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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
BERLIN POLICE LACK
 QUALITY OF DISCRETION
By MALCOL M CLARKE.
the district official, sta abbed his wife to heart and then committed suicide.

the district official, abbed his wife to the heart and then committed suicide The police of this city have accom- plfshed the curious feat of establishing the ownership of lost dog by means of the telephone. Conrad Maier, grocer living In suburban town, informed the police a few days ago that his pet ter rier, Ami, had been stolen. Yesterday the police telephoned to Maier that dog answering Ami's description had been found in the possession of a suspicious looking man, who claimed that he had owned the animal for a long time. The telephone receiver was then placed to the dogs ear, and Maier was instructed to talk to the animal in q familiar lam guage. The dog Immediately gave every sign of recognition and parked with joy. The pseudo-owner was so alarmed by this display of the animals sagacity that he immediately confessed that he had stolen the dog.
 r German ladies express warm apprecia- tion of the courteous action of the Kaiser, who has issued a decree to prevent the discomfort caused to them by the indis- criminate smoking of German officers.
 Through the medium of an imperial cab
 
 army and navy. his majesty commands the officers of his force to abandon tha practice of smoking cigars and cigarettes in bah rooms or elsewhere in the presence of ladies fin evening dress. Smoking is henceforth to be confined strictly to those apartments set aside for it.
 The decree applies wherever officers find themselves In the society of ladies, wheth- CT at court or in hotels, resta urants, clubs or private houses. Smoking, too in ac- cordance with the old time regulation, Is prohibited in the courtyards and vestibules of the imperial castle.
 Tens of thousands of spring hats of the "coal-scuttle" beehive and ''mush- room" types have suddenly become drug on the market in Berlin account of bitter polemics which have broken out in the fashionable world.
 Just as the milliners windows were filled with fascinating samples. labeled persuasively, Latest Paris style,'' Prln7 cess Pauline of Thurn and Taxis, an knowledged authority on feminine fash ions, and three prominent ladies of the theatrical world, undertook vigorous campaign against the pet hat as the genus beehive" is called in Germany The Princess hurled thunderbolt by de- claring that she had Just returned from Paris, where nothing is known of this latest Parisian fashion!
 Fraulein Weust, the charming come dienne of the Leasing theatre, has assert ed her refusal to wear those monstrosi- ties. which only become women who want to hide their faces" Fraulein Massary of the Metropo theatre, calls the new hats waste paper baskets turned upside down."
 Frauein Witt of the Residenz theatre bemoans the "hideousness of the pot hat l" admitting at the same time that she had just bought six of them in order
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
Children s Russian Blouse .)uifs

Two special prices for tomorrow, ages 2 to 6 years, line of suits that will cost you $1.25 elsewhere, fast colors, nicely made, good fit- ters, 75c.
 The other lot is line of values that equal $1.75 and $1.9S grades elsewhere, ages ? to years, linen shades and fancy. for 9sc.
 Two items to interest you
 Another lot of women's $1 night gowns, nicely trimmed, full cut, for 6ec.
 A beautiful quality of 100 count French nainsook, as pretty a fabric as you buy for s2.50, in the 3-in-1 combinations; our price, 98c.
 Women's knee-length and sleeve less lightweight summer union suits, all sizes, for BOG.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
Experience Enough.
Judges Library.

From Judges Library.
 A few days ago. while visiting a near by maple sugar camp. heard the follow ing conversation between one of the em- ployes and another onlooker:
 "IIows the sap runnin' this year, Jim?'
 "Oh, fairly well.'
 "'Bout how much do you cal'ate you'll get?' well, reckon, from the way tho sap g runnin' now, we'd ought 6 get three hun dred and fifty gallon"
 "That's more'n you got last year, ain't it? How do you count for that?''
 well, sir. I'll tell you. I've never seen a spring yet where the sap runs like 1t does this spring. and, I'll tell you, I've seen thousands of 'em'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
A Sponge Garden.

From Country Life in America.
 beautiful effect may be obtained by means of damp sponge and few seeds. Take large piece of coarse sponge and cut 1t in any shape desired. Then soak it in water, squeeze half dry and sprinkle In the openings red clover seed. mlllet. barley, grass, rice. oats-any or all of these. Hang the sponge in a window where the sun shines at least part of the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
G)hite Goods Dept.

is very complete in every detail. you will find everything new and fresh.
 16 yards of good quality of cam brio for '$1.oo.
 32-inch Dress Swiss. in checks, stripes and plaids, worth 19c, to sell at 10c.
 64-inch silver bleached all linen table damask, 75c value, for 5eo.
 Jacquard crib blankets, wool fin ish, new patterns, to sell at 79c.
 22-inch mercerized napkins, wear and laundry like linen, s150 value, for S1 dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

Berlin, April 10.-rhe Berlin police have many splendid qualities, but discretion is not one of them. They demonstrated the fact in a ludicrous manner on Monday evening, when they refused to allow Prof Hans Debruck, one of the greatest German publicists, and editor of the we'll known review, "Preussische Jahrbucher," to address a meeting finance reform. because the police department had not had the usual legal notice of the gather ing. The argument was of no avail that the meeting was an overflow gathering from a neighboring hall, where several thousand more people than it could hold had assembled to hear Adolf Wagner on the same topic
 Professor Delbruck contrived to per suade one constable that the subject mat ter of his address was not infammatory, and he was permitted to proceed. He had not got far into his discourse however before a trio of policeman, helmeted and sabred, tramped down the aisle and called upon the speaker to desist from further talk.
 A member of the audience then pro- posed that Professor Delbruck eliminate anything remotely savoring of politics and address the crowd on academic subjects, such as he is in the habit of discussing in his university classes. This appeased the zealous guardians of the peace, and the professor launched into a learned re- view of taxation in the medieval era
 When, however. he had reached the 20th century. and began talking about the death duties. now the subject of such heated controversy in Germany, the po- lcemen mobilized for another attack on the rostrum. and declared the meeting adjourned. They have since, I learn, ity."
 There was scene of great excitement at the Dresden circus last night. The per forming lions had just returned to their cages. One of the doors having been left carelessly open, a large lion rushed out and sprang over the arena into the audi ence. Apparently startled at his own au- dacity, he took refuge In one of the boxes, which was, happily, empty.
 After a few moment he as rapidly re- turned to his cage, whilst the audience re- mained paralyzed with fright panic enSued and several women falnted, haVlnS to be carried out of the theatre.
 The little frontier town of Bhhisch- Schade, near Glatz, has been the scene of a series of crimes committed. by widow named Kneisei. The woman had borrowed money from district official named John. When the latter demanded repayment she attacked him with hatchet, killed him outright, and afterwards set fire to her house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

20 gross of imported pearl but tons, medium size, 15c values. for 10c.
 Nafad shields, guarantee with every pair, 25c values, for 18c. Royalbone collar foundations, light and comfortable, black and white, ali sizes, 10c value, for 5c. Cash's bands, l inch wide, all col ors, 12Iac per yard.
 Fancy Elastic-blue, pink, red, orange and lavender, soc value, at 4oc.
 Shell hair pins, dark and amber, per dozen, 25c.
 Gold plated safety pins, will not tarnish, a card. 1oc.
 Alcohol lamps for heating hair curlers, 75c value. now SOC.
 Mems soc elastic seam drawers, for $1.
 Mems union-made suspenders, regular 25c value, on sale at 19c. A new line of children's Windsor ties, 25c.
 Boys light figured blouse waist, sizes 4 to IA, l25c.
 Mems soc and 75c belts, in black, only 3ec.
 We sell the Royal brand collars for men, 2 for 25c.
 Mems checked nainsook union suits, 98c.
 Something new-,the No Vesto" ties, the correct style for the pinch collar, 3-4 inch wide, 40 inches long, 25c.
 The Shaw Knit half hose, 21c. Mems $125 white pleated shirts, sizes 15 to 151a, on sale at 75c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

10-4 Jewell bedspread, sells regu- lar for $1; special at s9c.
 One dozen 27-inch hemmed medi- cated sanitary diapers; special Monday and Tuesday, $1.fe dozen. Sheer dimities, prettiest effect in three different width stripes and all sizes checks and plaids; beautiful snow-white, summery material, 32 inches wide, 25c quality, at 1sc.
 Lonsdale-Berkley cambrics, for Monday and Tuesday only, at, 10 yards, for $1.
 36-inch Irish linen for waists and dresses, the quality that sells for soc; special at 29c.
 1S-inch all linen crash, regular 1219c quality at 1oc.
 90-nch round thread shrunk linen sheeting, correct weight for coat suits and shirts, $l25 value. for a9c.
 45-inch cream fish net, our 35c and 40c quality; special at 2Sc.
 20-inch all linen bleached nap kins, regular $2.25 quality, at $1.5o dozen.
 Lingerie batiste. 40 inches wide, especially adapted for waists, dresses mad children's frocks. worth 40c; special at 19c.
 Large hemstitched table cloth, hemmed and ready for use, worth $150, to sell at 9sc.
 Snow-white cotton batting, the best in town, for 1oc ID.
 12 yards of 36-inch Victoria long cloth. worth $125. Monday and Tuesday at 79c bolt.
 c. T. N curtain swiss and mad ras, dainty patterns, regular price 15c; special at 1oc.
 Out on center table several hun dred linen centerpieces, squares and tidies to sell at less than half value, 75c and s1 kind for 39o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

not to look singular when she appears at Monte Carlo next week.
 The milliners are panic-stricken by the denunciations of their spring goods. Hun dreds of ladies who were on the eve of purchasing pot hats" are now waiting to see what their friends will do. In the meantime trade is at a standstill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
Un-PaternaI.
From Judges Library.

From Judges Llbrafy.
 First Canadian-'.Shoulda a serious dis pute arise with the United States, could we rely on the support of England"
 Second Canadian-"I have been studying that matter considerably of late, and be- lieve, from the friendly spirit she is con- stantly showing toward America, that, in case of crisis. England would declare herself independent of us and try going 1t on her own hook for a spell.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
GmbroiCeries and caces

Nainsook corset covers for 39c and 4sc and 59c per yard.
 Allover embroidery for shirt waists, in white and colors, from 9Sc to $2.98 per yard.
 Allover embroidery in dainty pat terms, in nainsook and swiss, for 5ec, 75c and 89c per yard.
 Swiss f1ouncing and bands to match; special, 39c per yard.
 Embroidery edges, all colors, from Sc to 12Eac per yard.
 Persian Val lace, ranging from 10c to 1sc per yard.
 Fine selection of Irish crochet bands and edges, just the thing for wash dresses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
1e Hosiery Dep
 Offers foa These

Buster Brown or Eton collars, special 5c each; sizes 121a, 13, 131s and IA.
 Infants hose and sox in pink, blue, tan, black and red, all sizes, 25c kind for 10c pair.
 Women's fine silk hose. with q linen garter and linen foot, special '9c pair; all colors
 Misses finest rubber hose, 5c a pair.
 Women's lisle black lace hose, special 25c pair.
 Pure linen handkerchief, with or without the initial, $1 dozen or 1oc each.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

ern lines of the company's possessions. Some of the big stockholders are financ- ing the sinking of a number of wells on the land to determine whether not they have an oleaginous bonanza. This little incident illustrates how long dead proposition may be resurrected and turned into something substantial. It shows also that if men hang on to a stock long enough it is nightly likely at some stage to give them an opportunity to make a big turn.
 Pattens wheat corner is at last arousing considerable interest in Wall street. No pretense Is made of intimate knowledge of the Chicago situation. but the predic- ton is freely made that the corner will Dust" the man behind it even as it did Joe Letter, l.. w. Harper and a dozen others who have tried the same thing on the Chicago Board of Trade Patten, al though he may succeed in squeezing the shorts out of large sums of money, wlli have a gigantic corpse to bury after the deed Is over. There is an immense visible supply and to get rid of the stuff left on hand at the end of corner Is the costly part of the proceeding
 Nobody seems to be able to say positive. ly whether the supposed fight between Ar mour and Patten is genuine or not. If 1t is and the Armour crowd is really inclined to break the corner, the bettngs odds, according to the Wall street opinion, Is that Patten will find himself eligible to the Lieter- Harper club. This Is one of the most stupendous wheat corners ever undertaken on the Chicago Board of Trade and tine man who Is engineering 1t finds the whole country against him.
 The international trade movement is beginning to look a little better. The im- ports for March were $34,000,OO0 larger than in 1900 and about even with the March record for 1907. Exports are lit tic less than last year. It is evident that this country is beginning to buy more freely from its neighbors and it does not feel obliged to part with it's commodities to raise money.
 Reports from nearly 30 of the most im- portant cities in the country show a substantial and gratifying increase in building construction as measured by the building permits. In Greater New York alone permits for March footed up ST. 600, 900, an increase over March last year of nearly 400 per cent During that month S5 cities issued permits for s75,O00,0O0 in new building construction.
 That was a rather novel phrase coined the other day to describe the need for a .let-up in the enactment of new laws hostile to corporations We are already sufferings from an excess of undigested legislative novelties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
NICHOLAS WALL
 STREET LETTER Great Change Comes Over the
 Banking Element LOOKING FOR BORROWERS Another Encouraging Feature of the General Situation Is Decided ln- crease in Metal Market
 Activities.
LOOKING FOR BORROWERS
By w. G. NICHOLAS.

New York, April 7.-(Special)-A great change has taken place in the attitude of the banking element. Up to within comparatively recent date the average banker looked with suspicion on anybody or everybody applying for loans. Collat- eral was scrutinized closely and all sorts of questionsw ere asked as to what use the borrower intended to put the money. Every kind of new enterprise was dis oouraged and persons trying to borrow money to embark in any sort of untried venture was put into the unsafe" class. Only the most conservative people of seasoned credit were given accommoda- tions.
 Now things are entirely different. Bank CTS are chasing the borrowers and trying to place their money. Loans are gladly made in quarters where a few months and even a few weeks ago there was nothing doing. It is the testimony of men of good standing and credit in every line of business that they have no trouA be borrowing money at their banks. It is very clearly the opinion of the bank ing fraternity that business Is once more upon a sound basis and that it will be safe to put money out where it can be earning something. This time it is the borrowers who are chary.
 Now that it is possible for them to get hold of money they are the ones who move ca utiously and ask questions. This change in the attitude of bankers is re- garded in Wall street as an impressive sign of the times and in marked way significant of reasonably certain and perm anent improvement in conditions. This feeling is reflected in the securities mar ket and is in reality behind the upward movement in prices which has dlstn- guished the stock market during the past few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

ereaher Goods and Motions
 We want you to go to Caheen's notion department for all your no tions."
 A beautiful line of large size leather lined bags, all colors- black, navy, green and tans-a reg ular $2 bag for $1.5o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

Another encouraging feature Of tne gen eral situation is the decided increase in activity in the iron and steel trade. This is particularly noticeable in structural iron and steel, in tinplate and piping. The latter speciality is one in which the general public takes small Interest. yet 1t is an important branch of the iron in- dustry. It is at this writing very active. Municipalities, gas and oil companies are particularly in evidence, although orders are by no means confined to them. There are also indications of an immediate re- sumption of activity in the copper trade and the patient walters, who have been holding copper securities through a long period of dull times, are in a fair way to be rewarded for their nerve and endur- ance. At the present moment there are large visible supplies of copper metal and production Is going on at a rapid rate. A few months of resumed life in this in- dustry will produce a wonderful change in the general copper situation and the day of unwieldy visible supply will pass away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
Dress Fabric CeCfion

The greatest "popular price" dress
 goods department in Alabama
 NEW THINGS.
 New cotton nets for waists and yoling, in cream and white tucks, at $1oo, SIPS, $1.5o, $1.75 and $1.9s yard.
 72-inch plain color cotton net, in eight shades, at 59c.
 Silk and cotton soutach braids, in all colors-Cotton braid, 25c. Bolt dozen yards silk, 25c dozen.
 Silk chiffon in all colors, 40-inch, on sale at 39c.
 19-inch Messaline Silk, in all col ors, on sale at 49c.
 36-inch black taffeta silk, extra nice quality, full finish, yard-wide, on sale at 98c. 42-inch wool voile in all colors and black, 89c value, on sale at 75c.
 All wool challies, in 25 patterns, stripes and Persian, on sale at 4ec.s
 See the Wool Remnants on sale. Good skirt patterns, black and col ors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
5s .9s 5he Popular Price >tore of Birmingham For New 5gs

Rajah Linen, solid and stripes, also tinted grounds with neat stripes; this is the snappiest goods to be purchased for hobby suits; yard, 35c.
 Dress Gingham: We are showing the largest line of gingham ever brought to Birmingham-any kind of pattern you can think of; yard, 12Lac.
 Pongee, in stripes and figures; yard, 1ec.
 Dutch Suiting, a new fabric, well adapted to ladies' suits, skirts and children's clothes; yard, 1oc.
 Japonika Silk, a new, clingy. soft, silky material, made of silk and linen, street and party shades, the most desirable goods made; per yard, 35c.
 English Poplin, highly mercer ized, all good shades; don't fail to see this; yard, 25c.
 Belfast Linen, all new colors, in- cluding all the new shades of old rose, wisteria, green, smoke, all shades of blue, pink. lavender, tan, brown, etc, including black, 36 inches wide; yard, 15c.
 Sideabnd Gingham, Amoskeag's best ginghams; yard, 10c.
 Ecenery Linen: This goods comes in stripes of all size and colors, perfect washable goods, water shrunk; yard, 15c.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-12-15
BETZVu1E TALES
Uncle Ashdod and the BisQuito
R9<By Ellis Darker" BuHef;X0
W. Author Pigs is Pigs Etc. wv
ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL

Early this spring Uncle Ashdod
Clute made up his mind that he was
pretty sure to die within twenty or
thirty years, and he felt that it would
be a shame to die and not leave any
thing to carry his name down to pos
terity. and that he ought to hustle up
bit If he wanted to enroll his name
on the banner of fame. The only
thing that troubled him was that there
were not many things a man could do
in Betzville to make his name resound
around the world like a June bug in
a bass-drum, but one day, when he
was down at the creek fishing, the
idea came to him like fash
He says he was sitting there with a
grasshopper in one hand and the fish
hook in the other, ready to thread the
grasshopper on the hook, when sim
ultaneously at the same time bee
alighted on his left ear and a mos
quito on his right ear. He says that
any ordinary man might never have
got an idea from that, but Uncle Ash
dod can wiggle his ears to and fro like
a flag in the breeze, and he wiggled
them. He says he must have wriggled
them too hard, but he wasn't paying
much attention to his ears just then
He says that if he had wiggled his
ears with just slight wiggle all
would have been we'll, but he must
have wiggled them mighty strong, for
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-12-15

dod did not want his biography until
he could run into it the facts about
the creation of the stingless bee and
the biteless mosquito.
Along about the 9Th Of August
Uncle Ashdod opened the hermetical-
~ sealed incubator in which he had
deposited the eggs of the bisquito, as
he called the new insect. He had pre-
pared the eggs carefully, cutting each
egg in two and then gluing the rear
end of mosquito egg to the fore-end
of bee egg. He did this with sew
eral thousand eggs, and then put them
to hatch in butter tub in his attic.
1t was his first attempt at egg graft
ing, and he hardly hoped that more
than one or two of the eggs would
hatch, but the results far exceeded his
expectations.
The butter tub was full of bisquitos
of the strongest quality. They were
full of vitality and they seemed to
recognize that Uncle Ashdod was a
sort Of step-father to them, and sew.
eral Immediately arose and kissed him
in the face and he uttered several ex.
CARNATIONS of surprise in hasty
manner, and then he put his hand on
the back of his neck and yelped like a
painful dog. The experiment haG
been a great success, and one end OF
each mosquito was annexed to ono
end of each bee. but Uncle Ashdol