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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24
Snappy
Lining Specials.

Good Canvas for dress fac
25c Sk;rting Moreens, limited
quantity, to close, while It
All the staple colors, Skirt
Innings, &c
Excellent quality 36-inch Per-
calines, good line of COL
ors -. .............12H c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24
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Prices on
I

Last night we picked out
nearly a hundred Hats IN
the French room that have
not sold as quickly as an
ticipated. The sty es are
right, so we concluded the
wrong must be the price.
They were made TO sell for
81, So and 50. The large
case is iull of them for to-
morrows sale at. $500
Another dollar clipped off the
now reduced price of all re-
naming street and ready
to-wear Hats that were for
merly S., So and 81. Choice
tomorrow for .....S2.oS
Tailor-made Hats of felt,
trimmed with quilts or
breasts, S. values.
Di.SS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24
Cold Analysis.
Washington ST

Washington Star.
THAT man is one whom I would trust
with a million dollars"
so would l." answered Senator Sof-
ghum. "A man could get enough commits
siOns out OF handling 4 million dollars TO
keep him satisfied. But how about ter or
twenty thousand dollars2"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24

4c toilet paper, perforated sheets, roll........2Hc
lSc nuns yelling, wool filling, pale blue only. a
yard ...........9Hc
12Hc waist fannels, same styles as Eclipse, a
yard. ....SHc
121a Cinderella fannels. all colors, a yard......Sc
4Oc pillows, 1Sx1S, art covering, also cambria,
15c mems socks. fast black. seamless, a pair. &c
25c children's underwear, wool mixed, eech...1Oc
25c ladies' drawers, ecru, feeced lined, a pair. Zoe
SOC ladies' vests, heavy, ecru, ch...........19c
81. % lace curtains. three yards long, a pair. ..75c
75c wool hood fascinators, sojled lot, choice. .25c
SOC mems shirts and drawers, ieeced lined,
DDC :.
15c silesia, yard wide, all colors, remnants, a
yard.
15c suspenders, for men and boys. a pair. ......6c
5000 bars Kinks pure CASTLE soap, 8 for. ......6c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24
Dress Goods Specials How Silks Are Marked

Black Silk Velvet for cloaks, extra
widths, from % to "a inches,
r........... $2.oS and $500
Black all-wool Cheviot. .4oc
Black Broadcl 9TH. csc
Black extra heavy Skirting. requires
no soc
Black Satin Soliel, high ter. 65c
Black ~Brilliantine, extra wide, yard
and a half wide 76c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24
A Matchless
Uinter
Underwear.

Mems 75c grey cotton Union
Mems 75c Flannelette Night
Shirts for SOC
Ladies 75c nonshrinking grey
wool Vests. SOC
Ladies SIPS heavy cru and
grey cotton Union Suits 7oc
Ladies 35c heavy feeced fast
black Cotton Hose. ,...20C
Ladies zoe fast black feeced
Hose. ..............l<Hc
Odd sizes of S1.50 and 81 Cor
sets, popular makes. SOC
White and colored SOC Paris
shape Corsets, slightly
sOiled. zoe
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1OO-yard black spool silk, spool................3c
&c hooks and eyes with hump. card. ...........1c
S9c linen-fringed dresser scarfs. each.........25c
S. hemstitched linen table covers for -. .S1.9S
DC red fringed napkins. each ................2Hc
l0c ~all-linen huck towels. &c
4Oc table covers, fringed all round, red and white
only, each 20c
59c table covers. good sized ones, fringed. for. 3oc
Soc linen damask, two yards wide, a yard SOC
40c table felt, SO inches wide, a yard. ........2 oc
S1.35 bed spreads, all kinds in this big lot....9 csc
Csc napkins, 2Ox2O, six for.
Sc domet, full bleached, heavy. a yard ........5 SC
&c domet, unbleached, double feeced, a yard &c
39c blankets, while they last, each.......... zoe
Csc blankets. double heeced, only a small lot,
S1.25 blankets, extra large, buy all you want. Csc
S1.00 comforts, extra heavy, each. ............69
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24

Peau de Sole, Oros Grain Louissine, Ar-I
mure, Poplins, hemstitched. striped and'
fancy lengths. from 81 to 10 yards; WEI
will make two lots of entire lot, values
up to 81. so, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24

We start the Black Taffeta Silks.
good quality, for. .39c
Lyons finish, warranted to year. 6Oc
Yard wide, elegant quality. Csc
Satin. in all %colors. fancy work for
Xmas presents. soc quality. 800
Novelty TaffetaS for waists. beauti-
lui COiOIlDSS-
Hollow-cut Vetvets. 80 inches wide,
so desirable for dresses. soc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24

DrdperieS
and Curtains.

Is more pieces 2oc Tambour
Muslin just like we sold last
Monday; this is last of the
lot, handsomely embroider-
ed, per yard ..........I0c
Ruff1cd Net Curtains, 10 pat
terms. , to 4 pairs only Of a
pattern. S. to So qualities.
made of fine imported cable
net Ono dre~sing), wide lace
trimmed ruff1es, wide inser-
tiOa: these will not be dl-
vided, but to close out all of
any one pattern, pr..$3.7O
Ruf1ed Net Bed Sets, wide
double flounce on sides and
end, elegantly trimmed in
lace and insertion, regular
So. so sets for. .....SO.0O
so handsome Rope Portieres
Of the s.. so grade, 4 STYLISH
colorings, each. ....Si.4S
All our 81. so ard S. Saxony
Nottingham Curtains. p
patterns. so close are the
copies of the finer curtains
that from the street they
look like the real lace; these
goods are very superior Tor
laundering; are mostly for
eign make and exclusive
patterns; this week, per
PAR. po'HO
All our immense assortment
of high-grade roc Crelonnes
yard .lZHc
Dotted, figured ard striped
real c. I. ID. Swlsses. 80
inches wide, zoe grade. at
NdAu ~
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Carpets
and Rugs.

About 5 rooms, ranging from
II 10 IS yards each. your
choice for a regular 75c
all Wool Carpet at.
Short-end sale good heavy
part wool Carpets. 10 pat
terms TO select from, a reg
ular 35c Carpet. at ....2oc
Ingram Art Squares, strictly
all wool. size 2Hx3 regu-
lar So, for. $3.50
3x3. regular 81 for. $40
3x3H, regular IS 90. 5000
SKA, regular 50. 60.....$7.2O
See the large Oriental Rugs
in our skvl:ght, price reduced
S1.00 per day until sold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-24
Rare
L0ceS Reduced.

Ecru and white heavy Venice
Applique Lace, regular 19c
value, GO at. .1ZEc
Heavy Venice Applique Lace
that we're 25c and Sc .1oc
Beautiful heavy net Venice
and Plauen Applique Lace,
81 a yd quality. stock-re-
ducing price
Remnants Of all our finest net
Venice and Plauen All-over
Lace that sold at from s. to
So a I'd. at just half the
regular price.
Heavy Black Silk Escurial
Applique Lace, worth 39c to
75c a I'd, in this sale at 2oc
anu ......s
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w ednesday

Ladies' Literary Union-With Mrs. Sadie
Beck. 2g22 East Washington street: re-
sponscs. Thanksgiving Day Origin Of
Thanksgiving" Mrs. AIDA d. Frank.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
Progress of Mobile.

"I have been spending two or three days in Mobile and a day in Montgomery, and both those cities 1 found to be most pros porous, though to Birmingham man ex- tremely dull, so far as street life was con- cerned,'' said Cary Thompson last night
 Everybody knows Montgomery is wretch edly poor in hotels-has almost no hotels but I was delighted to observe Mobiles S progress in that essential of civilization The new Beinville Square hotel is really an ideal house of public entertainment. It is small as hotels go. but it is new, bright clean, well kept, and has every convenience and luxury for the traveller.
 1.-The old and historic Battle House. per haps the most famous of all southern ho- tels, since the old St. Charles in New Or leans was burned, is being entirely recon struoted, and will be one of the most luxurious hotels in the country. The whole of the interior is being taken out, all that will remain of the old structure will be the walls. The new structural arrangements strike me as being as nearly perfect as art and skill could make them. and the main diningroom, now about completed, is the most beautiful chamber I know in the South. The work of remodelling and re- construction was begun last July, and sev- eral months longer will be required to com pletely finish the work. When the work Is done, it will be one of the finest modern -hotels South of the Ohio river
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
To the Editor of the Age-Herald:

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 In reply to your polite request received today for au expression of my views as to what, in my opinion, the suffrage clause in the new constitution to be framed by the convention if called. should be- I answer:
 This is a question to which have given much thought. More than a year ago when the discussion of a constitution was agitated and what il should do if held, especially on the suffrage question, I ad- dressed a circular letter to the voters in which 1 briefly outlined my views on this subject. which substantially expresses my views now, as follows towit
 I am in favor of honest elections, which are the basis of our governments-Stat and Federal-whieh cannot be uniformly had in Alabama except by a revision and purifica tion of the elective franchise, by extirpating therefrom dense ignorance and corruption. This is a delicate and difficult question to deal with successfully and nothing short of the aggregate wisdom of a convention of our best and ablest men can accomplish 1t in just and satisfactory manner.
 The suffrage clause in State constitu- tion should not in terms, exclude anyone form the elective franchise on account of race, nor require an educational or proper ty qualification, but intelligence and good character should be made the test. No felon, no man of notorously bad character no man who has not paid his poll tax, nd man who 11as ever sold his own or bought the vote of another, nor anyone who can not read inteligently, or understand when read to him any section of the constitution, should be allowed to register as voter.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11

trust who desire to make blows, will keep away. And so lG would be in every other line of business controlled by a trust and nearly all are or soon will be in that condition.
 Representative Pettus' bill invites honest capital instead of repelling it. It does discourage capital invested in trusts. but in doing so it leaves an open field for all other capitalists. The Reg ister prefers trust-swept State. It prefers to pay two prices for an article. 1t wants a few factories of the robber sort. MT. Pettus' bill is built on com petition instead of combination lines. It encourages capital to come in by pro posing to keep down and out monop- olies.
 The Register insists that the anti trust laws of other States are not eff cient MT. Pettus thinks his bill will prove efficient Is it not worth trial? Why, for example, should Alabama pay two prices for school books in order to enrich a book trust that does not pub fish a page in the State? But the best evidence from Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas is to the effect that those States are well pleased with ,neir anti trust laws-that they are effective to some extent at least, and that honest capital is not repelled by them. If the Register has evidence to the contrary let it produce it. Mr. Pettus prints affirmative evidence, and the Register has not met it with contradictory tes- timony.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
IMPORTANCE OF SUFFRAGE QUESTION
 INFRAMING ALABAMA'S CONSTITUTION

es, but the great mass of them are proper tyless and utterly ignorant of the funda- mental principles of government, and the ballot is a weapon which they know not how to use for their own good or the good of any one else. The ballot Is an injury to such men, But if you make intelligence and good character the test of the right to vote you present an incentive to every man, without regard to color, who aspires to full- fedged citizenship, to acquire intelligence, whether he has any book learning or not, and to establish a good character among his neighbors; and man possessed of these should be denied the right t6sVote in all elections.
 Such qualifications as I have briefly stated above are practicable, and would elevate and tend to purify the suffrage by eliminate ing the corrupt the densely ignorant and purchasable, who, under the present con- stitution, have the right to vote. Who will say that Booker Washington, Council, Grant, Calhoun and hundreds of other citi- zens of Alabama shall not vote if they choose? No one can deny their intelligence and qualification. Shall they be excluded merely because the. belong to the colored race? I say no. It would be both upwise and unjust. Make some such provision for suffrage as I have indicated, and there will be no reduction of Alabama's representa- ton in Congress, because there will be no legal reason for it. With such a provision enforced there never would be any sort of justification for ballot box stuffing or for counting votes otherwise than as they were cast. This is a consummstion devoutly to be wished. Very respectfully
 WILLIAM c. OATES.
 Montgomery Ala, January 8, 1901.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

From the London Daily News.
 One of the porters employed in carrying tourists in a chair from the upper station of Cooks Funicular Railway to the cone of Vesuvius has met with an extraordinary accident He ventured alone, says our Ma pies correspondent, too near the top, and hearing an extra loud explosion, looked up. A shower of redhot stones fell around him and one entered his mouth, which was open, inflicting a serious wound. He now lies in the hospital at Naples. The summit t of Vesuvius has become higher and quite pointed, and everyone must be struck with the now beautiful shape of the mountain. The eruption at the date of our correspond ents communication was continuing quiet ly. The weather is magnificent.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
Iris Forty Years Since.

Friday, January H. 1901, is the fortieth anniversary of the secession of Alabama from the Union, that momentous event hay ing been decreed at Montgomery January Il, 1S61," said newspaper worker, the son of a rebel last night.
 'We all of us have read and heard about that great day in the dingy old capitol, and most of us are familiar with the ugly and musty hall of the House of Representatives, but the men who actually witnessed the secession convention in session. or who were old enough then to personally remember now anything relating thereto, are compar- atively very few.
 The convention met January :, 1861, in the city of Montgomery says owen. 'Un- der the leadership of William l.. Yancey, but only after an earnest struggle on Jan uary Il, 1t adopted, by a vote of 61 to 39, "an ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of Alabama and other States un- der the compact The constitution of the United States of America
 "This statement by Owen denies the pop ular impression that the ordinance of seces- sion was adopted in Alabama by only one or two votes fraudulently obtained; but it does not contradict the faith that secession was carried in Alabama by unfair methods! The full text of the memorable deed of forty years ago this day is of contemporary in- terest It reads:
 "'Section l. Be it declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama, in convention assembled, That the State of Alabama now withdraws, and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as the United States of America, and henceforth ceases to be one of said United States, and is, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and independent State.
 Section g. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of the State of Ala bama, in convention assembled, That all the powers over the territory of said State, and of the people thereof heretofore dele gated to the government of the United States of America be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from said government, and are hereby resumed and vested in the people of Alabama
 "McCorvey in his admirable work on The Civil Government of Alabama notes that twenty-four of the thirty nine delegates who voted in the negative refused to sign the ordinance. He does not give the names of those who refused, and, though they are of record, they are not at hand for the purposes of these remarks
 "Only six or seven delegates of the seces- sion convention till survive, the oldest sur vivor Gen. Michael J. Bulger, having died a few weeks ago, The youngest is Judge John w. Inzer of St. Clair. Colonel John ston of Birmingham was delegate, and so was Senator John T. Morgan. The names of the other three or four survivors escape me at the moment. One of them is doctor in Eutaw County
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
WILSON SUPPORTS CIRCUIT BILL.
The Measure Intended to Protect the
 Farmer.

Washington, January 10.ASecretary Will son made an argument before the Senate Committee Agriculture today in sup port of the Grout oleomargarine bill. He said the measure was intended to protect the farmer and the public at large and should become law. MT. Wilson said the quantity of butter disposed of annually is about eighteen pounds per capita and of oleomargarine something over one pound, and he said that he considered this dan gerous competition He was of the opinion that there was danger in the imitation of butter by the use of coloring matter and that in time such would result in driy- ing renovated butter out of existence.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
Army Canteen Must Go.

Beer drinking at army posts is to be abolished. The House has so voted, and so has the Senate, and the terms of each provision are alike, and they are broad and positive. "The sale of or dealing in beer, wine or any intoXicet- ing liquors by any person in any post, exchange or canteen or army transport, or upon any premises used for military purposes by the United States, is here. by prohibited. There are no loopholes in that provision. The canteen must go in response to public sentiment. The women did it.
 And yet it is doubtful indeed whether it will lessen the evil of drinking among the soldiers of the army, for every post will at once be hedged about by groggeries that are ten times worse than any canteen ever was. If munich palities in which posts are located would drive such places at least half a mile away there would then be some benefit in the provision abolishing the canteens; but as long as every town and locality favors the establishment of drinking places about army posts no benefit can well arise.
 - The women who have striven long and devotedly for this victory can claim that the principle" of prohibition has been vindicated; that the people at large are no longer responsible for ex- cessive drinking at army posts; but the vindication of a principle does not in itself lessen drunkenness. It will not in this case.
 The vote in the Senate was 34 to 15. The minority vote hao no relation to parties. General Hawley of Connecti- cut and General Pettus voted side by side, and MT. Spooner of Wisconsin voted with our senior senator.
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
Antitrust | avs,

The Mobile Register lines up with the trusts. It declares the antitrust laws of the period "pestiferous." "There is,' it says, "a cry going up for less law against capital and more invitations to capital to come in. Gradually the idea is being inculcated in the minds of the most ultra pessimists that what is needed is not laws to incommode capi- tai, but those that will encourage in. vestment."
 What pessimism has to do with the case it is difficult to imagine. What the investment of honest capital has to do with the control of monopolies is still more difficult The Dellef is that an open field is what capital desires. If a trust, say in blows, comes into the State, all capitalists outside of the one
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
He Saw Secession.

Said a distinguished veteran of the Con- federacy:
 'I was present in Montgomery and act ually saw Alabama secede. The second battalion of LomaX's regiment, to which I belonged, was encamped at the old Florida Depot Montgomery. We all were dressed in broadcloth, with brass buttons and red plumes, and all the girls were in love with us. Such girls. The loveliest of today are commonplace compared to those of .'61. Early in the morning of the fateful 11th my father and Judge A. B. Meek, tine poet jr,rist, called upon me and together we went to the capitol, where my red plume gained us admission to the hall of the House of Representatives. AS we entered the hall Yancey was delivering the flag of Alabama to the convention. It was ac- cepted by Alpheus Baker in a marvellous speech. he having been requested by Judge William M. Brooks president of the con- vention, who died in Birmingham in 1894, to speak for all the delegates. Then it was I first saw the Hon. A. A. Coleman, now Circuit Judge in Birmingham, and John w. Inzer, youngest and handsomest man in the convention.
 Quitting the hall I received orders to command the section of artillery which was to fire the salute of fifty guns In honor of secession. When I reached the guns, in front of the capitol found that Miss
The age-herald., 1901-01-11

Theo. Rauol and Miss Letitia Tyler, grand- daughter of President Tyler, had assumed command, and they fired the first two first is a question I cannot answer. But I took command and fired the remaining fortyeight shots.
 "Afterwards the soldiers proceeded to the 'Florida Depot accompanied by all the girls, who were escorted by their pa rents, and I venture to say that before the train left for Pensacola every unmarried man in the second battalion of Lomaxs regiment was engaged to be married. Colonel Lomax, as you know, was the fa- nous father of the distinguished Tennant LomaX, who may be president of the forth coming constitutional convention of Ala bama.
 T knew William l.. Yancey well and was often a guest in his house. He always had family prayers, morning and night, and was one of the most charming of men.
 Wallace Screws was then young, brown haired. generous, talented and brave. Ben Washburne was there, true and lordly, but still unconverted to secession. Others whom I recall lovingly were there strong and brave, but are now gone, some in bat tie some in peace. Frank O O'Bren, Wade McBryde, Louis Gflmer, Charley Bryan, all brave boys, still live in usefulness, and I am younger than either of them. And so being in good health, l may hope to see many other anniversaries, and to now and then greet the old boys in the spiritual union of the Confectionery. Give 'em all my love, my boy,''
The age-herald., 1901-01-11
Danuerous Grade Crossings.

Th4 deadly railroad crossings must be gated. Birmingham is behind the times. It's citizens are compelled to risk their lives every time they cross the unguarded railroad tracks. The ac- cident at Twelfth street Wednesday was due to the unprotected crossing, and in a large measure the city officials as well as the railroads were negligent. Let the Mayor and Board of Aldermen act at once by providing an ordinance re- quiring every railroad to nave gates at every street crossing and have com petent watchman to operate them. They should put in the latest and best style of gates and the most perfect system of signals.
 If human life was not considered, and only cold financial considerations ruled, it would be advisable for the rail roads to put in gates at every crossing. The damages which they will perhaps be forced to pay because of Wednes- days accident will probably be greater than the cost of equlpping gates at every crossing in Birmingham.
 But whether or not this be the case, human life in Birmingham must be pro- tected, and the Aldermen should act without further delay and require gates at each and every crossing constructed immediately.