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mems Christmases are very often any thing but merry. And yet"
 The thought that came to him must have been a jolly one indeed, for he laughed loud and long.
 After all," said Burns it takes mighty little to make Christmas merry. More's the pity il isn't merry for us all. But usually an English wage earner is a cheerful creature and laughs even at his misery. Christmas is always a nominal holiday-often a real working day. 1t is not so bad now. You know in my country the rich take some interest in the condition of the poor. They feel some responsi- bility towards them. The result is that many noble-hearted man and woman of wealth and position will toll night and day to make the Christmas of a workingman a happy one. But that is charity, and an Englishman feels that conditions should not make charity necessary"
 ''The workingmen have special ob- servance of their own for the day?"
 Well, they like holiday now and then, of course," answered Burns. "Some of the pious people complain that we don't go to church enough on Christmas am afraid we don't think much of the religious part of it. But when there is money in the house, there is always good dinner-good for worllingman, mean. There are jolly reunions of the comrades. The socialists in London have lately gotten into the way of holding excursions. The wives and children are taken out into the country even in cold weather. Every body takes part in the games and all are very jolly But, ohl the sorrow of the unemployed. Christmas finds them without penny in the house to buy a loaf of bread. They have only their comrades to look to. And their comrades, I am proud to say, do their duty by them. The unemployed are invited to dinner. l remember one Christmas when a whole street went hungry-not bite in the houses. How can you talk of being merry under such conditions?"
 Sometimes on Christmas there are parades of the unemployed. The men march to the music of improvised bands and, bearing ironical placards upon
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

which tidings of peace on earth and good will are rudely lettered, they visit the thoroughfares where opulence makes its home. John Burns led such a procession once. and he was hooted and stoned in the very streets where to-day he would be cheered and borne about on the shoulders of men.
 Christmas dinners are not very elab- crate in the home of worlxingman on the other side, said he, He often has to make q cold roast and few potatoes do for large family. But I am speak ing of the very poor, mind you. There are in England worllingmen who make great deal more money than any do over here. Indeed, do not think workingmen in the United States are better of than they are on the other side. do not suppose their Christ masses are bit merrer, hope no English worlingmen have so wretched D Christmas as the east side toilers in New York will get this year to all ap- pearances."
 The trades unions have jolly Christ,
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IAlILOAD TIME 1ALlE

ARRIVAL AND nEPARTURE Q TRAINS. Trans marked thus o run daily. Thus fD daily except Sunday.
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mas festivals. Burns enjoys the mem ory of them.
 sometimes they get up little Christ mas plays and produce them at one of the public halls. Tn this way money is raised for the brethren out of work. Not infrequently, too, the plays are written by members of the union them selves. Then there are lectures and song recitals. The unions have some very good musicians among them. Most of the songs popular among worlxingmen have been written by themselves. And you should hear some of the essays they write. Very often Christmas is n regular holiday season and the men get two or three days off. The time is very merrily spent, can tell you. Nor do any work men have such merry Christmases as those who belong 10 the trades unions. Indeed. may say that no British work ingmGn would be non-union man, if he could help it.
 But it was the Christmas activity of the women that pleased Burns most.
 Do you know" said he, that were 1t not for the wives of English work ingInen half the enthusiasm would die out of the trades union movement? It is they who have spread the feeling of solidarity and good fellowship. The trades unions, thanks to them, are largely social organizations. And you should see how they go in for Christ mas! They cook glorious dinncrsl An English workingman's wife always knows how to cook. Sad experience has taught her how to make a little food go a great way. And she usually manages to have present for-every- body. She is the life of Christmas. The wives form little fcllowships of their own and make it their office to visit all the unemployed and ask them to dinner, They do not take them charity mind you. Thus it is that British wage earners bear each others burdens.
 ''Sometimes, too, the aristocracy go summing on Christmas. l hope it does them good to see the suffering of those who must work so hard for the little they get. Personally nm not in favor of this indiscrimipate Christmas char ity. A workingman rcsents the neces- sity of having to accept it. doubt if the poor feel much gratitude for the Christmas dinners given them out of charity; not that those who give the dinners are not worthy of all praise, but as said, the poor man must won. der why it is that with his willingness to earn his living he finds no chance to do so, but must eat his Christmas din- ner nt charity's expense. It is all wrong"
 John Burns has no Christmas mem- orics of his boyhood that are pleasant to look back upon.
 "Ah!" said he, "what a contrast there is between the Christmas of the
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Piano Tuning.

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Southern Railway Company Gn
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WESTERN SYsTE M.

WESTERN SYSTEM. tsa
 Schedu'e in effect November IS, at a. m.
 llIln n Palace drawing roooi cars between l i'm infl sIn and New York, uniting at Al Htsi,1n VestiL uled Limited running soid iiom Atlanta to New York. Also the o' D. fast mail well known as Nos. 35 and 36
 Pullman sleeping cars leave Birmingham daily at 2:55 D. m., arriving Jaek sonNlile Fla, next morning a:45, lefnp attached al Atlanta 70 the Grent Florida Limited. 1le only stutl ern system ol e1atng limited fIails cUmI osed eXciusiveiy of Pullman draw aIrfooni cars, il cluding Pullman dlnin car H' ell 1T lii c makes lhis time:
 liIDiuPl am to Washington. .........Z "A hours' irniDt ham lo New York. .au hours.
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STARVING, YET MERRY.
How England's Wage Earncrs
 Keep Christmas.
A ProIetarian HolIday-wIves of Work ingmen Who Make the Day Glad AL though the Wolf Is Near-Xmas
 Charity in Britain.
IcoPYRIGHr. Iso4 1

John Burns looked wistfully at a panoramic view of l5attersea that stood on the mantelpiece of his room. The hotel was not well heated and the weather was cold. 1t was two o'clock in the morning and the great prole- tartan had been hard at work for fifteen hours. Yet he showed no weariness, in spite of the half sigh that escaped him when the Christmas of the English workingman was men toned.
 Its holidays" he said, that make the great social contrasts sharper. Do you not think so? Think of thousands of brawny, honest Englishmcn starring in the slums and merry Christmas bells ringing all around them. have seen that many time English working
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Children Cry for
 Pitchers CastorIe.

Birmingham Fire works Company, on 21st street, be- tween lst and 2d avenues, is the place to buy fireworks at wholesale prices. dsIo 5t
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Pullman buffet sieepers between Birmiug- ham and Jacksonville. Solid trains through between Birmingham and Albany, connecting at Albany with the Plant system for all points in Southwest GeorgIa and Florida. No. ] n iEes cltse connection at Columbus ftr Union springs, Troy, uiaula, Americus, II any and all intern ediate points. Connec- tions at Savannah with Ocean steamship com JaLr's steamers for New York, Boston anl the east.
 Sleeping cars on night trains, Macon to Savannah.
 Tor iurtter information relative to rates. t6l6dul6s, etc., apply to
 L. A. CAMP, Y. P. A., Columbus, Ga. kCICN JACOBS, c. A., Birnin gham. Ala. A. Il. STEVENS, Agent, Birmingham, Ala.
 JACK W. JOHNSON, U. T. A,
 Birmingham, Ala. ". F. sHELLMAN, Traffic Manager,
 savannah, GI.
 J. c. HALLE, Gen. Pass. Agent,
 savannah, Ga.
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PLANT SYSTEM. ALABAMA MIDLAND RAILWAY.
 Direct line to Florida. Scbodpin in pffect Novemher IS 1Sol

Lv Birmingham L. X Mi 50 am 3 F pm Lv Montgomery. A. M.... IS am 2 4u pm AT Bainlridge, A. NJ. 12 55 pm 23 am Ar 1homasvlle, s. F. & w. 03 pm ? 32 am Ar Waycross, S, F. x w.. 5 A pm 2 80 am AT Jacksqcville, s. r. & w. 20 pm I2 30 pm Ar Winter Park, S. F. & W. 25 am 6 OF pm Ar Barrow, s. F. W...... 05 pm 5U pm AT Tampa, S. F. X W........ .......... 20 pm Ar Port Tampa, s. r. 6 w. ...,..... DO pm AT Gainesville. s. F. w. ........ 9 4 am Ar Ocala s. F & W ......... II AS am Ar Savannah, s. F. & w.. 30 pm 12 05 pm AT Charleston, c. & S......I l5 am 30 pm $50 a. m. train from Birmingham carries Pullman buffet sleeper to Jacksonville via Thumasville and Waycross.
 3:l2 p. m. train from Birmingham carries Pullman buffet sleeper to Port Tampa, Fla, via Thomasville, Dupont, WestC Coast Line and the Tampa Bay Hotel.
 U For further information apply to ticket agents or
 LEE McLENDON, D. P. A.,
 Montgomery, Ala.
 W. NJ. DAVIDSON, G. P A.,
 Jacksonville. Fla.
 B. DUNHAM, Gea Supt.,
 Montgomery, Ala.
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COMMERCIAL CLUB EXPRESS.

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CENTRAL R. R. OF GEORGIA K.M. Coner end R. g. Eayes, Receivers.
 sAvAkNAn & WESTERN R. R. co. E. M. CUmer and R. J. Lowry, Receivers. Tine table, in effect Nov. 9, 1891.
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.leave college.
 1isin No. l, arrives lake Il 45, and goest) tLoP.
 1iain No. 2. arrives lake 12 50 ard goess, shop. al4tf
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P. CAMPBELL. General Manager.
 EAST LAKE RAILROAD. Jn effect Monday, November s, 1893. Leave Lake. Leave Birmingham.
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Proposals for Printing and
 Binding.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
 MONTGOMERY, Ala. Dee. IT, 1894.


 MONTGOMERY, Ala. Dee. IT, 1894. Inasmuch as the law has been changed since my advertisement of December 5, 1894, sealed proposals will be received in this office until 12 o'clock m. December 29, 1894, for doing the printing and binding of the state for the two years beginning on the 1st day of Jan uary, 1895.
 The prices fixed by the act ito amend sec tions 2, 1, 5, 10 and Il of an act approved February 1s, 1889, and entitled an act to pro- vide for the public printing of the state,'' approved Dece n Der IA, 1894, are hereby adopted as the maximum prices, and all pro- posals must be made for doing the work at these rates or at certain per cent below them.
 Parties making proposals must be governed strictly by the requirements of the above named act as to bond, classif cation, etc. The right to reject any and all bids is re- served. J. K. JACKSON, 12-19-1Ot Secretary of State.
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WAS HER OWN MILLINER.

A Washington Woman Whose Taste for
Tulip Buds Got Her Into Trouble.
A comical experience of friend of
mine may be cited as a warning to
other women who mediate defying the
milliner by original methods of bonnet
trimming, says a writer in Kate Fields
Washington. Looking from her win
dow one Sunday morning when the
tulip trees were in bloom, it flashed
upon her mind that one of those yellow
and green striped buds would be just
the touch of color needed at the back
of her new black lace bonnet, the pres
ent somberness of which did not please
her. Two buds were finally secured,
and nestled down in the lace, where the
effect was eminently satisfactory.
Pleased with the result of her ex-
pedient, the bonnet was donned and
my friend serenely made her way down
the aisle to her pew, in blissful uncon-
sciousness of the sensation she was to
create ere she left the church. As the
service progressed all thought of the
tulip bud passed from her mind as COM
pletely as though it had never existed
to tempt her errant fancy. Gradually,
however, she became conscious that q
great amount of suppressed laughter
was SO1hS On IL Aer 1InneuidGe vicinity
during the sermon. Annoyed that she
should have her attention distracted,
my friend turned upon the offenders
with a look of stern disapproval. All
to no purpose, however, for after each
such silent rebuke the evidence of mirth
seemed to increase. She returned home
at the conclusion of the service, and,
while descanting to her family upon
the irreverent behavior of the people
behind her in church, she took off her
bonnet. As she did SO she gave gasp,
for the mystery was explained. There,
on the back of her lace bonnet
where she had pinned a couple
of sleek, closed tulip buds, were two
gorgeous flowers, which, in the warm
atmosphere of the church, had grad
ually opened to a perfect bloom.
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Els FIRsT eNaLlsH EssAY. .
A French PupiIs slightly Involved Method
Of DeacrIhinp a Holiday.

A French Pupils Slightly Involved Method
OF Describing Holiday.
An English university magazine
prints the following essay on "a Sum-
mer Holiday" written by French pu-
pill in an English school: s'The time
which I was spending to accomplish
that Journey was eight hours by ex-
press train, starting from the Montpar-
nais station. This road is very pleas
ant one, and without account the nu-
merous towns which the peoples are go
ing SO often are: Baths, swim, the inn
mensity of the large space occupy with
that water, and SO wonderful aspect,
chiefly when we are seeing that for the
first time; the great many steamers,
sailers, fishing boats, moving to the
sea with astonishing easiness, the
fishes of all kinds took each day by the
fishermen, along the shore, and the
games, such as croquet, lawn tennis,
cards and many others, when the tide
begin to go away. In that place it be-
gin at two o'clocks to five, and then the
place which it was occupying before is
full of people amusing themselves, and
the children carrying their things, be-
among herse1ves, seeing with a great
children. When the weather is clear
and the sky without any clouds, they
let boat and sail along little dis
tance, walking here and there, fishing
in the rocks the lobster putting their
breeches on the knees in order do not
make their feet wet, and when the dusk
begin to fall, they start from the sea-
shore and entering in the houses or
hotels, discute about the pleasures of
the day. OH then how they find them
selves happy in these hours of peace
always thinking to they pleasure, they
do not doubt at all the kinds of sor-
rows in this short life, and do not
thing no more to the poor people, whom
has not so much good, in order to re-
joice himself as well as these fortunate
travelees making every year the same
thing in order to preserve their own
health in breathing the well-doing air
of the sea, which give appetite,
strength, and finally making their own
desir in execution, that is to say their
own well-being.'
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TWO NOTED SISTERS.
One Refused to Pay Taxes and the Othel
Translated the Bible.

One Refused to Pay Taxes and the Other
Translated the Bible.
At a recent meeting of the Equal
Rights club of Hartford, Conn, Mrs.
L. D. Bacon gave an interesting sketch
of the late Miss Abby Smith, of Glas-
tonbury, Conn, who for many years
refused to pay her taxes because she
did not have a vote. While her sister
Julia raised cows and made five trans
1ations of the Bible, Abby raised the
breeze that waited them to fame. In
the days of the ''Millerites'' and their
talk about the end of the world, Julia
wanted to learn if there was any war
rant in the original Hebrew for Miller's
predictions, fixing the end of the world
in 1S43; so she studied Hebrew and then
went to work and translated the Bible.
81 have been unable to f1nd,'' said Mrs.
Bacon, ''that any one man ever trans
lated the whole Bible alone. The Bible
has been worked up by many different
hands, and has appeared under differ
ent names, as 'Wicliffe's Bible 'Tyn-
dale's Bible 'Coverdale's Bible, Gran
mer's Bible and King James Bible
No one man ever did the work alone
and unaided. This was left for a woman
to do, and not only twice, but five times
did she perform this Herculean La Dor,
and then modestly shat the translations
up in her closet for a quarter of CEN
tury, never at that time intending to
publish them. Probably no woman
after the age of eighty can show such
record as that of Julia Smith. At
the age of eighty-two she had lawsuit
in her town which was decided in her
favor, and was then appealed by the
defendant to the court of common pleas
in this city, resulting in a long trial
the Smith sisters coming over every
day, Julia being the brightest witness
on the stand, in spite of her fourscore
years and two. At the age of eighty
four she published her translation of
the Bible. At the age of eighty-six she
was married, making a record which
easily distances the records of ordinary
mortals in the eighties"
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Spectacled Tourist lin Kansas)-Are
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nent Citizen-Yes; for instance, there Is
old man Hawbuck. He prayed for two
weeks for wisdom from on high to direct
him how to vote, and then went and
voted the populist ticket.-Puck.
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"What are the relations now between
your wife and yourself2" 'Oh, only her
mother, two uncles, sister and few
cousins. s.''-Indianapolis Journal.
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There's nothing left of Catarrh
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When some ministers struggle with a
sermon a limited-roundc contest is prefer
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Wife-The doctor thinks you have en-
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thought he must imagine 1 had some
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he sent me--Truth.
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son what does Skiffins base his suit
for libel?''- son a casual reference to
him as the ideal juror in capital case"
Washington Star.
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In her latest poem Ella Wheeler Will
coz announces that she has reached the
high noon of life. That cannot be true.
Judging from her poetry she is still
sweet sixteen.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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"Smithhorn is not the man he was
since his wife got her divorce" "Guess
you are hight. He is Smithhorn now,
whereas he used to be only Mrs. Smith
horns husband d."-Indianapolis Journal.