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Cut Glass Sale. Beautiful, scintillating, perfect cut glass. These pitchers are beautiful examples of art craft; deep cut and heavy. Cut Glass that fully carries out the reputa tation that this house possesses for Cut Glass. On sale Monday morning after 9 o’clock for one day only. Water pitcher in design shown in the illus tration. An exquisite refined new design, deeply cut and brilliant. Cut all over, including bottom. Full 3-pint size pitcher that sells at regular for $8.^0. Monday morning after 9 o’clock PROWELL HARDWARE CO. 1821-1823 THIRD AVENUE. MODERN METHODS OF THE SMOOTH HOTEL BEATS Prom the New York Herald. ^ | T is only with some new trick which I displays especial ingenuity that a * hotel beat’ can hope to prosper these days,” remarked a Broadway hotel clerk recently, "and even then his chances of escape are small. The strength of many of the schemes resorted to by this class of swindlers lies in their being so devised that a hotel man will give them the bene fit of the doubt for fear of offending a regular patron. Take, for example, the game of the torn note. It is played some what as follows: ”A gentleman, dressed in the height of fashion, accompanied by a lady, arrives shortly after luncheon on Saturday aftei noon, and the manager, summoned by one of the officials, is informed by his guests that they only wish to slay until Mon day, but ‘would he, in the meantime, re serve the best suite of rooms for them.’ This Is, of course, done, and on the Mom day morning the gentleman presents him self at the bureau with a letter, In which is enclosed half on a one hundred dollar bill. Only half, the manager was told, bad been posted—merely for safety’s sake —but as he would see In the letter, the other half would arrive In the afternoon, but he found he had to leave by an early train to keep an important appointment. “The bill amounts, say, to $40 lor the two days, but the manager courteously agrees to accept the half note and give full change for the value of the whole note on condition that he be permitted to open the letter which is to arrive in the afternoon; and, of course, permission Is at once granted. It is scarcely neces sary to say that the other half note never makes its appearance, and the swindler moves on to some other hotel to repeat his ingenious trick once more. The adventurer is able, if his plans work out well, as they seemingly frequently do, to obtain good board, the while in creasing his capital. “Another plan is for three confederates to take up their abode at the same hotel, and each engages a room in close proxim ity to his fellow travelers. They all, how ever. contrive to make a display of lug gage, and are Invariably well dressed, for a prosperous exterior is half the battle to the hotel adventurer. “Once comfortably Installed, one mem ber of the party regularly takes his meals with one of his fellow travelers, with the result that at the end of a week’s stay Ids bill merely amounts to the cost of his bed room, while Ids com panions’ accounts are naturally consid erably larger, as between them they In clude the cost of living for the trio. The day before the hotel accounts are due to be sent In, the three conspirators hold a conference, which Invariably ends in the same way—the man with the small est bill agrees to leave ati once, always, however, beforehand taking the simple precaution of packing his fellow swindlers’ belongings In his own trunks. “Now, as he invariably settles his ac count, no suspicion is aroused, for the special staff of detectives who patrol large hotels day and night, sending in at frequent Intervals reports of the lug gage brought In by visitors, still see that the wily ‘rent’ free swindlers' compan ions have their luggage In their rooms. The luggage—that is to say, the boxes and trunks—is there, and weighs a consid erable amount; but all valuables have been carefully extracted beforehand, to be replaced by all sorts of heavy and worthless objects, such as bricks, stones, or lumps of lead, fastened to the sides of the boxes to prevent any fear of them being displaced by shaking. “The tw'o bther swindlers shortly after ward stroll out of the hotel, ostensibly for a short walk, but in reality never to return. And the week’s expenses of the wily trio, which are invariably considera ble, merely amount to the cost of one bedroom for a week and two second hand and Inexpensive boxes, which can be bought for a mere song." NERVY MINER Staked $4 In a Poker Game and Took Out $500,000. From the Kansas City Times. Many stories have been written about Henry C. Cutting, the man who went into the Tonopah mining camp in 1901 with $4 In his pockets and made $500,000 in the next two years. When a man does a thing like that people are bound to talk, but seldom do they tell the real inside details of how the wonder was performed. Some writers have described Mr. Cutting as having discovered a hole full of gold, something like that which "Scotty” is B&id to have, and while this may literally be true, he didn’t get his start that way. It all came about through a game of poker, and after that plenty of good hard work and much anxiety. Mr. Cutting was at the Coates house yesterday with Mrs. Cutting, whom he acquired some time sub uequent to the poker incident. He wasn't Inclined at first to talk about his adven ture#, but after a while he did tell enough to show that the success he achieved was due entirely to the fact that he wasn’t afraid of work and that the American dis position to keep everlastingly pegging away was strongly developed in his make up. "It was in the very first days of Tona pah,” Mr. Cutting began. "I reached there when the population numbered about 35 persons, all men. I had just $4 in my pocket. Strolling about the camp 1 found a poker game, and, deciding that I might as well be broke as bent, I ‘sat in’ with two stacks of whites—it wasn’t a high prlce game, you see. The man opposite me owned the one boarding house in the camp and I played to win his money be cause I needed it. There were no re markable ‘hands’ dealt, nothing exciting about it, but when I got up I’d won enough to pay for a month's board—which I did, on the spot—and had $12.50 l*‘ft. "Jim Butler w’as king of Tonapah then. He had staked out the whole camp. I went to him, after the game, and got a verbal lease of a claim and began work that minute. You can Just bet It was : hard work, the hardest kind. There were times when I wanted to quit, but 1 wouldn’t. Men came along and I put them to work. I ‘stood good’ for their board with my friend of the poker game, and w'e pegged away at that hole for a month. We struck the right stuff: 1 Shipped my ore. I got returns in six weeks and I paid my men. My mine? X had the first lease on the Mizpah ledge.’ When the term on that lease end ed 1 had 80 men working and was tak ing out thousands of dollars every day, as the history of the camp shows. That’s how I made my pile." With his future assured, Mr. Cutting married a San Francisco girl who had been waiting for him, and the honey moon trip was a stage ride to Tonopah. "It is, and always has been an excep tionally quiet camp, morally,” he said. "For eight months after the discovery we had no justice of the peace or any other law officer. All the leases were verbal agreements, and yet there were no lights and no quarrels. The first two men wh# died there were victims of heart disease and pneumonia. 1 preach ed tlie funeral sermon for both, because tlie boys said some one had to do it. and we had no sky pilot. I also led the choir, and we sang “Nearer, My God, TO Thee,’ and no one ever heard It sung with more meaning or more earnest ness.” Mr. Cutting is now erecting the first steel building in Tonapah; it will cost $40,000. The population of the place Is now 5000, he says, and the town lias electric light and good water and sewerage sys tems. Paradise and Hell Divorced. From Phe Denver Post. “What’s in a name?” What you have got you don’t want, and what you don’t want you are sure to get. Not more days ago than one can count on the fingers of one’s two hands a man and a woman named Paradise, whose marriage may be supposed to have beeu made in heaven, came be fore the bar of the county court and asked to have the celestial knot sev ered by the terrestial judge because their married life was too much like the opposite of Paradise. The deed was done, and Paradise en duo was no more. Yesterday Justina and Julius Hell appeared in court and announced that heaven wa^ wiped off the map for them, since they were suffering from an overproduction of the other place. Julius, so Justina charges, notwith standing his marital vows, duties and < obligations, has refused to make rea sonable provision for her, although he is able-bodied and strong and in the enjoyment of perfect health. The Hells celebrated their nuptial vows before high heaven in George town in January of 1905. TO SOLYfi PROBLEM OF FIRELESS STOYE CLUB WOMEN AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR CO-OPERATE IN TRYING TO PERFECT AN ECO NOMICAL DEVICE. Berkeley, Cal.—Prof. M. E. Jaffa, the food expert of the University of Cali fornia, has begun experiments with a “flreless stove,” the results of which are expected to be of unusual interest to housewives, and incidentally to heads of families who pay the fuel bills. Co-operating with the universty scien tist is the Town and Gown club of Berke ley, an organization sometimes desig nated as “fashionable,” but whose mem bers extend their interest to such purely domestic problems as cookery and meth ods by which the art may be improved and its expense lessened. Mrs. P. C. Torrey of the Town and Gown club read a paper before the or ganization dealing with the subject of fireless stoves after consulting with Prof. Jaffa and the study of experiments made bv the United States army department and some civic organizations of Germany. The flreless stove principle is explained by Professor Jaffa to be merely the ap plication of the Idea that non-conductors of heat utilized to retain the heat of the body In cold weather may also be used to retain heat generated in a pot of boil ing water, wherein meat or vegetables have been placed to cook. The “flreless stove” really is a box, upholstered In some instances and in other instances made up of boards in which hay is kept around the boiling pots, all kept as air tight as possible. The food to be cooked is first boiled over a gas or coal stove for about five minutes and then the boil ing pot Is transferred to the flreless stove and there kept for several hours. Neither Professor Jaffa nor the women of the Town and Gown club claim any credit for the discovery of the idea of a flreless stove, it being understood that the United States army Is working on the same lines to test the merit of the in vention. if that can be called s\n inven tion w'hlch is not patented or monopolized by a corporation. United States Consular Clerk George H. Murphy of Frankfort, Germany, has transmitted a valuable report on flreless stoves as used in Germany to the depart ment of commerce and labor at Wash ington, and upon receipt of the report the commissary general of the war depart ment sent instructions to the post com missary at Fort Riley. Kan., to have ex periments made in the school of bakers at that post, to ascertain how far the claims put forward in Mr. Murphy's re port could he practically sustained. Professor Jaffa explains that the flreless stove cannot, of course, he used for beef steaks. cutlets, pancakes and other arti cles whose attraction lies in the crispness resulting from rapid cooking on a hot Are. Getting at the Facts. From the Chicago News. Maude—Did young Sapleigh get down on his knees when he proposed to you? Clara—Really I can’t say. but he al ready had clown on his upper lip. CAMELS ONCE LIVED IN CALIFORNIA SCIENTIST, EXPLORING CAVES, DISCOVERS PROOF OF THEIR PREHISTORIC EXISTENCE—OTH ER RELICS FOUND IN COUNTRY. Berkeley, Cal.—In a geological bulletin Issued by the University of California j there is described absolutely new mam j malian remains found during the explora tion in the “Quarternary” caves of North ern California during the last three years. The writer is William J. Sinclair, a young scientist, who spent one summer in exca vating the Potter creek cave in Shasta county. The specimens studied were most of them obtained from this cave, al though much new material was also found in Mercer’s cave, situated near the town of Murphys, in Calaveras county. The fossils are not complete, but the bones are well preserved in the limesone, and their study has been a comparatively easy task. Perhaps the most interesting discovery, from a popular standpoint, is that of camel's teeth. Sinclair, in speaking of his find, says; “Camels were abundant in California during the Quaternary pe riod, but they did not play a very ftn portant part in the fauna of the region about the Potter creek cave. Three mo lars of a camel were found in this cave, but their fragmentary condition makes it impossible to determine their genera.” Sinclair states in the text of his report that the cave explorations conducted by the department of anthropology of the State university have opened to the pale ontologists a new source of Information regarding the Quarternary vertebrate fauna of this state. While occasional scattered teeth and bones from valley al luvium, clay beds, stream gravels and as phaltum deposits of the Quarternary age occur in various mammalian species, it has been Impossible to group them into a fauna which might be regarded as a chronologic unit, owing to more or less variation in the age of these beds. The agencies involved In the accumula tion of most of the bone bearing deposits have proved destructive to all but the larger forms. On the contrary, the caves, having acted to a greater or l^ss extent as receptacles for the accumulation of surface materials, afford a more complete faunal record, as the condition govern ing preservation are more favorable. Besides the remains of camels, above mentioned, Sinclair found a large-number of species of the Quarternary mammals. The greater number of the species w'ere found at the Potter creek cave, but some new materia: was also secured from the Mercer cave, situated near the town of Murphys, in Calaveras county. A list of the species found and de scribed by Mr. Sinclair in the bulletin is j as follows: Thomamys mlcrodon, closely ■ resembling the Thomamys mazama. Pot- | ter creek cave, Shaster county; Aplido- l nita major fossils, numerous lower jaws . found In Potter creek cave; Tenoma ! seplaea, somewhat resembling the Teo- J nlma cinerae, Potter creek cave; Platy- ! gonus, three specimens found in Potter j creek cave; Euceratherium collinum, Pot- | ter creek cave. $8.50 lo $12.50 Skirls in This Big Sale $6.50 See The Fine Waists on Special Sale What’s Doing at Birmingham’s Only Exclusive Cloak Store $6.50 A GREAT BIG SKIRT SALE $6.50 Manufacturers’ Samples—None Worth Less Than $8.50, the Majority $10.00 and $12.50. There are plenty of styles and fabrics, what’s more, every skirt is a DANDY new spring style' Flare and circular styles predomi nate and there are some mighty pretty half circulars relieved by clusters of plaits and straps. Panamas, light French Serges in black and blue, worsted and suiting fabrics in grey mixtures, stripes and checks...... NEW SUITS WITHIN YOUR REACH Bpth the Wool and the Silk Kind, to Say Nothing of Those That Wash. Wool-wEton, Pony and Princess effects, in the popular fabrics, $12-50 up. Silk—Shirt Waist Suits in colots, Princess frocks and frills— $12 50 to $25.00. Wash—Irish and Butcher Linen, Wash Silk, Linen Lawn, Batiste and Mull—$2-50 up. If You Need a Skirt Don’t Miss This Sale The Most Com plete Waist Dept. in B’ham THE LADIES’ CLOTHING STORE -19 4 THIRD AVENUE. OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN. To What Is Their Competition With Men Leading Us? Juliet Wilbor Tompkins in Success Maga zine. Nearly five million women go to work every day in the United State—go to paid work, whether the returns be two dollars a week or ten thousand a year. Sixty years ago Harriet Martineau, while visit ing America, declared that s*he found here but seven occupations for women—teach ing. needlew'ork, taking boarders, type setting. employment in cotton mills, book binding and domestic service. Now there are scarcely seven occupations closed to them; they are pouring out into the world of activities, and the five millions will be six at the next counting. Whether or not you or they like the change is wholly unimportant. As some one 'has suggested, the early eohippus may have resented changing into a horse and his neighbors may have greeted his development in the matter of hoofs and legs with acidly critical comment, but when once started horseward nothing could stop him; 'he had to adjust himself I to the outer conditions that demanded one concentrated toe in the place of five. In the same way woman is being swept along in a great, vague, irresistible wave of economic change, when she turns her face down town in the early morning. Sne will pass an alarmist uttering his dismal note on every corner; his warning is prophetic of lost charm, lost power and lost position. One declares that pres ently man will cease altogeher to support woman, if this things goes one increasing, and then how about home and mother? The answer to that—not new. but worth repeating—is that man never has sup ported woman. To support means to pro vide wit-h the necessaries of life. Who wag doing the larger share of this, the man who raised and sheared the sheep or the man who carded and spun and wove the wool and cut and sewed the clothes?— the man who shot the bird, or the woman who plucked and cooked it?—the man who provided the yarn, or the woman who knit the stockings? It is a fairly even matter, this "support," in the days when most of the human needs were worked out under each individual roof. In humbler homes, where the neces saries are bought instead , of made and yet there is but one source of money, we often get a picture of a shriveling, care worn father staggering under a weight of strumming; embroidering, spending daughters that makes us rejoice in that swelling five million at their gainful oc cupations. How can they do it, these kindly, careless girls, and what will be come of them when they have worked their victim to death? Sfirely some-change in a system that allows such uneven bur dens need not make us fear a lefeseninj^ of woman’s intrinsic value; she will have gained in every sense when she become* ashamed to rest her healthy/ young weight on overworked shoulders-. That by - going to work she compotes with man and reduces his earnings is a prob lem for professional economists to; gtrug< gle with, though it has been suggested that as a producer she always has com peted with man and reduced his eatnings, whether she wove her own clothes or earned them with a. typewriter. "They tell me the peace of Europe 4a the stake at Algeciras.” "That’s not the worst of it.” "JVhat could be worse?” "Why, the Kaiser wants to be the stake holder.” :T“ .D0 31U VV SLi II13 bl0”ERb FURNITURE COMP’NY 2020 and 2032 Third Avenue. _ 2 020-2022 THIRD, AVENUE_ y/’E have made a careful study of the wants and wishes of our patrons for the last 20 years we have been in business in Birmingham, and believe we can satisfy every taste and meet every requirement. Our buying for eleven of the largest stores in the country enables us to buy at a much lower price than our competitors. Hence, you can readily see why we are in a position to give you better goods for your money than any other house. All we ask you to do is to inspect our stock and get our prices. We can easily show you where we can save you money on your purchase, whether large or small. REFRIGERATORS AND ICE BOXES. We have just received a car of cel ebrated Mascot and Lapland Refriger ators and Ice Boxes in all sizes and prices; every one sold under a posi tive guarantee. BEDROOM SUITS. Just received two cars of Bedroom Suits—three-piece suit, like cut, heavy roll foot bed, large French glass in dresser and wash stand; next week, $32.50._ WOVEN WIRE COTS. Heavy hardwood frames, cable sup port under springs; next week, $1.50. BOOK CASES We are offering a number of very special values in both Book Cases and Combination Book Cases. Our line is large and contains a splendid show ing of very artistic designs in all the woods. A very special offering next week will be a very handsome combination case and writing desk built of quartered oak, highly polished with large French plate mirror, -I C f»C a very attractive design, worth regularly $20.00, for. \ Carpets and Mattings In our Carpet and Matting Department we are showing a full line of the best and most reliable makes of carpets in the new designs for Spring, also the finest and best select stock of room-size Art Squares in Axminsters, Welten Velvets Body Brussels and Tapestries, ever shown in the city, in all sizes. Prices range from 6.50 up to 65.00 MATTINGS. We have just received a very large importation of both China and Japan ese mattings, which we are offering at greatly reduced prices. The season is approaching when matting is in great demand. You will find in our stock any thing you want in this line from 17 l-2c per yard up to.85c WINDOW SHADES Are a special - feature with us. We make them any size you want; use the best Opaque goods in all colors and the best Hartshorne Rollers. LET US MAKE YOUR SHADE. r IRON 3EDS. You will find at our store the largest and best selected stock of Iron Beds and Springs to be round anywhere in the city, and at any price you want to pay, from $2.50 up to $40.00. One like cut has extra heavy continuous posts, large fillers, has bow foot, a very pret ty style, for $15.00. HAT RACK8. We are showing some of the very best and most up-to-date styles, abso lutely the best values ever offered for the price asked. In golden oak, early English and Antwerp. Prices range from $6.50 up to $75.00. Fifty different styles to select from. STOWERS FURNITURE CO. THE SOUTH’S GREATEST HOUSEFURNISHERS. 2020-2022 THIRD AVENUE, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.