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EXHIBIT ON WHEELS.
sEApoARD AIRLINE INTRODUCES
SOME INNOVATIONS.
TRAVELLING TRAINING SCHOOL.
Farmers 10 he Instructed How Hest
10 Utilize Their Products-A Church
On wheeIs-Colonel Il. j. Ander-
sons Unique Ideas.

The Seaboard-Air Line Is always on
the lookout for something that will re-
dound to its benefit, and Colonel Thomas
]. Anderson, its hustling general passen-
ger agent, Is continually making inno-
yations in ralroading. all Of them being
original with him.
In q recent issue. the New Orleans
CLa) Sunday States prints the follow
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of Chicago Platform.

BUFFALO. n. Y, July 3.-The Demo
crat General Committee of Erie county
met in this city to-day and by unani-
nous resolution declared in favor Of
reaffirming devotion to the principles Of
the Democratic party. as enunciated by
the national convention held in Chicago
Ia st JulV
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,,rs weatherford's Musicale.

Corcoran Hall was well-nigh filled on
Tuesday night with the pupils OF MIS-
Weatherford's music class. and their pa
rents and friends. y lengthy and varied
programme was presented. which was
creditably executed. Professor Crowiy
presented gold medal TO each OF the
following young ladies': Pearl
wade. Annie Gale. Mamie Rich, Eva Ell
l,nctor. and May Belle Tyler. On behalf OF
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$4,000 Worth of shoes mt Cut Prices.
Eed-Letter Sale Now Going on at
sDhe Model

II you are getting reaGy to 90 away,
or IL you contemplate staying in town.
take peep in the Model Shoe. Store and
5oe the extraordinary Red-Letter Cut
Sale going on--the old prices in s.ack
the cut prices In red. See what you can
save: Baskets OF slippers and Ox<ords
at IS. 40. and s5c, besides $1,000 fash
ionable footwear at sacrifice.
THE MODEL,
COZ Bread street.
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Norfolk ana Roanoke Convention.

NORFOLK, VA, July S.-(Sp ecial.)-
Norfolk will not hold primaries for the
selection of delegates 10 the Roanoke
convention. The City Executive Commit
tee tonight appointed the 1ith instant as
the date for holding ward meetings for
the purpose A further effort will prob
ably be made to have primaries.
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Orders for printing sent to the Dispatch
Company win be given prompt attention.
and the style OF work and nriees viii be
sure to please you.
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the Richmond Musical Club, Mrs. Wea-
therford presented the following named
scholars gold medals for proficiency i'm
studies: Sallie Kaufelt, Sadie Werner,
Carrie Phillips, Rosie Singer, Linwood
Grubbs, Annie Gogan, Irwin Rice. Bessie
Meoni, Bessie Lindsay. Hazel Herbert,
Annie Smith. and Mamie Smith.
Mrs. Weatherford was the recipient OF
a handsome diamond ring, as a present
from her pupils.
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ground. Mr. wilkinson was about 20
years OF age, and well-known IN Man
chester, where he once lived.
lie leaves wife and the following sons.
Mr.. w. II. Wilkinson, Of Manchester;
MIR. Thomas Wilkinson, OF Richmond, and
Mr.. Charles Wilkinson, OF Chesterfield.
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4THOFJULY
AnluScmcntS
XT
NEW RESERVOIR PARK.
Boating and Fishing
From the Boats.

During the last few days the
Lake has been cleaned out and all
that Objectionable grass and I'M
slightly foam removed therefrom,
and filed up with clean, fresh wa
ter. The Water Flower Garden, in
the rear of the Pavilion, is stocked
with the choicest Water Lilies of
all colors-red, white, blue, pink,
and yellow-and alone worth the
pay of a visit to the Lake.
thinner RefreShment Pavilion
is stocked with the choicest re-
freshments of the season. The
Lake, since cleaned out, has not
presented such a beautiful appear
ance for the last ten years.
t!y 4-"D
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Old papers for sale at the D'''s'''
once.
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roo LATE roR CLASSIFICATION.

lost FRIDAY EVENING on CLAY
street between Adams and fifss =
gIAcK ENAMELLED BROOCH ~ ~
set in small diamonds and surrcu az -
with braided gold band. Reward
turned to No. west CLAY street " -
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s,s,snt Apoly. with references; at one
.ShiOI," BOX 45s. Fredericksburg,
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$6.$8!:5!::

IS dozen Mems Negligee
Shirts, the 81 and s1.25 kind,
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INC result is that the wIndlesa ,tself hoa
NV become a magnet. and tho noett,yo
.nus or poles, being very near each othcr
'hey try TO get out of each o,ho,,s go.
ana so the windlass turns. Th,s "a no
motor. and while I'm IT'S simplest asnec, Is
'ne very same which makes electric ran
ways possible. e'''0 '"''-
HOW THE CAR is MOVED.
In the street-car system. al each end or
the windlass, is a wheel whose co0s ~
INTO those OF larger wheel on tho came
axle as That on the street rail. a separote
ana olsunct motor being used for each
"Nie OF inc car truck The currpnt comes
aohg the wire overhead. Is conducted
uoWh the trolley-pole 10 the motors inst
as from the battery; the windlass turns.
ana with II the wheels and the car he
comes thing alive.
Now comes one Of tho nrottics, ~,,,
gestions IN the study OF electric n,s
Di'inery-'hat something which gene
ia'es the current sent along the lino-wjre
IN me motor. giving It motion and lie
Is Hsei OF the motor, as Is the ball OF
'he socket-a different phase Of the sa,ne
thlng. For this IS the case. that. II no
current came along the overhead wire
10 the motor, but. mean while. the wind
lass he turned In its place under the car.
current VIII flow from what was once
motor up and along the wire from
which before II received its moving
spirt-and this motor becomes n dynamo.
And now, thinking Gods thoughts after
Him. II becomes al plain. that. at tho
power-house, steam IS applied to the
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i 4
But there is stnl another application in
everyday life Of electric peculiarities
which is even more simple than the tele-
phone and has been much longer in use
the telegraph, or writing at a distance"
When a certain principle which has
been limited at before. is known, the
mighty telegraphic system. which belts
the globe and makes next-door neighbors
of all mankind. become the Jest of a
child. When an electric current is sent
through a piece Of soft iron, this iron be-
comes a magnet so long as the current is
passing, but IS as before when the passage
ceases. The operator sits in his Office,
and near him lies a wire, through which
a current Is passing. He takes this wire
and touches it to another which runs
miles and miles away, and terminates
usually i'm a coil of soft iron wire, which
has over it an iron lever, which is sus-
pended by a spring. The current now
comes along this wire, making this wire
coil a magnet. the lever is pulled down
to ii with n sharp click, and dot is
made. If the operator at the starting
point does not cut off the current at
once, the dot becomes a dash" and
with these dots and dashes for an alpha
bet a lady's hand may send a message
ana lndL lazy ear receive IL Wnen IL mas
passed around the gloOe.
Resting on the same principle IS the
fre-alarm system, now used everywhere
in large cities. All the boxes on a street
are connected by a single wire, and this
wire, returning TO the central office
through the cottage-shaped stations on
a neighborng street is used for even
other purposes-forming a return cir
cult" a current is kept constantly
flowing through this wire and at each
box there is a branch wire terminating
in little copper brush. This brush IS,
in fact, a spring. with the loose end fit
ting closely over solid cylinder, which
is permitted to revolve. This cylinder.
spring, and the wire, passing to the CEN
trail alarm office, are all connected. The
wire terminates i'm a coil Of soft iron
wire and near this coil IS the tongue
Of the alarm bell. supported by a spring.
The officer who sees the fire runs TO the
nearest box, opens the outer door, and
reads the instructions-"Pull the lever
once and let CO." This lever releases
. spring, which in turn causes the cylin-
der TO revolye. Upon this cylinder are
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hhe-wire, and through II the message
goes 10 the receiver OF another instru-
ment But this receiver is made Just
exactly IKE the transmitter. There IS
tne magnetic rod. with the wire coil on
It's end, and just beyond and outward
Is the IRON plate. The current generated
at the speakers transmitter makes the
coll Just as strong a magnet as II itself
IL. so the iron plate is attracted or re-
PEELED, just as much as Is the motion OF
the plate, which vibrates with the speak
er's voice.
SO, then. the receiver Is bound TO re-
cord at the other end OF the wire just the
same vibrations given TO the transmitter
by the speaker. and 1t becomes an ac-
tuality that not only is the voice heard,
but that Of a friend easily recognized so
faithful is the sound transmitted.
on account Of the resistance offered 10
the electric current by a wire by this
simpler means the current generator is
too weak for great distances, and 20
battery is now used and the line wire IS
always live, the current arising from the
vibration serving merely to vary its
strength. which. as is easily seen, does
not at all effect the results.
In the Bell telephone system all the
wires terminate at a central office. and
the speaker asks that his phone be con-
nected with that of the person to whom
he wishes 10 speak. There is no difference
between the ordinary and the "long-dis-
tancs phone other than that I'm the lat
ter a stronger current is used, with more
delicate plates.
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holds by lis magnetic course the tongue
OF the bell from it's bowl. loses IT'S at
tractive strength. and the gong Is sound
ed each time the current is broken,
striking the number of the box. Tho
Superintendent locates the fire, and In
the same way notifies the different en-
gine-houses.
HEATING AND LIGHTING.
There are two other applications OF
the electric current, which are seen
every day. which depend mainly on me-
chanical causes. These are heating and
lighting. Heating by electricity which
has been a thing practical for only. a
few years, IL the outcome OF an ear
mark which stamps for the subtle fluid
n material existence. that I'm passing
through wire II encounters resistance,
which Increases as the wire becomes
smaller. In the heating arrangement
there is q succession of coils Of fine
wire. and through these coils is forced
an electric current. The resistance man
ifests itself I'm heat, just as the continual
blows of the hammer will make the an
vii hot In lighting there are two COM
NOR systems-the arc and the mean
descent
The arc lights are used mostly In light
ing streets and large public buildings.
and. very simple in arrangement. gives
the most powerful artificial light known.
The wire along which the current IL sent
passes out from the dynamo Of the
power-house, and when it has fed it's
system of lights returns again upon it
self. This wire IS broken in the lamp
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DEATHS.

GIIL.-Entered into rest, Friday, Janu-
ary %. 1897 after a long and painful Ill
ness. MARIA l.. GILL; In the 5Sth year
OF her age.
She leaves a husband and five children
to mourn their sad loss.
The funeral will take place from her
late residence Charles City county, Va,
SUNDAY, January 3lst, at p. NJ.
KENDRICK.-Died. in Washington, d.
c.. on Tuesday January 9th, Mrs.
ANNA KENDRICK. relict of William
Meade Kendrick, in the 18th year OF her
age.
Her remains were brought to this city
and inferred in Hollywood Saturday
morning
MARTIN.-Died, January 29th. at the
residence of her son-in-law, No. 1llS west
Main street. Mrs. EMMA Il. MARTIN,
I'm the 18th year OF her age.
Funeral from the residence THIS Sun
dav) AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock.
Baltimore sun please copy.
NAI,LISTER.- Died. January %, 1881,
at 3 o'clock p. NJ. az her residence. near
Ashland. Va, Mrs. MARY a. MALLS
TER. wife of f. l.. McAllister, in the
sgth year Of her age.
Funeral will take place from her late
residence SUNDAY MORNING at il
o'clock.
O'SULIIVAN.-Died, January -, 1897.
nj the residence Of his mother. No. ia
north Twentieth street, p. W. O'SULII-
VAN. in the 18th year of his age.
Funeral SUNDAY AFTERNOON at st.
Patrick's church at 3 o'clock. It
RHODES. Died, ut the residence OF
his parents, No. 503 Randolph street,
Friday. January 18th. at $3.50 A. NJ.
ROLLIE HILLSNAN. infant son or
Mamie p. and S. Jackson Rhodes; aged
years. 2 months, and days
Funeral THIS Sunday AFTERNOON,
at 23O o'clock, from Randolph-Street
BAPTIST church. Friends and acquaint-
onces invited to attend without further
notice Interment at Riyer-View Gene
terry.
STANARD.-Died, at Goshen, ROCK
bridge county. Va. January q, 1871.
Mrs ROSE CHRISTIAN, widow or
Major Philip 3. Stanard.
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The "Aggregate Mind.v

Hartford COurdnt)
The modern scientific equivalent for the
familiar expression, THE average man."
is the aggregate mind" That's what
psychological students call IT. and they
are trying TO ascertain its laws-the laws
OF "mob psychology" to use another
term. With this intention, a student OF
psychology in one of our colleges sent out
a series Of nineteen printed questions TO
be answered by those whose opinion was
worth while. In the little Boston month
ly called Expression " these questions
are given with the replies made by Le-
lend r. Powers. the wel-known public
reader. Mr. Powers was selected as zone
Of the only class that can give the re-
quired data"
Some of the replies are very interest
ing. 1.-THE mind Of an audience" saws
Mr. Powers, sis made up Of the individual
minds of the auditors run together into
an aggregate mind Not an average
mind such as might be represented by
the sum of the individual minds divided
by the number of auditors present; but
rather, a common mind made up Of those
characteristics which are common 10 all
the individual minds present in the audi-
ence. from the most uncultured 10 the
most cultivated" This is much better
than the usual talk about the average"
in which a sallacy always turks. Mr.
Powers finds the common characteristics
to be ''youthfIlness, credulity optimism.
love Of justice. and fair play. belief I'm
ideals" He thinks that earnest absorb
ton In the theme is the speakers surest
hold on his hearers. The Imagination
and emotions play a large part in tho
workings of this aggregate mind" the
argumentative, reasoning faculties decid-
edly less. He says that, while the Tag
gregate mind Is not SO intellectual OF
discriminating" as some individual minds
I'm the audience, II is more idealistic."
Prejudice, partisan feeling, local pride.
influence it strongly; but. on the other
hand. 1.-THE moral standard Of an audi
ence is high and unselfsh."
These conclusions OF one who has de-
rived them from a long. practical expe-
Renee are Of genuine Psychological value.
and especially significant in their impli
cation that people In mass are In some i'm
rortant respects different from the indi-
xidual minds making II up. In some ways
an audience is an instrument. which.
when played upon. responds more readily
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and a strip Of carbon IS attached to the
end, while a like piece begins the other
end. The sharpened points of these car
bons. which are employed instead of
metals, because they resist the intense
heat of the current with less waste. are
placed just so close as not TO touch, but
TO permit the current to flow continuously
from one to the other. In passing from
the carbon the great heat developed by
the current burns of fine particles Of the
carbon, and these are heated to glaring
Wilderness. These particles are often
lodged upon the opposite carbon In forms
resembling warts. This carbon point
takes the current and carries it on to the
next lamp. This is the arc light entirely.
except In practical use there is an auto
matte arrangement by which one light
can be cut out without effecting the sys-
TEN, and that the carbon points. though
wasting, may be kept at uniform dis
lance.
The incandescent light. while alike in
principle, Is widely different in construc-
ton. The current Is conducted into a glass
bulb, which is exhausted by means of
the completest mercury pump Of all the
air possible through a platinum wire
This wire terminates just within the
bulb and a loop Of carbonized bamboo
takes its place. The carbon ia used here
as in the arc light. because It burns less
quickly OF all substance, and even this.
were air present. would be consumed like
kindling, so intense is the heat. This
loop enables the current TO pass out as
Ii passed in, and the whole Is lust n
simple arrangement, by which the cur
rent can pass into the bulb and there
heat the fine carbonized wire to white
heat, and then find it's way out.
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E-t-11Eht4As>rs~<>r- @Afs '~@<--s
nudnInh IlnSfelnerE.

Thou art gone to the grave! but we VIII
not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encom-
pass the tomb;
The Saviour hath passed through us
portals before thee,
And the lamp of His love Is thy guide
through the gloom.
Thou art gone TO the grave! we no longer
behold thee,
Nor tread the rough path Of the world
by thy side;
Rut the wide arms OF Mercy are spread
10 enfold thee,
And sinners may hope, for the Slnless
hath died.
Thou art gone to the grave! and its
mansion forsaking,
Perchance thy weak spirit In doubt
fingered long;
Rut the sunshine Of glory beamed bright
on thy waking.
And full on thine ear burst the sera-
phim's song.
Thou art gone 10 the grave! but we Will
not deplore thee,
since God was thy Ransom, thy Guar
dian, and Guide;
lie gave thee. He took thee, and He will
restore thee,
And death has no sting, for the Saviour
hath died.
nv THE CHILDREN OF RUDOLPH
KASTELBERG.
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TO LECTURE on THE BIBLE.
Professor WiIIett to Instruct the
Students at the Iniyersity

Beginning tomorrow, Professor Her
bert Lockwood Willett, A. b.. A. NJ.
and Ph. d., Of Bethany College and
Yale University. will deliver at the Uni
versity OF Virginia a course Of lectures
on the Bible, under the direction OF the
Christian Womans Board OF Missions.
in cooperation with the Young Mems
Christian Association OF the university.
These lectures viii be delivered in the
University chapel each evening of the
week, Saturdays and Sundays excepted.
during six weeks, and the themes pre-
sented will be: "'Thc Life of Christ"
twelve lectures; Prophecy" six lee
lures; "Old Testament History" six lee
lures. and 1.-THE Beginnings of Chris
tianity," six lectures
On the six Sundays during the course
Professor Willett, who at one time filled
a pastOrate at Dayton o., will visit the
cities accessible to Charlottesville. and
preach He will iii the pulpit Of Seventh
Street Christian church next Sunday.
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man who had a taste for the curious
and a brain scintillating with the phos-
Thoric electric spark Of thought has
brought under control and made sub
servent TO mankind in the everyday
uses y life
10 has come TO this that the same man
takes p seat I'm the troley-car. and is
rolled away 40 the rate of ten or twenty
miles an hour If the morning happens
10 BE- cold. he is not simply borne on by
this-to the many-mysterio force. but
is warmed and made comfortable as
well. II it is q July morning ne is
famed by the same something that flows
down the wire as. freely and resignedly
as the water Of placid tideWater
stream. It lights the streets of the city
where he lives. and IS suspended over
the centre-table I'm his home. Under its
magic Influence the voice Of a woman
knows scarcely q limit 10 its range, and
with one mighty link, two continents
with an ocean chatting between are as
one
That a thing material should be capa-
Die Of so many wonderful manifestations
has been the basis of long and
repulsive and nwholesome work in CON
uection with just one of Natures hand
nade-a child from Divinitys heads
not rprlsing-MYSTERY.
This word has long been the bush be-
hind which people who are really in
teilgeut have hidden themselves. and
have forgotten that they live in the
shadow when the sun is on the other
side.
SIMPLE WHEN UNDERSTOOD.
"But as nothing IS hard-when II is
understood" as the adage goes, il would
seem that the easiest way TO set hard
question out OF the way would be TO an
swer 10.
The a. and "3" Of the electric alpha
h.t Is TO know that electricity is of two
knds-positiye and negative-and that
when a current is passed through an iron
Bar it does a peculiar thing; Il gives the
Oar two faces-one repulsive the other at
tractiye Remembering this. and not for
getting that the positive end Of the bar
attracts the negative end Of another bar
while its positive end is repealed, IS,
strange as II may seem. absolutely all
that is needed to understand the most
CHoult of electrical machines-the cleo
trc motor. This is the little bundle or
vry mystery which is the wheeling force
behind O trOlley-car, fairly skipping up
the Br0ai-street hills. and which, because
small and tucked away out Of sight, has
extracted the time-Worn observation from
John Ch.uaman.
The motor. depending. then. on the SIM
I.e principle that when a bar Of iron is
electrified and is placed near another bar
with q current also passing through il,
Che positive" end OF one attracts the
negative end Of the other, but the two
positive ends try to get as far apart as
1.e-in other words, both bars be-
coming for the time being magnets In
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Oippincotts.)

Every nation has a Rip Van Wrinkle OF
its own. but the Welsh story OF Rip Is
unique. He Is known as Taffy aD Sion.
One morning Taffy heard a bird singing
on a tree close by his path. Allured by
the melody, he sat down until the music
ceased When he rose, what was his sur
prlse at observing that the tree under
which he had taken a seat had now be-
come dead and withered. In the door
way OF his home. which, 10 his amaze
ment. had also suddenly grown older
he asked OF a strange old man for his
parents. whom he had left there. as he
said. a few minutes before. Upon learn
ing his name the old man said: Alas.
Taffy. | have often heard my grand
father-your father-speak OF you. ana II
was said that you were under the power
of the fairies. and would not be released
until the last sap OF that sycamore had
dried up. Embrace me. my dear uncle,
for you are my uncle-embrace your
nephew" Welshmcn do not always per-
ceive the humor OF this somewha. novel
situation Of a youth-for Taffy was stu
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IS USED MANY WAYS.
xour, PRACTICAL PURPOSES TO
WHICH ELECTRICITY Is PUT.
FURNISHES HEAT, POWER, LIGHT.
How the Mysterious Agency IL
urought Under Control ny Man ona
Made 10 supply Many Convent
.rrcs-iIow II Operates.

rrcrcity Is like other manifestations
o, nature in that much is known about
rs properties, and how It behaves. but
nothing about what IL essentially IS.
strange as IL may seem, ia many IN
stances 30 resembles heat, IN more in
stances .t SIS like water. IN its actions
and IAc heat IL has bamed every effort
80 Ico, INTO its essence. and it IS as GER
cain go Cow down hin as any mountain
strcm
ST.. an hour OF the day passes in the
large cities without thousands Of peo-
DIE rap'ng untold convenicnccs from
those wonderful properties, which some