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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
PRETTY WOMEN OF PERU

Another use of the manto was illus trated by an incident which fell under my notice while waiting for train in the country. Among others also waiting was handsome looking brunette of 20 or whereabouts, becomingly dressed in T black manto and with a striking figure and carriage. She, like myself, was pac- ing the long cement platform and as I passed and repassed her I could not help noticing that her violently heaving bosom gave evidence of the fact that she was repressing some great emotion.
 AS train time grew near her sufferings seemed to become more acute, and finally it became evident that the trouble, what ever it might be. was rapidly coming to a crisis Both her hands were at her heart and her whole body was shaken as with pain. Behind, the rear of her man. to- stretched taut as though under se- were strain, gradually began to tear, open ing up before my eyes from neck to waist. At the same time her shoulders were writhing and twisting like those of one under a knife.
 Then a man came hurriedly from the city entrance. Glancing down the plat form, his eye caught the girls retreatng figure, and he immediately dashed off in pursuit, almost at a run. Over one arm he carried sack, and in or under this sack knew there was knife When he was within 30 paces of the girl the fellow called her by name, and the foolish young thing, with apparently no distrust and apprehension whatever. whirled about and came trotting to meet her fate. saw them come together, saw him whip away the sack, and in another moment he had her in his arms. At least I thought he was embracing her, but as l came up perceived that he was only assisting her in transferring a large sized fighting cock from the bosom of her man. to to the sack he had just brought. Just as the train pulled in two mounted policemen dashed up and placed the couple under arrest for the theft of the gamecock.
 It transpired that the bird was a very valuable one. proved fighter, and had been stolen from the pits only an hour before during a riot which occurred over one of the mains. That 1t was taken on the spur of the moment was evident from the fact that no sack had been provided for the immediate reception of 1t. It is not likely that the young lady ever car- ried around a gamecock in her bosom be- fore, or she would not have attempted 1t,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
WHEN WASHINGTON MARRIED.
"First Citizen" Began Married Life
 Very We'll Fixed.

E. N. Vallandingham, in Putnams.
 When Washington brought his bride home to Mount Vernon he had only just entered upon his 2Sth year. His mar riage increased his already considera- ble fortune by about $100,000, equiva- lent, perhaps, to at least four times that sum at the present day. The early death of his stepdaughter further swelled the fortune brought him by his wife. His landed possessions were trival compared te those of his neigh bors at Belvoir but he mustN have been one of the greatest of the Virginia planters. He was made vestryman in two parishes. The church of one was 10 miles away in Alexandria. and is still standing. That of the other was seven miles distant at Pohick. This church was rebuilt upon the designs of Washington, and largely by his own contributions. He attended one church or the other upon every Sunday when the weather was such as to permit of the long drive over bad roads Wash ington now drove about in a chariot with four horses and liveried positions, and in other ways maintained his dig nifty as a colonial magnate. Some of his wealthy neighbors moved about the waters of the Potomac in costly barges imported from England and manned by many negro rowers. There were dinners at Mount Vernon and at Belvoir after the fox hunts, in which Washington and his neighbors, the Fairfaxes, took part. and these feasts were garnished with all the luxuries of country rich in the food of land and water.
 Deer, wild turkeys and smaller game birds, along with canvasback duck, oysters and the best of fish, were abundant in the Potomac country of that day. One of the Maryland Car rolls of about this time, writing to his son, then student at the Middle Tenn pie in London, asked him to look up gamekeeper who could be stationed in Elk Neck near the head of Chesapeake bay, in order to provide the family with all sorts of game that then abounded in the wooded hills of that little peninsula. Washington kept many hounds in kennel and many horses in stable We hear of hounds named Vul- can, Singer, Ringwood, Sweetlips and Music, of horses named Ajax, Blue skin, Valiant and Magnolia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Sign of Trade Improvement.

There is a decided improvement in business in the Birmingham district" said the representative of a large cigar manu- featuring establishment yesterday. My business takes me to every town and min ing camp in Jefferson county, and trade certainly looks brighter than it did in January. As a matter of fact, I have sold more cigars fin three weeks of this month than I did in the entire month of Feb ruary, 1907.
 Taking the year as a whole none of us expect to do better in 1908 than in 1907, which was an exceptionally prosper ous year, but it looks now as if most branches of mercantile enterprise would be able to report a normal amount of business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
DID INGALLS, PLAGlARIZE?
The Claim Made that Opportunity
 Was Italian Poem.


 Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
 quirer
 St. Louis, Mo.-In a communication to a local paper today, Anthony Lo Rocca, an Italian scnoi 1T os Dallas, Tex, chars- y that the famous poem Opportunity" which is attributed to the late Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, is for the main part a verbatim translation of I'll Fato" (The Fate), an Italian sonnet by Dr. Ggliotti and printed in La Svegla di Naples in June, 1887.
 "As anybody with a little knowledge of Italian can readily see,'' writes Rocca, " Opportunity and Il Fato' differ only in the conclusion.
 q am not charging Ingalls, with plagiar- ism; far from it. But as they say that he was in the habit of making free trans lations of everything that impressed him, it may be that he translated 'oppor- tunity from II Fato,' and. of course, as the poem was published before his death, was naturally attributed to his pen"
 THE FATE.
 Master l am of human destinies, fame, greatness, love are my vassals, cities and fields foolishly walk, l knock at every door but once and I run U new path ways.
 If sleeping wake. if feasting you ny to kill your troubles~wIts wine and sin; rise and follow me, I am the fate; woe to whom does not follow me. I give him horses, gold, honor. women and pleasure He will conquer every foe save death. Rise, hang to the oppcftunity which I offer you. l am revengeful; I knock up- bidden but once at every door; I will thought alone makes every man happy and strong
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
"WHAT IS TO GOMEZ

By w. D. Henley. What is to come we know not But we know That what has been was good-was good to show, Better to hide, and best of all to bear. We are the masters of the days that were. We have lived, we have loved. we have suffered even so. Shall we not take the ebb who had the flow? Life was our friend Now, if 1t be our foe Dear. though it spoil and break us,- need we care
 What is to come: Let the great winds their worst and widest blow, Or the gold weather round us mellow slow; We have fulfilled ourselves and vs can dare And we can conquer, though we may not share In the rich quiet of the aftergiow
 What is to come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
ToMIlNSoN.

From the Columbiana Sentinel.
 There is a movement on foot which The Sentinel is glad to see. to make John w. Tomlinson delegate at large to the Dem yer convention. MT. Tomlinson deserves this recognition. He has been steadfast in his belief ever since 1896 that Bryan would at last reach the presidential goal, and that, when he landed, he would make one of the greatest Presidents the country has ever seen. This belief has been shared by the editor of this paper ever since 1896, when he took an active part in lhe campaign in New York.
 MT. Tomlinson has been the magnet, so to speak, which has held the Bryan sen- timent together in Alabama, and the growth of MT. Bryan in all the essential qualities of statesmanship has reunited and unified the democracy in a manner which presages well for the coming con fiict. That there is still a certain kind of opposition to Mr. Bryan cannot be denied; but it will be silenced at Denver, and the democracy has the best chance it has en- joyed for many years to get back on earth in national affairs and to sweep away all local opposition in the south
 It bids fair to be democratic year. Let all democrats put aside the notion that Teddy Roosevelt has so far carried out the democratic platform that there is nothing left to do. Popular sentiment, which is democratic sentiment, forced Roosevelt to adopt some of the democratic ideas, but at the root of all is tariff re- form, and that Teddy will not touch.
 A united democracy, aggressive and de- termined, led by the man chosen by the Denver convention, and bent on victory, will carry the country this fall, or Tom linson and the editor of this paper are no prophets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Lewis R. Freeman in New York Tribune, N or the least attraction for our gal M lant tars during their tarry on
 Callao and Lima will be the op- portunity to verify the many reports cir culated by travellers that the Peruvian women of the upper classes possess a higher average of good looks than those they too, fall captives to the Peruvian style of beauty or not, they will at least be pleased with the ''manto girl
 The manto Is made of fine black ma- terial and Is thrown over the head. with flap drawn tightly across the brow, and cinehed in closely about the neck. This cinching makes a kind of hood around the face, and this hood may be very skill fully manipulated
 From the shoulders the manto falls the heels. It is held together in front, partly by pins and partly by the hands of the wearer. It is usually, but not always, worn over the street costume. This mot always requires some explana- tion, or thereby hang many surprises for the newcomer in Chile.
 The wearing of mantos by all women, no matter of what class, on attending church is obligatory. This is designed to eliminate such things as our Easter bon net competitions, and to allow the mind freer scope in forsaking things earthly and fixing itself on things spiritual All good institutions have their abuses, how ever and that of the manto arises from the fact that many Chilean women when they arise too late to have time to dress for early morning mass merely throw on their mantos over their robes de nuit and, trimmings as is necessary to give the im- pression of being full dressed, trip de- murely off to church to all outward ap- pearances seeming as though they had spent hours instead of minutes before their glasses.
 Of a number of shocks which I have to check against the manto none was more startling at the moment of impact than that which followed my innocent request of match from stranger. It chaneed in this way:
 I had stepped out of the hotel for an after-dinner turn around the plaza. 1t was just at the beginning of coal fam inc. The power plants were suspended for]ack of fuel, and the city, so far as street lights were concerned, was in to- tai darkness. The plaza was apparently deserted, but I spied. a burly form sit- ting on a bench against the denser gloom of the lee side of the band stand. This I cautiously approached, and, hat in hand. and with my best true Spanish polite ness'' manner, begged the favor of a mo- mentary loan of matct: box There was no response. and just enough of a stir to convince me 1t was alive Drunk, dead drunk" I mentally diagnosed, but, anx- ious to be on the safe side, retained my hat in my hand and repeated the request. This time there was not even an answer ing culver, and was just on the point of putting my hat on my head and substi- tuting Qankee directness for Spanish po- liteness by poking the burly object in the ribs, when flash of lightning revealed a girl in manto folded in the arms of a man wearing long. hooded mackintosh left them still seated They did not mind me. but I had come SO near poking the manto in the rigs that I was dis concerted -+.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
About Persons.

William E. Fort, private secretary to Governor Conner, is spending few days in Birmingham.
 L. N. Archer, exalted ruler of the local lodge of Elks, is desperately i'll at Tally McAdory infirmary.
 w. F. Thetford, Jr, of Montgomery is at the New Morris.
 w. A. Davis of Anniston is at the New Morris
 J. Henry. Miller of Huntsville is at the New Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
MATINEE CANDY, LIMITED.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The woman with the lemon colored hair and the big comb with the dofunnies on it, seemed to be setting 'em up to the other two women at the matinee the other day.
 'No, I'll buy the candy she was in- sisting; "just wait minute" And she went ahead to drop a dime into the little box on the seat in front of her that con- tains enough candy for an adult humming bird, all for ten cents.
 "Oh, 1t won't be enough. will it?" says the spender. "Ill buy another box" And she dropped in another dime. But un- fortunately the boxes are built to cough candy only once. The second dino was pure velvet for the machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
AROUND THE COUNTRY

Florida Times-Union:= Joshing the sim plitied speller reminds us that Josh Bill ings got there first.
 Atlanta Georgian: Here is a person with a mean disposition. He says: "The low-cut vest on Taft looks like a belt
 Savannah Press: The boarding house keepers can rejoice Prunes are cheaper. The boarders sentiments are not fit for publication.
 Newark Star: One of the Kentucky leg isators who has been voting against Beckham right along has died-but, curl ously enough, not with his boots on.
 Washington Post: You can hardly won der at the excitement when you remem- Der that the southern postmaster hasn't had a good chance to demonstrate his importance for several long iweary years.
 Houston Post: A St. Louis drummer claims to have sold one trainload of soothing syrup in Texas since January l. We do not say that there is any par ticular merit in soothing syrup, put we glory in the reason why Texas people think they need so much.
 Washington Herald The effort of southern theatrical managers to get lower railroad rates for companies touring that section has failed completely. The east ern managers said that such failure would insure even worse attractions down there than those of the past; and it will cer- tainly be interesting to watch them ex- ecute this apparently impossible threat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
SEVERED FINGERS HURT.
When Arm Was Dug Up and Fingers
 Strengthened Pain Left.
Special to the New York World.

Special to the New York World.
 Port Jervis. N. Y.-Leslie Finkle of Roscoe, Sullivan county, has his arm so badly mangled by the cars at Cadosla January 13 as to require amputation.
 Mr. Finkle complained last week of pain in the shoulder from which the arm had been severed, as if the fingers on the hand were doubled up and could not be strengthened. The doctors at the hos pital, it is said, wrote to MT. Finkles relatives, who had buried the severed arm near their residence, to disinter the arm and straighten the fingers. This was done, and the pain in MT. Finkle's shoul- der ceased as soon as the fingers of the hand had been straig'htensd. The arm was then reburied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Wherever Taft goes snowstorms fol- low, and his supporters are hard put" to explain the phenomena It is be. lieyed, though, that he has been as- sociating too much with Fairbanks. hoping in that way to become Indiana s second choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
WINNING.

I knew a modest fellow once
 Who wasn't very bright, But when he started anything
 He always did it right. Nobody ever thought he would
 Amount to much in life, So quietly he played his part
 And mingled in the strife. And yet, the world has never known A finer type than he, More wrapped about with honor and Responsibility. The day he died forthwith there rose A universal sob, And his success was great because He learned to love his job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The way to cure drinking man is by giving him funeral.
 The reason a girl doesn't like to kiss a man is she'd rather he did 1t.
 Everybody takes more pride in the thing he wants to do than in the thing he knows how to do.
 What woman likes about buying clothes Is that she can then try to get some more.
 A crowd of women never seem to be able to understand one another's remarks unless they all talk at the same time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Secretary Loeb would make an ex- cenent delegate from Oyster Bay, but the Oyster Bay voters have notified him that their eyes are "sot" in an- other direction. So he has withdrawn his name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Britain last night with a crying, teeth ing infant in his arms.
 Here, take your child,' said he to his wife, who is strong fraternity woman. q am sick of trying to care for it."i He dropped the infant into the arms of the surprised mother, to the great amusement of fifty women pres ent.-waterbury. Conn, Special to the New York World
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

The new Denver auditorium, in which the next President is to be named, is to cost $55O,00O and it will be ready for occupation in July.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Hetty Green defies the high finan- ciers as we'll as the low pocketbook snatchers. She is an overmatch for all of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

The country merchants in Illinois are going to Chicago through snow banks to buy spring goods. Their faith would move mountains, but not snowbanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

When the weather bureau doesn't predict rain or snow 1t predicts snow or rain, and it generally hits the bulls eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

We have the chilly air but not the slush and blinding snows that have fallen in the states to the north of the Ohio and Potomac.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Governor Fort thinks Governor Guild is putting in and Governor Guild fully reciprocates the thought. Both want to be Vice President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Callao has been rediscovered by the Americans, who have been invited to come ashore and make themselves at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

A ground hog seems to be able to make more winter than swallow can when it takes up the line of summer making.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Up north the two great industries at present are signing baseball play CTS and shoveling snow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
UP IN THE WORLD.

For prolonged and sustained jeering no class of people surpass the godly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
HARD LINES.
JEERING

Are things coming your way now7" 2 "Yes, but they are mostly bricks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Former Dictator Franco is one man who knows when he has had enough of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Chancellor Day has failed to put in word for the oppressed Morse, but Chance never did stand by any but the very strong
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Emigration is beating immigration at present at the rate of 31s to 1, but the country is not decadent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

King Edwards stogies cost $3.20 apiece, and he is an inveterate smoker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Rawhide is the new gold mining camp in Nevada, where they skin 'em alive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

The Singer and Eiffel towers have both indulged in fires, and it may be necessary to have a dirigible fire service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Total .$e17. .sO6,O4S $2SS, ,SSs GOA $S2S 916, 444 Same months
 last year. s562 s52 6O6 $8SO, ,6s3 OS7 s1S1 659 56s
 A reduction of $91, ,SOO,OOO in our inn ports in a three months period out runs a similar movement in 1893, when in similar period imports were de" creased $54,OOO,ooo.
 Our exports in the future Will pc oe- termined to 9 great extent by the slze of our crops. Big crops this year VIII mean a continuance of expanding ex- ports. Imports will continue to De small for several years if the figures of 1893 are to be to any extent dupll- cated. After the panic of that year imports did not reach the pre-panlc ns- ures until six years had elapsed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Evelyn and E. R. Thomas do not know each other, and both are to be congratulated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

We need a financial bill that will supply in an emergency confidence rather than currency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
The elegancy, facility an golden ca dence of poesy.
 Loves Labor Lost.
Exuorts and Imports

Our foreign trade was never more heavily in our favor. We are rolling up month by month a great trade bal ance, as a glance at the following fig
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

My friend, when you are landing More than your daily bread And have some social standing, Don't let it turn your head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

They are having an old-fashioned winter above Mason and Dixon's line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

Not the girl but tllel machine is the vital question in selecting a typewriter declares an advertiser. That all depends on who is doing the selecting. Now if we-but no matter!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

While the snail is said to have 1o5 teeth, we have never heard of snail bit- ing anybody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
MADE ILL. NERVOUS.
THE PLAINT or A GUTTER

What's the matter? Can't you eat?" 'No.. The walters watching me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
BILL, TAFT.

Bill Taft wins cheers From many throats, But what he needs
 The most is votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
ADVISORY.

ADVISORY That man who scorns to take advice Is nothing but a chump. Whene'er you hear a 1ound "Honkl
 Honkr'
 Iris always best to jump. A great many contemporaries will no doubt wonder why 1t was that a drug store failed in Birmingham when the town is dry.
 An eastern man effectfully cooled his wife's love by threatening to feed her on ice and snowbals.
 A wealthy man remembered his home town the other day to the tune of $500,- 900. That ought to become a popular tune.
 THE ANNUAL REVELATION. Ere long the bathing suit will show, Where breakers curl, How much is really pads, you know, How much is girl.
 The up in the Air'' man of the New ark Star has discovered that the average wife cooks eleven hundred meals a year for her husband. But the average wife discounts that good service by reading her husband about sixteen hundred lec- lures year.
 We have never been able to learn what sort of wives George Bailey's red-headed widows make. Men who marry them keep strangely silent.
 While great many pink hogs are raised in Kentucky, they don't inter- fere with the pink elephants which are plentiful in that state.
 St. Valentine has had day, George Washington has had a day and St. Pat rick is next After that nearly every body will have a day-April l.
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

A PUNK PIANIST A pianist renowned for technique Appeared in the city last wique. Ere the concert was OCT
 Folks broke for the door, And some of them wanted to shrique.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
"smythe, my neighbor, simply makes me
 tired
BOARDING HOUSE GUFF

"Mr Linkly. said the landlady, with severity. just after MT. LinlSly had in- dulged in one of his well known witti- cisms, 'you are fresh"
 Madam" replied MT. LinlSly, that is more than you can say of the eggs this morning."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25

A LONG KISS.
 Speaking about the length of kisses, we heard of kiss one time that lasted from S:15 D. m. to 12:30 a. m. The reason it didn't last longer was because the girls father made a noise like an old man coming down stairs.