been bit by sailor"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
"HAp LANDS" IN MONTANA
Miles on Miles Of Rugged chasmS,
Realistically Carved.

It seems to me that no human be-
ing can stand on that spot and view
that marvellous labyrinth Of wild
nature without being thrilled by 1t.
Instantly your thoughts fly to the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, as
seen from Point Sublime, only this
is in miniature. The fact that you
stand on a sharp point, from which
the world drops steeply away on
three sides, is not the thing that
Is so profoundly impressive. It is
the depth, the breadth and the awful
wilderness of the maze Of bad lands
int which you look Before you,
and on either hand, there stretch
miles upon miles Of ragged chasms,
divided and walled in by a thou
sand fantastic cliffs, and buttresses,
and domes of naked hard pan that
stubbornly defy the forces of ero.
sion, and refuse to crumble down.
In several places there are masses
of earth architecture that remind
one OF the ruined castles on the
Rhine. These bare walls are most
ly of gray earth, not rock, and the
carving Of them has been most
strangely done. 1t is only when you
climb among them, and touch them,
that the wonders of erosion are fully
revealed.
The hard, dry earth has most stub
bornly resisted the dsintegrating
action OF the water, wind, heat and
cold, and there are hundreds Of earth
cliffs nearly as smooth and as perpen.
dicular as the brick walls of Harlem.
l dislike to estimate the total
drop of these bad lands from the
plateau to the waters of Snow creek.
but | think it is about 500 feet.
After the first moments OF SPELL
bound wonder and amaze, you begin
TO pick out the geography of what
hes before you. You see that the
axis OF all this wild waste of carved
and furrowed earth is the level and
very narrow valley of Snow creek
which comes down from the west
You can easily trace its course east.
ward to the point where It bends
abruptly northward and runs into
the Missouri, parallel with the last
eight miles Of He'll creek. In the
creek bottom there is sinuous
string OF cottonwood trees, aspens and
Willow brush.-Scribner
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17

He saw that she was ironical. Hav.
Ing nothing to say, he said nothing.
but looked longingly- at the vacant
space beside her
She rested her chin upon the sill of
che window and gazed at the stars. A
wild rush of the wind beat upon her
face, bringing a thousand vague heavy
perfumes and pleasant numbing.
How cleverely she had eluded the
dukes police! What a brilliant idea
II had been to use her private carriage
key to steal into the carriage compart-
ment long before the train was made
up! II had been some trouble to light
the lamps, but In doing so she had
avoided the possible dutiful guard. He
had peered in, but, seeing that the
lamps were lighted. concluded that
one of his fellows had been the rounds.
The police would watch all those
who entered or left the station, but
never would they think to search car
rage into which no one had been seen
to enter But oh. what a fIightful pre-
dtcament she was in! All she pos
sessed in the world was a half-crown,
scarce enough for her breakfast. And
II she did not find her governess at
once she would be lost utterly, and in
Dresden She choked back the sob.
Why couldn't they let her be? she
didn't want to marry any one-that
is just yet. She didn't want her wings
clipped before she had learned what a
fine thing 1t was to fly. She was
young.
"Oh!"
What is it," she said, turning.
Il have something of yours" an
swered Max, fumbling in his pocket,
for some excuse to break the
silence. you dropped your purse this
morning. Permit me to return 1t to
you hadn't the remotest idea how
was going to return 1t. In truth, had
Just made up my mind to keep 1t as a
She literally snatched 1t from his
extended hand.
MY purse My purse And l thought
L was gone forever!" hugglng it hys-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
Domestic superstltlons.

To forget to put coffee in the coffee
pot is the sign. of a coming gift
To accidentally place the tea kettle
on the stove with the spout toward the
back is sign of company.
If a coal of fire falls on the floor,
it is a sign a stranger is coming to
see you.
If after sweeping room the broom
is accidentally left in a corner, stran
gers will visit the house that day.
If you apron becomes united, it is
an indication that somebody is speak
ing of you.