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CHRISTMAS PREMIUMS.
Poetry and Prose by Homo Talent to Bo
Rewsr. led.
The State Herald, in order to stimulate
and encourage home talent, offers two
premiums, to be awarded Christmas
week, to-wit.
1. For the best Christmas story, writ
ten without aid, by any pupil of the
Birmingham High school, 1500 words or
less, $5.
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words or less, written by any man,
woman or child in Alabama, one year's
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THE TREASURY REPORT.
Mr. Carlisle's report is entirely in line
with the president's message. It shows a
deficit of $17,000,000 for the current fiscal
year. This deficit is due to the loss of
the revenue expected from the tax on
incomes. If the supreme court had not
annulled that tax the receipts of the
treasury would have exceeded the ex
penses by several millions. Mr. Carlisle
expects that the receipts during the
next fiscal year will so largely increase
that it will not be necessary to levy new
duties. He thinks that we will have a
surplus of $7,000,000 for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1S97, under the present
tax laws. We wish we could agree with
the secretary in this hopeful outlook,
but the Indications are that we will need
a good deal more revenue than the pres
ent laws provide. There will be no neces
sity for any material alteration in the
tariff to make certain a surplus here
after. Enough revenue can be provided
by a moderate Increase In the liquor tax.
It Is a fixed fact that our people are in
favo* of making luxuries pay the taxes
in preference to the necessities of life.
There can be no difference of opinion on
that proposition, and if congress should
increase the revenue by putting a duty
on wool instead of putting an excise tax
on beer they will hear from the people
in unmistakable terms.
Mr. Carlisle's recommendations as to
the currency are not novel. They were
expected and have long since been dis
counted. He would retire the green
backs and silver notes, amounting to
$500,000,000, by the sale of 3 per cent
bonds. These bonds he hopes will be the
basis of new national banks and that
their place will be supplied by national
bank notes. He would thus saddle the
people with $15,000,000 annully as interest
upon a new bonded debt. This would
Impose half a million annually upon the
people of Alabama as our part of the in
terest debt. Surely there must be some
other way to preserve the parity between
our gold, silver and paper than this fear
ful tax upon the labor of our people. The
treasury notes have been extant for thir
ty years since their issue, and for six
teen years since we resumed specie pay
ment, and if they have been no burden on
the people during that time, but have
moved along side by side with silver and
gold, why should Mr. Carlisle at this late
day declare that the country cannot get
along unless we tax ourselves unmerci
fully to get rid of a currency to which
the people have never objected? One of
the singular features of Mr. Carlisle's
report is his absolute surrender to a
national banking system. He says:
‘‘Whatever objections to a national
banking system may have heretofore ex
isted. or may still exist among our peo
ple, upon economic or other grounds, the
fact must be recognized that it has been
so ltjng established that notwithstanding
Its admitted defects It has served such
n useful purpose In furnishing a con
venient form of currency of uniform val
ue throughout the country that an at
tempt at this time to absorb It, or ma
terially abridge the franchises of the in
stitutions organized under It. would not
only be unsuccessful, but would provoke
injurious agitation when the precarious
condition of our financial affairs de
mands repose.”
Here is a complete surrender by the
administration to a federal bank system.
It Is a reversal of the theory and policy
of Thomas Jefferson and of Andrew
Jackson. Even the republicans of 1S62,
like Thad Stevens, John Sherman, Chase,
McCullock. and the men of that day who
devised the national bank scheme, did
not contemplate its continuance beyond
:lie necessities of the war; but here we
have Mr. Carlisle apologizing for and
demanding Its continuance thirty years
after the necessity has ceased. Is there
no way to give the people an ample cur
rency except through the paper promises
of a national bank system? Why not
give us gold and silver to the full extent
of the precious metals Just as we have
had them for WOO years—Just as they
have done their beneficent work from the
days of Moses and Abraham down to the
day when Sherman came to the conclu
sion that he was wiser than the myriads
of philosophers and. statesmen who have
flourished in the mighty empires which
have marked the course of time from
primeval history to these modern days?
We sincerely trust that Mr. Carlisle may
see his way clear to a happy solution of
our financial troubles: but we fear that
he will never be comfortable until he
gets back to the platform of Jefferson
and Jackson.
LET’8 HAVE LESS SHOOTING.
The unfortunate killing of a young ne
gro girl by a policeman in this city early
yesterday morning, it appears to us,
should go a long ways towards putting a
stop—calling a halt, if you please—to the
reckless shooting that has, it seems, of
late characterized our police and deputy
sheriffs. The State Herald fully appre
ciates the fact that the officers men
tioned have a hard class of citizens to
deal with; yet the fact remains that hu
man life—be it the life of a 13-year-old
negro girl, a stalwart negro ruffian or a
first-class white man—is a very precious
article, and once gone cannot be restored.
It is not the object of this article to
create the impression that the killing
yesterday morning was either intentional,
Justifiable or an accident, but simply to
call attention to the fact that recent oc
currences in Birmingham and vicinity
demonstrate dearly to our mind that the
use of the pistol is coming to be entirely
too free.
The necessity of reporting a killing—
either necessary, accidental or uninten
tional—by an officer is coming around en
tirely too often. Officers of the law
whose duty It is to deal with the criminal
class should be allowed to arm them
selves and to shoot, if needs be, to pro
tect life and property—but for nothing
else.
It comes to the State Herald that the
policeman who fired the fatal shot yester
day morning is a cautious, faithful and
trustworthy officer, and we are unwilling
to believe anything yet but that the kill
ing of the girl was purely an accident;
however, the fact remains that a 13-year
old negro girl has been deprived of her
life, and that at the hands of a police
man. The case should be thoroughly
Investigated, and the blame lodged where
it properly belongs. In the meantime,
we must have less shooting by officers.
perniciousV-arttsanship.
Postmaster-General Wilson is gradual
ly drawing the toils closer and closer
around Postmaster Screws of Montgom
ery and Postmaster Rapier of Mobile.
These gentlemen are running newspa
pers in Alabama and trying to make
and unmake candidates for all offices
from senator and governor down. The
work they are doing is infinitely more
important than any work that could be
done by a committeeman before a local
or state committee. Why should these
postmasters be allowed to run political
newspapers and dictate who shall be
candidates and who are not good demo
crats when the heads of men much less
active as partisans are cut off and rolled
over into the sawdust? The recent resig
nation of Postmaster O'Donnell of Pitts
burg as chairman of the democratic city
committee was due to the following brief
and straightforward communication!
‘Washington, Dec. 2, JS95.
“John C. O’Donnell, Postmaster, Pitts
burg, Pa.—
“Dear Sir; We are informed that you
are chairman of the democratic commit
tee of Pittsburg. You will either have
to resign that office or the postmaster
ship. Very truly yours,
"WILLIAM L. WILSON,
"Postmaster-General.”
It was a similar communication that
persuaded Assistant Postmaster Boggs
of Philadelphia to resign a recently ac
quired membership in the democratic
city committee.
In this connection the Philadelphia
Press observes:
"The removal of Assistant Postmaster
Boggs from the city committee has re
vealed the fact that there are still sev
eral federal officeholders on that commit
tee and that there are about 1200 of thetni
on the various democratic ward commit
tees. It has already been noted that this
number is sufficient to control the whole
democratic machine in the town. An
instance of the force of this shown in
the case of Mr. Boggs, who could not
have been elected to the city committee
if it had not been for the votes of the
forty-six federal officeholders who were
members of the ward committee, and at
least one-half of these were employes in
the postoffice.
"It seems to be regarded as a very ec
centric sort of civil service reform which
discriminates in this way. The postofflee
department Is certainly not in ignorance
of the situation, and it must know that
to order out one official while leaving
1200 others in can serve only to show
how absurd are the reform pretensions.
As the Civil Service Reform association
is now in annual session the whole situa
tion may prove one of interest, but it
may as well be understood that if the
officeholders were to be taken off the
democratic committees it is doubtful if
enough democrats could be found to take
their places.
“Notwithstanding, if Postmaster-Gen
eral Wilson does not want his whole
movement in the Boggs and O’Donnell
matter to be justly regarded as a sham
he will follow it up and treat all the
officeholders alike.”
THE QUESTION WITH GERMANV.
The German ambassador at Washing
ton, Baron Von Thielman, explains that
the protest of Germany Is not against
the right of the United States under our
treaty with Germany to place a differen
tial duty on refined sugar, but against
the particular differential duty now in
force on such sugar as comes from coun
tries granting an export bounty to the
exporter.
The baron says: “Germany objects
solely b«:ause, under its treaty with the
United States, approved in May, 1828, it
is entitled to the admission of its sugars
into the United States on the conditions
enforced against other nations. Under
the provisions of the treaty our country
is made a most-favored nation, and is
thereby entitled to the most advanta
geous provisions of" the laws of the
United States.”
The objection Is not well founded. Ger
man sugar is not only entitled to admis
sion at our ports, but is admitted on the
conditions enforced against other nations.
Not a single condition is enforced
against German sugar that is not en
forced against sugar from other coun
tries. The differential duty on refined
sugar and the discriminating duty on
bounty sugar is enforced impartially
against all countries.
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JOSEPH F, JOHNSTON
Is Almost theTlnanimous Choice of Tuska-1
loosa County to Succeed Governor
Oates—Pretty Home Wedding.
Tuskaloosa, Dec. 16.—(Special Corre
spondence.)—Joseph F. Johnston Is the
almost unanimous choice of this county
for governor. Court has been in session
for the past four weeks and many of our
county people hnve been in town and
expressions from them lead us to believe
that our county will be almost solid for
Jefferson’s son.
Many marriages have occurred re
cently and our people are in a flutter of
excitement and expectation.
The marriage of Mr. H. F. Hill and
Mrs. Marie Houston in Birmingham on
Tuesday last was quite a surprise. The
groom is one of the most prominent busi
ness men in this section, being a membcri
of the wholesale grocery firm of H. F.
Hill & Co., while the bride is a universal
fuvorite in Tuskaloosa, being the young
est daughter of Gen. S. A. M. Wood and
a sister of Mr. Sterling Wood, clerk of
the supreme court of Alabama. After
the marriage the bridal oouple left for
Atlanta and other points. All Tuska
loosa and Alabama wish them unalloyed
happiness.
A quiet but beautiful home wedding
was that of Lake Moore, Esq., to Miss
Martha Hill of this city. The wedding
took place at the home of the bride’s
mother, Mrs. Alonzo Hill, and only a
few intlmatq friends were fortunate
enongh to be present. Mr. Moore Is a
prominent attorney of Fort Payne and
has robbed Tuskaloosa of one of its
sweetest young ladies. He has indeed
won a prize and we waft our best wishes.
Rev. J. H. McCoy, who has for the past
fpw years served a Birmingham church,
now occupies the pulpit at the First
Methodist church, and Tuskaloosa is
glad to welcome this young man, who is
able, eloquent and earnest, and it is pre
dicted that he will do much good in his
new charge.
Judge S. H. Sprott left Friday for his
home at Livingston. He has been !n
Tuskaloosa for the past four weeks hold
ing the fall term of the circuit court. He
stated while here that he would not be
a candidate for congress.
Hon. Dan Collier of Fayette was in the
city for a day or two during the past
week.
Hon. william C. Fitts, the present
attorney-general of Alabama, will be a
candidate for re-election. He lias made
an efficient official, and his record should
secure him the support that he will no
doubt receive.
James E. Webb, Jr., and Ed Warren
of Birmingham have been visiting Tus
kaloosa for a few days.
The Warrior River Coal company 1^*
now shipping coal from their new mines
near Clements station, and It Is being
retailed in Tuskaloosa at $2 per ton. It
is fine coal. Tuskaloosa and this section
have natural advantages that hardly any
other section possess, and If properly de
veloped would attract the attention of
business men from all sections. Let oUr
people pull together and develop what
God has given them.
The grand jury of this county only
found fifty-one true bills, less than for
years previous. The morals of our coun
ty seem to be improving.
Col. T. B. NeSmlth. one of the most
prominent lawyers of north Alabama,
has been in the city during court. The
colonel is a musician as well as a lawyer
and has manufactured a fiddle which he
made himself, and upon which he c&n
perform wonderfully.
•'HANUCKA,”OR THE FEAST OF LIGHT.
A Large Congregation Gathered Sunday Night
to Witness the "Hanucka” Celebration.
The elegant Jewish house of worship, ..
Temple Emanuel, was filled to Its capac
ity Sunday night by Jews and gentiles,
who had assembled there to witness the
celebration of "Hanucka,’' or the feast of
light.
Rabbi Morris Newfeld conducted the
services and the musical programme
was in charge of Prof. Fred L. Grambs.
The programme was as follows:
Prelude.
Evening service—Rabbi and Sabbath
school.
Solo—Professor Black.
Salutatory—Clara Kaufman.
Invocation—Bertha Wellman.
Introductory—Bertha Schoen.
Benediction—Edgar Burger, Rachel
Joseph, Rosa Spiro, Florrie Lazarus,
Pearl Loveman, Minor Lazarus, Scilia
Adleson and Merlin Herzfeld.
Solo—Miss A. Whaley.
Kindling of lights—Cordie Lopez, Lib
ble Williams. Mellvllle Sommers, Lillie
Meyer, Gertie Weil, Myrom Lazarus,
Charles Hockstadter.
Oratoria—Malay Meyer.Marcella Klotz,
Milton Fies, Rosa Block, Joe Loveman,
Della Hockstadter, Irving Fies.
Traditional Chanukah hymn—Congre
gation.
Ode to Chanukah—Carrie Ullman.
“Our Heroes”—Arthuh Steiner.
"Little Drops"—Irma Levi, Joe Saks,
Bertha Bernstein.
“The Mystic Tie’—Esther Wolff.
"The Martyr Mother"—Daisy Hyams.
"The Banner of the Jew”—Hattie
Strauss.
“Star Spangled Banner”—Congrega
tion.
Responses—Rabbi Newfeld and Sun
day school.
America —Congregation.
Mr. Milton Fies.
The following was the oration delivered
by Master Milton Fies after the third
candle was kindled:
“These three lights are to remind us of
the three great founders of our religion,
the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Ja
cob. Their names will never be forgot
ten In our history. Abraham was called
the man of faith, Isaac the man of peace
and Jacob the man of trials. Each one of
them has in his virtue been a type of
Israel during all these centuries. At the
time when the menorah was set up as a
symbol to the sanctuary its seven
branches were taken to personify seven
men who were loved and revered as he
roes among our people. Other great men
have come from the ranks of Israel, he
roes, martyrs, prophets and sages.
Among them are those which this festi
val recalls, Mathethias and his brave
sons. Foremost stands the heroic figure oP
Judas Maccabee. Like Washington, 2000
years later, with a mere handful of faith
ful followers for the fight for independ
ence against the tyrants' hirelings, 0U1*
fathers were fired with patriotism for
their country. But ours Is that land no
more. We have found another Pales
tine—America, the promised land of lib
erty. Here at last have we found in rl
ality that for which our people liavp
lived, struggled and endured. Therefore
are we bound to this country with strong
est ties of devotion. Our gratitude for all
these blessings we are eager to show by
our peacefulness, loyalty and love uif
bounded.”
Even lights were kindled In commem
oration of the oil lamp which burned in
the temple of old for eight days, in which
time more oil was produced.
The Temple Emanuel Sunday school
has more than 120 pupils. The following
are the instructors: Rabbi Morris New
feid, Mrs. Sol Bernstein, Misses Leah IT11
man, Emma Wellman, Hattie Pulaski;
Messrs. B. F. Ezekiel, L. W. Friedman
and Leo Loeb.
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 a trial and be con
vinced. M- & A. WISE,
Cor. Morris ave. and Twentieth street.
Our Christmas List
Sideboards.
Dining Tables.
China Cabinets.
Buffets.
Chamber Suits.
Wardrobes.
Folding Beds.
Cheffoniers.
Medicine Chests.
Iron Beds.
Brass Beds.
Tea Tables.
Heather Couches.
Sleepy Hollow Chairs
Fancy Tables.
Dressing Tables.
Hall Trees.
Tabourettes.
Curtain Poles.
Shades.
Slipper Chairs.
Rattan Rockers.
Cobbler Rockers.
Comfort Rockers.
Sewing Rockers.
Just Received—A Large Shipment of Cutter Desks.
If you want a good desk we have it. The best made,
best finished, most durable article on the market. Guar
anteed to give satisfaction in every detail. Examine
them and you will appreciate their points of superiority.
The price is lower in proportion than the general run of
cheap desks.
Also, receiving car loads of elegant
FURNITURE.
Never before have we been able to show large and
elegant line of goods at the low prices ruling this year.
You are unjust to yourself to think of purchasing without
examining our four floors jammed full of the most desira
ble goods in the State.
Hospital for infirm furniture always open. Mirrors
rcsilvered. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Oar Christmas List
Book Cases.
Ladles’ Desks.
Office Desks.
Office Chairs.
Music Racks.
Carpet Sweepers.
Parlor Suits.
Corner Chairs.
Roman Chairs.
Onyx Tables.
Etchings.
Easels.
Turkish Rockers.
Pictures.
Hassocks.
Fur Rugs.
Smyrna Rugs.
Art Squares.
Dantzer Rugs.
India Seats.
Work Baskets.
Sofa Pillows.
Hampers. i
Mirrors.
Baby Coaches.
BIRMINGHAM MUSIC CLUB
Will Present Mme. Eppinghousen Bailey and
Supporting Artists at Seals’ Music
Hall December 1 7.
For their third entertainment Mme.
Epplnghousen Bailey and company .in
cluding Miss Bertha Epplnghousen, a
reader of national note, will be by the
Birmingham Music club presented at
Seals' Music hall on Tuesday evening,
December 17. This attraction was billed
to appear here recently, but failed to
make connection at Chattanooga.
There Is nothing better on the road.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
The auspicious opening of the Atlanta
Chautauqua assembly in the Grand last
night presages a brilliantly successful
session this year.
The attendance was very large, the au
dience being composed of the best class
of people, and the entertainment was
even better than was promised by the
Chautauqua directors.
The star of the evening was Mme. Ce
cilia Epplnghousen Bailey. Her high rep
utation as a lyric artist had preceded
her, and the expectations of the audience
were raised very high. The gifted singer,
however, sustained herself admirably,
and won the good opinion of everyone.
She possesses a voice of exceptional
range and adequate power, which has
been cultivated to a point beyond which
it were impossible to go. Her vocaliza
tion is artistic In the highest degree and
her taste is irreproachable. She is en
dowed with the artist temperament, and
feels intensely all she sings.
This is the secret of the amazing power
she exerts over her audience. Her versa
tility was disclosed in the wide range
of her work. She was equally as effi
cient in the naive lullaby, the dramatic
"Der Asra,” by Rubinstein, the roman
tic song by Nevin and the Jewel Song
from Gounod's “Faust.” The last named
selection she acted as well as sang, and
the stage accessories enhanced the merit
of the performance. The “Inflammatus”
showed clearly with what wonderful
power she is endowed as an oratorio
singer.
Mme. Bailey made a distinctly favora
ble impression upon the audience, and
when she sings again she will be certain
to draw a large crowd.
After fevers and debilitating illness
take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the strength
and health giver.
LAKtWUUL).
“Lakewood” Is the title of a novel by
Mary Harriat Norris, published by the
Frederick A. Stokes company.
Its leading feature is its excellent illus
trations, the work of Miss Louise L.
Hcutis of Mobile. Miss Heustis possesses
a rare type of beauty, and prior to her
removal to New York was one of the
belles of the Gulf City. She possesses
great talent as an artist and is rapidly
making a name for herself as an illustra
tor and portrait painter in the great
metropolis. The story is a simple one. but
manages to hold the interest of the read
er closely fiom beginning to end The
scene is laid at a winter resort near New
York, where many couples manage to
meet, declare their love and get married.
Of course there were the usual objec
tions and obstacles to be overcome, but
that Is done so easily that it is a wonder
that they were ever interposed. The
characters either belong to the smart set
or are trying to get in through the vulgar
use of money. They are all wealthy, ex
cept the heroine, whose father had lost
hts fortune and then di"d, leaving his
daughter with nothing but good looks
and some talent. However, she marries a
rich young man before you have time to
feel sorry for her. Even the old chaper
one marries after waiting years on her
lover.
EARLY ELECTRIC CARS.
The first cars In the morning leave as fol
lows: _
From Cleveland.5:50
From Twelfth avenue.G:05
From South Highlands.5:30
From North Highlands.6:00
From Avondale.5:30
From Avondale, second car.5:45
From Fountain Heights.5:4S
From Fountain Heights, second car.6:00
One hour later on Sundays.
Late Cora.
Leave Second avenue for—
North Highlands.11:30 p m
Fountain Heights...11:00 p m
Avondale.11:00 p m
Cleveland. 11:30 p m
Tw-lfth avenue.11:00 p m
South Highlands.11:00 p m
South Highlands....11:30 p m
South Highlands... .. 12:01 a m
12-1-tf
KILLEDYESTERDAY MORNING
Officer Byars Accidentally Shoots a Negro
Girl—Too Free Use of Private Coal
the Cause of It.
Officer J. N. Byars shot and killed a
negro girl yesterday morning about 5
o’clock. The girl, with some men and
women, was stealing coal from a coal car
near the gas house, on Thirteenth street,
and the shooting, It Is said, was acci
dental. The girl’s name was Lizzie Durr,
and she lived with her mother on Third
avenue, between Fourteenth and Fif
teenth streets.
A State Herald reporter received the
following statement regarding the shoot
ing from Officer Byars at the county
jail, where he is held on a warrant issued
out of Justice Martin’s court charging
him with murder:
"I regret exceedingly that the girl Is
dead. It was entirely accidental on my
part. I had no more Intention of shoot
ing her than I have of shooting you.
We were told to watch the coal cars, and
Officer McCullom and myself went to
the coal cars about 5 o’clock in the morn
ing. It was very dark, but I could see a
number of persons on top getting coal.
Some of them saw me before 1 got to the
car and jumped off and ran away. When
I ran around the car on the side that the
others had jumped from there was a gen
eral scurry among those who remained
to get away. I had my pistol* in my
hand, and called to them to come down.
Some one threw a quantity of coal at
me from the car, and when I dodged the
girl jumped on me. My pistol was dis
charged accidentally, but I didn’t know
that she was hurt. I saw one woman
running, and I ran after her and caught
her. When we came back to the car we
saw that the girl had been shot. We did
all we could for her. and I assure you no'
one regrets the killing more than I do.”
Officer Byars bears a splendid reputa
tion as an’officer. He has always been
considered very careful in exerting force
to make an arrest, and his manner and
actions show that he is very earnest in
his expressions of regret regarding the
shooting. , „ .
The reporter went to the girl s home
on Third avenue. Several negroes were
standing outside and there were some
ugly mutterings heard about Officer
Byars. Inside the body lay on a bed
ready for burial. The room, too, was
crowded with colored visitors, but they
were all silent except the mother, who
wept for her daughter. The girl was
said to be only 13 years of age, though
she looks several years older than that.
Officer Byars will be given a prelimi
nary hearing before Justice Martin with
in the next few days.
Immediately after the killing Officer
Byars went to police headquarters and
surrendered to Night Capt. Will Weir.
Captain Weir sent for Chief McDonald,
who came at once and sent Officer Byars
to Justice Martin’s office in the custody
of Officer Langston. Chief McDonald
and Sergeant Donelson then went to the
girl's home and the chief had tile girl’s
brother accompany him to Justice Mar
in’s office, where a warrant was obtain
ed for Officer Byars’ arrest, and he was
turned over- to the county authorities.
I Ht wuKLirb Mt.inurui.i3,
First of Dr. Hale’s Lectures at the Southside
Baptist Church.
Large crowds gathered at the South
side Baptist church Sunday at the even
ing service, the aisles being filled with
chairs. Dr. Hale delivered the first of
his series of Sunday evening lectures on
his recent extended tour. The theme
that night was “London, the World's Me
tropolis.” Lessons In history and noble
effort were suggested. . The speaker
touched upon voices from Westminster
Abbey, the Tower, the chapel of John
Wesley, the graves of Susanna Wesley
and John Bunyan and the work of Spur
geon. There are some things we ought
to learn from our English cousins tn the
matter of reverence for law, avoiding
lynchlngs; less rush and getting more out
of life, etc. The desirability of amicable
relations with England was dwelt upon,
and the feeling of those people about
America and the prayer of the chaplain
of congress that we "might be quick to
resent an Insult” was repudiated, and the
deplorable results of tbe policy of the
jingoes scored.
Next Sunday night the subject will be
“Paris, the Magnificent.’'- Free tickets
to tha entire course of lectures can be ob
tained at Fowlkes & Myatt's and at the
office of M. C. Reynolds, Twentieth
street and Avenue D. Persons with tick
ets can enter the side door on Avenue F
fifteen minutes before the main doors
are-opened.
CARNIVAL OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
Benefit Church of the Advent, Managed by
Mrs. Kathleen Kennedy of Illinois—O'Brien’s
Opera House December 20, 1895, and
Matinee Saturday Afternoon.
One of the finest spectacular perform
ances ever presented before a Birming
ham audience. All the lending business
firms of the city will be represented by
young ladies in beautiful costumes. Some
will be artistic, while others will be
oomic.
Two hundred children in tableaux, rep
resenting young Americans with Goddess
of Liberty and Night. Half circle drill
by sixteen misses dressed in costume.
“Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," by
local military company, as produced at
Chicago during the World's fair. This
alone will be worth the price of admis
sion asked. Come, leave your cares at
home and enjoy yourself, thereby help
ing a good cause.
Seats on sale December 19 and 20 at
box office. Prices 50 and 75 cents for re
served seats; children, 25 cents.
12-13-15-17-18-20
PRESENT A TIONS
FOR
THE HO LI DA VS.
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NECKWEAR.
SUSPENDERS—Silver Buckles.
HANDKERCHIEFS—Linen & Silk.
UMBRELLAS.
SMOKING /ACKETS.
BATH ROBES.
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L. ROGAN & CO.
BIRMINGHAM DAY.
Mr. L. A. Shipman, traveling passen
ger agent of the Southern railway, is in
receipt of a communication from Atlan
ta advising that the management x>f the
exposition has designated December 23
as Birmingham day. The Southern has
reduced the rate to $3 for the round trip,
applying 19th to 25th inclusive, and it has
been suggested that Birmingham can
make a much better show than some of
her sister cities who have already visited
the exposition. Mayor King of Atlanta
is specially anxious that Birmingham
should take proper interest in the matter
and has expressed a desire to enter into
correspondence with Mayor VanHoosa ■
with that object in view.
The city board meets tonight and Mr.
VanHoose will present the matter to
them. In the meantime suppose we dis
cuss the matter and undertake to inter
est the business people.
Birmingham must have her day.
Awarded
Highest Honors—World’s Pair.
DU
BAKING
ROWDIER
MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pure Grape Cream of T.rt.ir Powder. Free
bom Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant.
40 YEARS THE STANDARD
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