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alockade of Haytlen Ports.

Port au Prince, Hayti, January 19.-The blockade of St. Marie and Gonaives which are held by the revolutionists, is assured by the presence of four warships at these ports and the disposition Eof the Haytien forces on land. The government continues to dispatch numerous troops for the purpose of surrounding the terri tory now occupied by the revolutionists. Calm is maintained in all the other towns
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Montgomery, January 19.-(Special)- The cotton market closed here with spot at 12 cents There was some falling off in futures but this is taken to mean well. the idea being that traders were closing up for the end of the week and ran the price down pretty well, just for trading purposes which, However, leaves spot all light.
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T'wasn't a Case of Beer

Sheffield, January 19.-(Speciai.) )-Rlch- ard Cox, colored, was fined $2s.5o in the recorders court yesterday on a charge of concealing a case of smallpox. He will work out the fine on the streets.
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Commander Appointed.

Washington. January 19.-Commander Edward Simpson of the bureau of ord- nance, has been selected to command the cruiser Montgomery which is being fitted out for experimental torpedo work and will be stationed at Newport.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-20
JOHNSON CAUSES
 BIG SENSATION Breaks Into Store With Much
 Noise IS SHOT IN THE CHIN Mayor Rush Closes Soft Drink Elm. Poriums in eessemer-Many Dem. ocrats Coming to See BryZ
 an Thursday.
IS SHOT IN THE CHIN

Bessemer, January 19.-(Special. )-Wil1 Johnson, a burly yellow negro, caused more excitement last night than Besse- mer has experienced since prohibition went into effect on the first of the year, when he broke into the store of Jasper Dareno at the cornor of Twelfth avenue and Nineteenth street.
 Johnson tackled the proposition like knight of the Golden Ages storming Il castle. He secured an old ax and pro- ceeded to prize one of the side doors open, not seeming to care whether any one could hear the tremendous racket he was making or not. He was on the job early, the hour being about 9:20 o'clock.
 Paul Piazin heard Johnson at work and suspecting something, took his pistol and made his way around to the side door. Johnson had succeeded in making an entrance by this time. and when Pia- gin entered the door he was standing behind the counter. He seized the ax which he had been using and started for Piazin, who began firing at him.
 Police headquarters were notified im- mediately and Detectives Patton and Parsons were on the scene in few mo- ments Entering the store they found Johnson sitting behind the counter with a bullet wound in his chin. They took him to police headquarters, where his wound was examined and the entire lower part of his right jaw found to be broken The wound was dressed and Johnson was placed in a cell to spend the night.
 Tn the capture of Johnson the police
 tI.. hnx burglar who has been playing havoc around Bessemer for quite while. From the methods he employed they are eer- tain he is the man.
 Blow to Soft Drinks.
 Mayor Rush yesterday put the lid on those soft drink emporiums which have come into existence in a number of places formerly occupied by saloons, when he issued an order instructing that all soft drink establishments not run in eonnee- tion with a drug store or restaurant must be closed on Sunday. A great many of the old saloon stands are now oc- eupied with dealers in beerine and other light beverages. It has been suspected that some of these places have also peeh selling alcoholic drinks, but It has peeh impossible to detect any.
 The closing of these places on sunday will be gladly noted by the citizens here, as they were in number or instances a gathering place for crowds or loalers. Mavor Rush's action was commented on favorably by great many people.
 Coming to See Bryan.
 Ressemer is getting ready for Bryan day in Birmingham next Thursday anu will send a large delegation to the Maeac City to take part in the reception. lne Rrvan democratic club here held meet ing recently and named large com mittee to attend the different meetings in Birmingham Practically every one of the committee will be on hand at the meeting to be held in the Bijou theatre Thursday morning, but the majority VII, wait until evening and attend the poaro of Trade banouet at the Hotel Hillman.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE PROMO Quinine Tab lets Druggists refund money if 1t fails to cure E. w. GROVES signature is on each box. 25c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-20
THIS DAY IN
 HISTORY OF
 BIRMINGHAM

January 2O 1886:
 Jacob Reese of Pennsylvania inventor of the basic process of making steel, who has been in the district for several days. gives out an optimistic interview on the future of Birmingham and leaves for Chattanooga. While in the district he was the guest of Col. Enoch Ensley. with whom he placed his steel-making pro- cess for a trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-20
City Court Docket.


 Judge Ferguson presiding, the following of the city court today:
 Cohn Bros. ct al vs. B. Zavelo, detinue; Ensley Realty company vs. R. Carevelo, appeal by defendant; Leitchman, Good man & Co. ct al. vs. B. Zayelo, damages; Tuskegee Land and Security company vs. Birmingham Realty company, damages; R. T. McI4od pro ami vs. Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, as- sunpsit: Southern Equipment company ys. Weller & co. ct 7al., assumpsit; Petro Paris, alias Peter Paris, vs. Mrs. Fan nie w. Smith ct al, damages; Mrs. w. H. Jones vs. Louis Saks, appealed by plaintiff; H. O. Seises vs. Cap Strampler, appeal by defendant; Jaffee Jewelry com- pany vs Cahaba Showcase company, at tachment; New York Life Insurance com- pany vs. Shuyler H. Floyd ct al., dam ages.
 In the second division of the city court, Judge Nesmith presiding, the following cases are set for hearing today:
 Charley Garner vs. Birmingham Rail- way, Light and Power company; Richard thompson VS. 1olTifililBildfii HALLWAY, LIE iil and Power company, damages; Pauline McCauley, administratrix, vs. Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, dam ages; Robert N. Hernandez vs. Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power com pany, damages; J. K. Henderson vs. Jeff ferson County Sanitary Sewer commits sion, damages: Robert Chapman vs. Southern Railway company damages; Alex Burge vs. Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, damages; Clara Pruitt vs. Birmingham Railway and Electric company, damages; w. D. Wood ct al pro ami vs. Louisville and Nashville Rail- road company, damages; Hugh c. Crane, administrator, vs. Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham, damages.
 The following cases are set for trial in the third division of the city court, Judge Sharpe presiding:
 Mamie H. Girod vs. Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company.
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January 20. 1893:
 The third annual convention of the Alabama Young Peoples Christian En- deavor society meets at the First Pres byterian church.
 lee is reported to be four inches thick cut at East Lake and skating is quite popular.
 Colonel Pearson. on reaching his home on the Southside tonight, found man standing on his front veranda in a threatening attitude. He thought he was being held up and raised an alarm. An investigation revealed the fact that the "booger' was only snow man that had been built during the afternoon by the Colonel's daughter,
 Mayor Fox and the fire committee of the City Council hold a meeting with the insurance people of the city and dis cuss means of improving the fire depart ment. The Mayor orders some important Improvements and the city is given a better fire rating.
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Lees Birthday Observed.

Savannah, Ga, January 20-The birth day of Gen. Robert F. Lee was observed here today by exercises in which the Savannah Volunteer guards, the naval militia, and the Georgia Hussars partici- pated. Tomorrow the First regiment of infantry and the Benedictine college ca dets will parade.
 Divine service at Christ church preceded the parade, sermon on General Lee, the Christian Gentleman" being deliv- cred by Rev. Francis Alan Brown, the rector.
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January 20, 1892:
 The Georgia Pacific railway train from Atlanta was two hours late tonight. ow- ing to the late arrival of the Washing ton trainNin the Gate City or something
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January 20. 1889: The furnace at Thom- as beats all former records with an out put of 902 tons for the week. The sec ond furnace at this plant is now being constructed.
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Cotton Holds Up.

January 20, 1907: Gen. Charles M. Shelly dies.
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January 20. 1904:
 Andy Bondholzer is mortally wounded by R. T. Shugart in the Metropolitan bar room.
 The Vulcan fund is still short several thousand dollars
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January 20, 1894:
 The. democratic executive committee of Jefferson county hold a meeting at Frs well hall and Capt R. F. Kolb is in dorsed for governor of Alabama Jerre Fountain. presides at the meeting.
 An amateur theatrical Is arranged and the following partial cast of characters in the play is announced: Julius Caesar, B. M. Allen; Brutus, M. A. Porter; Cas- sius. Tom Porter; Casa, R. F. Johnston i; Tfebonias, George Ward; soothsayer, W. H. Baskin and w. M. Drennen.
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January 20, 19Uo:
 St. Petersburg is in the throes of se- rious revolutionary riot
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January 20, 1896:
 Mayor VanHoose liberates 90 prisoners from the city jail. The quarters are so crowded that something has to be done to relieve the situation.
 Congressman Bankhead arrives and will spend two or three days circulating among his friends.
 The man who swapped Farmer w. M. Dobbins "gold brick" for s6000 in hard cash is reported to have been caught in Houston, Tex.
 T. H. Aldrich arrives from Washington and discusses contest which he has filled in Congress against Oscar w Under wood.
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January 20. 1898:

January 20. 1898:
 John McCartin and Dave Fox are ap- pointed by the governor to fill vacancies on the polics commission, succeedirg g Chairman A. H. Stevens and M. c. Rey- holds The other members of the com mission are Emil Lesser, w. c. Garrett and A. O. Lane.
 Mayor Evans rules that the old Sun day law is still in effect and that saloons cannot operate on the Sabbath.
 Democratic Bimetallic clubs are organ ized in almost all the beats of the city and many of the suburbs.
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January 20, 1899:
 Alderman John L. Parker, the first candidate to announce for Mayor, opens his campaign in a speech to locomotive engineers at their hall on Nineteenth street.
 It is announced that the iron pipe trust has invaded Birmingham and has se- cured control of all the plants in the district This is the first trust to come this way.
 Suburbs organize to fight annexation with Birmingham. Following are the towns organized with the fighting chair men: Woodlawn, J. s. Kennedy; Avon dale, c. P Beddow; East Lake, w. R. Dill; Elyton, Judge S. E. Green; North Birmingham, M. M. May; Phillips Addi- tion, D. C. Johnson: Smithfeld, w. H. Stanley; West End, c. H. Worrel1.
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January 70, 1902:
 Frank Duncan, sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Policeman Kirkley, under life sentence for complicity in the killing of Policeman Adams and profess sional safeblower, makes sensational es- cape from the Jefferson county jail.
 The supreme court sustains decision of Judge A. A. Coleman that poll tax must be paid to the county collector to en- franchise the payer.
 Don H. Bacon. chairman of the board of directors of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, returns from New York after an absence of two or three weeks and announces that projected open hearth stationary steel furnaces will be built at Ensley.
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RECORD OF THE COURTS

The first capital week of the January term of 1908 begins today in the first division of the criminal court. Judge s. L. Weaver presiding. Murder eases will be heard during the week, and with one exception all of the prisoners whose cases are set are in jail. There are ten capital felony cases set on today's docket but no cases have been set on the docket for the latter part of the week, and this being true it is proba- ble that number of the cases set for today will be reach ed. In the second division of the criminal court, Judge Howze will be busily engaged with a heavy misdemeanor docket.
 All of the civil courts will be in ses- sion this week. The equity division of the city court, Judge senn presiding, will resume work after a blank docket last week.
 Circuit Court Docket.
 In Judge Lanes division of the cir cult court the following cases are set for trial today:
 Daisy Welch vs Birmingham Rail- way, Light and Power company dam ages; Elnora Jenkins vs. Birmingh am Railway, Light and Power company damages; Joe Morris. pro ami, vs. American Cast Iron Pipe company, dam ages; Sarah Little vs. Parker Russell Mining and Manufacturing company, damages; A. l.. Dobbs, pro ami, vs. Dinlmick Pipe company, damages; Sa- villa Fahey. admnistratrix, vs. Louis vile and Nashville Railroad company, damages; Sidney Sharp vs. Sloss-Shef- field Steel and Iron company, damages; Mrs. Hattie Burns vs. Western Union Telegraph company. damages; J. A. Alexander vs. North Birmingham Water Works company damages; Walter Posey vs Republic Iron and Steel com pany, damages.
 Tn Judge Coleman's division of the circuit court the following cases are set for hearing today:
 B. of T. of U. of A. vs. M. M. Gwin. >ejectment. special; B. of T. of U of A. vs. John w. Parsons, ejectment special; B. Of T. of U of A. vs. J. w. Hopkins, ejectment, special; B. of T. of U. of A. vs. William M. Glaze, ejectment. spe- cia1, B. or T. or U. cl A. Ns' 'oiih " Cox ct al, ejectment; Arthur Davis pro ami, vs. Sloss-Sh effield Steel and Iron company, damages; Ed White vs Sloss-Sheffeld Steel and Iron company, damages; J. c. Williams vs. Republic Iron and Steel company, damages; w. M. and E. P. Hale vs. Henry Boyd, ap- peal by defendant; J. ]. Honeycutt vs Eugene Killmere, detinue; New York Life Insurance company vs. Louis L Sch warz, assumpsit; G. W. Tomlin vs R e Smith. damages; Willie Miller vs pro ami, vs. Southern Steel company, damages; Wash Walton vs. Sloss-Shef- field Steel and Iron company, damages; N. P. Norman ct al. vs. St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad company, dam- ages.
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January 20, 1901:
 Death of Queen Victoria is momen- tarily expected.
 J. c. Maben, member of the executive committee of the Sheffield Steel and Iron company, announces that he may make his home in Birmingham.
 Announcement is made that Galloway Coal and Coke company will be reor- gariized and that the offices will be moved from Memphis to Birmingham.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
MAKING II Measure Down.

In these days when only the rich
criminal or suspect is accorded much
space in the newspapers it may be a
relief to the predatory rich to have the
fact recalled that the blessed middle
class may also produce dishonesty. A
policeman tells this story:
Before reformed and went on the
force I was clerking in small store.
One day an Italian woman came in.
She held a string in her hand, long
string, and said that she wanted a
blanket Of the same length. I went
through our stock and found that the
longest blanket we had was six inches
too short. In the MIDST of my search
the boss came up.
What's the matter?' he said,
II told him.
That's easy said he. I'll talk to
her and keep her busy while you cut
off the string"
The honest copper swears that he
would not be an active party to such
trick, but whatever was done the
woman soon left the store with i
blanket and string Of equal length
San Francisco Call.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
TIE PLUG HAT OF JAPAN.
Tiles Of the Vintage Of Fifty Years Ago
Make the Mlkado's Subjects Proud.

There is one sight which you must
not miss when you go to Tokyo" said
the seasoned traveller. THAT is the
rare display of anthropological plug
hats.
4 Some people arrange to get to
japan in cherry blossom season, and
others want to get there in time to
receive an invitation to the emperor's
garden party in chrysanthemum time;
but take the tip of one who has batted
about the world considerably and land
in Tokyo either on New Years day or
on the emperor's birthday. On both
you can see something unique in the
line of headgear.
when Japan began to get civilized
she bought all the accessories OF civ
ilizatlon that England did not want
any move. England sold her oId-fash-
toned, out-of-date, narrow gauge rail-
road stock, antiquated tram cars and
other secondhand junk, including the
then current styles of plug hat.
1.-THE tile of those days has re-
manned the ruling fashion in Japan
up to the present. Japan may build
Dreadnoughts, but the plug hat of SO
years ago still reigns supreme.
Only on such ceremonious occa-
sions as the New Years festivities.
the emperors birthday or possibly
the racing meets at Negishi, near
Yokohama, does the Japanese gentle.
man bring forth from his camphor
wood chest his plug hat, a heritage
from his forefathers. 1t may be
warped with 20 summers; damp or
green with the shine of antiquity, but
that matters nothing.
Once this superstructure to his
wrinkled frock coat and bagged
trousers is added, the Japanese gen.
tleman feels that no dignity short of
a decoration of the order of the Ris-
ing Sun can be added to his person.
That browning glory of plug hat
may settle around his ears or it may
perch upon his head like half pea.
nut she'll, but no matter; it is the hat
of civilization and the badge Of re-
spectability.
"He trots out of his house looking
like one of the ancient daimios stiff
with the dignity of two swords. All
that fearful day he wears this hat Of
ancient vintage like a crown, and in
the end he slows it away in his damp
proof chest awaiting another festal
occasion or held as an asset in his
| estate after death"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
IInwlse Combinatioa.

To the mind of Mrs. Abigail Jen-
nings there was sort of disloyalty in
admitting to any outsider that native
of Willowby could be really eccentric.
AS for anything beyond eccentricity,
Mrs. Jennings would never have ad'
mitted it, even in the case of Miss
Rachel Gregg, who was frankly called
crazy by the summer visitors.
Now, Mrs. Jennings said one OF
the boarders, "do you really mean that
you've never known Miss Gregg to do
anything that you'd call crazy?"
mo, haven't" said Mrs. Jennings,
with firm and unyielding expression
about her prominent chin.
''Why, what do you think Of her
sending that bag of eggs over to the
Corners to Mrs. Cole, right in the box
with her laundry work, and never tell
ing the stage-driver, and letting him
throw the bcx right off?" inquired the
summer boarder. Mrs. Cole says
there's one shirtwaist she'll never be
able to, wear again"
WELL" said Mrs. Jennings, calmly,
1T should say about that as I have
about number Of little things Rachel
does and has DONE She may lack in
wisdom and forethought now and
again-but then, who doesn't, I'd like
to know?"-Youth's Companion.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18
R0ES COTZAGE AT Re14AuMWoRKl

Iy gone to Keats to learn style-the per-
lection of word phrasing-s6 it has gone
to Poe to learn tone, the truths of
keeping an atmosphere in composition.
Poe did not set himself to write
copy-book maxims of morality, but the
total effect of his work is that of lofti-
ness and nobility. His men are brave
and his women are pure. He Is the
least vulgar of mortals. Perhaps, II
books have any effect at all, his tend
to make men too truthful, too sensi-
tive, too high-minded."
Standards, evidently, have changed
since Emerson referred to Poe as
that jingle man." Abiding to this
disparaging comment DR.. H. G. Wells,
the English novelist and writer on So
GEOLOGY, said at a dinner in Boston: Il
think hardly Of your New England
writer's for their contempt of Poe. l
shall never be able to forget that
Emerson called him that jingle man
To-day thousand read Poe where one
| reads Emerson, and not to know Poe's
work is rather a disgrace"
Rupert Taylor, LII. B., in a recently
printed Study of Edgar Allan Poe,"
has this to say of Poe's private life:
Poe took pleasure in the softer in
1uences of home life, although there
Is little or no reflection of it in his
writings. He dearly loved his wife
and her mother, of whom he speaks in
an excellent sonnet addressed to her
! 1R III
than mother In the Black Cat he
gives evidence of a fondness for do
nestle pets. His cottage at Fordham
was beautified by vines and Towering
plants, and he kept in cages several
singing birds and tropical birds of
plumage. He was as al who knew
anything about the matter attested on
every occasion a devoted and model
husband.
People in general are so accustomed
to regard Poe as poet and short
story writer that they fail to realize
that he was also a profound specu1a-
tive thinker. In an article entitled
"Poe as an Evolutionist" popular
Science Monthly, september) Mr..
Frederic Drew Bond points out that
in estimating his character too little
attention is bestowed on this phase
of his work. He finds that Poe enter
tanned in it's broad outlines that idea
of the changes and development Of the
world which goes, nowadays, by the
name of the theory of evolution. On
February 3, 1848, Poe delivered, as a
lecture at the Society library of New
York, an abstract of his speculations
on the material and spiritual uni.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-18

verse-its essence, origin, creation,
present condition and destiny. Short
~ afterward this was published by
Putnam under the title Eureka"
After quoting the paragraphs from
Eureka in which Poe sums up his
theory of cosmic development, Mr..
Bond says:
"The statement of Poe that 'hetero-
geneousness, brought about directly
through condensation. is proportional
with it forever appears to contain the
germ of Herbert Spencer's developed
formula: Evolution is change from
an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity
to a definite, coherent heterogeneity
through continuous differentiations
and integrations.' Noteworthy, also,
is Poe's statement of the correlation
between mental development and
physical organization"
After a thorough investigation and
consideration of Poe's theory Mr..
Bond concludes that:
I'm its important features, Eureka
is a perversion of the modern doctrine
Of evolution. In the statements that
| the universe is in a perpetual f1ux,
that it is now evolving and will in the
| future dissolve, that it has developed
from a condition of homogeneity, and
that our own system sprang from a
nebula, Poe is in accord with the
Spencerian philosophy and very prob
ably with the actual facts; while in
| the assertions that the earth has, dur
ing successive geological ages, pro-
duced higher and higher organic life
characterized by an ascending devel-
opment of mind, hand in hand with an
increasing complexity of the physical
organization, he Is stating what are
now known to be simple scientific
| facts. Erroneous, of course, the de-
tails of his conceptions very frequent
" are; but this is common to him
with the pioneers of every great idea.
| Only in the course Of time does the
germ of truth attain it's full growth
and reveal its true character To
criticise Eureka from a contempt.
rary standpoint would be as beside
the mark as to treat the 'Naturphiloso,
phie' Of Sche1ling or Of Hegel in the
same way. It was remark of John
P. Kennedy, Poe's old friend, that the
latter wrote like an old Greek phil
osopher' and any one who reads the
fragments Of the Greek thinkers be
fore Aristotle can easily verify foI
himself the truth and aptness of the
statement The merits of Poe, in
common, more or less, with the other
pre-Spencerian eVolutionists lie in