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Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

dueed in a single generation. and long experience in management of the fac tories.
 These concerns require large capital. for they must carry their wooden raw material from six to ten years beiCre using. Thsse materials. being selected. cost high to begin with, and the ex- pense of keeping lumbsT so long to secure perfect seasoning, is no trifle in the cosc of finished product.
 Chattanooga has not the experience nor the necessary capital dG embark in such lines; but we have factories now that will, in time, ge, out the very finest of wooden articles; and what is needed is more of the sort that can make the less expensive articles in several other lines, rather than attemp-5 to begin at the top. We must grow up to the production of fine things, in furniture, iron articles, cotton and wooden fabrics and the rest; II we try to reach the top at a bound, the chances of falling short and getting hurt, will bs very great.
 We must begin. We now make, right here in town, the very best foundry iron made in the south, and as good as is smelted anywhere. Let us try to make several things out of our iron, that will add several fold to it's market value.
 We have abundant supplies of fine hard woods at the back door and front door and on both sides of the town. Our factories are now making a great variety of materials that are chiefly of wood and they are steadily reaching up into the more costly, finer things in their line.
 Our doctrine is not to the effect that if we cannot make watch springs, we ought not, therefore. to make pig iron or steel ingots. We believe in doing what can be done, and we think the man or commit nity beginning at the bottom. will get to the top in time. if there is the right sort of sense and enough vgor. If we can only make pig iron-a material one remove from iron ore, make it, for in doing so we add from 400 to 1000 per cent. to the value of the ore, and a fair per cent, when prices are good, to the cost of all materials. labor and capital employed. The foundry and rolling mill take the material some. points higher up in the scale, and we are getting both these in the south, and getting them in strong condition.
 The same is true of other things, and lines of industry. What Chattanooga needs to make of her a commanding cen- ter of mechanical production, is that her people begin and keep at 1t, starting with good judgment and holding fast the grace of continuance.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

A chi1dless woman has missed the greatest pleasure in the universe. She has missed the vague, soft caresses of helpless, sweet little hands that cling to her with bliad love and dependence. She has missed the miracle of motherhood She is not truly woman.
 If she is to be mother, she must be healthi,y capable. weak, sick1y woman is not to be expected to bear healthy child. Bearing an unhealthy child is a crirne-pun- ishable by Nature inhexible laws. Punish. able with misery and rcmorse The wonder is that there should be unhealthy women and unhealthy children. It is the fault of the women. Their ill health is unnecessary Tkey may be perfect women, and bear per. feet children-easily and without pain if they choose to do so~
 Dr. pierce's Favorite Prescription makes women we'll. It purifes and invigorates the organs distinctly fef1iirine, and makes the mother better able to nourish the child be- fore and after. birth. It frees the ordeal of childbirth from much of its pain and dan ger. It insures the health of both mother and child. 1tprevents premature birth and I1iiscarriages. All good druggists sell it.
 Mrs Benlah woodail. of Batcnian, Patrick Co., Va. writes: II was afflicted for four years with dtsessc of the womb buf would not confess 1t for Pierce's medicines and advised me to try them. got two bottles of the Favorite Prescrir-ion and bottle of the Pleasant peIIe .s.' and Saw they helped ms T got six hotties of the Pre~ scription again, six Of soif,en Medical rtscov- cry and five hotties of Teiist and began fak- .na them a May. I would take dose of each three fines cay mud pellet at night can safely say thcy cared me. can praise I>r. Pierce and bis ;seiicincs- Have otea ir:-lc6 ten ycarA Have :a gira baby sad can n iitt.e PieTcc.S%
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

quiet but consistent way has always voted that ticket. He has one of the incest families in the state, of which he Is excusab1y proud, for they combine as much blue blood and genuine aristocra- cy as any family in Alabama. He re- sides in Birmingham. but has a decided fondness for our city.-Huntsville Trihunp
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

Hoods Sarsaparila possesses just the needed elements to build up the weak. Get only Hoods.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22
Bridget-"Sure, marm, ain't 1t harder for me when don't know how? ?"-Tid Bits

Ragged Haggard Cat the door)-Mad- din, may I trouble you for suthin to eat? Lady of the House Cthreateningly) I'll call the dog if Ragged flag gard (with dignity)-Thank ye. but I never eat dogs.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

How it Works out In P-actice.-=Jess- "Tsse rain falls alike on the just ard iha unjust" -Jeke--~Trre. but the unjust man is generally provided with the just mans umbt,eiia-~-Fri,th.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

] Inco3lpatibili.y.--"I knew that coup,e wa..is fuaity get afvorce." s"Whyo' "fie wanted their first baby named Mar
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

..Norah." said Mrs. Perkasie. to her new cook, this salad tastes oe kertjsene" ''5ure. num- replied Norsh. ''an' it was yersi!f as touid me to put ile en it, Harper's Baza-.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22
ONE OF TWO WAYS.

The bladder was created for one pur- pose, namely, a receptacle for the urine, and as such 1t is not liable to any form of first way is from imperfect action of the kidneys. The second way is from care less local treatment of other diseases.
 CHIEF CAUSE.
 Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid neys is the chief cause of bladder troub- les and suffering so painful to many that life is made miserable. The womb like the bladder was created for one purpose, and if left alone it is not liable to become diseased, except in rare cases. When in position the womb Is situated back of and very close to the bladder, and for that reason any distress, disease or ineonVen- fence manifested in the kidneys. back, bladder or urinary passage is often by mistake, attributed to female weakness or womb trouble of some sort The error is easily made and may be as easily avoided by paying a little attention to the condition of the urine (see pampn- let). The mild and the extraordinary et- feet of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy IS soon realized. It stands the highest TOT it's wonderful cures If you need medl- cine you should have the best. At drug gists fifty cents and one dollar. You may have sample bottle and pamphlet both sent free by mail. Mention The State Herald, and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghampton, N. Y. The proprietors of this paper guar antee the genuineness of this offer.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22
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 April {, 1897.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

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Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

When She Imblbed Skll-"That Miss Wood, the bicycle rider, is Theosophist, isn't she?" "Yes, she says she used to walk a treadmiIl in the time of Sesos- tfis. s.'-CleVsqand Plain Dealer.
 Ladv--"But it seems to me you ask very high wages, when you acknowledge that you haven't had much experience"
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22
NEWSPAPER WAITS.
TO THE LEvEES.

TO THE LEvEES. o sturdy banks of mudl That tWixt us and the flood, Protection fins! That bid the raging mass, Fresh from its last creyasse: Hold! Here thou canst not passF'-- To thee sing. i.s-- Past thine =mbankments now, On many darkened brow, Care holds its throne; There, many a kneecap bends, There, many a prayer ascends. There, many a heart depends On thee alone. Think of the ruined homes If once that water roanls s. Our lands above! Think of the years of toll Spent on fruitful soil, That tyrant would despoil Our peopl= of. Think of the precious lives Of children, mothers and wives, -f That look to thee To save them from the doom fE Foretold yhem by the boom ir- Of floods that at thee fume .' So angrily. M g Think of tn se, and let Not one small ripple get -- .-,,-e rs. : Thy bulwarks through! t- Tn this, cur darliened hour, When would that tyrant power Cur cherished State devour, . banks, bc true! <st ..-1
 -CHARLi1s J. CoLTCN.'. :.
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Hicks-"Speaking of P,tIleS, he is a man who ieally enjoys a. toothache.' ' Nicks-"What is he. a Mark Tapley?t HiekS-"No; he's g. dentist. ccst-n Transcript. ---.-- =
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

tha Maria and she namsd it Euphema Ethelinda. ."-CIeveland Record
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22

A Sceptic.-"Heap the poor" said the vagrant. pointing to the card he carried. 'No," said Banks. T don't bslieve7 in signs"-Philadeiphi North American @'
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BIRMINGHAM STATE HERALD

Entered at the postonice at Birmingham. Ala. as second-class natter
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er's train. and whether or not 1t left
his station on time.
"Pinckney quiet; can't get answer
was the report of the wires. "What s
the trouble?'
Polly answered as we'll as she could,
and Mercer made another attempt 10
arouse Pinckney.
Hor fathers train was now due. 1t
should be whistling cheerily at the low
err beud. Polly stepped out on the plat
form and peered up the track. Yes,
there was the familiar headlight-she
would have known 1t among hundred.
Then came the whistle, Hello, Polly"
and Polly ran back into her office much
relieved and sat down to warn Mercer.
At that instant she heard peculiar
cracking sound that sent her heart
ouiyering deep in her bosom. Then
there was the shrill scream of the loco
motive whistle, suddenly interrupted,
as If the hand that had drawn the lever
had been struck from its place. Polly
knew II was cry of distress. 1t SEEM
ed to say, Help" in long, tremulous
wall. Instantly Polly darted outside
and flew up the track. Already the eX-
press should have Numbered past the
station, but she could see its headlight
a hundred yards or more away. The
train had stopped.
With a hundred terrifying questions
flashing through her mind, Polly ran
on through the gloom. When she was
almost within range of the big head
light she saw half dozen armed men
swarming around the engine, she heard
fierce oaths, and then the engine start
ed up again. She saw in an instant
that it had been cut tree from the train.
In the cab window, where her father
usually stood, there was big, unfamil-
lar figure managing the lever and throt-
tie. Terrified, Polly sprung to one side
into clump of bushes. AS the locOmo-
tive passed her on its way up the track
she saw that the man In the cab wore
a black mask on his face, and then she
knew what had happened. She under
stood why Pinckney had tried to warn
her anG failed. Robbers had held up
the train and were preparing to rob
the express car.
For moment Polly was torn with
doubt and terror. Had they shot her
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carried them down to the train, cheer
Ing all the way.
Engineer Marshall was not badly
hurt, and he was able to be in Mercer
when the general manager of the ROAD
thanked the blushing Polly officially
and offered a new and better position
in Mercer. And of course all the pas
sengers and express messengers heard
about Pollys brave deed and said a
great many pleasant things about her.
but Polly. being a sensible girl, only
blushed and said that she had to do it,,
and that any other girl would have
done the same under like circumstan-
ces-which no one believed, of course.
Later, when the robbers were cap
tured. Polly was able to identify one
of them positively-the one who had
run the engne-and through him the
entire party was convicted and sentenc-
ed to the neutrality-suspicious. Rec-
ord
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-10-02

Savages, we know, indulge in such
luxuries as grubs and locusts, but for
civilized white man to finish up his din
ner with dish of raw ants seems too
nasty to be credible. Yet in Mexico
it is the custom-and a custom adopted
by plenty of colonists and visitors.
The ant eaten Is called the honey ant,
and is perhaps as curious an insect as
lives. With tiny head and legs, it has
a huge body as big as a large pea, and
this is yellow and swollen with excel
lent honey
In each nest there are 800 or 400 of
these honey ants, which are attended
by thousands of others. The honey ants
hang on to the roof Of the cells In the
nest while the others feed them. They
are, in fact, living storehouses of win
ter food. An observer says that If one
of the honey ants falls from his perch
a worker will go and pick him up and
replace him. This is as if man were
to walk up the face of a cliff carrying
a large buffalo or cart horse on his
back.
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father? She knew that he never would
submit to have his train captured with
out n struggle. Should she go to him!
Then she remembered her station and
the telegraph, and without moments
delay she was flying down the track
toward the depot. She would send for
help to Mercer. But squarely in front
of the little depot the locomotive stop
ped and the blackmasked man sprung
from the cab window and darted
across the platform. Hardly thinking
what she was doing, Polly ran up on
the other side, the tireman's side OF the
engine, and, raising herself up, peered
into the cab. She had half expected
to see her fathers dead body lying
on the floor, for she had heard much
about the terrible doings of train rob-
berS.
Through the cab window she could
see the robber sitting at her own little
desk in the depot sending message.
1t flashed over her all at once that he
was wiring Mercer that the express
was delayed, thus preventing any
alarm. The robber had pushed up his
mask and she saw him plainly.
What should she do? She dared not
enter the office, and she, mere girl,
could be of no service where the rob-
bers were making their attack on the
train. If only she had the little revolv-
err that lay in the drawer Of her desk
she set her teeth as she thought what
she would do with it.
AT that moment three shots rang out,
clear and distinct, from the detached
train. The man at the telegraph instru-
ment sprung to his feet and ran to a
side window in the waiting room and
looked up the track.
Now was her chance. Hardly think
ing what she did, Polly sprung to the
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| engineers side of the cab, threw back
the reverse lever and opened the throt-
| tie steadily. The big steel wheels be-
gan to turn, very slowly Mt first. Far
Their and farther the throttle opened
and faster and faster turned the
wheels, and yet they did not go half
fast enough to suit Polly, who was now
glancing fearfully over her shoulder
| Suddenly the depot door was thrown
open and she saw the robber darting up
the track. He had his pistol in his
hand. He was pointing 1t at her and
shouting for her to stop. But the en-
CINE was now going at good speed, and,
run as he would the robber could not
| catch it. But he stopped and fired, the
bullet ripping through the cab cover
above POlly's head.
The engine was now tearing down the
track at full speed. Polly knew that 1t
must be fired or it would not go far,
and so, leaving the throttle open. she
sprung to the coal pit, flung open the
fire hole, and with the heavy shovel in
her small white hands threw in load
after load of coal When she returned
to her place she could see the first sig
nal light of Mercer already blinking
into view. She pulled down on the
whistle cord and the engine shrieked its
distress.
Five minutes later Polly strained at
the heavy reverse lever, turned hard
on the air brake and brought the great
iron horse to a sudden standstill. How
she ever managed to stammer the story
she never knew, but in a few minutes
the engine was headed back with half a
dozen armed men aboard of her. Be-
hind them came another load of men on
a switch engine and two men were rae
ing up the street of Mercer calling the
alarm.
They heard firing before they reached
Kane Greek, but it ceased soon after
ward. The robbers had gone. They
had taken with them much plumber
from the passengers, but they had not
been able to get into the express safe,
although they were at work drilling 1t
open when relief came.
From the time that the engine stop
ped Polly was missing. When the res
cued and excited passengers and ex-
press messengers began to crowd
around and inquire the Mercer men re-
membered her. A party of them went
out to find the girl who had brought
help to the beleaguered train.
In little clump of bushes they heard
man moaning, and an instant later
they saw Polly kneeling in the sand,
with her fathers head in her lap, cry
ing bitterly. And they gathered up the
brave engineer and his daughter and
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He Started Grant and Garfield on the
Road to Military Fame.

One of the unique and heroic figures
of the West is Rev. J. f. Jaquess, of
Posey County, Indiana. He was one of
the fighting parsons of the war period
and has the undisputed distinction of
having set Grant and Garfield on the
road to military fame.
The career of this man of the Cos
pei and gun is interesting. He was
born in the wilds of Indiana early in
the century, when pioneers were few.
AS he grew up his educational facilities
were poor, but he finally succeeded in
working his way through Asbury Col
lege and then began preaching in
southern Illinois. Those were rough
and ready days, but Jaquess was equal
to every emergency, and, if needed,
could use his fists as well as any man
in the county. The way he could swing
and ak and handle a horse, together
with his brilliant mental qualities,
made him an idol among the pioneers.
A decade before the civil war began he
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slaught. The intrepid colonel was In
front encouraging the men. The first
position of the enemy was taken. and
on they, pushed with the rest of the
army, while Grant was asking who had
ordered the charge and declaring his
army was lost. They were met by
shower of balls. They charged with
their bayonets, and so impetuous was
the onslaught that nothing could stop
them. The first line of Notifications
fell, and then the second, and the guns
on top of the ridge. The Seventythird
planted their colors on the spot, and on
the way they captured almost as many
men as they were themselves in the
regiment.
President Lincoln wanted to promote
the fighting parson. The parson said
it would not be fair for him to leave
the men who had entered with him. He
knew man who would make a good
major general, and he wrote to Presi-
dent Lincoln to that effect. This man
was James A. Garfield. The President
made him a general, largely upon the
recommendation of the preacher from
Posey County, Indiana. The Colonel
went back to Camp Butler, but he re-
turned with only 200 of the able men
who went with him,and 200 disabled
for the rest of their lives.
The Colonel took up his Bible where
he had left it and went after men-not
shooting at their heads or hearts, as
he had told his men to do literally dur
ing the war, but figuratlvely. He has
kept it up ever since.
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SNAKES DRIVE OFF ROBBERS.
Queer Pets Save Ernest Barbour, a
Dowaer's Hill, Pa, Hermit.

Queer Pets Save Ernest Barbour, a
Dowaer's Hill, Pa, Hermit.
The geese saved Rome once upon a
time, but probably the only case on rec
ord where a rattlesnake proved a ben
efactOr to its owner occurred when
Ernest Barbour, the hermit of Down
ers Hill, was attacked by burglars in
his hoyel and the robbers were driven
away by rattlesnake. DOwners Hill
is in Susquehanna County Pa, not far
from the line separating New York and
Pennsylvania. Barbour has lived in a
hut there for many years and has Sc
creted about $4,000 In securities. He
also has considerable money about the
little howell at times. There he lives
with two large dogs and a number of
rattlesnakeS which he has charmed or
tanned so that he can freely handle
them. The neighbors usually avoid the
place on account of the snakes and the
fierce dogs and Barbour is left quite
alone. But last week number of rob-
bers planned an attack on the hut, at
tempting to get the money and securi-
ties in the place.
They made the dogs insensible with
drugged meat and were about to seize
Barbour when the faithful rattlesnakes
interviewed. One of them bit a robber
In the leg, whereupon the marauders