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Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04
Two Hundred Eishe

Two Hundred Fishermen have been drowned by the capsizing of their boats by a typhoon on the river Ann GOT, near Nicolaievsk
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

The Embarrassed Shoe Manufactur- ing Firm of Perkins, Hardy & CO, of Boston and Derry, N. Ill., was peti- toned into bankruptcy yesterday. The liabilities are $60o,000 and assets $400,- 900.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Pennsylvania Steel Company Is op- erating between 75 and so per cent. of it's capacity, and has sufficient or CTS on it's books to keep the rail mills in steady operation until the latter part of October.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Prominent Citizens of Montana are engaged in formulating d plan for the erection of q permanent set of build ings on the fair grounds at Helena, which will involve the sale of $500,000 bOnds by the state for the pmrpOse.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04
Punch,s Head Cartoonlst Dead.

London, Aug. 3.-Edward IinIey Sambeurne, chief cartoonist of Punch, died today after a long illness
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Berlin, Aug. 3.-The prefect of police has forbidden under severe penalties, the admission of children under IA, with or without parents, to moving picture shows after o'clock in the evening The step is taken owing to and immortality in these exhibitions.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Hamburg, Aug. 3.-At the fourteenth round of the international chess mas ters' tourney today the American, Frank J. Marshall, suffered another defeat, this time at the hands of Teichmann. The leaders scores to date: Schlechter and Neimsowitsch, g 1-2 each; Duras, s; Teichmann, 1-2: Chotimirski, Marshall and Spielman, ' each.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Boston's Tax Rate Tor 1g1U VIII De S16.40 or 10 cents less than it has been for two years past. IL is understood there has been an increase of some 25 per cent. in valuation of real estate and 10 per cent. in personal property.
 Because of a Shortage of Orders for goods. notices were posted yesterday in the wooden mills of Sanford, Ken nebunk and Springvale, Me, announc- ing that until further notice the fac tories wfA be operated but four days weekly. About 2G00 hands in the three villages are affected.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Tokio. Aug. 3.-The wife of Major Harry L. Hawthorne, military attache to the American embassy, died today at their summer residence outside the city. Major and Mrs Hawthorne had been but short time in Tokio Major Hawthorne having been presented to the emperor only in March of this year.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Enschede, Holland, Aug 3.-A dis pute over wages between the bill own CTS and employees of the cotton mills, which form the chief industry of En- schede resulted today in a complete lockout at the mills. About 10000 op- eratives are locked out.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Owing to the Discovery of Plot against President Gomez many promi- nent Nenezueians have been imprison- ed or have fled.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04
Steamship Arrivals

,. At Liverpool. Aug. B. csmpania- from New York ls
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

Senator Root Began the Closing argument for America in the New foundland fisheries case at The Hague, basing contentious on the treaty of ISIS
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04

The First Distribution of Bonuses by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. under the profit sharing plan will be distributed within few days and will reach $100,000 to 5000 men.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04
Al Cronstadt Russ;.

At Cronstadt, Russia, six men were killed Tuesday and fourteen injured by an explosion on a torpedo boat ly ing in the haroor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11

Yelt are disgusted with his course as te
 the tarlff and the Taft administration
 These men are inclined to say that he
 was a rampant insurgent at osawatomie and a standpatter at Saratoga. and they nave no patience with his attempt to play politics in both camps. It is difficult to play winning politics on one line in both the middle west and in New York, and everytime he attempts to reconcile his position at Osawatomie with that at sar atoga he renders his position still more awkward and embarrassing.
 In the meanwhile, where does he really tand in relation to the present tariff act? 3niess he answers this question bravely nd infinehingly and comprehensively he annot much longer maintain his popu- arity west of Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
Census Padding a National Sin

Y Ten years ago the census of St. Jo- about 10000, and in the census of this year it shows a decrease of 25,576. This was no doubt the boldest job of padding ever executed in this country. The Mis- -sourians are incensed over Director Du- rands statements in regard to St. Jo- seph, but the figures of the present year show that the director knows whereof he affirms.
 Padding is an offense by no means confined to St. Joseph. Three padders in Montana have already been tried and convicted and sent to prison. and Direc- 20 more persons will be indicted as pad ders. It is sin of long standing and every census is beset by it. The names of hotel guests are freely used by the padders. These offenders are oftentimes more sordld than patriotic, for every 1000 names fictitiously added to the count they get $2o. The census office is alert in this matter. but still some padding is inevitable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
THE DRAMA OF CRIME

skulI was fractured and two dents m the hone corresponded exactly with the claws of a hammer found in the house, As she was known to have frequent ouarrels with her husband he was ar rested and charged with murder. aA
 In defense he produced witnesses who swore that the woman had fallen in the street the night before. But this would have served him little if some one had
 not thought of examining her bonnet.
 The bonnet was found, and there, too,
 were the two dents. Moreover, these
 dents were filled with street mud, and by this trife the innocent man was saved from the scaffold. l | At Bodmin, some time ago, blood ana few hairs found on stone beside the dead body of a woman sent a man to
 the soerold. He had been seen with the | same ston~-t---i.f nanu sorre -tirr1r before
 the deed. afef fs 1 On the other hand, a hammer with blood and hairs was found under the bed {, of man charged with murder, and he
 would have stood little chance of escape
 but that the doctor proved that the hairs
 were those of goat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
WHERE KEATS SLEEPS
From the London Globe.


 The municipality of Rome has adopted the convention regarding the Protestant cemetery proposed by the German ambassador, Herr von Jagow. Sig. Nathan and Sir Rennell Rodd. This news will be great relief to all admirers of Keats who have, ever since 1887. been trembling lest the piano regolatore '' whereby road would be made right through the old cemetery where he is buried should be carried into effect. In 1887 the danger was, says Mundus. the polyglot review published in Rome. averted only by the intervention of Queen Victoria, who wrote 10 King Humbert asking him to exert his in- fuence 10 preserve the spot made sa cred by so many memories, and, thanks to the king, the idea of the road was dropped for the time being. It has re- 'ently been revived, but now that this has been adopted, it is to | 'e hoped that this beautiful corner will 'e left untouched forever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
What cannot be avoided, 'rwere childish weakness to lament or fear -3 King Henry VI
Future of Cotton Prices

Any cold wave in the cotton belt will
 put up the prices of cotton, for no one
 now anticipates a crop exceeding 12-
 000,000 bales and Ellison says the world needs an American crop of 12.6G5. GOO bales. An early frost would reduce a crop that the governments October estimate puts above last October's es- timate but below all other October estimates back to 1903. An increased acreage will lift the crop above that of last year.
 But prices are tending upward. and 1 the farmers, says the New Orleans i Times-Democrat seem disposed 10 sell enough to pay their debts and hold the remainder.
 Beyond moderate deterioration in the crop as a whole and the damages of the boil weevil in three states. not much can be said about the outcome of the crop pending the arrival of the first killing frost. In the meanwhile II cents is freely offered to the farmer. and he has seen many a year when tbat price would have been very accent ,ble
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11

l From the San Francisco Chronicle,
 Hindoos have been coming into this DOT. at the rate of about 5000 3 year, with
 indications of a fapid and indefinite in
 crease. This invasion is doubtless the re-
 suit of systematic stimulation by steam.
 ship companies. and the inflow of the
 coolies is increasing so rapidly as to ex
 cite real alarm. There is no law under which these undeslrables can be turned
 back if they are free from disease and not likely to become public charges. All these immigrants seem to be provided with cash sufficient to keep them alive for few weeks, which is all that the law requires of a healthy man. While by no means sturdy looking lot, nearly all the Hinioos have passed the medical examination, as in spite of their appear ance no infectious or conta gious disease could be detected. The discovery of Dr. Glover that 65 per cent of small num- | per of Hindoos under observation were afflicted with the hookworm disease eems to open the way to check this If anything ike that ratio If sufferers is found to exist in future i'm ortations, the steamship companies will themselves put an end to the traffic. as hey are obliged to return at their own xpense all aliens who are denied admis ion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
TOO STRONG TO BE CURED n, uarpar's Mapa zine

From Harper 5 MdSdziue.
 Now that we look back upon our ex- perience, we realize that Brides-les- Bains is the most serious cure of the many that we encountered. We are so apt to associate the Latins with light ness of purpose that 1t took us two days to realize that the visitors did not arise at in the morning with the sole intention of talking some more, nor that they went to bed at 10 because the lights were turned out. More than that while there was a casino and a band, there wass no gambling, and the Frenchman who spends his holiday without the comfort of the little horses must have very bad liver indeed. And more than all this, to prove the sincerity of the cure. the consulting physician pro- nounced the Illustrator to be unfit for the drinking of the waters
 My companion and I drew in our
 breaths sharply at this announcement. My jaded conscience pricked me Dit perhaps. after all. the man was i'll! The man himself cast upon me a heterogen-
 eqls look of despair and triumph. You mean,s he said to the physician, "that I am not we'll enough to stand the treatment?'
 Mon Dieu. mo-" replied the honest soul; you are too well-you do not need the waters!'
 He paused dramatically, waiting for an ecstatic acceptance of his verdict. And he is still waiting, and wondering at the strangeness of the American who went away sorrowfully like the rich young man of the Bible. and. passing through the shaded walk. gazed wist- fully at the mountains of flesh gathered thands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
LIMITED ANONYMITY

From Scraps.
 Booker T. Washington, at the Nation al Negro Business leagues convention last month, praised the modesty of the anonymous giver. But, of course,' he added, 'when I praise anonymity I don't include the kind-common enough among philanthropists - that Deacon Brown of Loachapoka. favored. Loach- apoka is a little place not far from Tusk egee, Deacon Brown arose in the church there on Sunday morning to read a list of subscribers to the mis- sionary fund. He began: The Rev. Cal houn Travers, SIC; Brother Stephen Stripes, s5; Sister Phoebe Rice, $7; anonymous donor, myself, $6'."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
Colonel RooseYelt'S Awkward Tariff Views

The backing and filling of Theodore Roosevelt on and over and around the Aldrich tariff is the sport and sensation of the hour. In Atlanta he endeavored to attribute the tariff plank to his wicked partners. In order So put down the bosses and crooks of the party and to put up direct primaries. he had to work with men who did not otherwise agree with him. q worked" he said in Atlan- to, with many men who on one or more other points did not agree with me. We sards the points that in that particular district were minor because it was abso- lutely essential to good citizenship that we should win on the vital issues that we should win on the great principles of insisting that there should be no pardon for the dishonest public servant and least of all for the dishonest public ser want of our own party; that no boss or group of bosses should rule the party and that the people should exercise their right to coAtrol their own affairs"
 This would have been all right if the colonel had at Atlanta or anywhere else clearly and comprehensively stated his own tariff views, and especially what he thinks of the Aldrich tariff and of the influences that devised and passed it. In . partial and hidden way he has touched on the subject at times. but at no time and in no place has he had the manliness to say just what he thinks of the Aldrch instrument He seems to be willing tc discuss almost every other subject witt emphasis and bold distinctness, but in re. Iation to the tarifr and Aldrichism he is hesitating, uncertain. and obscure to g degree tha tdoes not enable any one tc gay where he stands.
 C Some of the admirers of Colonel Roose-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
Aviation Knows No Limits

The attempt to fly from Chicago to
 New York with occasional stops to
 procure gasoline and lubrfcating ma
 terial is but an indication of the dar-
 ing that fills the breasts of modern
 aviators alike in this country and
 across the sea. Beyond all doubt the
 boldest attempt of the present year
 will be the one that carried the ill.,
 fated Chavez over the Alps to meet death in the smooth country beyond
 The progress of the art is ranid and it's commercial stage will be reached much sooner than many have antic,- | pated. The aeroplane must follow in the track of other great inventions to be by practice and experience and the close study of many minds brougbt 10 practiced use and value. It will as. 'uredly be rendered a useful and val 'aple agent of mans needs, and the Wright brothers will stand in history S the men who first rendered the con.
 uest of the air feasible. r The presence here in Birmingham this ( eek of a Wright bfplane in comnetert ands affords the people of Alabama n opportunity to study the art as fl | ands today. Of one thing we may fee, W 'sured, no backward steps of sur b Huer VIII be taken on the new art. le air Is to be conquered to inc
 es of mankind, and the early efforts Q
 that direction are for that reason n itruetiYe and deeply Interesting. o,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
pex.rd,nr Musicianship

"Now that Birmingham has grown to be a city of upward of 132,OOo in popula- ton, all traces of provincialism shouiu disappear" said a musically educaeeu man. though not a professional.
 .'In most respects Birmingham has ways, but l find that great deal of mediocre music is still Tn eVi- dence here. Twenty years ago did not expect to find many high-class music teachers Most of the pianoforte teach- ing and the voice teaching was poor ana unmusicianly, and I was not surpriseu' Today, however, while there are some eX- cellent teachers here-trained ana cor sjcentious teaehers-many are stili HACK Ing in solid musical attachments and III | the fundamental principles of musica pedagogics. Thirty or forty years ago T
 was rare to find in the south native
 born music teacher, who knew how 10 as
 certain what key piece was written Tn
 or to appreciate the good of knowini
 even if one could find out In otne
 words. teachers in years past-north a well as south-were miserably equipped They knew no musical theory never ap nreciated the importance Of stuoyh counterpoint, and never even knew, ID
 deed. that music had an intelectual sio
 to it. The fact is that music as an al has a profound philosophy and require not only technical skill to execute it, p' {, broad culture and poetic insight to in'el , pret it.
 America abounds in finely educate musicians now, and no city should
 considered out of the provincial class
 long as poor teaching or poor piayins ? any instrument-piano, violin, reed . lhrass are tolerated..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
LITTLE KNOWN SHAKESPEARE

From Collins "Ephemera Critica"
 More than a century ago George Stew ems wrote: "All that can be known with any degree of certainty about Shake on-Avon, married and had children there. went to London, where he commenced acting, wrote poems and plays, returned to Stratford, made his will, died and was buried there"
 And, if we set aside probable infer ences, this is all we do know of any importance about his life His pedigree cannot certainly be traced beyond his father. Nothing Is known of the place of his education-that he was educated at the Stratford Grammar school is pure presumption. His life between his birth and the publication of Venus and Adonis," in 1893, is an absolute blank It is at least doubtful whether the supposed alluson to him in Greene's "Groat's Worth of Wit" and in Chettle's Kind Hearts Dream" have any reference to him at all. It is still more doubtful whether the William Shakespeare of Adrian Quiney's letter or of the Rogers and Addenbroke summonses, or the Will liam Shakespeare who was assessed for property in St. Helens, Bishopsgate. was the poet. We know practically nothing of his life in London or of the date of bis arrival in London; we are ignorant of the date of his return to Stratford, of his of his habits, of his last days, of the cause of his death. Not a sentence that fell from his lips has been authentically recorded. At least one-half of the alleged facts of his biography Is as purely apoc- ryphal as the life of Homer attributed to Herodotus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Marriage teaches a woman to stay in harness and man to kick oyer the traces.
 When man can grow poetical about his wife's foot she wouldn't trade him for a king.
 If you want to learn how to add 20 to |18 and make 1t 26. be an old maid.
 You can't make a man go to. church when he has nothing smaller than bills for the collection plate.
 For income purposes, the first of the month seems to come about once a year for paying bills 1t seems to be here every other day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
MAKING THE LAND WORK

From Harpers Magazine
 Tn the third quarter of the last cen tury the vineyards of Europe were over taken by the phylloxera, a minute insect which lives upon the roots or the Vihe and eventually destroys 1t. At nrst It anneared as though no means could be found to combat the pestlenee, but eraduallv various remedies have been discovered, of which the most widely
 applied has been the employment ol American species of vine as the uhoer- ground stocks, upon which the olo va r,eties esteemed for making wine were then prafted. The American vine IS strong enough to resist the attack oi the narasite: it even confers a new vlgor
 eS X yielding power upon the more os' z " -.,-.4a.. yrane tsat |. rrfes -S pean vineyards have not only been re- generated, but also made to produce
 more wine per acre than before the ad-
 vent of the phylloxera. But s.the moyf
 famous vineyards, where are grown -ths
 grands crus that bear a name all the world over, have hesitated to use tho
 American stock, fearing such a deterioration in the quality of the
 grape as would never be compensated
 for by any increase of the quality. The
 remedy against phylloxera on which they have chiefly relied has been the
 jection into the soil of small quantities
 of carbon disulphide, volatile liquid giving rise to a heavy poisonous vapor
 It was found that this vapor diffused
 through the soil and killed the phylox- era. while the root of the vine took nc
 harm. Tn this way the phylloxera car be kept in check if not actually stamped
 out but the expense of the process linn it's it's adoption except in the most valu-
 able vineyards. The point of this story is that a certain Alsation vine grower before, 1894 made the observation that
 land which had thus been treated with
 carbon disulphide became more produc-
 tive than it was before, even when the
 destruction of the phyloxera was Jeff
 entirely out of the question But this observation remain unappreciated, just
 like the similar records of the gain ir fertility brought about by heating the soil to the temperature of boiling water However, conirmatory evidence gradu' ally acrued, until such scientific mer
 as concern themselves with the soil have
 within the last few years become con- vinced that there was a real and nove set of phenomena to be explained Some of the United States station workers even began to advocate the steam heat | ing of soil destined for the growth ol
 plants in greenhouses; they maintained that not only was freedom from certain | fungoid diseases and animal pests thus secured, but that the productiveness oi the soil was sufficiently raised to pa, | for the treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
NO TIME FOR REJOICING

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 Luther Burbank, the plant wizard, at a dinner at Santa Rosa, praised California as a winter and summer resort.
 Besides our superb climate and oud superb scenery ended MT. Burbank, there is the further advantage of our reasonable prices. There are no Monte Carlo prices here.
 "At Monte Carlo hotel the proprietor said one day to the clerk:
 Has Lord Loftus, room 373, received his bill yet?
 "'Yes, sir said the clerk, T sent it up to him an hour ago.
 'Strange. said the proprietor. AS passed his door just now I heard him singing''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
The Mascot Of inc Fair

"The mascot of the fair is. or ought to be, the beautiful Jersey calf born OH the grounds" said an enthusiastic Vis- itor.
 .'The little helfer is beautifully markeo -a drab with a crescent of white In the forehead She is thoroughly aristocra.c' her breeding being in the purple from im- ported stock. Her value is Up into the three marks.
 "I hope Frank Bates. the owner and exhibitor. will name her Birmingham Mascot. for she is of the first class ana so is Birmingham the census eclipse or other cities as to growth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11

either paint or rub with red brick ,nei' houses and re-point them, the eiiso- would be most pleasing to everypooy.
 DO you know, I think the band eoh- certs in the park helped to, wake up .o their duty to the city several Of the iaii'- lcrds-anyway, much improvement mas taken place whereabouts lately
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-11
,>,1Nc TO spANKERs.

WARNING TO sPANKERs. A doieful, doleful story
 read the other day. Of how a young school mlssus' And pretty, too, they say Was spanking of kiooie, Who had some matches whei Her hand came down-it s,ar'eu A conflagration there And now that kiddie's taKihs His dinner from shelf And that schoolmarm IS nursing A blistered hand herself.