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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
LOVES DREAM WAS JOLTED

From the New York American.
 Loves young dream got an awful jolt up in the Bronx when Mrs. George w Weller, a wife of eight days, learned a terrible secret. of her young husband s life. Weller Is a good looking chap, and his wife was an idealist. She just knew that if he would only apply himself ne could become a second Byron. tHs rfs
 She sat in their neatly furnished fiat al 543 East 139th street building air castles The soft spring winds blew gently over the fields in their new dress of cool green laden with the perfume of budding trees and flowers. Birds were singing some where, but the rumble of the elevated railroad and the clang of trolley cars drowned their music.
 It brought thoughts of a moonlight night on some pleasant stream and g canoe gliding through purling wavelets with George at the paddle and herself, 8 Brinkley girl, resting on silken cushions in the bow with her white hand trailing In the warm, caressing water.
 George, who had been dressing in an
 
 to catch an express train and get to worl on time, burst rudely into the room dashed up to his wife, made dab at hei and kissed her on ths nose, and rushed for the door. He stopped for a moment
 Say, wife" he called back. have me nice thick beefsteak smothered 1T onions for supper. will your and was gone.
 Mrs Weller fainted as the dool slammed behind him. Could George, hel George. her husband with the deep blue soul, eat beefsteak and onions and like | 'em? It seemed too horrible. It mus be some nightmare. She pinched herself to find If she was awake. She was. That night when George came home hi' wife was missing. He rushed around madly, calling upon his wife's name. Ht found a note. It read: Dear George-I, gone out. Just wait for me-" George waited, but while he was wait ing he looked about. From a safe cache in the sofa s60 was missing. He rushed wildly about the room, calling upon tbs name of his 60 bucks. Then he looked in the bureau drawer. His jewery was missing. Then he looked at his evening shirt His cuff buttons and gold stud' were missing. The carpets, which were nailed down, were still in the fiat. Ther George rushed to the police tsation ant called for a warrant.
 "Why did she leave your" George wa! asked. Did you quarrel?'
 "No," said George. we had no differ ences." Then he remembered the beef stead and onions.
 Late that night George heard that hi wife was seen at resort dancing with : freman-a hero of the smoke clouds wh' rescued beauteous maidens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

distinguished career, has delivered mahs forceful sermons and many impressive public addresses: he has written hooks and magazine articles of literary anu ethical value, but according to my no tion he struck his highwater marx ID the speech he made at the opening ses' sion of the Third National Peace con- gress held, in Baltimore, today, salo professional man last night.
 "rn his plea for an Anglo-American peace treaty his eminence rose above old time prejudices. He took a broad ha- mane. statesman-like view of the situa- ton.
 "About 25 years ago, when an alliance between the United States and Enslano was attempted, Irishmen and politicians who reckoned with the Irish vote opposed il When the treaty question came up in the United States Senate the late Senator Daniel, as pure man as ever lived. spoke against 1t with his fiery elo- ouence. Tho treaty agreement was de- feated The Irlsh-American contingent was behind 1t all.
 'The world has progressed since then. England is treating Ireland more hu- namely than in former days. Whether this better treatment is due to quick ened conscience or political coersion II matters not now. The fact that Ireland is better off today than it has ever been, and the home rule movement is not far from consummation. In Ireland fight for home rule I have been always for Ireland, but the time has come Tor bitterness to cease, and bitterness Is fast ceasing Cardinal Gibbons grand ad- dress will have far-reaching effect. and the wise and patriotic head of the Cath ollie church in the United States will probably live to see not only the day when an Anglo-American treaty will be signed, but when Ireland will be abso- lutely free to govern itself in all local affairs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
SHAKESPEARE MURDERED

From the New York World.
 For 300 years the secret has been pre- served that Bacon killed Shakespeare, but murder will out Up to the last few days nobody had even suspected that Shakespeare was murdered or that Ba- con was venal and corrupt, but that his hands were stained with the blood of England's great poet had never before been so much as hnted against him. It looks bad for him now, for the cipher of pr. o. w. Owen of Detroit, who is dig ging in the bed of the river Wye near Chepstow for the manuscripts of the Shakespeare plays that Bacon wrote, in the right hands will prove almost any thing.
 It used to be told how Shakespeare died bout in a Stratford inn with Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton. If Bacon killed him-and Dr. Owen has no doubt about it. for he knows where Bacon buried his skull-Shakespeare is forever cleared of the disgrace of having come to his end through intemperance. Bacon may not have realized at the time that he was to save the poets good name in the eyes of distant posterity by killing him, as well as to confound Shakespeares traducers by securely hiding his skull for all these years as proof of the crime.
 Still, it does seem a pity that, for the sake of being murdered by Bacon instead of dying peacefully in his own bed Shakespeare should have to forfeit the right of being the author of his owr plays But pr. Owen insists on it, and 1t is his ciphrr that furnished the clue to the greatest crime of the century Only it was an oversight on somebody's part to leave Shakespeare's bones in tht Stratford church, with curse on hin that moved them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
zARA,s EARRINGS

By John Gibson Lockhart ns-H My earrings my earrings; they've
 dropt into the well, And what to say to Muca, l cannot, can
 not tell;'- Twas thus Grandadas fountain by spoke
 Albuharezs daughter . "The well is deep, far down they lie,
 beneath the cold blue water; To me did Muca give them, when he
 spake his sad farewell, t And what to say when he comes back,
 alas. cannot tell. W My earrings, my earrings! they were
 pearls in silver set That when my Moor was far away
 ne'er should him forget, That I ne'er to other tongue should list,
 nor smile on others tale, But remember he my lips had kissed,
 pure as those earnings pale,- When he comes back, and hears that
 have dropt them in the well, Oh what will Muca think of me, cannot, cannot tell.
 My earrings. my earrings! he'll say
 they should have been Not of pearl and not of silver, but of
 gold and glittering sheen, Of jasper and of opyx,- and of diamond
 shining clear, e
 
 diance insincere,- That changeful mind unchanging gems
 are not befitting weli,- Thus will he think, and what 10 say' alas! l cannot tell. Hell think when l to market went
 loitered by !he way; He'll think willing ear I lent to all the
 lads might say: Eau think some other lovers hand.
 among my tresses noosed. ~ From the ears where he had placed them
 my rings of pearls unioosed; He'll think when was sporting so beside
 this marble we'll e My pearls fell in,-and what to say, alas!
 I cannot tell. Hell say I Ia woman, and we arc
 all the sarne;r t4 He'll say I loved when he was here to
 whispered his flame, But when he went to Tunis my virgin
 tooth had broken, And thought no more of Muca, and cared
 not for his token. .af My ear-rings! my earrings! oh, luckless luckess well! a For what to say to Muca, alas! I cannot tell
 "lll tell the truth to Muca, and hope he will believe
 That I've thought of him at morning, and thought of him at eve. That musing on.my lover when down the sun was gone, His yir-rirrs ir -'--- v ,l | held, by the fountain, all alone; sf. l And that my hand was 0 CT the sea, when from my hand they fell. 4sIl And that deep his love lies in my heart.
 as they lie in the we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
srGsBEE AND THE BURGLAR

From the POpuIar MaBaZlHe.
 It was 2 o'clock in the morning of the birthday of young Charlie Sigsbee, son Of Admiral Sigsbee Charlie rushed into the admirals room, grasped him con- culsively by the shoulders, and hissed into his ear:
 Wake up. Wake up. There's a man in the house!'
 The admiral, true to his martial in- stincts, leaped out of bed, grasped his deadly marine revolver batted his eyes in expectancy of a bloody encounter, and asked his son:'
 "Nhere is hep
 Here he is,'' said Charlie, with all the effectiveness of melodrama. I'm A to- day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
Father md Son.

Your otherwise correct and illuminat- ing report of the meeting of the life members of the Roebuck Springs Coun- try club made Robert Jemison, Jr., president of the holding company. when the office is held by his father. Robert Jemison, Sr," said a business man, "and it is easy to see that the error was made unconsciously, for Young Bob,' as he is affectionately known, is so fre- auenty in the public print by virtue of his connection with large enterprises that reporters and printers put Jr. after Rob- ert Jemison from force of habit.
 ''In the years when Birmingham was in the making the name of Robert Jemison Sr., appeared almost daily in the news papers, as he was a leader in all move ments of note; and he is today one oi our strongest men,. He was urged to ac. cept the office of president of the hold ing company of the new country clut because it was recognized that he was the helsman to steer this important un dortaking into port. The two Rober Jemsons-father and son-will be gver frequent and honorable mention by tho future historians of Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
POSITIVELY SHOCKING.

In speaking to college professor of new novel and it's author. woman said, MT. Merrick seemed so near to me, as read his book, that it embarrassed me to remember that was in a dressing gown and my hair was down!' This is the most scandalous confession we have read in a long time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE ROVER.

He loved maid in sunny France, Bewitching was her smile; All heaven fingered in her glance,
 So sweet. so free from guile. But 'twasnt very long before
 His heart was filled with rue; For when he murmured, "Je t'adore,'
 She quickly said, "Adieu. He iourneyed OCT to Germanee,
 Where pretty frauleins dwell And found-a fickle chap was he
 A girl he loved so well. "Du bist incline liebchen," he declared. With all his heart and soul. The maid to show how much she cared Just answered, "Lebewohl." Then home he came, a wiser man,
 Back to the U. S. A, And saw face behind fan,
 Upon a summers day, That won his love, but when he laid
 His heart down at her feet, it Was not desired. Forthwith the maid
 Requested him to Beat it!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Old stenmboat Days.

''The news paragraph from Montgom- cry few days ago that a barge had started for Mobile with 2SO0 bales of cot cargo of cotton ever carried on the Ala bama, is erroneous" said former citi- zen of Selma
 T remember the days of the great boats, some of which were for time on the Mississippi, then running up the Ala bama from Mobile, and that they some- times carried cotton stacked so high the pilot house was almost hidden. In my day I have sat and listened for the calliope of the St. Charles as she came from out the river roadway hedged with giant oaks with festoons of gray moss hanging from their limbs. and then to see her make her landing. The Republic, the Bell, the Natchez, the Robert D. Lee, the Mary Swan. all handsome boats re ceived welcomes from the citizens Of Selma on their weekly trips.
 And while telling of these happy days -1S60-'77-I remember the concerts by the deck hands, as to the tingling of the pilots bells, the proud boats would swing into the stream, turn around, and with deep-lunged 'chow-chows' head for down stream landings, bound for Mobile bay Then there was sometimes the rivalry Of boats and crews in getting away about the same time, in race for the freight at landings down the Alabama. of course, the crews had their singing con- tests and crowds would stand on the banks listening for the far-fioating re- frains which seemed to mingle with the smoke track of the fast moving steam boats.
 "Yes, one of the happiest feathers of river life, and life along the Alabama river, passed with the elegant, we'll equipped freight boats, with limited ac- communications for passenger, give some service, but not like the dear old steam boat days of yore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
LOVE.

Let 1t come to me-let it come-in all it's glory and majesty-beautiful, beautiful lovel I take you to my heart, dear love; gracious, wonderful, fiery love Even though you have power to hurt. I long for you, I embrace you. Never before did I open my heart to the mystic raptire of your voice. Speak to me now-speak to me-speak ever! The music is stealing away my soul let 1t take my body, too.
 From Novel by Woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
RECIPROCITY.

RECIPROCITY.
 (Contributed.) They drove along country lane, And Mabel said, "Can you make plain Elucidate in some good way The one great question of the day? I've read until my mind is mixed And cannot designate betwixt The tariff as it used to be. And modern reciprocity" Jacks face took on a reddish hue And on his mind at once he drew, That he to her might we'll explain. Then inspiration touched his brain ''I love you, Mabel, warm and true, And if you'll love just as I do, Our mutual feelings then will be A genuine reciprocity"
 Mrs. Leola T. Park. Bryan's Mill, Tex.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

The price of the Gutenberg Bible was originally but s2 50, but that sum at com pound interest since 1469 would be 2, sG4 5455O Huntington got his copy at bargain rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

The lord chamberlain has ruled out of the coronation automobiles and hobble or harem skirts. It Is no place for mod ern things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Even Diaz is a friend and supporter of the new era proposed for Mexico. The old man seems to know when the time to cali off the autocracy has fully ar rived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

At last man who refuses to pay ali money has been sent to jail to serve two years The alimony, however. remains unpaid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Even the luxuries are coming down in price, A jury in New York recently awarded woman who was kissed against her will cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

As soon as the Missouri strawberries are picked the Kansas wheat fields will need harvesters. The routine of the sea sons crop is begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
MOVING PICTURE DRAMA
SEEKING FIRST CAUSES.

"A dabbler in metaphysics let fall re- mark the other day that seemed to come straight from hIs heart" "What did he say?"
 "He said he wished everything were as easy to account for as corns and bum ions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
QUITE ROoMY.

Here is an interesting story entitled, "A Flat Hunters Reward"
 How was he rewarded?"
 Why. after seventeen-day search he found fiat in which he didn't have to use folding tooth brush"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

The truth is, 1t is too warm in Mexico now to carry on an insurrection with satisfaction and comfort It is best to call it off by signing up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Those who take the elevator to the fifty-fifth story of New York's new bulld- ing will be avlattors within limits and bounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
DEBATABLE.

. --F DEBAIABIF, { "Jiggers is an enterprisng citizen"
 Why do you think so?' .f
 He is the first man in town every year to put on a straw hat"
 "Umph! That may be enterprise and then again it may be simply an insane desire for publicity" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

"Bosh" may not be English undecided but the President uses it and even re- peats 1t whenever 1t suits his purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

New York has sent ss,OOO.OOo of worn- out money to washington. thus destroy ing the happy homes of millions of germs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Germany will use 100000 men in her military maneuvers and not one or them will send a bullet over boundary line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
THE WORM TuRNs

I hope in mud he sticks, a Whate'er his name may be! Confound the man who sicks
 Book agents onto me!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

MT, Hines did put Lorimer over and now he should tell just how it was done. The curiosity of the country is very great.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

From the London Mail. Drury Lane theatre is fast completing the preliminary preparations for the com- mand performance of Lord Lytton's Money" which is to be given there by the greatest possible star" cast of Brit ish actors in the presence of the King and Queen and the German Emperor and Empress on the evening of Wednesday. May +.
 The scheme of decoration for the in- terior of the theatre, which has been for considerable time under the consid- eration of Sir William Darlington, on be- half of the King, and MT. Arthur Collins, managing director of Drury Lane theatre, was illustrated yesterday by very beau tiful and elaborate model designed by Mir. Collins as a result of those discus sons The model, built to scale and lit up by tiny electric lamps, shows the auditorium decorated even the ceiling covered in harmony with the other dec orations.
 The house when transformed according 10 the design in the model will have the appearance of a gigantic piece of Dres- den china, the fronts of the four tiers picked out in flowers on a fluted back ground of dove gray and white. Flow CTS in profusion form the dominant note of the very beautiful design, and bou- quets of tulips on the backs of all the chairs on the floor space give to the stalls almost the appearance of an indoor gar | den.
 The background of all the boxes is to be cornfower watered silk, and the royal box in the grand tier, with its canopy, it's wide ermine hangings, and surmounting crown, has an appearance of great dig nifty and beauty. On either side of the proscenium on the stage will be erected | a gigantic lions head to serve as a foun- tain during the entrac l The prices to be changed on the evening of the command performance are as fol- | lows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Mexico is now keeping it's bullets at home, and that is where innocent by islanders should be kept.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
DRASTIC.

"A reformer wants to reduce the size of the Congressional Record to almost nothing"
 How so?e
 He suggests that only the good speeches be printed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

MT. Taft is bravely endeavoring to keep the democrats from stealing his reciprocity thunder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

The senatorial regulars would like to trade LaFollette for Berger and they will ask nothing to boot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Fez still declines to fall even to justify expensive cablegrams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Ships are still detained at Halifax un- til the ice is out of the St. Lawrence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
OUR NEXT GREAT SHOW I

From Leslie's ~f -s.#et+- es4sti
 The San Francisco exposition will in- crease the work of the roads touching the Pacific. Although the fair will not open for nearly four years, the exhibits from all over the world will begin to be gath eyed before 1912 ends. Those from Flu rope will have to cross the entire Amer ican continent. and so will those from the Atlantic seaboard During the six months of the fair the passenger. move ment to the Golden Gate will be heavy. Robert s. Lovett, president of the Union Pacific says that the experience of his line since 1908 has made 1t evident that double tracking would be needed to en- able it to meet the inevitable demand of the next few years. In the stagnation of the past 12 months the roads west of the Mississippi were only slightly affected. That region is growing with great rapidi- ty, and the completion of the Panama canal and the increase of our trade with Asia will have stimulating effect on trade in the Mississippi valley and on the Pacific slope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

The river is rising so fast at St. Louis that the city wants a battleship At once
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
MY GARDEN.

My heart is a little garden Set in desert waste; The walls are rough, the door is small, And high the key is placed
 -Sharot M. Hall My heart is little garden Where foolish fancies grow, And every time a rose blooms there A frost doth lay 1t low.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
APPROPRIATE.

''IIe says his wife Is the starlight of his existence" q guess that's because he is away from home so much in the daytime MOVING PICTURE DRAMA. A brand-new word
 Is here to stay.
 Of course, you've heard?
 Iris "photoplay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

A two-bagger in baseball is now called a harem skirt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
ARSENE LUPIN IN REAL LIFE

Germaine families preserve the exclusive ness of other days. But it is so easy, to coin a title and to work it on the bourgeoise. Indeed, the republic was obliged some years ago to pass law making the false assumption of nobility felony Nevertheless, there are plenty of rich widows in Paris to be taken in by bogus dukes, and the female shopkeeper is almost as daffy on titles as the Amer ican heiress.
 I met this fellow Reiss many years ago in London He set up for 9. sport and was much in evidence on the race course. He seemed a suave, well-dressed. and loquacious Frenchman. who might have been barber, or a pastry cook, but would never have been mistaken for Marquis. The Parisians, however, are easily fooled. think they rather like to be fooled. A fellow calling himself Comte d Alhy, the son of London tailor, was recently tried for swindling, clear case, and was aequftteds amid the cheers of the mob.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

The old guard is passing but Heyburr still holds on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

Cardinal Gibbons Great Speech Cardinal Gibbons, in his long and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
DECORATING DRURY LANE

The Diaz delusion in Mexico is on it' last legs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04

At last a man who refuses to pay ali money has been sent to jail to serve two years The alimony, however, remains unpaid.
 New York has sent s30Oo,0o0 of worn- out money to Washington. thus destroy ing the happy homes of millions of germs.
 Germany will use 100000 men in her military maneuvers and not one of them will send a bullet over a boundary line. MT. Hines did put Lorimer over and now he should tell just how it was done. The curiosity of the country is very great.
 
 "Bosh" may not be English undecided but the President uses it and even re- peats 1t whenever it suits his purposes. l
 Mexico is now keeping its bullets at home, and that is where innocent by islanders should be kept. MT. Taft is bravely endeavoring to  reciprocity thunder.
  The senatorial regulars would like to trade LaFollette for Berger and they will ask nothing to boot.
  | The river is rising so fast at St. Louis that the city wants a battleship at once.
 Ships are still detained at Halifax un- til the ice is out of the St. Lawrence. Fez still declines to fall even to justify | expensive cablegrams. | --.s.--- | A two-bagger in baseball is now called harem skirt.
 The old guard is passing but Hepburn still holds on.
 The Diaz delusion in Mexico Is on its | last legs.