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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
BOTH FELL OUT

BOTH FELL OUT. "Aeronautics and his wife had a falling
 | out yesterday" What was the matter?' His airship turned over.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
PARAPHRASED.

PARAPHRASED. Strike-tll the ball goes over the fence; Strike-put an end to the deadly suspense; Strke-for the strain while we wait is in- tense!-
 Heavens. the chump struck outl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
Iron Consumption This Year

The use of iron, the great commer- cial metal has long been considered an excellent test of general trade activity, and according to that test the decrease in the volume of business done has been decreased just about 30 per cent. The figures for March in the last and the present year are as fol- lows:
 March 1908 1eO7 Furnace product. :. .. ..1.24SOO0 2260, 300 Imports. ...... 5000 S5,00O
 Total supply. ..1,271 900 2,345,0OO Exports. .... .... ...... 175,OO0 227 900 Consumption. =. ..1,096,O00 2,1lS, GOO
 Consumption and exports keep pace with the output of the furnaces, and the most trustworthy figures show that consumption is steadily increas- ing. In January it was but 93S, 900 tons. In February 1t had become 950,000 tons, and in March the total had risen to 1,096,000 tons If this pace should be maintained throughout the year by crop prospects at first and then by crop returns every furnace may be needed by the end of the year. This is a pos sibility at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Bullock County Breeze: The Law and Order league is kept busy in bad Blr- mingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Jackson Clarion-Ledger: The Birming- ham ball player named Robatill ought 10 be kept at distance from the box office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
REPLIES.

 Wives lay down the law and husbands carry 1t out.
 The Fairbanks presidential boom is not making half as much noise as a blaming mill.
 lot marked two bottles'' brought the sum of cents at an auction sale of Mrs. Leslie Carter's effects. It is evident that there was nothing in the bottles. An ability to borrow money from strangers is a fine test of man s mixing qualities
 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has just made trip in a balloon. His father has been up in the air great many times.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Montgomery Advertiser: It is said thai those Birmingham fellows hit Montgom- cry with thirst that was well-nigh insati- able.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Georgia would not be Georgia if she did not have a surplus crop of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Hattiesburg News: The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks that there should be law against loud socks. But suppose we haven't the money to buy another pair?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
OBLIGING.

"Slr, want to marry your daughter"
 Do you realize that she is an only child and parting from her would be painful to me?"
 ''Yes, sir. We figured on that and We are perfectly willing to make our home with you after we are married"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Aldrich once had a bill, but where is that bill now?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Richmond News-Leader: "Just imagine the wife of six husbands going to heaven and finding the six husbands there!" ex- claims the Birmingham Age-H Herald. We can't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Gadsden Times-News: The Montgomer1 team took two straights from Birming ham and now there issa mighty pow-woN in both towns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Houston Post: The Birmingham Age Herald says it knows a girl whose kiss is worth &,OOO,00O but it is careful not to state just on what street in Houston she lives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
SURE!

Smile Smilel Smile.
 Leave your cares with yesterdayl Though you haven't reached the top, By tomorrow morn you may!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Hattiesburg News: The Birmingham Age-Herald suggests that Senator LaFol- lette's squad of 97 men who are sup posed to control the finances of the coun- try should organize society. We were under the impression that they were al- ready organized, and that this organiza- tion was the animus of the senator's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

| San Antonio Express: Says Paul Cook: Lust imagine the wife of six husbands going to heaven and finding the six hus- bands ~there." As such find is abso- lutely out of the question, why indulge the misery of the ina magination ?-Houston Post. At the same time. try to imagine the feelings of those six husbands if that one mother-in-law accompanied their wifi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Roanoke, (vO. World: Yesterday was Birmingham's high-record day in church going. If the number of church buildings had been doubled all would have been well filled. As it was, several of them were packed to overfiowing Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Of course, it was Easter-hat day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

and the same evil, no doubt, exists in greater or less degree in all of the other large cities of the country. Pure milk and pure water are very essential to the life of American cities. but not so with prohibition. They have progressed so far in their history without it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Columbus Enquirer Sun: The Birming- ham Age-Herald remarks that there are now almost as many kinds of soft drinks as breakfast foods. And about as poor substitutes as the real article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25

Atlanta Georgian: Billy Smith is merry jester. He let Birmingham think 1t had the game landed Wednesday up to the ninth inning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
HAVE EARNED BUTTONS
Athletic Children Pass the
Standard Test.
ENGAGE. IN TOURNAMENT
Lively Scenes Expected at Union
League Park.
GREAT 0UTP0URING OF YOUTH
About Six Hundred Entered for the
Various Events Of the Afternoon.
Points Scored on Fairgrounds.

The final tournament of the Washing
ton Playground Association for white
children will take place at Union
League Park, 10Th and H streets north
east, this afternoon. There are about
500 children entered to take part in
the various events. including dances
and ring games, and the spectacle
should be of unusual interest. The
Towers contingent. which won the PEN
nant last year for the highest score
made in the summers events and in
the final tournament, will be taken
from their playground to Dupont Cir
Gle, thence back to 9th ana X streets,
up 9th street to New York avenue, out
New York avenue to 18th and H streets
northeast in a special car. The children
will display from the windows the ban
ners which they won last year. and also
the banners which are to be awarded
at the tournament.
Probably the most interesting event
on the program will be the games and
dances of the children. These will be
followed by the athletic events.
The industrial work, which includes
baskets. crochet and various articles
made from raff1a and reed, will be dis
played at the back of the grandstand
and all are invited to inspect it, A
part of this exhibit will be installed in
the Public Library Friday. and those
who do not get an opportunity to see
it at Union League Park should make
every effort to do so there.
The total score of Fairgrounds in but
tons ia as follows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
TO DRILL ON WHITE LOT.
Brooklyn Fife and Drum Corps Here
on a Visit.

An extraordinary military spectacle
will be presented this afternoon on the
White Lot. The Twelfth Street Fife,
Drum and Bugle Corps of Brooklyn. N.
Y, will give drill between the hours OF
40 and 6 O'clock 1t will he In accord
ance with the Knights Templar drill
manual, and part OF the evolutions will
be given by bugle calls.
Maj. A. A. Spence and twenty-six OF
his fifers, drummers and buglers reached
this city last evening. and are CHARTERED
at the Hotel La Fetra. They are in heavy
marching order attire. Thursday next
they will participate in a national con-
test at Baltimore between drum fife and
buele corps from a number of states.
The Brooklyn corps is connected With
the Twelfth Street Reformed Dutch
Church of that city. and one Of the
features of the organization is fits Junior
drum ma jor. Master A. e. Spence. son of
Maj. Spence. who is but twelve years
of age. This lad does all the leading
OF the corps in it's drills and marches,
and is also regarded as the mascot. Six
more members of the corps will join their
comrades at Baltimore i'm time to par.
tcipate in the national competition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
- New Department of :
Interior Decorations.

HI we have added complete line of the Foreign
w mestic Wall Papers, and thoroughly equipped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
BIG REALTY DEAL.
James Martin Buys Seven Lots on
Rhode Island Avenue. .

Willige. Gibbs & Daaniei, real estate
brokers, have sold to James Martin lots
numbered three to nine. inclusive, in
block five. i'm Moore and Barbours addi-
ton to Washington. The lots have a total
frontage Of 100 feet on the north side OF
Rhode Island avenue between North
Capitol and LIST streets northwest. The
lots extend through to street and their
depths range from 15 to 100 feet. their
area aggregating 1870 square feet. 1t
is understood that the sale price was
S14.JO0
improve the entire frontage at once with
residences, which will be placed on the
market as soon as completed. The sale
was de in connection with the ONCE OF
Belt O'Brien & Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01

CHARTERED Oak Library Tables. with
lower shelf
$22.5o. Value, $500.
Mahogany Library Tables, oval shape,
dull finish.
$23.75. Value, $1,000.
Sleepy Hollow Chairs. solid oak
frames upholstered in velveteen
$I6.75. Value, $4,000.
Wing Chairs. with hand-tufted genu-
inc leather cushions; large size.
$780, Value, $500.
Hand-carved Flemish Oak Chairs, Ieath-
er seat; large size.
$500. Value, $500.
Solid Mahogany Hall Chairs, leather
500. Value, $1,000.
Leather Turkish Rockers, large size.
$3.50. Value, $1,000.
Solid Mahogany Rockers. leather seat.
$11.85. Value, $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
Birney School-A. Mason. II years; r

Birney SchoOl-A. Mason, II years; r.
Payton, l.. rs
Towers School-V Boudrin, II years;
F. Lynch. u: NJ Parsons. T.: G. Waruke,
II; III. Sievert; II. - So
There were 442. as opposed to 36S who
received the button IL st year. AS the
numbers are mutually exclusive. this
means,that within the last three years 1OO
children have been brought UP to aNifigh
standard of physical efficiency. as not a
single child was able to pass the test
when it was first inaugurated three years
ago. and had ii not been for the rainy
weather of last week, when the final
tests for the buttons were to have been
given, this number would have consider.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
influence Of Feminine Dress.
ondon Graph,

From the L0ndon GraphIc.
Few men realize the influe nee that dress
has upon them. Man thinks that he is
an unbiased being. open to conviction. to
sound logic. to unanswerable argument.
Fond delusion, He is open to nothing,
except to the eloquence Of few yards Of
silk and to the persuasion OF soft laces.:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01

Solid Mahogany Toilet Tables, with
three drawers; dull finish.
$21.5o. Value, $500.
Solid Mahogany Toilet Tables dull fin
ish
$29.75. Value, $500.
Mahogany Cheval Mirrors, large size,
with brass shoes; dull finish.
$3.50. Value, $32.5o.
Hall Tables, of oak and mahogany. with
drawer and shelf; bolted construction.
$4.o5. Value, 5000.
Mahogany Parlor Tables. round top.
$5.o5. Value, $1,000.
Mahogany Parlor Tables. inlaid with
hollywood and pearl: French design.
$3.50. Value, $500.
CHARTERED Oak Library Tables, with
long drawer and wooden drawer pulls;
neat design.
$1o.85. Value, $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
September Sale of
High=grade Pictures.
Half and Less Than Half Prices.

o7 going and rettng home will perhaps find
III here and there that little something missing that does
LII much brighten and make home pleasing its surround
ings 1t is the picture and selected with
and space you have suit will fill add brightness
to home Or contemplate making gift of any kind
there is nothing appropriate than pictures
the latest and the mounngs and Trainings most artistic
tells Photographers Carbon suitable for par
sery, etc
The quantities most generous, but few duplicates
sale of the
An excellent opportunity money pictures.
We call attention to the following items:
land
each
1896 each Value $1,000.
CSC each Value 75c. to ~ ~ " antique ~
oil PAINTINGS icnd ,.as $500 EACH Value, $500.
Ola ,o, n,.
gilt with shadow boxes b French Prints antique frames to
SIos each Value S,5o 5000 each Value, $1,000.
OIL Paintings including country
81 so each Value $500 $9o5 each Value, $4,000.
Large including
rely osen SUBJECTS" broad brown
S265 Value $500 e, fn @ SUD
o.n,,sna ,., $1,000 each. Value, $1,000.
onshe by Gainsoough Also large lot OF Old English
frames ~ " ~ ~ Prints in variety of Subjects Of
1886 each Value, 5000. ered at about half price
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
Wall Paper Hanging,
FrescOing and Interior Painting,
Relief Work, Etc.

We are also thoroughly prepared for designing making
Fine Dapees and angng Reuphosterng Fine
nsng and Laying Fine Carpets and Rugs Refsng Floors
Furniture Laying Hardwood Floors Making Hanging
dow Shades and Lace Curtains We shall strictly adhere
policy of furnishing only best
lowest prices. Estimates cheerfuly furnished
NOTE-Now displaying direct importation of Ccas-
sian Walnut Paror Furniture in Louis XIV period
Styles and rich Brocades and Damask for covering
This Furniture imported by in sections put together
and upholstered in workrooms
1t can be finished pure gold leaf tinted match any
terror decoration Many styles fine
Included Sofas Reception Chairs Arm Chairs Bergeres,
Piano Benches Screens, Foot Stools,
Fourth doorG St
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01

CHARTERED Oak Arm Rockers, cane seat
$3.50. Value, $500.
Women's Rockers. of dull-finish quar-
tered oak
$3.50. Value, 5000.
Curly Birch Rockers, box seat.
$3.50. Value, $3.50.
Bird s-eye Maple Rockers cabinet arms
cane seat
:. $3.o5. Value, $500.
Bird's-eye Maple Arm Rockers, cabinet
arms, box seat.
$500. Value, $1,000.
Solid Mahogany Arm Rockers, cabinet
arms, cane seat dull finish.
$500: Value, $1,000.
Mahogany Rockers. high back. saddle
seat.
$5.65. Value, 5000.
Mahogany Davenports, fitted with best
steel springs; full size.
$38.75; Value, 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01

CHARTERED Oak Chiffoniers. with two
drawers at top; best plate glass mirror.
$I5.75. Value, $1,000.
Mahogany Chiffoniers. with wooden
drawer pulls: oval plate glass mirror: dull
finish.
$1,000. Value, $4,000.
Mahogany Dressers, swell top drawer
French legs.
$I7.25. Value, $22.oo.
CHARTERED Oak Dressers, colonial design,
dull finish.
STATS. Value, $4,000.
Birds-eye Maple Dressers. full swell
front. large mirror.
$33.75. Value, $4,000.
Birds-eye Maple washstands, size ssx2O
$I2.oo. Value, $4,000.
Mahogany Washstands,. dull finish; size
$3.50. Value, $500.
Sixth and Seventh floors. g st.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-11-13
Good Society Not Silly, Says Mrs. Fish

ordinary social functions Mrs. West
peaks Of. They certainly must be
funny. | wonder what they would be
ike? ! really never heard Of any Of
,hese things before.
Newport society is perfectly sane
and normal. II Is high time the silly
stories about 1t were stopped, They
are absolutely false. every one OF
them, and no loyal, patriotic man
would publish stories which belittle
aboard the dignity of his own coun-
trywomen and men.
Good society Is the same every
where. and a lady is lady in any
country. Being an American, I consid-
er myself just as good as any of the
foreign blood, superior probably TO
some.
New York society. IL anything. is
more dignified than that abroad. j be-
lleve 1t is really more exclusive in
some respects. King Edward is very
democratic and goes about socially a
great deal more than President Roose-
welt does.
Il agree with Mrs. West that II New
York society were to open its doors
a little wider its influence might be
felt"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-11-13

NEW YORK.-Mrs. Russell Sage has
~ new velvet carpets in her home.
632 Fifth avenue, soft. rich and beau
tiful. with deep, thick pile into which
the foot sinks.
Il am glad" said a woman who has
known Mrs Sage for years, that she
could have these velvet carpets before
she died. In all the years o. her mar
ried life down at the house at SOC
Fifth avenue. she had nothing except
an ancient Brussels carpet on her par
Tor floor. Il was one she had when she
first went to keeping house and had
those great, set medallions In 1t that
they used TO use for carpet patterns
40 years ago The nap was worn an
all over It, 20 that the brown warp
showed through.
when It finally got so bad that It
was impossible to use it longer, mat
ting was put down in the parlor, as
IL long had been in the rest of the
house. She always used the old horse
hair furniture she had when she was
married. such as one saw In country
parlors 40 years ago, and there were
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-11-13
Millionaire Sportsman to Wed Actress

been reported engaged before, or that
there was anything new in his ardent
interest in affairs histrionic. In fact,
there was a period when he was very
devoted to Miss Russell. and was seen
much in her company along the classic
walks of Bay Ridge.
But then, II seems, he was only
slightly bruised by the shafts OF Eros,
whereas now the dart has ripped right
through his waistcoat, twin dart in
dieting a similar wound in the bosom
of Miss Edna McCauley.
Mr.. Lewisohn recently gave en- ex-
elusive little banquet. Miss McCauley
was present and so were several Of her
intimate friends and several intimate
friends of the millionaire. The occa-
sion, 1t Is said, was to serve as a fare
we'll to single blessedness and during
the height OF the jolly little dinner
the couple confessed their happiness
and fixed the marriage day. The we'd
ding, according to friends of Mr.. Lew
isohn, will be very quiet and after the
ceremony the bride and bridegroom
will sail TO Europe for their honey.
moon, visiting on the other side Oscar
Lewisohn, Jesse's brother and Oscars
attractive wife, who was Miss Edna
May.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-11-13
BOY AT STAKE is scoRcHED.
Three Lads Nearly Succeed in Putting
Dime Novel "Villains" In Shade.

New York.-Attempting to put ali
dime novel stories in the shade, three
Yonkers youths, between the ages OF
twelve and fourteen, tied one OF their
chums to telegraph post, set fire TO
a quantity OF newspapers and were
about to burn him at the stake.
Francis Kelly, IL years old. was
passing through Engine place. in the
rear OF fire headquarters, when his
three friends pounced upon him and
rushed him to the telegraph pole.
While the two held him, the third tied
him to the post.
A quantity of newspapers was
placed under his feet and between his
body and the post. The youths had
Just set a match to the newspapers
when Officer Kruppenbacher was at
tracted by Kelly's screams. He un-
fastened Kelly, whose stockings had
already been set afire.
He told the police who the lads
were. Kelly's mother will swear out
warrants for their arrest. After light
ing the fire, the boy said, they ran off.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-11-13

though in a nervous and distressed
condition. she allowed the rope to be
placed around her body and she and
the officer were then slowly hauled up
to the summit.
She was conveyed to the coast
guard station and afterward to the
residence of the chief officer, and il
was learned that she had been in her
perilous situation all night.
She gave her name as Miss Spiers
of footing, and said she was staying
with friends at Fairlee, Chesterfield
road. Eastbourne On the previous
evening she sat reading a book for
some time on the edge of the cliff
and when. about seven o'clock, she
rose to go, the wind, which was blow
ing in strong gusts, blew her over the
edge OF the cliff. and she found her
self lying prone on rough ledge.
She became frightened and called
loudly for assistance, but there was no
response, and darkness coming on,
she resigned herself to her unfortun-
ate predicament. Sleep was, of course.
impossible, and as the night turned
out very wild she had a most trying
and anxious experience. In the morn
ing two parties passed along the beach
far below, but failed to hear her calls,
but later she attracted the attention
of the prawner who gave the alarm.
Miss Spiers. who is about 26, was
bruised and shaken, but otherwise she
felt no i'll effects from her unpleasant
experience. She received every atten-
tion from the coast guardsmen' and,
relative having arrived. she was
driven to Eastbourne.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-11-13
FIGHT A MADMAN
ON LOFTY PERCH
THREE POLICEMEN IN DEATH
STRUGGLE 335 FEET ABOVE
EAST RIVER, NEW YORK.
BRIDGE TOWER IS THE SCENE
After Capturing Maniac Officers Are
Forced to Garry Him TO the
Ground Big Crowd Wit
nesses Fight.

New York.-Three policemen on
duty at the Williamsburg bridge had
a desperate fight with a temporarily
insane Russian on top Of the Brook
iyn tower 335 feet above the river late
the other afternoon. In the struggle
of the man to leap from the structure
he nearly dragged the policemen over
the brink.
The Russian said later that he was
Joseph Kratz. tailor. 80 years old,
and lived on Prospect street His at
tempted suicide was because he had
an aged mother who was starving be-
cause he couldn't get any work.
Kratz first attracted attention in the
foot path on the bridge on the WI.
liamsburg side by fourishing a razor
and acting as II he was going to cut
ais throat. At the anchorage he
climbed TO the guard rail and reached
one OF the inner cables. There was no
policeman around and many of the
crowds moving i'm either direction
stopped to watch his antics
There are hand ropes on each cable
and Kraft alternately walked and
crawled along the cables toward the
top OF the Brooklyn tower Occa
iionally he would stop and wave his
razor The spectators finally drew the
attention of policemen Smith. Miller
and O'Donnell. BY that time Kraft
was half way up the cable and thou
sands Of persons were watching hin
from the bridge. cars, vehicles. house
tops, ferry boats and other craft on th'
East side
1t was evident TO the policemen tina
Kratz was demented and none of then
cared TO follow him to the cable
Michael Bowling, superintendent o
the laborers on the bridge, suggeste,