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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15
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A Remarkable Sale of New
 Summer Curtains

Remarkable-becau right here in the midst Of the summer right when you are buying new cur tains to freshen and brighten up your homes we offer 300 pairs of bran new swiss and muslin cur tains at big reductons-a lucky purchase of ours. You can't buy the material in these curtains for the price of the curtains complete. Just about enough for days selling; the best selections are made first-come early.
 } IA yards long, Muslin Window Curtains in po<a-dots and pretty figures; worth 1.25 Q0n pair Sale Price .............. uJU
 } 3yards long Swiss Curtains, taped hens; l 10 worth 1.50 pair Sale Price,. I.IJ
 Ruffled Bobnet Curtains; rufles lace trim med taped hems-very dainty and pretty-I % worth IFS. Sale Price. ce...................li .liJJ
 Ruffled Bobinet Curtains with two rows of lace insertion and lace edge; worth 250 1 fQ pair. Sale Price. ....... lsJu
 Sheer Swiss Curtains; neat designs co Worth 2.25 pair Sale Priee...... hUJ
 Ruffled Bobinet Curtains, } 1-2 yards long trimmed with lace and insertion in Batten- q flQ berg effect Worth 400 pair Sale Price. Z.JU Other Curtains up to 1000 pair reduced in pro-
 SEE WINDOW DISPLAY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15
Tomorrow & Sale ef Sample Shirt
 Waist Suits SUITS WORTH slO, SIP AND SIS FOR S65O

What kind of Shirt Waist Suit do you Want9 Tailored Sut2
 
 Dressy White Sui2
 A Dmty Suit?
 Whatever you Shirt Waist find in this Sample Sale with the price reduced from $1000 20 S1SOO to 6SO THE MATERIAL Cloth Cotton Etamine Figured Dn Meezed Chanbray Satin Striped Oxford White Lawnn fact al of this seasons choicest materials.
 THE STYLES include everything that good pretty and practical THE TRIMMINGS: Val Lace Fancy Buttons Cunay Lace Tucks Tailor Stitching Embroidery Medalions, Etc Suits made by the best manufactures samples for his most exclusive served this purpose bought them for half their value and tomorrow they sale E 0O0 25O OsOU
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15

Indifferent to politics, save where she has full suffrage or is stirred by a fiuct- uating interest in humanitarian projects, the American woman is also somewhat coldly inclined towerd religion Especi- ally is this true of the younger genera ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15

The young woman is likely to give a ready ear to the teachings of dark men in Oriental garb and to yield to the infiu- ences of occult sciences. In fact the Am erlcan young woman seems drifting to- ward an agreeable sort of organism which combines mild reverence for the good, the true and the beautiful with an unfiinching determination to take all the goods the gods offer in this life. She treasures one cult that is not out of sym pathy with organism. that of bodily strength.
 The American woman, reports to the contrary notwithstanding, is as devoted to her children as any mother the world over, but she is not so much in love with domesticity pure and simple as are some of her foreign sisters. She does not take lnstinctively to cookery, although when the necessity forces her to cook and wash and brew for her family she does 1t with surprising efficiency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15

STANDARD PATTERNS and Fashion Sheets for June Ohave arrivedSEAll the late Midsummer Fashions in
 the fauless Standard Patterns Sheets Free. Ask for one St t t E E T E SE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15

we will make very special Dressmaking Department is
 Every garment we make is and made especially
 you haven't bought your prices should induce you to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
LETTERS TO EDITOR.
Names on Ballots.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 1 notice In all our city papers that the names of the candidates for judge of the inferior courts of Birmingham, Bessemer, Ensley and Woodlawn would not be print ed on the official ballots to be used In the democratic primary on April H. and glv- ing no good reason for so doing.
 These are salaried offices. and I cannot see why candidates for them should not be compelled to pay the entrance fees, and have their names on the official bal lots, just the same as candidates for oth- CT public offices. To one not well versed in local politics 1t would seem that such action must have been done for a pur- pose This will naturally force each of these eandidaes to the unnecessary ex- pense of printing their own tickets for the primary, which will prove to be a hardship.
 When the present state constitution was ratified we were promised honest and fair elections; let us see that these promises are carried out, so that voters may not have any excuse for deserting democratic ranks, and candidates none for complaint after our family contests. Yours truly,
 w. H. WILDER.
 Birmfngham Ala March 24 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
Resumption of Operations.

The resumption of operations at the rod mill in Ensley in the next two or three weeks will be an event of no light importance. It shows that the iron and steel trade is in a sound con- ,ition; that orders are coming in, and that the big Ensley mill expects to get its share of them.
 The rolling mill O. the Republic con- pany in this city i. still closed down, and if its fires were relighted, the in- duatries of llIls district would practi- cally be in full operation again. Far ther improvement in the iron trade will doubtless lead to the reopening of that mill also.
 There is feeling that the tide has turned in the iron and steel industries, and that hereafter more orders and larger orders will come in. Over activity seems sure to be followed the opposite every three or four years, but
  possibly the happy medium will be felt this year. The mills in this district should at any rate be operated enough to meet all southern and southwestern orders, for they have advantages that other sections do not offer. The dis trict that makes iron at the lowest price of production can put that iron into bars and rods and other manufac- tured goods maintaining throughout the advantages of cneaper production. Our mills will not long remain idle, and the big Republic rolling mill will probably be put in operation in the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
Openlnu of the tornado Season.

The first tornado of the season swept over the little town of Higgins vile in Missouri, where it wrecked buildings and tore up trees, and dis ported itself as American tornadoes are in the habit of doing. The season of .tornadic storms is fully at hand, and from this time until August at least whirlwinds of the destructive sort may be anticipated.
 No one can say when they will come, or how severe they will be. The weather bureau cannot foresee such storms, nor can it say how prolific or how deficient the season will be in tornadoes. They seem subject to no law. They are not respecters of per sons or property They are lawless, violent and destructive, giving little warning of their approach. In the southwest a funnel-shaped cloud may oOmCbiiiCb D6 SSCl, DuI DSlOi6 pltp- arations can be made against It's com ing 1t has swept the countryside, or else 1t has risen into the upper air. and harmlessly disappeared. It is a visitation of but a minute or two, but no one desires it to stay longer.
 The weather students tell us the mingling of warm and cold currents creates the whirling storms, but they fail to furnish full particulars, and 'their stock of information is strictly academic. It is theoretical, and not a bit practical. The mechanical conflict of hot and cold currents would be all right if it could be arranged to have those conflicts occur in mid-air, where no people live, and where no property is located, unless it be an occasional Langley airship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
Fire Engine Costs $e,ooo.
n the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Fire fighting is a fad among the wealth business and professional men of York, Penn, and one of the independent companies there has just had manufae- tured at the local plant of the American Locomotive Works one of the finest steam fire engines ever constructed. 1t is a ma chine of the first class and built after the famous Amoskeag pattern. The or dinary cost of a steamer of this type is 5000. but this luxuriously equipped and lavishly ornamented piece of apparatus is so rich in costly embellishments that a check for about 5000 will be necessary to settle for it. Expense. however, was not a matter to be long considered by the company which ordered the machine Three members of the company are said to have pledged sl. 0c0 each toward defray- ing the cost. It seems that the company Is determined to have everything about it's quarters in keeping with the character of the new machine. A handsome and commodious new engine house is now being erected. in which will be stalled three magnificent coal-black horses. to be purchased regardless of price. so long as they are perfectly matched and not marred by a single spot of white. Three black grooms will be engaged to care for these animals. The new engine is now ready for shipment. which is being de- layed until the building in which it is to be housed is completed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25

H. D. Ray of Atlanta is at the Hillman. J. c. Green of Mobile is stopping at the Colonial
 D. A. May of New York is at the Morris.
 B. W. Connally of Montgomery is reg istered at the St. Nicholas Denis E. Ryan, national organizer of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, will be fin the city Sunday MT. Ryan is making tour of the southern states in interest state next week.
 H. D. Ray and M. L. Rose of Atlanta are at the Hillman.
 E. E. Bullard of Mobile Is stopping at the Morris.
 M. c. Eagan of Washington is at tho Colonial.
 D. F. Constantine of Anniston Is regis tered at the St. Nicholas.
  The Rev Dr. B. D. Gray. formerly pastor of the First Baptist church. but now secretary of the home mission board of the Southern Baptist convention, was in Birmingham a few hours yesterday en route from Atlanta to New Orleans. Dr. Gray was greeted by a number of his friends during his stay in the city.
 
 George W. Feagln of Selma is at the Colonial.
 B. S. Dudley of Nashville is stopping at the Morris.
 J. w. Terry of Montgomery is in the city.
 J. Wolf of New York is at the Hillman. V. womack of Swansea is registered at the St Nicholas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
lmpeachment Trials

The constitutional method of trying officials is clumsy and sadly old-fash
 toned and inefficient. Only seven times has "The Court for the Trial of Impeachments" been convened. as fol- lows: In 1797 it declared it had no jurisdiction in the case of William Blount, a senator from Tennessee:
 in 1903 it convicted John Pickering, district judge of New Hampshire; in 1894 it acquitted William Chase, asso- ciate justice of the supreme court: in 1860 it acquitted Judge Peck of Mis- souri; in 1861 it convicted West Hughes Humphrey, a district judge of Tennessee; in 1868 it acquitted An drew Johnson, President of the United States, and he died an United States senator, and in 1876 it acquitted Gen. eral Belknap, who was President Grants secretary of war. Seven trials
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
ROOSEVELT TO STOP LYNcHlNe.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 A Washingon dispatch this morning re- lates that Booker T. Washington had on Sunday night midnight interview with President Roosevelt in the red room of ing negroes in the south, and Booker did not leave the executive mansion until he had from the President an assurance that during his next term of office he would certainly put a stop to any lawless treat ment of negroes.
 It Is given out that President Roosevelt told his midnight visitor that just as soon as the election shall be over. and he shall be no longer influenced by political expe- diency. he will take hold of affairs with free hand and will suppress the iynching of negroes in the south, no matter what means he would have to employ.
 It is astonishing that any President of the United States, who Is bound to obey laws, as well as to enforce them. would dare to make any such statement, and 1t could not receive a moments consider ation If told of any other man in high public ofMcial position; but MT. Roosevelt has established already reputation for wild recklessness and daring disregard of public obligations and social conventions and 1t is not surprising that when such desperate disregard of law is reported as proposed by him, the people should accept 1t as In harmony with ms char acter
 Evidently he desires to demonstrate just what he means by his we'll known ex- pression of strenuosity of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
cLEvELAND'S LITTLE JOKE.

From the New York Times.
 Grover Cleveland was on his way to the Grand Central station one morning sev- eral years before he became president of the United States. At the further end of the Madison avenue car were It's only other passengers, several saucy speci- men of the genus small boy. They tit tered and whispered as they noticed the future presidents great size. Then they became bolder and said to each other something about being fed on yeast"
 MT. Cleveland seemed to be much amused at the impudence of the lads. Yet, as they left the car at Thirty-fourth street he could not resist joke at their expense:
 Its a pity, my boys" he said. that your mother couldn't have fed you on yeast Perhaps you would have been bet ter bred"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
A NEW ROBSON.

From the Philadelphia North American
 John Hollis Bankhead. representative in congress from the Sixth district of Ala bama, who will. at the end of his present term, have served eighteen years in the house, and hopes to make 1t twenty, is in imminent danger of having his hopes dis appointed. Fibkle Fortune seems about to desert him. leaving him an "Ostler Joe sort of note to the effect that she has gone with a handsomer man" The gentleman at whom the variable dame is setting her cap in this instance is Rich mond Pearson Hobson.
 It is no news that since the time when Hobson attempted to obstruct navigation In the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba he has developed, among other things be- side defective vision and osculaphobia, an ambition to be a lawmaker. But the young man of the Merrimac has had the misfortune to appeal more strongly to the jestful side of his countrymen than to any other, and his ambitions were talk en seriously by no one except himself Even John Hollis Bankhead, whose seat Hobson proposes to occupy, has regarded him as joke.
 All this is changed now Hobson's can didacy Is a very serious matter in the Sixth dstrct of Alabama. On a platform the chief plank of which declares for a s2,0o0,00o,o0O navy he has made campaign for nomination which Is strongly sugges- tive of the relegation of Mir. Bankhead to the shades of private life. Even now the experts are figuring the congressman s estimate majority at only 150 votes, and when the primaries are held In April it is prophesied that that meagre margin will be among the missing.
 This remarkable transformation Is the direct result of the 'whirlwind' campaign Hobson has been conducting. Recalling Bankhead's long and satisfactory service and his record as a veteran of the lost cause" 1t shows vividly how strongly the energy and determination of his rival have appealed to the people. Notwith- standing his affection for fabulous figures, and even should he lose the present fight, Hobson has demonstrated that there Is that in him that will enable him to live down his disastrous experience as hero.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
SMILINGLY THE FALLEN
 KING SURVEYS WRECK

as far as man can of whom his own af-
 There were numerous letters to be read. Sheaves of telegrams were dropped into the offices and clerks were kept busy. The only place about ''the palace of the king" which was still was the literary bureau from which glowing bulletins had been sent out not so long ago announc- ing that cotton must keep going higher and higher, and that it could not stop. The boil weevils ceased from troubling there and the cry or poor farmers and short supply was stilled. This is the bu- reau from which public sentiment was to be created in favor of gingham in place of silk; here 1t was that essays were prepared asking all to pay double for cotton and to be thankful. There was nothing for the literary bureau to do but to prepare Random Notes from the Reign of a Cotton King"
 of the numerous letters which were re- ceived 1t Is said by employees and friends of MT. Sully that many contained offers of help. John McFadden was one of the first to call. and 1t seems that he ob- jected mildly to the appointment Of Mr. Hoadley assignee of account of Mir. Hoadley's connection with certain unfor- tunate industrial concerns.
 E. P. Cutcheon, an attorney of this city and George s. Graham of Philadelphia, had conference with MT. Sully and Mir. Hoadley, which was prolonged in the dark green oak waihscotted dining room over patties and sweetbreads. Salad fol- lowed, and after that came dessert and coffee and cigars.
 Messrs. Sully and Graham sallied out at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon and went to the steps of the building on Exchange place. For five minutes they stooc there while Sully read an account in an after noon paper of the fall of Daniel J. Sully Co. Not a shade of emotion appeared upon his face He might have been read ing of the failure of grocery dealer in Connecticut for all the feeling that he showed. He turned the paper over. put it in his pocket. and with MT. Graham went to the office of George McFadden & CoA in the cotton exchange building where there was a conference with credi- tors
 To those who inquired if he had any thing to say. he replied that the affair was only temporary, and that everything had the most encouraging outlook. &
 He returned to the building at s:E o'clock in the afternoon. He and Messrs. Cutcheon and Graham paused for few minutes behind one of the big doors op the ground floor for another conference When he entered the elevator the former cotton king was as debonair as he had been when he began the day. He left his office at o'clock Saturday afternoon. bidding good night to the retainers of his fallen court and saying that he would sec them all again on Monday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
NOT LETTERS OF LOVE.

From the Washington Times.
 Every woman in Indiana who can write has penned Senator Beverldge a letter protesting against his pro-Smoot atti- tude in the investigation of Senator Shoots family history, which is being conducted by the senate committee of which Mfr. Beveridge Is a member. All the Indiana women who cannot write have been supplied with secretaries who have written Secretary Beveridge two let ters for luck.
 The Indiana senator has a sort of sem ate mail monopoly these days, and the letters are all on scented stationery and addressed in dainty writing They come from all parts of the United States. and American women who are travelling in foreign lands have added to the never ending string of protests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
Openinq the Warrior.

Chairman McGhen of the rivers and harbors improvement convention and Mayor Cochrane of Tuscaloosa have issued a call for a convention to be held at Tuscaloosa on April 4. All who are interested in the opening of the Warrior and the Tombigbee rivers to slackwater navigation are invited to be present either in person or by proxy. The object of the meeting is to memorialize congress to grant suf- flcient appropriations in the pending pony rivers and harbors bill to admit of the continuance and steady prog ress of the great work the government has undertaken in the two rivers. The call goes on to say:
 "one million two hundred thousand dol lars is needed to complete the work be- low Demopolis before the work already done will be of much value This amount will open the river from Mobile to the lower edge of the coal fields above Tus- caoosa In addition to this, about two and one half million dollars is needed to extend the work into the heart of the coal fields opposite Birmingham. It is important to urge upon congress the ne cesslty of providing in the next rivers and harbors bill for putting all of this work under contract at once.'
 This IS just what congress should do next winter, and in the meanwhile it should vote enough money to carry forward the dams and locks already begun. The entire work Is on the con- tinuing contract basis, and the govern ment saves no money by delaying ap- propriations.
 Chairman McGhen invites all cities and towns, all boards of trade and commercial and industrial associations in Alabama to send delegates to the convention. Birmingham and it's pop ulous suburbs should be well repre- sented, to the end that the entire con vention may be fully representative of the rich territory penetrated by the two rivers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
CRANES NEW PLAY.

London.-W William H. Crane will shortly appear in a role which will be very dif- ferent from those in which the American public has hitherto seen him. All neces- sary arrangements were completed in Paris by Charles F'rohman, who returned to London from the French capital this morning Business Is Business is the English title of the play in which Crane will make what is practically an exepri- ment It is version of Les Affaires Sont Les Affaires," which was produced at the Comedie Francais. and made great sem sation in Paris. When in Paris Manager Frohman gave orders to duplicate there for the New York production the scenery in the House Moliere, and this will be shipped in time for the opening of Cranes sAacOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
Salvation Army

'The Salvation army may very properly be called the worlds great charitable clearing house, in and through which the public's money Is carried 10 a thousand different needs and necessities, and to the balancing of as many philanthropic ac- counts" said a visitor.
 This is by no means a figurative ex- pression, for, like the clearing house, the army handles not its own but other peo- ple's money, and in its activity expresses, as 1t were, the condition of the worlds philanthropic market. It took the world some time to find this out. but today we know it as a fact.
 Colonies for the landess, shelters for the homeless industrial homes for the workless, supply stores for the poorest, rescue homes for the fallen, children s homes for the orphaned hotels for the respectable workingmen and working women-these, to say nothing of the countless expressions of local relief among the poor and wretched. are but a few out of the score of efforts to the maintenance of which the public's money goes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-25
STRENUOUS REFoRMER.

From the New York Tribune.
 A certain old deacon who formerly lived in Warrensburg was a good deal like sev- eral sancfified looking old fellows who still live in the country towns and oc- casionally visit its cities lon business" This good man. according to The War rensburg Journal-Democrat," which was first published thirty-one years ago last week. was found ''bucking the tiger" in a St. Louis gambling house with an en- ergy of purpose that was admirable what" exclaimed the young man who found him. starting backward. Deacon. is 1t possible you are here?" 'Oh. yes." calmly rejoined the old sinner. T am bound to break up this evil institution