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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
SCRIBNER'S
MAGAZINE
For 1899

Governor Roosevelt's 1.-THE Rough. Riders
illustrated seriaD, and all his other wa
writings.
Robert Louis Stevensons Letters (neve
,siOre published, edited by Sidney Colvin
fAtnard Harding Davis: Stories and spec
al articles.
Rudyard Kipling-Henry Van Dyke
William Allen White and many others
Short stories.
George W Cables new serial story Of New
Orleans, "The Entomologlst" Illustrated
by Herter.
Senator Hoar's "reminiscences illustrated.
Mrs. John Drew's Stage "reminiscences
illustrated.
Joel Chandler Harrls's new collection Of
stories. ''he Chronicles Of mt Minervy
Ann"
Q's short serial, Ship OF Stars"
Robert Grants Search Light Letters
tommon-Sense Essays
Sidney Lanler's Musical Impressions.
Q. D. Gibson's The Seven Ages of Ameri
can Woman-and other notable art features
by other artists.
The full, illustrated prospectus, including
description Of the above, sent free to any
ddress. T he Magazines $500 year; 25c
number. Charles Scri ber's Sons, 153.167
ftu Avenue. New York. n
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
WILL THE SOUTHERN, o.&o.
AND N. & W. UNITE.

New York, April 27.-The South
ern hallway, Chesapeake and Ohio and
norfolk and Western, are the roads
named as about to enter into a com
0ination which it is said on COOL a1th
ority is soon to be made.
1t is asserted that options on the
stocks OF these companies have been
secured at figures considerably above
the present market price.
The combination is said to be not
particularly difficult to make, as a large
part OF the securities are owned BY
persona already associated in other
ways.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
A YOUNG MAN MISSING.

Governor Tylea has been infol med
Of another mysterious disappearance
the details Of which are remarkable.
A gentleman who ia friend Of the
Governor wrote him from Charlotte
county, stating that last December
young Laneon P. Gainett, of that
comfy, left Randolph county, W. Va,
for his home in Charlottee. He was
making the trip on horseback, and had
led horse with him. He was seen in
Stsunton On December 9th, but has
not been seen since. He has not been
heard from. Every effort has been
made to End him. He hal $50 on his
person W hen he left Randolph county
His family are suspicious Of foul play.
His mother is nelrly distracted. Young
Garnett is-or was-sbout 81 years Of
age. He was well known and popul ar
He was Of excellent habits.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

The transport Crook, which. has al
ready made one trip loaded with so
diers dead in their collins, brought to
the United States from the West In
dies for burial, arrived at New York
again with her second cargo. She
brought SO bodies from Ponce, Porto
RICO, GAG from Santiago de Cuba and
IL from Guantanamo, total OF 356,
10 er cent. # them regulars. Captain
Charles E. Tryman, Of the quartermss
thr's department, is in charge. About
300ouried bodies DOW remain nrar SAINT
ago. but a. contagious disease Wis tia
C 'use of the death Of any Z has been
thought best not t, attempt % bring
my 10 re o vi cold weather.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
The eyes of every school child in
Richmond will be examined for defects
and reports made to parents. .

We live in u country of which the
principal scourage is stomach-troubls
1t is more widespread than any
other disease, and. very nearly, more
dangerous.
One thing that makes it is danger
Gus is that it is so little understood.
If it were better understood, 1T would
be more feared, more easily cured, less
universal than it is now.
So those who wish to be cured, take
Shaker Digestive Cordial, because it
goes to the root Of the trouble az no
other medicine does. The pure, harm
less, curative herbs and plants, of which
it is composed, are what render it 80
certain and, at the same time, so gentle
q cure.
1t helps and strengthens the stom-
ach, purifes and tones up the system
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to
$l.OO per bottle.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

When the city council Of { Richmond
met on May LIST, Mr., Morgan r. Mills,
the member from Jefferson Ward, in
troduced an ordinance, the purpose Of
which was to make it mandatory on
the la les attending public places Of
amusement in that city to remove their
hats while the performance is in pro.
gress.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
IRISH WIT.

On the occasion of a public recep-
ton at Napier, Australia, the school
children OF the town. after being duly
complimented by his e1cellency from
County Tyrone on the hearty manner
IN which they had rendered the natl nal
anthem, were solemnly assured tina. if
they put their shoulders to he wheel
they would be sure to reach the top of
the tree! This mixed metaphor being
upon. q compatriot of bis
excellency retorted; "Sure, it was an
axletree he meant bedad."
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
The Potash
Question.


A thorough study of the sub
iect has proven that crop fail
ures can be prevented by using
fertilizers containing a large
percentage of Potash ; no
plant can grow without Potash.
We have little book on the subject Of
Potash, written by authorities, that we
would like to send to every farmer, free Of
cost, he will only write and ask for II.
CERTAIN KALI WORKS,
% Nassau ST.. New YORK.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
ANOTHER HOME FOR oPHANs

Rev, DR.. 81. M. Wharton, Whose
great work'for establishing homes fol
orphans is known throughout the
country. is now endeavoring to raise
the sum of $4,000 for the purpose o.
establishing home for the orphans OF
sailors and soldiers who gave up their
lives in fighting for our country. 1t is
proposed to locate the home near th.
city OF Washington: Those who desire
to help in this great movement may
earn full particulars by addressing DR..
Wharton in Baltimore.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
HE GOT THE DECREE.
He was suing for q, divorce.

He was suing for q divorce.
"Judge," he said, and there was
pitiful tremor in bis voice, "every night
she n ade up the most awful chatting
dish mess thai mortal man ever
sampled"
"But you didn't have to eat them, I"
said the judge, sharply.
TIE rlaintiff looked at the judge
pEi y.
~ do t know my v life, ju ge.
he simply said.
He got his decree.-Ulsveland Plain
Dealer.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

"There goes the most remarkable
man in town." "What's remarkable
about him!" "He's the only successful
merchant we have who doesn't claim to
be selt.made man. He says he got
rich through the faithfulness of the
men who work for him.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

The plant of the Imperial Fertilizer
Company, near Norfolk, was complete
ly destroyed by fire, cntailing loss OF
almost $50, 900, fully covered : by in
surancev
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

'lou old This dog to me for a bird
d & lie dv,sn't know bird when 4
one Ito him out yesterday
b.. did t 10 K at bird"
"M i*uo va the bird cook, l?"--.
5f.
"lilS t~4pet is the best there is
madam" said he cle'k at cannot be
'lhea l don't want it," replied the
s,rewd customer. 81 want one that
Can sIaud betting once or twice a year.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Money," said the philosopher, may
of en- do more harm than good. Some
times the mighty dollar is mans
worst enemy"
eyes," answered Senator Sorghum,
land I feel that number Of people
love me for the enemies I have m ade-
Washington Star,
First Tramp-I'm glad springs
come,
Second Tramp-So ana I. We ainf I
de only fellows wot don't feel like work
in'.-Kansas City Independent.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
~ DENTIST
LEXINGTON, ".
Onicn, Washington Street near Jefferso

Wanted: Reliable statesmen t. sell the
w best speciality ever placed on thu market
Staple article and ready seller, affording q
large profit There Ia steady and Incl easiug
demand for 1t In all sections No samples 70
nnirad
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
THE DANIEL CLUBS REsOLU-
lion.

Yesterdays Richmond Times: The
John W. Daniel Club al a largely al.
t n ed meeting in Thop's Hall last
nigh, President Sam Stern presiding
The report u the mmittee on mas
querade ball repor ed that the receipts
were $107.75 and exp' nses $50.
Mr.. j. S.nuel Parrish offered the
following, whic VAS unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, W Ger adhering TO the
ID JEFF, rso ian principles OF Democ-
rae and always hesitating to depart
from old customs and rules, yet with
fu., confidence in the people and be-
Ii wing ttat their voice Is the voice OF
G d, we are, as is the great Senator
John w Daniel, after whom the club
is named, ever will ng to submit to the
gree and good people of the Old Do.
minion any question, believing and
knowing that their conclusi IN will not
only be foal bit light and just There
fore peit
Resolved. That this club most heart
iy ildorses the Hon. THO GAS s. Mar
tin for reelection to the United States,
Senate from Virginia, who is fully inI
accord with the sentiments as declared
by this club.
Speeches we're made by President
Stern. Messrs. Jefferson Wallace, James
Lewis Anderson, Chri' Manning, Jr.,
MIR. Parrish, Captain Sullivan and
others.
SLAVERY WAS BETTER"
Bishop 81. M. Turner, of the Afri- \
can Methodist Episcopal Church,
preached at the courthouse in Athens,
Ca, to white people.
During his sermon he said he would
prefer to zee his people back in slavery,
since slavery affoi ded them protection,
more 80 than in their present coud ton
BE said he sees little future in this
country for the negro in competition
With the white race. He declared that
le did not believe it possible to bring
bout assimilation OIL equality, lacking :
'hich there must continue to be race
rejudices.
The negro was brought to America,
Q sa d, by Divine will, and taught by
zainple the basis Of higher civiliza-
on. Now, he declared, it is manifetly
le will # God that the negro should
, back 10 Afric and civilize the saw
70 races there. The race question, he
included, would never be settled until
Q black nan returned to his native
untry.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

Small pox in Alexandria during the
past few months added to the expen.
Sos of that city the sum of $4,000,
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

Pullman Sleeping 'orS rom Clifton f,., ,
to Cincinnati, and ~ LoUia,
TRAINS ARRlvEAT LEXINGTON
Forge.
2" pm Daily IRON Richmond and Lynch
burg.
For Rates. Tickets and other Information
apply to D. Camnbsll CITY II cket Agent.
Jno u. Potts, Asst Gen. Passenger
ri hm ond Va
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

An Irish tenant lately observed thai
it was ''bard hing for q man to be
tu' ned out of the house which his
father built and his grandfather was
born in.t'-= Tit-Bits. 49,
"If you see a man walking out Of the
house WITH an umbrella under his aim
t c' sn'tm an storm necessary
{ s'nhe VI ell, Il it's ny NJ
k ont in, it H. es.-
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
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A LAMPLIGIIT OMPANION.

Between now and Spring time there will bs
many opportunities OF an evening to read up
up on the different portions Of the Great
Northwest.
this end the hicago, Milwaukee d
st. aul Railway o. has printed tor free
distribution to Eastern farmers 9 number Of
illustrated instructive pamphlets regarding
the various States traversed BY Its lipes,
In sending your address to w. e. Powell.
General Immigration Agent, Old olony
Building, Chicsgo, ILL.,, please say II your
preference Is for information about Wiscon-
sin, Iowa. Minnesota. Northern Michigan or
North Dakota.
NO charge for pamphlets or for replying !,
all inquiries about any section Of the Great
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

A charter bas been granted in Nor
folk to The Atlanta Coast Lumber Com
.pany. The capital stock is TO be not
less than 81 100000 or more than
100000, and ls to be divided into
sharesof 800 each. The principal
Office is to be located at Norfolk, with
branch Offices in other parts Of vr-
GINA aad the United States.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

Herring are selling in Alexandria as
low as go cents per thousand.
Mrs Nancy Rhodes died in Orange
county last we k aged 81 years.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10
c. dS o.
Lynchburg, RicLmol.,,', Norfolk
Cincinnati, Louisville,
and Chicago.
IN EFFECT Jan. Ia. 1890.

Lea We Lexington ..... 10 tOm
Ar Balcony Falls ii 30an &
Ar Lynchburg Ia A pm
Lv Lynchoura leOpm
Ar Richmond $40 pm
Lv Richmond
Ar Newport News
Ar OH Point
Ar Norfolk
No 81 Connects at LyncLbure. VII h South
ern Railway North and South
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

o. Train % connects with Southern r. r. al
otfasDurg junction for Harrisonburg and
points on Valley Railroad.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-05-10

men who work for him.
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11
A PUBLIC LIBRARY.

The council will do well to pass the i bill that came to it from the house providing for the establishment of a free public library in this town. A good library is one of the crying needs of Phoenix. The yearly expenditure required for it's maintenance would be mere bagatelle in comparison with the good that would result to this com munity through the establishment of such a humanizing agency. It is the rule rather than the exception t9 find in eastern cities no larger than Phoe- nix well equipped public libraries. Many cities much smaller than Phoe- nix have libraries, and the taxpayers have found them to be good in vestments.-
 There are many taxpayers i'll Phoe- nix who look only on the financial side Of this question. Twill it increase our taxes?" they ask, and when assured that the bill as amended calls for a tax levy of one-half mill on the dollar they sink all other considerations and Op pose the measure bitterly. This spirit ought not to be encouraged. 1t is spirit that has wrought great injury to Phoenix. Those who entertain it do not take into consideration the fact that free public lihrary would be an incentive to the growth of the city. Many eastern people are looking in this direction just now for future homes. The bitterness of the eastern winter has set them to thinking of a more gen. ial cline. Coming as they do from regions where libraries are regarded as public necessities they will be guided largely in their selection of a Iew home by social and educational considera- tions The fact that here at present there is no place outside of the home and the school room where young men Or young women may congregate for purposes of self culture will not work tn tie advantage of Phoenix.
 The women of this town who have labored for a year or more to establish the nucleus cf z public library should be encouraged in every way. Theirs is the spirit that brings town
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11

to the front. The bill that has passed the house surrounds the proposed li- brary with all nee assary safeguards. The sum sought to be made available would be sufficient to raise the library to high state of efficiency in few years. The arguments that are being brought to bear on the council ill oppo- sition to this bill are puerile. One is that a public library would be a
 'transmitter" of disease. Great Scott! Why hasn't the question been raised in New York or Chicago or Washington or Boston, where the public is admitted free to the great libraries? Isn't there as much danger of acquiring disease from ones fellows in those places of public resort as in a library here? A more ridiculous claim was never heard. It is to be hoped that the council will take a broad view of the question and aid the progressive people of Phoenix in establishing a first-class library here.
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11
TROUSERS AT WEST POINT.
The Moment the Crease is Oblite~ated q
 Clean Pair Has to Be Donned.

The question of the number of trous-
 CTS possessed by some of our heroes and other distinguished men brings tC
 mind the superiority Of the West Point
 CT in this respect. .'Is it true,' once
 asked a girl of a just-fledged lieuten-
 ant, "that no West Point man is con-
 sidered as having any social status
 whatever unless he owns forty pairs
 Of trousers?' 'Fortyi" echoed the
 lieutenant. 'I had eighty and was far
 behind some of the other fellows" He
 went on to explain that it was not the getting soiled nor crumpled but the ob- liberation of the crease that demanded such an unlimited supply. "The min ute that that crease begins to disappear the trousers are changed he said. mo matter if it is within an hour. Many a time I've donned three pairs of white duck trousers in an hour. Of course. we soon learn to do 1t very rapidly I doubt if Fregoli or any other lightning change artist could beat West Pointer at getting in and Cut of his white duck trousers. The winding of the sash about the waist is in itself a feat, yet it has, to be done each tiE'e we change the trousers, and we become so prac- ticed in it that we can accomplish it in no time. Experience has taught us that the best way is to tie one end of the sash to the bedpost. With the other end about his waist the man then goes to the extreme end of the corridor, just as far as the many yards of sash will permit him to go, and be- gins to wind It isn't the sash, but himself that gets the full benefit of the winding however. Round and round he turns as fast as a top can spin. and with all the gravity and steadiness of a dancing deTvisn, the sash wrapping itself about his waist as silk or cotton thread IS wrapped about a spool. In an inconceivably short time the cadet has twirled along the- corridor and arrived at his bedpost as symmetrically and snugly sashed as a cadet could want to be. All he has then to do is 10 unite the end from the post and tuck it in the folds girdling his waist. Only the inexperienced make any mistake in thus sashing themselves and have to repeat the pro cess. With the seasoned West Pointer both the process and it's results are q triumph of technique, and he may change his trousers and wind his sash ir less time than it takes the civilian simply to change his trousers. New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Marie, sedate in her silk attire, Her fine eyes glowing,
 Her dark hair flowing,
 Her fan a-going, | Is vision to worship and admire
 In the mellow haze of the ballroom seen, Marie is a queen. Marie in her morning wrapper gowned Doing the sweeping, And tasks of housekeeping, Her pretty face peeping From hood of towels, tightly bound
 Is no doubt also fair to see, But she's-ah, well, she's-just
 Marie!
 Chicago Record Small New Yorker-Don't them west ern folks talk funny?
 Another One-Don't they, though ? When they mean ''goyl" they say gal. D indianapolis Journal
 When once I sat with Clara,
 l longed for he9 alone;
 But she would always manage
 To have a chaperone.
 Now when I sit with Clara
 My Wife-she acts possessed
 If l but hint remotely
 1 wish we had 9 guest
 Detroit Free Press. ''Weakfsh tells me he has recovered from his attack of brain exhaustion" Yes, there was nothing left for the exhaustion to work upon. '-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Mrs. Suburbanite Gin street car)- John. our chimney's troubling us so should think you would get that book telling you ECw to fix it, advertised So much.
 What book?"
 What book! Why, there's the ad- vertisement now-'Bass on Dcaught. y -BrCOklyn Life
 You use a great many words that don't mean anything said the poli- tical takers manager.
 Did you ever take note of the bell ringing and steam pufnng and general racket that occurs when an engine pulls cut of the Gepot?"
 Yes
 Well, that's how it is with me. It takes 8 lot of noise to get my train Of thought started, but once under way, l defy anybody to stop it. it."-Washington Star
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11

The purpose of the bill Increasing the salary of distrief attorneys in coun- ties of the frsteiass is not generally understoGd< It's effect, as was agreed upon at the late meeting of the super ,yfsors in this city. would not be to increase the taxes, but on the contrary to lessen them. The business Of the office has grown to such an extent that ore man cannot attend to it, particu- larly during court sessions. One or more assistants have been required and these have been paid by the county for special services, the pay reaching in this county from $2,000 to $4,00O year in excess of the district attorneys salary Under the present bill the county is freed from any ether expense than the official salary of the attorney who is required to employ any assistance he may need.
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11
MRS. CHoA1'E A sUFFRAGIsT.
The Ambassa dor's Wife Is a Hustling Partisan in New York Social Set.

When Mrs Joseph Choate sails away with her gifted husband, who has been appointed our ambassador to the court Of St. James, a sigh of real relief will go up from the ladies who head the anti-suffrage movement in New York. Mrs. Choate is a charming woman and one of the pillars of the suffragist tenn pie as it stands in the midst of smart society
 For years the workers for woman's rights had no hearing or following among the fashionable classes, for your fashionable woman is wonderfully hidebound and progressive. But when Mrs CnOale became convinced that women should vote she undertook to clear the cobwebs from her society sisters brain in short order. By sheer fierce of eloquenCe and enthusiasm she reused her dancing, dining, Paris-bOn- net-wearing associates to q very right eous sense of indignation at the vote less condition of the sex. And she works as hard at her politics as any senator in Washington.
 Mrs. Choate addresses meetings of Paris gOwned sympathizers in Louis %V drawing rooms and groups of sturdy short haired new women in their clubs Sine writes ra~ers and col lects signatures for the next petition -o be laid before the legislature, but her noblest efforts are directed toward the utter confounding and undoing of her rivals in her Cwn circle of society, the anti-suffra gists. The leader of this reactiCnary party in the aristocratic neighborhood is an equally earnest, equally fashionable and smartly dressed person, Mrs. Arthur Dodge.
 Mr Platt and MT. Crokar are TO wider apart in their political sympa- thies than Mrs Choate and Mrs. Dodge, and the war between the two has been waged merrily, With tne larger share of victories usually falling to Mrs Choate, who does not hesitate to thankfully acknowledge the encourage
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11
THE MEDITERRANEAN IN COURT

This didn't happen in Georgia, but it happened" just the same.
 My mother-in-law is the cause of all my troubles" said the prisoner, when arraigned before the magistrate for failing to support his wife.
 You should have cOurted your moth er-in-law," said the judge, and then you would not have any trouble. l cOurnted my motheE-in law" continued the court
 T thought as much, yer honor" said the prisoner, you look as if you'd been through the mill!'-Atlanta Consti- tuition.
Arizona republican., 1899-02-11

General Miles says again that chemi- cally treated beef which made the sol diers sick and unfit for duty was fur nished to them and that he can prove it. The time has come for a searching inquiry; and General Miles probably doesn't care whether or not it takes the form of a court martial to try him for telling the newspapers what he maintains. There is a fearful cloud of retribution gathering over the head of -somebody 't