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The age-herald., 1897-10-06
NOTES ON FASHION.

One of the latest products of a noted man milliner of Paris Is a skirt of rich brocade with six fiounces of graduated depth, the top one met by pointed, half-handkerchief drapery going all around and edged with ruching. This milliner absolutely refuses to make g. plain skirt this fall.
 White furs-from the unassuming white bunny to the ermine-are coming in. The white-crested grebe which was worn years ago is also a new arrival.
 stunning toilet recently seen had black satin sl1irt and a bodice of white Msse covered with fine black lace with a square. collar and bolero of lizard green velvet, neckband and belt of white satin.
 Dainty hosiery is seen in white silk embroidered in silk or white thread. Black silk stockings are embroidered in red. Bronze shoes with hosiery to match will be worn.
 Fashion deigns to reveal a few Of her fall secrets. First of all come the new materials, many of which are plain, not ually paling from this to vieux-rose. ually palng from this to vieux-roe genta and crushed strawberry.
 A rather pretty French idea consists in covering lightly woven stays with some loose-meshed cream or black lace, accorulng 10 the colof or the cOutll or batiste underneath.
 Among other forecasts of fashion, the redingote dress Is put forward as an at- tractive novelty. Nothing more becom- ing Is possible to woman when this style is rendered In velvet and fastened at the left side, which, bordered with fur and edged with lace, gives the very best effect to these handsome costumes.
 Sacque- shape coats are worn in Paris more or less ornate in style and three quarter length cloaks, with large hoods after the Breton peasant fashion, are in favor for driving and seaside wear. The hoods are lined with silks to match the lining and drawn up after the clas- sic Colleen Bawn" model.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
Southern Iron and Steel.

The Chattanooga Tradesnfanfi in its current issue, devotes considerable space to southern iron and steel industries. In regard lo pig iron 1t says.
 F'irs,t. The southern trade now fixes the market price for foundry dron in this country, and is a powerful Influence on that market in Europe and Great Brft- ain. The soqadh being the largest maker of foundry and mill from 'dn the world, and producing them at less cost than they can be made anywhere else, her control of the market at home, and her powerful infiuence on tt abroad, naItural- ly follows. Dt is not long since the Le- thigh Iron company fixed the price of foundry Gront jim its monthly circulars, and the south, Western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio fell in behind. That day is "a past day forever.
 Second. The Lehigih company and lah C big smelters of Ohio now find southern iron ftiheir boss. dnisfteald of betng thelr competitor They long ago ceased from sncerlng at southern nnetal, in the offices of the LeIh1gh company, and they tr,aat It with distinguished respect.
 A Tihird. When the blg prodIcers of the Bifrningham dlistrich Tennessee Coal and Gnon. Sloss aud others. amuounne am ad-
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
AUTOMATIC ENVELOPE SEALER.
Ingenious Device Successfully Tried in the
 Treasury Department.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 Washington. Oct. 3.-Quite an impor- tant test of labor saving device has been in progress at tine treasury dspart- ment this week. The device is an auto nlattc envelope sealer. ard shows what Amsrdcan ingenuity can accomplish in the way of mechanics. Josiah Dupaw, an employe of the treasury department. knowing the enormous amount of mail sent out daily, conceived the idea of a machine that would seal the envelopes automatically, and this week the ma chine was completed and ready to be tested. Twentyseven thousand interest checks were to be sent out from the loan division. and the machine was tried on that mail first.
 The sealer is something on the order Of a printing press. the envelopes being fed in. Tha machine moistens, folds and seals the envelopes automatically. A very little practice on the part of the op- orator developed a, capacity of 250 per minute Thls department officials are delighted with the showing made by the machine. Ths device is owned by Johaw Dupaw, of Vermont, and Capt. l.. w. Clifford, a PennSylVanian
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
A Judqe on Lynchinu.

Judge Thomas IT. Peabody, a reputa- | ble member of the St. Louis judiciary, | has the following in a letter written by | him to The Republic:
 "I said and I again say am in favor of direct and speedy lynch law redress an certain monstrouS crimes so often committed in this land and in various other clines. For two or three days past the good people of this great city have proclaimed the propriety of lynch law for the fiend who attacked and out ragged the delicate little daughter of one of our most esteemed neighbors and cit izens A person has the certain and un- disputed right to protection through self-defense when in danger. He has the right to protect and defend others when their safety is endangered. Could some good man have found that unfortunate girl in the hands of that brute he would have been fully justified in killing the fiend immediately.
 Then I say that a neigh hborhood, a cluster of people, city, state has in such exceptional cases the right to self defense and self-protection.
 Some sections in our Union, and par ticularly in the earlier days of the ter ritories, the good and brave pioneers
 therein who planted and toiled that mighty states might reap for the bene- fit of millions have applied this law of preserva'tion-lynch law. Back in the sixties this beneficent rule of Jaw was necessarily and imperatively used and applied in the territory of Montana
 Without it that wonderful mountain state would today be g. land of desola- tion without town or city or fabulous mine, or farm or ranch.
 We are living in a peculiar day and age, old things have become new and good, orderly people must assert them selves, along many lines on which they too long have been silent. Bad educa- tion, bad customs played-out supersti- tions and bigotry, etc., have caused moral rot, as 1t were, in our midst, and if intelligent, sober, independent people will only assert themselves-and they are really numerous enough at all times and everyWhere-law and order can and will be triumphant"
 Judge Peabody's plea for 1ynching under some exceptional conditions is a strong one and expresses the views of the southern people on that subject. When one man, cluster of people, a neighborhood, town, city or state sum marily put to death such dangerous monsters as the aavishers of women. they are simply resuming their inher- ent powers of sovereignty and exercis- ing the God-given rights of self-defense and self-preservation.
 Possibly these lynchers, in one case out of million. make a mistake. But juries and judges also make mistakes. The lynchers in the cases spoken of here mean to do the right thing. They want justice, and they are so much in earnest about it that they risk life and liberty. Moreover, they do their work without pay, and without putting the community to any cost. Lynching is like almost everything human. It may sometimes be very bad thing, and at other times it may be very good thing
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

To prevent horses from running away where there is no hitching post a new device llas two light chains which are attached to the end onf etaoi eltaoi tao attached at one end to the wagon wheels, the opposite ends being fasten- ed to the lines so that when the horses start tha wheels will pull the chains down and draw the Hines in.
 To raise a vessel out of the water for clsaning purposes or to prevent sink ing in case of a leak a new dock is made U-shape to surround the vessel is partially submerged until the ship is in place, when air pumps are used to raise it and lift tha vessel.
 Windows for cars can be easily opened by a new attachment consisting of a cylinder in the car below the win dow, with the rod running up to the under side of the window frame. By opsning a valve in the supply pipe air conducting tubes at the inner ends to ba force the rod up and push the window open.
 For the purpose of locating sounds new instrument has two acoustic re- ceivers mounted in casing with the mouths fn opposite directions, and sound conducting tubes at the insnr ends to be placed in the ears, with means of cut ting out either tube to discover which receiver makes the stronger sound.
 An Englishman has patented @ new driving mechanism for bicycles, in which treadles are used to produce the power, two rods being bolted on the fork crown in front, and extending back to hold the pedals. Chains or straps are wound on spring drums on the back shaft and fastened to the ends of the pedal rods, to be drawn out and propel the wheel whf ! the pedals are forced down.
 Engines can be quickly stopped from any portion cf a factory building by & new device, consisting of a piston valve. held open by a hook to allow the pas sage of steam. Pull wines or electric currents are used to draw the hook and shut the steam off, at the same time opening an air valve in the cylinder. so that whatever steam is in them can escape without acting on the piston rodS.\
 Florida, of all the states, has the most water within its boundaries--4,4 400 square miles.
 The common house sparrow flies a the rate of ninety-two miles an hour.
 The average expense of an ocean steamship from New York to Liverpool and return is $75,000.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
BRER PAWPAw PROGRESSIVE.
Distinguished Ohio Fruit Poses as an Exam
 pie of Civilizations Stride,
From the Chicago Reco1lh.

From the Chicago Recolid.
 Among the miosIt distinguished guests 1n Chicago today is Br'er Pawpaw of Ohio. The weA-lznown Buckeye State product is heire with several mcive5 up his sleeve. His chief purpose in coming to Chicago is to show through tilie me dunn of himself, just what time and civ ilization cam do. B,r'er Pawpaw is frank enough to confess his present shortcom- ings, but deligIlus to compare his race of today with 'hl1et of several ysaas ago. Br'er PawF,aw irIienlds to deIiver a series of lectures in tlhts city, the principal Slib- jedt to be the wonderful prOgrsEis of the Palwpaw race es-ld the brl1hanllt future be- fore it. Saturday Br'er Pawpaw said:
 q have been GlsIeg-.sd to dsEnoniatIalte to Ch3ea go just who and what am. In carrying out the purpose of my mis- sion I also shall show what my whole race is. It l5 WeEl-knOwn fact that butt a few years ago tifre PaIwpaws were about as savage as an urJaanned panther; they dad not lrave al spark of civilization about Hhem. To-day, and I'm net tfrowfng bouquets at myself and my fellow Paw paws. we don't have ito take O back sealt for anything. We are bsccnllng more civilized every day, and iht will mot be long before we siilall be rnaGIe to see the wSdom of lpo1dtng honest primaries and of parting our hair i'm the middle"
 Thora were not enough paWpalwS m tlJs street Saturday 10 make market, but it is expected thslt within few days there will be Aarge receipts of the fruit.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Nhe vanity craze is spreading far be yond reasonable expectations. A Cincin- nau policeman has cornmIJ1ted suicide because he was not voted the Ilandsom- est and most popular man in the city ithrough a vcd,ng contest by am alter moon paper. Tt is apparent that this par lticuiar policeman expected entirely too much. Tt was Hhe old story. He wanted everything he thought was in sight.
 Those idotfc enthusiasts who a few weeks ago were shouting themselves hoarse that prosperity had come to stay should turn thedr eyes toward Chicago where there are two hundred thousand unemployed Americans who can find nothing to do The dollar wheat craze aias spent its force and prosperity's wave soans nigh above the would-be toiling millions
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
POINTED PARAGRAP HIS.

From the Chicago News.
 Trying to stand upon ones dignity of- ten results in "a hard fall.
 The height of some mems ambition is to pull some other man down.
 Some men are so miserly that they won't even pay another compliment.
 The things people want to know the most is usually none of their business.
 IA man is never contented with his lot until he occupies one in the cemetery.
 It's the coal dealers weigh of dealing with his customers that makes -him rich. wealth; peorIle don't try to borrow it from you.
 Some men are so sympa thetic that they are willing to share your last dollar with you.
 When a man tries to get something for nothing about ithe only thing he suc- ceeds in acquiring is experience.
 If you are afflicted with a desire to give advice at every opportunity become a lawyer or a doctor and sell it.
 Some other feIIow is appIauded for saying tfle good things we might just as well have said had we only thought of them.
 Kings and queens are not always as good as they might be; and they are simply no good at all when they are put up against aces.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

conditions win run their course. and then there will be reaction, a breaking up. and the world will go back to its of things it Is impossible for few com binations to dominate for a long pe- riod a country like ours with its con stant fluctuations, fits vast concerns, and millions of the brightest, most restless and most enterprlslng people in the world
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.

AIiss Alma Tadema has written a vol- ,l1ne of poems which win shortly be pub EShed.
 Tine shah of Persias who owns so many valuable articles of jewelry and fancy goods, is the possesslor of what is doupt-. less tine most expensive pipe in the world, it being worbh soma $400,O00 The whole of the bong stem and bowl Us simply ir- crusted With jewels.
 An arlb which Sir John Lubbock, the Tengifs,h aIaiaiTa.iSt, has kept for Ob- ssrva.ion DTany years, died recently. whereupou the ITpdiiam Mlrror published an obituary notice of lhi5 aunt
 AIdffe. Ialcile Faure, who, by the way, seems in mo haste ito link her fate with that of another, haS lately launched out as a writer of no small merit. The pres Tdent's daughter has. in fact, aatfaoied considerable attention with her notes on Algeria that were recently published in @ French magazine.
 Tamagno, the tenor, has lost 100000 fraraoH in a neal esltate speculation i'm Rome. He bought a brrihd.ng and the adjoining land alt a high price on tip from an Htslian deputy that the govern ment warited ithe property for a new ministry of commerce building, and fouffd that the deputy had urJloaded his own comparatively valueless Band ON him.
 MT. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and a. party of friends, including the Rev. John Watson, Ham ~-Maclarer," have been cruising during the past monltlh among the HebrldeS, and Mr. Carnegie has been 0ndulging in his favouIte amusement of malong valwatble presentations to free libraries. On this occasion StTrroway Iibrary is Ithe fortunate recipient, bene- ditng ito the extent of $5.000. Mir. and Mrs Carnegie find life in Scotland is so much ln their taste qubaIt they aTavs decided to have a permanent residence there.
 .Jeam de Reszke and W. K. Vanderbilt were among the purchasers alt tine safc of yearlipgs from I the Joyenyal stud. The ltefor bought the coDt Orrnesen for s4,O40, while Ontario foc. $3. 300 and Oasis for s4,O00 went to tMr. Vanderbilt.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

It is understood that the doors of the war department at Washington will have to be greatly enlarged to permit General return from Europe. There are many men in this country who are. of little public or private use and of the number General Nelson A. Miles is the most con- spicuous.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

The armor plate committee from Wash ington will expect to be shown a great many things when it reaches Birming- ham that it did not see eithsr at Bethle- hem, Homestead or Chicago. Much has been said of Birmingham which must now be made good if the city is to get the government plant.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

The impression created few months ago that Mark Hanna was going to throw the ''harpoon" into Gov. Bush- nell has not in the least subslded. Bush- nell now feels it, and the republicans of Ohio know the slaughter is to take place.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

If the only charge t'hat MT. Platt can find against Judge Van Wyck, candidate for mayor of New York, is Iuhalt seven and disorderly condudt," which had its origin aIt a French ball, 1t Is a sure sign that Tammanyis man wina be a winmer.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

The Boston Herald adysss that color cd criminals be dealt more leniently with than white ones. How these down east editors, some of whom have nsver seen a negro can give such sound and wholesome advice is astonishing.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Tho report thaIt NIn Porter, private secretary to President Mckinley, is Ito resign and become a candidate for gov- ernor of Connecticut will be good news to those who have busbniesls with the president and also Uhose who despdse s1dbbeay.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

While Weyler was in Cuba the Car the willy Weyler will come home the up- rising may be postponed. Everyone fears the captain general and well they may. Just look at the terrible maner in which he put down tha Cuban dnsurrection. The Carlists had best go slow.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

The constant decline in the price of wheat and cotton is not calculated to increase the admiration Of the farmers for either Mckinley or that political vampire, Gen. John McAuley Palmer, the man who believes in negro equal ity in the public schools.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Notwithstanding the temperance teach ings of the late Neal Dow in the state of Maine there are more common, low down drunkards in that state than any state in the union.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

It would not be a bad idea for the mem- hers of the new Spanish cabinet to get their chairs we'll warmed before they declare war on the United States. >A little thoughtful consideration maIy save them and their country sound whip ping.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

MT. Watterson's graveyard and slaughter house is more likely to be the stopping place of the hack load of gold bugs now paving the atmosphere of Ken'tucky.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

A prosecuting attorney in the police court will transform prosecutions into prosecutions, and that is as is should be-
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

The verdict in the Luetgert case hangs on the identification of ring and a bone and hunk of sausage.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

It should be borne in mind that Kaiser William is not the only person in the world who desires to suppress newspa- pers for oriticising him. The man who is the most sensitive to criticism is gen erally the most vain or corrupt.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Bill Bynum should be at the head of the new company recently formed to deal in compressed air.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

The man who wE1rlhs an office is the least disposed ito say what tthe platform shall be-
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

ation of Hawaii is Mark Hanna's con sent.
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run upon amy pratform, tin order to get the office.
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says it is easier and cheaper to wrlts Than to go in person and deliver an ad- dress.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

It is well to observe, and with silence, too that the late William F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, is remaining political ly dead long time
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Col. Burl Bazzel, the sage of Prattville. has decided to issue a 1ebter of advice to the voters in tine Greater New York mayoraiitx contest Colonel Bazzel
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Each of the four candidates fer mayer eff Greater New York look alike to the great army of unemployed.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

The Mobile and New Orleans papers are still engaged in singing mud about their respective yellow fever conditions. If they would only sling disinfsctants more good would result.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

nor elastic in muscle: and though his spirit may be willing, his feet are alto gether too heavy and too largel
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

F1tzsimmons now aspires to the role of political boss. Tom Platt had better look to his laurels.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
Got''a Prize.

From tfle Philadelphia Y 2 ;rth American. Ada-''Maude made the catch of the season" r
 Susie-"A title?"
 Ada-sMercy, no! A farmer who lived in the vicinFty of the summer h,tea. He has 200 acres of wheat.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
Nothing New.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 "Going to talk without wires pretty soon." "Pooih. My wife's done that for tine last forty years"
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
A Wise Conclusion.

From tine Chicago News.
 Joues-"Dutton is O philosophical sort of fellTow.' =
 SmitIh-"In what respect?"
 Jopes-"WhH, he's tine husband of a famous actress, but his obscHity doesn't woruy hdm in the 1east-''
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Some men are so sympa thetic that they are willing to share your last dollal with you.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

When a man tries to get something for nothing about ithe only thing he suc- ceeds in acquiring is experience.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Remittances can be made by express, postoffice money order or drafts at current rate of exchange. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
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The age-herald., 1897-10-06

If you are afflicted with a desire to give advice at every opportunity become a lawyer or doctor and sell it.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06
.EPHoNE CALLS.

Business Office .230 Editorial Rooms ......... ... ............231
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Some other fe1Iow is appIauded for saying tine good things we might just as well have said had we only thought of them.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Kings and queens are not always as good as they might be; and they are simply no good at all when they are put up against aces.
The age-herald., 1897-10-06

Contentment has one advantage over wealth; peorile don't try to borrow it from yous
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-01

ONE of the most peculiar railway
accidents on record happened at
Fisher, Mimi, Tuesday, on the Great
Northern Railway. The track fore
man with gang of laborers were as
tonished to see nearly half a mile Of
the track suddenly rise up from the
road bed and settle down some six
feet away, part of the track going
over an embankment, according to a
dispatch published yesterday The
weather was intensely hot and the
supposition is the expansion of the
rails was so great that something had
to give way. The dispatch further
states it was done so quickly that it
looked as if some supernatural power
was at work, and the astonishment of
the navvies is not surprising.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-01
Conspiracy jury Disagree

New York, June 8O.-The jury In the
conspiracy case Of the American To-
bacco company, which has been on
trial before Judge Fitzgerald in the
court of general sessions, failed to
agree. Although no verdict for the
prosecution was rendered, y disagree
ment Is nevertheless regarded by Dis
trict Attorney Oloott as q victory for
the people, The jury were out ID hours,
1t was decided that It would he useless
TO lock them up again, and they were
discharged. 1t was learned that IS bal
lots had been taken, and the vote
stood ten for conviction and two for
acquital. The jurors who held out for
acquittal were Hobart c. Fash and
Foster Milliken.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-01

Newark, N. j., July 1,-WlIliam NJ,
Mitchell, a colored pugillst from Butte,
Mont, who has been living in this city
for short time, was shot and perhaps
fatally wounded last night by Emil b,
Koenig, saloonkeeper The shooting
was the outcome of a prize fight which
Mitchell had with a fighter known as
"Scaldy Bill" at Philadelphia on New
Years day. Mitchell was defeated, and
as Koenig bet on him he lost his money.
Since then Koenig. it is stated, has
been very bitter against the western
pugilist, and the shooting is the result.
Mitchell was removed TO the hospital,
where it was stated that the bullet had
pierced the lungs, Koenig was ar.
rested,