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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

If Alaska gets a territorial govern
ment the esteemed Esldmos will be-
come American voters. and We should
be careful not to SANDER them in the
course of the Cook-Peary controversy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
is 1T POSSIBLE?

The fact that one of the candidates run-
ming for governor of Alabama deserted
MS guns and withdrew to change his
underwear, so he wouldn't catch cold,
mas attracted widespread attention. Ia
1t possible that we have mollycoddle
candidates in Alabama?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Attorney General Williams of Ore
gon and of the Grant administration is
alive and is still holding office. He
has the office-holding habit in its most
chronic form.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

A colossal statute in white marble
emblematic of purity is being erected
just at the head of the Tenderloin in
New York, but one statue will not
clear the reputation of that locality.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
CLoUDLAND.

Cloudland. Cloudland.
We're bound to conquer Cloudland,
Who rides bueking aeroplane
against the wind with might and main.
Through thunder claps and gusts of rain
VIII be the king of Cloudlandl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
ADRlFT WITH THE TINES

the cup to its bitter dregs and waste not
drop and die, knowing that they had
lived to the utmost bounds of human
experience.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Oregon and Illinois, as well as New
York, are trying to collect inheritance
taxes from the Hartman estate If
all succeed the widow may get but a
mite after all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Pennsylvania pure food men are
camping on the trail of sausages
stuffed with potatoes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Uncle Joe Cannon is kept busy in
his vacation days compiling an I'M
pleasant scrapbook from material sent
him by the clipping bureaus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

All the trusts and capitalists should
remember that fat pay envelopes make
merry Christmas and it is not early
to send them out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
About Persons.

DR.. William A. Lovett of Brewton has
moved to Birmingham and will go into
partnership with Dr. Lorenzo Luclzie, the
well-known dentist.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

A statue of Purity in the Rialtoi
The next statue should be erected to
honest government at Aldrich's home
in Rhode Island
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
SIZING HIM UP.

do you suppose that fellow with the
pink necktie has a job?"
IF he has, he probably calls it a posi-
ton"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Albert Pulitzer committed suicide in
Vienna, but he left nevertheless, &c.
900 900 in New York
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

The democrats up north still have
Judson Harmon of Ohio and Thomas
R. Marshall of Indiana, both COVER
nors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Those big trees In California did
not so much feel their size when Pres
ident Taft stood among them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
NEIGHBoRHooD J1NGLEs.

l.
There was a man in our town
Who had a little wife
And he and she they spent their days
In unremitting strife.
The neighbors all declared il was
nuisance and a shame,
But watched the two contending and
Enjoyed it just the same.
There was a certain woman who
Talked sixteen hours day,
And even then she only said
Bout half she wished to say.
Her husband was a silent man
With patches on his pants
And never spoke a word because
He didn't get the chance
III
There was a maiden passing fair
Who lived next door to me;
That she believed herself queen
Was very plain to see.
She novels read and had for swain
natty clothing clerk.
And liked to play the lady while
Her mother aid the work
".
There was a youth two doors below
Whose love for cigarettes
Was most pronounced, his brain was nil,
His father paid his debts
He wore such noisy shirts and socks
He kept US all awake
And often tarried from his bed
TIL day was bout to break.
NO CHANCE TO FIND OUT.
Us he an out-spoken man?'
Il don't know. Every time I meet him
IL -.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Take the safe side when you know
the state already has prohibition of
the most drastic nature Don't I'M
necessarily mar the states fundament-
al law
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

These autumnal would be per-
feet if good rain and light frost
would come along to perfect them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

The Georgia Tech in Atlanta makes
more noise, but the Alabama Tech at
Auburn matriculates more students.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
PLEASING THE p11R1Jc

Put ON a play that makes them think
And people will not co.
But gracious. how they flock to see
A girly-girly show
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

The cotton mills should begin to
conform to 13-cent cotton, for it has
come to stay a full year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

The Wrights never slop over, but
when a stunt is laid before them they
always have the goods
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

The Pirates will rank high as ami
NAL trainers if they succeed in tax
ing into camp the Tigers as they had
the Cubs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
GETTING AT THE FACTS.

of 81 a week"
And lived with your father WHILE
1 suspect"
"Um-wen, yes, I did"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Hoke Smith Is said to be harboring
a desire to supplant Lon. Livingston
In Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
THE SELFISH MAN.

- e7i-Sn 1911 MAN.
somewhere the sun is shining"
A poet sings in glee;
Fish' tush! what goods that doing,
II It doesn't shine on me?
Each cloud s a silver lining
men present gloom doth hide"
such tax but makes me weary
I'm on the darker side.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

The age Of Ann is not in it with
the latest question, "How many pen
MES make bushel?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

General Bingham has not been
heard from in New York's pending
campaign, but doubtless the nine gods
of war will yet be duly brought to
bear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
AMRIGrn1

He plead for a kiss"
What was the answer?"
A smack in the mouth"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

marx Twain attended his daughters
wedding in scarlet university gown.
Afterward he wore white flannel. Far
be 1t from us TO suggest lunacy COM
mission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic.

Harry NJ. Atkinson and S. F. PARROT Of
Atlanta, receivers of the Atlantas Biz
mingham and Atlantic railroad, who ar
rived In Birmingham Thursday, left last
night. In company with Alexander Bon
nyman. general manager and chief en-
gineer, the receivers have been inspecting
the construction work between Pelham
and Mulga, and looking over the plans
for completing the line from Bessemer
into Birmingham.
I'VE expect to be running our trains
into Birmingham over our own tracks by
April L." said Mr.. Atkinson yesterday.
I'VE have been retarded at this end some
what by one or two of the outlying mu-
inequalities touching right-of-way mat
tiers, but it is our hope now to see the
construction forces in operation very
shortly. Everything should be completed
as l have minated by April.
1.-The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
road is already developing a fertile coun-
try and making 1t tributary to Birming-
ham, and within the next year or two will
prove to be a rich feeder to this city.
The Birmingham district has a splendid
future and our company has made no
mistake in building when 1t did,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

An Ohio man wants a divorce because
his wife would not accompany him to
church. He must be so good he's tire
some.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
lmendment for political and other reas-

amendment for political and other reas-
ons.
There are many who feel that the pro.
hibition movement has been carried far
enough, and are getting tired of SO much
agitation of the matter. They can see no
real virtue in the amendment, and will
either stay way from the polls or vote
against 1t, believing that it is best to
leave well enough alone"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09
The sollth,s ProsneritY.

Edgar Cufrier, formerly of Petersburg,
Va, but now resident of Tarboro. n.
c.. is registered at the Hillman. He is
one of the best known and most popu-
lar commercial travellers in the country.
He has for many years represented
large company of Philadelphia that manu-
features knit goods and athletic goods.
Il make two trips south every year,
said Mr.. Currier. when [ was in this
part of the country last spring I fouAd
business improving and today find still
greater improvement. [ have just arrived
in Birmingham coming here from At
lanta. It did not take long for me to
find that the merchants here were pros
pering and before 1 leave I expect to book
many good orders
Atlanta is enjoying a high degree OF
prosperity and the same may be said Of
Savannah and other Georgia cities. The
south is in a strong position from a COM
mercial point of view-stronger today
than ever before. The short cotton crop
means a high price for the staple and
the farmer will receive as much money
for what cotton he has as II the crop had
been large. In many cases the farmer
will have even more money. 1t is gener-
ally felt that next year will be one of
unparalleled prosperity in every part Of
the United States. The south will GER
tainly BOOM"
In referring to the prohibition wave Mr..
Currier said 1t seemed to be spending It.
self in some sections, especially in Vir'
gina.
In North Carolina prohibition is work.
ing reasonably we'll" said Mr.. Currier.
lone of the leading merchants of Char
lotte told me the other day that prohibit
ton had had good effect on that COM
munity In the smaller towns prohibition
usually gives satisfaction, but In LARGE
cities high license and strict regulation
are most commencing themselves to the
friends of real temperance.
Georgia is called a prohibition state
but as the sale of beer is legalized there
it Is hardly correct to put it in the prohi-
btion column any longer. The people
of Atlanta seem to be very well pleased
with the beer saloon for / was told that
there had been comparatively little de-
mand for whisky since the legislature
recognized near beer, which is but an
other name for real beer. In Savannah
/ found the old-time saloon doing BUSH
ness, public sentiment in that city APP
parently approving the whisky traffic.
And after all public sentiment rules
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

NO CHANCE TO FIND OUT.
Us he an out-spoken man?'
Il don't know. Every time meet hin
his wifes with him"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

What Admiral Evans said about adj
verse criticisms of the navy may be
strictly true, but we shan't repeat it
here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Being King Edwards summer girl
is great boost for anybody who be-
lieves in art for arts sake
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

The Kansas man who is drinking the
last of his live stock and farm machin-
cry, after having drunk a quarter-sec-
ton farm, is being mentioned in the
newspapers again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Women who go out in the highways
and byways shouting for reform could
always find a few hooks and crannies
about home where dirt collects, if they'd
take the trouble to look.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-09

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala.
second -olass uattef hnut
act of Congress March g. 1879.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10

/. Ere m I hout of a job these six
months, lookin' fer work every dye an
carn't find ii Sezee, Come an see me
this hevenin at me ome. Nome Frog
nall stryte,' e sez, an
"That'll do for now. You borrow a
pencil and paper and write it down ana
I'll read it when I've got more time:
I never heard the like OF il. This 'ouse
hasn't been lived in these two years.
Move on, and don't let me find you
round ere again. March. 1 say.
There was more of it-more whining
explanations, artfully tinctured with
abuse, more terse commands to depart
the whole. concluding with scraping
footsteps. diminuendo, and another
perfunctory rattle of the knob as the
bobby, having shoo'd the putative evil
doer off. assured himself that no dam
age had actually been done. Then he
too. departed, satisfied and self-right-
eous, leaving a badly frightened but
very grateful amateur criminal to pur-
sue his self-appointed career of crime.
He had no choice other than to con-
tinue; in point of fact, 1t had been in
sanity just then to back out and run
the risk of apprehension at the hands
Of that ubiquitous bobby, who (for all
he knew might be lurking not a dozen
yards distant, watchful for Just such a.
sequel. Still, Kirkwood hesitated with
the best of excuses. Reassuring as he
had found the sentineps extemporized
yarn-proof positive that the fellow
had had no more right to prohibit a tres
pass than kirkwood TO commit one-at
the same time he found himself par
donably prey to emotions of the ut
most CONSERVATION and alarm. II he
feared to leave the house he had no
warrant whatever to assume that he
would be permitted to remain many
minutes unharmed within its walls of
mystery.
The silence of 1T discounted him be-
yond measure; it was, in a word, un-
canny.
Before him, as he fingered at the
door, vaguely disclosed by wan illum-
ination penetrating a dusty and be-
grimed fanlight a broad hall stretched
indefinitely toward the rear of the
building. losing itself in blackness be-
yond the foot of flight of stairs Save
for a few articles of furniture-a hall
table, an umbrella stand. a tall dumb
clock fianked by high backed chairs
it was empty Other than Kirkwood's
own restrained respiration not a sound
throughout the house advertised it's in
habitation; not a board creaked, be-
meath the pressure of foot. mot a
mouse rustled in the wainscoting or
beneath the floors. not a breath Of air
stirred signing in the stiffness.
And yet. a tremendous racket had
been raised at the front door within
the so seconds past And yet, within
90 minutes two persons. at least, had
preceded kirkwood into the building,
Had they not heard2 The speculation
seemed ridiculous Or had they heard
and. alarmed. been too effectually hob
bled by the coils of their nefarious de-
signs to dare reveal themselves to In
summons? Or were they, perhaps.
aware OF Kirkwood's entrance, and ly-
ing perdu in some dark corner to am
bush him as he passed?
True, that were hardly like the girl.
True, on the other hand, it were possible
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
CHAPTER v
The My.tery of a Four wheeler

NNY PHATS that?" At the first
alarm the girl had caught
w convulsively at Kirkwood's 5
arm. Now, when a pause
came in the growing of the knocker.
she made him hear her voice; and 1t
was broken and vibrant with threat
of hysteria. "Oh. what can it mean
Il don't know. He laid a hand
reassuringly over that which trembIed
on his forearm The police. possibly" F"
"Police." she reiterated. aghast.
what makes you think?
"A man tried to stop me at the door.
he answered quickly. Il got in before
he could. When he tried the knocker
a bobby came along and stopped him.
The latter may have been watching
the house since then-itd be only his
duty TO keep an eye on it; and heaven
knows we raised racket. coming head
first down those stairs. Now we are
up against it, he added brightly.
But the girl was tugging at his hand
Come she begged breathlessly.
Come. There is way. Before they
break in
back. troubled
"They-the police are sure to find and
care for him.
so they Will" He chuckled. "And
serve him right He'd have choked
me to death, with all the good will in
the world"
"Oh, do hurry
Turning. she sped light footed down
the staircase to the lower hall. he at
her elbow Here the uproar was loud
est-deep enough to drown whatever
sounds might have been made by two
pairs of flying feet For all that they
fed on tiptoe, stea1thily, guilty shad-
ows in the night; and at the newell post
swung back into the unbroken black
ness which shrouded the Businesses
backward of the dwelling. A sudden
access of fury on the part OF the
alarmist at the knocker spurred them
on with quaking hearts In half a
dozen strides. Kirkwood. guided only
by instinct and the frou-frou OF the
girls skirts as she ran invisible. be-
fore him. stumbled on the uppermost
steps of a steep staircase only a hand
rail saved him. and that at the last
into caution. From below came con-
trite whisper: I'm so sorry. I should
have warned you
lie pulled himself together, gIaring
wildly at nothing. IT'S all right
You're not hurt. truly? Oh. do come
quickly.
She waited for him at the bottom of
the fiight-happily for him, for ne was
all at sea.
'Here-your hand-let me guide you.
This darkness is dreadful "
He found her hand. somehow. and
tucked his into II. confidingly. and not
without an uncertain thrill OF salts
faction.
Gomez she painted Come. If they
break in
stihed by apprehension. her voice
failed her.
They went forward. now less inn
petuously, for it was very black. and
the knocker had fallen still.
No fear of that" he remarked after
a time They wouldn't dare break in
A futtering whisper answered him.
Il don't know We dare risk nothing"
They seemed to explore, to penetrate
acres of labyrinthine chambers and
passages. delving deep into the bowels
Of the earth, like rabbits burrowing In
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
CHAPTER Nv.
Q Frognan Street. w. q.

Frognan street, w. c.
r he covered aIleyway gave upon
Quadrant news; or so declared
notice painted on the dead wall
OF the passage
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10

To Be Cotinaed Next week
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-17

| claimants AS not less than SIS 00e 600.
Two millions ~ this sum * IN cash
ana six millions in securities one MIR
lion represents the value . the jew
clry that has been found and the mis-
%ceHaneous articles are valued 1t -four
millions more. Many or the articles
were found In the rigid clutch Of men
aud ONE and little children who
could not be identified.
The mi-cr who had boarded away
his centesimi and soldi. or ever his
notes 81 the Banco al Stella. was
made in the twinkiiuE Of an eye as
poor as the humblest fshmonger at
the morning market or blind btggar
az the door Of the cathedral The
grand lady could not keep her ma
%ioliea. her Etruscan vases or her
green brenze Dancing Faun. and the
poor little street singer had 10 give up
her cheap necklace Of coral or gray
lava 10 the hand Of sudden death. as
the priest had TO relinquish his golden
crucifix or his rosary. Social distinc-
were no more, and meant
nothing and all that the people Of
Mcssina owned is now piled indiscrlm-
inatcIy. Just as their indistinguisha-
bile bodies were buried when dragged
form from the ruins OF the city.
Behind the states inheritance ~ the
$4,000 600 IL human tragedy without
a parallel IN the worlds history.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-17
IN MOIiiaM

tn mortal remains ~ the late Max
st VIII be- deposited In their last
resting place At santa f.. with high
ess Masonic honors. al two o'clock this
afternoon
Though Colonel Frost had long ago
stamped his personality indelibly up
on the public affairs of his territory.
and was everywhere recognized as ono
~ the ablest contributors to the
American chapter of the history Of
New Mexico DE was sttll "a compare
lively young man. having not yet
reached his nfty-elghth birthday.
he VAS just a. the ago when. given
fair physical health IN connection
with his brilliant mental endowment
and his strenuous nervous equipment.
he could have done his best work.
but the fatcs were against him. and
by reason OF one terrible affiiction
after another he suffered al the pangs
~ death IN NE for e number Of years
before his final surrender to the alt.
%conqueror, and made a struggle for.
existence which. for moral and ply
slcal hcroisn haa few equals in his
tory. but the sun Of his life went
down at tho high noon OF his useful
ness
BY reason Of his long connection
with The press in New Mexico. col
Frosts pungcnt pencil backed by his
dauntless courage. brought him into
frequent ANA many times very bitter
conflict with his contemporaries in
many parts of tho territory, bat he
never attempted Ia dodge amy meas
IRE az the responsibility for his acts
and IN every combat was always ready
90 take ps wcll ms To- give No man had
better means of knowing thcse factsl
than the Wfitor of this who has metl
him In the open times without num-
bcr. hut an tho onrnses that we mnyI
have charged up to him during the
contests ~ years are rhcerfully FOR
eiyeu eud forgotten. and $500 sond only
tho klndiiest OF good wishes as he
To- solve the mystery ~ the ages.
Al OF his good deeds ana generous
impulses shan be cherished while
memory holds its seat. ana all causes
~ difference thar may have arisen in
the Years that ere past shall Doe bur
with MS bones. that they may not
as @ cloud. nor even as q shadow
upon his final clearance for the cter-
nal better poaee To his ashes. and