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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
Cleanliness In Cars.

There has been a wonderful improve
ment in the past three or four years in
the general pubic's attitude In regard to
the use of street cars in this CITY," said
a suburbanite.
81 have had occasion to ride street cars
off and on for the last Ave years, almost
daily, and, whereas year or so back II
was common thing for me to get into
a seat where some former occupant had
belittered the floor with fruit pealngs
and other refuse matter, and often pud-
dies of tobacco spit. such is rarely seen
on the cars at the present time The
public is gradually becoming educated
through the efforts of the press, medical
socties and restraining influence of prop
er laws to the necessity for cleanliness
of cars for its own intimate benefit in
the partial elimination of the dissemina-
ton Of disease germs"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
AT THE COMEDY.

From 1.-The Woman in the RAIN" by Ar
thur Stringer:
Last night, in snowy gown and glove,
I saw you watch i.e play
Where each MIX herc won his irvc
In the old, lunlifellke way.
("And. oh! were life their little scene
Where love so smoothly ran,
How different. Dear, this world had been
Since this old world began!)
For YOU. who saw them gaily win
Both hand and heart away
Knew we'll where dwelt the mockery r
That foolish little play.
(..If love were all-if love were ALL"
The voice sobbed and cried,
'"Then love were best whate'er befall!
Low, low the flutes replied)
And YOU last night did you forget,
So far from me. SO near
For watching there your eyes were wet
with Just Il Idle tear!
fAnd down the great dark curtain fell
Upon their foolish play;
But YOU and I knew-Oh! too well!-
Life went another wny.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
NIGHT IN GAY NEW YORK

East side comes up there, a-pleasuring,
on its way to the polyglot theaters Of
melodrama and burlesque; and in among
the orderly crowd rove the denizens of
petty crime, the pickpockets and the pam
derers That is the secret of it, The
Bowery has become petty. Time was
when murder was a bagatelle, and when
Eat em-up' Jack MacManus held a red
and ominous name; but now the evil
ranges only from burglary to stuffing a
ballot box. Overhead rumbles the old l.
road; on the streets the trolley cars
clang; automobiles whiz by on their way
to Coney Island, or, If they are the
sightseeing kind, they turn off into
Chinatown; and amid the noise and glare
the strident voices IF the spielers stab
into the dense shuttle q humanity on
the narrow sidewalks the close pa.r Of
lnotely flesh-flotsam made up of rebbis
and drunken sailors, hucksters and
young thugs, thin children and fat iner-
chants, sightseers, broken girls with
heartless pasts.
ooh, you must see Chinatown by
night says The Girl From Out There.
I'VE took Seeing Chinatown auto and
got a private detective to show us
through there for two dollars and he
showed us opium joints and highbinders
and all sorts of things, He had to give
mysterious knocks-signals, you know
on cellar doors before we could get in.
1t was wonderful"
But the bartender in the Chatham
1,on tolI he
private detective is a bluff" even
though he acknowledges at the same
time that it is the only way for the out
of-town visitor to see the sights. China
town is buried in the Bowery. 1t consists
of two crooked little streets running
crookedly into another crooked street.
There is very little that is mysterious
about the quarter, which has become de-
cidedly commercialized as a result of the
fad for chop-suey parties in its restau-
rants Bazars sell trinkets to souvenir
gatherers where once "Nigger Mike and
the scum of the Bowery riddled the
hop" joints with bullets, and Mock
Ducks cohorts menaced the police AL
most all the terror has faded from Mott
and Pell and Doyers streets; the most
terrible thing there tonight Is the noso
that comes out of the Chinese theater.
This noise, which sounds like hardware
store carried away by a flod. suffices
to drown out some very bad acting,
wretched singing ard worse dancing; and
it can all be endured for 35 cents
The street picture, however, is 'ntorcst-
ing enough after the electric lights are
turned on in front of the restaurants.
Cinnamon in their native garb shuttle ST
lently along he narrow sidewalks or
loaf in front OF their frowsy tenements.
Occasionally one goes by clad n Fn-
ropean clothing, his queue dashed tight
to his head beneath his derby hat. Chi
nese women are seldom seen on the street
but the little children are very popular
with visitors, who drop them many a
small coin quite after the manner Ct
tourists in foreign and.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
ACTRESS PLAYS AWAY GRIEF.
STILES Sorrow on Stage While Husband
Lies Dead at Home.

! From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
While David Henderson was dying,
his wife, known to the stage as Miss
frankie Raymonde, played her part as
Arabella Clingstone, IAN Incorporated
angel in 1.-The Lady From Lanes" at
Bush Temple.
1t was one of the exigencies of the
theatre. There was no understudy to
take her place
She had kissed her dying husband
goodbye before going to the theatre.
She did not think then it would be tn cir
| last goodbye AS soon as the curtain
had fallen upon the play she entered
an automobile and was hurried at law
breaking speed back to her home. She
was too late by five minutes. Death
had just rung down the curtain on her
husbands career.
Mrs. Henderson again appeared in the
| cast at the matinee yesterday after
noon. She reported voluntarily to the
manager of the playhouse. She was told
she need not go on, as another men,
Der of the company had been coach ed
in her lines.
NO." said Mrs. Henderson, IT will
play. 1t Will take my mind from my
grief. Then you-you need me-"
So, with eyes red from weeping, the
actress repaired to her dressing room
and made up as the grotesque old maid
which she plays in the piece.
Upon her first appearance she was
addressed variously as Miss Freestone,
Miss Curbstone, and Miss Sandstone.
, Each mistake caused her apparently
the greatest possible amusement. At
the climax of the farcical passage she
| was called Miss Tombstone" The
name was suggestive. 1t struck close
to the tragedy which weighe ed upon her
heart. But not a sign did the brave
| little woman show that 1t touch ed her.
| She gave her head a saucy toss and
| burst into a merry peal of laughter.
my name, SIR" she gurgled, sis not
| Tombstone, but Clingstone, even If
am not a peach"
The audience did not realize the
crisis, but the members of.the company,
| who knew that under her laughter her
heart was breaking, feared she might
collapse. For a moment she staggered.
Then her courage came to her rescua
and she walked off into the wings.
laughing with mock gayety, while thu
audience applauded to the echo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
Deserving Case of Charity.

"a case for deserving charity has been
found in one of the rolling mill houses
on the corner of Tenth street and First
avenue" said a kind-hearted citizen yes
terday.
Leaving a wife and seven children.
John Kent, died Sunday after an Illness
of six weeks
HE had been running a small jewelry
shop with little success during the hard
times when his sickness came on. At
the time of his death there was no food
in the house, and the children were al
most at the point of starvation.
1.-The neighbors collected $50, and helped
to bury the body in the Union cemetery
The family remaining consists of children
from the ages of 2 to IA years. Investiga-
ton has shown that any assistance given
them will not be misplaced"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
AT pAILEVs BIER.
"Dinah" and other Negro Songs
Turned Into Dirges.

From the New York Sun.
Pete Daley. who used to make folks
glad, was buried in Greenwood ceme-
terry Wednesday morning. Crowded in
front of the club house of the Block
lyn lodge of Elks, on Schermerh orn
street, where the funeral services were
h cid, and in the rooms and on the stair
ways of the building were actors and
managers, playwrights, politicians,
show girls, Broadway business men,
delegations from the Lambs, the White
Rats, the Elks. the Vaudeville Comedy
club, senators and justices of the SUI
preme court, horsemen and well known
men and women from all the heteroge-
neous classes that go to make Broad
way.
Orchids and roses, lilies, violets and
jonquils rose in massed banks from
two sides of the coffin, which rested
in front of the dais at one end of the
hall. Between the bier and the lower
edge of the sloping banks of flowers
was a lane just wide enough for
friends of the dead comedian to pass
in line.
The Baroness d'Altomonte had sung
Gounods Ave Maria" In the course
of the funeral service and the orches-
ira, most of the members of which had
been in the old Weber & Fields or
ganization. had played Chopin's solemn
"Barche Funebre," but to Pete Daley
friends the most beautiful music of ali
was when the orch estra, as the body
was being carried out, began to play
the songs that made him famous
rather the songs that he made famous.
They were played just bit slower
than Pete Daley used to sing them and
throughout their rendition a deep
toned. gong tolled a steady knell.
Underneath yo' window, Susie All am
waitin',
Down the vine climb nah Sue.
All won't look, All sweah to yo
They played "Dinah" and when
Chloe Sings" and all the Stromberg
songs that Pete used to sing in the old
Weber & Fields days. The songs made
one forget the banks of flowers and
the hall that had been darkened In the
middle of the Elks' ritual, and one re-
membered instead the Pete Daley
dancing his funny side steps back OF
a haze of tobacco smoke in the old
music hall and the tiny stage behind
him crowded with rows of little dane
ing girls swinging about madly in cir
boys clothes of red with big black
polka dots scattering over them and
the wide straw hats bobbing merrily
and big John Stromberg. swishing his
baton above all the blare and bang and
crash. Petes friends cried when the
songs were played, and perhaps they
cried a bit for John Stromberg, who is
dead now, too, and who next to Pete
Daley was most loved by Broadway.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
JOKE ON BERRY WALL.

They tell one on Berry Wall, once
known to notoriety as the king of the
dudes. He's an ex-king now, but he
still affects minstrel pattern clothes. He
attended a vaudeville performance. at
which one Give was on the bill for a
thought transference stunt Wall, dressed
to the mines, his bald spot glowing like a
harvest moon, sat in the end seat of one
row. Give walked down the aisle.
What have I here2" he asked his
young woman assistant blndfolded on
the stage.
IAN apple" or "a watch" or "a two
dollar bill" would be her reply
The audience gasped at thes invariable
accuracy of her replies. Give strolled
on down the aisle. Coming to Wall, he
placed his hand tenderly on that gentle
mans bald head. And what Is this on
which place my hand?" he queried.
IAN onion" said the young woman
Mr. Wall, suffering Indignation, left
the theater Give had to take a double
recall on the strength of his success.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

all cur methods, for the delays of the
courts are almost as reprehensible as
the acts of ring that may have tam
pered with the popular will. If, how
ever it demonstrates the need in New
York as we'll as elsewhere of more
stringent election laws some good will
be the outcome of the disreputable
squabDle between politicians.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
Substantial Business improvement

Yesterday marked a new record IN
the recent improvement in business.
Those who a few weeks ago were pes
simists are now optimists. for there IS
general improvement in industrial
and commercial conditions throughout
the country.
In the Birmingham district the con-
tinued activity of the iron market IS
having a direct effect on the industrial
situation. More furnaces are being put
in blast. and coke hands and mine
workers are in daily increasing de-
mand. Within the past five or six
weeks the iron tonnage sold in Ala
lama equals one-third of an entire
years production. This fact alone is
significant and cheering; and when it
is known that the Tennessee company
is making preparations for large op-
erations at its steel plant this month
the prospects for busy and profitable
summer are bright indeed.
Good times returned suddenly, art1
the best of it is this improvement has
staying qualities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
Secretary Taft'S Successor

Assuming that Secretary of War
Taft will inAabout two weeks be NOM
mated at Chicago, it is plain the Presi-
dent will then at once need another
Secretary of War. The department Is
in good running order, but as 1t super
yises not only our colonies and depend
encies but also the construction OF the
Panama canal an excellent executive
officer is needed
Gen. Luke Wright of Memphis,
Taft democrat, is mentioned for the
succession. He has been mentioned
freely, and no contradiction has come
from either Memphis or Washington.
It is therefore probable that General
Wright will be appointed.
President Hayes made David M.
Key of Chattanooga Postmaster Cen
eral in order to break the solid south.
The experiment was not successful.
And surely the President does not en-
terrain similar delusion now. III
General Wright is appointed it will
be due to his personal fitness for the
office. and to the Presidents inclina-
ton to ignore precedent by doing sur
prising things Unexpectedly. In this
case, however, Dame Rumor has out
run the presidential will, and the pub
lie will be surprised if General Wright
is not appointed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
Carbon Hill.

1.-THE mining industry at Carbon Hill
is in good shape said Charles Chapel,
instructor of the cornet band at that
place. "All the mines are being oper-
nted except one, which is simply out
fer repairs.
I'VE have a fine band at Carbon Hill.
1t is composed of 20 young men and
during the past four months we have
had daily rehoarsals. And as practice
makes perfect the band is sure to give
good account of itself wherever it's
services are engaged. The band is hand
somely uniformed. 1t will probably he
heard in the reunion parade, and if SO
will make a HIT
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
The night is long that never finds a
day.-Macbeth.
Weakly Wealth. Forecasts

The weather bureau is now issuing
weekly as well as daily forecasts.
These are based on telegraphic reports
gathered from stations throughout the
northern hemisphere and there seems
to be no reason why weekly forecasts
should not be as trustworthy as those
issued from day to day.
Our storms or our fair weather as q
rule come from the western side of the
country, and each wave consumes
about a week in traversing our 5000
miles of territorial breadth. When the
weather bureau knows that a wave has
started eastward it can predict with
reasonable degree of certainty its
course to the Atlantic ocean. This is
why weekly forecasts are possible.
When reports are received from sta
lions on the Pacific possibly monthly
forecasts will become feasible. The
weather bureau expects to issue month
~ forecasts in the course of its deyel-
opment.
The forecast for the present week
calls for average temperatures, with
rains on Wednesday or Thursday. In
order to test the weekly forecasts let
US watch the course of the weather
this week. No unreasonably high tenn
perat,lres during this week are pre-
dicted by the weather bureau.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
REGIMENTAL ENTHUSIASM.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
An English general was inspecting a
regiment, the colonel of which was a
very bad horseman, this fact being well
known to the men. The battalion was
formed in quarter column, and as the C.
o. gave the command, Advance in col
umn!" the band struck up the regimental
march past, with the result that his horse
plunged violently and he was very near
ly unseated.
AS the leading company was nearing
the saluting base the captain glanced
round to see If his men were marching
we'll. and was Mortified to see the whole
of the front rank punched up in the mid
die and every man watching the c. O.'s
efforts to retain his seat.
Ease off, there!' he shouted, angrily.
mo, e amt" said fecruit, but .
jolly soon will be"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
Great Entertainers.

Polk Miller and Tom Booker, VINO
will give an entertainment in Birming-
ham during the reunion are inimltable
IN their portrayal of the old-tme dar-
key" said the Rev. DR.. Stage
"They are old Virginia friends of NINE
Both sing and play the banjo and tell
original stories; and in a joint pro-
gramme l can imagine no entertainers
anything like so attractive. Miller and
pooher are sure to draw a full house.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
Testing ArmOr Plates

For obvious reasons the tests of gun
merry at Magdalena Bay and of turret
armor plate in Hampton Roads have
not been and will not be published, and
vet in a general way the results at
both places are known in all navies
and in all countries. The Japanese
seem to be the only people who can
keen tests secret. We cannot, neither
can England, France or Germany.
It is we'll settled that the armor OF
the Florida did resist Pinch shell
hurled but 300 yards away. The tur-
ret of the old monitor was not pene-
trated. and it's mechanism remained
substantially unimpaired. The turret
could still be turned, and its guns could
still be be sighted. The turret was not
penetrated. and the dummy figures in
side were no doubt serene and smiling.
The poor old Florida is to be done
for by torpedoes. She cannot be shot
10 pieces, so she Is to be blown to
pieces on a sandbar. She really is en-
titled to a better ending after long
and faithful service in teaching the
world the value of armor plates. She
is entitled to deep sea burial at the
very least. She should not be left the
sport of the tides on disreputable
sandbar.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

For the New York Press.
Self-control - oeinG; allie to cuss he
fore the children without letting them
hear It,
mother is always afraid that her
childs mind is so active 1t will stunt its
body.
The reason more men don't sleep dur
ing the sermon is the pews are so I'M
comfortable.
A girl always has an idea that II she
knew any dukes most of them would
want to marry her. e
The worst about women talking scandal
is not what they do that way. but the
things at home they neglect while they
are doing 1t.
Herbert Corey In the Cincinnati Times
Star:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
CAUSE OF THE ROW.

From the Catholic Standard
Mrs. Popley-For goodness sake!
What's the matter with Tommy?
Mr.. Popley (from the bathroom)-Oh, he
wants the earth?
Mrs. Popley-Wants the earth?
Mr.. Popley-Yes: at least that portion
of it that I'm trying to wash on his
hands and face
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
RIPPLES.

RIPPLES.
Only a United States senator wouli
take advantage of a blind colleague.
Maxine Elliott can handle a pick, but
can she handle a rolling pin?
a safe way to do when you know
man is a liar is not to tell him so.
why is the bathing suit?" asks a con-
temporary. Probably because the world
is full of girls and all of them are not
thin.
The Washington Herald says a Phila-
delphia man stole trolley car It's a
wonder he didn't steal a motorman To
run it.
The Louisville Courier-Journal discusses
THE Art of Studying Young" 1t isn't
found in a rouge pot.
Out in Texas when a man dies some
close friend slips a palmetto fan into
his coffin.
A Pittsburg man is in Jail because he
didn't support four wives. The court
should remember that times are a trifs
hard at present. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Desks and chairs won over benches
in the House by a vote of 141 yeas and
105 nays The vote shows, however,
that the benches are gaining friends.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Few of us see the sun rise about 4 30
D clock, but all of us see it go down
victorious over a PROSTATE and sweat.
il world at O'Clock or thereabouts
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Secretary Taft will not be compelled
to take box when he goes to the
theatre in Chicago. for no 20-inch seats
are to be put in them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt need not go
abroad expecting to ride free between
London and Brighton in the new coach
line. No passes will be issued to her
on that line.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

The mercury is sizzling in Washing
ton, and political fences at home need
attention. A do-nothing Congress
therefore hurried home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

The Vanderbilt divorce, the Thaw ha-
beas corpus and the Prince Helie we'd
cling would all be off the docket if the
last-named would own up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

The straw hat trust Is at present
doing business In all parts of the coun-
try.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Some say benches should not be
placed in the House of Representatiye s
because it would increase the sleeping
accommodations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Perhaps 1t will turn out that Prince
Belie and Anna Gould We're married
in midocean by wireless telegraph.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Ice cream parties to the fleet on the
Pacific coast must be getting monoton-
GUS to the tackles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

If the Florida had been permitted to
return the fire the situation would
have been far more interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw manages to ex-
list and buy m. W. hats on an allowance
of $1,000 a month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

The two tickets at this writing prom
Use to be Bryan and Mitchell" and
Taft and Fairbanks The Middle
West is hoggish.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

The Pennsylvania delegates to Den
yer intend to boom John Mitchell for
the vice-presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Georgia and Alabama are drawing on
Leach lovers In the north to the extent
of s8.000.00O.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Venus Is shining with many candle
power beyond her accustomed bril-
liancy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Congress refused to while away a
few odd minutes In considering cam
paign publicity bill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Peek-a-boo weather is stuffingly hot,
and straight hot weather is preferable.
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NONE TO MOURN.

"Honk! Honkl Whizzl Zipn'
The automobiist had run over a man.
Horror-striclSen, he stopped and leaped
from his machine to investigate.
1t was only the village poet who lay
there dead.
With a sigh of relief the automoblist
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Texas, West Virginia and Arizona
each last week instructed for Bryan
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02

Congress goes out, but it goes out in
q blaze Of criticism instead of glory.