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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-10

other pills Hence, their great popularity with sufferers from habitual constipation, piles and their attendant discomfort and manifold homogeneous. The Pellets" are purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition of the system. No care is required while using them; they do not interfere with the diet, habits or occupa- ton, and produce no pain griping or shock to the system. They act ill mild, easy and natural way and there is no reaction after ward. Their help lasfs.
 The Pellets cure biliousness. sick and bilious headache, dizziness, costiveness, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dyspepsia, windy belchings, heartburn" pain and distress after eating, and kindred derange- ments of the liver, stomach and bowels. In proof of their superior excellence, it can be truthfully said, that they are always adopted as household remedy after the first trial. Put up in sealed, glass vials, therefore always fresh and reliable One little "Pellet" " is laxative, two are mildly catllartic. As dinner pill,' to promote digestion. or to relieve distress from over eating take one after dinner They are tiny. sugar coated granules; any child will readily take them.
 Accept no substitute that may be recom- mended to be Just as good.'' It may be better for Me dedie, because of paying him better profit, but he is not the one who needs help.
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PRESIDENT BARKER BUYS A LOT.
Beautiful Site for Residence on Nineteenth
 Street. Between and ].

Messrs. w. B. Leedy & Co.,, real estate agents of this city, yesterday sold by tele- gram to MT. N. D. Barker, president of the First National bank, beautiful res- idence lot on Nineteenth street, between Avenues I and J, South Highlands, for the consideration of $375O a front foot or a total of 5000 cash. There is not a prettier or more desirable lot on the Highlands, and 1t is understood that MT Barker intends erecting thereon an ele- gant and well-appointed residence MT Barker is in New York, and could not be interviewed on the subject The lot adjoins the handsome place of Col. J. V. Richards Birmingham people will be delighted to know that MT. Barker will reside here permanently.
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THE ALABAMA BOARD
Meets at Huntsville to Decide on the Opening

Meets at Huntsville to Decide on the Opening
 're'~ Day.
 Maj. Frank r. Anderson. Secretary N. r. Thompson and MT. A. Latady of this city have gone to Huntsville to be pres ent at meeting of the board of mana gers of the Alabama exhibit at the Cot ton States and International exposition. In addition to the dispatch of other inn portant business the board will at this meeting decide on the exact time of the opening of the Alabama building to vis- ftors.og October Is the probable time of the opening Messrs. Anderson. Thomp- son and I.atady will return from Hunts vile on Wednesday morning
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-10
Children Cry for
 Pitchers CaStoria. Old papers for sale cheap at this office.
Spinners and Viewers Strike.

Aurora, H., Sept. 9.-Two hundred weavers and spinners at the Aurora Cotton mills went on a strike at 10 o'clock this morning, causing the mills to close down. The men asked for an immediate advance of 10 per cent in wages, which was refused. Two large meetings of the strikers have been held in the West Aurora park.
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ROYAL Baking Powder AbsolsarelyPure
BESSeM FER IS BUSY.
Nearly All of Her Industries in Operation and
 Her People Happy.


 Her People Happy
 Bessemer people are very much elated over the prospects for the future of that city. An Age-Herald reporter found them in good spirits yesterday afternoon and on questioning one of the leading citizens, who is largely interested in one of the manufacturing plants, learned that. there are five furnaces now in blast, with a capacity of about 875 tons per day; an ice factory, with a capacity of thirty tons, turning out this much needed article; two soil pipe works, with forty five tons capacity, working full time; one pipe works, with a capacity of 300 tons of cast iron pipe per day, and fifty tons of sugar house. furnace and smelter house castings and 100 coke ovens in full blast, besides hundreds of other coke ovens and many small industries in full opera tion. The informant was decidedly hope full as to the future of the Marvel City.
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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ASSIST NATURE

a little now and then in removing offend ing matter from the stomach and bowels and you thereby avoid a multitude of distressing de- engagements and dis eases, and will have less frequent need of your doctors service.
 Of all know il | agents for this pur- pose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are tue be t. Once used, they are al. ways i'm fa vOr. Their secondary ef- feet is to keep the bowels open and regular, not to fur ther constipate, as Is the case with
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where around. very fine faced cloth OF
deep crimson shade was cut with full
plain skirt and trig little jacket with
short full basque opening upon double
breasted white waistcoat with big buttons.
The jacket had one of the big new collars
that reach down to the sleeves, and the
sleeves were shaped from big dropping
puffs on the shoulders to close-htting wrists
fastened with four white buttons. A pic
ture hat of crimson felt was added. with
decorations of black velvet and long white
ostrich plumes.
A mixed tweed in peach color and brown
was another thing looked at closely. IL
was meant for a hunting costume to take
into the Adirondacks in October, but as the
fair lady who is to wear it just smiles upon
the sportsmen and does not shoot it would
do quite as well for an outing dress for
any sort Of excursion. 1t was simple
frock enough. with that skirt everybody
has learned to know-straight across the
front and dipping into folds all the rest of
the way around. The close fitted bodice
fastened with mother Of pearl buttons,
reaching in an angle to the left and then
back down to the waist line. There were
pointed revers that gave the effect of long
shoulder seams-a prophesy of the seams
that really are to come. When they get
here. we'll have very different sleeves, you
see. The reverS were embroidered with black
braid and there was kid belt with gold
buckle. The hat was an odd little affair
of brown straw with straight brim high
crown, and for garniture, heron's wing.
The new hats seem to come in slowly.
Felts are usurping the place of straws and
in spite of the strong feeling'-pardon the
trade journal eXpression-in favor of high
crowns. there are plenty with fiat brims
and rather low, soft crowns. One that was
ordered a few days ago for Miss Virginia
Fair, was Of very soft grey felt with a
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possesses her share of talent the more orig
inal her ideas, the less she is hampered by
what has been done the better for herself
and the public"
Painting on canvass and cloth-of-gold is
an interesting occupation which has rem
dered two young Brooklyn girls indepen-
dent.
The credit for this novelty is due Mrs
Wheeler, of the Associated Artists So
cety, and some of the cleverest designs for
this work have been from the brush of her
famous daughter, Dora Wheeler Keith
Mrs. Keith, who has recently returned
from Paris, is now devotng her attention
to portrait work in pastels.
The two young ladies who at present fill
most of the orders for interior decoration
received by the Society of Associated Ar
lists are the Misses Lee. Miss Bessie Pom
eroy Lee has made distinct name for her.
self in the art world as a decorator of "in-
teriors."
The first work which brought her into
prominence was the execution of a series
of frescos for the beautiful residence of
Andrew Carnegie Her designs for the
library of Mrs. Charles Pratt, of Brooklyn,
proving as they do not only fine sense of
proportion, but an unusual color sense as
well. The library of Mrs.C. B. Alexander,
of this aity was also decorated by Miss Lee,
but probably the work which has brought
her most prominently before the public is
her decoration of the ceilings of Mr.. Fred
Vanderbilts yacht
The younger sister, Miss Emma Reding-
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girl earns her board and room-rent by
taking care of her landlady's baby for
three hours every afternoon. Then,
with a scholarship to cover tuition,
their necessary expenses are asily COW
cred. 1t is a plan that can be carried
out satisfactorily in many colleges,
and is particularly desirable as making
no extraordinary demand on girls
physical or nervous powers. There
are, in all college towns, q number Of
families who would receive students
on these terms, and they would be, in
no sense Of the word, treated as SER
wants.
Wells College, of which Mrs. Cleve-
land is a graduate, is an institution
where it is possible for bright, ambi'
tious girl to work her way without any
extraordinary difficulty. She must,
however, present satisfactory testi-
monials of character and scholarship
to the president, besides passing the
entrance examination, or submitting
credentials from an accredited school.
The college offers Il limited number of
scholarships to worthy applicants who
stand in need of help and come pre-
pared to take the full four years
course. These scholarships vary in
value from $50 to 500, and may be held
for one year with the privilege of re-
newal There are, in addition, various
opportunities for giving help in the
presidents Office, in the library, in the
stationery room or in the laboratories
of which students may avail them
selves.
At Vassar, too, though there is not
much opportunity for student to earn
any considerable sum of money, they
are always glad to encourage self-help
as much as possible. The Vassar stu
dents'aid society is composed of grad
yates and teachers of the college. Other
| friends Of the college and the work are
allied as associate members of fifteen
branch organizations. Its scholarships
are assigned as loans to applicants
passing without condition the entrance
| examinations held by the college. Dur
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namental art is necessary. as well as a
knowledge of most intricate lettering anu
an ability to conventionalize all ideas.
Such a position pays from $50 to $50
month. and as a woman is not often called
upon to give over three mornings or AFTER
moons per week to each firm, the remunera-
ton is fair.
The latest fad among the owners OF fine
libraries is the use of the "book plate" in
place of the ordinary inscription. These
plates are small, not often over three in
ches in diameter, and are beautifully de-
signed. sometimes with the family crest in
terwoven with some bookworm's favorite
motto; sometimes the design Is gotten up
wholly as an emblem of the owners taste
or some fad in literature, and again the
conception is left entirely to the magma
ton of the artist.
This line of industrial art requiring both
skilIfui fingers and love of detail, has natu-
rally fallen almost entirely into the hands
of women.
Miss Amy Richards. New England girl,
is one of the most skilled designers book
plates. Miss Richards came to New YORK,
as did most of her fellow workers, to learn
to design book covers, but, although I'M
usually successful in this line, she found
that to make her living it was necessary to
branch out, that woman could not live by
book-cover designs alone.
Miss Richards's working room is on
pretty old-fashioned street just off Fifth
avenue, where from the front windows she
can look out upon trees and even grass.
She shares her pleasant quarters with Miss
Aspinwall, one of the most artistic design
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COLOR BY MISS EDISON.

date printing establishment is new open
ing in industrial art, and one that so lar
has been taken advantage Of almost ex-
clusively by women.
One of the best known Industrial art
workers now in New York is Miss Myra
Burr Edison, of bill poster fame. She is
western girl with the proverbial western
pluck and ambition. Her studies have been
mainly carried on at the Artist-Artisan
School, under the guidance of Walter Shir-
law and John Simpson She started, as do
most freshmen in industrial art designing
book covers. Excellent examples of her
skill in this line of work appeared last
winter in the exhibit Of the Architectural
League.
But as Miss Edison said in a recent in
terview, ito earn ones living in New York
as an artist one must possess versatility as
well as talent 1t is impossible just to
work along one line. Why, even men like
Chase and Butler must put aside the ideal
and paint portraits for living. My most
successful innovation has been with my
bill posters. The one that / did for the
spring exhibit of the Artist-Artisans is,
believe, considered the best. 1t is really
very interesting work and I wonder that
other women have not taken it up. The de-
light of it is that you can set your magma
ton run riot; and, besides Miss Edison
added, arching her brows, cit pays"
Miss Edison has done some really clever
water-color sketches. One especially pref
ty in color and technique is a corner of the
studio occupied by herself and Miss Hicks
who has made a name for herself as art
director for several well-known printing
houses.
The studio of these two bachelor maids is
on of the prettiest in the city. 1t is up
many flights of stairs from one of the most
crowded thoroughfares, away from all the
rush and roar and as quantity pretty as
rugs from Hindoostan, draperies from Java
and Japanese sketches on the wall from the
clever brush of Robert Blum could combine
to make it.
Miss Amy Mali Hicks, who is largely self
taught, is Brooklyn girl. She is tall and
rather delicately built, but showing both
in manner and expression an immense
amount of force and determination. Miss
Hickss first work was wall paper design
ing and some of her pronounced successes
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rs. |TTfN
GROUP OF CLEVER GIRLS.
Interesting Departures in Industrial Art
by Women.
GETTING OUT OF THE OLD RUT.
Girls Who Cater to the Poster Craze
Others Act as Art Direc-
tors in Printing Es-
adjustments.

Women who wish to make their art
studies in New York profitable investment
have discovered in the last few years that
the popular avenues in industrial art are
getting to be just as overcrowded as in any
other business. 1t is impossible for girl
to make even a modest living designing
book-covers not to speak of the $4,000 a
year which crowned Miss Alice Morse's
first efforts in that direction.
The young women who are now making
marked success and incidentally a COM
Portable number of dollars in industrial art
are women who have planned new depar-
lures for their talents, or have taken i'm
mediate advantage of every fresh opening
Every firm in the city that is in any way
associated with industrial art or dependent
upon the workers is always on the alert for
something new and original and to meet
such demands is the object of the clever
young artisans.
Designing book plates for the owners
of large libraries is perhaps the latest de-
parture. unless an exception is made in
favor of the bright young woman who has
kept up with the procession by designing
some of the most original bill posters of
the season. Other women have gone in for
engraving and metal tracery and for decor
ating interiors, employing methods entirely
different from the old style of fresco in
water colors.
The position of art director in an up-to-
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themums. The design is toned down more
or less by veil draperies of slver-spotted
tulle The bodice has broad folded band
of blue and silver velvet, into which are
tucked chrysanthemums.
More costly, perhaps more effective, is
dress of pale tinted satin with silver
and diamond embroidery marking the
seams of the skirt and the low-cut bodice.
The corsage is softened with an edging of
lace and has epaulettes of roses.
For the same fortunate young woman is
an evening dress of black lace, caught on
the shoulders with clasps of diamonds. The
sleeves are of old point lace with rosy tulle
peeping from beneath them.
House parties at Tuxedo and up the Hud-
son bring to the light of admiring eyes
heavy pique dresses in bright colors and
adapted for wear quite late in the fall.
One that l have seen was of cream brown,
with deep vandykes of cream lace about the
skirt and with lace edgings running up the
seams to hide under the brown velvet waist
band The coat bodice was of the now ia
miliar Louis XVI order with cream trim
mings and sundry paste buttons.
Better l liked a frock selected by Mrs
Morton for her eldest daughter for wear at
the inevitable afternoon tea. 1t was a
black and white checked silk with blue
fringed gentians flung upon it thicker than
those flowers of autumn ever grow. A
band of black velvet tied the waist and the
fullness of the front-for in spite of fash
ions DEGREES to the contrary-there are
still fronts that have fullness-was drawn
to one side and held by big butterfly vel
vet bow. The collar had another velvet
bow to finish it, a bow with futtering ends.
pretty dress worn at Delmonico sup
per the other evening was of blue taffeta
with blue chiffon fichu edged with white
lace drawn about the shoulders, crossed,
tied in the back and falling low over the
skirt behind. A large white felt hat was
worn with this costume, with white feathers
and a bunch of pink roses.
| In the same party was a grey blue MORE
dress made quite plain, but of exquisite fit
| with pelerine Of white lace falling over
the shoulders. The white lace capote was
| trimmed with white chryanthemums.
There we're pearl-grey gloves and a pearl
| grey velvet sash. ELLEN OSBORN.
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ing the year 1S93-'94, these loans num-
Dered twenty-five, and amounted to
S4,46o, in sums varying from 500 to
S40O. The college also possesses loan
fund, from which amounts are loaned
to applicants without interest. In adj
dition there are numerous full and par
tial scholarships with which the col
lege has been endowed from time to
time. All the larger colleges have SIM
liar funds and scholarships, though on
Il smaller scale than at Vassar.
AS, however, there are, on an ave.
rage, about n dozen applicants for ev-
cry scholarship, it is plain that some of
the ambitious girls must look to other
sources for aid. In most cases it is
better for a girl to earn enough to cover
the major expenses of her first year, or
at least the first semester. This gives
her chance to look around her and
see what opportunities there may be
for her to make money. Tutoring
pays about so to 20 cents an hour in
most colleges, but naturally this work
all falls to the older and more expert.
enced students. A knowledge of mill
linery is very apt to be a very profitable
source Of income but the girl who
hopes to make much money in this line
must be sure that she has thoroughly
mastered her trade. Dressmaking is
another paying occupation that can be
carried on in connection with college
work, but it is more physically taxing
than millinery. Mending, manicuring,
shampooing, can all be depended on to
bring in numerous half dollars from
weather. students. A great many rich
girls are willing to pay the expenses Of
another girl who will take care of her
room. mend her clothes, help her with
her studies. and in genral relieve her
of the burdens which college life i'm
poses on her. This is, however, one
of the least pleasant ways of achieving
an education.
The greatest danger that menaces
the struggling girl at college is that
her health will break down under the
double strain of study and work. Hero
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ers of wallpaper patterns in the city.
Miss Richards has been a hard working
student for several years at both the School
of Applied Design and the Artist-Artisan
School, making a special study of ornament
al and historical art. At present she is
working entirely without supervision.
81 do not believe" she said recently, Sin
working in classroom too long. One
learns to curb rather than use the magma
ton. OF course, good designer must study
under masters to acquire technical prof.
cheney; but after that has been accom-
plished l think the sooner young artist
tries her wings the better. If she is de-
ficient she will find it out soon enough--to
her sorrow-and if, on the other hand, she
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course consecutively, that is, without
stopping to fill her purse by the way, is
going to have pretty hard struggle
of it. 1t is an undertaking that calls
for large supplies of physical strength,
courage, intellectual ability and prac-
teal skill Nevertheless, 1t can be
done. as some of the brightest women
who have ever graduated from our col
leges can prove.
At Cornell, for instance, there are
half dozen girls every year who man.
age to take the course without any
money but that which they earn while
studying. Several of them earn their
board by assisting in household duties
out of study hours in the families of
some of the professors and others inter-
ested in the work of the college. One
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the way. What can I do?'
This is the sort of appeal that every
mail is bringing to all the leading col
leges for women, and the replies, while
full of friendly advice and encourage
ment, are too often obliged to conclude
with the warning: There are so few
ways in which student can earn
money, and so many students to take
advantage of every opening, that in
earning money younger student is al
ways at Il disadvantage"
Naturally, Il young girl who has no
help from any source. and plans to
take the four years Of the college
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tt 10 tHtt tIc VUuIIS IIItH III SIIHIfrsf NIh
cumstances has the advantage, for
reasons that are too plain to need
pointing out. TIL wisest course is first
to earn sufficient money for one year,
either by teaching in schools or by
mer few more girls follow the time
honored example of men students, and
earn nice sum of money by working
in some capacity in the resort hotels
and boarding horseS. With this ia
start on, a healthy, capable girl would
some trade or profession. Every sum.
be quite justified in commencing her
college career, and whatever institution
she may select, sh may feel assured
that the authorities are in sympathy
with her and will give her every assist
ancc in their power. One girl who b.
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gan the course last year at large coll
lege, with no other provision than the
money she had saved from a years.
teaching in small country school,
found that she could, by making occa-
sional trips to the city, earn consid-
cradle sum of money by shopping for
the other students and teachers. She
registered at all the principal stores,
and they allowed her 10 per cent. on all
purchases, so that she was able to sup
ply the articles to her fellow students
ly good taste, and she exerted herself
tok eep abreast with the latest
fashions, so that the other girls grew to
depend on her judgment.
This, of course refers to the larger
colleges; that is, the colleges where the
expenses range from $500 year up.
In some of the western colleges, and III
the state universities, while there are
fewer opportunities for earning money,
the eXpenss are lower, the tuition In
some Of them being free, so that the
girl who stops to earn money at tho
end of each year before proceeding to
tn next would probably find her path
not at all difficult one.
SHE IS GETTING THERE.
In speaking of the organization OF
woman's department in the Catholic
University at WASHINGTON, Mgr. Sa-
tolli said: The Church has never OPP
posed the anmihslon Of women profess
sors or students to the Church univer-
stiles, and that the present movement
! in favor of the higher education OF
women was, in reality, only revival
of n state of affairs which existed
prior TO the fifteenth century ut Padua-
Bologna and Salamanca universities"
There were many eminent women doc
| TORS of law and Of medicine in Italy be-
fore Columbus discovered America.
The tendency Of the present day is but
| n revival of the chivalry Of q past age
in which the capacity Of women for
the mastery Of the higher profession
al studies was freely conceded.