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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20
battery. From a Judgment for plain
tiff the defendant appealed.

tiff the defendant appealed.
The Court says:
1t Is alleged that the attorney tor the
plaintiff stated in his argument to the
jury that the defendant was worth
$4,000, and of this appellant COM
planned. There was some proof intro
duced or ATTEMPTED to be introduced
tending to show that the defendant
was a man of considerable wealth. 1t
does not satisfactorily appear that
proper executions were taken to that
evidence. But, inasmuch as the case
must be reversed. we deem it proper to
consider and determine as 70 the com
potency OF such testimony. If 1t is COM
petent in such cases to admit evidence
as to the wealth or ability OF the de-
PENDANT to pay, it seems to us inevita-
Bile that proof should No admitted to
Show his poverty or inability to pay
and incidental thereto it would be prop
er TO show what family was dependent
entirely upon him for support. The
tendency of this class of testimony
would he to lead the jury to consider
chiefly the pecuniary condition Of the
defendant rather than the enormity or
wantonness of the act for which punt
tive damages might be allowed. And
if ctecuniary condition Of the defend
ant can be proved for tho purpose OF
influencing the verdict of the jury. it
would seem that like evidence should
be admitted as to the plaintiff.
After q careful consideration of this
question we are clearly of the opinion
that no evidence as to the financial
condition of either defendant or plain
tiff should be admitted in any case in
which punitive damages might be re-
covered Reversed
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20
JUMPED OVERHEARD.
w. F. S. BROWN. OF RHODE IS.
LAND. COMMITS SUICIDE ON
STEAMER CHATHAM.

A<<AANDs NIL oOlSlDlJ YIN
STEAMER CHATHAM.
A travelling salesman from Rhode Is
land. Mr.. w. F. S. Brown. who was a
passenger on the Merchants and Min
ers' Transportation Company's steamer
Chatham. Captain Ester, which sailed
from Providence for Norfolk Wednes-
day evening. committed suicide at some
time during the night OF Wednesday by
jumping overheard.
Upon the Chatham's arrival at her
pier in Norfolk Captain Ester reported
the case to Mr.. r. II. Wright. the trans
portation company's agent here
The deceased man was about 80 wears
of age and well dressed. He went on
board OF the Chatham soon before she
left Providence on Wednesday with con-
siderable baggage. He was assigned to
stateroom. and nothing more was seen
OF him by any one on the steamer. The
next morning Thursday his room was
discovered to be vacant, and a letter
-aGdressed- To the cant In raLse-tls-
PLANTATION. Two other letters, sealed
and addressed to people in Rhode Is
land, were likewise found. The suicide.
in the letter 10 Captain Ester, requested
that his watch and what money was
found be placed with the rest of his eff
fects and sent back to Rhode Island
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20

Learning there was a cure for drunken
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GRATED with Hoods Sarsapn-
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expels all the badness that has
gathered in the blood and en-
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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20
Take the Best
Spring Medicine

81 can highly recommend
Hoods Sarsaparilla as a spring
medicine. There ia q necessity
for taking such medicine, and
l find none better than Hoods.
l would mover accept any other
in its place." G. LAIB, 1891 N.
2eth st., Philadelphia, Pa.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20
Best Way
to Cure
Drunkards
We Want All OR Readers to Know How
Mrs. Chas. W. Harry Cured
Her Husband.
Mixed Remedy in His Coffee and Food
and Cured Him Without His
Help or knowledge.
COSTS NOTHING TO TRY.

1t takes n woman to overcome obstacles.
Mrs. Chas. w. Hurry. $40 York St. New
port Ky. had for years patiently borne
the disgrace, suffering misery and priva-
ton due to her husbands drinking habits.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20
To Purify
Your Blood

Now, you lay the foundation for
good health in the months that
are to come. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla tones the stomach, creates
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sue, organ, nerve and muscle.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20

The advertising of of the New
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had for some time trouble with my heart of palpaton
choking that would make long breath,
suffered for considerable time that resoTtsd Rpan
Their effect was not immediate but gradual Wina
the hutterng had ceased and found health ~
point took labule after each and one bsar
The incest thing about the rabees that their dat
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many medicines The OF rarely more
porary and good results often brought
So; 81 s,Ss W. II: ss
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
DISASTERS IN THE CURRENCY
BILL.

No man ever lived better qualified
to understand our financial situation
than Senator Thomas Benton, who has
SO often been miSquoted as advocating
the doctrine behind the present cur
rency bill. Hon. Dorsey w. Shackle-
ford quotes him in a speech in con-
gress opposing this iniquitous measure.
Senator Benton was opposing the same
kind of a bill, and thus expresses the
situation:
This mass Of power, thus ramified
and thus directed, must necessarily
become, under prolonged existence, the
absolute monopolist of American
money, the sole manufacturer of paper
currency, and the sole authority which
the federal government. the state gov
ernments, the great cities, corporate
bodies, merchants, traders and every
private citizen must, of necessity, ap-
ply, for every loan which the exigen-
c1es may demand. The rich ruleth the
poor, and the borrower is the servant
of the lender Such are the words of
Holy Writ; and if the authority of the
Bible admitted of confederation, the
history of the world is at hand to give
it. For twenty years, under Pitt, the
bank OF England was the dominant
power in England; and during that
disastrous period the public debt was
increased 2000OO000O, and by bank
| which, according to it's own declara-
tons, had not a shilling to lend at the
beginning of the period. | omit the
rest. ! say nothing of the general
subjugation of the country banks, the
rise in the price of food, the decline
in wages, the increase of crime and
taxes, the multiplication of lords and
beggars, and the frightful demoraliza
ton of society. Can not the bank of
the United States act in the same way?
1t certainly can, and just as certainly
will when time and opportunity serve
and interest may prompt. y
What grounds for alarm and terrible
apprehension when, with so many in
dependent states, so many rival com
| mercial cities, so much sectional jeal-
ousy. such violent political parties,
| such fierce contests for power, there
| should be but one moneyed tribunal
before which all the rival and contend
ing elements must appear-but one
single dispenser of money, to which
every citizen, every trader, every mer-
chant, every planter, every manufac-
turer, every corporation, every city.
every state, and the federal govern
ment itself must apply in every emer-
gency for the indispensable loan, and
this in The face of the fact that in
every contest for human rights the
great moneyed institutions have uni
formly been found en- the side kings
and MOBILES and against the A,- and
liberties of the people,"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
ROBERTS KEAcurs ERICA.
Few Developments Reported From Seat
of War.

of War.
LONDON, Jan. 11.-During the inter-
lude of apparent military inactivity
and official secrecy, Lord Roberts and
Lord Kitchener have arrived at the
seat of war. 1t is assumed that their
clear vision, supported by 10000 fresh
men, who are due to arrive in South
Africa within thirty days, will alter
the situation, and that the fourth
month of the campaign will witness
the beginning of victories for the Brit
ish arms. They are not, however, ex-
pected to produce definite results for
several days, but their mere presence
will restore the shaken confidence of
the men at the front in their generals
Lord Roberts finds 100. 900 men on the
defensive or watching for an opening.
Lord Methuen's health, according to
the Daily Mail, has "broken down"
and the field marshal may relieve him.
Possibly some others will be relieved
of important commands. There is an
uneasy suspicion that when the Lady
smith casualties are announced they
will be dishcartening and will partly
destroy the patriotic glow produced by
General Whites victory" The list of
the victims of disease issued by the
war Office gives twenty-five deaths
from enteric fever and dysentery in
Ladysmith in four days, revealing the
fact that the besieged are existing
amid bad sanitary conditions.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS.

When that great, fertile parent Of
trusts, the Republican party, permits
one of it's most trusted servants to
speak of them in the light of evils,
there must be some truth in the hue
and cry against them. That the peo
pie are right, as they generally are
upon great and burning questions. Mr..
Comptroller Dawes is fain to admit.
and with his weather eye open to get
on the good side of the dear people.
and secure enough votes to elect his
angelic friend, Mr.. Mckinley, he
pledges the Republican party to the
elimination and abolition of all wicked
trusts In fact, he declares the G. o.
P. will do anything and everything,
even unto sacrificing before wooden
gods and idols of every style of man
ufacture, rather than lose votes. The
people of this country have been sur
telted with anti-election promises. and
nave been gulled, hypnotized and be-
trayed so many times that it is not
improbable it will take an unusual ef-
fort to again mislead them. But let
us hear what MIR. Dawes has to say on
the subject of trusts. 1t was at love
feast" in Springfield. ILL.,
MIR. Dawes finds three things in our
present grave domestic problems:
First, cheap raw materials and the
elimination of competing buyers; sec
ond, higher prices for the public and
the elimination of competing sellers;
third, the more economical production
of commodities by concentration OF
capital" With this third one, the il
limitable Dawes says. The people OF
the country, as whole, find very little
fault" Mr.. Dawes is talking through
the Washington style administration
nat. The concentration of capital for
any purpose is the greatest grievance
the people of this nation has ever had
to contend with. He should have said
that all OF the people comprising the
hrst and second categories find little
complaint, and that when it comes to
that, the SO per cent of the people Of
this country are the strenuous and
| persistent fault finders The random
| talking comptroller of the currency
must know, if he stops to think for
himself. and not through Mark Han
mas photograph, that the people of
this country are under the impression
that his efforts to mislead are caused
by his anxiety to foist Mckinley and
the concentration of @e;ah1, Il, '.n 49, Al
o1'erburdened people for anotbar
and then put it beyond the .efln
The people to relieve themselves.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
The Sword in a Republic.

London newspapers report that Sir
Alfred Miner, premier of Cape Colony,
is apprehensive Of an uprising there in
behalf Of the Afrikanders, and has
asked authority to declare martial law.
The British cabinet, after grave con-
sideration, refused the request, saying
that serious as the situation is, it does
not Justify SO radical and extreme a
measure.
In Idaho few months ago a small
mob wrecked a mill belonging to a
mining company owned by the Stand
ard Oil Crowd" There isn't any pre-
mier of the Occur d'Alene, and the
sheriff of Shoshone county, the con-
stituted authority, did not demand any
unusual aid in keeping the peace. But
the mining company demanded, and
the governor ordered martial law. and
the president has kept federal troops
there ever since to enforce it, though
all the men suspected of completely in
the outrage, and all suspected of even
a remote sympathy for them, have
been driven out of the county.
Moral-A simple, Woodworking cor
poration in these republican United
States Yields greater power than a
titled premier under British effete
monarchy. Truly. 1.-The republic is OPP
portunity. Chicago Journal (inde.
pendent).
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
BUTLER MOVES FORWARD.
Wires That He Has Occupied the South
Side of the Tugela Rive1.

LONDON, Jan. 13.-Buller cables,
dated Springfield, $50 Thursday even
ing.
81 occupied the south bank Of the
Tugela river at Potgieter's drift this
morning and seized Pont The
river is IN flood. The enemy is strong
ly intrenched four and half miles
north.
Buffers movement is obviously of q
thanking character, but whether in
tended to push the advance home or
only fcint to cover the attack on the
Boer position at Hlangwana mountain
remains to be seen. Springfield, whence
Buffers dispatch was sent, is sixteen
miles west of Frere. The last news
from Springfield was that it was held
by the Johannesburg corps under
General Ben Vilgeen, and that the
Beers had big guns in position at Pot
geiters drift, apparently six or eight
miles north of Springfield, across the
Tugela. The possession of the drift
and Pont is regarded as of great inn
portance. 1t is reported that Butler
submitted his plan of campaign to
Roberts Immediately after the latter
landed and Roberts sanctioned it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
Not the War He Thought.

Speaking of the Transvaal reminds
me of a funny thing that occurred re-
Gently at my home," said a risitor from
Milwaukee. II was sitting IN my office
the day before Dom Paula ultimatum
when a telegram was HANGED me from
a friend who lives at Mineral Point,
a town in the southwest corner of the
state. 1t read: What is the latest
news from the Boer WARP was
greatly surprised, but on reflection re-
membered that my friends wife was
an English lady, and concluded that
she must be anxious about some rela-
tive in the army. wired back: War
regarded as absolutely certain Next
week l was surprised to meet my
friend on the street. He looked black
as thunder. Well he said, your tin
was no good. The war hasn't come
off, The dickens it HASN'T replied.
They are fighting right now 'Where?'
he asked incredulously. In Africa
said l. 'Africa!' he exclaimed. Who
the mischief asked you anything about
African You did, retorted. Didn't
you telegraph, Whats the latest news
from the Boer war?"' MOP 20
roared, I telegraphed, What's the
latest news from the beer war?"' You
see he had some brewery stock, from
which he had received an offer, and
wanted to ascertain whether a pros
pective price-cutting row was apt to
occur. He sold on the strength of my
message. New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18

nothing had been expected, and which
contributed nothing TO the Democratic
backbone in the campaign of 1896 On
the contrary. the great mass of Demo-
cratic members, representing the mill
tant Democracy of live and effective
constituencies, stood together and
voted against this attempt of the Re-
publicans to fasten the gold standard
upon the country.
THE result of the vote taken has
committed the Republican party to a
declaration which it has always avoid
ed heretofore, and upon which it has
been able to blindfold the people. AT
the same time, it has helped to clear
the atmosphere and to reveal the fight
ing strength of the Democratic dele
cation and thus to make the future less
doubtful than it has been heretofore. .
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18

contents, and who Is shocked and out
ragged with its descriptions, has never
been soundly converted. The laying
on of the hands of Presbytery or Epis-
copacy does not always change mans
heart, and men sometimes get into
the pulpit as we'll as into the pew, never
having been changed radically by the
sovereign grace of God. Get your.
heart right and the Bible will be right.
The trouble is mems natures are not
brought into harmony with the Word
OF God. All! my friends, expurga-
ton of the heart is what is wanted.
You cannot make me believe that the
Scriptures, which this moment lie on
the table of the purest and best men
and women of the age, and which were
the dying solace of your kindred pass
ed into the skies, have in them faint
which the strongest microscope of hon
est criticism could make visible. If men
are uncomfortable in their indignation
when the integrity of wife or child
is assailed, and judges. and jurors as
far as possible excuse violence under
such provocation. what ought to be the
Overwhelming and long resembling
thunders of condemnation for any man
who will stand in Christian pulpit
and assail the more than virgin purity
of inspiration, the well beloved daugh-
ter OF uod?
Expurgate the Bible! You might as
we'll go to the old picture galleries in
Dresden and in Venice and in Rome
and expurgate the old paintings. Per-
haps you could find foot of Michael
Angeles Last Judgment" that might
be improved. Perhaps you could throw
more expression into Raphael's Ma
DONNA" Perhaps you could put more
pathos into Reubens' Descent from
the Cross" Perhaps you could change
the crests Of the waves in Turner's
slave Ship" Perhaps you might go
into the old galleries of sculpture and
change the forms and the posture OF
the statues of Phidias and Praxiteles
Such an iconoclast would very soon
find himself in the penitentiary. But
1t is worse vandalism when man pro-
poses to refashion these masterpieces
OF inspiration and to remodel the moral
giants of this gallery of God.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
A MENAclNG ASSURANCE.
But 1t Was Not Meant in the Way the

i'ue IL was Not Meant In the Way the
Professor Understood 1t.
Il had peculiar case in court the
other say" said lawyer IAN old
lrlshman named Callahan had got into
row with his landlord about some
repairs and refused to pay his rent.
The landlord was a fussy little ex-col-
lege professor, totally IMMERSED in the
ways of the world, and he was impru-
dent enough to send word that he
would have the family evicted, and
then called to discuss it personally. He
emerged yelling Murder! and said that
he had first met Mrs Callahan. who
told him her husband would do him
no harm, upon the strength OF which
he had waited for his return. When
Callahan came in he promptly gave
the visitor a beating. The old Irish
man and his wife were both arrested,
and appeared for the defense. The
ugly feature Of the case was the al
legged effort of the woman to lure her
caller into trap, but when put on the
stand she, denied the landlords story
IN toto and SWore point blank she had
warned him that her husband proposed
to punch his head. Both parties seemed
perfectly sincere in their statements,
and was somewhat puzzled. l finally
decided to cross-examine the ex-pro-
fessor. Now, repeat to u.s. said, 'ex-
actly what Mrs Callahan told you in
regard to her husband She assured
me positively answered the landlord,
that he had no intention whatever OF
molesting me- But she didn't say it
in those words l insisted. What 1
want is her exact language We'll,
SIR said the witness, beginning to get
fustered, she gave me to understand
oh, never mind that in ter
rupted the Judge, give us her own
words Very we'll, sir; very we'll, sir!'
exclaimed the little landlord. desper-
ately. She said, when Mike comes
home he won't do thing to you!"'
When the judge got through laughing
he let the prisoners off with a repri-
mand. New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
Quite English. You Know.

Now that Great Britain is having
some difficulty in South Africa. the
protective mantle Of the world is, trans
ferred to the back of the American
eagle. The dispatches announce that
the United States cruiser MONTGOMERY
is on visit to Liberia. In connection
with that visit an important step is
under considerat ton. 1t consists of
10 han equest Q Ssssy
GreaC7 Britain MaA
ae boundary beS&& an
claims and that claiH -
course, the movement 80 - u to
the contemplated ell Ehts OF
France upon the little 9Sfic that is.
| the apparent reason given the dear
people. Now for the REAL reason. Hon.
Arthur Ponsonby, managing director
of the Liberian Rubber syndicate, and
British subjects commercially interest
ed in Liberia, think that the republics
progress had better be under the pro-
lection of either the United States or
Great Britain. If any other syndicate
or British commercial interests are
liable to be jeopardized anywhere on
earth, the Mckinley administration
may be relied upon to wave the flag
over them, lest the progress of the ma
ton or plundered people so prosperous
and progressive under the egis OF
trusts and syndicates be retarded The
spectacle of the United States becom-
ing universal robber and cannon ball
civilizer under the leadership of Eng
land, is an alarming spectacle to the
diplomatists of the world, but it is
, painful to the American people who
| have to pay the expenses while the
| syndicates pocket the spoils.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18

Kansas CITY STAR: AS an evidence of
genuine good faith, Mr.. Mckinley
should express the wish that Sena-
tor llama shall keep his hand
out of the next convention.
This would set the public mind
completely at rest regarding the
thorough political regeneration of the
president and might convince even his
enemies that his feet had been taken
from the mire and clay and placed
upon the rock of ages.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-18
Danger to Popular covernms,+

indianapolis Press: The great dan
ger to popular government lies in the
neglect by law-respecting men of the
peaceful but potent duties of citizen
ship at the ballot box and the resort
to illegal, although apparently neces-
sary, force when evil imperils the gov
eminent. The danger comes of meek
and shameful submission to the man
dates of the party plunderers and
political oligarchy.