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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-30
Nn. nn. CORNER F0UsHEE AND BROAD North sIae.

Cali and see our low prices We have OF tie largest
rents Of Furniture the city, and prices suit Tie times Get
prices before buying and will Goods sold on
payments or liberal discount for cash. Special attention given to
al uai
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-30

WASHINGTON RUEEAU. ANGUS NC
SWEEN MANAGER. WASH
lNGION. j.. a..
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-30

pETERSBURG AGENT J. 4. MADISON
III IONIINGIHOOK STREET.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-30
Taking the Cen>u,

Taking the Census
Chicago now claims 10000 inhabn-
outlying swamps.-Clevoilnd Leader.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-30
TIMES BUILDING.
TENTH AND BANh STREETS

MANCHESTER BUREAU. liI HULL
STREET.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-30
AN OPEN e: Err
To MOTHERS.

WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO TIE
aEcLUslyE USE OF TUE WORD "CASTORIA," AND
PITCHERS CASTORIA.0 AS OUR TRADE MARX.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
COREAN PAPER.
1t Is Better Than Thnt of China oI
Japan.

1t Is Better Than Tint of China OF
japan.
The statement is made by writer
in the Apotheker Zeitung that re-
nlarllable kind of paper is produced in
Corea entirely by manual labor and
without the use of machinery. Its quail
ity excels that of the very best made
in China or Japan. The raw material
used for this paper is obtained from
the bark of Broussonetia papyrifera,
which is collected in the spring and
beaten in water containing Il large adj
mixture cf wood ashes, until reduced to
thick pulp; this is taken in large ladies'
and spread upon frames of bamboo,
and in this way formed into thin sheets.
Another kind of paper is produced
from old scraps trodden into pulp,
much in the same way that grape juice
is expressed in some countries pro-
cess of pulping which, though slow, has
the advantage of not breaking the fiber
so much as when machinery is used;
then, after the pulp has been made into
paper, the sheets are piled up to the
height of six feet and cut into pieces,
to be again subjected to the feet stamp
ing-at the same time the roots and
seeds of the plant called ''tackpoui' are
added, the soluble parts of which are
supposed to give tenacity and tough
ness to the paper.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
TREE CHANGES ITS QUARTERS.
So Large 1t Took Three Weeks to
Move 1t Fifty Feet.

So Large 1t Took Three Weeks to
Move 1t Fifty Feet.
An unusual feat in the transplanting
line was accomplished recently here,
says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. An elm
tree so feet high and with a trunk is
inches in diameter, with roots and all,
was moved so feet. The tree is the
property of Mrs. William Thaw, and
stood on the line of the Beechwood
boulevard, where it traversed Mrs.
Thaw's property at Fifth avenue near
Shady avenue.
Mrs. Thaw desired to save the tree,
and Contractor John Eichleay under
took to move it. A circular trench
was dug around the tree at a distance of
ten feet from the trunk. At depth
of six feet the worltmen eNcavated un-
der the tree, bracing the earth above
with timbers. The mass of earth, 20
feet across and six feet deep, in which
were imbedded the tree and its roots,
was then boxed in with planks. Screws
were placed beneath, the whole mass
raised and placed on rollers and moved
so feet to where the great hole had been
prepared for its reception. 1t was low
cred into place, earth filled in as the
screws were removed, and it stood as
firm as if it had grown there.
The tree was maintained in an up
right position by the weight of earth
at the roots. The whole mass weighed
20 tons. The work occupied about
three weeks, and n number of photo
graphs of the tree while IN transit were
taken
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
FIFrY-six is a FATAL AGE.

Many distinguished Men Have Died
at Two Score and Sixteen Years.
Among the men and women OF genius
there seems to be astrange fatality con
nected with the age of Sc. Some of the
most renowned characters of the world
have died on reaching that limit, includ-
ing Dante, the italian poet; Hugh Ca
pet, king of France; Henry VIII, king
of England; Henry ", emperor of Ger
many; Paganini, italian violiniSt; Alex
ander Pope, the English poet; George
Sala, English orientalist; Marcus Au-
relius, emperor of Rome; Frederick l.,
king of Prussia; John Hancock, Ameri-
can statesman; Maria Louisa, empress
of France; Phillip Messenger, English
dramatist; Saladin, the great sultan of
Egypt; Robert Stephenson, English en-
gineer; Scipio Africanus, Roman gen
eral; Helvetius, French philosopher and
author; Henry IL, the first of the Plan
tagenet line; the elder Pliny, Roman
naturalist and author; Julius Caesar,
Charles Kingsley, English author; Juan
.Prim, Spanish general and statesman;
Henry Knox, American revolutionary
general; Thomas MifIlin, American pa
triot; Won Trornp, Dutch admiral;
Abraham Lincoln; Marryat, the novel
list; George Whitefield, English founder
of Calvinistic NIethodism; Robert Dud-
ley, earl of Leicester, favoritc of Queen
Elizabeth; Johann Casper Spurzheim,
German physician and phrenoloGist,
and Frederick IL, emperor of Germany.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
HIS SWEET INNOCENCE.
The Girls Didn't know That He Wa
an 0Id-TImcr.

The Girls Didn't Know That He Was
an 0Id-TImcr.
A young man leaned up against the
counter of a branch telegraph office
where two pretty young ladies are EN-
ployed as telegraphers, says an eN-
change. He had been chatting with
them for about an hour, but had forgot
ten to say that at one period of his life
he himself had been an operator. Dur
ing a lull in the conversation one of the
young ladies' "opencd" her key and said
to the other:
What do YOU think of mis- nibs at
the counter?"
Don't think much of him. was the
reply. "Why?"
"Oh, he makes me tired-he talks like
a parrot"
"He makes me tired, too-wish he
would sneak
The young man broke in at this juno
ture and said: Ladies, 1 thank you
for the compliments you have bestowed
upon me, and as you are tired of my
company I'll sneak
The numerous colors of the rainbow
would not be sufficient to describe the
changes that took place in the young la
dies faces. There is a moral attached
to this tale, and young ladies in branch
offices and elsewhere would do well to
take heed.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
LIVED ON The FAT oF THE LAND.

Ancient ROmnns Could Eat the
Choicest DeIIcacics of the World.
When at it's zenith the Roman empire
laid all the barbaric countries of the
world under contribution to supply the
tables of its mobiles and wealthy citizens
with the fine luXuries of life, says Lip
pincott's Magazine. Asia and Africa
poured in the rich spices and fruits of
the tropics; Germany and the great
north countries raised the grains and
wild berries; Italy and the fertile land
of the Franks cultivated the vineyards
to make or express the wines; every
strip of sea coast from the Mediterra-
mean to the Baltic contributed its quota
of fish, and the forests of Brittany yield
ed the wild game of the woods-birds,
beasts and fowls-for the ban9uets of
the proud, dissolutc rulers of the vast
empire. With the choice products of a
great world SO easily obtained there
We're wanton waste, foolish eXtrava-
gance and n strange disregard of the
value of expensive luxuries, and the his
torian dwelling upon these times de-
lights in recapitulating the various
articles of diet arranged in tempting
manner upon the groaning tables at the
great feasts and banquets.
But, excepting Nero's dish of peacock
tongues and Cleopatra's cup of wine
with the dissolved pearls in it, the menu
of our modern banquets would compare
favOrably with those spread in the
times when gluttony, hcentiousnessa and
greed for luxury were insidiously sap
ping the strength of Rome. Z
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
CHINESE LOVE LETTER.
The Celestial Youths Father Attend
to the Correspondence.

The Celestial YOuth's Father Attends
to the correspondence.
Here is a good sample of n love-malS-
ing missive from the Flowery kingdom.
1t is from a man who desired the daugh-
ter of n neighbor as a wife for his son:
"On my knees 1 beg you not to de
spisc this cold and common request,
but listen TO the words of the mat
rimonial agent, and give your daugh-
ter to the slave of Il son, SO that the
pair, bound by the sillIen threads,
may have the greatest joy. In the beau
tiful springtime / shall offer we'd
ding presents and give couple of
geese. And let us hope for long and
continuous fortune and look forward
through endless generations to the full
fillment of genuine love. May they
sing of plenty and have every joy. On
my knees I beg you to consider my
proposal favorably, and throw the
mirror-like glance of your eyes upon
these lines"
To this letter the father of the bride
replied that he would attend to the pol'-
ton of his poor and poverty-stricken
daughter, that she might not be with
out bedclothes, cotton clothing, hair
pins and earrings. Therefore it was
to be hoped that the couple would have
constant fortune"
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
FROM THE PAGES OF ROMANCE.
Many Geographical Names Taken
from Noted Works of Eicfion

Many Geographical Names Taken
from Noted Works of Fiction.
America can show many geographic
al names taken from novels, says the
San Francisco Argonamt. California
comes frsm the name of a fairy king
dom in a Spanish romance of the
early sixteenth century. The Antilles
take their name from Antiglia, an
imaginary island figuring in Italian
legends connected with the wanderings
of St. Brendan, and marked in the lati-
tude of the SargaSso sea on Catalan and
Genoese Portulani of the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries. Montreal is
by some said to take its name from n
legendary castle mentioned in French
romances of a very early date. The is
land of Barataria, lineally descended
from Sancho Panza's imaginary gov
ernorShip, also figures on the maps of
Louisiana, while it is a. moot question
whether the strait of Juan De Fuca does
not take its name from a historical
geographical romance, u la Rider Hag-
gard, devised by Greek sailor of Queen
Elizabeth's day for the benefit of her
maiesty's resident at Venice and his
own pocket. Il Brazil'' is found in
early Irish legend as an island in the
Atlantic, and it is n moot question
whether the empire of Brazil derives it's
name from this creation of Celtic fancy
or from wood from which a dye resem-
bling in color burning cinders was
made
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
MArcH.MAklNca In JAPAN.
The Most SISinfuI EVOrfaers in III
World and thc Pooressa E'nii.

The Most SISiIlfuI WOrf1erS in the
World and thc Poorest Paid.
The competition of japanese matches
is already being severely fe!tin Europe
an markets, says the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. After supplying the home mar
ket, the japanese send 100000, 600 box
es to the rest of the world. mostly, how
ever, to Asia. This has destroyed the
European match trade in India, China
and Hong Kong. but so far it has not af-
fected the trade in America to any ex-
tent. That it will shortly do so. how
ever, is. in the opinion of Robert p. Por-
ter, certain. Mr.. Porter says that dur
ing his stay in Japan on an official in
veStigation the output of at least one
large match concern at Osaka was Sc
cured by an American syndicate. Osaka
produced last year 10O,O00,000 dozen
boxes of matches employing 3,G29 men
and 9,711 women to say nothing of the
innumerable children who earn a few
sen per day in the work. One of the
largest factories employs $500 hands.
The sticks are cut by machinery. They
are sifted into little boxes by women
and collected and put in frames by tiny
waits of children, some of whom are
under ten. The sulphur and parafline
are put on by hand presses and then
dried in the sun. The boxes are made
and the labels put on by little girls,
whose fingers are so nimble that the
human eye is incapable of following
their movements as the purple and yell
low boxes drop, more than one a second,
into the huge baskets at their sides.
Over 10 hours day these little crea-
lures labor for wages which range from
one cent to five cents of our money.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
A COYOTE HUNT IN SECTIONS.
Three Sets of Dogs Tired Out Before

Three Sets of Dogs Tired Out Before
the Game Was Finally Run Down.
Big Alf Redwood, as he is called, is q
ranchman living in Mctcalf valley, Col,
says the New York Sun. He asked some
friends in the east recently TO get him
good pack of English foXhounds.
Coyotes, he said, were eating him out of
lambs and chickens, and he wanted
to drive the beasts out of the country.
Guns, native dogs. poisons and traps
had all failed to accomplish the pur-
pose. in due time ) foXhounds ar
rived at the ranch, and u week later,
when they were thoroughly rested, Red
wood started out 10 try them. He tells
his experience to Il New York friend in
a letter as follows:
"We jumped one, and away went the
dogs lickety -scoot, and yelping to make
the cacti dance. They yelped all day,
and next morning l found them lying
down on tine trail of the coyote, less
than half a mile from the ranch house.
Their feet were sore, and carted them
in on a blackboard. 1t was u month
before they got in shape again. Thea
/ took three of The dogs and started the
same coyote. The three dogs circled
with him around the ranch, going bQHt
five hours. Then l went out with
four dogs and called off the three, and
set the four after the beast. Away they
went, and about dark 1 started four
others. They ran till morning, and then
started the last four. The coyote saw
the fresh dogs coming, for he had
stopped, but he didn't stop long. The
four dogs were the biggest and ugliest
in the lot-Reg, MART Set and Kineo.
They sailed forth after the coyote, and
it took q straIghtawaY course not cir
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
NnunI to the Occnsion.

1t is told of an old Baptist parson,
famous in Virginia, that he once visited
plantation where the colored servant
who met him at the gate asked which
barn he would have his horse put in.
'IIave you two barns?" asked the doc
tor. ''Yes, sah," replied the servant;
''dar's de ole barn, and Mas'r Wales has
jcs built new one" where do you
usually put the horses of clergymen who
come to see your master?" well, sab,
if dey's Methodist or Baptist we genial
ly puts 'em in de ole barn, but if dey's
'Piscopals we put 'em in de new one.''
"Well, Bob, you can put my horse in the
new barn; I'm q Baptist, butmy horse
is an EPiscopalian." P --
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
other persons interested In the estate of
Annie T.. Fox, deceased, that the undersigned
administrator will apply to make final settle
ment of said estate, at the May term, 1897, of
the probate court of Lafayette county, Mis-
court room, in the city of Lexington, on the
second Monday in May, 1887.
s. n. WILSON,
Host Public Administrator.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
FINAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
other persons Interested in the estate ol
Charles Erskine, deceased, that the under
signed administrator will apply to make n final
settlement of said estate ut the May term
1885,, of the probate court of Lafayette
county, Missouri, to be begun and held al
the probate court room. in the city of LeXing.
ton, Lafayette county, Missouri, ON the second
Monday in May, 1897.
LEE BLAKEMORE
4-lO-Jt Administrator.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
other persons Interested In the estate of Samuel
Smith, deceased, that the undersigned admin
istrator will apply to make n final settlement
of said estate, at the May term, 1897, of the
room, in the city of Lexington, on the second
Monday in May, 1897.
WILLIAM A. DRYSDALE,
s-In5t Administrators
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
FTNAT, SFTTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
other persons interested In the estate of Will
liam B. Steele, deceased, that the undersigned
administrators will apply to make final settle
ment of said estate, ut the May term, 1897, of
the probate court of Lafayette county, Mis-
souri, to be begun and held at the probate
court room, in the city of Lexington, on the
second Monday in May, 1897.
Mamie G. STEELE,
4-IO-5t Administrators.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
FTNAT, SETTL,EMENT.

Notice is hereby given TO all creditors and
other persons interested in the estate of David
Groves and Jesse l.. Groves, partnership that
the undersigned surviving partner will apply
to make Il final settlement of said estate, at the
May term, 1897, of the probate court of Lafay-
ette county, Missouri, To be begun and held at
the probate court room, in the city 70 Lexing-
ton, ON the second Monday in May, 1897.
JESSE l.. q GRONES,
lots Surviving Partner.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
Through n Small Hole.

A female burglar, 21 years of age, re-
Gently sent to Jail in London, was proved
to have worked her way through an
opening 9H inches square, and on
previous occasion had wriggled through
a hole eight inches square.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
ON US.
M IN UT E
COUCH CURE

cures quickly. That is what it was
made for. Prompt, safe, sure, quick
relief; quick cure. Pleasant to take.
Children like it and adults like it.
Mothers buy it for their children.
Prepared by e. O. Dewitt a Co., makers of
De Wits Little Early Rissrs, the famous
NktlA Mills.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24

cling any more. The dogs overtooll
the beast II miles away, on Hcnry's
ranch, and killed it. I haven't seen
coyote here since"
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
/. F. WILSON.
NEW FIRM
FRANK TRIGG. B.F. EATON
TRIGG & EATON,
Successors to W. X. TriPg.

Keep all kinds of Groceries.
Country produce bought and sold.
Low prices and fair dealing.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24

This grandly bred stallion will make
the present season at my stable, six miles
south of Lexington, on the Columbus
road, at so to insure mare in foal.
DESCRIPTION.
Mercantile is bright bay. 164 hands
high; sired by Merchant 500 (the sire of
Nettlewood, 1G:4, and Cold Wave, the
handsOmest carriage horse in America;
took second premium at Madison Square
Garden, New York, last fall). First dam
the dam of Ellington, 2:2j, by AlmOnt
Pilot 1853, sc.
This is decidedly the best stallion
before the public in this county, as
sire of large and fine carriage horses
the kind that are now i'll great demand.
Also at same stable splendid Jack,
at Sc to insure 4-10-l0t
+ WI SON
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
Walter B. WaddeII
LEXINGTON, MO.
BREEDER OF 90
Pure Bred

Hereford CNtfIe.
The Largest Herd in the county and
as good as in the Central West.
Particular attention invited to the
uniformly high character of my cows
and heifers, which are from the follow
ing sires:
Druid 1888.
ROsalind 5lSiO.
Don Carlos 1874, Second premium
worlds fair.
Don QuiXotte 37205.
Spartacus 5lSi2
Lamplighter jlS34, first premium at
worlds fair).
Chesterfield 56697
IIes.uu I'd 40679.
Chief stock srr In service Senator
66694, by Beau Blummell 5lSl7.
For Sale--TwO bulls ready for service
and others for contract.
3-27-1y w. b. WADDELL.
The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
RXf0uToR,s N0TInR.

Letters of testamcntary on the estate of
Alfred L. Lewis, deceased. were granted To
the undersigned on the fiffh day of April.
lsJ7. by the probate court of Lafay ycite county,
NJ iSsOuri.
All persons having claims against said estate.
are required to exhibit them for allowance to
the executor within one year after the
date OF said letters or they may be DFeciuded
from any benefit of such estate; and if such
claims he not exhibited within two yeurs from
the date of said letters they Will lie forever
barred
This ffth day OF April, 1897
KICHAhD e. BOOTON,
GEORGE W. KING,
4lOt5 Executors.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-19
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. G.. w. Westbrook ON yesterday
shipped twenty-three boxes of green
corn to the northern markets. This is
the first shipment of corn this season, as
far as we have heard. Wilmington Mes
senger.
/ Our townman, Hon. f. \. Woodland
has been deservedly honorcd in recelv-
ing an invitation from the New YORK
City Tammany Hall organization to de-
liver an address before that body on
July 4th.-Wilson Advance.
Prof. J. b. Brewer and family left
this week for Wake Forest, where they
will reside. During their long resi-
dence here they have been held in the
highest esteem by our people and the best
wishes of the entire town go with them
-Murfreesboro Index.
4 Raleigh telegram TO the Baltimore
Sun SAYS: at is stated by well-informed
negroes that 10000 voters of their race
are Disguised with Republicanism as IL
Illustrated by Governor Russell and are
ready to cooperate with Democrats If
the latter will recognize them as to the
Offices"
The Times is pleased to note that Rev.
Forrest Smith, of Murfreesb0ro, Tennes-
see, has accepted the pastorate of the
Baptist church in Lonisburg. Mr.. Smith
was here Sunday before last and preach
ed two "trial sermons" which were heard
by large congregations Our Baptist
friends were highly pleased and at once
called him. Mr.. Smith is graduate of
Jackson University of Tennessee, and
has taken a three years course in the
Theological Seminary of Louisville, Ken
lucky, and has the reputation of being
strong man. He win arrive here in time
to preach his first sermon the third Sun
day in July.-Louisburg Times.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-19
A NOVEL SUGGESTION.

Rev. DR.. w. s. Greasy, of Winston,
has created no little CONSERVATION among
the counting folks in Winston. The Sen
tinel tells of a suggestion made by DR..
Greasy as follows:
''In his Sunday night sermon DR..
Greasy referred to the newspaper prac-
tice of printing the names of attendants
upon dances and pointed out how
the people of the world commented upon
the fact that often in these lists were
the names of protesting Christians. In
this connection the doctor made the no.
vel suggestion that when there are
young lady visitors in the city the news
papers state what church they attended
the previous Sunday, together with
their escorts. The Sentinel cheerfully
opens its columns to such reports, if the
good doctor and the other ministers will
see that they are furnished"