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Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-07

PENNMANSHIP, Commercial Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, Busi- ness Correspondence, Business Papers and Forms, Banking, Shorthand, Type writing, Spell ing, Grammar, etc., taught. Mas sey's Business College, Nine- teenth street and Third avenue.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-07
DR. WILLIAMS SKIPPED,

The Williams Drug and Chemical com pany has removed to 2003 Second avenue, Dargin block, where they are putting in a large stock of fresh drugs, with a view to doing a wholesale and re.ail business.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-07

Walker-NeWman Coal Go. Splint Coal. Phone 3l7. s. -16wed- -fri-sun s7 ..4 z
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17

Karl Weihe st Nash's store
has q complete stock Of musical
instrument strings and sheet
music. Most of the latest music
sold at half price.
Bicycles enameled at Yonge
& Mente's.
FOR oysters cooked in all
styles, try the Home Restaurant
j. w. Davis at the city mar
lSet, is headquarters for fresh
fish Of all kinds.
WASTED-To buy for cash
blacksmith tools and az Ed up
right alto horn. Apply TO Il. Z.
Phinney, South Lake Weir, Fla.
-TydingS & Co, at conSldcra-
bic cost, have secured the fOTnu-
la Of a most efficient hair reStOr-
er and daEdruff remover which is
sold under a guarantee. The re-
suits in Ocdia have been wonder.
full.
If YOU want your old suits
made new, send them around and
have them cleaned and pressed at
]. ]. Fuller'S, the tailor and
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17

The Home Restaurant serves
oysters liz all styles.
+. K. Powers has the finest
line Of stick candy in town.
Hot coffee, lunches and cold
milk at the Home Restaurant.
Go to the Railroad Restau-
rant for oysters. Served in all
styles
Best Pepsin Chewing Gum,
) packages 60 pieces) 3 cents.
The Racket.
Hot coffee, cold milk and
lunch at al hours at the Railroad
Restaurant.
F. K. Powers has a new stock
Of nuts, raisins and candies for
the holidays.
-TyGinGs and Co, have just
received lot of new onion sets
Of two varieties.
-Twenty-four sheets of paper
and twenty-five envelopes for )
cents at the Racket.
An experienced cook will
serve you oysters in any style at
the Home Restaurant.
-TydinSs & Co, sell prepar-
alton guaranteed to quickly re-
lieve coughs and colds.
The price will tickle You, but
the underwear won't if bought at
the closing out sale Of J. j. Fuller.
Grand opening of holiday
goods from $50 a. III. to 9 p. IN.
every day except Sunday. The
Racket.
Go to the Home Restaurant
when YOU desire a quiet retreat
in which you may find u whole
some meal.
They are good runners, and
they are going fast. Good hand
kerchiefs !, 6, 5 and II cents at
the closing out sale Of J. j. Fuller.
Mrs. G. A. Browns millinery
stock is going To be sold out re.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17
Grand Christmas Ma;insa Saturday.
Piano Tuning.

Messrs. Harper and Ferguson
with the w. W. Kimbal Piano
Co., of Chicago, are in the city
for a few days. Anyone wishing
their piano attended TO will do
well to have these gentlemen do
the work. They have visited
Ocala before and their work is
fully guaranteed. Address,
HARPER & FERGUSON,
12-15-5td. Ocala, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17

Fresh and salt water fish of
all kinds on ice every day at j.
W. Davis.
Wood boxes cheap at the
Racket.
bicycles to rent, also sundries
for sale and repairing done at
Yonge & Mente's.
Edwards Brothers are head
quarters for oysters.
Walking and driving gloves,
newest shades. Davidson &
VanEchop.
-B'st Crystal River oysters at
zoe. per quart at l.. s. Blacks.
-Yonge & Mente have just re
celved a fine line Of bicycle sum
dries
Fresh and salt water fish on
Ice daily at l.. S. Blacks.
A job lot Of Capes and cloaks,
rs cents to Sc, at the Bazaar store.
Oysters, fresh, fat and fine;
Cedar Key, Csc. per quart; Crys
tai River, 20c. per quart; at L. S.
Blacks.
Putting ties will do for the
maker. We merely display them
and they go at the closing out
sale of j. J. Fuller.
Finest stock of fall garden
seeds, onion seeds, etc, Buist's
and Livingston's, have just ar
rived at Tydings & Co.'S.
Staple and fancy canned
goods, best hams and breakfast
bacon, tobacco and cigars and
new stock garden seeds at +. K.
Powers.
Before selecting your Christ
mas presents, be sure aud exam
Inc A. E. Burnett's stock and
prices, as there are bargains for
everybody.
If you have an old suit that is
too soilcd to wear, send it around
and have it made new by clean
ing Or dyeing at j. j. Fuller's,
the tailor and clothier.
Cottage No. 81, Wenona St.,
Immediately on line of newly
paved streets, all modern conven-
fences, for sale at a bargain. No
better location can be had. Adj
dress j. H. Strunk, Citra, Fla,
Or Amos Y. Strunk, Spring Park,
Florida. DIV
The Racket has on hand tons
of toys, picture books, photo al
buns, autograph albums, scrap
books, dressing cases, collar and
cuff boxes, glove and handker-
chief boxes, cups and saucers,
blocks, games, work boxes, writ
ing desks, shaving sets, toy guns,
fire works, etc.
No one is SO old, no one is SO
young but what fitting and APP
propriate gifts in abundance can
be found in our splendid display Of
popular and pleasing Christmas
presents. The virtue in values,
the beauty in well chosen goods,
and the power of low prices make
my store the best place to do
your Christmas shopping.
A. E. BURNETT.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17
Wanted Country Produce.

Poultry and eggs, potatoes and
all kinds Of vegetables, and high
est cash price paid for same.
W. B. STEVENS,
Near McCarthy's old stand,
Ocala, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17
Will Buy.

l want to buy half and half
Jersey and Holstein bull, not
over three years old. Call on or
address Geo. B. Tyler, Ocala,
Fla, Box 81. d-w-2t 1910.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17
OCALA OCCURRING
General and Personal Items of
Interest About the City.
And Vicinity
r. r. CARROLL, CITY EDITOR

Cedar Key oysters always to
be found at Edwards Brothers.
Will IL. Hopkins has returned
from business trip to Sanford.
Only Cedar Key oysters in
the city at Edwards Bros.
Visiting cards nicely printed
at this Office.
Ralph Birdsey is temporarily
assisting at the Postof1ice drug
store.
The newest weaves and
shapes in "up-to-date' neckwear.
Davidson & VanEchop.
Choice millinery goods at
Mrs. Browns stand going at as
tonishingly low prices.
M. Haughton, of Jacksonville,
is in town on a visit to his family
at the Montezuma.
A mammoth line Of fire works
of all kinds, and the prices arc
right at the Bazaar store.
Choice beef, pork and NUT
ton at L. S. Blacks; best and
, cheapest.
christmas and New Years
cards, l, 2, 3, and cents; just
received at the Racket.
w. M. Ross of Albion was in
the city yesterday afternoon on
business.
Hoods rills are the only pills
to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Cure all liver ills.
Special prices to Sunday
schools and Christmas tree COM
mittees at the Bazaar store.
Leon j. Canova, press repre-
sentative of the Plant System re-
sorts, was in town today on bust
ness.
Stark & Tolson's Comedy co.
at the opera house for Christmas
week. Popular prices, 10, 20 and
80 cents.
Nathan Crown has returned
from the famous Sulphur Springs
in Citrus county, where he was
much benefited. His rheumatism
has almost left him.
Weak nerves indicate deficient
blood. Nervous people find relief
by purifying and enriching their
blood with Hoods Sarsaparilla,
the great nerve tonic.
"A fine lot of stylish and dura-
BILE shoes for ladies and gentle
men just received at n. w. Hack
ett's, but must be sold with the
other goods at cost. Call and
make an early selection.
Thirty head of hogs for sale
at bargain. Apply to Nathan
Mayo, at Autobiography Drug
Store. st.
The Autobiography Drug
Store has gotten out two sets of
very handsome and convenient
calendars, one for the office and
the other for the home.
Mrs. G.. A. Brown, the MILL
ner, is back at her old stand and
will be pleased to see her friends.
She will sell the goods way below
cost.
R. A. Hall, the practical
painter, paper hanger, kalsoniner
and glazier, will be glad to dc
your work. Low estimates made.
Address Box 296, city.
L. J. Bowie, of Talladega, Ala,
who has been visiting his broth
er-in-law, P. Mcintyre, for the
last two weeks, returned home
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-17
Dress Goods.

The most elegant styles Of
dress goods just received and at
The morning news., 1897-04-04

to select odd marrying spots. But a
Brooklyn girl, no relation to the fire
escape maiden, insists upon being welded
in Greenwood cemetery at midnight, while
nearby a rabbit will be liberated and
"shooed" across her path between her.
self and the clergyman. This is to coun-
teract the unlucky day of her BIRTH the
18th of October. Another girl is going
down to Bedloe's Island in a small boat
to be married under the torch of Liberty,
and on Easter Sunday a certain Miss An
ma Leach will ride out to Grants tomb,
on the Boulevard, and be married a few
feet from the spot where Ii Hung Chang
stood, returning on a quadruple wheel
with the clergyman, her father and the
bridegroom.
The fire-escape young woman belongs
to a family of considerable means, and
she is going to do the Easter wedding feat
In a magnificent way, in order to have
something novel at her wedding, and be-
cause she thinks il is very good scheme
to show a handsome white satin wedding
dress to an audience. Francis Taylor.
The morning news., 1897-04-04

our most prominent hote.s. When he
knocked upon the door he was commanded
20 enter Thrown upon the bed i'm a neg
lige costume and exhibiting the abandon
or semi-consciousness was a woman who
was then one of the best known actresses
in America. You have all seen her. 'I
sent Tor you" she said, ito tell you that
every day will send 10 your establishment
Tor an ounce Of Magendie's solutlon''-a
Wei-known preparation of morphine. con-
tanning sixteen grains Of morphine to each
ounce OF the solution Of nlnety-six times
more than ordinary dose-"I am provided
with 1t in every city that visit, and | see
no reason why should not be furnished
with II here"
1T is against our rules" said the clerk.
TO provide morphine In any such duanu-
ties unless we are convinced that the per-
son applying for it Is addicted to its use to
an extent'that would not make that auan-
tity fatal
"I'll easily satisfy you on that score 4"
said the actress, and thereupon she barred
her arms and, to speak plainly, the calves
OF her legs, also. They had been puuc-
tured by the hypodermic needle TO such
an extent that in their roughness thew re-
sembled nutmeg graters. The testimony
was conclusive, and she was daily pro-
vided with sixteen grains of the poison
She died less than one year ago. almost
forgotten In the profession nature had in
tended she should adorn.
Truly, "it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder"
The morning news., 1897-04-04

grains of opium, and one-quarter OF an
ounce of the narcotic would lull you into
the sleep that knows no awakening. He
would give up anything he possesses TO
obtain the drug. When he has found him
self without money he has walked into
one of the most prominent drug stores in
the city, where he is well known, and
said: II have neither the poison nor the
money to procure it, but if / do not get
laudanum / must die" and his look cor
roborated his words. His drawn face and
tottering figure betrayed the agony he
endured. He is never refused that which
he asks, and ten minutes after swallowing
a two-ounce draught his elastic step and
smiling vsage show that he has once
again been temporarily rejuvenated, but
at a frightful cost. No one knows exact
ly how much laudanum he consumes daily,
for no one knows how many drug stores
he visits, but he Is thought to be one Of the
largest consumers of the poison in this
city.
Eor many months daily a handsomely
appointed carriage, drawn by a pair OF
heavy roadsters, driven by liveried
coachman. stopped in front of we'll
known Chestnut street pharmacy. From
it alighted a large. handsome woman,
about 40 years of age, richly dressed and
bearing a profusion of jewels, who inva-
riably ordered from the clerk In charge
sixteen grains of morphine. That drug Is
the alkaloid or active principle Of opium,
and sixteen grains of II are equivalent to
96 grains Of opium. She administered il
through a puncture made in the skin by
means of a hypodermic syringe. She was
married and very wealthy. Her residence
was on RittenhOuse square. This much in
formation she vouchSafed, but never re-
vealed her name. She frequently said that
such an infatuation for the poison possess
ed her that were she without money she
would pawn her clothing and walk about
In rags rather than do without Il. You can
get some idea OF how long abuse of this
terrible drug had increased her ability 10
withstand its effects when you are told
that the ordinary dose 10 alleviate pain Is
one-eighth or one-quarter OF a grain, and
only in the EXTREMIST cases Is one-half OF
a grain administered. From one to two
grains is a fatal dose to persons not ac-
customed to 1t, and yet this woman con-
sumed sixteen grains every day OF her
life. In time, as a result of this habit boils
broke out all over her body but still she
could not stop the evil practice she had
begun Her visits to the store suddenly
ceased What became OF her or whether
she Is alive or dead. the pharmacist does
her name.
Actresses as a class are more addicted
to use Of opium than people in any other
walk OF life. They generally administer
Il 20 themselves by hypodermic injections
OF the solution OF morphine. They inva-
riably, whether truthfully or not, ascribe
their Introduction TO the vice to doctors
having administered Il to them IN prescrip-
tions intended to- aliay internal pains
Some years ago a clerk "a a large drug
store was summoned 70 room IN one OF
The morning news., 1897-04-04
A BASKET OF PLUMS.
lcontInued from seventeenth Page.,

had already abandoned him and left him
to his fate.
The guards gagged him and drove him
between them over the bridge. The last
plums. which had rolled against the foot
way. were picked up and eaten by ragged
boys.
When he was taken before the commits
sary that official recognized him.
again. so soon" he said. severely. you
must be a confirmed law-breaker"
He was taken back to his cell, hand
cuffed.
The day passed and the night. When he
did not return 70 his home his little sister
said, There! did not tell you? He Is lying
drunk IN some ditch"
The poor dead woman was buried by
the parish. The money for the plums had
been confscated by the authorities. When
Pao.ina's trial came on he appeared i'm
beetle. He was sentenced to three days
Imprisonment for having hawked fruit
IN the streets without a license. but no
was condemned TO seven months imprison-
ment for disorderly conduct and resistance
to the police. though he had made none.
This Is how anarchists are multiplied
bv law
fTheEndl
The morning news., 1897-04-04
THE CURSE OF OPIUM.
CONFESSION OF A SLAVE TO THE
INsIDIOUs DRUG.
Megargee, in Philadelphia Times.

Megargee in Philadelphia Times.
Before the narrator is the confession Of
an opium eater. 1t is a genuine docu-
years was a slave, bound hand and foot
by the shackles of one of the most per-
nicious customs that afiicts mankind.
When met on the street few days ago he
said that at last, after herculean endeav-
ors, he had freed himself from the en-
brace OF his monstrous vice. and he
wished to sound a warning note to his fel-
lowmen against the baneful habit. When
asked to write a plain, matter-of-fact
statement of his case, he agreed to do 80,
and here it will be repeated word for
word in the language Of this freed VIC
tim. Listen:
Il was religlously guarded and trained
in my youth. and at II years of age was
clean, religious lad, with but one tad
habit; l saw my father use and taught
myself to chew tobacco. In 1861 J pe-
came a soldier, and in 1862 contracted,
with hosts of others, disease peculiar TO
the residents OF the swamps of the Chick
ahominy. The remedy was 'camphor Ct
opi pills, which used in considerable
quantities. ] formed no bernicious habit.
however, I'm consequence, though / suf-
fered severely for many days after
ceased taking them Could / have been
warned then. II might have saved me
many years OF misery and great physical
anguish. After returning from the war
found myself afflicted, az every change
of drinking water, with the old trouble
used pareBoric, and then laudanum, ana
then morphine. Would to God ] had
fallen IN honor on The feldl / had mar
ried "a lovely Christian woman, whom
adofcd and 1 was the father Of ave chill
The morning news., 1897-04-04

Florida central N PeninsuIar Railroad Co.
0S Line
TIME 20 O1so7.
The morning news., 1897-04-04
THE "LrrTLE WIZARD" GOULD.
How He Helped 10 Preserve WASH
inEton's Home and Tomb.

From the New York Press.
Most people do not know that one Of the
greatest benefactors of Mount Vernon was
Jay Gould. The guide books which are
sold in Washington and on the steamers
running down the Potomac tell OF long
list Of benefactions received by the Mount
Vernon Association; but the name or the
Little Wizard of Wall Street Is not on
those pages. Yet at critical time 1t was
ne and none other who saved the estate Of
the Father OF His Country from a desc
Grafton.
Adjoining the portion OF the Mount Yer
non estate purchased by the association
just out into the Potomac a wooded pro-
monitory, an ideal site for a shore resort
The owner Of this piece OF land fell into
financial difficulties. and 1t was about to
be sold under foreclosure. Some people In
Washington proposed 10 buy II and estab-
lish there a cheap shore resort. a sort Of
Potomac South Beach.
Now II always has been the effort OF the
Mount Vernon Association 70 keep the
home and the tomb OF Washington free
from anything OF the kind. and TO pre-
serve the old place In lifting and dlgni-
fed manner. Visitors are not admitted
to the grounds on Sundays or holidays, and
the place Is kept as nearly as possible as
Il was when Washingtons dying eyes last
saw tia shrine 20 which people should
make reyorent pi.grimages, not place Of
The morning news., 1897-04-04

dren before I became a slave TO the opium
habit. For years 1t has held me; its grasp
surely Strengthening and its torture slow
~ increasing. ! have read DE Quincy's
Confessions of an Opium Eater but have
never found any compensation for my suf-
ferings in magnificent dreams. hours of
exalted rapture, etc. l have been in hell
day and night. / was aware that my
manhood, with every quality or virtue
was slowly slipping from me and was
doomed to the lowest degradation and a
horrible death. My wife knew not of my
habit, though she perceived plainly enough
that l was going to destruction. 1 had
her loving tenderness and unselhsh life
pleading with me. My innocent little ones
appealed most eloquently for me to break
the bonds that held me, Every considera-
ton that religion, natural affection, duty
and society could urge were before me-
but I was shorn of ability to will. On
God! the horror of such a situation! Think
of my having every inducement and help
to reformation with me and l unable to
will my salvation. 1 prayed God for
help. have made the night vocal with
my groanings and almost shrieked in ex-
cess Of despair and anguish, knowing all
The morning news., 1897-04-04

popular resort for a good time. And 50 IL
has been kept.
All vessels passing up and down the riv-
er toll their bells as they pass the place.
and before that iron-grated tomb on the
hillside the visitors stand with uncovered
heads
One day the writer was going down the
Potomac on an excursion steamer on
which there was a band As the steamer
passed Mount Vernon the tolling OF the
steamer bell began and all hilarity was
hushed on board.
The band on the upper deck began TO
play softly Nearer, My God, TO Thee"
The solemn strains Of the hymn through
which came the deep tolling of the bell.
continued until the place was passed. and
hardly a man on board spoke above his
breath. II was most impressive. And yet
foreigners are wont TO say that the Amer
ican people are without reverence and sem
tlmentl
Not long before his death Jay Gould
came steaming up the Potomac In his
yacht Atalanta and stopped ate Mount
Vernon. The superintendent OF the place
showed him about and told him OF the
danger threatening the place from the inn
pending sale OF the adjoining property. As
Mr.. Gould was leaving the wharf he said
TO the superintendent;
''You 20 over TO Alexandra and buy that
property and add II TO the Mount Vernon
estate. and l will pay for H."
The superintendent went to Alexandria
the next day and closed the bargain. He
telegraphed Mr.. Gould and got by the
next mail a check for $4,000 10 pay for
the land. The land originally belonged 60
Washington, and now 10 restored 70 the
estate
The morning news., 1897-04-04

That fire escape had been in her eye all
winter when planning the nuptials, but it
was only recently that she thought how
very useful it would be if made into an
alcove room-so very like the chancel of
a church!
On Easter Monday the carpenters will
enter the room in the fiat and run a lat
uce of iron work and Stats around the
hre escape. Later the decorators will
come and hang tapestries, and then will
come the florists with their potted plants
and vines. When completed the fire es-
cape will be a brilliant and beautiful
bower, over which the wedding bell will
swing.
The bride and bridegroom will enter the
room from the further corner to the
strains of "Lohengrin," cross the room
and mount a small fight of steps to the
fire escape. The steps are temporary af-
1airs, leading from the room 20 the win
dow-sill The glass will be taken out Of
the window so thai twill be like walk
ing up the steps through broad door
way.
Will stand in his vestments. He has pre-
ceded the bride and bridegroom by min
ute. Then the closest relatives Of both
parues VIII walk up the steps and out upon
the escape, and the others will stand
uo"n IN the room below looking up into
the little lowered room
me ldea is not entirely new, that Of
ne'ng married upon a dais. Mrs. Cleve-
nnon ,n,iu wanted sha to be married in that way
ppon tle stars of the white house, where
we company in the rooms could see her
ildlhly But she descended to the Blue
r I'm AIneiie Rives had her first mar
.ioSe ceremony performed upon a dais
CIper a wedding bell, and the Countess
dsIteIane stood upon a raised platform
@ ial step higher than the room. And. OF
eyurse, IN every church wedding there 10
,n pulpit or altar for the high contract
,..s ,ns parties. But this is the first time
""ere the thing has been conducted unon
an original plan.
,,, n.ter tne ceremony the couple will stand
rdcei,.. rpoT thelr lofty platform long enough to
frior1c he congratulations of their
ipp roo,,s ana tnen come down into the din
,,S1ith iHoIh lot the wedding supper. The
onl,. louins lls VIII take place at night and the
lonso '','HS ,,.lS visible from the outside of the
WI De an enclosed fire-escape
t,Ie h.he .he ceremony is over and the cou-
ilon' 'aKe come down from their pereh
dratyn - Escape pOrtiere viii he
win dt 'he window and a carpenter
tions 80 outside and remove the decors-
bniidi,o 80 as not TO interfere with the
of fire eRcane wy opSFuctlon
the WI. ~as intended to serve the sumner for
alIon,liuiai oliuai taole out there. but Il Is moi
nor" .5ie pie 70 obstuet a fire escape FOR
raor ,nore than a few minutes. az flres are os no
one. Ceis OF weddings or occasions
AZ marriages are always occurring
,o,. trent places. A certain Cnrnan
,,oWn Clergyman Of wealth was nsrrit,
0' mount Ararat, his bride ana he 40
The morning news., 1897-04-04

ing half way around the world to be mar
rled on the mount. And few years ago
couple climbed to the top of Washing
ton monument with licensed clergyman
and We're married there A young wo-
man who was very fond of the theater
was married in certain celebrated mu-
scum in New York few weeks ago; and
DR.. De Witt Talmage tells many a good
story about strange times and places Sc
lected by prospective brides for the we'd
ding ceremony, which they had begged
nm IN tears to go there to perform.
In well-peopled city it is not easy