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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
Cheap Books.

This Is certainly an age of cheap books" said a well-known statoner to prospective customer. Tt is aarkable how many opportunities are now offered man who desires to build up fine library at small cost.
 The competition among large publish ing houses has become so sharp that only the soundest business methods and most strenuous advertising will bring results. Publishers are so eager to sell their books that they will ship them on almost any terms The favorite scheme seems to be that of selling on the installment plan.
 Some very attractive propositions are offered especially in classical works and histories The payments range anywhere from 50 cents to $5 a month, and at first glance the plan looks very inviting but the payments become exceedingly tire some after a while. and If once you get in arrears your life will be made miser- able. Books can be made so cheaply now adays that there Is no excuse for a per- son of moderate means doing without them. With the best historical works sell ing for S5 cents a volume everybody ought to be well educated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
TWO FINE RESIDENCES SOLD.
w. D. Tynes Has Purchased the Beau
 tifuI Dwyer Home.

Within the past few days deals have been closed which mean the transfer of two of the best known and most beautiful residences in Birmingham, the two sell ing for sS,5 500.
 The home of ]. D. Dwyer at Seventeenth street and Twelfth avenue, south, has been sold to W. D. Tynes of the, Hardie- Tynes Machine and Foundry company. The purchase price was s23,500. While the deeds have not been filed, as yet the deal has been concluded. This is one of the most elegant homes in Birmingham, and is situated on a high piece of ground with frontage of 200 feet. The residence is in the rear of a beautiful lawn. This home is one of the landmarks of Birming ham. The entire lot is 20ox350 feet in area. The sale was made by Brown Bros.
 It is reported that the home of T. H. Aldrfch at Thirteenth avenue and Nine teenth street, south, has been sold to I. D. Moore, of the firm of Moore & Handley, the purchase price being s25,000. This report was not confirmed or denied, on investigation. but those interested say the deal is under consideration. It will probably be consummated. The Aldrich home was formerly known as the A. T. Jones place, the dwelling having been built by the late Col A. T. Jones just prior to his death three years ago It is one of the handsomest homes in the city and is modern in every particular. Mir. Aldrich has decided to abandon the home on account of Mrs. Aldrich's health She Is spending the winter in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
old-Time Bicycles.

"The waning popularity of what Is now known as the safety bicycle recalls to my mind the old style wheels which pre- ceded them in public favor,g said sports man yesterday
 Back in the eighties 1 remember see ing those tall. dangerous looking affairs with large wheel in front and small wheel, or trailer, in the rear. The rider occupied perilous position on top of the large wheel where there was a seat of indifferent excellence. The handle bars were about on a level with his knees and l never could watch a man on such bicycle without expecting him momentari- ly to take dive over his handlebars. And these old wheels were every bit as dan gerous as they looked. A small pebble aor twig was often sufficient to bring about catastrophe, and extreme care was re- quired in traversing any but the very best roads,
 As for the practical utility of the up- right bicycle, there was none. and seriously doubt if there was any real pleasure in riding one of them. At any rate they never came into general use, and 1t remained for the improved safety bicy cle to take the public fancy and bring on the bicycle craze of six or seven years ago''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
Factions in Ohio.

While Marcus Alonzo Hanna is bravely and persistently endeavoring to convince himself he is not a candi- date for President, his friends in Ohio are actively engaged in the preliminary work of electing set of delegates committed to MT. Hanna and opposed to -..r. Roosevelt. The contest is open and undisguised. The Hanna slate for delegates-at-large consists of Governor Herrick. ex-Governor Nash, Congress man Dick, and George B. Cox, the re- publican boss in Cincinnati The administration slate for delegates-at- large is to be headed by Senator For aker, but the other three names have not been announced. Senator Foraker plainly says, however, that he will meet the Hannaites at Philippi, and that the matter will be duly fought out. MT. Foraker throws down the gauge of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
AND SHOE MAKERS
 WANT LABELS ON GOODS

Cincinnati. January 20.-The convention Of the Boot and Shoe Workers Interna- uonal union today directed President robin to send a telegram to President Mitchell at Indianapolis thanking the Uni ted Mine Workers for their support of the union stamp on boots and shoes.
 It was decided that the new re-instate- ment fees and all other constitutional amendments would be effective March l.
 Constitutional amendments were adopt ed making members of cutters, trimmers, edge makers and other independent unions. ineligible to locate general offices or send delegates to the convention of the Boot and Shoe Workers making the penalty $50 for any union, worker making any individual contract
 After long discussion of the St. Louis controversy. the report of the committee on resolutions was rejected, and the special Investigating committee that goes to St. Louis was left without instruc- tions.
 Then a resolution was unanimously adopted endorsing the action of the gen. eral officers, executive board, and organ izers in the St. Louis controversy. Resol1- tions were adopted fixing the condition of changes from one branch of the trade to another; regulating the custody of the union stamp for an organizer in Canada; prohibiting any members serving on audit ing committees who receive money from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21

battle deflantly and unflnchlngly. He says of President Roosevelt: T believe in the man; I believe in his adminis- istration; believe he will be the strongest candidate who can be named, and I believe he will be tri- elected, and believe there should not be any halting or hesitation on the part of Ohio republicans about supporting him" This is the issue. This is the sum and substance of the fight, and the Hannaites stand ready to accept the gauge of battle.
 The bitterness of the struggle prom ises to leave Ohio an excellent mis- sionary field, and the democratic mis. sionaries will no doubt be ready to i'm prove the opportunity There will be no warmer fight in the country than the coming one in Ohio, where Hanna and Foraker will contend for suprem- acy, and the title of Theodore Roose- welt to another lease of the White House may be tied up in the struggle. Stranger things have happened in American politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
Carpet SWeepers.

q do not keep a close watch on house. hold utilities, but 1t seems to me that the patent carpet sweeper has about seen its best days" said business man. At any rate carpet sweepers are not so wide ly advertised now as was the case few years ago. and that is a very good sign that business with the manufacturers Is decreasing For the life of me I cannot see why the things were ever considered use- ful. If I were going to sweep a room I would take a broom every time.
 ''The only advantage of carpet sweep CT is the fact that it does away with the strain on womens backs at the expense of floors and carpets. Many more useful and cheaper contrivances have been in- vented than carpet sweepers. and for my part I am rather glad to see that people are learnig to do without them and are turnig back to brooms."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21

| the general officers, and refusing the use of the union label to any factory whose owners also have contracts for prison la bor.
 Other resolutions adopted were for in creasing the demand for ladies shoes bearing the union label, making manda- tory the observance of arbitration decis- ions, especially on price lists, instruct ing the general executive board to secure more speedy decisions from state boards of arbitration, Q tmanding an equal divis- ion of time when factory is not run hing It's full capacity, and prohibiting the use of the union label in any factory unless all departments are unionized.
 The committee on grievances reported from almost all sections grievances re- garding delay in the findings of the state boards of arbitration.
 The vote for the next convention was as follows; Milwaukee 39; Boston, 30; New York, 30; Montreal, 24; Rochester. N r. 1. The convention adjourned to meet at Milwaukee at such date as will be fixed by the referendum vote next June.
 Just previous to the final adjournment the St Louis controversy was heard from again by the reading of the following dispatch from Messrs. Lawrence, Pints and Mottau:
 ''1n our opinion, it is useless to send any committee here unless it is given full power to settle the case"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Police and Pistol Firing.


 To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 A few nights ago a policeman fired at one of our physicians who had just emerged from a home of sickness. The officer states that he ordered halt. though falling satisfactorily to explain why he should so command a peaceful citizen. and when his order was not obeyed, fired his pistol The physician states that he heard two men walking behind him as he came on the sidewalk, and heard one speak. but thought the words were addressed to the second party. Thus was unlawfully jeopardized the life of a citizen valuable to this community, by an officer paid to uphold the law
 The police commission, composed of rep resentative citizens, elected by popular vote and presumably voicing out com munity sentiment considered the affair of such trifing moment that the officer was suspended for two days and con tinued on the force. To some this will doubles sappear a ridiculousy inadequate punishment, yet viewed relatively, is the severest that to my knowledge has been inflicted during sixteen years. Of the score and more that have been unlawfuIly killed by officers in this period of time, this failure to kill has received the severest punishment in the long list. Custom has made 1t so that it is a capital offense Tor any man. woman or child to run or even walk away from an officer when commanded to stop. So much so that it is altogether likely many young people. grown to maturity under these conditions, consider them normal. Are our officers re- sponsible for the conditions? Is not this community solely responsible that has permitted during all these years such a wanton disregard of human life? This af- ter all, Is the root of the evil as 1t Is of the habit of carrying concealed weap- ons; as 1t Is of the shameful crowding of prisoners in our city jail; as 1t is of the unprecedented death rate of our state and county prisoners. It all means and can only mean that as a community we place a very low estimate on human life Ion the sacredness of human life. However much we may pat ourselves on the back, certain 1t Is that no enduring superstruoture of community morals can be reared on such foundation of sand So long as we withhold our censure when our citi- zenship--poor, unfriended, black yea even criminal though 1t be, is shot down un- lawfully--for the law prescribes under what conditions an officer may use his weapon, our communal morality is worm eaten.
 It may seem a small matter when some friendless, perhaps criminal negro citizen, Is unlawfully shot down, but let 1t come home to us as 1t did to Dr. Wilson, and we realize how our individual welfare is in- volved In that of the most unprotected, and that if we would protect ourselves we must protect all
 THOMAS D. PARKE.
 Birmingham, January 20 1904
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
NEED MORE POLICEMEN.
Visiting Detective Says Birmingham
 Force Is Too Small

Henry P. Nelson, a detective on the New York force. is in the city. He is taking a pleasure and business trip through the south and expects to be in the city for several days. He has been to the office of Chief w1er where he was intro- duced to the policemen.
 Mir. Nelson thinks that Birmingham has a wonderful department for it's size He has been 10 nearly every city in the country. and he is familiar with what is required of police force Yesterday afternoon when told that Birmingham had only fifty-seven policemen. he said: = Well, you need about twice as many. A city of this size should not have less than 100 men, and especially place where so many tough characters have to be dealt with. I notice from the reports of the chief that the department here has many bad cases to deal with. and for it's size I think if does better work than any department know off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
Judge Feagin's Curfew Law.

Jean Ingelow caused her heroine to say that curfew shall not ring tonight, but Judge Feagin thinks it should ring every night He sees many reasons why boys under 15 years of age, re- gardless of the color line, should be out of the streets and alleys by 3 o'clock in the. winter season, and by o'clock in the summer season. No one has studied more deeply and compre- hensively the subject of child-saying in this town than Judge Feagin, and his judgment is that a curfew law would be helpful. Boys under 15 years of age should be at home after night fall, and the law should come in to enforce what weak or vicious parents will not enforce.
 The object of curfew law, now In use in several hundred American towns, is to prevent youths from form ing idle, absolute and vicious habits by frequenting after dark questionable resorts, winding up the night in many instances by sleeping until morning in stairways or other open places.
 Judge Feagin sums up the matter in the fewest and wisest words, when he says "The more we hedge about with helpful laws our boys, the more we check their wayward tendencies, and decrease the necessities for and ex- penses of the police and jail The adult criminal is rarely reformed. He is only repressed. The surest way to decrease crime is to save the young from crime. As we multiply the agen- cies that lead upward and add restric- tions to those that pull downward we will gradually grow into better and a higher life"
 The board of aldermen will no doubt listen to Judge Feagin's advice, and then if steps are taken to enforce a curfew law to the letter this town will be materially bettered in the course of two or three years. A curfew law at the outset brings more good to fu- ture years than to the years at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
Love's invisible soul.
 --Troilus and cresida.
Compulsory Vaccination.

The Jefferson County Medical soci- ety expresses the opinion that all who cannot show signs of successful vac cination since January, 1S97," should be revaccinated whether they are will ing or unwilling. Compulsory vaccins- tion has again in their opinion become necessary in this populous county. Nearly every county in this state is afflicted with smallpox, and Jefferson has a proportionate number of cases.
 If compulsory vaccination be desir- able and important this winter, then the health authorities of the county and of the towns and cities in 1t can not act too promptly or too vigorously. Delay means more cases of the disease, and more deaths Either the subject should be dismissed, or else action should be thorough and summary.
 The presumption is. the physicians of the Jefferson County Medical soci- ety know the situation, and their judg- ment as to the best course that can be adopted should not be lightly put aside. In fact, The Age-Herald does not see how it can be put aside at all, for no one else knows so well what the condition of the county is in the re- spect of the dread disease. Whatever is to be done should be done promptly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Col. A. B. Andrews.

Col. A. B. Andrews first vice president of the Southern railway. accompanied by Mrs. Andrews spent yesterday in Bir- mingham. He came especially to look af- ter certain business In connection with the Ensley Southern. but while he was here he took a pretty good survey of the Southern's terminal properties.
 Col. Andrews ranks as one of the ablest railroad officials in the country and his charming personality and big heart have drawn to him close friends by the thous- and His home is in Raleigh, N G., but he is known personally to nearly every man In the states traversed by his line. Col. Andrews went from here to Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
STREET RAILWAY CRIPPLED.
Accident at Power House Has Over
 taxed the Smaller Engines.

For the past few days the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company has been unable to run extra cars during the rush in the afternoon, and 1t has also been unable to heat it's cars. This is due to the fire al the power house last Thurs day, when the big engine which furnishes the current for the car system was badly damaged by fire
 The company expects to have the trouble repaired within day or two. In the meantime they are asking the public's indulgence. Usually extra cars are put on the loop, Powderly and High lands lines to accommodate the large. crowds in the afternoon, but the small emergency engines which are being used at present will not stand the heavy pres sure
 The fire damaged the engine about s15OO and 1t will require several days to make the repairs. Fortunately the weather has been mild and the heat was not missed from the cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
NARROW ESCAPE FOR
 THEATRICAL PEOPLE

Chicago, January 20.-Ill fortune of Chi eago theatrical people during the last few weeks was again In evidence at fire in the Grand Palace hotel Indiana and Clark streets, early today, nearly 200 mem bers of theatrical troops being driven into the streets by the flames It was with difficulty that a panic was averted and the frightened men and women assisted from the structure in safety
 The fire originated on the second floor supposedly from crossed electrical wires and was carried quickly up the elevator shaft by draught to the top floor.
 Joseph Northrup a guest of the hotel saw the smoke in the shaft and ran down stairs in the rear of the building to notify the night clerk The clerk immediately started awakening the guests and North rup stepped into the elevator, ran 1t up ward through the smoke and flames and helped to arouse the guests on the top floor.
 The halls were soon filled with excited men and women. The cooler guests were compelled to force them back from the windows and fire escape toward which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
About Persons.

Paul J. Murphy of AnnIston is at the Hillman.
 II. D. Long of Gainesville is stopping at the Florence.
 W. H. Knight. prominent banker of Roanoke is at the Metropolitan.
 w. Bruce Doyle of Jackson Is regis tered at the Morris.
 Frank Rodgers of St. Louis was an arr rival of the St. Nicholas last night. D. D. Hamilton and D. P. Hamilton, Jr., of Rome, Ga, are at the Morris.
 
 A. E. Frazier of Montgomery Is stop ping at the Metropolitan.
 J. E. Lacy of Jasper is at the Florence. Tod Atkins of Selma is stopping at the Morris.
 Capt J. M Weiss of Mobile, the weli- known travelling man. is at the Hillman. J. L. Smith of Tuscaloosa is stopping at the Morris.
 Frank N. Julian of Sheffield is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 George P. Ide of Jacksonville is at the Hillman
 R. T. Miller of Fayette is at the Metro politan.
 c. W. Tayloe of Richmond. Va. is at the Morris.
 Hon. Ali M. Tunstall. speaker of the house of representatives, of Alabama. was among the distinguished visitors in the city yesterday He leaves on the ear- ly train for his home in Greensboro this morning.
 M. J. Gregg. a prominent attorney of the city and member of the board of ed ucation. Is critically III at his home on Avenue E. His numerous friends are much concerned as to his condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
creatore's Band.

Hast season Birmingham was visited by number of high class musical organ nations, but Creatores band and Patti are the only great attractions announced for this winter" said a prominent musi- clan.
 the best symphonic organization of the brass and reed kind In this country. Cre- atore was here last seasond and music lovers who heard him were delighted. His programmes are popular but always artistic and educated musicians and those who have only musical ear alike enjoy him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD.
St. Bernard's College Loses a Good Friend by Death of Rev. Mccafferty.

St Bernard, January o.-1t was with deep regret and unfeigned sorrow that the faculty of St. Bernard college received the announcement of the death of Pensa- eola's pastor, the Rev Father McCafferty, for in his demise they lost a sincere friend who was ever ready in word and deed to lend helping hand.
 Mindful Of the many favors from this true benefactor a memorial service to be held on the day of his burial was decid- ed upon.
 The ceremonies were conducted accord ing to the ritual of the Catholic church. The Very Rev. P. Boniface, O. s. B.. as- sisted by Revs. Anthony, o. s. B., and Matthew. O. 8. B., conducted the service at a. m. in the Abbey church in the pres ence of the entire faculty and students of the college.
 Many a fervent prayer ascended to the throne of the Almighty that the great Judge might deal mercfully with the true friend of the youth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21
FEN WILL TELL.
Says He Will Connect Some Prominent
 Men With Naturalization Frauds.

St. Louis, January 20.-Adolph Fain, for mer vice president of the Jefferson club, now a convict in the Missouri penitentiary under sentence of five years for conn plicity in the naturalization frauds, ap- peared before the federal grand jury to- day. Before entering the grand jury chamber Fein said:
 'Ill tell the grand jury who the fellows was behind these frauds, and they are big fellows, too. When I was indicted my friends said they would come to the front for me, and I made up my mind to keep my mouth shut, but they deserted me. I waited till December D. Then I made up my mind that if they would not come to the front for me, the government would so I wrote Colonel Dyer, the United States district attorney, and told him l would give up everything I knew
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-21

rush was being made. A number of wo- men were preparing to jump from the windows, when policemen arrived and aid ed the work of restraint and rescue
 The women were led to rear stairway down which they escaped through the smoke that was pouring upward from the lower floors Miss Louise Mitchell who had been hemmed in by the flames, was rescued by the firemen and taken down fire escape.
 Few of the guests had time to dress, but a number of women had thought of their theatrical wardrobes and stood shivering in the lower halls of the building, holding some gaudy decoration of gauge and tin- sci.
 The fire was extinguished quickly af- ter the guests had been taken from the building.
 This is the second fire in the building in the last two weeks. The first fire start ed from a lighted cigarette thrown on the hall carpet on the third floor.
 Almost all the guests at the hotel are members of the theatrical companies stranded in Chicago.