The age-herald., 1899-03-18

| twenty candidates for the six places from this county and amongst the twenty are some of the very best men Jefferson county has the honor to offer to tho state. Every democrat who has in mind the welfare of the state will vote today, and vote for the candidates whom he deems Attest to serve the county and the state in that conyen- tion, charged with the duty of framing the organic law under which the people of Ala bama to live for possibly fifty or hun dred years to come.
 
 This Saturday is day for the sober con- sideration of all good men in Birmingham, in Jefferson county, and in every county of the state. Delegates to the constitutional convention are to be nominated, and the people should be extremely careful in cast ing their primary votes. They should vote for the best men only. The honor and the vital interest of the state are involved. Personal consideration should be ignored, should be placed aside for another time and all citizens worthy of citizenship should give their votes for the good of the state, and not in consideration of any personal wish or aspiration. Let there be calm con- sideration and calm and honest voting
 
 him. This is no time for political rewards 1t is time for all good citizens to act in the interest of all the state. In Jefferson county there need be no mistake. In the list of the twenty candidates for delegates there are at least six of the best men in Jefferson. Every voter is aware of the identity of those six, and it is his bounden duty to vote for them.
 Dr. William Bozeman, of New York, is in Birmingham, and will spend a week or two here. Dr. Bozeman Is of the most eminent surgeons of the world. For years he was associated with the famous Dr. J. Marion Sims, another native of Alabama known the world over as the ''Benefactor of Women" A splendid statue of pr. Sims stands in Bryant park, New York. Dr. Bozeman and pr. Sims were partners in the practice of medicine and surgery in Montgomery many years ago. It appears that Dr. Bozeman was the real discoverer of certain successful form of operation on women in peril of their lives; and Dr. Sims seeing the supreme advantage of the operation dissolved partnership with his friend, and went to New York to live. His career is a glowing part of the history of the meulcal ana surgical WOFlu Ol the last half century. Dr. Bozeman went to Eu- rope, and for some years demonstrated his discovery in the capitals of the old world. In Vienna and Paris especially he was hon. ored as physicians have been seldom hon. ored in the world He demonstrated his system in the great colleges of Europe. Two or three years he spent in Paris, where every possible honor was paid him. He received enormous fees and accumuat- ed a handsome fortune. The Alabama doc tor became the talk and the admired fig ure of Europe, and his smallest fee was $l,500 for operation. At the age of 72 pr. Bozeman is one of the grand old men of the world He is, in point of fact, not old at all. He is full of life and physical vigor and that great-hearted kindness which has robbed millions of his fellow creatures of physical suffering abides with him in the evening of his noble life. The world is infinitely better because he has lived in 1t, and through all the hours of his illustrous life he is blessed by that army of women whom his genius has res- cued from pain and the nameleSS terrors or death before their time. Dr. Bozeman is accompanied by Miss Henrie Bulger, his niece, a daughter of the late Colonel ". D. Bulger, so affectionately remembered in Birmingham, and sister of MT. Bozeman Bulger of this city. Dr. Bozeman and Miss Bulger at the Morris.
 Everybody has read with interest the stories recently published in the Age-Her- aid relating to Owen Finnegan, of Mobile, the famous Alabama river steamboat cap tain. The great old man still lives and en- joys life at the age of S4. Two or three de- lightful stories about him were told by an old friend of his in the lobby last night. Finnegan carried all sorts of freight and all sorts of passengers; and he had his superstitions. If he had a grey horse as part of his cargo and a preacher came aboard he would not proceed until the horse was put ashore He was firm in the be- lief that preacher and a grey horse would sink his boat or run 1t aground. Once he was having a game of poker with some passengers, and was somewhat heavily be- hind The boat was within five miles of Montgomery, and the arrival there would break up the game. He excused himself from the game for a minute, went on deck and ordered the boat to be tied up to the shore. He then returned to the card table and informed the players that dense fox prevailed, and, 1t being nighttime, he had ordered the boat to stop. The game pro- ceeded until Captain Finegan got even, and then the voyage was resumed. His gener- osity has been proverbial along the Ala bama river for fifty years. If any person came to the boat at any landing-place with out money, Finnegan would say "Get on the boat-get on the boat;' and he would take the impecuious passenger to his or her destination. Thus he carried hundreds of passengers without compensation. HOW TO RAISE WHISPERS ON BEEF From the Chicago News