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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-02

X n N " hiCnnvnu' riouoLiVAS
lIy I. u 1. burg 4 Potomac.
Schedule in Eject November 2s, 1897
AT IL O'CLOCK NOON.
LEAVE BYRD-sTnEET STATION.
4:IO A. NJ, Daily, for Washington ana
points North. Stops only at
Milford and Fredericksburg.
Pullman Sleepers TO New
$50 AM. Sunday only. for Washing
ton and points North. Stops
at Elba, Glen Allen. ASH
land, Taylorsville. boswell.
Ruthcr Glen, PenoIa, Mil
ford, Woodslane. Guinea,
Summit, Fredericksburg,
Brooke, and Whitewater,
s:45 A. NJ, Daily. except Sunday. for
Washington and points
North. Stops at Elba. Ash
land, TaylorsvilIe. boswell.
Ruther Glen, Penola, Mil
FORD. Woodslane. Guinea.
Sum m I, Fredericksburg.
1900 NJ. Daily. except Sunday. for
Washington and points
North. Stops at Elba, Glen
Allen. Ashland. boswell.
MI fora, Fredericksburg,
Brooke, and Whitewater.
Parlor car. Also, connects
with Congressional Limited
at Washington.
1885 P. NJ, Daily. for Washington and
points North. Stops at Elba,
Ashland. boswell. Milford,
Fredericksburg. Brooke, and
Whitewater, and other sta
lions Sundays. sleeper Ricn-
mond to New York
ARRIVE BYRD-sTREET STATION.
Brooke, Fredericksburg, Mil
ford, boswell, Ashland, and
Elba, and other stations
Sundays. Sleeper. New York
to Richmond.
2:45 P. NJ, Daily, except Sunday. Stops
At Widewater. brook
Guinea, Woodslane. Milford.
Penola. Ruther Glen. Dos
well, Taylorsville, Ashland.
Glen Allen, and Elba. Par
lor car from Washington.
7:10 p. NJ, Daily. Stops only at Frede-
ricksburR, boswell. and Ash
land and Elba. Pullman cars
from New York.
S:36 p. NJ, Daily. Stops at Widewatef,
Broo Ike. Fredericksburg
Summit. Guinea, Woodslane
Milford. Penola, Ruther
Glen, boswell, Taylorsville
Ashland Glen Allen, and Ell
ba. Sleeping-car
FREDERICKsBG ACCOMMODATION.
DAILY except Sunday)
400 =. NJ, Leaves Byrd-Street Station
$50 A. NJ. Arrives Byrd-Street Station.
ASHLAND TRAINS.
DAILY except Sunday.)
642 A. NJ, Leaves Elba.
q $50 Il. NJ, Leaves Eloa.
$40 A. NJ, Arrives Elba.
600 =. NJ, Arrives Elba.
G. A. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager.
E. T. d. MYERS.'President. no g
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MEETINGS.

MASONIC NoTICE-THE STA, "A.
TED COMMUNICATIONS OF "
HENRICO UNION LODGE, No: wv
iSO. viii be held on MONDAY
EVENING, January 3, 1898, at Masonic
Hall. on Franklin street, az O'Clock.
Master Masons in good standing are ira
ternaly invited.
BY order of the W. NJ; ,.,,
WILLIAM WILSON,
IA o1ts Secretary.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

WILL. FURNISH MONEY TO PA
TENT AND PROMOTE A GOOD IN
VENTION for an interest. Address BUSI-
NESS. Post-Oiiice Box 672, New York, n.
y. ia 2-6t
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WHAT THE VOTERS CAN DO.
We have received the following:
To the Editor Of tie Press:

In the closing paragraph of a minor ed
ftorial in Wednesdays issue you use the
following languages LAS rule the Sc
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PosTMARKs ON LETTERS.
Their Origin, Use and Value Discussed
Briefly.

Postmarks serve to hold the postoffice
responsible. In this country they were
first used to mark the time when letters
arrived at the Office of final delivery to
addresses. Good evidence on this point is
to be found in the Massachusetts postal
law of 1893, which provided THAT the
said postmaster, his agents or servants,
upon the coming in of every post, do mark
every letter with print, to show the day
of the month and year when every letter
came in - Fiscal reasons added the post
mark showing when letter was mailed.
This led to some confusion, which still
clings to the service.
Theypostmark showing the time of mail
ing is usually placed on the address side
of letters, and is called the postInark for
the mailing stamp. The postmark show
ing the time of arrival at the office of
final delivery is usually placed on the
back of letters, and is called Dackstamp
or receiving stamp, but appears on the
front of postcards.
Additional confusion arises from the
use of the word stamp" to denote the
bits of paper that secure prepayment OF
postage. The obvious remedy would be
to confine the term stamp to these bits OF
paper, and to call the postal marks simply
''marks." red to be used at the final Office
of delivery, black-at the mailing office,
and other colors in transit. Postmarks
should be simplifed, so as to be 1ntelllgl-
BILE to ordinary MORALS.
The age of postmarks by little hand
stamps, now also by machinery, IS gener-
ally moderated. England used them soon
after the first postal law passed III 1851.
[ have an example of 1861, with an elabor-
ate notice stamped ON the letter, announo
ing daily mails between London and
Kent. Mr. Joyce, the historian OF the
British postoffice, is in error when he as
cribes the introduction Of postMarks to a
later period, and to William Dock wra,
the founder of the London Penny Post.
The Boston public library has an exam
pie of 1879, antedating Dockwra. The
earliest American postmark have seen
is a Philadelphia mark OF l746. Nearly
every American postoffice used hand
stamps for postmarking prior to the
revolution, and usually two kinds of ink,
black and red.
All the world uses postmarks for the
double purpose of indicating the time
when the letter reached the mail service
and of cancelling the postage stamp. Only
America is an exception. And we cling
to our crude method as though 1T was
meritorious to make two marks where
one sutfices The cancelllng marks of
most postotfices in this country are wor-
thy OF Mohawk.
Postmarking machines became useful
about 1886, when the Boston postoffice
introduced them. But as early as 1919
our government issued a patent to E. n.
Moore for Email marking machine, J"
and in the fifties the British government
ia EaarSOD Hill ;hf10 r,or1D1c FOR, hic
postmarking machine, which failed to
live. Our best postmarking machines
are American But the marking required
by our postofiice department is ideally
wretched, especially in the Boston postal
district.
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called bosses succeed simply because a
largo number of voters don't CARE, This
may be SO, but will you explain to this
large number of voters what they can do
under the following circumstances. A
short time ago call was issued to the
Republicans of Ward One to meet in the
council Chamber al City Blu lding to
nominate candidates for city ami ward
officers for the coming election, Ninety
per cent OF them responded by staying at
nomei ven per ce met and nominated
an alderman, one councilman, sch oil
committee and ward officers, graciously
connecting to the regular caucus the priv
ilege OF struggling for five hours to nom
mate two candidates for the Council, and
KINDLY suggesting five names from which
tney would be permitted to make selec-
ulon. NO ma.tter how much voter may
care about nominations his self respect
ana his regard of the rights of Others
should prevent him from taking part in
any movement to forestall the action of
can a voter do who utterly repudiates
this ''Star chamber policy. The men
nominated are no doubt good men, and
TIE ticket will go through the regula
caucus. 1t would be the same if they
were objectionable, unless they were so
much so as to create organized opposi-
ton. It ia a mischievous and unfair and
Ill " 1876 kpOllCy. dASt A1akcH bl0 dCLlOu VI
the regular caucus seem like farce.
VOTER.
AS we understand this alleged caucus
in Ward One, 1t originated with local
boss, whose real purpose was to get to-
gether a lot of his own henohmen to
ratify ticket which he had already Sc
lected. For the sake of appearances there
was something like general invita- ion
to the Republicans of Ward One issued,
but the hope and expectation was that
only few would respond, the few being
those that had been given a tip as to
what was really up. Unfortunately for
the boss, there was more general turn
out than he expected, and his carefully
prepared slate was repudiated. The boss
in this case had presumed too much on
the Indifference Of the voter. As matter
of fact the caucus was a good object lesson
of the way to beat boss. But if the
majority of the Republicans of Ward One
don't like the outcome of this unofficial
caucus, or desire to make an effective pro-
test against this gathering as an attempt
to dictate to the voters, they can do so by
going into the regular party caucus and
voting down the men selected by
it, 1t cannot be denied that any
mum Der of men in ward have a perfect
right to get together and agree that they
Will vote for certain persons at tho eau
Gus. The propriety of such a course may
be open to question. but the right cannot
be questioned. But voters who did not
take part in the gathering are under no
obligation to support the selections. This
kind of practice is not peculiar to poll
tics. Not very unfrequently a few men,
bers of parish pick out a minister and
labor to get the Society to accept him.
The mass OF the voters can easily break
up the practice by voting against every
candidate that is set up in this way, and
because he is set up in this way.
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Ben Tillman's remarks are not often
illuminating, but when he accused the
Republican Senators who are advocating
the annexation of Hawaii without a pop
ular vote, of inconsistency, in view Of
their attitude toward the South he was
not very far out of the way. If few
thousand white men have a right to
transfer some &C, 600 Hawaiians to this
country without asking their consent, it
is difficult to see why good many more
thousand white men at the South have
not the right to control political matters
A1ere without consulting the wishes of
the African residents.
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BRE'R RAT AND FOE.
History and Social Science of the Norway
Pest That Drove Out the Indigenous
Black Rat.
New York Mail and Express. J

New York Mail and Express)
D Comparatively few persons know any,
thing definite about rats, beyond the fact
that such animals exist. They are sup
posed to be an article of staple diet in
China, and in every other country of the
world are exterminated at the expense of
m UGH loss and trouble, and yet there is a
book published on the subject of rats and
ferrets, the ferret being the natural enemy
of the rats, and consequently being nat
urally included in any emarks which
may be made abodt rats.
Rats are divided into three classes, the
black. the brown and the water varieties.
Tho most common variety is the brown
rat, which was originally brought from
Norway to this country about IT'S. Be-
fore this time the indigenous black rat
had things all his own way in this coun
try, but the imported rat rapidly exter-
minated the home product. The original
black rat is practically extinct, whereas
the brown rat is found everywhere. This
is because tho brown rat is the larger and
holder and more ferocious.
Furthermore, their multiplying rate
was about fifteen times. greater than that
of their Vanquished trethren.
That the rats in previous tilne9 were
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-04

In a speech before the Boston Paper
Trade Association Attorney General
Knowlton said some very sensible things
about Southern competition. He does not
fear that New England industry is going
to the dogs. Southern labor may be
cheap now, and the laboring men may be
content with poor living, but they will
not be satisfied with low wages or poor
living d great while. Human nature is
and the same impulses which prompt
N ew England wage workers to demand
better pay and shorter hours will eventual
~ prove equally potent with Southern
labor.
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THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4.

If Japan has really made it clear that
she has no opposition to the annexation
Of Hawaii it will be d bad thing for the
annexationists. The principal argument
for annexation has all along been that If
we did not take the islands somebody
would so that if it is found that Japan,
which is the only nation outside of Great
Britain that could POSSIBLY want them,
has 10 designs upon them the argument
will loseshah- its force. Now if Great
Britain too should convince our govern
ment that she does not care about the
islands the Fannexationists would be in
utter despair.
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CITY OF DEERHNG.

WHEREAS, Joseph. G. Libby and others
w have petitioned the city council TO lay
out new street or public way in said city
toward the '.Basin" so called, to be called
New Douglass street, and whereas said pc
t:tion was referred to the City Council No
vember IL, 1897, to the undersigned for them
to consider and upon, therefore
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN to all parties
interested that the Committee of the City
Council on laying out new streets, will meet
to hear the parties and view the proposed
way on Wednesday the 9th day OF February,
1895. at two O'Clock in thesatternoon, at tile
corner of Congress and the proposed street
and will then and there proceed to deter
mine and adjudee whether the public con-
yenience requires said street or way to be
laid out.
Per order of the City council.
L. f. JONES, City Clerk.
ian19 dit feb9
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''We are ready to meet you,'' says Mr..
Bailey, the Democratic leader of the
House, "on the issue that the money
which is good enough for the people who
produce the wealth is good enough for the
Idlers who spend it; that the money
which is good enough for the poor is good
enough for the rich" No doubt Mr.
Bailey is ready to meet the Republicans
on this ISSUE but there has never been
any such issue nor ever will be. No party
and no set of men is ever going to take
the ground that there should be two
kinds of mon8y, one for the rich and
another for the poor. The only issue there
is now is whether the money which
rich and poor alike have shall be
changed for some other kind of money.
Every dollar which the poor man now has
will purchase justiassmuch as theEdollar
whssh the rich man has. In the hope
of getting at the rich manor the idler,
as he chooses to cali him-Mr. Bailey and
his party proposes to substitute for the
dollar he now has dollar of much less
purchasing power, but the fact that this
BUDSGlUuUlOla
of the rich man without involving the
poor man in the same substitution greatly
initiates against his plan of "getting
at' the rich. The minute you cut in
two the bondholder's dollar you also cut
in two the laboring mans dollar. If you
say that the exchange value of the bond
holders interest shall be reduced one
half, you say also that the exchange value
of the workingman's dollar shall be re-
duced by the same amount. The one
can't be cheated without the other is
cheated in like proportion; and though
the cheating of the latter may be like in
ratio to that of the former, it is far more
serious in its effects. The rich and gener-
ally has a surplus, and the taking away
Of half his interest would cause him no
very serious hardship. To take away
half the laboring mans earnings is quite
a different matter. That to him in many
cases would mean deprivation and want
The worst enemy q wage Garner can have
is the advocate of a deprecated currency.
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STATE or OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,

STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY. IS.
FRANK j. HENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of f. j.. CHENEY &
Co, doing business in the CITY of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid. and that said firm
will pay the sum OF ONE HUNDRED POL
that cannot be cured by the use OF HALLS
CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed H. my
presence, this 9Th day OF December. A. ID. 1856.
f--) A. w. GLEASON,
SEAL
I-~-j Notary P'lblie.
Halrs Catar1h Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Sen1 for testlmoulaiS, free
+. J. CHENEY s. CO, Toledo o.
Sold by Druggists. Toe
Hans Family Pills are the bets
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The City of Berlin is situated in Coos County,
New Hampshire, on the Androscoggin River,
which furnishes at this point one OF the finest
water powers in New England.
The Boston & Maine and Grand Trunk Rail
roads give ample facilities
The large Plants OF the Berlin Mills Co., the
Burgess sulphite Fibre Company and the Glen
Co. are located at Berlin.
In 1880 Berlin had population dde s Of 100 in
1890 the population was Pig, IN 1880 1881 and Is
In 1895 the Berlin Mills Company employed
b75 men, the Glen Co. 400, the Burgess Sulphite
Fibre Company 125 and other smaller concerns
since then the Burgess Sulphite Fibre Com
pany have doubled The size of their plant, The
Glen Co. have rebuilt and very much enlarged
their three mills and a shoe factory has been
built which now employs $50 operatives.
In addition TO the water power required by
nower IS vet unemployed and its development
viii result in steady growth in population in
the future.
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Kennebec Light and beat Company.
ercising the right given In the bonds issued by
said company and in the mortgage securing the
same, dated May IL, A. D. 1891, hereby calls in
for redemption cancellation, and retirement,
its first mortgage six per cent bonds bearing
date the eleventh day of May, A. d. 1891.
The principal of said bonds will be paid at
the rate of one hundred and three dollars tS1O3)
for each one hundred dollars ($1O0), face value
OF said bonds, together with the accrued inter
est thereon.
Said bonds will be paid at the office OF the
Union Safe Deposit and Trust Company at Port
land, Maine, and should be presented there for
payment and redemption.
All interest on said bonds will cease on the
ninth day of April A. D. 1895
Kennebec Light and He Company.
BY GEO. T. WEST, Treasurer.
Dated January 18th. 1898. jan17d3w
The times., 1898-11-26
WANTS TO MEET BATEMAN.
Dave CIelnnd Ansiou. TO BOX th,
LocaI Fcafhcr-Wcjrl,t

Dave Cleland, who last Friday, through
The Times, challenged Joe Bateman to
box any number of rounds for slOO side,
has not as yet received any answer to the
def, according to friend, and he is de-
sirous of meeting Bateman as soon as the
terms can be agred upon.
Cleland has defeated the following men,:
Cal. McCarty, Hoboken. six rounds; o.
Brown, Grand Rapids, three rounds:
John Ryan, New York, six rounds; Bill
Williams, Chicago, twenty-seven rounds /;
Harry Pearson, Montana. ten rounds; A
Cortney. Washington, sixteen rounds:
George Poplor, Philadelphia, four rounds:
Harry Bates, Ohio. seven rounds; Ed.
Blaming. England, five rounds: H. l..
Schaffer, Pennsylvania. ten rounds; Jack
Lyons, Ohio, seven rounds; John Adams,
Illinois, fifteen rounds; Dan. Delaney, St.
Louis, six rounds.
He has also fought draws with Billy
Plummer, England, two rounds; Dal.
Hawkins San Francisco, four rounds.
The times., 1898-11-26

an ordinary one. and nothing exciting
took place. But one favorite won. Sum
maries:
First race-Seven furlongs Aunt Mag
gle, 3 to /, won: Truelight. second; Apple
jack, third. Time, 1880,
Second race-Five furlongs. George, )
to 2, won; Rosalie. second; Pellmell,
third. Time 1903 L..
Third race-six and half furlonss.
Miss Lizzie 10 to /, Won; Water Crest,
second; Lotus Blossom, third. Time.
I:23.
Fourth race-One mile. Bishop Reed. 3
to /, won; Evaline, second; Trauby, third.
Time, 1:4i 81.
Fifth race-Mi!e and twenty yards. Peg
Parks. 80 to l. won. AIuskadine, second;
Libation. third Time, l:46 l-2.
The times., 1898-11-26
From New zenInnd.

Reefton. New Zealand Nov %. 1ssa
1 am very pleased to state that since /
took the agency of Chamberlains medi-
cines the sale has been very large more
especially of the Cough Remedy. In two
years 1 have sold more of this particular
remedy than of all other makes for the
previous five years. AS to its efficacy, /
have been informed by scores of persons
of the good results they have received
from 1t, and know its value from the
use of it in my own household. 1t is Sc
pleasant to take that we have to place
the bottle beyond the reach of the child
rem. e. ]. SCANTLEBURY
For sale by Henry Evans, wholesale and
retail druggists, s3S F Street northwest,
and Connecticut Avenue and Street
northwest, and 1928 Maryland Avenue
northeast