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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-28
Wall Covering
The DrcSSmakcrS' Occasion.

There have been other notion sales. One similar to this last spring monumental event, way But this week of notion selling passes records and precedents
 We meant 1t should There are goods linked with prices they knew beore-and perhaps will again And they are going asta you may sec if you stand and watch the heaps disappearing before the eagerness of the
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Morris Chairs

Our offerings this season in Morris Chairs show many de-
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Shades

Mane to order as no one else can make them. Ours have the zig-zag stitch--that doesn't rip. Shades in stock -1oc, 25c, 3Sc and soc.
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Window Seats

And window seat cushions made to order in our own work rooms. Any finish to harmonize with finish of the room.
 The filling and covering of your cushions can be selected here from a wide range of materials. Prices according to quality.
 Re-UphOlStering
 Old furnitute made to look as good as new. Estimates. Wall Covering
 We have done this work many years and with success. Everything s.desirable in the tapestry. burlap, cretomes and so on.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-28
Chop and Chocolate Sets
In Glassware

Both foreign and domestic ware shown in attractive variety. Wine Sets
 Wine sets in Grecian Star Cut and Dew Drop pattern for $3.27.
 Water sets, same design, $I.Io,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-28

SAuSu lHloloVC
 nents. So
 many new points about
 them make them
 superior to former makes. w e have one Morris, Chair,
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a a !!
1, 2, 5. 4.

Window Number 1---Ladies' Fall Styles in Street and Dress Boots
 Window Number 2---Ladies' 16 toe Button and lace, Goodyear welt, $3.0O. Window Number 3---Mens double sole En- amel Russet Grain and Box Calf $4OO. Window Number 4---0ur mems hand sewed Wax Calf Russet Grain and Patent Leather button and lace.
 Notice the wing tip on our Patent Leather
 and Wax Calf Boots and Oxford Ties)
 ONLy GOOD SHOES The uEWAAVEN SHOE COMPANY,
 s42 ond S46 cHAPEz STREET.
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Wine Sets
Claret sets. $1.o3,

Cordials, Creme de Menthe Brandy, Soda, Champagnes, in hollow stems and saucer patterns, from 3oc to $a.oo.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
A BUILDING Boom Coming.

The panic of 1893 stayed building and
real estate Improvements in every section
of the country, and six years of rest fol-
lowed and the lumber interest suffered
severely, because the articles 1t furnished
were no longer wanted in quantities APP
preaching the facilities of production.
The American Lumberman is confident
that the paralysis of 1893 is nearly ended,
and that the country is on the verge of am
other building boom. The new movement
began among tho farmers in the wheat
states, spreading to the towns dependant
upon agriculture, and now the larger cities
and manufacturing towns are waking up,
and many building permits are applied
for.
This means a larger consumption Of lun-
ber and very much of this lumber must
come from the south. The building at
present largely consists of cottages and
modest residences, and in such buildings
great quantities of lumber are needed The
Age-Herald has before urged holders of
timber lands In the south to secure at least
portion OF ther true value IN case Iney
desire to sell. 1t would be better, if cir
cumstanees permit, to hold such lands,
for thereA will soon be sharp demand for
timber, and after while dearth of trees
and sawed goods.
Outside of the timber interest, evidence
accumulates that there Is to be a revival of
real estate speculation. The speculative
real estate operator is abroad in the land,
as we'll as the speculative builder. The one
offers subdivisions of suburban property,
while the other builds blocks of houses
and flats and office buildings. The days Of
1892 are returning with the customary vicis-
STUDIES and dangers. But there will be no
vicssitudes and dangers to those who own
and can hold timber lands.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
GEN. TRAOY,s FIRST CIGAR

From the Philadelphia Post.
General Benjamin L. Tracy, former Sec
rotary of the navy, and who is at present
an associate of General Benjamin Harrison
in representing this government In the
matter of the Venezuelan boundary dis
pute, finds the keenest enjoyment in smok-
ing. During his recent voyage to Paris,
whore he is to present his argument in this
International dispute, he passed a good
deal of his time in the smoking room of the
steamer. But the general was nearly 50
years old before he acquired the taste for
tobacco. Previous to that time smoking
made him i'll.
During the early '70's he was engaged as
counsel in a celebrated case, and was COM
PEELED to devote not only the day but the
greater part of the night to his task
Once when he was thoroughly tagged out
an associate suggested that a. cigar with
his coffee might have a soothing effect
General Tracy succumbed to the tempta-
ton, and before he was aware of it had
finished his third cigar. They seemed to
quiet his nerves, and he was able to work
over his papers the whole of that night.
Since that time, perhaps out of gratitude
for the effect of those three cigars, Gen.
eral Tracy has been a smoker.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
ALABAMA BALLOT REFORM
Ex-Gov. Oates on the Need of Constitution
al Revision

Washington, May Owe may not come
to 1t right away" said Ex-Governor Oates
of Alabama today, but We must come to
1t before long, or else Alabama will fall
behind the other states In the estimation
of the United States. Alabama has got to
stop supervising the voter, ballot-box stuff
fing must be pfevehted, and our laws gov
efning the Judiciary must be modernized,
or we will suffer.
1--WE seemed to be near to revision of
the constitution, having chosen delegates
to conventioh under an act of the legfs-
lature, when the sSvefh3r called an extra
Session and pad the call for a convention
Cancelled. That was d mistake, for other
laws than the ballot laws need revision,
and all men of sense and desire for the
ADVANCEMENT of The state admit 1t. Many
OF our best men had been elected to the
conyention. GHey you'd have taken up
their work with the best of feeling and
With patriotic intentions.
..Undoubtedly, alabama would have
PASSED law conceIning the exercise of
the suffrage, but 90 nqt think 1t would
have been a race laT Indeed, for my part,
am convinced thAt such a law would be
unwise as well as tnJIst. An educational
test OF the right to vote would have cut
into more than one race. There was a
proposition mooted to except from any ed
ucationa1 test all former Confederate SOL
6iers. 1 would have breadened that by ex-
cepting all soldiers, so that If any soldiers
were to be permitted to vote, whether they
could read and write or NOT, union as well
as confederate soldiers, would have en-
joyed the exemption.
Just now the only political disputes, in
Alabama are between those democrats who
are in favor OF or opposed to constitutional
revision. We are not vexing ourselves
much about the presidential campaign OF
1850 The revision of our state laws, the
getting rid in our legislature OF vast deal
of unnecessary and mischievous local legis-
lation, is of more Immediate consequence to
US than the evils of any distant presidential
campaign"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
The Snuth Carolina Plan.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal objects
to the selection of a party candidate for
United States senator in a state convention,
because there is more opportunity for
skullduggery and dishonesty in conven-
ton than In a legislature The latter is
acting under OATH and the former is not.
The one acts under the law and the other
knows no law, moral or statutory. The
objection of the Commerclal-Appeal is well
founded.
The true method of selecting a candidate
upon whom the party can unite is the South
Carolina plan. In the primaries that must
be held for the selection of other candidates
let the people express by direct plain vot-
ing their chico for United States senator.
Let the votes of the counties be consoli-
dated, and then the. will of the people will
become known In that way the people will
have a voice in the selection of their sem
atorial representative. As things have been
conducted nine men out of every ten have
no voice in such a matter. The nine are
not consulted. The tenth man joins other
tenth men, and selection is made, with
many shadowy and under-the-surface
bargains thrown in :
3. There is but one way to stop scheming
for the senatorial office and that consists
In direct action by the people. The voting
in the primaries should be absolutely Sc
cret, and it stands to reason that the re-
dated AS only white voters would be con-
cerned, there doubtless would be honesty
throughout the proceedings. The vote
should be published in DETAIL to the end
that errors may be detected and corrected.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
THE WOMAN UNAFKAID

From the Louisville Times.
The cat always lands on her feet, the
Kentucky woman on her tongue. She Is
rarely at a loss for retort and it's a cold
day when she's caught mapping on base
Here is a bright little speech gotten off
by Mrs. Sallie Marshall Hardy, Catherine
Moore" of this city. She paid a visit to
Washington recently and was escorted by
her kinsman, Major Wright, marshal of the
United States supreme court, to the cham
Der. A seat was given her directly under
large bust of Chief Justice Marshall. AS
she sat there she said to Justice Harlan
"That man was my great-grapdfather."
Justice Harlan turned on hearing this, and
whispered to Chief Justice Fuller. "Do you
see that little woman seated under bust
OF John Marshall? 1t is his great-grand-
daughter"
The chief justice smiled and looked to-
ward the little woman, and then said
Tell her I am afraid the bust may fall on
her, 4 -a
"Oh, I'm not afraid" said Mrs. Hardy,
when the message was given her, nothing
on earth could please me as much as to
have my great-grandfather's head fall on
my shoulders"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
Cuban Dreams and Cuban Action.

The disarmament of the Cuban army, and
the return of the officers and men to
peaceful and. if possible, gainful pursuits,
is an object towards which General Brooke
has been patiently and tactfully laboring.
So far as can be judged he has exercised
good judgment throughout the difficult
task.
The Cuban soldiers We're willing to re-
ceiye the 100000, but they We're unwilling
to give up their arms; and a compromise
became necessary. Under the compromise.
which has been sanctioned by President
Mckinley and the secretary of war, the
Cuban arms are to be handed over to the
local alcaldcs or mayors for safe keeping.
In point of fact, they are to be stored in
. the citade.s of Santiago and Havana, those
being the only safe repositories on the
island.
Tho Cuban pride was touched when dis
armament and disbandnlent were both de-
manded, and so sensitive did they become
that even General Gomez was compelled
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
THE END or A BAD BUSINEs
! The Selma journal

From the Selma Journal.
The legislature in its extraordinary ses-
sion has adjourned. What has been ac-
complished? This is the question of vital
interest to the people of Alabama; this is
what they viii ask and to which they will
demand satisfactory answer, and that
answer is so plain that the dullest intellect
can comprehend it.
The question before the people was q
simple one, and that was, an act had been
passed by the Legislature simply granting
to the people the right to decide at an
election to be held in July as to whether
or no a constitutional convention should
be called. Governor Johnston took the
hitherto unheard of step Of calling an ex-
ira session of the legislature to repeal this
act and he SUCCEEDED i'd gathering together
adherents combined with the populists and
republicans to accomplish his purpose
1t has cost the state of Alabama thous-
ands Of dollars to accomplish this one
thing of taking away from the people of
the state their right of deciding for them
selves whether convention should be call
ed or not. This is what has been accom-
plished and this is all at such q heavy
cost. If the people had been allowed to
vote in July on this Question of convention
and If they had decided against it great
deal of money suuandered on the extra
session would have been saved. If they
had decided in favor Of it, it would have
been their own business and the convention
would have cost but little more than the
extra session of the legislature
The whole matter has turned out exact
ly as was to be expected, and the wretch
ed fiasco has cost the people OF this state
q good round sum. The question of hold
ing a constitutional convention is still the
Invest sort of an issue in Alabama to be
settled in the future.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23

fortnight, and California oranges are fairly
plenty. but rather dry and dear. The
Strawberries up to the present have been
very inferior, but yesterdays supplies
showed decided Improvement in quality.
The shipments from Cullman to the vest
ern markets are heavy, amounting to two
or three carloads a day. Bananas are the
only other fruit on sale except lemons, and
they are very unripe and inferior. Lemons
are plentiful. No early peaches are ex-
pected. as the crop in South Georgia was
destroyed by the February freeze. Melons
will be plentiful within two or three weeks.
A party of Birmingham anglers leave this
morning for Greensport, on the Coosa, for
a week of sport.
Representative Cameron. of TallaAega, Is
in town. ~
Sheriff o'Brien will return from Ken
lucky on Thursday next
Governor Johnston remained In Birmlng-
ham yesterday.
Former President II. G. Reynolds of the
Girls Industrial school at Montevallo is in
Birmingham.
J. M. Davidson is in the city for week s
stay with his family Mr.. Davidson is now
doing the accident and casualty insurance
for the Southern railway In South and
North Carolina.
Peter Byck, of Wetumpka, is In town.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
SENATORIAL VACANCIES

From the Washington Times.
When the Delaware legislature adjourn
ed after falling to elect a successor to the
Hon. George Gray, Governor Tunnell who
is democrat said that he did not intend
to make an appointment to fill the va
cancy. 1t is said now, however, that in
view of Governor Stones appointment of
Mr.. Quay the Delaware executive is think
ing seriously of changing his mind, and
that he will probably appoint Representa-
tive Handy Some of Mr.. Handys col
leagues in the house say that he can talk
longer and say less than any msssaV of
that body. He Is personally, however,
very popular with his associates. If Mr..
Quay is seated the senate will be COM
PEELED to admit appointed senators from
the three other states, Delaware, Utah and
California, where vacancies exist. The
governor of Utah is republican, although
the legislature that failed to choose a sem
ator was democratic. 1t is said that he
may appoint Frank j. Cannon, the former
senator The latter is silver republican.
Friends of Buck Grant are endeavoring
to persuade the governor of California to
appoint him to the senatorial vacancy in
that state. ~ ,---s.-Als
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
SAME OLD sTORY

From the New York Press.
II real estate values are as fictitious as
fortunes of rich men 1t is time for us-all to
turn bears on the market and on every
thing else. Roswell p. Flower was believed
by nearly every one to be worth at least
$20,OOO,OOO. Many thought his estate would
reach $25,0OO,00O. He left less than s7,O00.eOO
Henry B. Hyde was supposed to be the
wealthiest insurance man in the world, yet
his fortune of estimated millions has
dwindled to a paltry $530,O0O. At this rate
]. p. Morgan has less than $4,000 000 Sage
less than $15,000,000, Rockefeller less than
$50, 100000 and all the Vanderbilts put to-
gether less than $75,0000 900. AS has been
said before in this coumn-divide a man 8
supposed wealth by 5, and you will get
near his actual fortune.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
WANTS mar. BANKHEAD's SEAT

From the Athens Courier.
Little Billy Brandon-he who hes!tates
not to cast the constitution to the wind
when it would interfere with his service
to his benefactor, Governor Johnston--is
to be put against that peerless and fear
less democrat John H. Bankhead, for con-
gress. This is a straight tip, for it comes
from one of Johnston's faithful appointees.
He says Billy, the adjutant general and
legislator, who can, in direct violation of
the constitution, hold both Offices at one
and the same time, will easily defeat Col
onel Bankhead. II this be true, then the
people of Alabama have Just cause to feel
alarmed for their political safety. Such
action would be similar to Johnston defeat
ing the peerless Morgan for the senate.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
LOSING ONE CAPITAL
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune. i
Twenty-Five years ago American school
children ceased saying that Connecticut
has two capitals-Hartford and New Ha-
ven." After the beginning of next month,
they will have to stop saying that Newport
and Providence are the two capitals of
Rhode Island. The former is going to lose
its high estate. After having been capital
city for two centuries and third it will'be-
come simply a pleasure resort. The recent
ly elected governor is to be inaugurated
there on June 2, and then its political
glories will be at an end. Connecticut had
two capitals for long time because the
two colonies of Connecticut and New Ha-
ven were united under one government If
the state of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations had not been built up out of
two distinct settlements, each with its
principal town, united under one charter,
that state would not have had two capitals
But for New England conservatism state
so small that it could get along with half a
capital would not have done business with
two. 1t has always looked like wild ex-
travaganee. Not until two years ago, how
ever, did the great, progressive state OF
Illinois abandon the practice of having it's
supreme court in three places. That occa-
stoned more bother and expense than the
existence of two capitals caused Rhode
Island and did not have the same excuse
zbrt 1t had been tine custom from time i'm
memorial.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
AGUINALDO

Hobart, in Baltimore American. N,
Aguinaldo, on a summers day,
Raked the meadows sweet with hay. j..
That is, raked them as he ran, -
Pursued by the American. III.
OF course, the job was incomplete, M
Because he raked them with his feet.
He paused for breath beneath tree;
''Oh! but I'm tired outi" quoth he.
1.-TWO hundred miles, so infer III
From my o'erworked cyclometer.
1.-TWO hundred miles since sun-up-geeI
These spurts will be the death of me.
"And records!--at the rates I've run,
I've broke every doggone one!
Cant even rest my bones a SPELL N
say with Sherman. War is hell!
ats worse, I guess. because down there
They must have camp stools or chair,
cor some old-fashioned kinds of seats
Where one may loaf between the heats.
clark! there's another Funston shrieki
l guess I'd better snook a sneak.
''Of all sad words of tongue or pen.
The ,saddest are these, I'm scootine
again!"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
Mineral Productions Of the District.

The report of State Geologist Smith, COW
ering the mineral productions of the first
quarter of the year, Enthusiastically points to
record-breaking figures during the entire
year. The coal production Of the district
which has of late stood at about six mil
lion tons, will this year probably go to
eight millions The production of January,
February and March was ,761 III tons. The
quarter includes February, short month
and month that was this year character
lied by unprecedentedly cold weather. The
production fell from 5,22S tons in Janu-
airy to 531 SAT tons in February. The blow
ing in of additional stacks goes on, and the
Indications are that, instead of eighteen
stacks in operation, Alabama win soon
have at least twenty-five. In all other di-
rections, too, coal consumption T. increas-
ing. The Illinois Central will begin this
month to mine and consume and
market Alabama coal. Altogether, the
known facts and reasonable con-
lectures justify us in claiming a
production during the year of eight mil
lions tons, over one-half of which will be
mined in Jefferson county. The total pro-
duction of the district ten years ago was
less than four millions tons.
The production of pig iron in the first
quarter of the year was 242,5Oo tons. This
rate will be steadily increased month by
month, and the total state production for
the year may safely be estimated at 1900
OOO tons, or about 100000 tons more than
the record. The ore production of the year
will approximate three millions tons.
In view of the tonnage OF the district
it is not surprising that every railroad sys-
tenn of the gulf states, not already here,
is trying to come In. Tho Illinois Central
the Mobile and Ohio and the Seaboard are
all looking this way, and perhaps all are
planning entrances in this district and val
ley and city. All roads in Alabama will
soon lead to Birmingham.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
A coMICAL ANEoDoTE
rom the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
Apropos to the contest over the ordina-
>tion OF the Rev. DR.. Briggs, funny anec-
dote is reported as having been told at a
recent meeting of the alumni of Union
Theological Seminary. It was anent a boy
who, undertook to baptlze by immersion a
cat, after the manner OF the denomination
with which he was familiar. Pussy, true
to her instincts, put up a strenuous re-
sistance. Twice the boy strove to accom-
plish complete immersion, and was each
time foiled. On his essay for the third time
to put pussy under water, she turned upon
him and gave him a sorry scratching. Then
his patience gave out He threw her down
in disgust, with the despairing remark:
"Wen, go ahead and be an old Episco-
palian II you must" He had no other way
of communicating his proposed neophyte.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23

to retire from the negotiations; but 1t Is
now believed that the troublous question
has been satisfactorily adjusted and set
tied. On the surface, at least. the cubans
deliver their arms, not to General Brooke
of the army of occupation, but to the
mayors of their towns, who will store
them in the citadels mentioned. These
mayors or alcaldes are, in fact. appointees
of the military government, and the differ
enee between surrendering arms to them
or to General Brookes officers is the
difference between tweedledum and
tweedledee.
The rehabilitation of Cuba will proceed
rapidly after the Cuban soldiers are paid
the $S.O00,OOO and they go to their homes
with the intention of taking up the work
they dropped when they went into the
army of liberation. They have won peace,
and freedom from Spanish rule, and good
and honest government. What the future
has in store for them time alone can dis
close. As a rule, the property holders of
the island favor immediate annexation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23
ALGER AND NpMILLAE

Detroit. Mich, May 20.-Last night Sena-
tor James Mcmillan received the follow
ing telegram from Washington:
Are the reports in the press to the eff
feet that you are a candidate for the United
States senate true. Answer at once, please
RUSSELL A. ALGER.
Today the senator answered the inquiry
as follows:
r. A. Alger, Washington: 1 should have
preferred a personal conference with you,
but your dispatch appears to demand an
immediate answer. I am a candidate for
the United States senate.
JAMES MCMILLAN.
Secretary Ayers dispatch is looked upon
"a Senator MeMllans friends here as an
Indication that the secretary Is considering
a withdrawal from the senatorial contest.