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to Stowers Furniture Co.
Welcome ! Visitors !
We extend to all VISITORS and HOME-COMERS our greet
ings and ask that you will make our store your headquarters.
■-- ———
MONDAY we open the FALL SEASON with the garndest display of FURNITURE,
CARPETS, RUGS and MATTINGS ever shown. Prices ARE HAMMERED
DOWM. We are awake to the demands of the public and want to please you.
Come in and look through our stock. A CU /A"D v I * K R A/f ^2
We need the room—Help us move this stock. X VJXl X 1~j1 I.1VX O •
See. Carpet
Show Window
»
CARPET BARGAINS.
Ingrain Carpet, yard. 40c
Ingrain all wool Carpet, yard .... 75c
Brussels Carpet, yard .. 70c
Velvet Carpet, yard. 90c
Axminster Carpet, yard .$1.25
Made, Laid and L ined.
This department is thoroughly re
modeled and we will make it second to
none in the South. New stock and
more to come.
See Show Windo w for prices—50
new rolls just receiv ed. 1000 yards rem
nants below actual cost.
250 Rockers
m. A
reduced price this
week. Visitors,make
your home with us.
SEWING ROCKERS
$1.25
Solid golden oak,
cane seat; substan
tially made.
Table
* I *
16x16 .... $1.25
24x24 .... $1.75
Mail Orders
Given
Prompt
Attention.
Every Article
Guaranteed
to be as
Represented.
Open an account
here, Credit ex
tended t o re
ponsible parties.
Shaving
Stands
from 9.50
up. Not
only an
ornament,
but a nec
essity for
the hus
b a n d ’ s
room.
Child's Bed
$2.10
Hard maple frame, woven wire
spring; folds up as illustrated,
for .$2.50
Early English
Hat Hack,
$31.00
LARGE AND MASSIVE
Price $31.00
Shades
Special sizes, to order. Tele
phone for our men.
500 Rolls Matting
Cheap but good.
Rugs
Rugs
Rugs
i
Remnant, Carpet Rug.$1.26
Axminister, 27x60 Rugs, this week
at .$2.30
Royal Axminster Rugs, this week
for . $2.46
Benares Tapesti^, 9x12... .$11.30
Shirran Rugs, 9x12.$13.50
Axminster Rugs, 9x12... .$23.86
Look at Show Window.
Pictures
Beautify your home with pretty
pictures; come and see our dis
play before you buy; one-half
price asked here that you pay in
other stores—35c up to $15.
500 at 35c Each
mr-—W-jJI | r
Similar to cut; solid oak, well finish
ed, large and roomy. Get one. Save
your clothes. ✓
SPECIAL, NOTICE.
We are moving our warerooms, and
discovered we are overstocked on
many articles; especially ROCKERS
AND CHAIRS—THEY 00 ON 8ALE
AT 8LA8H DOWN PRICES.
WHITNEY—
The famous Go-<’art; without a peer In
the market; like cut; price this cart
complete .$6.33
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20 Years in Birmingham—
Improvement Our Constant Aim
STOWERS
2020-2022 THIRD AVENUE.
U - -.- --—1 ----^
$23.85
Is all we ask for 9x12 Axminster Rugs next week—oportunities
like this come seldom. Fifty different patterns to select from.
Monday is the Bargain Day.
Note a few bargains displayed here.
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100—BED LOUNGES—100 morris chair $12.50.
Rich paterns at small figures,
velour oovering, oak frame, woven
wire spring, removable muttreRR.
BARGAIN LOUNGE, $13.50.
STEEL FOLDING COUCH.
ft
Next wek only.$4.90
$10.05.
>
SOLID OAK
QUARTER
SAWED.
FRENCH
PLATE
' MIRROR.
SIZE 12x18
“ REGULAR
" PRICE $14.00,
MISSION
CLOCK,
$19.75.
See our
show window
of Mission
Furniture,
Rockers,
Chairs,
Tables and
complete
Dining Suits.
GET WARM
BUY
A
PEERLESS
*1 GOAL
5 STOVE,
^ *6.60.
WEEK IN AMERICAN HISTORY
October 14—
1655—Massachusetts passes an act pro
hibiting the immigration of Quakers;
any who arrive are to receive twenty
.dashes and be imprisoned; death Is
to be the penalty for returning after
transportation.
1735—John and Charles Wesley sail from
England for America.
October 15—
1788—President Washington sets out in
his carriage to make a tour of the
northern states.
October 16— •
1690—A Massachusetts fleet of thirty-two
vessels arrives before Quebec, un
der command of Phips, whose incom
petency is later demonstrated.
1710—Port Royal. S. C., captured by an
English fleet, aided by an army from
t'he colonies.
1859—John Brown makes a raid into Vir
ginia to free the slaves.
1863—Gen. Grant appointed to the com
mand of the western armies.
October 17—
1683—First session of a popular assembly
In New York.
1798—Notorious alien and sedition laws
* passed by Congress.
1803—The Eighth Congress assembles In
extraordinary session t? act on the
treaty with France by which Louisi
ana is ceded to the United States.
1828—The Delaware and Chesapeake Ca
nal is opened.
1853—Seventy-five adventurers, under Col.
William Walker, sail from San Fran
cisco to establish a pro-slavery col
ony in Lower California.
October 18—
1580—De Soto fights a terrible battle with
Mobile Indians In Alabama; 2500 In
dians shot or burned; Spanish
losses. 18 killed and 150 w'ounded.
1631—Massachusetts Puritans limit suf
frage to members. 6f the church, put
ting the government in the hands
of the minority and excluding three
fourths of the people from a:;y voice
in the affairs of the colony.
1692—The people of Andover protest to
the general court of Massachusetts
against the wl.ch tribunals; delu
sion of witchcraft disappearing.
1775—Portland, Me., burned by the Brit
ish.
1800—Bv the treaty of tldefonso, Spain
again cedes t-.e territory of Louisi
ana to France.
1812— In a naval bailie off ibe coast of
Virginia, the American sloop Wasp
defeats the British brig Frolic; Im
mediately after the victory the
Wasp was captured by the British
fh<p Poictiers.
1842—Submarine telegraph laid between
Governors island and New York,
the first in America.
1854—The Ostend manifesto issued by
United States ministers in council
at Aix-la-Chapelle, recommending
tiie immediate purchase of Cuba for
$120,0u0,000, and holding out threat
of seizure should Spain refuse to
sell.
1859—Col. Robert E. Lee captures John
Brown and his men at Harpers
Ferry.
11898—American army and navy takes for- 1
tnal possession of Porto Rico at
San Juan.
October 19—
1630—First general court in America held
at Boston.
1G75—King Philip, with about 800 Indians,
attacks Hatfield, Mass., but is driv
en iO IT.
1765— Ami-stamp act Congress, meeting
In New York, after drafting a me
morial to the King and Parlia
ment. adopts a “Declaration of
Rights.”
1781-r-Lord Cornwallis surrenders at York
town to the allied American and
French forces, practically ending the
war for independence.
1864— Gen. Sheridan turns defeat into vic
tory at Cedar Creek. (Sheridan's
ride.)
October CO
1781—Gen. Clinton sa'ls from New York
with 7000 men to reinforce Corn
wallis at Yorktown. not having re
ceived word of the.surrender.
1781—Mohawk Valley, in New York, in
vaded by Indians.
1783—Virginia cedes to Congress lrs
claims to territory north of thef
Ohm.
1S18—A convention is signed with Great
Britain establishing the Forty-ninth
parallel as the boundary line, and
I* providing for the Joint occupation
of Oreg >n for ten years.
J820—Spain ratifies the treaty ceding
Florida to the United States.
1880—The “Morey letter." an alleged
forgery of the handwriting and sig
nature of James A. Garfield, ap
proving Chinese Immigration, cir
> culated as a campaign document.
1888—The Fiftieth Congress closes its first
session, the longest in Congressional
history 321 days).
Glass Living-Rooms.
From Country Life in America.
Not only for invalids, but for people in
good health, the glass room or sun par
lor is an added blessing and joy in every
country bouse that possesses one. By
sun parlor we do not mean the conven
tional conservatory for plants; we mean
a livable, comfortable room for mem
bers of the household, where sunshine
and plants will be found there, but only
as an adjunct to the room, a decoration.
Use the room for a breakfast room, a
lounging room or a den, as you will,
but—build it of glass. The object of the
glass room is apparent. Regulate the
temperature, protect yourself from the
cold blasts of wind, and you may sit in
the sunshine in your sun parlor all the
year round, nor do you need to travel
to Florida or California to sit on tho
piazza from October to March. Enclose
your piazza.
WOMEN AS SOLDIERS.
Amazons of Many Countries Who
Have Done Valiant Service.
There were thousands of women soldiers
in the French revolution. After the fall
of tne ^astile a battalian of young women
took up arms under the name of Amazons
and renuered yeonian service, says tho
-London Express. Jeanne Lacombe, come
dienne. forsook tli© stage for the field. ,
Theresa * igueur saw four horses die un- |
der her in battle. Other Amazons were
pensioned by Napoleon and one was dec
orated with the legion of honor.
The amazon of the Cossacks’' is the
daughter of a Vladivostok merchant. A
skilled horsewoman and rifle shot, she
distinguished herself greatly in the Russo
Japanese war and at the beginning of
the present year she was made a ward of
the Czar.
There died in Florence last March an
Italian woman, Signora Mario, who fought
with Garibaldi, and * Mother Jarrethout, ’
a heroine of the . ranco-German war, died
last year. She fought in male uniform on
the walls of Chateaudun, and at Ablis sn>
took two prisoners.
“Mother Jarrethout’s end was pathetic.
She had made a great name for herself as
the Florence Nightingale of the Franco
German war, had received the cross of
WANTED-,
r-CORNET PIETERS
TO WRITE
for photographs of
our eipert artist
selected
[ON t MEALY
“OWN-HAKE” CORNETS
Trumpet and Duplex Models. Also a special
offer in regard to terms. Bandmasters and
Teachers particularly requested to write.
Old Instruments taken in exchange. ,
DefM, LYOW A HEALYg^Chloggo
the legion of honor and numbers of lessee
medals. Yet she died forsaken and In
poverty.
An attempt to make amends signalized
her burial in August, llfou. A pic-.-, of
soldiers followed tne coiun to the grave
and old soldiers who had been her com
rades in the field mustered from all parts
of France to say farewell.
The American civil war bred a whole
corps of women soldiers. Many women
served throughout the entire war without
their sex being discovered by otneers or
comrades.
Pauline Cushman, an actress, was cap
tured in male uniform by the Confederate
and was rescueu by her companions Just
as she was about to be hanged as a spy.
Pauline was so successful In the field
that for her faithful services there was
conferred upon her the. rank of major.
Still more successful was Bridget Darv
vers, known as “Irish Biddy.” Bridget
performed wonders as nurse, hospital
steward, surgeon, vivandiere and private
soldier. In one battle she had three horses
killed under her. The war did not give
Bridget her fill df fighting, so she after
ward crossed the Rockies and engaged in
campaigns against the Indians.
A woman known as Frank Thompson
carried messages through shot and shell
at Fredericksburg disguised as an orderly.
Her name did not transpire till twenty
years after, when she obtained a pension
and was admitted to the Grand Army of
tnn Republic.
A faithful spouse who refused to be
parted from her husband was Mrs. Rey
nolds, wife of f'aptaln Reynolds, Com
pany A, Seventeenth Illinois regiment.
She rode at his side, in male attire,
through almost the entire campaign.
There was never a tim*1 when this heroic
l and sacrificing little woman flinched or
hesitated in time of battle or on long
marches. On the field after a. conflict
she would go about ministering to the
sick and dying, and at last she became
widely known as the Angf?l of the Regi
ment. Like Pauline Cushmap, she eventu
111 y received a commission as inajor in the
army.
Mrs. Kady Brownell, a skillful sharp
shooter, Joined the ranks and served as a
~olor hearer. Romantic Ellen Goodrldge
mllsted in her lover's company, and rode
as a common soldier by his side right
• hrough the war. "Frank Henderson”
«f the Nineteenth Illinois was really a
voung girl who enlisted because she could
not bear to be parted from her brother.
Mary Owens of Danville, Pa., wanted
‘o accompany her husband In the war
tnd share ^Ith him its hardships and Its
Mctorles. The brave llttje woman fought
\t his side until he was killed. In tl>«
next battle she wns severely wounded and
bad to be sent home, her discharge pa
pers bearing the trlbunte: *‘A more faith
ful soldier never shouldered a musket.'
The civil war, of course, -»d not have
a monopoly of women soldiers. There
have been female warriors in all countries
from Boadfcea and Joan of Arc to the
Amazon of tlie Cossacks," who startled
' the world at Mukden. Among tne hun
dreds of such examples a few of special
interest may be cited.
There wan English Moll (Mary Ambree),
who, In 1534, headed 1000 men against the
Prince of Parma and sustained an un
equal combat with 3000 Spaniards for seven
hours, challenging any three Spaniards to
try their powers against her single arm.
There was valiant “James Gray (Hanna
Snell), a booster's daughter who fought In
j the war of the Spanish succession, re
[ reived Innumerable, wounds, was pari- ,
slotted by Queen Anne and at her death
was burled with full military honors In
the cemetery of Chelsea hosiptal.
There was hardy Mrs. Christian Davis,
trooper of the Scots Grays, an Irish Ama
zon, who was wounded at Kamllllcg. And
there was “Able Seaman" Rebecca Ann
i Johnstone, who fought and died on one
of Nelson's ships.
There was Mine. Drucourt. who valiant
ly withstood the siege of Doulsburg In
Cape ureton (170S). Day and night she
whs to be found on the ramparts, cheer
ing the soldiers and herself loading and
firing the guns.
TRAIT8 OF FIGHTING BULLS.
Easily Managed When Massed To
gether—Some Have Evil Eye.
From the the Nineteenth Century.
In Spain accidents to bull fighters are
of frequent occurence, and It Is Interest
ing to see the hero of many fights swing
Into the chapel attached to the bull Ting
anil kneel before the effigy of the Virgin
Mary before entering the arena.
Hull fighting la the national pastime.
Boys play at It In the gutters, and there
are hull fights for amateurs all over the
| country, at which only two-year-old bulls
| ure used, and young anl old descend into
| the arena. Astounding Is the enthusiasm
I Interesting, too, Ib the psychology of
I bulls. When herded together they are
I docile enough, and It Is a picturesque
sight to see the bulls brought Into tho
paddock prior to the fight, through the
streets of the city when all are sleeping.
A cow trained to the business, with a bell
around her neck, is all that Is necessary,
and the bulls follows quietly behind her.
In the plains where the bulls are reared
tncn on horses manage them-qulte easily
as long as they are massed together.
Three bulls In the ring together would be
useless for a tight, but each bull sepa
rately will fight to the death.
Bulls literally see red. Were it not that
a bull will always dash at anything red
the men In the ring would have no chance
whatever. Occasionally bulls have what
Is called the evil eye, and remain Indiffer
ent to the red c&pa extended to them, and
then the list of casualties is generally
high.
Sometimes a bull which has shown pro
digious power and light is pardoned by
the populace. A cow, kept for the pur
pose, is then sent into the arena, and at
sight of her the bull forgets man and
the fury of the l»attle and gently trots
behind to the paddock, as meek us any
heifer.
Many are the curlosites about bulls,
which sometimes refuse to uttock a par
ticular horse, and when a man is down,
motionless, disdain even to paw him
Home bulls make Instinctively for one
man and will chase him all around tin
ring, leaping the bartier if he vaults over
it, and if he fails will kneel upon his
body and gore him to shreds. There is no
mercy In hulls, and none is shown In
them.
OLD-FASHIONED “HIRED GIRL.”
She Was “One of the Family” and Re
malned Such Until Marriage.
Roy L. McCardell In Everybody’s Maga
zine for October.
The "hired girl" (wo never, never alluded
fo her as "the maid" in the small Ameri
can town or quiet country place where
you and I were "raised"; was like one of
the family, and mother was glad to have
her help and none of us put on any frill*
with her and she was not compelled to
put on any frills of cap or apron with us.
Oft-times, especially in the quiet country
places, her social standing was as good
as that of anybody else. Usually she was
one of a grown family of girls; there was
plenty of help at her house and so she
came and assisted our mother at our
house. In their hours of ease, mother and
she discussed the neighborhood gossip to
j gether.
The "hired girl" hud her beau, a nclgh
' bor's stolid, sheepish son: and much was
; she Joked about him, and finally, after
' years of faithful and friendly servitude,
[ she married him. We went to the wed
! ding, and it was quite a social affair, with
jniuch temperate merriment and with many
cheap but useful presents.
The Finish.
From T/lfe.
"What Is a finishing record?"
"If Is a place where girls wh) have
any lingering respect for their parents go
to have It femoved.”
HR. WEISSNER
Select school for dancing.
Opening, Saturday, Oct 20.
Hotel Hillman, 3 to 5. p. m.,
for children. Adults class
opening, Thursday Octo
ber 25, 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
For further information, ad
dress, 1000 Eula Street. Peo
ples Phone 1848.
J. C. Weissner.
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