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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

Did 1t Eve- Occur to You that a lit
tie Perry Davis PainKiller on the end
of the finger applied once or twice to
MOSQUITO bite would counteract the poi
SON and speedily reduce the swelling?
Pain. Killer will also cure bites and
stings Of other poisonous insects as well
as reptiles See directions as to use
upon wrapper on each bottle Avoid
substitutes, there is but one Pain. Killer
Perry Davis. Price 25c. and SOC.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
FOR CITY TREASURER.

hereby announce myself as candi-
date for reelection TO the Office Of City
Treasurer, and hope it may be the pleas
ure Of my friends to support me for the
same, and | hereby tender my sincere
thanks for past and for future favors
for election May 2lth. 1900
ROBERT Z. KNOX
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
Fredericksburg, Va. March 10, 1900.
CORNED HERRING,

From Whitewater (Waller's) Fish.
inc Shore. Sold in quantities 10 suit.
Orders from the country solicited, which
will have prompt attention.
MAGRATH 81 OHESLEY.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

THE Virginia Law Register for
April, in addition to large amount
of interesting and valuable matter,
contains a complete index to vol
ume 5,covsring As pages. "A ffontes-
piece Portrait of the judges Of the
Supreme Court of Appeals is also an
attractive feature.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
Foa CLERK OF COURT.

hereby announce myself candidate
for election as Clerk Of the Corporation
court Of the City of Fredericksburg,
which office | have filled for five years.
And | most respectfully ask the support
Of NV fellow citizens at the approaching
election.
JAMES p. CORBIN
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
Gouldman-Welch.

Mr.. Homer WEIGH, of Muskegon,
Mich, and Miss Emma J. Gouldman
daughter of Ex-Mayor Gouldman, were
married last night at the home of the
bride, Rev. j. p. Stump officiating.
Owing to the illness Of the brides
father, only members Of the family and
q few intimate friends were present.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

THE House of Representatives has
gone through the biennial farce OF
endorsing the proposition for the
election of Senators by the people.
The staid Senate will see that the bill
is put gently to sleep for another
two years doZe.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

TIE hard wheat of Texas is much
in demand in France and Italy for
macsroni and similar edible pastes,
and it is expected that great wheat
trade will be carried on between
Texas and those countries.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

AGGY has proved hot potato to
our leaders in the Philippines. They
chased him away, but be has learned
that they did not want to catch him,
so he has returned to play hide and
seek again with the toy soldiers.
When Aguinaldo returned to Luzon
Otis took passage for America.
Strange dOings But all is fair in
politics.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

SOME of the Republican papers, re-
ferripg to the great prosperity in the
South. claim that it is due to Repub'
lican rule, and that the leading men
in business South know that the Re-
publicans are going to be continued
in power. All of this may be true,
but it does not prevent the South
from giving the Democratic candi-
date for President a solid vote oyory
four years.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

QUEEN VICTORIA seems to have
fallen desperately in love with Ire
land. She rode extensively in Dublin
Monday in an open landau amid ap'
plsudiDg crowds, and she has now
decided to prolong her visit to the
9th. The Loyalty exhibited by the
Irish people on this occasion, it is
hoped. will inure to their advantage.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

THE King of Belgium has given to
the nation his entire landed estates
for parks and similar purposes. This
is precedent that few rulers will
follow. The idea seems to be, to get
all you can and keep what you get.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
FOR CITY SERGEANT.

Attention, Voters. One and All "
Being fully persuaded that | shall be
elected to fill the vacancy Of City Ser
Qeant at she next election, | hereby de-
sire to return my sincere thanks in ad-
vance to my numerous friends and the
voters generally for this mark OF confi'
dence, and hereby pledge faithful per-
formanve of the duties Of said office
and In consequence OF said election. |
have decided 70 offer my entire stock Of
hardware, farming implements and
cutlery, etc, at greatly reduced prices
for cash. This Is an opportunity for
cash buyers to save money and get bar
gains In all goods in my line.
Respectfully,
I'd JOHN A. STONE.
Fellow. Citizens: l hereby announce
myself a candidate for the office Of City
Sergeant and respectfully solicit your
support, promising, II elected, q faith
ful service to the best of my ability.
Election May cath Respectfully.
W h HALL.
fredericksburg, Va. March %, 1900.
Fellow Citizens: l respectfully An
nounce myself candidate for the office
OF Sergeant Of the City Of Fredericks-
burg as the election to be held on Thurs.
day, May Gath, 1900. Having been Dep
uty Sergeant for some years, and being
familiar with the duties Of the Office.
flatter myself that l can discharge the
duties of the position to the satisfaction
of the court and public. If elected, /
promise faithful and efficient service
JOHN H. ROBINSON.
To the Citizens of Fredericksburg /:
That efficient officer and clever gentle.
mon. O W. Edrington, Esq who has
served you % long as City Sergeant
having declined 10 stand for election
again. and believing can perform the
duties of the office to the satisfaction
Of the citizens of this city. hereby an
nounce myself a candidate for the posi-
tion at the election to be held May "a
1900. and ask your support
Very respectfully,
J. w. HARRIS.
Fredericksburg, Va. March 10, 1900.
To Ny Fellow .citizens; hereby an-
nounoe myself candidate for the office
of City Sergeant, ADD would thank you
for your support, promising. If elected,
TO discharge the duties faithfully cleo
tion Thursday. May 81
ID. S. RUSSELL
March 16, 1900.
To My Fellow Citizens of Fredericks'
burg / hereby announce myself can.
didate for the office of City Sergeant
and respectfully solicit your votes and
assistance. and promise II elected to dis
charge the duties OF the Office to the
best of my ability. Very truly.
E. A. SOLAN.
Election May "a, 1900.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
A POPULAR MILLINERY STORE
SUMMER LAW LECTURES

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
3lst Summer July 70 Sept. l. 1871. Especially heip.
full to beginn 70 candidates for admission 70 th
bar; and to young practitioner Who nave lacked
systematic injtructiOn For Catalogue address
X. G.. MINOR, Secretary, CharlOttesNiiie,S
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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
CHESAPEAKE FISHERIES !

We arc now I'm position 10 fur
nlsh our fine Chesapeake Fish. II you never
have tried them. ask your neighbor who has
and he will tell you that our brands are the
best. We ship by rail and water 10 any point
I'm the United States We pack salt Herring
and Shad 10 order. Family select Herring,
Shad, Roc and Cuvier, are our specialties.
Address all orders to
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19

Fellow. Oitzens: hereby announce
myself candidate for the office Of City
Sergeant and respectfully solicit your
support, promising, II elected, faith
ful service to the best Of my ability.
Election May cath Respectfully.
W Il HALL.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
Weather forecast for Fred
ericks6ur0 and oicinitV.

7hurSday fair, oaridble
loiR6S.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-19
JAMES D MONROE,
Westiand, Va.

We also furnish Reused Herring warranted
% keep 20 days without repacking, aud put
them up I'm Sugar Barrels. about go IN bar
rel, mailing them handy 10 ship. seld by
CHARLES WALLACE & BRO,
MRS. j. n. MONROE,
Fredericksburg. Va.
and the Fisheries, westlend. Va.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
The Argument in Washington.

The argument is still in progress.
What opinion The Court will take Of it
no one knows. But the Court appre.
ciates the importance Of the questions
involved The time has come when a
judicial decision is asked on the nature
of the state which exists here. This
government began as a federation of
sovereign States which had agreed on a
Constitution under which they were to
work for the better maintenance of
their freedom. These sovereign States
owned certain territory and the GEN.
trial government made whatever regu-
lations pleased It regarding that terri
tory. The States themselves, or MANY
of them, claimed that in their sover-
eighty was still included the right to
withdraw from the Union as they had
entered it. This theory was shot to
death in the civil war. The Union of
States is now indissoluble except by
revolution. The status of the indie
pendent commonwealth has been
settled. There remained the status of
the territories not organized into indie
pendent States. The real points before
the Court are of what does this Nation
consist? and have the States, united
by their Constitution, deprived them
selves OF power through their repre-
sentatives in their Congress to make
such regulations as they please for that
territory which in the exercise Of their
sovereign power they have acquired?
We have no doubt of the view which
Washington and Jefferson would take
on this question, but sentiment changes
in century and the necessity OF de
Gliding this new question is imposed on
this generation unG-r conditions diff
ferent from any contemplated when
the Constitution was lramed.-BrCok-
lyn Eagle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
The True Cure for BackwardneSs.

The Messenger of St. Adams is still
of the opinion that the way to show
that Vermont is not ga backward
State" is to spend $4,000 or $15, 200
in putting up bluff at Buffalo, while
her lawmakers at home are jumping
with both feet on rational measures
to stay the backward drift or give the
State an impulse forward. 1t is like a
merchant whose business is in back
ward condition, whose customers have
been drifting away from him for years,
putting great expenditure into adver-
Using without changing his business
methods or putting in stocks of new
and saleable goods. Under such cir
cumstances advertising is a worse than
profitless expenditure. The Messenger
concludes:
The Journal says the way to do this
is "to spend its money at home in eff.
forts to rebuild its prosperity on an
enduring foundation, rather than in
Buffalo or elsewhere outside the State
on the shallow and unremunerative
pretense of keeping up appearances. ,"
All right. When you get all rebuilt
who's going TO know about it if you
don't advertise?
Well, the people of Vermont will
know all about it, and they are the
chief parties in interest. They will
know it in many ways and the whole
country will know it. The fact will
become very conspicuous. The census
will show that, instead of marking time
or falling behind, as she has been doing
for half century, the State has got her
gait and is marching on, neck and neck
with her neighbors; the hill towns will
be holding their population or adding
to it; and, when the State has got in g
stock of new and up-to-date goods and
changed for the better her wretched
business methods, then will be the
time to advertise and the advertise
ment will be effective.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
The Treaty Amended and Ratified.

The Hay Pauncefote treaty, radical
ly amended, was ratified by the Senate
on Thursday by vote of 55 for to IS
against ratification. Eight Senators
favoring the treaty were paired-on the
customary basis of two for to one
against when two-thirds majority is
required-with four opposing. One
Senator for the treaty was absent I'M
paired. Thus rectifed the vote would
have stood, in full Senate-excluding
the four vacancies-64 to %.
The amendments adopted were three.
First, the much discussed Davis amend
ment which secures to the United
States the right to defend the canal.
Second, The Foraker amendment, de-
claring in Article ii that the pending
treaty supersedes the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty. Third, also by Senator For.
aker, eliminating from Article III this
clause "The high contracting parties
will, Immediately upon the exchange
of the Publications of this convention
bring it to the notice of the Other
powers and invite them to adhere tt
it,"
The specific right to fortify the cana
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26

was not reserved, and in this particular
the treaty will be unsatisfactory 10
many Americans-if not the majority.
The treaty, however, in that the Davis
amendment stipulates that the neutra-
lization sections of Article shall not
'apply to measures which the United
States may find it necessary to take for
securing by its own forces the defence
of the United States and the mainten.
ance of public ORDER" and the exclu-
sion from Article III of the European
concert" will go far to reconcile Amer
leans to the treaty, if the amendments
shall be accepted by Great Britain.
That they will be accepted-and gladly,
though with becoming protestation--
no one will doubt And, equally, there
can be no doubt that it would have
been accepted if the right to fortify
had in express terms been reserved,
whether or not the United States would
ever have fortified, or deemed it expe-
dent to fortify, the course OF the wa
terway.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
A Sample Of Editorial Ignorance.

The communism of the State school and
highway taxes Is written all over the State
OF Vermont. The taxpayer, in any com
munity, without chick or child to send to
school, is the victim of this kind OF com
munisrn in that he pays the regular assessed
local school tax. So are other Taxpayers,
in score OF other ways. So are the tax
payers OF the whole State in the sums
levied upon them TO maintain Burlington's
experiment station, ostensibly for the ben.
eft OF agriculture; or for laboratory there
or purely imaginary benefit to the people
at large.-Montpelier Journal.
The last sentence of this paragraph
simply illustrates the ignorance OF its
author, and Of the editors who have
copied it. There has been no State
experiment station in Vermont for ten
years past, and of course no taxes
levied upon Vermont taxpayers to
maintain such station.
AS for the State laboratory, If care OF
the public health, prevention of and
protection from contagious diseases,
and great amelioration of the ravages
of diphtheria, consumption and ty'
phoid fever, in the State at large, are
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
The Ex-President's Opinion.

There are others. Ex-President
Harrison is an able lawyer, and when
he expresses the opinion that the Con-
stitution of the United States, by its
own force, is extended over the new
possessions of the United States, that
opinion is entitled to the respect be-
gotten of his legal ability and high
character and standing as statesman.
But there are many other lawyers,
also of eminence in the land, who take
the opposite view of this question. In
their legal ability, learning and COM
potency to arrive at correct conclusions
they are the peers at least of Mr.. Har-
rison. or these there are many more
than there are of the Presidents way
of thinking. They are sustained by
the precedents and practices of the
government of the United States from
its foundation.
Somehow, the ex-President has been
reckoned, from the very first, among
those who are out of sympathy with
the administration, in respect of GER
tain of its policies, on other grounds
than those Of simple reason and justice.
An ex-President, particularly one de-
feated in an appeal to the people for a
second election, sometimes 10 not an
entirely competent and unbiased judge
of the acts and policies of his successor
Some kink may get into his mental OF
or rational processes. Harrison and
Cleveland are human. Great distinc
ton has come to their successor in the
presidential ofiice-the distinction Of
a very signal reelection following the
glory of an administration brilliantly
successful in a war for humanity, in
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26

A doting Chicago father whose first
name is Arthur has a little daughter
four years old. The family recently
moved to new locality in the city only
a few doors away from a street car
barn where several mules are kept.
The next morning after arriving al
the new home the little girl heard one
of the street car mules braying. 1t was
the first time she had ever heard a
mule bray, and she listened for long
time before she said:
mamma, is that one of papa's
friends calling him?"
mo" said her mother; st hear no
one calling your father"
eyes. there is" said the small girl
listen, now; don't you hear him call
ing Arthur, Arthur, Ar-thurp?"
"Oh, yes" replied the mother. 81
hear him calling now. But that isn't
one Of your fathers friends. He has
more sense than most of your fathers
friends. Chicago Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
CARMEN SYLVIA AS A CHILD.
houmnnin's STORYTELLING Queen Was
Imaginative, Energetic and Loved
to Roam Through Forests,

The surroundings, work and person.
atty of Elizabeth, queen of Roumania
known to the world of letters as Car
men Sylva-are the subject matter of
an article in Woman's Home Com
panion entitled: "The Queen Who
Writes Fairy Tales" The author.
George T. b. Davis, thus writes of the
childhood of the queen-author:
Her father was a man of deep learn
ing, author Of a notable philosophical
work, and entertained the leading
scholars of his time at his castle on
the Rhine. Here she was born, in 1s43,
on the goth of December, missing by
only four days being a christmas
child AS a child Elizabeth was
prodigy at least in the great imagina-
ton and overlooking energy she pos
sessed. Such a bundle of nervous ener-
gy was she that when, at the age Of
five, her portrait was being painted it
was almost impossible to make her sit
quietly. Pleading and threats were
alike unavailing. Finally the child
herself made up her mind to sit per-
fectly still. She succeeded for two or
three minutes, but the strain upon her
nervous system was too great and she
fell fainting from her stool.
"Once she was taken with her mother
to visit the German empress. The child
wandered about the room fondIinp
cushions, sofa-pillows and holsters,
pretending they were her children, and
finally went up to the empress, took
hold of her feet, which were resting on
a footstool, placed them roughly on the
floor, clasped the stool to her breast,
and exclaimed: You must not stand
on my childn
cat nine years of age Elizabeth
wrote verses; at 10 she attempted to
write a novel; at IA she arranged
dramas and tragedies in her imagina.
ton; at IS she studied three newspa-
pers daily, and took a keen interest
in politics. During her youth her chief
pleasures were roaming alone through
the great forest surrounding the an
cestral castle-and stories are still told
of her daring deeds in those earlier
days on the Rhine-and listening to
fairy tales; or. as she grew older. weav-
ing the tales from her own rich imag-
nation and relating them, with eyes
NIL aglow, to eager troupes of children"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26

purely imaginary benefits, then the
laboratory is useless institution. On
that point the opinion of the leading
physicians Of the State, who testified
before the legislative committee, to the
good work and very great value OF the
State laboratory, will perhaps have as
much weight with intelligent persons
as the snarling of the Montpelier Jour
ndl-Free Press.
The matter is not exceedingly i'm
portaut. a bubble is never import
ant, and the quibbler is apt to be the
only one who suffers by quibbling. A
quibbler always betrays his weak
ness. The contemporary bubbles
and therein exhibits rather more
than its inherent and traditional imbe-
cility.
BY reference to the last published re-
port-1S99-of the institution in ques-
ton, which report bears the imprint OF
the Free Press Association, it is seen
that the document purports to be-and
these words are printed on the cover
and title page-"The Twelfth Annual
Report of the Vermont Agricultural
Experiment station, Burlington, VT"
Preceding reports, many of them print
ed at the Free Press office, bear SINH
lar inscription. Occasional reference
is made in the newspapers to the Eek
pertinent Station" at Burlington, and
sometimes promulgations of agricul-
tural learning and wisdom, which pur-
port to come from this same Expert
ment Station, are sent out to the news
papers for publication.
An institution bearing this title has
its letter heads and stationery, on
which are blazoned the names of its
officers; it is publishing periodically
bulletins on agricultural subjects, of
many pages and many thousands of
copies, all of which bear the imprint of
the Free Press Association. And yet
the contemporary says, "There has
been no Experiment Station in YER
mont for ten years past" editorial
ignorance" seems to be somewhat
dense in the Office of the Free Press,
though its job department seems to be
fattening on the $4,000 the State and
the United States are annually paying
into this non existent institution.
After this display of intelligence
and candor the contemporary certi-
fcate of character for the State labora-
tory will pass current for what it is
worth. There seems to be a microbe,
or some sort of reptile, in the cerebral
attic or moral basement of the contem-
porsry, or somewhere in the interven-
ing sections, which the laboratory
ought to hunt up and destroy. If it
can present to the public this evidence
of its usefulness, it will be better tes-
timonial than "the opinion of the lead
ing physicians of the State" some of
whom constitute the board of "health"
under whose auspices small pox
was recently scattered promiscuously
around the State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
Iced Reef Ten.

Allow the beef tea to get cold and
put it in a pewter pot or deep basin;
place this in pail surrounded with
crushed ice and salt; cover and let it
sIand for about 20 minutes. At the end
of that time stir up the beef tea and
beat up for several minutes; allow it
to stand for another ten minutes and
repeat this operation two or three
times, until it appears to be frozen
and is quite smooth. This is especially
recommended for patients who are not
flowed to take warm food of any kind.
Washington Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-26
MY SISTERS BABY

My baby is full of Astounding
life and joy; my sisters boy is
a puny thing.
The difference is: my baby
is healthy. He takes his fill
and sleeps; and he grows.
My sisters boy gets fully as
hungry, he cries with hunger
then cries, think it must be,
from weakness; his food is a
burden to him.
SCOTS emulsion of cod-liver
oil will set that poor little boy
in the way of being as good as
his cousin.
Wen send youa little try, ifyou like
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl street. New York