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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
FOR SALE.


$22, 300 for the WATTS building, situated on
lot 55x100 feet, northeast corner 3rd avenue
and goth street. The building is stories
with hydraulic elevator steam heater and
all modern conveniences 1t cost $35, 00o
and the owner refused $4,000 for the va
cant lot before the building was erected
The property must be sold and 1t is a
rare bargain.
$1,000 for a 2-story brick store house. CEN
trally located and always rented we'll A
good investment.
$500 for 2-story residence, most desirably
located on the South Highlands.
$500 for a 2-story residence, with Kitchen
servants rooms and other improvements
said to have cost over $1,000
$4,000 for an S-room dwelling on Avenue D.
between 10Th and Goth streets. This is a
bargain. The lot is worth the money and
the improvements cost more than the
price asked.
$1,000 for lot 100x200, at East Lake, with i'm
provements worth the money, in good re-
pair, and will sell on easy terms.
$500 for lot 40x100 on 10Th street, between
3rd and 4th avenues, with 7-room dwelling
in good repair; easy terms.
$500 each for lots 50x190, on Avenue HI, be-
tween 18th and 18th streets; easy terms.
5000 each for several lots 50x125, near Beh-
rens' park and the new car wheel works
$25 cash. balance IS monthly
$150 each for 500 lots in Smithfeld; s25 cash,
balance S. per month.
$50 each for z lots at East Lake; $40 cash,
balance $3.50 per month.
500 per acre for 40 acres of rich land, within
quarter of mile from Birminghams
corporate limits; easy terms.
$50 per acre for several 10-acre tracts; close
enough for gardens and truck farms.
In addition to the above we have all kinds
of property very cheap, and on easy terms.
T. II. MOTION & CO.,
Real Estate and Insurance Agents.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
Business and Politics.

Birmingham, Ala, March IL, 1896.
To the State Herald
One of the urgent needs at the present
time is the application of some of the bus
mess rules of this country to politics.
There is not business institution in this
country that would permit one of it's en-
ployes to run around over the country for
months hunting job and continue said
employe in his position on salary.
If 1t is argued that the office seeker is
working for his party, 1t may be ans wer-
cd that If his interests were not involved,
or if he was not paid, he would not be in
the field.
If the country can get along without
his services three or four mOnths while
he is hunting another job, II can get
along without his services all the time.
If he is fitted for the position and has
served his country well. he will be called
cut by the people without any desperate
effort on his part.
From a business standpoint 1t seems
that a certain congressman ought to be
al his post now and assist In the solution
OF the currency question, instead of be-
ing here stirring up this question and
making It more difficult to settle. have
made yp my mind that I will never vote
for any man who leaves public position
FOR any material length of time. while
dra wing a salary from the same, to work
for another position, because 1t is not
inst. appeal to all business men to
give this subject some thought.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
CURSED.
For Sixteen Years Compelled to Eat Pound
of Poison Weekly.
Almost Incredible Story of Suffering
Told by Louisianian.

1t is wonderful what a human being
will endure. Just look around and see
the people day after day toying with life
and health, the most precious things we
have, as if they were the commonest of
all earth's good things.
Nature will not be imposed upon. She
is bound to get eyen-to square accounts.
So man starts habit, but nature con-
tinues it, and, for punishment, he can't
quit. Take the case of George Rathban.
For sixteen years he had to fill his sys-
tenn with poison to keep from going in
sane, and he would be still in the rack
of torture had not No-To-Bac cured him
cured the ha bit of sixteen years in six
teen days. Read his letter:
Bonita, La, Aug. IS, 1895.
Gentlemen: / have been completely
cured of the tobacco habit by using No
To-Bac. / have used tobacco over seven
teen years. Four pounds month is what
l used for sixteen years Of my life, and
believe that No-To-Bac will cure anyone
that will take half box. l took six
tablets one day, three the next. three the
next, and one the next day, and I was
completely cured. After that l had to
take eight more tablets to cure me of
nervousness. Twenty-one tablets you
see, made final cure, and all in sixteen
days. l can very highly recommend Mo-
To-Bac to all who are cursed with the
tobacco habit and want to get rid of it,
One box win cure the worst case l ever
saw. Very truly yours,
GEO. -RATHBAN.
Now, dear reader, tobacco user for a
little or long time, don't say 81 can't be
cured No-To-Bac makes it so easy to
quit. and will do you so much good for
your nerves. blood and manhood. You
don't have to take our word for 1t. Buy
1t from your own druggist under abso-
lutte guarantee of cure. Get our booklet
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
Life Away" Written guarantee and free
sample mailed for the asking Address
The Sterling Remedy company, Chicago
and New York
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
12-22-1m
FOR RENT

FOR RENT.
The best stand In the city for wholesale
business. Adler, Durham & Co. old stand
on railroad tracks and Goth street.
81 rooms over Galatoire's old stand 21st
street, newly papered and painted, cheap
113 and lis oath street, cheap.
PA and PIG 22nd street.
FOR SALE.
100 feet front by 200 feet deep. on Avenue I,
100 feet from 21st street; elegant 8-roOm
house, all modern Improvements; $5O0o
$5OO0-Best bargain on the market. Lot
10Ox2O3, walled in with brick; cement walk ;
Groom house, bath room on each floor;
finished throughout new barn; South
Highlands; dummy and electric cars
$20OO-20ox190 houses on 18th street and
Avenue H; rents for $50 per month.
S8O0-200x190, 14th street and Avenue II.
An elegant residence on 18th street, South
Highlands, 70x212, between 10th and 18th
avenues $1,000.
S0x225, on corner 23rd street and Highland
avenue; beautiful residence; all modern
improvements; $4,000.
$500 will buy 50x212. nice residence, on cor
ner Goth street and 18th avenue.
Money to loan on well located business
and residence property
MALONE & BELL, 2017 list avenue.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
LOANS.

MONEL LOANED on diamonds, watches,
jewelry and most anything of value. Lib
eral, confidential and responsible. Old
gold and silver bought. Standard Loan
Co., 201O LIST avenue. 11-20-tf
MONEY TO LOAN-On furniture, without
removal from $40 up. 8. r. Searle. 18th
street, between 1st and I'd avenues.
my2-3m f.gsa<
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
FOR SALE.

s100075ox190, with store house and residence
combined, in splendid business location.
$lS50-5Ox19O, with good 2-story, Groom
house. fronts on electric car line; $2l5
cash, balance SIT per month.
$40 per foot-75X140, on End avenue, between
10th and 18th streets.
$20O0-50x100, with Broom cottage, on 9Th
avenue; terms easy.
S1700-50X140, on 4th avenue between 23rd
and 24th streets, with Broom cottage.
ance u and "a months.
sl500,5Ox240 on Sth avenue, between 21st
and END streets.
s1O00-lOGx240, on 9th avenue north, between
18th and 10Th streets.
$425-50x190, on Avenue f, between 26th and
9th streets.
s%5-50x100, with houses, Avenue e and
18th street.
$550-17 acres in miles of city residence
and spring.
$650-10 acres in Az miles of city, with good
broom residence.
For rent-S-room 2-story residences. on
Avenue @, between goth and 21st streets: S25
HAGOOD & THOMAS
20l5 LIST Avenue.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12

800 each--3 good lots in Smithfeld
$30O-Good 3-room house near Spring street,
on Avenue A. in Avondale.
$1O0-135x150, just " block from station in
s4cCoHs acres with an $4,000 modern resi-
dence, Just one block from East Lake
dummy line.
s1sOO-le0xl4O, beautiful corner lot with 2
houses, on Avenue e, near ice factory.
s25OO-The "Hawkins' place." on Elyton
old place cost $1,000 to build, and has 10
large shade trees. big lot well, etc.
s1500-7T1s feet on Avenue e between 21st
. near G.; all for $500. nf
s2sOo-Nice cottage home on corner lot. on
ss0cc1i-s cash, s-roorn, story, modern
house, on Avenue J.. near 18th street
8. e. THOMPSON,
Telephone ~ rs 2lst Street.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
s20OO PER FRONT FOOT

1.-THE Keely corner, at the corner of White
hall and Hunter streets, has been sold to
Mr.. Enoch Jones at $4,000 per front foot. The
property is NlA feet, fronting on Whitehall
street. and running back on Hunter to a
depth of 70 feet"
The above is from the Atlanta Constitu-
ton of March 8, and shows the value of real
estate in city with less natural advan-
tages than Birmingham. Now is the time
to invest here. We can sell property to-
day that we confidently believe will double
in value in less than three years. Call and
see some of our bargains
T. H. MOTION & co.
3-11-1m
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
FOR SALE

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for property
in or near Birmingham, 400 acres of land
on st. Mary's river, Florida Call on or
address the owner, John Mackenzie, 1925
LIST avenue. 3-S-tf
EGGS-Light Brahman variety; guaranteed
pure; $1.25 per. setting. Lee Cowart q
government building. 3-S-6t
FOR SALE-Modern cottage, all conven-
fences, on lot 60x150, in choice neighbour
hood overlooking city, South Highlands;
price $500; cash $500, balance monthly.
Jonas Schwab & Co. 2-11-tf
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12

FOR RENT.
FOR RENT-A 50-acre farm, on the Elee
road, opposite Cleveland, three miles from
Birmingham NJ. L. Potter. 3-6-6t
ROOMS-Furnished; bath service and gas
2217 I'd avenue. 3-10-St
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
REAL, ESTATE BARGAINS

s4O0-Will buy lot 50x200 with good 4-room
cottage and well, In Elyton, renting for SIS
per month.
S1000--Will buy 8 lots, northwest corner Ave-
nue. I'll and 14th street. These lots are high
and dry. They can be sold separately and
on,g good terms.
s2500--WiH buy nine houses on land 2OOx190
feet, northwest corner Avenue II and 18th
street. These houses can be sold seperate-
ly and ON good terms.
$2O00-Wif buy lot 100x14O, with seven houses,
renting for about $25 per month. This
property is close in on b, and half of it
can be sold at same proportionate price
$1750AWill buy so feet front on Humboldt,
with large house, costing nearly $4,000 to
build. Terms liberal.
VIII be glad to have anyone proposing to
buy real estate, or rent a house of any de-
scription, to call to see us.
BAILEY, MCCONNELL g. HOWARD,
221 21st street.
1o-o2-1m ~
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
Residence 1707 Sth avenue North rooms
Residence. 1911 Avenue X rooms.
Brick store, 1929 LIST avenue.
Brick store, 209-11 North end street.
FOR SALE.
50x190-7th avenue, North. S6500
50x2iO-Sth avenue, North, $1,000.
50x14O-3rd avenue, North, $2750.
Brick store 2nd avenue, $12, 500.
5ox1i0-5th avenue. North $500.
2514 5th avenue, North, $4750.
Residence. 18th street, South, $S00o.
Residence, 21st street, South, $4,000.
Residence, 18th street South, $4,000.
Residence, 18th street, South, $3000
w. Il. LISEDY & CO.,
Telephone No. 42. 114ls North 2ist st.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

We are headquarters In California
wines. such as sherry, port and clarets.
We canot be excelled in quality and
prices ON imported and domestic liquors
of any kind. Give us trial and be con-
WINGED. NJ. & A. WISE,
Cor. Morris ave. and Twentieth street.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12


FOR RENT.
No. SO 18th street. rooms bath and SER
wants room in good fix; So
No. 731 18th street, south,5 rooms upstairs
splendid fix, So.
No. 1907 Sth avenue, rooms; bath, hot and
cold; gas and servants room; cheap.
FOR SALE.
Si00-Three room house and lot 50x190 on
Birmingham and Bessemer dummy line
near Hospital station. Terms easy, with
small cash payment.
S7G0-Five-room house and nice lot on cleo
trio car line; S150 cash, balance SIS per
month.
A bargain in Elyton for $1,000 cash-Va-
cant property, good market garden land.
$1400-Store house and small cabin 5th
avenue, between 26th and 9th streets. Easy
terms
$1100-Five-r" house on Nth street,
north. Sma-i cash payment, balance
monthly.
Two houses at Lakeview, on easy terms
and at your own figures almost Come and
let me surprise you for once with a low
price.
2 acres on Enon Ridge; will sell at very
great bargain and extra easy terms; small
cash payment In fifty feet of splendid
spring.
$275Ssx-room house at Lakeview, house
cost $675 alone.
L. G. PETTYJOHN,
1921 Third avenue
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

H16CELlANEOUes
Now is the chance of a lifetime to make
big profits on small investments In grain,
stocks and cotton. Book and market re-
view, explaining how TO make money,
sent free. Beware of Bucket Shops
and irresponsible brokers'. We protect
your interests. Bank references fur
Stock Exchange, Chicago, and 70 Broad
way, New York. l2-thu-sun-tus
The Bryn Mawr Mills, 214 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, Pa, want a salesman ac-
quainted with the country and retail
trade to sell with his goods dry goods on
commission. ,4f.a. 3-12-2t
PARTIES WANTING. their own homes
can obtain some choice bargains on very
favorable terms-payable quarterly or
general commission merchants. 2-11-tf
EXCELSIOR STEAM LAUNDRY-George
"A, Blinn & Son, Proprietors 1907 End ave-
nue.. Telephone 20. Birmingham. 12-29-tf
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12

WANTED-Salesman to sell crockery di-
rect from the factory to the grocery and
general trade: man acquainted with the
trade preferred Address p O. Box 2,
East Liverpool, Ohio. 3-10-3t
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30
Tax the Last Shirt on.

John Sherman, the public thief I'M
der pay for services in plundering this
country, from British money grabbers,
made a speech in the senate on May 20,
1894, in which he said:
II am willing to take that bill as It
came to us from the house, and II It
is not sufficient to supply the neces-
sary revenues, let US add tax on tea,
a tax on coffee, or a tax on anything;
for, as said on a former occasion, I
would vote for a tax on anything; I
would take the last shirt of the backs
Of the people Of the United States
rather than to violate the public faith
Of the government" (See Congressional
Record, p. 1853, May 20, 1860
II conditions continue to grow worse,
It will not be long till the people will
not have even a Shirt" to meet the
demands Of the tax vampires. Then
will come the era Of the bastinado,
bull-whip and cat-o-nine tails-in
which the laboring people will be driv-
en- to their tasks as in the days Of chat
tel slavery. Vote for the old parties
and you will hasten that day!-S0utk
srn Mercury
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30
One of Many.

He was a mechanic in Kansas. His
little saving he had put in a forty
acre tract. Times became hard; no
work; a $40 mortgage took the farm.
Being single he drifted to Kansas City.
He was sober neat, honest. The few
cents he had was soon exhausted. He
struggled in vain to get work. He
never complained. His clothes became
shabby and in time his honest face
became pinched; his eyes sunk deeper
and deeper in his skull; a sickly palor
overspTead his face. He avoided his
few acquaintances. A friend asked me
last week if had seen him lately. No,
not for several weeks. He had; he said
he skunk of to avoid meeting. His
condition was awful. He was a mere
skeleton-starved. His eyes had that
look peculiar to a starved dog, border
ing on idiocy. His mind was all but
gone. Starved in Kansas City, where
wealth and food is piled stories high!
Great God! What a civilization! How
long will men suffer in silence?-Ap-
peal to Reason.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30

The Real Republic discusses farming
farmers, products and prices as fol.
lows: From the report of the secre-
tary Of agriculture for last year, We
find that in 1880 we raised 498, 549, 1878
bushels Of wheat, price IS cents, value
SH4,201 $50. In 1894 we raised AGO.
267,416 bushels OF wheat, price 40
cents, value S225,902,025. In other
words, we raised practically, as much
wheat as in 1880 but got SPAS, 399, 1926 less
money for 1t. The same rule holds in
cotton and all other staple crops. How
the farmers Of this country are to pay
their mortgages, taxes and other debts
live comfortably and prosper and at the
same time the more they raise the less
money they get for It, the goldbug
farmer at the head of the agricultural
department fails to tell us. II the far
mer is to continually get less money
for the more he produ -es, the way we
figure he is bound to find himself In
the hole. He is there now"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30
The Money Powsr.

The London, England, Clarion asks:
Gould England annlhllate the I'M
speakable Turk? Yes, II 1t were not
for the unspeakable English bondhold-
ers. The Christian English arc de-
tered from reBcuing the Christian Ar
menlans by Christian bondholders. Ths
deliyerance OF the oppressed Armen-
ians from bondage would involve the
destruction Of several hundred millions
Of Turkish bonds held by English ban
kerS. And that is the reason why Eng
land does not annihilste the unspeakH
BILE Turk"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30

The educational campaign" Of the
gold bugs appears to be entirely too
convincing In quarters where extreme
ignorance prevails.
But the people of intelligence don't
believe what they hear about atty
cent" dollars, and go right ahead &C
cepting whatever kind Of dollars bear
the stamp OF Uncle Sam.
The following press dispatch from
HazletOn, Pa, shows the danger OF ~
Ing to the ignorant foreign element OF
our population:
Tho monthly pay days Of many OF
the contractors Of this region were In
the past week, and much trouble was
expected in paying of the foreign ele-
ment. They refused to take either pa
per or silver money.
For the past week or two, Anthony
Reitz, a well educated Austrian, who
speaks several languages, has been
among the foreigners and put 1t into
their heads that
The Silver Dollar
was not worth more than so cents, and
when any foreigner expressed a
doubt regarding his statement he read
extracts from American newspapers to
substantiate his argument.
Jacob Hogan, contractor; who is
building the reservoir at Buck noun
tain, employees 300 men, who had lis
tened to Reltz's arguments. The men
held meeting and decided they would
all be gold men, not only politically,
but commercially, and that their labor
should be traded on a sound money
basis only. Reitz, who is an under
boss, communicated this fact to Con-
tractor Hogan, Thursday. The men
Were to be Paid
their months wages on Saturday.
1T did not strike Hogan at that time
that there would be any difficulty in
paying the men in gold. He called at
his bank and demanded $1,000 in gold.
nc was Dill uCh huLlu " hCh IhO bSAASA
told him he could not get that sum in
the entire county. Out Of the $11 900,
900 on deposit In the several banks OF
the county, 1t is estimated that scarce
u 81, 900 In gold is circulating.
THE laborers, however, have refused
beyond the IS limit, to take silver, and
the contractor and his gold standard
advocating under boss are very much
embarrassed In consequence"
There are some good hints in this
for the people. 1t shows the absurdity
Of depending upon gold alone as a cir
culating medium.
It suggests way for working men
to give the gold-bugs a dose Of their
own medicine.
II the people would simply demand
gold for all checks and drafts on the
banks they would soon have orators
in the field talking out Of the other
side OF their mouths.
But the people are more honest than
the bankers. A wholesale boycott Of
bank notes, and silver would make the
bankers beg for mercy. They don't
want their argument taken literally.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30
EXCESS value Of

debt nOw......4, 1876, 462, 755 lbs.
Let all men know it. Let the world
know 1t. Let the common man ponder
this appalling statement Of an I'M
deniable truth. Let our national au-
thorities know It. Let the leaders Of
every political party have 1t shouted
in their ears. Let every administra-
ton that has been in power from the
first of Grant to the last Of Cleveland
be told in trumpet voice that the pub
llcatlons put forth from month to
month as statements from the treas
ury about the reduction Of the nation
al debt by the payment Of three mil
lions or seven millions have been es-
sentially and utterly false. True 1t Is
that the debt has beeen nominallly re-
duced according to the publications;
but 1t has never been so reduced until
by the contriVance Of those who
possess 1t the purchasing power OF the
currency in which the debt was to be
paid has augmented fully as much as
the equivalent of the payment!
All the multiplied millions the peo-
pie have paid have been simply contri-
buted to the bondholdlng class, whose
claim after lifetime is worth as much
as 1t was at the beginning! The re-
sources of great people have been
poured like a roaring river into a sink
hole that has swallowed all; and the
golden streams Of the contribution
have issued silently through thousand
unseen spouts into the private reser-
voirs of the holders of the debt.-Auss
tin Argus.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30

tional convention. Gov. Mckinley re-
fused to act. And now he asks the
American .eOple to make him presi-
dent of the United States.
Il have written down these facts
moderately"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30
A STORY OF PILLAGE.
BONDHoLDERS HAVE PULLED
UNCLE SANS LEG.

The Debt Reduced in Dollars AMI Cents
but Increased In tho VGiue Of the
Commodities It Represents Some
Plain Figures.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30
THE BOND INVESTIGATION.
The Committee Being Treated with
Contempt.

The Committee Being Treated with
Contempt
In order that our readers may real
ize the amazing insolence of these
plutocratic thieves, who are fresh from
the looting Of the U. s. Treasury, we
copy the following from the record Of
the investigation:
Here is an extract from the New
York Times report Of the colloquy be-
tween Senator Vest and Mr.. Belmont:
%. VIII you state what profit was
made by August Belmont & Co., In the
sale or handling of these bonds? A.
| will not.
@. Will you state what profit the
syndicate or combination which ham
died them made? A. l will not.
@. Will you state to whom the
bonds were sold and for what price2
A. will not
" I may tell you, said Senator Vest,
assuming a toga which he had temper,
arily dropped while he was asking the
question. That we shall report these
refusals to answer to the full COM
mittee.'
''Mr. Belmont did not seem at all
alarmed at this prospect. Mr.. Vest
tried one more question.
% Were any persons interested In
the contract except those whose names
appeared on the face OF TT A. de-
cline to answer"
OF course the great ]. Pierrepont
Morgan was equally defiant. He told
the committee just as much as he chose
to tell them and no more.
He gave them no information they
had not already got from the news
papers. He insolently refused to state
what profits he made, and who shared
the booty, or who got the bonds.
Unless the committee takes some ac-
ton to compel these lordly rascals to
answer legal questions they had as
well adjourn and quit the business. n
they tolerate the treatment they are
getting they will deserve, and receive,
the contempt of the cOuntry.-People'a
Party Paper.