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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-05
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BIsMARCK's IRON NERVE

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Eichmondcrs in NJ
.frffr Nl.D N.rar


The Rev. Lewis r. llite viii preach
Tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock IN
Tho chapel OF the New Jerusalem 1920
wost Broad street Casting out the Lee
gions OF Devils; or the Lord Power
ovcr Habits az SELF Indulgence" giving
iis version OF the sni tual meaning Of
he story and drawing from II lessons as
10 how the lord casts out selhshness In
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-05
SenatoriaII.caguc.

Hon. william A. Anderson. chairman Of
the Senatorial Reform League. announced
early this week that the Executive COM
mittee OF tha League would probably
meet hero tonight.
The local members have not been IN
formed and the meeting has probably
been postponed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-05
rynmina,ion of Colored Teachers.

The annual examination Of colored teach
ers for the schools Of Henrico county IL
being held in the office Of the School
Board. There are nineteen applicants In
am but some OF them Will 80 to other
counties
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-05

the first service at the Y. NJ c. \. TO-
morrow will be the Boys Gospel Army
at o'clock. This service Is IN charge
Of Assistant Secretary G.. n. Hamilton,
ana the theme for the afternoon will he
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-05
SUNDAY TRIPS.


fifllitItAa
Tho Sunday trips TO West Point are
growing in popularity. because in con
necti0n with these trips there ls iola OF
pleasure and health thrown in. livery
sunday morning these trips arc patr1nil-
o5 b, happv parties in search of health
Giving atmosphere and am opportunity
~ aet away from the heat and dust of
,be CITY They find what they are IN
search of az West Point Nrginia's IA
mons salt water resort where pleasant.
cool time is had by AN who go ON those
Sunday trips.
Train leaves the Southern station ST
$3.50 Sunday morning, returning. leaves
West Point at $50 that afternoon.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-05

PARIS MEDICINE Co,
Geutlemen:-T handle seven or eight differ
ent kinds Of Chill TONES but sell ten bottles
OF Groves % where I sell ono Of the others.
] sold 36 bottles OF Groves Chill Tonic in
one day and could have sold more II had had
it. on hand. Nr. Dave Woods cured dyo cases
Of chills With one bottle.
Respectfully,
Jolly y VINYARD
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-05
WHOLESALER.

ST LOUIS, Mo-, Feb, o, 1879.
rAnfs MEDrcrsB Co, city.
Gentlemon:-yo wish to congrc.ulate you
on tho Increased sales wo arc having on your
Groves 1astoless Grille Tonic. On kan,
lining our record of inventory under dato, OF
Jan lst. We find that we sold during M C1Ih
soqso, ~ 1eas $50 dozen Groves Tonic. We
also find that our sales on your Laxative
DroTno-Qaiuino Tablets have been, some
thiry enormous. having sold during tho late
Col. and Grip season 4, 200 dozen.
please rush down order enclosed herewith,
and oblige Yours truly,
MEYER BRGS. DRUG GO.
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CONSUMER.

WHTrEsnoRo, Tex, Sep. II, 1873.
PARIS Medicine Co., 50. Louis, No.
Gcntlemen;-I write YOU tow lines ~ graf
iiudc. Think yolr Groves TasfeipSl Grill
Tonic Is one offho bestmrdi-inc IN theworld
for Chillsand Fever. ! hlv0 three children
that have been down with mrl1rial foyer for -
months and have bought Chill medicines ~ all
kinds and Doctors bills coming in all tho timo
until sent 20 town and got three bottles u
Groves Tonic. Nv children are all well now
and il was your Tasteloss chill Tonic that did
il. cannot 10y too much ia is behalf.
Yours truly.
JANIS d. ROBERTS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
THE BRAVE TO THE BRAVE.
How Lieut.. HobsOn Was Received by
His COmpatriots In the
Rife Pits.

On some days we were told he was
dead, bu. at last we were assured he
was alive. Between his iron bars he
could watch our men moving along the
yellow trenches or peering toward him
through field glass, and the sentries
those tall, gaunt regulars who had
taken the hills with their blood and
who were now creeping up on him by
night nearer and nearer, winning the
ground between him and themselves
by the sweat of their brows. And late
one afternoon, in the sight of thou
sands of the enemy and of his own
countrymen he rode out free man
and into his inheritance Few men,
certainly very few young men, have
ever tasted such a triumph. The men
who had made it possible for him to
leave his cell and to breathe free air
again had waited for his coming for
many hours, crouched by the hundreds
along the high banks of the narrow
trad through which he must come.
They were not of his branch of the
service, they were not even brother
officers, their attitude toward him was
one of attention and salute, they were
the men who had been gathered from
every point of the union to be drilled
and hammered and fashioned into the
thing called a regular. They were
without local or political friends or
conditions, they had no staff of artists
and reporters at their heels to make
them heroes in spite of themselves;
but they were the backbone of the
war-the professional fighting ma
chimes, the grumbling. self-respecting.
working regulars. Hobson rode down
into this mob in fresh white duck, pale
with the pallor of the prison, and
touching his cap with grave gratitude
And they dashed at him with a roar of
ecstasy, with a wild welcome of friend
ly cheers. AS brave men they honored
a brave man. and this sun-tanned, dirty.
half-starved, fever racked mob of reg
ulars danced about the educated, clever
engineer as though the moment was
his, and forgot that at the risk of their
lives they had set him free. that the
ground he rode over had been splashed
with their blood.-Richard Harding
Davis, in Scribner's.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
PITH AND POINT.

It's a cold day for a man when he
We have no use for a man who lies
to no purpose.-Washington Qa.) Dem
ocrat.
1t would be easier to forgive fool if
he were original, but all are fools in
the same old ways,-Atchison Globe.
She-"Why do they call battleshir
She do you suppose?" He-"I sup
pose because there are so many arms
about her."-Yonkers Statesman.
"Ah! If our youthful ideas could but
be realized" IF they could, we would
be circus actors, truck drivers or pi-
rates, the most of us."-Indianapolis
Journal.
Marie-"Does your papa approve of
the attachment between you and
Charlie?" Ethel-"I'm afraid rot He
still banks the furnace at s: 30."-Cleve-
land Leader.
Just think" exclaimed the pugilist,
as he looked admiringly in aplate glass
window, there are grown men who
have to black shoes for livin'.' Yes"
answered his manager, INSTEAD of
blackin' eyes an getting rich, like u.s."
Washington Star.
Lipper-"How are you, Clipper?
Haven't seen you in some time. How
are the family getting on?" Clipper
They're all going to the dogs, old
man" Lipper-"Don't say. Why,
what's happened? They were all right
when l saw you last" Chipper-"Yes,
but you see there's a kennel shown in
town this ernoon."-Richmond Dis
patch.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
THE POK WAH TREE,
1t Grows in Bushn ell Pa X and China.
men Like Its Nauseating
Fruit.

There was an expression of supreme
contentment on the face of the China
man as he sat under a tree in Bushnell
park the other afternoon picking up
fruit that had fallen from it. His loose
blouse and wide pantabons tapped IN
the wind and his pigtail described cir
cles, triangles, all manner of lines, ana
various other geometrical forms as it
yielded to the fitful gusts of wind. 1t
was chilly enough, and Officer Strick
land, as he looked at the industrious
Chinaman, did not feel his heavy blue
oyercoat a bit uncomfortable But the
Chinaman did not seem to mind the
wind in the least. His teeth. might
chatter, his nose might take on blush
tint, and his fingers might suffer from
numbness, but he continued his work
with unremitting industry and kept his
happy lock unclouded by anything
that was even suggestive of unhappl-
ness. 1t was evident he was engaged
in a task that he liked. The fruit had
a very offensive odor and the Chinaman
handled it in a nauseating manner. He
had fair-sized basket, into which he
threw the stones of the fruit, leaving
the soft substance which covered it on
the turf. His hands were besmeared
with the substance.
In reply to the questions of Officer
Strickland and a Times reporter, the
Chinaman said the tree which yielded
the fruit was called the Pok Wah tree
in China. The fruit is considered a
delicacy in the celestial kingdom, and
even Ii Hung Chang-the statesman
that can look wise and ask embarrass-
ing questions of personal nature
considers himself in luck when his
chef serves him with dish of the fruit.
The outer substance, which is nauseat-
Ding to the stomach of anyone but q
Chinaman, is made into Chinese catsup
that always occupies a position of
honor at the mandarin's table when
birds nests, sharks fins and other ap-
petizing dishes are served. The meat
of the stones has medicinal property
of high value. The Ch;naman, whom
Officer Strickland called Charley"
name which seems favorite one in the
nomenclature of Cinnamon, stated that
in China the stones of the fruit are
cooked just as we cook chestnuts, and
that after they are boiled they are
opened and the meat taken out
A lady passed through the park later
IN the afternoon. Seeing the Chinaman
picking up the fruit she was curious to
see what it seemed like. She took one
of the plums-if the sweet, luscious
fruit of the American orchard is not
disgraced by applying its name to the
disgusting thing of Chinese lineage
that resembles it-and broke it open.
The stencil from it was so strong that
she dropped it Immediately. She wore
gloves which she was obliged to dis
card in order to free herself from the
offensive odor.
There are three of these trees in
Bushnell park, but only one yields
fruit. Officer Strickland calls them
the Chinese plum trees. - Hartford
Times
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HARD TO COLLECT THE BILL.
Mr. Lineup Got Tired of His Name,
and Put 1t and His Debts Be-
hind Him.

There are some Indians, not many,
keeping stores in the territory. Most
of the merchandising is done by white
men. Formerly, when the wholesale
house of the city supplied an Indian
storekeeper on credit, it took long odds
| on his honesty, for until recently the
red man could not be sued. Neverthe-
less in the past the losses were not so
heavy as might have been supposed. A
lawyer who had marked success with
hard collections in the territory told
this as fairly illustrative of his strange
experiences when Indians belonged to
other nationalities and could not be
reached by court processes:
"A certain house in ST. Louis had
been selling goods on credit to an In
dian who went by the name of Mr.. Tin
cup. Suddenly it lost track of the Gus
toner. At that time the st. Louis firm
had credited him TO the amount of near
ly $4,000. But while lineup dropped
out of the firms knowledge, orders
from the same place in the territory
began to come in from customer who
who gave his name as Littlepidge. l
was called upon to inves tigate the mat
ter and to see what | could do with that
claim of about $500. When | arrived
at the place discovered that lineup
and Littlepidge were the same individ-
ual. Inquired what it meant. The In
dian said he had got tired of lineup and
had adopted the new name.
but don't you know you cart
change your name that way?' asked
him. Don't you know you are likely to
get into the penitentiary for such a
thing as that?'
THE Indian said he didn't know he
had violated any law. On investiga ion
l learned that he hadn't. The law of
his nation permitted him to change his
name al Will, dropped that branch of
the subject and got around to the ques-
tion of collecting what the late Mr.. Tin
cup owed. 1t was hard job. The In
dian couldn't be sued. knew that. and
so did he. l had nothing to stand upon
but moral suSs;on. l tried bluffing. |
went in ON one line, and when found
was making no impression upon the
debtor there l tried another. | threat
ened and argued and coaxed. That
was all l could do. just kept at it until
l persuaded Mr.. Indian to make set
tlement. The result was carried back
to my clients the bulk of the debt, but l
got 1t through no help of the law. 1t
was just case of talking the Indian
into the payment of part of his obliga-
ton. And that was the way we had to
do business down here until the United
States courts were given civil juris1lc-
lion over the Indians" - ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
IN A QUANDARY.
1t Was No Wonder That the sfan Was
Anxious for Some Good
Advice.

was sitting in the shade in front Of
store one morning in June when / saw
q man and g. woman riding a heavy
farm horse coming down the mountain
road, where it almost hung over the
Cumberland river. The woman rode
behind the man, and their feet swung
loose at the sport of the wind, for the
horse was saddleless. | spoke as they
passed on to the hitchng rack, and as
they came back to GO into the store L
recognized the man as foxy specimen
of mountaineer who had done some
logging for me the year before. A few
minutes after he had gone into the
store with the woman. who was of the
stalwart type, he came out alone and
approached me with an evident pur-
pose.
Il reckon ysain't fergot me, have you.
colonel?" he said, taking a seat on a
log.
''Oh, no." 1 replied. assuringly, but
l didn't recognize you when you rode
up. l didn't know you were married.
81 amt" he said. promptly, IAN
that's jist whut l want to talk to you
about"
I'm sure if I can be of any service.
jim" l said. III be only too glad to
render it. What do you want me to
Go?"
well. colonel, what mostly need is
advice"
"Anybody can give you that. have
it in any quantity. How much and
what kind do you want?"
He came over closer and bunched
down on the ground by my side, where
he could talk confidentially to me. and
at the same time keep his eye on the
store door.
You see, colonel" he went on in a
voice scarcely above a whisper. I'm on
my way to git coupled right this min
ute, and that there's the gal in the
store. Hits IA miles to the preachers,
er wait week, and | didn't see no use
a-watin'; so we started out, Sal a-ridin
behint. I'd been talkin' powerful
long time about buyin' me saddle, and
I thought this wuz jist the time to do
III, 81 > tOulNi up " plCuSH-
cr's in some kind Nv doin's, and Sal she
never says a word tell l comes to pick
out the saddle a minute ago. and then.
durn my cats, she ups and says I've got
10 git side saddle so she kin ride in
front and me kehint and, by hokey, she
says eff | don't do hit she won't go an
ether dern foot with me to the preach
er's and l kin marry anybody else !
please, fer all her. eff | don't like hit
In course, colonel, l don't want to be
onpolite to lady, ner obstroperous,
ner sot in my way, but, colonel. this
marryin' is a mighty ALFRED ticlilish
business, and mans got to watch out
er he'll git started wrong, and then
he's iiggered, shore. Now, whut l want
to ask you is, had l better git a side
saddle er let Sal walk home?"
1t was a most grave and important
question to be thus unexpectedly
hurled at me, but l rose to the occasion
grandly, and l hope l answered it as it
should have been answered.-Washing
ION Star
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
MEMORY CHAINS.
Soldiers Buttons Are Now in Great
Demand Among the Young
Ladies.

From present indications the soldiers
will soon be a buttonless brigade, fog
the brass buttons have caught the femi.
nine fancy, and every young woman
wants a collection of these glittering
trophies.
In the days of our grandmothers each
little girl had a long string of buttons
of every description, called memory
string" 1t was the dearest treasure Of
the little maid, and she went over the
kaleidoscope collection of bone, glass,
steel and pearls, saying: "Auntie gave
me this one, and Cousin Mamie sent me
this" and so on through the chain.
touching each button as fondly as a nun
telling the beads of her rosary.
Now it is the big girls who get UP
memory strings, and they call them the
souvenir chain" The modern maid,
however, only wants buttons from sol
diers' uniforms for her memory string
These bits of brass she first strings on a
long ribbon and then adds an extra bow
of narrow ribbon-red, white and blue
in turns-to each button. Upon this
low is written the giyer's name and
company, the date, and occasionally &
line that says: Worn in the charge al
San Juan" or Worn at the battle OF
Manila" or merely the word San
tiago."
\ button from the upifom of Span
ish soldier is absolutely necessary &c
complete the memory charm" The eff,
feet of this patriotic souvenir, with its
innumerable bows of red. white and
blue showing between the rows OF
cleaning brass, is very pretty when
hung around the mirror in a girls
dainty boudoir, and is likewise the envy
Ct all her less favored friends.-N. Y.
World
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
TROUT COOKED ON THE HOOK.
Conclusion of One Fishy story Told
About the Wonders of Yel-
lOwstone Park.

"1ou needn't think that Just because
| have beer out there am going to give
you all the details of surprise which
l did not feel at the stock tales of the
Yellowstone park" said the critical
tourist. Anybody knows that boiling
water will cook fish. and Sc long as you
know that the Yellowstone is full of
geysers and boiling springs don't see
hat there is wonderful about catch.
ing a trout and then turning around
and dangling it in a boiling spring un.
Ill it is cooked. 1t would begin tc be
wonderful if boiling water didn't cook
ish everywhere.
But | wish when they are telling
This old story they'd finish it up-make
it complete. The next time you hear
anybody tell that story just you watch
out for the way it ends. 1t never ends.
The man tells how he caught the trout
Well and good; anybody can ca tch hun
dreds of trout in those overstocked
waters. Then he tells how he swung
around on his heel and, without taking
the fish from the hook. lowered il into
q pool of boiling water and cooked it
Well. what's the end of the story :?
There isn't any end. He just chortles
about how he was overcome by the
narvels of nature and that sort of
thing. He doesn't say another word
about the fish. Now, if you will only
let the ma-vels of nature alone and
keep your eye fixed on the fish with
which the story began it will look
mighty different.
There is the pool of boiling water
pretty handy, but not by any means
10 be reached by pivoting on the fisher
mans heel. Then just SOS to have
something to talk about when he gets
home the fisherman souses his live
trout into the boiling water. If it's
cruelty to broil a live lobster there
ought to be something done 10 a man
Nho will boil a trou. alive. And il
spoils the fish; the man has to throw
it away after he has showed it through
natures marvels for the sake of his
miserable little story. Nobody can eat
troN that has been boiled with all its
scales on and all the machinery in
place; It's got to be thrown away.
There's another thing. too. about this
story. The next time you hear it ask
the man if he took the trout out of the
pool of boiling water. If he says he
did, then the fish didn't begin to be
cooked, for anybody who has ever seen
boiled fish of any sort knows that
when it's done 1t won't hold together
tight enough to be lifted unless it's
wrapped in a napkin before it's cooked
so there you have the plain facts
abolt cooking trout on the hook. ]
know, because | thought it was such a
great marvel of nature that had to go
and try 1t. Then saw what happened.
and | haven't yet got through feeling
disgusted with myself."-N. Y Sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
THE MUFF IN HISTORY.
1t Has Been Carried by Fair Wome n
In All Lands for Many
Centuries.

In many sixteenth century portraits
one sees wound around the wrist of a
noble dame a piece of rich, soft fur.
which was used to cover the neck or
to fulfill the functions of a mutf. T
this is often attached some little fan
tasy, an animals head, skull, perhaps
cleverly wrought and adorned with
precious stones.
Like many another article of dress, the
muff was at first the exclusive property
of the nobility, but when it appeared in
Venice it was carried by coAIrtesans as
well as by women of the highest ranh.
The first Venetian muffS were very
small, made of a single piece of velvet.
brocade or silk, lined with fur, the
openings fastening with exquisite but
tons of gold and silver enriched with
precious stones.
By 1862 the muff seems to have beef
recognized as necessary adjunct Of
the wardrobe Of lady of fashion. In
Evelyn's "Mundus Muliebris," written
at this time, numbers of gowns, bod
dices," shoe buckles; of Perfumed
gloves, ''jonquil, tube rose, frangipan.
orange, violet, narcissus, jessamn, am
brett, and some of chicken skin for
night to keep her hands plump, soft and
white" are enumerated, and also
three muffs of ermine, sable, gray"
1t will be NOTICED that my lady has no
black muff. Many years before Charles
TX, "Fidgety Killjoy" as he was called.
regulated the costumes of the classes
the bourgeoise to use black muffs, and
only the woman of rank to carry those
of various colors.
At the time of the national conven-
tion in Paris the muffs were large and
fat, fantastic as were all the fashions
of that time. In colonial days in Amer
lea they were also very large, but
round.
About 1880 the muffs were principal
ly of chinchilla, of moderate size. and
were often used with what would seem
to US an incongruous combination OF
straw bonnets and thin slippers.
In an old "Dict;onaire Amoureux"
the muff is defined as "a letter box
lined with white satin. n."-Cosmopolitan
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26

Distressing Kidney aud Bladder ais
eases relieved in six hours by the NE y
Great South American Kidney Cure. ;
This new remdy is great surprise o.
account of its exceeding promptness IL
relieving pam in the bladder, klduei >
back and every part of the urinary pes
sages in male or female. 1t relieves
pention of water and pain IN passing IL
almost Immediately. Ifyou want quick
relief and cnre this is your only remedy
Sold ry +. G. Ruerstatte, Druggist, Mani
towoo, Wis
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26

The sooner cough or cold is cured
without harm to the sufferer the bet
ter. Lingering colds are dangerous
Hacking cough is distressing. One
Minute Cough Cure quickly cures it
Why suffer when such cough cure
is within reachs 1t is pleasant to the
taste. Henry Hlnrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
Venom in Snakes.

By remembering two simple facts
anyone can distinguish poisonous
serpent from a harmless one. The
venomous reptile invariably possesses
triangularly shaped head and a blunt
nose, while his tail is correspondingly
blunt and stubby. Any snake that
tapers smoothly from the middle of its
body to the tip of its nose and to the tip
of his tail as well, growing slender in
a gradual and regular manner, is alb
solutely devoid of venom.-N. Y. Jour.
nal
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-01-26
Might Balance Himself Some Time

why don't you marry him?" they
asked of the beautiful girl
Il don't love him." she replied.
Tut, tut" they said. Don't be old
fashioned. He is worth a million, and
is already on the brink of the grave"
ION the brink, yes" she answered
bitterly, but am told that he has had
experience as an equilibrist. Wh0
knows how long he may be able to stay
there ?''-Pittsburgh Chronicle.