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to the dog,: then opened the back door and entered. r; - I did not move from my hiding-place' until she reappeared, about twenty minutes after. - She carefully locked the bank; and ,as she passed me on her way to the house, I' followed quickly. The key she laid on the back steps* softly-opened the side gate, and I le|; her reach the street before I brought masters to a climax. She had only just got put of the gate when she was joined by a- man, but when I rushed to s^fe them he be­ came alarmed, and was off before I could seize him. " I detained the wo- man, hownxroi*! and fmiml slia .Irnfi « 'bundle under her arm, fvhicli I took charge of--a bundle containing about three thousand poundsMn notes. -) What a ""fearless woman she was. She simply laughed as I led her up the steps and rang the bell to arouse Mit­ chell, -and when L.had told him all, and gave him the inOuey and the keys to prove the robbery, she just smiled, and said: ... "Well, what of it?" | The "What of it?". astounded me. Mitcheilj however, resolved not to jet the public know that his bank could be so dasily robbed, nor would he have, society know that he had been duped by an adventuress, so,, after a consul­ tation, he ; actually gave the woman fifty pouhds-iii. cash to clear out which she speedily did.^Yankee Blade. 100 ARE KILLED AN ALPENA MIRACLE MEXICAN TRAIN HORROR WORSE THAN BELIEVED. , OAS. M.. TODD, OP LONG RAPiDs j DISCARDS HER CRUTCHES. Wreck on the Intfer Oceanic; Ed Near the.City of Mexico Is an A ing; Disaster, 20/0 Persona- : Killed and Wounded. In an Interview with a Repcnrter She ' Reviews Her Experience and Tella -*• ^ the ReM Cause of the Miracle. (From the Argus, Alpena, Mich.) We have Ttmg known^Mrs. Jas. M. i Todd, of. Long Rapids, Alpena County, ffich. She has-been a sad cripple. Many ~ 5.jf ,h«ii ie- covery ;, for the benefit of those who do not we publish it to-day. Eight years ago she was "taken with nervous prostration, and in a few months with muscular and inflammatory rheu.ma- Ttisin. It affected her heart, then her . neau. Her feel became so swollen she . could wear nothing on them; her hands were drawn all out of shape. Her eyes were , swollen shut more than half the tisae, her knee joints" terribly swollen ami tor > eignteen months she had to' be held ,up to be dressed..- One limb became en­ tirely helpless;- and the skin was so dry and-cracked that it would bleed;" During these /eigfe't years she had been ^treated by scfu-e of physicians, and has, also 4 spent much time at Ann Arbor ,under 1 best medical advice. All said her trouble" was brought on by hard WGffe and that 1 j medicine woaid,vjK>t, cunev and ,-tliat rest tv-as'-the'-Only thing which would'ease her. After going to live .with her daughter she became entirely ' helpless, and1, could not even raise heparans to, cover herself at night. The interesting part' of the, story follows her own words: V'; \ , "1 was urged to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and at last did so. In three days after I commenced taking , Pink Pills I could sit up and dress my­ self, and after using Uiem sif weeks I went home and commenced working. I continued taking the pills, until now I begin to forget my crutches, and can go up aild down steps without aid. I am truly a living wonder, walking out of doors without assistance. "Now, if I can say anything to induce those who have suffered as I have to try Pink Pills I shall gladly do so. If other like sufferers will try Pink Pills accord­ ing to directions they 'will have reason to thiilk God for creating men who are able to conquer that terrible disease, rheuma­ tism. I have in my own neighborhood recommended Pink Pills for the after effects of la grippe, and weak women with impure blood, and with good re­ sult s." Mrs. Todd is. very strong in her faith in 1 . the curative powers of Pink Pills, and • says they have brought a poor, helpless cripple back to do her own milking, churn­ ing, washing, sewing, knitting, and in fact about all of her household duties, | thanks to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the ' elements flecessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all drug­ gists, or may he had by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenec­ tady. N. Y., for 50c. per box, or six boxes 1 for $2.50. 5A. husband-lover and children sweet, Pleasures to ckj£?m* and.friends to greet, •Roses scattered: before her feet, Through each of her forty summers. Death List Grows. ' One of the most frightful accidents in the history of the Mexican railroads, re- ihiltlng in the killing of 104 persons and the serious, if not fatal, injury of nearly a hundred others, occurred' on the Inter- Oceanic Railroad at a point twenty-five^ miles from the City of Mexico. /A few1 days ago a great number pf persons left the capJtaT and the towns m the vicinity to go. on a pilgrimage to the' Catholic Shrine at Saere Monte.; Tickets; w"r£ sold at reduced rates over the. liiter-Oeeanic line and this road carried the bulk of the pilgrims. Friday a long train, aboard of which--there wfere 1,200 passengers, Was returning from the place of pilgrim-' .age.\AU \yent wi-'il until a point on "the line nwdway between TemlimMa and Te- nango Was reached. On this part of the road ther.e, is a steep incline, the linjft, at one place bn it having a sharp curve, where it runs close to the edge.of a high precipice.; This is one of the yiost dan­ gerous places on the road, and was -ren­ dered more so the" fact that the track-, here was not in the best condition. As the train began to run down the in­ cline the Speed increased, and sdOh, it was running at a frightful rate. The passen­ gers ceased their laughter and joking and looked at each other with a strange fear depicted in their faces. Steadily the momentum of the train, which was sway­ ing and bounding fearfully, increased and soon the dangerous high curve was struck. Engine Ilits the Curve. As the pilot wheels of the engine took the curve the locomotive swayed outward and either jumped the track or turned a rail. It dashed across the scanty space between the rails and the edge of the chasm and then plunged downward. One after another of the coaches;' tilled with passengers, dashed after it and piled up in a mass of wreckage at the foot of the track, but most fortunately did not go over the edge of the precipice. As the fifth coach left the metals it twisted and broke the coupling connecting it with tho coaches behind it. These coaches kept the rails and passed safely "'ground the curve. After running a considerable dis­ tance they were stopped by the hand brakes. When the engine and the three coaches fell to the bottom of the ravine there was a fearful crash and, mingled with it, wencr -the shrieks of the affrighted passenger^, which could easily be heard above the es­ caping steam of the engine, which was knocked to pieces by the fall. -<*1 n the meantime a number of passengers in the other coaches had returned to the scene of the wreck and devoted themselves to the work of rescuing those imprisoned in the wreck. The sight here was a grievous one. The carriages Were shattered, and a majority of the occupants were lying be­ neath the wreckage. The shrieks and .ropans of the injured were heartrending, ' lile many of the jinhurt women and lildren moaned and wailed in an agony terror. The train hands were American, and ne of them, as soon as possible, tele- iTfciphed news of the disaster to the city. •• ---e intelligence quickly spread and caus- the greatest consternation among the abitants, many of whom had relatives friends on the train. daily of the dead will never lie identi- ----1. some of them being so(horribly man- -,,'d that it is almost impossible to recog- j]e the remains as' tliose-of human be- irs. So far as can be learned, the acci- fut was due to the negligence of tho giueer. It is stated that when the train tered the ijieline lie made 110 attempt to eck its speed by.the use of the air Xtiikes. " The most terrible Mexican,.railroad acci- jut was the one that occurred the night .Tune 24, 1881. when a train on the in Morelos Railway was precipitated jr the fall of a bridge into the river near avuartla. Two hundred lives were lost ,]a that accident. seen"quite afs many failures resulting from-the mating'of gray hair with mid­ dle ages as from the nuptials of 'eigh­ teen with two-and-tweiity. As a gen­ eral thing, indeed, young hearts .seem to grow more together,, to accept the inevitable of life more frankly, to he more lenient with offending, for love's sake than do their elders.. Old lovers who have spent-their lives together in their journey through life have a fund df tenderness in recollection of . their common youth that is a fountain sealed at which they alone can refresh them selves:- Then In youth hard khocS are', borife sd easily together; laughterds so apt to come after tears; hopes shared are sustaining even in disappointment! These thoughts make an early mar­ riage sacred from the common gibes about "rushing blindfold into a pit," "tying a millstone around one's neck," "marrying in haste to repent at leis­ ure," etc.. But materialism is the governing power of our age and society. When certain indispensables are now lacking to a home discontent and heartburn­ ing are as often seen lurking near. A Modish Dream Robe. So calm she sits in. ihe uaimy^ air, ̂ , No sorrows to fret, no pross to hear, A summer idyl^a vision fair, This woman of forty summers. \ Yet cold and blast hut make us strou; After.the. snow the robin's song; „ To, the fullest life by right belong. The winters as well, as summers. And they whom fame shall earvei in stone, The women Whom men would fain en- , .throne}. ' • V ' The women whom God has stamped His v~-> , own, ;.'.s Dive winters as well as summers. --Jenness Miller Monthly. HOW THE BANK WAS E0BBED , ^ V IVE years ago, In dt p. nut ) a certain good- th '--s---j sized town in f * Blankshire, there fY-.v lived a family wlioin I will call consisted B of husband, wife," ^ and two children ^ I ! ' i [ n 0 ^ n t o b e h o u - " " ~ est, respectable, and worth a. clear tweuty thousand pounds. I knew little or nothing about ^ the, family until certain incidents oc- curred. One day his wife was fatally ^ injured in a railway collision at a point ^ fiftjr-eight miles from home. When he w, reached her, in response to a telegram ^ sent by a stranger, he found she had w been removed to a hotel, and was be­ ing tenderly cared for by a woman who gave her name as Mrs. A. B. Gray. ^ " She was in the train, but suffered no in- ^ jury. 1 Mrs. Gray. Ismight as well tell you, was petite, good-looking, a good talker, and, in a general way. captivating. ' The fact of her taking charge of Mrs. Mitchell as she had done proved her tender heart She told Mr. Mitchell ^ she had been a w-Wo^ eighteen months, 10 and. was practically alone in the world, and though he was burdened with grief and anxiety he did not forget to thank h5 her for her great kindness and to take sa her address. He- would have offered fe her money for her service, but he saw ^ that she was a lady and would feel ci hurt by any such action. She resumed in her. journey and he took his wife home w to die of her injuries. a It -was three weeks after her death cc that I came into the case. After every- w thing was over the husband suddenly tr discovered that his dead wife's jewelry was missing. She had With her when st the accident took place about two hun- a dred pounds' worth of diamonds. They in dgad disappeared, and when he came to la Hp over events in his mind he could not tr Hhiember that they had come with her. 01 5E<s. Gray had handed to him Mrs. 01 SWftchell's purse and a few other things, but a pair of diamond ear-drops, two cc rings and a pin wece missing. s( I was employeiPto proceed to the P" scene of the late accident and seek to trace the jewelry. The collision had h occurred close to the station of a small t! "town. People about the station and at b the hotel assured me that Mrs. Mitchell t( had her jewelry on when taken to tho b hotel. The landlord's wife and the t( doetdr who was called in were positive " and when Iliad wo .ed the case out I 8 returned home to report to Mitchell that nobody but Mrs. Gray could have t taken the jewelry. » s< Hp was astonished and indignant, I and not only vigorously repudiated r the implication, but dismissed me from f -- the case with the assertion that I was v a novice iu the profession. a I Avent about other business, and it a was about four months before I saw r Mitchell again. Then he sent for me t in an official capacity again. No refer- ( once was made to my previous work, t but fresh troubles had come to him. ' t ' A month after the death of his wife lie had opened correspondence with i Mrs. Gray, and the result was that she ( h'ld come to take charge of his house. ; He was without relatives, or, at least, \ without those who could aid him in his i situation, and she claimed to be free in ; her movements. You will suspect, just j as I did, that she had captivated him, , • b'nt he fought shy of any acknowledge • jneut of the sort. She was in his house, , he said, to care for his children, and to . manage his domestic matters, and that • was no one's business but:his own. The bank owned by Mr. Mitchell was ; „ situated exactly in the rear of his pri­ vate residence. The house fronted on one street and the bank on another, and there being no street between, tlie back garden of Jhe house -led up to the back door of the bank, and Mitchell used to. come and go through the gar- 'den. In the rear pf tliife banking rooms, _. divided off by the usual railing, were ; the private offices and vaults. ^A bur­ glar alarm was connected with the frout || doors and windows, but none with ilie .{ back ' ' \ A large and savage dog guarded the rear, having a kennel close to the door. What the banker wanted-to see me- about was this. .He had not only ;>;^missed-vinonev from his wallet'at night, but on one or two occasions considera­ ble sums Of money had been' taken from a small safe which stood in uis office outside the vault.' One of the mysteries was in the taking of the rponey.^ He employed a teller and a bookkeeper, neither., of whom had a • key to the safe ot> Vault--unless.. it; was a djipiicate made without bis knosyl- edge. Neither had/the ,word of Cbmbi- hat.ion of the vault, ahd it sepued im- possiWe that they could have taken the money even if so 'inclined. -Both were Tho New Polar Expedition. The maia object of the new Austrian polar expedition "which is being organ­ ised by Herr Julius von Payer, is artis­ tic, scientific discovery being a secon­ dary consideration. On this account he will be accompanied by a number of landscape and animal painters and photographers,} \yith whoge assistance he hopes to secure an artistic represen­ tation of the physical features Of the country. 'He is building specially for the voyage a,steamer of about 200-horse power, which will be manned by Dal­ matian sailors, under the^command of three capable naval officers. It is ex­ pected that, the expedition wiii start in June, 1S06, and that it. will spend two years in the exploration of the coast of Greenland. The actual work will be­ gin at the 74tli degree of latitude and will extend beyond the 77th degree. Hen* von Payer is' convinced that in this district, with which lie is already acquainted, and which he describes as the richest in color, and the most beautiful that, can be imagined, artists will receive entirely new impressions ot' nature which will give a fresh char­ acter to landscape--painting. There are, he says, 300 varieties of blooming plants iu East Greenland, and in the spring the grass stands three feet high. He acknowledges, however, that both artistic and scientific work is rendered extremely difficult by the great severity of the. climate. - Why Cindy's Nose Turns Up. Sweetheart Cindy's hair is flaxen, Fine as cocoon silk, Tumbling over tempting shoulders trWinte and rich as milk, f jrer before have-gpe shown such j'ge and compile assortment \v tautiful Laces , *the products ^ I every European lace center jpprteented here, and never be- have we offered such ehoice yi? Is at such low priccB. ngj ^NNOUNCEMENl OF Two Stylish Gowns, THEY TALK OF TRADE. A Peculiarity of New York Polities "Some 3 rejvrs ago," said the drummer in the smoking car, '"I had. a young friend in one rrfNthe interior counties who was a hustler in politics. He found the field too narrow after a nttloAyhilo, though, and went to New York City. There he caught on in time and within two years they sent him tip to Albany." "To the Legislature, or Senate?" in­ quired a listener. "Neither. To the penitentiary." "Well, that's one of the peculiarities of New York politics," said the listener,- not at all surprised. "Nobodylean ever tell where it: will land a man." "' ... -j. r Jacago Business Men's Views on the Spring Outlook Conflict. The opinion among Chicago merchants in all lines of business, as given in the Tribune, is that the outlook for the spring trade is not as bright as it should be. In many lines the volmiie of trade is not equal to that for the same time last year. The tendency of prices continues down-. ward, and prophecies as to When the bdt- om will be reached have almost ceased to je made. The-encouraging features aro> that there is a more .conservative policy on the part of the buyers, both in tho matter of extending credits and in making purchases. There are . almost as. many opinions why there is not a more general trade prosperity as there are firms in busi­ ness. Summarized some of them are: Because Congress is playing politics instead of attending strictly to business. . Because there is not free coinage. Because of Wall street and the gold bugs. , . ' > Because the farmer has had rvor crops,, Because " the farmer "has had too good crops and .lias overproduced. Because we do not receive enough money for our exports. Because every one is frightened with­ out cause and cries wolf when there is ho wolf. Because there is not enough legislation. Because there is too much legislation. Because trusts and combinations of cap­ ital have killed competition. -r"\ Upon only one thing do all agree. Where- ever there is diversified farming, in' the States where everything does not depend upon one crop or a single industry, trade is good. In Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan. Indiana and Ohio, where farm­ ers have butter, cheese and live stock as well as-grain to sell, there, is plenty of money and bills for goods art; discounted. In Montana, the Iiakutas. Kansas and Nebraska,,.where there have been drouths and crop failures," iyid where there is lit­ tle diversity of industries, there is a money famine. In the Northwest and west of the Missouri river traveling sales­ men can scarcely earn their expenses. In the Southwest and South conditions are reverse^, and trade is unexpectedly good. Goods are being sold on a narrower mar­ gin of profit than ever before, but col­ lections everywhere are satisfactory. . 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Manuel Garcia, the noted Cuban rebel leader, has been killed. 1 ' .Francois' Coppee, French author and poet, is reported ^mortally ill at Paris. j Baron von der Golz, admiral-iii-chief of Germany, is seriously ill of pneumonia. Four hundred Jewish bakers of New York sttuok fcir'ordy twelve hours' work a day. ^ . 'De St;ael, Russian ambassador to Eng« land, has been offered the post of minister of foreign affairs and will probably take