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The age-herald., 1898-04-21
1898 Bicycles Down to s5. co.

New 1898 Model Ladies' and Gents Bi- cycles are now being sold on easy condi- tions as low as $500O; others outright at s1S95. and high-grade at s19.95 and $225o, to be paid for after received. If you will cut this notice out and send to SEARS ROEBUCK CO, Chicago, they will send you their 1898 Bicycle Catalogue and full particulars.
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Headworik

From the Chicago News.
 "You wouldn't think, to look at that man, that he was possessed of more than aver age intelligence, would you? Yet he is en- gagged in business that requires constant headwork and he's making success of it, too"
 You don't say He certainly doesn't look as if he had any more brains than the law allows. Who is hep
 My barber"
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MRS. WlNsLoW,s SOOTHING SYRUP.

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING. with PERFECT SUCCESS. IT SOOTHES the CHILD. SOTTENS the GUMS. AL. LAYS all PAIN: CURES WIND COLO, and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wins- lows Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21
The Worlds Congress

From the Boston Globe.
 Eighteen hundred years ago or there about the Roman Emperor Trajan built a bridge across the Danube, the piers of which are found by the Roumanian en- gineers solid enough to sustain a new structure today. They evidently didn't know quite so much about "jobs' in those severe days as we moderns do."
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An Instance

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 "There was romantic side to the case of that young man who was convicted of setting fire to his store. He wanted the money to marry on.'
 Huh! I have often heard of fellows who would go through fire and water for girl, but I never believed it..
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has figured In many interesting pictures, but the cleverest is the caricature which puts his round visage on the face of the setting sun, while in the foreground stand his colossal empty shoes, st which his diminutive young ruler, drawn as an or san-srinder's m9glkkeys lkyys is gtsEing sshast'
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you, for what your vegetable CoI vice carefully, and now feel lik ache, headache, nervous tired feeling, painful menstruation and leucorrhea.
 I took four bottles of Vegetable Compound, one box of Liver Pills, and used one package of Sanative Wash, and am now well. I thank you again for the good you have done for me.-ELLA E. BRENNER, East Rochester, Ohio.
 Great numbers of such letters as the above are constantly being re- ceived by Mrs. Pinkham from wo- men who owe theirhealth and hap piness to her advice and medicine.
 Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. Her advice is of fered free to all suffering women who are puzzledabou themselves.
 If you have backache don'tneg- lect it or try heroically to "work it down." you must reach the root of the trouble, and nothing will do this SO safely and surely as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. Backache is accompanied by a lot of other aches and weary from the same source. Remove become well and strong. Mrs. s. perience in the following letter:
 nnAa Mpc prnuu -pofOre
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The Uniform Practice

From the Philadelphia Record.
 The recent reception of the ambassadors in a body by President Mckinley was a unique event in American diplomatic hs- tory. This government has never recog-
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Charitabiy Spares the Brooches

From the St. Louis Republic.
 If the fashion papers are telling the truth, this years summer girl is going to appro- priate all of her brothers clothes with the lone exception of his brooches.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21
The Penalty of Fame

From the Cleveland Leader. d,
 The returns are now beginning to come in. Tennessee baby has been named af- ter FitZhugh Lee.
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THANKFUL TO MRS. PINKHAM.
Earnest Words From Women Who Relieved Bacache
 Mrs. Pmkham Against Neglect.

DEAR MRS been thankful thousand times since wrote Vegetable carefully and feel like different My troubles
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Fresh Bread and Candy made daily at o. w. Cody's, 1920 to l836 Second avenue.

Go to Powderly See beautiful town named for T. V. Powderly. Take cars at 1s16 Second avenue. 4-Htf
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over her own name. she wrote a series or Samoan sketches which are considered to be the finest records the islands have.
 Now that her husband is dead, Mrs Ste venson will live n a civilized country, Lon don part of the year, and America the re- maining part. Her household will contain her son. Lloyd Osborne, his family and one of Mrs. Stevenson's young relatives. It IS her intention to establish a salon in London and to assist in every way the compiling of a biography of her illustrious husband.
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Secretary Sherman, several years younger than the Vermonter, has practically brok- en down. And Sherman possesses that thin, wiry physical build which is notable for it's endurance. But while MT. Sherman was working and worrying over his presi- dential ambitions, Morrill, was cultivating a serene philosophy. Possibly this will ex- plain why the younger man is the first to break down.
 Bismarck's S4th birthday, which he cele- brated at the beginning of the month, found him rather feeble, but apparently in condition to live indefinitely. An inter- esting portrait of the ex-chancellor Is now on exhibition in Berlin. It was painted at Friedrichsruhe after his dismissal from off, fice and shows him smoking his big pipe and reading the Hamburger Nachrichten, his own organ, while the Berliner Tage- blatt, the Jewish organ which he hated, with which he has just lighted his pipe, lies half burned on the floor. Bismarck
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byalo Remove the of these distressing things of Gibson peren n following letter: 
  again. Thanks % Lydia E. Pinkham.
  wherever Million Women Medicine
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Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson, now in New York but soon to go to London, is busy adding another chapter toone of the most eventful lives of the century. No woman has passed through more vivid or more important literary experience than she and her life may be said to contain more lit erary chapters than that of any other woman of the time, who is not in herself, a great literary light.
 After doing an immense amount of work
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

THE ALABAMA HOME BUILDING AND
 LOAN ASSOCIATION.
 Receipts From Dec. l, 1896, to Dec. 1, 1897,
 @27S.311.23. The 72-months settlement plan of The Alabama Home" is satisfa ctory to all meul- mum accumulated interest. The borrower gets the same rate of profit on his stock that the investor. does. so that payment stock reduces the rate of interest to 780 per cent. These are ideal figures and we have realized them and are settling this way every day Now Is a good time to join the association. Apply to
 w. V. M. ROBERTSON
 General Manager,
 2OO9 First Avenue. Birmingham, Ala.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

Many would-be poker player makes a mistake in his calling.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

Women are extremists; they are either better or worse than men.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

From the Chicago News. A womanly woman neither worships nor
 hates man.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

Laziness Is the father of prejudice and ig- norance Is the mother.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

The fog-horn is one of the bassest things on earth.
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The noblest study of mankind may be man, but his favorite study is woman.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

It ought to be some consolation to widow to know that history repeats itself.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21

Although a bridge jumpers notoriety Is
 not inherited, 1t comes to him by descent.
The herald., 1898-04-21
HELD UP THE CROWD
A Frightened Passenger Held the
Fort ON a Car

There were all kinds of excitement on
the late car on the San Mateo street line
shortly after 12 o'clock last night. 1t was
the last car, and In addition to the driver
there were three male passengers, all
strangers to each other, and all equally
suspicious. One Of the passengers be-
came satisfied that the other two passen-
gers were a couple of highwaymen, who
had designs upon his watch and chain, so
he thought to elude them by jumping Off
the car on Santa Fe avenue near Sixth
street. One of the suspected men got of
at the same time and on the same side
with the frightened man, and to add to his
fears the other passenger alighted on the
opposite side. The first man hailed the
car and all three ran and got on
again. This made the first man more
suspicious than ever. and he decided to
take no further chances, so, drawing a re-
volver, he drew it down on the two other
passengers and ordered them to sit still
''You are trying to hold me up, and
guess l will fool you," he said. Whether
the pair were friends or had had any in
tentions of robbing the man with the re-
volver is not known. but in any event they
got over any such idea. II they had one,
and promptly put their hands up in the
air. For four blocks the trio rode in this
way until they reached Tenth street,
where the man with the revolver got OF
the car.
The herald., 1898-04-21
Some Famous Benefits

In connection with the benefit to Miss
Nellie Farren, 1t is interesting to recall
some Of the more notable occasions on
which such performances have been given
for poular histrlons in the past 1t was
as far back as 1868. according to Samuel
Pepys. that one Knipp came to him about
the "woman's day" at the playhouse.
which he was expected to patronize In or
der to increase the profits. Perhaps the
first organized beneftSoh a particular ia
vorite, however. was that given to Mrs.
Barry In 1857. On such occasions 1t was
customary to charge for admission to the
stage, which, in consequence, often be-
came so thronged that when a player to
whom the distinction was accorded had to
make his appearance before the footlights
to take up his part in the piece, 1t had not
infrequently to be stopped for several
minutes while the attendants forced pas
sage for the unfortunate actor through the
throng Of his admirers.
Thus, on the occasion Of Quinn's benefit
at Covent Garden. in 1853, the old actor,
who was encountered with the heavy
dress of Falstaff. was several minutes be-
fore he could pass on to the stage on ac-
count Of the crowds that were assembled
In the wings. Perhaps one of the saddest
of the many benefits which have been cele-
brated at Drury Lane was that given on
June "a, 1928, for Grimaldi. the greatest
clown the stage has known, when the
heartbroken old man was wheeled on to
the stage in an armchair and hopelessly
broke down in his endeavor to sing his
once famous ditty "Hot Codlins." The old
mans memory had completely forsaken
him. On that occasion a sum Of 91700 was
realized, which for many years remained
q record.-St James Gazette.
The herald., 1898-04-21
BouTRos HE1w1
The Public Asked to Assist Worth!
Worker-Concert Today

Worker-Concsrt Today
The regular weekly rehearsal Of the Sew
enth Regiment band viii be held ut the hall
of industry, Main street, this afternoon,
from to 4 o'clock. These rehearsals are
free to the public and q special invitation
Is extended to ladies.
Aside from casual inspection Of the
home products on exhibition at the hall of
industry. the principal place Of interest In
the room to visitors is the booth occupied
by Boutros Helwi. the Syrian artist wood
carver. From early morning until the clos
Ing hour in the evening Botrous works, pa
tiently fitting the various beautiful woods
Into their proper like strips. then gluing.
polishing and shaping them into elegant ar
ticles of furniture. These and the panels
Of Moorish fretwork are beyond the skill of
any but the pains-taking oriental and even
he, to succeed, must have years of training
and an artists soul. Boutros is devoted to
his work, not for the money 1t may bring.
but for the pleasure Of making beautiful
and durable things.
American work, work all e time." he
says. get money; no passion, no love for
work." 1 make cabinet last two tousan'
yCaHs pCOPAS oCo uoiucs koo0ttOS AASAWAt th0s
mean good work, beautiful work.
Unfortunately, however. it makes also
expensive work and while many appreciate
it's beauty and value few are able to buy It.
Boutros hopefully waits for customers, Is
too proud to ask assistance and meanwhile
goes hungry. The old man suffers and
grows daily more emaciated for the lack
of nourishing food.
He has decided to reduce one of his finely
polished inlaid cabinets, for which people
travelling in foreign countries pay many
times the price, to $500 and will dispose of 1t
by raffle. The tickets have been placed at
80 cents each and It Is hoped enough may
be sold to bring the price named and put
the worker beyond the prospect Of starva-
tion. He does not ask charity but simply
an opportunity to turn some of his artistic
handiwork into money to procure food and
If possible to return to his wife, children
and parents in Damascus. The assistance
Of the public is asked, to this end.
The herald., 1898-04-21

"When 1 heard the shot fired after the
train had been brought to a standstill, l
was convinced that robbers were at work,
but decided not to do anything for mo-
ment except call Mr. Lukens. We turned
out the lamps inside the car and awaited
developments. I heard voices on the out
side commanding the engineer to back up.
The order was repeated several times in a
nervous tone and then the train moved
backward several rods, when 1t was
brought to full stop again. ! could hear
the men passing the mail car from the di-
rection of the engine and stop in front of
the baggage car. They worked at the
couplings a few minutes and then came to
the mail car where the operation was re-
peated. Then they returned to the engine
and we moved out down the track for
about mile. Upon coming to a stop the
robbers came to the door of our car and
demanded that it be opened. I heard En-
gineer Giffords voice call out: Open her
up, boys. Don't shoot; this is Clifford
1--WE opened the door and saw the two
robbers, masked and armed and the en-
gineer outside the door. We were COM
manded to get out of the car, and did so.
Clifford held a large stick of dynamite in
his hand. While Lukens and were lined
up under cover of one of the robbers gun
the engineer and the second robber entered
| the car in the order named. Then we were
all told to come in, and while one kept the
three of us covered the second rifled the
mail. The smaller of the two robbers, the
one who afterwards escaped, went through
the pouches. He was extremely nervous
and worked cautiously. When the job was
completed they all withdrew, leaving Lu-
kens and myself in the car.
:" You stay in the car, d-n you,' one OF
the robbers commanded. If either one OF
you pokes his head out of the door well
blow it off,
'The engine took us down to the side.
track and left us, returning to the train
Shortly after we heard shot
II am satisfied that one of the men re-
mained with the mail car, as I could heal
the sound of footsteps around the car for
several minutes after the engine left us
We could hear the steps no longer after
the shot was fired at the train.
The herald., 1898-04-21
The Dun-Dum Bullet

The dum-dum bullet Is precisely similar
to the I.ee-Metford bullet. except that tho
cupro-nickel covering is not continued over
it's pointed end. The consequence IL that
when 1t comes into cchtact with the body
the softer lead and antimony core which
is exposed "sets up" into a broader mush-
ioomlike end and infiicts more tearing
wound than the hard metal-coated point
of the Lee-Metford bullet. When next
two great armies, well equipped and well
trained, confront each other the horrible
possibilities of slaughter from rapid hre.
accurate aim and destructive bullets may
actually prevent battle and reduce a cam
paign to a game of maneuvering. in which
the side placed at disadvantage will ad-
nit defeat.-St. Louis Republic.
The herald., 1898-04-21
TWO men ARE KILLED
ENGINEER CLIFFORD AND PAUL
JONES, A BANDIT
PLUCKY EXPRESS MESSENGER
Mail Car Rifled but the Express Safe
Is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Accounts of the Affair

The wisdom of putting men who Will fgh'
In express cars was illustrated early yes
terday morning on board the westbounj
Santa Fe overland, No. /, when Messenger
A. c. Mott of Wells-Fargo fatally wound
ed train robber and saved the treasure in
his car. The train had passed Orc Grande
when two robbers climbed from over the
combination baggage and mail car to the
engine and compelled the engineer, A. w
Clifford, and Fireman c. N. Hicks, as well
as Car Inspector Clark, who happened
to be on the engine, to stop the train at the
call of Hands up" The bandits sue
ceeded in uncoupling the baggage and mail
car and forced the engineer to run ahead
after backing for some distance. They then
The herald., 1898-04-21
Let Hanna Stand Aside

1t Is especially unfortunate that in this
crisis the administration should have
Mark Hanna dangling around its neck. It
is unfortunate for both Mr.. Mckinley and
the country. Hanna may not be as black
as he Is painted, and the president may be
stronger and more independent Of any
Hanna influence as regards the present
issue than some Of his critics are disposed
to think. None the less. as we have stated,
1t is especially unfortunate for both him
end the country that Hanna should be SO
close to him in the present crisis-Hanna.
to whom we owe such debt Of gratitude.
This association has subjected him to a
great deal of criticism tending to weaken
his hold upon popular confidence. 1t Is,
therefore, greatly to be desired that
whether Hanna is misjudsed or not he re.
tire from the stage for a season.-Rich'
mond Dispatch.
The herald., 1898-04-21
University Club Meeting

The University club met In the offices OF
Wright & Scott, in the Wilcox block. last
night, about twenty-five members being
present. 1t was voted to keep the charter
membership roll open until further orders.
Reports were received from members and
the entertainment committee and the rec
concentrations made considered.
The sense Of the club as expressed by the
members was that while beginning with a
series of monthly dinners accompanied by
papers and discussions, eventually a full
social club shall be established.
Ten new members were registered by the
committee and accepted. 1t was decided
that the first regular monthly meeting and
dinner shall be held at the Maison Doree
the first Wednesday in May, at 6:15 o'clock.
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up on a special, accompanied by Assistant
District Attorney l.. M. Sprecher and 7.
Benjamin, court stenographer. to take his
dying deposition.
After two hours wait another engineer
was secured to take the place of the dead
clifford, and the train proceeded to San
Bernardino. Coroner Heating had been
notified and had jury ready on the ar
rival of the body to commence the inquest,
but at the request of the railroad author
ities he allowed the body to be taken
through to Los Angeles, while the inquest
proceeded, and will be continued this
morning at 10 o'clock, when all parties
be subpoenaed.
Details of the affair are best given in the
interviews which follow:
Messenger Motifs Statement
w. c. Mott, the messenger of Wells Fargo
Express, made the following statement of
the affair: Some time after We left Orc
Grande the train stopped. I think I was
asleep and it woke me up, but 1 had
no idea then of any trouble. The train i'm
mediately commenced to back up and ran
very fast for perhaps half mile, when
some one pulled the air. causing the train
to suddenly stop. I went to the car door
and as Brakeman Thorne passed 1 asked
him what was the matter.
"'We're held up he replied, but then
hardly thought it was sure-enough hold
up and remained at the door. I said to
Thorne again, What's the natter and a
man with the brakeman said Get back
there and took a shot at me with a revol-
yer. The ball came very close to me going
through the casing of the door, directly on
a line with my face.
"This demonstration was sufficient to
show me the situation and closed the door
and went to my desk and got got my As
Colts six-shooter and belt filled with car
tridges and went to the other side of the
car and looked out There being no one
there l got down and went part way down
the embankment and took position where
could see both doors on that side and
waited for developments. Presently the
robbers got the mail car loose from the ex-
The herald., 1898-04-21
AN ENo11sHMAN's VIEW
Our Long Patience With the Spanish
Surprises Him

To an Englishman the feeling OF the
Americans about Cuba is intelligible
enough; what surprises him chiefly Is the
patience which has allowed 1t to remain
dormant so long. Reflect on what our own
sentiments and our own action would have
been II we had had at our very gates-so
to speak, almost within the limits or our
territorial waters-a rich and fertile terri
tory, which had for years been a welter OF
barbarous anarchy and brutal savagery.
We went wild over the atrocities which oc-
curred-and occasionally do not occur
away In the remote recesses of the Arme-
nian hills, among a people with whom we
had no part or lot. ana In whom we had no
call to be specially interested. But what II
we had had an Armenia In the English
channel? II villages had been burned and
devastated, women outraged, men shot and
bayoneted and starved to death, civil war
waged in It's most revolving form, under
our very eyes? There is only one answer;
we should not have endured 1t. The Span
lard would have been cleared out. bag and
baggage, from Cuba long ago. With reluc-
tance which would have been perfectly gen.
uine; with emphatic protestations Of disin-
terestedness, which we should have meant,
though nobody would have believed us, we
should have blockaded the island and bonn
barded Havana, as we did Alexandria, and
have occupied" Cuba, as we are now oc-
cupying Egypt, to the bubbling indignation
and resentment of foreign nations and the
inestimable benefit OF the Inhabitants.
Some Lord Cromer or Sir Herbert Kitchen
er would have taught the islanders what
law and order and honest finance meant;
and some tens Of thousands Of miserable
pacificos and wretched Spanish conscripts
would not have died Of starvation, BUTCH
cry or disease. 1t would have been an un-
profitable and unwelcome task for us: but
1t would have been undertaken and accom-
plished If the shores OF Great Brisain. in
stead Of those of the United States hedged
the blue waters Of the Mexican gulf.
That Is what would have been done IL our
section Of the Anglo-Saxon race had had
the management of this Cuban question;
and we cannot be astonished II the other
branch of the same race is arriving at the
conviction that 1t is about time they took
the same settlement Of this problem seri-
ously In hand. Quite apart from the Maine
incident, this opinion has been ripening in
the American mind. and might we'll have
been expected to reach maturity BEFORE
Sidney Lows New York letter to the st.
James Gazette.