The age-herald., 1900-06-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

An active but not altogether fortunate, year awaits thee: keep thy business well in hand The young will court, but those in employ will lose it" "A child born on this day will be un- l lucky in employment, and should strike 1 out into business for itself it will have | plenty of energy, and will succeed "The somewhat lurid report of the Jet- ferson county grand jury is happy in httle I except the statement that the jail is well 1 kept, and that the jurors seemed to nave
 not ouarreled amongst themselves or at
 the solicitors" said thoughtful citizen
 of Birmingham. "Law-breakers and liars
 form the burden of the jurys report and
 certainly the amount of crime in the coun- ty is a terrible burden and a constant men,
 ace to the community The jury refers 1 somewhat at length to it's own efforts to 1 indict keepers of blind tigers and owners 1 of gambling devices. In that consdera- l ton the jury is understood to have de- l voted much of it's time and the time or
 witnesses: and while so engaged one man l in Birmingham was assassinated and an l other one simply murdered in the rude but
 fashionable way so long and so persistent 1 lv adhered to in this county and all oyer | the state The assassination and the mur-
 der were the work of concealed weapons l It would be of interest to know now much | time the jury gave to the consideration ol | concealed-weapon charges. Had any Jury
 man so willed he might have walked the
 crowded streets of Birmingham and' as
 by accident, rubbed against the rlght sue l of every man he met; and, II ne haol
 been shot, he could have reported to HIS
 fellow jurors that probably half the men
 of this county habitually carry conceaied
 weapons. Crime grows by what u ieeoS l upon The food of crime in Birmingham | and Jefferson is concealed weapons III l comnarison with that evil, a little alleged | gambling in this city and the horrllylhs 1 blind tiger debauchery at Ensle., to which l the grand jury declares 1t devoted much 1 time energy and patience, are shinlng WIT l tues commendabe. Yet he would be vety
 reckless man who would walk or driVe | tues commendable. Yet he would be very l failure to punish crime of other kinds adds
 a new object to the old and fondly cher
 ished habit of carrying concealed weapons
 for the dear purpose of shooting out ln- | suits
 | "The grand jury thoroughly and in most
 praiseworthy manner represented the best l 1 when it protested against the states GUS
 tom of making this county the dumping l ground of whipped ruffians and unhanged
 murderers discharged from penal serVi- | tude. Everybody applauds that express | sion of protestaton from d legally consu- | tuted body of citizens who seemed to have
 earnestly labored to discharge their whole l duty to the people whom they were named | to represent. The jury could have ascer- | tained from Sheriff o Brien and given to | the world with the honored weight of their | vouching the fact that something like 65
 per cent. of the persons who were in the
 county jail al the moment the jury report
 was agreed upon were discharged con | victs! When the identity of a charg | ed with crime nowadays Is ascertained, the | first question asked in the sheriff's office l is When was he discharged and what is
 his convict number?' From the sheriff
 the jury might have ascertained the fur
 ther fact that since the county board of
 revenue declined to longer retain the coun- | ty bloodhounds crime has increased 50 per
 cent: that whereas, there were about l twenty-five emergency demands week
 upon the sheriff's office for instant assist
 ance before the dogs were abolished, | there is now perhaps but one; that, in the | opinion of the sheriff, shared, it is believ- | ed, by the police force, the assassin of | George Lambrakis would have been cap l tured within two hours after that in
 famous crime was committed if there had l been trained bloodhounds at the service of | the officers of the law The taxpayers are | saved possibly seventyiye dollars
 month by the decision to keep no blood l hounds, and are subjected to the real and | burdensome grievance of prolonged, and | often vain, searching for criminals. The | grand jury voices the cordial sentiments | of all Jefferson in honoring Judge Greene,
 and Solicitors Heflin, Mcqueen and Fer
 guson. These servants Of justice in it's
 purer sense merit all the praise that can l be given them"
 '"The most pathetic scene witnessed dur
 ing the Confederate reunion at Louisville
 was body of twenty-five or thirty dis
 abed veterans hobbling on short march
 along one or two streets,' said w. R.
 Houghton. "The scene caused many a
 brave man to weep. Those veterans were
 sent in a special car to the reunion by the
 people of Atlanta; and brave old wrecks
 of brave heroes they were. Some of them
 had each lost leg others had lost arms
 and still others were otherwise disabled, while two of them were totally blind-all
 affiictions the penalties of having been | brave in battle."
 It is for such as these that it is proposed
 to build home at Columbana; and re-
 garding that proposition there will be no
 difference of opinion whatever anywhere! | A home of that class is not only an ever
 pressing, ever-growing necessity; but its
 establishment is an urgent and pous and
 practical duty alike, binding upon and cry
 ing to every Alabamian and every south | ener! There are thousands of Confederate
 veterans who are poor, disabled, and phys l ically unable to a decent living for | themselves. The glory of their deeds is too
 proud heritage for any people who would
 fail to provide such heroes with shelter | Inc in thai, ,ol,,,