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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-24
MOORE & HANDLEY HARDWAR CO., AVE
 A TIVE NTETH STREET.

The buildings of the Moore & Handley Hardware company will be the finest and best equipped of their kind in the south. The main sales building will be on the corner of Twentieth street and Avenue A, and will be five stories high. It will be s2 feet inches wide and 15O feet long. The main entrance will be on Twentieth street
 Thef ware rooms will be on avenue A and Twenty-first street. This building will be three stories high and 174 feet wide by 1S2 feet, 6 inches long. Both of these buildings will be equipped with a unique device for fire protection. Pipes will run all over them, and at intervals along the pipes will be small glass bulbs. which burst the instant flame touches them When they break water runs from the openings. spreading over a large sur face and eXtinguishing the fire instantly. The buildings are being constructed by Evans Bros.
 In addition to these larger buildings there are numeous smaller ones In course of construction. The new Athletic club is a handsome structure, and is nearly completed now. Its cost will be about $7e 000.
 In fact, Birmingham is enjoying an era of building prosperity never equalled in the south before. Architects and contractors have all they can do. Plans for future work during this year are of such extensive a nature that the era seems only in it's beginning.
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bay from the corner. The fifth bay on Twentieth street will be the main en- trance to the building, but there will all so be an entrance from the lobby of the bank. This lobby IS itself 16 feet wide and 73 feet long.
 The building was designed by Wm. c. Weston, who also drew the plans for the Woodward building, the Title Guarantee & Loan building, and the two buildings now being built by the Moore X Handley Hardware company. The Title, Guarantee X Trust building, at the corner of Third avenue and Twenty-first street will probably be fin- ished next month. It is not so large as the bank building. being only nine stories high and 90 by 100 feet in size. but 1t Is admired by everyone who sees 1t, both because of it's architectural designs and the neat appearance 1t presents. The contractors building it are T. c. Thomp- son & Bros.
 Every room in this builGmg will be an outside room, and there will be thirteen offices to each floor The corrfGors have white marble floors and wainscoting. The corner of the first floor will be oc- cupied by the Title Guarantee & Trust company. of which E. J. Smyer is presi- dent.
 The building will have its own lighting plant and will utilize the water from an immense spring directly under the base ment.
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more than 25 in mind, decided to wed man of suitable age. The very peo- pie who had decried tue passing of gem uine romanticism ridiculea her engage ment to young Cornwallis West. But the romantic bride was indifferent to their opinions, and her marriage Is said to be a very happy one.
 The venerable Baroness Berdette- Coutts, whose charities were in keep ing with her enormous wealth, married few years ago handsome fellow in his twenties and lavished on him an affection not surpassed by that of maidens of long ago.
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From the New Orleans Pieayune.
 The ancestors of Liuet.-Gen. Leonidas Polk were among the early settlers of North Carolina. His grandfather, Hon. Thomas Polk was a prominent member of the Mecklenburg convention which de- clared the independence of North Caro- lima A year before the general declaration of July 4. 1776. General Folks father, Col onel William Polk. was field officer dur ing the revolution.
 His son Leonidas, was born at Ral- eigh. April 10. 1906. While rapidly pro- gressing with his education at the Uni versity of North Carolina, he, at the age of 1T, received an appointment as cadet of the Military academy at Westpoint. Ht was quite distinguished as student and graduated sixth in the class in 1927.
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DIR. SIMS MEDICAL INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM ALA,
 Joseph & Ioeba
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There is probably no other city in the United States, the size of Birmingham, in which there is so much money in- volved in building operations as there is here at the present time The construc- tion work in progress Is unprecedented in the city's history, and 1t includes every kind of building. There are many resi- dences in course of construction. some of which will cost as much as s4O,0OO; there are churches which will cost all the way from sl2,OOO to $5OOOO, and there are man ufacturing plants, which will cost from $500OO to $150,0O0
 Of course the most noticeable part of the construction work is that of the downtown office buildings, which thou sands of people see every day.
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GENERAL FOLKS CAREER
 SKETCHEDBY JOE WHEELER

On July 1, of that year, he became a brevet second lieutenant of artillery but five months later on December 1, he re- signed his commission and entered the Theological seminary at Alexandria, Va. This change in his career was due to a deep sense of religious conviction, which was in a measure caused by the infiu- ence of the eminent divine who after wards became Bishop McIlvaine, of Ohio, and who was the chaplain at Westpolnt during a portion of General Folks cadet ship
 In 1881 our young soldier was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church. His health had become impaired by too close confinement to study, and the next seven years was occupied in foreign travel and recuperation at a country home
 In 1888 he was appointed missionary
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THREE-sToRY WARERooMs OF THE MOORE 6 HANDLEY HARD
 WARE COMPANY

The largest of these is the First Nation al Bank building. Steel workers have now reached the ninth story, and the frame work will all be completed during the coming week. Such swift progress are the contractors making with this structure that they are positive it will be completed by October 1, the date spe- cified in the contract.
 John Griffith & Sons have the contract for the building. The firm is one of the best known in the country in building circles, and while it's headquarters are in Chicago, 1t has half a dozen gigantic skyscrapers now under way in as many
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ought to come to Birmingham"
 Some idea of the immense size of the First National Bank building can be had when 1t is known that there will be thirty-seven sets of offices on each floor, making total of 370 for the building; that there will be five elevators, that it will have a central court, 40 feet wide and i9 feet long and that It's roof will be 139 feet above the level of the street
 The building will have barber shops and bath roms on the tenth floor, and stores of various kinds will occupy the first floor. The First National bank will occu- py the corner, 50 feet wide and 100 feet long, The entrance to the bank will be on Twentieth street, and will be the third
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cities, one of them being built in Phila- delphia and will cost S4,500000.
 John Griffith was here for a few days last week. and as he busied himself about the First National building, he said:
 T like Birmingham. There is some thing about 1t that takes my eye Peo- pie move fast and seem to have the right spirit have put up buildings all over the United States, and believe like this city better than any of them. It is to my mind a much better town than Atlanta. 1 like a place where there is life and plenty of It.
 "If we put up this building by the first of October, and there Is no doubt about it, we will have done quicker work than we ever did on a similar structure In Chi eago where we have all our material and machinery handy. Northern people gem orally think the south is slow, but they
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enormous demands o or
  SHOWERS
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Help Wanted7

From the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. A. Fusser-What would you do if I should kiss you?
 Mary McLane-I would scream for help. A. Fusser-Why, don't you think I could do 1t alone?
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(HER LETTER.)

If a would it not be sensible In you to a method that has cured othersY can show you patients who were suffering with malignant cancer cured sound and we'll You can see them and talk to them They people eminently re- sponsble and whose veracity and sincerity cannot doubt long since discarded the knife and use a serum that absolutely removes every diseased cell It is a well known that growth is full of minute blood vessels and has circulation of it's own When the serum is injected the growth 1t Is red part of the It changes Its color immediately, and in a few days 1t comes away body and branches, leaving the normal tissue intact. We guarantee cancerous growth in ten days with this wonderful remedy, will agree to forfeit $500 fall to do
 treatment Is based upon the most scientific prin- ciples of medicine. We not extremists In anything but content with the things that years of experience have demonstrated to unques tonable values Use judgment and meet conditions they matter fact Is motto. If have a suspicious growth. of
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Case for Hague Tribunal.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Russia-Why may we not march should CT to shoulder for the good of China?
 Japan-How can we? Your shoulder is A foot higher than mine.
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was not entirely wrong. I knew he must be the head man, whatever his vocation"
 JOSEPH WHEELER,
 Brig Gen., U. S. A., R.
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porter fastened to say. IN depreest3.y
accents. What are you getting at them
-Nothin'. boss, nothinT.' The grin had
given place to look Of injured innocencs;
.o . ny ! thought saw you kindah iookin'
W I, S:-s tina. e ysy you bu'th'ad'd
Not a thing In de world, boss. On'y
Thought saw her kindah lookin' at you
you're certainly got the courage OF your
opinions. Go right on
Il amt meanin' no offence. boss. But
thought might kindah hep things on
There was now In the voice that ring OF
ssssr .oSsme Ss s ma ~s.
interested.
sOh, you thought you might. did you.
You ought to be kicked Oh the train for
your impudenoe. But I'm curious TO see
s1aRs rsh your sau made s Coca
you'll have something to put in your pocket.
But II you get me into any unpleasant posi-.
ton. I'll make report Of your ones 70
your company. Does that suit your
tell you, sir, when we come 70 the mex
station. We stop there jess few seconds
jess long enough for you TO get on.
But I'm going to the END OF the linz
I'm not getting on at the next station.
them gemmen playin' guards Is Hndah
prickin an eah this way. Come back this
way a little.
dactically punctuated by the porters fore
finger. AT intervals the fifth man no 1ded.
The girl glanced up once or twice with
interest. Perhaps there was q CLINT OF
regret in the bright eyes when the porter
began brushing assiduously at the good
looking young man who had been gazing
at her SO annoyingly-at least. so intently.
He was obsequiously inserted In his
overcoat and walked TO the front end Of
the car. The train slowed up-stopped-
and went on, as the fifth man. jauntily
bearing his grip stepped to the ground.
1hc girls lace was close to the window
now. Down the platform came the fifth
his eyes met hers. He raised his hat.
The face in the window dmpled smiled,
and the girl nodded brightly to him. Why
no,' 1t was only bit Of good fellowship,
and as he was leaving the train, no comse-
quences were to be apprehended. That
was what the girl thought. 49,.
What she did not see was the light step
with which the supposed departed swung
upon the rear platform of the car. The
door was conveniently open. the porter
had seen to that. The fifth man walked
down the aisle. bent over the seat where
the girl was sitting and said In mildly re-
Il hoped that you would eventually
recollect me-
But thought you were getting on at
that station" she gasped.
wrong place. he explained, briefly.
Didn't care for the scenery. I suppose !
may sit down nowf'
We'll, / am jiggered!' observed the
dealer in the bridge game. In his discom-
fitted amazement
The fifth man sat down beside the girl
and made himself promptly and persist
emily agreeable And what could the poor
girl do' When the train reached the end
OF the line two hours later they seemed 10
he pretty good friends. As be helped her
from the train she said:
'Graciousi DO you always give the
porter that kind OF tip?'
only when I've emr'oved him in Q
d'rlonptic 80 pacitv. said the i'th man.
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DIPLOMACY or THE PORTER.
Ono way Of GETTING Acquainted With .
Girl Who Won't I1Irt.

The girl. il appeared, would not firt
-Four Of the men In the car had exper.
menied. and had afterwsrd disooasolstely
united In game Of bridge.
There was a fifth who wasn't sure. Nor
was his uncertainty without has r. For
the girls eyes had met his more than once
over the top Of her magazine, yet IN ere
lacked thai challenge which provokes
courage 10 the point 81 action,
And he was not one Of tho ia chyder-
matous drummer type. To risk rebu1 In
the vision OF the bridge quartette. On
the other hand. he wac unwilling To give
up. lie had the impression that the glr'
would lie glad Of oonpanionship, but lot
tho SAVIOR 81 recklessness IN the proceed
inss Besides. she Was pretty.
Tie fifth man retired with sigh into his
own magazine after IA" twentieth hoprful
but dlss ppolnte 81 eiuergeno. Then b" rus.
and walked toward the far "nd 81 ,h" car
The porter y God there s-aIiny tentative
grin, winch b.sIsJks the enter tainin~ni -
the pleased spessatof, iisfhal- m"thins
NOR
'Dsi lady. uhi' h. ob..r,.i, chooslns
Q fora u words essentially non-oOm.
INITIAL
TIC grin, too. tool . quality - Sauch-
fIlpess Ihsfs mlsA w. OCCASION a.
We'll, ~lal u her, asked the mt man
looilns hard ~ the srin
'bls sl,s aln'l bothin' bout her tie
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made and II has the added virtue Of ad-
ditional durability and adaptability to the
needs Of the American woman. The Ameri-
can woman does not live like the French
Frenchwomen have laced themselves
outrageously for ages and the French
woman OF to-day has, therefore. a natural
supplenees Of form which the American
woman. however graceful, does not possess.
-she is not less graceful, but she is diff
ferent in figure and she lives differently.
The Frenchwoman Is an elhg ante and does
ing and outdoor life which the fashion
able American woman, copying more
after the English woman than the French,
dotes upon. Consequently, the American
be provided with stays adapted to her par
ticular needs.
sAs to gloves. as well as corsets. you
cannot get better glove than our Ameri-
can makers turn out and II is more durable
than the thin kid used by the French glove
very thin sued, gloves are the only thing
to wear, but for daily travel, shopping
and calling, the occupations that call for
the using OF the hands the handling Of
theatre programmes d the getting in and
out Of street cars thin French glove Is
ridiculous.
sOur hand made lingerie cannot be i'm
proved upon. II Il delicate and dainty as
any importation can be, and at the same
time It is more adapted to be handled by
our American laundresses with good results.
But we cannot approach Paris In the toilet
wares they have TO offer-the scents. per-
fumes, powders and soaps. Their jewelry
Is very beautiful and they have dainty
leather goods and little bags for fans or
handkerchiefs.
but the rage for French corsets Is dying
out, and American women are beginning
to prefer the domestic TO the imported stays,
when they have once given them trial
We are making up for the spring any num-
Der OF the long-hipped. straight-front
models IN such materials as pongee. silk
coutille and other dainty stuhs, which we
are actually shipping 10 Paris for sale there
at one OF the principal shops. A we'll
known American who has resided there
for years insists on American corsets.
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1T Is queer how differently people look
upon things. Some women, whose house,
holds have visited professionally, act as
though they couldn't bear ever 10 see me
again, as though / represented something
aDnorrent 20 them, reminder OF dlreiui
times.
Others seem TO feel just the opposite,
make me presents, try TO help me In busi-
ness way and behave as though they waIte
TO make UP TO me in some way for having
ministered TO their dead. This was par
ticulariy noticeable in the case OF All infant
/ embalmed-a lovely child, a year old.
The mother never has forgotten me, and
once she called in her carriage and begged
me TO go with her to the childs grave 10
dress IL with flowers.
.On the contrary. just yesterday i met
in the street young man whose wiie 1
laid out some months ago. Inc poor
fellows face fell when re saw me as II i
was an apparition. He broke on talking
20 the man he was with and bolted across
the street right in the thick Of traffic: i
know he would have given great deal
not to have me cross his path.
There are dozen women undertakers
doing business in New York city and its
suburbs, and a good many more in other
cities. These woman buy their own sup
plies, attend to the routine OF the bust
meas, and are just as dispassionate and
level-headed as men in collecting bills
for collins and other services at times OF
affection. They get man TO direct funerals
for them. though. In this respect the
woman undertaken resembles the woman
lawyer who attends personally TO all office
business, and sends a man 10 represent
her in court and do the pleading.
Two women undertakers are alike In
being native Americans and in having
inherited their business. the one succeed
ing her father, the other her husband, In
the management OF a trade already estab-
hshed. Harlem has a thriving woman
undertaken and embalmer. who is sought
after especially for women and children,
Several women undertakers, foreign in
name and race, do business in the tene-
ment districts, both in the upper part OF
the city and on the lower East Side.
A certain woman embalmer who showed
special aptitude for business is travelling
agent for a firm dealing in undertakers
supplies and makes fine commissions
A woman up the State owns and edits a
successful paper published monthly relating
TO the undertaker's trade all over the
country.
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IL concerned, for a fencing bout. The
other sine qua ncn is heelless shoes other
wise one runs the risk Of spraining an ankle
when making the lunge. Shoes OF pig
skin or white suede. bound with scarlet.
with belt to match are the thing. Ease,
grace and drawing room manners are the
rewards attendant upon fencing career.
If a girl wishes to carry herself gracefully,
she should learn TO fence. The salute,
for example, is the measure OF all the rules
OF graceful principles. as the professor
expresses IL. En- gliarde' makes the arm
supple. Shoulders we'll thrown back, body
erect and firm on the hips. without stif-
ness Is a frequent admonition during
fencing lesson. The straight thrust, in
the parry OF low quartz these sie terms
which, perhaps, sound puzzling to the
novice, but are movements full OF subtle
grace.
ches, weight and pair Of dumbbells
paratus one can possibly have.
Il have used the chest weight daily for
ten years, and would give up other every
piece of apparatus in gymnasium use, be-
fore parting with it, says one enthusiast.
The chest weight is something the old
can use as well as the young, and the weak
as well as the strong, with pleasure, safety
and profit. The more faithfully one uses
it, the better is it liked. In using the pulley.
it should be remembered that light weight
II ordinarily DeSt ana tnat IL Is not the
number OF times OF pulling that counts.
but the rapidity with which the motions
are made. Forty strokes 20 the minute
are about the average. although one some
times becomes expert enough TO run the
number up TO eighty.
About twenty OF thirty minutes should
be spent daily with the chest weight. a
new motion being made as soon as the old
one becomes tiresome. Ten minutes daily
work with the chest weight, however. win
do one a world Of good.
One exercise with the pparatus In TO
stand with the back TO It, and perfectly
erect. and TO raise the weight by pushing
the arms straight forward. This develops
the muscles of the chest and arms. Then
turn about and pull the weights toward
you. The mus,'e' OF the back and the
arm fiexors thereby come into play.
Next raise the arms above the head and
force the weights backward. This motion
benefits the muscles OF the upper hack,
the neck and the extensor muscles Of the
arms. Bend back still further. and the
small Of the back gets little helpful
exercising.
Bend forward at the hips. and the most
sensitive part OF the body. the abdomen,
will he strengthened. The abdominal
muscles need more exercise than any other.
As a rule. they get the least. The abdomen
is heir 20 all kinds OF complaints. but ex-
srcise would remove most OF them.
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BIRTHSTONES Used AGAIN.
They Are Seen In Gifts for Babes as Well
as Yomg women.

Old saws and superstitions associate
precious stones with the signs of nativity.
According to the old astrologers the i'm
port Of the different precious stones is
altered somewhat when they are con-
sidered with reference TO the planets. and
only certain Of the vast array of stones have
potent influences.
Thus classified May, June and December
are the months most lucky to be born in
lucky, that is, so far as material benefits are
considered. But other months augur good
character influences. and no month OF the
twelve but offers some inducement 10 the
mortal born within its orbit Even October,
with whose governing influences the opal
is interviewer, endows her children with
hope and strong optimistic leanings.
Birthday stones are fashionable just
now They are set in a variety OF the
jewellers wares commonly sele cted as
gifts TO be bestowed upon newborn in
FAINT Many costly rings, bracelets and
watch charms show them. And they are
enprafted in the medallion hearts and
various chatelaine appendages now so
popular.
Occasionally some wealthy birthday
party giver has made the natal stone TO
figure in the souvenirs Of the occasion,
and more than one bride wedded on her
birthday has bestowed bfidesinaios iaVors
when incorporated her oi''"u"' e'oi'' nc
chief ornament,
JANUARY child has the garhet LOT pn w
stone. With II go the attributes OF ~
tegrity. generosity and the power 10 a''ract
many friends
Februarys nestlngs must wear M M
thysts, The birth augury If a hn'u, pa.h.nhu
disposition refined tastes ana S'roo'"!
uneventful course through lHs, III ~
The bloOdstons Is iu'nNiUtu WI W,
career OF me person nurn III N,'' ~,
signifies wisdom, courage Se"-0o'''o''
all the dominating guam. ,h. d,a-
ApriFs child has Tor plrthNtohe I'v nia
mond. typical oil Innocence anu '"s"
mindedness. ,u,
The emerald has 10 90 WIN we c',',u ooi
In MAY: II u mos, iaNoiau'r 10 i1,,' anj
signiiylng future aoounuhb III '''e "'''
happiness ,-,. =, l,,n
june has the aga'e az w., ,,,rdityinss
NE, ~esltn aIlu i, ,i - -,
auguries u cloud we o.osco ,,hv i'm.
July ihr IoI Bui'"s - - .a,is',a.