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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
uSNK pIRECTORS.

The Supreme Court of Nebraska has de-
cided that directors of a national bank
who attest the report required by United
States law thereby certify that 1t is alb
solutely true; that any one who contem-
plates the purchase OF stock in the bank
is entitled to rely upon the truth OF the
statements contained in such reports, and
that If he does purchase in reliance upon
them, and the representations turn out TO
be false, he may hold the directors liable
for any damages he may have sustained
as a result of the Misrepresentation. The
court says: upon principle and author
ity. the conclusion is irresistible that di-
rectors cannot escape liability for dam
ages resulting from false statements
made by them of the condition of the
bank. even though they were at the time
ignorant that such statements were
false"
1T is probable that hereafter directors
Of national banks in Nebraska will direct.
That is to say, they will keep themselves
thoroughly informed as to the condition
and workings of their banks.
The failure of bank directors TO direct
has brought many n bank and many
man to ruin, and has led some very far
sighted men to advocate a pay director
ate system. Those in favor of this sys-
TEN would divide the directors into COM
mittees that would be required to take
turns in the matter of spending so many
hours a day in their banks and familiar
izing themselves with all that goes on,
down TO the most minute detail.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
CutclIin-CreWs.

SUFFOLK, VA. April 5.-(Special)-A
very pretty marriage was solemnized to-
night at $50 o'clock at the residence OF
Mr.. b. +. Cutchin, on Main street. in
the presence Of few relatives and 'nti-
mate friends Of the family. The con-
tracing parties were Mr.. Eugene Crews,
a well-known tobacconist, of oxford, y.
c.. and Miss Lizzie Frank Cutchin, old
est daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Il. +.
Cutchin, Of Suffolk. Rev. W. T. Green,
of the AIain-Street Methodist church.
was the officiating minister, assisted by
Rev w. w. Staley, ID. D., of the Chris
tian church. Immediately after the ce-e-
mony Mr.. and Mrs Crews took the Sea-
board Airline train en- route for Oxford.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

CE. NJ D., in the April Pail Mall Maya
Zinc)
Because you love me | have found
New joys that were not mine before,
New stars have lightened up my sky
With glories growing more and more.
Because you Iowa me | can rise
To heights of Fame and realms OF Power
Because you love me ! may learn
The highest use OF every hour.
Because you love me l can choose
To look thro your dear eyes and see
Beyond the beauty Of the Now
Far onward To Eternity.
Because you love ME | can walt
With perfect patience well possessed;
Because you love me, all my life
Is circled with unquesioned rest;
Yes. even Life and even Death
Is all unquestioned and all blest.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
Handsome Home burned.

ROANOKE, VA, April 5.-(Special.)-
The beautiful home Of John l.. Woodrum,
on Bent mountain, was consumed by fire
yesterday. All the contents were destroy
ed. Mr.. Woodrum is noted apple
grower, and owns the largest bearing
orchard in Southwest Virginia.
Miss Christine Walthall, of this city,
who is teaching school in the neighbor-
hood and was boarding with Mr.. Wood
rum, lost all of her effects. and neat
sum Of money in the flames.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
Hill City lettings.

LYNCHBURG, VA, April 5.-(Special)-
Information was received here to-day
from Dr. A. Coke Smith, who was called
to Columbia, 5. c., Friday night by the
serious illness of his sister, Mrs. DR.. j. "A.
Rice, that she was better.
Mr.. T. c. Glass, who is to conduct the
Summer School Of Methods at Roanoke,
left to-day for Pulaski, with the view
of having the normal school at Pulaski
consolidate with the Roanoke school,
Cards OF invitation are out for the mar
riage at st. Paul's church, on Wednesday,
April 18th, Of Miss Theresa DeLaTour,
of this city, and Mr.. John Howard Her
rick, Of Baltimore.
Mr.. John l.. Fortune. n well-known
young citizen, died to-day, aged 40 years.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

It Is announced that Sinai congregation,
Chicago. at its annual meeting Monday
night, voted to pay DR.. Emil G.. Hirsch an
annual salary of $1,000 for fifteen years,
and ratified its action of February 9th,
a life-term. as an Offset TO the recent fat
tering call made 10 him by the Temple
Emmanuel, New York city. Dr. Hirsch's
present salary is $4,000 a year. The New
York call offered him $4,000 year, resi-
dence free of rent, and a ten-years' pay
ment on his life insurance of $4,000.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

The multi-millionaire Mrs. William X.
Vanderbilt, Jr., was thoughtful enough,
in the midst Of her splendid wedding
celebration Tuesday, to order that the
flowers used as decorations on the occa-
sion be sent to the sick at Bellevue Hos
pital. The fact is greatly TO her credit.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
IdiOms Are Graccs.
(Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.)

The Richmond Dispatch has long held
worthily the undisputed position of Pro-
fessor of Good English TO the press OF
Virginia. II not OF a wider territory; but
as II has never assumed the tone OF a
stern master. so none OF the Virginia
newspapers has servilely followed it's
rulings, while all are more or less indebted
TO 1t for information and suggestion that
have served them well in the use--the
proper usexof lapguage, which enters go
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

ice-President Hobart is in bad health,
it appears, while ex-Secretary Sherman,
whose obituary was printed not long ago
In some papers. is reported to be gaining
strength steadily. and TO be able now to
SIT I'D most of the time.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

1t appears that Aguinaldo's real capital
has not yet been taken. after ALL and it
is understood 1t will not be captured
until Aguinaldo himself is caught. He
carries it with him.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

The Wilmington On. c. Messenger
says that Rev. DIR. Peyton II. Hoge's life
of his distinguished uncle, the late Rev.
DR.. Moses ID. Hoge, will be published in
the fall" And then it adds: "A good
piece Of biographical work may be ex-
Dqctedn
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

Although we knew Tuesday evening
that 4 had showed at various points in
Virginia Tuesday morning. we have until
this moment resisted tho temptation 10
remark that winter stil fingers in the lap
Of spring
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

Possibly it would be only natural for
Aguinaido to respond to our proclama-
ton Of good intentions by referring to
the famous remark about the pavement
Of the neither regions.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
Mrs. Stunrt's SucccssOr.

STANTON. VA. April 5.-(SpeciaL)-
Miss NJ. +. Duyall was to-day elected
principal of the Virginia Female Institute,
vice Mrs. j. T.. y. Stuart, who resigned.
after a long and successful management
of this school.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

Mr.. William X. Vanderbilt has given
10000 for a new dormitory building TO
be erected at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville Tenn
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

Alger calls on Shafter for relief In the
embalmed beef matter. WIN Wheeler
again have TO 80 70 the rescue pf shafter?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

All letters and kilograms must De au-
dressed to THE DISPATCH COMPANf'
Rejected communications will not be re-
furned.
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ADVERTISING RATES.
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vance C5 words or less). ....''..'''
Above rates are for "every day OF au-
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Reading notices IN reading matter ,Spe'
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Card OF rates for more space furnisneo
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

All letters recommending candidates lot
Office must be paid for TO insure their
p,hlication. This is a lonE-standing rule
n ours
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
POLK MILLER.
The Confederate Museum,

TWELFTH AND CLAY STREETS.
Omen daily from 10 A. NJ. 10 4. N.
Admission - cents. Free on Saturdlys
NH 4-ly
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
WEDNESDAY Glib.
EXHIBITION

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST HALL
north First street,
THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL 6. 1880.
The ladies' of 81. Giephen's club have
always fully satisfied the select patronage
heretofore granted their dramatic per
fOrmances, and feel certain tho present
one will be- appreciated by all.
Doors open : p VI. Performance punct-
Ually at s =. NJ. ap 0A
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
MEETINGS.

MASONIC NoTICE.-A STATED ~
Of JOPPA LODGE. M
No 40. A. +. and A. NJ. Will be- hela
AZ the Masonic Temple, TIL ~ ID n
DAY. 9Th instant. AT I'D o'cloeN IA
Members OF sister lodges anu ~ be-
hrerhrcn are fraternally invited ~
nv order OF the Worshipful Mast,l'
GEORGE c. JEFFkksoN,
ap 6-lt' S',t,.---
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06
EXCURSIONS, &c.
TO WASHINGTON.

EXCURSION TO WASHINGTON.
THE LADIES OF GRACE STlthtL
Baptist church will give an excursion %
Washington By Richmond. Fredefi
burg and Potomac railroad WHlIsl y
TIDE. May 22d Tickets, so. dp '-N
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

Resolutions of respect 10 oeceaseu
members passed by societies, corpora
lions. associations. or other organ'za-
tions' Will be charged for as advertising
matter
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-06

UPTOWN OFFICE. BRoAD-sTREET
PHARMACY. $40 EAST BROAD
STREET.
STREET.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-10-26
ART AND FASHION,,
How Nowadays the Terrible Fashion
Plate Comes Into Being.

Htate comes Into Being.
All! for the good old times when art
ists-real artists-could be pursuaded
to design a costume. One Of the prin-
cipal items of expense to a lady of old
Italy used to be the retainer" she paid
to Da Vinci, a Bramante, or some other
artist of note to furnish her with de-
signs for her court and other dresses
of ceremony. To-day some one who
can draw is given an idea by a custo-
mer-that is, by some one who has
made or cut dresses under some other
customers tutelage. Neither one has
studied or cares aught for art. proper
ton, harmony, or the other superflui-
ties; they are customers, what have
they to do with such details? A won
derful assemblage of ideas is the result,
a Connection in silks, satins, chiffons
and laces. These ideas and materials
are beautifully and painfully drawn
upon paper, and draped upon an al
legged female figure at least seven feet
tall, with head slightly turned, auburn
hair, sylph-like waist, a stage smile,
and a background of palms and ferns.
This drawing being reproduced upon
thousands of sheets, 10! a fashion-plate
is born, with the name of the great de-
signer in the left-hand corner-the
password, the hallmark. Every
woman Tor, rather, nearly every
woman) studies it, admires it-and, be
she lean or fat, tall or short, her next
dress must be like that. Perchance
her dressmaker has not signed her soul
away entirely, and protests feebly that
that special style is not adapted to her
patrons particular figure; but for her
effrontery she may lose a customer
That dress has to be made in that way
and in none other.-Self Culture.
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that. My, amt it plum interesting?
How can we fix it?"
Pa was so appreciative of his wife's
praise he tilted back in the rocker and
gave the matter solemn thought.
81 calkilate we kin have this all to
ourselves" he began, "ef you can hold
out 'gainst mentionin' Devy's comm.
1t will be hard work for We, Drusilly,
but it's the only way. Do you think
you kin hold that news over prayer
meetin' n Sunday? I tell you what"
he went on excitedly, 1--WE can just
have the whole thing happen right
here, meetin' an all, if you don't tell"
Mrs. Gladden's pleasant face fell.
r II wonder if it'll be fair not to tell
the rest of the folks" she began. "You
see, Devyll be expecting a big well
come"
Asahel GLADDEN. rose up in his socks.
h "Drusilly, I have jest set my heart
on managing the whole thing. Don't
you disappoint me. l never had so
much chance as this in all my mortal
tfe. I always wanted to do sech direct
In and managin', and don't you dis
appoint me-"
%What'll folks say when they find
we held that news?" asked his wife,
much impressed, but giving up, as
FsufII.
AFhsy'H say you've com to years of
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-10-26

One of the most delightful novelties
for a woman's den is a delft desk. 1t
is a rather anall affair of white enam-
ell, decorated in blue. White desks
painted by hand in water colors and
oils are also a novelty. For a white
and blue boudoir nothing is more fash
ionable than a little immaculate cab
met artistically bouqueted with bunch
es of blue violets and forget-me-nots.
These desks have but one drawer and
this boasts OF silver handles mono
grammed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-10-26

e%rnoon," went on Mrs. GLADDEN.. eff
the snow don't stay on he'll fetch you
in the buggy"
Afterward Mrs. GLADDEN. declared
that pa spent the happiest week of his
life getting ready for that couple to
be reunited. 1t never struck his warm
and innocent heart hat anything could
go amiss. He piled up special wood for
the parlor, he lowered around the two
bedrooms, he actually had his finger in
every pie and cake baked. He went
to the village store alone once or twice,
and, after the last visit, wore an air
of the deepest mystery.
Mrs. GLADDEN. stood this until the
hour of retiring.
"Ashahel!" she exclaimed, with a
break in her voice, "Asahel, you never
had a secret from me in all your life,
did your"
The rosy man looked as guilty as if
detected in a crime. He saw her kind
eyes and his voice quavered.
"Never before" he whispered, "but
I'm so afeard you can't hold this one
over Sunday meetin' I'm bound not to
breathe it."
One dry sob brought him to terms.
at air." he whispered, tiptoeing over
to her, at air that I telegraphed to
Devy to git here on the Sunday after
moo express"
Mrs. Gladden's attitude toward the
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discretion; though I don't want to hurt
your feelings none, Drusilly. You can
take It all out fixin' up the spare room
and Marindy's room. 1t air lucky An
geline amt been down here yet an
other clear 'pintin'. Now hurry up the
dinner and write Devy a letter, tellin'
him he must come right here an we
won't take no for an answer. III
hitch up the cutter and We'll go over
to town an engage Angelina for the
whole endurin' week
The two were excited as children.
The letter had to be strong enough to
suit pa and was the labor of an hour
for Mrs. GLADDEN. ere it suited him.
Dinner over, they tucked themselves
into a green sleigh and drove over to
New California.
"We'1l stop on the way" said the
small and rosy man. II feel so anxious
to get hold of Angelina"
"Oh, you dor questioned the wife,
demurely. "Well as our Marindy de-
clares, her pas younger'n any one"
Angelina Culver-Angeline Porter
that as-wa visiting at old DR.. Nor
mans. She and Cissy Norman had al
ways been close friends. She came out
to the sleigh to speak to Mrs. GLADDEN..
She was quite dressy and had on a
pink house sack trimmed with white
lace. She had tied a little white fas-
cinator over her brown waves.
ri was lowing to go over to Dennis
Daodna's next week." she said, in her
soft, comfortable voice, "but if you
make a point of it 1 guess I a put
them off"
Pa GLADDEN. was so anxious his little
feet danced up and down in the snow.
ooh, we want you real bad next
week, Angeline! We been waitin' and
expectin' till we're set on it special.
Do say you'll come
81 believe pail burst if you don't
come, Angelina" said his wife, che
gets SO set on anything"
We'll, I WILL" assented the widow,
'I used to have good times at your
house when I was a girl. I never have
forgotten them"
Pa went through an expressive pan
tomime behind her.
: "And pail fetch you on Sunday aft
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-10-26
PEA IL OF THE PAST.

"For the lands sake, pa" called out
Mrs. Dr. usilla GLADDEN. to her husband
as he wiped his feet on a piece of car
pet at the kitchen door, II thought
you'd II lever get in. Guess who's sent
me a letter. You'd never think in a
month of Sundays. It's from Devah
Bland my cousin Devah."
Pa gave a smile Of interest and rub
bed his hands.
well, I swan now! And what has
Devy got to say for himself?"
Hes coming to Ohio to visit. He'll
of that?"
Pa pulled off his boots contentedly.
Il won't be sorry to see Devy. We
war in school together. What say? Is
he doing well?"
Doing well, but his wife's dead;
been dead two year or more. 1 bet you
a great deal, pa, he's on the warpath.
And I'd think Angelina Culver's visit
ing around here just now, and she's a
wilder. Pa, it looks like the 'pintin's
of Providence, don't it,"
Mrs. GLADDEN. smiled benignly on her
husband and he on her. They were
in love with each other and had been
for twenty years.
"It truly does" replied pa, "it truly
does. Jest think how them two court
ed over three years, wasn't it? l hold
the split was all Angeline's folks fault.
That old man Porter never stayed any
where and got a streak to move to In
diana. Her ma wouldn't let her stay
here and that made Devy properly
mad. They KEEP it UP for awhile writ
in, then Devy went out farther west
and married himself to a strange wom-
an. After awhile Angelina gets mar
ried. First we hears her ~pardner's
gone and she's a likely widow, visitin'
round. Then we gets a letter sayin'
Devy's pardner has been departed two
years and he's comm visitin. Now
don't that beat all?"
"How plain you've made it, pa"
beamed Mrs. Drusilla. "It sounds like
them story papers. You ort to have
been a writer for one. I often thought
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-10-26
NAPOLEON AND THE MAYOR.
Old -Shoemaker's Speech Made a Hit
with the Emperor.

Old shoemaker's Speech Made a Hit
with the Emperor.
On the emperor's arrival Mr.. Mayor
was sought to compliment his sover-
eign in a speech worthy of Marsha
tours. He was discovered, like Gin
cinnatus, at the pillow tail, says Black
woods Magazine. He ran home to put
on his best coat with the sasha badge
of his dignity-and arrived in the pres
ence just in time to anticipate the
emperor's departure. In vain he tried
to utter a word, and again in vain;
bowling and scraping he stood fascinat-
ed by B~onaparte's scrutinizing black
eyes-an unhappy squirrel in the gaze
of the rattlesnake. Close behind the
trembling mayor stood an old shoe
MAKER, in figure a true Don Quixote,
CLAD in his working dress. why
don't you speak, you fool" he mutter-
ed H,om time to time to his leader. At
last his patience gave way; he pushed
the mayor aside, advanced, with his
left hand removed his greasy cotton
nightcap, with his right lifted the horn
spectacles from his nose, made his
bow and delivered the grafton. EN-
peror, you are on your way to thrash
the Prussian rogues nee more. l
hope soon to see you return crowned
with glory, and I have nothing more
to say, but that Caesar and Alexander
could not compare with you" The
emperor laughed and inquired of the
old man whether he had any sons.
"Yes-four are in the army-two of
these in the guards" Their names
were taken down, and the honest shoe
maker soon saw them raised to the
rank of officers and found himself pro-
vided with a comfortable pension.
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o "sIR
The Value of scott's Novels as Reading
for the Young.


for the Young.
Above all, writes B. NJ, in the st.
Nicholas, Sir Walter Scott was the
champion of youth, and it is the fra
GRANGE of the springtime that breathes
through his stories. In his day writing
for young people had not become a pro-
~fession, otherwise there is no knowing
what he might have done for us; still,
he has done enough; and oddly, too, his
heroes and heroines are almost without
exception very young-no older, indeed,
than many schoolgirls and boys, and
certainly not SO well educated, though,
poor things, the stress of the times
the world. 1t is only necessary to cite
a few examples. Naturally, "Ivanhoe"
is the first suggestion. Rowena was Is
when the story opens, Rebecca was lit
tie older, and Ivanhoe himself was not
Of age. Quentin Durward was 10, and
Isabelle of Croye, his sweetheart, was
scarcely Is, while her Aunt Hameline
was thought quite elderly at 80. Cath
crime, "The Fair Maid of Perth" was
not more than IL. Edith Plantagenet,
the heroine of "The Talisman" was
about the same age. Mary Avenel, in
"The Monastery" was somewhere be-
tween IL and Is, while the Two broth
ers, Halbert and Edward, were about
II and Is respectively. Catherine Sey-
ton, in "The Abbott" was not above
16, and Roland, the page, was scarcely
older. Di Vernon romped with the
dogs and the horses. Annie Of Geier-
stein was a child, and Arthur Stanley
merely a ~precocious boy; and so all
through his stories, except in a few
rare instances, when the tales treated
of a later epoch, when maturity was
not forced upon children. The same
may be said of the characters in his
poems, and here it is more especially
apparent among his heroines; his men
are more thoughtful, and certainly
older in most instances. The spirit OF
youth runs through everything Scott
touched, and is the secret alike of the
unwavering interest in his works, and
Of the love and generation for the man.
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MONEY IN A TOMBSTONE.
Proved a Good Investment for Mr..

Has Proved a Good Investment for Mr..
Crane.
AS a money making scheme a mOnu-
ment in a graveyard would ordinarily
be considered a queer investment, yet
in the WililiamstoWn cemetery there
is such a monument that has answered
it's purpose we'll, says the Williams
town, KY, Dispatch.
Twelve years ago a marble works
company made a proposition to w G.
Cram, one of the rich men of Grant
county, to erect a monument in his
private lot, to be paid for at once,
but to pay interest at the rate of 10
per cent upon the cost price to himself
as long as he should live. 1t was to
cost S $1,000. The company's terms were
accepted and the monument was built,
a space being left vacant thereon to
chronicle the birth and death of Mr..
Cram, together with his good deeds.
Mr.. Cram is yet alive and bids fair to
live many years more, though he has
passed the age of three-score-and-ten,
and the monument has already paid
him in dividends $500 more than the
original cost of building. Last Thurs
day, during a windstorm, the shaft
was broken off fifteen feet from the
ground, but it will be repaired at the
company's expense.