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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
VIRGINlA NEWS.

A profound sensation was created
in Richmond yesterday by the ar
rest OF Theodore F. Taylor, deputy
clerk of the Henrico County Court, Oh
charges of ENLIGHTENMENT.
A prominent officer of the Cnesa,
peake and Ohio Railway, speaking in
Richmond yesterday, raid that present
indications point to joint ownership
Of the c. & o. by the Vsnderbilts and
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The house OF Nicholas Farmer, near
Comorn, King George county, was
burned on Sunday. Mr.. Farmer, who
ia in his Saith year., and who has been Il
helpless invalid for some time, narrow
ly escaped being burned 10 death.
Miss BERTHE, aged % years, daughter
of Mr.. Isaac CofmsD, living four miles
west oil Woodstock, dropped dead OIL
Sunday. Miss Cotfman was visiting b
neiQhoor and had started to return
home, and fell dead in the yard of her
neighbor.
At q meeting of the Board of Visi ors
of the Virginia Military Institute, held
10 Richmond last night, complaint was
made by the father OF John b. Wlnbro,
of Baltimore, that his son had been
compelled TO leave the institute on ac-
count of hazing and no adequate return
of money had been made. The matter
was referred to com mittee, to be re-
ported upon at the annual meeting in
June.
The body of Louis August, the mur-
derer, who hanged himself with towel
in Hampton Jail, was shipped TO the
medical school of the University Of
Virginia yesterday for dissection. Al
autopsy will be made, and interesting
discoveries are expected 10 be made III
regard to the formations that are be-
Iieved to have made monster of the
man.
The vestry of St. Paul's Church at
Haymarket has purchased from Mrs.
Fannie +. Beale, her lot, situated near
the church, for the purpose OF build ny
new rec;ory.for the Rev. Henry F.Klo-
man, who mas recently taken charge OF
their church. The congregation hope
to commence their new building very
early in the spring. They have rented
the old rectory to Mr.. Charles w. Will
son.
Cadet Paul B. Clark, nineteen years
OF age, a member of the second class at
the Virginia Military Institute, died
Monday night at the institute hospital
of cerebral meningitis, after an illness OF
only four days. Deceased was the only
son of James Shepherd Clark, editor OF
Ell Commercio, of New York. Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark arrived in Lexington yester-
day. They will return today to New
YORK with the remains of their son Tor
interment.
Joseph New, an artilleryman at Fort
Monroe, was mysteriously murdered in
PnOebus yesterday morning as result
of Monday nights row, in which Cor
poral Brown was seriously wounded in
the head. After the early evening riot
had been quelled, New and his COM
panions had quarrel at the Indiana
House. After leaving the place some
one fred a shot aud New fell dead.
New came from Hannibal, Mo. No al
rests have yet been made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
1t Saved His Leg.

P. A. Danforth, of LaGrsnge. G..
suffered intensely for six months with =
frightful running sore on his ieg, but
writes that Bucklen's Arnica Sslve cut
ed it 10 ten days. For Ulcers, Wound.
Burns, Boils, Pain or Piles it's the be-
salve in the world. Cure guarantee.
Only Csc. Sold by E. s. Lesdoss:,r
& sons, Druggists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17

BRIGADIER- GENERAL WHEELER, not
being held in as high estimation by the
administration as he thinks he should
be, will soon sail from Manila for this
country, expecting to reoccupy his seat
in Congress. But as he accepted bis
commission in the army after be
was elected to the U. S. House of Rep
resentstives, and as he is now an i'm
psrialist, he will probably never be a
member of Congress again.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
THE almanac of the WASHINGTON Pos

THE almanac of the Washington Post
for 1900 has been received from its pub
fishers, the Post Company. As stated
in its title page, it is really cyclopedia
of historical information and a compre-
hensive and condensed record of the
events of the year 1899, and contains a
forecast Of the weather for every day in
1900. 1t is a valuable book, of ready
reference, to all classes of people, and in
respect OF American political statistics, 10
not excelled.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17

THE WOMAN suffrsgists are like the
member of their sex who, when pitched
overheard by her husband because she
insisted that scissors, and not a knife,
had been used, sunk the third time
holding her right hand above the water
and working her two forefngers like 3
pair of scissors. As regularly as Cor
gress meets they assemble in Washing
tor, appear before committees of that
body, and argue 10 favor of the Objec
of their desire. And that's the end of il.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
Suggests a Remedy for Lynchings.

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 17.-Governor
LoDgino was iuaugursted yesterday
with imposing ceremonies. During bis
inaugural address he made fierce de-
nuDciation of mob violence and deplored
the fact tn t it is constantly on the in
crease in Mississippi, As remedy for
present conditions, he asks the legisla-
ture to pass law giving the family Of
any person who may hereafter be
lynched. the right to recover in
chsbcery court fixed sum of damages
against the county wherein the lynch
ings occur.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
DIED..

On Tuesday evening, January 16, 1900
Mrs.. CArHARINE BURLEY, aged 65 years
Funeral from ST. Msry's Church tomorrow
i hursdsy) morning At 10 o'clock. Friends
and relatives of the family are invited to
attend
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17

The Baltimore Suns Almanac of 1900 has
been received from its publishers, the A. s.
A bell Company. 1t is full and accurate
compendium of information, useful to all. but
especially so to those interested in Mary.
land affairs. 1t is not sold, but is given to all
the subscribers of the excellent newspaper
from whose Office it is issued
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
T0-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From Richmond,

Especial dispatch to Alexandria Gazette.l
Richmond, Va, Jan. 1.-THE Senste
passed the bill for the relief OF John C.
Heinbrick, of Alexandria county, from
erroneous taxation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
The Markets.

New York. Jan. 1.-The market cloeed
as follows: Wheat-Dec -; May $685. s65a4
Georgetown, Jan. 17-Whest 65s1O.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17

L. T. Thirk6 field, Health Inspector Of Chi.
cago, says, "KOdol Dyspepsia Cure cam De
recommended too highly. 1t cur d ne d g.
we're dyspepsia" 1t digests whas you eat aud
cures indigestion, heartburn and ali foras u
dyspspsiA.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17

The Coan river gas buoy, Hack, No. 8, ex-
tnguished buoy, has been replaced by re-
charged buoy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17
How Are Your Kidneyss

Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills Sam
Ole dee. Ada. sterling Remedy Co, Chicago o. = II
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-17

troduced in the House by Mr.. Todd, oil
Augusta county, which seeks to give to
young ladies of the State the same priv.
ileges, by competent examination, as
is accorded young men at Blackburg.
The committe reported the bill favor.
ably.
The democratic cancus last night re-
nominated Mr.. John w. Richardson
for register of the land Office. There
was no opposition. Mr.. Richardson
will be re elected today at the reduced
salary of $1,000. Judge A. w. Wal
lace, of the Corporation Court of Fred
ericksburg, was re-nominated. The
CAUCUS meets January "a to consider
the constitutional convention question.
The impression prevails that the prop
osition will be adopted.
1t is believed that the capitation tax
resolution, defeated yesterday, will be
adopted today.
There is no doubt that the separate
car bill will pass the General Assem-
bly,. Delegate Matthews, of Accomac,
will offer similar measure applying to
mboats. Complaint is made that
negroes often make their presence dis
agreeable Oh the boats plying between
the Eastern Shore and Old Point and
Norfolk.
Mr.. Hutcheson's pension bill, which
he recently introduced 10 the House, is
being favorably considered by the men,
bers, and there is q strong likelihood of
its being passed. Mr.. Hutcbesop says
his bill would not enlarge the pension
roll to any great extent, as it only pro:
vides for widows taking the places Of
husbands who are, or we're, already on
the rolls, and ss no widow who was
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
A Hard Rain.

ut rains n great deal In the Puget
sound country" said the man from
that section, land heard Of funny
incident not long ago about 1t. Some
chap had come from the Missippi val
ley to take up his residence at What
com. on Bellingham bay, where there
are very high tides. When the boat
landed him at the end OF the long pier
extending over the tide fats the water
was low and the new man didn't notice
anything but a wide stretch Of sand
between the boat and the town. II
was in the evening about dark and was
raining, and he went to the hotel on
the front street and stayed there, going
to bed without having gone out for a
walk. The next morning when he got
up he looked out and the tide was in,
the water coming up close to the hotel.
He gazed at the widespread waters for
an instant, and. throwing up his hands
in establishment, he exclaimed. Gee
whiz, but 1t must have rained hard
last night Then he hurried down
stairs to the Office to find out II there
was any danger from the food, and the
clerk smiled four or five times and
gave him some y1uch-needed informa-
ton. "--Washington Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22

A woman who entertains a great deal
tells a writer in Harper's Bazaar that
she is heart, brain, nerve and soul
weary of clever people, and she longs
to know somebody who neither writes,
sings, recites, toots, fiddles, nor even
has ideas. She even proposes a toast
to the stupid people who do not in
trude, and those who, while not stupid,
often pretend they are, for the sake
of the quiet and peace they know you
will appreciate. Cleverness runs in
families nowadays. Even the house
hold baby Is hauled out at deadly night
hours to do his little turn, and the
grandmother Of the family is clever.
All, rare and satisfying person to
meet is the family woman who Is not
clever, who makes no pretensions to
cleverness, who has not prepared
paper on any Of the burning questions
of the hour.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
ovERiNDULGED CHILDREN.
Truth Which is Worth the Attention OF
American Parents

Truth Which is Worth the Attention OF
American Parents.
John Ruskin, at rs, had as keen
sense OF taste as most men have at 90
and greatly enjoyed new favors, says
the Youths Companion. My palate"
he once said, serves me now SO we'll,
because when l was child / was Civ.
en- only the plainest food. When
was boy, too, / had but one or two
toys and no amusements. Hence the
keen delight which l take now in ev-
cry little pleasure" M. Renan ex-
planned to a friend his habitual cheer
fulness in the same way. When | was
young" he said, my life was simple
and bare. / had few amusements. /
kept all my illusions; hence little
things, which an INDUCED child In a
luxurious home would scarcely notice,
now give mean old man-real hap
piEess." Here is the hint Of a truth
worth the attention of American par
ents. II they have wealth, or even a
moderate income, their fond effort u.s.
ually is to give to their boys and girls
all the pleasures in miniature which
belong to middle age. Children are
early made familiar with the idea OF
fashionable clothes and jewelry. They
have their formal luncheons and din
ner parties, and even balls, in which
there are the state and ceremony, and
sometimes the dishes, which are to be
found in the entertainments of adults.
They are overloaded with costly toys,
for which they care little. The dis
appointed father and mother wonder
why the child is bored by new pleas
ures. They do not see that they are
robbing him in youth of the relish and
keen sense of enjoyment which was
meant to give zest and happiness to
his whole life. Still more cruel kind
ness is that of parents of moderate
means, who accustom their children to
a life of luxury, living to the full limit
of their incomes, and when they die
leave them unprepared to struggle with
the world.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
.nE FEMININE PHILOSOPHER

Hunger is sure cure for love.
Liars should possess good memories.
Cold weather never contracts the
price Of coal.
There are very few cynics found
among the successful.
All problems are so simple to those
who are not asked TO solve them.
A woman's conscience Ia dead In tho
matter OF appropriating hotel towels
The brightest blazes of happiness are
commonly kindled by unexpected
sparks
There are very few really new ideas:
II is the treatment OF them that smacks
v novelty.
The persons who grumble the most
at the boarding-h house table are gen
orally the ones who do not have half
as much or as good ut their own.
There 10 no man so reliant or indc-
pendent that he doesn't like to have
the woman who loves him treat him al
times as though he were great big
baby.
II Is so much easier to be brave
when we go to the dentists the first
time than 1t Is at the second visit.
when we know what we have to go
through.
II more so-called vocalists under
derstood the distinction between sing
Ing and making noise the concert
tours would undoubtedly be moro
profitable.
| There Is one fiction n woman makes
herself believe by repeating 1t fire.
quently- namely. that she could have
married very wealthy man II she had
been so inclined.
1t Ia very embarrassing to man
who has poem on the grace and
charm of his first wife accepted to have
II published Just when he Is about to
marry the second
The endeavor to make themselves
look smart on an income adequate
only to make them look decent Is the
reason so many women become wrink-
led and ugly before their time.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
WHY HUMAN BEINGS LAUGH.
Cachination Ii q Faculty We Acquire
with Increase OF Intelligence.

Cachination IL q Faculty We Acquire
with Increase OF Intelligence
Anthropologists say that the abili-
ty to laugh comes to the child as 1t
grows older. The first smile is OBJ
served when the child is about 40 to 80
days old, but it does not begin to laugh
until some time after that. According
to Mantegazza and others the power OF
laughing has to be acquired, just as a
child learns how to talk or walk.
Laughter Is observed at the earliest
only after they are 3 months old.
Children and women laugh more than
men, not because the cares Of life lie
less heavily upon them, but because
the former are more excitable, and be-
cause the moderating power OF the
cerebral hemisphere Is less in them
than among men generally. Profound
study makes men serious, and so fool
fish people are sometimes noted for
laughing immoderateiy. Yet laughter
Is not so much an index to intelligence
as 1t Is to the condition Of health.
Healthy, vigorous people are OF pro-
verbally good-humored, joyous, laugh
ing natures, while the "sallow, gloomy
eyed dyspeptic" is description sci
entifically accurate, although it has its
origin from the brain Of poet. The
envious, wicked and malevolent rarely
laugh, because, psychologists say, they
are impregnated with bile. and are
therefore morose. The naughty, the
vain and the awkward also laugh very
little for fear of losing their dignity.
The Spanish people, who are proverbi-
ally grave, are a good example. Peo-
pie who have lines extending down
ward from the angle Of the mouth to-
ward Tie chin well marked rarely
laugh, and, moreover, show a tendency
to pensiveness in youth and melan-
choly in after life. Those who have
tines raging outward from the eyes
are, on the contrary, people who laugh
q good deal, especially when the upper
lip is framed by two deep furows run
ming down to the mouth. Lavater, the
noted physiognomist, states that
frank, easy. copious laughter indicates
a good soul devoid Of vanity" Such
people often have a great many wrin-
kles running obliqucly outward and
downward from the eyes. They also
have full, open lips and a round. large
sorehead.-New York Herald.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
Roth In the Same Bor.

A parson who occasionally breaches
in South London arrived to take the
place OF the vicar. who had been called
away on account Of some family be-
reavement and found an old and rather
asthmatic lady struggling up the steps
which led to the front door. He cour-
teously gave her his arm to assist her
and when they reached the top the
dame asked him IL he knew who was
going to preach. "Mr. So-and-So." re-
piled the parson, giving his own name.
"oh. dear me-" exclaimed the old lady;
help me down again, II you please;
I'd rather listen to the groaning and
creaking Of windmill than sit under
him." and she prepared to descend. The
parson gently assisted her downstairs
and sighfully remarked as he bade her
good-by: II wouldn't go In, either. IL ]
weren't the preacher"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
HIGHPRICE OFPAPER.
TARIFF TAX ON WOOD PULP a
COSTLY ONE.
May Compel Subscribers TO Fay More
for Their Country Newspaper - The
Cry for It's Iastans Kspe~l L. Very
Loud-Papsr Trust Robbery.

There are very conclusive reasons
why the present tariff tax on wood
pulp and printing paper should be re.
pcaled, and there Ia no reason In the
interest OF American industry that
pleads for the continuance OF these
taxes. They are now simply an ele-
rent OF robbery under color of law.
and they should be effaced frosl our
statutes.
The paper trust Is now taxing the
newspaper and book publishers of the
country many millions, not because OF
producing paper. but because the trust
has the power TO extort from the pur-
chasers OF paper up to the extent that
would make tariff-taxed foreign paper
and pulp cheaper than the prices de-
manded here. This trust has played its
scheme of extortion to the uttermost,
and congress should at once remove
the tax that protects no American In
dustry and that has become only an
agent to rob the consumers.
Two-thirds OF the wood pulp used In
the manufacture OF paper for American
consumption should come from Can
ada, but II Is excluded by a tariff tax.
and we are now rushing headlong In
the destruction OF our forests. while
Canada, with Its almost llmitless sup
ply OF timber. cannot reach our mar
kets because OF the tax imposed by
the tariff.
The two conclusive reasons which
should make congress act promptly are
first, that the paper trust should be
at once halted in its rapid destruction
OF our American forests by the admis-
sion OF free wood pulp from Canada:
and. second. that the present extortion
practiced by the paper trust upon pub
fishers OF newspapers and books SHAH
cease to have the protection of the gov
eminent.
The time has come when any trust
that makes arbitrary profits by tarin
duties must cease to be protected by
the government. Where American In
dustry needs protection 1t Is reason
able to permit 1t, but where alleged
protection Is used only for systematic
robbery, It must be overthrown.
We can now manufacture paper as
cheaply as any country In the world.
There Is no excuse whatever for tax
upon the manufactured articles, and
the raw material should be free. not
only because the general principle Is
correct, but because II 1t shall not be
done promptly our forests will be prac-
tically destroyed within few years by
tariff taxes excluding the lumber OF
Canada from our markets.
Paper and pulp must be made free
OF all taxes,as the paper trust has dem
onstrated that these taxes serve only a
single purpose--that Is to invite rob-
berry under color Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
Recirrx.


The windows are gay with new novels
that shine
In bindings OF wonderful hue:
They are wondrously fair As they stand
there In line
To tempt any one who may view.
There are books about fairies ..
And big dictionaries
And histories grave and the rest
Yet OF all the wise prints.
Tales OF practical hints,
My grandmother's cook book seems
best.
When stone bruises came to my juvenile
heel
It told how to conquer the pain.
And how to mako soap or apply lemon
peel
To remove some insidious stain.
What to do, II portrayed,
For a drowning mans aid,
And how to make blackberry wine;
And how to clean paint
And cure people who faint
My grandmother's cook book was hne
No frivolous poems! No fiction to fill
Our lives with a vague discomfort!
No long. prosy essays! Twas written
with skill:
The author said just what he meant
or cooking tbs true,
What my grandmother knew.
Twas beyond any volume to state.
But for hot drops and such,
When we'd eaten too much.
My grandmothers cook book was great
-Phllander Johnson in Washington Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22

ish authorities to put stop to the
leaking out of information. The pres
emit situation in South Africa Is some
thing like that in the Philippines. Of
ficers find it difficult to determine just
who are friendlies and just who are
to be counted among the enemy. How
many spies, for instance, there may
be among the supposedly disaffected
burghers of the cape it is impossible
TO tell This peculiar position Of af-
fairs forced General Gatacre not long
ago to issue proclamation that any
Cape Colony burgher travelling from
town to town would be arrested on
suspicion. He forbade them to go to
market towns oftener than once a
week. This was obviously to prevent
the dissemination of information re-
garding the movement and disposition
Of the British forces.
In the town OF Mafeking, too. early
In the war. Major Cecil was forced to
post up notices to the effect that in
formation had reached him that spies
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22

were operating in the town and that
unless the same left Mafeking by noon
OF the following day they would be APP
pretended and punished according to
the law governing all such cases.
The startling number OF times the
British forces have been led into am
buscades or have marched unsuspect-
ing against Boer force thoroughly
prepared to meet them mas naturally
given her majesty's officers very dis
agreeable consciousness that their
movements were only too we'll known
by the enemy. In fact, it is known
that Cape Town itself Is full of Boer
spies, yet no effective move can be
made toward stopping their opera
tons. The knowledge which the q
Boer possesses of the country. his
we'll guarded means Of secret COM
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
Srv Method of Lighting Tunnsls.

A new method Of lighting tunnels is
about to be adopted in one constructed
in Paris for an electric road. Electric
lamps will be turned on automatically
MS the train enters the tunnel and cut
OF automatically as 1t energies. The
lights are arranged on each side on a
level with the windows Of the cars. SO
that during daytime 1t will not be nee
essarry to turn on the light In the
cars. This mode has been devised by
a French inventor. and doubtless will
be found of great utility.