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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
CHROMAT|C LAUGH
 IS BEING TAUGHT New Musical Fad In Old Lon-
 don TeWn FRESH AIR PREACHING Physicians in London Are Found to Keep Their Windows Closed.
 Financial Suit Costs
 $3ooo a Day.

London, April 1S.-To make Londoners speak musically and laugh "chromatical- ly" is a reform advocated by Dr. W. H. Cummings, principal of the Guild Hall School of Music. Dr. Cummings is dis tressed by the harsh and unmusical voices of city bred children of the lower classes, and contends that voice produc- tion should be taught in the public schools of London.
 The 'chromatic' laugh, a scientific, musical development of the present raul cous sound which the London child emits, will result from the systematic training of the vocal organs
 A quaint census of doctors windows in London has proved that the medical profession does not practice what it breaches. Every doctor nowadays in ssts that windows should be kept open to admit fresh air into the home. Some one has taken the trouble to test the doctors sincerity and has taken a cen sus of open and closed windows in the West End district, where the elite of the British medicos reside.
 Although the census was taken on a balmy, spring morning, when there was neither dust nor high wind, 1t was found u a very smal proportion of the win dows were open. Out of PHO doctors windows in Harley street, Wigmore street and Cavendish square, only 522 were open in accordance with the med- ical axiom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Though there are now before the House of Commons portentious questions of immense national importance, the thing which has most thrilled members concerns the kitchens which provide them with meals.
 A few days ago several members who happen to be doctors or medicine ana sc,entists tested the patent salt which s provided to the House of Commons. There have been many cases of appendi- citis in the House of late, and the learned members resolved that the salt provided to the House was, the cause Of the dis- ease.
 As result the patent salt has been han;shed from the House forever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

With the late Queen Victoria, Mrs. Annie Milne, of Nottingham, has shared the rare honor of a military funeral for a woman.
 Mrs. Milne was veteran of the Grim can war, having accompanied her hus- band, a on-commissioned officer in the Eighth Hussars, to the seat of war in 1854. She witnessed the eioody battle of Inlserman and tended the wounded at Ralaclava and in the trenches before Se- bastopol as one of Florence Nightin- gales corps of nurses.
 Mrs. Milne was the only woman mem- Der of the local Crimean and Indian Mu- tiny Veterans Association, fifty Of whose members attended her funeral.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
BAD ROADS IN ETOWAH
 MAY COST MAIL SERVICE
BY w. P. HoFFERBERT.

ceived this morning by Postmaster Steph- ems from Fourth Assistant Postmaster General P. " DeGraw.
 Judge J. w. Penn and several members Of the county board of commissioners re- turned last night from Birmingham, where they went to inspect the road ma chinery in use in Jefferson county. The proposition of providing proper machinery for road work has been under consider ation for some time and the board thought 1t advisable to get better idea of what was needed before making any purchase.
 The inspecting party was much inn pressed with the saving that is being effected through the use of modern equip ment, and it is more than probable that similar tools will be secured for carrying on the work here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

Apropos of the cost of Admiral Evans's world-trip, it is interesting to note the official figures respecting the expense of maintaining a British battleship at sea.
 According to a statement issued from the British Admiralty, first-class bat tleship in full commission costs John Bull exactly s1,157,500 year. This esti- mate has been arrived at after allowing for interest, depreciation of capital, pay of officers and crew, repairs and other necessary items, and assuming the life or battleshp to De twenty years.
 The yearly cost of torpedo-boat de- stroyer is sS7, 7,5Oo, and of a frst-class tor pedo boat $30,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

These are the days wherein the man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
SANTA FEES BRIDGE AT ALvA.
Salt Fork River Is Spawned by Per-
nnanent Structure.


Ava. Okla, Dec. 22--The Pioneer
states that the last girder in the ne"
bridge across Salt Fork has been low
cred into place and connected up
one of the very best bridges In Inc
southwest The work of putting down
ties preparatory to laying the track
has begun, and in a very snort time
the heavy steel on the new grade Will
be in and trains running.
The Santa Fe company IS to be con-
graduated on a great piece of work
in the construction of their new line,
which is almost on grade. You can
not imagine the vast amount of work
done. or the cost over it and figure
ON the large fill across the low-land
and the deep cut through hills and
highlands.
The work on the Salt Fork bridge
has been under Roadway for more
than a wear, steam holsters were used,
and the cement piers over which the
track passes are resting on the solid
ground which means that the COM
pany went many feet through sand
and water in the river bed to find
such a foundation this bridge is only
a sample of the excellent work all
along the entire line.
Three car loads of bricks are now
on the side track for the fine new
passenger depot which will be built
fronting seventh street, just northwest
of the present depot. which will be
used for freight purposes. The new
depot when completed will be, OF
course not the largest. but one of the
finest on their new line of road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22

she calls the simple life and as
serts that young women will keep on
going down to physical and moral
destruction SO long as wealthy women
publicly display their riches.
Inmates of prisons will be the spec
ial objects of her peculiar kind of
charity, though she by no means in
tends to overlook the poverty stricken
possesses $4,000 worth of jewelry,
and intends to dispose of it for arts
sake
She visited the young women in
Harrison street police station annex
yesterday and gave them a talk which
she hopes will help toward convert
ing them in the Bahai religion
which she herself embraced three
years ago.
''The methods of the modern
church are wrong" she said last
night. why should the poor give up
their hard earned nickels to the
preachers and priests? Why should
not these shift for themselves like
other strong men? They should not
be recognized as head or leaders.
There is only one head, and that is
the manifestation of God.
1.-THE proper thing for us to do is
to live upright lives. I am a. servant
to the threshold of the merciful one.
Don't glory in your country, but
glory in loving all humanity. There
is no division of creed or color, or
in the principles of uniting all man
hood into one great family under the
banner of one God.
81 love all women. Why shouldn't
1? We are all sisters. I was brought
up in luxury, was formerly maid of
honor to the empress of Austria, and
once believed that 1 could not get
along without my horses and car
riages and the rarest of wines, but
L have sacrificed it all. 1 am down
in the gutter trying to upltft un-
fortunate beings.
II was born in Hungary of royal
lineage, and was married to Count
Sander Bethlen, who owned vast es-
tates He died in 1892 and the fol-
lowing year I came to Chicago to visit
the Worlds Columbian exposition.
Inside of twelve months in America
L squandered $4,000, but today 1
value money only for the good it will
do. Who ever takes up my religion
is expected to do good according to
his capacity.
Should 1 go out and find any per-
sons suffering from illness or disease
! will nurse them, and if I find dirt
and filth about the house 1 will get
down on my knees and scrub it away.
So will I wash the sick or unclean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
WOMAN TRAMP ARRESTED.
She May Have Been Connected With
Murder in Philadelphia

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Dec. pa
young woman, nlasquerading as a man
and telling a strange story of adven-
lures, with which a murder commit
ted two years ago in Philadelphia may
be connected, has been arrested here
under the name of Earl Waters. The
girl does not know her own name I'M
less it is Pearl Waters. She says she
was born in Europe and that her
earliest recollections are of life in New
York. A woman with whom she lived
was abusive and four years ago the
girl donned a boys suit and left. At
Philadelphia she became the compan-
ion of a young man, though she did
not reveal her sex. She says she be-
ca me involved in quarrel after
which murder was committed They
came to Cedar Rapids two years ago,
since which time both have been en-
ployed as newsboys on trains. Her
companion probably will be taken into
custody and held pending investigation
of the Philadelphia murder story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
ADVICE TO PLAYRIGHrs.
Augustus Thomas Says Write a Play
ON Socialism.

New York, Dec. 22-Here is encour-
agement for young and aspiring play
wrights. Augustus Thomas in an ad-
dress last night before the American
Dramatic club of which he has been
president since the death of Bronson
Howard, had this to say of plays and
playwrights:
mo old playwright can tell young
one how to build a play. There are no
rules to the game and there is not
single accepted maxim that you
can't break and make money. The
greatest of them all misled more peo-
pie than anybody ever did when he said
that playwrighting was holding the
mirror up to nature. Shakespeare new
er did that in his life.''
AS to the future Mr.. Thomas said:
Great plays remain to be written
about the American Jew and about so
cialism. I men the American Jew with
his fine qualities as we know them. l
don't mean the duh kind of socialism
that we hear from platforms and in
speeches, but a sort of celestial social
ism that We sometimes read about"
Eugene Presby, William Gillette and
Victor Herbert were among the others
who spoke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22

RAILROAD NEWS.
Acquisition of C. e. 8. a Step in
Long Struggle.
Hill and Hartman Vying for
Control of West.
OUTLET TO THE GULF
Open Direct Line From the
Northwest.
other Items of Interest in Rail-
way Circles.

| Chicago, Dec. 22.-The Tribune, in
news article on the acquisition of the
Colorado & Southern by James J. Hill.
for the Burlington and the Northern
| Pacific, declares it is simply another
step in the long protracted contest be-
tween Hartman and Hill for suprem-
acy in the traffic control of the west.
Continuing the article says:
BY securing the 2,250 miles of the
Colorado & Southern system, Mr. Hill
lines controlled by him to nearly
twenty-four thousand miles but by Sc
curing the long desired outlet to the
gulf of Mexico and completing his
route from the far northwest to Gal
weston he has invaded his rivals terri
tory just as Hartman has persistently
strengthen his own position by push
ing out new lines into the northwest.
west
THE Colorado & Southern connects
with the Burlington at Cheyenne
Wyo and at Denver, Col, and in order
to secure a shorter and more direct
route from Denver to the northwest II
would only be necessary to build the
short connecting lines already surveyed
by the Burlington from Lyons to Chey-
enne. Wyo., and from Grin Junction to
nection with the Burlington's line to
Billings, Mont. where it joins the
Northern Pacific.
1T has been generally understood
that one of Mr.. Hills ambitions has
been to secure a new route from Seat
tie Portland and other cities of the
northwest to the Gulf of Mexico, and 1T
has been repeatedly rumored that ne
had been figuring on the Missouri
Kansas & Texas. which connects win
the burlington at Hannibal, Mo. The
Colorado & Southern, however, would
serve as a much more direct route TO
the northwest and would prove a logi-
cal outlet for the cotton of the soutn TO
the Great Northern's ocean lines from
Puget Sound as we'll from the north
west to the gulf ports.
The Tribune says it is expected tnat
further details will be arranged at the |
meeting of the Burlington directorate |
in New York today and at the COLORADO
& Southern board meeting on TUESDAY.
The purchase price is said to pc apout
eighteen million dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
CHICAGo's IDEA OF A JOKE.
Autos Rush to Hotel to Convince New
Yorker Business Is Brisk.

Chicago. Dec. PA practical joke
played upon a young woman guest at
the Auditorium Annex nearly caused a
riot of chauffeurs at the hotel.
The trouble began when the young
woman was told by the clerk over the
house telephone: ''Your car is ready"
She replied that she had ordered no
car. However, in quick succession.
five more calls were turned in Hotel
detectives finally explained to the
waiting chauffeurs that they were not
wanted.
The young woman explained that re-
Gently she expressed the opinion that
there was less automo billing in Chi
cago than in New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22

Curry, of New Mexico, asks statehood
for his territory in his annual report
to the secretary of the interior made
public today --ta
Governor Curry says New Mexico's
credit is excellent that no strikes mar
the record of its Industries; the laws
enacted by it's legislature are good;
gambling is prohibited and the Sun
day closing enforced. So he con-
cludes, New Mexico deserves state
hood. The governor states that the
population of the territory is over
100000, and that there is over $780,
100000 worth of property in New
Mexico, in addition to it's COAL timber
and fertile lands. He asks that the
Carey land act be extended to the ter
ritory and the bill now before con-
gress providing for a seventh judicial
district for New Mexico be enacted in
to law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
ONE CAUSE FOR DIVORCES.
Women Do Too Much "NIan
Catching Says Rabbi Krauskopf.

Philadelphia. Dec 22-"Mna catch
ing' by frivolous women was deplored
here greatly in a sermon by Rabbi
Joseph Krauskopf at Keneseth Israel
temple. This, he declared, was re-
sponsible for a good portion of Ameri-
can divorces. The rabbi said:
From the day the daughter enters
young womanhood the sole thought of
many homes is man catching. No arti-
fee is Stunned that shall enable the
gorgeously decked out huntress quick
est to entrap her victim.
There is probably no thought
which occupies a young society woman
more than that of being married;
there is probably no thought which
occupies her less than that of being
happy when married, or making
husband happy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22

ton & Quincy for violations of the
safety appliance law returned a YER
dict in favor of the railroad. In
spectors charged that the Burlington
hauled two cars from the Denver &
Rio Grande transfer tracks to the
yards of the Burlin gton at Nineteenth
street with defective coupIers. The
road put up the defense that the cars
were not in interstate commerce in
the movement from one yard to an
other and the jury took that view of
the case. The road claimed that the
inspectors ought to notify the rail-
roads when they find defective equip
ment
suits of a similar nature against the
Colorado & Southern will be taken up
Monday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
BAR STAGE DOOR JoHNNIEs.
New York Legislature May Take Ac-
ton Against This Nuisance.

New York. Dec. 22.-Suppression by
state legislation of the stage door
Johnny" SO familiar in this city will
be urged again in the New York legis-
lature this year by a, local assem- bly,
man, who is prepared to bring it up
before the state law makers for pass
age.
All male patrons of a theater. ac-
cording to the bill, must register if
they desire to communicate with an
actress In doing so they must give
their full name and address and state
whether married or single. False
registration is to be made punisha BILE
by fine or imprisonment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
FINE SURGICAL OPERATION.
Relieves ParaIyzed Man Unable to
Speak for IS Months.

Philadelphia, Dec. 22.-Unable to
speak for IS months. and his body al
most entirely paralyzed. Alexander
Goodner of Camden, n. J., sat up in
bed and spoke yesterday after a deli
cate operation had been performed in
local hospital by means of which
pressure on the brain was relieved.
Goodner was injured in a trolley car
accident and after first operation
seemed to show no Improvement.
Further examination. however, reveal
ed a peculiar fracture on the inside
of the base of the skull and treatment
of this was successful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
SALE Is RATIFIED.
Colorado & Southern Now a Part of
the Burlington.


New York, Dec. 22-Directors of
the Colorado & Southern Railway
company today ratified the safe sale
of the road to the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad company.
Edwin Hawley, principal stock
holder of the Colorado & Southern
stated that actual transfer of control
would take place today. President
TrumbuI of the Colorado & South
ern says the transaction would be adj
antageous for both roads. He de-
clared that he looked forward with
satisfaction to an early temporary re-
tirement from active business.
Mr.. Hawley said that the Bur-
lington purchased practically all
of the common stock of the
Colorado & Southern railroad
which he and his associates had held.
1t was understood that Mr.. Hawley
continues to hold Colorado & South
ern first and second preferred stock
and that President Trumbull retains
his interest in that property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
GIVES UP WEALTH.
Hungary Countess Decides to Devote
Her Life to Religious Work

Chicago, Dec. 22.-Countess AureIia
Bethlen, native of Hungary, has
given up her wealth and social
position to minister unto the needy
according to Bahai religious teachings
This foreign countess is one of the
first deciples of Bahai to come to
America.
The countess is 35 years old. and
speaks thirteen languages and says
she once possessed great wealth.
Proudly she opened a big cloak and
displayed the plainest of garments.
There wasn't a sign of jewelry or
other adornment. She follows what
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
a RARE ARCTIC BIRD.
Drops Dead in Golden Gate Park on
It's Flight South.

San Francisco. Dec 22.-As a result
of the cold snap of last week Golden
Gate Park museum has come into pos
session of a Townsend warbler. one of
the rarest of Arctic birds. The bird
was found yesterday lying dead in one
of the paths of the park by a gardener.
who took it to Curator w. G. Blunt of
the natural history section of the mus
cum. During the migratory season the
warbler is found between the Pacific
coast and the Rocy Mountains and no
where else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
SANTA FE Is FINED.
Convicted on Four Violations of
Safety Appliance Act.

Denver, Colo, Dec. 22.-The gov
eminent won its case against the
Santa Fe railroad in the federal court
and the corporation will be fined $500
for four violations of the safety
appliance act. The case was tried by
jury. The inspectors reported to
the Interstate Commerce commission
that the road hauled four cars out of
La Junta with defective couplers or
faulty grabirons on them.
The jury in the case of the gov
eminent against the Chicago, Burling-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22

children 1 am following the teach
ings of Jesus Christ strictly. No
promises are exacted from persons
helped They are free to accept or
reject as they see fit" Countess
Bethlen is the guest of Mrs. Leigh
Wilson Foster also follower of the
cult at 35O2 Lake avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22

Every night at 1885 a Pullman tour
list sleeping car leaves Topeka via the
Union Pacif1s R. R. which goes
through to Portland, Oregon, without
change. There is no better way to
reach all of the great Pacific north
west
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
NEW ROAD FOR LEBANON.
Rumored Extension of Union Pacific
StertS Talk.

Lebanon, Kan. Dec. 22-There are
plenty of railroad rumors floating
about over the proposed extension of
the Union Pacific stub from Beloit to
Kearney. Neb., which crosses the C.
r. 1. & P. railway at this point. That
this new line would be a great feeder
to the Union Pacific main trunk lines
almost across the continent, a feeder
from the richest alfalfa and corn belt
of Kansas, is admitted by all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-22
CURRY WANTS STATEHOOD.
New Mexican Governor Wants ''To BE
Treated Like Men,

Washington, Dec. GIVE have a
wide awake. progressive industrious
and Intelligent population and we
want to be treated like men,
In those words Governor George
The Forrest City times., 1908-04-24
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The Forrest City times., 1908-04-24
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The Forrest City times., 1908-04-24
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