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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-08


Though 7 have occasionally practced
before the court whose term Is Just ended.
vas too little brought INTO professional
and personal relations with them, ana
their record IS too recent To be the proper
subject OF "reminiscences by seotuaSe-
marian.
Bat | personally knew, some OF mem
Intimately, all very well. every judge
who has occupied a seat on the appellate
bench since October. 1885, and since 1881
my personal relations to all. my eofdiai
friendship for many of them, has linked
me 10 us personnel with bonds never 10
be broken.
or the Judges of the ancient court-of
Edmund Pendlcton. the president OF the
convention OF the people of virginia
which ordained. on the 18th of June, lUo
the first Constitution of free. sovereign
and independent commonwealth known in
history; the president Of the convention
OF 1888 which ratified for. and on the be-
half OF Virginia. the Federal Constitu-
ton proposed by the Federal Convcn-
ton OF 1851. and then president OF the
Court OF Appeals OF Virginia until his
death In 1893. history will ever speak. and
] may well be silent OF succeeding presi-
dents, Peter Lyons. William Fleming and
Paul carr.EEton, and OF their associa tes
Mercer, Henry Tazewell. Spencer Roane
st. George Tucker John Coalter and John
w. Green, 1 leave the records 10 speah,
as / never knew but one OF them, Judge
Coalter. who was my uncle by marriage.
end whose honest and sturdy character
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-08

When | was a young barrister | went
to Fauquier county 10 try case before
Judge John Webb Tyler. who had, after
a distingu ished service In the Senate OF
Virginia, been elected TO succeed Judge
Scott, who died in iso0.
No man ever mad more devoted friends
than this noble gentleman AMI excellent
Judge He did not pretend TO extensive
learning. but he had a strong common
sense. quickness OF perception,
uromptness Of decision, and a sense or
Justice which made him an admirable
Judge of the Circuit Court. 80 much
was this recognized tnat he was AS
signed as one OF the judges OF the spec
Iai Court OF Appeals. for relief OF the
docket OF the regular court. In which ne
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-08


Hut m this review. 1 cannot forbear "a
sneak of those men VINO came TO this
bar after the war
Robert Ould was gifted with an intel
lect brilliant and profound; win an elo'
ouence persuasive and cogent; with learn
iag more broad than technical. yet skill
ed I'm az the arts OF accurate and expert
prartice. and a patriot whose service
In ,he war 30 his important duty OF
Exchange " prisoners deserves the high
c-t praise for It's ssgacity and prudence
Tor it, nrmness. tempered with mercy
and COR honoraale and able diplomacy
As a gentleman and friend who can
ever forget him?
Leigh X. PAGE. who so lately passed
from your ranks. Was thorough an"
profound lawyer. a forclble advocate.
a sound counsellor and honorable ina"'
aad friend whose value all OF us sadN
estimate by our sense OF recent loss D"
his death.
In 1857. in attending the Court OF Ap-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12

BILE or an insect 1t is always found at
the foot of large myrtle trees that have
beautiful red flowers on their stems,
and beautiful creeping clematis as
white as the snow. The Maoris call
this tree by the name of rata. The
aweto buries itself among the roots Of
the rata, a few inches below the
ground, and there lives until it is full
grown, when it undergoes most won
derful change. The spore of q vegeta-
bic fungus, termed by naturalists
Sophoeria Robertsii, fastens itself to
the neck Of the caterpillar, just be-
tween the head and the first ring, and
then grows upwards to the height Of
from 8 to s inches. Many people assert
that there is never more than one stem,
but such is not the case, for some have
been found with two stems, although
very rarely.
The stem shoots upout of the ground,
above where the caterpillar is living,
about Q or inches; below the earth
it grows into the awcto, until it fills UP
every possible space within the outer
skin without changing the form of the
insect in the slightest way whatsoever,
but simply substituting vegetable
matter for animal matter. As soon as
this takes place both the plant and the
caterpillar. become dry and hard and
die, but retain exactly the same form
as when alive. The whole has a brown
color, and the insect appears wooden
caterpillar, with a huge horn standing
up from the back of it's neck. How the
caterpillar manages to propagate its
species no one can tell. Usually the
the caterpillar becomes chrysalis, the
chrysalis changes into a moth, the moth
lays eggs, and these eggs again become
caterpillars, and so on without stop
ping. ManE reasons are given why the
plJnt shoots up from the back of
the neck of the aweto. One is
that the aweto has a Shiny substance
oozing out from its neck, which, while
the aweto is boring at the foot of the
rata tree for its only foed, catches the
seeds of the fungus and holds it fast
there till the latter begins 70 grow,
When it has sucked all the vegetable
life out of the aweto it must naturally
die, for it finds no further nourishment.
The aweto is often found in large num-
bers.-Boston Transcript "3
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12

found columns in the New York news
papers (oh, yes, / advertised--on prin-
ciple), and | should be able to carry
out the fclonious subterfuge which
Immediately suggested itself to me,
with comparatively little fear Of detec
tion.
The subterfuge was to procure am
other three-cent piece, have that cIr
in half, hang the substituted token Oh
my watch chain (rivet it, this time).
AID present virtuous and undisturbed
brow to the world.
1t | were permitted l could easily
write novel on my experiences dur
ing the next three days while was
seeking for that threepence. am not
permitted. All | may do is to strive to
convey the impression of haste, de-
spair, constant movement, confusion
as to time and place, sense of oppres-
sion, bewilderment, noise, hustle, OBJ
livion of identity-to dash these in
with few strong strokes, SO to speak
| tried all the means suggested by my
numismatic land philatelic) counselor. /
believe | even addressed q letter to the
Philadelphia mint, which respectfully
referred me to somebody-or some.
where-else The bridge and the ele-
waited railroads expanded into banks,
savings banks, ferry companies and
street car railways; and goodness
knows what other incorporated
metods of gathering up the small
change of a people, their treasurera
and cashiers, did | visit modestly, dep
recatinGly, anxicusly, one after the
other. | don't suppose shall be be-
lieved, but there did not seem to be in
the city of New York one single three
cent.piece in circulation or on deposit.
I will give, simply by name, other
places or persons included in my quest:
Newsboys, bootbacl1s, newsboys' homes,
apple women, river-front restaurants,
telegraph offices, soup-houses, candy
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
A CHINESE CITY.
Curious Sights of the oddly Bedecked
Thoroughfa-es.

Curious Sights of the Oddly Bedeclred
Thoroughfa-es.
Quinsan lies at the end of a spur Of
the famed Grand canal, which is, next
to the great wall, the noblest work of
the Chinese. Pagodas are not common
In China. You do not see one in every
day of travel, so remember that one
is on the lone mountain that dominates
the approach to the city. The outside
town, such as lies by every gate to
every city, is a place where painter
could spend year to better advantage
than in most painters resorts in south
ern Europe. Rows of white walls,
heavily rooted with black tiles,
face the water. The corners
Of all roofs are turned up,
and some have double corners
"A few roofs, no less pict-
uresque, are of gray thatch, and a few
walls are black or gray or blue, or
even dark red. Fancy the gorgeous
ness of the scene, with the people
crowding there in new blues and faded
blues! Bamboo balconies push out to
the waters edge, and carry idle women
and men, in pretty clothes. looking at
us. The open shops disclose work
men making shoes or collins or cook
ing the wonderful bean curd-founda-
tion of hundred dishes. AS the heart
of the place is reached it becomes
picturesque beyond description. High
stone walls shut in the water and on
these rise houses of white staff, with
cunnbrous jet roofs, and the most ornate,
the most fanciful windows, PANIED with
glossy inside scales of oyster shells.
Stone steps lead down to the water
and each bears woman washing
clothes or rinsing lacquered wooden
pots. Sunfiowers and pumpkin vines
in bloom peep over the walls of the
houses, and beside the walls of the
stream are innumerable boats, tied to
carved dragons heads, crabs, grotesque
faces and pretty carvings of many sorts
cut in the granite. At all the door
in long silk coats and silken half.
breeches bound tight around their
ankles. At the windows are the
round-faced, full-lipped women. On
and on we float. And presently we
discover the long, low walls Of
Quinsan, made ever famous by
the valor of Gen. Gordon. Under the
low walls of what we
call Roman brick are plantations of
sunhowers, and then more white and
black houses. They face another jum-
Bile of boats of every fashion, from the
stately cargo and chop boats to the
rows of slender express boats, waiting,
like omnibuses, for passengers for
Soo-Chow and Shanghai. The dyers'
shops hang out long strips of blue
cloth; a bridge is draped with colored
stuffs hung there to dry; an enormous
vermilion banner floats from boat
that, like hundreds beside it, is orange
toned beneath it's sheen of Ning-po
varnish.-Julian Ralph, in Harper's
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12

lected the matter, until one day. on
passing a jewelers. shop, the half
threepence popped into my head. 81
will have it riveted at once!" 1 said to
myself. entered the shop well salts
fed with my diligence My excite
ment and pallor when I discove red
my loss created sensation among the
statesmen and customers. The impress
sion gained that I had been robbed of
diamonds at least, and did not dare
to correct it. l scratched myself then
and there before them all to the verge
OF improperly, and subsequently sub
jected my office and my bedroom to a
scrutiny which would have made the
Russian police turn pale with envy;
but might as well have been looking
for the ten lost tribes. Do what /
might / could not find that fatal If
teen mills worth of white metal, and
do not expect that shall ever see it
again. may add that 1 do not wish
to.
Having at least nerved myself to face
my loss, what next? gH8 NJ
There was one alleviating circum-
stance-just one. Marian had gone on
To Boston to stop with the Miles-Stand-
ishes, who were giving dinners, and
after that with the Cotton Mather-
ses, who were giving dances for her.
Consequently u should have a respite
of at least week before detection was
possible. During that time she would
be most unlikely to read the lost and
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
PAPER PULP PIPES.
Reaching State of Perfection in Utility
bgvW HSsEl and Appearance. sHTg

tgvW fBGg and Appearance. sgTB
The experiments with the new paper
pulp pipes, which are made on pretty
much the same principle as the fiber
pail, have demonstrated, it is said, that
the idea will eventually prove success
full. As it now stands the handmade
pipes, formed from crudcly-worlSed and
irregularly-subdued pulp, are not very
attractive in appearance, nor well
enough made to warrant that they
will stand the wear and tear to
which street water pipes are SUBJ
jected. However, it would be moro
of wonder, remarks an English
trade journal, if the plan of making
the water pipes should be booming
success from the start. Time and ex-
periments are essential to the develop
ment of all new things.
With each new test of the proposed
pipes a step in advance is made, and
this would seem to indicate that after
few more trials perfection will have
been attained. The matter as 1T now
stands is given as follows: Paperpulp,
in which there is a fairly good fiber, is
agitated with water and run into molds
and cast into the form CT the ordinary
water pipe The same molds that are
used In connection with casting iron
pipes are employed. The mode of pro-
.cedure Is substantially the same. OF
course there are various strengthening
materials compounded with the pulp
otherwise it would not stand any great
pressure.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
which will have width of feet Q

which will have width of 8 feet Q
inches.
The three mantels shown will be of
colonial design, with facings and
hearths of tile. All interior wood work
win receive three coats of hard oil. All
exterior wood work will receive three
coats of paint, including the printing.
All glass will be american double
thick, free from defects Of al kinds.
The front doorawill have 70 Ibeveled
glass panel, as shown on elevation. All
carving showing on elevation viii be Of
composition, planted un.a No hGHg 81
All limestone used must be free from
stains and isnperfectisns. The stone
work showing above grade line WILDE
random range rock, face block, tuck
pointed, with blue-gray colored CO.
ment. All brick to be of hard burned
quality. For the chimney showing
above roof use red pressed brick with
Incorporating cement the same color.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
A HOPELESS CASE.
Tho Struggle to Bag Lord and What Be-
came of 1t.
? ~
Magazine

Tho Struggle to Bag a Lord and What Be.
came of It.
MY daughter" said Mrs. de Billion
to her cross-eyed, pancal1e-faced, but
fve-million -dollared pride and hope,
Il have been little worried of late
for fear that you have not exerted
yourself to make an impression upon
his lordship as 1 wished you to do"
II assure you, 1 have done every
thing, mamma, but it is hopeless
Have you intimated the-ahem!-
extent of your prospective dot?"
Yes, and even stretched it half a
million, but it was no GO"
You assured him that your ances-
try was of noble origin, although a
few of the intermediate links in the
paternal chain picked rags?'' .. ..
81 told him all, sparing him the rag
episode, however"
But that's where we got the dust,
darling. Don't forget that. Did you
give him sample of your French and
Hottentot, and run through your Var
sar repertoire of cocktailian accom-
plishments?"
''Indeed, I did; but he yawned over
the whole matter. 1t was exasperat-
ing" E. va.
u'Well, should say So Do you al
ways prefer to sit out the waltzes?"
'E 3"Invariably, but evidently that game
has been worked on him before 70"
81. .,- Have you tried struggling in the
surf and calling for succor when he's
on shore?" =" All NJ.
Eyes, but I soon found that he
wasn't one" mta... .....g ...b Ia.
II declare, matters are getting des-
perate. Have you encouraged him
mildly in any of his small vices?' 3d.
"He doesn't seem to have any,"
And adored his virtues?"
He's got even less of them"
Hasn't he any fads or weaknessesP'
None, save getting into debt"
Has he the science of getting out
again"
Il judge not, by the money -loaners'
agents that are following him up"
"Ah, it is our only salvation. Buy
up the money-loaners; then we shall
own him body and soul. No more
scheming, no more lying awake nights,
no more subterfuge. Well simply buy
up the mortgages and foreclose, un-
less of course, he is wise enough to-
err
GLORIOUS! All, who says that money
doesn't rule the world?"-N. Y. World.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12

joists, plates and tirnbers of every kind
will be of the best grade, free from
knots and defects. All outside walls
will be sheathed and furred on the in
side, between the studs, to admit of
being lathed to receive brown coat of
mortar for back plastering.
The size of reception hall is 7x15 feet;
parlor, 14x15 feet; sitting-room, 131Gx
10 feet; dining-room, 1319x1G feet;
kitchen, 12x13 feet; chambers, 1415x15
feet; 1314X16 feet, and 12x1S1G, and
bathroom, S1sx11 feet. a. H.. - Id
All rooms are of convenient size
and well arranged. The first and Sec
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12

ond floors are double, with felt paper
between. ....-. ..
The reception hall, parlor, sitting
and dining-rooms will be of red oak.
All second-story floors will be of pine,
and all shingles of cedar. The entire
FIST and second floors will receive one
coat of brown mortar and one coat fin
ishing plaster of paris. AL hardwood
doors will be veneered.
u The reception hall and dining-room
floors will be of red oak. Kitchen,
pantry and bathroom floors will be of
maple. All doors will be feetS inches
wide, except front and vestibule doors,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
GENEvA's GREAT FOUNTAIN.
1t Stands at the Entrance of Its Port and
Is Three Hundred Feet High.

1t Stands at the Entrance of Its Port and
Is Three Hundred Feet High.
The fountain that the municipality
of Geneva, Switzerland, has recently
esta blished at the entrance of the port
of that city is certainly the largest
fountain that exists upon the surface
of the globe, since it, is no less than
three hundred feet in height. 1t may
be seen from a great distance, in clear
weather, detaching itself like great
white sail Tapping through the effect
of the wind. .F9aw anf bBgf4ra q
The city of Geneva possess a most
complete distribution of water under
pressure, the motive power for which
is obtained from an artificial fall es.
tablished upon the Rhone at the point
of the lake. The water for domestic
purposes and for the running of Ger.
tain motors is raised, to the height of
two hundred and fifteen feet above
the level of the lake. For the
distribution of motive force it is raised
to height of four hundred and sixty
feet. The reservoir is an open air one,
and is situated upon the top of Bessin-
gers, at a distance of three miles from
the turbine building. A very ingenious
regulator, invented by Mr.. Turrettini,
assures the uniformity of pressure in
the piping. a.W n. 10y.
The length of the first pipe line is
about forty miles and that of the sec
ond about sixty. 1t is with this latter
that the fountain conduit is connected.
The latter is set in play only on Sun.
days. 1t is sometimes set in operation
also on week days, in the evening. In
stead of a single jet of great height,
several are then utilized that do not
rise so high. Powerful electric light
projectors, placed in a structure near
by. brightly illuminate them with their
rays of varied colors, which transform
them into a luminous fountain of the
most beautiful aspect Boston Herald.
1.-THE novelist, Pierre zaccone, whose
death at Morlaix, in his seventy-ninth
year, has been reported, was the SON Of
an italian officer in Napoleon's army,
and was born at Douai. He was one
of those feuilletonists OF whom nobody
ever spoke, though his name was con-
stantly at the ends of feuilletons. and
he made far more money than any illus
trious author. He could. at a few
hours notice, begin serial novel and
furnish the exact quantity of words
] wanted day by day.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12

not preserve love, or you are very
weals-minded if you need such pre-
sentative; superfuous because it does
not express lote-nobody will argue
about that-and dangerons-well, dan
gerous because verything useless and
superhuous is dangerous, and par
ticularly because everything senti-
mental is dangerous.
1T was not a sixpence that | split
with Marian, but silver three-cent-
piece--one of the old silver bits, with
III and a big c. 1 found it in
handful Of change one day, one of the
early days of our acquaintance, and
though it was then very presumptu-
Gus step to take had it cut in half,
bored with two little holes and fitted
(the halves with two little gold rings.
Then l gave one half to Marian and
when she accepted it my heart
punched me joyfully in the ribs,
Goose that was! l believe geese are
myopic.
| affixed my half of that thrce-cent-
piece to the key-ring of my watch
chain, At first l regarded it as
veritable charm against all the evils,
cares and mortalities of this sinful
world. Later grew more accustomed
to it, but never quite ceased to con-
slider il fetish. Marian's half dis
appeared for time. and though morti-
fed / did not dare ask after it. Later
oh, much later-it reappeared once
more.
could make a separate story out of
the later Temperatures of that dear
little bit Of silver. The first time l
saw it again it slipped down, unob-
trusively and unconsciously, attached
to thin gold bracelet, out of soft
sleeve. did not dare to seem to no.
tice it, but l could not manage to look
unconcerned. and all at once there was
a blush and the bracelet was suddenly
and hastily restored to it's hiding
place up the sleeve. After that the
half-threepence grew boIder; it showed
itself on a watchguard and on other
bracelets; for time it seemed to pos
sess barometric properties and would
indicate what the weather had been
and was going to be; but at last it
finally returned to the gold bracelet
without dihidence as chance might di.
rect.
1t was one day during this period
that Marian requested it to be demon
strated to her that was still in pos
session of my half of the threepence
pulled it out of my pocket, and it
was then, as the little silver thing lay
in her soft white palm, that she
swore me nevsr to part with it and to
cherish it as the one indissoluble bond
between US. took it quite as serious
ly as she could have wished and en-
tered fully into the solemn spirit Of the
ceremony, for you may guess whether
was not flushed with happiness. I
had not believed that she set such
store by my first gift to her.
"While you wear it," she said, II
shall always keep my promises to you.
But if you part with it in any way
shall never forgive you-and l will not
not-I will not care for you as you
wish me to. Remember, have warned
you" aE. "a
That is the first half of the story.
Anybody can guess how the second
half begins. l lost that wretched, i'll
fated bit of silver. How, don't know;
nor can it matter now. Marian begged
me to have it riveted to my key ring.
] meant TO take her advice but neg
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
Zig Log Cut i'm washington.

A single log, SO feet long, 81 feet in
diameter, and containing 10, 15S feet of
lumber, was cut from tree felled in
Mason county, Wash. THIS log was
cut off 25 feet from the butt of the tree.
Several short logs measuring IL feet in
diameter were cut from the lower part.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12

Furnish screens for all windows and
doors. The entire basement will be
cemented.
The basement will be divided into
coal rooms, fruit room, furnace room
and laundry. The entire house will be
piped for gas and furnace. The owner
will furnish the. shelf hardware.
GEORGE. A. Nv. KNIT.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
THE STRANGEST INSECT.

1t Is Half Vegetable and Is Found In
New Zealand.
The aweto, as the Maoris or natives
of New Zealand call it, or Hipialis
virescens, as naturalists term it, is
found in New Zealand, and is vegeta-
bic caterpillar of from tod inches in
length, and, SO far, science has, not
been able to say whether it is vegeta-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
Not to Blame. 81

Nodd--T don't believe my son will
ever earn his own living.
Todd-That's not his fault ~
Nodd-Why isn't it?
Toda-Didn't you say he was a grad.
nate of business college?-Puck.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-12
ThOughtlegs.

Don't you find it rather lonely
here? asked Cholly, with nobody to
talk too"
Eyes" she replied, with vacant
look into space, land it's getting
worse every, minute. Washington
Star. 2" ~ 800 ....s,