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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-16
MCGuire'S
Boarding aud Day School.

OPP. Monroe Park, Richmond. Va.
34th Session. Sept. 20, 9S. TO June ~. 90.
UNIVERSITY OF VA, 1880 aG-4 de-
grees. II diplomas. Two OF tho i've
NJ AS were from this school. lo3I-'vS-
> degrees, 80 diplomas
RICHMOND COLLEGE, 1897 os-2 de-
grees. - diplomas, 1 medal.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.
1891 Ss-l Phi. ~.
1897 IS: A Competitive Scholarship at
Uni OF Va. Competitive Cadet appoint
ment TO west Point Present Cadetshio
al Annapolis.
Catalogues at bookstores and by appli-
cation 10 JOHN T. MCGUIRE. Principal.
or VI NJ MCGUIRE, Business Manager,
az Chamber OF Commerce. The principal
can be seen al north Belvidere street
after September 9Th. jy0
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The Globe will be closed Saturday on
account OF Holiday. VIII open at i.
NJ. Eight powerful electric lights turn
darkness into daylight Bargains galore
from TO II o'clock. THE GLOBE.
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Richmond Female Seminary,
No. 3 EAST GRACE STREET.
RICHMOND. VA.

RICHMOND. VA.
JOHN II. POWELL, Principal.
MRS. r. G. PEYTON. Associate.
The twenty-ffth session OF this Board
Ing and Day School will begin THURS-
DAY September o. 1895 and close juno
IS 1899 From Sub-Primary 10 Collegiate
Department the course OF instruction ~
thorough and complete. and the best and
most approved methods employed For
CATALOGUES apply at bookstores and TO
the princIpal. lyS-su. we. frStn
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-16

Extra Fine Yam Sweet Potatoes, lOc. a
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william and Mary College,

WILLIAMSBURG. VA.
Full collegiate and normal courses Stu
dents willing 10 teach two years In the
public schools pay no tuition Zee. and
are charged $40 a month for board. fuel.
lights and washing. Next session begins
THURSDAY, October 9. 1885. Send for
LYON G. TYLER. NJ. A. L. D..
iy1O President
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MISS AUGUSTA 7. DANIEL WILL RE-
eume her class for young ladies az her
residence (Sl0 Park avenue) MONDAf'
October 81.
The class will meet Monday. Wednes-.
day and Friday al IL A. NJ. Subject o.
study. The History and Literature or
the Present Century.
Afternoon literature class for ladies'
az 10 west Grace street, beginning
Wednesday. October Jtn az halt-past
o'clock Miss Daniel desires a limited
number OF boarding pupils. For par
ticuiars see circular at principal book
stores. aep'
MISS ELLETT's SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
IL east Franklin street
College DreDaratory. Number Of pupils
limited. Oral French classes for little
girls. Science classes throughout tho
school will be taught by a graduate OF
Swarthmore College. VINO has also at
tended Or. Stanley Halls lectures on edu-
cation. Miss Elicit will be nc home TO
mothers every Wednesday after : o clock
H. NJ Special attention 20 httle girls
fSaS auu
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SICK HEADACHE CURED

and It's cause permanently removed with
Dr Davids Liver Pills. They not only
act at once on the digestive organs,
causing the food 10 properly assimilate.
but they thoroughly remove all obstruc-
tions and Accommodations in the stomach
ana bowels and thoroughly stir the liver
10 a proper action and keep II perform
ing It's functions.
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MILITARY NOTES.

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Commemorative Attor
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

what shall call my new dog? He's
Great Dane" why, Hamlet OF
urse."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Jones-"For awhile John was out of
his mind about that girl" Smith
"And now?" Jones-"Oh, now the girl
is out of his mind. Answers.
He exhibiting sketch)-"It's the
best thing 1 ever did" She (sympa-
thetically)-"Oh, well. you mustn't let
that discourage you!"-Tit-Bits.
Inquisitive One-"So you really didn't
mind the hardtack?" The Volunteer
'Nope, my wife was just learning to
cook when 1 enlisted. d."-Syracuse Her
aid.
whats your new piece like?''
'D'now yet, m'dear. If the audience
weep shall call it drama; if they
laugh 1 shall advertise it as farcical
comedy."-Pick-Me-Up.
"Gnatbrain lost his head when he
was called upon to speak last night"
Must have felt as did when lost my
pocketbook-glad there was nothing
in it. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
A Task.-"What thoughtful look
that Spaniard has," "Yes; he is trying
to remember the Vizcaya, the Colon,
the Maria Teresa, the Cristina, and the
rest OF hem."-Philadelphia American.
Husband Ia pessimist) 81 was think
ing of insuring my life, but am so in
formally unlucky that believe should
live for ever if l did," Wife ian opti-
mist)-"Then pray don't think of it,
John."-Ally Sloper.
A Clerical Error.-"That was a good
sermon that DR.. Binks preached this
morning?" Excellent. 1t would have
been almost perfect if the doctor hadn't
interpolated few sentences of hii
own. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

Qucen Louise of Denmark, as all the
world now knows, had been i'll for a
long time before her death. Often dur.
ing the past few years, her health be-
ing completely broken, she had been
subject to attacks from which her re-
covery was always despaired of. The
last of these before her final taking od
occurred in Copenhagen ten months
ago. 1t was sudden and violent. The
queens physician was called and came
at once, but, according to the story as
1t is now told, at first declared that he
could do nothing. "Am l really diving.
then?" asked the queen, looking up
from the sofa upon which she had been
placed. II fear your majesty must ex-
pect the worst" replied the medical
man. "But, doctor, / don't want to
die,' the patient protested. "Only
youth" was the answer, "could resist
the malady, and cannot make your
majesty young again." A smile passed
over the features of the suffering wom-
an. mo, DOCTOR" she said, 81 don't
want to be young again. All desire
is that for little while may continue
TO grow old."-Boston Herald.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
LAUGHING IS DANGEROUS.
Now We Are Told by European Physf.
clans That 1t May Bring ON
Heart Disease.

The ancients were fond of insisting
that laughter might kill They always
had case in point, and in this instance
Philemon, the comic poet, was the hero
OR rather the patient-according to
Valerius Maximus and Lucian.
1t is Rabelais, however, who has i'm.
mortalized Philemon. whom he wrong.
ly calls Philomenes. The poet, he says,
found jackass eating up the figs on
his dinner table, SO he said to his serv-
ant who came in with the wine that he
might as well give the ass drink
Then the poet laughed so violently that
his breath failed him and he died. IT
must be added that the poet was then
95 years old.
From this suspicious though amusing
legend we can pass to clinical facts
which it suggests. Laughter in itself
cannot very well kill, but it may dc
harm. Hysterical girls and boys with
kindred nervous affections are often
given to immoderate laughter, which
tends to increase nervous exhaustion.
DIR. Feilchenfeld relates an instructive
case in which little girl suffered from.
very definite cardiac symptoms after
immoderate laughter. The patient was
13 years old and had previously been
free from any sign of heart disease.
After laughing on and off for nearly
an hour with some companions she
suddenly felt stabbing pains in the
chest and was seized with fits of cough.
ing, followed by cardiac dyspnoea, very
well marked.
Feilchenfeld believes that the car.
diac disease directly resulted from inn.
moderate laughing. la joie fait peur,"
they say in France. Let laughter-loy-
ing girlhood remember that joy may
also make heart disease. Older per.
sons do not seem subject to this form
OF cardiac affection.-British Medical
Journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

Many readers may be surprised to
learn that large areas of land in the
southern states that formally seemed
to be untitled for vegetation have, with
in the past ten years, been covered with
an abundance Of grasses, which now
give support to herds of sheep, cattle
and swine. These grasses have been de-
veloped by the department of agricul-
ture, which has grass farm at Knox
vile, Tenn, where more than $50 kinds
of grasses are being cultivated for the
benefit Of farmers, 10 whom they have
been heretofore unknown. Some of
these grasses come from abroad, but a
large number have been obtained from
the prairies of the west and. the Rocky
mountain regions. Cattle raising and
farming in the south have been greatly
advanced by this cultivation and intro
duction of new grasses.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

Probably there is no United States
regiment in existence which does not
possess two or three dogs, and these
army animals, as class, are highly in
teresting. They know when the buRle
calls, and when reveille sounds they
get up for the day. AT drill they do not
bulge, knowing that the drill is some
thing in which they have no part; but
when the bugle for dinner reaches
their ears no one in the respective reg
lments responds more quickly, and
that is saying good deal for alaerity!
IN !. Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

cover where the corpse had been hid,
den had been fruitless.
| But, the investigation having been ir-
trusted to Inspector Bickerdyke, that
famous detective had already made an
arrest on suspicion. He had succeeded
in tracking one of the supposed mur-
dcrers-the man in the gray suit-step
by step from Clapham to Whitcchapel,
where he had discovered him in low
public house and arrested him. 1t was
added that he would be brought before
the magistrates some time that day
| Saturday..
When the man was placed in the dock
he refused TO give his name and ad-
dress, nor would he give any account OF
himself. He had, therefore, been taken
to the station and there searched and
his clothes examined. Blood Stains
were found upon them.
These might be accounted for by &,
fresh cut on the thumb of the right
hand. He had in his possession large
sum of money in notes and gold, Of
which he refused to give any account.
In fact, he had badly spoken a dozen
words since his arrest.
But the strongest piece of evidence
against him was that watch and chain
had been found upon him which had
been shown to Mrs. Latymer-Wynne
and which had been identified by her as
belonging to her husband.
The evidence of the servants and of
the sweep (who swore to his Identify
was taken, and then Mrs. Latymer-
Wynne made her appearance. Appar-
emily even his hardened nature had
broken down at the thought of con-
fronting the widow of his victim, for he
came back into court holding a hand
kerchief to his eyes
Her evidence was short, relating as
it did merely to the disappearance Of
her husband and the Identification of
the watch and chain. The prisoner de-
clined to put any questions to the wit
ness. He was now asked if he wished
to say anything before being removed.
swell, there is one thing should like
to ask" he said, land that is whether
there is any law in England against n
man wearing his own watch and
chain?"
Don't trifle with the court" said the
magistrate, sternly.
But something in the sound of the
prisoners voice had caused Mrs. Laty-
mer-Wynne to turn around and to look
at him again
"What, Harry!" she cried, lis it you?"
"What is the meaning of all this?'
asked the magistrate, glaring at In
spector Bickerdyke.
beg pardon, your worship" he
stammered; 'it beats me hollow"
"Allow me to explain" said the pris-
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

O'Brien, on the advice of his physf
clan, took to wheeling. It was . good
thing-for his physician, who found II
easier to diagnose sprains and bruises
than O'Brien's internal troubles. and
more profitable, too.
The other morning O'Brien rode up
In front of q park cyclery, dismounted
and entered.
II wan.er buy . thermomer," he an
nounced.
The young man in charge smiled.
took cheap thermometer of the wall,
and sold it to O'Brien for dollar.
'Where do you put it on?' he asked.
The joker tied it to the cross bar, and
O'Brien pedaled of through the park.
Hey. .O'Brienl" shouted passing
acquaintance, whats that you've got
on your machine?"
"A thermometer"
"What fort"
ITO tell when I'm scorchin';" ano
O'Brien put on squirt and bumped his
back so that he could read the mer-
cury's rise.-San Francisco Post.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
A MUcH-MoURNED MOTHER
Col. shafter thought Twice I'm One
Month Was Too often for
Her to Die.

When Shafter was senior colonel Of the
army he was temporarily in charge OF some
western post, and numbered in his com:
mand an exceedingly bright, capable fellow
whose cleverness was continually gettine
him the noncomnission stripes, and whose
escapades were just as frequently getting
him reduced to the ranks. One day this
soldier turned up at Skaters quarter. with
a long face and applied for leave to attend
the funeral of his mother, who had died the
previous night, be said, in the town. The
request was granted, but later on, in looking
over the same records, the colonel discov.
ersd that the same man had been granted
lcaye the month before on the identical pre-
text. Shafter said nothing, but a couple
of days afterward encountered the bereaved
warrior on the parade ground. Look here,
my man." said Pecos Bill, solemnly, Il want
to ask you a question. Were you good to
that mother of Yours while she was alive!
"Well, sir--yes, sir-that is, hope so,"
stammered the culprit, not knowing what
was coming.
II hope so, toe" replied the colonel. "!'ve
heard of mothers dying for their sons, but
never of one dying twice in 80 days for one.
You may go in mourning for a month--at the
guardhouse. o. Times-Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
Well Watched.

The empress of Austria is probably
the best watched lady in Europe; and
this is somewhat difficult, since she pre-.
fers walking to riding. and does not
care to have herself surrounded by SOL
diers. When she walks abroad, she is
preceded by body guard, which clears
the road in advance, while on either side
and in the rear is a swarm of detectives
in plain clothes, ready to arrest any per-
son making suspicious movement. II
is not known why all this care is exer-
cised, since the empress is rather better
liked than most crowned heads of Eu-
rope.-Golden Days.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

This year Queen Victoria celebrates
the sixtieth anniversary of her acces-
sion to the throne of Great Britain and
Ireland. Next year Emperor Francis
Joseph Of Austria-Hungary is to cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of his ac-
cession to imperial authority. 1t is an
nounced that one feature of the Aus
trian celebration will be the formal
coronation of the emperor as king of
Bohemia. This course is contemplated
out OF Difference to the feeling of the
people of that important province, who
have long desired that it be given the
dignity of separate recognition
Youths Companion.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
THREE PRAYERS.

An Infant in its cradle slept.
And In its sleep 1t smiled
And one by one three women knelt
To kiss the fair-haired child:
And each thought of the days to be
And breathed prayer half silently.
One poured her love on many lives,
But knew loves toll and care;
Its burdens oft had been to her
heavy weight to bear;
She stopped and murmured lovingly:
mot burdened hands. dear child. for
thee"
One had not known the burdened hands,
But knew the empty heart;
At life's rich banquet she had sat
An unfed guest apart;
''Oh, not" she whispered tenderly.
''An empty heart. dear child, for thee. "
And one was old: she had known care.
She had known loneliness:
She knew God leads us by no path
His presence cannot bless;
She smiled and murmured trustfully:
Gods will. dear child, Gods will for
theer"
kate Tucker Goode. in Alkahest.
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oner, blandly. 81 am Mr.. Latymer.
Wynne, and am curious to know why
a gentleman may not leave his own
house early in the morning without be.
ing arrested. May ask what crime |
have committed?"
"Your conduct is most reprehensiLlc,
sir" said the magistrate, ruffling with a
sense of wounded dignity.
Pardon me, your worship" said the
prisoner. Il have done nothing. have
simply been passive in the hands of In
spector BiclScrdyke.
And what was your object in play.
ing such farce?" asked the magis-
trate, gulping down his indignation.
"Well, had two objects The first
is private one, with which will not
trouble your worship. The other was
to see how far the cleverness of Lo,l-
don detective would go. Now that I
have got one of them to arrest man as
his own murderer / am satisfied
think have established record"
"How could you give me such fright.
Harry" said Mrs. Latymer-Wynne as,
few minutes later, she and her hus-
hand were driving home together in a
cab. 1t was cruel of you"
20, you know well enough. had to
stop you somehow from playing in that
beastly football match. Next time I
shall do something worse"
"But Harry. dear, you cannot really
have thought that ever meant to play.
Why, ! only said it to tease YOU"
"O!" said Harry. 'sThen / needn't
have smashed the water jug to cut my
finger, after all. But who is to know
what q woman does mean ?"-Chicagu
Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

There are over 6,OO0 known languages
and dialects.
There are nearly 5000 stitches in a
pair of hand-sewn boots.
The skeleton of man was unearthed
recently near Elwood, Ind, with an
Indian arrow imbeded in the iawbone.
The japanese address letters the re-
verse of what we do, writing the coun-
try first, the state or province next,
then the city, the street number and
the name last of all.
Statistics of Ohio show among other
things an unsatisfactory condition of
martial affairs. During the past year
more than 1000 applications for divorce
we're filed in the state.
Artificial flowers were unknown to
the ancient civilized nations of Europe.
They are first mentioned in Italy in the
fourteenth century, but in China they
were known at an earlier date.
The Persians in $40 b. C. invented a
transparent glass varnish, which they
laid over sculptured rocks to prevent
them from weathering. The coating
has lasted to our day, while the rocks
beneath are honeycombed.
The nicknames of some of the new
states are: South Dakota, Swing Cat
state; Washington, Chinook state;
North Dakota, Flickcr-tail state; Mon
tana, Stub-toe state; Nebraska, Black
water state; Nevada, Silver state
A child who wandered away from
Burns Valley, Pa, was lost in the noun
tains. When found she was in the midst
of wild animals and among rattle
snakes, but she declared they had made
no attack upon her and that she had
subsisted among them by eating wild
berries. The hunting party that found
her killed 12 rattlers near the rock
where she was discovered.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
HoRR1D SIDE OF WAR.
Terrible Scenes Witnessed by a Barce-
Iona Doctor ON n Philip
pine Transport.

A Barcelona doctor who visited
Philippine transport describes its hor-
rors as follows:
These poor soldiers, not one of whom
was past his first youth, were in moEt
terrible. condition, mere skeletons COW
cred with yellow skin like leather and
scored with deep wrinkles. Their CLASSY
eyes were sunk in their sockets and
trimmed with black. The wounded, COW
cred with excrement, were bowling
with pain, for their sores had not been
dressed and were infested with feas and
worms.
entered the room pointed out to me
by the doctor who accompanied me, and
there came to the most terrible corner
of this floating lazaretto. Sixteen sol
diers were on the point of death. Here
dead body lay on it's back, one eye
wide open, the other almost shut, while
the bottom of the face was covered with
q thick foam. There was another young
soldier, eaten up by consumption,
stretched beside the corpse. He was
looking at it quietly with certain
stoical calm, and he lay without move
ment as if he already belonged to the
kingdom of shadows.
Another soldier, on the contrary.
whose lower jaw had been carried away
by bullet, was hiding his face in the
sheets SO that he might not see the
dead man. But, in spite of his terror,
and as if moved by an irresistible force.
he would now and then draw aside his
covering, slightly raise his head and
look sideways at his dead comrade: his
face took on look of horror which
cannot describe, and then he would
hide himself again under the coverlet.
The others paid no attention to the
dead man. The extent of their suffer
ings made them Indifferent to what
happened around them. A young SOL
dier, his face looking pathetically like
that of pale young girl, was shrieking
aloud for some one to come and finish
him. Another, quite as young, was call
ing on his mothers name with tears
and hysterical sobs. 20, mother!" he
screamed, don't leave me in INV
trouble. Take me with you to Heaven.
cannot bear it any longer. o, God!
1t is burning me up. Mother, mother,
save me!' Another, with horrible
oaths, groaned and swore that he had
in his stomach viper which was eating 4
into his bowels. Above him another
young soldier was sobbing SO piteously
that to hear him was enough to curdle
ones blood. Two dying men near him
were inhaling ether to help their
breathing, and at the bottom of This
den there rolled and shook on his mat.
tress living being so burned up with
fever that he looked like madman.-
London Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

Trembling Attendant eighteenth
century)-Your majesty, somehow
got little scratch on your third best
crown.
The Gar (furiously)-Of with his
head!
Careless Attendant (nineteenth cen,
tury)-Your majesty, fell and broke
your majesty's magnificent gold and
diamond crown all to pieces.
Trembling Czar-Oh! is that all?
feared from the noise that it was an.
other bomb.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
A London Eel Market.

Few Londoners know that an eel
market OF quaint and interesting
kind is held every Sunday morning
near the south side of Blackfriars
bridge, barring, of course, the times
when the slippery fishes are not OBJ
tainable. II is said to be nearly 300
years old. The popularity of the gath
ering is that here only you buy cells
BY the handful instead of by weight.
sixpence fistful is the price, and al
though the fishes are generally small
Il is much cheaper than purchasing
~ weight.-N. Y. Herald.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
Duty Before An Things.

The blind devotion with which an
old servant did his duty was illus
trated on one occasion when his mas
ter had dinner party. During the
dinner Henry was very nervous and
made two or three blunders.
His master showed his annoyance
and cast angry glances at his servant,
but the poor man could not settle
quietly to his work. At last, when
the dessert had been placed quietly ON
the table, he stole timidly behind his
masters chair and said: please sir,
can you spare me NEW? My house has
been on fire TOR the last hour and
half!"-Answers.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
Argentine Locu.t Ant,dot..

1t is reported from Argentine that
little insect, called there the champi,
will probably extinguish the locusts,
as they devour the eggs -of the latter
and multiply rapidly on such food.
Several artificial, as well as natural,
destroyers of the Argentine locusts
hkve been reported, but usually nature
provides something that reduces the
excessive increase of such pests or de-
stroys them.-Chica9o Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24
One ON the Judge.

In a case Of SANDER that was heard not
long ago lady had gone into the witness
box on behalf of the plaintiff, whose coun-
eel was examining her.
"Now, madam" the lawyer began, "pleass
repeat the slanderous statements made by
the defendant on this occasion, just as you
heard them"
"Oh, they are unfit for any respectable
person to hear!" was the emphatic answer.
"Then," said the examiner, coaxingly,
suppose you just whisper them to the
Judge. Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Colfax chronicle., 1898-12-24

Melbourne, which consisted of "a
huts, and was known as Beargrass at
the time of Queen victoria's accession.
is now classed as the seventh city of the
British empire. coming in after London.
Liverpool. Glasgow. Manchester. Bir.
minQham and Calcutta