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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
CITY WILL Be CLEANED up
An Assistant Sanitary Inspector
Has Been Appointed.
TO ASSIST IN THE WORK
Stock Law to Be Enforced-Mayor Evans
Says the Practice of Stock Run
ming At Large is Too
Common.

The Agee card printed in the Ags-Hair-
aid of Tuesday has borne more fruit. 1t
caused an investigation into the sanitary
condition of the streets and alleys, with
the result that the sanitary inspector has
been given an assistant, and the laws
governing the health of the citizens will
be more rigidly enforced
"1'he city Is in bettsr condition now
than it has ever been.' said Mayor Ev-
ans, 'tbut it must be made b5tter. There
is nothing that should be so closely
guarded as the health of a city. If peo-
pie have complaints let them come in by
mail, telephone or through the papers.
We are going to have the city cleaned up
IL possible
The streets and alleys will be thorough
ly inspected and if, as the city authorities
say, the city is clean, it will be cleaner
when the sanitary force, with its new adj
dition, has time to make its work appar-
ent
The streets will also be closely watched
for any violati of the stock law. THE
practice of letting stock run at large has
become too common" declared the nay-
or. 'ard a stop must be put to 1t before
it grows" The goat, and the hog, and
the COW, and the horse must be kept up,
for officers with vigilant eyes will ybe on
the watch both day and night.
Stephen Virgins at osge time member
of the police force has been appointed as
sistant sanitary inspector temporarily,
and will begin today looking after the
streets and alleys. The board of health
concurred in the appointment, ard Mr..
Virgins will work under instructions
from that body and ALSO Mayor Evens.l
He took the oath of office under both the
mayor and Chairman Stevens of the POI
lice commission, which vests him with
authority to make arrests.
Besides his duties as a. -sistant sanitary
inspector, he will be clothed with author
i,y to impound stock found running at
large. Section 4O7 of the city code makes
st a violation of the law for the owner
of stock to allow it to run at large WITHIN.
the city limits, excerpt aho-e districts ex-
emp ed. The penalty is rot only for the
impoundirg of stock and payment of cca-,
but the owner is subject to fire of from
81 to $500. Heretofore the dmpoundng
force haas been on duty from O'Clock in
the morning Until in the evening every
day EXCERPT Sunday. A force will now be
kept ON duty both night anil day and en-
Sunday.
C. M. Burlhater has he garbage con
tract ait $3.50 per month. The carts are
required to call in the business portions
of town each DAY with the exception of
Sunday. On Saturday they are required
10 make two trips Citizens are required
10 place The trash in boxes or barrels
and place it In the alleys. The contract
provides that the carts shall go to the
residence portion of the city twice e2ch
week for Stops and solid matter and once
for trash. These duties do not exclude
o hers, which can be specified at any time.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
HIGH WHEAT PUTS FLOUR UP
Wholesale Price in Birmingham
Is 1913 on Patents.
STRAIGHT" GOING AT S5.25.
The MiIIers to Take Advantage of the S ia
ton and Flour viii Be Boosted Acto d
Ingly-Wheat Stronger, But Cot
ton Became Weak.


The consumer who went 10 the grocer
to purchase flour yesterday found it just
so cents higher on the barrel than the
Saturday night before. The furry in the
wheat market is being brought close
home to the people of Birmingham and
the same experience is felt all over the
country.
The tariff-no not the tariff this time
the rise in the price of wheat is the cause.
Flour that retailed last spring at $3.50 a
barrel and has been steadily rising until
last week it reached 625, had jumped up
Ito $6.55 when the grocery merchants
opened their doors Monday morning. IF
the price of wheat continues to rise. flour
will follow close second. Yesterday pc +
ent flour was s5. rs wholesale, and .raight
$5.25 per barrel. This is a SO cent rise
since Saturday night.
The local wholesale men say that the
mixers and jobbers will almost control
the market, independent of wheat for the
next few days. If the jobbers have large
supply on hand purchased at low fig
ure, they may not take full advantage of
the rise in wheat for day or two. The
same rule will work with the millers. If
they have large quantity of flour on
hand and need money bad enough to dis
pose of 1t at once they will not raise to
the full limit of the market price.
Wheat was little better yesterday
.,rI-o -
weaker. Wheat opened at 921s and closed
at 95k. The exchanges were filled a good
portion of the day and the bulls felt bet
ter. The exctable element expected to
make big margins Saturday evening
They would not accept the theory of Old
timers that the market had run away
with itself and was completely in the
hands of the spectators. They expected
the market to go to $1.25 but their hopes
have faded away each day. Each day
they expected a rea action, but have been
met with a break instead. There are
many who yet believe the market Will re-
main steadily high. From England comes
the report hat the Continental crop is
SnOrC ana lniS p1eulcClOn Indl the maxi
mum round of the market has not yet
been reached. sa-
The rise in the price of flour touches
the laboring CLASSES in a vital spot, and
if the high market continues the big ba-
kers will raise the price of bread. There
are three ways of reaching this end A
raise in the price OF the loaf, the using
of an inferior quality of -four, or reduc-
ton in the size of the loaf A steady i'm
provement has been made in the quality
of flour used in the United States. Ten
years ago large amount of second class
-four was sold, but during the last three
years the amount has greatly decreased.
It has been figured out that at S1.15 per
bushel for wheat, a scent loaf of bread
would only contain ounces of flour.
"a permanent rise in wheat will also
raise the price of condensed milk.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Twelve Sales of Property We're Recorded
Yesterday

Park Land Company to Joseph B. Cole
Lot 81, block Sc, Birmingham nsley;
$225.
Annie L. Going ct al. to Mary S. Cruik-
shank-Part of lot G, Bodies subdivision
in block u.s. city; $500.
3. L. Williams to Iron State Building
and Loan Company-Quit claim to lot Is,
block 10, Woollawn; $7645. s.
]. M. Turk and wife to Lee Pipkins--
Undivided half-interest DIN q part OF the
NV u of the sell of sec. so, town. Is, range
west; 500.
Fidelity and Casualty Company of New
York to heirs of A. H. Kellar-I.ot 10.
block 227, city: deed made in adjustment
of an erroneous tax sale by the city.
d. Il. Brennan to George Huddlestou-
Interest in the state of Patrick Brennan.
deceased; $25.
M. D. Whitley and wife to Joseph Bro
cato-Lot Ii. block 2O5. city; 500.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
MRS: JAMES DoNAI o.,
A Young Wife and Mother. Died Suddenly at
Her Home in Bessemer.

Mrs. James Donahoe. wife of the FORE
man at the Tennessee Coal IRON & Rail-
way Company's furnaces, died In BESSIE
ner yesterday Afternoon at o'clock. She
was % years Old and leaves, besides her
husband. three little children. She was
Ill only short time and her death CONES
unexpectedly.
The remains will be brought to this city
this afternoon and taken to the residences
of Mr.. Daniel Donahoe, 2506 First ave-
nus, where they will remain until the
midnight train. At that hour they will
be shipped ITO Pottsville, Pa, for inter-
ment. A sister of the deceased from
Pottsville. who had been visiting her, will
accompany the funeral party.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
A GRIM REMINDER.
The Engine of the III Fated cahaba Bridge
Train Again in Service.

The engine which went through the
cahaba river bridge with the illfated
train on Dec. 81, last, has just made it's
first trip since the catastrophe. lAt that
time it was numbered 81 and was used
in the passenger service. 1t is now No.
$50 and made its first trip early yester-
day morning, pulling a freight train. 1t
will be again placed in the passenger
service as soon as it is broken in.
1t will be remembered that the engine
and train fell through the trestle and
twenty-seven persons were killed. Engi-
neer Frank White was at the throttle.
The negro fireman was slightly injured.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
QUEEN & CRESCENT ROUTE.
Shortest and Quickest Line New Or
leans-Solid Xestibule Trains

Shortest and Quickest Line New Or
leans-Solid Vestibule Trains.
The Alabama Great Southern Railroad
with its connections. formerly the Queen
& Crescent Route, is the shortest and
quickest line from Birmingham to New
Orleans. A solid vestibule train leaves
Birmingham at 1925 night, arriving New
Orleans 11:45 next morning. This train
carries Pullman's handsomest drawing
room Buffet Sleeping Cars, day coaches.
baggage and express cars through with.
out change.
The evening train leaving Blrmin CHAM
ats p. M, carries elegant Pullman Union
Sleeping Cars from Birmingham to
New Orleans without change, arriving at
New Orleans at $50 next morning, MAX
ing connection with Southern Pacific for
the west
For comfort and speed, travel via the
Queen & Crescent Route.
! G.. M. BILLHEIMER.
Travelling Passenger Agent Alabama
Great Southern Railway, No. North
Twentieth ST. Telephone 846.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
OPERATIONS SUSPENDED.
Deputy Marshals will Await the Approval Of
Mr.. Musgrove's Bond.

WIZ MuSStVsc bonus
Yesterday afternoon message was re-
ceived from the department at Washing
ton ordering all of the United States dep
uty marshals to cease work until the
bold of Marshal J. c. Musgrove shall
have been approved.
AS stated in yesterdays Age-Herald,
Mr.. Musgroye was temporarily reap
pointed United States marshal to serve
until his successor is chosen His bond
was forwarded at once.
The terms of the deputy marshals have
also expired and they will have to be
temporarily re-appointed. The order of
yesterday restraints them from raiding
stills or arresting vi5lators of the internal
revenue law until their re-appointment.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
The Colonel,s Livelihood.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
| Fl beah that the kunnel, sab. is SO low
financially that he has been fo'ced to
adopt the puffession of watah- WITCH"
5 "a what?"
"a watah-witch, sab. Goes about Ioca-
ting underground streams of watah,
sah."
"Oh! Now understand. Carries fork
ed twig that bends toward the ground
when the water is neared."
mo, sab. The kunne1 doesn't have to
uss twig. His organization il so sensi-
tive sab, that he has only to walk over
ground where the fluid Is within reason
able distance. sab. and he has violent
chilI.n f
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
New superintendent.

The Birmingham Traction company has
decided to. continue the operation of the
East Birmingham dummy line for the
present without any alterations or, i'm
provements. G. Mortimer Williams, for
merly general manager of the Highland
Avenue and Belt dummy line, has been
appointed superintendent of this line.
Extensive improvements will be made,
but not at present.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
It IS POST MASTER HUGHES
His Commission Arrived YeSter-
day Morning.
DR.. HUGHES OUT OF THE CITY
Expected to Return at Once and Take Charge
of the Postoffice on Saturday-Chief
Clerk Crukshank is to Be Re-
tanned Temporarily.

The commission of DR.. ]. w. Hughes
Willis O. Bass, chief mailing c,erk in the
postofflce, and chairman of the civil SER
vice board in this CITY,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
nrrs. Katherine Lawson Dead.

Mrs. Katherine Lawson died at her
late home, No. 720 Twenty-second street.
Tuesday night. Mrs. Lawson was-born
in Charlotte. N. G., and has been a resi-
dent of this city for about two years.
She was the widow Of the late Pjnckney
b. Lawson, and came to this city from
Marion. where her remains were shipped
yesterday ~.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
Brought From Brookside.

Yesterday Deputy Sheriff w. J. Arm
strong, of Brookside, delivered three ne
gro women to the county Jail. He was 20
have turned them over to local officers in
Coalburg, buE they failed to meet him.
Mat lie Flake and Sialte Thomas are
charged with abusive language, and Lula
Speace will be tried for assault and bat
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
INTO NEW QUARTERS.
The Eks viii Lease. the Old Phoenix Club
Rooms

Rooms.
A special meeting of the Ell1s was held
in their rooms over the First National
Bank last night for the purpose of con-
sidering the advisability of securing new
quarters.
1t was decided to lease the rooms for
merly used by the Phoenix Club on
Fourth avenue and Twentieth street. The
lease will be signed today, when prepar-
ations for the removal of the furniture
and paraphernalla viii be made. The
rooms will be elegantly fitted up.
The opening of the rev quarters will b.
with a grand ladies' social session and
ball for the Elks, their wives and sweet
hearts.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
Electric Cars For Ensley.

The work of changing the Ensley dunn
my line into an electric car line is fast
nearing completion. The underground
wires are in position and the work of
stretching the overhead wires is being
pushed. The change will be made in
about ten days 1t is thought sched-
ule will be put on running car every
thirty minutes
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
CA@ToRIAs
The fac II
A'' 4 &HAzzezsx 1 '.iE

Will carer and Andrew Jordan, two
negroes, were arrested yesterday by Off,
GERS Langston and Shirley on a charge
of Stealing $35 worth of brass from J. w.
Wor hngton & Co. Jordan says that Mr..
Worthington told them to take the brass
and sell 1t. Jordan was arrested some
time ago on charge of I'M erfering with
L. M. Barcltff in his attempts to hire me-
gro laborers for work on a railroad.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
HELPING HIM OFT.
VIE ~ SFFO INV OO u
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
81 have no power to tell you of
My love-" the young man said;
my tongue 1t viii not utter,
And my speech will not be led"
Then she who saw him at her feet,
The best catch In the town,
Remarked, as If to help him out:
YOU'D better write 1t down."
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
sesiously Injured.

r. L. Gourley. foreman OF the street
gangs, was badly injured yesterday
morning on Red Mountain. A wagon
loaded with dirt turned over on him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
Temporary Changes.

wv. M. Garner, one of the wardens at
the city prison, is spending his vacation
in and around Tuscaloosa. During his
ah3ence Officer S. A Hamilton is ac ing
warden, Officer J. w. Mcdonald taking
his place as day mounted man.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
Marriage Licenses

! Permits to wed were issued yesterday
out of the probate cfNrt for Joseph A.
Speed to Miss Sallie L. Veitch, j. D. Lo-
gan to Miss Sallie Harding.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26

which he was badly bruised. He was re-
moved to the residence of his nother-in-
law, Mrs Aston, Twentieth street and
Avenue C
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26

The Huntsville Mercury is edited clev-
erly. 1t could not be otherwise when it
speaks this way;
1.-THE Birmingham Age-Herald sees
prosperity; not short distances ahead,
as appears the delusive mirage, but all
round everywhere. 1t bumps the "bul-
let headed editors who claim that
what and silver prices have any con-
nection whatever. Who says the Age
Herald has not improyed?"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
WITH THE ALABAMA EDITORS.
Subjects the Able Writers and Thinkers Are
+ Discussing.

The Eutaw' Mirrow grows facetious
when it says:
Capitalists are looking for a place to
erect glass works in or about Birmirsg-
ham. May be Montgomery would be a
better place under existing circumstan-
ces"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
The Eufaula Times talks hot stuff in

The Eufaula Times talks hot stuff in
this:
He'll has broke loose in Georgia, sure
enough. The gentleman who was APP
pointed to visit the convict camps, prl-
waite camps for misdemeanor people, pub
lished a report that makes hell right in
Georgia. The Times would not be great
ly surprised if the same effort was made
to get the truth in Alabama, if our camps
were not found to be in q pitible condi-
ton. If the Georgia commissioners re-
port is true the lesses of these conwicts
should be strung up to the nearest limbs.
If we must have lynch law, here is
good place for it to Begin"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26

Brother Jelks thinks well of his good
Brother Lane in this:
Editor Lane will not be governor this
year. Mr.. Lane is too fanciful to hang
on a year for a job If he can't be elect
ed to office in twenty-four hours hs WON'T
have it,
Then he says of a Mobile friend:
Charlie Waller has gone a-cruising on
Mobile bay and below there. He is get
ting away from the echoss of a late in
discretion. May he forget 1t and forget
politics in the waters and wine of Mo-
bile"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-25


The Tulare Register declared that
earthquakes prove this globe of ours
to be "a good deal of misfit, at best"
The Record Union" replied that ma
ture never makes misfits, INDUCES in
no mistakes, and that to hold other
wise is to deny the unity, supremacy
and perfection of natural law"
Whereupon our Tulare contemporary
cries fudge, and declares that the unity,
supremacy and perfection of natural
law is a pleasing fiction, a solace of
minds incapable, through want of cour
age, of facing fact. 1t winds up its
dogmatism by saying: IF a COW needs
horns, why did nature make muley cat
tie? And if COW does not need horns,
why did not nature make them all mu-
lies? There is a misfit for you. Get
that, for it is so silly a bit
of slush that one can drive
through it, The answer is in the
question, By what warrant is it as
sumed that the hornless COW is not as
strictly in the natural order of things
the result of the operation of natural
law as the cow with horns? Or, if you
please, the result of the violation of
natural law? Or the outcome of the
attempt of man to modify natural law?
As matter of fact man creates moth
ing; he is simply the agent who is
permitted to avail of natural laws and
forces. 1t does not follow that be-
cause there are some COWS without
horns and some men without due pro-
insists. On the contrary it proves that
they fit to the law, since they are the
results of natural law, decreeing that
the operation of certain forces shall
produce certain and unvarying effects,
though they may take on differing
forms. The idiot, the muley COW, the
three-legged calf, and the twelve-toed
woman are precisely as much the re-
suits Of natural law and orderly rule,
as the perfect product in either line.
If any other assumption is entertained
then there is an end to certainty, and
chaos takes the place of order the sea-
sons fail to run their round, and the
purpose behind creation the motor be-
hind life, the law decreeing decay and
death, are fictions, and man is not even
a free will agent. Because men may
not understand the purpose nor yet the
reason of the operation of nature,
proves only that they are finite beings,
not that nature accomplishes her ends
by haphaZard or whim. One of the
best evidences of the correctness of the
original statement, that has had the eff
feet of evolving from our contemporary
the ludicrous muley COW argument is
found in the fact that nature does
not pause in her endless march to re-
spond to such tom-fool questions as
why have some COWS horns, and
some have none?" Happily nature
credits man with having received from
her intellectual endowment sufficient
to enable him to make answer for him
self.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-25
Keen Cool.

There amt no sense in getting riled
An having all your temper spilled.
There amt no use O. shown spite
Because things don't turn out jest right,
Don't flare up like an OF blame fool
Keep cool.
When things is gettin' in muss
Don't rave aroun' an start fuss:
Col darn yer eyes it might be wuss-
Keep cool.
Yen sleep a good deal sounder too,
Enjoy yer meals and won't get blue,
YEN find the sun amt dropped away
Because there is one cloudy day
Don't let yerself be Dull Cares tool
Keep cool.
Pitt shIlrer News
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-25

Those feeble souls who view with
such alarm "the enormous cost they
assume that this country will be put
to, to fortify Hawaii in case we an
mex it, seem to have no thought what
ever for the cost to which Japan will
be subjected to fortify the islands if she
takes and attempts to hold them. The
fact is that Hawaii as a possession of
the American Republic will not require
any system of defenses such as these
timOrous souls dream Of If. unhap-
PLY, we become involved in war and
another Power falls upon the islands
and seizes them as a spoil, we will
not have lost the cost of the group of
islands, since they come to us with
out purchase or output from the treas
ury. AS a possession of the United
States it will be very unlikely that the
islands will ever be seized, because be-
ing a greater Power, we will be far less
likely to be assailed by any nation.
This is q. Republic, while Japan is a
monarchy; it is small State and
strong only on water, and that, it is
safe to assume. viii not long continue
to be true in comparison with the
strength of other peoples. Monarch
les of the world are far more likely
to be involved in war than is the
continental Republic of America, for
obvious reasons. We are not a con-
questing people. We have no divis-
ional lines to settle at all likely to
plunge US into a conflict We are not
in the position of any of the great
States that are defensively bound TO
stand by each other, since we are not.
and never will be, one to any compact
for the preservation of the balance of
power by the threat of force. But
assuming that the fears of the
aIarmists and opposition to have
some weight, what then? If Ha-
wall is worth possessing it is worth
defending, and to defend that outly
ing possession will not be a mere fugi-
tive labor, but every output of energy
in that direction viii be part and parcel
of the defense Of the whole nation. a
navy strong enough to protect our At
lantic and Pacific seaboards, and
maintain respect for the flag and the
rights of citizens of the Republic
abroad, will not need to be any strong