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tertainment that the hostess selects. At
one recently given there was an art ex-
hibit, which included famous pictures
from well known private galleries or
the city, and at the other end Of the
scale the latest and most fantastic post
ers. Between the two were water col
ors, etchings, photographs, book covers.
silhouettes and some facsimilies of the
recent Century Club comicalities in the
way of pictures. Another hostess pro-
vided a succession of surprises for her
guests. There was a brief round OF
cards, with prizes to the winners; a
tissue bag of gifts to test the striking
prowess of the company; a charade,
followed by tableau; a mdnuet, beau
tifully danced, and, finally, a. bright
one act play before the Virginia rec
which followed the supper and ended
the evening.
"A dry sandwich that is convenient for
the five o'clock tea tray has a filling
of shaved ginger and orange peel Su-
gar-preserved ginger and candied or
ange peel are used for this purpose.
spread between buttered slices of bread
cut in oblong circular shapes.
A woman travelling in Southern Eu-
rope writes home that no item OF her
luggage has proved more useful than
pair of little japanese hand stoves, or
chires, as they are sometimes called.
IF 1 had brought six with me-" she
writes, sit would not have been TOO
many So far have not been able to
find them in any place where we have
stopped. Although we have experienced
no very severe weather, we are chilled
most of the time because of the absurd
ly meager arrangements to warm
rooms and halls. At a concert the other
evening my two stoves were in con-
slant USE They were held on wrists
to warm numb hands, and, tiny as they
are, were used with success to restore
circulation to chilled feet" Other tray
elers, both at home and abroad, have
had similar experiences. Many minor
physical ailments are prevented by the
prompt application of heat. A physi-
clan once said in the hearing Of the
writer that .lobar pneumonia even could
be arrested if strong heat were applied
at the moment when the lung is in
vaded. To be able to secure this rem
edy under any circumstances and at
any time or place is most desirable;
hand stoves should not be forgotten in
any travellers note book.
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Rural Journalism is Exciting.

A newspaper man who recently went
up the State to take charge of a rural
sheet and give his tired brain d rest
has come back to town, and is hustling
for his old job. THE country is all
right" he declares, 6 but there is too
much happening, and I came back to
town to find more restful atmosphere.
There were two papers in town, and 1
had to watch the other. Both pub
lished Friday, and we could not afford
to let the other fellows beat US on
news. The first issue looked all right,
but the old man kicked because we
were scooped on the death of COW on
farm three miles out of town, and
would not be consoled when 1 showed
him that the opposition missed a story
we had on an accident in the railroad
yard. The next week it was the same
way. We did not announce that the
baker had lost ten loaves of breaj
from his delivery cart, and there was
howl that rather sickened me CT the
country.
The third week settled the job. We
were all ready to start the press, when
the old man rushed in. greatly excited,
and announced that he had beat. We
lifted off one form and waited while
the old chap wrote out his story, and
this is what 1 had to kill one of my
pet small editorials for: We notice
that George w. Haskins is making pre-
parations to improve the appearance OF
his coy home on Protection street in
the spring We noticed Mr.. Haskius
in close conversation with Smith, the
painter whose advertisement appears
in another column, and learn that he
will have his residence painted 4 light
buff, with white trimmings and green
shutters, when the weather moderates.
This will greatly enhance the appear
ance of our little village. Others
should do likewise The life was too
feyerish Troy Press.
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From a Chi1d's Point of View.

If the idea of the teachers of Chris
tianity is to bring the Deity into the
daily life of the pupil. they have been
eminently successful in the case of a
little girl living on the South Side. She
has taken her Sunday-school lesson
most literally.
Jessie" she said to her elder sister a
few days ago, you ought to turn your
toes out"
II do" replied the other Indignantly,
and then she qualified her assertion by
adding, most of the time
We'll, you ought to do it all the
time" said the Younger. God doesn't
like to see you walking round with your
toes turned in.''-Chicago Post
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She Was Suspicious.

1T does seem pity" remarked
young Mrs. Torkins; think of all that
canned beef lying at the bottom of New
York harbor. The fish would enjoy it
if they could only get at it,
''Well, I'll tell you what We'll do.
Well suggest to the Government that
it send a cargo of can-openers to the
same place and throw it overheard"
She looked at him thoughtfully for al
most a minute. and then exclaimed:
Charley, dear, 1 believe you are
joking" -Washington Star
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A Better Name.

BILL believe in calling things by
their right names.
Jill-Certainly; who doesn't?
Bill-Why, that fellow who makes
the coins disappear and appear so rap
idly is put down on the program as
prestidigitateur.
Jill-Well, what would you call him?
Bill should say he is a lightning
change artist.-Yonkers Statesman.
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THE HOMELIEST MAN IN

Sacramento, as we'll as the handsomest,
and others. are invited to call an any
druggist and get free trial bottle of
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs,
a remedy that is guaranteed to cure and
relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs,
Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption.
Price Csc and soc.
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Some men are like dice-easily rat
tied, but hard to shake.
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Fashionable society in New York has
taken very kindly this winter to form
of entertainment heretofore rather rels-
gated to suburban circles. This is the
Salmagundi party. A Salmagundi ev
ening usually presents a program of
different games; this winter, however,
1t has stood for any sort of mixed en-
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Would not the late Lewis Carroll.
asks the New York Tribune" turn in
in his grave if he knew that for not one
but actually two biographies of him his
own family is responsible? 1t is an
nouncec that Mr.. Collingwood's book
is tic be followed by another memoir.
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The American edition OF Eighteenth
Century Letters" prepared under the
general editorship Of r. Brimley John
son, is to be brought out Immediately.
The volume containing the letters of
Swift, Addison and Steele has been ar
ranged and provided with an introduce
ton by Stanley Lane Poole, and Pro-
fessor George Birbeck Hill is respons-
ible for the volume containing the
epistles of Johnson and Lord Chester
field
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NJ. lola while in England has been so
completely a recluse that a messenger
from his own lawyer was once unable
to find him. This solitude has given
the novelist an excellent opportunity
for hard writing, and he has made great
progress in his new novel, to be called
''F'ruitfulness.
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Max Muller's "Auld Lang Syne.'-
There is only one more sovereign
about whom 1 may say a few words,
the late Queen Of Holland, highly gifted
as she was, and most charming in So
ciety. She frequently came to England,
according to the newspapers, as a
friend and advocate of the Emperor
Napoleon. She was far too wise, how
ever, to attempt to play such a part at
the English court. But that she was
much admired and won the hearts Of
many people in London is certainly
true. She came to lunch with Stanley
at the Deanery. She had asked him to
invite a number of literary men
Tennyson, Monckton, Mines Gord
Houghton), Huxley. and several more.
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:. OSBORN'S. FASHION LETTER.

New York, April 22.-The summer girl of
s9 will be calculated to 'startle and way
lay"
To an ordinary observer the conflicting
phases of femininity through which this
young person can pass in the course of Il
few hours transcend the marvellous, be-
coming the impossible.
You meet her in the drawing-room, clad
in angel garments of softest six or cling
ig, shadowy muslins. You adore the deep
set. weary eyes, like those of a QTrench)
medieval saint, the fluffy, Florentine head
and the long, intellectual hands. Next
morning in the park or on the cycle path,
when your name is called by bluff ath-
lete who would scorn gauzy stuffs, and who
never heard of Worth, you need second
introduction.
Yet the summer girl on her athletic side
is perhaps shade less mannish than last
year. Her tailor dresses for country wear
are relieved by huge scarfs of gauze or
silk, her shirt waists are made of finer and
more delicate materials, her cycle toys are
apt to be trifie longer, and her linen and
pique dresses are lace-covered.
Nevertheless, riding dress, in which the
exclusive girl who WISHES to avoid the eye
ling crowds will appear even more fire.
quently than in the past goes to the other
extreme. The newest habits in all Their
details are smartly and mistakenly mascu-
line. The short, safety skirt trig, imnacu-
late, avoiding the sweeping lines of the
old long skirts, where danger turks in
every fold, is practically the only model
seen. The coat that accompanies it, when
most taut and business-like. is close-fit-
ting cutaway, -buttoning straight up the
front almost to the throat; the short le-
vers turing back just enough to give hint
and no more of white linen chemisette and
trim tie.
This coat may have postillion back CT
it may have very short basques or basques
long enough to cover the saddle. The thing
certain about the habit Is that with its
turnover linen collar, It's Derby or SILK
hat and its severely correct cut in back,
brown or gray, it will ape a mans outfit
so far as possible.
Though even the riding habit has its
hours of ease. On the level roads OF Long
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Island. when the dogwood hangs out its
white flags of blossom, and the long con-
voys of linen-covered carriages, like canal
boats in tow of tugs, are vending their
slow way from the city to the newly OPEN
ed country houses of Hampstead and the
IIamptons. you begin to meet young girls
in English pink coats, or in loose-front-
ed black coats with bright red waisteoats,
which go flashing through the woods like
scarlet-breasted blackbirds.
In the country colonies, white piqiie hab-
its, still of tailor cut, are accepted riding
dress and sailor hats wound with gauze
scarfs OF even barred heads will be allowed.
Last years Tad indeed will be extended.
The summer girl of 80 will ride, drive,
cycle, play golf even promenade with her
own sunny tresses for all head-coverine.
Hated or hatless, on city highways or
in country byways, 1t is when the summer
maid springs from her horse to mount her
wheel that her plot begins 10 thiclSen.
Smarter than last seasons and about as
far from satisfactory must be ithe verdict
on her bicycle toSsery.
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When the cycle girl first got wheels into
her head, she arrayed herself experiment.
ally and successfully, in circular skirts and
in skirts with saddle pockets and in divided
skirts and in skirts the network of whose
inside harness could give cards and spades
to the wires in a telephone exchange. Then
In desperation she put on boomers or even
slin-tight knickerbockers, and in some-
thing more than desperation took them off
again. She thought she reverted to skirts
because of a developed sense of propriety;
but in reality her action was forced upon
her by the undeveloped capacity-this is a
euphemism for incapacity-of her dress
makers. who yulgarized the bloorner
through ignorant handling. This. however,
is point not now worth arguing.
Skirts being accepted, we have the same
succession of perfect bicycle skirt as
aforetime short, long. divided and divided
in the back only. This springs approved
model. which answers very well for the
average woman, who never faces a mead
wind. does not differ greatly from last
years. 1t is round and gored to fit the
hips like the ordinary eel-skin; in the back
1t is draped to fall gracefully on each side
of the saddle. 1t is long enough to reach
nearly to the ankles-almost as long as
a golfing skirt, though in this matter there
is naturally much variaton-and 1t IS
faced and stitched with a view to encour-
aging it to stay down.
A very smart suit has skirt of blue and
green tartan made after the manner de-
scribed. The coat is a short natty cuta-
way of the blue of the skirt plaid; this
opens over a single-breasted lowcut vest
of scarlet cloth, which is finished with
pockets for matches and other necessaries.
Another suit of tobacco brown cloth has
a fetching, double-breasted Elton coat with
scarlet cuffs and collar. Cooler looking than
this is skirt of blue and white check,
made with blouse whose furnishings are
a white yoke and many small gold buttons.
For gymkana tournaments, which Eng
lish fad will be this summer an American
fad also, the cycle girl is preparing dainty
white pique suits and dark blue and white
and red and white linen suits to make
fine appearance in trick riding competi-
tons or in parades with flower-decked
wheels.
The lightest, coolest looking hats with
soft brins, not too wide, are the cycle girls
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Cuban Bandits

Frederic Remington in Golfers Weekly.
What was said would happen has hap
pened. The turbulent part of Garcia's old
troops has gone off the reservation" 1t
is likely that more will go in other prov
inces, and then 1t is up to u.s. That is a
part of the game. We opened jackpot
and we have got to stay.
We may feel comfortable from the fact
that General Wood is commanding the
province of Santiago As a youngster he
followed a more sprightly people over a
worse and bigger country, and he brought
Geronimo's Apaches in. If he is furnished
with what force he asks for, he will in time
quiet the country.
1t is a mountainous region, covered with
dense jungle, and utterly wild. The preda
tory bands of negro soldiery have roamed it
for years. They know its trails its fast
nesses and its commissary resources They
will be in collision with townspeople VINO
will renew their ammunition, and they will
movements. They will ambuscade us in
bands, and then dispense as individuals.
The country is hot, and not healthy. So
much for their part. And OH '1east we
forget we will in all human probabilities
do what we have always done under SINH
lar circumstances-send them a peace COM
mission. This will grovel and whine and
make cheap good talk" give them rations
and ammunition. and ask them please to be
good. Never having been good they will
go out in the jungle and laugh at u.s. They
will feel that we are afraid of them.
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vorite tones in cloths, set off by yards of
wide and heavy cream lace Insertion.
driving dress of lavender blue cloth
is exquisstely trimmed with fine steel en-
broidery upon skirt and bodice. The chemr
isette of Sevres blue muslin has a cravat
to match there is a boa of white feathers
and the hat of grey straw is, trimmed with
Sevres blue tulle and flowers.
For an early race meet IS a dress in pale
blue cashmere, with the foot, and the front
of the open princess skirt, scalloped to
show an .underskirt of blue and white strip
ed silk which is plated down the front,
I and fastened with tiny gold buttons. The
bodice of blue matches the skirt, and has a
collar of black antique appliqued with lace
, roses. The hat which crowns this creation
is of blue Sevres straw covered with pink
roses. Another accompaniment is a NATIVE
cloth coat, the collar of which is strapped
In three shades of mauve velvet
d 1t is hard to say whether tbs summer
girls prettiest, dresses are those of iniislin
silk or of the fine sheer veilings. a cream
yelling dress with an overskirt OF black
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sion, when results In Precipitation saving
are counted.
The summer girl whose home is on the
rolling wave will be thisi season as proud
of her shape" as are other women The
smartest yachting rigs are of exquisitey
fine serges moulded to the figure like a
walking dress; they make of the yachting
girl creature like a mermaid or a
nereid or some other sea .nyrnph with float
ing locks and winding tail
The yachting girl of 80 adores white, and
one of the most effective costumes yet
built for her is of a silky white serge,
whose clinging skirt is adorned with rope
designs in blue and white silk cords. The
waist is blouse with the same decora-
tions over which is worn smartly cut
pilot coat with a fiaring collar; this in
white also with facings of dark blue.
More serviceable yachting suits are of
the regulation blue serge with black or
white fac;ngs and garnitures. New yacht
ing caps have soft, rather puffy tops and
deep, pointed visors.
Those other nereids and mermaids who
spend the summer sitting in the sand, dry
ing their hair In the intervals of tumbling
among the waves, are preparing costumes
for the beaches to rival able-bodied ram
bows Not many of these are yet in con-
dition for exhibition. but one summer out
fit includes a bathing dress of white serge
STOPPING
blue The blue wash silk blouse has ell
bow. sleeves and turns away from the
throat in fiat white collar, showing a
pointed vest striped white and blue. Blue
silk stockings with little white shoes are
the Accomplishments.
Other beach costumes and toilettes for
general country wear are in more adj
vanced stage of PREPARATION. These include
dresses of ''khaki," the linen material
worn by soldiers in India and to some eX-
tent, by our men in Cuba and Porto Rico.
This is made up in the natural color with
much garnishing of ecru lace and bright
ribbons Sparingly introduced last year,
''khaki'' is one of the chief novelties of
the season.
For more elaborate wear the summer girl
of $50, when she drives or appears at race
meets or summer festivals, will choose soft
er, more f1ower-ike stuffs in transparent
weayes and subtly blended colorings Pale
tan, grey and soft dull blue are the IA
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S are equal to Gibson's.)

For our part, what we should do is TO
declare them banditti." Take off the
CLOSE season" on them, as it were; offer
rewards for their heads put bands Of Gu
ban auxiliary troops after them; stock the
old Spanish blockhouses with food and
grain under our infantry, so that our oper-
atoms could be fast and continuous, and
then go in. The Spanish stayed in their
blockhouses or only marched a heavy col
umn a day or so outside their own lines
The Cuban guerfillasi will expect us to do
this-whereat they will run midship high
on the shoals. of error. With our infantry
split up into small squads, and put out to
form arnbuscades all over a province we
could send mounted troops with pack-trains
which could be grain-fed from the block
houses on their trail. These granted
horses would soon put the riders of the
grass-fed ponies afoot. These gtierri,iss
would not be able to stop our cavalry by
fighting, and If they could be made to fight
that would be all We could ask In runnihgs
away from our continuous pursuit, they
would be at all times liable to run into the
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Election Notice.
City of Birmingham,


April 20. 1899.
Notice is hereby given that an electiou
will be held by the qualified voters in tho
several wards of the city of Birmingham
on Monday, May /, 1899, for the following
officers, to-wit:
A mayor, one alderman for each of the
nine wards, and seven police commissioners.
The following is a list of inspectors reg
ularly appointed by the board of mayor
and aldermen, and the voting places in
each ward:
First Ward, corner 14th street and LIST av-
enue-Inspectors, Mike Sullivan, James Ly
nagh and Brook Forbes.
Second Ward, corner 18th street and 6tf
ayenue-Inspectors, Dan s. Bandman, l,
Epstein and Nose Crittenden..
Third Ward. Emmon's store, corner 18th
street and 18th avenue-Inspectors, ]. I.
Mcknight, VIM. Cutcliff and EugeneI
Knighton.
Fourth Ward, corner oath street and 10th
avenue-Inspectors, Frank SALESMAN, j
Ransom and George McVey.
Fifth Ward. court house-Inspectors, t.
R. Lavine Henry Howe and Alex Dallas,
Sixth Ward, Malone's ore-Inspectors,
Clifford Smith, w. M. Malone and NJ ].
Gregg.
Seventh Ward, corner 22d street and Al.
ley C-Inspectors, Henry Toumpert, G. b.
Burkhalter and Tom Baine.
Eighth Ward, Southside fire department
neutrality-suspicious. John L. Parker, Ed
Winston and J. A. Rountree.
Ninth Ward Avenue d and 18th street.
Inspectors, George Swanton, Pat OHarre
and Mike Murray.
The last named inspector in each ward Is
appointed returning officer.
F. ". EVANS, Mayor.
H. D. WOOD, City Clerk. 4-21-eod
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prerogative, and this summer an unusual
variety of picturesque Tyrolese shapes is
offered her.
For footgear cyclists with comedy legs
will stick to low shoes of black patent
leather, of kid or of tan, with plain lisie
or silk stockings; while the very stout or
the very angular must perforce content
themselves with high boots, which, how
ever. may be of thinpest kid, with light,
flexible soles. Moderately high heels give
a pretty look to the foot and brace the
arch firmly, but the horrible French heels
of last summer brought many "a merry
bilSer to grief, when a punctured tire neces-
STATED n walk home.
For cycling or any other outdoor sport
channels gloves are the only ones practical
~ serviceable; that is gloves of genuine
chamois skin which are tanned with fish
oil. These will wash every day and be the
softer and moro docile for their baptism.
Ventilated gloves are best in theory but
the perforatons in the palm or at the base
of each finger are more or less of a delu-
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silk muslin is a novelty. The same idea
appears in black muslin over the brightest
of the foulards.
A blue foulard has a design of spots
thrown on In groups. The bodice opens all
the way down the front over a chemisette
in white silk muslin which is cut through
with blue ribbons forming an odd trellis
work. This trimming is held down here
and there by small steel buckles. The
skirt, which Is narrow and sweeping is
trimmed with tiny white silk ruches. The
white straw hat is trimmed with roses and
paradise plumes.
Truly age cannot wither or custom stale
the summer girl, for of infinite variety is
she as well as her wardrobe.
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BASKET PICNIC EXCURSION TO SHELL
BY SPRINGS.

There will be a grand basket picnic at
Shelby Springs on May 4th given by the
conductors and engineers of the Southern
railway, for which the Southern railway
will run special train, leaving Birming-
ham 1880" a. m, returning leave Shelby
Springs $50 p. m, same date. Fare for
round trip; adults, 81; children, soc.
4 a. pleasant; trip. as well as a most en-
,oyablo cay, is assured to all.
+ Cali on ysouthcrn railway Ticket agent for
further information. 4-19-tf.
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This would be a nasty business, but be-
leve what we have to do could be done
better in this way than in any other. 1t is
the old tactics which Miles employed
against Geronimo, and that old man was a
problem in his day. Furthermore, let it be
remembered that we will see many dark.
moons before Cuba is I'd of bandits.