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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-13
Boy Is Released.

John Goodfellow says that the police
were misinformcd when they were told
that his son, Frank GoodfrlIow. II years
old was stealing chickens from Il coop
back OF the Odeon hall last Thursday.
Young Goodfcllow was arrested by Cam
yon Policeman Mathews. after word was
sent to the station that the chicken coop
was being robbed by Goodfullow anG two
companions. Mr.. Goodfellow says the
boys were simply running across the
yard, and that they had no intention to
steal. Young Goodfcllow was released
after he had been questioned At the po-
lice station.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-13
To Give Concert.

III order that the iiremcn might be as
sisted materially when 1t comes to raising
sufficient funds TO defray the expenses
OF the trip 10 the annual convention In
Provo In August, the Midyale fire de-
partment, twenty-five strong. have com :
pleted arrangements FOR Il concert which
is To be given at the Sandy opera house
the coming week. Howard Phelps and
others of Midvale arc interesting lhcm
selves with the Midvale fircmcn and the
affair no doubt, will be q successful one.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-13
New Interpretations

Filed with the secretary OF state:
Certified articles of the Franklin Au-
tomobile company Of New York; H H
Franklin, president; F. A. Barton, Sec
retary: w. ]. Barrette. local attorney or
agent.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-13
Bows Two and One 5 Dos
Trousers Suits at. u

FROM ONE OF THE LEADING boy suit
making concerns Of New York. We wish
there were thousands of these suits, as they
are the best suits for the money that we
know about-better suits than offered by
other stores for $3.50. The fabrics are mix
lures serges and cheviots-coats made Of
double breasted jacket style; sizes to 16
years. Better Innings, better interlinings,
pocketings and in every way superior to
suits with two trousers offered in other
stores at $500 more. Annex.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-13
Sandy Has Boom.

The general impression prevails at
Sandy that the future Is exceedingly
bright, now that the Alta railroad Is as
sured. Citizens as whole are highly
enthusiastic over the encouraging pros
poets. An active campaign is being out
lined by the Sandy Commercial club.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-13
Do You Have tho Right Kind of Help.

Foley Kidney Pills furnish you the
right kind of help 10 neutralize and re.
move tho poisons that cause backache
headache, nervousness, and other kidnev
and bladder ailments. Schrnm In j Johuson,
Drugs, five stores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

England has not fought a battle for the supremacy of the sea since 1915, nearly a century ago. The peace of Europe promises to remain unbroken throughout another thirty-year period, and every year is leading nations away from war to arbitration.
 It may not be wise to say the great wars of the world have all been fought because of their great cost in life and treasure. The Russo-Japan- csc war is, however, fresh in the minds of all. It was great war, but it is indeed difficult now to fore seee another great war anywhere in the length and breadth of the world. Were it not for the fact that wars have knack of coming suddenly and without warning one would be inn pelled to say at present that none are in sight or even probable. They lead to taxation and almost bankruptcy and no country wants either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
READS UPSIDE DOWN

From the Boston Post.
 Millbury, Mass.-Charles w. Searles Of this town reads newspapers and maga- zines upside down from choice, because when he was a boy he learned to read them that way so that the other boys in school wouldn't look over his shoulder and make him nervous.
 Mr. Searles is nearly 80 years of age. He holds the paper or magazine upside down and reads aloud from it in clear and rapid flow of words.
 ''When I WAS a schoolboy,' says MT. Searles, ''the parents of all the school children couldn't afford to buy books for the youngsters. Consequently those who did not have books were forced to look over the shoulders of their more for tunate brethren.
 q was a near-sighted youngster, and in addition to that, it made me nervous to have anyone looking over my shoulder. When anyone else was looking on I had to hold the book a long way from my face and then couldn't see the pages.
 ''I told my father and he told me to refuse to let anyone look on with me The first day refused the teacher gave me a whipping. So then I learned to read everything upside down. Then no one could look over my shoulder. I've kept it up ever since"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
----ses- THACKERAY'S SATIRE

From the London Globe.
 Thackeray created quite erroneous impressions of himself by often indulg ing in irony in the presence of people incapable of understanding 1t. One curious instance is this He had been dining at the Garrick and was talking in the smoking room after dinner with various club acquaintances One of them happening to have left his cigar case at home, Thackeray, though disliking the man, who was a notorious tuft hunter, good naturedly offered him one of his cigars. The man accepted the cigar, but, not finding it to his liking, had the bad taste to say: "I say, Thackeray, you won't mind my saying I don't think much of this cigar?" Thackeray, no doubt irri- tated at the mans ungraciousness, quiet ly responded: You ought to, my fellow. for it was given me by a lord" h. stead, however, of detecting the irony, the doltI however, immediately attributed the remark to snobblshness on Thack- erays part and went about declaring that .. ."Thackeray had boasted that he had been given cigar by lord.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
,1ckN .NIEs AND PRESIDENTS

From the Los Angeles Times.
 The use or origin of sicknames for
 many of our presidents and generals and
 other public characters and many of our
 cities and states has for half a century
 given me a good deal of interest and in-
 numerable hours of research.
 All are aware that Washington be-
 came known after the revolutionary war as the Father of His Country but few know that Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, N. J., about a hundred years ago, was the author of the appela- ticn. Andrew Jackson received the nick name of "Old Hickory early in the '20s,
 but how may persons have traced the. bestowal of the nickname to an old New Hampshire democrat named Isaac Hill? Or that Jackson bestowed the nickname Of "Martie" on Martin Van Buren? Not many are aware of tie fact that it was Stephen A. Douglas who referred first to
 Abraham Lincoln as "Old Abe and it was George Alfred Townsend who ac- companied MT. Lincoln from Springfield to Washington in February, 1861, as cor respondent of the Philadelphia Press, | who first applied the term of Father | Abraham in a newspaper
 | And it was President Lincoln, after Andrew Johnson had made one of his 1 last union speeches in the United States | Senate.- in February, 1882 who called the great Tennesseean "the Andrew Jackson | of the war;" who was afterward gener- | ally known as "Old Andy" or just plain Andy Johnson"
 Many presidents were given nicknames. John Quincy Adams was known as the | Great Commoner." Monroe will always be remembered by the "doctrine' that is
 connected with his name William Henry
 Harrison was "Tippecanoe," on account of his Indian victories in Indiana in the late 3Os. And Benjamin Harrison was
 widely cartooned and referred to by dem
 ocrats as My Grandfather's Hat" Pres
 ident Zachary Taylor earned the sobrf- ouet of Rough and Ready" in the Mex ican war. Buchanan was known as "Old Buck and as Jimmy Buchanan" An- drew Johnson was often referred to by
 his enemies as His Accidency" Grant
 earned his nicknames during .the war,
 the best of them being "Unconditional Surrender Grant" Dana of the Sun called Hayes Flight to Hayes and still meaner
 names none of which followed the Pres.
 ident to his grave. Arthur was often Prince Arthur" Mckinley was either
 Major or Bill Mckinley" Cleveland
 was just Grover Roosevelt Teddy" and Taft "Bill."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17

though silent effect upon many lines oi business.
 Another cause for reaction is the ces- sation in new enterprises, brought about by the overriding which eliminated in 1909 and 1910. Doubtless this has been accentuated by uncertainty attending the court decisions and tariff legislation, as well as by adverse railroad developments; but had these factors not intruded 1t
 is unquestionable that there would still have been a very considerable degree of hesitation owing to inevitable reac- tionary tendencies. In the steel trade the outlook Is not as bright as month ago. Railroads are economizing, some' thing they are we'll able to do because of their present excellent physical con- dtion. The refusal of the interstate commerce commission to grant the rail- roads permission to raise their rates is being met in practical fashion; econo- mics are being introduced wherever pos sible, and the railroads before carrying projected improvements any. further are calculating upon buying cheaper iron and steel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
No Wars in a Generation

No great war has been fought in Europe since the treaty of San Stefano thirty years ago. In the thirty years preceding-from 1S48 to 1878-a succession of wars afflicted Europe, including the revolutionary wars of 1848-49, the Crimean war. the war in Italy in 1859, the war be- tween Prussia and Austria in 1866, the Franco-German war and the Rus so-Turlish war. The thirty three years following the Napoleanic period from 1915 to 1S48-were peaceful
 These thirty-year periods are not, however, controlling. Thirty-three years have already elapsed since San Stefane and Europe is peacefully in- clined and conditioned. England no longer fears Russia, and Russia will not soon become aggressive again in Europe. Prussia and Austria are friendly. Italy iAcontent. France and Germany are ,lettihg bygones be by zones. It is true Germany is Baild- ing battleships, but So is England, and any contest between them be- comes each year morel improbable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
Coal at the Gulf Ports

The New Orleans States and the Mobile Register alike see in the reor- ganization of two Alabama corpora tions and the use of the Lake Borgne canal great opportunities for indus trial development. Tt is announced" ;" says the States, that when the plans of the company are in full swing Mo- bile and New Orleans will be the two cheapest coal ports in the United States. That fact will be an adver- tisement of inestimable value. There seems no immediate prospect of the piping of natural gas to New Orleans from Caddo. But if we are to have coal to offer to manufacturers at prices under those of any other Amer ican port, the item of fuel instead of operating against us will operate in our favor in the future in efforts to  make New Orleans a great industrial center"
 The Mobile Register appreciates the kind words of the states. It, however, thinks that Mobile will be the greater coal port of the gulf. New Orleans has," it says, "a large ocean tonnage that will be increased by the new and cheaper fuel supply and that port will also get much of the coal trade of the gulf that must come with the completion of tide water connection between the Ala bama coal fields and the seaboard, but the great coaling port of the gulf will be Mobile, because the seaport of Alabama will be in direct connec- tion with the coal fields and will of fer an economy in operation to steam ship companies that no other port on the gulf can offer, whether the cost of coal or distance from the general line of navigation is considered"
 Mobile has perhaps an advantage of 50 cents a ton over New Orleans, but no ship bound to or from the isthmus is going out of it's way to take coal. All such ships will be supplied with bunker coal at Colon or Panama, and the port that can carry coal to those ports at best ad- vantage will handle the more coal. Mobile has the advantage surely in this matter, and this is the main point in the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
More Such days as these to us befnll
 -2 King Henry VI.
Traffic in the Suez Canal

The Suez canal was opened Novem- Der IT, 1869, and in the course of a year 486 vessels passed through it. Last year 4533 vessels navigated the waterway, yielding to it revenue of 7,251 ,233 francs. The canal dues are at the rate of 7.75 francs per tor.
 The story of Suez will surely prove to be the story of Panama. At first the tolls were 10 francs per ton. The tolls have been gradually reduced, and this year brings a new reduction. They are now but 7.25 francs per ton. The canal is ST miles long and a sys- tenn of electric lights has been in stalled, so that shipping is not de- layed by it at all. It is in use both day and night, and it is rarely free from ships. About fifteen ships pass through it daily. British tonnage outranks all the rest, German ships coming next.
 No matter how slowly the Panama canal may be at the start in earning interest on it's cost, it will surely in forty years become profitable alike to it's builders and to the rest of the world. The story of Suez shows that any short sea cut will be used to the point of profit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
PHONOGRAPHIC FITMrI.AM

From the New York Morning Telegraph.
 Delhi, Tex.-Mayor Walker of this city has ordered the Hubbard phonograph par. Tor closed The mayor says it is being operated under false pretenses, which Is in violation of paragraph 3, section of the city charter. This paragraph says "No public amusement place shall advertise what it has not. violation of this provision shall be construed as obtaining money under false .pretenses"
 complaint reached Mayor Walker that a song, being advertised as a grand opera selection, was merely a tune from ''The Royal Chief" A New York tray cling man kicked about the alleged im- position to Clate Henry, a prominent bartender. and Clate informed Mayor walker The mayor decided to test the parlor himself He dropped a penny in the tune. He was unable to decide wheth- CT 1t was grand opera or not.
 Wishing to investigate further, Mayor Walker started a photograph going which advertised on the sign card as giving out a song by Caruso The mayor says 1t ground out a selection entitled '"That's a Habit That Never Had" He is of the opinion that Caruso did not sing it. The announcement part of the roll Is scratched. but it sounds like Sung by Irving Jones'" The mayor has ordered the place closed until he can ascertain whether or not Caruso has a song in his list called That's Habit That I Never Had.
 There Is some doubt as to whether Mayor Walker can close the parlor con- sistently since during the last campaign. he advertised music by a brass band and then employed four members of the Sal-. vation Army to play Bringing in tho Sheaves'' at one of his mass meetings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
Mobilization in 1s45 and Now

Four Months were consumed in1S45 in getting 3800 soldiers to the Rio Grande. In those days there were no railroads, no telegraph, and when Gen. Zachary Taylor was ordered in March, 1845, to move from Fort Jesup, Louisiana, to the Rio Grande, he got ready for a long summer march across unoccupied plains. He arrived at Corpus Christi on Octo- Der 15, in excellent condition, both men and horses. He had 3733 men present for duty. This was a great army of regulars in those days. It was later reinforced by 5000 volun- teers, and in May, 1846, he marched to the coast from the Little Colorado. The Mexican forces threatened his re- turn and at Palo Alto, nine miles from Matamoras, occurred the first battle of the war. Another battle on
 
 May g gave the control of the Rio Grande to the Americans.
 All this took place 800 miles from the City of Mexico. Minterey fell in September, 1846. The war was end ed in 1847, and in 1848 Zachary Tay- Tor was elected President of the United States.
 These facts go to show that great possibilities are shut up in a move ment from the Rio Grande. We start this time with 10000 men mobilized in few days, and are now calling for recruits. History may be or may not be about to repeat itself. Much depends upon the unexpected and upon the temper of the people In any event the famous maneuvers are full of possibilities, although it is diff ficult at present to see how war of conquest can grow out of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Business CondItIons

Tt is generally felt in the manufactur- ing and mercantile world that business conditions have improved materially since the first of April" said William T. Graf toE of Philadelphia.
 No business man who is fairly well Informed expected any high degree Of activity in March or April. The things making for, unrest were too obvious to need discussion, but Wall street and the big interests in touch with Wall sireet have discounted all disquieting tendencies and all eventualities that might upset the trusts. and having so discounted business is moving on much more smoothly than most of us thought it would In other words, business this month Is quite. good Tn May it will be better and unless all signs fail the last half of the year will witness great deal of prosperity provided always we have good crops
 The business situation in the south IS more satisfactory than in any section l have visited. The south is making great strides in every branch of industry.
 large tide of immigration is turned thls way, and by the time the next census IS taken every southern town will have in- creased largely in population. Birmins- ham will be in the 3OO,0OO population class, and Atlanta, Memphis and Nash vile will be over the 100000 population mark"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
A FOLLOWER OF DICKENS

where Bill Sikes snatchss his can from the vendor of the l:radcsior who has captured it 10 test his nostrum on the strain of Nancy's bioed-or another pas sage that stain suggests, where the two lawyers clerks in Bleak House" who have opened the window for air. are disconnected by the black grease upon their hands that is due to the old rag dealers holocaust below? Or yet another pothouse scene, in Our Mutual irlendi- work IL is the fashion to undervalue nowadays; unless indeed I myself overestimate it~-NDere Roguo Hiderhood and the decent sohoolmaster, with fiend in his ntart, are each try ing to best the other? Says the school master, with all the ehafing of his mur- derous soul in his evil face, Listen these are my holidays Says Rider hood to himself, with his eyes upon
 it: Your working days must be stiff
 uns then if these are your holidays" Did ever human pen write anything more grisly?
 l should have a heavy miss of such things as these had they never been written. But would those have been much better off who measure Dickens giant for what is but a part-however
 large a one-of our inheritance from his pen? Conceive, the English speak ing world, this, 40 years past without Sam Weller's legend of the crumpet-love who shot himself on principle, that he might not die of indigestion; and confirm, the medical prognosis; without his fathers tribute to the usefulness of death: "Whatd become of the undertakers with cut 1t, Sammy?" Without the immortal PiclSsniff's version of registering, "'Come, took captains biscuit" without Mrs. Camp and Mrs. PrigA"Wotever you do drink fair, Betsyi" above all. without Mrs Harris. whose name is probably always on some definite number of lips through out the world, even as-so they say there are always B earthquakes on duty somewhere or other on the globe at every hour of the day or night. I stop at Mrs. Harris but the instances uncted are legion.
 If were dying and were suddenly told that an unsuspected posthumous work of Charles Dickens had come to light and was in the printers hand, I firmly believe that I should wish to go on dying long enough to read it. Anyhow, that is good way of expressing love of his works that has lasted through lifetime. ard a motive on the surface-and why seek for others when these abound, as Betsy Trotwood said to MT. Wickfeld?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
 Glad To He Moved

'1 am delighted to get into our new quarters" said Will Lathem, assistant cashier of the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust company. q have worked for a dozen years in the bank in it's old quar- ters on Second avenue, and 1t will seem strange not to go there this morning.
 T have never heard so many favorable comments on banking home as I have about the new home of the Peoples bank in the First National bank building, and am expecting hundreds and thousands of people to visit us today in the new quarters.
 Tt will feel good to have ample facili- ties for carrying on business, beautiful quarters. convenient location and every other necessity that enters into modern. successful banking. We expect our move to bring us many new customers, and already we have had a number of indi- viduals and firms tell us that they ex- pected to open an account with us as soon as we moved.
 One of the old landmarks of Brming- ham passed into history when we moved Saturday afternoon. We had been in that stand more than 21 years, about as long as any firm or business in Birmingham has been In any one location.
 We want everybody to visit us today, and we will stay open until 10 clock tenight in order that people may see how beautiful the bank is when lighted at nishtn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-17
STREET SCENES IN PARIS

scale on the first syllable and descend on the last
 The sound of a tin trumpet hearalds the approach of the chair mender, who leads his patient donkey harnessed with variety of straps and cords to a little cart packed with broken down chairs The ringing of bell suggests the Lon- don muffin man, but in Paris where mullins are exotic delicacies, it is the signal of the "remouleur," the knife grinder. A curious kind of mouth or gan is the favored instrument of the 'fontianier," the china mender, who varies the weird strains of his unmusical in- strument with a long, montonous drone.
 At evening all these cries die away, drowned by the raucous shouts of the 'camelots,'' the newspaper hawkers; Paris Sport complet." The evening pa. pers only issue a second edition when some event of importance has happened and then some half dozen "camelots' work each street together. Sometimes. when no policeman is near, a cry Is raised when there is no second edition to per- suade the passerby to purchase the or dinary number Of the paper with the idea that something extraordinary has hap rened When the guillotine was once more set working special editions with blood-curdling descriptions of the execu- tions, which always take place at dawn, were brought out in the early morning. The "camelots' are forbidden under penalty of fine to cry the contents of their papers. and may shout nothing ex- cept their title. but in the early hours of the morning police supervision is relaxed, ard on the day of the execution of Lia- beuf, the 'apache,' for whose reprievo the revolutionaries had made violent campaign, half Paris was awakened from its slumbers by the grisly cry of "Il est mort, il est mort''