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Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10
GADSDEN.
The Bicycle Races Were & Success-Sum-
 mary of the Events.

Gadsden, Sept. 9.-(Specal Correspond ence.)-The people of Gadsden, Attalla and Alabama City saw the best bicycle races that were ever witnessed in Ala bama Monday and Tuesday afternoons at the Alabama City Bicycle park. Sev- eral of the best professional riders in the south were here, and some fast time wasl made. Between 600 and 700 people were out each afternoon, and more enthusi- astic crowd never assembled in the park. The most interesting race was for the championship of the south, between Stowers of Attalla and Hooper of Spring field, Tenn. The race was run in three heats. Hooper won the first heat Mon day afternoon by two lengths of his wheel, but Stowers was victorious by winning the remaining two heats Tues day afternoon. The meet was quite a success in every particular. The riders that competed were: Messrs. Ross Gill of Nashville, w. J. Potter Cumberland Park, Tenn; George F. Quinn, Mobile John Fleck Birmingham; Ben Stowers Attalla; George Hooper, Springfield Tenn; George Summers, Charles Duncan and Charles Kelley, Gadsden; Boyd Cox and John Reaves, Attalla.
 The races were as follows:
 Monday Afternoon.
 First race, one mile professional Quinn won, Potter second, Gill third.
 
 Second race, half mile, amateur Cox won. Summers second, Kelley third. Time, 1:3i 1-5.
 Third race, quarter of a mile, profess sional-Quinn won, Potter second, Fleck third. Time, 3:0S 3-5.
 Fourth race, match, one mle-Hooper won, Stowers second Time, 2:26 3-5. Fifth race, one mie-StoWers against time. Time, 2:13.
 Sixth race, one mile, amateur--Cox won. Summers second, Kelley third. Time, 800 3-5.
 Seventh race, quarter of a mile-Gill against time. Time, 3:02 2-5
 Tuesday Afternoon.
 First race, two miles, professional Quinn won Fleck second Gill third. Time 5:l9 4-5.
 Second race, three-quarters of a mile, amateur-CoX won, Summers second, Kelley third. Time 2:37.
 Third race, once mile, match-Stowers won, Hooper second. Time, 2:23 4-5.
 Fourth race, one mile, amateur-CoX won, Summers second, Duncan third Time, 3:11 2-5.
 Fifth race, one mile, professional Quinn won, Fleck second, Potter third. Time, 2:55.
 Sixth race, one mile, match-Stowers won, Hooper second. Time. 2:22 2-5. ?Seventh race Quinn, one mile, unpaced Time, 2:26 3-5.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10
ONEoNTO.

Fall Business Opening Meat Market Need
 edA Curiosity.
 Oneonto, Sept. 9.-(Special Correspond, enee. ee.)-Merchants are receiving their fall stock and trade Is beginning to liven up.
 Oneonto needs a meat market. Cotton. is rolling in now. It brings 7@75s cents.
 The protracted meeting at the Meth odist church has closed. There were sev- eral conversions.
 MT. Thomas Stubbs of Byrd has hog about [ months old which has five feet. It has two feet on it's left front leg. It makes five tracks distinctly.
 Criminal court is in session.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10
LEIGHTON.
Drummers Numerous Death of Good (

Drummers Numerous-Death of a Good Old
 Colored Democrat. Leighton, Sept. 9.-(Special Correspond ence.) .)-The town has been full of drum mers for several days.
 Uncle Pompey Vinson, a good democrat and a highly respected colored man, died Monday night of typhoid fever. Squirrel hunters are meeting with in- different success.
 The farmers in this vicinity are mak- ing great deal of sorghum.
 The drouth continues.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10
UNION SPRINGS.

That Bolting Congressional Convention
 From Democratic Standpoint. Union Springs, Sept. 9.--(Special. .)-The Hannacrats met in convention here to- day to select a candidate to oppose that stalwart democrat, Henry D. Clayton, for congress. It is said that the conven- tion was held In Bullock because 1t was their weakest point, hoping that with
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10
TERSELY TOLD.

Big profits can be made by selling State Herald silver campaign badges. Agents wanted all over United States. For terms address State Herald Badge De- partment, Birmingham, Ala.
 7-26-d--w-tf
 Ladies, have cut the price on ladies' and children's slippers and Oxfords at and even less than factory cost I have in stock more than 2000 pairs of these goods, and now they must go. Come and look at them, as you can save 25 to 50 per cent. T. c. King, 2026 First avenue.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10
1Oc round trip on Bessemer and Birmingham Railroad every Sunday.
The Southern Railway Adds New Pullman
 Service.

Beginning Monday, September 2, 1896, the Southern railway will inaugurate a new line of elegant Pullman sleepers on their trains Nos. 35 and 36, between Rir- mtngham and Charlotte, N. c.
 By this improved service a change of cars and wait at Atlanta is avoided and comfort of passengers greatly increased. Leaving Birmingham at APO D. m., you reach Charlotte next morning for break fast, and, should you desire, you can con- tinue your journey in through sleeper on same train. J. P. BILLUPS.
 Travelling Passenger Agent. 9-6-3W
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10

Weber at East Lake on Sum- days. Look for programme. Solos accompanied by band and orchestra. Selections and marches composed by Weber. Band plays on train as it goes out at 2 o'clock. f-28-f
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10

BIG AUCTION SALES.
 Fifty head of horsss will be sold at auction at Kentucky stables Thursday, Friday and Saturday, sale commencing at 10 o'clock each day.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10

Go to East Lake tonight. See the pavilion studded with 1000 incandescent lights.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10

Pennies saved grow to be dollars. Save your money and deposit in Peoples Saw ings bank. 8-15-tf
Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-10

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Alabama Christian Advocate

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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
Have You a House

THAT IS NOT INSURED?
F so, you want to place policy on it to-
i day or tomorrow before you dine.
You want the risk taken, too, by standard
company, such as d. P. MILLER, of Cumber
land, represents. ANY policy is good until
fire occurs, but then it is you want pledge
of indemnity worth its tace in gold.
Rates not quite as low as wildcat figures
but the lowest consistent with certain and
perfect indemnity III event of loss. Apply to
J. b. ODER,
Dec Ia JOURNAL Office, Frostburg, Md
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
The Cause of Rainfall,

Rain is, as we all know, the moisture
of the atmosphere condensed into drops
large enough to fall with perceptible
the sizes of the drops is dependent upon
the difference in the height from which
they have fallen and to the amount of
atmospheric disturbance present at the
time. If they fall from great heights,
the drops suffer gradual division into
smaller and smaller parts until they are
at last converted into mistS. In calm
weather, with the clouds near the earth's
surface, the drops are apt to be large
and heavy. The formation of rain is in
general continuation Or an enlarge
ment of the processes by which clouds
and fogs are formed. The deposition of
moisture depends upon the cooling Of
the atmosphere, but concerning the pre-
else process by which the cooling is eff
fected various opinions are entertained
even among those who have made me-
teorology life study. In considering
the matter we have deduced our reck
onings from what is considered the best
authority on the subject. From this it
appears that the temperature of a given
mass of warm air is lowered in the or
binary course of atmospheric phenomena
by one or the other of the processes
mentioned in the following: By radia
ton to the cold sky, by radiation to the
neighboring masses of clouds or the
cold ground, by mixture with cool air
or by the absorption of heat in the eX
pansion Of ascending columns of air.
Whatever the process may be. one thing
is sure-the cooling must take place be-
fore the moisture will collect into drops
Of sufficient size to cause them to fall
from the mass of vapor in which the
constituent parts have been floating. -
st. Louis Republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
The Boring of Glass.

Strong glass plates are bored through
by means Of rotating brass tubes of the
necessary diameter, which are filled
with water during boring. To the water
there is added finely pulverized emery.
1t is said that thinner glass can be pei
forated with holes in an easier manner
by pressing disk CT wet clay upon the
glass and making a hole through the
clay of the width desired, so that at that
spot the glass is laid bare. Then molten
lead is poured into the hole, and lead
and glass drop down at once. This
method is based upon the quick local
heating of the glass, whereby it obtains
a circular crack, the outline of which
corresponds to the outline of the hole
made i'll the clay. The cutting Of glass
tubes, cylinders, etc, i'll factories is
based upon the same principle. -New
York Ledger
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26

The 3 cent silver piece weighed
IL. 375 grains
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
COLORS IN BATTLE.
why the Soldiers In the English Army
Are Arrayed In Scarlet.


Are Arrayed In Scarlet.
The scarlet uniform of the British i'll
fantry has been greatly criticised il rc-
cent years, chiefly on the ground that
it exposes the men toneedless danger by
disclosing their whereabouts to the en-
envy. The objection taken to the scarlet,
however, is groundless, and scientific
reasons are given why the prevailing
color is for all purposes the most suit
able that could be selected.
In the first place, scarlet affords the
best attainable protection against the
extremes of heat and cold to which sol
diers are liable to be exposed. The darker
the color protecting a warm body the
more rapidly radiation proceeds. White
would be the best color to reduce radia-
ton to Il minimum, but white is barred
by other considerations, as are also all
the grays Scarlet or red comes midway
between white and black or other dark
colors, while with reference to protec-
ton from the sun scarlet takes a far
higher place than any of the blues,
greens Or drabs and other shades often
used for military clothing.
Yellow and orange are excluded be-
cause these colors are particularly con-
spicuous at loug distance. Although
scarlet or red is more conspicuous than
gray, when the sun shines directly ON
the troops it blurs ON the sight and is
consequently more difficult to hit.
With existing rifles the actual result
of fight is usually decided at IL dis
lance Just outside the effective range of
the weapons. This distance lies between
600 and 500 yards Nearer than that it
to the enemy's fire, and as soon as the
return fire whistles about the defend
ers' heads the possibility of aiming rap
idly and accurately decreases.
Therefore, from this point of view,
it is unimportant whether the object to
be hit is conspicuous or not, but from Il
moral point of view it is serious con-
sideration. Within 700 yards each sub
sequent advance is conditioned by fire
superiority already achieved, the de-
tenders are shaken, the time for count
ing heads is past, and the mental i'm
preston conveyed by the sight of the
assaulting troops becomes the main
point.
1t is distinct advantage that our
men should bulk large in the decisive
stages of an encounter, and there is no
color which enables them to do this so
effectively as scarlet. On the whole,
therefore, every scientific consideration
justifies the retention of scarlet as the
best uniform for our troops. Strand
Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
Town Lots for Sale.
Sept 26-t,J9

TNOUR LOTS on Broadway, 30 by POO feet,
II and ONE LOT over 80 feet, same depth
and improved by the large frame Dwelling
House knqwn as The lamill Mansion
The Lot extending along Loo to Water
street is also improved on the latter street by
FRAME DWELLING.
These are unquestionably the best Lots in
all respects in town.
s5g- Tile indipmtable. For further infor-
nation apply to EDWARD DONOHUE,
June Is Frostburg, Md.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
Sorry He Spoke.

Held like to know what enjoy
ment you can find in going from store
TO store, looking at things you haven't
the least idea of buying.
She-I know | can't buy them, but
there is a sort of melancholy pleasure
in thinking that | could have bought
them if l had married George Scads
when | had the chance, instead of tax
ing you. -p-Cincinnati Enquirer
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
pocIaI Uncertainties.

Say" snapped the busy man, my
time is worth dollar minute--a dol
lar minute. Do you hear?'
"That jist shows the difference in
folks" said the gentleman with the
shoe laces to sell. "Once | done II whole
years time fol only 3d. 10. "-Indianap-
oils journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
A Raines BOniface.

:, please, sir, do you need any cham
Rrmaids!"
"Chambcrmaids! What do we want
OF chambermaids? Dis is hotel, not q
lod2ln house. Truth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-26
Insuperable Difficulty.

"What became of your women's de-
batting club"
"We had to disband. We couldn't
find a girl who would act as chairman
and keep still while the rest of US talk
I'd. '-Philadelphi North American.
The news boy., 1896-06-20
SNAKES TOILETS.
How the Reptiles Dispose of Their Cast
OF Garments.

How the Reptiles Dispose of Their Cast
OF Garments.
1t seems rather funny to speak Of
snakes as dressing and undressing, yet
this they certainly do quite as fully
as human beings; although it is true
that their wardrobe requires fewer and
less variety of articles than ours. After
q long voyage, after a seasons retire.
ment or Information, and on various
other occasions they find themselves in
need of q new dress to replace their
old and soiled garments, and they i'm
mediately proceed to evolve one. They
are very modest creatures, never she'd
ding their clothes until they are fully
clad in their new ones.
Prior to shining forth resplendent in
fresh attire n serpent seeks retire
ment if possible. He becomes blind for
a few days, refuses food and appears
to be in a melancholy state generally;
perhaps, like some human beings, he
has worked too hard on his new suit.
When all is completed and ready for
exhibition, he begins at the lips to ex-
tricate himself from the old dress, rub
bing against whatever may be in his
way to expedite the matter. The fact
part of the process is apt to be rather
tedious, but as he progresses he works
more rapidly; when he reaches the
ribs they assist the operation, until
finally the old skin is shed entire,
turned inside out, and Mr.. Snake revels
in his new suit.
His eyes, covered by perfectly trans
parent layer of cuticle, are bright and
is forming over the eye that the ser.
pent is blind.
Snakes leave their cast-off garments
entirely whole, whether they are sew
eral feet in length or number of yards.
They never wash them and keep them
for second best, but leave them just
where they happen to shed them, with
the most eXtravagant prodigality. What
pity it is that they have not some poor
relations or poverty-stricllen acquaint-
ances to whom they might donate their
old clothes.
Their toilet is made in the spring,
but not alone at that time; any unusual
circumstance is apt to make them wish
for new suit of clothes, beginning
when they are infants from one to two
weeks old. Some are SO fastidious as
to require change once month, and
even oftener, while others, more plebe-
inn, will wear the same garments for
six months.
Sometimes snakes are so very mod
est and shy that they select the night
for changing their clothes; others, who
are tanner, are quite willing to do it in
broad daylight. When the process OF
shedding the skin is completed. snakes
Immediately recover their activity, as
they have been languishing for few
days. Their appetites are sharper now,
and the poisonous kinds seem to have
acquired an additional supply of venom.
Their eyes are bright, their colors are
vivid and rich, and their snakeships
seem to feel very comfortable and con-
tented in every way.-Detroit FREQ
prass
The news boy., 1896-06-20

IF there's anything there We think at
a like the water, I'll be vera pleased II
yen try't."
The other wns somewhat put out by
this extreme friendliness. At another
time he would have refused shame-
facedly, but now the love ofsport was
in him. "Ye're far over guitl," he said,
"Thae twae patrick wings are the verra
things want, an djnna think I've ony
al hame. I'm awfu' grateful to ye, an
I'll bring them back the morn's nicht."
"Guid-e'en," said the farmer, as he
opened the door, "nn' wish We may hnc
u guild CATCH" And he turned in again.
smiling snrdonically.
The next morning wus like the last,
save that little wind had risen, which
blew freshly from the west. White
cloudlets drifted across the blue, and the
air was as clear rs spring water. Down
in the hollow the roaring torrent had
sunk to full, Tipping stream, and the
color had changed from turbid yellow
to clear, delicate brown. In the town
OF Marchthorn, it was day of wild ex-
element, and the quiet Clachlands road
hustled with horses and men. The la
borers in the fields scarce stopped to
look at the passers, for in the afternoon
they too would have their chance, when
they might journey to the town in all
Importance, and record their opinions
of the late government.
The plowman of Clachlands spent n
troubled forenoon. His nightly dreams
had been of landing great fish, and now
his waking thoughts were of the same.
Politics for the time were forgotten.
This was the day to which he had
looked forward for so long, when he
was to have been busted in deciding
doubtful voters, and breathing activ-
ity into the ranks of his cause. And 10!
the day had come and found his
The news boy., 1896-06-20

dence in the sitting member. Such ira
ditions, he felt, were not to be lightly
despised; things might change, empires
might wax and wane, but his obligation
continued; sort of perverted noblesse
oblige was the farmers watchword in
life; and, by dint of much energy and
had language, he lived up to it.
AS fate would have it, the Clachlands
plowman was Il radical of radicals. He
had imbibed his opinions early in life
from a speaker on the green of March
thorn, and ever since, by the help of q
weekly penny paper and an odd volume
of Gladstone's speech, had continued
his education. Such opinions in con-
servative country side carry with them
a reputation for either abnormal clever
ness or abnormal folly. The fact that
he was keen fisher, famed singer of
songs, and the best judge of horses in
the place, caused the verdict of his
neighbors to incline to the former, and
he passed for something of an oracle
among his fellows. The blacksmith,
who was the critic of the neighborhood,
summed up his character in a few
words: Him." said he in tone of min
gled dislike and admiration, "him! He
would sweer white was black the morn,
and dod! he would prove it tae."
1t SO happened in the early summer,
when the land was green, and the trout
FLASHED in the river, that her majesty's
government saw fit to appeal to an in
telligent country. Among a people
whose politics fight hard with their re-
ligion for monopoly of their interests,
The news boy., 1896-06-20
THOUGHTS AT EVE.

When the Hickering freiights flaming
shadows on the wall do cast,
Memory comes to hold and haunt me with
the memories of the past.
And my heavy heart turns backyard
though the years have onward rolled
To the happy time of childhood, to The
youthful days Of old.
Early scenes and early pleasures. ro,r
pictured to my eyes;
DEEDS and words OF playmates distant
thronging round my heart will rise.
Now hear their childish laughter ring
within ancestral halls,
And their hurryipg footsteps loudly sound
within the ancient halls.
For in kindness now the distance answers
to my longing sigh,
When I think of what to-day IN and tho
days that have gone by.
For In fancy now 1 listen to those tales in
childhood told
Feats of valor done in battle, done by
warriors strong and bold.
Nor our souls were little doubling that
the stories they were true,
And our throbbing hearts would echo every
deed our hero'd do.
Then our lives were full of gladness. never
came thought Of sorrow
with the anguish of to-day, with the pain
that comes tomorrow
Like Is out struggle, ceaseless; nothing
comes to him who'll wait:
VINO will thrive must battle ever against
the crushing hand of fate.
Man is but her plaything lightest, that shc
gives no heavy thought
Though it's said for some wise purnoso
mankind in the world was brought.
This the lesson man Is learning. that the
coming years will teach
All with weary effort striving for the
things beyond their reach.
This We know not, nor our childish hearts
had learned,
That to fame and fortune highest ever
would our souls be turned;
TIL we sicken in the struggle Of the never.
ending strife,
And we long but for one rnonen+ y, or,
happy childhood life.
Thus my thoughts are backward turning
when the dying day is dead,
"hen the dreary shadows gather and the
8 wings Of night are spread.
Ana ! gaze into the darkness, gaze so
biankly out my door,
Eer1e shadows round me stealing family
fall upon the floor.
winfield Spiers. in Philadelphia Press
The news boy., 1896-06-20
pUNoENr PARAGRAPHS.

--Bride--"Dear Alfred, we must post
Duae the weddingi" Baron--"I don't
know II we can-I must ask my credit
ors. .~-E'liegcnde Blatter.
---Fasily Explained. - "Isabel, you
told me your gown would cost only s25,
and here's bill for $780," "Yes, Harry,
but the extra $75 IL for the pearl trim.
mings."-Chicago Record.
Little Tommy--"Why does the lead.
er of the orchestra wave his stick about
IL in that manner, mommer?" His
Mamma-"To keep the flies Oft the
music, suppose. Buffalo Times.
--McDermott-"Oi can't wurruk to-
day." Gang Boss-"Why not?" Nc
Dermott-"Oi sphrained me ankle yis-
terday." Gang Boss-"Humph! That's
q very lame excuse."-Philadelph
North American.
Country Girl--"Don't you find the
constant noise, and hurry, and confu-
sion, and hustle of a great city very
wearing when you are at homer" City
Girl-"Why, no, indeed! I live in Phila-
lelphia, you Notwithstanding Jour
nal.
Not Worth Mentioning.-"A capi-
tai invention--these horseless car
riages!" Don't talk rubbish. We have
had for long time things quite as re-
markable in their way as horseless car
riages, and nobody takes the slightest
notice of them" "Indeed! What, for
instance?" "Cowless milk."-Dorf-
barber.
The Altenative.-"Can't you make
the front entrance wider?" asked one
Of the trustees, inspecting the plan of
the proposed new church little closer.
"Not Unless you build on wider lot"
answered the architect, decidedly.
IF the ladies are afraid of mussing their
sleeves in a six-foot doorway, they will
have to go through edgewise. Chs
ago Tribune