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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

and those following had to run to keep
close behind him. The turnip patch Is
two acres In extent The turnips were
planted late and were just ready for
gathering.
The dog went straight to a spot where
a big turnip had recently been pulled out
of the ground. Then he passed to an
other spot where a turnip had been re-
moved In all he went to six places
widely scattered over the patch
Then he started across another field,
then up to the door of Mrs. Fearing, the
nearest neighbor of the Cropseys. The
door was open. The dog ran in, and,
going into the sitting room, nosed about
and then stood motionless in one spot
until Mr.. Branch came up with Mr.. Crop
sey father of the girl
Then the actions of the bloodhound
were explained. Two days before she dis
appeared Nell had left the house by the
side door, and had gone to the turnip
patch and pulled up six of the largest
turnips she could find and had then taken
them as gift to Mrs. Fearing. She had
sat in a chair in the latter's home ON the
spot where the dog had come to stop.
Wilcox's Clinical Smile.
The bloodhound was taken back to
the Cropsey house. AS the party started
up the path leading to the front porch the
dog gave a low yelp, turned about and
started out through the gate again, his
nose close to the ground.
He crossed the road to stretch OF
withered grass about 80 feet wide, which
separates the road from the river. The
dog went ahead along the edge of the
grass in the direction of the town.
By this time a crowd Of nearly 1000 peo-
pie had assembled in the vicinity, all of
them deeply interested in the movements
of the bloodhound with the exception of
one. and he was Jim Wilcox, the young
man who had courted the girl three
years and was supposed to have been in
love with her. He sat on fence, his
face wearing a cynical smile.
The dog moved slowly, paying no at
tention to the great crowd trooping along
with him. Every once in while he zig
Jagged to the left or the right, just as
a person would who was walking over
uneven ground
The family of the dead girl, the po-
lice and others didn't know 1t, but the
bloodhound was going over the ground,
step by step, that Nell Cropsy had gone
over the night she went to her death.
Two hundred yards from the Cropsey
house and so feet from the marine rail-
way, on the river side of the road, the
dog turned diagonally to the right, pass
ing over a mixture of dirt, shavings and
sawdust. He headed for the narrow pier
running $50 feet out in the river parallel
with the ways of the marine railway.
Dog Mad a Dramatic Scene. !.
The dog walked very slowly down the
pier. Nobody said a word to him. He
kept on, his nose trailing the boards until
he got to the extreme end.
Then came an intensely dramatic scene.
Slowly the dog drew his hind legs up
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
BEWARE OF SPICES, BOYS.
A Chicago Nerve Specialist Says
They Drive Men to Tobacco.

From a Chicago Dispatch.
7. DR.. David Paulson, nerve specialist,
s!has a new way of saving young America
from tobacco and liquor. Here are the
suggestions he gave the Anti-Cigarette
League:
vs. Keep the family brick of limburger
cheese on the top shelf of the larder or
bury it in the back yard where the chill
dren can't get at it.
<. "Open the kitchen window and throw
all your spices. pepper, pepper sauce and
mustard into the alley.
n "Quit buying meat
"Their nerves are so irritated by
doughy bread and foods that blister and
burn on account of the spices that are
/. in them that they are growing up to be
trunkards, cigarette smokers and tobacco
users.
AZ us limburger cheese likely to cause a
boy to smoke cigarettes and drink whis-
ky? Certainly, because 1t is nothing but
rotten milk, and is not fit to put in the
stomach of man, much less boy. With
the boy of today it is a quick journey
from the table to the tobacco store and
the saloon. because when boy or
young man acquires a thirst that the
town pump will not satisfy he looks for
Something stronger.
NJ "All spiced foods are bad for the ner-
yous system. Beefsteak, too. Is injurious,
because it contains irrit ating products.
Such commodities as mustard, pepper,
hot sauces and the like are not food.
They are simply stimulants.
There is a natural flavor in all food
stuffs, as same as there is a natural odor
;sfo flowers but the natural f1avors in the
common practice of cookery are hidden
\ by these rasping. spicy sauces
N THE cooks of today are educating boys
70 the use of tobacco and liquor. and this
applies to the homes as well as to res
taurants."
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

DIR. JAMES WILLIAM KIDD.
surely discovered the elixir of life. That
he Is able with the aid of a mysterious
compound, known only to himself, pro-
duced as a result of the years he mas
spent in searching for this precious lite-
giving boon, to cure any and every dis
ease that is known to the human oody.
There is no doubt OF the doctors earnest
ness in making his claim and the re-
markable cures that he is daily enecune
seems to bear him out very strongly. his
theory which he advances Is one Oh rea-
son ana based on sound experience IN
medical practice of many years. 1t COSTS
nothing to try this remarkable Ehxir
Of Life" as he calls 1t, for he sends II
free, to anyone who is a sufferer, IN SUI
sdcient quantities to convince OF It's api-
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remarkable, and but for reliable VIII
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lame have thrown away clutches and
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Rheumatism, neuralgia, stomach, heart,
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Bladder troubles disappear as by magic
Headaches, backeches, nervousness,
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5Fgans are easily overcome In a space
of time that Is simply marvellous.
Partial paralysis, locomotor 9taxia,
dropsy, govt, scrofula and piles are
quickly and permanently removed. u
purihes the entire ) system, blood ,gnd
tissues restores normal nerve Bower,
circulation and a state of perfect health
u produced at once. To the doctor all
systems are alike and equally affected
Try this Ey&at--" Elixir off1h1fe."t Send for
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sufferer. State what you want to be
cured of and the sure remedy for 1t viii
be sent you free by return mall
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

as close to the edge of the pier as he
could without losing his balance. Inch
by inch he let his forepaws over the edge,
digging them into the wood to brace him
self. He thrust his nose down along the
outer end of the pier as far as he could
reach and for neariy minute hung half
on the pier and half down over the wa
ter. 9if Ftfi saoa
He was showing the crowd that Nell
Cropsey had dropped or had been dropped
from the end of the pier, that her clothing
had brushed the outer end as she went
into the Pasquotank River.
Hurricane Branch was the only man
who believed the dog had shown what
had become of the girl. The family re-
called the fact that Nell had often walked
down to the pier, and a few days before
her disappearance had been one of a
sailing party that had embarked from
that spot.
Jim Wilcox, her sweetheart, was en-
ployed at the marine railway to run the
engine that hauled vessels up on the
ways, and Nell had often walked down
to chat with him.
The dog was called back to the Crop
sey house. He had not taken up the
trail from the front porch, but from the
path just inside the front gate.
He was taken on the front porch, but
could find no trail leading down the steps,
All the trails led him inside the house.
Nothing led him from the porch to where
he picked up the trail on the path.
MY girl said the father was knock
ed unconscious as she stood on the porch
that night and carried off,"
He and others thought at the time the
trail the hound followed to the edge of
the pier was an old one They did not
then realize that man might have
struck her a fatal blow, lifted her up and
carried her nearly to the front gate and
then dragged her to the place where her
body could be dropped into deep water
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
Why Nell Cropseys
Body Was Not Found
lizabeth City Cor. St. Louis post-Dis-

Elizabeth City Cor. St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
Had the instinct of a dumb brute not
ity of human intelligence trusted, the
fate of Ellen Maud Cropsey of Elizabeth
City, N. c., would have been known in
a few days instead of remaining for 81
days a secret.
A bloodhound, one of the best trained of
that extraordinary species the world
over. in the presence of 1000 persons, led
a pier 600 feet away. then to the edge of
the pier.
1t was near this pier that Nell Cropsey's
body came to the surface, through nat
ural causes, thirty-seven days after the
dog had unerringly shown where she had
gone.
In those thirty-seven days detectives
had followed innumerable clews leading
to twenty different cities, the police chiefs
of hundred towns worked on the case,
and every man in Elizabeth City, but one,
James F. Wilcox, the sutton of the girl,
had labored day and night to clear the
mystery. Wilcox is now In jail awaiting
trial on the charge of having murdered
Miss Cropsey.
But in the end the sagacity of the
bloodhound descendant of the famous
dogs employed to hunt runaway slaves,
proved to be right. while the manifold
workings of hundreds of human beings
were wrong.
On Friday. November o. two days after
Nell Cropsey had disappeared so strange
ly from the front veranda of her fathers
home, Hurricane" Branch, a famous
trainer of bloodhounds at Suffolk, Va,
was sent for. He was told to bring his
best dogs
Told to go Find Her."
Branch got there the next day at noon.
He brought one dog, a splendid type of
the bloodhound, with broad forehead,
w-hanging chops and eys set far back.
He was docile and quiet. paying no at
tention to anybody but Mr.. Branch.
In the preceding fifty-six hours every
inch Of territory about the Cropsey house
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

had been trampled over scores of times
by the hundreds who had searched for
the girl. Fields, marshes, woods, bitches
and rivers had been searched.
A committee of citizens took Branch
and the dog out to the Cropsey house.
about mile from the center of the town
and setting about 70 feet back from Riy-
erside road, the road which runs par
allel with the Pasquotank River.
The better part of the 5000 population of
Elizabeth City followed the man and the
dog. In the Cropsey house Mr.. Branch
said he wanted some of the clothing
which had been recently worn by the mis-
sing girl. He was handed a Shoe Branch
held 1t to the nostrels of the dog but the
latter took no notice of it.
This won't do; give me something
else" said Branch.
Another shoe was handed him and
again the dog took no notice.
Then Mr.. Cropsey remembered that Nell
had not worn the shoes for many DAYS
She had been troubled with a corn on
her right foot. She had been wearing
a loose rubber on that foot and on the
other an old Oxford tie.
A waist which the girl had worn about
the house that afternoon and which she
had laid aside for one more fancy when
she dressed for the evening, was brought
out.
The dog shifted at the waist a score
of times, walking back a step or two.
then bouncing on it suddenly and sniff
fling again.
He's got the SCENT said Branch.
Calling the dog out in the hail. Branch
said simply, as If he were talking to a
man:
GO find her.
Starts to Trail Missing Girl.
Before he spoke the dog was running
up and down the hall, his nose close to
the floor He ran into the parlor, on the
right side of the central hall; into the sit
ting room on the left side. to the big din
ing room back of the sitting room. A
side door back, of the parlor opening upon
smaR hall which, connects with the
main hall stood open.
After minutes hesitation the blood
hound darted out Of the side door across
the lawn, then across a field and then
into turnip patch. He moved RAPIDLY.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
SICK MADE WELL
WEAK MADE STRONG
Marvellous Elixir Of Life Discovered
by Famous Doctor-Scientist That
Cures Every Known AiIment
Wonderful Cures Are Effected That
Seem Like Miracles Performed
The Secret of Long Life of
Olden Times Revived.
The Remedy Is Free to All Who Send
Name and Address.

Anter years of patient study, and delv-
ing into the dusty records OF the past, as
well us following modern experiments l.
the realms of medical science. DR.. James
w. Kidd 1900 First National Baik
building, Fort Wayne. Ind, makes the
startling announcement that he has
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
Sued His Own Paper for Libel

Several years ago when Payne was a
heavy stockholder in the Milwaukee Sen
tinel his street railway company was
asking for an extension of its fran
chise and was being met with a vigor-
Gus popular demand for Accent fares.
The Sentinel championed the public
cause and savagely attacked the COM
pany, making sensational allegations
regarding the methods to be used to Sc
cure the extension desired. Payne was
naturally very angry at the stand taken
by the paper in which he was 80 heavily
interested, but no one was prepared for
the action he took He actually sued his
own paper for libel suit, but before the
case came to trial he had succeeded in
securing control Of the property and the
attacks ceased.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
MOZLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink.

DIR. H. Mozley's Lemon Elixir is pre-
Ipared from the fresh juice of Lemons,
combined with other vegetable liver ton
les, cathartics. aromatic stimulants and
blood purifiers. Sold by all druggists Soc
and $1.00 bottles.
" For biiiousness and constipation.
For indigestion and foul stomach.
For sick and nervous headache and the
grip.
M For pains. palpitation and irregular ac-
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Va For sleeplessness and nervousness.
For loss of appetite and debility.
a For fevers, malaria and chills, take
Lemon Elixir.
Ladies', for natural and thorough or
Ranic regulation, take Lemon Elixir
Lemon Elixir will not fail you in any
81 the above-named diseases all OF which
arise from a torpid or diseased liver,
sfomach or kidneys.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

From the New Orleans Picayune.
1t is of little practical use to discuss
the apparent or real causes of the fall
-ure oft he Confederaoy of the Southern
States of the American Republic to gain
their independence In the war of 1s61-e5;
nevertheless it is a subject that will for
long time continue to be pursued with
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
President National Bank.

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TO DR.. II. Motley, Atlanta.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
At the Capitol.

Il have just taken the last two bottles
81 DR.. Mozley's Lemon Elixir for nervous
beadache. indigestion, with diseased liver
and kidneys The Elixir cured me. I
found It the greatest medicine 1 ever
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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23

doctoring it, Bowles was stepping to lift it up in his arms when the fright ened little animal began bleating piteously. It had scarcely uttered it's first cry when Bowles heard a commotion in the brush, and looking up saw two deer, big buck and a doe, bounding toward him.
 The buck had on a fierce front, the bristle on his neck standing erect and his eyes blazed with fury. Bowles hastily climbed a tree. He got out of range of the buck just in time to escape savage lunge from his horns.
 The doe took the fawn away into the wood. The buck, however, stayed right at the foot of the tree and pranced and snorted around it at every move Bowles made, keeping him there until long after dark.
 When he thought the buck had gone away Bowles slipped down out of the tree and started to put behind him the three miles that lay between that spot. and home as quickly as his legs would let him. He hadn't gone 50 yards, though, before the buck was after him. Dodging from tree to tree BowIes made his way along un- Then the buck abandoned the chase.
 The settler who went to Bowles' rescue said the buck was a terror of that neighborhood and known to the hunters as Old Golden.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23

says the New York Times, when two women who had been trying to get to the geological show complained of the difficulty they had had in elicit ing any information about it's where abouts.
 ''Yes, madam" the dissatisfied man "a stranger to them-chimed in, 'I can quite sympathize with you. The fact is, don't believe these con ductors know the difference between botanical gardens and geological. I doubt if any of them could even tell Q monkey from man."
 Flares. please" said the conduc- tor, interrupting the conversation just at that point. Fares, please. None of our business what you are so long as you pay your fare. Two, ma'am?"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23
WITH THE HORSES
The Monk shows His Heels to Lord
 Derby in Two Fast Heats.


 Derby in Two Fast Heats.
 Readville, Mass, Aug 23.- one great surprise at the Readville track on yesterdays grand circuit card was the appearance of Lord Derby in the POT trot. The surprise was not car- ried out to the extent of his winning the race, for Ed Geers drove The Monk under the wire ahead of him in two straight heats and won, in the first heat establishing new record for himself of 2:0534, and new race record for the track.
 Although $2,500 was offered ill this trot only four horses were entered. Ed Geers sent The Monk away first with the bunch behind. Down to the quar- ter they went with Lord Derby drop ping back at every stride until he was last. The half was passed and Lord Derby began to show speed. At the three-quarters he tried to overhaul The Monk, but it was too late.
 When the second heat was called Lord Derby was still favorite at even money. Tn this heat Lord Derby made no mistake in laying back too far at the start, for he followed The Monk like a shadow to the three-quarters. Then began q drive by both Geers and Spear and they went under the wire with The Monk safely in the lead. Time, 2:06A.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23
FREED BY MAD BUCK.
DisagreeabIe Plight of Man Who Played Good Samaritan to an
 Injured Pawn.

Olen Bowles, of Costello, Pa, will never stop again to be Good Samari- tan to a deer in trouble. He works for the big tannery com pany there. He was in the woods one day recently looking over bark contract.
 Passing along all old woods road he saw fawn lying in a clump of bushes. As the fawn did not move he walked up to it and found that it was bleeding from an injury in it's shoulder.
 With the intention of taking the wounded fawn home with him and
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23
Death Caused By HatpinA.

Leone Jeodie, for two years a novice in convent at Flushing, l.. T., died after a long and mysterious ill., ness. An autopsy was performed, and in the region of the heart and piercing the pericardium was found headless steel hatpin four and a quarter inches long. In the stomach was found psis of another hatpin one and quarter inches long, also head less. The young woman had com plained of pains in the stomach since 1896, but died without having men, toned the cause of her illness.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23
Gooaeberry Catsnn.

The gooseherries should be almost ripe Wash and put them in porce- lain kettle; scald, mash and rub them. through a coarse sieve, and to eight pounds of berries allow four pounds of soft brown sugar with four ounces of cinnamon, two ounces of cloves, tied in a small muslin bag. Boil three hours before adding spices, cook with spices and a pint of vinegar until we'll favored and bottle and seal at once.-- Washington Star.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23
WITH THE WHEELMEN

New Haven, Aug 23.-Marcus Hur- ley of New York won the amateur cycle championship of America at the Coliseum board track last night by landing tha half mile championship and getting second place in the two mile championship. Root of Boston won the two mile race with one of the prettiest finishes ever seen on this track. This makes the standing 19 points for Hurley and IS for Root. The fifteen mile motor paced race for amateurs was won by Sam Sulkin of Boston Dalke's wheel gave out i'll the middle of the race.
 Asbury Park. N. J., Aug 23.--The feature of yesterdays National cir cult meet of the N. c. A. was the pres ence of the old-time champion, Arthur A. Zimmerman, who rode an exhibi- tion mile, motor paced, in l Ill 49s. The haIf-mile professional champion ship race took the lions share of in- terest. Frank. Kramer carried off first honors in this event after hard sprint down the stretch. Tn the two thirds mile race a bunch of riders fell when turning into the homestretch at rapid pace on the second lap. John King of Newark had his ear nearly torn off and was taken uncon- conscious to the grand stand where he recovered. Eddie Bald also was hurt. but not seriously. Floyd Krebs finished first wheeling through the spectators who crowded the beach to learn the result of the spill. Charles Hadfeld finished second, but was dis qualified as it was thought the fall was due to him. John Bedell was awarded second place. Lester Wilson got third money. Charges of foul were preferred againstHadfield who, it was said, placed his hand upon Fenns shoulder to hold him back. This caused the fall