text: 0. T. DOZIER, M. D., Special!*!. BYRON DOZIER, M. D., Mpeclallftt. Drs. Dozier <£ Dozier, Specialists. Tn presenting our claims for patronage to the people we arc pleased to state that we are regular graduates of the best Medical Colleges and Post Graduate Schools of this country. We have hud many years of practical ex perience in hospitals, infirmaries uml in general practice, the last seventeen years having been spent in Birmingham where we have treated and cured thousands of patients, and from whom we have hundreds of endorsements to present as evidence of our superior skill, fair dealing and liberality. In the many years that we have spent in Birmingham we have seen many transient doctors come with a loud flourish of trumpets making pro fesisons of wonderful abilities. \\'e have seen them bloom forth tn all their glorious splendor of self-exaltation, and have noted their many Inducements offered through their advertisements, professing to cure ali manner ot dis eases by methods peculiarly their own. and professing to treat patients without payment until oatients were cured, some of them offering to serve the sick and afflicted absolutely free, others offering to cure any and every kind of disease for it uniform price. And we have later seen most of them, after a sojourn of a short while, fold their tents, and like the Arab, silent ly steal away by night, the only memory left behind being the sari recollec tions of those gtdliably-inclinted victims whom they succeeded in inducing to part with their cash under other representations than those boastful prom ises put forth in their advertisements. OliR SUPERIOR FACILITIES. We have a larger stock of drugs, instruments, and a greater aggregation of all such scientific apparatus, as the X-Rays, Violet Rays, Ruby Light, and Medicated Vapor Bath Cabinet. Static Machines, Massage Machines, Aiedicated Vapor Cabinets, Electric Vibrators, Ozone Generators, Galyano, Aradic Cabinets, etc., than all the other specialists in Birmingham combined. In substantiation of this assertion, we invite everyone interested to investigate for themselves and thus to prove the truth of our claims. We are strictly regular, ethical doctors, charging reasonable fees for our services and doing only an honorable and legitimate practice. OUR SPECIALTIES. We make a specialty of Catarrh, Cancer, Bronchitis, Incipient Consumption, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Dropsy, Cystitis, Stricture, Varicocele, Specific Blood Poison, and all manner of Chronic Diseases of the Nose, Throat, Lungs, Heart, Liver, Kidneys, Bladder and the Reproductive Organs of men and women, and by reason of our long experience and unequalled equipment, we feel confident that we are capable of rendering better service and thereby effecting cures quicker and in a larger percentage of cases treated than is possible by the ordinary practitioners who are lacking in these special qualifications, and essential accessories of modern science and Improved Therapeutic devices. SPECIAL DISEASES of men. With a confidence which comes from long experience, and with absolute faith in our personal skill, we stand ready to give a written guarantee to cure any case of Veneral Disease of whatever character, whether inherited or contracted, or to Return every cent paid to us by patients for treatment of such cases. If we fail to effect a complete cure. SPECIAL DISEASES OF WOMEN. Ladies suffering with any of the ills peculiar to their sex, such as Displacement of the Womb, Congestion of the Ovaries, Irregularity of the Alimentary, Leucorrhoea, Ulcerations, or with Chronic affections or whatever nature, are invited to consult us and be examined without charge, and thus learn from us the true and exact nature and character of their malady, and the price which we would ask for treatment to cure them. We have cured, and are constantly curing women who have been told by other doctors that only by a resort to the operating table of the surgeon could they be cured, but we have, as before stated, cured hundreds of such patients by our methods of safe, painless, rational treatment, without resorting to the use of the knife. We, therefore, earnestly invite all women afflicted with any manner of chronic disease to come to our office for a free consultation and examination, or if out of town and unable to come in person, to write to us for one of our female Question Lists which will be sent promptly on request. Our offices and Medical-Surgical Institute is located at, and occupies the entire two upper floors of 117½ North Twenty-first street. Office hours, 8 o'clock a.m. until 6 p.m.; Sunday, 8 o'clock a.m. until 1 p.m. CONSULTATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS FREE AND SACREDLY INVOLVED. All confidences and communications are held sacredly inviolate. Question Lists for men or women will be sent free when applied for. Remember our location and address and please do not confound us with any of the many advertising doctors who hold forth in their advertisements such gulled bait to catch suckers as we have alluded to. We are not in their class and do not hold out to the sick and afflicted any propositions in our advertisements which we will not make good when called upon to do so. A Few Excerpts from the Public Press Age-Herald: Drs. Dozier and Dozier’s long-standing record and approved abilities entitle them to the proud distinction of standing at the head of their profession. Birmingham Daily News: This firm has been doing business in Birmingham continuously for a number of years and they have yet to be accused of having dealt unfairly with a patient in any way whatsoever. They are both gentlemen of the highest type and carry their honor and gentlemanliness into their business. The Birmingham Ledger: Drs. Dozier and Dozier are without doubt the best-known specialists in the south, and their name is due entirely to their great skill. The Advance Magazine: The Drs. Dozier and Dozier are polished gentlemen skilled in their profession and are highly esteemed by all who know them. The Southern Odd Fellow: We cannot afford anything to the reputation Dr. Dozier and Dozier have already achieved in the line of their profession, but we know them to be Brother Odd Fellows that can be relied upon to carry out every promise they make to those needing their services. Ensley Herald: Drs. Dozier and Dozier. The text is as follows: "The men of high moral and intellectual worth, and enjoy the respect and esteem of all who know them." Masonic Guide: Drs. Dozier and Dozier Home from a family of physicians, and with their full store of medical knowledge and their large experience in the profession, can be relied on to treat disease in a most successful manner. Bessemer Rustler: Dr. Byron Dozier is fast winning a reputation as one of the best surgeons in the south. He is so well, Steady, clear-headed, thoroughly competent, pursuit and possesses every element in man to fit him for the high duties devolving upon him as a physician and surgeon. Such young men as he are the judge of Alabama and the foundation of hope for the future of the country. It would be a glorious thing if there were, more such worthy and talented young men in our country. Mountain Home: The press of Birmingham and all over Alabama speak in the highest terms of Drs. Dozier and Dozier as physicians, surgeons and gentlemen, and we have no hesitancy in recommending them to our patrons. Meridian Star: Drs. Dozier and Dozier of Birmingham are the most worthy and distinguished physicians in their line of practice in the state of Alabama. Pratt City News: The publishers of the New Era endorse and recommend Drs. Dozier and Dozier to the public as the most reliable and worthy specialists of Alabama in their line of practice. Anniston Hot Blast: Among the most noted and successful specialists in the country are Drs. Dozier and Dozier. They have extended their business from year to year and the patronage given to them in the several surrounding states. States is most gratifying. The Drs. Dozier are high-toned, polished gentlemen. Dixie Home: The progress of medicine has been so rapid of late that many in the profession have not kept abreast with its marvelous advancement. Not so with Drs. Dozier and Dozier. Dr. O. T. Dozier has recently spent some time in New York investigating and studying the latest inventions in his special line, and has purchased valuable instruments to aid in his practice. He is up to date, and is not bound by ancient customs. His son, Dr. Byron Dozier, who is associated with him, is a worthy son of a worthy sire, and has already taken a foremost rank as a surgeon in his profession. Cullman Democrat: The editor of the Democrat spent several hours in Drs. Dozier and Dozier’s institute last Monday, looking at the equipment, witnessing operations, etc. The Drs. Dozier keep up to the times. As quick as anything in medicine or surgery is demonstrated to be of benefit to suffering humanity, they have it regardless of cost. Electricity is now largely used in the treatment of chronic diseases. The Drs. Dozier have all the modern electrical appliances and give the most scientific treatment. Their institute is an old established business, having been in Birmingham for many years, and can be depended on for honest professional treatment. Babor Advocate: Drs. Dozier are the best equipped and have the best reputation as specialists of any like firms in Alabama. They successfully treat all manner of chronic diseases of men and women and can and do effect cures in a larger percentage of cases than is accomplished by the ordinary practicing physician. They furnish to patients all medicines and in addition give without extra charge the benefits of the X-Ray and Vicks Drays, Static Electricity, Steam Vapor Baths, Electric Light Baths, Massage Vibration, Ozone and Medicated Instruments and every other improved device of science which can be employed in making cures, of all they treat. Ensley Enterprise: Drs. Dozier and Dozier are better prepared to cure those who have chronic diseases than any other doctors in the state; and from common report and what we personally know of these eminent physicians they are, is thoroughly competent to effect cures in every case where a cure is possible. They are honest, conscientious and worthy of every trust. Greenville Advocate: These eminent specialists, Drs. Dozier and Dozier, are performing wonderful cures, and the afflicted whose case baffles, the skill of local physicians would do well to consult them. Their offices are supplied with all manner of appliances known to medical science. Dixie Manufacturer: Drs. Dozier and Dozier are regular graduates in every department of medical science, and stand today without a peer in their special line of practice. The Alabama Commentary: Drs. Dozier and Dozier are thoroughly competent, thoroughly trustworthy, and their success in the cure of disease has gained for them an unchallenged title of "Readers without a peer." We therefore commend Drs. Dozier and Dozier to our readers as fully competent and worthy of every confidence. The Gadsden Times-News: The Doziers are both graduates in every branch of the medical science, post graduates of several of the foremost colleges in the country. The writer has known Drs. Dozier for many years, and deems it a privilege to add his testimonial to their credit. DRS. DOZIER & DOZIER 117 1-2 N. 21st St., Birmingham, Ala. WILLIAM HENRY DENSON BY J. W. DUBOSE. It is profitless self-sacrifice that we of Alabama are prone to drop from public preservation the memory and mention of our eminent citizens when they pass from our midst into the spirit land. We sacrifice many of our best associations, with too little thought of their value to our minds and hearts, in this world. We sacrifice many of our best associations, with too little thought of their value to our minds and hearts. In this world. We stand in need of memories of the good and true, quick or gone before. “O, let me join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead, who live again In lives made better by their presence.” A sufficient biography, for example, of George Strother Gaines, would become a classic in the study of the aborigines of Alabama; the most interesting Indians of all America. A just biography of his nephew, Francis Strother Lyon, would discover to the students of finance practical methods, pursued by him alone, which secured Alabama from impending disgrace and long years of suspension. Unrewarded, not even the current expenses of his labor met by the state, he toiled for us seven years. A biography of Mr. Lyon would instruct generations remote in the growth of the state in its industrial, social and political life, as no other literature in the same compass could do. Citizens need such education in the high art of finance. Mr. Lyon's system of work, in settlement of the old state banks, was financial art in its highest range of application. His daily life was beautiful; his personal influence unparalleled; his public service varied and effective and limitless. Yet who knows him? Why drop him? In the wild rush for personal preferment in the courts of Mammon, the foremost in the race shout back in derision to those left in the rear. The man of leisure and of thought is out of date. That sort of boom is all drivel. Enlargement of individual nature, cultivation, of manners, encouragement of high purpose and aspirations come from the ideal nurtured in our hearts. Examples in life are for good or evil. The heathen philosopher likened ignorance to the experience of the man grown up in a dark cave suddenly ushered into midair to behold the rising sun. Familiarity with light gradually taught him to study the celestial bodies. The sun of wisdom rises from the deeds of men. Those who beheld it are prepared in the study of it to learn of the mysteries of the temple of God. Ancestry. It was my good fortune to know Colonel Denson many years, and I am sure his was too valuable a life to be forgotten in Alabama. The uses of the press grow hourly. Let us begin, not too soon, to make visible and permanent record of the high-minded men born to their generation, as this man was born, a lover of his kind and faithful worker as God placed his lot. It is quite singular how Welch blood rises to the surface in the lives of Americans. Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, W. E. Yancey and many others who appear in the annals of great events as leaders and benefactors of our people, were of Welch descent. In the colonial period, three brothers, Denson, Immigrated from Wales to British America. They were Quakers, and naturally went to Pennsylvania first. One of the three remained in Pennsylvania; a second brother sought the great unexplored country, beyond the Blue Ridge, and settled in What became Ohio; the third, William, came to Virginia. “Williams Denson” appears on the roll of the Virginia Colonial house of Burgesses. It is not probable that there were two of the name, in so small a community of men available for an office of such dignity, yet there is no known proof of the individual in the premises. The family, wherever settled, were farmers in the generations, down to 1861. The great-grandfather of Colonel William Henry Denson was William Denson of Virginia. John Ely Denson was his grandfather, and he removed from Virginia to North Carolina, probably some years after the revolutionary war. Augustus Russell Denson was born in North Carolina, in 1812. He was brought by a widowed mother, at the age of 12 years, to Hancock county, Georgia, and placed in the famous school of Rev. Benjamin, who became the step-father of the distinguished Alabamians, the Yancey brothers. Augustus R. Denson removed from Georgia to Russell county, Alabama, in his 18th year, in the year 1830. In early manhood he there married Miss Ivey, daughter of Benjamin F. Ivey, who later lived in Monroe county. To them were born fourteen children, all on his Russell county plantation. Cotton Planter A. R. Denson, like all of his class, was an earnest student of public questions. He was a whig. Alabama whigs were of two schools, quite different in essentials. One was the school of Daniel Webster, the "Liberty and union," now and forever, one and inseparable school. Cotton Planter Denson did not belong to the Webster school of whigs but to the John Tyler school of states’ rights. He did not follow the lead of Charles C. Langdon, a Massachusetts man, domiciled in Mobile. With a great newspaper to spread the Webster doctrines. Thomas H. Watts, Thomas J. Judge represented Mr. Denson’s views of the relations of the state of Alabama, for instance, to the general government at Washington. The Young Soldier. When the war between the northern and the southern confederacies broke out, Mr. Augustus Denson sent the only two sons of his family, eligible, by reason of age, into the ranks of the Confederate army. He lived until 1871, and in the fierce vindictiveness of the re-construction period, he had the melancholy satisfaction of beholding the evidences of the original wisdom of his broken and fallen principles. The Infantile Southern Confederacy, to whose life he pledged his all, in supreme faith, had gone down in the chances of war, and in the chances of war alone. John B. Denson, the elder of the two soldier brothers, enlisted in Bellamy's battery, Waddell's artillery battalion, Army of Tennessee. William T. Denson was then a cadet in the University of Alabama. The legislature of 1863-64 passed an act placing the corps of cadets at the service of the governor, for military purposes. This act seemed to the boys a suggestion. Many, if not, most of them, volunteered in the various organizations already in the field. So it was that Cadet William Denson, then in his 18th year, enlisted from the university, in the artillery company with his brother, John, fell in the three days' battle between Johnston and Sherman, at Resaca, Ga., May, 1864. William Henry Denson, the fourth of the fourteen children, was born March 4, 1846, on his father's plantation in Russell county. His academic education was interrupted by the war, as we have seen, as a soldier, he participated in all the operations of the Army of Tennessee, under Johnston and Hood, after the date of his enlistment. The service was extremely arduous, and Waddell's battalion became among the most famous in that daring host. The campaign of General Johnston, from Dalton to Atlanta, will command through all time the study and admiration of educated soldiers. Young Denson saw all. The Lawyer. Promptly upon the fall of the Confederacy and the release of its devoted troops from duty in the field, the population entered upon its radically changed life. There was no domestic strife, no idle disturbers of the peace among the people, for there had been no local revolution. All went to work in the new channels. William Denson crossed over to Georgia and entered the law office of Major R. J. Moses of Columbus to study and receive instruction. This was in 1868. The next year he became a member of the bar of Columbus. He remained at that bar about a year. In 1868 his earnest desire to return to his native state in her season of affliction with alien rule, here to labor and to wait with fellow-soldiers, brought him into the hot bed of disturbance, the black belt. At Union Springs, Bullock county, he formed a law partnership with his relative, Col. W. M. Denson, and later with young Henry Clay Tompkins, destined to attain such hold on the affections of Alabama. At Union Springs in December, 1868, Mr. Denson married Miss Rosa Cowan, daughter of Dr. William Cowan of Eufaula. He then entered upon a period of singular domestic happiness. To them were born three sons and two daughters. Two years were passed in the practice at Union Springs. He then moved to Lafayette, Chambers county, and remained there in prosperous labors in his profession for seven years. In 1877, he found many Alabamians prosperous in their new homes in Missouri and Texas. He was lured away. He went first to Missouri, but not finding the open chance, he was in search of, went on to Waco, Texas. He did not tarry there long. Returning to Alabama, he opened first an office in Scottsboro, remained there less than a year, and then moved to Gadsden. Lawyers remembered that he wrote at Scottsboro a humorous and highly entertaining account of his search in the west for an opening. The monograph was in the form of a bill in chancery, praying consent of the court to his restoration to the bar of Alabama, on bond to fulfill all his duties and live contentedly in his native state. In 1885, President Cleveland appointed Colonel Denson United States district attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. His native energy of the appointee found in this field a fine opportunity. His prosecutions were singularly vigorous, but the work was not congenial enough to bring out the amptitude of his powers. His forte, in criminal causes, was the defense, and in that sphere of the practice, he was widely regarded. After the expiration of his term as district attorney, he formed a partnership in the general practice with Judge John H. Disque of Gadsden. The business of the firm in several counties was extensive, and highly lucrative. In 1895, this partnership seemed to have dissolved, as we find Colonel Denson opened a law office in Atlanta of the earlier months of that year, until he removed to Birmingham in the fall. In Birmingham, his law firm was Denson & Tanner, next Denson & Uliman, and finally Denson & Sons. William H. Denson was a first-class lawyer in the general practice. His faculty of analysis was strong; his power of application was tremendous; his self-consecration to the case before him was absolutely complete; he was never to be surprised by an antagonist at the bar or by the ruling of the court against him; he was fearless, aggressive, and logical. His manner of address was earnest, almost to a fault, yet never rude or boisterous. He possessed a pleasing voice and a full vocabulary. He never failed to leave an impression on court or jury that he was thoroughly prepared with the facts and the law in the case, and that he honestly believed all the words he spoke. I was an eye-witness so his habit of applications, on one exceptional occasion. He came to the library of the supreme court to prepare to argue in that August and to present the application for rehearing of Frank Duncan, an alien and perfect stranger, a convicted burglar and murderer, then in Jefferson county jail under sentence of death. There was never a more uninviting task before a lawyer of established reputation. The client was a pauper in effect; convicted of killing a policeman on duty, to whom a monument had been erected. For three entire days, far into the night, this feeling attorney labored at the desk with law books stacked around him a yard high. He told me at the end of his study that he had "made a good cast." Denson’s defense of the Skelton brothers, for the killing of Ross, was prolonged and very brilliant. His defense of young Teague, for the assassination of the railroad agent and telegraph Operator, at Albertsville, shot at his desk from the darkness outdoors, was another example of his power. The deep-seated human sympathy of the man, the inventive faculty of his mind, his rich vocabulary united to illuminate his discussion of the law in cases of that kind. To him the law had a human meaning. To him the meaning of the law was not mystery, but the right of humanity. In Politics. In the general assembly of 1876-7, Colonel Denson represented Chambers county, entitled to the one representative only. He had been a local worker in the cause of white supremacy all along, but never seems to have sought public office before. When he settled in Gadsden, he became editorial writer on a local newspaper and distinguished the paper by his advocacy of a state railroad commission. That was in 1880, the year the commission was created. Colonel Denson came prominently before the politics of the state in the historic democratic and conservative party state convention of 1890. The farmers' alliance put up Commissioner of Agriculture Reuben F. Kolb in the primaries as a candidate before the convention for governor. Kolb's support in the primaries was by no means limited to members of the farmers' alliance, however. Excitement had been running the full length of the political letter for two years. In 1888, Commissioner Kolb, Sam Adams, A. B. Brassell, and other leading members of the Alabama division of the alliance went to St. Louis to assist in forming a political national party. The St. Louis convention did form "The Farmers' National Alliance and Industrial Union" party. The Alabama delegates, however, there, on the spot, or after they came home, as the facts may be, repudiated certain planks in the new party platform. It became evident that the farmers' alliance in Alabama intended to put up a candidate for governor before the state democratic convention of 1890. Every alliance man in Alabama was a democrat. Kolb had done as much for black belt methods in his county of Barbour as any man in Dallas had done there. Many leading democrats, not members of the alliance, were for Kolb for governor. The candidates before the state democratic convention of 1890 had been long announced. They were Kolb, Joseph F. Johnston, William Richardson, James Crook, and Col. Thomas G. Jones. Kolb and Jones were the first to announce. Kolb and Jones alone canvassed the state, by public speaking. Jones made very able attacks on the St. Louis new party and ably advocated the ancient democratic faith as the only hope of Alabama. At that time Cleveland had been defeated by Harrison, and the radicals in Alabama were still an offense to public morals. When the state convention met, everyone knew it was Kolb against the field. Who should be president of the convention? Both sides agreed, without controversy among themselves, to make William H. Denson of Etowah president. The first ballot resulted: Kolb, 235. Johnston had 97 votes and each of the others far less than Johnston. Kolb had less than a majority, and after sitting amidst greatest excitement and taking hundreds of ballots, Kolb lost nothing. Friday night came, but no prospect of a nomination came with the hall and the hour. Friday night was consumed until Saturday's dawn by the deliberation of a few representatives of Johnston, Richardson, Crook, and Jones in a room in the Exchange hotel. The conference broke up at dawn with an agreement to center all anti-Kolb forces upon Jones. The selection of the nominee was logical. He had been speaker of the house, he had been second to no man in influence in Montgomery county in the battle with carpetbaggers and scalawags, he had been famous as a Confederate soldier. His bold defiance of the St. Louis coalition and denunciation of its platform had not been imitated by a single one of the other opponents of Kolb, at least to the opposition. YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD $2.00 ROCKER, $1.15. Has cane seat, high back, solid oak. Doesn't throw you forward like most rockers; the home is not complete without one; don't miss seeing our line. Child's Rocker, 4c. $50.00 MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE, $37.40. Special Attention is called to our Library and Parlor Furniture. We carry a complete line of Davenport Beds, Hall Seats and Mirrors, Turkish Rockers, Leather Couches, Morris Chairs. In fact, everything to make a home comfortable. Before you buy, call and inspect our line. $1.50 Chair, $1.10. This chair is strong and durable, not the small cheap kind, but one suitable for most any dining room. While at the store get a ladies' box seat diners. $35.00 DAVENPORT $28.90. Bookcase $18.40. $65.00 3-PIECE 3EDROOM SUIT. $45.00. This is an exact picture of the bargain we are offering; note the way it is constructed; no cheap trash, but a real $65.00 suite; the washstand has a large mirror, in fact, 'tis as large as some dressers. Come early Monday, if you haven’t all cash, Your Credit is Good. Monday only 65c. B. H. Cooper's The Store That Saves You Money 2009 Third Ave. 2009 Third Ave Monday only 45c. The extent of Jones' work in that line. Saturday morning, when the convention assembled, the fourth day of the session, it was quickly made known that Johnston, Richardson and Crook would be withdrawn. The Kolb men, led by Henry D. (Mayton, Jr., were far from hopeless. The result yet, depended on the ruling of the chair. In the early hours of the convention, Chairman Denson had ruled on some minor matter that a county convention was not sovereign; that if the county delegates repudiated the county convention and sent up votes to be counted on questions before the state convention, the votes would be entered and counted, regardless of county convention instructions. In a word, the county convention was unknown to the state convention. Delegates must come from counties with credentials, and if valid, the convention seated them. The state convention must not be limited or hindered by counties in making nomination for state offices. This ruling was carefully noted by Clayton Evans and others among the Kolb men. It sprung a smile of relief upon their countenances, that Chairman Denson observed from his seat, but did not at the same time. When Montgomery county was counted on the first ballot Saturday, the Kolb members of the delegation, about eight men led by John McCollough, a farmer, claimed the right to set aside their instructions from the county convention, to vote for Jones as long as his name was before. The convention. Chairman Denson ruled the vote of Montgomery county must be cast as a unit. The excitement that followed was awe-inspiring. McCollough got up on the speaker's stand and delivered a fierce invective. Nothing less than a tire company's hose turned on the meeting could have restored order. Chairman Denson denied, as soon as he could be heard, that his chair ruling was a precedent in this later ruling. He said the delegates from Montgomery county had been admitted on their credentials. Every one of these delegates had accepted his credentials with the personal pledge annexed, that he would vote for Thomas G. Jones as long as Jones was before the convention. The later ruling of the chair, he said, had nothing to do with the pretended sovereignty of a county convention in the nomination of state officers. This later ruling referred only to the credential rights of Montgomery county delegates. They had been admitted with the full knowledge of all other delegates that each and every one was personally committed as a condition precedent to his credentials to vote always for Jones, while Jones was willing. Colonel Denson was elected to congress from the Seventh district in 1892 against very powerful opposition of the contesting populist and republican parties. He has often reminded one that he wrote the district platform of that campaign long before the Chicago national democratic convention of that year, and that the Seventh district platform was the earliest in order of any party committee to go to. His course in congress was replete with his characteristic energy. His speeches lost nothing in comparison with the best there delivered on any question. Senator Morgan complimented one of his deliveries. Extravagantly. In 1894, Denson received the nomination for a second term, but was defeated by the fusion candidate. M. IV. Howard, an extraordinary orator. In 1898, although living in Birmingham, he sought the humiliation from the Seventh district to Congress. The contest before the district convention was labored and long. The result was John T. Burnett, law partner in Gadsden of Denson, received the honor with the latter's assistance on the floor. The parliamentary accomplishments of Colonel Denson were so distinguished that in the state democratic convention of 1892, amidst scenes of unusual excitement on the floor, he was called to the chair by the president, the present Governor Jelks, to take the gavel. The Quaker connections of the Densons of the south was abandoned. Albert William joined the Baptists. Then, to preserve complete sympathy with his wife, he joined the Presbyterian church and became a devoted member. A more earnest, unselfish citizen than this courageous man has not adorned the history of Alabama. His strong convictions were too ready for utterance to report with the calculating policy of the office seeker. He was a philosopher for the love of philosophy. He could not reduce his sense of right to the status of compromise with popular delusions for sake of personal preferment. Hence, the state lost the good in him that ought have been foremost in its service. Colonel Denson's happiness lay in his domestic life. A fortunate environment there, opened his heart to the world without. He submitted to every draft on his patience, his labor and his purse. He cast off no human being: The bridegroom may forget the bride, His wedded wife was made yesterday; The monarch may forget the crown On his head an hour has been: The mother may forget the child That smiles, so sweetly on her knee, But I'll remember thee, Gelncairn, And all that thou hast done for me. STORIES OF SHERMAN. How Ohio Statesman Made Himself Name in Congress. From the Washington Star. The “old-timer” was in a reminiscent mood, as he sat with some old fellows, who, like himself, are prone to draw on their memories for incidents and events of former, and, as some of them declared, “better days.” On this particular occasion the talk concerned the time when during the first session of the Thirty-sixth congress the late John Sherman was one of the prominent candidates for the speakership of the House of Representatives. “That congress opened,” said the “old-timer,” “on December 7, 1859. Within my memory I do not recall a congress where there were developments of such a bitter and acrimonious character. It was not long after John Brown had been hanged, and the excitement growing out of slavery was at its height. “One of the most prominent supporters of Mr. Sherman,” he continued, “was Henry D. Cooke, who, all will recollect, was the first governor of the district.” When it began its brief life as a territory, Mr. Cooke was from Mansfield, O., Sherman's own town, and there he published an able and popular newspaper. Cooke was not a wealthy man then, as he got to be later on. He was not only a friend to Mr. Sherman, but he knew him as thoroughly versed in tariff and financial questions, and went in for him heart and soul. Mr. Sherman opened up headquarters in Willard's hotel, and in his room there was a big supply of native Catawba and other American wines that were furnished by old Nick Longworth, great grandfather of the President's son-in-law, and the many callers and well-wishers of Mr. Sherman did not, I assure you, go thirsty. Everything was booming along nicely, when, all at once, Hinton Rowan Helper, a North Carolina man, sprung a book upon the country called 'The Impending Crisis—How to Meet It.' Well, it raised Cain, and it charged that Mr. Sherman had endorsed and recommended the book and the alleged incendiary doctrines. It preached. Sherman had signed a paper, as he was charged with having done, and did not deny it, but he kept in the ring, and the fight for speaker went on. “At last, however, he consented to withdraw in favor of Mr. Pennington of New Jersey, it being understood that Mr. Sherman should be chairman of the committee on ways and means and have the naming of two other committees. As a consequence, Pennington was elected speaker on the forty-fourth ballot. Sherman named the chairman of the committee on printing, and thus secured for his friend Cooke the public printing—there was no such office as public printer. Cooke held on to this for a time, made plenty of money, and sold out to John W. Forney for $600,000. "When Mr. Lincoln became President, John Sherman was a power in the land, and he never forgot the friendship of Henry D. Cooke. It was through Sherman’s influence that Jay Cooke & Co. became financial agents of the country, placed the big loans and amassed the millions they once possessed." Among those present at this little service was a member of the Oldest Habits association, who can generally be called upon for a reminiscence or two. "I knew Senator Sherman very well," said this old gentleman, "and have always found a warm corner in his heart, no matter what others said about his cold disposition, and so forth. I’ll just mention one or two little cases if you’ll permit me," he said, and, as no one was around not to permit him, he went on, saying: "In my younger days I, with another young man named Trumbull, like myself, in the employ of the United States senate, used to drive the senate mail wagon, and deliver, both mornings and evenings, the senator's mail. One day, just after the adjournment of the senate, Mr. Sherman called me in and said: 'R—, I am going to have a little stag party at my house tomorrow night, and I invite you and Trumbull to be among my friends.' He was then living in an unpretentious little house in K street, just next to his later palatial mansion. Of course, I told Trumbull, and we were in a quandary. We had I do not dress suits such as we thought we ought to have, so we decided that we could not go. The day after the party, when the senator asked me why I wasn't present, I fished up a little white lie. I told him that the mail was delayed that evening, and we were out on its delivery until a late hour, so that we had to deny ourselves the pleasure. "This," said the old man, "was only one of the many marks of the senator's kindness. One evening he asked me what I carried the mail in, and I told him we used a large basket. 'Bring it here; I'd like to see it,' said the senator; and when I did so, he had a servant fill it to the top with fine apples that he had that day received from Ohio. It was so heavy when it was filled that it was difficult to get it back into the wagon, but the families of my associate mail boy and myself lived on apples for a week. I could tell scores of stories about the warm heart of that great man," said the old inhabitant, "and I will some time." Another One Booked. From Ally Sloper. She— 'If I were a man I don’t think I would ever marry.” He—"If you were a man I don’t think I would want to marry, either.” Miss Reynolds’ beauty parlors, manicuring, facial massage, electrical message and hair dressing. 1907V3 Second Ave. 