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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-12
.Ele Norfolk ViTQiDiaD.
ruEllsHeD DAILY AND WEEKLY.
TERMS OF THE VlRGINiAN.

CL NM ~,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

ly way. My dear fellow he said, T
like the nihilists. They are generally
young women between 20 and 30.
Later on they get toned down and
give it up"
But, in spite of that, the general
puts them in PRISON."
"As to that, all our English notions
are wrong. I was told by the British
consul at Moscow, Mr.. Medhurst-who
is paid f100 a year by the for
eign office for that arduous post,
and who has just spent four
months in Siberia-that the stories
about the treatment of prisoners are
shockingly exaggerated. The Russian
penal system is far more humane than
ours and the Russian peasant really
has quite a good time when he goes to
Siberia. The nihilist, being generally
a cultured man, suffers more than the
peasant. But he, too, is allowed far
greater freedom than our political pris-
oners and after a time is allowed to
have his own house and to live as a
colonist. l saw a number of prisoners
being conveyed down the Volga in a
steamer. They were in a large cage
guarded by sentries-not particularly
comfortable, but certainly much freer
than the cells in which they would
have been placed in England
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
New Line to Washington.

The popular Monon Route has estab-
Eished a new Sleeping Car line to Wash
ington, D. c., via Cincinnati and
Parkersburg, by the G. H. & d., B. e.
D. S. w. and B. & O. Railways. The
sleeper is ready for occupancy in Dear
born Station any time after 9 p. M, and
leaves at 245 a. m. daily, arriving at
Washington at 6:47 the following
morning. This schedule will be in eff
feet On January Gath, and thereafter.
AS the sleeper goes through without
change, and the hours of leaving and
arriving are most convenient, this will
prove altogether the most comfortable,
as well as the most picturesque route to
the national capital. City. Ticket Of
fee, 232 Clark street. Depot, Dearborn
Station.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
WHY PRICES HAVE FALLEN OFF

the Case of Vehicles.

the Case of Vehicles.
p. E. Studebaker in Commercial ADJ
vertiser: I maintain hat the true
cause of the change of prices in Amer
lea and the world over has been science
and improved machinery. Everything
can be produced cheaper than ever. be-
fore. When we first commenced to man
ufacture wagons steel was worth $12O
per ton. To-day it is worth $50 a ton.
Iron cost $500 a ton then; to-day the
price is $25. The freight on the first
carload of wagons we ever shipped to
Chicago was SAL; to-day it is $l2.
Freight wagons, such as the mine own
ers bought from us in 1865 and 1866 to
haul their machinery from ST. Joseph
to Colorado, Utah, Montana, and Idaho,
and for which they paid us 5000, we will
sell them to-day for $50. The first car
of farm wagons we ever shipped to
Kansas City was in 1865. We received
for each wagon 1924, delivered on the
levee. The freight was SIS per wagon,
netting us $106 at the factory. To-day
we will sell the same wagon at sou.
Will deliver it to Kansas City for sos.
The reduction in freight from SIS to s.
per wagon is not so bad, considering
the wicked railroads did it. Our first
agent in Galveston, Tex, was ex-Gov.
Lubbock, a grand old man. He paid US
Sll0 for the same kind of wagons we
sell now for $50. His freight per car
was $500, the wharfage at New Orleans
was S24 per car, and the wharfage at
Galveston $18 per car. The freight now
is about S125 per car. Col. Trumbull
of Brennan, Tex, once paid me $4,000
in gold for wagons, and l had to carry
it in my gripsack to Galveston to get
New York exchange. Suppose he had
paid me in silver? 1t would have weigh
ed about $50 pounds, and l would have
had to ship it as freight. I don't be-
lieve Texas will vote for a silver stand
ard. The people are called a little
rough down there, but they have lots
of good, sound, business sense, even the
cowboys"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
wood Tubing.

Tubing made from wood pulp isj
coming into use for underground pur-
poses, owing to its high electrical re-
s~istance and its freedom from the
action Of earth-return currents which
seriously injure gas and water pipes
in cities where electric cars use the
ground to complete their circuits. It
is also fires from difficulties due to ex-
pansion and contraction.
$1.Oo FOR IA CENTS.
Millions now plant Salzer's seeds,
but millions more should; hence offer.
| pkg. Bismarck Cucumber .......15c
l pkg. Round Globe Beet /. ........1Oc
l pkg. Earliesl Carrot ............1Oc
l pkg. Kaiser Wilhelm Lettuce.....15c
l pkg. Earliest Melon loo
l pkg. Giant Yellow Onion ........15c
l pkg. 14-Dsy Radish ..............1Oo
8 pkgs. Brilliant Flower Seeds. ..15o
Now all of above 10 packages, In
Guiding our mammoth plant and seed
catalogue, are mailed you free upon
receipt of only IA cents postage.
rs pkgs. Earliest Vegetable Seed. $1.00
81 Brilliant Blooming Plants. ...$1.00
John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse.
Wis. v.n.
No short man feels comfortable walking
on the streets with a tall woman.
JUST try a 1oc. box of Cascarets, candy cathar-
tic, the finest liver and bowel regulator made.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
become a social chestnut.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
Christian Charity.

A man too modest to let his name
flee last Christmas eve and paid out
of his own purse all the postage on
letters and packages which otherwise
would have been delayed in transmits
sion CT not delivered at all by reason
of insufficient stamps. That was a
very original and thoughtful act, not
to call it charity.-Ex.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
No-To-BAC FOR FIFTY CENTS.

Over400, 900 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco.
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81. 90, all druggists.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

Piso's Cure for Consumption is our only
medicine for coughs and colds.-Mrs. G.
Beltz, 439 9Th ave., Denver, Col, Nov. s, '95
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
mattah?

mattah?
Gawge-Mattah! Why, I nevah came
SO near being offended in my life. The
keeper of that cafe called me a liah
and kicked me out. I tell you what
ah-Gus, it wouldn't have taken much
noah to have made me veal mad.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
now as much as it ever was.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

FITS stopped free and permanently cured. No ats
after first days use of DIR. KliEe's Great Nerve
Restorer. Free So trial bottle and treatise.
Send to DR.. KLINE, 93l Arch ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

H~egeman's CamPhorIce with GlycerIne.
Chilblains. Piles, &c. e. G. Clark Co.. New Haven, Ct
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

An Indiana woman has been sleeping con-
tinuously for thirteen years.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

AZ u SNS SON
CSC of war, says the
London Chronicle.
The ostensible object of the tour was
to give the general some advice in the
development of his estates, but this
would hardly account for the gigantic
distances over which they were taken
by the general, and the state with
which they were treated from first to
last.
Mr.. Tough frankly holds a brief for
the Russian government. 1--WE hear
nothing i've here" he says, but the
tales of nihilists and exiles. That side
OF the case has been heard enough. I
want to tell of the great work l have
seen being done in RUSSIA work
OF government very similar to and
scarcely smaller than is being done by
ourselves in India. What the English
people will not recognize is that the
arguments against constitutional gov
eminent which are still valid in India
are also valid in Russia-that the upper
and middle classes of Russia are mere
drops In an ocean of ignorance and
poverty-a few millions out of n
hundred and twenty; that the religions
OF Russia vary as much as it's popula-
lions; that it's frontier is continually
extending in much the same way as our
Indian frontier, and that the govern
ment of this great empire, as far as
the peasants are concerned, is intelli-
gent and humane"
Our representative was shocked and
astounded at seeing so great a change
in n whom he had always regarded
as the bulwark of constitutional rad
icalism. He had heard of such CONVEX
sions before and of the methods by
which the Russian government brought
them about. But in this case there
had obviously been no employment of
force. Mr.. Lough's countenance for
babe all thought of a Russian dun
geon. So our representative, with an
irrelevant kind of logic, turned the
subject to an inquiry as to the nature
OF Mr.. Lough's tour and the way in
which he had enjoyed it.
Never enjoyed a tour BETTER" said
Mr.. Tough. Gen. Annenkoff, you
know, is such a swell that a special
wagon was attached to every train in
which we travelled, with sitting-rooms,
bedrooms and everything provided as
luxuriously as in a small house. We
lived off the very best, our dinners
every night costing more than FL. At
every provincial capital we were intro
duced to the governors and to all the
sWells of the palce. We saw everything
and drove everywhere. To the gen.
eral every door was opened, and, living
on his estates, we were able to watch
the working of the whole social sys-
TEN. 1t was the same thing with the
army. Gen. Annenkoff is one of the
greatest soldiers in Russia at the pres
ent moment. It was he who modified
the Russian army after the defeat at
Plevna and he who built the Transcas.
plan railway and subdued Bokhara,
Wherever he went he could show us
the troops and the regimental band
would play what tune he pleased"
Our representative began to under.
stand.
well, and did he introduce you tc
many nihilists?
1--WE saw one. She was a young
woman with short hair, smoking a Gig
arctic. She was walking on the plat
form Of a railway station. Gen. An
nenkon nudged me and said Look
There is a nihilist.' / asked him abou
them and he spoke in the most friend
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

Every man who has all the good cards,
imagines that he is playing a deep game.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

A tear in your trousers will never wor1
you as long as you are in ignorance of it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

Everyone possesses just enough conceit
to cause him to talk too much.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
He's the "~Champeen.'

A man in New York has again
proved the casts claim to monopoly Of
culture by eating 103 oysters and
drinking a pint Of sherry at one sit
ting.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

1t is easier to fool the whole world than
to fool three or four kin.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

CASCARETs stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, 1Oc.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

If a woman has whiskers you are no gen
tleman if you see them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

No Stammering Among Savages.
Stammering is almost unknown
among savage tribes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup
For children teething ,~softens the gums, reduces inflam-
nation, allays pain, cures wind collie. Is cents q bottle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

No short man feels comfortable walking
on the streets with a tall woman.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

JUST try q 10c. box of Cascarets, candy cathar.
tic, the finest liver and bowel regulator made
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05

1t is the easiest thing in the world to
become a social chestnut.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-02-05
RUSSIA AS A MODEL.
MISTAKEN IN OUR IDEAS OF
HER GREATNESS.
Happy Nihilists, Contented Jews, HUI
name Treatment of Prisoners-Beaut
full System of Local Government.

Asst summer two
English members
of parliament, Mr..
Kearley and Mr..
Tough, were invit-
ed to visit Russia
by Gen. Annenkoff,
a famous Russian
general and a mem
Der of the council
of war, says the
London Chronicle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04
Of countenance than the one Ju Dun ex

Of countenance than the one Ju Dun ex-
hibited for q model.
"Unless,' - continued the mysterious
voice, you tear up the note which this
young man gave you, give him your
daughter in marriage inside of month
with a suitable dowry and mend your
grasping, blood sucking ways"
These words were enforced with a
few more volts Of electricity.
81 promisel / promised Let me go,
and I will tear up the note and do
everything you command. -
The current was broken off at this
juncture. His bands now being free, Ju
Dun thrust one Of them into his pocket,
brought out tie piece of paper in ques-
tion and tore il into hundreds of frag-
ments with the other Then turning to
Dong, who had been watching the exc
cution Of his scheme in a state of mind
vacillating between hope and fear, he
bade him como to his house on the NOR
row to arrange for the wedding.
Ju Dun oboyed the god s commands
to the very letter and to this day does
not know how he had been tricked. -
ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04
Riding Stang.

a strange custom in the north Of
England on New Years day slightly
resembles the game for Easter week
known as "heaving.' 1t was called
'riding stang" A stang is the same
thing as a cowl staff. A eowl staff is a
big staff for carrying cowl, and a cowl
is water vessel with handle, through
which the staff is passed SO that it may
be carried by two men. Now, on New
Years day as many people as liked,
men and women, came together in a
crowd with stangs and baskets. Every
body who was not with the crowd was
against it--that is to say, was it's legiti-
mate victim. When the victim was
caught, if a man, he was mounted
astride the stang, which was raised on
the shoulders of two or more men, and,
if woman, she was put in basket,
which was held by the stang thrust
through its handles. In either case the
victim was carried to the nearest public
house, where the price of release was
ixpence. New York Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04
NEW YEARS CALLING.
A Good Old Custom That Has Gone with
ByGonc Years.

A Good Old Custom That Has Gone With
Bygonc Years.
The old custom of New Years call
ing, which for many years has been fall
ing into disfavor, seems this year deader
than ever. Except in certain quarters
and among certain classes whose social
canons are neither new nor exacting,
there will be no calling. The doors
Of society will be more tightly shut than
ever tomorrow, and even the daintily
ribboned basket at the doorbell will be
missing, for the whole custom of ex-
changing greetings on the advent of the
New Year is dead beyond the hope of
resuscitation.
And it is an end which no sensible
person regrets. What abuses it led to,
what disgraceful scenes it rendered pos
sible, what social outrages it sanctioned
or tolerated, and how silly and disgust
ing it all became before society resolved
to crush it outi The Life of this deceased
social function may be said to be cock
istent with the life of the republic. AS
it existed in the earlier days it was, no
doubt. both a pleasurable and profitable
custom. 1t had its origin in France, but
bIC CuSlCil upOu
the American social fabric during the
last years of the preceding century.
New York and the cities of the south
were where it was chung to most tena-
ciously. The Puritans of New England
paid little Or no attention to the New
Years amenities. Thanksgiving day was
their day, and they had as little use for
New Years day as for Christmas. And
the same may be said of the Quakers in
Philadelphia, with whom the custom Of
New Year S calling never did obtain gen.
eral or cordial recognition. But among
the descendants of the Dutch in New
York and New Jersey and the cavaliers
of Virginia the social functions of the
new year were never lost sight Of, and
from them the custom spread to all por
tions CT the country. Exchange.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04
A NEW YEARS PRAYER.

/ know little temple.
Its walls are dim and low,
Yet up and down it's darkened aisies
The blessed angels so.
And he who keeps the temple
Should pray to God tonight
That faith may light the altar dame
And hope may keep it bright;
That love may bring the sacrifice
Which love delights to give,
And all the angels innocent
May tarry there to live.
And may no evil spirit
Have in it place or part.
What is this temple beautifully
The temple of the heart.
Youths Companion
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04
BOUNDING THE PARISH.
a Curious Cid Time New Years Custom
OF Great Britain.

a Curious Gid Time New Years Custom
of Great Britain.
Down to the present century a custom
prevailed in many parts of Great Brit
ain of bounding the parishes, or
'beating the bounds" on New Years
day. The custom was designed to keep
in memory the parochial limits, and as
maps had not come into use and surveys
of Great Britain had not been made this
primitive method of preserving parish
boundaries was high in popular favor.
A procession was formed, headed by the
leading dignitaries Of the parish, in
Guiding the vestrymen and sometimes
the parson. Liberal potations were in
dulged in, and q procession was formed
composed of all who wanted to go and
including number of boys who did not
want to go, but were taken per force.
The procession then marched completely
around the parish, and at certain spe-
cific points halt was made, and boy
was whipped to make him rememb Der
the place
Other curious scenes often occurred
during the bound beating" In one
parish, near London, the line ran
through o man S kitchen, and the whole
procession every year came i'll at the
door and went ont by the window. On
one occasion IL London hackney coach
stood directly in the line of the process.
sion, and the entire body of men and
boys went ia at one deer and out at the
other, volunteers holding the horse
while this novel performance went on
and N ocking at the wrath of the un-
lucky driver, who beheld his coach al
most ruined by the tread of hundreds of
muddy feet. Exchange
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-04
A Picture of january.

In the old missals the month of jan
1ary was pictorially represented by a
white haired man clad in furs, bent
with the cold and blowing on his fin
gers to warm them. He is standing al
most knee deep in the snow, and billet
of wood, aud sometimes an ak, is by his
side.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-02-04
Grim es and Criminals.

Sx-Capt. Gullot has been sentenced
to five years in prison for selling mill
tary secrets to foreign powers.
A. ]. Greisbach. Il solicitor for the
publishing house of Appleton < Co.
of New York. by whom he had been
employed over twenty years, ON
United suicide at San Francisco.
Postoffice Inspector McMeechen has
arrested George A. Draper. postmaster
at Cheyenne, and his son, Charles o..
charged with stealing II registered
package containing $500 from the
Chicago mail pouch.
4 French Lick Springs, Ind. advice
a V that section of Indiana is greatly
excited over the double murder of =.
Kirby and his wife, two of the most
prominent and highly respected people
of that county.
Edwin LandOn. b~ookkncpcr for the
Marion lnd.D Deposit company, which
failed some time ago. has been arrest
ed on the charge of embcZZlcment. At
the time of the failure it was diScOv-
cred that Landon was short in his ac-
counts about $1,000.
Little Pete the most noted China
man in San Francisco, was murdered
by his co%untrymen in Chinatown. He
was sitting i'm a chair in n Chinese bar
Der shop when three Cinnamon entered
and shot him. The murderers were ar
rested. 1t is supposed they were high
binders, hired to do the job.
Warden Stout, of the prison at Au-
burn. \. Y, made a statement of the
burning to death of a Convict in the
prison. The man was James McTaige.
He had struggled naptha into his cell,
which he was using for cooking pur-
poses. An explosion occurred. and the
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-02-04
pcouIc Talked About.

Surgeon General McParlin. I. :. ~,
rotired. died ut Annapolis at an ad-
NHuCed age.
The Rev. Harrison C~lOSSon, n prom
inpnt retired UniverSallSt clergyman. Is
dead. aged SiXty-cight years.
Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith is lying
at the point of death in st. Louis from
Il stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. !. l.. Flood. wife of the million
aire. died ut San Francisco of pneu-
mOnia.
Lieut.. Col. Michael V. Sheridan. sta
toned at st. Paul. will be promoted to
colonel rs n result of the retirement OF
Col. O. ID. Greene. stationed at Il
Francisco.
Mrs. Anna Allen. reputed to he the
wealthieSt woman in st. Louis, who
died in Pittsfield, Mass. is said to have
left no will. Her estate is said to be
worth S10,O00,OOO.
Oscar A. Baker of Davenport. Iowa.
is dead. aged 81 years. He was Il son
of Col. Samuel A. Baker. aide-de-ramp
and interpreter for Gen. Lafayette. II
was one of the oldest members of he
Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
Edward J. Ivory. alias Bell. acqult-
ted of a charge of completely in ii dy-
Mantle conspiracy. and John +. Mcln'
tyre. formerly assistant district attor-
ncy in New York. VINO came to london
in his defense, sailed for New York.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-02-04
Foreign Gossip.

At the suggestion of the governor
general of Canada. the Dominion GoN-
heads the list with $1,000.
1t is announced that 2,Oo0,00O per-
sons are now employed upon the re-
lief works in the famine stricken dis
tricts Of India.
The London Times that
Emperor William of Germany has al-
pointed Ben Parker of Southampton to
command his yacht. the Meteor.
The English court circular announces
that the car is enjoying excellent
health. and that the reports OF his i'll
health are ~unfOunded.
There has been IL severe storm III
the Gulf Of CadiZ and twenty-four fish
ing boats have been lost near san
Lucas.
A Rome dispatch to the London
Daily Mail says that the pope Is con
sidering the compromise clauses Of the
Manitoba school question.
SPANS fastest and strongest iron
clad, the Carlos Quinto. which was con-
Structed at CadiZ At Il private yard. out
Of entirely national material, and was
launched twenty months ago. has been
completed and sent to Carthagena to
he docked for the finishing touches.
y dispatch to the London Times
from TpherUn. Persia. reports that
LOO bodies have been recovered from
Tie ruins which resulted from The re-
c@nt earthquake on the island of
KiSm III the Persian gulf. the inhaDi-
tants of which are estimated TO number
nearly 5000, mostly Arabs.