The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-01

Russell Register; Mir Hughes speaks of the temporary good times" Won der if he would rather have conditions similar to those that obtained during 1907?.
 Moulton Advertiser: A woman in Arkansas is sueing a steamboat for putting her off on an island, in the Mississippi river, where the mosquitoes ext racted $2500 worth of blue blood from her aristocratic veins. Cruel treatment, and the heartless company should be made to pay dearly for the outrage.
 Mobile Register: The British goy- ernment orders her subjects not to deal with certain American merchants. Suppose now our government should order certain of our financial mer- chants not to deal with the British government? What then would become of the British governments efforts to borrow American money? Would it hurt? It would hurt consumedly.
 Greensboro Watchman: of on a vacation is the way the newspapers
 
 state officials, and others, who feed from the public crib, leaving town for the summer. Mighty few Of us in this part of the world can afford the luxury of vacation. We have to stick to the job the year round in order to make enough to live on and pay taxes so that the ~yacationists" may have a good time.
 STAGE ROMANCE WAS DIFFERENT New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times.
 An old New Yorker calls my attention to the fact that the newspapers missed a legitimate chance this week to be reminiscent about historic sensation. A cal happenings records the fact that Will liam Wood. dying possessed of a comfort able fortune, provided in his will that May Kellard should receive legacy of se5.ooo in cash. The rest of his estate, mostly realty. he left to lis wife. Twenty years ago. William Wood and May Kel-
 
 most sensational lawsuits New York ever knew. Wood, a millionaire. WAS madly infatuated with Miss Kellard. who had gained fame as beauty of the burlesque stage. She was one of the most promi- nent figures in the gay life of Broadway of that day, and 1t is possible that no woman of her class ever enjoyed popular ity equal to hers Wood was frequently seen in her company. One day New York was startled by the announcement that Mrs. Wood had sued to have a conserva- tor appointed for her husbands estate. presenting evidence that he had given May Kellard more than S 100000 in money. With this end in view they ob tained an order of the court requiring Miss Kellard to testify as to all the gifts she had received from Wood and as to what disposition she had made of the funds. On the witness stand the woman whom everyone believed to be a butter fly of the world of Bohemia produced verified record showing that she had given every cent of the Wood million to deserving charities. She had made her donations with the most careful discre- ton, and the record was one that as- founded all of New York. She had never permitted her name to be known in her charitable work, but she had. for years, made the wisest and most careful dispo- sition of the large sums which came into her possession, always with the purpose of benefiting the helpless. After the law suit Miss Kellard returned to the stage. From her earnings she gave financial as- sistapce to Wood, when he was penniless. Later, Wood came into second fortune. Then the principals in the famous case dropped out of public notice. Their names, after years. appear together In the public prints once more in the brief paragraph recording the bequest in Woods vii.