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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-07
BY c. IL. Oliver, Auctsoncer.
BY Augustine Royal & Co.
ReaI Estate Agents ard Auctionecrs,
Office Leader Building.
Manchester Va.

A UCTIoN SALE OF HORSES. COWS,
n HOGS, HARNESS. WAGONS: BlG-
CT MOVING MACHINE. HOUSE
HOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE,
SC. on 900
AT II O'CLOCK y. NJ. on THE EAEAi
KNOWN AS "CEDERS.,' IN CHEST Is-
FIELD COUNTY, ABOUT II MILES
FROM MANCHESTER, WHERE THE.
BUCKINGHAM ROAD CROSSES TIE
SOUTHERN RAILROAD. AND ONE
NILE WEST CT MIDLOTHIAN.-At the
request of Mr.. f. l.. Court. We vii! offer
for sale. on the day. hour ard place
named above without limit or reserve. )
Horses. Cows Hogs. Wagons. Buggy
Saddle Harness (botii single ans: double).
Moving Machine, Woods Sulky R2!te,
Harrows, Plows. Cultivators and other
Farming implements. Platform Scales.
Scoops, Chickens, Hay, Household and
Kitchen Furniture. and many other
things too numerous to mention
Ali Of this property is very near new.
having only been in use since june last
All parties desiring 10 purchase such
property will do well to attend this sale.
Parties desiring to attend this sale
from Manchester can leave on the d
o'clock train ct the Southern depot.
TERMS: Cash.
AUGUSTINE ROYAL & CO,
ron Auctioneers.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-07
DIVIDENDS.
.fEErINGs.

MEETINGS
->y-.---~------s y ~
Office of the
sec Coast fine r f. Co.
Wilmington, \. G.. Oct. 20 lgs:
TIE x,NST.lL MEETING OF THE
stoeslaoIers Of The ArlaP s co e1as. L ,s
railroad ,on'pann sIl q i9 hf Ril,,no rns
"a on MONDAY. the 10Th day OF 40
,s,ohar \. D. 1860. ar L. o'clock NJ
JAMES r POST.
Secretary
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-07

,yI1-aI. MEETING OF sTocKHoLp
ERS.-rhe regular annual meeting OF
The Stockholders OF The Richmond
fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
Company will be held on SioSbAi. 20.
4. A.. at the conpany.s office. in the
city OF Richmond. Va.
80 J. B. WINSTON, Secretary
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Moderated.

4 ssou,d ne ..nous devoted serraa, for
every. he piessS:e.J
That sounds 81 dash;onea::s laughed
size.
wei. yp.,s. devoted help. them, es-
csasnsA the ,outh.--Detro.t Jonrnai.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-07

WANTED. IRON SAFE, SIZE 81
inches or larger, with inside doors. Ap-
ply to Leader.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-07

FOR SALE,
sEAIEI,I, EnYoSALs.

Z. S. ENGINEER OFFICE. Ho5t: T..
Main St. Richmond. Va. Oct. 10. 1850;
SEALED proposals for constructing shore
protection of jamestown ls!aEd, a.
will be received here Unit! l. NJ. Ny o. :
0. 400. and then publicly oIansl; IN =,
S ~ Yonee. Asst. Ensr. CHAS. j.
ALLEN. Lieut.-Col-. Engrs-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-07

In the c.ark'z office Of the Circuit Court
of the county of Hsnrico: .
j. r Mor!cn- .F!ainti'
Mor;er. ct ais..--.----.--.--..D Defendants,
I. =. E. BroadduS, clerk Of the said
court, do certify that the 0o2d required
OF the Special Commissioners by the de-
ccse rendered in snid cause. on the 1ltil
day Of October. 1898. has been duly given.
Gwen under my hand. clerk Of the
said court, this 18Th day OF Octoner, 1895
j. E. BROADDUS. Clerk
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-07

THE BoER WAR-I.ATEsT AND BEST
History. giving all the causes leading up
to the present conflict. Easy 10 sell:
everybody wants Z. Liberal terms TO
agents. Experience no. necessary IN
vestigate our plan. Dept. NJ. SOUTH
ERN PUBLISHING COMPANY, At
lanta. Ga.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
Push the Calves Ahead.

The calf makes the COW. II good
COWS are desired or stock is to be i'm
proved, it is through the calves that
it may be done most effectively and
cheaply. The spring calves should
not be confined to pasture, and this
generally poor, but should be fed
with unstinted generosity. The rule
should be to feed calves with the
greatest hberality with the best food,
and to push them ahead the first year
of their life and never relax the gen.
erous treatment till the old COW gives
up business. The animal is the ma
chine through which the food is
changed from q cheap material to
much more valuable one.
Thus the milk feeding should be
, continued TO the age of five or six
, n2onths, some dairymen say all
through the cows life, and doubtless
this is true, for why should not the
food that makes a good COW be still
employed TO maintain her? 1t has
been proved by practice in many
dairies that the skinned milk makes
fifty per cent. more return when fed to
COWS than by any other way of disposal.
But 1t is certainly good for the calves,
tending to give them a good, strong
frame, a well-developed digestive
function, ability to dispose of much
food to advantage and well-developed
vital organs, thus building up an ami
NAL fully supplied with every facility
for making profit for her owner in her
after life. But with the milk gen
erous allowance Of grain food must
be given.-Henry Stewart, il New
England Homestead.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
Moisture In the Soil.

The finer the soil the more moisture
it is capable of absor bling and retain
ing. Moisture cannot and does not
penetrate into heavy, tenacious soils,
and when clods in such soils are not
pulverized and become dry they re-
tain their dryness in the centre dur
ing the entire summer. When land
is made fine and free from clods the
water does not so readily flow back to
the surface, nor is it so rapidly dried
up during the season, but is delivered
to the surface in proper proportions.
The moisture which is inclosed in the
interstices of the soil and which &C
cumulates in large quantity when
land has been plowed in the fall ex-
pands and contracts during the win.
ter, according to the temperature and
many of the coarse portions are pull
verified; but in spring, should the
blowing of field composed of heavy
soil be performed and the work fol-
lowed by dry weather, even the har-
row will sometimes fail to reduce it.
Flowing and narrowing must, there
IOre, DC uOHe at proper elutS, duu eAo
judgment of the farmer must be exer-
cised to guide him. The condition of
field should be similar to that re-
quired for a gardes With a small
garden, where tbs spade and rake are
used, care is taken to make the soil as
fine as possible. A field should be
considered as garden on larger
scale. 1t requires more labor on a
garden plot than for a field, but the gar
den produces twice as much in pro-
portion to area as the field. Labor
bestowed on a field, so far as the
preparation of the soil is concerned,
will be amply repaid in the gain of
yield in the crop. The soil always
responds to good treatment-a fact
which at QUE time gave rise to the
claim that a well-cultivated soil re-
1uired no manure, which claim, how
ever, is not correct; but cultivation
without doubt largely increases the
yield.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

on the 18th of May, 1881, George
Remington, brother of Peter Hem
ington of Galesburg. Mich, enlisted in
the regular army and disappeared. Per
sistent inquiry failed to discover his
Whereabouts, the only fact to be ascer-
tanned being that of his discharge nor
disability soon after his enlistment.
Three months since Peter was in Kali
amazoo, where by chance he took in an
exhibition of which a monograph form
ed a part. Among other features was
q fragment from the play, THE Three
Guardsmen,' during the rendering of
which one of the characters developed
a peculiar and scarcely Noticeable stam-
mer. Upon the request of Mr.. Hem
ington this part was repeated, and that
gentleman became convinced that it
was the voice of his long absent broth
er, who had precisely similar impede
ment in his speech. Since the above
occurrence the clue has been persistent
ly followed, and few days ago the two
brothers were reunited after nineteen
years.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

Brooder chicks should have little
yard at first, which should be enlarged
as they grow, but care should be used
to have no corners where they can
congregate in case of a shower or at
bedtime instead of going into the
brooder.
find it best to feed brooder chicks
four times day, with extra relishes
thrown in. AT each feed give only as
much as will be eaten before the next
feeding time. To provide exercise by
scratching, there is no better grain
for them than millet seed. For the
main part of their rations, make a
bread as follows; To three cups of
sour milk or buttermilk, add one heap
ing teaspoonful of s&leratus. q little
salt and cayenne pepper; stir into this
equal parts of corn meal, heavy shorts
and bran till it is a stiff dough. Bake
d in deep dish so that there will be
al small a proportion of crust as pos
sible. Keep in a cool, moist place, as
it soon sours in warm weather and is
then unfit TO feed to chicks. Animal
food in some form must be supplied,
else some of the chicks will pull the
down from others and eat it.
They should have charcoal occa-
sionally, coarse sand or rock, pounded
quite fine, and plenty of green stuff.
Lettuce, young cabbage plants, tender
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
ChiIdren's Cravings for Sweet Things.

Children have Il natural craving for
sweet things, and the sugar of milk,
which makes up from four to six per
cent. Of it, forms an important part Of
baby's first nutriment, taking the place
of starch until the chllds stomach is
able to assimilate it; so that a two
year-old child drinking two quarts of
milk day, consumes in this way, about
three ounces of sugar. Owing to Its
ease of digestion, and the fact that it
supplies heat and energy to the body,
sugar would seem to be u natural food
for children and is more acceptable to
most children than fat, which usually
supplies heat and energy to adults, The
question whether the use of too much
sugar by children does not pervert their
tastes from less highlyfavored and nu-
tritious foods has to be considered.
A lump of sugar contains as much
nutrition as an ounce of potato and is
far more easily assimilated. In times
of great eXertion, as are likely to oc-
cur in army life, this feature is par
ticularly valuable. In warm countries
sugar takes the place of fat, and either
sugar or sweet fruits, as dates, figs,
etc, are eaten in large quantities in
tropical climates. AS a source of mus
cular enegry sugar is rapidly becoming
recognized, so that training diets are
sometimes made to include large guam
titles of it, as, for instance in the row
ing clubs of Holland.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
AGRICULTURAL.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


The small whitish insects which
suck the life ont of rose leaves are
rose hoppsrs, which are frequently
found on the lower side of the leaves.
It is said that if attended to before
they are fully developed they can be
easily destroyed by busting the in
tested plants with slug shot. When
fully grown they are very persistent,
and several applications have to be
made in order to kill them, and even
then absolute radiance is doubtful.
Aphides propagate so quickly, and
and in numbers so marvelously great,
it requires close attention to keep
plants moderately free from them.
The secret is to begin at first sight of
them, or perhaps before they arrive.
for there are very few plants that are
not attacked before the season ad-
vances very far.-Meehan's Monthly.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

feet long, and fashion the forward end
of each in the shape of sleigh runner.
Then take 2x4 the same length as
the boards, and bevel the edges in such
a way that when the boards are nailed
on they will spread out at the bottom
until they are about eight inches apart.
This trough is to pass, inverted, over
the corn row, between the shovels of
the cultivator; its sloping sides catch
ing the loose soil and leaving it lying
loosely next the corn, but never on it.
To fasten this trough to the cultivator,
bore an inch hole through the sides
near the front end and just beneath
the top 2x4. Through these run o
small, strong rope and tie each end to
the cultivator in such way that the
trough will be kept little in advance
of the shovels. It is best to leave
the rope play loosely through the
trough, as it would otherwise upset in
turning at the end of the rows. The
illustration shows the construction
exactly. Make your handy devices
now, before the busy time comes
Jim I. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

moving the grain from the trough
should you choose to do so. This,
however, is seldom done. The bot
tom of the feeder is built high in the
middle and slopes to the feed trough
on either side. The roof projects 9
little over the sides and measures
about fourteen feet from cave to cave.
A door or cover is provided at either
side for the feed trough. If one has
cows in lot at night, but wishes
calves to grain from the feeder during
the day, he can simply drop the lid
when the COWS are in the lot and raise
it on turning them out. Calves can
then eat oats OF shelled corn or what
ever you may have in the feeder for
them. Cut the rafters for the floor
out of fourteen foot 2x4's, making
them each 81 feet long; thirty-six
rafters of this sort will be needed for
the bottom of the drop on the sides.
After the feeder is sided up with
shiplap or flooring, the roof of 1x3
sheeting is put on, which is after
ward covered with shingles. 1t is a
good idea to put several braces across
the feeder from cave to cave. Bolt
those to the 2x4's. Strength will be
given to the structure by running a
half-lnch rod the length OF the feeder
and making fast just below the grain
doors. The feeder is about sixteen
feet long, and has capacity of about
1000 bushels Of corn. Total cost, in
Guiding lumber, labor and hardware,
will be about $50 or 500 From fifty
to sixty cattle can be fed at ono of
these feeders. Have slides in the
troughs so the amount of grain can
be adjusted to the kind of feed.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

A correspondent of the Breeders
Gazette describes self feeder sue
cessfully used on his farm. The
frame work ls all bolted together, as
nails will not withstand the strain
pulling the feeder from one field to
another. The runners are made of
heavy 3x10 oak planks, each sixteen
feet long and placed g. feet apart.
The runners are rounded at both
ends so that it can be pulled either
way. Nine 2x4 ioists, each nine feet
long, are bolted onto the runners,
about two feet apart. These joists
are then fastened together by 2x6
ioists, which project over the runners
far enough to support the feed trough.
The trough is built about the width
of q scoop. This permits of easily re-
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

The King of Spain will visit Paris
the guest of the French Government.
Maior-G General o. o. Howard has
been elected president of the Congre-
gational Home Missionary Society.
WI Tung Fang, the Chinese Minis
ter at Washington, prefers the bicy-
Gle to any other means of getting
about.
Sir Thomas Upton has joined the
Royal Cork Yacht Club and says he
will challenge for the Americas Cup
under it's auspices.
Fearing assassination in Eastern
s. via, King Alexandria has given up
his proposed tour of Cancellation
throughout that country.
Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay
will spend the summer at their coun-
try place on the shores of Lake Su-
| napee New Hampshire. - g~>v
Senator Wolcott has introduced a
new fashiori>in dress. His waistcoats,
shirts, collars and ties are made of the
same material and pattern.
General Cronje and his wife appear
to be conducted at st. Helena. Che
Geuerdl silluSeS HlHuSelI by IldylUS
quoits, and his wife with laundry
work.
President Mckinley has accepted IN
invitation to attend the reunion and
banquet of the Iron Brigade of the
Army of the Potomac" to be held in
Chicago, August u.
General Roberts has made several
engagements for himself in London
during September, and has ordered
his town house to be ready for him
on the first day of the month.
Richard Yates, the Republican NOM
inee for Governor of Illinois, is a man
of considerable literary tastes, and for
several years has been collecting q
library of rare books, until now he
owns one of the best in that State.
Northumberland Nelson a. Miles
is the seventh officer of the Army to
hold that rank. his predecessors being
Washington, Scott, Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan and Schofeld, the last
named now being on the retired list
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

clover heads, are all excellent, but
they should have two or three feeds
of this day, for they soon tramp on
and spoil what they do not eat. Mil
let seed, wheat, cracked corn are good
for dry feed and should be scattered
about the runs for them to pick at.
The first thing as soon as it is light
in the morning, feed the chickens.
The last thing before going to bed at
night take lantern and look at the
thermometer in the brooder, for as
the outside air grows cooler after sun
set the temperature i'll the brooder
will declines e. Cadwallader in
American Agriculturist.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

fought and bIed with the Texas Rang
ers, and the Confederate cause is part
Of his religion, for he is now preacher.
He sang q song, part of which ives
Dixie" and the other part Onward,
Christian Soldiers" and it had re-
frain about eight on, my soul; Meier
think the victory won, Nor lay thine
armor down"
At Tallahoma he spied some beauti-
full strawberries and bought whole
crate of thirtysix baskets, and his
good, patriotic wife distributed them
to the veterans in our car. There
were just thirty-six of us, and we had
whole basket for each. All along
the line in Tennessee pretty girls came
to the doors of their homes and
cheered US, and waved little Confeder-
ate flags. I could not hear all the good
stories the boys were telling as we
speeded along, but scraps came to my
eager ears-scraps about old Joe john
ston and Chickamauga and Murfrees-
boro, and Franklin, and Hood, and
Longstreet-I think we whipped 'em
everywhere, from the way the boys
talked about it.
But it would take book to narrate
the stories of the boys, for it is fact
that the experience of most any
veteran would fill book full of inter-
esting reading. Some of it would be
thrilling, some sad, some amusing,
and all interesting. The campfire
stories of the civil war will never be
written. Ten thousand books could
not contain them, but at these re-
unions many of them are told, and
the boys find willing listeners. These
reunions are preservers of history and
of heroism. They impress the north
with feeling OF respect and reverence
| for our earnestness and our abiding
faith in the justice of our cause.
There is no weakening, no surrender
ing of principle; we still say to the
northern soldier, "You thought you
were right, and we forgive you, but
| you musent do SO any more"
The venerable and venerated Or.
Palmer delivered grand address that
should be read and pondered by the
| yOulA vi uuO SOuUI. LIZ Lao CAhadooOeA
the argument and no answer can be
made to it. Louisville is oil ablaze
with Confederate emblems and Con-
federate glory, and the city is ours.
But 1 can't see the end of this great
reunion. Comrades have nearly shaken
my arm off already, and the boys have
trodden on my sore tore q hundred
times. Ny evening maps are broken
up, and my garden needs looking af-
ter. for I am the boy-the only boy
and l know that my little pets are
moaning for me. And more than al
this, tomorrow is my wife's birthday
and, as Cowper wrote of John Gilpin,
Tomorrow is her birthday,
And how the folks would stare
If she should dine at Gainesville
And 1 should not be there"
BILL ARP, in Atlanta Constitution
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

The dealers in automobiles seem tc
have overlooked a useful point in not
advertising more copiously the special
adaptability of their machines for
Sunday use. The great objection Of
the more scrupulous Sabbath keepers
to permitting folks to take their car
riages out on Sunday has been that it
makes too much work for servants and
horses. This is fairly sound objec-
ton, for the desire to make Sunday,
as far as possible, day Of rest for all
hands has great deal to recommend
it. But an automobile, especially the
sort that the owner himself guides,
need make hardly any Sunday work
in the stable, states E. S. Martin. in
Harper's Weekly. At pinch it can
even stand unwashed until Monday
morning. Neither coachman nor
groom is needed to take it out, or even
wait at home until it comes back. 1t
is the ideal Sunday vehicle, beating
even the bicycle, since its use is neither
80 laborious as to impair due Sunday
rest nor incompatible with Sunday
clothes.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

"Madge said she would marry me If
Maud went to Paris" 49,
whats the idea?"
"Weu. she said she would then be
prepared to cope with Maud when she
came home Dragging about her ZIP"
Chicago Record.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
Revealed.

Old Friend-Say. It looks to me as
IL you were putting on lot of extra
dignity eli late.
Recently Enriched Person-You are
badly mistaken. l am not in position
to allow my inherent and native dig
nifty to come to the surface.-In-
dianapolis Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
Preserving His Dignity.

Freshie-Notice how the professor
has taken to quoting slang once in
while | don't think that dignitied.
Senior-If YOUR powers of observa-
ton were little better cultivated you
would also have noticed that he always
quotes it wrong indianapolis Press
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
More Like Them.

Some time after the new chaplain in
a lunatic asylum had entered upon his
duties one of ,-.e inmates came up to
him and said, Il like you better than
the other one"
"Why?"
because you are more like u.s." ans
wered the lunatic.-f it-Bits.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21

In cnltivating corn when it is small
it requires the greatest care not to
cover up or roll hard Jumps of dirt on
the tender sprouts. The shields that
come with cultivators are very uncer-
tain and unsatisfactory in their work.
For several years we have tried this
trough and find it most satisfactory
device. Take two hardwood inch
boards, eight inches wide and about five
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
Good Mans Gratitude.

Billyuns-Do you find that it pays
to hire a physician by the year?
Rockingham-We it paid me last
year, all right. Our doctor has kept
my wife's mother in California for her
health during the past fifteen months.
and I'm seriously thinking Of raising
his salary Chicago Times Herald.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
A Testimonial.

Prospective Boarder-You set good
table, | suppose?
Landlady-Well, | should say So
Why. only last week one of my board
ers died of govt.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
Insect the cubans Respect.

The one insect for which the Cubans
have wholesome respect is the cent?
pede. He is called by them "cien
pies"- hundred feet. The centipedes
grow to great size, one naturalist
having captured several specimens
eight inches long.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
First EYperience,

MIR. Bowser-Hulda, how do look in
this evening dress?
Mrs. Bowser-Why, Daniel, you look
Just splendid.
Mr.. Bowser-I ought to. Hulda.
don't think | ever was more uncom-
Portable in my hfe.-Boston Transcript.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
Real FriendIiness.

May-The girls were all crazy to
know whether you are engaged.
Marion-But you didn't tell them, did
you? ~ ~
May-Oh, no. l said that if the time
ever came you wanted to announce it
lrself.-Detroit Free Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-21
First Advice TO the Injured.

Craball docking for free informationl
Suppose l should fall through de-
fettive sidewalk and sprain my ankle.
what would you advise me to do?
Lawyer-Come to me and plank
down $40 as a retainer and then ask
me that question.-Chicago News.