The age-herald., 1900-04-09


 ment and ask favors before 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
 Be careful of sickness, law and quarrel
 ing, and keep myself quiet; with care thy
 business will improve Those in employ
 will meet promotion.
 child born on this day will be fortu-
 nate in employ and meet speedy promo l ton.
 "Even flowers are being made to 1 demonstrate in a way the rapid growth of | Birmingham" said lover of the sweet l messengers of love" In explanation of his
 remark he proceeded to say: "There are l persons here who are known as crape- chasers. They make it feature of their | business to drum up trade in flowers for funeral purposes That is to say, the crape-chasers go to houses where the dead | are and solicit orders for supplying what | ever flowers the bereaved families may | desire for the funerals. The names and | addresses of families are obtained from l the newspapers, or by means of crape on 1 the doors. The solicitors of such trade | ask for the member of a family who is authority, and then proceed to quote prices and presumably submit photographs | of wreaths, crosses and the like. This l pushing of trade in funeral flowers on | houses of mourning has hitherto not ob- | tained in the south, though it is common l enough in New York and Chicago, and probably other northern cities 1t was l started in Baltimore, but was very soon l stopped. The public did not take to it | kindly, In New York cases have been re- ported of crape-chasers resorting to ex- | traordinary measures to secure customers. | The novelty of the thing in Birmingham gives us pause, and reason for reflec- | tion."
 The Birmingham friends of General | William Calvin Oates were greatly | pleased to see him looking so we'll and in such buoyant spirits during his recent visit to this city. Always a strikingly ad-
 mirable figure, it is doubtful if he ever be- fore appeared to such notable physical ad- vantage as now; and mentally he is stronger than at any previous period of his eventfu and distinguished career. All this seems well night miraculous in a man who virtually left for dead on the battlefield nearly forty years ago, and who, with hs right shot away and also desperately wounded in thigh and hip, was bedridden for almost a year. Since the war between the states he has been a remarkably busy man. General Oates is in his 65th year. having been born on the last day of November, 1885, in a dis | trict of Pike county that is now embraced | in Bullock In the army of the Confed- which he at ba l. of war. he commanded the Fifteenth and | the Forty-eighth Alabama regiments. He was engaged in twenty seven battles and | was four times wounded; his last fight | being in front of Richmond, August Is, l 1s64 when he lost his arm. He was in the | state legislature four years, a member of | congress sixteen years, and for one term | governor of Alabama. He did not desire | reelection to the governorship. In 1898 he was appointed brigadier-general of United | States volunteers.
 Thomas McAdory Owen, one of the best | known and most highly honored young | men of Alabama, has removed with his | family from Pickens county to Birming- ham. He will reside here permanently I and practice law. Mir. Owen is a man of wide scholarly attainments, and in his knowledge of history and general litera- | ture he is perhaps unequaled in this state. | For several years he has been the secretary | of the Alabama Historical society, and in | that time has prepared two volumes of his- | tory the most valuable to Alabamians. | He has a library of greatest value to the | student Of some of his books no other copies are known to be in existence Every volume in his possession is valuable. Yet | the total weight of his treasures is eleven | tons. In addition he has more than three hundred bound volumes of Alabama news papers, covering the history of the state | from fts formation in 1S19 to the present i time. In law, as in literature, he is a man l of learning. MT. Owens associate in law | is F. A. Fulghum, like MT Owen, a na- | tive of Jefferson county, who also returns from Pickens. MT. Owen has taken the
 house, No. 1So6 Tenth avenue, where he
 and Mrs. Owen will be at home to their | friends after April 15.
 | The late John K. Henry of Greenville, | whose venerated, widow, Mrs. Jane Henry, | died in this city a day or two ago, was | one of the first settlers of Butler county, i having gone there from South Carolina in | the early sos, about the same time as the Wattses, Cloptons, Caldwells, Judges and Flowerses, names since then notable in Ala bama history MT. Henry became the lead CT of the south Alabama bar, outside of Mobile. Before the Civil war he was elect ed circuit judge, and served in that capaci- ty during the great strife and afterwards,
 being on the bench great many years. He retired in 1880. Judge Henry was a high type of the courtly judge of the olden time, and the bar and the people delighted | in honoring him. No Alabamians have adorned the bench more worthily than he. | Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, former secretary | of the navy, tried his first important cause | at law before Judge Henry at Greenville. | Amongst Judge Henry's local contempor- aries who rose to distinction were Thomas | H. Watts, attorney general of the Con- | federacy, and governor of Alabama; David | Clopton, congressman and justice of the | ct ta si,prerne cOllrt. Thomas T ,Judge.