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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
GERTRUDE HoFFMANN IN IOWA.

From the New York Morning Telegraph
 Des Moines, Iowa.-The Iowa legislature has been stirred to action by the sensation created recently by Gertrude Hoffmann and her Salome dance, and accordingly a bill was introduced in the state senate today which penalizes the wearing of too abbreviated garments, garments too thin. or too suggestive of fashion plates which were in vogue in the Garden of Eden period. The bill restricts high kicking to an angle of 45 degrees and bars all jokes which are not of the drawing room stand ard.
 Since Gertrude Hoffmann danced her way across this prairie state her perform ance has been a matter of heated discus sion in the press, pulpit and ladies' sew ing societies, and the controversy inten- sifed the demand that the Sunday thea ters be closed. The authors of the bill hope their measure will head off the movement for Sunday closing, and at the same time pacify those who are still seething with indignation over the Salome dance, even though they saw 1t not. They predict the bill will pass both houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
MAuDE ADAMS IN THE RowERY.
Actress will Produce Her Play In the ThaIla Theatre for Poor Children.

 From the New York Herald.
 Miss Maude Adams, who once associated with fairies. to the delight of many chil- dren who saw Peter Pan," is planning a fairylilxe act to give pleasure to the chill dren of an entirely different class-those of the slums in lower East Side She has engaged the Thalia theatre, in the Bowery for the afternoon of April 22 and there and then she will play What Every Woman Knows" to an audience composed wholly of children from the set- dement's.
 Ever since she became a star Miss Adams has taken an interest in the little men and women of the settlements, and recently she obtained permission from MT. Charles Frohman to take the scenery of her play and the other players from the Empire theatre to the Bowery for one performance. The tickets will be distrib- uted privately, and the proceeds will be turned over to carry on settlement work in that part. of the city Only children will be admitted in the theatre and care will be taken that the tickets reach no one else.
 This project means the transportation of all the stage settings to the Thalia early in the day and back again to the Empire for the performance there at night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
knoxvllIe,s ProsneritY.

Knoxville is a city of steady and healthy growth" said Wiley L. Nor gan, managing editor of the Knoxville Sentinel, who is here on his way home from Montgomery, where he attended the Associated Press meeting.
 "Our city has a large jobbing trade larger in volume than that of any city of it's size in the south. While Knox vile has not as many railroads as Chattanooga. it has the largest rail- road shops in the south and Is very large traffic producer. We claim that it supplies the Southern railway with more tonnage than any other city on its entire line. It is a great coal ship ping point.
 "The population of Knoxville is about 75,000. and no city in the south is more prosperous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
WASHINGTON TO TAFT.

From the Washington Post. 179O-American sailing ship circles the
 globe. 1791-Anthracite coal in Pennsylvania 1793-Whitney's cotton gin. 1796-Gas light Gin Philadelphia. 1S07-Clermont steams up the Hudson. 1811-Steamboats on the Ohio. 1S12-Steamboats on the Mississippi. 1s16-Tariff act. 1s1s-steamboats on the great lakes. 1s16-First savings bank Gin Philadelphia. 1819-Sayannah steams to Liverpool in 26
 days. 1SoO-steamboat runs from New York to
 New Orleans. 1S25-Erie canal opened. 1830-Fourteen miles of the Baltimore and
 Ohio railroad opened. 1s31-First American locomotive. 1S34-McCormick reaper. 1S37-Morse telegraph 1S41-Sewng machine. 1842-Rairoad from New York to Buffalo. 1S44-Telegraph from Baltimore to Wash
 ington. 1s49-Gold stampede to California 1S49-FiYst screw propeller 1s50-Copper mines on the lakes. 1s53-New York clearing house opened. 1s54Rock Island railroad begun. 1S5S-Sleeping cars. 1S65-BeSSemer steel 1s69-Jnion Pacific completed. 1S76-Bell telephone. 187s-Edison electric light. 1sS0-Broadway lighted by electricity. 1sS3+Electric railway Gin Baltimore). 1SS4-Nat tural gas. 1S85-New navy begun. 1Ss7-Gold in Alaska 1sSS-Linotype. 1s90-American pig iron output passes
 Great Britains. 1se3-Great Northern railroad built to
 coast. 1s95-Long distance electric power trans
 mission. 1s97-Opening up of foreign markets Tor
 American manufactures. 1S9s-Industrial promotion boom. 1901-Steel corporation. 1so6-Wireless telegraphy across the ocean 1907-Electric trains on the New York
 Central. 1sO9-Amercan battleship fleet circles the
 globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
For State-Wide Prohibition,

Little Rock, March 24.-By a vote of 69 to 20 the house this afternoon passed the house joint resolution introduced by two of the three republican members of that branch, which provides for an amendment to the constitution, which in turn pro- vides for statutory statewide prohibition. The resolution is a submission measure, as the proposed constitutional amendment would have to be submitted to a vote of the people. The resolution passed without any opposition, several making very short speeches in favor of it. The bill was passed immediately after noon and the remainder of the afternoon was spent in the consideration of a statutory state- wide prohibition and submission bills. No final action has been taken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
Interest In the Festival.

"I am receiving orders for seats for the music festival from nearly every city and town of importance in Alabama" said W. J. Hon, the local festival man. ager. Tuscaloosa and Anniston will be represented by large parties and 1t is safe to say that fully 1000 out-of-town music lovers will come to the festival
 'Mr. Damrosch, who will conduct all the festival performances in the south this spring, except that at Atlanta, will start his tour at Richmond early in April. He will reach Birmingham with his or chestra and vocal artists at noon on Wednesday, April 2s. He is booked here for five concerts, and his programmes will be made up chiefly of artistic music in the lighter vein. Such music gives more satisfaction to the general public than long and heavy works"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
VALUE OF SNAKE SKINS.

From the Pathfinder
 It is said to be hard matter to skin dead snake so that the skin will re- main in good condition; consequently, in many regions of the world where snakes are caught for the purpose of supplying tho market with skins for pocketbooks, belts, etc., the snake is skinned alive, an operation which inf1icts upon this arch enemy of man the most intense pain. Some are skinned dead, but the differ ence in price of skins taken from the dead reptile and those from the one alive does not make the more humane method popular Dead snakes bring only from to cents, while live ones bring from 25 cents to $1. Sumatra has number of snake-skin factories, as that tropical island abounds in the ophidian species. When a hunter brings In a live snake one operator takes it by the neck and another by the tail, and the reptile is at tached by the neck to a tree trunk A sharp knife is used to cut the skin just below the head, and then, while the other fellow holds the snake taut, the first operator peels the skin from the squirm- ing body. The reptile. minus it's skin, writhes in excrutiating pain for an hour or so before 1t dies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
MAN KEEPS HOUSE.
Husbands Plan of Reversing Dulles
 With Spouse Brings $100 Fine.

St. Louis.-William O'Day's special tall ents as a plain cook, dry starcher, house. cleaner and all-round caretaker of the home will receive no recognition from Superintendent Dawson of the work house, whither O'Day was sent by Judge Pollard of the Dayton Street police court to work out" s1O0 fine,
 ODay asserted that his daily schedule was as follows:
 4 A. M.-Arises and prepares breakfast. making biscuits and pancakes, frying eggs, steak or other meats.
 5:3O A. M-Wakes wife, gives her break fast.
 7:3O A. M.-Wakes his three sons and after giving them breakfast dresses them and sends them to school; eats break fast in meanwhile.
 7:3O to Il A. M.-Cleans house, sweep ing, dusting, washing windows and the dishes.
 Il A. M.-Goes marketing, buys food for whole day and breakfast next morn ing.
 12 Noon-Has dinner prepared for him. self and children, washes dishes and puts things in order.
 to F. M.-Mends childrens torn stockings and clothes, makes trousers for sons, makes pies and cakes for sup per.
 to 5:3O P. M.-Prepares supper, which is served at 6:3o p. m.
 7,30 P. M.-Finshes with supper dishes and after reading and talking goes to bed at g p. m.
 O'Day does the work at his home, ht says, while his wife goes out as bread winner. Dawson says that at the work house he must break rock six months Just as if he had no extraordinary gifts He was arrested for chasing Miss Lizzie Schmitz. a boarder at his home, with g knife.
 During O'Day's trial it developed that he had been without work for IS months during which time he had reversed DO sitions with his wife While she assumed the wage-earning position in the family he became the housekeeper, cooked tht meals, did the family washing, Including that of the boarder, starched and ironet them, and mended the children's clothes He admitted to the court that he hat taken few drops too many. and grow ing weary of his job as housewife ! had protested in such vigorous man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25

plan of saving Cannonsm. This action was in conflict with the action of their party, in violation of it's platform pledge and. we believe of overwhelming demo- cratic sentiment. The democratic party in the House. disavows their action, and diselaims all responsibility therefor
 second-Under the guise of giving to the democracy of the House representation on the rules committee and on the ways and means committee, Speaker Cannon appointed on the rules committee as democratic member the proponent of the Fitzgerald resolution. who is opposed to the democracy of the House in it's hght to reform the rules and is in accord with the speaker; he appointed on the ways and means committee as a democratic member a gentleman known 10 be wholly opposed to the democratic tarif view and shown by his vote 10 be opposed To any change in the Cannon rules.
 We condemn the false pretenses of the speaker, that in these appointments he has granted to the democracy representa- tion on the said committees and we hereby declare that in neither of these appointments is the democracy of the House or the country represented, and we decline to recognize such appontees as representative of our party on said committees.
 None of the six Georgia bolters at tended the caucus, and it is difficult at present to say just where they "are at The caucus wisely left the final decision in the cases of the bolters to their respective constituencies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
Storm In chattanooaa.

Chattanooga, March 24-This city to- night experienced one of the most severe wind and rain storms in the past ten years. A 50-mile gale blew for nearly half an hour. resulting in considerable damage. Windows were blown out of a number of the larger Buildings of the city. At East Lake park the city green houses were demolished and many valu- able plants destroyed. Signs were torn from their hangings in all parts of the city and shade trees suffered severely. When the storm was at it's height an unknown man was knocked down by a street car on Market street. He was taken to a hospital and has not yet re- covered consciousness. No fatalities have been reported
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
A SAD CASE.
From the Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.
 An Atchison man has lain in an uncon- scious state ever since 10 o'clock last night Everything has been done to arouse him today, but all efforts are un- availing His friends are greatly alarmed; they fear he may never regain conscious ness. It seemed that yesterday evening right after dinner the man picked up his hat, put on his overcoat and, although his wife was sitting right in the room. she did not say, 'Where are you going?" He walked out of the house. At ID o'clock in the evening the man returned. He walked into the room where his wife sat and took off his hat and overcoat. She smiled at him pleasantly and did not say, "Where have you been?' The man fell unconscious to the floor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
Democratic Boilers In Congress

The lineup of Georgia Congressman as to Cannonism has often been in- accurately given. Those who sup ported the Fitzgerald compromise and , who now say "Cannonism' is a fake are Livingston, Brantley, Lee, Howard, Griggs and Edwards. The two straight out democrats who follow Leader Clark under all circumstances are Hardwick and Bartlett, while the three neutrals on the fence are Adamson, Bell and Hughes. The six "bolters" named have issued a statement, in which they say the speaker should appoint the committees of the House, and in the course of which they defend Uncle Joe while they assail Leader Clark and the democratic majority. They have not formally withdrawn from the party, as Kelleher of Massachusetts and MT. Broussard of Louisiana.
 The caucus of democratic members held on Monday night did not expel any one from the party, preferring to turn over the "23" to their respective constituencies, but the caucus did ex- press its convictions concerning them very freely, as follows:
 First-We deplore the action of those uomocrseB who supported the Fitzgerald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
PEAcH-BASKET HATS.

From the New York World.
 In the spring a woman's fancy lightly turns on things to wear. It is no mistake to place the peach-baslket hat among the topmost topics of the present hour Touching the other extreme, there is the proposal to increase the tariff on stock ings, although we are not in the habit of cultivating fashions for revenue only. Despite the threatening duties, there are to be many tints, from violet to violent, with or without ornamental designs from elusive to exuberant
 To fair followers of fashion who are blessed with elbow dimples the return of the long sleeve should be a painful event. Yet if the designer of new things decrees no radical departures, how shall they know he Is busy? Art in the mode cannot live by grace alone. It is perhaps a re- lated fact that skirts are to be fuller and underskirts to multiply Those need the money who sell such stuff as petticoats are made of, hence away with the scant severity of the directoire folds. Let us live and let live without getting out of style.
 Along with modes in dress there are modes in thought. These affect as well girls In college as women in cults. At Vassar, therefore, following fashion of the moment, there is & discussion of sex Jess suffrage. and we read in one gentle protest that women should not vote be- cause they have a higher sphere" To which the response is immediate and ob yious; If women have higher sphere it should be all-inclusive and not with draw itself from the lower sphere"
 To turn from the abstract to the con- erete-not even the peach-basket hat should be immune to the office-seeking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
FIRST USE OF WORD "kERosENE.'

From the Scientific American.
 The word Kerosene" seems to have been first used in the United States pat ent No. 12s12 of March 27. 1855. granted to Abraham Gesner of Williamsburg, N. Y, and assigned to the North Amer ican Kerosene Gas Light company. In the preamble to his specification Gesner states that he has invented and discov- cred a new and useful manufacture or composition of matter, being a new liquid hydrocatbon which I denominate kero- sene'" So far as we are aware and so far as the patent office examiners are aware this is the first instance in which the word ''kerosene' was suggested as a trade mark or name for what was then generally called rock oil"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 3 HE ACADEMY, printing eulogy
 \V of the work of Thomas Hardy,
 presents almost an apology for the pessimism of that writer. This is like praishg Shakespeare as a tragic poet, yet making excuses for the colossal gloom of Lear and Macbeth" Mir. Hardy, on his own behalf, says that he believes his practical philosophy to be dis tinctly meliorist by which We suppose he means that, while the world is habi- tation hostile to man. it is possible for man himself, by intelligent cooperation and sympathy, to make better house of life.
 What would Shakespeare say in his own defense? Would he himself admit that his pessimism was the product of personal disappointment masquerading as philo- sophie disillusion? Perhaps 1t is just as well that he cannot return to answer this question. For. should he answer 1t in the negative, he would speedily pay the pen alty exacted of all those who have the temerity to profess the pessimist creed in this age of feverish and ferocious op- timism. It would avail him nothing to plead in extenuation that his pessmism, too, was essentially melioristic. The mo- ment the cause of suffering is trans ferred from the individual soul to the external world as a general law of ex- istence, the poet becomes the arch the traitor, the blasphemer. If he Is not merely the romantic egoist, exciting the emotions without disturbing the mental and moral equilibrium, he is avoided as spiritual leper; unless, indeed. per- sonal legend can, like lightning rod, be constructed to conduct innocuously into the ground facts of his chagrins and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Of surnassinn Beauty.

'Birmingham's new railway station sur passes anything of the kind in the south and very few cities of the north have stations quite so imposing or beautiful, said Benjamin L. Harston of Chicago. "I visited Birmingham first in 1885, when there was no passenger station here at all The Louisville and Nashville depot was built few years later. It was quite adequate for the early days. and no one dreamed then that Birmingham would have the magnificent terminal facilities that now greet the eye.
 Forty years hence Birmingham may need a larger passenger station, but noth- ing more artistic or complete than the station just now completed will be reared"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
SWEET AND LOW.

Sweet and low, sweet and low,
 Wind of the Western sea; Low, low, breathe and blow, . Wind of the Western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon and blow Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty onsi
 sleeps. Sleep and ress. sleep and rest,
 Father will come to thee soon. Rest, rest On thy mothers breast Father will como to tAee soon. Father will come to his Babe In the nest, Silver sails all out of the west
 Under the silver moon. Sleep my little ona. sleep my pretty one'
 sleep. -Tennyson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
A CHEER-UP JINGLE.

A CHEER-UP JINGLE. Foil along, toll along, Make the b<st of living; Mingle laughter with song, Smiles with glad thanksgiving. Foil along, toll along, Happy while you're going; Never worry for the wrong, When the storms are blowing. x
 Foil along, toll along, Say goodbye to sorrow; If you're brave and true and strong. You may win tomorrow!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A girl will never admit it's flirting un- less it isn't
 Most peoples tempers are fairly de- cent when they are sound asleep.
 The less money a man has the more ways he knows how to spend it.
 Babies are very determined to learn to talk a sane language in spite of all their female relatives.
 The solidest enjoyment a woman gets out of life is when everybody is chased out of the house by her plans for house. cleaning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
Steam Shovel Men.

Charles Rees and J. F. Dolan of Chi cago, general president and general secretary-treasurer, respectively. of the International Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredgemen. are registered at the Florence and will remain here until tomorrow Their organization Is one which recently conferred honorary membership on President Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
Dustin Farnum Married,

Chicago, March 24.-Dustin Farnum was married today to Miss Mary Bessie Con- well, leading woman in his company, which is playing at a Chicago theatre The ceremony was performed by M. M. Mangasarian, father of Flora Zabelle, wife of Raymond Hitchcock. The pair were married quietly in hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
Another County Gone Dry.

Indianapolis, March 24.-Ohio county to- day voted against the licensed saloon. giving the "drys" a majority of S2 in a county option election. This makes total of 5S dry" counties in the state Ohio county is a small county and but four saloons were affected. Two more counties will vote tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25

ner that Miss Schmitz had to flee the house.
 to cook while with a railroad grading gang, and that he could make pies and cakes so we'll even mother would nave to acknowledge that he was aer superior.
 He had reduced the problems of 3o,nes- tic economy to such a science that he believed that if his methods were fol- lowed divorce would become a taing of the past.
 O'Day does not know any reason why man cannot keep house as well as any woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
AN OLD STORY.

This life is an old, old story,
 Told Der and OCT again: The sum of mans poor glory, The heartache and the pain; The profltless turmoiling,
 The never-ending strife The years of bitter toiling,
 The fond ambitions rife. This life is an old, old story, Told OCT and OCT again; A soldier dead and gory
 On a crowded battle plain; A task left half-completed,
 A sigh, a lonely grave For the victor and the defeated, For the coward and the bravel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25

General Miles is now persona grata at the White House. He was banished from it nearly seven years by reck- less, egotistical tongue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25

Hosiery showers" should be pulled off before the Payne bill becomes law, for stockings will be dearer then. Do mestic stockings will be marked up as soon as it passes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
A CELEBRITY.

A CELEBRITY. With jaunty air he stepped down from The rear end of a train; The crowd burst forth in loud huzzahs, The band struck up a strain.  Committees rushed to meet him there, Then made a brave parade Unto a swell hotel, where plates For many guests were laid. The papers hustled extras out,
 Excitement filled the air; His name on everybody's tongue, Was spoken everywhere. All day and far into the night The celebration ran; Iris seldom that you ever see More honors paid man. You ask me who the stranger was With such wide renown? I've merely told you how Punkvilles New pitcher came to townl