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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-26

The work Of the Senate flowed alons
smoothly yesterday, uninterrupted by amy
debates and the session was a shoil
one. The two bills presented by the
special Committee on the Reduction OF
criminal Expenses We're thoroughly eA-
plained TO the Senate hy Mr.. Withets'
ana were ordered TO their ensrossmeht.
one Of them provides that convicts snan
be- taken 10 the penitentiary 10y guar u'
l,,,,lo,-ed at that institution. instead OF,
as at present. by the sheri6s Of various
counties
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-26

The following House bills were passed:
Requesting the Auditor OF Public Ac-
counts 10 furnish annually a statement
showing an accounting OF the county and
city treasurers with the State. who are
in arrears, and prescribing the reasons.
In which the same shall be made pub
lie.
To amend and re-enact an act in rela-
ton to the duties Of the sealers OF weights
and measures.
To authorize the Fairfax school dis
trict. I'm Henrico county. TO issue bonds for
the payment OF a building for a graded
school.
To authorize and empower the several
boards Of visitors 10 the institutions OF
this State TO. investigate the manage
ment OF their institutions, or the con-
duct OF any OF its officers or employees.
To amend an act In relation to bonds
taken by courts and officers.
To amend an act In relation 10 recog-
nizances.
To amend an act In relation IN hAI
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-26
HE LOST A FOOT

lie was finally exchanged. and reioinod
his regiment during the winter OF 1861
and was few days thereafter wounded
and lost a foot. when IN command of the
Forty-cighth Regiment of Virginia In
fantry February 10. 1865. which disabled
him. and he did not recover in time 10
join his regiment before the surrender
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-26

After the war Che survivors of the COM
pany took steps toward organizing the
present "i' Company Association. and
in June 1866. "a temporary organization
was Effected AT "a meetinr held June lg
lss6. 10 was thought that the association
had been permanently organized and the
following officers were elected: George
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-26

lk u. A. BkOCks secretary.
W Peterkln. President; John j. Reeve,
First President. Dr. h. r. Coleman.
JscorN Nicc-ProsidorC Maxwell r.
Clarke. Third Nico-President. u. A..
Brock. Secretary. and D. l. Burr Reeve,
Treasurer
The association on the following Satur-
day. participated IN the memorial services
az Hollywood. Everything went well at
FIRST. but after while interest slacken-
ed. The meetings were poorly attended.
and finally The association may practical
~ be said 10 have dishanded
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
On the 18th October 1876. the surviv-
lng members OF "F" Company. as origi-
nally composed. met at the arnory Of the
present "F' Company. to unite with il
In a becoming celebration OF the seven
teenth anniversary o. the organization
Of the oorps. and 10 effect the formation
Of an association at once fraternal. his
toricai, and revcrential. in the promo
ton OF sympathetic bonds. the collection
and preservation Of data for ultimate
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Sweetheart Travellers is the record of various journeyings undertaken on :. tricycle. by q man who has fitted up hiV steed of steel with f'an extra seats voveI of cunning wicker work on which his little daughter '.sits safely between his arms and is thus enabled to accom- panY her father withersoeyer he goes. And Mir. Grocl<ett's record abounds with the most delightful passages and the most delicate touches. Of the child, he says at the.vefy beginning Of the book
 My Sweetheart is sweet, also she is may heart of hearts. To look into her eyes is to break q hole in the clouds and see into Heaven, and the sunshine lies asleep upon her hafr.''
 From this one brief quotation the reader will see that Sweetheart Tray elers" differs from all of Crockett's earlier books. By this passage, too. the render will be prepared for the influence, rarely much apparent in his work out side ofthis book. of the authors profes sion upon his writing. Many there are, no doubt, among the enthusiastic readers of Crockett's stories who have never thought of him as a minister of God, and to some the knowledge that he is an ordained preacher may come as a surprise. But it would be a much great CT surprise after one had read Sweet heart Travellers" to be told that its anthor was a man unused to religious speech and thought, albeit there is noth- irg at all in this book that is not light some and bright and joyous.
 To the reader who may chance to be in the spirit of it it will be hard to put down Sweetheart Travellers" before the last page is read and until then the art of the writer will never be thought of, so easy and natural is the style. But afterward there will be wonder that the man who could write "The Raiders" with its hard fighting and it's abundant Scotch dialect and '.The Play Actress which is practically defense of the atrical folk, could produce this delicate study of child nature.
 From s. R. Crockett to James Knapp Reeve may be far cry, indeed, but the latter's novel, "Vawder's Understudy," just issued, is not without certain in- terest even before it is read, because of its authors curious profession, and also
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perfect means of carrying and protect ing the new arm. The old boot permit ted more or less motion of the arm, which, in long and hurried marches, be- came quite annoying to both horse and rider. The barrel and stock were also exposed to the weather.
 The new scabbard, which is of thick harness leather, thoroughly protects the earbine to the "small of the stock, and permits easy insertion OF withdrawal. It can be suspended from either side of the saddle.
 The front suspension strap passes around the scabbard and through two loops, then through a ring in the front saddle. bar and over in front of the pom mel to another ring on the other side. The rear suspension strap passes
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As would be inferred from the 'Studies in Homcspun," Mr. Heaton was a country boy. He was born in 1860 away up in the northern part of New York, between the Adirondacks and the St. Lawrence. For generations his ancestors were farmers, though his father was also a surveyor. and in that capacity mapped much of Wisconsin and the Adirondack region. The au- thor of '@Fhe Quitting Bee" has many memories of farm life, mostly pleas ant, for he is one who is always seeing the brighter side of things, but none more vivid than of the frosty October mornings when, barefooted, he used to drive the cows to pasture.
 It was very comforting on such morning" he said recently to a friend, ito stand for awhile on the warm spot where COW had lain over night"
 Heaton was educated at St. Lawrence university in Canton, N. Y, partially earning his way at tschool-teaching and other work. After graduation he served for time as teacher in the grammar school of Rutgers college, New Bruns- wick, N. J. He did not like teaching,
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THE NEW U. $. A. sCABBARD.
r1nele san's Mounted Soldiers Tak-
 ing Comfort in a New Device.
other Nations will Adopt It-Departure in Troopers Accoutrements over Which Experts Are En-
 tbusiastIc
IcoPYRIGHr. 1896. ]

The days of the time-honored earolne boot. so long worn by the troopers oI the United States cavalry, are numbered Its place is shortly to be taken by the more modern carbine scabbard; step made necessary by the introduction into the service, of the improved maga- zine carbine.
 Changes, however, advantageous to the service, come slowly in the regular army, but the new carbine scabbard has been approved by Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance of the United States army and as rapidly as the new scabbards can be manufactured they will be furnished to the troopers.
 Immediately on the adoption of the magazine carbines for cavalry service, steps were taken by the ordnance de partment of the army to supply more
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CAUGHT BY A DREAM.
Ingenious scheme of n shrewd Girl to
 Bring George to the Point.

Ingenious scheme of n shrewd Girl to
 Bring George to the Point.
 He had been paying attention to her for long time and seemed to be slow in putting into practice anyof the beau- tiful theories of love and domestic com fort and all that sort of thing with which he had very often beguiled the happy hours. She thought she might bring him to the scratch. but she did not want to make it altogether too plain. She thought that under kind of allegory she might ''fetch'' him. So the next time he came he found her in the garden. reclining in hammock. An open book was lying beside her, her hand carelessly resting upon it; the other hand was gracefully posed press ing her hair back her eyes were fixed dreamily upon the cloudless blue, seen through the interlaced foliage of the tree. He approached, Apparently she heard him not. He looked at the pie ture moment while she vas steepedin reverie. He spoke:
 She gave little start and gently dubbed her eyes. I "It is you, George, is it?" she said, softly. 'I was dreaming"
 Dreaming! And what were you dreaming of?'
 Tt was silly-ridicnlous I won't tell you
 Do tell mel"
 'No--it was so sillyl"
 .Do tell me what it was"
 .Well, you won't laugh at me?" she said, coyly.
 No, indeed. won't"
 s'I dreamed that was married. and was living in a pretty little cottage, all covered with honeysuclsle and wood bine and roses, and my husband"
 "What was he lilxe?''
 ''He was a very nice looking man. He had beautiful dark hair and eyes, and he was tall"
 George made no remark. George was blond and short.
 But you know, George" she said after the pause had grown a little awk- ward, dreams always go by con- traries.'
 George saw the point.-Larks.
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the nice country girls he used to know when he was a farmers boy. These verses will be likely to find favor with all whose youthful memories include such things. for there is a spontaneity and freshness about them that is most engaging. Not less happy are the verses about children, of which perhaps there may be room here to quote the follow ing fragment from "A Reasonable Ex- planation:"
 Mamma, why doesn't the baby walk. Baby will walk dear. but not yet. Those tiny feet must first forget How cool and smooth and soft to the touch Were the streets of Heaven they miss so
 much
 By and by baby will walk"
 Love verses there are in every part of the volume and shrewd comments in rhyme on the fads and fancies of these times. Some of the pieces are fairly rol- licking in their humor and, besides, there are several more ambitious ef- forts, some of which have appeared in the more pretentious monthlies.
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because it is his first novel. He is the editor of periodical named The Editor, published in Franklin, O., and to the task of conducting this publication he adds those Of criticising whatever manu- script may be sent to him (for a con- sideration, of eourse) and of selling to publishers such work as he deems of merit.
 Mir. Heaton's book is yet to be issued, so it's fate with the critics is yet a matter for conjecture. Mir. Crocl1ett's, though new in America, was published late last year in England where itwas exceeding ly'well received. Mir. Reeves has been out just long enough to get notices and it is interesting to note that it has al- ready been treated to eXtravagant praise and the most cordial roasts.
 OSR0RN SPENCEI@
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Women and Their Clothes.

As summer mergeS into autumn there is always a great babble about frocks. Generalizing, the American woman is a good dressmaller. The French dress maker claims that she lacks original ity, but that she takes the best and as- similates it to herself The English woman, inclining to simplicity, is half afraid to suggest, and consequently de- pends upon her dressmaller. She dreads being conspicuous, but still wants to look well. The Russian woman is a good dresser and is considered the most critical as far as her bills are concerned, but she always pays promptly. The Italian is always hard to please. She does not give credit or money to her Generalizing again, the American woman is honest. This is more than can be said of the general dressmal1er, who never finds it neces- sary to be honest either in words or deeds. The woman who doesn't care for her personal appearance, who isn't interested in frocks, bonnets, coats and hats, parasols, flowers and gloves, hand kerchiefs, boots and fans is the woman without place in the world and very much in the minority. She is not fem mine and therefore not interesting. Men don't like her and women abhor her. She is mistake. And there is no place for her either in heaven or on earth, though there may be in the wa ter under the earth.-N. Y. Advertiser.
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DECEPTION WELL PUNISHED.
He Should Have Told His Wife and This
 Would Not Have Happened.

Would Not Have Happened.
 They had been married, IS were few ether people. last June. The flavor of the roses hung above thcr still.
 This was the day and this the houl when they would have been married precisely three months.
 "Wercn't you awfully frightened! :" asked Mrs. Dearest, again
 "Indeed l was responded Mir. De"r- est, also again.
 The waves came as near as they dared without seeming to be eaeesdroppers.
 "Wasn't it nice of me to straigh,on out your dressng-room for you2" she esled. with the irrelevance that is part Of honeymoon. Mir. Dearest did wh # is proper.
 ..IIow funny of you to have two com plete sets of brushes and thinesl" and Mrs. Dearest absently pulled out her sleeves.
 Mir. Dearest gazed solemnly at the waves. They winked aud nodded.
 ..How prettily the letters are twisted ever everything. K. D. is difficult. as rule. l love your Kenneth, re- peated Mrs. Dearest, softly.
 According to the waves her husband lost his head, or it would never have Happened.
 ''The fact is, sweetheart" he said with spasm of honesty lone set of those things was returned to me just before we were married.
 A big wave pushed the little ones back as he crowded forward
 .'Who was the girl" asked the bride, eoldly.
 The waves fell back in fright. So did Mir. Dearest. But it was too late.
 "We were never really engaged, you know he began, hurriedly.
 .'No. I don't know" severely.
 But that was--er-an exchange of gifts occasionally"
 aWho was she?"
 '.Er-oh- Katherine Dean. Her in- itials are the same as mine, you sec re- piled Mir. Dearest, feebly, as if this were palliation.
 smiled maliciously.
 You ought to have told me before. You have got only yourself to blame"
 Like the 'loidy' in the song,s put in her husband with weak humor. and with the unsportsmanlike idea of tack ing because the breeze freshened.
 Because" went on Mrs Dearest, with stony impressiveness. yesterday was Miss Dean's birthday, and We always give each other something, and thoughtful a pity te spend my own money when there were plenty of things in your quarters you would not reed now. and so I sent her off a couple of the black and silver brushes with our best wishes"
 The waves crept up to her. But there was nothing only | feeling of silence. N Y. Mercury
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Photographic of the sun.

Photographs of the sun were taken at Greenwich during the year just ended with the Dallmeyer photoheio- graph, mounted on the terrace roof of the south wing of the physical observa- tory, on 229 days. and of these 459 have been selected for preservation, besides II photographs with double images of the sun for determination of zero of po- sition angle. For the year 1895 Green wich photographs have been selected for measurement on 249 days and pho- tographs from India and Mauritius-- filling up the gaps in the series-113 days, making total of 362 days out of 365 on which photographs are available.
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through ring riveted in the sear, '.--~ seabbard, IS inches from the }o,ss' '' q 'as \ and is fastened to 8 ring at 4ha s' end part of tic cantle. 'e oass
 When in position, with tba
 mounted. the small part of tb ao0Ie+ bard passes under the hollow of th ~Va0 just below the knee, and thus. ,g;t1 tA es discomfort to the rider, the ,ehsa ,s.,'Oat T securely held in position, witbo,,. B noyance or fatigue from the eor... s. aa motion of the old method. 'aai
 The cavalry service has, from <.
 time. experimented with yarions sas fa Q of this scabbard, and it has al' M LIS found favor with the trooper in bssss service. It will doubtless be moS sq9a rule that, on dismounting for any n,,. pose, the trooper at once remoye ps'1 ~ carbine from the scabbard. so 4l W when separated from his mount be ,a, still be completely equipped and n,a M pared for any emergency. @
 With the passing of the carbine bo.t one of the most picturesque, ermbss some and oath-producing aecoptss ments of the mounted arm of the so. ice will have gone out of existence TX. boot looked very business-like, as itus. carried slung down the side of the sod dle or from the shoulder of the 4,n. equipped cavalry man, but to those wbo
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pumps, the inventor showed how ho could pump the gas from the balloon back into the cyelinders. Some ot tne gas was then burned as beacon lignh which could be seen for many mii" around With this and reflector, sg' nal flashes can be made, which wouia be certain to attract the attention oi passing vessels.
 Following this, large tin kettle con tanning several gallons of salt water WAS placed over one of the burners, and, III this improyised still, the salt liquid was converted into fresh, potable water.
 When a quantity of water suffieleh' for the days needs has thus been pre-. pared, the burners can be removed anu the balloon again inflated. With ths cylinders charged at high pressure, oho amount of gas consumed by burning would be scarcely appreciable. II tns balloon is not required, it can be storeu away in a locker. s
 Another claim of the inventor is, tnas It can. by being launched from slnkTIs Ing vessel, secure aid from shore befol0 a life-saving crew, even though reaa5, could shoot a line aboard. Often, DIVIDE to strong wind directly off shore, .as llfc-savers are unable to place | NY line so that it can be of assis tance.
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were contributed to the columns of the New York Recorder. of which he was long the literary editor and for which he now writes the leaders, but they have al= ways been regarded as available copy by exchange editors and liberally drawn upon accordingly.
 The title of Heaton's book is taken from the opening verse, which dedieates the work to tine authors wife, herself Journalist and writer of ability, and there are 90 pieces between the covers, classified as Studies in IIomespun, ," Voices of Gotham" little Folks at Home" "Echolalia" and Platter of Park Row." After this itsneed hardly be said that Mir. Heaten's muse is versatile. Most of the Studies in Homespun are written in the modified New England dialect used in northern New York. They portray the peculiarities of the old-time country peddler, the delight ful sound of the tin dinner horn, the pleasures of the country donation par ty. the springtime b'ilin' of soap and such like. A persistent figure in that part of the book is "Marthy Ellen Hays" the authors composite ideal of
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THREE NEW BOOKS OUT.
Heaton's New Volume of Verses
 Entitled "The Quilting Bee"
s. R. Crockett's New Departure--fn '.sweet- heart Travellers" He W-ites of Child Life -- Reeves "Vaw-
 der's Understudy.p
[corYnIamr. lSg6.1

There's new poet in the Land of Books. Hardworking John lsangdon IIeaton, who has systematically light ened his editorial labors for the past ten or fifteen years by occasionally drop ping into verse, has gathered together the best of his rhyme and rhythm and the collection has been put into dainty little volume, titled "The Quilting Bee" which is shortly to be placed be fore the public. It is doubtful whether this article will meet the eye of many readers who have not run across some of IIeaten's verses in the newspapers, for they have been printed wherever Eng fish is read. Originally most of them
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he does not recall with excessive de- light. all Mr. Heaton's newspaper work has been done in New York The time passed away from Gotham was spent in a city of the second class as proprietor, editor, and publisher of an afternoon newspaper.
 Another book to be issued at about the same time as Mir. Heaton's Quilt ing Bee" and by the same publishers, is S. k. Croekett's Sweetheart Travel lers." As a story writer Mr. Crockett is pretty we'll known to the reading public of America, being quite as popu- lar here, indeed, as he is in England. In this volume which the author, on the title page, terms "A child's book for children, for women and for men," he shows a new side. No one can read it without feeling certain that Crockett has been as careful and successful a stu dent of child life as of the life of grown up persons. It is the latter, however, who will read the book with most de- light.
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were obliged to use it. 1t was constant source of annoyance and of positive danger in action, in that it was notonly fastened to the saddle of the horse, but to the rider as well, and many bravs fellow owes his death to the fact that being slightly wounded, he fell from his horse, and was dragged to his death because of his inability to free himself from the "boot." For the same reason, if the horse were shot, and fell, the rider had to fall also, and if he escaped in- jury he ran an excellent chance of being run down by some of his charging com. rades, or having his brains kicked out by his wounded horse This, however, will in the future be avoided, and the trooper will be in no danger of going down with his mount
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patented by a shrewd Connecticut Yau- kee.
 While the combination boat will doubtless prove of the greatest service in saving people far out at sea, it will not be available at life-saviag stations. The wind is usually blowing shoreward when vessels are in danger and for this reason it would be almost impossible to force the boat, hampered by the bal loon, to the assistance of wrecked craft.
 In & recent test made in the Con necticut river near Middletown. it was shown thar, even with the boat filled With water to the gunwales, the lifting power of the balloon prevented the craft from either sinking or upsettino. The test was made under the super- vision of Superintendent J. H. Jones. of the Middletown gas works.
 The boat was constructed under MT Riley's direction and is 16 feet in length Cylinders, filled with compressed eas were placed in compartments, and from these the balloon. which was harnessad with cords to hollow mast connected with the cylinders, was inflated.
 The mast, which is of gaspipe. is ad- unstable, and, when turned forward +ba big balloon acted as a sail, oars proving
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however (perhaps that is the reason none of his verses deal with the school master}, and after he had been in New Brunswick q year he became reporter on Brooklyn paper at the munificent salary of five dollars week. His first days work was done on the day Garfield was shot and on the day of Garfield's s death Eeaton wrote his first "brevier'' article as associate editor. Ever since that time he has been newspaper man, and. barring two vacations de- voted to foreign travel with his wife, his work at the desk has been almost continuous. His second return trip from Europe was made in the steerage, that his wife might write of that phase of ocean travel. This was the first and probably only time the trip was ever taken for literary purposes, for Robert Louis Stevenson's famous voyage to America was really taken in the sec ond cabin and not in the steerage Mir. Heaton found life in the steerage un- conventional, to be sure, but by no means the horrible thing it has some times been painted.
 With the exception of period which