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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-28
Local Weather Data.
EXAMINATIONS WILL BE
HELD ON OCTOBER Il
Several Vacancies In Good Positions
Are Announced BY the United States
Civil Service Commission.

The United States civil service COM
mission announces the following vacant
positions in the service, for which ex-
aminations will be held in Birmingham
on October II to secure eligibles to fill
the same:
Scientific assistant in veterinary zoology,
ut $40 per annum, for duty in the bureau
of animal industry at Washington, d. c.,
and vacancies as they may occur in the
position of scientific assistant in the de-
partment of agriculture, at salaries rang
ing from $40 to $1,000 per annum, de-
pending upon the qualifications and ex=
porience of the appointees.
Attention is invited to the fact that it
is especially desired to secure applications
fol the major optional subjects-analytical
neutrality-suspicious. for the detection of
food adulteration), plant pathology, and
soil physics.
Veterinary inspector, Honolulu, Hawaii,
at S1400 per annum, and similar vacancies
as they may occur in the United States
at Sl2e0 per annum each, in the bureau of
animal industry department of agricul-
ture.
The department states that the number
of eligibles obtained as the result of
the examinations held on ugust for
this position will not be sufficient to
meet the needs of the service, and juali-
fled persons are therefore urged to enter
this examination.
Junior civil engineer. $1,000 per annum,
engineer department at large, Manila,
P. l.. and similar vacancies as they may
occur in the department service.
ttention is invited to the fact that while
the specific vacancy mentioned is in the
Philippines the position is not in the
Philippine service, but under the con-
troll of the war department.
Under the quartermasters department
at large the following positions are to be
filled:
Marine fireman, $3.50 per annum, Fort
Barancas Fla, steamer Poe. Marine fire.
man. 500 per annum and ration, Fort
Sereven. Ca. tug Gibbon. Marine fireman,
$50 per annum and ration, Fort Dade.
Fla. steamer General Timothy Picker
ing.
It is especially desired to secure elgibles
residing in the southeastern states and
attention is invited to the fact that APP
plications for the position of marine fire
man may be filed at any time, but only
those filed prior to the hour of closing
business on October IL 1906 with the
United States civil service commission,
Washington D. c., in complete form,
will be considered for the specific va
cancies mentioned.
No educational test will be given, and
1t will not be necessary for applicants to
appear at any place for examination.
The following positions come under the
Philippine service
Master builder, $3.50 per annum. Bridge
engineer, $225O per annum. Principal as
sistant chief engineer, department of
sewer and waterworks construction, Ma
Mia $1,000 per annum. Assistant engineer,
$500 per annum. Second assistant eng-
neer, $500 per annum.
Applicants will not be assembled for
these examinations Their eligibility will
be determined upon the evidence furnish
ed in application form 375.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-28
CITY Executibe COMMITTEE
FabOYS March Primary

From a test of the pulse of the city
executive committee. 1t is evident that
a late municipal primary will be ordered.
In other words, it is given out by one
of the most influential members of the
committee. that a meeting of that body
will not be held until towards the end
of December or possibly after the New
Year
From all that can be learned from con-
versatiens with members of the commit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-28
Marriaue Licenses.

Marriage licenses were issued from the
probate clerks office yesterday as fol-
lows:
s. f. Kerr of Birmingham to Miss Ethel
Henry.
Charles w. Watkins of West End to
Miss Lily Mae Grant.
Steve lathe OF Wylam to Miss Julia
Cabo.
Joe Cash of Adamsvllle to Miss Josie
Bearden.
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New Corporation.

Articles of Incorporation were filed in
the probate clerks office yesterday by
the Woodawn Lumber company, which
proposes to deal generally in lumber and
other builders material. The authorized
capital stock of the company is $3.50
but 1t will begin with only $4,000 paid
in The officers and directors for the first
year are the following: J. B. Gibson, pres
ident and treasurer; C. B. White, vice
president and secretary, and Culpepper
Exum.
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tee the primary for the choice of munich
pal officers Will not be called earlier than
March.
From other sources 1t is known that
late primary is desirable by the present
municipal office holders.
Mayor Ward has declined to state
whether or not he will make the race for
reelection. He has said that he could
not make up his mind positively until
about February 1t is therefore assumed
that he would oppose an early primary.
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RECORD OF THE COURTS.

The only place where the inclement
interfere with the regular routine of bus
mess was in the jefferson county court
house The judges took their seats on
the bench as usual and proceeded with
the call of the docket in the circuit and
criminal courts.
Circuit Court.
Braxton b. Henderson, Jr, VS.. The
Crane company. judgment for plaintiff
for $1,000. This was suit for damages for
personal injuries.
Willie Johnson, pro ami VS.. Woodward
Iron company, judgment for S5 dam
ages for personal injuries
Deputy Clerk Shapiro reports that over
200 aliens we're naturalized since Monday.
The new law governing the naturallza-
ton of aliens came into effect yesterday.
Under 1t the conditions are far more re-
strictlve than they have been.
Circuit Court Docket.
The following cases will be called to-
day:
Ed w. Elder VS.. Lucy stalnaker. ct
John Doe, ex dem, Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad company vs.. w. II. Harris
Swift & Co. vs.. NJ. e. Newberry; c, @.
Bates VS.. Alex Morton; George Sharpe
VS.. the Southern Home Industrial asso-
ciation Crook Roam VS.. the Industrial
Insurance company: A. M. Brown vs. jim
Langston; Rosa Starr vs.. r. c. Reid j.
II. Franklin VS.. d. j. Davis; Walter As
kew VS.. Southern Express company; 70.
e. Forbes Piano and Organ company VS..
j. G. Braswell; southslde Banking and
Realty company VS.. Sandy Crawford. ct
al; r. L. Jackson vs.. Electric Loan and
Pledge company; A. L. Guy VS.. VIII Dur
ham, The Oak Hill Marble and Stone
Works vs. Southern Railroad company;
Nathan Johnson VS. the Mey Trading COM
pany; II. d. Keith VS.. Ben Johnson. The
Brazelton Strawberry company VS.. Sea-
board Air Line Railroad company; f. e.
Smithson VS.. J. M. Farrell.
City Court.
In the city court yesterday P. S. Hard
ing filed suit against b. e. Norvell for
the sum of sli5 due by promissory note.
chancery Court.
North Highland Land company VS..
James Ramsey. Bill to establish vendor s
lien.
Criminal Court.
Yesterday in the first division of the
criminal court the jury returned a YER
dict of guilty against Henrietta Nelson,
and sentenced her to imprisonment for
life. The case of Bunyan Brent, charged
with murder, is on trial. No special dock
ct is set for today, but the case of Ar
thur Ray, passed from yesterday, will
be tried as soon as the Brent case goes
to the jury.
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RAILROAD WORLD.

Railroads were more or less inconven-
fenced by the storm and rainfall of yes
terday and last night, but no serious
trouble was reported from any of them
except the Louisville and Nashville, which
seems to have suffered heavily in and
around Mobile and Pensacola. 1t is report
ed that the portion of the Queen and
Crescent south of Meridian was damaged,
but the extent is unknown.
The offices of Superintendent Boswell
and the transportation department of the
Alabama Great Southern railroad are be-
ing moved from the fourth floor of the
Woodward building to the office depart
ment of the freight house on the railroad
and Eighteenth street. The entire office
force will be moved by the first of the
month.
l.. SEWER, general freight agent of the
Alabama Great Southern railroad. re-
turned last night from New York and
Washington on train No. l. r. Il. Bos-
well, superintendent, and A. b. Freeman,
travelling passenger agent, returned from
Chattanooga on the same train.
L. c. Smith, who Is well known among
the railroad men in Birmingham, has
been appointed agent Of the Cincinnati.
Hamilton and Dayton in Nashville. He
was with the Traders Dispatch.
J. II. McAllister, commercial agent Of
the Norfolk and Western In Chattanooga.
was I'm Birmingham yesterday.
tt,.
Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville in AT
lanta, was in Birmingham yesterday
e. A. deFuniak, general freight agent
of the lines of the Louisville and Nash
vile south of Decatur, with headquar-
ters in Montgomery was in Birmingham
yesterday.
j. w. Whitford. commercial agent OF
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas in At
ltnta, was In Birmingham yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-28

Handsome lamp free to
every bride who trades with
J. B. Harris, the Furniture
Man, 2121 Third Ave.
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CHEAP RATES FOR
THE HOME COMERS
Additional Reduced Rates from
the Southwestern Lines
MEANS MUCH ADVERTISING
Important Action In Connection With
Home Coming Week-More Recep-
ton Committees Have
Been Named.

A letter has been received by Secretary
J. B. Babb of the Commercial club stat
ing that the railroads composing the South
western Excursion bureau-practically all
the railroads in the southwest-were offer
Ing special reduced rates on account of
the Alabama Home Coming week. This
is considered most important matter as
it greatly increases the amount of adj
yertising which will be given Home Com
ing week by the railroads and also be-
cause these railroads traverse the great
southwest where hundreds of thousands
of Alabamians have migrated.
Following is the letter:
st. Louis, Mo-, September %, 1906
Home Coming Week for Alabamians, Bir-
mingham, Ala.-ootober 15-2O 1906.
Mr.. J. b. Babb, Secretary Commercial
Club, Birmingham, Ala
Dear Sir-Referring to your favor of
September "A and previous correspondence
on the above sujeet:
Beg to advise that We have also received
notices from the c. H. &c s. A. R'y, M X
& 7. R'y, and T. & N. o. R. R. of their
intention to make effective rate of one
fare, plus 50 for the round trip from
points in the territory of the Southwestern
Excursion bureau, to Birmingham, Ala,
and return, account of this occasion.
Although the rates and arrangements as
submitted our lines was not unanimously
adopted, there is no doubt but what all
lines under our jurisdiction will concur
in same, and as notices are received in
this office placing them in effect by the
various lines, we will promptly advise
you. Respectfully,
(Signed) ]. e. HENNEGAN,
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Special Commission.

In the second division Judge Weaver Is
trying misdemeanor cases. none of which
are of any especial interest.
In the second division OF the city court
the special commission appointed by Judge
Samuel e. Greene, judge of probate court,
held session yesterday and took testimony
in the case of the North Alabama Rail-
road company VS. the Southern Railway
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company. The question involved is the
right of the North Alabama railroad to
cross the tracks of the Southern at or
near Littleton.
The following candidates have filed In
the office of the clerk of the probate
court their accounts of election expenses:
Hugh McGeever, candidate for sheriff,
$24S9. 29.
Harry Jones, candidate for sheriff,
1896 50.
W. X. watkins, candidate for sheriff,
$64O3S
Charles Denegre, candidate for legis-
lature, $1S
L. j. Haley Jr. candidate for leglsla-
ture, $102.2O.
William S. Hurd, candidate for lesisla-
ture, SS05O
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Vice Commissioners.

Vice Commissioners.
The following list of additional vice
commissioners was named yesterday:
Barbour county. Charles S. Mcdowell,
Eufaula, Ala.
Bullock county. S. T. Prewltt, Midway,
Ala.
Clay county, R. G. Rowland, Ashland,
Ala.
Clebourne county, A. o. Evans, Hefin,
Ala.
Chiffon county, w. A Jackson. Jemison,
Ala.
Colbert county, A. o. Thompson. Shelf
field. Ala.
Coosa county. ]. o. Webb, Kellyton, Ala.
Etowah county, DIR. f. r. Mcconnell,
Alfalfa, Ala.
DeKalb county, Miss Minnie Merry. FIT.
Payne. Ala.
Franklin county. W. H. Austin. Russell
Vile, Ala.
Fayette county, Dr. T. M. Peters, Fay
cite, Ala.
Lee county. ]. R. McGinty. oplika, Ala.
Lauderdale county, Sam H. Malone,
Florence, Ala.
Marion county. ]. H. Nixon, Hamilton,
Ala.
Jefferson county, A. o. Lane, Birmng-
ham, Ala.
Mobile county, ]. p Wilson, Mobile, Ala.
Morgan county, S. E. Stewart, Hart
selle, Ala.
Sumter county, R. H. Ennis, Livingston,
Ala.
Talladega county, ]. NJ. Thornton, ITALIA
dega, Ala.
Tallapoosa county, w. H. Ussery, Camp
Hill, Ala.
Reception Committees.
Reception committees were appointed
yesterday as follows:
Autauga County-F. NJ. Jackson, Chap
pell Cory, A. w. Smith, f. F. Enslen.
Blount County-D. NJ. Drennen, w M.
Bremen, Peyton H. Moore, ]. M. Daw-
son.
Bullock County-The Rev. S. j. Foster,
e. II. Cabaniss, Judge w. M. Baldwin.
Barbour County-B. B. Conner, j. G.
Smith, Lee Clay
Butler County-W. ]. Miner, A. Q. Lane,
II. X. Miner, Jesse Stallings.
Calhoun County-Frank Nelson, B. F.
Johnson. John M. Caldwell, James w.
Savage, r. 3. Kelly e. E. Forbes, John
II. Frye, E. NJ. Kilby, John c. For
ney
Cherokee county-B. F. Roden, A. S.
Leath, E. ]. smyre.
Mobile County-E. B. Norton, F. Y. An
derson. Louis V. Clark, r. F. Marley B.
d. King.
Montgomery County-George Whatley
w. ]. Cameron, Godfrey Coleman, f. p.
O'Bren, Hill Ferguson. T. II. Motion.
Perry County-A. C. Howe, Frank
Fowlkes, Charles G. Brown, John B.
Reed. Eugene Brown, John Howe. Adam
Wyatt NJ A. Myatt. S. P. Fowlkes, E.
n. Rucker, Gen. j. w. Bush, o. L. Drake.
Brooks Lovelace.
Sumter County-A. D. Smith, B. M. All
len. S. e. Gown, Ed Smith, John L. Par
ker.
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that these organizations could have en-
listed many men in that time.
The officers held conference Wednes-
day night and nearly all the captains
commanding the six organizations were
present. They expressed indignation that
they should be accused Of such offenses.
and all of them stated positively that
they had not enlisted a single man for
the purpose of allowing him to vote with
out paying poll tax.
In speaking of the matter General Clark
said last night:
Il regret that Judge Stiles should have
brought the military into the matter as
he did. When I saw his statement l i'm
mediately ordered an investigation and
out of four companies which have re-
ported only about ten men were enlisted
between February and the date of the
primary.
'The prevailing sentiment all the time
was to keep the military as an organ
ization out Of this political fight. and this
purpose was accomplished. The officers
feel bad about the accusations made
against them in the matter, and state
that they would not enlist men In their
companies fo- any political purpose
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-28
THE WEATHER.

Washington, September 27.-Following
Is the forecast for Alabama and Misss-
sippi: Showers followed by fair Friday;
Saturday fair. fresh northwest winds.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
.SCARES WOMEN
BY EXPORTING
FORMER BOOkkEEPER'S HEAD
TURNED BY RELIGION
East Los Angeles Is Relieved by
WeIch's Arrest-Becomes Excited
During Church Services in
the Jail Sunday

Fred w. Welch, bookkeeper when
sane, but for some time crazed on
religion, was arrested Saturday night
on the east side and locked up in the
East Los Angeles police station.
Yesterday he was taken to the re-
ceiving hospital for treatment and will
be examined this week for insanity.
Several women telephoned to police
headquarters yesterday that Welch had
been frightening them by his actions
and it was said that he would accost
women and try to give them con-
vincing religious talk.
When the services We're being con-
Quoted in the Jail Sunday, Welch be-
came much excited and insisted in join
ing in until put to bed by the attending
II tell you that the burden is light,
my friend" he said to Il reporter who
to walk by his bed. Are you
my son? If you are 7 shall turn YOU
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
PYROMAN|AC TO
Be EXAMINED
CHANCES ARE THAT BRAIN
WILL GO TO ASYLUM
Attorney w. w. Wideman Believes
His Client Is Not Responsible for
Recent Acts and Therefore
Should Not Be Punished

James Brain, author of the numerous
incendlary fires of a few weeks ago,
Will probably be examined before the
insanity commission today or tomor-
row.
His attorney. Wallace w. Wideman,
said yesterday that in view of the
opinion of the alienists who recently
examined Brain at the city jail, he
thought there would be little diff
Guilty in getting the pyromaniac COM
mitted to an insane asylum.
The boys relatives feel confident that
the lad will be declared insane and a
fit subject for Highlands or Patton.
A charge of arson is pending against
Brain and the preliminary examination
is set for March a. but if the insanity
commission, sitting in Judge Gibbs
department of the superior court, de-
cides that the boy is insane, a COM
mitment to an asylum will take pre-
cedence over the criminal charge.
Escaped Criminal Complaint
Brain was at one time confined in an
asylum at Elgin, ILL.,, and escaped a
criminal complaint in Chicago by proof
that he was insane.
Mr.. Wideman realizes that the po-
lice are anxious to send the boy to a
penal institution to punish him for his
numerous acts of incendiarism, but
argues that if the boy can be proved
insane the hospital and not a prison
is the place for him.
Brain's father occupies a responsible
position on a Chicago newspaper and
n brother living at Edendale, holds q
fine position in this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19

from your evil ways and lead you into
the light. / have it all. L gave some
to the Salvation army, but [ have some
left for you, poor sinner that you are"
Welch is single, a native of England
and at one time was a good book
keeper, until he became crazed on
religion and neglected his work to take
part in services held nightly in the
SlumS.
Harmless enough when let alone, he
becomes maniac when religion is men
toned and the police say that it was
no wonder that women of East Los
Angeles refused to listen to his TRADES
as he followed them along the street,
Welch does not mind confinement and
told the trusty who waited on him
that prison walls could not hold him
if he chose to assume his astral body.
81 have two bodies and two names,
my son." he said. you call me Welch,
but [ have another name that may not
be breathed into profane ears. Under
that name can go anywhere and iron
bars cannot confine that astral body
of mine"
Welch evidently had good educa-
ton and mingles quotations from Plato
ana Homer with his scriptural illusions.
He is unmarried and says he has no
friends in this country besides DR.. f. e.
Yoakum, who has attended the man for
his mental disease
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
"SLAYER BUCK" is THEME
FOR LECTURE TO MEN
"WE BUILD CHARACTERS BY pow
Err OF WILL"
Three Great Molds of Character Are
Heredity, Environment and Edu-
caton-Harvest of Seeds Sown by
Ancestors Is Reflected in Man

'Heredity and Prenatal Influences" 3"
which led up to the peculiar conditions
of the murder of Mrs. Garfield by Nor
ris Buck, was the subject of a lecture
given by Glen MacWiliams, to men
only, last evening.
Mr.. MacWillams alluded several
times in the course of his lecture to
Morris Buck in very uncomplimentary
terms. He classed him as a degenerate
of the worst kind" He said in part:
I'VE build our characters by the
power of our wills. AS yet the adj
vancement of the world has left it II
puny, sickly undeveloped thing in which
hundreds are makeshifts. Outside of
the human will there are three great
moulds of character, heredity (Which in
it's ordinary meaning includes prenatal
influence, environment and education.
''Heredity is the foundation of char
acter. 1t is that law which does not
allow of grapes to grow off thorns.
WHAT is received by heredity is the
harvest of seeds sown by ancestors.
Tend Jncies toward organic diseases,
such as consumption or sCrofula may
come through heredity. Vices. such as
the liquor and tobacco habits are
handed down through generations un-
less corrected by strength of will on
the part of some descendants.
What is true of vice is also true of
virtue. 1t is rather to influence a child
as she wishes, because not one woman
in thousand has the conditions she
wishes for her own physical and mental
comfort. The most intimate relation
conceivable is that of mother and babe.
Each breath she inhales, the food she
eats, the emotions she feels and the
environments have immediate effect on
the child.
"There is a crying need of pure, nat
ural and unperverted men for fathers.
The present system of civilization is
greatly responsible for the kind of citi-
zens it has. The conditions are such
that it is necessary for the majority of
people, men, women and children, to
toll to the last notch of endurance in
order to exist They practically have
no time to cultivate the pure, beauti-
full and good. They are denied. those
things which make life worth living.
Music, art and books have no place in
the majority of lives which is decidedly
shameful. Only the sensuous enjoyment
of their own bodies is within reach of
the toiling thousands and that, in the
coarsest manner, because they do not
conceive of purity.
LET us remove the causes for GRIM
inality, insanity and other evils by care
fully providing good conditions for our
unborn population"