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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
William De Morgan in the London Daily


 Mail.
 k XY earliest literary recollection is MI the alphabet; my next, should " A say, Charles Dickens. For the coming to my fathers house of each new monthly installment of the joy that was to last till the advent of its successor was such an event that in my memory Mother Hubbard and Tom Thumb are mo- where by comparison.
 An accumulation of evidence fixes my leadership of Boz at years old Others might reject this evidence. Still even the most incredulous of my friends grants me over SO years of acquaint- ance with the works of the great writer whom I never saw in the hesh-alas I did not once see Shelley plain. and might have done so. I might have heard Charles Dickens read his own works, and missed 1t. Think if it!
 am sure I was saturated with them at Il years old, and have continued so till now. His works remain-for me at least-as fresh and profitable, as pregnant with humor and good humor, pathos and wit. as on the day when 1 first read them; the 1000 characters, no single one the repetition of another, wove themselves into my heart almost as living friends, the errant shuttle of whose lives had shot weft across the warp of mine. How their words hang in ones memory almost the tone of voice in which they spokel
 Picture to yourself-I assume that I am writing for a Dickens lover-what a gap there would have been in your life if none of these words had ever been happy hours of perusal and reperusal-- the latter the happier of the two, as in all looks worth the reading Think only of the treasures trove that memory re. fused to relinquisb, the humor fraught with laughter even to the feverish victim of sleepless night, that king of laugh ter slayers; the tragic power asserting itself through what seems the simplest of unvarnished tales; the pathos stoicism it. self cannot read aloud unmoved.
 Car you dispute it? Can you reread, for instance-I cannoti-the story of how David Copperfield met Doda Spen- low in the conservatory and not-sup- pose we say-feel proud of having kept your eyes dry; of having successfully suppressed something almost like a sob Fiction, as known to me, contains no passage more spontaneously pathetic than this And yet there is surely none more simple in it's treatment, more easily familiar in detail Of daily life.
 Can you recall without a shuddcr that hideous scene at the pothouse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
Sunday Delivery Discontinued

The delivery of Sunday mail has ceased in this city by order of Post master Montgomery, while a way to secure urgent personal mail is left open to all. Non-box owners can secure delivery by paying the custom ary charge for special delivery.
 Sunday delivery is custom of long standing, but all customs are not sound or necessary. Sunday delivery can we'll be spared in view of the fact that it releases at least fifty carriers and clerks from work without any rest day during week.
 No doubt there will be much grum- bling over the change, but in the end it will be seen that the new regula- tion is reasonable and altogether adapted to the situation. Sunday closing prevails in all large cities. Sunday delivery is, in fact, provincial, almost rural, and Postmaster Mont gomery no doubt considered the wei fare of the service superior to the whims of the throng that seeks de- livery of mail on Sundays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
VIII Make Success Here

| If a splendid company of actors play l ing a series of the greatest plays tnas
 were ever written will please the Bir-
 mingham theatregoing public for sum- mer amusements, then the classy Schiller players will be very popular here,' said E. A. Schiller, manager who is in Bir- mingham with his company for the initial
 week of summer stock
 'I have been producing stock and other amusements for many years, and l have never gathered together company that 1 in Birmingham this summer. Nor have | I ever secured. the rights to as many frst-class plays as will be seen here.
 '.Take for instance The Girl of the Golden West 1t cost me $500 this week for the right to use this play It is a royalty play, and that will be the only kind that we will produce. Then there will be Secret Service week after next with Clifford Bruce, who has just played two weeks in the same show with Will liam Gillette on Broadway.
 '"The productions will be as elaborate as they were out for season on the road. I have a scenic artist in Birmingham who is competent and who does nothing but produce scenery all the time. He will paint a new set for every show, and that in itself Is big feature. I have bought an entire warehouse of special scenery and costumes from a big producer Tn New York, and these will be used here I venture to say that no better amuse- ments were ever offered at popular prices than these will be- Understand by popu- lar prices I do not mean 10, 20 and 50 cents, and we do not offer that class or amusements. Ours will be the classiest, or we will not put on any at all. How ever, we are making special summer price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
SONNET
By KMts.

By Keats. o Solitude! if I must with thee dwei,
 Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep Natures observatory-whence the dell, Its fiowery slopes. its rivers crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigis keep 'Mongst boughs pavilioned, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell. Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind Whose words are images of thoughts re- fined, Is my souls pleasure; and it sure must pa Almost the highest bliss of human-kind When to thy hRunts two kindred spirits
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
CIews on the situation

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 s.The main difficulty with business is that it is passing through a period of liauidation and readjustment similar 70 that through which the securities mar kets passed a year or two ago Our commodity markets has been upon too high a level The public buying power had become exhausted. Feverish active ity and imitation had carried the rise in prices to standstill. Credit was un- duly strained Liquidation was inevit- able, and there is no cure in sight ex- cept return to normal conditions through a general decline in commodity values This curative process is now under way. It has made considerable progress In some directions, notably in food products. Breadstuffs have de- clined abot.i 25 per cent, while pork prod ucts have in many cases declined 40 per cent. Steel products have shown a con- siderable depreciation, while copper an1 cotton have also shown a downward ten dency since the high records of last year. A new factor has arisen in the situation; that is the consumer. The cam paign against general extravaganza Is having it's effect. Economy is now the order of the day. and the average man is either spending less on food and cloth ing or else making his money go fur ther by substituting cheaper materials. This Is unquestionably having distin:t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

From the London News. It will be news to most people that the air of the classic ditty, we won't go home tili morning." which is of course variation of For he's a jolly good fellow was originally the music of . pathetic French folk song. That this Is the fact we have on the authority Of Sir Ernest Clarke, chairman of the Folk Song society. In the original air was supposed to have been sung by French peasant woman in the form of hymn for her husbands safety on his depar- ture for the wars. She continued 10 sing the hymn until her husband was brought back dead.
 Before the Terror, Sir Ernest said, Ma Tie Antoinette used to sing to, the dauph- in popular song "Malbrool sen vat. en guerre," which had got mixed up h some obscure way with our great Gen eral Marlborough, and was freely trans lated into English as:
 Mabrook, the prince of. commanders,
 Has gone to the war in Flanders,
 His fame is like Alexander's.
 But when will he come home?
 And the adapter supplied an answer not in the original:
 He won't come home till morning,
 Till daylight doth appear.
 And about 1880 the delicate and rather melancholy French air of Malbrook was turned into the convivial song, We won't go home till morning." the second verse O: which began, "For he's jolly good fellow"
 Sir Ernest Clarke's remarks went to show that many of the patriotic airs that people of all nations hold so dear were developed from the music of words of men Of other countries. Thus the Mar seillaise" was composed by a German at Strassburg in 1792. The music of 'fThe Star-Spangled Banner" was orig nally Stafford Smiths glee to "Anacreon in Heaven" so that Americas principal patriotic air was set to the music of an English composer. The English national anthem. was evolved from a musical man uscript discovered in 1922 by a Dr. John Bull.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
UNCLE sAM,s TENDER HEART.

From the New York Herald.
 There is a story suffused with human interest in the Herald's special dispatches from Washington this morning.
 In the hope of saving the life of an en- listed man stricken with illness on the cruiser vicksburg at Corinto, Nicaragua, the state and navy departments, cooper ated, an important mission was set aside and the ship was driven at forced speed 500 miles to Panama to secure necessary medical aid.
 After reading this story no one will ever say that Uncle Sam is all for cold busi- ness and is devoid of sentiment. ,iis heart is in the right place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Next to being good there is the least fun in being sick.
 If man knows anything about selling dry goods he thinks it's about inventins flying machines.
 When a brides relatives begin to visit her it's sign her husband has forgotten there ever was a honeymoon.
 The more pleasure man could give his family spending a holiday with them the more he'd rather go fishing.
 woman is never prouder of her hus- band than when. If she goes to church, it rains and her husband comes to meet her al the door with an umbrella so the con- gregation can see 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
yOLT FOR HENRY GRAY

From the Mobile Register.
 It was certainly jolt to Henry Gray to be told that Birmingham had decided to stop borrowing money and that the little note due his bank would be paid A city tha. will do thing like that on the second day of its reform existence may be expected to do anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
Two Growing Cities

Atlanta continues to grow" said l.. C. Jennings of the Georgia metropolis, "but every time I come to Birmingham this city strikes me as having the greatest future of any southern city. Atlanta has got to the point where it can be seen that nothing will check its growth; but nc city has the natural resources that Bir- 1ningham has.
 .1n the census of 1920 Birmingham will probably outstrip Atlanta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
Back In Birmingham

B. L. Michaelson, a former citizen of Birmingham. but more recently of Penso- cola, has resumed his residence here. He is popular socially and Is recognized as good singer-one of the best choir sing CTS in this part of the country.
 Pensacola is solid and growing city," said MT Michaelson, but it is not in the class with Birmingham. l have travelled considerably and I find that Birmingham is easily ahead of all the southern cities in the. strides it is making"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Tn states that let women vote ell records show that woman voters are lover ?. D Any statement more specific would be hlue pencilled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Hunnewell, Kas., is to have a woman chief of police in addition to a woman mayor. That town is strictly iconoclastic and up-to-date
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Leader Mann already sends up the cry that the minority is being downtrodden. He should know that that is what mi nority was created to undergo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

The baseball man and the weather man should get together and act together in all matters of common interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

The Tennessee legislature that is in ses- sion at Decatur should avoid bootleggers and all other temptations in their adopted state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Mr Wdener, traction magnate of Philadelphia, paid s5o0.OOO for Rembrandt's s "The Mill" As Philadelphan he bought it because of it's peaceful restfulness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Rump legislatures from other states are not desirable additions to the population They should go back and take their medi- cine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Ice cream soda is the strongest drink that can be sold in the Kansas town that has a mayoress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Compulsory voting is now proposed. A should be jailed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
Scenery At Home

'.When Byron stood in Venice on the
 Bridge of Signs and beheld prison and
 A. palace on either hand he did not sec a greater or more diverse variety ol scenery than may be seen from Sterling A. Woods residence on the top of Red
 Mountain" said a visitor to that hos pitable dcmicile. Looking toward the
 north saw the city of Birmingham. that young giant in the industrial world, an1
 looking toward the south I saw the yer
 dant and fertile Shades valley, with
 Shades mountain away in the distance.
 Truly a panorama equal to anything to
 be found in the state of Alabama.
 People who live in the city of Biz mingham, and day after day tread five
 or ten city blocks to and from thei' offices and stores have no idea of the beauties of this locality Birmingham Is in a valley, then comes a ridge ol hills,. which the people call mountain and on the other side Is another valley Standing on the crown of the ridge a person looks down the sloping hillside 1 and sees the old world and the new l sees man in his primitive state as or dained by his Creator; sees him behin' the blow ripping and tearing the surface 1 of the earth to extort from it his dailS bread and on the other side he sees tn; smoke and steam rising from hundred l industrial plants, where the treasures dragged from the bowels of the eartf are moulded and shaped into commer | cial products Great is Birmingham, ant l greater she will be.
 why people go from here to distant places seeking change of air and scenery | is more than I can understand. Why
 some enterprising citizen or citizens have
 not built a magnificent hotel on Re Mountain surpasses my comprehension Within a quarter hour car-ride distanc' l Of the center of the city is one of th' best locations in the state of Alabama | for first-class hotel, far from tn
 madding crowd and yet near enougl | to hear its murmur.
 l q have lived in this city of Birming ham many years and I am only finding 1 out now how delightful a place it is fo the man who goes few blocks from th beaten track around the business blocks MT. Wood admits visitors to his grounds and sgives them a cordial welcome pro vided they will not pull the flowers O.
 throw rocks at the birds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

A revised edition of "schedule K' is to be laid before the country as choice summer reading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Daz begins to think republics are un- grateful, but Mexico is not a republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Census padding is active in Massa- chusetts where towns of 5000 can have Sunday baseball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

The Colorado deadlock is still main tained and the democrats lack vote in the senate. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

l Ice cream soda is the strongest drink that can be sold in the Kansas town that has a mayoress.
  Compulsory voting is now proposed. A man who refuses to do his public duty should be jailed
 A revised edition of "schedule K" is to be laid before the country as choice summer reading.
  Census padding is active in Massa- chusetts where towns of 5o.Oo0 can have Sunday baseball | 1 The Colorado deadlock is still main tained and the democrats lack a vote in the senate. \. One lot of Harrisons seeks the White House while another lot runs for mayor of Chicago. The sphinx represents an old Egyptian king who was evidently a standpatter.
  It is even proposed that the Congression- al Record shall be carried by freight
  Let us hope Lorimer will find out how he was elected before his tefm expires.
  The navy expansionists are overwork- ing the Japanese war scare. The Princess Irene reache9 land lit tie soon-that's ali The extra session is passing. bills with ease and dispatch. Washington, is full of democrats and all want an office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

The navy expansionists are overwork- ing the Japanese war scare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

Let us hope Lorimer will find out how he was elected before his tefm expires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

One lot of Harrisons seeks the White of Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

The sphinx represents an old Egyptian king who was evidently a standpatter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

It is even proposed that the Congresson- al Record shall be carried by freight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

The Princess Irene reache9 land lit tie soon-that's all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
ORIGIN OF RAKE,s SONG

Washington, is full of democrats and all want an office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

The extra session is passing bills with ease and dispatch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

And the adapter supplied an answer nc in the original:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
YOUNG FARMER OF ALMA
MARRlES SISTERS NURSE
Henry woodruff Falls in Love with
Young woman who Was in 50.
Joseph Hospital.

ST. Joseph. Mo, Fen. i7.--Cspecial)-
Because Miss Lola Nay Buz1ard, a nurse
at Ellsworth hospital here. was selected a
year ago 10 nurse Miss May Woodruff OF
Alma. Neb, through a siege OF illness she
today became the bride OF Miss Wood
ruffs brother Henry.
During Miss WoOdruffs stay az the hos
pital she and the nurse became warm
friends The latter used to read to her
patient the letters from the brother in
Nebraska and the nurse answered the
letters Then Miss Woodruff returned 10
her home at Alma and correspondence fol-
lowed,
When Miss BuEEard was granted a va
cation last summer she spent II At Miss
Woodruffs home. u was then that the
nurse met her former patients brother.
Both declared today that Il was q case
Of love at first sight
Mr. end Mrs. Woodruff left soon after
the ceremony for Fairport. Mo. where
they will spend their honeymoon at the
home Of the brides family. They viii
make their future home in Alma. The
bridesroom's father. a successful farmer.
died last summer. leaving a large estate
10 his son and daughter. The bride has
been a student nurse a. the hospital for
three years and Vas graduated last spring
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Stockholders Ask
Par for Telephone
Stock in Demand
Struggle to Get Controlling Interest
in Independent Plant Brings Out
Interesting Features.

The process Of acquiring the stock OF
the Independent Telephone company by
the Bell Interests is going forward steadily
The price, however. IL considerably higher
than was paid before the knowledge OF
the transaction became public, The rul-
ms prices. for there were several, were
IA the neighboThood OF Is and 50 cents
Now the sales are being made on a basis
Of 100 per cent less az per cent charged
for commission
A number OF deals were reported YES
terday at these figures, Chris straub sold
his $500 worth Of stock and =. A. Wick
ham parted with his. amounting TO a. 500
on the same bagds. Efforts 20 buy 5000
worth held by } NJ, Phillips, a retired
farmer, $4,000 held by the shugart family
and $4,000 owned by j. d. Edmundson
we're not successful 1t IL said that each
Of these stockholders demanded fun par
value. Many other stockholders. In nos
session Of smaller amounts. averaging IN
the vicinity OF 5000. are inclined 10 ioIn
the larger holdings and insist upon par
OF better
only the common stock figures in the
transactions at the present time for the
reason that this stock has voting power
shd the preferred. more u the nature OF
bonds. does not That the Bell COMPANY
nov has a controlling interest 4 also ad-
mitted' but the desire appears 70 be 20
get possession % the larger blocks OF
STOCK Evidences OF another check, OF
the value Of Giseoo, that came from the
same source a. the other. have been dis
covered When this has been dlsbursed.
h u mas not been already, the Ben people
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Council Bluffs

win have invested approximately ts5ooOO.
which will Eve that company a sub
stantial majority Of the si59.5Oo Of the
capital stock Of the Independent com
pany.
There are a number Of rumors Of con-
templated suits, by stockholders who
parted with their holdings before the pur-
pose OF sale was made known. These
stockholders believe that they we're en-
titled to all the information in possession
OF the officers OF the Independent com
pany at the time they consented to- sell
their stock, and they are inclined to in
slst upon recovering the difference be-
tween the prices received by them and
the amounts paid to others. At least one
such suit was compromised yesterday
where an option to take stock at a lower
figure was surrendered and the s7h per
cent price paid.
Il was stated yesterday that one OF the
early changes in both services probably
was the cutting out Of all three and four
party lines, leaving only two-party and
direct lines for all business and residences
phones. This was the course followed at
Des Moines immediately following the con
solidation
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Prisoners Of Russian
Count Found Guilty.
Life Term for One
De Lassy Gets Penal servitude Sen
tence and PantchenkO Escapes
with Fifteen Years.

ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. IA verdict
OF guilty was returned tonight against
Count O'Brien de Lassy ana Ut
Psntehenko for the poisoning OF Count
Vassiu Bouturlin. In the case OF NINE
Murayieff a verdict OF not guilty was re-
turned.
The Jury recommended mercy in the case
Of Pantchenko on account Of eztenuauhs
circumstances.
De Lassy was sentenced to penal servi-
tude for life and Pantchenko to ntteeh
years imprisonment.
The trial aroused much interest ana de-
yeloped some startling testimony. frlor
10 the proceedings Pantchenko made
confession In which he accused De Lassy
Of hiring him 70 poison Count Vassili' VINO
was heir to General Bouturlin's millions.
De Iassy's wife is the daughter of General
Routurlin. and by the removal OF Nassili
the generals estate would go to his daugh-
ter.
On the witness stand Pantchenko denied
the confession and made so errauc state
ments that he was thought insane. Mueh
evidence was adduLed to show that ne ana
De Lassy had intimate dealings.
Al the end OF the trial De Lassy was
overcome. He attempted to make speech
70 the jury, but ended abruptly by saying
~ cannot talk ] leave the fate OF my
self and relatives 20 your minds and your
hearts"
Pantehenko, In an ineoherent speech
said that he did not repudiate MS eonies-
sion but wished to specify the degree OF
his guilt. He said that the question now
was whether a Russian physician was cap
.ble of such a dastardly crime, and 70
this he proudly answered no.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Views Of Spring Rugs and Farewell Of Stock Rugs

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vralhu aiudgo al attractive fresh Towaam
new oharmon gdato
s al i o dose ssuph e atprss OF
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ms ne
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to
wells great ling Smef stpaterns ofcar
p9san M in low prices therefor oferat hgups repre-
fraction the
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-18
Louis Slain round pead.

BIOOMFIELD. Neb,. Feb. H.-(special)-
Louis Slain. a bachelor about 50 years
Of age. was found dead in the livery barn
OF August Suckstorfs in this city at s
O'Clock this morning. A coroner's jury
concluded that the deceased came to his
death from alcoholism. Ills family lives
at Wakefield and his body will be sent
there for burial