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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.
s150-1-3 cash, alley corner, 10Th street, mean
II.
$S50-1-3 cash. AZ acres. house. well. etc,
right on macadamized road, between
Avondale and Woodawn.
s2000-5Ox140, with cottage. 5th avenue. near
22nd street.
$1OO0-6-room cottage. well, shade, ETC., 22nd
street, near Humboldt avenue.
$250-10 acres between East Woodlawn and
Gate City, near Birmingham Mineral rail.
road. Reasonable terms.
5000 business lots on Spring street, near
Daniels drug store, in Avondale.
s275 Will buy 81 acres near Bessemer dum>
my line, at South Park station, first
station below Fair grounds; partly on
macadamized road.
800 will buy an excellent room house. cor
ner 9th street and East Lake electric car
line. A rare chance to get splendid
home.
s,5o9-1-3 cash, 1OOx190, with splendid house
tat cost $4,000. 9Th avenue. near 24th
street.
s35oo-s5oo cash, room house, Goth street.
= z THOMPSON, 2l5 2lst Street.
TelanhonA "a
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

FOR SALE.
Residence, Sth avenue. between 10th and
nth streets $3.50.
Lot 75x200, South Highlands, $3.50
Lot 100x200, South Highlands, S2500 T.
Lot 65x225, South Highlands. $500.
Lot 60x140 10Th street, between Avenues
and K, $1,000.
Residence, S5x19O, Avenue G., $2250.
Residence, 10th avenue, south, SH00. !
Residence, 21st street. north, $3.50.
Residence, nth street, between Avenues
I and J, $4,000.
Residence, 18th street, between Avenues
j and X, $500.
No. SIS south 18th street, $1,000.
No. 600 south 18th street, $1400.
No. 1917 18th avenue, north, $500.
No. 1900 Sth avenue, north, $500.
w. b. LEEDY & CO..
Telephone No. ~. 114I1 North 21st st.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

A silver dollar is worth two
dollars in gold at our closing
out sale of summer Oxfords
and slippers. Malone Boot &
Shoe Co.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE
$3500-Elegant home at Beelers station.
$3500-2-story, Groom house, Avenue K and
18th street.
s34O0-Nice cottage, 9Th avenue, near 21st
street.
$160O-6-room cottage, Avenue G, near 20tA-
street.
$40 per acre, 423 acres of fine land, near city.
$35O0-Brick residence, Sth avenue. modern
improvements.
$1,000 each-Two handsome residences on
South Highlands.
Choice lots on College Hill and other parts
of the city.
FOR RENT
Stores Nos. l and 8, Goth street. railroad
tracks; best wholesale stand in city.
Offices cheap in the newly fitted up build
ing, 2015 and 2017 LIST avenue. Come quick
and get choice.
Stores Nos 214 and PIG POD street; cheap.
Two stores on End avenue, between 10Th and
21st streets.
$50 per month, Fl rooms, hotel in center OF
the city
$25-No. 21O3 9th avenue.
MALONE e. BELL, 2017 list Avenue.
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

State Convention National Democracy, Mont
gomerY Ala.
On account of the. above mentioned
meeting the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad company will sell round trip
tickets to Montgomery at rate. of one
fare, from any point on its lines, within
the state of Alabama, tickets on sale Au-
gust 26 and 81, good to return up to and
including August 20.
r. f. BEASLEY,
Passenger Agent
S-23-4t Birmingham, Ala.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

loo round trip on Bessemer
and Birmingham Railroad
every Sunday.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

1886 average weekly net income with $3.50
invested. Safe, conservative. Prospectus
proofs free. Il. Daily, 1893 Broadway,
New YORK. 6-e-3m
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

KEEP COOL.
Go to East Lake on electric
cars. They run every twelve
minutes night and day. Fare
SC each way at all hours.
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
Mss Lula Cheshire W be ready her patronage omaay august
THE TRADE PALACE, Second Avenue Birmingham Ala
FOR RENT.

The Meriwether place, 600 acres, five miles
from Birmingham on Huntsville pike; well
improved; 800 acres cleared well watered,
Splendid dairy and stock farm. VIII rent
all or part. w. u. LEEDY e. co.
Telephone No AZ. S-19-7t
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Paris Green-Mayberry & Watson.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

If you want to be up to date
get one of "Blach's Special"
new fall shape hats.
J. BLACH & SONS.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

CONTRACTORS NOTICE.
We have for sale cheap two
No. 1 Plateglasses, 0Ox14O.
LOVEMAN, JOSEPH &LOEB.
6.14-sun wed sat tt
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
BUY CORONA COAL.
John K. Warren, Manager.
Telephone 1920.

Mayberry & Watson for hardware spe-
cialtieS.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

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Spend Your Sundays at St. Clair Springa, Ala.
The Alabama Great Southern railroad
has on sale every Sa turday and Sunday
tickets to Saint Clair Springs, Ala, at
one fare for the round trip, good return
ing Monday. For information in regard
to the various kinds of water and hotel
accommodations see or call on
r.. l.. NEWTON,
Travelling Passenger Agent, N. Twen-
tieth Street. Telephone S4S.
Observation-Disclosures
Brass coal hods-Mayberry & Watson.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Go to East Lake tonight.
See the pavilion studded with
1000 incandescent lights.
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Music at East Lake for
dances five nights a week by
Montano's string band.
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Building material-Mayberry & Watson.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Monarch bicycles-Mayberry & Watson.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Best Csc meal in the city at
the Opera House hotel.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Mayberry & Watson for pure paints.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Mantels and tIle set--MayDerry Z watson.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
BUY CORONA COAL.
John 4. Warren, Manager.
Telephone 1920.

Mayberry q Watson for building material
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

MONEY TO LOAN--On furniture, without
removal, from $40 up. s. r. Searle, 18th
street, between LIST and I'd avenues.
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Music at East Lake for
dances five nights a week by
Montano's string band.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Furniture poIish-Mayperry & Watson.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
MALE HELP WANTED.

WANTED-Brght men can make $1,000 to
$1,000 per year selling Musical Graphic
phones; well advertised. Write today to
Columbia Photograph Company, Wash
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
Music at East Lake for
dances five nights a week by
Montano's string band, 5-2-t

Art glass-Mayberry & Watson.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

Statesmen make 5000 month selling our
machines for cooling refrigerators; guar
anteed IS per cent cheaper than ice, pro
articles indefinitely. Write for terms
Arctic Refrigerating Company Cincin-
natl o.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
TERSELY TOLD.

Razors and straps-Mayberry & Watson
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
LOANS.

MONEY TO LEND-And plenty of it!-A
best rates are lowest, and will beat out
any concern and put applicants for loans
or Investments away ahead. Address
me city Thos. B. Stubbs.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23

WE have sec. 900 to loan at once on well i'm
proved Birmingham property. Room !.
Smith block, opposite Florence hotel d.
f. Allen & Co. S-2l-4t
The herald., 1896-02-09

THOSE WHO TAKE A SIESTA.
least, one can generally get them for the
asking. But they would doubtless be
more plentiful if there were not the same
obstacle in the way of keeping hens
that milimiZes the COW census. Pres
criptlons of property right in such Great
ures grow vague when hungry reyolu-
tionists are abroad.
Three sorts of bread appear on the
breakfast table,-that made from wheat
flour imported from the United States
arepas, and plantains roasted in wood
ashes on an open hearth. The first is
looked upon as rather aristocratic sort
of provender, but serious Nenezuelans
deem either Of the others more healthful
and to their taste, preferable. The are
pas are simply abominable. They are
composed of orn-meal-imported from
the United States-mixed with lard
also imported from the United States
and water. These ingredients are mould
ed into oval balls and exposed to a little
warmth. Their outsides may be a little
dried, but inside is sogginess. faint acid
ity. and a mouldy flavor. The peon. or
laboring class eat much of another and
cheaper kind of arepas, made from the
cellulosc of some sort of root that is said
to be very nutritious when its poisonous
Juices have been well washed out. These
are not in balls, but at cakes, about half
an inch thick and large enough to serve
as covers for the man-holeS of sewers,
a Use for which their hardness and dur
ability would seem to adapt them. 1t is
affirmed that when well buttered and
heated through. they become crumbly
and have a pleasant nutty flavor, but
that would probably not be true if the
butter was of the sort imported in cans
from the United States. The imagna-
tion shudders at the awful thought of
that stuff heated
In all Venezuelan cooking where it may
be employed, lard is used, to a reprehen-
sible extent. Not only are things cook
ed in lard. but the lard is cooked into the
things. The hypothesis does not seem
unreasonable that the extravagant use
of garlic was by a wish to overwhelm
the flavor of inspired lard. though
that purpose has gradually been lost
sight of as the garlic habit gained
strength. 1t is said that garlic is, like
mercury, cumulative in the human sys.
TEN; and in the course of time one ac-
cumulates a great deal. To the leeward
Of fairly representative Venezuelan
on a hot day, this theory seems very
| probable.
| There is by no means so much eating
| of fruit among VeneZuelans as one
| would expect in a country where it is so
abundant and good. The aguacates (al-
ligator pears are best of all. One whose
/ knowledge of this delicious fruit is linz
| tied to experiments upon specimens
| brought to New York, has no adeuuate
idea of what it is in the land of its
] growth. The proper way of eating this
superb fruit is simply opening it in
| halves, and then, after slight addition
of salt, scooping out with spoon its
| golden, oily, pulpy mea,. Persons Of de-
PRAYED taste are sometimes guilty Of the
! gastronomic crime of serving it with a
mayonnaise sauce,-which may be liken.
ed to daubng lily with bad paints. But
that is not done in Venezuela.
Dinner is served at seven o'clock in
the evening. Those who take q siesta
in the afternoon-a general custom
The herald., 1896-02-09
ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER.
Sloping Shoulders and Smaller Sleeves
Prophesied for Spring.
PRETTY GOWNS FOR YOUNG MISSES.
Plans for Post-Lenten Weddings
Bridesmaids Gowns and Court
Suits for Pages and Train
Bearers.

AS winter brightens into spring, there
is talk of sloping shoulders. Women
with beautifully rounded arms will well
come to change, if it carries the bodice
material well over the curve of the
shoulder and to the upper arm, closely
defining the form; then let the milliner
do her worst!
The worst may be meek and defect
ed affair like a leaky balloon; the best
might not be much better than one ten
tatiye example from London. This is
spring jacket of mottled silk caught
across the bust by band of velvet fas-
tened with light enamel button. At
each shoulder another button and bow,
at the back of the neck bigger button
and an enormous bow. AS for the
the sleeves, the mottled silk clings close
to the figure well over the shoulder and
to it are attached elbow sleeves of lace,
shaped like lamp shade. The total eff
feet is light and graceful, and decidedly
smart.
Winter gowns are still made with the
higher sleeves, though perhaps of more
moderate size, and there is great use
made of dark materials of braiding and
of stitching. Simplicity is always smart
Never was there such a season for
challenge to the Audubon society.
The slaughter of fur animals rendered
necessary by the present fashion of
wearing fur on every kind of outdoor
and indoor garmens is something Brob-
dignagian. A pretty toque-to eyes not
Audubonian-is made of fulled red vel
vet "Au Md" that is to say, like a nest,
wherein. upon imaginary eggs. sits Il
pretty bird of paradise with its egret
poised. all as natural as life except that
in real life birds do not have their wings
fastened down with silver buckles. Per-
haps Mr.. Grant Allen would call this
as barbarous as the shark tooth necklace
of the south sea islanders. And why
isn't it? if it isn't!
There is very pretty fashion in miss
es' gowns. \ mauve or other fairly
dark velyeteen blouse and skirt, cut
The herald., 1896-02-09

Portable, and her fairy one captured the
prince while the elder sisters went
unwed in their sordid finery.
Weddings, the philosophers say,
are the end and aim of social greet
ings. Were, pernaps scarcely
are, now that the married belle
has become an International insti-
tuition. For weddings of the post-Lenten
period, the preparations are already in
most cases fully planned and far ad-
vanced. The custom of pressing the
children of the family into service as
train bearers is growing in favor be-
cause of its picturesqueness. Two pret-
ty blonde girls, who will be debutantes
along with the new century, are already
delighting themselves in the prospect of
white satin frocks, whose net-covered
yokes are embroidered with pearls and
silver sequins They will wear little
white satin caps similarly embellished.
Boys are quite as picturesque in court
suits of silver laced blue, with deep
skirted coats, blue knee breeches, Ra-
venwood hats, silver shoe buckles and
The herald., 1896-02-09

with a low, round yoke and left open
down the front, with a vest and plain
sleeves of white or ecru ACCORDION pleat-
ed silk, is simple and beautiful. The
yoke and front can be outlined in EN-
broidery, and the cuffs should be OF dark
satin to match the STUFF, with turn over
edges of lace. The gown has something
of an Italian look, and can be made in
great variety of materials.
Perhaps this girls gown-in the in
stance which 1 saw-was more beautl-
full than the costumes of the two guests
who were leaving as l came, the one In
an English pelisse Of oriental velvet,
green and red, twinkling with seQulns,
bordered with ermine, edged with sable,
and wearing a toque of sable trimmed
with quills; the other smartly arrayed
in a huge Gainsborough hat of ostrich
plumes and felt, and dark tailor made
gown with Elzabethan collar lined with
caracul. Nine times out Of ten the
girls of the household are more beauti-
fully dressed than the women. Cinder-
elias ashy gown was doubtless conf
The herald., 1896-02-09

bow sleeves over the white satin, is well
decked with festoons of pearls looped
upon sleeves and corsage.
A bodice of cherry colored chiffon, with
white lace and steel embroidery, looks
as brilliant as an oriole over a lustreless
black skirt.
Lapels square and lace bordered, epa.
ulets square and loaded with sequinage.
1ichus long and narrow-these furnish
variety. The wide lace collarette brings
us back to where we were two years
ago. A beautiful effect is produced by
square epaulets Of fine ecru lace over a
bodice of very dark green velvet which
opens in front over an ecru silk vest with
a yoke outlined with lace. Tea gowns
are made with huge square epaulettes.
lace laden, with vatican pleats at front
and back and with heavy cord girdles
loosely knotted in front. If the figure
is very slender the cord may pass across
the back. For stout or medium figures
1t should be attached at either side, un-
der the lapel which, bordered with lace
flows uninterrupted to the hem. Rose
The herald., 1896-02-09
FRISKY LITTLE SQUIRRELS.

Some Facts About the Ways of These
Inhabitants of the Forest.
Have YOU ever watched the antics OF
the ground squirrels in summer? The
name the learned people give them in
the books is almost as hard as the nuts
the frisky little fellows gather up for
winter food Imagine yourself saying
every time you see one of these little fel-
lows darting along the fence or the limb
of a tree. There goes a tamias stratus
of the order sciuridae." The last name
comes from the Greek skai a shade, and
oura, a tail, which describes pretty well
the way in which the squirrel carries his
tail, shading his head. But the Indian
name, chipmunk, seems to suit him much
better. His front teeth are well adapted
to the hard work before them in the Will
ter-that is to get the contents of the
nuts out in good shape. These two teeth
seem to be movable, and to work as If
on pivot. They go round the inside Of
a walnut or hickory nut and serve the
purpose Of a nut picker as well as nut
cracker.
If you examine walnut that squir.
rel has dropped, you will find that both
the fiat sides have been pierced as if bor-
su Will IL s,IlilSt anu tiistt CNCiy
particle of the kernel has been removed
from the shell by these flexible little
teeth. They come by twos and threes,
these comcal little PROVIDERS from their
home in a great old oak just across the
road from the end of your lawn, and you
may trace their route from one tree to
another by the rebounding of the branch
es when relieved of the light weight as
the squirrels jump and frolic along. II
you do not put your walnuts and hickory
nuts carefully away in the fall, these lit
tie thieves will find them out and soon
reduce your store. They carry them off
while drying in the sun, and even before
they are hulled. A young girl in South
ern Maryland had the power Of tanning
these little fellows with few crumbs
of bread or grains of corn and wheat.She
could draw them around her and catch
any two or three of them that she fam
cied, carry them in her pockets or her
apron for half a day, and when set free
they would scamper off as wild as ever.
Visitors in the park at Richmond relnem-
ber the tame squirrels that If treated to
a few peanuts or cake crumbs, will fol-
low you for hours around the grounds
and seem to know you if you go back
again in the course of Il day or two They
are the gray and black squirrels, with
| thicker tails than the chipmunks, but are
| lust as knowing and as cunning as those
| that wear striped coats and smaller
/ br,,Shnc
The herald., 1896-02-09

combination. Blue hat. ror a lighter
blonde: :paler blue without the green tint;
darker blue and touch of red. They
stand in that order-graded from the
warm colors to the cool, with the touch
of red to restore the first impression.
If these four girls were to agree upon a
compromise costume, it would be pink
wedding, without doubt. But the
bridesmaids gowns, when all different,
can be worn for other uses, which a uni
form design could hardly be. A COM
promise plan sometimes favored is to
have two blonde maids similarly attired
in pinks or blues, and two brunettes in
warmer, heavier tints.
A white brocade with chine flowers
makes up well with bodice Of white
chiffon, red ribbon showing at the bust
opening and upon the shoulders.
A dark blue frock looks pretty with
blue and white striped collar, cuffs and
waistband and full white chiffon
front.
A pretty white satin gown, with very
long shoulder seams supporting lace ell.
The herald., 1896-02-09
A MODERN APHRODITE.

says. "but do it amid the conditions to
which they are accustomed and in
which most of them spend their lives"
Fashionable New York women now
are nothing if not athletic. They have
taken to heart the doctrine that health
is necessary to beauty. Their latest eff
fort in the line of development is
punching the ball" They take lessons
from men who box and spend Il few
minutes every day in the exercise that
John l.. Sullivan first brought to per-
fection. The Marquise Lonza says that
nothing else does so much for the gen
eral tone and nothing renders the car
riage more graceful.
Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell the
philanthropist, has been a widow since
her husband, Charles Lowell. was kill
ed in battle near the close of the war.
She keeps his sword hanging always
upon her bedroom wall. and is still pas
sionateiy devoted to his memory. He
was a nephew of James Russell Lowell.
Mrs. Cleveland is very fond of artis-
tic metal work. and patroniZes a family
of artist-artisans in New York who have
no shop but make and sell their wares
The herald., 1896-02-09
hotels, they are as bad ~ peeled pota-
toes boiled to SOggineSS.

hotels, they are as bad - peeled pota-
toes boiled to sogginess.
The meat is always bad,-tough,
| stringy, and unpleasant to the taste, no
| matter how it is cooked. Why it is so
one soon learns. No cattle are properly
reared and fattened for the market. and
the manner of slaughtering is Infamous.
The animals are lassoed in a corral and
dragged out to posts, where they are
made fast for killing. Their horns are
often broken, eyes are knocked out by
stones and their thighs chewed by dogs.
Mad with terror, agony, and rage, few
cred and suffering tortures from thirst,
they are left standing ten Oh twelve
hours before their throats are cut in time
for the early morning market. Then
their flesh goes, warm with the animal
heat, to the pot and the oven. In this
climate if not cooked in a few hours it
will putrefy, for there is no ice. Each
days supply must be freshly killed. OF
course such meat cannot be good, no
matter how it may be disguised by gar
lie and red pepper.
What amazing pepper-eaters these
Venezuelans are! On a tiny dish by each
guests plate are laid from six to nine
fresh peppers long, round, red and yell
low, small, but with more fire in them
than is contained in any other peppers
grown outside sheol. The cut surface
of one lightly rubbed on plate will be
found as effective as great dash of To-
basco sauce. Yet these brasS-palated |
people, the old fellows especially, will |
fork them into their mouths, three or four |
together, and deliberately chew and |
swallow them as if they were white |
grapes.
At breakfast as we'll as dinner, claret |
mixed with water-is freely used, |
though of course every one finishes the |
meal with coffee, and chocolate is serv-
ed if desired. The chocolate, by the way. |
is exceedingly good, being product of
the country which is at its best when |
crudely prepared, as it is here, and alto
gether free from sophistication. common |
elsewhere. All wine is imported, even
the imitation sorts. Yet the mountain |
slopes of Venezuela are admirably |
adapted to vine culture. Spain forbade |
the growing of vines here when this was |
Spanish colony, and though she has |
been kicked out nearly eighty years, no.
body has yet had the energy to try grape |
culture.
A conspicuous novelty on the table is |
an enormous platter piled high with little
green bundles, each tied neatly with a
green string. They are called liakis |
At least, that is the way the name |
sounds. and the dictionaries throw no !,
light upon it, 1t is probably a word of |
South American coinage. Each package |
contains a tablespoonful of some mine
ed or pulpy mess, wrapped and tied with
pieces of plantain leaf. Their total con-
stitutes a sort of lottery. You may draw |
successvely from the pile flesh, fish,
fowl, sweetstuff, and plain vegetable
matter. rarely getting pair Of any kind |
One wad may be delicious, the next rank |
with garlic or wickedly peppery. AS
they have all been boiled together in one
huge pot, it might be supposed their flaw
ors would mix, but the plantain leaves
prevent that
Eggs are moderately abundant; at