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The times., 1898-05-09

''Doctored to Death could truly be
written on many gravestone. 1t is pit
iful TO think of the sorrow and suffering
that have followed and are following in
the trail of ignorant or vicious medical
treatment The day viii come when stu
pid or mercenary dictoring will be Grim
inal. That day is being hurried by the
wonderful work of Prof. Munyon
Strong Words Of Praise.
Mr.. George F. w. Strictly, No III II
Street northeast, Washington, ID. c.,
says have used Munyon's Remedies for
rheumatism, colds and asthma and find
that there is nothing like these wonder
full remedies. A few weeks ago l was run
down by wagon and had my wrist ter
ribly sprained. / lost complete use OF it
and also my hand. The usual treatment
and remedies were tried without any ben
eft whatever. went to Prof. Munyon's
Institute and after two treatments with
the Static Electric Machine / regained
the complete use of my wrist and hand.
| consider his electric treatment simply
wonderful
Mr.. w II. Clark No. 1877 Street
northwest Washington, d. c., says: 81
was severely troubled with catarrh for
several years. l have been under the
care of a number of physicians, including
two specialists, without being able to
effect a cure. Finally / decided to try
huuH Oii anu etiiA ieiAii'S ~ SaS tiiat tSl
a short course Of treatment | have been
entirely cured. Munyon's Remedies were
also effectual in relieving me of a very
severe attack OF rheumatism.
No matter what your disease is no
matter how many doctors have failed 20
cure you. consult one OF Munyon's physi-
clans. 1t viii cost you nothing and may
save your life. You can buy Munyon
Remedies from any druggist-there are
81 different cures for 81 different ailments
mostly 25c a vial. 623 Thirteenth Street
northwest 1t
The times., 1898-05-09
Women i'm the Pulpit.

Despite the very unfavorable weather,
a large audience assembled yesterday af-
ternoon at the First Congregational
Church 10 hear the addresses delivered
by Countess di BTazZa and Mrs Kate
Waller Barrett, the national secretary Of
the Florence CrittentOn Mission. The
former spoke on Woman and Her
Work and the latter on the question
What Shall Society Do With the Scarlet
Women" The music during the even
ing was under the direction Of Prof
Palmer.
The times., 1898-05-09
Who wouldn't be an American

Who wouldn't be an American !!
Who isn't proud of the American
Eagle-of Dewey and his "un-
chained dogs of war" and the
National Capital Brewing Co. s
+" Diamond and Munchner
Beer-which, like our soldiers, are
as good as the best in the world.
Everybody appreciates their purity
and deliciousness.
ss- Write or telephone 222 for case
of dozen bottles. only SIPS. Ma
ti0uaI apisaI Brewing Co. 18Th. fsth
and ID sts- S.E.
The times., 1898-05-09
Veterans on n Visit.

The veterans of the Sixth Pennsylvania
Cavalry, with their friends, numbering in
all about lao persons, arrived in this city
about ] o'clock yesterday afternoon from
Philadelphia They came on a special
Royal Blue Line train over the Baltimore
and Ohio and were met at the depot by
carriages The party viii spend today
sightseeing and viii return to Philadel-
phia tomorrow.
The times., 1898-05-09
Change of lime.

The street parade of Buffalo BiIrs Wild
West Show will start from the camping
grounds at $3.50 instead of 9 o'clock, as was
announced in yesterdays papers. The
route of the procession will be as follows:
Along North Capital Street to II Street
to Massachusetts Avenue TO Sixth Street
to F Street to Ninth Street to Rhode
Island Avenue to Fourteenth Street to X
Street to Pennsylvania Avenue to First
Street to New Jersey Avenue to Nj Street
to grounds. There viii be two perform
ances each day, at o'clock and at SIS
p. m.
The times., 1898-05-09
The BnItimore ind onio

On Nay IS the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
load viii place in service two Royal
Limited trains, leaving New York at l
y. m. and Washington p. m, making
the runs in five hours
The exquisite new narlor care on the
TNoyal Blue trains put into service today
are the handsomest cars yet turned out
OF the Pullman shops. ap20-tf-em
The times., 1898-05-09

/ have Deen a sufferer from chronic
diarrhoea ever since the war and have
used an kinds Of medicines for IL At
last 7 found one remedy that has been a
success as cure. and that is Chamber
iain's Coiic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy.-P. T.. Grisham. Gaars Mills. La
For sale hy Henry Evans. wholesale and
retail druggist. Sos Street northwest
and Connecticut Avenue and s street
nerfhwest and tan Maryland Avenue
northeast
The times., 1898-05-09

days

teach you what blessing It Is
10 have a comfortable home.
With our low prices and liberal
offer Of credit it is your own
fault if your home is not COM
Portable enough to make you
forget the weather. Have you
a good refrigerator? If you
haven't just come in and look
over our stock. It is without
exception the finest in the city.
Our baby carriage stock. too. is
the prettiest you ever saw.
The times., 1898-05-09
TROUBLES OF HIS OWN.
John Smith, Sixteen Years Old. an
Editor, Drunk and Arrested

Editor, Drunk and Arrested.
The police report from the Fifth Pre-
cinct station yesterday morning showed
that John Smith, an editor, sixteen years
of age. and married, at that, was ar
rested for plain drunk Saturday night by
Policemen Morgan and Smith. When the
attention OF police official at headquar-
ters was called to the case. he remarked:
Married, an editor and drunk, and only
sixteen years of age. Surely, John Smith
his troubles of his OWN"
The times., 1898-05-09
-T.nperf-' our Ffnest Beer.

And our finest Is the finest that can be
frewed We send - bottles in unlnfterea
varons for only EZ Wash Brewery
c. 4fh a II re
The times., 1898-05-09

Kobo. the Great Consumption Cure,
the only remedy that positively cures in
all stages Don't fail to avail yourself Of
the weeks trial free. At Office of KOBO
MEDICINE CO., No. $40 + Street n. W.
ap25-tf-em
The times., 1898-05-09

Yaur creslf is rsos ~ I.ansourrss Tar-
ast1re Heuse 1aih ans 3 eta acs e
The times., 1898-05-09
WITH THE WHEELMEN
Current Comment Concerning
Cyelers anb Cycling.
COMING MEET AT BERKELEY
1t VIII lie One of the Most interest
ing Amateur e, ents of the Season
The Twentieth Century Trophy.
Gossip of the Local CIubs-Other
Notes of Interest.

Perhaps the most interesting amateur bicycle
racing of the year viii take place at Berke-
ley Oval on May p ard IS. when the FIVE events
comprising the championship of the mtercoegi-
ate Association viii be run OF. The events and
the existing reciords one-qnartsr mi,e b Is
seconds; one-half mile, 1906 %; one mile,
2:25 l-5; FIVE miles, 1901 A.; one-rnle tandem,
PIG 80 1t is predicted that all the above
ords win be smashed this year at Berkeley Oval.
Columbia, Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Pennsyl-
vania and other universities will be represented b.
stronger teams than heretofore, for the grow
ing importance of the sport has caused in
tcrest TO be taken in it By college athletes.
Columbia, which has been notably strong in
cycle racing in recent years, has substantial
advantage over her rivals in that the Columbia
riders have their racing camp at the Oval. Thor
ough familiarity with the track, produced by
steady training, gives the New York riders an
'at home feeling that will be difficult 10 over
come. Yale proposes to send her men down
from New Haven several times in order to get
them accustomed to the track Next Wtdnes-
day five of her best riders Will test their speed
in three races against ten Columbia riders. The
Harvard and Pennsylvania riders will probably
come TO this city the 20th 10 train at Morris
Heights. The strong Columbia team now in
training under the experienced eve ef Billy
Young, includes Dawson. Powell Bird, VIII
Jams and Schwarz, They agree that more de
lghtful place could be found to train than al
Berkeley Oval
George Mccarthy, the l. T. W Handicapped
for New Yora State has been invited to referee
the bicycle championships
The Twentieth Century Lamp Company's trO-
phy Is now exhibition Broadway New
York and crowds congregate about the show
window holding it to admire the ma gniflcent 81 600
cup This cup is the first OF the kind given
for competition in America, il Will draw the
lucky winner $25 d week income. The first
for the cup viii take place al the National Cy
cledrome, Ambrose Park, Brooklyn, next S2t-
urday, at the meet OF the Riverside WheemeA
when the New York racing season will be for
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-27

numerous other small novelties. Most of
the toothpick factories manufacture also
the wooden skewers used by butchers and
the housewife, and it is not unusual for
one mill to turn out four or five million
of these little articles of common use every
twelve months.
White Birch of Maine
Most of the white birch of the Maine
woods is utilized for making spools.
There are seventeen spool factories in
Maine, and together they turn out nearly
800 0G0 900 spools. They are shipped to all
parts of the country, and some $4,000 900 900
yards OF thread are wound upon them.
Enormous quantities of the white birch are
also shipped to England and Scotland
where 1t is turned into spools for the eng
lish thread mills. The forests OF white
birch are unlimited. and the mills cut the
lumber and shape 1t into spool bars be-
fore it is exported. This timber is worth
several dollars cord, for, besides making
spools, 1t Is OF value in many other ways
and the novelty mills find plenty of use
for all that the lumber men cut. Checkers
are turned out by these novelty mills in
the same wholesale fashion. One may gain
a faint idea of the popularity of checkers
IN this country from the fact that one nov
city mill received an order recently for
100000 checkers.
Checker boxes, dice boxes. swings wood
en- sleds, bicycle rims, cheap desks tables
are manufactured in these novelty mills
The timber unused in the mills is generally
considered almost worthless, and the fac
torres annually try to find new novelties
that can be made out of the lumber reject
ed by the ordinary lumber man. 1t REQUIRES
a special sort of machinery to make the
various novelties, but after the machinery
is once built the products can be turned
out by the millions at a merely nominal
cost
One remarkable feature of these novelty
mills is the manufacture of veneer goods
When veneers were hand-sawed for cabinet
work, expensive woods only were consid-
cred fit for the purpose, and skilled labor
ers made the delicate strips of wood with
the utmost care. Then machinery was in
vented for saving out veneers and so well
did this perform its work that thirty or
forty veneers could be cut of an inch tn ok
board of mahogany or walnut. There was.
however, certain amount of necessary
waste in the shape of sawdust which in
the aggregate, when dealing with wood
that sold by the pound, amounted to con-
siderable In the course of a year To do
away with this waste somebody invented
the sllcer, which IL a huge knife for cut
ting out vensers faster than the buzz saws
and without any waste at I'll. Some OF the
most delicate woods cannN be cut into
veneers, and must be sawed out, but others
will submit to the operation of the slicer
with remarkable readiness.
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SOME new USES
FOUND FOR LOGS
Picturesque Mills Seen in the
Maine Forests.
LOGS CUT INTO RIBBONS
Seventeen Spool Factories in Maine
Which Turn Out 800, 100000 An
nually-The Toothpicks We
Use Are Made There.

From the New York Times
Many of those who have returned from
summer trips to the Maine woods can re-
call glimpses OF picturesque mills scattered
on the outskirts of the forests. where the
whirring machinery, propelled by primitive
water power, seemed solely intent upon
chewing up all the lumber that was fed to
it. and in return for this kindness 1t spit
out at the other end the greatest quantity
of little sticks, splints and square and cir
GUAR pieces of wood. 1t may not have oc-
Cured to the visitor then how important
the product of these novelty mills were or
how varousiy they concerned his comfort
and convenience in his daily life i'll the
city. There Is scarcely an hour in the day
that one does not use in some way TIE
products of these queer novelty mills, and
IL attention is directed to the subject,
good deal of queer information may be
CLEANED from an examination of the list.
In the first place, the toothpicks which
we so extravagantly use and throw away
every time we eat luncheon at a downtown
restaurant come from these novelty mills.
There are several mills engaged in making
toothpicks, which are literally turned out
by the million. One factory in Maine aver
ages 500,OOO0G0 tootnpicEs a year, besides
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vate entertainments in the matter of Christ
mas trees laden with the conccits Of the
season and numberless beautiful and use
full remembrances as well. Among the
handsomest trees to which friends in the
neighborhood were hidden was one arranged
at Mr. and Mrs. Mungers on Christmas eve
and one at Mrs. George L. Morris on
Christmas morning on the South High
lands. ita4,#, 'm I'll
Among the lovely gifts received in Bir-
mingham by a charming young matron was
an exquisite photograph of Miss jamie Nc
Lester who is spending the winter in Char
lottesville, Va. In the picture she wears
decollete gown of a soft white material, and
a bunch of pansies relives the plainncss of
the corsage. The framing Is a circular one
of gold, and is very effective. Miss Nc
Lester is greatly missed in the social and
literary life of Birmingham this winter. She
will probably remain in Virginia several
months longer.
Miss Jenie Collett. of Austin, Tex, is the
guest of Mrs. r. S. Munger.
Miss Ethel Wickersham gave a delightful
dance last night at her home on the South
Highlands
Mr. George Harvey will leave today for
New Orleans.
Mr.. James Lewis, of Norfolk, Va, is
spending the holidays in Birmingham, the
guest of his mother, Mrs. Kate Lewis.
Miss Lizzie Johnston is among the young
school girls at home for the holidays.
Owing to numerous engagements or the
members the Pelham chapter, Daughters
OF the Confederacy, has postponed its reg
ular meeting. The next meeting will be
held the first Wednesday in January.
The Sunday school class of Miss Emily
Koenig will entertain this evening with
progressive anagrams at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Koenig.
Tho children of the South Highland
Presbyterian church enjoyed Christmas
tree last night. Music and Rotations, to-
gether with a generous number OF pres
ents, made the occasion delightful.
Wesley chapel, at 10 this morning, Will be
the scene of another wedding, when Mr..
J. s. Vest will lead to the altar one of
North Highlands lovely girls in the per-
son of Miss Jennie Copeland The ushers
will be Messrs. Charles Barber, w. c.
Hamilton, VIII Hood and Walter Pickett
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I'm SOCIETY,".

Mrs. ]. N. Murdoch, of Minnesota, is the
guest of her son, Mr.. w. L. Murdock and
will suend the remainder of the winter in
Birmingham.
Mr.. Paschal Shook and Mr.. Warner Shook
are spending part of the holidays in Nash
vile.
Miss Julia Holingsworth, of Atlanta, is
visiting friends In Birmingham.
Miss McIver is spending the holidays with
her sister, Mrs. j. Asa Rountree.
Mrs. Green, of Mississippi, is the guest of
Mrs. Cunningham in Pratt City. They were
the guests yesterday of friends in Birming
ham.
The Little Jokers will be entertained by
Mrs. Eugene Brown Thursday afternoon at
2:30 p. m.
The Christmas meeting of the Highland
Book club will be with Mrs. T. o. Smith.
The members of the club will take the Bes-
semer dummy at II o'clock Wednesday
morning and will be entertained at a beau
tiful luncheon at Mrs. Smiths home The
Christmas programme will be arranged by
the hostess.
Mrs. d. NJ. Forker will entertain at cards
this afternoon.
There were a number of private eggnog
parties on Christmas morning.
Christmas eve and Christmas morning
was the occasion also Of a number OF pri-
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these mills turn out is astonishing. With
the aid of the machinery, single girl VII
finish between 1000 and 5000 berry bas-
kets in a day. This is no rush, for the
girl simply folds and feeds the machine as
naturally as another would operate a sew
Ing machine. The girls are paid usually by
the piece or, rather, by the thousand.
While prices vary, the average wages Of
fered something like IS cents per 1,00e
for the small berry baskets, rs cents per
100 for peach baskets and 81 per 100 for
crates. 1t is because of the excellent sys-
tenn of economizing time and labor and the
cheapness of the wood and the cost of
machine work that these baskets, plates
and dishes can be put on the market with
out cost to the consumer Of the fruits. The
farmers pay for the packages and the con-
sumers use them for kindling wood or other
purposes. Very few of these are ever re-
turned to the farmers, and each year he
has to make an outlay for new packages
The cost to him must necessarily be low,
but small as the price lie, 1t often bears
heavily upon the producer Of our fruits and
vegetables.
Fruit Baskets
The berry boxes and packages are pur-
chased by the hundred or thousand, and
they run from 20 cents apiece down to
few cents hundred Crates with eight
baskets snugly fitted in them for holding
grapes can be purchased for Is cents COM
plete. Large peach baskets cost from to
4 cents apiece Pie and butter dishes cost
less than 81 per thousand Orange and
lemon crates can be purchased in Florida,
with the freight paid from Maine, as low
as 10 cents apiece. During the height OF
orange growing in that state the Maine
would ship between two and three nil
lion crates there every season. 1t was
profitable business, and the falling off of
Florida's orange production has hurt
Names business as well as that OF the
peninsula state. Some of the larger crates
and boxes are shipped to the producers
packed in fiat cases, so that bulk may be
greatly reduced. They reach the farmer
in perfect condition, so that in a short time
he can put them together. Even the strips
of wood, nails, tin and staples are shipped
with the packages, with nail holes drilled
in the right places, and full directions show
ing how to put the package together.
AS to the number of the veneer boxes,
crates and dishes used in this country, 1t is
only possible to get an approximate esti-
mate AS near as the output can be
figured, about 200, 000, 900 butter dishes are
annually made and used; about the same
number of berry baskets, half as many
peach baskets and crates and probably lOO,-
600 900 pie dishes. To make these articles
thousands of cords of wood must be con-
sumed, and each year a good-szed forest
must be stripped of its growing trees.
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life and Writings of Edmund Spenser."
Reading from 1.-THE Faerie Queen'-Mrs.
Robinson.
FRIDAY. 5 2. M, CADMEAN CIRCLE.
Place of meeting, Mrs. Fac Smith.
Programme:
--latest News in the World of Art
Education and Religion"-Mrs. Sharpe.
Household Decoration"-Mrs Williams.
exhibit of Work"-Art Committee.
FRIDAY, P. M, CLIONIAN CLUB.
Place of meeting, Mrs. Ledbetter.
Programme:
Current Events"-Leader, Mrs. F. White
FRIDAY, P. M, AMARANTH CLUB.
Place of meeting, Mrs. Robert L. Simpson
Programme
1.-THE Masters of German Music"-Miss
Corrie Handley.
philosophical and Scientific Life in Ger
many"-Miss Grace Smith.
Administrations from the Musicians dis
cussed.
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:. WOMAN and SOCIETY.
ANNIE KERpREcK WALKER
By ANNIE KERDRFCK WALKER.

Is kind of inspiration.
This is the labor Christ approves,
IT'S the source of peace and gladness,
And as 1t grows and lives and moves,
1t replaces strife and sadness.
What puts new song in the mouth
OF one or two sad mortals;
Gives Christ acclaim, north, east, west.
south,
And points His golden portals,
Whatever establishes light,
Along some travellers vista,
Makes him or her look through the night
Past that fame towards heavens lustre.
So II "club" tits yours to use
This mean conceit excuse tt
And not a sceptre. to diffuse
knowledge. and not confuse it.
You may show us STARS" If not the sun,
If no flame scintillation,
And win the plaudit of well DONE"
For helping on persuasion"
So may you use your club. my friend,
'Ganst mind and soul diseases,
And may it prove a wand to mend
For Christ. what's knocked to pieces.
And be assured of tbs at length,
In calm elaboration,
(The "mickles making muckles'0 strength,
Comes and regeneration.
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Or the reaper comes to reap them;
Sure, in the land beyond the sea,
Where the angels bind their treasures,
For you a harvest rich therell be
Gems in overlooking measures.
IT'S Christina -time-the sweet return
OF the Chariot of angels
Fer whom our Yule logs incense burn
While they bear us their evangels
We almost hear the Christmas song
In gladstone iteration
'Tis after all from throng to throng
The voice of civilization.
Not speaking in its thunderous tones
of bomb and Gatlin-rattle,
Mixed with the cries and madding groans
OF freedoms righteous battle.
But III that undercurrent strain,
From cellar up to -steeple,
Without a sigh or note of pain
Soft whispered by the people.
Brimful of melody and deep,
As loves unfathomed fountain,
And sweet as winds which odorous sweep
Ger tropic vale and mountain
The voice of Christmas tide is heard,
From SHOWS to summer ocean,
The murmurous utterance of the Word,
And that utterance is devotion.
This is the Spirit abroad,
Of v.rtue-taught devotion.
Severed from stocks and stones and sod,
And free as winds of ocean.
The spirit that would scatter seeds,
Of dvangelization,
Which not with carnage only fees
The shrine-fires of nation.
This spirit breathing everywhere,
Upon It's golden pinions.
Healing and help is wont to bear.
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A balm of Gilead, for all woes,
For sickest superstition,
Sweeter than breath of sweetest rose.
1t carries on its mission.
The Christmas carol of That Child,
The nations children sing it,
And its echo down life's vista wild
Our remembrance loves to bring 1t,
And God, our God. the only God
Al-love, all-good, all-holy,
Is gathering treasures from the sod,
Where that Child. the Christ. lay lowly.
To what first began to sing
Your praipe-snd this, your fancy.
May find 1t hard a link to bring
Or to find the relevancy.
But no-well need not fancys aid.
To show the Intervening
OF the threads Of good; the texture made.
Needs not fancy, but believing.
Whatever good we help to do,
Or push towards consummation:
Whatever cheers the brave and true.
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Miss Copeland is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. S. V. Copeland, and has many friends
in this city Mr. Vest is one OF Hartselfs
is well known in this city, especially in
business circles. The young couple will
leave for Hartselle this morning, where
they will reside.
A cotillon was danced at the Southern
club yesterday morning. A number of
young ladies and gentlemen were present,
anu the occasion was in every way a de-
lightful one.
The Terpsichorean club gave a charming
dance last night at the Florence A sup
per at Shields was enjoyed after the CO.
tillon.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Darlington and
their family will remove from Jasper to
Birmingham the first week in January.
They will be with Mrs Thomas Hamilton
The most important musical event of the
season will be the Messiah on Thursday
evening al Seals hall.
Miss Frances ". Robertson will be mar
ried on Wednesday, December 2s, at $3.50
p. M, to Vasco K. WedgeWorth at the
residence of her parents, Dr.. and Mrs. I.
l. Robertson in Sixth avenue.
Miss Hattie Tutwiler will have as her
guest, on Wednesday, Miss Florence Hob
son, of Greensboro.