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The age-herald., 1901-04-11
At Talforan.

San Francisco, April 1o.-The victories of long shots. close finishes and the good riding of Rausch were the features of the racing at Tanforan today. George Dewey, a 16 to 1 shot, took the first race by head. and Don Luis, quoted at the same price, won the last event by a neck. Bothwereridden by Rausch, who also landed Catherint Bravo a winner,
 In the fourth race Gonfalon won by nose from Prejudice. while Tnyon was third, only a head away. Yellow Tail, the favorite, finished fourth. Abby Lelx was crowded in the fifth race and fell. Stuart escaped with an injured foot. Mounce was fined s1oO for general care lessness and influence in riding and R. Humphrey was fined $50 for cutting off Conley on Mission in the third race and using abusive language.
 Beau ormond will not start in the spe- cial race Saturday, but Wentworth and Articulate will meet, each to carry IF pounds
 San Francisco, April 10.-Weather was clear and the track fast at Tanforan. The results:
 iSA ApSSs s'41N ~%t4N. = -- longs-George. Dewey 95 (Rausch), 12 to 1, won; The Gaffer e5 (R. Murphy, to 1, second: cambaceres. 104 (Bergen), 10 to l. third. Time, 1;22A.
 Second race, four and half furlings- Brunswick. 110 (o'Conner), to 3, won; Huachua, 109 CThorpe), 10 to l. second; Flora Pomona. 1l0 (IowelD, to l, third. Time, .a%.
 Third race. seen furlongs, selling-Loco- nomo Ill (Thorpe), to l, won; Screen well Lake, s5 0. Walsh), 20 to l, second; |; Alicia, 1G7 (RusselD. 30 to l, third. Time, 1:29
 Fourth race, six furlongs, purse-Gon- falon, 109 (OConner), 3 to l, won; Prem nudice 96 (Rausch), 10 to l, second; Fay on. 1O1 (Dominick), to l, third. Time, 1:12A.
 Fifth race. selling, six and half fur longs-Catherine Bravo, 93 tRausch), to l, won; Canen, 106 (Mounce) to l, sec ond; Cerro Santa, 95 (Fox), 20 to l, third Time, 1:221a.
 Sixth race, selling, seven furlongs-Don Luis. 109 (Rausch), 12 to l, won; Vain, lO6 (O'Conner), to l, second; Alaska, Ill (Burlingame), 30 to l, third. Time, 1:2Sh
The age-herald., 1901-04-11
Yellow Fever at Port Royal.

Kingston, Jamaica, April 10.-Yellow fever has appeared at Port Royal, the entrance to this harbor Two cases have been officially reported and one death has resulted. The health authorities are talk ing prompt measures, and with every prospect of success, to prevent the spread of the disease.
The age-herald., 1901-04-11
CORPORATION FORMED.
Real Estate. Firm in Anniston Begins
 Business With $50,oo0.

Anniston, April 10.-(SpeciaI. )-The large real estate firm of the Comer-Cobb Investment Company was incorporated yesterday with a capital stock of s50- coo. fully paid up.
 The officers of the new company will be: J. W. Conner, president and treas urer;- R. H. Cobb, vice president and gen. eral manager; E. w. Drewery, secretary and assistant treasurer. The directors are
The age-herald., 1901-04-11
A TEXAS woNoE:
Hall,a Great Discovery.

One small bottle of Halls Great Dis covsry cures all kidney and bladder troubles, removes gravel. cures diabetes, seminal emissions, weak and lame backs rheumatism and all irregularities of the kidneys and bladder in both men ana women. regulates bladder troubles In children. One small bottle in two months treatment and will cure any case above mentioned. Price s100. Dr. F. W. Hall. sole manufacturer. P. O. Box e2s. St. Louis Mo. Send for testimonials. Sold by aii c-'iggists.
 Dothen, Ala, July 1S. 1899. Dr. E. W. Hall. St. Louis, Mo.-Dear Sir: We have been selling your Texas Wonder, Halls Great Discovery, for two years and recommend 1t to any one sui fering with any kidney trouble as being the best remedy we ever sold.
 Yours truly, J. R. YOUNG.
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112 fRobertson), 12 to 1 and to 1. second; souiptresa. 100 (Gormley). i2 to l. third. Time 1:46h.
 Sixth race mile and an eighth, selling BohuI. III 1coburn). 12 to l. won; Aloha, ea fCochran). I to 8, second: Beana, 100 (O'Brien) 1 2to l. third. Time 5e
The age-herald., 1901-04-11
A Living Saint.
From Puck.

From Puck.
 First Cook Con Easter Sunday)-There goes that pious Oileen Fogarty, an she's a Christian if iver there wor wan. Did yez hear av tn turrible pinance she iu- posed on hersilf durin' Lint?
 Second Cook-Oi did not Phwat wor 1t?
 First Cook-She took situation in Lonesomhurst lasht Ash Windsday, an shtuck t 1t for tn hull forthy days.
The age-herald., 1901-04-11
BASE BALL.
At Norfolk-Boston, s; Norfolk, 4. A. Hsooo,, Carpell K. Marcar q

At Norfolk-Boston, s; Norfolk, 4. At Macon-Cornell, 5; Mercer, 3. At Charlotte-Brooklyn, 33; Raleigh, 13 Selma, April 10.-(Special )-Selma won the game today with ease. The score is as follows:
 R.HE Selma. =. .....0 0 02O13S 1--15 F 6 Mobile... .... ......0 0 0 0 0 0 DO O. g Batteries-Selma, Bailey and Lighton; Mobile, Levengene and Calametta. washi ,zton, April lo.-Georgetown, O; Pennsylvania, g.
 Hot Springs Ark. April 10.-Pittsburg :. Little Rock Southern League) 9.
The age-herald., 1901-04-11
PhIlosophicaI.

Frm the Indianapolis Press.
 After all.'' unused Aguinaldo, as re- ported by the new wireless telegraph, 1t is better to be live star boarder than a dead martyr
 So saying he signed. and Freedom gig gled convulsively as Agg.e fell.
The age-herald., 1901-04-11

J. w.. Conner of Savannah, Ga.; William Noble, w.. P. Acker, R. H. Cobb, and E.. W. Drewey of this city.
 The gentlemen interested are among the largest property holders in the city and are strong workers in the progress of the cit.
The age-herald., 1901-04-11
RISING
 BREAST

woman who uses MOTHERS FRIEND 'l ns childbirth flor it robs this ordeal of its horror and insures safety to mother and child. Our book, Before Baby is Rorn,' is worth its weight in gold to every woman, and will be sent free in plain envelope by Bradfeld Regulator Company, Atlanta, Ga.
The age-herald., 1901-04-11

And other painful and serious ailments which so many mothers suffer, can be avoided by
 the use of MOTHERS FRIEND.' This remedy is a God-send to women, because 4 carries them through their most critical ordeal with perfect safety and no pain. No IRND ' need fear the suffering and danRcf Of
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10
MEN WHO WANT JOBS.
Testel in Strange Ways by Their Elm
 ployers-Some Unique Methods.

IesteI Tn strange ways by heir Elm
 ployers-Some Unique Methods.
 Some unique methods of ascertaiping the desirability of employees are prac- ticed by business men. A short time ago an advertisement appeared in one of the papers, stating that reliable manager was wanted in a wholesale house. That morning over fifty appli- cants asked for the place. Six were taken on trial. Each one was given a letter to deliver in person to an address in a nearby town as quickly as possi- ble. Neither of the men knew anything about the other five, but they were each told to travel by certain train. At one part of the trip change had to be made, and the travellers had to walk over to another station There was only three minutes in which to catch the other train, and there was not an- other train for three hours.
 On reaching the change station three of the would-be managers went to con- suit time table, and by the time they had looked up the trains they had miss ed the connection. Two had strOlled over to the station, and arrived just in time to see the train pull out. Only one had foresight enough to consult time tables to the end of his trip. He had to run. but he caught the train. When he got back to the office he was engaged at S1, 800 year.
 A certain stock and bond firm always try their new bookkeepers by giving them some accounts to foot up. In these accounts some of the figures have been made almost unreadable, some are very badly formed, and some have been altered two or three times. Nine out of ten applicants puzzle over the figures and end by simply guessing at them. The tenth man admits frankly that he cannot read them. He gets the job. The others are considered too lia- ble to make mistakes.
 Professionar shoppers are employed by one dry goods firm to test their clerks. They are instructed to give as much trouble as possible, and some times to leave without making a pur- chase, after looking at nearly every thing in the store Should the unfortu- nate clerks temper not be equal to the strain, or should a single word be said that might offend, these are reported and ultimately lead to dismissal.
 The member of Third street firm of wholesalers who employs the travelling
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10
Marks of the Merchant.

Did you ever notice the queer little letters on the outside of the boxes in the shops and wonder what they meant? For instance, when the girl at the glove counter handed you the tan siXes did you not note on the edge of the box a legend something like this, ''Ti-Gee," or something on that order! To be sure you have.
 Those marks mean something. They say to the clerk or to the chief of the store: '.I was bought for 75 cents and I am selling for $1. Look at me, and observe my proper price," or words to that effect
 Ten letters are required to carry out the plan-that is, letter for each nu- neral from 1 to O.. The terms most in use are "gas fixture" ''black horse" misfortune" importance" Black stone," fish tackle" leash profit" ESQ friendly" "gainful job," ''joiners' tax" brown sugar" now be sharp" "elu- cidator" and "of industry"
 Each of these words or phrases con- tains ten letters and only ten letters, and there is no letter repeated. Sup pose the private mark to be ''brOwn sugar." and the article tagged cut glass decanter. There is apt to be some such combination as this on it: "War,7Nsr."
 In case two letters come together, it is frequently the practice to avoid repe- titions by using some other letter which does not appear in the key word. For instance, if it were desired to express $4.77 in the brown sugar" marking "wuu'' would be the ordinary way, but to keep from repeating, "blind" let ter say X, is introduced, and the sign therefore would be "wuX."
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10

Rural free delivery of the mail is the most popular innovation that the Post. office Department has introduced in re. cent years, as is shown by the attitude or Congress toward the appropriation. Instead of trying to cut it down, there is manifested a general disposition to increase it. The only reason why it has not been increased is that the Post master General stated in his report that $3,5OO,OO0 was all that can be judicious- ly and economically applied to rural free delivery during the next fiscal year. The different members of Con- gress who spoke on the bill were ex- tremely laudatory in their remarks con- corning its utility. One of the most interesting features of their remarks was what they said about its rapid growth wherever it had been estab- lished. It seems that in nearly all cases the volume of postal business increased at such a rapid rate that there was an encouraging prospect that 1t would prove self-supporting and that in some cases it would yield profit to the Post office Department. Representative Butler, of Pennsylvania, reported on the experience in his district with rural free delivery as follows: Perhaps in my district there is the most remarka- ble showing in the operations of this system of any district in the country. Two years ago the department appoint ed five rural carriers who started from my town of West Chester and served population of 4,O00 people, or S75 fami- lies. The district Is entirely an agricul- tural one. In the first month of the service there were 5,70O pieces of mail handled. Last October the number of pieces handled was 91,OOO. For the benefit of my friend from Chicago, Mr. Mann, who says the big offices pay the expenses of rural free delivery, I want to say that the service in my district has paid its own way and turned into the treasury about $1,OOO profit in year" This showing in a district where the service has been established for period of two years is significant. It Is apparent that the service is appre- ciated by the residents of the rural dis trictS and that they avail themselves of it very largely after they have become acquainted with it. It is not likely that it will ever be burden to the Postoffice l Department.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10

The chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture has been making a close study of the connection between ty- phoid and other germ diseases and the consumption of raw vegetables. He now announces that the prevalence of such diseases at certain seasons of the year may often be traced to the eating of raw vegetables grown near cities. on land fertilized by refuse from sewers and by other city offal. He considers this danger important enough to war rant either the sterilization of such fer tilizers by oil of yitriol, or the steriliza- ton of the raw vegetables by washing lhem in tartaric acid and rinsing in pure water. A three per cent solution of tar tarie acid will kill disease germs, and even If a little of the substance should remain after rinsing, it is neither un- pleasant to the taste nor injurious to health. In fact, it is found in consid- erable quantity in grapes.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10
Great Bells in China.

Pekin is rich in remarkable bells, the finest specimens being located in the bell tower on the western side of the Tartar city, and the Tachungsu, or tenn pie of the great bell, beyond the city wall. The latter contains the great bell of Pekin, cast by order of the En- peror Yong To in 1415, and hung in the present tower by the Empress Waulch in 157S. This gigantic object measures 15 feet in height is 9 inches thick and has a circumference of 34 feet at the rim. It weighs fifty-three and one half tons and is covered inside and out with inscriptions from the Buddhist outras in Chinese characters. How this huge piece of metal was raised to its present position is a mystery which has never been solved.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10

To abate the advertising nuisance advertisements which are in themselves obnoxious or which are displayed in unsuitable places-legislation Is not all ways necessary. Such action as that recently taken by the Bill-Posters' As sociation of England is quite as effec- tive. A theatrical manager perpetrat- edta sensational and vulgar poster. The bill-pOsters refused to put it up. Here Is foundation for the hope that one day all publlc-splrited citizens will decline to use paint-pot and brush to disfigure the beauties of nature.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10

hiliarating to degree. The man at the helm makes a practice of missing the wheels of coal carts by hairs breadth and of swerying only the sec Ond before it seems that his vehicle must be struck by trolley car.
 If it were not for the tacit admission it would convey that an automobile is mother everyday equipage at home, the feminine visitor to the Capital would feel much like leaning from the window and shouting directions in forcible Eng fish to the uniformed coachman. As 1t Is, she calmly keeps her seat and says
 Isn't that a pretty hOtelY' when she's passing a park and vice versa. But when she alights she does not fall to the pavement in a frenzy of prayers of thanksgiving. She's restrained by Twentieth Century shame but her gloves are worn out from the fright grip her fingers have had of each other dur ing the ordeal from which she has just been delivered
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10

kind, so that there should be no ad- vantage In this respect on either side. As a result, 1t was found that the guinea pigs that lived in an electric environment gained in weight during a measured time 10 per cent more than those in the nonelectric cage.
 Dr. .Herdman is,confident that ordi- nary pigs, if subjected to similar treat. ment, would exhibit like results. Ha proposes to build suitably wired pens and to furnish the growing swine with regular supplies of electricity, much in the same way as was done with the guinea pigs.
 Nobody can say what may be the final influence of this new discovery upon the pork trade, or whether the electric bacon" of the future may not command a special price in the market. The imagination extends to almost any lengths. Why may not the day come when every COW in her stall shall have
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10
Barrooms of the Bishop.

The people of England are much in- terested these days concerning the
 working of the plan of the Bishop of Chester for dealing with the evil of ex- cessive drinking. The Bishop thinks that prohibition does not prohibit and that regulation is much better. AS reg ulatiOn has in view the evil done by drinking, special pains are taken to supply only the purest drinks. The houses under the Bishops scheme are to have a uniform external appear ance, distinguishing them from ordi- nary licensed houses, notices promi- nently displayed that food and non intoxicants are supplied at popular prices, the intoxicants to be placed at one end of the bar and the nonintoxi-. cants at the other, with tables at which buns, sandwiches, tea, coffee, etc., can be served.
 In villages the houses are to have club, temperance and recreation rooms. and where space is available billiard room and library, with backgammon drafts and similar games, are to have also a bowling green and other counter to the bar and tap room. The idea is that it is hopeless to try to extinguish thirst for stimulants, but wise to reduce the danger arising from excess or from bad whisky and beer to the minimum. The good of the thinker, not the promotion of a theory, is the main object.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10

MT. Haggin's reasons for making this his permanent residence are that his wife, as we'll as himself, is a native of the State. After his death MT. flag gin desires his widow to live in the greatest comfort and to continue at the head of the greatest breeding establish ment in the world. He will rename the establishment Green Hills."
 The house itself stands out like a white landmark against the sea of green on every side, and can be seen for miles around. In this home of his declining years MT. Haggin purposed to spend a quarter of a million dol lars, but so many alterations have been made since the beginning that not even the architects can tell what the cost will be. The house, apparently, is all ready on the verge of completion, but so elaborate will be the finishing touches that ten months or a year will probably elapse before the mansion is really finished.
 Some idea of the estate which Mir. Haggin intends to make of Elmendorf may be obtained from the improve ments already made. The blacksmith's and wheelwright's shop, completely equipped, is, of course, an essential. but on this farm the blacksmith's shop is the central office of a complete tele- phone system, connecting twenty-five different points on the farm, and run ming to the town office of c. J. En- right, who has the management of the estate. A grain elevator, with machin- cry for cracking corn and oats and mixing them, is an institution which no other breeding farm in the world boasts. The power station, with two large gasoline engines, will furnish lights and electric power, and there is now in prospect plant involving the expenditure of several thousands which will cook food for the brood mares dur ing the season that they require it.
 Many of the broOd-mare barns are to be torn out and more improved ones put in, and countless other improve
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men for the house is thoroughly eccen- tric. After a new man whom he has engaged has been doing well for few days he calls him in off the road and finds fault with something. He storms about the office, kicks over chairs and declares the business Is going to ruin.
 If the bewildered traveller takes of fense at the outburst and tells his em- ployer to find another man he is paid off. If he takes the whole affair quietly and considers the abuse as an eccen- tricity to be borne with, the merchant calms down, apologies for his temper, and little later gives the man more salary. This employer says that above all things a traveller must be able 10 Keep his temper if he expects to De sue cessful, aLd that every man who has stood the test has done well for the frm.-Cincinnati Enuuirer.
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fact that within the last fifty years Ia. bor-saying machinery has made it un- necessary to employ more than a third as many men on a farm as were former ly needed. Last year labor was so scarce in Kansas and Nebraska that young women were obliged to go out into the field to work, and even then portions of the crop were spoiled for lack of prompt handling. Every year, provid- ed there Is an average crop, the prob lem of farm labor seems to grow more difficult of solution, and unless it is solved by the invention of more labor saving machinery it Is difficult to see how conditions are to be changed. The liking for life in a city becomes contin- ually more general, and with the rapid growth Of urban industries employ
 ment is provided for all who come. Some method of turning the tide back from the city to the country may in the near future become a necessity.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10
RACE OF WHITE INDIANS.
South American Tribe Furnishes study
 for Ethnologists.

| South American Tribe Furnishes study for Ethnologists.
 A white Indian is indeed rara aVls'
 and great therefore was the surprIse oi l M Van Montanaeken, the Well-khoWh
 Belgian traveller, when he suddenly | found himself face to face Wltn COT
 ony of such Indians as he was making his way through the heart Of Feru dur- ing his recent exploration or that coun- | try and Brazil. He cOnversed Wlth 1 them for some time and took photo- graphs of two of their chiefs, Wnlcn OH his return to Europe he intended 10 put in book that he was about to puDllsh.
 Unfortunately he died before the book
 was ready and his widow has now pre- sented the photographs to the Royal Geographical Society of Anvers.
 This tribe, according to Montanaeken, is known as that of the Lorenzo Indians and it's home is in what is known as the Amazon country, part of which lies in Peru and part in Brazil. Unlike almost all others of their race, these Indians have a clear white skin, and, further more, the strange but common custom of tattooing and painting their bodies does not prevail among them. Strik- ingly handsome, too, many of them are, with frank and pleasing countenances that are by no means of the ordinary In dian type.
 A nomad life they live, wandering in small bands over the vast solitary plains and apparently making no effort to better their condition. To this lack of energy, as we'll as to the numerous wars which have been waged against them by adjacent tribes, must be as cribed the fact that they are not to-day nearly as numerous as they were quarter of century ago, and if their number continues to decrease at the present rate the outlook is that the tribe will soon become extinct.
 These picturesque Indians do not en- cumber themselves with clothing. The women wear merely a strip of cotton or other stuff around their Joins and the men consider themselves in gala costume when they have hung over their shoulders two narrow bands of network, one of which remains as a sort of belt over their arms, while the other falls down from the left shoulder and terminates at the right hip.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-08-10
The SvmptOms of Love.

X German scientist has recently de- scribed the symptoms of love as fol- lows: The oscillations in the interior of a persons body, as may be seen in the case of vibratOry attraction, are in har- mOny-that Is to say, they are at the first movement in complete concordance with the oscillations in the interior of some other persons body. It is, of course, necessary that the reactionary sentiment in the case of the two sub jects should be of an agreeable nature, since the two vibrations facilitate the movements of the atoms, which in this case accumulate and emit their rays without disturbing the diffusion.