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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
Hooper Springs Sensation

Nashville, May 19.-In announcing his military staff tonight, Gov. B. W. Coop CT sprung an innovation in naming George M. Bailey of the Houston, Ttx., Post as aide de camp, with the rank Of colonel. No other governor, so far as known, ever named a man outside of ais state as member of his staff
  daughter, Miss Hettie sibley. in Wash ington. Miss Sibley is at fashionable school in Washington but will return to Birmingham with her mother in a few weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. David Buell. have named their little daughter, Flora Herbert, for her paternal grandmother.
 Mrs. Earle Pettus is visiting rela- tives in Huntsville. Miss Mary Bradshaw, Miss Kate Per- ry and Miss Laura Mel Towers, who are students at Agnes Scott college. Decatur, Ga, are expected to return home Wednesday, Mrs. w. H. Driskill of Decatur is ex- pected in a few days to be the guest of Mrs. c. c. Snider. sAs Miss Violet Marx of Uniontown will be one of the visitors in Birmingham | during the music festival. She will | arrive Monday and will be the guest of Mrs. M. K. Erdreich. | Mrs. w M. Cosby is enjoying pleas ant trip to New York and Washing ton.
 | Mrs Annie Galloway expects to leave in a few days for Atlanta to visit | friends. She has been the guest of | Mrs Forney Johnson for several weeks  Mrs. Walter Sessions Is at home after a brief visit to her mother, Mrs. Tram mell. in Marietta, Ga. After a visit to her mother, Mrs Loveman, in Chattanooga, Mrs. Brewer has returned home.
 Mrs. Donald Comer's mother, Mrs. Miller of Reading, Penn., Is her guest. Miss Helen Thompson Is expected home from Crontz college, Philadel- phia. about June 10, following va cation visit to the University of Vir- ginia. She will be accompanied by Y., who will be her guest for,a few weeks.
 Miss Clara Lee Woodson has as her guest Miss Mary Bibb of Decatur, who was with her during the winter sea- son and has a number of friends to welcome her again. Mrs. J. B. Raulston will leave to- day to visit friends in Charlottesville, Va., before sailing for Europe to spend the summer. She will leave New York May 27. Miss Mena Buck will accom- pany Mrs. Raulston to Europe, joining her in New York.
 Mrs. R. B. Smith of Dadeville, who has spent the week with her sister, Mrs. W. K Brown, will leave today for her home.
 Mrs. McClelland who was expected to be the guest of Mrs. A. O. Lane During the good roads congress, will be unable to come to Birmingham at that tipe because of illness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20


 of getting new clothes, and when that happens you know a woman's in a bad way.'
 q quite agree with you,' I answered ''When woman gets in that frame of mind she should take herself in hand inn mediately.'
 How would you go about it?" asked the man gravely.
 That I couldn't say all in heap" ] replied. T have observed that it is sort of disease with women; this losing in terest in themselves after they are mar ried. Household matters seem to absorb their time; music, art, clothes, people everything is as nothing in comparison and they settle down into that state of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
CADMEAN CIRCLE HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING

With Mrs. A. o. Lane yesterday aft ernoon an interesting meeting of the Cadmean Circle was held. There was no formal programme, the afternoon being spent in discussion of plans for the work of next year. The club will, in all probability, study the drama, from the viewpoint of the Drama league. A meeting will be held later for the purpose of electing officers. Mrs. Lane had arranged delightful social hour for the club
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
2015 Third Avenue

son, mayor of Hunnewell, Kan, in aelet- ter yesterday by Attorney General John s. Dawson. The mayor had complained to Governor Stubbs, who referred the mat ter to tho attorney general. Mrs. Wilson in her complaint said the eouncilmen re- fused toimeet at the place she named. and she told also of a cartoon from a Glas- gow. Scotland, paper, in which the wom- an police officer of HYunnewell was shown arresting a burly burglar Don't twist my arm." says thefburglar, ''I'll go quiet Nv"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
STUDY CIRCLE
 ELECTS OFFICERS

A called meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. D. S. Rives for the purpose of choosing of ficers for the Study Circle. Mrs. Rives was elected president Mrs. Samuel Earle Greene vice president and Mrs. R. c. Woodson secretary and treas urer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
OFFICERS OF
 THE FENELON CLUB

At the home of Mrs. W. A. Dawson
 an important meeting of the Fenelon club was held yesterday afternoon. Off, ficers were elected with the following result: President, Mrs. John Frederick; {; vice president, Mrs w. A. Dawson; secretary Mrs. Pittman; treasurer, Mrs. Lyle, and critic, Mrs. John Kennedy Mrs. Curry was made director
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
Storms Do Damage

Kingston, Jamaica, May 19-Heavy storms during the last few days are responsible for considerable damage to ths banana and cocoanut plantations in several districts of Jamaica. The spring banana crop, however, has not been greatly affected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
GOOD GAINS MADE
 BY MONTGOMERY
Census Figures on Manufac- lures Are Announced By
 Bureau at Washington

Washington, May 1e.-(special.)-A pre- iminary statement of the general results of the census of manufactures of the city of Montgomery, Ala, was issued to- day by Acting Census Director Falkner. It contains a summary comparing the figures for 1904 and 1909 by city totals, prepared under the direction of Mir Will
 liam M Stuart, chief statistician for manufactures, bureau of the census. The figures are subject to such revision as may be necessary after a further exami- nation of the original reports.
 The summary shows increases through out as follows: Sixty-three per cent in the capital invested; 62 per cent in the number of salaried officials and clerks B per cent in the value added by manu- fracture; 40 per cent in the value of prod ucts; 89 per cent in the miscellaneous ex- pjenses; 3S per cent in the cost of ma terials used; A per cent in the number of establishments; and IS per cent in the | rloyed during the year.
 | There were 73 establishments in 1909 as compared with 5s in 1904; an increase of 14, or 24 per cent.
 The value of products in 1909 was s5,442,- 900, and $3,s7s,OO0 in 1904; an increase oi l $1,564, 600, or 40 per cent. The average pei establishment was approximately s75,Vt
 in 19O9 and about S66,000 in 1904.
 The value of products represents theil selling value or price at the plants as ac tually turned out by the factories during l the census year, and does not necessarily have any relation to the amount of sales for that year. The values under this head also include the amount received | for work done on materials furnished by others.
 | Further details can be drawn from the | tabular summary which follows: Per cent of in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
WOMAN MAYOR
 TOLD ID SMILE

Topeka, Kas. May 19.-"Smile and do not take too seriously the comment made by citizens. When one enters public ser vices he or she must be prepared to take criticism. All the little doings of pub lie office occupying the high position of mayor are the subjects of free comment on the part of free citizenship"
 This was the advise sent Mrs. Ella Will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
NOTES AND PERSONALS


 Mrs. Emmet O'Neal has returned to Mon tgomery after a brief visit to Mrs. Mason J. billiard. Miss Aleta Mcdonald is spending the week -end with friends in Tuscaloosa. | Mrs. E. Sterne of Dallas, Tex, and her daughter, Miss Ruth Sterne, are guests of Mrs. Sterne's sister, Mrs H. w. Bernheim, 1119 Hickory street. pr. and Mrs. Moore of Nashville are guests of pr. and Mrs. Arthur Harris, Juniper avenue. --r. and Mrs. Charles Weir of Sum ter county are guests of MT. and Mrs. Peter Weir at their home on South Fourteenth avenue. They are return ing from their wedding trip, their mar riage having been solemnized a short time ago in Franklin, Tenn. Mrs Weir was Miss Virginia shannon of Frank lin. She has a number of friends in Birmingham.
 MT. Peter Weir is confined at home
 because of a badly sprained ankle. Mrs. George Gordon Crawford has returned from visit to her mother,
 Mrs. Richardson, in New Orleans.
 Mrs. John sibley has joined her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
Splinter Causes Death

New Orleans, May l8-George Duboia, age IS, died yesterday afternoon at a local hospital from 1ockjaw as the result of running a splinter into his foot (
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
ANNOUNCEMENTS

A concert will be given next Friday night at S:30 o'clock in the high school auditorium at Ensley. Several singers from Birmin gham will take part in the programme and as this is the first con cert to be given in the auditorium, preparations are especially elaborate.
 The ladies of St. Clements Altar so- ciety will serve cream on Mrs. Free mans lawn, Fiftyfirst street, Thurs day afternoon and evening.
 The fancy dress party to have been given May IS by St Mary's guild, All Saints mission, in the parish house, has been called off. Another enter tainment will be Agiven later under the same auspices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
Number of estab-

The preliminary totals for the steam laundres of Montgomery are not included in the foregoing table as the Thirteenth census was the first at which they were canvassed. They are here given sepa- rately as follows: Number of establish ments, 8; capital invested, 61,000; cost of materials used s13,00o; salaries and wages $43, ,000; miscellaneous expenses, $21 GOO; value of products, s91 GOO; number of salaried officials and clerks, 15; and average number of wage earners em- ployed during the year, 106.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
NEW YORK TIMBER
 LANDS DESTROYED

Glen Falls, N. Y. May 19.-Fire which started in Johnsburg last night was blown across the Sacandaga river and de- stroyed more than 2oOO acres of heavy standing timber.
 The flames were threatening the destruc- tion of the hamlet of Bakers Mills today when heavy rain set in and put the fire out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20

Mrs. R. B. Smith of. Dadeville, wh, has spent the week with her sister Mrs w. K. Brown, will leave toda, for her home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20
When Pretty Woman Loses Interest
 Tn Gown She's In q Bad Way

Too Many Wives Settle Down Into Commonplace Domescy and Forget That They Ought to Keep Looking Pretty After Marriage as Well as Before Get Good Makeup and the Part Will Play Itself" Is an
 Aphorism of MT. George Ades Which Is
 Quite Worth Considering
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20

Mrs. McClelland who was expected to be the guest of Mrs. A. O. Lane During the good roads congress, will be unable to come to Birmingham at that tipe because of Illness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20

Nashville, May 19-In announcing his military staff tonight, Gov. B. W. Coop CT sprung an innovation in naming George M Bailey of the Houston, Ttx.
 Post as aide de camp, with the rank Of colonel. No other governor, so fai as known, ever named a man outside of his state as member of his staff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20

Mrs. J. B. Raulston will leave to- day to visit friends in Charlottesville Va, before sailing for Europe to spend the summer She will leave New Yorl, May 27. Miss Mena Buck will accom- pany Mrs. Raulston to Europe, joining her in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20

Miss Clara Lee Woodson has as he guest Miss Mary Bibb of Decatur, wh was with her during the winter sea son and has number of friends t welcome her again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-20

Mrs. John sibley has joined her
The Washington herald., 1911-01-29
DEACON PHILIPPE FORCED
TO ENTER NATIONAL GAME
Pirate Star Was Ready to Go West When Barn
Burned and He Had to Go Back to Diamond.

1T it hadn't been for Phillippe's barn
burning in 1899 he would have quit base
ball and the game would have lost one
of its greatest exponents.' said Barney
Dreyfuss recently.
Philippe, ii appears. was pitching for
Minneapolis in the American Association
when Dreyfuss, then head of the Louis
willie team. heard of him. After consid-
cradle dickering a trade was consum-
mated and a contract sent to the re-
cruit.
Vocation in Doubt.
Phil was then about twenty-five. the
product of a farm in North Dakota.
When he wasn't playing ball he was till
ing the soil and, according to the story.
wasn't making slittering success of
either vocation.
When he received Dreyfuss' letter and
contract he yelled murder. The salary
offered wasn't half large enough. he
wrote back. and until the ante had been
raised a considerable extent there would
be nothing doing in the signature line.
Days passed into weeks and still
Philippe held out. Finally he was in
duced to so from Minneapolis to Louis
willie. and there he engaged in long
heart to heart talk with the club presi-
dent.
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Argument after argument was advanced
by Dreyfuss. but still the big farmer
pitcher remained obdurate-
.'I'1l go back to the farm and quit
baseball for good and ever" was his
final declaration; and in the absence of
something better to say President Drey-
fuss bade him God-speed.
Eack to Minneapolis went the Deacon
His personal effects were there and he
fully intended to hit the trail for North
Dakota as soon as he had packed UP.
Luck was against him, however. for
upon his arrival in the Minnesota me
tropolLs he was greeted by telegram
from home which read
Barn and all its contents destroyed
by fire.
Decided to Play Ball.
This was a body blow. There was no
insurance, and a barn and live stock are
very necessary adjuncts to real farming.
Thus was the Deacon placed in the posi-
ton of man up tree.
There was but one thing left to do
play ball, Forthwith a telegram was
sent to President Dreyfuss at Louis
vile:
Terms accepted: will report this week"
The name signed to this was Charles
Philippe. and ever since that time the
same Charles Philippe has been men,
Der Of Dreyfuss' baseball team
The Washington herald., 1911-01-29
COLORED BALL TOSSERS MEET
Departmental League Plans for
Active Campaign.
Officers Are Elected-News Notes
and Brief Gossip of the yari-
Gus Clubs.

/ AT the meeting of the Colored Depart
/ mental League. held last night. the fol.
lowing officers were elected for the sea.
! son of 1911: r. y. Tucher. reelected
I president. and Frank Mckinney. secre-
tary. These officers served the league
successfully in the past year.
! w. a Hawks has succeeded Parker as
manager of the champion PoSt-office team
for next season. Manager Hawks has
appointed Wallace Sudler. the fast short
stop, field captain. They hope to re-
peat next year.
Navy. pulled down his flag as comman-
dant of the aggregation of Warriors He
will also be miSSed-frOm the lineup.
Capt. Johnson has things in charge at
present. but it is understood that Bron-
ncr will lead them in their next charge
at the beginning of the season.
First Baseman Sill Irving will guide
the fast Government Printing Office team
next season This will be Sill'S first year
at the head. Davis. who gave up the
manaSershp of the team, VIII not only
he missed by the team, but by the whole
league.
Manager Mckinney will guide his band
Of Redmen from the Interior Department
this season. Mac is an earnest player.
dnO ndFu worker. tlle interest OF MS
team and the betterment of the league is
his motto
Manager Dickerson of the Agricultural
Department. intends to stand pat on his
same old team. They did some good
work the last of the season, and deserve
another trial without a change. He has
secured Fanwell. young pitcher. who
showed acceptional ability season before
last. but on account of not being en-
ployed was kept out Of the game last
season
Fred Reynolds. Of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. has relinquished
the reigns of managership to Paris H.
Pollard for the coming season. Manager
Pollard is we'll known as the founder OF
the league. who resigned as president to
enter the ranks as player. This is his
first debut as a league manager.
The league will open about the 1st OF
May. and there Is no reason why this
shouldn't be one OF the best seasons.
They will occupy ground at Seventeenth
and streets northwest, their same old
place. the Monument grounds.
word to players: 1t is important
that you should have your contract sign
ed and in the hands Of your manager be-
fore the first meeting of the league IN
April. All names not submitted at that
meeting will not be allowed to partici-
pate in the first games of the season.
If you are a hold-out. you better see
your manager and ask him to make suit
able trades with you for other material
You're not a free agent to sign with any
club you wish. Since you signed your
contract last season you are forever on
the reserve list Of the team you played
with. unless released outright. or traded,
so all disgruntled players. take notice.
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true. Likewise the Navy has taken the
old West Point standard and changed it
to
Army blue army blue.
Well make the army blue.
Harvard More DigniAed.
Harvard seems to go in more for dig
nifty in its songs. as might be expected
from the more cultured Hub. and at New
Haven last year they arrived singing
Harvard Day." which is fitted to the
| tune of John Browns Body"
Raise the Crimson ensign to the place ii bsid of
yore,
In tho loyal spirit that shah live for ercmore.
The will set in Crimson glory tho sun has
set before.
For this is Hazards Day"
..Rings on the FtnEers.~
Those who followed the football stories
of 1909 will remember well the hard
luck reports emanatins from New Haven
about Ted Coy-how he was crippled with
water on the knee till he was almost out
of the game-and how he showed up in
the final games as one of the greatest
ground gamers that ever wore the mole
skin He was the inspiration for the
following, to the air of Blanche Rings
Rings on the Fingers"
I've got VS. on my sweater and water On my knee.
But just the same I'm in the game,
| am the ercat Suecgee-
skulls ard bones and VOLTS head an the sa1ne
to me.
For I'm full back, half back. quarter ba6 cacker-
jack Coy,
o Joy
History doth not record whether that
effusion came from Cambridge or New
Jersey.
And SO they go throughout the country
literary products that are often lost for
want of record, but proof positive to all
except the most skeptical that football
does more to develop the college man
than any other sport, not to mention
many courses in the class room curricu-
lum.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-29
WEE" WILLIE KELLER
TELLS OF GREAT CATCH
Hughey Jennings Pulled Trick, and Saves Game.
Races Through Crowd in Left Field
and Captures Fly.

Il have seen a world of fancy catches
in the many years that l have played
the game says Willie Keeler. .and 1t
would, perhaps, be hard to pick the one
most dazzling effort Of them all. In fact,
I'd hate to name any Of ten of the great
catches I have seen, and say that they
were the greatest. for there arn't many
games that pass without soIre splendid
fielding feat being performed narrates
W. A. Phelon, the Cincinnati critic.
Still, 1 believe the one catch that
sticks longest in my memory and the one
to which my mind always turns when
want to make a standard Of comparison.
was one that Hughey Jennings made in
Chicago one summer day hong. long ago.
1t was the Fourth of July. If ! remember
rightly. and the crowd was enormous
that the fans were TANNED into the field
by thousands. Along the left side OF the
arena they Stood in shoals. mass that
covered the players berch and packed
the space clear to the front OF the press
box. Every foul tip hit somebody, and
wild pitch would have killed some
millinery, l assure YOU.
1T was a desperate game. for the
Colts were pretty near the front. while
Baltimore was on top and determined TO
stay there. Every game counted Il lot.
and we played ball for all there was in
it. That game was a battle of giants.
and the great crowd was driven into Il
fr-nzy by the doingS of the afternoon.
Long hits were mixed with brilliant
fielding. daring base running was checked
by great throwing. and the teams came
down the hoH1" stretch neck and neck.
At last il looked as if Baltimore was
on the run The sacks were full of Colts.
only one out. and Iangc. il I remember
right. was at the plate.
Bill swung at n low hall 1t rose. and
sailed over the crowd that had masSed
parallel with the players bench-a far
away foul, and one tnat would have been
almost Impossible to get even II the
The Washington herald., 1911-01-29

crowd had been out of the way. Usually,
wheh try for a foul in that neighbor-
hood is made, either the catcher or third
baseman races after it. Usually. did I
say? Better make it always--the in
stances where left fielder rushes in. or
shortstop outfoots the third baseman.
are SO rare as to be practically unknown.
But there was the ball over the heads
OF the crowd: fat Wilbert Robinson.
realizing that he couldn't even reach the
fringe Of the crowd before the ball fell,
WAS standing calmly at the plate; Jimmy
Donnelly. who was at third at the time,
had turned and got the sun full in his
eyes. and Joe Kelley's view was appar-
emily cut of by the crowd.
There was a whirl Of black and yellow
stockings and dark uniform. Jennings
was coming across the field at a pace I
never saw any shortstop equal before or
since. and the crowd. Il decent crowd and
willing to give fair play. was trying to
split out and give him room. But they
couldn't. They were raSsed SO thickly
that they could give him hardly space
to plunge his head. Hushey never
stopped. He drove into the crowd like
football star and seemed for an in
stant to rise high above their heads. We
saw him lift his hands and then go down.
diving head first and vanishing. while his
spikes flashed for an instant as he dis
appeared. And the next second. up he
came holding the ball above his head.
while the fair-play crowd nearest him
were believing like devils. He got it, he
got it, and cheering like friends.
The runner on third broke for home.
Although he could hardly realize the Won
derful catch. he figured that Jennings
was lost in the crowd and could not get
arm-room for throw. But HuShey
somehow other aYTbed his fprp2
between two mems heads. and sailed the
ball home beating the runner as he slid.
The double play saved the game, and
was the pI oper climax to the best catch
L ever saw 4 ,hortstop make, if not the
greatest I ever saw made by any star.
The crowd? Oh. the crowd simply went
driveling. dotty, nuttily insane.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-29
COLLEGE MEN GREATLY
DEVELOPED BY FOOTBALL
Interest to the Teams Themselpes-Proni-
nent College Songs

Probably on the theory that "'they also
serve who stand and watt the cheering
sections at the football and baseball
games have become only second in inter-
est to the teams themselves, and the
number of songs and cheers that crop
up each year is practically without end.
Yet from time to time a song will appear
to stay. and last through several col
lege generations. until it is known all
over the country
Yale's Creepy Song.
One of these old-timers-for it only
takes a very few years in the college
world to give anything the title "old"-is
Yale's "Undertaker'' song. and nowadays
the choid chills begin to creep over
Princeton and Harvard stands when the
Ellis mourn:
..Oh. work for the undertaken
Another little job fer the casket maker.
In a local cemetery they very. very busy on
brand new grave
SoOo hope for Harvard. Moo hope
When the result shows the long end of
tn" score to be Yale's. that ditty has an
earthly tinge to the Tiger or the Crimson.
PrincetOn's Famous Chant.
Another equally famous chant is
Princeton's Here come the Ellis" which
was born way back in the late nineties.
when My Ann Eliza was the popular
coon song of the day. After a recent
bereavement at TiSertown. an alumnuS
was moved to revise it as follows:
Here came the Els.
Gave a big SURPRISE.
OITnei both cye-.
Played Smc fO1IthlN:
We will not Or Try.
Just drink to I'D Eli.
To Yale and Old Nassau.
Several years ago when Everybody
Works but Father" was on all the street
pianos. Yale was cruel enough to spring
''Everybody Scores on Princeton" which
that year happened to be almost literally