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Governor O'Ferrali comes out strongly
against the adoption OF the unit rule at
stanton on June 4th. He foresees
that 1t may be very hurtful to the in
terests OF our party. Had the unit rule
been adopted at the convention held In
Richmond four years ago the chances
are that 1t would have made split In
our party. The Mount rule tided US
safely over that day of difficulty, and
we earnestly hope that like good sense
WIN prevail at Stapnton.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-23

At the second annual meeting Of the
National Municipal Conference and fourth
National Conference for Good Gov
ernment, to be held In Baltimore, be-
ginning on May 9Th. Mr.. yirginius New
ton, OF this city. will be one OF the
speakers. His subject Is, ''rhe NUM-
clpai Condition OF Richmond" Mr.. New
ton has given much study to this sub
feet. and Is thoroughly qualified to dis
cnss Il.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-23
Priere.

Chambers Journal)
From the French of Sully Prudhomme.
If YOU knew the heart Is sore,
That dwells apart without home;
At times before my lonely door,
Your steps might roam.
If YOU knew how thoughts are bright,
When sad souls feel tender glance;
Your eyes would seek my window-light,
AS II by chance.
IL you knew the healing cheer.
A heart can TO another bring;
You sure would like sister dear,
Sit near and sing.
IL YOU knew I love you so,
If YOU knew your souls true place;
Won cen might enter, soft and low,
In simple gracei
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-23
Ratio OF Annual Expenses to Full Value
of Real and Personal Property in

The census Of 1890 groups Richmond
with nine other cities. having about the
same population. If We examine the ques-
ton OF real estate values, and bonded
debt, we may extract other information
anna rentlY to our disadvantage:
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THURSDAY. .........APRIL 20, 1896.

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VICE OF THE SOUTHERN AssoclA-
TED PRESS AND THE UNITED
ppECS
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UPTOWN OFFICE, BRoAD-sTRaEEtTT
pHARMACY. 5l9 EAST BKoAo
wEsT.EvD OFFICE. PARK PLACE
PHARMACY. BELvIDERE AND MAIN
si MANc ] OFFICE. 1903 HULL
STREET.
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The washington Post says that the
Rhode Island Democrats are going to
ask for what they want. no matter how
frequently or cmphatically Mr.. Whitney
may decline.
lust an
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4. HUTZLER'S SONS,
SIS East Broad Street.
A BLACK DRESS

A BLACK DRESS
selected from our leading department
will not empty your pure.
45-inch Black French Serge, sold at Soc.:
now 50c
45-Inch Black German Henrietta. sold at
81: now 60c.
ss-inch Black French Serge. all-wool, at
25c.
si-inch Black Figured Mohairs; they were
40c.; now &c.
sS-inch Black Figured Brilliantine. extra
fine lustre zoe.
that cannot be duplicated at our
price-J0c.
s6-inch Brilliant jacquard Serges, soc.
grade, for SOC.
SILKS AT OUR PRICES
are not among the extravagancies.
japanese Wash Silks, extra-heavy quality
and brilliant colorings-a great bar
gain-25c.
Printed Persian. warp effects. "a inches
wide. reduced from 75c. to 59c.
H-inch waterproof Black Japanese silk,
the Toe. quality, for soc.
All Pure Silk, 19-Inch Black Satin Ouch
esse. considered bargain at 9oc.;
here for 75c
High Grade, 2i-Inch. Heavy Black Satin
Duchesse; we challenge comparison
at $50; special offer, N.1O.
BLACK Peau de Sole, extra values, at 81.
s1.25. and $50.
wASHABLEDRESS FABRICS
at lowest prices and Of beautiful designs.
ap 14-Tu&Th
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Il to secure greater economy IN our c'sy
government, and keep that government
in the hands OF the Democratic party
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With conscientious care the league has
endcavored TO meet what Il believes 10
be q high civic duty. : II has endeavored
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-23
SarsapariIIa
Does

this by giving 1t fair trial. Insist upon
Hoods and only Hoods. 81; six for %.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-23

within this period the city has paid OF
. bonded debt Of u,is7.slS. and has ex-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-23

Let US now turn to the annual expenses
OF these cities. and get some idea Of the
manner and the purposes for which they
spend their income:
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Hoods Pills net .i haI tshs1;1I. via va
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14

beautiful fowls, nor 30 many of them
as those that grace his grounds. There
was only one thing lacking to make his
bone complete, and that was children
little girls and boys to brighten up
the picture. Not far away from Mana
tee is the old castle, the tumbling walls
of once stately mansion that was built
of concrete away back in the 40s.
Spacious halls and spacious rooms up
stairs and down, broad verandas with
out floors and windows without sash,
wild orange trees and palmettos crowd
ing the walls and wilderness almost
i1npenetrable around. Surely this
flust be the place where Hood wrote
"The Haunted House"-"O'er all there
hung shadow and fear" Mr.. Braden
Tor whom the town and river is
hamed, lived in it like prince until the
indians drove him from it. For long
time he and his family and the slaves
successfully defended it by firing from
every window, but they carried off
everything he had outside, and he was
forced to abandon his beautiful and
costly homestead. How little do we
know of the brave deeds, the sufferings
and perils of the pioneers of Floridal
If tradition is to be believed, there is
not county or a township in all this
region, from Pensacola to Charlotte
harbor, that is not consecrated by the
blood of the early settlers. 1t took $780,
100000 of money and 10000 soldiers
first and last to subdue 5000 Indians,
Under the lead of Osceola and other
chiefs.
But I must leave fair Florida for
tune and go home to comfort the better
half of the family. 1t is hard on us old
people to have to run after the children,
but it won last much longer-eur time
is almost out, our journeys will soon be
ended and we will have to trust them to
the keeping of parent who doeth all
things well.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
Dead Oodles of Eggs"

Along in the spring some three or
four years ago, if l recollect right, q
stranger come down into this pleasant
bstrip of country, which he give his
name as Maj. Hinton, from New York.
He lit right in and bought up three
forties of land over there clost to the
railroad station, and soon put it out
that he was goin to start tremendous
big chicken farm.
The major was what you mought
call high stopper and a fast mover,
and he made out like he would go
all the gaits and stand hitched. And
when it come to chickens-well, the
major he was right there. To hear
him tell it, he had already forgot more
about chickens than the old woman
knowed which put the first settin of
eggs under n speckled hen. He pitched
in and bought him thunderin big
double action hatchin machine, which
the people come in for 40 miles around
to see it. Then he took spring wagon
he did, and lit out through the coun-
try and bought up 300 hens, but marry
rooster, a.
As to me. | never aHraised no chick
ems, you understand, cause that is
mothers branch of the business, and
didn't know for certain but what the
major could take the hens and let EN-
lay eggs and put EN- in his new-fangled
hatchin machine and bring forth a
crop of chickens.
81 reckon maybe the major will have
dead oodles of eggs" says mother to
me when l told her what was goin on
over at the ranch, but | will promise
to eat all of his young chickens-sin-
gle-handed and alone-feet, feathers
and ALL"
And as usual mother was plum right
about it. The major he had dead
oodles of eggs-eggs to eat and eggs to
throw away-but marry egg to hatch
Along in the summer the eolery got in
amongst his drove, and when he wound
up the business that fall he didn't have
a blame thing left but thirteen old hens
worth two bits apiece, and hatchin
machine that cost hundred dollars.
/ know that win sound powerful
strange and pecurious TO some people.
but il it aint the naked, uuwashed
truth, then mother is a widder and /
aint married. BUFUs SANDERS.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
A Night at the Play.

One night Steve bought the tickets
and took me and mother to see a show.
That was one time when we had paid
seats, and by gatlins we took 'em way
up there in the front row. But / got
SO foamin mad that night-first one
thing and then another-till 1 can't
recollect very much for certain about
the show.
At any rate, it was one of these pow
erful humanlil0e and stirrin plays, and
everything was SO natural till
couldn't always keep in mind the gen
eral circumference of the surroundins.
At one place the mainest lady in the
play got terrible heart broke and put
out on account of lost handkerchief,
which it seems like her husband had
give her and which his mother had
give TO him for luck. The lady she
was eryin and goin on in such a movin
way, and calm for the handkerchief
so pitiful and constant till by gum
couldn't stand il no longer. / riz up,
/ did, right then and there and told
the lady / would loan her my bandana
which no sooner said than done ! went
dowE into my pocket and came forth
with it.
To be certainly / didn't mean no
harm. bnt me and my old red rag
come mighty nigh Dustin up the play.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
LEARNING SPANISH.
aIexican Newspapers Criticism of rexs
Books in General.

HHAithH NtNHNAt PER 1rlhiftbh OF TEX
Books in General.
AnAmeriean journal advises the more
general study of the Spanish languages
in the United States, on the ground O.
commercial utility. We believe that in
San Francisco and Kansas City and in
few other places instruction is giver
in Spanish, but it is likely that 1t doe,
not go very far and is not entirely prac
tical, for most language teachers in the
United States are either tiresome ped.
ants or eharlatans who sadly waste the
time of their pupils and the malleri
of instruction books in the modern
langusae almost always omit what is
eolloquial and therefore useful, and
give mass of boolish words and ssele.
CANT constructions, with the apparent
idea that only dilettantes and future
poets are TO be educated.
We have before us some Spanish
srainmare and correspondence books
which, while filed to repletion with
ilnpraciicable instructions, and always
insisting en- Elegant" constructions
and usages, are disfgured by awkward
explanations, and offer the most as
founding grammatical blunders in
their examples Most authors of text
books are gabbling asses who copy
from all previous ones, and the resuli
Is thut a lot of ill-digested grammars
and new methods are imposed on the
credulous public. One mueh-advertised
grammar for English learners of Span.
ish we submitted to a most scholarly
gentleman of this city, who noted over
a thousand grammatical errors and
threw down the book in despair. A
manual of Spanish correspondence
which has an extensive sale is SC
crammed with faults of grammar that
ii is no more useful than the English
as She Is Spoke was to the Portuguese
students for whom it was prepared
A very popular Spanish grammar OF
wide sale both in England and the
United States was, in it's earlier edi.
tions, SO bunderingly written that it
might properly have been entitled "a
Method for Inducting the Learner Into
5ailors' Spanish, with Uuexampled Fa.
cdlities for Making Fool OF the Stu
dent"
The American paper that we have
mentioned asserts that Spanish is not
only a child of the Latin, but that its
construction is Latin. Spanish has
broad Latin base, it is true. but it has
been greatly influenced and modified
by the Arabic and by the language OF
the peutonic eonquerors of Spain; q
vast number of everyday words in use
are from the Arabic, and the construc.
ton, although far more flexible than
the English, resembles more that tongue
than the inverted Latin construction.
1t is Il valuable and noble language
which is not to be mastered in week
or a month, although a fair working
knowledge Of it for business purposes
may be acquired in few ponths by
any diligent student.-Mexican Herald
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
sCIPlO'S STRATAGEM.
The Sly Rascal Got the Kind of Coat H.
Wanted.

The Sly Rascal Got the Kind of Coat He
Wanted
Slavery in Massachusetts had been
virtually abolished many years before
it was formally done away with, and in
Boston the slaves were generally house
servants who led an easy life. They
were a careless, laughing race, faithful,
1npudent and affeetionate, and often
took great liberties A story is told
of Dr. Chauncy's Scipio, which proves
linn to have been privileged character,
to say the least.
DR.. Chauney was clergyman, close
student, and very absent-minded and
irritable. DR.. Cooper, on the contrary,
another clergyman, was man OF easer
habits, an accomplished and social per-
sonage, who was able, with the and of
his talents, to dispense with much CT
the mental research in which his col
leagues engaged.
He did not escape the malice OF the
world, however, and it was said, IN alb
surd exaggeration, that he used to
walk 20 the South En1 on SATURDAY,
and if he saw man riding into town
in a black coat, he would stop him AID
ask him to preach the next day.
Scipio knew these peculiarities, ard
proceeded to trade upon them. One
day he went into his masters study to
receive some directions, but when 5hey
had been given him he still rema ned.
His master chanced to look up few
minutes afterward and said:
"Scipio, what do you want?"
81 want a new coat, massa."
"Wer, go to hrs. Chauncy and tell
her to give you one Of my old coats.
And again the clergyman turned to
his work. The servant remained liked,
and after awhile the doctor chanced to
become conscious of him again.
"Wha5 do you want, Scipio?" said he.
81 want Il new coat, massa."
"Well, go to my wife and ask her
to give you one of my old coats"
He fell to writing, but Scipio re-
mained in the scine posture. Presently
the doctor looked up.
"Scipio, what 90 you want?"
81 want a new coat, massa."
Then il flashed over the doctors mind
that the dialogue saVored of repetition.
"Why, haven't / told you before 10
ask Mrs. Chauncy to give you a coat?
Get away"
"Yes, massa, but : no want black
coat"
"Not want a black coat? Why not ?"
"Why. massa, 'fraid to tell you"
"Tell me directly. you rascal"
30 massa, I 'fraid to tell you the ica-
son; you so passionate"
So the converse ton went on until the
doctor became highly irritated, anl
Scipio perceived that the time had
'0%S %%el to 60 sSa@ng Tol GaSe S,@ m. tell, but
] know you be angry. 'fraid, massa,
isJ wear "A black coat DR.. Cooper aslt
me to preach for him"
This unexpected turn realized tn he
gro's calculation; his master burst into
a laugh.
"Go, you rascal" said he, "get my
hat and cane and tell Mrs. Chamcy
she may buy you a coat of any colo ; Il
red one, if you choose"
Away went the servant to his mis-
lress. while the doctor set out to tell
the story to DIR. Cooper.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14

baltimore, as well as Brooklyn, is
I city OF churches. each having a greater
number Ia proportion 10 the population
Than amy other cities IN the United
States.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
AN ICE QUEEN.
First White Woman to Cross the
ChiIlkat Pass.

Chilikat Pass.
The first white woman who ever
crossed the perilous Chilkat pass In
Alaska, and for three years has lived
far north of the most northerly of the
new Alaskan gold camp, sometimes for
weeks with no other white person near
arrived in San Francisco q week or SO
ago. She used to live in New York,
by the way, although not actually q
New Yorker. She is Mrs. T. N. Beau-
mont, the wife of the post trader at
Fort Yukon. She is a young woman,
y native Of Belgium, and though she
has spent the greater part Of her life
in Europe and in the big cities of this
country, she is quite in love with her
life among the Indians upon the edge
of the Arctic circle.
When Mrs. Beaumont crossed the
ChillSat pass she had to wear mems
clothes, and natives mems clothes, at
that. She had TO walk. and had 10 help
drag the sledges loaded with freight,
too. The snow was notably deep, even
for that region. and crossing the pass
was, and is, considered a hazardous
undertaking for a man. She and her
husband were the only white people in
the region, and the nearest white wom-
an at any time was several hundred
miles away. Sometimes Mrs. Beaumont
was left alone for weeks at a time,
while her husband went down the river
to procure supplies, and AZ such times
she did all the trading with the In
lians coming to the post with furs.
After awhile there was a baby 20 help
her through the lonely periods, and
later another came.
The far northern part of Alaska is
by no means snowy waste, or at all
forbidding region. Mrs. Beaumont
told TN interviewer, although it is. OF
course, somewhat dreary through the
.ong winter. Fort Yukon is away
north of the Forty-Mile creek gold
fields, but next year she will have com
)aratively near neighbors in the new
,amp called Circle City. near the Arctic
ircle, only nine miles from Fort Yu-
kon. But it is not likely even then
,hat she will have many women callers
1f her own race.-N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
Green Goods from Town.

But whilst it may be that | am right
tolerable green myself, in my day and
generation | have seen plenty of green
goods that come fresh from town.
A stranger come through the settle
ment last year hailin from Saint Louis
and put up for few days at our house.
He was doctorin on peoples eyes and
peddlin specks. He never had seen any
cotton GROWN till he come down iD
this country, and it was a plum show
to him. One day he went and pulled
a whole passle of green balls and put
EN- in water to make EN- open, when
the blamdest biggest and blankest idiot
in this country would know better than
that. He wanted to see them bloom
and 'merture," as he put it, and in less
than three days the last one of EN- had
merrotted. And then / told him if he
would pull few more and hang eln
up in dry place they would soon bust
open.
There was town girl that come down
here last summer and took board with
us for a few weeks. She was rale smart
in books. and she was as pritty rs
red shoes and striped stockins and blue
garters. Naturally of course l could
help from thinlIin great pile of her,
but in regards to country people and
country life and country things in
general she was so alfred green till
blamed if you couldn't mighty nigh
scrape it off with a splinter. She went
down to the cowpen with me one day,
and what do you reckon? By gracious!
she wanted to know which one of our
cows give sweet milk and which one
give buttermilk, and which one give
the natural butter. / told her it didn't
come exactly that way, but that all the
COWS give sweet milk in the morning
and buttermill at noon and butter at
night. She was ever so much obleeged,
she said, and thanked me kindly for
THROWN new light on the great question
of cows.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
Too Latei

Dramatis personae: A couple of
young ladies (bosom friends) My
dearest Olga. / could not rest until
had come and made an effort to dispel
the gloomy thoughts which, to judge
from your letter yesterday, threat
ened to develop into suicidal mania.
Ills true, Alfred has Tilted you, the
vretch Still. try to act like a sensible
girl, and look out for another engage
ment."
Your advise comes too late, dar-
ling"
Good gruciousl Olga; you surely
haven't taken poisOnl'
"Well, n-n-no; the fact is, II be-
came engaged again yesterday!
Novoie Nremia.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14

of town people, and as to that, have
stayed in town right smart myself. 1t
wouldn't be plum square and honest for
me to make out like have lived in town
and caught the town lick, with all the
frills and trimmins, but l have been
there, and whilst | was there l stayed
there to the best of my ability.
The Van Buren press., 1896-03-14
Rus Driver Has an onInlnn.

A London bus driver was recently
overheard discussing the question Of
woman's enfranchisement. ITS this
way" he said. "Wot 'ud wimmin do
with a vote IL they 'ad it? Why. II I
says TO my old woman: Give me tripe
and onions for dinner does l get il?
| get beef and greens" With this CON
vineing argument he settled the mat
ter TO his entire satisfaction.