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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
ADJUSTMENTS.
"Lost 24 Hours"

Beginning tomorrow night, the popu- lar Baldwin Melville company will pre- sent at the Bijou theatre for one week a sparkling comedy, entitled, Lost "A Hours" The title of the play refers to the hours which a bibulous citizen of New York lost while under the influence of liquor and the play details the ex- periences he had as a result of letting one day slip away without a reckoning. The play is a first-class comedy and is sure to meet with the approval of Bir- mngham theatre-goers. It was used for a long time as starring vehicle by Robert Hlllard and is the sort of work best adapted to divert a summer audi ence. MT Baldwin and his capable staff of assistants will spare no pains to make the production one to please the eye and suit the most discriminating critics. One of the prettest stage settings ever shown at the Bijou will probably be a Japanese smoking room shown in the first act.
 The plot of the play is extremely anus ing, and the lines and situations full of fun. In brief Richard Swift rather gay New Yorker, is happily married to d young woman who does not know that he has had something of a past. Previous to his marriage Swift had become en- tangled with a pawnbroker named Solo mon Goldstein and Goldstein's wife, who
 
 Both are swindlers. At the opening of the play Swift returns from a nights s carouse and falls asleep. He lies locked in slumber for A hours without break, and when he wakes up it is day later than he supposes. His wife. who is out of town, wires that she will be home tomorrow Swift thinks this means the day following his return to conscious ness, but 24 hours have already elapsed 4t-- fad1 a finds Bertha Dacre and Swift embracing. There is a scene, and to save himself Swift introduced Bertha as his sister. This is merely the beginning of Swift s troubles. In order to carry out the de- ception, Swifts brother, David, theolog- ical student, is dragged into the mesh. Later Mrs. Churchill, a devout Metho- dist of the old school and her unsophistl- cated daughter who is the fiancee or David Swift, appear on the scene. They, too, are hoodwinked for time, but the Swifts keep getting into deeper water. It doesn't take the supposed widow very long to scandalize Mrs. Churchill and estrange her daughter from young David Swift The Churchils leave the house. Bertha, the pawnbroker and Richard Swift pile up the complications in rapid fire order, and Mrs. Swift is not far be- hind. Some capital comedy scenes en- sue and the dialogue is exceptionally witty.
 Swift finally gets out of his entangie- ments by laying all the blame for his escapade on his chum, Adolphus Smiley. The latter helps him out of the scrape, Bertha lends her aid and matters are finally strengthened out satisfactorily with MT. and Mrs. Swift reconciled and David Swift reunited to his sweetheart
 The members of the Baldwin Melville company will have excellent material in this play to prove their versatility. Miss Wheatley MT O'Connor, MT. Julian, Miss Gleason, Mir. Forbes and others will have congenial roles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Preserving the Proprieties.
From Success Magazine.

Y fouCC1SS
 A traveller in the mountains of Tennes. see had been slowed away in the besi he'd the cottage afforded. Late in tho night he was awakened by the voice oi the paterfamilias adressed to the daugh. ter, who was entertaining company by the fireside.
 Mandy" growled the old man, lis thai young man there yit?"
 "Yep, pap"
 'Is he got his arm round yer waist?' ''Yep, pap.'
 ''You-all tell him to taE't away"
 LAW, ye tell him yerself, pap" replied the girl, in a dull, 1ifeless voice. "He all a plumb stranger to me-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Medical Work In Mission Fields.

Clifton Springs, N. Y., June 6.-Mod- ern medical work in foreign mission ary fields was the topic discussed at today's session of the International Missionary union, now in conference here. Several men of the union home on furloughs from the distant lands in which they have labored reported ad- vancement in the missionary medical field during the first quarter of cen tury of the life of the union. The Rev. Dr. c. M. Thacor of Turkey pre-
 sided at the general meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

land have just been brought out in a
 monograph which the Essex institute at Salem is about to publish on the
 "Derbys of Salem, by Robert E.. Pea body. This investigator, a young man in pursuance of a Harvard degree, has had access to an immensely valuable col lection of old papers and letters, and re- produces some of them.
 In all the New England adventuring in West and East Indies no family had a more important part than that played by the Salem Derbys whose fortunes began to be established when in 1739 young Richard Derby went out as mas ter of the "Skoner Ranger" to the French West India island of St. Mar tins where he sold his cargo for f217S As. 0d. This representative of the spirit of old time trading, like most of those who set sail in those days from the North Atlantic ports, went in violation Of the navigation act of 1895. But infractions of the law only added spice to the adventure. The hardy New Englanders gladly accept ed the chance of being overhauled either by an English man of war or by Cap tain Kid, Blackboard or another of the
 bloodthirsty pirates. Neither did they mind the necessity of being ready to ap- pear in any harbor flying the flag of all most any nationals when this same Cap tain Derby at a later date recommended to one of his ship masters that he go among the French by making your Ves- sel a Dutch bottom" Graft, too, evi- dently was rampant and must have been connfved at in spite of Purltanical mo- tionS, for the Salem trader added Also Secure a permit so as for you to trade there the next voyage which you may undoubtedly do by your factor and lit- tle greasing some others.
 These Derby papers, in brief. throw strong light upon the pioneering character which has made New Eng land people leaders in so many great industrial movements developing the maritime interests and retaining them while they were distinctly profitable, steam railroads until diminishing divi
 dends counselled reinvestment. and to- day the big electrical propositions such as are involved in the telephone, the trolley car and electric lighting and power facilities in every part of the world. The New Englanders got into the trade because they found it lucra- tive. What the profits must have been can be conjectured from the fact that | the insurance on a single voyage was often from 10 to 15 per cent of the | value Of the cargo and sometimes ran as high as 23 per cent. The risks were | large, but those who consistently fol | lowed the traffic laid the foundations of great fortunes. Elias Hasket Derby, ! son of Capt. Richard Derby, died in | l799 leaving a fortune of more than one million dollars, one of the largest | amassed in North America up to that | time.
 Not all of it. however, was gained iil strict trade. There came time during l xrb profitable to fit out privateers and let | ters of marque" to prey on British l traders than to pursue the ordinarv
 course of shipping down to Barbadoes
 or Jamaica carrying fish, lumber, cereals and rum. Even before the war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Constable Shot By a Negro.

Fort Worth, Tex, June 6.-Consta- ble Thomas Conger was oyerpowere1 and fatally shot by a negro prisoner named Nelson Gold today, near Waxa- hachie, 20 miles south of here. Two hundred men are in pursuit of the ne- gro. who escaped to the creek bottom. Sheriff Forbes heads one party, and a race is on between the posses to cap ture and lynch Gold before the sheriff gets him. Conger had arrested Gold and they were riding in carriage, when the negro suddenly sprang on the officer and took his gun away, shooting him four times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Nipped.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 .I've got a great chance" began Bor' enoughs, Ito make big money on certain investment if"
 Sorry, old man." interrupted Wise "but I've had to borrow myself this ,..onth ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Law Is Unconstitutional

Jefferson City, Mo, June 6.-The supreme court of Missouri today de- cided the state grain weighing law to be unconstitutional on the ground that if permits of multiplicity of suits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Grand Fireworks Display.

Grand FlreWOrkS D1SpIay.
 Alabama State Fair Grounds
 Pains Celebrated Fireworks Company will give two mag nificent displays of fireworks Tuesday, June 9, and Thurs day, June il, 8:30 p. m. Gen. eral admission, 25 cents. Re served. seats, 30 cents. Tickets on sale Florence Hotel Cigar Stand. All Confederate sol. diers admitted free of charge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
during the present week in dancing num-

during the present week in dancing num- bers.
 Aimee Travis has become great favor ite during her short sojourn in the city and she promises to be more entertaining than ever. As a funmaker no one has anything on Miss Travis. She has brought forth laughter on every appear ance and next week she will no doubt sustain her reputation. Loretta Marshall as a soubrette and a singer of tuneful songs could not be well improved upon She is pretty to look at, is graceful and is an entertainer of rare merit Some minstrel sketches will be sandwiched in the performances and this promises to be a most pleasing feature. The song num- bers are sure to please the lovers of catchy songs Married" as sung by Mss Travis and MT. Frank Allworth, has made one of the biggest hits of any song ever sung in this city. The Musical maidens will have plenty to do and there will be lots of fun and cool nights at the East Lake Casino during the present week. On this Sunday, afternoon and tonight concerts will be given by the Wayne company Reserved seat tickets arc on sale at the cigar stand in the Brown Marx building which entite the holder to free admission to the park.
 At East Lake.
 There will be three free acts at East Lake Sunday afternoon and night, and every afternoon and night this week. They are Mad Miller, the handcuff king; Brothers Glass, Roman statues, and Reese's Pulaski boat There are band concerts every afternoon and night Mon day is Elks' day and there will be a special fireworks display Monday night.
 Every night during the week, commence ing Monday night, the great battle of the Merrimac and Monitor, and the sink ing of the Congress will be the feature. This is the original production by Carl C. Philemon, and the greatest spectacle ever seen in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

Once the privilege Of preying on British commerce was authorized, out from Sa- lem sped the earliest of these armed craft, the Sturdy Beggar," to be followed in a few days by the Revenge" P guns, which almost immediately took a flair Jamacaman laden with 733 hogsheads of sugar besides other cargo" All told 15S armed vessels were fitted out from Salem during the Pevolution-an era in which rich profits were made by the adventur- ous and warlike seafarers.
 The career of these privateers of the Revolution and the readiness with which they turned to another trade after the var illustrates the alertness with which the New Englander has always sought cut new opportunities. In 17S1 when IL was supposed that the conflict might con- tinue for some time longer and when there was thought of other rich prizes to be made on the high seas, the most ia nous of all privateers, "The Grand Turk" was launched. She was built for speed and armed witk "A big guns, be- ing hardly less effective than the men of war of those days. On her first trip she took two prizes which netted her owner more than $65,000. Thereafter came the negotiations for peace, and stop vas put to privateering. But the DIE vessel had a subsequent commercial use fulness In 17S5 the Grand Turk was the second of the Salem fleet, very many of them ex-privateers, which rounded the Cape of Good Hope and opened up the enormously profitable traffic with the East Indies which lasted down to com- paratively recent times and which ere ated many of the New England fortunes that have subsequently, been re-invested in railroads telephones and other electri- cal properties.
 The important West Indian traffic was not interrupted by the development of the East India trade. It was especially active in the early years of the nine teenth century. There were seamy fea- lures about it which have often been described, and perhaps exaggerated triangular course was followed by many of the vessels which ran from the New England ports with cargoes for the West
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

You get the right fit in these wonderful, now ready to put on. suits for men. A truly $25 suit for $15. Get you one. Varley & Bauman Clothing Co.,, 1910 3d Avenue.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
County Judges Cannot Naturalize
Foreigners.

County Judges in tKentucky are
going merrily on naturalizing foreign
ers as citizens of the United States,
when, as matter of law, they have
no more power to do so than any pri
vate citizen. Judge Walter Evans en-
phasized this fact in the Federal Court
one day last week when the applica-
ton of j. A. Habech, of Paducah. for
naturalization papers was not!decided
because he had not himself signed the
application, his lawyer having at
tended to that essentially. Judge
George Du Relic. United States dis
trict Attorney, said that by the act of
1906, allspower to nataraiize foreigners
was removed from State Officers and
courts, and delegated to the Federal
Court. But Kentucky County Judges
seem not to have heard Of this law, as
they continue to naturalize foreigners.
As result, the foreigner has double
time and expense in getting his citizen
ship.
In McCracken county alone, IL is said
there is a whole colony of foreigners
who are exercising the right of citi-
zens on the strength of the County
Judges naturalization process. whereas
they are not citizens and will not be
until the Federal Court has passed
upon their applications.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
After County Officials.

Auditor Frank P. James has gone to
Harrodsburg, where he will gather
date regarding the action of the county
clerk, who, Mr.. James claims, has
not turned any money into the State
Treasury for ten years until the Aud
itor pressed him for settlement.
Auditor James also charges that
County Judge A. d. Ford, of Garrard
county, drew money for pauper idiot
support for eighteen months after
the idiot was dead. In proof of this
the Auditor says he has affidavits of
two reputable citizens. The matter
was referred to Attorney General
Breathitt, who said the Garrard county
grand jury will have to take cognizance
of the alleged offepse.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Presidential Election Dope on
Kentucky.

The vote in Presidential elections in
Kentucky since 1896 are as follows:
Election of 1896 Bryan, PIT, 800
Mckinley, 2lS, III, Palmer, STA.
Republican plurality, 281.
Election of 1900-Bryan, 235, 1O3
Mckinley, 227,l08. Democratic plu-
railty 1875.
Election of 19O4-Parker, 217,17O:
Roosevelt. 205, 277. Democratic plural
ity. 1888.
The election for Governor last year
resulted as follows:
Hager, 1876. z28; Wilson, 214.48l.
Republican plurality, 1903.
That Gov. ssWillson was elected by
Democratic votes is shown by the fact
that, although he Won by over.le, OOC,
heEdid not poll but 214, 48l votes, as
against 227. 108 votes cast for John w.
Yerkes in 1900, and Yerkes was defeat
ed by Democratic majority of 3,5l5.
For polling the highest Republican
vote Yerkes smashed all records and
is still the top notch of any Republican
who ever ran for Office in Kentucky.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06

AT THE GRAND.

The doors of the Grand opened last
night on two of the cleverest acts of
their kind yet seen at that theatre.
Tulsa, tine girl with the black
eyes," who is Miss Yetta Lee, the
daughter of Hugh Lee, an ex-Parisian.
Is doing a character change act. She
has the stage record for rapid charac-
ter changes. During the action of her
turn she makes four distinct changes
and the average time is five seconds
for each. She assumes different role
in each instance and her changes are
made with such remarkable speed that
the audiences usually gasp with amaze
ment. "Tulsa" has been on the stage
since little girl with her father and
mother, who are high up in theatricals.
Since leaving them she has used the
name above and no one knows her ex-
cept by her nondeplume. The Milmars,
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Woman's Suspicious Reticence.

Are women beginning to talk less
IN the hope of thus better pleasing
men? If so, while commencing the
motive, we would unhesitatingly CUES
tion the method. The mere music =
their voices as contrasted with iae
raucous male note easily counterDar
ances any possible disparity in liio
IDEAS expressed Upon all grounds We
cry out for loosening of the delca'0
tongues ROW so strangely and so su5
piclously stilled.-North American y
view.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
COl0red Family Massacred.

The family of Dave Walker, colored,
at Hickman, KY, was massacred by
night riders. Walker, it is alleged,
had cursed a white woman. Night
riders visited him and when he showed
fight they set fire to his home and as
they came ont shot them down. Wal
ker. his h-year-old daughter and baby
in his wife's arms wer4 killed outright.
His wife and three other children were
perhaps mortally wounded.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
To ImmortaIize a Fashion.

A skirt, fiounce. slipper, set in
beautiful sentence, lives more than
a mortal life. / long for the finery OF
our time to outdate its period, for it
to go down the centuries in Smiles.
exordiums and metaphors, and by its
very imagery to suggest to less splen-
did ages all the beauty and luxury OIL
ours.-Atlantic Monthly.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Tombstone of Apostle.

In restoring the parish church at
Fordington, Dorchester, England, there
was found slab of Purbeck marble
with a Roman inscription on it that
is supposed to be part of the tomb
stone of Aristobulus, the first record
ed apostle to Britain and said to have
been one of the 20 ordained by Christ.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Value of a Smile.

A pretty smile may make ones for.
tune. Few women realize the yalua
of a smile. Most smiles are useless
The smile that counts is one that
charms men, and that will secura
favors here and service there, and 20
twice as far as tip or command
This smile has radiance, is produced
by the eyes as well as by the lips, and
above all, is never mechanical
Strand Magazine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Smallest Mammal.

The smallest of all mammals are the
shrew-nocturnal. mouselike creatures,
that hunt for worms and insects in
woods and meadows. An eggshell
would make a commodious barn for
mother and her little ones.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Drains.

If cellars or drains under the house
are in bad order the heat of the
rooms above draws the impure air
upward. The air of the whole house
is thus affected by the foul air ascend
ing. This is one reason why disease
is often prevalent at the beginning o;
the cold season.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
King Georges Joke.

Lord Chancellor" said George III,
on one occasion, did 1 deliver the
speech well?" Very well, indeed, your
majesty" was the answer. 81 am glad
OF that" said the king, for there was
nothing in it."
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Gladly, Too.

The toys of one of the little Wander
bits are said to be insure for $25,OVu
And there are times, doubtless, when
the youngster would give them all lot
the privilege of sallying forth bare
footed to make mud pies in the gutter
Gazette-Times
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Tolerant Oriental.

Both the Chinese and the Japanese
nave shown throughout their history
great liberation in matters of religion.
Even the prosecutions of Christians in
the seventeenth century had its origin
purely in political reasons.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06

Whole hog or none" refers to MO
manned allowing his followers to eat
all except one portion of pig, but
failing to mention what the portion
was, so that if MOhammedan did not
leave pork strictly alone, he might as
well consume the W lie hog as Use
eating part of it.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
A Woman's Mind.

There is nothing under heaven that
the average woman dislikes so much
as having to make up her mind. She
knows it is not the sort Of thing that
she can be expected to do alone; it is
one Of those pieces of hard labor
which immemOrial custom DEGREES
that the nearest male thing has to DO
for her.-WOman.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Circumstantial Evidence.

Recent excavations at Pompeii have
uncovered the remains c a man with
both hands resting on his stomach
This would seem to indicate that the
early cucumber was not unknown to
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Has Residence Copyrighted.

f. N. Martin, prominent man OF
Spokane, has had the plans of his new
home, which is unique. copyrighted to
prevent limitations. The place is on
the order of Swiss bungalow. and, as
far as known, is the only copyrighted
home on the coast.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Eisherman Uses Ielenhop.

According to the Novoe vremva .,
g. Petersburg Norwegian fisherma,
has fitted up telephone apparatn,
on his boat which enables him to bea.
the fish approaching and even to max,
a guess at their number.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
ORGANIZE PoIiteness League.

81 promise always to be polite to
everybody, particularly strangers and
persons / know" is the pledge taken
by members of the Politeness league
which is being organized among New
York schoolgirls. The ''Quirk" in the
sentence is relied upon to fix it in the
memory.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Immense Deposit of Kerosene sb.,.

The deposit of kerosene shale, about
120 miles west of Sidney, Australia :,
said to be the largest in the world
There is a stream called the WolgaD
river, in the valley of which and al.
joining which most of these deposits
are found. They are estimated 70
cover Al square miles, depth of seam
from a few inches to six feet.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
HOOK and Ivin,.

1t is said the form of the fish-hook
has not been changed in 1000 years.
1t is suspected that the structure OF
the fish story is very ancient likewise.
Denver Republican.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Moderation.

The moderation of fortunate people
comes from the calm which good 1o
tune gives to their tempers.-Ls
RochefOucaCld.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Repentance.

There is one case of death-bed re-
pentance recorded-the penitent thief
that no one should despair; and
only one, that no one should pre-
sumo. st Augustine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Woman's Limitations

Any woman thinks she's capable .,
reforming a man, but when it conn.
to reforming herself she employs
dressmaker.-St. Louis Globe-Deno
Crat.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
A Definition.

The difference between a liar and
humcrist is that one distorts state
ment and the other states a disto'
ton.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
Wooden Underwear Best.

Nearly all medical men in the West
indies advise the wearing of chin wool
en- and not cotton underwear. Many
persons wear cholera BELTS" made Of
flannel
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-10-06
An Undiscovered A..

NO man has yet discovered the
means OF giving successfully friendly
advice to women.-Balzac.