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Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
At Columbus,

Columbus, Ga, April 16.-Columbus downed Atlanta today in the opening game of ball by & score of 10 to 4. The game was very interesting, and drew a great crowd. The result was in the na- ture of a surprise, as the home team Is hardly organized, two of the players hav- ing reached Columbus just in time to en- ter the game. Manager Strouthers has signed a lot of fine players, and their work in today's game was magnificent. The Atlanta team played a good game, but seemed to be outclassed. The game was with Columbus from the first in- ming, when three runs were scored. The batteries were: Columbus, Daniels and Dobbins; Atlanta, Norton and Fields. The score:
 R. H. D. Columbus .....3 3 1 o 0 1 0 o 2-1O IS 1 Atlanta ........0 3 o 0 1 o 0-4 5 Empires, Smith and Cross.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17

Summary: Earned runs-Montgom omery, i: Birmingham, ?. Two-base hits-De- dee. Gorton and Fricken. Double plays Mangum to Peoples to Pabst; Hoolihan to Tebeau to Ryan. Bases on balls-By Bailey, 3; by Fricken 8. Struck out-By Bailey, 6; by Fricken, 2.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
Parts for any stove and gas- oline stoves repaired at J. E.. Gossett's, 1914 End avenue.
Athletic Exhibition,
4-2-tf

There will be an exhibition at the Attn letic club during the early part of next week for the benefit of the young ladies auxiliary of the Mercy Home. By tnis means the young women desire to raise needed funds to carry on worthy char ftable enterprise.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
CIGARETTE SUCKERS. Men Get Roped Into All Kinds
 of Skin Games. The Worst Ropsd Man Is the Cigarstte Smoker-Robbed of Health and Manhood, His Most Pre-
 cious Possession.

Say, where d'you get that coffin nail, Chim- mic ?"
 Oh. I caught It on the fly from de guy on de corner"
 And the two lit- tie bootblacks- God bless 'en, they didn't know any better-sat on the curb and smoked the ci- garette, out of sight.
 We often won- der, when we see and hear such things. how the other half of the world lives, es-
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
PLAYING F0R THE TENANT First Day of the Southern Base
 ball Season. GOOD GAMES EVERYWHERE Birmngham's Team, Although Sore and Stiff, Were Not 0yerwheImed-The
 Winners.

Results of Yesterdays Games. Montgomery, 8; Birmingham, 3. Columbus, 10; Atlanta, 4. New Orleans, g; Mobile, 8.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17

After typhoid fever, pneumonia and other prostrating- diseases take Hoods Sarsa parilla.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
J. E. Gossett has the best as- sertment of gas and gasoline stoves in the city. 1914 End avenue. 4-2-T
frll Rehearsal.

There will btsef rehearsal of the Bir- minghsrl Symphony orchestra ton ght at Ersweli's hall
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17

Fresh bread ana candy made daily at c. w. Cody's, 1920 to 1926 3d avenue. Je5 7 P
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17

Prepared Solely By ARMOUR PACKING O.. kansas City. U. $. A
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
St. Cleveland.

St. Louis, April 16.-A perfect day and the Clevelands for an attraction drew 14,700 baseball admirers to Sportsman park for the opening game today. Up to the eighth inning the game looked like a shutout for Tebau's men, when couple of three e-baggers and a single netted two runs. Score
 HI D St. Louis ........O 11O021 *-5 Il 0 Cleveland ........ Q O O o O o o 2 0-2 '
 Batteries-Breitenstein and McFar- land; Young, O'Meara and OConnor.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
cincinnatfsPittaburg.

Cincinnati, April 16.--It was an ideal day for baseball and 14,412 people wit messed the first game of the National league season between Pittsburg and Cincinnati 2000 of whom were ladies. There was a street parade before the game, with brass band accompaniment. Of the game little can be said. The vis- itors outplayed the home team at every point and found Rhines just to their liking. Fisher, who relieved Rhines in the eighth inning, fared little better. Hawley, though hit freely, received al- most perfect support. Score:
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17
R H E

Cincinnati .....O 0 0 0 0 o 0 0-1 1 3 Pittsburg ........0 0 0 3 2 2-9 13 ?
 Batteries-Fisher, Rhines and Peitz; Hawley and Merritt.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-17

Montgomery Ii o o 5 0 0N O. Pirrninohan n q Q Q 0 8 0 0 0-
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
GAINS AND LOSSES.
BY MARGARET E. sANesTER.

Come the hours when we sit In the shadow
That falls like the droop of e wing
Der the nest that Is naked and empty,
When the fedglings have learned how te
sing,
Then woe is the heart for the old time,
The time that was busy and gay,
When the world and its clamor about us,
And we in the midst of the fray.
In the shadows we count up II losses;
We creep where we marched with the best
o! the ache when we try to walk softly,
The cry of our soul against rest,
And we grfeve for the golden heads an
quished;
Our children are women and men,
And wistful and deep is the yearning
10 have them but children again.
And we fret DER the fruitless endeavor.
The labor that satisfied not,
Till the shadow grows thicker and longer,
And the 5lurin our eyes is a blot
On the lingering splendor of sunshine,
That taps with its splendor of light
At the shut and barred door of our memory,
An after-glOw radiant and bright,
Do we see nothing else but our losses.
We mourning there, fools and purblind,
with the crown and the kingdom before us,
The conflict and turmoil behind?
Shall the harvest lament for the seed time,
The bud be more blithe than the Ieaf9
Is there joy when the pillow breaks the fur
row.,
And none when the hand binds the sheaf?
o! wings that are folded and dropping,
Spring wide in the evenings uplift;
Reach out to tbs stars that are showing
The skies in a silvery rift.
No day of our days is SO hallowed
AS that when we see, just before,
The light in the house of our Father
Shine out through His half-open door.
-Harper'S Bazaar,
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
GEMS.

Nature is full of Indications of divine
attributes.
That man is not poor who has the use
OF things necessary.
truth is ever lost.
There is no opposing brutal force to the
stratagems of human reason.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees;
she requires the hand of time.
Truth is as simple as a child, and at the
same time as strong as a giant.
A picture is an intermediate something
between a thought and a thing.
There is no man 80 uncultivated that
you cam learn something from him.
The man of pleasure should more
properly be termed the man of pain.
The more rich and famous we get the
more difficult it is to find a true friend.
Who ever saw old age that did not ap-
plaud the past and condemn thu present
time?
Fortune is a great hatterer, and those
who listen to her are sure to be beaten at
last.
Nature has wisely arranged matters 50
that a man can neither pat his own back
or kick himself.
When a man has not a good reason
for doing a thing, he has one good reason
for letting it alone.
Gentleness is not a separate and distinct
faculty. 1t is the method by which
strength manifests itself.
The way of the transgressor may be
hard, but then no M would expect any
thing else of a road that is travelled 30
much.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
Successful Office Bows

An editor of a great city daily was
anaaking a few days ago about the SER
.'0o u MS omea boy. 81 don't believe
any thing against the boy" said he.
''Arthur is always OIL time, always ready
and quiet, and thoroughly reliable"
Some one who stood by took the occa-
sion to ask a question: ''Is it really true
that a boy who is responsible and willing
is always noticed ?"
80, yes," said the editor; noticed
almost at once, and all over the Office"
"But what are his chances about being
promoted ? In a large office l should
think there wonld be really little chance,
yet one continually sees it stated that
reliable boys are sure to be promoted"
The editor answered with decision:
'The chances are almost certain. /
should say they are certain. A boy who
is reliable and willing to work, and who
shows a disposition to do bis best, is sure
to be promoted as fast as he deserves to
be. Of course, in our Office we have all
sorts of boys-boys who are shiftless and
have no interest in their work, who stay
a short time and drift away. That sort
of a boy doesn't count. But now Arthur
has been with us two years. In all that
time he has been keen and business-like,
ready to do anything, always pleasant
and prompt and capable. The boy be-
fore Arthur was much the same sort Of a
boy. He grew interested in the type
writer. He stayed after hours and prac.
ticed on it till he became thoroughly
skilful with it. That boy is now the
business managers stenographer. The
two boys before him are clerks in the
counting room. Still others are at work
in the building in good places. 1t is
entirely true that a boy who means to
make the most of himself can do it.
We're looking for just those boys
Erchange.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
Some Puns.

Grocers-Put in plenty of ''ginger" in
the business and "prune' down the
expenses.
Hardware Dealer-Keep "hammering"
away and you'll mail" plenty of Gus.
toners.
Green Fruit Dealers-"By their fruits
We shall know them"
Observation-Disclosures the dollars
and the cents will look after themselves.
Delicatessen Dealers-The "wurst"
spell of trade has an ending.
Jewellers and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
your business carefully. Eternal vigilance
is the price of success.
Shoe Dealers-"Goods well bought are
half-soled." Treat patrons SO that the
first sale won't be the ~"last."
Confectioners-Give customers salts
faction; that's a heap better than "taffy."
Florist and Fish.dealers-You needen't
be "fresh" but your stock ought to be.
Butchers-Don't "steak" your hopes
on the promise of delinquent debtors.
"Chop" EN- off from further credit al
once.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
A Defence of Prayer.

The childhood Of the world is not yet
over; and, in our natural weakness,
instinct is called upon to supply the place
of reason. By instinct all men pray,
though they cannot explain how fore
knowledge and free-will are to be recon-
oiled; nor does any one whether meta
physician, saint, or student Of science,
understand how the primal energy sus-
tains and fills the faculties of creatures,
or what is the influence of eternity or
things of time. These questions We must
leave as we found them. Yet We see, In
the material universe, that all things
receive of the sun in their several ways
the forces which they need, appropriating
and applying them to ends which are
fulfilled, not in the source out of which
energy flows but in the organisms that
make 1t their own. Spiritual influence
may be conceived Of upon this pattern.
We give many names-grace, inspiration,
enthusiasm; but who can deny its exis-
tence? Has it not been the creative force
Of religion? And may not every n who
will submit to It's power realize ia himself
what is meant by Conversion and a
new cr~eature"? When, asks the critic,
has there been witnessed an answer to
prayer? When? Are the great religions
of the world such Insignificant and paltry
phenomena that We may pass them by in
this inquiry?
What power was it that overcame In
the martyrs, or built the inconsistencies, or
filled with courage and compassion the
Vincents of Paul, or those who put an
end to the slave trade, of the tender
hsarted woman that dedicate their lives
on battlefields, in leper hospitals, amid
scenes the most repugnant to flesh aud
bloodP Unless we shut our Eyes to these
things, and ten thousand like them, we
must acknowledge that prayer has done
more than remove mountains; it has 1 say,
created civilization-not the steam
engines and the Stock Exchange, indeed,
which some would call by that abused
name. but the human spirit of pity, self
control, justice, mercy, and hope, where
by alone men have become god.like. No
other force could have achieved this great
and enduring miracle. For it was not
secular knowledge, not the order of con-
quering barbarians, not even the graceful
amenities of literature and social inter-
course, but religion, that gave us our
present Gospel, which we allow to be true
even when we break its commandments.
And ask, where would that religion
have found a beginning, how could it
flourish, during what time would it con.
tinue 10 survive, unless millions had
believed in the power of prayer, aud
thousands upon thousands had praCtieed
its-Nsneteenh Century.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

A mans health is the rope by which he
climbs to success. Yet his health is the
very thing he neglects more than any-
thing else. 1t is easier to keep health
than it is to regain it. When a man feels
himself running down, when he realizes
a loss of vitality and energy, be must call
a halt. The strands of his rope are parting
rapidly. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery has helped thousands of men
in just this condition. 1t makes health.
it makes pure, rich blood, 1t forces out
impurities and kills germs. It doesn't
make any difference what name you call
your trouble by-dyspepsia-kidney disease
neutrality-suspicious. disease,
the "Golden Medical Discovery will cure
it absolutely. None of these diseases can
retain hold or the body when it is full of
rich, pure blood.
Send 81 one-eent stamps to cover cost
OF mailing only. and receive free a copy
of DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser. Address.
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
Testing Seed Corn.

IGy. TxrTne1s geu6fany S45 10 57PaEas
in boxes of earth, but there is a more
simple and better way. Take a common
dinner plate and fit two or three pieces of
thick wooden cloth in the bottom. Over
this cloth lay the corn to be tested,-not
less than 100 kernels-evenly distributed.
Pour in enough warm water to cover the
cloth. Then warm another thick wooden
cloth and lay it over the corn. Set the
plate in a warm place, and conditions are
as favorable for termination as one could
wish. The upper cloth will keep moist
as long as there is any water in the plate.
1t does not dry out so quickly as tho tcr
soil in q box of earth. Another advan-
tage is that you may turn back the upper
cloth as often as you please and see what
progress the corn is making, and no harm
will be done. The test may be carried
on in the sitting room, If necessary, and
everything about it is neat and clean.
AS soon as q third or more of the
grains are we'll sprouted they may be
counted and thrown out, to make more
room for the others. When all the seeds
that had vitality have sprouted, those
that remain may be counted, and the
percentage of growing grains easily cal
culated. 1t should be remembered, how
ever, that n cannot expect SO large a
per sent. to grow in the field as in a test
made under such favorable conditions.
Also that the poorer the seed corn the
wider will be such difference. If seed is
80 perfect that 100 per cent. will grow in
the field, it cannot deviate from a 100 per
cent. test. But seed corn may have a
low vitality in some of it's grains, so that
In a favorable trial so or go per cent. of
it might sprout, when not above 10 per
cent. would grow in the field. Seed corn
preserved over winter in the ear is in the
best condition for making the test. Do
not take all the test corn from a single
ear, but take a single kernel from a GEN.
trail part of 100 ears, and from ears taken
from different parts of the bin, and you
have a fair sample of the whole Stock
O. L. He'll In american AgricUlturist.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
I JUST KEEP LIvIN' ALONG.
BY FRANK L. TANToN.

Bone folks they keep huntin' tor sorrow,
They sigh If they're right or they're wrong
But this days as good as tomorrow,
so just keep Twin along.
1 just keep livin' along,
l just keep singin' q song.
There's no use to sigh
While the SUMS in the sky,
sol just keep livin' along.
When the Lord made the world was l In 1t
10 give Him di%rections2 He knowed
1 wouldn't know how to begin it,
Bein' nothin' but dust by the road.
SO just keep livin' along,
AND l can't say the Lords work is wrong.
never will sigh
while He's runnin' the sky;
1 just keep a Twin along.
I'm thankful for sun and for showers;
I'M Lord makes the winter and Nav.
ana He'd hide all the graves with His flower.
II folks didn't weed 'em away.
So just keep livin' along,
Still thankful for sunlight and song
know when it's snowin'
roses are CROWN,
so just keep alvin along.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

Mr.. D. P. Davis, q prominent livery
man and q merchant Of Goshen, Va, has
this to say on the subject Of rheumatism:
IT take pleasure in recommending
Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheuma-
tism, as / know from personal experience
that it will do all that is claimed for it.
A year ago this spring my brother was
laid mp 10 bed with infiammatory rheuma.
tism and suffered intensely. The first
application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm
eased the pain and the use of one bottle
completely cured him. For sale by George
NJ. Andrews, Druggist.<
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

In the valleys of California grows a tall,
slender-stemed liliaceous plant, with pur-
pie and white flowers, which plays an
important part in the economy of the
Spanish population, and is still more or
less used by the country people. It is the
w~ell-known amole, or soap plant. This
bulb has the detergent properties of a
The plant, we understand, is not popular
with the hoboes and others of the genus
tramp who "move on" in the summer
land of the Californian.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
Executors' Notice,
Administrators Notice.

GHAs. II. RICHMAN, Administrator OF
" Edward Wallace. deceased, by direction
of the Surrogate of the county of Salem,
hereby gives notice to the creditors of the
said Edward Wallace, deceased, to bring in
their debts, demands and claims against the
estate of the said decedent, under oath or
affirmation, within nine months from the
date hereof, or they will be forever barred
of any action thereof against the said Ad-
ministrator. CHAS. FL. RICHMAN,
Dated April l, 1896. 43 Administrator.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

For every quarter in mans pocket there
are a dozen uses; and to use each one in
such q way as to derive the greatest bene-
fit is a question every one must solve for
himself. W. believe, however, that no
better use could be made of n of these
quarters than to exchange it for a bottle
Of Chamberlajn's Collie, Cholera an d
Diarrha@ Remedy, a medicine that every
family should be provided with. For sale
By George M. Andrews. Druggist.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

Of all the people need to take a course OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla at this season to pre-.
vent that rundown and debilitated con-
dition which invites disease. The money
invested in half 3 dozen bottles of Hoods
SarsaParilla will come back with large
returns in the health and vigor Of body
and strength of nerves.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

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The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

One solitary philosopher may be great,
virtuous and happy in the depth Of pow
erty, but not a whole people.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
CONSUMPTION

And IT'S : CURE
To THE EDITOR:-I have an absolute
remedy for Consumption. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been already
permanently cured. So proof-positive am |
of its power that | consider it my duty to
send tho bottles free to those Of your readers
who have Consumption, Throat, Bronchial or
Lung Trouble, if they will write me their
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~ The EditoiSal and Business Management Of
tits Payer Guar sntee this generous Proposition-
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

It is no worse for a woman to paint her
checks than for a man to paint his nose.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

HooD's PILLS are easy to buy. essy to
take. easy to operate. Cure al t.vSf ills.
IS cents,
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

Boils and pimples are due to impure
blood. Remove them by making the blood
pure with Hoodss 6arsaparilla.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01

The very best way to know
whether Dobbins' Electric Soap is
as good as it is said to be, is to
TRY IT YOURSELF. 1t can't deceive
YOU. Only be careful not to get
an imitation. There are a great
many Electrics and Magnetics, all
intended to deceive the public into
supposing that they are Dobbins'
Electric, or just as good. We
have made this since 1860. 1t is
the original Electric, and is guar
anteed to be worth four times as
much as any other soap ever made.
For washing anything, from the
finest lace to the heaviest blanket,
it is without a peer. Only follow
directions.
all that we say On the
READ Two wrappers around the
nApcEIUIN soap, and then see for
OAnEE JILL yourself, whether or not
you can afford to ever
use any other soap than this, after having heard
its own story. told you by your W test of it.
DOBBINS SOAP MFG CO.,
. Successors to l.. L. Cragin & Co.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
lVoRYSoAP
90 - PURE

At all grocery stores two sizes of Ivory Soap Are sold; one that costs
five cents a cake, and a larger size The larger cake is the more con-
vennnt and economical for laundry and general household use. If your
Grocer is out of it, insist on his getting it for YOU
Tmp amruAn .uur 20 cmr
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
u ! Yss, Protection elton aaCATARRH

we positively state
that this remedy
does not contain
mercury or any 9th.
er injurious drug.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-01
ELY'S

EIY 5
CREAM BALM
Cleanses the Nasal
Passages, Allays In
f~ammation, Heals
the Sores. Protects
the Membrane from
Colds, Restores the
Senses of Taste and
Smell.