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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-10-30
nine WERE
BURNED

St. Johnsbury, VT, Oct. 30.-Nine
are known TO have perished in a fire
which destroyed the Citizens savings
bank building here today. Two were
killed falling from the fourth story.
in an effort to escape and seven were
burned in the ruins. Four injured
were taken 10 the hospital, two OF
whom were fatally hurt
Forest Fires Do Much Damage.
Deadwood, S. D.. Oct. 30.-Six for
est fires are raging in the Black Hills.
The damage is running into the hun
dreds of thousand and the timber
reservation of the Homestake mine
is threatened.
Burned to Death During a Play.
Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 30.-While
portraying travesty on the discovery
of the North Pole last night at Loret-
to Academy, Catholic boarding
school, Miss Virginia Owen and Miss
Mamie Tiernan were burned to death
and Miss Mary Maley was seriously
burned while attempting TO assist
her companions. During the perform
ance all the girl actors were dressed
in Eskimo costumes. covered with
cotton to represent snow. After the
tableau had started Miss Owen tripp-
ed over a jack % lantern and in a Sec
ond she and Miss Tiernan were a
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-10-30

Oldest Settler Here Today
Charles NaSo Jones. deputy sheriff
of Carlsbad, was here on official busi-
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1909-04-01

If ii wasn't for Lent some peoples
unpopularlity would be great deal
more conspicuous.
There are a good many people who
would mediate occasionally if they
had enough initiative to scrape up
subject
1t won't be long now before His
Satanic majesty will resume opera
tons on full time that were curtailed
during the penitent season.
\ man who makes a good son, a
kind brother and a thoughtful sweet
heart can be trusted to fill the job as
husband fairly we'll.
One of the greatest drawbacks to
happiness is the big |.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1909-04-01

ton. The human machine is complicated
than the watch and is quite as responsive to de
fects The jeweler who would propose to adj
Just a watch by pouring oil in the key hole
would be cassed as a simpleton The prac-
tice of pouring drugs into the stomach to cure
diseases resulting from structural defects seems
equally as absurd. Until the allopathic school
recognizes such defects and the physiological
effects of the same and can give proof of its
ability to correct them, it can hardly lay claim
to a right to sit in judgment upon other
schools, whose records furnish abundant proof
of thousands of cures where allopathic medi-
cine had failed.
OSTEOPATHY.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1909-04-01
OSTEOPATIIY.

The more money some people have
the more ignorance they accumulate
in the matter of how to spend it
decently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
MT. Damrosch.

Walter Damrosch Is as popular social ly as he is great in the realm of musi- cal art. During his festival engagement many of Birminghams representative men and women have been presented to him and every one who has met him has been impressed with his ready wit, his broad knowledge of books and above all his kindly nature and hls charming grace of manner.
 ''Mr. Damroschs festival programmes indicate his catholic rtaste-catholic in the sense of being liberal and all-embracing in his relations to the worlds composers, |" said a music lover. His devotion to Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and other inn mortals does not prevent him from admir- ing and playing the work of composers whose rank Is not at the top, yet whose compositions nevertheless possess merit
 MT. Damrosch as a matter of course likes Dvoraks music and has it frequent ly on his programmes. By the way, MT. Damrosch thinks that Dvorak reached his high water mark when he wrote the largo in his American symphony, some times called the New World symphony It suggests the majestic loneliness of the primeval forest. In this largo the Eng fish horn carries the melody-and such a beautiful haunting medoly! It will be heard at the farewell concert Friday night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
For man is a gddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
 Much Ado About Nothing.
In the Tennessee Valley

Town Creek Is in Lawrence county nessee valley. There are only 2S4 peo- pie in Town Creek. or rather there were that number in 1890. There are more in that town now, for one doctor has attended the birth of IS sets of twins, three sets of triplets and one quadruplet, all. since 1906. It appears that on account of the air, water or soil. one or all combined, children are seldom born singly in Town Creek.
 Statistics of this nature are un- answerable. Town Creek is unmistak- ably prolific, and it Is wholly unneces- sary to attempt to ascertain whether the air or the soil or the water did 1t. The better chance is that all three are conspiring against births one at a time.
 But what Is true of Town Creek today may soon be true of the rest of the country and the complaint may spread to the Decaturs, which are in the next county, and it may become epidemic up and down the Tennessee valley. We'll, Alabama needs more whites, and the new development is confined to the whites. Let the good work therefore go on. Lawrence county is equal to the occasion. It can grow enough to feed it's babies, and that will be no small result as births are going in Town Creek at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
BIG NESTS IN ASTRALIA.

From the London GlobF
 In Australia are to be Dund the largest heaviest, and most perciiar nests in the world. These are the nsts of the jungle fowl, so called and are uilt in the form of great mounds, the serage measure ment in height being 15 eet and the cir conference 15O feet. Thelests are erected in secluded, sheltered sots, and as in the case of the small nes of birds, they are skillfully interwovn with leaves, grass and twigs and sun other suitable material as the fowl nay be able to procure. A similar sysem is followed by the bush turkey, whoe home is, how ever, more comprehensiv in design. It's shaps Is pyramidal. It hs been asserted by Australian naturalists that the nests of the bush turkeys, whth I've in colo nies, are so large that b r,move them requires the services of six oI seven men The material of a single net has been found to weigh upward of flv tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
Crops and Moisture In Alabama

This is the last day of April, and in good part of this state the rainfall exceeds normal by about six inches. In some sections the excess is above ten inches, and in no section has a deficiency been reported In other words, it is a wet spring season. This has delayed planting and seeding, but it has not delayed growth where farm CTS have succeeded in placing corn or cotton seed in the soil.
 As a rule precipitation and crops march step by step together. The more precipitation the more crop products later on. And rainfalls in the earlier months of the crop season are particu- larly beneficial.
 The farmers of Alabama are un- doubtedly striving not only to grow a great deal of cotton this year, but also a great deal of corn. No one expects Alabama to make her own corn, but if precipitation stays right up to or be- yond normal the state will buy little corn in the next crop year.
 Whenever Alabama grows its owu corn, long stride has been taken to- ward independence. There are other steps to be taken in the hog line, the insurance line, the small industry line and the dairy and poultry and truck farming lines, but all these other steps can be taken more readily when we know that Alabama is blowing deeper and is making her own corn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
Victim of Bad Checks.

T wish someone would devise a plan to protect the merchants of Birming- ham from these fellows who are habit ually going around town giving worth less checks" said a victim yesterday. When a nice looking young fellow who has been to my store frequently, comes to me and asks me to cash a check for him for $5 I do not feel like refusing, but we merchants really ought to refuse them all. I have in my safe now several checks for small amounts which are absolutely worth less, and find upon investigation that l have no recourse
 T took one of the checks to the bank and the teller told me it was the fifth or sixth that had been presented dur ing the day signed by the same man. and that all of them were worthless. am told that I cannot get at him for obtaining money under false pretenses because I did not ask him the point blank question whether he had enough money in the bank to cover the heck If the thing continues we Birmingham merchants are going to be compelled to shut down on everyone and that will certainly be hard to do. There ought to be some way to punish a man who will wilfully impose on good nature to get money on a check which he knows is not worth the paper it is written on."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
ARTIST AT THE PARTHENON

and ending in the museum behind the Psrthenon, added nothing to my previous knowledge-meager as it had been. Where the Venetians wrought the greatest havoc how many and what columns were thrown down; how high and thick and massive they were; what parts of the marvellous ruin that High Robber Chief Lord Elgin stole and carted off to London and still keeps, the British museum acting as "fence;" how wide and long and spacious was the superb chamber that held the statue the gods loved-none of these things interested me-do not now. What I saw was an epoch in stone; a chronicle telling the story of a civilization a glove thrown down to posterity, challenging the competition of the world.
 And with this came @ feeling of rev. erence so profound, so awe-inspiring, so humbling, that I caught myself speaking to Panis in whispers-as one does in a temple when the service is in progress. This, as the sun sped its course and the purple shadows of the coming night be- gan to creep up the steps and .colnmns Of the marvellous pile, it's pediment bathed In the rose glow of the fading day. was followed by a silence that neither of us cared to break. For then the >vondrous temple took on the semblanco of some old sage, the sunlight on his forehead, the shadow of the future about his knees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
re FIND LIFE ON MARS.
Construction of Enormous Telescope
 Advocated in Germany.

Berlin Cable to the New York Press
 The construction of an enormous tele- scope specially designed for the particular use to which it would be put is adyocted by Dr. Frederick S. Archenhold, director of the Treptow observatory. near Berlin for determining whether Mars is inhab- tied. Dr. Archenhold regards the propo- sal of Professor Pickering of Harvard to signal Mars by means of gigantic mir TOTS as interesting and worth trial but he thinks way may be found yet to settle the question by direct ocular evil dence.
 T believe" said he. If means can be obtained for the erection of a telescope of the right dimensions, it is not at all im- probable that we shall be able to declare definitely the conditions on the planet as regards habitation. What we require is telescope built on the general plan of that instantly in the Treptow observatory. only larger-say about 200 feet long-equpped with an apparatus for equalizing the at- mospherlc conditions within and without the tube. While with such an instrument We could not actually see living beings on Mars, If there be any, believe we should be able to detect evidences of habitation, such as cities, settlements and other traces of intelligent activity
 Dr. Archenhold estimates that the cost of such a telescope would be s375,0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
In Interest of Health.

whether the Birmingham City Coun- ell decides to arbitrarily cut off the sal ary of the health officer or not" said a member of the Jefferson County Medical association yesterday, ''the board of health will continue to look after the in terests of the people, and to guard the health of the community as they have in the past.
 "The physicians have no monetary in terest in this matter. They are entirely unselfish in 1t, and in spite of City Coun- cil or any other agency, they propose to do their best to maintain good health in Birmingham.
 "The association has been fighting for the use of a more modern and more cas- fly handled system, not for any personal reason, but for health necessity We have elected our health officer He is do- ing his duty, and we do not propose to do anything but continue the work, just as Ensley has done under the same cir cumstances.
 This Is the time of the year when the war against files should be waged earn estly. The first eggs are matching, after laying away for months. The birthplaces of these animals-stables, dirty trash cans and alleys-need special attention right now. The housewife should put in her screens and every precaution should be used for the extermination of this awful pest which is continually perpetuating its family by the millions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
REPORTERS LONG TRIP.

New York Cor Cincinnati Times-Star.
 The city editor of one of the New York papers has deserved reputation as a wit, which he Is striving at all costs to maintain. One of his best little bon mots was perpetrated the other day at the cost of a reporter of the paper, who had been out on an assignment. He was or dered some IA months ago to interview the captain of a steamer which had just made port after a frlghtful storm. When he
 got to the vessel the captain was pie eyed The reporter. being of a jovial
 disposition, took few bowls with him.
 Eventually the steamer got under way
 for it's home port in Maine, where 1t was
 designed to reft. The reporter and the captain, still cheering regularly, went with her.
 In Maine the steamer refitted, and the captain and the reporter continued their
 celebration of the dangers they had es-
 capped. The steamer left the Maine port and started on trip around the Horn to San Francisco. In California the re-
 porter, tired of sea-faring, worked on one of the papers there long enough to get the fare, and came back to New York.
 He walked into his office the other day to find the same city editor on the desk. | How do you do, MT. Pencil?" he said. | cheerily. The city editor looked up from | his work
 Get that story about the steamer. | Mac?" he asked, pushing up his green eye shade.
 NO" said Mac, srinning sheepishly. .aWell," said the city editor, "stav out | until you get it. Good-by." a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
WHY SHAKESPEARE FAILS TO
 DRAW.

Charming Pollock, in lay Smart Set.
 Judged by the requirements of today, Shakespeares plays fe as much an an- achronism as would ,e Robert Fulton's steamboats
 The standards of petry, the conditions bearing upon it, are mmutable. That is why Shakespeare's compositions continue to be our finest, ournost exquisite and majestic examples poetry. Drama. however, is somethin different It pur- poses and purports } reflect life and thought-the life andthought We know ana understand. Its Dpeal is and should be to the heart, and xists in proportion to our comprehension of the characters presented, and of the deas, emotions and conditions that actual them. The Greek drama. though admirole in its own age. was retired to the cloat when We ceased to be interested in le things that in- terested the Greeks. Similarly. we are losing enthusiasm forplays, whether by Shakespeare or by Arhony Hope, which treat of a period inwhich the biggest man was he who coul empty the biggest f1agon of ale and the attiest little dress CTS bought their troRrs at a hardware store. Our notion of omedy is no longer the spectacle of a oarse and drunken Falstaff, nor is our exception of tragedy stage strewn with aughtered Emilias, Desdemonas, lagos ar Othellos Shakes peace, were he amog us now, would be the first to realiz, the changed state of sentiment and senbility.
 Shakespeare is beig relegated to the library table, where h belongs and where he can be studied to ie very best adven- tage. His wonderfulines, more thickly Jeweled than any otIrs in English, are far too beautiful to e caught up from the lips of incompetet actors. The bard was the great antagoist of the spotlight; his loveliest speecheswere given to his minor characters, ad generally are spoken by the orstoerformers obtain able for the money.
 The value of Shakeseare is in the per lection of his rhetori and in his pic- lures of the manners md habits of the period he adorned. lis value had no concern with the stae, which is and should be mirror to fleet the present. and not telescope t search into the past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30

put before the public last summer, and the progress made since that time is marvellous. How soon the aeroplane will become commercially available cannot exactly be foreseen, but the pacet of the Wrights has been rapid and barring accidents it may continue to be so. They are studying the prob lem daily and as they work the year round the aeroplane which requires no roadbed and which is not in itself ex- pensiye may be rapidly developed. Hundreds of acute brains are at work, spurred on by the success of the Wrights, and the air may soon become as useful in transportation sense to man as the water is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
HonorS for the Wrlghts

All nations vie with each other in honoring the Wright brothers for their achievements in the use of heavier than-air machines. They signalized their experiments at Rome by forcing the aeroplane over the grass by it's own propellers until it sailed gracefully and swiftly into the air. No starting device whatever was used, and Wilbur Wright says all starting advantages will soon be abandoned altogether. When 1t Is known that an aeroplane can be started anywhere at any time a great advance in aviation will have been established.
 The truth Is, the conquest of the air is advancing much faster than the conquest of the water did, for the lat ter covered centuries. It is coming on much faster than the locomotive did, for that consumed fully 50 years. It is coming on even faster than the auto mobile did, for the first ones were used 20 years ago, and ten years ago they were considered untrustworthy. It has taken 20 years to bring automobiles fully up to the commercial stage.
 The Wright type of aeroplane was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
TOURISTS FLOCK TO PARIS.
Crush of Vehicles In Streets and Rates
 In Smart Hotels Go Up.

From Paris Letter to the New York
 Herald
 Paris Is said to be full and running over, and judging from the crush of ve- hicles on the boulevards, the Rue de la Paix and the adjacent streets the state ment seems to be exact Prices in the smart hotels, moreover, are said to be sky high in consequence of the demand for rooms, and some grumbling is heard; but, to quote one who pays s70 day for rooms alone, there is nothing to be done; if l give up my quarters there arc plenty of others to step into them at once"
 Eight dollars was paid lately at one hotel for a dish of strawberries for one person. A pregnant fact in this eonnec- tion is that the agencies are this spring, more than is usual, on the lookout for furnished apartments in behalf of people wishing to stop month or two in Paris, and who are averse to paying the smart hotel prices. One of them offered s700 a month for an apartment which is not large albeit large enough to house com fortably two well-to-do people accustomed to elbow room and up-to-date luxuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
VALUE OF WEEPING.

From the London Mirror.
 The Englishman might well take les son from his womanfolk, and, when under the stress of strong emotion, in- dulge in "a good cry"
 "The mental relief that may be ob- tained from weeping, in certain circum- stances is unknown to the average Eng lishman Continental people know 1t. and they are the napier for it." a well known scientist told the Daily Mirror
 "It is no uncommon thing to see Frenchmen or Germans weeping from pleasure or sorrow" he continued. "Yet the English boy from his earliest years is taught to stifle his natural faculty for crying, a faculty which, if exercised judiciously, would save him from world of worry in his later years.
 "I do not suggest that a man should weep at the slightest provocation any more than I suggest that he should fly into a temper go to sleep, or give way to uncomfortable laughing with out cause Excessive indulgence in any emotion is bad. But, just as 1t is well to give way to temper, to sleep, or to laughter at certain times. when na- ture demands it, so it is well to weep.
 "Weeping is natures own remedy for certain wounds. If you withhold the remedy, then you must endure the pain of the wound.
 Mental suffering in such forms as de- pression, sorrow, anxiety, and worry in all its multitudinous forms, can be re- lieved greatly by weeping and those who can gain speedy relief in this way are obviously filter to face the responsibilities of business life than those who suffer acutely for a prolonged period
 "Tberefore," added the scientist in con- clusion, "I say that men should not kill that very excellent balm for worry that nature has given them In the power of weeping"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
MT. Harrfman'S BilllOn-DolIa Scheme

The Hartman scheme to put all the New York Central lines into one cor poration having a total output of secur- tiles amounting to $997, 100000 would throw the Pennsylvania railroad sys- tenn with its Il ,000 miles of track in a dozen states into second place. The New York Central lines consist of 12,- 900 miles of track.
 In the civil war days the country was startled by Commodore Wander bilts s50,000,O0 consolidation scheme in New York Central lines-more startled than 1t is today by the harri- man billion-dollar scheme. So long as he is the monopolist and leader MT. Hartman Is convinced railroad mer- gers cannot be carried too far. How he can consolidate 20 railroads without including parallel and competing lines it is not easy to see. He will, how ever, attempt it and the legality of the consolidation will have to be deter mined in the courts.
 Where is this sort of thing to end? Is there to be a Hill-Harriman merger extending from ocean to ocean? Or is all this merger business a stepping stone to that other spectre-govern- ment ownership? It is a big problem in big country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
HOW BILLIARDS ORIGINATED.
World of Billiards.

From the World of Billiards.
 It is a fact not generally known that the game of billiards was invented by a pawnbroker William Kew by name. who f1ourished in London some time in the sixteenth century.
 This inventive avuncular relative of the needy used to employ his leisure hours in wet weather, when trade was dull, by taking down the three balls which were the insignia of his profession and pushing them about the counter of his shop with a yard stick, after >the man. ner of the game as at present played and using boxes fastened to the sides of his counter for pockets.
 Out of this was developed a table with fence of slight elevation about 1t to keep the balls from rolling on the floor and to enable the player to make what have since become known as cushion shots