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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

ny Mr.. J. w. Smith. OF Tazewell:
joint resolution proposing amendments 10
the nineteenth section OF article five OF
the Constitution OF Virginia and proNld-
Ing for publishing said amendments ana
certifying the same TO the next General
Assembly. The amendment proposed Is
In reference to the formation OF new
counties. and proposes TO reduce the area
necessary for a county from 600 squar.
miles 10 400 square miles, and TO chaiisc
the maximum length OF county from
nifty miles To forty miles
BY AIR. Charles r. Bland. of Ports
mouth: To protect the lives OF persons IN
and around steam boiler plants in the
State OF Virginia, and authorizing tho
appointment OF the proper officers anc
prescribing the salaries OF the same
Mr. Randolph Harrison. OF l.ynchburg'
offered a resolution in respect TO the
death Of Hon. Taylor Berry. giving ON,
cal notification OF the vacancy caused
on the West Virginia Debt Commission,
and asking that the vacancy be hiled py
and from the Senate
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
SERGIdNT SEdL'S FUNERAL.
1t VIII Take Place at 3 O'Clock This After
noon From Clay->t Church.

The funeral Of Sergeant Reuben r..
Seal. whose death was announced in
yesterdays Times. Will take place at 3
o'clock this afternoon from Clay Street
Methodist church Rev. Mr.. Il. n. VII
son. formerly pastor OF the church. but
now IN charge OF congregation lu
Petersburg. has been asked TO ofiiciate
al the service. Rev. Herbert ". Hope
the present pastor, and Rev. Mr.. Potts,
Of PARK Place church, will assist Mr.
Wilson.
All Of the officers Of the Second disc
trict ana Ten officers from each OF the
other districts will attend the funeral
in uniform.
The active pall-bearers are: Major y.
i. Howard Captain j. 3. Angle. Captain
Lucien Thomas, Sergeant Junius A.
Cosby, Sergeant George 81. Epps Ser
Eeant j. +. Jcter. Acting Sergeant Chas.
Talley. and Sergeant John T. Shinber-
ger.
The honorary pall-bearers are: Police
Commissioners l.. G.. FIG, Charles q.
Bosher. and j +. Jacob. DR.. G.. ".
i. Brock DR.. II. W. Davis. Messrs. ).
II. COttrell. j. l.. Lindsey. George G..
Cormick. and !. H. James. The last two
named represent Richmond Lodge No.
?ls knights OF Honor. of which the
deceased was long 2 prominent member.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
MUNYON'S
DYSPEPSIA
CURE

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palpltation and all affections OF the
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stomach bad taste. offensive breath, lose
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heartburn shooting pains OF the stomack
constipation. dizziness. faintncss, ana
lack OF energy Price, % cents.
Munyon's Rheumatism Cure seldom
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cures in a few DAYS. Price y cents.
Munyon's Kidney Cure speedily cures
pains in the back. loins. or groins and
all forms OF kidney disease. Price, sc.
Munyon's Vitalizer restores lost powers
10 weak men Price 81.
Ask your druggist for FREQ copy Of
Munyon's Guide to Health. and treat
yourself st home with harmless reme-
dies that contain positive cures for all
diseases.
Personal letters 10 Professor Muryoa.
1905 Arch street. Philadelphia Pa. an
swered. with free medical advice for
any disease.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
THE yIRGINT.f DfsTTORs.
Preparations Made in New Jersey tn Re
cfiyc the Good-Road- Delegation.

4 Trenton On j. special in yesterdays
Philadelphia Press says:
At a meeting of the State Board I'M
provement Association hts CTuesdayb
morning the matter Of receiving and en-
tertdininS the Governor of Virginia. ofii-
GERS OF the Good-Roads Association Of
Virginia and legislative committees. vino
will inspect the stone roads Of South
Jersey, was taken ~ and the following
committees appointed: =. g. Harrison.
Of Monmouth. =. X. Van Solver II. J..
Budd, &. r. Harrison. :. r.. Allen. A. q.
Wood: and j. =. Lipplcott. OF Burling-
ton, j. j. AlbcrtsOn, OF Camden. j. y.
owen, Of Essex. 6. r. Wise. OF Passaic,
Dr. j. $. Hough. OF Mercer. and j. X.
wilson. OF Camden.
The visiting party will be entertained
at breakfast in Trenton on TucsdS.
morning. and will then 20 to Burlington.
Camden. and Gloucester counties
IN" association recOr.mended that the
Commissioner Of Public Roads he given
= hXed salary and allowance for clerk
hire and expenses
The committee advise that tho Legisla-
ture make an appropriation of the moneys
winch nave lapsed into the treasury. aud
which were not used in 1s92 and 1879,
and thai they be added to tine amount
10 be appropriated this year under the
State and law.
They also adopted a resolution asking
the senators and representatives In Con-
gress 20 use their influence 10 secure
the passage OF a bill 10 create special
commission on highways and 10 make am
appropriation therefor
At the afternoon session Assemblvman
Barton, of Burlington, had a resolution
passed Grating "A Joint committee 10 re-
ceiNe the Virginia delegation u called
FOR five members of the House and three
senators. Speaker Dcrousse Immediately
announced the House committee to be
Barton and Nildes. Of Burlington. Har-
itson, Of Essex Powers OF Salem. and
Alpaugh. OF Hunterdon.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
OTERDOSE or LiUDfSTu
NJ. Frank friedorff, Of Manchester. Takes
His Own Lie.

Yesterday afternoon. about O'Clock.
Frank Friedcrn. who lives at The corner
81 Eighteenth ana Everett streets, Man
chester. took an overdose of laudanum
from which he died al o'clock last
night. despite The most heroic treatment
administered TO him by DR.. Whitfield
who was called in
Mr.. FriedOrn vas formerly a machin-
list I'm the Southern railway shops. but
some time ago he lost his JOB and since
that time he has been looking vainIy ior
work.
For some days past he has seemed
much depressed and moody but gave no
hint OF his desperate purpose.
Immediately after his dcath Coroner
BrodnaN was notified. but. after being
acquainted with tho circumstances. de-
cided that All inquest was not necessary.
Mr.. Frio1crff was twice married. He
leaves wife and two children. one By
his first wife. lie was known as Il
quiet. p4ace4ble man. and was well liked
10y his neighbors. Re was about thirty
I'VE years Old.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
Nncani SrrgcanfcY-

The death OF Sergeant Reuben r. Seal
leaves vacant sergeantcy 10 be filled nv
the Police Commissioners n j. most
probable that a promotion VIII be made
Allen H. next I'm the line al promotion
ana IN consequence stands tho best SHOW.
for the position. Acting Sergeant Tai
ley. however. is spoken OF in connection
with the vacancy and there are also
other possible mon for the place II is
generally believed that either one or
other Of the two acting sergeants named
will he elected.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

The Blacksmiths' Union held a lar,o
meeting last night al Ellotts Hall. Tile
rituals and other organizing materials
having been received from the head0uar-
ters OF the National Brotherhood i'm CHI
cago' the officers elected at the last meet
ing, and whose names have already
appeared in The Times. We're installed.
Mr.. Alex y. McCulloch. of the Trades
Council assisting I'm the installation
cereio my. After transacting routine
bCr'hdss the union adjourned
The new organization H. cOmposed of
excellent material and is a valuable ac-
cession TO the local trades union move
mcut.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
BoYCorrJNG rHE &. 4ND o.
The Labor Council Object 20 Their Print
ing Being Done i'm "a Mont MON onice


At a called meeting Of the Central
Trades and Labor Council Tuesday night.
Mir. ". II. Mullen, president OF Typo
graphical Union No. 90. offered the
following preamble and resolutions. which
after a thorough discussion. was adopted
and the committee appointed.
Whereas the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company is now placing its
printing in q nCn-union Office I'm this city.
Resolved. That a committee Of two be
appointed 10 visit the various unions Of
the city and call their attention to the
same, and caution them against the use
of trains on this road the coming season
for excursion purposes and that all union
men be cautioned against patronizng eX-
cursiOns or pic-nics given on this road the
coming season
Resolved. That this resolution be for
warded 10 the Federation Journal and
other labor journals for publication. with
the request that all labor men i'm their
travels avoid patronizing the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President. James r..
Doherty: President. Bernard Cleary.
Recording Secretary. r. f. Dornin: Cor
responding Secretary, J. Nelson Wood.
Financial Secretary, VI. i. Murphy;
Treasurer. G. j. Wills SeTgeant-at-Arm
Harry Middleton.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

Richmond. Lancaster. and Northumber-
land.
TO amend an act Incorporating the
town OF Boykins.
To amend an act incorporating the
town OF Pulaski City.
ton OF liquor license to The voters OF
the town OF Floyd
For the protection OF fish In Clinch
river.
pa district, In Culpeper county, to Dor
row money.
At 2'$o the Senate adjourned until to-
day at IL o'clock
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

general meeting of the Stockholders
OF the Lumley Cigarette Machine Tom7
pSny was held yesterday evening. ar
Whlch the following gentlemen. ali Of
Louisville. XIV, who have acguired :.
controlling interest I'm the stock. were
elected directors: Charles r. Long VIII
nam Il. Haldeman. John J. Hetterman
J9hn \. stratton. and n. l.. varble'
me number OF members Of the board
was increased TO seven and Mr.. Charles
J.. Wingo. Of this city. remains a member
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
HARMONY non PREVATIs.
Col William Lamb and Mr.. Edgar Allan
Have smoked the Pipe of Peace.

Mt Edgar Allan, chairman of the
Republican city Committee. returned
from Norfolk yesterday morning. where
he had been i'm attendance upon the
Republican State Convention
The question of the trouble between
Mr. Allan and Colonei Lamb. in regard
TO the deposition of the latter from the
position of chairman of the City Com
mittee, did not come up in the conycn-
ton. It having been settled beforehand.
Mr. Allan said yesterday that NE would
probably communicate officially with
Colonel Lamb at once. lie further said
that there was now harmony between
him and Colonel Lamb. and that he would
work with the Colonel for Republican
success in Richmond
Colonel Lamb treated me kindly and
politely said Mr. Allan in conclusion.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

The Popular Minstrel in the City Ia a
Needy Condition.

Billy ward the wel-known minstrel.
who has set unnumbercd thousands OF
people TO holding their sides with laughter
al his rich and original jokes is i'm the
city, at ~ north Eighth street. sick.
helpless. and without money. with wife
and two little children depending on him.
Billy Ward, for one reason especially.
is deserving Of assistance at the hands
of the people of the South. During the
yellow-fever epidemic in New Orleans ne
was the f1rst 10 suggest benefits for
inc sufferers. and raised by his minstrelsv
over 5000 for the afflicted. ln an cities
In the plague-stricken section be was Csc
pecially charitable and helpful.
II IS suggested that "A benefit should be
raised for Billy Ward. and il is believed
public spirited men and women viii an
swer this call.
Mr.. ward has suffered twenty weeks
with rheumatism, but kept his condition
a secret until now, when want forces him
TO make it known.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
Found Dead in His Cell

one Of the convicts at the pententiarv
Jesse Thomas, "a very old white man
was found dead IN his cell at late
hour last night. The man had NOT he,n
sick. and IL Is supposed that he died from
heart disease There was nothing sus-
picious connected with his deafh-uo
marks OF violence and no reason TO he
licve that anything but natural CAUSES
produced death.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
Richmond. Va. Jan. 20. 1850

+. \. Burnhan. President Mutual Pc
serve Fund Life Association. New YORK.
Dear Sir.-Permit me To acknowledge
the prompt payment of 5000 through
your Richmond agent. Mr.. Wyndham
Boiling in full. under Policy No. vS5St,
held by my late husband. Mr.. Benz j.
Nahoney.
u gives me great pleasure 10 STATE
that the promises made my husband have,
so far as | know. been fulfilled. and II
will always give me pleasure TO recon-
mend the ASSOCIATION 10 my friends.
Yours truly.
SARAH G. MAHONEY. WIFE.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
PROPERLY Transfers.

Noss. - feet on Fourth street. southeast
corner Marshall. ANA property in Man
chester. 5000.
Henrico Edmund $, Read 10 Frank =
Road. two lots in Nighland Sprlngs :ann
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30
ST. Valentine Musicale.

The annual charity concert for the bene
nj OF the poor OF the Sacred Heart parish
will take place February l4th az Relvi-
dere Hall. The programme, under the
direction OF Mr.. J. Louis Sullivan, will
be un 10 the usual standard - <
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

The second half session begins Monday.
February Sd Students received I'm Acade-
mic Glasses and In Law. For particulars
address President +. W. HoatYright.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

HYPNOTISM-LAD AND GEN
III TLEMEN interested IN this siibject
can learn something 10 their advantage
by addressing HENRY General Ee-
livery. city. A society has been formed:
and members have the advantage Of
library and lectures from different cx-
perts and operators called here by this
society. 1a3O-lt
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-30

SARAH c. MAHoNEY. wife.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-06
PART II.

But when he got home there were two
letters waiting for him, which speedily
sent the lover into the background, and
brought the man of affairs to the front.
One was from Brindisi, and the other
from Calcutta, but both had come by
the same mail. The first was from his
younger brother Cecil. who had been
for the last three years in the Calcutta
branch of the great firm of which John
Sturman was the head, to tell him that
he was coming home invalided, and the
second was from doctor who had at
tended Cecil.
There were four large pages Of for
eign note paper closely covered, and
when he got to the end, he turned back
and read it over again, and then he put
1t down and sat for nearly half an hour
without moving q muscle, staring
straight before him into the fire, and
conscious Of nothing but single SEN
tence, which he could not more get out
Of his brain than he could have helped
hearing 1t II Mephistopheles himself
had been whispering 1t into his ear:
Perhaps the most extraordinary
property of the drug IL the unmistak.
able power that It has Of altering either
the mental or moral character, and
sometimes both. Of Its victims, and
making those under it, influence the ex.
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and where weaker man might have
resisted through fear, he took the fatal
step, impelled by his own perverted
strength.
The night after Cecil had gone to bed,
he went to his cabinet, and took what
was, for a beginner, heavy dose Of
haschisch. Then he locked the door
and sat down in his easy chair by the
fire, to await results.
Soon a delightful languor began to
steal over his physical senses. He closed
hi eyes and his mind seemed to become
detached from his body. A great un-
earthly light shown into the darkness
of the despair which had been clouding
all his life. and. as the darkness van
ished, the chains that had bound his in
tellect down to the commonplace, were
loosened, and 1t rose at a leap into the
long-forbidden, glowing realms of ro-
nance.
Then his eyes opened, and he saw q
strange vision. One of those dream
stories of Sylvia's, which she had told
to him in her halting. imperfect way,
and which she would almost have given
her life to be able to set forth in worthy
language, came to him, brilliant and
vivid, instinct with the poetry of the most
exquisite realism. The characters sprang
into incarnate being before him, with such
life-likeness, that he seemed to see and
recognize them as though thy had been
old acquaintances, as they moved and
spoke amidst the scenes that Sylvia had
imagined for them without being able
to reproduce them; and all was SO real
and vivid and beautiful that 1t seemed
as though he were actually living in that
vision-wOrld which she would have paint
ed If she could.
Why should he not paint It for her since
he saw 1t SO plainly before him? There
was his writing-table and his chair ready
for him. In his early clerking days he
had learned shorthand as convenience,
and he had kept 1t up since as a hobby,
and, however swiftly the glowing sem
tences might come to him, his pencil
would keep pace with them.
He made an effort to rise from his chair
and 60 to his table, but, before he reached
1t, It seemed to him that he was already
there. 1t was curious. but he put 1t
down to the effects Of the drug, and
caught himself wondering what was 60
ing to happen next. He saw himself sit
ting in the chair, and he went and looked
over his own shoulder and saw the pencil
already flying over the paper Sheet after
sheet he read as It was finishd and threw
aside, and hour after hour he stood there
reading and wondering what 1t all meant.
until at last It was finished, and his other
self got up and looked at him.
He saw now that his face was ashe1
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self while yet there was time, or would
he take her hand irrevocably in his and
lead her for awhile along that enchanted
path. knowing as he did what the end Of
the brief journey must be?
What his own answer to the inexorabi,
question might have been there is no tell
ing. neither is there any need to guess at
it. for the fates themselves answered II
In their own way.
One night he sat down to write the
last pages Of his book. For awhile the
ideas came bright and thronging as ever.
wedding themselves in harmonious union
Of sound sense with words which flowed
SO easily from his pen. Then, just on the
threshold of the last scene his pen
stopped. The splendid vision whose real
ization was to have been the crowning
glory Of his work grew dim and blurred
and dull as the night-clouds from which
the glory of the sunset has faded away.
He stared about him, dazed and wonder
ing like a man suddenly awakened from a
dream. Then he turned ba ok and read the
pages he had just written, and could not
even recognize his own work. He saw
that it was beautiful. but 1t was utterly
strange to him. Who had written it, and
how did 1t come there on his table with
the ink scarcely dry on the paper? He
had forgotten.
ish-brown ilozenges lying at his elbow. A
swift CLEAN of remembrance falling on his
mind like lightning flash through sudden
night. Behind him lay the path of his
brief. dear-bought glory, strewn with
flowers that now were withered, and be-
fore him the gulf, and beyond that black
infinity.
He gathered up the lozenges and swal-
lowed them all at a gulp. Soon the fast
fading fires leapt up into a blaze of light,
wild, lurid and dazzling. Visions of chaotic
splendor chased each other in headlong
| haste through the death-dance of his ex-
| piring senses. He had a dim conscious
ness of seizing his pen and driving 1t over
the paper as though he were writing for
his very life and more. Then. like the fall
| ing of a black pail before his eyes, came
| darkness darker than night. and he felt
| himself falling. bound and blinded, into
immeasurable depths. through an eter-
nifty compressed into moments, and mo-
| ments stretched out into eternities.
When Cecil now cured and hale and
sane, came and found him in the morning.
he was dead. The writing table was
strewn with pages filled with the most
piteous nosense. and under the hand,
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gray and deep scored with the hines drawn
by intense mental effort, Beads Of sweat
were standing out thickly on his brow.
and his eyes were burning with a fierce
light that might have been either insan-
ity or genius.
Then he saw his lios move into q faint
and almost CHASTITY smile. and heard his
own voice to say to him, as though speak
ing from a distance:
well. that's a good nights work. and
night!'
Then his two-beinss seemed to fuse to-
gether again and become one. He lit his
hand-lamp as usual, turned the gas out
and went to bed. and scarcely was his
head on the pillow than he fell into a deep.
heavy, dreamless sleep.
When he awoke the next morning all
that remained to him OF his experiment
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MED me utterly the power Of reproduc-
tion. Now, If. instead of being brother
and sister, we could just be rolled into
one, either Sydney would be great
artist, or I should be-well, able to
write as we'll as dream, and then
should live in heaven of my own crea-
tion."
I'm which you would yourself be the
brightest angel"
The words slipped out almost before
John Sturman knew that he had spoken
them. His lips had of their own mere
motion echoed what he was saying In
his soul at the moment. They brought
q just perceptably deeper color into Syl-
via March's cheeks and faint flash into
the deep gray eyes that were looking
at his from under the straight, dark,
finely drawn eyebrows. Her brother
saved her from the awkwardness Of re-
plying to such a speech from a man
she has only lately refused, albeit in
the friendliest fashion, to marry, by
saying:
That's not at all badly put for you
Sturman, though it seems to sound q
bit queer from man who defines poetry
us tIle pearl Ol literature UeCduSe IL IL
the result Of disease"
'I'm quite consistent" said Sturman
half smiling and half serious. what
ought not to have said just now was the
result of disease-heart disease"
Nov you've made it worse" said Syl.
via, gravely.
what? The disease? That couldn',
be worse"
Suppose we change the subject-ol
get back to our muttons," said Sylvia
looking more serious than her words
"Now, tell me, have you ever heard a
satisfactory definition of this some.
thing that Sydney and seem to want
SO badly; this mysterious gift Of the
gods that people call genius without
knowing what they are talking about?'
mo. haven't: and if did hear one
It would probably be so far above my
head that should not understand it,
That's only your vanity, Sturman.'
uaid March. II think I've told you be-
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PART I.

'Tt's no use Sturman, shall never get
It finished-at least, to my liking and
Sylvia's. It's five years now since I
made the first sketch for it, and there it
IL. complete in every detail as far as
manual skill and technical knowledge
can make it, and yet it's not picture.
There's something wanting that only
genius can give it. The figures are cor
rect, but they're not alive. There's no
sight in their eyes. no movement in
their limbs. No. it's not a picture, and
I'm not an artist-only a successful
illustrator, and that's all there is to be
said about it."
Except that Carlisle's definition Of
genius would hardly fit your case. for If
ever mortal man had an infinite capaci-
ty for taking pains you have, March." "
'Yes, Sydney would certainly be a
genius II Carlyle had been right. l
thing the fates have made most aggra-
waiting division Of the talents between
us. They have given him the faculty OF
recreation and almost perfect skill in
execution, while they have given me
the tormenting gift of dreams and de-