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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
BURGLARS HAVE GOOD TIME.
Feast and Live Like Lords For Three
 Days In Mans House.

Special to the New York World.
 Danbury, Conn.-Following a three-day revel of the widest kind sin the sum- mer home of Charles r. Goepel of New York. which they took possession of with out consulting the owners wishes, Fred erick Brush, Frederick Cassidy, Edward Melvey, Edward Laudern, William Brady and Frank Moran were arraigned in po- lice court today. They were charged with entering the house, drinking their way through a choice stock of wines and liquors and occupying six of the nine beds during the carnival
 Goepers home is in the heart of the residential section and the fact that the sextet could occupy the house for three days before they were discovered has set everybody laughing with the exception of the police. Some of the neighbors who heard the shouts of rnerriment and the incessant tinlxling of glasses thought that the men had been engaged by the owner to get the house ready for the summer.
 William H. Parslow, caretaker for Goepel, went to the house today with a tciSphOHc iiich NhcH iiV oPShSo tfiO N.oSA and saw the muddy tracks along the hall- way and found the hall rack weighted down with an assortment of battered hats and tattered coats he concluded that robbers had been busy. He notified the police and half a dozen of the towns finest hurried to the house. They spent nearly an hour examining footprints, never dreaming that the men who made the impressions were wrapped In slumber on the upper deck.
 Did you hear that noise?" whispered Parslow to the bunch. They all listened and heard noise like the blowing of a fog horn.
 Tt sounds like somebody moving the piano on the floor above" said Parslow
 Then the searching party stole upstairs on tiptoe. As they ascended the noise gained in volume. There was no mistax- ing the cause: it was the combined nasal music of six husky men whose slumbcrs were not disturbed by the financial de- pression. When they were dragged out of the hay and lined up with their eyes still half closed .hey presented sight that made the police laugh. Each of the intruders had on one of Goepels night shirts, but two of the gang had forgotten to remove their shoes. An unbroken line of empty bottles and casks in the cellar showed where they had spent their walk ing hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
PAYING BY CHECK IN ENGLAND.
References Required To Open Bank
 Account In That Country.

From the Washington Post.
 ''I like the American custom of carrying money loose in the pocket" said D. H. Lieban, retired banker of London. "ln England gentlemen and business men carry very little money with them. Near ly everything is paid for by check, ex- cept. of course, money enough to pay the small incidental expenses of day
 If man goes into a store to buy a hat he does not pay money for it but gives a check. If he is dining at public place he very likely pays for his meal with a check. The system of credit in England is different from that in this country, and the mere fact that a man has an account in bank serves to give him standing.
 One cannot open an account with a bank in England merely by carrying money to the bank and depositing it. He must have two first-class references be- fore bank will accept his account, and when reference is given it means that the person giving it would indorse or stand for the person to whom it is given.
 "A reference in England means mora than mere phrase. Checks on banks in rhSidHu cdiinot De optdiIleu LOT JIG mere asking, and a man must have an account in order to get checks from any banks. They cannot be picked up on bank count- CTS or in public places.
 Private accounts in English banks are not accepted unless they are paid for, the general charge being G10 a year. Thei 6 are one or two banks in England which discriminate so carefully in the ar- counts they accept that when a person is fortunate enough to be permitted .o open an account with them he can get credit in any city in England or the con- tinent of Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
SPECTACLE AT THE OPERA.
Musical Italians Tested Caruso's Top
 Note With Tuning Fork.
From an Exchange.

From an Exchange.
 Those who were present at the last per- formance of I'll Trovatore at the Metro- politan opera house might have noticed Q peculiar spectacle.
 It was a group of Italians, of all ranks and stations in society lying in wait for Carusos top note. Many of them were armed with tuning folks. Among them were Christoforo Campanari, the son of the singer; his friend Amadea Vowin- kel of Venice, and Dr. Fannoni of Naples. They all had been present at an earlier performance of the same opera, and a discussion had arisen between them and some excited Italian art partons about the precise note that Caruso had sung. Words had waxed high, and some thing might have happened had not Chris toforo Campanari said, well brethren, next time Caruso sings Manrico I'll bring tuning fork and we'll settle it." T say he sing-a de high c, said Borromeo di Bomposini, and his partisans shouted as sent.
 'I say he sang a 5 fiat" said Dr. Fan noni. T prove it by the mathematical ueHlOnStFazlOne. 'NeVer nllDu, Sdlu Christoforo, next 'Trovatore' we bring tuning forks
 Accordingly the next performance the B fiatists came with tuning forks, and also the c naturalists came with tuning folks. well fix you" muttered one gang to the other. You'll seei'' The two parties stood glaring at each other, watt ing until Caruso sang "Di Quella Pira." Just as he struck the first note of the song, all drew their tuning forks and nodded defiantly at each other. When ne got to the high note they all struck the tuning fork simultaneously on their heels. The oI the tuning fork rang clear and vibrant in their eager cars
 Caruso's not did not agree with 1t. He had sung 6 flat.
 The faces of Vowinkel and Fannoni lit up with triumphant joy.
 Borromeo di Bomposni paled with anger and threw his fork angrily at Fer irari's head. "The Metropolitan opera one bgga cheatt' he cried. "The fork-a de tune, it prove it. Abasso Carus'. I want my money back,''
 And he rushed out to the box office
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
@ HERE is a great deal Of curious lV information in the diary of John
 Quincy Adams. Here is an odd

@ 'n%4 s 'Hs1' s the ssa diary of Iass
 Quincy Adams. Here is an odd bit:
 On the 9th of October, 1ss7 H. A. Wise of the House of Representatives, present. ed petition from S7 ladies and sentle- men of Halifax county, Virginia, praying Congress to furnish husbands, at the pub lie expense, to all female petitioners upon subjects relating to slavery, thereby giving a direction to their minds calcu- lated to make them good matrons, and averting the evils with which the fanaticism of the eastern states threatens the people of the south" The petition was received and laid on the table. On the 9th of October John Quincy Adams moved that the petition be pripted, which was ordered by the House.
 You must do your own commenting upon this, for the subject is beyond this scribe's s capacity as commentator.
 On what authority did that United States senator speak when he said that nine-tenths of all the federal taxes paid by the south are on whisky and tobacco? ? Most southerners have been under the impression that duties on imports were in come taxes paid to support the federal government. This is evidently the view which was held and vigorously fncui- cated by Alexander Hamilton in the "Federalist," and in other papers from his powerful pen. James Madison was of the same opinion, and he had been justly called ''the father of the constitu, tion'
 The supreme court of the United States has been generally regarded as our great fountain or reservoir of legal wisdom and learning; but 1t Is not comforting to find in one of it's decisions such language as this: Tt Is incorrect to speak of a standard of value. Value is an ideal thing. What we call a dollar is in no sense the standard of a dollar, but only the representation of it." And again: 'The obligation of contract to pay money Is to pay what the law shall recognize as money when the payment is to be made."-1S70, 12 Wallace page 553 Most people of sane minds think that value" is very real thing; but even supposing it to be ideal" is there no such thing as a standard" of the ideal? Poetry is ideal; and if there be no such thing as a standard of poetry, then Aristotles Rhetoric" and "Poetics." Horace's "Ars Poetica," Pope's Essay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
BILL LAUGHED.

By W. E. Evans. There once was a woman named
 Taughed,
 Who bunked with us fellows abaughed,
 He swore like a sailor,
 And joked like whaler Till each son O gun of us laughed, And wriggled and roared as if daughed. This same jolly sailor Bill Taughed, Rig up for to captain the craughed,
 But the crew cried, "Oh, Such joke cannot go, Too much of. our grog have you quaghed Down here with us sailormen aughed:' We set him adrift on a raughed, And far by the winds was he waughed; And it still puzzles me.
 As I look at the sea, What came of the sailorman Taughed, The jolly big fellow Bill Taughed.
 Birmingham, March 1908
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
United States Senator Daniel.

"A democratic national convention would look strange indeed without United States Senator John w. Daniel of Virginia as one of the delegates" said M. T. Dawson of Alexandria, but a concerted effort Is being made on the part of the Bryan democracy to prevent his attendance at Denver in representative capacity
 Tn Virginia the rule has been to send the two United States senators as delegates-at- large. But Daniel, who was a staunch partisan of Bryan in 1896 and again in 1900, is an anti Bryan democrat now and MT. Bryan's friends in Virginia naturally take the position that only men loyal to the leader who Is slated for the presiden- tial nomination should be elected dele gates. The distinguished senator was, in his younger days, a greenbacker, and in 1896 he was al ardent a 16to-l democrat as Bryan himself. I do not know what estranged ,him from the Nebraskan, but he has been giving out interviews during the past six months that have a decidedly eastern flavor.
 "Danniel has always been absolutely honest in giving expression to his convictions, and his oldtime party friends and supporters are still at tached to him, but entertaining the views he now does he should not ex- pect to be sent to Denver.
 By the way, the unwritten law in Virginia has been not only to elect both senators as delegates at large, but also to elect the state chairman a egate-at-large, thus leaving only one of the at-large' honors for a lay man, so to speak. In Alabama a rule seems to obtain not to send the United States senators to national conven- tions. on the ground that as they have already been highly honored, the con vention plums should be left for oth- CTS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
"HAPPIEsT MAN ON EARTH.D

Geneva Correspondence of London Ex-
 press.
 Johann Schmid, who lives in cot tage in the village of Suhr, in the canton of Argovie, has had painted across the front of his dwelling Ill large letters the sentence:
 Here lives the happiest man on earth" Schmid. who is 55 years of age, said to an interviewer: q defy you to find a happier man than my self. I have never worked, never married, never been i'll, and have never been anxious for the future. I eat well. drink and sleep well. What more would you have?"
 When in his teens Schmid was left by his father an income of about fl ($5) a week and a small piece of land, and has occupied 1t ever since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Social Features of Reunion.

If the plans outlined by Camp Clay ton, Sons of Confederate Veterans. can be carried out, the social side of the re- union in June will eclipse anything of a similar kind heretofore held in Birming- ham, said a member of the camp.
 '''Fhe sponsors ball will be a splendid affair Invitations will be sent out in advance not only in Alabama, but throughout the south and to northern cities as we'll Already the sponsors are being named. It is estimated that the sponsors and maids from outside the city will number 120: to these must be added some 20 that will likely be selected in Greater Birmingham.
 ''The second nights entertainment, which is in charge of Capt. Frank P O Brien will consist of concerts with grand choruses at both the Hippodrome ond the Bijou theatre. It is planned to make this feature brilliant social af- fair.
 Camp Clayton will have especial charge of the social features for the visiting sponsors and Sons of Veterans. and the executive committee of the reunion seem gratifed at the interest taken in this very important feature"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
Business situation Improvlno.

Henry Clews, tn his Wall street letter of Saturdays date, says:
 While the technical situation of the market appears to favor the taking of profits and the exercise of caution in buy ing, the general situation appears to be growing better rather thans worse Re- ports from the west as to business are generally of a more encouraging nature. The depression there has been nothing like so severe as in the east and the tendency to recover is more marked in the industrial eenters of the west than in New York, which has all along been the cyclonic center.
 "The monetary situation shows further improvement; and in consequence finan- cial disasters resulting from the panic, though unpleasantly large, are proving less serious than at one time feared. Money rates are now reasonably low and good borrowers have little difficulty in finding necessary accommodation, d. though banks are pursuing a conserva- tive course and rigidy turning down speculative or promoting schemes that would have been taken up with avidity a year ago. The present attitude of con- servatism on the part of the banks will unquestionably in time lay the founda- ton for a fresh start on safer and sounder basis than has existed for some years. A favorable feature was the re- ducton in the Bank of England rate to 3 per cent, the lowest rate since 1905. High rates for money continue In Ger many. where a reaction of more or less severitv is now heinz encountered as a result of overriding somewhat similar to what is experienced in the United States. Generally speaking, however, the money markets of the world are now in satis- factory condition as result of the check to inflationary methods which be- gan in our panic of October last.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Pres

From the NeW ' OTK PTeSS
 rich widow never has to give any references as to what good wife sh c was.
 woman will always believe you aren't fiattering her, specially if sh 9 knows you are.
 If only millionairss could afford to ride in street cars everybody would prefer them to automobiles.
 Even if 1t was against the law to kiss girl it would be criminal negli- gence not to when you get the chance.
 When a man never did any of the things when he was young that boys of today do. either he was a fool thea or he is a liar now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
TURNED ASIDE.
From Harper's Weekly.

From HarperS weekly.
 Opposite the Union depot, on Canal street. in Chicago, there is line of cheap saloons devoted exclusively to the patronage of more or less undesirable citizens.
 The other day, two Swedish laborers, looking for work, came to Chicago and landed-stranded-at the Union depot
 As they started out the main entrance one of them looked across the street; a huge red sign caught his eye:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
WANTED: 1000 Men to Unload Schooners.

Grabbing his friend by the arm he dragged him across the street toward the enterprising saloon which bore the sign.
 'I tank we linda plenta work to do right hair. Oley,' he grinned pushing his friend toward the door,
 "One moment. Svensky," said the other. who had lived longer in America and spoke almost perfect English, that is only sign to attract persons to the bar. The schooners mentioned are beer glasses, not ships. Let us stay out and save our energies for real ships.'
 And so the oldest joke in the world failed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
THOUGHT HE WAS IN THE SOUP

funny thing happened at a Cheyenne picture show recently, according to the Tribune. A picture in which waiter and a tureen of soup figured was on. The waiter seemingly walking out spilled the soup. A local man well up in the front row jumped to his feet hastily, brushed himself and then Imply sat down. So realistic was the picture and so real tho splash he felt the soup was on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The Duke d'Abruzzi may rake in some of Steve Elkins' sheckels. but he need not expect to get his seat in the Senate as a representative of the esteemed trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The supreme court in Missouri has decided that it is legal to loaf on the streets, but 1t said nothing about loaf ing on ones job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

March is lightning change month. going from one extreme to another, giving us one day Medicine Hat weather and the next day winds fresh from the equator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
Tomllnson Returns From Trip.

John w. Tomlinson returned to Bir- mingham yesterday. and will remain here for a few days this week. He has established a number of Bryan campaign clubs recently. and declares the Bryan spirit is as rampant in Ala bama as ever.
 q do not consider this Johnson boom as amounting to anything" he said. "The fact is, I believe it will bring new life to the Bryan movement, arousing new zeal among the Common CTS followers and make his nomina- tion, if possible, even more sure than it was before.
 q find the Bryan forces all over the state are confident that he will be the nominee at Denver. The dele gation from Alabama will surely be unanimous in his favor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Abe Hummel goes to Europe in a new suit of clothes in order to come back to society and a law practice in good standing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
A Iarae Chorus.

"The chorus that MT. Memoli will organize and train for the May festi- val will be kept together for the re- union,". said singer. 'It will be strong chorus and there will be this advantage in finding good material, as compared with former festival occa- sions, namely neighborin towns and cities will supply many excellent voices. In Ensley, Wylam, Pratt City and Bessemer first rate singers are % be found and number from each place will gladly help to swell the volume of tone.
 For other festivals the chorus was made up entirely of Birmingham voices and it was difficult to form a band of singers exceeding 150 Memoli will have an adult chorus of fully 200"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The Duke of the -Abruzzi turned to the mountains of West Virginia when he wanted a wife, but before he mar ries he should swear off from that North Pole and mountain climbing habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
DIscoNcERTINo.
From Judge.

From Judge.
 It is disconcerting, when you have paid out $500 for violin and $40 for a bow, to find that you can't make squeak on the blamed thing without 10-cent piece of rosin!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Diamonds have been marked down 40 per cent and they may go lower No one cares how low they go. Eggs is different.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

James Oliver, the blow manufac- turer, gathered from the farmers an estate amounting to $63,0O0,OO0 but he took none of it with him when he died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

On February IA Arthur Gang of Fort Collins received comic valentine which aroused his ire. The other day he met the sender and handed him a licking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Chiago will not let Emma Goldman express her views to crowd, but it is not stated how many constitute a crowd in that city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Des ,Moines, Ia., has theatre ex- clusively for women, especially for young girls. But what becomes of the villain in such theatre?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Occasionally" says the Breckenridge Bulletin, you will find a man who Is so fond of joining lodges that he is mem- Der of everything in the world except his own family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Senator LaFollette fairly riddled the hide of the Aldrich bill. It is not much better than junk now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

A stretch of government experiment road Is the kind of object lesson Jef. ferson county needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Senator LaFollette told the mag mates what they did last October and why they did it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The only true progressivist in the republican party is Robert M. LaFol- lette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The public printer holds the most trying position in the government serv- ice. He is generally in hot water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Predatory wealth had a bad morn- ing when it got up to read Senator LaFsollette's speech.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Roosevelt continues to appropriate Bryans democratic ideas. It is pity the Nebraskan didn't try the copyright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The Jesse R. Grant presidential boom is doing about as well as the other democratic booms outside of MT. Bryan's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The battleship fleet is booming the coal trade. It burns so tons of coal every time it goes a mile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The President need not send mes- sages to the Senate while Senator La Follette's voice remains good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
Rishon Reckwith.

The Right Rev. c. M. Beckwith
 Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ala bama, spent last night in Birmingham He paid an official visitation to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

John Atmore of Kremmling feeds his hens on coyote meat whenever he kills one of the little animals, and he says they lay fine, hairless eggs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The cruise of the battleship fleet is considered an argument for peace in the Far East as we'll as in the Far West.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

China may conclude to send mission. aries to Ann Arbor and Kentucky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The Leader says a bunch of Holly sports visited Coolidge recently and growing reckless. bought a quarter s worth of cigars and nickel's worth of chewing gum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

Saccharine Gazette "Ten cents invest ed in shoe blacking, observes w. c. Pal mer, ''sometimes does more for a young mans appearance than a whole dollar invested in diamond scarfpin.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The police of Chicago are acting now as Emma Goldman's press agents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
About Persons

Charles C. Hall of Collinsville is at the New Morris.
 J. P. Doherty of Selma is at the New Morris.
 U. A. Lapsley of Anniston is at tho New Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23
COLORADO NOTES.

From the Denver Post
 Fountain Is no longer in the dark as to how to become city. It put in some street lights last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

church in Bloeteh h 'yesterday. preaching there and administering the rite e confirmation. He will proceed to his home in Anniston today and will go to Sumter county Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23

The Wray Gazette says the nice wealth CT is making the hens sing. Singing their lays 1t propably means.