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other fitting smilar beveled cog on the axle of the rear wheel. The pedals, therefore, transmit tine power by the turning Of the rod In its casing between the gearing of the pedals an1 the gear ing of the rear axle.
 There Is nothing new in this princi- pie, which is, that cogs turning on the level, or slantwise to each other, will transmit power in more different direc- tions than a skipper can tack ship. Neither is It's application to the bicycle new, for there was the league wheel of 1893, that failed, made in Hartford, and "L'Acatene," the wheel of France, on which Huret, the French rider eov- cred 564 miles 1.510 yards in twenty four hours, and broke the record. The hopes of the great bicycle combine are based on a confidence of cutting this gearing in a specially made steel with absolute perfection of alignment.
 The Inventors who have striven for years 10 make perfect chainless bicy- cle we're actuated by the impsrfeetions of the chain and sprocket. Not only is the old system subject to the interfer- ence of dust and dirt, but the joints of
 
 subject to wear. and this wear alters the ''pitch.'' "Pitch" is a mechanical term which indicates the distance from cen ter to center. If the wear of the chain alters the distance from center to cen ter of each joint the wear of the sprock- ct teeth must be identically the same to produce unison in the transmission of the power But it is impossible for the wear to be the same, hence the in- finitesimal changes in the pitch of the chain and the pitch of the sprocket teeth cause a loss of power, and this is why the rider who doesn't bother about what pitch means, wonders why his whsel rides harder after it is old than when It is new.
 The failure of many and most of the labors of these inventors was due to the imperfection of the bevelled- toethtng. Thus, while all kinds of machinery are driven by bevelIed gear, the weight of the cog wheels provides solid base of resistance that overcomes the imperfec- tions in the perfect fitting of one cog into another; whereas, the lighter bicy- cle mechanism depends upon, not weight but absolute perfection of the parts. The rod transmitting the power from the. pedals to the rear axle, if out of alignment, due to the instability of the light bicycle frame. would wreck the ma chine, and it would stop like grand fathers clock, that never went again.
 The Pope company bought all the pat ents. That's where the bicycle combine came in. For two years bevelled gear patents have been brought up right and left. The patents of the League chain less wheel that failed were bought, un- til they believe they possess every pos sible patent which covers any kind of perfect or imperfect bevel gearsd wheel.
 It is said that the cost of buying and plugging up every avenue of competi- tion and the experiments cost $500,000 before a single wheel could be shown to the bicycle world.
 The work of obscure inventors was combined, made into composite shape and
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Mortgage Sale.

Under and by virtue of the power vested in the undersigned, by certain mortgage executed on the 21st day of April, 1893, by Frances H. West and Goldsmith B. West, to George Sugg, recorded in volume IF, page 525,. in the office of the probate judge of Jefferson county, Alabama, to secure certain indebtedness. therein de- scrbed, the undersigned will, on Novem- Der B. 1897, sell at auction, to the highest bidder for cash in front of the court house door of Jefferson county, Alabama, within the legal hours of sale, the following de- scribed property, to-wit.
 Beginning at the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southwest quar- ter of section 2G, township r, range west {; thence east chains to Dr. Bolands south west corner thence north 9 chains and 90 links to McDaniels south line; thence west chains to corner with Armstrong, Thom- as and McDaniel; thence south 9 chains and 99 links to the point of beginning, being Q paralelogram in form, on acres of land more or less. being the west half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section g. town ship IT, range west, and situated in Jeff ferson county, Alabama.
 JOSEPH A. STEPHAN,
 Transferree. MOUNTJOY & TOMLINSON,
 Attorneys for Transferree
 10-S-1m .4gs
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HOUSE DECORATING IDEAS.
Hints Particularly Apropos al This House Clean
 ing Season.

Don't put borders on carpets for small rooms. -s-- os-a.t ,-z.45
 Don't hang chandeliers or lamps in low-ceiIed rooms.
 Don't be chary of rich, warm tints in northern. rooms. .e- .. bF. sfs.-= is.- Don't buy what suits the fancy, re- gardless of their combined effects.
 Don't select anything because. 1t is fashionable, but because it is' good.
 Don't have any apparent, much jess any regular, arrangement. to furniture. Don't believe for. a minute that ey- persiveness is essential to beautiful ef- fects -t. ,u s44a.,4Fs
 Don't make a table a pivotal point from which the rest of. the furniture ra- diates. M i....4. saa
 Don't make narrow door rparre wer with heavy drapery. We drape too much. haos 4o .sea
 Don't use decided patterns for uphol- stery if you have done so for wall and floor coverings. asl tl4ss ..14s4
 Don't use large patterned wall paper in small rooms, or a deep border with low ceilings &
 Don't have any fanciful, fixed ar- engagement of window draperies in rooms in daily use.r ha ,e.,rs < 45ess ,+-
 Don't buy chairs that are not we'll made and comfortable, or lounges that are not low and broad .44
 Don't let aestheticism, dominate sense and get plain carpet Qillingo for the floors of rooms in daily use.r
 Don't delude yourself into thinking that beautiful rugs spread over homely floors are more artistic than all-ovsr carpets.
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CHA|NLESS BICYCLE NOW
Some New Ideas Sprung in
 WheeIdOm.
SPROCkET AND CHAIN GONE
The New Invention Is a Columbia, and Will Be Put on the Market in
 1898 For Si25.

The cha.nless bicycle is no longer a mystery. The curtain of secrecy has been withdrawn. All chain and sprocket wheels win TOW be forced in the second grades.
 The local lovers of wheels are gossip ing about the new invention and won der.ng when it will invade Birming- ham.
 All cycls manufacturers agree that the finalty of pattern has been reached in the chain wheel. They knew that it could no longer be improved upon and an advance has been expected. The chain less wheel is the result and the curtain of secrecy has beenNdrawn.
 The drawing of the curtain not only revealed the carefully guarded secret of the new mechanism, but disclosed a. great bicycle combination to reinstate the high grade wheel to the $125 price. Incidentally the cut in prices to $75 an1 $50, which it was assumed the Pope Manufacturing company started. owing to general competition and over-produc- tion was nothing of the kind.
 It was a cleaning up and clsaring out in preparation for the debut of the new $125 wheel. At least ten makers of high grade wheels will turn out 1898 chainless models, licensed under the Pope com pany's patents, ard all of them will sell for $125.
 Further than this the new $125 wheel bodes war possibly the greatest bicycle war that ever happened.
 There are, therefore, thrse features in the news-the story of the mechanical triumph; the fact that the great stimu- Jus for it's production was to make every one who wants the latest and most up- to-date wheel pay $125 for the proud privilege, and the rumblings and rumors of war in the camp of the enemiss of the $125 chainless combine.
 The market has practically been cor
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TRUTH IN RHYME

The very best dressmaking,
 Birmingham's fair ladies know. Is the most artistic, latest style,
 Work done by Mrs. Coe. Rooms 416 and AT chalifoux build ing.
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tried and tested; one failure Bought about another experiment, until from fa1lure to fhIMre, a simple conirivance was born which the bicycle makers. after testing for year, believe to be perfect
 During this time hints oozed out about the 1888 chainless wheel then c.ma the sensa tional midsummer reduction in prices, which diverted attention from the real story now descrIbed until, at this time, the bicycle dealers say that the sale of wheels is confused, expectant and the salesmen on the road are trying to sell goods without quoting prices.
 Behind this confusion and uncertain ty the manufacturers who have entered into the agreement to use the device, so carefully evolved and prosect-d, were, and are now, preparing their 1898 $125 chaln1ess model.
 The head and front Of this particular chainless revolution, the Pope company, made the great play and presented the new wheel and the new price.
 It is said in wheel circles that the makers who will from now on announce their s125 chainl6Ss wheel are the mak- es of the Columbia, Yellow Fellow, ,Cleve- land. Warwick, Keapfng, Remington, iN.SS, otSii4ifS, iNahAoiSi I-npSIty wheels. Some add the Western Wheel Works, the Monarch Cycle company and the Waltham Manufacturing company and erase some others from he list. The impending advent of the s125 hainless bicycle was not unknow,n to the camp of the enemy, nor were counter plaas of war neglected at their councils. The $125 Pope clrainless, under the Pope patents, ds not the only chlainess wheel ili the market CT projected. There are chalnless wheels at $50 about ready, or under way. Some of these wheels may infringe on the Pope patents, but that will be a. matter of legal minds to de- eide, not on the bicycle field, but in the courts Some makers say they will have something to say right away; others say, Just wait, and see the fun" These makers outside the walks of the sup posedly impregnable citadel assert defi- nitely and decisively that the great plan will fail, and they know why it will fail, and that those who wars the read thing in 1898 model wheels won't have to pay | sl25.
 The weight of the new wheel is only Twenty-Five pounds, in spite of eighty i pa atents It is said to be free from back lash ienpervious to weather, to maks hill climbing sweet and pleasant and provide an American mechanical triumph.
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MCKINLEY AS
 A PLAY-ACTOR s.s# dad liif 1ulga He Played Wellington De Boots 4tsafHa f,-,4OlI 8tiB - in a Widow Hunt.
A COPY OF. THE PLAYBILL
In His College Days He Scored Great Success on the Local Stage at Portiandj 0.-FeIlow
 Actors and What Has Become of Them.
From the Philadelphia Times.


 From the Philadelphia Times. When President Mckinley was a young major just home from the wars, and when he had not vet been admitted to the bar he took part in a dramatic performance, sustaining the comedy character of Major Wellington de Boots, in Sterling coyne's Widow iBoots," with great success.
 This dramatic appearance, which may have been preceded or fctlowed by others took place in Poland, Ohio in the chapel of the Poland Union seminary, in May or June,, 1864. I append the pro gramms, on which .tihe date is not legi- ble: esa 3a
 BNTBRTAINlENT. TO BE GIVEN BY THE EVERETT LITERARY SOCIETY TO RAISE
 FUNDS TO FURNISH THEIR
 NEW HALL. TO BIB HELD IN THE. CHAPEL OF THE POLAND UNION SEMI-
 NARY ONs FRIDAY EVENING NEXT.
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Men of Letters

Men of Letters
 From the Chicago Tribune. sit ssrhis is the Rev. sfrr f3eeke." Glad to meet you,1 Mir BeebS. Arc you D. D. also?" "Ay, ay." ,,t .4is. s4s.2.lf6 e.
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured.

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear
 There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an infiamed con- dition of the mucous lining of the eusta- chian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imper- feet hearing, and when 1t is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condi-
The age-herald., 1897-10-24

Everybody who is anybody reads the AGE-HERALD.
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ENTERTAINMENT.
PROGRAMME

Mule, Duet. ..... Miss Jessie Lee Miss Lucy Kirkland Recitation, .Teps Execution of Montrose ss sts James H. Powers Original Grafton, "Gireat. Names
 Alexander Anderson Reading of "The Star
 Felix McCurley Editor, Mary Mans field, Fditress. -i. 24lta Music, Duet. .fi.s.i .a- 1.-The 'Miss1ss Crane Tableau, "The MaidHof Saragossa"
 Miss Duncan Debate, Resolved, The Sword is Might fer Than the Penlp Affirnrativ Dallas Mays, James Satteffisiid; negative, Clarke Rice, Thomas Sexton. Music, Poland String Band
 saa J. H. Powers, Conductor
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To conclude with the play, A WIDOW HUNT

With the following cast: Felix Featherly... :. Frank Mansfield Frank Icebrook |. .. James s. Wigthtman Major Wellington de PSfIfs
 William Mckinley Trap.... ...... .......... Henry Duncan Mrs. Major de Boots. .... ..A1ice Cress Mrs. Swandewn - ... .Lottia Truseaale Fannie. ....... ..,...... Lizzie Woodruff Doors open.. ......... .......7 o'clock AnmlsSlon-4... ..,...... 50 cents Youngstown ReP;tStar Print
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tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by ca tarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafnsss (caused by ca tarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free.
 F. J. CHENEY & co, Toledo. O. Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

Oh. IEANSoNSs y y SoISI lucy
work for small pay; they work for God and
humanity. Therefore, under all circum-
stances, treat them with the utmost KIND
ness.
why I give to Beloit. The first college
helped-and have helped sixteen-was Be-
lott College. / did not make any mistake.
Beloit College from top to potion tbs s s snor
of all colleges. But you have been frank ana
honest. Everything you have agreed to DO
you have done. l could say great deal
more, but / am coming to the point now
where I am greatly interested.
Announces His New Gift.
A good gentleman and lady-Mr. and Mrs
Stowell-have given this college beautiful
block and building costing $4,000. There
have that come to Beloit in the futuref
Those young ladies' who come to Belolt IN
the future ought to have beautiful building
where they, can have real family nome ana
matron. And l propose to build that bulid,
ing That building will cost $4,000; it will
be taller than Chaplin Hall, little longer
and little wider. 1t will DE beauty.
Now. I say to you, gentlemen or the trus-
tees, go on and build your building; as fast
as you build it call for your money and you
will get it. When you get 1t built you VIII
get every dollar in money-not check-but
right out In money Build it economically.
l intend that that 100000 shall build SUI
perb building and shall put in heating APP
tell you why. You can build 80 per cent
cheaper now than you did when You built
Chaplin Hall. You know that, every one or
YOU There are idle men who want work
Now is the time to pitch in and build rlsht
on
There is one more thing I would like to
have That beautiful building has got to be
furnished. Do not any of you gentlemen
rise up and say II will furnish it." You are
not, going to have anything to do with it.
The ladies Of the Northwest will furnish
that building. When you go back to your
homes in GAINESVILLE and all around ladies,
at the very next meeting Of your ladies' as
ISOLATION, Just tell them that you are going
to furnish room in-What?
Named After Prof. Emerson.
will tell you what it is. In Emerson
Hall. It is not often that you name build
ing before you build it, but, DR.. Emerson, it
Is your hall.
You might as we'll go about raising that
endowment now. for your prosperity lE. adds dds
have got it all will come up and bring the
$50, 600 in clean cash. I will not give you
check. but the money itself. When you
write me that that endowment Is raised
will come, and not before. l have very good
reasons why / have given to Beloit, and
will help you as much in the future as
have a mind to-and you can't help your
selves.
Horace Whites Grafton.
The address of the day. entitled "Begin-
nings of Beloit," was by Horace White of
New York. He said in part:
By the favor Of our honorable President,
am permitted to tell you something Of the
beginnings Of Beloit and Beloit College, most
of which / saw and part of which was.
According to the best information obtain
able, the first school Of any kind in Beloit
was opened in the kitchen Of Gale Blodgett's
house in the year-1s3s. the teacher being
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01

John Burroughs, native Of Orange County,
New York. In the following year a school,
house was built by private subscription at
the northeast corner of School and Prospect
streets, and here the first public school was
opened, under charge Of Hazen Cheney, who
taught during the year 1899 40. He was fol-
lowed by Hiram Hersey, Alfred Walker,
Henry Brown and Samuel Clary In success
sion. In 1S43 or 1874 Beloit College was
started in the basement of the Congregation
al Church.
I remember the time when the Ave young
men constituting the first freshman class
studied alongside Of us younger ones In the
old basement, under Mr.. Merrill, who was
acting president and professor Of all depart
ments until the advent Of Professors Bush
nell and Emerson, in the month Of May,
1S4S. / remember the coming Of these two
seers Of Israel and the laying Of the corner
stone Of Middle College.
I fancy that the salaries offered to Profess
scrs Bushnell and Emerson Of $500 year,
coupled with the proviso, eff we can raise
it, did not constitute the moving consdera-
ton with them. All, these undetermined,
their praise? What can / not say OF them
and those who came little later-President
Chaplin, Professor Lathrop, Professor POr-
ter? These five constituted the faculty dur
Ing my undergraduate course. Two OF them
still live, thank God to see the fftieth an
niyersary Of the institution to which they
gave their lives
The necessity for the small college exists
and increases with the country's growth.
Many very many, young men, and am glad
to say young women also, get an education
in the small colleges that they could never
were not close at hand they could never find
it, If 1t were not cheap in DecunIary sense
1t would be beyond their means. Beloit has
never been cheap in any other sense.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
Minor State Matters.

Mrs. Napoleon Galipeau of Merrill at
tempted to pour kerosene oil ON the fire in
her cook stove She was SO seriously
burned that she died in two hours.
Joseph Isaac, who resides in the town
Of Empire, Grant County, while digging
on his farm, unearthed the skeleton of an
Indian and also the bones of large-sized
dog.
Mrs. Peter Becker was found at her
home in Racine covered with blood, HAY
ing been terribly beaten. Her husband
has been arrested, charged with the Of
Tense.
The Eau Claire variety actor who elop-
ed with Wisconsin girl the other day
says he is willing to give UP his wife now
for $4,000. The young woman probably
would find that good bargain.
Joseph Oesterle, one of the wealthiest
farmers of the town of Sharon, near Ste
vens Point, committed suicide. He was
80 years of age. No cause can be assign
ed for the act. He leaves one son, Au-
gust, who lives on the farm.
The Pottawatomie Indians, who have a
small village near Harshaw, entertained
about seventy-fve Chippewas from the
Lac du Flambeau reservation for week;
they have been holding their annual re-
Mgious dances. Every day from morning
until late at night the dance went ON and
many of the citizens visited the village
By the will of James Aram, whose
death occurred a few days ago, De.avan
will profit by several generous requests.
Twenty thousand dollars is bequeathed
for the building and equipment of public
library in memory Of his daughters
Twenty thousand dollars is given for a
home for superannuated and INDECENT
Methodist clergymen, to be erected In
memory Of the testator's father and moth
er, who were members of the Methodist
Church. To each of the Delavan churches
1000 is given and $4,000 is left for the
improvement of the cemetery.
Some time ago thieves robbed the store
of O. III. Roll at Burnett and carried away
clothes and shoes to the value of over
$500. A few days ago Mr.. Rolls atten-
ton was called to a newspaper report
stating that four tramps had been caught
robbing freight train near Rockford and
that they had number of suits Of clothes
and pairs of shoes He went to Rockford
and made an examination of the goods,
which were held by the chief of police,
and he positively identified the clothes and
shoes as being his. The men will prob
ably be brought to Wisconsin ON requi-
sition.
A petis:on to the Council has been circu-
lated and signed by the management of
the Hotel Racine and other business men
on Monument square, protesting against
the Salvation army and the American Vol
unteers beating their drums and playing
instruments on the square at Racine.
At Juneau, the jury in the case of the
State vs. Adam Bertz, prominent Dodge
County farmer, returned verdict of not
guilty. The prosecution was instituted
by the State Rairy and Food Commission
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
WISCONSIN'S RECORD.
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
Queer Charge Against a Milwaukee
Feed Dealer = ALE ged Successful
Trial Of a Submarine Boat = Bad
Roads May Cost Town $4,000.
Puts. Sand IN Ground Oats.

Matt Scharel, a well-known Milwaukee
-four and feed dealer, whose speciality was
the sale of ground oats to wealthy owners
of blooded horses, was arrested at the in
stance of Superintendent Whitehead of
the Humane Society. For the past two
months number of the wealthy residents
of the east side have been complaining
that their horses were growing thin, and
they have discovered that the ground oats
which they have been feeding to their
animals was adllterated with sand. Com
plaint was accordingly made to the super
intendent of the Humane Society, and this
led to the arrest of Scharel ON suspicion
of being guilty of putting sand IN the oats
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
Claims for Damages.

commenced at juneau against the town of
Theresa, one by DR. T.. P. Him of The
resa village, and the other by August
Moldenhauer former resident of the
town. In each case the plaintiff demands
judgment for $4,000 damages. DIR. Him
alleges in his complaint that while riding
along the highway of said town he was
thrown from his buggy and greatly injur-
ed, by reason of the alleged unsafe and in
sufficient condition of the highway. His
horse ran away and was injured and his
buggy smashed. When DIR. Hinn's horse
was running away he collided with the
team of August Moldenhauer and the lat
ter also wants damages for injuries re-
ceived in the collision. The village will
fight the cases
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-01
Wild Horses.

Wild horses are getting to be quite
numerous again on the flats in the Tex
as Panhandle and in Beaver County.
They are very troublesome, as they
lead away the horses belonging to the
cow men and grangers, and when do
mesticated horse once gets with a wild
bunch it Is an all days job, and some
times it takes several days, to catch
him. The LATEST old crowbait alive, or
the gentlest family horse, after associ-
ating for few days with these mus
tangs, seems to forget his raising; all
the old time wildness of his forefat theirs
seems to crop out in him, and, although
formerly he may have allowed himself
to be caught anywhere, he will not then
permit man to get within half mile
Of him. About the only way to re-
cover a horse Of this kind is to run the
entire bunch down and corral them, or
to rope the ones wanted. Nearly all
stockmen have lost horses in this man.
>ner, and the mustang, instead Of being
looked upon with respect and with COW
etous eyes, as In the past, is now con-
sidered an intruder and pest, and is
shot down whenever opportunity Of
fers. Since horses became SO cheap,
there Is no object in catching mus
tangs, and this once valuable represen-
tative of the best friend of man is now
classed in the same category as the
coyote and other 'varmints."