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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
Wireless Messages Fill the Air

The 500 miles, more or less, that yes terday intervened between the battle ship fleet and the shore was, to use the words of a correspondent, "cut into shreds" with wireless messages shot at or from the fleet. So great was the number that confusion was the net re. suit It was case of general inter- ference. At length official communica- tions were given the right of way and some semblance of order was estab- nshed, although the independent shore stations and steamships continued to fill the air with messages.
 Congress controls the air over the sea so far as messages to or from the mainland are concerned, and the time has fully arrived when it should devise law concerning the wireless. All have seen the need of such law. but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
QuInquaaesIma Sunday.

In the liturgical churches today is known as Quinqua gesima, which means 50 days before Easter. As it is the Sun day immediately preceding Lent the pen itential note of the liturgy is accentuated In the introit the church calls upon God for help with a sorrowful but confident heart. And the collect for the day in the Roman missal is this: "Mercifully hear our prayer oh Lord, we beseech Thee, and absolving us from the bonds of sin, preserve us from all diversity Through Christ our Lord, Amen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
--------------ses---- BEAUTIFUL MAIDS OF ERIN

rom the Baltimore American.
 ''If you would know that part of the globe where the women have the most exquisite complexions of all the daugh- ters of Eve, their faces having a color ing that the artfce of your modern beauty doctor can never equal, go with me to the north of Ireland and note the young peasant girls of that region," said Prof Homer P. Anson of Boston at the Rennert. q have been a visitor to all civilized lands, and l am here to tell you that the country lassies of An trim, Downs, and Galway have in their sweet and madest faces the most perfect blend of the lily and the rose that ever charmed the eye of man. The fashions able young society woman can by the aid of cosmetics make fair imitation. but it's only imitation, after all, and the makeup doesn't fool anybody. It is the simple life and the passing of much time in the open air that give these lovely creatures of old Erin their incomparable looks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
GERMAN "JoE JEFFERSON"
konrad Dreher Has Only to Look at
 His Audience to Make Them Roar.

From the New York World.
 Konrad Dreher, the Joe Jefferson of Germany. royal Bavarian court actor, and known as 'the man who makes the kaiser laugh" is just now playing an engage ment at the New German theatre in Madison avenue. A man tall above the average huge of build, big nosed. with merry mouth and eyes that sparkle when he speaks, and brimful of deyiltfy when he laughs, that is Konrad Dreher.
 He is not only an actor, but he likes best to be called Herr Direktor," for he is the founder, father and active man ager of the famous "Schlierseer Bauern- theater," a company composed of Ba- varian peasants, who have been organ ized by Dreher into one Of the best en- semble troupes in Germany. Konrad Dreher undoubtedly owes his unique suc- cess to his quaint personality; personal magnetism fairly oozes out of him.
 What are Dreher's methods of acting? He seems to have none-at least no one has, as yet been able to describe them. He uses few gestures in his acting and he as cheerfully stands at the rear, as in the front center of the scene. He simply comes on the stage. looks at his audience. smiles at them, and there is a roar of laughter. He has conquered his audience before he has uttered a word. When he does speak, his voice is simple and un- affected.
 Herr Dreher was one of the intimates of the Iron Chancellor. Prince Bismarck He is the only actor-friend of Emperor William and when the kaiser is worn out by affairs of state, overworked and tired, then he calls for Dreher to cheer him up. It is then that the Bavarian comedian Is more important than dignitaries and sec retaries of state for he is "the man who makes the kaiser laugh" Dreher does not care bit whether he performs before His Maiesety tho kaiser or before His S'oso~4-. 4',~ -,o~-,'~ L. 4',a drawing rooms of queens and in the sturios of his artist friends, of whom the great Lenbach is one and has painted the actors portrait.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
Goinn to Chicago.

John W. Abercrombie. president of the University of Alabama. is in Birming- ham, en route to Chicago where he will attend the annual meeting of the super intendents' association of the United States.
 Harry C. Gunnels and Dr. J. H. Phil lips are other Alabamians who will at tend
 President Abercrombie will deliver an address Wednesday night on "The Amer iean Perils He states that he will dis euss the natural tendency of children to disregard the rules and the law. and the necessity of installing in their brains the propriety of abiding by the existing statutes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

no one has clearly foreseen what it's provisions should be. No one will be able to devise at present a compre- hensive law concerning wireless mes sages. but a start can be made and on this start a system can be built that would meet and regulate even such a pressdre of messages as the approach of the battleship fleet to home shores invited.
 4 wireless law and a law relating to aeroplanes would keep our statute books abreast of the times. Both would relate to the control of the air. an element that man has been slow in mastering. It is, however, to be as fully mastered in the present century as the water has been in past cen turies.
 The Burke wireless bill has gone through the House, and it may become a law by March 1. It is, however. more a bill designed to compel the use of the wireless on passenger ships than a bill to regulate the transmission of wire less messages. It may, however, be used as a basis for a new regulatory system
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
CHARLES WARNER AND "DRINk..

From the Louisville courierJ ournal.
 The psychologists have a new sub ject for study in the case of Charles Warner. Warner was a celebra ted English actor who committed suicide few days ago in New York. That he was unbalanced is evident, and that his mental disorder was caused by drink is the testimony of some of the newspapers of that city. Now, the play in which MT Warner had won a world wide fame was that entitled Drink" an adaptation by Charles Reade of the French drama "L'Assomoir," founded on Emil Zola's realistic novel of that name. In the part of Jean Coupeau, Warner thrilled millions in his day. Tn England, he was as familiar a figure in the minds and hearts of playgoers as is Denman Thompson in the United States His portrayal was vivid, DOW erful, unforgettable. He carried the tragedy of Coupeaus life and death deep into the audiences nature. Drink, insanity and violent death, with at tendant deneralization for his house. hold; that was the epitome of the story of Coupeau.
 Mir Warner himself devoted many years to the study of the path ological side of Coupeau-drink, insanity and | all the rest. The influence of Coupeau seems not to have uplifted him, as is the purpose of the play in relation to it's audiences not even to have warned him. Whether from acting Coupeau or not, he became a living analogy of Coupeau. He drank, he became unbal- anced, he became filled with hatreds and despairs, and he killed himself "The world is busy with the psycho- l logical question of the influence of mind over matter and morals,' com ments the Brooklyn Eagle. "The oc- ultists of the Oriental school of thought will tell iyu that the domi- hating influence of the conscious mind is manifest in shaping the course and destiny of man to evil ends. Instances specialists who have at the end of years been afflicted with the diseases they have spent their lives in combating. 1 There is an instance now of an actress who must lay down successful play | lest she lose her mind from living in the fictitious sorrows of the heroine she represents on the stage"
 Science is only at the beginning of it's studies of the, mutual inf1nece of minds and natures, of the subtle, mys- terious workings of neighbor upon neighbor. More and more, however, tn e deep subject is being penetrated Those who believe that no thought is lost may some day be vindicated. It would have seemed perfectly logical for Charles Warner, having pretended for so many years to suffer tn miseries ot Coupeau, to steer clear of the pitfalls he understood so we'll We know that he did not, but, instead, fell apparently under the insidious workings of Cou- peau. It is reasonable, of course, tc hold that this was mere coincidence that Mir Warner played Coupeau as any other actor would embody a char. acter, and that when he removed hi, grease paint he lived his own life ir his own way, which was like Coupea u's way, it is true, but also like many an. other living mans That is where tho task for the psychologist comes in-tc investigate and seek out the actua mental connection between Coupeau the fiction, and Warner, the reality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press

Either man is always wronging some body or somebody is wronging him.
 The way to make any nonsense sound reasonable to a girl Is to put it into a song or a love letter.
 It takes an awful lot of money to con vince people they can afford to act as if they didn't have any.
 A bank account is good thing to keep woman from having a balance 24 hours after her husband makes a de- posit for her.
 The only thing a woman regrets about not being man is how, if she was one, she could pretend she had too much brains to understand her wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
CHILD NOT TO BLAME.
nm the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
 My infant, madam said the lady ln the bus with dignity, appropriated and clawed your nun not from mere wan7 tonness, but under the impression that It was pussy cat. as I have no doubt it once was"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
KNOCKING.

He seems to think he is the whole cheese"
 ''So he does, when, as a matter of fact, he isn't any more important than one of the inhabitants of a cheese"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Editors Pulitzer and Delavan Smith may go to the inauguration, but they will not enjoy a city within whose walls they will soon be immured for committing lese majeste against Theo- dore Roosevelt and William Nelson Cromwell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
RECOMPENsE-

He kept his eyes upon the goal
 And toiled with all his heart and soul. Though weary years brought no return, Hopes beacon fires held out to burn And conquering his life's despair, He labored on with dauntless air
 Until Success, ashamed of frowning On him so long, at last came crowning His sacrifice with honors glowing, While Fortune all his path was strowing With happy hours. Such is the guerdou Of him who bravely bears his burden And will not own himself defeated Or quit the task but half comp1etedl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
CAUTI

From Harper's Bazar.
 Mrs. Gillet: Did that famous Arctic explorer promise to come to your recep- tion?
 Mrs. Perry: Yes; he says he will be here unless it's too cold night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

The newspaper man who is engaged to Hetty Greens daughter says he hopes the wedding will take place He naturally wants raise in his salary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

The battleship fleet naturally seeks Old Point Comfort. There is rest there for even the storm-tossed mariner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

The next administration should de- cline in advance to accept William Nelson Cromwell as partner or as a member of the backstairs cabinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Jack Binns declines to be lionized, medaled or vaudeyilled and will be content to accept key on another steamer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

MT Roosevelt is still on the quarter deck, but he begins to peer down the companionway toward the gangplank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

The Russian warrant against Maxim Gorky says nothing about Mrs. Near Gorky, once a visitor to these shores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

No darning of stockings for me, says Mrs. Leslie Carter. The stage is not a unit for domesticity, you see.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
TROUBLES OF A LOVER

he said; When you give valentine you must never let the recipient of it know from whom it comes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
LIST A PROMISE.

Let trouble not dismay you, The future will repay you For every pain that fingers in your
 heart.s The road of life's before you, Blue skies are bending OCT you And Sorrows shrouded form will soon
 depart!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
SINGULAR CASE.

And you say he doesn't amount to much?"
 "A man of no prominence whatever" "I should have thought otherwise. He has three initials before his surname"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

One week from next Thursday will bring the African lions nearer their doom or their final victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

< sure sign of approaching old age is desire to play golf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
FINS.
A MILD. PROTEST.

A MILD. PROTEST. I hold it true
 With those who say That every dog Must have his day. Howe'er. do Not think it rights That every cat Should have night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Carrie Nation is coming back home, where eggs are too high-priced to be tossed freely at individuals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
STILL SHINING.

STILL SHINING. When your heart is weary, When you're feeling blue And you're sadly quaffing From the cup of rue. Don't forget, my brother, Though you fain would sob, That the sun is shining Somewhere on his job
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Abruzzi feels that he can scale the Himalayas easier than he can the mountains of West Virginia.
  One week from next Thursday will bring the African lions nearer their doom or their final victory. Carrie Nation is coming back home where eggs are too high-priced to be tossed freely at individuals.
 
 In modern residences a bath room is attached to every bed room. Civili- zation is marching on. Chief Geronimo is dead. He died privileged prisoner, hating to his last breath the pale faces.
  Millionaire magnates conduct politics in Pittsburg, naming mayors and form ulating ordinances.
  The battleship fleet is coming home after a cruise one year. two months and six days long. MT Taft works his cabinet slate and inaugural address turn and turn about.
  Until March it will not be alto gether safe to discuss the Gatun dam
  There has been more decadence in audiences than in the drama The winter lightning act has been a trifle overdone this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

The Liberty beh still is all it is cracked up to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
BECAUSE HE LOVED HER sC.

 '"The school house burned down. What makes little Bobby feel so sad?' Hes sorry the school teacher didn't burn with it'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

In modern residences a bath room is attached to every bed room. Civili- zation is marching on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Abruzzi feels that he can scale the Himalayas easier than he can the mountains of West Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
AN ADDITIONAL ITEM

'Did your vacation at the seashore last year cost you mueh?'
 "Yes, but it would not have cost so much if I hadn't spent the summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Chief Geronimo is dead. He died privileged prisoner, hating to his last breath the pale faces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

AN HISTORICAL NOVEL.
 CHAPTER I. "Gadzooksl"
 CHAPTER II. Sdeath.'
 CHAPTER III. ''Have at thee, villain"
 CHAPTER ". "Ha, 'tis my ladyi'
 CHAPTER V. "Oh, Sir Guy, you have saved mew
 CHAPTER VT. "Dost love me, sweet maidF ''I do, Sir Guy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Millionaire magnates conduct politics in Pittsburg, naming mayors and form ulating ordinances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
GOING SOME

GOING SOME. SibyI, you're a wonder Deed you are. By thunder, If I had a million dollars pat, And you'd call me honey" I'd spend all that money Just to buy for you an Easter hat!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

A SERMON IN PASSING. The good old days tis sweet to sing, To faneies past we fondly cling, But don't forget those days are gone And Father Time is posting on. A wight who dwells in years gone by And seldom doth the present try Is apt to be so out of date So buffeted about by fate, That he scarce has the price to pay For room and board, day after day. These times are so. brimful of life, And action, too, and eager strife, That one and all must do their best And seldom snatch an hour for rest. Who's not with hand and brain quite deft In very truth will soon get left And be dubbed by successful men As down and out-a poor has-been. Therefore. dismiss the good old days Such retrospection seldom pays And for the present learn to live, Your hand, your heart-your all to give, That this old world may better be And from great pain and trouble free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

The battleship fleet is coming home after a cruise one year. two months and six days long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
NOTIONS.

'I see where a department store ad- vertises notions for women"
 Most women have more notions now than they know what to do with.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
THE AGE- HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffioe as second-elass matter unuet act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

A philosopher is a man who never lets an argument make him forget his din- ner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

drawing rooms Of queens and in the sturios of his artist friends, of whom the great Lenbach is one and has painted the actors portrait.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

Two chorus girls who did sister act in a musical comedy had a fight in Mil waukee. The scrap could not have beer worse if they had been real sisters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

MT Taft works his cabinet slate and inaugural address turn and turn about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

The winter lightning act has been trifie overdone this year.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-06-18

over tho Information that certain
American banking Institutions have
arraI gel 10 take mp portion OF the
tFiparti5e loan of u. 800, 900 to China
recently announrsd, IL appears that
the administration was in measure
responsible for It, Every step in
the advancement Of China will be
welcomed by this ndministra tion, as
it was by the last, and under proper
conditions il win be glad to see
American capital noW into the en-
pire. This loan, however, is to be
secured by a specinl tax, despite the
fact that informal promises we're
made to the last administration that
s1oh tax wonld he abolished and
Chinsso Enances placed on modern
and practical basis. The United
States cannot hold China to that
promise. Of course, but it cannot but
feel sorns apprehension at any exttn.
sion of China's Indebtedness on a
basis which Hust serve to perpetu
ats shat tax, thus actually retarding
Chlna's progress.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-06-18
The Dump Nuisance

1t is claimed by residents in the
vicinity of the dump, at the lower
end of High Street, that il is breed
ing place for large flies. One person
living near there declares that soon
after the refuse matter was set On
fire the flies were driven away in
such numbers as literally TO cover
the side of his house. If flies are
carriers Of disease germs. and emil
nent authorities claim they are, then
tle dump, If statements as to the
fisr are correct, is menace to pub
lie health. just what might be ef.
fective to pre- vent The breeding Of
these flies may be a question, bnt
certain it is thHt the amount Of gar.
bage and matter Of an kinds, both
animal and vegetable thrown over
the bank there is sufficient to contain
mate a ueighboThood unless frequent
ly trestsd with somo substance to
destroy its delaterious effect. Every
preoaution should DO taken TO render
these necessary c0uveniences to the
public as harml less as possible.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-06-18
Will Case Settled

The will, obtained through the in
strumentality of Mrs. Margaret
Wood, disposing ef the property Of
the late Henry NJ, Courtright Of
Delaware has been admitted to pro
bate. The will beqaeaths all his es-
tate, including the personality Of his
late wife, TO Annie Morgan who kept
house for him a few weeks prior to
the viii being made. The intimation
Of Judge Staples that the decisions
Of the Supreme Court We're such as
so strongly indicate that It would
sustain a will when it was properly
signed and executed, induced tue
caveator to withdraw from further
contest, The question of the mental
condition of supposed testator at
the time Of signing hardly enters in.
to the determination of the legal
conclusion.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-06-18
To Start Young Trees To
Growing

State zOologist Surface says tha,
'ho cherry is the hardest 10 make
grow of any fruit trees that we can
plant. One is doing we'll if lie can
get ffty pes cent Of them to grow,
bat after they do start they generally
oome on during the second year and
subsequently stay ia good condition
This is due chiefly TO the fact that
the tree has so few fine or small
roots, such as are needed for taking
up ilnme linte moisture and plant
food, and It takes some time for il to
form such roots Its first effcrt te
grow is drain on Its stored, vitality
When this is exhausted the tree is
liable TO die by willing at,this time
Of year.
Last year ths Professor performed
u series Of important experiments in
stimulating declining trees that had
been planted only fow weeks or a
low months. He used vnrious vege.
table alkaloids, such as nuxvomica,
strychnia, etc, and also used nitrate
of soda, and found that the last
named WAS by far the best and most
efficient stiniulgnt and was also the
cheapest. He had excellent results
from watering, dehorning and cut
ting back, and especially from water
ing declining trees, teaspocnful Of
nitrate Of soda being dissolved in
each gallon of water. The watering
should be very extensive. Before
applying the water, the soil should
be well trRmped firmly aronnd the
roots. OF course, this should not be
done while the ground is wet. Pack
it we'll around ths roots, then apply
as much water as possible, or at least
bucket TO each young tree, after
having dissolved . teaspoonful of
nitrate of soda in each gallon of
water. Two or three good waterinRs
Of this kind. and mulching around
the tree with stable dressing, will DO
more good than anything else to give
it a start
If you did not cut back the top
well, removing at leaet two. thirds of
the woody growth that was upon it,
It should yet be trinmed, in order
to throw vigor into the few buds
that remain. Most persons in set
ting treas do not cut back far enough.
As 70 the time Of planting, the
earlier In the spring the cherry tree
is planted, the better it is. There is
40 kind of fruit tree that demands
such early planting as the cherry,
and it will suffer mere severely from
late planting than any other kind