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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

~ Flcnlc ana EXCURSION Parties: Buy
our pure Ice Cream at S100 per gallon, or
let US provide everything-take all the
risk. do all the work and give you half
DKYsbxTE. NO o3 Il Bank and street sais " over
TDEsIRE TO RESPECTFULLY NO
a tify my friends and the public that I
have connected myself with the firm of
Lowe d Miller, CRANKY street. w. II.
GARRISON. formerly with ]. r. Briggs.
ID IANO s1s-GooD MAHOGANY CASE
A piano: Will suit beginners: must sell
to make room for new stock. STIEFF
FACTORY WAREROOMS. &C CRANKY
street. jel9
q 5000 PER MONTH DURING CAM
Man or lady. zIEGLER CO. 2i7 Locust
St, Philadelphia. je2O-sa. su. we-12t
CAn PIANo-vERY NICE PIANO;
eDfNI tone. action all right this piano
was taken In exchange as part payment
where. STIEFF"S, &C CRANKY street.
je19
MADAM SMELL NEWMAN, KNOWN
AVA to the public as Genuine Clairvoy-
ant ant, and Spiritual Medium of renown. is
daily. Her occult powers are marvellous.
0mce and residence PSI CHURCH
STREET. jeI9-3t'
pIANOS SIS AND UPWARD - WE
pianos that have been taken in exchange
as part payment for new Stien Pianos:
about q of them to select from; if you
STIEFF'S. &C CRANKY street. jel9
mt ONEY is CHEAP-ONE HUNDRED
1fl to five hundred dollars to loan at 5
per cent. (straighp per annum upon APP
Building, sdi Main street. jeS-im
T ENNIE b. WILLIAMS & CO. WITH
- La Mode Hair Dressing Parlors. 342
Main street. GRADUATE SPECIALISTS.
antec for RELIEF and CURE Our
Chiropody and Manicure Departments
equal to best in America. Bunions, Corns
1ngrowing and Club Nails removed by
pninless methods. Every instrument
BEAUTIFUL and CoRRECT SHAPED
HANDS and NAILS are the result of our
ARTISTIC MANICURE. Ladies and gen
Yemen, Try US. ma20-1m
UPRIGIT PIANO, sloO : MAGNET
~ cent tone, case in excellent, condi-
months. Original cost $500. Is great
bargain. 1t will pay you to examine be-
ToRY "SAf &C GranSy Ac
je12-tf
DAiRYMEN : SPECIAL LINE OF
Shoppers at Northern prices. a large line
Va lOOiS uuQ mousse furnishing
goods. Write for prices. ]. ]. SPAN
DOFER. 1862 Church street. jcl5-lm
CTsbS UPRIGHT PIANO: FULL,
.D4 ~ iron frame, l-3 octaves: must
be sold TO make room. STIEFFS. &C
CRANKY street. ic19
I'D ROF. HARVEY is AUTHORITY ON
Il all Diseases of Blood, Torpid Liver
Kidney Trouble. Inflammation of the
bladder and other organs. Thick and
Scaldy Water. Private sanitarium. Con-
suit him at his office, 42l Church street
tel5-ly
C n-GOOD. SERVICEABLE PIANO
sD-fOionc, action and case In good con,
dillon. Terms. IS cash and S. per month
CRANKY street. ie121tf
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

Gao PIANO-VERY NICE PIANO;
eDfNF tone. action all right this piano
was taken in exchange as part payment
for Stieff Piano: see 1t before buying else
where. STIEFF"S. &C CRANKY street.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

w ANTED-TO BUY A SECOND
w hand Top Buggy at reasonable
terms for cash. Address A. c., this office.
jel7-3ts
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

NTANTED-TEACHE AND PUPILS
w of other schools to know that the
Southern Shorthand and Business Univer-
silly has no vacation. Special summer
rates Positions secured. Call or address
j. M. RESSLER, President. jcl7-tf
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

M ANTED-TwO OR THREE-STORY
w building for wholesale business;
condition and location not important.
WELD & POST, old phone 1899. It,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

MADAM SMELL NEWMAN, KNOWN
AVA to the public as u Genuine Clairvoy-
ant and Spiritual Medium of renown. is
sun located in this city. giving readings
Office and residence PSI CHURCH
STREET. jeI9-3t.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

w ANTED : POSITION AS HOUSE
w girl or nurse. Not to stay on prem
ises. Apply $40 Butte street. It,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

D IANOS SIS AND UPWARD - WE
have large number of second hand
pianos that have been taken in exchange
as part payment for new Stieff Pianos:
about % of them to select from; if you
need plano come and look round
STIEFF"S. &C CRANKY street. jel9
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

HPRIGIIT PIANO, sl6O = MAGNIFI
" cent tone, case in excellent condi-
ton. This Piano has been used for 6
bargain. II will pay you to examine be-
fore buying elsewhere. STIEFF'S FAC
ic12-tf
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

w keeper can be secured for two
hours per day; reasonable teams. Ad-
dress "A. this office. it,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

VXJANTED - NICELY FURNISHED
w room, with board. by young mar
rled couple. Not exceeding more than
5000 per month. Address FURNISHED
ROOMS" this office. Ito
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

4 oST-ON CHURCH STREET. Be-
~ tween Star Shoe Store and Holt
street. pocketbook containing money.
etreet car tickets and ticket to Newport
News Reward IL returned to this office.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

XIyANTED-s2.o GOOD SECURITY
w given. Address o." this office.
je20-Sts
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

The contract for the new chesapeake
and Ohio steamer to ply between
Newport News and Norfolk. has not
as yet been awarded. The Trigg
Company has been asked to prepare
estimates on the boat, which will be n
floating palace.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

nj ONEY is CHEAP-ONE HUNDRED
4tI to five hundred dollars to loan at 5
per cent (straighU per annum upon ap-
proved real estate. Business strictly con-
tldential. Apply ROOM NO. 2. Balientine
Building, 3i4 Main street. jeS-Im
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

n-GOOD. SERVICEABLE PIANO
sDfOione. action and case In good con.
dition. Terms. s. cash and S. per month
STlEFFS FACTORY WAREROOMS g.;
CRANKY street. ieI9tf
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

The Atlantic Coast Line is having
plans made for n new four-storv Office
building In Wilmington, 129xS6 feet.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20
PIANOS TUNED.

NORFOLK DYEING. CLEANING
IN and Repairing Co.-Ladies Suits
cleaned: Gents Suits dyed. 500; cleaned
and pressed. 75c.: pants pressed, loc car
pets a speciality. AL Main. New phone 2O1
Old phone 1855
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-20

DAIRYMEN = SPECIAL LINE OF
~ Milk Cans. Bottles, Strainers and
Shoppers at Northern prices. a large line
of mechanics tools and house furnishing
goods. Write for prices. j. ]. SPAN
DOFER, 1862 Church street. jcl5-lm
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29
IN VARIOUS PLACES.

1t is curious fact that the identical
gun-carriage invented by Capt. Percy
Scott, to take the Al gun of her mai
esty's ship Terrible to Ladysmith, was
used again to take it to Tientsin. The
naval pet" silenced Gen. Nieh's big
hrupp gun at the fourth shot
On examining some of the alleged
poisonous bullets brought home by Sin
w. MacCormac, which the Beers were
reported to have used, it was found
that the charge was totally untrue
The green coating complained of was
not verdigris, but comparatively
harmless product OF the reaction OF
the metallic casing of the cartridge
upon wax coating used to prevent
damp and rust.
A much-needed reform has been &C.
eomplished in ST. Louis. Heretofore
the streets have been covered in sum.
mer with mud, caused by a too-gen.
erous sprI king service. A measure
has been passed by the city council
requiring that sprinkling shall be per.
formed by a perforate~. pipe device
while sprinkling cars will make but
two trips a day instead of delugine
the streets four times oaily.
Horsemen have discovered that
while the bicycle and trolley car, as
we'll as the automobile, have decreased
the demand for horses, it is only fol
the common grades; fine bred ami.
mails are still bringing lie usual high
prices. This means that the common
variety of horses is doomed to extinc.
ton. 1t will not pay to raise horses
to sell at ten dollars head, and con
fequently they will not be raised. An.
other feature is that the fine bred
horses will increase in number until
they can be sold at reasonable figures
Mr.. r. f. Foster, of Oxford univer.
sity, scored 100 or over in both in.
nings of the recent cricket match be.
tween Gentlemen and Players, being
the first time that the feat has beer
accomplished in that match. He had
previously scored two centuries in one
match this year, and the repetition
OF the feat in one year in first-class
cricket is a record for England. Last
year he also made two centuries in
successive lnnings--so that at % and
In two years play he has three double
centuries to his credit, a record ap-
preached only by DR.. w. G. Grace
who has also made centuries in both
innings three times, but in a cricket
career covering 20 years.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29

ing houses. Some of the more venture
some and reckless wander through the
crowded streets in their bathing cos
TUNES. In the high blare of the after
noon sun saw young woman sitting
in front of one of the free shows and
beer halls in short flannel skirt drip
ping with sea water. Her arms were
bare and one OF her stockings had been
removed. Later on, when the sputter-
ing electric lights made bright the
streets, when the concert halls emitted
the dismal croakings of the so-called
singers and the uncanny poundings of
pianos which sounded like the beatinos
OF tom-toms of savage races-then the
thousands and thousands who had been
arriving since early morning choked
up these alleyways known as streets
and reyeled in a madness of folly to
which the Saturnalian feasts of Rome
would seem tame, iistless and inane.
Shocked You can hear the Sabbath
bells telling in the City of Churches
Across the big bridge are societies for
the suppression of vice, for the propa-
CATION of higher state of morals
among the heather OF China, whose in.
habitants have hden very busy, of late
numbering missionaries There are so;
cieties for the, prevention of cruelty to
animals, There are organizations, to
raise fundstto send Bibles 10 the shirt.
less Senegpaless,s but here ipo Grester
New1 York they arg dancing the
couchee-couchee.-Th They have let down
ths bars aof,:epmmon;G eceney; and ,de-
greded msn and shameless women are
teggeT1ng, through the spiqnitpus
strsets Of q licensed sinkhole of iieen,
ueosness, beer7Soaked and mora,
And yet Cohey 'isls1d' is a srsi1
pleasure ground for the common peo-
pie. In the daytime it Is not so bad.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29
FITZ KNOCKED THEM OUT.

average number OF rounds to a knecl
out. four.)
1s90-Billy Mccarthy in nine
rounds, Arthur Upham in five rounds
1s91-Jack Dempsey in 10 rounds
Abe Cenkle in two rounds, Black
Pearl in four rounds.
1ss2-Peter Maher. in IL rounds,
James Farrell in two rounds, Joe God.
frey in one round, Jerry Slattery in
two rounds. Willard Gender in one
round.
1S93-Jim Hall in four rounds, Phil
Mayo in two rounds. Warner in one
round, Jack Hickey in three rounds.
1s94-Frank zeller in two rounds,
Dan Creedon in two rounds.
1s95-Al Allish in three rounds.
1s96-Peter Maher in one round.
1s97-James j. Corbett in IA rounds.
1S99-Jeff Thorn in one round.
190o-Ed Dunkhorst in one round.
Gus Rubin in six rounds. Tom
Sharkey in two rounds. Total knock
outs, g.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29

and duck trousers that smack of the
pickle boat, with here and there mem
Der of the clubs whose garments have
been scissored on Fifth avenue; an in
cessant yowling-hoarse and horrible
from the rum-lined Threats of the
bankers to cateh-penny side shows; a
whirring of merry-go-rounds and noisy
carrousels with the booming of auto
matte bass drums and the tinklinp
brass and cimbals; a beaehful of ADAM
doned bathers in legless breeches, short
skirts and rainbow stockings; an odor
OF fried sea food and a dash of ocean
breeze-that's Coney Island.
IL you are sensitive, don't go there
on Sunday. But if you want to see
lfe-iife from the lower east side; from
Mulberry Bend and the avenues along
the East river; il you want to see the
factory girl in all her glory and the
young woman who calls "cashi" for
six days in the week from behind a
counter in one of the cheap depart
ment stores; if you want to see the
Bowery boy on an outing, with a sprin-
King of uptown folk, who wander over
from Manhattan and Brighton beaches
put your prayerbook gently away
and study from the original the noblest
work Of God having good time for
himself.
One hundred and twenty-five thou
sand people is quite bunch of human
ity to bring together in one place, but
that number is only an average July
and August attendance at Coney Island.
They go there by boats, by steam cars
and trolleys. BY three o'clock Sun
day afternoon the beach is lined with
them They dive and swim and cut
capers in the sea. They bury them
selves in the sand. They dig wells and
stroll up and down in front of the bath
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29
MADE SOME QUEER wAGERs

HarmoR, at the Stanwix hotel, in
Detroit, several years ago, bet he could
hold his head submerged in a bath
tub for 125 seconds without taking arr.
He won.
A chap named Curtis, in Berkshire
county, Mass, for a wager of horse.
ran five miles in Al minutes. and
wound up the race with Jump of
IL feet inches
An Englishman named Head won
$1,000 by walking 600 miles in ten
days, but the exertion so used him
up that he never walked much after
ward, either en- wagers OF otherwise
n. y. Telegraph.
In Philadelphia some years ago a
gentleman made a wager of 500 that
be could jump into water eight feet
deep and ,undress himself complete.
Anyone who has ever made the at
tempt to remove his clothing after be-
ing thoroughly drenched to the skin,
even when standing on terra irma.
with plenty of room to shop around
ion one Lee , viii at once realize the
difficulty, of accomplishing 4 the feat
while in the water. However, Il was
done In the instance noted.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29
WORSE THAN SODOM.
Coney Island, the Most DEPRIVED
Spot in All America.
sodden Revelerx and Hardened sIum-
mers Rub Elbows with Hard
Working Laboring Men and
Decent Shop Girls.
Especial New York letter.

Il SWELTERING summer sun;
IA long rows of low frame shan
ties; broad plank walks extend
ing across the street from side to side;
Jostling crowds of men and women,
red faced and hot, but smiling-the
women attired in all the varying
grades of the modes, from the loud,
gaudy colors of the vulgar to the mod
est shades of the refined-red, yellow
and purple, soft white and blending
tints; the men dressed in the cheap
outing suits of upper Broadway tai
lors, in flannels that shrink and wax
smaller at the mere hint of a shower,
In blue coats, green shirts, orange ties
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29
WHAT UNCLE EB. SAYS.

From Eden Holden" by Irving Bachelor.
When some folks call We a fool S
ruther good sign We amt.
Eff BALKAN s ass he'd been rode by
woman he'd never - said word
wouldn't hev he'd a chance.
Fact is a man he can be emmy kim
NV beast, out panther he can't
be nuthin' but jest n panther.
Folks like fun. 1 kim o. b'lieve eft
when Gods gin thing e everybody
he thinks purity middlin' we'll NV it.
Never lied N a boss trade err ketched
fish bigger'n twas, err swore less
twas ne'sary, er cheated anybody but
Eben Holden.
Kind o. resky business buyin' hosses
Got t jedge the owner as well as the
boss. If there's any thing the matter
with his conscience it'll come out in
the hoss somewhere-every time. New
err knew a mean man e own n good
boss. s lame soul tibet drives q
limpin' boss.
Nsbodyll die in Heaven less he'd
oughter. To my way o. thinlSin' i'll
be a good deal IKE Dave Brewers
farm-nice, smooth land n hills n val
leys m wheat n corn n white clover
plenty. Folks sayin' ''how d'y dew
std o. ''good-by," comm std o. goin'.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29
THE WINSTON BABY.
Saved from Terrible Fate by Its
Sensible Grandparents.
The old Folks Didn't Believe i'm the
New Book Science of Rearing
Children and Knocked Dat
Lot of silly Rules.

The Winston baby is being brought
up according TO the newest ideas in
child study. Mrs. Winston is young
but firm, and she says that her child
is to have all the advantages of the
new science. The baby has been bathed.
,ed and put to sleep on schedule time.
No friends have been allowed to kiss
or fon6ie it, says the Chicago News,
and the plan was working beautifully
until Mrs. Winston's father and moth
er came to visit her.
The visit was paid primarily to see
the new grandchild. As soon as they
entered the house Mr.. and Mrs. Cud-
bright demanded the baby. Mrs. Win
ston raised her eyebrows. Baby is
just being fed" she said "You must
wait until $3.50"
Her father had heard of her system,
but he laughed and said: "Oh. break
through the rules for once and bring
her down.
IF you don't, I'll go over the house
till find her." the grandmother said,
firmly. Winston smiled
SO the baby was brought down to see
them, although this was a direct in
fraction of rule 16. It is a beautiful
baby, and its grandparents started
toward. il with cries of rapture.
100 little sweet Tootsey-tome to
oor grammuvver," said Mrs. Cudbripht.
I'VE don't talk baby talk-it is
against rule a." Mrs. Winston said
TT is irrational to expect child to
learn TO speak correctly when you talk
gibberish to it,"
Meanwhile the grandfather had
taken the baby from the reluctant
arms OF the nurse. Mrs. Winston turned
TO him. Father, / don't allow any
body but the nurse and myself to hold
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29

baby. 1t makes him nervous and IL 4.
against rule 81
She attempted to take the baby from
his hold, but he resisted. "Oh, see here.
Laura, your mother and 1 raised eight
\ children, and / guess L know how to
bold baby at my time of hfe.- He
scked the baby into the crotch of his
srm and walked away. singing Rocked
IN the Cradle of the Deep"
His daughter followed him. Father.
" will not allow you to walk the floor
: with the child. We have never done il.
1t is against rule Z, and singing to it is
against rule 10. What will become of
our regimen if you act this way?"
"oh, blank your regimen, Laura"
Mrs. Cudbrigkt interfered. Now.
don't get mad" she said. Laura has a
right to bring up her own child in her
own way. Now you give me that child
and I'll sit down on the sofa with it,"
That's against rule 1885," her hus-
band replied, grimly, but he handed
over the baby. Mrs. Cudbright had
hardly closed her arms about it before
she said: why, the child is getting
the collie; Father, you go to my little
satchel and get the peppermint bottle
and run into the kitchen and get a
mite of hot water and sugar"
Her daughter had been talking in
the alcoye with her husband, but now
she returned at the word peppermint
why, Mother Cudbright, would you
give that baby peppermint?"
OF course" the grandmother said,
trotting the baby or her knee. "Yos
drank quarts of it before you were
year Old
Mr. Cudbright was delving in the
emall satchel. ''Why, here's pare.
bric-that's better yet" he said
ringing out a bottle.
You shan't give the baby thatl"
Mrs. Winston cried. "And. mother. it's
galnst rule 81 to trot her on your
Knee The nurse viii take her rp.
stairs. It's better to have little collie
8than to give her drugs. never do it :"
Mrs. Cudbright Strengthened up and
&Mr. Cudbright set the paregoric bottT
Town on marquetry table. Laura"
she said, you're the most inhuman-"
q Father! Father!" Mrs. Cudbrieht
put in. Mr.. Winston looked expectant.
You are the most inhuman and nm.
natural mother l ever knew. Yout
mother and raised eight chiidrenZ
and you were one of them--and theV
all turned out well but you. d Now II,
men, your mother aren't going, to be,
allowed TO look at that child or tooetu
her for fear we'll break rule "a, es4
we're going to leave Chicago on tho
next train. Even grandparents hav,
some rights f4 rEu4Tlp 81 ttf
Mrs. Winston broke down and wept
She said that if-herfa Their and nothe,
would only stay she would suspend
the rules until their departure.
Winston tgaveO his father-in-law
cisncs Of the most poignant gratitude
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29

On the beach one may see thousands OF
merry eathers. They have come out for
good time and they evidently have il.
All seem to be in the best of good ma
ture. An evidence OF this was shown
on the day that was there. Sudden
ly, within view of the 10000 persons
who lined the beach, the life saving
corps rushed to their boat at the wa
ter's edge, carrying a middle-aged man.
well dressed. He struggled and kicked
and shouted but to no avail. Thew
placed him in the boat and rowed out a
distance of $50 feet or so. There they
began to rock the boat until he fell
into the water. They allowed him to
go down twice and then started with
him toward the, shore. About so feet
further they threw him overheard
again, and for the third time gave him
ducking when 25 feet from land.
When the crowds saw the mans ap-
pearance they cried: ''Outrape: Out
rage!" thinking he had been "ducked"
for mere wantonness, but when the
life savers explained that ne had been
caught playing "Peeping Tom" at the
womep's dressing-rooms they hooted
him off the beach.
If you enter Coney Island from one
of the trolley lines your first impress
sion is that you are in a country town
during county fair week The build
ings are close together and are one and
two-story frames. Surf street, which is
the most respectable thoroughfare in
the place, extends along the entire
front of the resort and is lined with
Ngo-rounds, restaurants, soda wa
ter, lemonade and peanut stands, with
one or two German beer gardens and
few saloons. Running to the sea are
numerous cross streets, the most inn
portant of which is called the Bow
cry" There are all kinds of fakes
at Coney Island, but the ''Bowery" con-
tains every fake" known to man, and
the guileless stranger who has yearn-
ing for the glitter of gold bricks and a
laundering to hear the clatter of the
shells may be satiated to his hearts
content. Why, on this street the un-
sophisticated may wander from end
to end with gaping mouth and staring
eyes. he will gaze with awe-struck
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-29
BewAr OF 0intments for Catsrrh tb al
Contain Mercury,


as mercury, will surely destroy the
sense Of smell and com pietely ders nre
the whole system when entering il
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles khould never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable physi
clans, ss the damage they will 20 i.
ten fold TO the good you can pos IDLY
derive from them Halls Catnrrn
Cure, manufacs ured 10y f. ). Cheney
& Cc f"iedo, o., contains no mercu-
ry' and is takan internally, actIng di.
reetiy upon the blood and mucous SUE
faces OF the system In buying Halps
Osiarrh Cure be sure you get the gen.
uine, 1t is taken Internally aud il
made in Toledo Ohio. by r. J. Cheney
d Co. Testimonals tree.
E~ Sold by Druggists, prise 75c.
per bottle.
"pU's Family ri il are the t~-.