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Toilet Articles.

Suitable and serviceable Christmas pres
ents here. Prices to fit any pocket-beok.
COHEN COMPANY.
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Card-Cases, Pocket-Books, and Writing
Portfolios.
THE BELL BOOK & STATIONERY CO.,
72S east Main street
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Moesta's, Ill east Main, Special for
Monday 25 packs firecrackers. 25c.
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SydnOr 81 HundIey.

Ladies' Desks. New lot just In.
SYDNOR & HUNDLEY,
I'll and 7lS east Broad street.
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Morris Chairs and Tufted Rockers

Early this week a number of choice
Morris Chairs and Tufted Rockers Will
be added 10 our already OVERLOOKING
stock. SYDNOR & HUNDLEY.
Leaders.
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Moesta's, Ill east Main street: 6-ball
Roman Candles, &c. per dozen.
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sid~boards and E..eu.,on r.s,.,.

Well, II you can't get suited at sydnor
g. Hundley's. there is no use going 70
New York.
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DnNenpnrfs.

Do you want Luxury? Then buy n Da
venport OF SYDNOR e. HUNDLEY.
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To subscribers Richmond Telephone
Company.
A new subscribers catalogue, corrected
ana amended TO the ist instant. is being
distributed as rapidly az possible. SUD
scrlbers not receiving their catalogues IN
,ba pext few DAVIS will please send 10 Of
aca FOR them. or advise No. So or $50 by
phone.
THE following additions and alterations
have been made since the LIST instant,
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Try sauer's Extracts.
Change of Schedule.

over 10000 sold this year.
The Progress., 1898-01-01
The Loophole.

Mr.. Goodheart-Regardin those kit
tens, my dear, the president of our so
ciety says the most humane way &c
drown kittens is to put them in an or.
binary earthenware fowerpot and then
suddenly turn the fowerpot upside
down in pail of lukewarm water.
Mrs. Goodheart-Why, yes, that is
good idea, isn't it, because, you know,
there is a hole in the bottom of the
fowerpot for the poor little things to
breathe through, London Fun.
The Progress., 1898-01-01
THE PROGRESS

some one, "why can not God develop
me through prosperity instead of
through adversity?" l Will answer
your question by asking another. Why
does not God dye our northern and
temperate seas with the coral? You
say: The water is not hot enough"
There! In answering my question you
have answered your own. Hot climate
for richest specimens of coral; hot
trouble for the jewels of the soul. The
coral-hshers going out from Tore dol
Greece never brought ashore such fine
specimens as are brought out Of the
scalding surges of misfortune. l look
down into the tropical sea, and there
is something that looks like blood, and
say: Has there been a great battle
down thereT Seeming blood scattered
all up and down the reefs. 1t is the
blood of the coral, and it makes me
think OF those who come out of great
tribulation and have their robes
washed white in the Blood of the
Lamb. But these gems of earth are
nothing to the gems of Heaven. NO
mention shall be made Of coral
One specimen of coral Is called the
another is called the astrara, because
1t is like a star; another is called
the brain coral. because it IS
like the convolutions of the hui
man brain; another is called fan coral,
because it is like the instrument with
which you cool yourself on hot day;
another specimen is called the organ
pipe coral, because it resembles the
king of musical instruments. All the
flowers and all the shru BIS in the gar
dens of the land have their CORE
spondencies in this garden Of the sea.
Corallum 1T is a synonym for beauty.
And yet there is no beauty in the
coral compared with our religion.
1t gives physiognomic beauty. It
does not change the features; it does
not give features with which the per-
soc was not originally endowed, but
it sets be hind the features of the home
lest person a Heaven that shines clear
through. So that often, on first ac-
quaintance, you said of man: He is
the homeliest person ever sa W." when,
after you came to understand him and
his nobility of soul shining through
his coun tenance, you said: HE is the
ever had a homely Christian moth
er. Whatever the world may have
thought OF her, there were two
who thought well-your father, who
had admired her for SO years, and you,
over whom she bent with so many ten
der ministrations. When you think of
the angels of God, and your mother
among them, she outshines them all.
Oh. that our young people could under
stand that there is nothing that SO
much beauties the human counte-
nance as the religion Of Jesus Christ!
1t makes every thing beautiful Trouble
beautiful. Sickness beautiful. Dis
beautiful. Everything
beautiful.
t>=i l. - L
The Progress., 1898-01-01
That Was His Idea.

look here, Mr.. Hojack," said Mrs.
Hojack, I'D like TO know why you
asked me what / wanted for a Christ
mas present, if VI intended to get
something entirely differently"
Il wanted to surprise you, dear" was
Hojack's unsatisfactory rep1y.-N. Y.
Truth.
The Progress., 1898-01-01

bring out the jewels Of the Christian
soul. These are not the stalwart men
who are asleep on the shaded lawn, but
those who are pounding amid the fur
naces. l do not know of any other way
of getting q thorough Christian charac-
ter. l will show you a picture. Here
are a father and mother 80 or 35 years
of age, their family around them. tits
Sabbath morning. They have prayers.
They hear tho children's catechi.m.
They have prayers every day of the
week. They are in humble circum-
stances. But after awhile the wheel
of fortune turns up, and the man gets
Sabbath and every day of the week, bu,
he has dropped the catechisn. The
wheel of fortune turns up again, and
he gets his $50, 600. Now he has prayers
on Sabbath morning alone. The wheel
of fortune keeps turning up, and he has
$500, 600, and now he has prayers on
Sabbath morning when he feels like II
and there is no company. The wheel
OF fortune keeps on turning up, and
he has his $500, 900 and no prayers at
all. Four-leaf clover in a pasture field
is not SO rare as family prayers in the
houses Of people who have more than
$500, 900. But now the wheel of for
tune turns down, and the man loses
$500. 900 out of the $500, 900. Now on
Sabbath morning he is on a stepladder
looking for a Bible under the old news
papers on the bookcase. He is going
to have prayers. His affairs are more
and more complicated. and after while,
crash goes his last dollar. Now he has
prayers every morning, and he hears
h Ioh; fheo to- of
perity took him away from God; adj
versity drove him back to God. Hot eli
mate to make the coral; hot and scald-
ing trouble to make the jewels of grace
in the soul. We all hate trouble, and yet
it does a great deal Tor US. You have
heard, perhaps, OF that painter who
wished to get an expression Of great
distress for his canvas, and who had
his servant lash man fast and put
him to great torture, and then the
artist caught the look on the victims
face and Immediately transferred it to
the canvas. Then he said to the SER
want, More torture" and under more
torture there was a more thorough ex-
preston of pain, and the artist said:
stop there; wait till l catch that ex-
preston. There. Now have 1t pom
the canvas Let loose the victim. l
have a work that will last forever"
''Oh. you say, she was an inhuman
painter" No doubt aboutit. Trouble
is cruel and inhuman; but he is a great
pain ter, and out of our tears and blood
on his palette, he makes colors that
never die. Oh, that it might be pic
ture of Christian fortitude, Of shining
hope!
On the day was licensed to preach
the Gospel an old Christian man took
my hand and said: my son, when
you get in tight corner on Saturday
night, without any sermon, send for
me, and will preach for you" Well,
1t was great encouragement to be
backed up by such good old minister,
and it was not long before 1 got into
q tight corner on Saturday night,
without any sermon, and l sent for the
old minister, and he came and
preached. and it was the last sermon
h<aA IL ~
The Progress., 1898-01-01

Every minister fesis that he is handi
capped in his work il the vineyard by the
outrageously poor singing of his choir
Atchison Globe.
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GREAT BRITAIN'S ANSWER.

II now appears hat those who jumped
to the conclusion that Great Britain had
backed down on the far East issue were
decidedly premature. According to latest
advices, she has answered the 'feeler"
interviews sent out from st. Petersburg
somewhat after the manner in which she
answered the sensational telegram of
Emperor William of Germany to Presi-
dent Kruger. during the Transvaal re-
public complication. When that tele-
gram was made public a greater part Of
the British press was thrown into a
state; it was declared to be an insult
to the British nation, and a menace to
British prestige, and the government was
persistently catechised as to what it was
going to do about it. Well, the govern
ment responded to the telegram by
quietly, but rapidly. surrounding the
tight little isle" with warships. All
parties were thus sufficiently amused and
instructed, and the telegram incident was
practically closed without further ado.
The interviews had at St Petersburg
with a Russian admiral and a Russian
diplomat, respectively, threw the British
press and the British public into a more
excited state than did the German EN-
peror's message to Dom Paul, and be-
cause the government was silent for the
time being, the impression got abroad
that Great Britain had backed down. As
a result, the government was criticised
as it had not been criticised in years.
now we have the answ to the in
spired declarations from st. Petersburg,
and a decisive and object lesson answer
it is. 1t is embraced in an order to the
Indian, the Australian, and the
Pacific squadrons TO re-enforce the Brit
ish fleet in the far East.
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PETERSBURG.
4 Tribute 10 nm Ex-Cenfcdcrate
Naval officer.

PETERSBURG, VA, February A.
(special.)-The recent address before a.
r.. Hill Camp Of Confederate Veterans
by Captain william c. Whittle, OF Nor
folk, on "The Cruise of the Shenandoah"
received the hearty commentator Of the
large audience who heard II. Last night,
at the meeting OF the camp. the follow
ing resolutions, offered by Comrade Car
ter r. Bishop. were unanimously adopt
ed:
Resolved, That the address OF Cap
tain William &. white, delivered be-
fore this camp on January 10, 1895, Is In
every way worthy Of more than our
usual formal vote OF thanks. When we
remember that II was Captain Whites
ship, the Nashville. that carried the
first Confederate flag to Europe, and
that IT was his ship. the Shenandoah"
that hauled down in the harbor Of Liver
pool the last Confederate flag, seven
months after the war was over, we ara
filled with admiration for the hero him
self: but when he related to us the story
OF that last cruise, so fillee with daring
deeds, and so marked with patriotic de-
votion and matchless skill, we are deep
Iy sensible of the homo he has conferred
upO our camp, and are proud to make
grateful acknowledgment Of our obliga-
tons. Rarely has IL been the fortune Of
any. camp 10 listen to the recital of such
facts from the lips OF one who could
%truthfully say with Aeneas. Quorum
pars magma fui." But carried away as
We are with our present enjoyment, we
would not be unmindful of the future.
We appreciate the fact that this splen-
did address Is a most valuable contribu-
ton TO Confederate history. containing
as il does the refutation of the asper-
sions cast on the southern sailor. and
we would urge upon the distinguished
naval officer the duty of putting it into
permanent form for the benefit of fu-
ture readers. We hope that Captain
Whittle will consider this suggestion IA
vorably, and for this consummation we
would esteem 1t a privilege to be al
lowed to cooperate"
The resolution was entered Of record,
a copy sent TO Captain Whittle.
The camp also passed resolutions en-
dorsing Congressman Epes's bill for the
of a national military park
at Petersburg.
In the habeas corpus case Of Robert
Rogers VS.. Leroy Slaughter, for the
of the child of the former.
who had been given into the custody OF
latter. Judge Mullen to-day endered
a decision granting the continued GUS
tody of the child of Mr.. Slaughter.
Leslie Cook. who was arrested in
Washington yesterday. is wanted here
to answer the charge Of passing fraudu-
lent checks
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FENCES Us. DEEENCEe.

According to the government financial
statement for January. the increase OF
debt less cash In Treasury was sI2, 5s7. n;
increase in deficit during the month, ex-
Guiding Union Pacific payments and re-
ceipts. $500, 4Si; total deficit since July
1, 1887. seven months, Sol, 9Ol ,s2s. In the
same seven months $50, 900, 700 was paid
out I'm p~ensions-the annual pension ex-
penditure being estimated at $3.50, 900, 900.
The New York Times. in commenting
on these figures. fires a double-barrelled
gun, one charge peppering both the
tariff and the pension iniquity, and the
other lodging In it's entirety in the latter.
The fraud-swollen pension list, says the
Times, make a deficit inevitable ex-
cept under a system of taxation which
is at once burdensome and productive.
But. it adds, our present tariff, which is
burdensome without being productive, is
an inadequate reliance against the mon
strous drafts Of the pensioners. Our New
York contemporary then declares hat
under a proper and just system Of pen
SAoASs SANAhS oiQ Oiis thCSt WIN Sul-
fer from actual disabilities incurred in
the service, our pension payments would
hardly have exceeded $25.O0O,0oO a year.
have, however, it continues, not only
been e%xtravagant in allowances to de-
serving pensioners, but we have squan-
dered hundreds of millions on the per-
iured and unworthy.
In other words. Sl25. 100000 a year is
being used for political fence-building,
with the result that the Wa Depart
ment can get only 100000 of the s1S.-
100000 it needs for building n equip
ing coast d%efences. And what makes the
matter worse is that the $l3, 900, 600 was
not asked for in order that new schemes
might be carried out. but for the pur-
pose of completing work actually begun,
which, it is admitted, is absolutely
necessary to the placing of the coast
Of the country in a satisfactory
to repel attack by sea.
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OUR FRUITS IN GERMANY.

Immediately following the news that
Prussia had excluded all American fresh
fruits from her markets on the ground
that they are infested with insects which
make them dangerous TO German Or
chards, came the announcement that the
Bundesrath-the Federal Council of the
German empire-in plenary sitting. had
approved its committees proposal that
a decree should be issued prohibiting the
importation from America Of live plants
and shrubs, and packages containing the
same. The decree. 1t is explained. will
also affect in a certain measure Ameri-
can fruits. In other words, it would seen
that the empire and Prussia are to be one
in this latest assault upon American
trade.
As 70 the true inwardness Of the dis
elimination. there is a diversity Of opin-
ion. Two interpretations are nut upon
the prohibition. One Is, tina II is in
tended as tariff retaliation, and that
Dingleyism is the bug in American fruit.
The other is. that II is a movement. pure
and simple. IN the interest Of the German
fruit producers. and a sop thrown TO the
agricultural landlords. The New York
Journal of Commerce. which is no apollo
sist for the Dingley tariff. takes this lat
ter view. II says that tarin retaliation
would mean an increase Of duties on food.
and would involve the German Govern
ment in political difficulties with the
urban population. the working classes.
and the Social Democrat party. TO avoid
this. and yet crafty the agricultural
landlords who have been clamoring for
protection from American competition.
the German Government has attacked
the s%oundness and wholesomeness Of our
food. Our New York contemporary.
therefore. urges that Congress should i'm
mediately pass a resolution excluding
from this country all German wines ana
beers. the exclusion 20 go into effect AZ
the instant Of the Presidents signature. |
Other papers. however. take the posi- |
ton that no such legislation is necessary. |
as there Is already a law applicable 10
the emergency. That law reads:
THAT whenever the President shall be
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satisfied that unjust determinations are
made by or under the authority OF ms
foreign State against the importation TO,
or sale In. such foreign State OF any pro-
duct OF the United States, he may direct
that such products OF such foreign States
discriminating against any product OF tho
United states az he may deem proper,
shah be excluded from importation TO the
United States: In such cases. he shall
make proclamation OF his direction IN
the premises and therein name the line
when such direction against Importation
shall take effect. and after such date the
importation Of the articles named In such
proclamation shall be unlawful. The
President may at any time revoke.
modify, terminate. or renew any such
direction as in his opinion tho public in
tercsts may require"
But be this as It may. it strikes us that
in the light OF the effect Of Ger
many's action. the contention of the Jour
nal OF Commerce involves a distinction
without a difference. The overshadowing
and practical fact Is, that the discrimi-
nation is a serious blow to largo inte-
rests in this country. whether it be re-
garded as tariff retaliation or a direct
and out of hand attack upon our trade.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-05
BURNED.
A H~enrtrcnding Accident Il King
George cunts.

FREDERICKSBURG, VA, February
Observation-Disclosures reached here
tonight of q sad and horrible accident,
which occurred in King George county
Wednesday, by which Mrs. Thaddeus
Sorrel and young daughter were so Sc
verely burned that they died within Il
few hours Of each other. Mr. Sorrel was
away hunting. and his wife having some
domesticfduties to perform. left the lit
tie girl alone I'm the kitchen She had
been absent. however. but a short while,
when she heard screams. n on enter
Ing the room found the child's clothing
ablazc. She Immediately began to ex-
tinguish the flames. but in doing so, was
horribly burned herself. The child died
a few hours later. The next morning
death also relieved Mrs. Sorrel of her
suffering. Mr.. Sorrel Is almost Frustrated
with grief.
Mrs. Lucinda Embrey, one OF our old
est and NEST respected residents, died
at her home here to-day. In the s1st year
Of her age. She leaves four children
Councilman W. S. Embrey and Judson j.
Embrey. OF this city; Mrs. j. &. Jennings,
Of Spotsylvania, and j. T. Embrey, OF
BOnham Tex,
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SHOCKED
BY the Sudden Death of Mr. samuel
u. Mckinney.

FARMVILLE, VA, February 4-(Spe-
cial)-The people of Farmville were
shocked this morning at the announce
of the death of Mr.. Samuel b. McKin-
ney, brother Of Ex-Governor Mckinney.
His death was entirely unexpected, as
he had not been the least sick up TO an
hour of his taking off. He arose this
morning at the Usual hour, and went
down to breakfast, apparently feeling
as well as he ever did. Soon after par
taking of the meal he started up the
steps again, when he suddenly fell back
in an unconscious state, and in two hours
he was dead. Mr.. Mckinney was born
in buckingham county Ga years ago. He
came TO Farmville and engaged in the
mercantile business more than twoscore
years since, and for a long period was
connected as part owner with one Of
the largest dry-goods stores In the town.
His wife. who survives him, with five
grown children. was a daughter of the
late Judge +. n. Watkins, and a brother
of Judge A. ID. Watkins. Prince Edwards
representative in the Legislature. Mr..
Mckinney had only two living brothers,
Ex-Governor Mckinney and Mr.. II. j.
Mckinney, both residents of Farmville,
and the latter an invalid from paralysis.
No arrangements have yet been made
for the funeral. as several Of the children
are being awaited, and who are to arrive
from Atlanta, Ga.
Professor Robert Frazer, president-elect
Of the State Female Normal School, is
expected 10 arrive here tonight from
Columbus. Miss. He will take charge Of
the school next Wednesday.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-05
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1898


II may be said that the issue on re-
trenchment and reform is now fairly
joined in the General Assembly. The
members ave before them the report Of
the Committee on Expenditures of Pub
lie Institutions, and the bill relating to
the salaries. mileage, and other allow
ances of certain State officers. Both look
to retrenchment and reform. The pro-
visions of the one duplicate some of the
recommendations of the other. The bill,
however, provides for some cuts not
embraced i'm the committees report, and
the two contemplate a saving Of some
$50. 900 annually.
\ good beginning has thus been made,
and a practical step taken in the direc-
ton of responding to the demand Of the
people of Virginia for more economical
administrator of the government and
preparation 10 meet, when it comes. the
Increased interest charge upon the debt.
The question now is. viii the Legisla-
ture persevere to- the end, without fear
or favoritism, or will it faint and fall
by the wayside? viii It do the work It
was chiefly elected to do. and the ac-
complishment of which is the supreme
necessity Of the hour, or will it cause
that work to be relegated to a constitu-
tional convention. whose acts could not
become operative until we should have
entered the 3 per cent. interest period,
and whose complexion, all things con-
sidered. might render our last state
worse thar our first? VIII it accept the
responsibility that the people put upon
1t at the polls, or will it shirk that
responsibility? We hope and believe that
it will not do the latter.
We are not unmindful of the fact that
in applying the knife in accordance with
the recommendations of the committee
and tho provisions Of the bill in question.
the Legislature has no pleasant task
before it. We are not unmindful Of the
fact that some of these recommendations
and provisions may work hardship. We
anticipate opposition from some of the
interests affected. But the situation calls
for firmness on the part Of legislators,
and sacrifice in other quarters. If the
Legislature will femain firm, and do it's
duty, it may rest assured that, even
though it shall make mistakes. the
masses will stand behind it; and on the
general policy, it will be indicated. As
we said yesterday. some Of the proposed
lines of retrenchment may not be prac-
teal, but we are willing to trust the
wisdom Of the body as to that.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-05
Small Fire i'm the Times building.

Shortly before noon yesterday fire was
discovered among a lot of paper rubbish
in one of the Southern Railway storage
rooms on the second floor of the Times
building. and for a time created con-
siderable confusion i'm the neighborhoOd.
An alarm was promptly turned in from
the private box, No. S65. and the depart
ment, in charge of Chief Fuller. respond
ed with alacrity. The automatic sprink-
lers. with which the building is equipped,
worked perfectly and quenched the
flames in their incipiency, thus obviating
any necessity for the department using
it's apparatus. A large volume Of water
was thrown I'm the room by the %sprinklers.
and the walls were more or less dam
aged thereby. Otherwise the damage was
inconsiderable.