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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-05-19
DR. CHAS. J. SAGER,

having located at Toms Brook, offers
his professional services 10 ihe PonS;on Puol,c II
the various branches OF his profession
he he will be found at the Philips house,
after April End and will give prompt
attention TO all calls.
Mar. 10. 99-tf
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-05-19

A world without head. universe
without a king. Orphan consultations
Fatherless galaxies Anarchy supreme
A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated
God. Patricide, regicide. decide. That
Is what they mean. That is what they
will have. If they can. | say, II they
can. Civilization hurled back into
semibarbarism, and semibarbarism
driven back into Hottentot savagery.
The wheel Of progress turned the other
way and turned toward the dark ages.
The clock of the centuries put back
Q. 900 years. Go back, you Sandwich
Islands. from your schools, and from
your colleges. and from your reformed
condition. to what you were in 1920,
when the missionaries first came. Call
home the 500 missionaries from India
and overthrow their 1000 schools,
where they are trying to educate the
heather, and scatter the i4O, 900 little
children that they have gathered out
of barbarism into civilization. Obliter'
ate all the work Of DR.. Duff in India,
of David Abeel in China, OF DIR. King
in Greece. Of Judson in Burma, OF
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-05-19

DR.. TALMAGE'S GRAPHIC PICTURE OF
A GODDESS WORLD.

Condition Into which In
GdcIity Would, IL IL Could. Plunge
humanity A Lost Race Without
ufyiuc Guidance.
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H LOODLESS DUEL
 OF THE MILD WEST
The Death Of One Of the Principals Recalls . Famous Scene BetNueen PennsyI-
 xanian and Mesterner.

Captain Jacob Matthews died recently near Sidney, Neb. He was principal in one of the most singular, if bloodless, duels ever fought in the west. He emigrated from Pennsylvania early in the cos, and settled at Omaha, where he began as small merchant. Of Quaker stock and peace loving he frequently declared he had fired a pistol only once In his life. His title was entirely complimentary.
 The duel in which he was engaged tock place shortly after his arrival at Omaha City, when he aroused the animosity of Bull Tomey, blackleg and an expert with the pistol. Matthews refused to sell goods to Tomey on credit. whereupon the latter promptly challenged the young merchant to a duel. As Tomey had participated in a dozen or more such affairs, and had always como off victorious, great was the surprise and alarm of Matthews friends when he promptly accepted the challenge.
 q have never had pistol ip my hands in my life," said Matthews, but mean to meet him, though neither of us will be hit" t
 The next day Matthews and Tomey met in a field south of the town. The news of an impending duel had been well circulated, and friends of both assembled, although the general conviction was that Matthews was as good as dead
 A YAWNING GRAVE.
 To the amazement of the spectators, as well as Tomey and his second, when they reached the field they found newly dug grave yawning for him who should fall in the duel. Tomey made it the butt of his coarse wit.
 That feller Matthews is a thoughtful one," he said to the crowd. "IIe comes out here to get me to pop him off, and has his
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SOCIETY
(continued From 2oth Page).


 A-~~S~---~------------- ----~->>--->-->-~->- Cox, Miss Rosa sitz, Ed Cox and L. S. Gray and wife,
 Mrs. c. D. Alexander visited Anniston the first of the week.
 Miss Lucy Woodruff, of Jacksonville, Ala, and Miss May Woodruff, of Alexandria, visited Mrs. T. R. Carns at this place the first of the week.
 Miss Mary Scott Edmundson, of Collins ville was the guest of Mrs. J. W. Wood Thursday.
 Miss Hattie Alexander spent day or two in Attalla this week. c. c. Parker and wife, of Albertville, passed through Wednesday, returning from Mardl Gras.
 Marvin Anderson of Turkeytown, is the guest of his cousin, Roscoe Fitz.
 J. D. Chandler, one of Guntersville' prosperous merchants, was in town this week.
 MT. Magness, president of the Attalla bank, left one day this week for California, where he goes to visit his sister, who is very i'll.
 Professor Biakemore, of Fort Payne was in town Friday.
 o. S. Fowler went to Albertville on busi- ness Wednesday.
 Mrs. S. H. Hilton, with Miss Mary Scott Edmondson. went to Gadsden Thursday H. T. Lankford and G. ", Wilson went to Gadsden on business Thur5day.
 B. H. Tendon, of this place. who is now working in Birm ngham, is visiting his fam fly at this place. Oscar Cox. who has been in the army for several months, was mustered out few days ago. and will be at home for a few days. After then he. will leave for the west
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teries the gifted man of the world knows so well how to weave around the vain wo- man and the inexperienced girl.
 A beautiful woman always arouses In man hls noblest or his worst impulses. He thought she was lovely as she stood before him in the sunlight and shadow of is of- flee, meeting Is leering look not with wis dom, listening to his false flattery, fiat tery that has caused many of her sisters to cross the invisible boundary between nor al light and darkness"
 But here was dilemma. He who had won kisses from pretty girls with a bright col ored ribbon or a toy and from some women with trinket or trifle that cost less than a bottle of champagne or box of cigars, was confronted with a girl who wanted a ChickeFing piano.
 A thought flashed into his mind, thought worthy of Mephistopheles.
 T will send her to Doctor -" He said to himself. What a huge joke 1t will be. Picking up a pen he wrote:
 Dear Dr: Here is young girl who wants Chickering piano. She comes too high for me. Yours truly J. B.
 Putting the note into an envelope. he sealed 1t and gave it to the girl and directed her to the doctors office.
 She was a young girl, God pity her, who had strayed into a path-a little path, but steep one-on which 1t Is difficult to stand or turn back. This little, wanton path, tricky, wild, unmanageable-it Is wrong do- ing in little things, wilfulness Many have wandered away, on and on; some try to re- turn, but fail, and those halting are led on by some trivial thing, fiattery, ambition or mad desire to rush headlong down the thor ny descent. Often these little paths, turn ing out of the straight and narrow way, have led women down and down to where, like Marguerite. they cry out, Woe is me, death, bitter death"a
 
 The car was coming down the grade at a breakneck speed. The motorman had lost his grip.
 Get out of the way, clear the track!' shrieked the motorman furiously to man crossing the street in front of the car. The man did not hear. A young girl wear ing shabby wool frock and pair of slip pers run down at the heels. girl with strained white face and struggling light brown hair leaped like a panther to the track, seized the man and showed him into the score of outstretched hands to receive him.
 But therei was no time for her, too to clear the track The motorman was doing all he could to stop the car. but the grade was too steep, and 1t dashed on as the body of the girl fell, crushed and lifeless pulp, among the crowd of horror stricken people who had gathered in that brief time
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own grave ready, so we can hold the fu- neral without waste of time"
 "On the contrary" said Matthews, "I have had that grave dug for you.'
 There was even greater cause for aston ishment when Matthews second-williams -strode on the field. He was known to be one of the most JespeT ate men in Omaha. His fame as a dead shot was as great as that of Tomey, while his daring and wick ednesS were held in far higher repute by the rough element, of which he was a rul- ing spirit Some trifiing kindness had won this desperado to Matthws, and he had sworn to see him through the fight and see fair play, if he had to clean out score of his own tribe.
 The duelists were to stand and fire at ten paces. and Williams, who immediately took charge of all arrangements without much deference to the wishes views of his fellow second, so managed 1t that the grave came directly between them. To this arrangement Tomey and his second strer- uously objected, but Williams. with an ugly frown, overruied them, saying tersely that as the challenged party, his principal had the right to select the ground, so long as no obstacles intervened. The dirt from the grave had been removed to a distance, so there could be no complaint on that score. Tomey and his second appealed to the crowd, but soon found themselves a help
 
 element were afraid of Williams. and so. of course, sided with him. The respectable spectatoros naturally agreed with any prop ostion made in the interest of Matthews whether the benefit was apparent or not Finding it of no avail to protest further, Tomey's second placed his man on his side of the grave. and Williams did likewise with Matthews. Then Williams stepped some paces to the right of his principal, and made a brief address.
 You men are to have one shot apiece" he began, looking straight at Tomey, who stood at careless ease with a smile on his repu1sive face.
 That's all I want" he retorted. ''T don't believe in tearin' i'm all to pieces"
 AND WAIT FOR THE WORD.
 "All you wantT' repeated Williams; well see that you don't try to take more. And another thing want you to bear care fully in mind, Bull Tomey that I'm stand in here with my gun in my good right hand. and if you fire before give the word of command, why. I'll blow the heart out of you: and reckon. from what you know of me, you will believe I'm in earnest when I caution you"
 Tomey sccwled darkly, but made no an- swer Relations between the two men were strained. but Williams was much too strong In the esteem of the rough element for To- mey to declare for an open breach.
 Don't worry about me shootin' ahead of time." he replied surlily. "but hurry up
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these proceedings. I want to get back to
 town and take a drink with the boys to
 celebrate this funeral"
 "Very well we're ready. will count one, two, three and then you are both to blaze
 away at the word 'Fire! !" went on Will
 Hams, at the time leveling his pistol at To-
 meys breast.
 I'm going to keep you under cover," said
 he as Tomey drew back with a start, ito
 make you sure you don't fire at my man till the proper time Your second may also cover my man, if he likes, to make certain
 his gun don't go off too soon, and that will
 even up the coverin' business all round Tomey's second, not to be outdone by Williams, and acting on his advice, prompt- ly drew bead on Matthews, and thus the
 seconds stood. The crowd began to insinu- ate that there were too many hifalutln nov cities being introduced at that duel, but Williams silenced all dissension by the fe-
 rocity of his rebuking glare.
 Now, then, ready!" he called, and the principals brought their weapons to bear upon each other. "Oner' he continued, and paused abruptly. Tomey aimed at his an- tagonist's head, holding his pistol notion less and true. Matthews covered the entire anatomical range of the rufian and fasten- ed his eyes unfinchingly upon the snaky lt- tie optics.
 One minute, two minutes. three minutes
 passed, but Williams, coolly disregardlng
 the lapse of time, refrained from continuing
 the count. Instead, he leisurely surveyed
 Tomey, and kept his pistol barrel on line
 with the latters heart. Matthews, who was still covered by Tomey's second, remained
 serene and totally indifferent as to aim.
 Tomey was beginning to show signs of ner-
 vousness and tension. His pistol arm
 twitched perceptibly once or twice, and he
 shifted his aim from Matthews head to his
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LOYE,S COST

There's something gone from out the day Some sub.ie warmth the sun hath lost From out his long and slanting rays; And from his gay and golden Noon There is no magic in the moon
 SIow-sailing on her way To him whom she hath drawn With the sweet, cool whiteness of her While yet afar. And all the pallid mystery,
 The hush of expectancy Of purpling dawn, I feel no more--ah, me! no moreI What though with bated breath And reverent tread. steal To some green depth of wooded shade, Where Spring hath lately strayed, And, straying, ,.tossed
 Her fowery mantle careessly On earth's brown breast! The old-time sting and stir That 'roused my soul to prayer and praise For all nfes glad and glowing days To new resolve and better ways Of giving God of me, the best, l no more feel-- Nor shine of star,
 Nor golden gleam of sunset bar, To me reveal Their charm of yore! There's something gone beyond recall! And yet-is this of life, the all?
 What lies beyond, and after death?
 Oh, God! I trust, and, trusting, wait That, coming soon or coming late Thou wilt to me, in love, restore That which my loving here hath cost!
 JULIA NEELY FINCH. Alabafna, 1898.
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Strong men with tender hands lifted the Iifeless form of the girl from the track and laid it on the sidewalk.
 The man whose life she had saved iooKeo down upon her crushed and mangied nody and exclaimed to himself:
 By gadl If it isn't the very same eiri that asked mo for Chickering piano! If he suffered one pang of regret he did not show it. Shrugging his shoulders he walked on to his club, leaving the crowd as- tonished at his indifference.
 Let us hope, dear reader, that he. too, Is an exceptional man.
 ALMA RITTENBERRK.
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heart. The spectators muttered inpatient ly at the delay, but Williams paid no heed. He waited five minutes and then announced in sepulchral tones:
 "Two!"
 Matthews now took careful aim, pointing his weapon directly at Tomey's brain. To- mey was plainly i'll at ease, and eager to let fly at his opponent. Once Matthews withdrew his glance from Tomey's eyes and allowed it to rest upon the yawning grave. Unconsciously Tomeys glance fol- lowed suit; but the suggestions that grisly chasm inspired in his mind must have been unpleasant, for his pistol arm was observed to twitch again, and his aim became un- steady and fiuctuating. Matthews, howev- CT, brought his eyes to bear once more upon Tomeys. But the latter found 1t difficult to return the piercing gaze. Instead, he shifted his glance from the grave to Mat thew's rigidly held pistol.
 "Three! roared Williams. His principal extended his weapon half an inch forward and ran his eye along the barrel. But To- mey was fairly palsied. His eyes were star ing and bloodshot; his pistol barrel was swinging from side to side like a pendulum run mad He was gasping and panting and IT1SHttHeu Wlluin all lnCn or ms I1Ie. The silence was maddening, yet Williams seem- ed in no hurry to break 1t with the fatal word.
 U TOMEYS SHOT.
 The terrible delay was too much for the cbwardly ruffian, who suddenly gave a hearse cry, fired his pistol wildly, and leap- ed into the grave. Williams and the spec tators made dash for him. The shot had passed harmlessly over Matthews head, but the crowd was eager to avenge the treachery which had prompted it. The grave was deep, but they got the poltroon out, and by no gentle means, either. His second in the meantime, under cover of the con- fusion, decamped.
 sNow, you miserable cur" said Williams, when Tomey had been set on his feet, still quivering and sick from terror, ''you may take your choice-either MT. Matthews here shall kill you Gas he has first calD. or I shall do the job, as I promised you.'
 Tomey begged hard for his life. but Will Hams was obdurate, and the crowd-even his former friends-were anxious to attend his funeral at once. Matthews pleaded for him. He said he was content to accept the cringing apology, which the coward poured out in torrent. and let him go. His er- treaties finally gained the day, but not, however, until the spectators had ridden the disgraced duelist around on a rail and kicked him over fence, with the injunction Ito vanish and never return on pain of death.
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-25
THE BIG STORE.
Greater and Grander Than Ever.

Greater and Grander Than Ever.
Progressiveness is the magnetic watch
word at the Big Store. Never has this
been so exemplified as at this time.
Wonderful transformations, enlarge
ments and extensions have been going
on for many weeks; now all is completed
and the progress loving public will be
permitted to view the new wonders Of
their favorite store at the Grand Easter
Opening on Monday, March 81. Very
few of Our readers can appreciate all
that has been going on at S. E. Olson
Co.'S Big Store; every department has
been enlarged and several new depart
ments added. A visit will well repay
any one to see the splendid New Shoe
Department, New Men and Boys
Clothing Department, New Cloak De-
partment, New Ladies Suit Depart
ment, New Muslin Underwear Depart
ment, New Wall Paper Department,
New Furniture Dept, New Mail Ord
err Department and all the other sixty
five departments that have been en-
larged and improved, so much so that
the Big Store now stands second to
no concern in this Western empire and
Minneapolis is justly proud OF such a
possession.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-25

Patrick's evening at Cretin Hall was a
grand success numerically and fnanci-
ally. The Crusaders Dramatic Club
took the principal part, assisted by the
boys and girls of the Cathedral schools
all of whom did very we'll.
Owen McEneny, the popular city
salesman for Foley Bros. & Kelly, was
lately offered similar position in an.
other place, but thankfully declined the
offer, as he is fully satisfied with the
first-class firm he is with.
St. Patrick's parish gave fine enter
tainment at St. Demands Hall on the
evening OF March II. The hall was full
to overlooking with enthusiastic ad-
mirers of the program. Father Dol
phin, the pastor, was delighted.
St. Michaeps Church had crowded
house on St. Patrick's evening. Frank
Kelly and his able assistants had the
audience in roars OF laughter from be-
ginning to end in their first-class come
dy and character sketches.
The members OF "Tee Pee" Club at
Seven Corners, known as the busiest
democratic organization in the city next
to the Jefferson Club, are nightly dis
cussing the advisability of forming a
nucleus to citizens ticket for the diff
erent Offices at the coming election.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-25
1T WAS so EASY
He Might Have Ridden All the
Way Up.

Pitsburg News.
Though elevators are not new, they are
new to a whole lot of persons. An old fell
low from somewhere is the client Of
lawyer who recently removed his office
from the first floor of an old building on
Grant street, to the thirteenth floor of
modern office building. The old fellow
came in to see him, and after much trou-
BILE found the building. His legs were stiff
and his wind was short, but he started up
the stairs. by the time he reached the
fourth floor he declared that he would
take his business out of the hands of the
man who was SO unreasonable as to live
so high. He took a long rest at the fifth
floor and would have turned back If 1t
wasn't that he wanted to pay off his law
yer that very day and retain one with an
office on the ground floor. At the seventh
floor he gave it up. He couldn't go any
higher He sat on the steps and watched
the elevators going up and down and no.
ticed that they were well filled. He reasoned
that since scarcely any person used the
stairway, the fare on the elevators could
cused of extravaganza If he rode the rest
of the way, since there would be no neces-
sity for him to come to the building again.
So he hailed one of them.
How much'll you charge to take me to
the thirteenth floor?" he asked the young
man who seemed to he in charge.
Get in here" ordered the young fellow,
as he seized him by the coat, pulled him
into the car and started up. II can't stand
there answerin fool questions all day.
Thirteen. Out you go! Move lively now!"
'Idmuch?" asked the old chap, untyng
the shoestring that held his wallet.
But the door was slammed in his face,
and the car disappeared.
"Thunderation!" exclaimed the old fell
1orr = 1rrN ~ ia
ride all the way up"
His lawyer explained the matter to him,
and while the old man thought it was
mighty handy, he said it looked a good
deal like imposing on people to be riding
up and down free all Of the time
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-25
LOVE IN A CAR
The Love of Others, Too, but 1t Hur-
ried the Car.
Commercial Advertiser,

Human nature doesn't change, in spite
of modern improvements. All the world
loves a lover still, even though 1t does
know that life Is sell, society an organ
ism, and love merely a manifestation of
natural force, like lightning, for instance,
or the tides ebb and flow.
1t was a rainy, depressing day, and we
were sulky lot of passengers in an ele-
waited car bound down town. He was the
only good-looking young man in the car
as far as could see. My view Of him
was a good one, the opposite seat; at the
end, next the door. All the other seats
were full, and people were standing, sog-
gy and steaming, and savagely rude, In
the aisles. At the station where she got
me got out, and she promptly put her
mother into the vacant place. took 1t for
granted, it was her mother because they
ignored her SO utterly when they found
each other and began to talk. He looked
up idly as she came in, then he was on
his feet with flash and flush Of recog-
milton and delight. He reached out his
hand and touched her lightly. She turned
with that perfunctory smile that strange
man gets when he gives up a seat. Then
she flushed and flashed, too, and rippled out
a delighted:
''Why! how do you do?"
And she gave him her hand, which he
kept In his quite proper unoer the cir
cumstances-till he got her safely into his
seat.
Then he attached himself to the strap
above 1t and hung over her, and she turned
up her pretty face to him and they talked
The shabby man in the next seat, who had
been DOING YEARLY, woke up and began
to look rested: and the shabby Russian
next him, with the anarchist chevelure
and the jolly Kris Kringle nose, leaned
forawrd all smiles and sociable interest.
And the other people hanging on the straps
who had been facing the way the train
was going, faced about so that they could
see as well as hear. Not that anything
in particular was said anything at least
that the carload of listeners should not
hear: Where she had been and was 60
ing; would she be at that meeting to-mor-
row night? Yes; would he? OF course
Whereupon they both laughed, quite softly
and decorously. but everybody recognized
the ring in the laughter, and in the tones
of speech. The little touch of Eden hui
| manized the car.
And the mother next me smiled happily
in her neglect and I-what! Rector street
| Was it possible?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-25
Books for Our Readers.

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