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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
FLORENCE,
A New Postoffice Established-Pol itical
and School Notes.

Florence, Sept. 17.-(Special Core
spondence.)LThe executive committee of
the peoples party are to hold meeting
here on the 23d instant d. w. Day, the
congressional candidate of that party, is
expected to be here that day.
postoffice is to be opened at the old
Cross place, nine and half miles from
Florence on the Huntsville road. This
will be a much needed convenience to a
large section Of country.
Mr.. Gober, engineer of the water works.
was bitten by snake the other day, but
by prompt application of the proper
snake bite remedies Mr.. Gober was soon
out of danger from the bite of his snake
ship.
Circuit court is still in session.
Some of our numerous schools have
opened and merry voices of the children
as they pass along remind us that school
DAYS are upon us.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
HAMILTON.
Mass Meeting Saturday to Define Corporate
Limits School Opening.

Hamilton, Sept. 16.-(Special Core
spondence)-The West Alabama Agri-
cultural school opened Monday. with
every prospect of most successful term
Something over 100 pupils were in their
seats and quite number reported who
could not be present at the opening, but
will be in school in a very short time.
Teachers, patrons and the people gener-
ally who were present expressed salts
faction at the flattering prospect of the
opening of the school for its second term
There will be meeting of the citizens
of Hamilton and vicinity at the court
house ON Saturday next at o'clock p. m.
for the purpose of deciding what the cor
-porate limits of Hamilton shall be and to
adopt some plan by which all who desire
to move to or near Hamilton can secure
suitable lots.
The drouth continues.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
BUY CORONA COAL.
John X. Warren, Manager.
Telephone 1920.
Four Electoral Tickets in Kansas.

Topeka. ks, Sept. 1.-THE middle of
the road convention has been abandoned
and the populists desiring a straight
Bryan and Watson electoral ticket will
secure it by petition, as the law provides.
Signatures are being obtained in all parts
of the state and the petitions naming
electors will be filed this week. The gold
democrats will also nominate full set
Of electors, which will give Kansas voters
four electoral tickets from which to make
their choice in November.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
FRANKVILLE.

Hog Cholera Is Raging-A DeathA Mar
riaRe.
Frankville, Sept. 16.-(Special Core
spondence.)-Hog cholera Is raging in the
neighborhood.
Little Dan Raines, the 6-year-old son
of Daniel Raines of this place, died the
18th instant The little fellow had been
an invalid nearly all his life.
Frankville has one of the best Sunday
schools in the state. The majority of the
grown people attend regularly.
marriage license has been issued for
Miss Lena Everett of this place and Mr.
Tommie Taylor of Bladen Springs. Ger
emOny TO be performed the 18th instant.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
HUNTSVILLE.
Negro Killed in an Attempt at Highwa!

Negro Killed in an Attempt at Highway
Robbery-Death of a Venerable Lady.
Huntsville, Sept. 17.-(Special Core
spondence)-A report reached the city
Tuesday that negro had been killed up
in the neighborhood of Golightly in an
attempt at highway robbery. The story
is that a young man named Hobbs was
walking alorg the road near Golightly
when negro stepped out of the bushes
and commanded him to hold up his hands.
His hands went up, but one of them hap
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
CULLMAN.

A Youthful Couple Licensed to Wed.
Death OF a Well-Known Republican.
Cullman, Sept. H,-(Special Corre-
spondence.)- One day this week Judge
Hays issued a marriage license to Will
liam C. Holmes, aged 50, and Mary M.
Couch, a maiden of GA summers. 1t is the
groom's fourth matrimonial venture, but
the bride was hitherto unmarried.
A severe case Of diphtheria manifested
itself at the home Of Rev. C. e. Scheibe
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

the vicinity of Oak Grove said that a
week or two ago Mr.. ]. o. Mcmillan, who
lives on the outskirts of CHI Catalogue
swamp had his entire herd of swine kill
ed in a single night by a bear. Next
morning early a chase was organized and
men and dogs went in pursuit of the bear.
He was shot at several times, but none of
the shots proved fatal
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
Regular meals Is cents at
the Opera House hotel.

The sacred concert at East
Lake next Sunday will be the
finest of the season. Weber
in his greatest successes.
Don't miss this. I'd
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
Montano's band at East
Lake till October l for dances,
five nights a week. Go out.

A small bank given for thirty days
to every new depositor in our savings de-
partment.
PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

No. carries Pullman sleeping cars Bir-
mingham to New Orleans.
No. 2 carries Pullman union sleeping cars
Birmingham to- Cincinnati.
No carries Pullman sleeping car Bir-
mingham to New Orleans.
No 6 carries Pullman union sleeping car
Birmingham to Louisville, connecting at
Chattanooga with Southern Railway solid
train Chattanooga to Norfolk. Close con-
neetion made at Norfolk with boats for
Washington, Baltimore New York and Bos-
ton. Pullman sleeping car Salisbury to New
York via Washington.
Any additional information will be cheer
fully furnished upon application at passen-
ger office, No. North Twentieth street.
Birmingham, Ala. Telephone S4S.
j. NJ. CULP,
Traffic Manager, Washington, d. c.
w. H. GREEN,
General Supt., Washington, ID. c.
w. A. TURK,
G. p. A, Washington, d. c.
c. A. BENSCOTER,
A. G. 2. A., Chattanooga, Tenn.
X. l.. NEWTON,
T. p. A., Birmingham, Ala.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

For further Information as to schedules,
rates, etc., call on or write to 8. Jacobs,
johnson. General Ticket Agent, Birming-
ham, or L. A. Camp, Travelling Passenger
Agent Columbus, Ca: w. f. Shellman,
]. C. HALLE. G. P. A.,
Savannah. Ga.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

NORTHERN ALABAMA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
Time table No. 2, in effect September T.,
1896, at 900 9. m.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
Time Table Effective January S, IS!

Trains Nos. 81 and IS carry Pullman vesti-
bule seepers between ST. Louis and Jack
sonville and Montgomery and Port Tampa
Trains Nos. SO and 36 carry Pullman vesti-
bule sleepers between Cincinnati ana Jack
sonville.
Free reclining chair cars between Mont
gomery and Savannah on trains 81 and So.
No. 80 connects at Dupont with through
sleeper for Port Tampa.
Train No. IS, leaving Montgomery at 500
D. M, connects at Port Tampa with Plant
steamship line for Key West and Havana
Any information regarding routes, rates
and schedules will be furnished upon appi-
w. v. LIFsEY, D. p. A.,
Montgomery Ala.
B. w. WRENN, p. 4. NJ,
H. c. NcFADDEN, A. q. r. A.,
Savannah, Ga
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

Taking Hoods Sarsaparilla now will
greatly enhance the benefits of your va
cation outing.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18

West bound-Read down. East bound
Read up.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
SYMMETRICAL c
Artists Find Few That Are the same on
Both Sides.

Artists Find Few That Are the Same on
Both Sides.
Mr.. Phil Morris experiences have led
him to the conclusion hat symmetrical
faces are very few and far between.
The of the average face, he de-
clares, are unequal, and one eye fire.
quently goes up while the other half is
closed. Often the nose is not straight,
and many people have q habit of look
ing as if they were asleep. The dis
tinguished Royal Academy associate
has been giving some account of the
troubles and vexations which come of
portrait painting. There is a touch of
disappointment, he says, when folk see
their own portraits or those of their
friends on canvas for the first time.
Once he was engaged in painting a
lady who had just become a grand
mother, and he had treated very deli
cately the ravages which time had
made. The lady's husband brought
him another portrait, which had been
painted 25 years before, and having ex-
pressed some slight surprise at the new
picture, pointed to the old one and
said: THAT was how he saw his wife"
Nearly all ladies declare they don't
want to be flattered, but the artist who
takes them at their word does SO at his
peril.
According to Mr.. Morris, artists who
devote themselves to portrait painting
are influenced not by mere vision, but
by a certain preconceived idea as to
how they may treat a face. The late
Mr.. Frank Hall, he says, had a book
Lavater's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
pictures Of human types like hawks,
foxes and other creatures, and when he
was about to paint a portrait he used
to try to find out which one Of these
animals or birds the sitter most re-
sembled. For instance, he would en-
large the ears of a fox hunter, and, by
accentuating the features, paint a
most remarkable likeness. 1t is adj
visable, in Mr.. Morris opinion to let the
sitter watch the progress of his
portrait. If this Is done the artist can
tell by the look of disappointment on
the sitter's face when in his estimation
there is anything wrong. Moreover.
by this means, more interest is lent to
the task of sitting. Itappears that
of the reasons the queen allows herself
to be painted so often by Herr Angel
is that she can see the work in progress.
Some artists, unlike the Austrian
painter, are martyrs to nervousness,
and decline to allow the sitter to see the
portrait before it is completed.-Lon
don News,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
MANS STATURE.

The American Indian Found to Stand
Higher Than Any Other Race.
The anthropometric statistics of the
United States provost marshal gener-
ais Office are quoted as showing some
remarkable facts in this line taken
from the measurement of union sol
diers during the late war, and compris-
ing the latest census of the kind which
has been taken in this country. From
this it appears that. in the comparative
table of stature, ranged according to
na~tionalities, the American Indian was
found to stand higher than any of the
other races of the world, his average
height being given as 81. 90 inches; the
white citizen of the United States
coming next, with an average stature
of 67.67 inches; the United States
Negro ranks only fourteenth in
the scale, and of all the
in the world considered the
Portuguese were found to be the short
est, averaging but IS. 43 inches. The
total mean height of man was 81. so
inches. Again, in the table giving the
relative heights of United States SOL
diers, those from Kentucky appear to
have ranked first, having an average
height of SO. 81 inches; Kansas came
second, and Connecticut was last, with
an average of SO. SO inches. Singularly
enough, as compared with tables COM
pleted ten years before the war closed,
these statistics showed an increase of
average height, it is said, in each one
of the states, without exception.-Bos-
ton Herald.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
TELL-TALE COAT COLLARS.
How Your Tailor Knows whether You
Pay Your Bills.

How your Tailor Knows whether You
Pay Your Bills.
The man who thinks he has the best
of his tailor had better take OF his coat
and examine the tags under the collar,
where with great q = the fashioner
of garments has sewn In. There let
him look at the stitching which binds
that innocent-looking bit of linen to
the cloth. Let him then see whether
the tailor is q fool OF not
As surely as bad habits leave their
mark upon the c~ountenance of the
wicked, SO the willy fashioner of ward
robes has set his seal. The honest man,
the beat, the slow payer, the schemer
and the dolt are known by the stitches.
BY their marks We shall be understood.
OF words to that effect.
The object of this new sartorial fancy
is to enable knights of the shears to tell
at a glance whether you are good pay
or not. It's all in the threads, as ii
were. Here is the key to these ingen-
ious tags Of the tailor. The "jog''
stitch Is the one regularly used for good
customers, who require good work,
The eriss-cross Ia significant of slow
pay, The stitch with dots and dasEes,
which looks like the Morse alphabet,
tells the inquiring tailor that its owner
is a bad risk. The reverse dot stitch
shows the good fellow who wishes his
friends to dress well, but hates like
thunder to pay, what they will finally
owe on his introduction.
The round urves are used to indicate
a mean man, and the tag With convex
loops at each corner is q sure black eye
for the wearer. It's a good scheme,
altogether. the tailors think.-N. Y.
World.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
just as I am. without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me.
And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee,
oh, Lamb OF God, I come, 1 come.

just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee,
oh, Lamb OF God, 1 come, 1 come.
God is going to save you. You are
going to be among the shining ones.
After the tolls of life are over, you are
going up to the everlasting rest; you
are going up to join your loved ones.
departed parents and departed chill
dren. 'Oh, my Godr' says some man.
how can 1 come to Thee? am so far
off. Who will help, 1 am SO weak? 1t
seems such a great undertaking." oh,
my brother, 1t is a great undertaking.!
1t is so great you cannot accomplish
it, but Christ can do the work. He
will correct you heart and He will cor
rect your life. "Oh," you say, II will
stop profanity" That will not save
you. ''Oh," you say, II will stop Sab
bath breaking" That will not save
you. There is only one door into the
kingdom of God, and that is faith; only
one ship that sails for Heaven, n that
is faith. Faith the first step. the
second step, the hundredth step, the
thousandth step, the last step. By faith
we enter the kingdom. BY faith we keep
in. In faith we die. Heaven a reward
of faith. The earthquake shook down
the Phillippian dungeon. The jailer
said: what shall I do?" Some of
you would say: Better get out OF the
place before the walls crush you"
What did the apostle say? Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved" "Ah." you say there's
the rub" What is faith? Suppose you
were thirsty and 1 offered you this
glass of water, and you believed /
mean to give it to you, and you came
up and took it. You exercise faith.
You believe l mean to keep my promise.
Christ offers you the water of evsrlast-
ing life. You take it. That is faith.
Enter into the kingdom of God; enter
now. The DOR of life is set wide open.
I plead with you by h bloody sweat
of Gethsemane and the death groan of
Golgotha, by cross and crown, by
Pilates court room and Joseph's sepul-
cher, by harps and chains, by kingdoms
of light and realms Of darkness, by the
trumpet of the a%rchangel that shall
wake the dead, and by the throne OF
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb,
that you attend now to tho things Of
eternity.
Oh, what a sad thing 1t will be If,
having come so near Heaven we miss
It'll Oh, to have come within sight Of
the shining ~pinnscles of the city and
nc have enteredl Oh, to have been
SO near we have seen the mighty
throng enter, and we not joining theml
Angels of God, fly this wayl Good
news for you, tell the story among the
redeemed on highl If there be one
especially longing for our salvation,
let that one know it now. We put
down our sorrows- Glory be to God
for such a hope, for such a pardon, for
such a joy. for such a Heaven, for suoh
a Christi
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
Pugnacious ..Gators.'

in an Alabama town q storekeeper
received from a Florida friend n two
foot alligator. which he put in O tank
in his back yard. A few weeks later
he received another alligator from
Louisiana, and then bad a Iurge tank
made to receive both saurians. For a
lime al went well, the gators grew
rapidly. played with each other anna
bly,. and were n eourcc of pride to
their owner One day, however, some
enc threw a piece of meat in the tank.
and both animals seized it at once.
Immediately there was a fight. The
two aliigators reared and clawed each
other until the water vas dyed with
blood. The storekGeper and lis friends
poked the combatants with poles, but
they kept at 1t until the Louisiana alli-
gator succumbed. Then the victor
proceeded to eat his adversary, but WI
hauled out by the tail and put in the
email tank to cool off.@Goldeu Age.
-
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
THERE WAS NO SECOND VERSE.
MIR. Dash Didn't Know He Was Hearing
the Lords Prayer,

MIR. Dash Didn't Know He Was Hearing
the Lord's Prayer,
The occasion was n of the semi.
musical Sunday evenings which we all
knew well. Mrs. Dash had attended
from genuine love for the hostess, but
young Mr.. Herbert Dash, her son, was
there only out of filial respect and an
ardent desire to please his mammal.
The host was u musical devotee, but
made the unfortunate and famiiiaP
mistake of overrating his own voice
and it's power to please.
Young Mr.. Dash had done all that the
strictest adherence to good form could
ask. He had listened and he had apr
plauded until, finally, finding himself
~tete-a-tete on the sofa with charming
Miss Blank. he yielded to natural i'm.
pulses and listened to the music of her
voice rather than to that which came
from the plano. In his w mind he
had become convinced hat in truth
virtue is it's own reward. His con
seriousness of a duty well Ion had per-
Naded his very soul Satisfaction
beamed from his eyes.
Miss Blanks power of repartee kept
him constantly on the alert. He dearly
loved a conversatienaliat who was
witty In an honest, wholesome way.
In their secluded corner he felt no re-
morse at enjoying the good things
the gods had sent. The group about
the piano was not disturbed and the
semi-contidential attitude consequent
upon the subdued tones lent an addi-
tionnl charm. All was peaceful as a
summers dream.
Suddenly there was a Iull. The voice
ct the plano ceased, Those near by
murmured their applause. Mr.. Dash
looked up. paused a moment in his
chat. clapped In the subdued fashion
appropriate to Sunday night and ex-
claimed: "Charming! Excellent! My
dear sir, could you not give us the sec
ond verse;"
Instead of the expected eagef Ee-
Spouse and the consequent renewal of
the music, under cover of which the CON
tldences might also be renewed. silence
fell upon the entire group. Presently
a voice aroSe:
Herbert" said Mrs. Dash. chat was
the Lords prayer'-N. Y. Herald
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
Harper's Magazine
IN 1906.

Briseis, a new novel by william Black, writ
ten with all the authors well known charm Of
manner, will begin in the December number,
1888, and continue until May. A new novel by
George du Maurfer, entitled The Marian, will
also Degln during the year. IL is not too much
to say that no novel has ever been awaited
with such great expectation as the successor
To TrtIby. The Personal ReeollectiOns of joan
of Arc will continue and will relate the story
or the failure and martrrdOm of the Maid of
orleans. Other important fiction of the year
VIII De q novelette, by Mark Twain, under the
title, Tom Sawyer. Detective: a humorous
three-part tale called Two m from
Muddlety, by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell: and
short stories by Octave Thanet, Richard Hard
ing Davis, Mary Il. Wilkins, Julian Ralph.
Brander Matthew's. Owen Wister. and other
Prof. Woodrow Wilson will contribute sis
papers on George washington and his times,
WIN Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Poultney
Blgelow's history q. The German Struggle for
Liberty. Illustrated by II. Cation Woodville,
Will be continued through the winter. Two
papers on st. Glars defeat and Mad Anthony
Whynes victory, by Theodore Roosevelt. with
graphic illustrations, will be printed during
A noteworthy feature of the Magazine during
iSg6 viii be a series of articles by Caspar W
whitney. describing his trip of 1900 miles on
snow-shoes and with dog-sledge trains into the
unexplored Barren Grounds of British North
america III pursuit Of wood-bison and musk
added interest of being illustrated from pho
tographs taken by himself.
The Volumes of the Magazine begin with
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tons will begin with the Number current at
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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
One Way to serve Fish.

A boiled as well as a baked fish is
o attractive when served upright,
rs II swimming. Here are the direc-
tions for holding it in this position:
Place a carrot inside the fish to give it
roundness and stability and prop it on
both sides with pieces of carrot or tur-
nip. The head must be wrapped with
cord or a strip of cheesecloth 10 keep
it from losing shape, and the whole is
held in position by strings going
around the strainer. If a fish is too
large for the kettle it may be cut into
halves or thirds and when cooked laid
carefully together on the dish and gar
nishing placed yer the cuGa-Chicago
Tribune.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
HARPER'S WEEKLY
IN 1896.

Harper's Weekly is a journal for the Who'll,
country 1t deals with the events of the worlc
that are important to Americans.
Ralph visited China and Japan, ana isjg oarneyet
through the West; Richard Harding Davii
took a trip through the Caribbean Sea; the
and illustrated by Rufus +. Zograum; Fred
eric Remington presented studies of Army
the opening of the Kiel Canal.
In 1895 like attention will be given to every
notable happening. The chief events In art
a arsEarSli a Pres @nsaS avg W.. De D. a aGS% e VIM IN the be
new department, Life and Letters. will discuss
tons Of the time. Z. s. Mathis spriaa6ily
gossip of the Busy World will be continued.
The progress of the transportation Commits
sion aroun the World will be followed, and
Caspar w. Whitney will conduct the depart
mont of Amateur Sport.
In 1885 Will occur a Presidential election. In
its editorials and through its political car
toons the weekly will continue to be an indie
pendent advocate of good government and
In fiction the Weekly will be especially
strong. 1t will publish the only novel of the
year by W. d. Howells. and a stirring serial of
stories selected are of unusual excellence and
interest; In every respect HarPer's Weekly
trated Journalism of the world.
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