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The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

is arranged over the waist and
sleeves. SO giving the broad shoulder
line. The sleeves are full with novel
cuffs and the neck is finished with a
regulation stock. The lining Is closed
at the center front. the waist invis-
ibly at the left side on line with
the scarf.
The quantity Of material required
for the medium size is ~ yards 81
inches wide. 81 yards 27 inches wide
or Q, yards A. inches wide. with =
yard Of all-over lace for yoke and
collar and u yard of silk for scarf
aad plated portions Of cuffs.
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

themselves to each other. The plan.s
bloom abundantly and from the ont
side. particularly toward the spring.
the window is a mass OF blossoms. Of
course the greatest beauty Is from the
outside. but enough can be seen from
the inside to afford great deal OF
pleasure.
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

enough 20 Ue AvHIIaDIe IOf tne BtyIo'
are equally correct.
The skirt is made In seven cores.
which are cut to At with perfect
smoothness at the upper portion and
to flare freely at the lower. At the
back are hat inverted pIaits and be-
meath them the closing is made.
The quantity Of material required
for the medium size is 11k yards 81
inches wide, yards inches wide,
or 5h yards SO inches wide. with the
fiounce; Ssa yards q irches wide, q
yards ~ inches wide. or yares ~
inches. wittce, aounce
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

Every one knows her. She has two
deep lines between her eyes and a
plaintive droop to the corners of her
mouth and to her eyebrows.
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

She is missing half her life, because
she is looking for snubs.
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

The man who starts out to look Cor
trouble doesn't have to go far until he
has it thrust upon him.
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

1t doesn't always make a young
man happy when a girl returns his
love-especially if it is returned be.
cause she has no use for it.
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

she is losing all the healthy enjoy
ment that comes her way.
The Dolores star., 1904-11-18

Men are like chickens-they always
want to get on the highest roost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06

A house without a gas stove is like a ship without a sail
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
Drinking Among Women.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 The assertion of the secretary of a Bos- ton woman's club that "the women of New York drink a great deap' chimes in with general observation of a practice which Is undeniably on the increase Miss Kingsby, coming from Kentucky, where she did not see one of her sex using liquor, noticed in a fashionable restau- rant here that nearly every woman was drinking" In other restaurants she could have seen the same sight. Femin- inc indulgence in stimulants in public hase become so much of a habit that it passes unchallenged by criticism.
 The spread of the habit to women of the self-supporting class was the subject of Father Shanleys warning talk to the Veronica League. The vice is made all the more alluring for having the stamp of fashion, Society's approval encour- ages 1t, the family liquor store facilitates it, until the tendency to indulgence has come to arouse apprehension. The im- mediate denial of the report that the report could be credited as not improba- ble.
 The relaxation of old restraints in the use of stimulants by women, though viewed at first with indulgent tolerance. must now be regarded as having gone to unwise lengths.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
PRIZE IS OFFERED FOR
 THE UGLIEST CITIZEN

St. Louis February 27-(Special)-one of the most amusing voting contests yet naugurated in connection with free trip to the Worlds Fair is just announc- ed from Osceola, Iowa, where local cigar manufacturing company proposes to reward physical ugliness most hand somely. The ugliest man in Osceola coun- ty, under the terms of the voting con- test. is to be sent to the Worlds Fair, armed with a round trip ticket, money to nav his hotel bill and tickets of admis- sion to the exposition for one week-all gratis.
 Every person buying one of the hve- cent cigars manufactured by the concern that is conducting the contest is entitled 10 deposit one vote for his favorite home ly man, thereby expressing his opinion as to the identity of the ugliest citizen of the county In order to protect all voters from possible wrath, the ballots are to be secret No one is to know who casts the votes, though the progress of the contest is to be pulished from tune to time in the local papers, 50 that all may know what candidate is in the lead and how the others stand.
 The man receiving the largest number of votes between January l and July l will be declared elected. When he starts for the worlds Fair he will be acom- panied to the railroad station by brass band and a delegation of citizens, in cluding the prettiest girl from each town shin in the county There will be fare well speeches and bouquets, and possibly the pretty girls may be permitted to kiss the lucky man good-by.
 It is stated by the Worlds Fair cor respondent at Osceola that there IS a great stir amongst ugly men through out the county. Some of the Osceola men who have been tacity suspected Of homeliness throughout their careers have taken to the woods. Others known to be in danger have begun wearing more attractive clothing, keeping their whisk- CTS and hair trimmed, and cultivating winsome smiles.
 But there are several men in the coun- ty. it is stated, who acknowledge that they are homely-glory in it, in fact-and have put themselves into the race as avoWed candidates for the honor of rep resenting Osceola county at the World s Fair These men are asking their friends to help them win. Like political candi- dates, they are out after votes One of them, in particular. is said to have an- nounced his intention of making a thor ough canvass of the county, exhibiting himself in each town, township, cross roads settlement and little red school house, so that all smokers of fve-cent cigars may take note of his homeliness and bear him in mind when casting their ballots. A rival candidate declares that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06

he will buy up a large quantity of the cigars himself, casting the votes for him self, and present the cigars to his friends as an inducement to get them to buy more cigars and cast more votes. It is quite legitimate he claims, for a candi- date to pass around the cigars-it is done in every election.
 The Oscela correspondent says that during this cold weather the candidates are not so active as they will be when ba1my spring arrives. It Is expected that they will bestir themselves vigorously about the first of April and that even some of those who have taken to the woods to keep from becoming candidates may become so highly interested in the contest that they will return to town and announce their candidacy.
 In this connection 1t may not be amiss to repeat the story of Abraham Lincoln and the homely man. When MT. Lincoln was a young lawyer he came face to face with remarkably ugly man. The men stopped and stared at each other.
 "Sr, I am going to kill you!' cried the stranger.
 And why. may I ask?' coolly inquired Lincoln. What have you against me, sir?'
 q have nothing against you-nothing whatever" was the reply. 'In fact l am very sorry that I must kill you, but there is no way to get around it. If 1 let you live I shall be breaking my solemn word of honor, and that, sir, 1 cannot afford to do. Have you any messages to send to your folks, or would you like to pray?" But first tell me-, insisted Lincn, "how it happens that you have got to kill me?'
 Simply this way, sir,'' replied the stranger. Many years ago I was pro- nounced the ugliest man on earth, and I gloried in the honor l made a solemn VOW that if I ever found another man who was uglier than myself I would kill him"
 Lincoln looked searchingy at the stranger.
 Do you think am an uglier man than you?" he asked.
 q do"
 ''Then kill me at once," said Lincoln
 The sequel to this story is that the ugly man, highly complimented by this caus- tic cut, went to Osceola county, Iowa, and settled down. One of his sons, who in- herited the fathers claim to distinction, is now said to be a candidate for the Worlds Fair trip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
In Trouble AaIn.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 T wonder" said the plump young wo- man, preparing to venture out upon the frozen surface of the park lagoon. If the ice is safe?'
 sYou needn't be the least bit afraid as to that" MT. Makinbrakes hastened to assure her. T am certain 1t will hold you. When I was here yesterday I saw the boys chasing a runaway steer all over 1t. The animal must have weighed 1900 pounds. Of course" he added. nervously, 'I don't mean that you-that the steer, you know, mightnt have broken through if 1t had been on skates, but. still-well. anyhow, there can't be any harm in try ing. because I see other girls out there that are even more-er-do the skates it you all right, Miss Biggin?r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
MAN WHO WAS NOT.
Strange Story Concerning a Powder
 Magazine Explosion.

Gone Whitehouse, the authority on Egyptology and other branches or sci- enae discussing the recent explosion at woolwich in the Newport Herald, relates the following story, which, he says, was told by Sir Benjamin Baker at dinner of the Smeatonian club. and association of British civil engineers, which was at- tended by Mir Whitehouse:
 "There were two mixing houses at Waltham abbey, separated by a consid- erable space and fully protected by banks of earth Two men were passing between these houses when both exploded. They said that the one on the right went oil first, but it was supposed that this was an inference affecting the memory. They could not understand the simultaneous ex- plosions and therefore supposed that one must have preceded the other by sem sible period of time. But the scientific advisers of the government were of the opinion that the stability of the compound was disturbed through some sympathetic action.
 ''These men also said that they threw themselves on the ground to avoid the falling fragments As a prone position was the worst possible their nerves were evidently shaken. They had observed be- fore the explosion workman approach- ing the door of one of these houses When they rose to their feet their first thought was for him. and they looked around to see where he was. But although they looked and looked they found no body or part of it. He was not, for the air took him. According to the scientific expla- nation his atoms had received jar which had shaken them to pieces of about the billionth of an inch in diameter or less
 "As would be said now, he became collection of antagonists electors. They found part of an empty stocking and the heel of a boot That was all. It must be remembered that there would have been no ingoranic matter about him, no metal or hard substance. Therefore as the mys- terious processes of life had built him up. so also they had built the material of his clothes. The fragments which escaped annihilation were apparently due to one of those electrical freaks common in thunderstorms."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06

TO hear the average Wall streeter talk one would imagine that the only thing required to get through a law of this de- scription would be for a committee of the stock exchange or group of railroad financiers to frame a bill and send 1t down to Washington with orders to have it passed at once. In the estimation of such people the western boundary of the United States Is the Hudson river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06

Wall street has not recovered from its surprise over the triumph of Colonel "Bilr' Greene over H. H. Rogers in the fight for the great Greene Copper com pany. Rogers and his friends in Amalga- mated Copper and Stapdard oil thought they had Greene done for and they had already divided his raiment among them. At the eleventh hour, Phelps, Dodge & Co.,, one of the largest individual copper producers in America, came to the help of Greene and turned the tables against his enemies By means of alliance with this strong interest Colonel Greene re- mained at the head of the corporation, all though owning at the present time only about one-seventieth part of the stock. He was shaken out of several thousand shares of Greene Copper stock through the machinations of the Amalgamated Copper party, suffering loss of many millions of dollars. The stock was pounded from $40 a share to under $l0. How far Phelps, Dodge & Go. will go in sustaining Colonel Greene Is problemati- cal. For the present, however, the re- doubtable Texan is on top.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06

There has of late been a marked in- creas in the volume of manufactured pro- ducts from the United States to almost every foreign country. This is in con firmation of the schedule laid down two or three years ago at the height of the craze for industrial combinations. The plea was advanced at that time as one of the stock arguments in favor of such combinations that when the period of in dustrial depression should arrive the great combinations would be in a position to make a world market for their goods in competition with foreign manufactur- CTS, and that by this means they could give continued and permanent employ ment to a large number of American workingmen who would otherwise be idle. The largest recent increase in manufac- tured goods is in the iron and steel spe- cialties. The United States Steel corpor- ation is not alone in it's enterprising ef- forts to find a foreign market for its goods, but 1t Is the most aggressive and the most successful. At the rate Ameri- can manufactures are going out of the country now. the exports for the current fiscal year ending June 30 will approxi- mate $420,000 900, which will exceed all previous records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
REDUCED RATES
To California and Northwest Via Queen
 and Crescent Route.

Tickets on sale March 1 to April % in- elusive. and September l5 to October 10 inclusive at greatly reduced rates. For information address A. B. Freeman. T. P. A.. Queen and Crescent Route, Bi- mingham. Ala. S-5-57t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06
BLOOD POISON

We remove every symptom Of thls aW- full disease and cure it in a reasonable time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06

From present indications the Erie rail- road will continue under guardianship management for another five years. The voting trust which has been in charge of the property since 1896 has asked the stockholders for a continuation of their power for another five years from next May. The trust went formally out of ex- istence on the last day of February, although still actually in control of the property. The authorities of the stock exchange have become involved in a snarl with the Erie voting trust over the is- suanee of trust certificates during the in
 terim between the last of February and the time of action by the stockholders in May. Certificates issued during this in- terregnum will not be regular delivery on the exchange, according to an order is- sued a few days ago. unless something can be done by the trustees to satisfy the demands of the exchange authorities. The excuse made by the trustees in asking for an extension of control over Erie is that improvements are in contemplation and under way which will take about that length of time to complete and which might be interfered with if the property was turned loose. These im- provements are considered vital for the prosperity of the property and 1t is not likely that there will be serious objection to prolonged the arrangement which has existed for the last eight years.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
BREAKS LAMP
ON THE ALTAR
Kate Brennan Violently Des-
ecrates Holy Shrine in
the Church of st. Brigid
DISCOVERED BY SEXTON
Woman Sustains a Double
Fracture of Leg as She
Flees to Avoid Capture

Last night Kate Brennan made
wanton attempt to wreck the altar of
the Blessed Virgin in ST. Brigid's
Church. That she did not succeed was
due to the vigilance of Charles San
born. the sexton. Startled by the ap-
proach of the sexton the woman desist-
ed after breaking a lamp on the altar,
then fed through a side door. Finding
no other avenue of escape she jumped
from a porch to the pavement, a dis
tance of fifteen feet, suffering a frac-
ture of both bones of the right leg be-
low the knee.
She was removed to the Central
Emergency Hospital. A charge of ma
licious mischief was entered against
her name on the prison register, but it
is understood that she will not be
prosecuted.
According to Sexton Sanborn Miss
Brennan made a similar attempt
week ago Sunday night. AT that time
she broke the lampband threw oil over
the statue of the Blessed Virgin. She
has committed previous offenses Of the
same character.
Sexton Sanborn had just completed
sounding the angeluS last evening
when he noticed the woman enter the
church. He softly entered the edifice
after her and concealed himself in the
confessional. Stealthily she approached
tc begin her work of destruction. Sud
denly her hand went up into the air
and descended with great force upon
the lamp on the altar. There was a
crash of glass and the oil despatched
the sacred image. Sanborn rushed
from his hiding place and cried out to
the woman to stay her hand.
Miss Brennan does not seem to re-
alize the enormity of her offense
against the church of which she is
member. Father John E. Cottle noti-
fed the police at the North End station
that he believed she had been suffi-
GENTLY punished and he would not
prosecute the charge against her. From
her actions it is believed that dementia
is responsible for the woman's actions.
She emphatically denies the allegations
made against her. Her residence is at
1540 Polk street.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
BOY. PERISHES
At HIS POST
Cut Off by Flames, George
Holtz Loses His Life in
Fire i'm Mattress Factory
BROTHER HEARS CRIES
Brave Youth Tries to Save
Unfortunate Lad, but Is
Driven Back by the Heat

Stupefed by smoke and enveloped oy
flames, George Holtz, a 17-year-old boy
was burned TO death in the fire that de-
stroyed the mattress factory at III
Howard street yesterday
Anna Jones. employed on the second
floor OF the building, barely escaped
alive. She tainted when the alarm
came. but was discovered and carried
from the place by Earl West
The fire was caused by sparks from
an electric motor. which ignited a pile
of infammable shoddy- The names
spread 10 the Colonial Packing Com
psnv's building which was totally de-
stroyed.
Young HoItz was working on the
fourth floor with a boy named waiter
Mills. They were sorting shodoy. sud
denly Mills shouted Fire and ran To-
ward a window. As he was opening II
flames darted up from the shoddy pile
and q volume OF smoke filled the room.
Mills started 10 climb down frees
cane. Looking back he saw Holtz
standing bewildered. The flames be
came fercer every instant, and Mills
hurried down the ladder. Holtz was
never seen alive after that moment.
Stumbling about in the choking smoke
he soon fell 10 the burning floor and
EuccumDeQ.
Thomas Holtz, a younger brother Of
the unfortunate boy, heard George s
shrek Of terror and made a dash for
the stairs 10 go 70 Georges aid, but was
driven back by the flames. Broken
hearted. Thomas Holtz gave ii up and
hurried to a place Of safety.
There were in all seven people work
ing on the lower floor when the blaze
started. Almost as soon as the alarm
was given tongues of flame shot down
from the floor above.
A general alarm was turned in, but II
was some time before the fremen had
the flames under control Meanwhile
the spectators, who had heard that a
human being was imprisoned by the
flames. were frenzied with horror. Des-
perate- efforts 10 reach the doomed boy
were made by the firemen, but the
shoddy and other inf1ammable material
made too hot a fire When the names
were extinguished the charred body of
George Holtz was found near where he
had worked.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
PERSONAL.

DR.. D. B. Fields of weaverville is at
the Grand.
Rev. G. G. Frund of Fresno is at
the Grand.
R: w. Bull. a business man Of Ar
cata. is at the Lick.
John Poulson, capitalist of Port
land, is at the Palace.
DR.. o. w. F. Snyder and family, of
Chicago, are at the Palace.
N. r. Nelson. a lumberman of La
Crosse. Wis, is at the Palace.
]. K. Law. an attorney of Merced,
and wife, are staying at the Lick.
S. D. Nicholson, prominent resident
of Pittsburg, is at the st. Francis.
A. w. r. Berr, superintendent of
the Eureka Woolen Mills, is in this
city.
Henry weinstock, one of Sacra-
mento's leading merchants, 1t at the
Palace.
A. +. Luening, representing a large
brewing firm of Milwaukee, and wife,
are at the st. Francis.
A. Clifton Kelway, a newspaper cor
respondent of London, returned yester-
day from the Orient and is registered
at the st. Francis.
DIR. o. B. Somers and wife of
Omaha, who. have been visiting
Southern California. arrived at the
Occidental yesterday
T. McCants Stewart of Honolulu is
due here on the next steamer from
the islands. He is going to stump the
States in the interest of the Repub-
lican party.
An order was issued from General
Manager Schwerin's office yesterday
announcing the appointment of Lo-
cal Passenger Agent Bert Kerrall to
the position of general passenger
agent.
I. w. Stebbins of Rochester, past
grand sire of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, who is the first promi-
nent official of that organization to ar
rive here for the coming encampment
registered at the Palace yesterday
Colonel John c. kirkpatrick, man.
ager of the Sharon Estate Company
leaves to-day on a visit to the large
Eastern cities. which will include
Lexington, KY, where he will wit
ness the big annual trotting events.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
THROWS HIMSELF ON RAILS
IN FRONT OF STREETCARS
Henry III. CoObom Tries to Have
Geary-Street Line End His
Existence.

Henry H. Coobom, while laboring
under 4 temporary alteration of mind
caused by an overindulgence in intoxi-
cants, made several Intellectual at
tcmpts 10 take his life yesterday by
throwing himself under the Geary-
street cars near Octavia street. In
each case he failed to accomplish his
purpose. as the gripmen saw him in
time and stopped the cars before any
damage was done. His modus oper-
sndi was TO wait until a car was ap-
preaching, when he would suddenly
hurl himself before il, fat on the
track. The alert gripmen stopped the
cars each time. Failing in this, he
climbed upon a pile of mortar on the
street and tried to butt his brains out
against brick wall. At this period in
the game Mounted Police officer z. z.
Gable appeared upon the scene, and,
after struggle. in which Gable got
q sprained ankle, Coobom was sub
dUed and taken TO the Emergency
Hospital There DR.. Glover dressed a
number of slight cuts and wounds that
the patient had suffered by his crazy
actions. II was found necessary to
put him in a strsitjacket.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
Californians in New York.

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The fol-
lowing Californians are in New York
From San Francisco-W. de Boer.
at the Broadway Central; D. B. Hodg-
son, at the Victoria; Mrs. A. Holland,
at the Albemarle; Miss Jocelyn and
Mrs. S. P. Jocelyn, at the Grand; Miss
J. E. Roach and H. P. Roach, at the
Victoria; w. j. Webster, at the AL
bemarle; c. S. Bosworth, at the Ma
varre; G.. F. Drake and II. j. Fried
lander, at the Herald Square; A. r.
Harris and wife, at the Victoria: II.
A. sRoesler and wife. at the Albert
T. H. Starr, at the Navarro; E.
Thomson, at the Hoffman, and H. c..
Vandelburg, at the Navarro.
From San JOSEF. Mclaughlin, at
the Holland.
From Los Angeles-W. G. Emerson.
A. II. Heber and Mrs. L. c.. Scheller.
at the Holland: Misses Humphrey, at
the Imperial; G. E. Off and wife, at
the Normandie. and E. A. Pardee, at
the Murray Hill.