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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
WORK WILL SOON BEGIN.
jamestown Committee Submits Graf
flying Report to a. r. Y. A.

jamestown Committee Submits Graft
tying Report to 4. r. Y. A.
During the annual meeting Of the AS
ISOLATION for the Prevention # Virginia
Antiquities Friday night, Mrs. George w
SagbN. chairman of the Jamestown
COMMITTEES, submitted the following re-
port:
The Jamestown Comm. ttee is very glad
TO II the assoc auon that Specifications
have been sent out 10 many prospective
BIDDERS Tor the construction OF the add
tiona! hTeakwater at Jamestown, and the
work VIII probably begin very soon. The
COMMITTEES must excused for again
remind ng the association that it has not
been r-pons Bile for the delay In this
important work. it being ,ntirely under
control of the United States Engineer
Departm Mt Until this breakwater is
finished no work of permanent improve
ment can be done at Jamestown. In the
meantime a faithful man cares for the
grounds, and projects the tower and
graveyard from lie hunters. Sad eNpe-
riences have convinced the committee
that sishtseers must be kept outside the
wire netting which encloSes the grave
yard, broken wall and tower. The care
exercised is essential to the interests of
the Association for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities and al, true lovers
Of the Antiquities of Virginia
The jamestown Committee can point
with satisfaction to the beautiful grass
and flowers which greeted the visitors to
the place on the. annual excursion day,
IN May, 1900, and again commend to the
association the unceasing vigilance and
beautiful taste Of Miss Gait and her
faithful coadjutor, Miss Mary Garnett,
of Williamsburg. These ladies' are the
WILLIAMSBURG members of the Jamestown
COMMITTEES. and have charge of the asso.
cations property at Jamestown.
Hoping that by the next annual meet
ing Of the Association for the preserva-
ton OF Virginia Antiquities the break
water viii be completed, the committee
submits this report,
The Carpenters Union Wi meet a.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
Thousands of Chronic
Ailments Of Women
Cured Every
Month.
Disguised Internal Ca
tar1.h the Emery OF
Norman.
peruna the Only Inter-
nal Systematic Ca
tarrh Remedy
Yet Devised.
Two Prominent Cases iii
Illustration.
Myriads OF b1isf1ed
Testimonials on File.

All summer long letters from women in
all parts OF the United States have been
pouring in. DR., EFartmaas immense ia
cilities for answering these letters have
been taxed to the utmost. y great multi
tude of women have been made we'll and
happy again. This correspondence is
strictly confidential. but for magnitude
has never been equalled in the world Still
the letters come, Still the free counsel
from Dr.. Hartman goes out in every mail
by hundreds
Write him. Tell him all about your case.
He will answer promptly free of charge.
Send for free copy OF Health and
Beauty Address DR.. Hartman, Column
bus 0.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21

including the following prominent persons
Senior Quesada, of the Cuban Legation,
of Washington, D. {.
Booker t. Washington, Of Tuskegee,
Alabama.
Belva A. Lockwood, 6t9 F Street, N. ".
Washington, D. c.
Senator Stephen R. Mallory, of Pensa-
cola, Fla.
Ex-Chief Justice William C. Chambers,
of Washington, d. Z.
Congressman H. ", Ogden, from Benton,
Louisiana.
Governor Joseph j. Johnston, of Mont
gomery, Alabama.
Major General Joseph Wheeler, of
Wheeler, Ale bama.
Governor G. w. Atkinson, Of ". Va.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
Runaway on Broad Street,

4 horse belonging to Colonel John Muir
phy ran away on West Broad Street ear
" yesterda;, morning. smashing to pices
the buggy to which It was attached. The
horse came near running into a group OF
ladies' at the corner of Belvidere and
Broad Streets. No one was hurt.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
Bendit on the Var Path.

United States Deputy Marshal Samuel
Bendit telegrariled Marshal Treat from
Boydton as follows yesterday:
Gee and l returned last night prisoners
and still, six in all; Will have trial to-
day"
Mr.. Bendits dispatch is not very clear.
but it is presumed he means that six stills
were raided.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
CuTicw Lflw.

RerR. Beecher Taylor will preach at
the FIRST Baptist Church tcolored), at
Broad and c .:.r,s r. sees.s so-ngas on
vantSee or Disadvantage to Society
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21


Ex-Governor P. B. S. Plnchback. of
Louisiana.
Senator W. n. Roach, from North
Dakota.
hudson W. Lyons, Register of the u
S. Treasury, Washington, D. c.
Hon. H. G. Worthington, ex-Minister
from Argentine Republic, Washington, D.
Congressman AmosJ Cummings, from
New York.
Governor W. NJ. Lord, of Oregon
Hon. S. Smithmeyer, architect of the
Congressional Library, Washington D. c.
Hal. P. Denton, Chief National Export
Exposition, of Philadelphia, Pa.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21

Miss Emma Herz:ger writes from
Neenah, Wis, the following praise for
Peruna. She says:
81 take great pleasure in acknow:edg-
mo the curative effects of Peruna. Last
year my system was completely run down
and our family physician suggested that
take O trip to reCuperate.
s.My sister-in-Iaw then asked me to try
peruoa. first telling me how it had helped
her. Ibid so, and found ihree bottles as
mood as t!,ree-weeks' vacation. shall
always speak we'll of it in the future
Emma tterziger.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
,.,.c DIspcns:,,.,

a called meeting Of. the Board Of Mana
Of the be held at nIse
No 1ns psN1 West Main Street. on Wednesday
NEXT, at IL a NJ fs
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21

Miss Caroline W.nnir, No. $50 Blue ISL
and Avenue. Chicago, ILL.,. writes:
.,Heal,s, is Eea,en's choicest gift to
humanity. and yet but few are in perfect
health. Nat res iaws are not understood
and doctors DO not administer the proper
medicine to these cases.
..lt is therefore pleasure TO find a
remedy tina: will Go all it claims. Pefuna
is, in my opinion. the finest rameds for
affections of the Kidneys and other pelvic
organs. and for women ard their special
diseases it is OF special merit
Caroline Winnin.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21

The Carpenters linton vii meet, a.
s,.,.,t's Hall next Tuesday night La
bor Commis sioner Doherty has been invi-
ted to be present and make IA adi.ess.
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
become indeed Mount of Transfgura-

become indeed Mount of Transfigura-
tion.
1t was easy, listening to words like
these. to forget that the speakers
green velveteen jacket. with its tar
nished bullion embroidery, was greasy
with the trailing of the long black
curls about the shoulders, nor was 1t
pertinent to observe the incongruity OF
this tawdry garment with the miners
coarse shirt and the weather-beaten
sombrero.. which, oddly enough. was
not the sombrero of the mountains. but
that OF the Arizona cattle plains. The
trousers reached only to the knee and
matched the Jacket in color. texture
and decoration; from the knees down
the preachers legs were incased in
high -heeled top boots such as cowboys
affect.
Amt you no more to your name
than what you've told?" asked Cud
White, the bartender. "Wambold amt
much of Christian name to my guess
In" -
The bartender, who knew Christian
usages, and the preacher, who did not,
At 'uNh othVi ""N "
crowd gathered round. The parson
drew something from his hip pocket
with a sort of fiourish-something
like the throwing of a kiss-and
looked at 1t with close but imper-
sonal interest.
"Cud." he said. softly, "is my name
any of your .business?" Y>
II don't know as 1t is." replied Cud.
agrecably. So they shook hands, and
1t was decided generally that the
preacher had grit. His stock went up
so per cent. q ltul 40 !
AS time went on the preacher grew
more impassioned, and many of the
women and n few OF the men submit
ted to immersion in the icy mountain
stream and went on their way prais-
ing. For time an excessive and
dcmonstrative happiness pervaded the
town. The echoes gave back the hymns
which the people sung together In the
open air under the stars. and the dawn
saW praise meetings held by the side
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
STATISTICS OF HUMAN LIFE.
Value Which Should he Attached to
Every Ones Words.

Statistical scientists will not let us
alone. Everything we do or say is
submitted to the closest analysis; and
the figures emerge full of warning and
reproach, says Golfers Weekly. The
newest tabulation of our doings comes
from the workshop of M. Alfred Arkas.
who is minuteness itself. He has
worked out. first, an approximate cal
culation of the n,.mDer of words the
normal man utters in the course of a
year. Ignorant or cultured, playing on
the miners vocabulary of 200 words, or
on the university professors thesaurus
of many thousands, 1t appears that we
let fall IL 100000 words between Janu-
ary and December. Every year we
shake hands about 200 times, expend-
ing on the ceremony force sufficient
to raise locomotive weighing eighty
tons. The raising of our eyelids is
accomplished 94,600,00O times per year
and represents the consumption of en-
ergy capable of lifting a weight OF
fifty-one pounds. Turning to the die
vision Of our time. it is found that q
normal man living seventy years has
spent no less than twenty-four years
nine months and fifteen days asleep
and eleven years and eight months at
work. His recreation has occupied ex-
actly the same length of time as his
work He has passed five years and
ten months in moving about and the
same space of time in the operation
of feeding. His toilet has occupied two
years and eleven months. Two years
and eleven months also passed in doing
nothing or in little things that are not
easily classed. The surprise is the
estimate that man passes exactly
the same time in thinking as in speak
ing-one year five months and a half.
Which gives one a new idea of the
value of what ought to be attached to
every mans utterance.
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
WAMBOLD.

Wambold came out of the mountains.
He had long curling black locks,
slender, supple body, and an indefina-
BILE air which c"n. perhaps, best be
described as patience. No one in town
had ever seen him before, and he did
not say anything about his past. He
appeared, In fact, to be interested only
in the future, and his interest in that
was so broad and general that 1t was
almost the sole theme of his discourse.
Not only was 1t the subject of his con-
versation, but he harangued about it
on the street corners evenings after
the men had come down from the
mines.
Whit are you waiting for?" he
would cry, standing hatless on the
street with the sunset throwing red
light about his emotional face. "You
waiting for these mighty mountains
to roll up as scroll? You want the
sun to drop down out of the sky and
the sters to shoot from their places?
Does II need all that to show you that
the da5 of judgment will surely come?
Why, you blind leaders of the blind,
the miracles are about you on every
hand, and they are within yourselves.
Nothing is so wonderful as yourselves,
and II you will read the book of your
own hearts you will find there the as
surancos of immortality-nay. you will
discover an inborn sense of justice
which will warn you that the day of
judgment must come" Such words
as these he would speak in rather a
low voice of even modulation; then,
with sudden wild gesture, he would
fairly scream: Why, then, do you
daily? Tomorrow exploding dynamite
at your mines may hurl you out of the
world. While you are delaying your
horse may slip and carry you with him
down the precipice. Now is the time
10 repent! Hurry! Hurry! You can
not run fast enough. But the way is
difficult and the shadows of night are
coming fast. There he waits you on
the mountains. Will you run with
eager feet!'
Then-the hour being what 1t was
with sudden glory the sun would
touch the distant SHOWS of the mountain
indicated by the preacher, and it would
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
DEPUTY SHERIFF OF UTAH.

Young Girl OF salt Lake city In Unique
Role.
Experience is rapidly proving the
competency Of women to fill success
fully the positions hitherto occupied
by men. Miss Ethel Ferguson is
young Salt Lake City girl of decided
character and ambitions. Her inher-
ent qualities of self-reliance and en-
ergy have been expressed in various
ways and chiefly in her career as dep
uty sheriff Of Salt Lake county, posi-
tion which she has filled for the past
two years. through the administration
of the democratic sheriff, who appoint
ed her to fill the position at the begin
ming of his term of office. Miss Fergu-
son enjoys the distinction of being the
first of her sex to hold the position of
deputy sheriff in Utah and has SO far
fulfilled her duties to the satisfac-
tion of the officers and the state. Th1se
requirements have lot been so far OF
such kind as to furnish blood-and-
thunder experiences, though the young
lady is very courageous by nature aad
has of choice solicited assignments
that If undertaken might have led up
to situations of a highly sensational
nature. Her position is chiefly that
of clerk in the sheriff's office, her most
onerous responsibility being the charge
of the insane, whom it is her task to
place in charge of the authorities of
the state asylum. This institution is
situated at Provo, a town some hun
dred miles south of the capital city,
and in conducting her unreliable
charges from their homes to their place
of restraint Miss Ferguson has had oc
casion several times to display the pis-
tol which she carries for self-protec-
tion in order to bring her violent pris-
oners into submission. Spite of the
element of danger in these undertake
ings, Miss Ferguson seems rather to
court than avoid them, the spice of
adventure with which they are tenn
pered furnishing rather relish to the
work. Before entering upon the duties
Of her present position Miss Ferguson
took part in several dramatic perform
ances rendered by local amateur
company, in which she manifested con-
siderable talent, and as result of this
and a long-cherished ambition Miss
Ferguson has spent her summer vaca-
tion this year in New York, with a
view to adopting the stage as a pro-
fession at the expiration of her term
of office.
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
A Or a. Religious Gn,he,i,r.

Ex-Secretary John w. Foster, Justlcs
Brewer, Secretary Hay, Admiral Dew
ey, Captain Mahan, Colonel DENLY and
other distinguished citizens who are
identified with the churches of Wash
ingt0n, have received invitations to par
ticipate in an ecumenical council on
foreign missions to be held in New
York on the LIST of May next. All
evangelical denominations throughout
the world and all organizations devoted
to missionary work will be represented
by delegates. Two similar information
al councils have been held, the object
being to stimulate interest in missions.
Ex-President Harrison will preside,
the archbishop of Canterbury will be
the vice president to represent the
Church of England, the earl OF Aber
deen will be n delegate, ex-senator Ed
munds will be the vice president for
the Protestant Episcopal church, and
men of equal prominence will represent
other denominations from all parte of
the world. The program is now in
course of preparation and will be an
nOunced as soon as acceptances havt
been received from gentlemen who
have been invited to speak.
1--WE made n great mistake when we
named our baby Dewey What
makes you think SOP" I'VE can't re-
fuse him anything"
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
us MY NAME ANY OF YOUR BUsI NEssg"

The next morning the sun smiled
with confidential jocularity upon the
town. and 1t beheld every woman and
son Of woman going to the circus-and
the town was clear of hysteria for the
first time in a month.
We'll meet the parson by the road
side a-warnin' us, I'll bet," said Cud
White to his wife. But he was wrong
All day, while the drums beat and
snapped his whip. and the bareback
riders labored at their nimble task
there were two sessions of the circus
that day-the blinds of Wambold's s
cabin remained fast.
After 1t was all over the people went
to their homes penitent. They were
touched by the silent rebuke of those
closed shutters. Some of them knocked
at the door. but there was no answer
We'll have to make up with the
parson tomorrow" said they contrite-
ly. But the morrow brought them n
strange tale. 1t was the station agent
who told 1t.
yes" he said to those who got
wind OF his tale. when the circus folks
come down to take No. G at 4:15, |
seen a familiar form amongst 'em.
'Shucks,' says |, it's the parson!' But
/ didn't reely believe 1t. II was.
though. The women. they was pettin'
him an twlstin' his curls about their
fingers, and the men was slappin' him
on the back an laughin' fit to kill.
| called out: That you. parsonT An
he stopped stone still an looked at
me like baby that is goin' to cry.
Then he puts his fingers to the end of
his nose and wags 'ern at me. an that
there girl that did the jumpin', through
the paper whoops. she pulls him up on
the platform. ole friend of yourn 2
! asks the ringmaster. Who? Wam-
bold?' says he. We'll, should snicker!
Best clown I ever had l thought that
was the last of tn pnrson. but tust
as tn train was pullin' out he comes
on the platform and he looks at TIL
mountain an kin o. trembles. an then
he looks like cryin' baby agin. But
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
Tombstone photographs.

Photographing tombstones is a novel
industry which has been instituted by
colored man in this city. who was at
one time boy-of-all-work In a photo
graph gallery. He has recently
branched out for himself. and has al
ready established a remunerative busi-
ness. which promises to open even a
wider field In the future He visits the
various cemeteries with his cameras.
and when the day is fair he takes pic
lures of many of the imposing monu-
ments. After he has developed his
plates he takes proofs around among
the relatives of the deceased, and usu-
ally finds ready sale for his pictures.
or course, he has to take chances. for
he works entirely without orders,
trusting to sentiment for his sales.
Still. he says II is very seldom that he
doesn't get an order. He also has
habit of haunting the marble works
where tombstones are made, and by
striking while the iron is hot he takes
picture before even the bereaved rel
atives have seen the stone.-Philadel-
phia Record. 'h
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
LOVING WIFE
Aud the TronbIe She Saved Her Hus-
band by Thought fuluess,

band by Thoughtfulness,
Philadelphia Inquirer: you've all
read lots of Jokes about the woman
who gets up in the dead of the night
to rifle her husbands pockets" said a
friend of the Saunterer ''They usual
ly confine themselves to the purloiping
of what small change happens tc be
there. But here's a case 1 know of,
of woman in West Philadelphia. who
showed much more enterprise than
that. and who, l think, deserves the
palm. 1t happened the other night.
The woman's husband is travelling
man and is now home for couple
of months. He was out the o.her
night. and as he did not get in until
between two and three in the m)rn-
ing, he was pretty sleepy and his slpm-
ber was resultantly heavy. His wife
happened to be just out of change at
the time, and she thought of the old
way of getting it. She got up quietly
and proceeded to go through the suit
which her husband had just taken off.
There was not cent of change to be
found, and she saw with dismay that
the smallest thing was ten-dollar bill.
She didn't have nerve enough to take
that, and she was rather in despair
for a moment. Then she came upon
little bundle of tickets bound with
an elastic. Her face frightened up and
she put the package in her jewel box.
The next morning the clerk at the re-
demp.ion office of one of the railroads
paid out three dollars and thirty-two
cents for seven unused return coupons.
and the woman went briskly off to
spend her ill-gotten gains. And when
she told friend, and the friend sug-
gested that her husband wouldn't bless
her when he wanted the tickets, she
answered in very injured tone, Why,
just think of the trouble I saved him
in going way down to that horrid Of
flee myself"
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
JUSTICE IN JOLO.
Tho District Chiefs Power of Life and
Death Over His Subjects.

The social system among the Moros
is much more primitive than it is
among the greater part of the other
Philippine races. A chief, or dato,
controls a district; he has his own
particular followers and his slaves. Be-
sides these, he may command all the
men of his own district in time of war.
He also has the right of life and death
over his subjects. For instance, a few
weeks before we arrived in Jolo Dato,
Jokanine had occasion to execute one
: of his followers. The man had been
entrusted with money belonging to the
dato. The first time he came to his
chief and said: 20, great and benevo-
lent dato, l have gambled away the
money; forgive mel" Very WE'LL"
said the Dato. See that 1t does not
happen again" Once more the retain
er came, saying: 20. great and benevo-
lent dato, again l have gambled away
the money, and again l beg thee in
thy mercy to forgive me- This is
the second time l have forgiven thee,,
warn thee, thou shalt die" Yet again
the unfortunate man returned without
the money he had collected for the
dato. 20. Dato," he cried, throwing
himself at the feet of his chief, Il have
sinned again and taken thy money.
Mercy, mercy" "Cut hin down." said
the dato to one of his men-at-arms.
The man offered no resistance and was
cut to pieces with one of the great
knives of the natives. Another story
which shows well the authority OF the
dato over the people is worth telling.
1t seems that a blacksmith had been
making love in a quiet way to a mem
ber of the harem of Dato Jokanine.
Jokanine knew of this, and came to the
mans smithy one day. The smith was
Just finishing off a large barong. Let
me see that knife" said Jokanine.
Then, running his finger along the
edge, he added: 1T seems sharp: may
/ try it?" Certainly. dato," said the
unpuspecting smith. Without a mo-
ment's hesitation Jokanine raised the
knife and split the smith to the chin.
The right master has to kill slave
ts. therefore. no stronger right than
that exercised by all the datos and the
sultan over the life of every man In
Sulu.-Harper's Weekly. NJ
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
Seaport of tho South.

It has long been evident that the
rapidly increasing movement OF grain
and merchandise towards the south
ern seaboard would demand an in
crease Of shipping facilities on the
Mexican Gulf. The most promising
seaport city is La Porte, at the head Of
Galveston Bay. Peculiar natural ad-
vantages surround LaPorte, notably its
being the fartherest inland seaport on
the Gulf. having high dry land with
perfect drainage and the purest arte-
sian water, a climate unsurpassed in
the south and an attractive city site.
The American Land Co., 1873 Madison
street, Chicago. is interested at La
Porte and announces the first general
sale Of property will be held Feby.
14-17, 1900.
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
Both Had Excuses.

The teacher was partial to one of
the pupils, but this morning they both
came late and he had to call them to
task for It. How does It happen you
are late, slr?" he asked his best pupil
''If you please, SIR" was the answer,
II was dreaming ! was going to Chi
cago and thought the breakfast bell
was the engine ringing" VERY well" !"
said the teacher, glad to excuse his
favorite, who was usually prompt,
that will do for this time. Now, what
have you to say for yourself?" he
asked, turning to the other. well.
sir" said the tardy pupil, "I-I-went
down to see Tom OFF," I..r. v
Gilpin observer., 1900-01-25
She Gave Herself Away.

The York (Maine) Transcript says
that Portland minister recently
called upon one of the families in his
parish. He assembled the steps and
knocked at the door. Receiving no re-
sponse he was about to depart. when
he heard window in the next house
open and woman's voice: Mrs.
Smith the minister's at your door"
What was the pastors surprise and
amusement when he caught Mrs.
"Smith's' response waited gently
around the corner of the house: "Sh!
don't you s'pose | know it, The next
Sunday after service Mrs. Smith" met
her pastor and expressed her sorrow
that she WAS away when he had CT isd: