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explain how I could have gone abroad
veling."-Washington star.
To Enaland's Deaf Quee'

-
To Enaland's Dea Queen.
Colossal woman of an epoch past,
Your long eventful lgrimage IS done
Yet shall the influence of your goodness
last
When later centuries their course have
run.
Imperial, not imperious, was your sway
More than an Empress, greater tnan a
Queen.
The watchful world beheld in you Away
A virtuous woman of sbenignant men,
Peace was your purpose, progress was
your aim,
Fair justice was your large souls hon
ored guest.
When War, relentless and resistless, came
The tender heart brake in your woman S
breast.
No imp d,2 lust for power defied your
Concerned with but the ultimate good
Of earth,
Because you lived, shall unborn rulers
A nobler meaning in imperial birth.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in New YORK
Journal.
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AFTER MATH.

A London special says that President
McKinleys wreath for the Queen is one
of the finest received. 1t is described as a
simple wreath, eight feet in diameter and
two feet wide, all white. 1t is composed
CT lilies of the valley, white roses, came
las, lilacs and Arum lilies, which We're
especially selected because of their giGan-
tic proportions. Covering one side Is a
ma gnilicent spray of orchids. Depending
from the wreath is a broad silk ribbon
inscribed in silver lettering, From the
President of the United States 1t took
six workmen two days TO make the
wreath
"A Chicago special to the New York
Times lays that negotiations for the 81
gantic consolidate of the important
steel interests of the country are we'll
advanced and practically settled. The
Understanding is that the deal includes
Carnegie, and takes in all the big steel
companies.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna and his brothers
and sisters have presented to the Day
Kindergarten Association, of Cleveland,
the sum of $4,000. to be used in the fur
tllerance of the educational work among
the poor CNlIQrSn OF THIS CITY. JOtl II.
Rockefeller, tho Standard Oil magnate.
also sent the association his check for
SLIGO for the same purpose
The Peabody Institute, of Peabody,
Mass, owns "a picture Of the late Queen
Victoria which she gave to George Pea
body in recognition of his great phlan-
thropy. 1t is a half length miniature
framed in gold. is valued at s50,GG0. and is
inscribed. Presented by the Queen to
George Peabody, benefactor of tn poor Of
London
''The Rochester Post-EXpress'' says ttlat-
when the Prince of Wales was about to
visit Niagara Falls, Blondin had rival,
one Slgnor FARM, who was a character.
lie issued an advertisement urging tnat
the Prince make his initial entrance to
the great and glorious United States i'll
. striking II amer. Accordingly he pro
posed that he should wheel the Prince in
a wheelbarrow over d tight rope across
the gorge to the United States-an en-
trance that would ibe Unparalleled! Then
the notice adds: Should any accident
happen to His Highness whereby he
should happen TO be precpitated 10 the
gulf below (of which l assure you there
is little danger), the money taken from
the spectators shall be refunded
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-02
DUKE FOR MISS ASTOR.
Duke Of Hoxbur.he May Wed the
Americ n sIeircSS.

A lady I met, says the New York
Herald London correspondent, vino IS
generally well informed. said that there
IS much talk of d marriage between the
Duke of Roxburghe and Miss Astor
The Duke is just twenty-five years oid'
and has recently returned from serving
with the army in South Africa as Ht"-
tenant in the Royal Horse Guards.
Miss Astor, she is of opinion, is one OF
+r. nrattiest and most charming young
ladies' in society here and the marriage
uor1<, he AN eminently fitting one. and
probably pleasing to NJ. William Waldorf
AStor.
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COIOt,i u.

81 wonder if this is a colonial novel?'
faltered Mordaunt Meltravers, feeling
that he had a right. as chief parsonage
in the book. to know.
His fancee darted a quick, keen glance
about
NO" said she, almost at once, for
over yonder there are folks! If it were
a colonial novel, they would be folk.''
OF course, it required woman's intui-
ton to discern all this.-Detroit Journal.
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Want One Of Their Own

Whatever ether business the Lesisla-
tllre may get through with during this
special session. it is certainly TO be hoped
thatlth solons in Richmond will tuke UP
the matter of redistricting the State.
When this matter is taken I'D, then will
come a. most admirable opportunity tor
the political organizations OF the city to
bring rs much pressure as possible to bear
to have Newport News made Il separate
delegate district in order that she may
have the representation in the Legisla-
ture to which she is entitled.-Eyenins
Telegram.
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John Baker Johnson and Rufus Jones
were brought here last week frotH
Montvale. charged with shooting Alonzo
Brown All are negroes. and the shoot
ing was the outcome of d drunken 70"
at the mines near Blue Ridge Brown
was shot in the forehead. but the bull
let. after going around his head several
inches trying to enter the skull, gave 1T
up as a bad job and came out He was
not seriously hurt.-Bedford Bulletin.
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have been called upon to support. MIR.
Patteson thinks that never again N a
national election will there be a Solid
South. Certainly not, says We, if the
national Democratic party ever aga n
calls upon the South to support a fopu-
listic platform
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ter the state cannot afford to spare ex-
pense. 1t will be more economical, of
course, to have a small Convention. bat
we argue In favor of such a Convention
because we feel sure that a small num-
Der of the right sort of men will frame
a better Constitution. with less friction
and in a shorter time. than Convention
a: many
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-02
RiftcrC Contempt.

Little Genevieve-Is your papa bull
or a bear?
Little Grace-I don't know, but yester-
day I heard mamma telling him that she
wasn't any more scared of him than
Teddy is of a mountain lion.-Chicago
Times-Herald.
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Upapprecia,eh activity.

st tell you that idleness doesn't pay.
The surest way for a person to get ahead
is to keep moving"
81 fancy you're right. That's the way
four Of my tenants got ahead of me last
week."-Stray Stories.
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Alton Water.

Flow gently, sweet Alton, among thy
green braes;
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy
praise:
My Mary's asleep by thy murmurins
stream.
Flow gently, sweet Alton, disturb not
her dream.
Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds
through the glen.
Ye wild whistlins biackbirds in yon
thorny den,
Thou green-crested lap-wing, thy scream
ing forbear:
1 charge you disturb not my slumbering
fair
How lofty, sweet Alton. thy neighborlng
hills,
Far marked with the courses of clear
winding rills:
There daily 1 wander as noon rises high.
My focks and my Marys sweet cot in
my eye.
How pleasant the banks and green valleys
below.
Where wild in the woodlands the prim-
roses blow
There oft as mild evening weeos over the
lea.
The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary
and me.
Thy crystal stream, Alton, how lovely it
gEdes.
And winds by the cot where my Mary
resides!
How wanton thy watsrs her snowy feet.
lave.
AS gathering sweet flowerets, She stems
thy clear wave!
Flow gently sweet Alton among thy
green braes:
Flow gently. sweet river the theme of my
lays:
Ny Aary's asleep by thy nurmurinsg
stream,
Flow gently. sweet Alton, disturb not
her dream.
Robert Burns
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"A " d" f:nlf.

Briggs-'I hear you have been operat-
ing in Wall Street.
Griggs-..A great mistake. I've been
operated upon.'-Harpers Bazaar.
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An Incnrrigil,le EHrute.

'.1'hey tell mc that you have been trav-
cling abroad" said the young woman
who tries TO make conversation.
And the man who seizes the slightest
pretext to be disagreeable answered:
perhaps you will be kind enough to
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-02

Is It 1ossihle that Bryan did not soelll
with absolute Knowledge in the last cam
5paign anent imperiaHsm9 II 50. what can
he gain by going abroad TO study it ?-Bris-
.tol Courier.
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AIaney PInnt cuI.

A young Page farmer recently paid a
G75 bill in Luray, renlarking: II made
that since seeding last fall On being
nsked How" replied, MAILING fence and
hauling rock" Page people never had
more money than they have now. this
24th day of January. 19o1.-Pase Courier
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-09-13
FLOWER AND TREE.

Plants cannot live if deprived of theil
leaves.
Tea plants at the age of 7 years yield
700 pounds of tea to the acre.
The date palm requires hot, dry air,
but moisture about the roots and plenty
of it,
Palms never live more than 250
years. Ivy has been known to live $50,
chestnut $50, oak 1,600 and yew 1850.
An oak tree of average size, with
100000 leaves, lifts from the earth
about 1913 tons Of water during the five
months it is in leaf.
Jasmine is an Indian shrub. Its star
ry, wax white blossoms are indescriba-
bly, sweet. All the burning pain and
passion and pathos and mystery of the
Hindoo race seem to rise up to you in
its breath.
There is Il rose tree with q trunk =
feet 9 inches in circumference in Ven
tura garden i'll California. 1t is a La
marque, has been growing a quarter of
century and yielded over $1,000
blooms in 1895.
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Flrat Silver Wedding.

According to a historian, this Is the
way the first silver wedding came
about. 1t was in the time of Hughes
Caput. Two of his most faithful serv-
ants, a man and woman, had grown
gray in his employ. How could he re-
ward them?
Calling the woman, he said: "Your
service is great, greater than the mans,
whose service is great enough, for the
woman always finds work harder than
a man. and therefore l will give you a
reward. At your age | know of none
better than a dowry and a husband
The dowry is here. This farm from
this time forth belongs to you. If this
man who has worked with you for five
and twenty years is willing to marry
you, then the husband is ready
'Your majesty said the old peasant,
"how is it possible that we should mar
ry, having already silver hairs?"
"Then it shall be a silver wedding"
And the king gave the couple silver
enough to keep them in plenty.
Such was the origin of the silver
wedding, a custom which, spreading all
through France, subsequently became
known to the world.
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Value Of Diamonds.

AS to the value of diamonds, per-
fectly white stones or decided tints Of
red, rose, green or blue are most high
ly priced. Fine cinnamon and salm-
on or brown, black or yellow stones
also are esteemed. If fiawless and
without tint of any kind, they are
termed first water. If they possess a
steely blue color, at times almost
opalescent, they are called blue white.
Such are usually Brazilian stones. Elk
ceptionally perfect stones are termed
gems, and for such there is no fixed
value, the price depending on the puri-
ty and the brilIiancy of the stone. The
term first water varies in meaning, ac-
cOrding to the class of goods carried by
the dealer using it.
1t is impossible to estimate the value
of diamond by it's weight. Color,
brilliancy, cut and general perfection
of the stone all are to he taken into
account OF two stones, both fiawIess
and weighing ten carats, one may be
worth 5000 and the other $4,000 En-
ceptional stones often bring special
prices. Off color or imperfect stones
sell at an average price per carat re-
gardless of size.
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Some of the Saddest Cases of Lunacy
Are Those Where the Mind Is I'm
able to Stand the Shock of Sudden
Good PidinEs.
1t Is no eXaggeration to assert, said
an asylum doctor of long and varied
experience, that there are scores of men
and women in our asylums who have
literally been sent there through excess
of joy. Many of these cases which are,
in my opinion, the saddest of all have
come under my own observation.
l remember in the very first asylum
with which / was connected one of the
patients was strikingly handsome
and very we'll educated man, who was
as sane as you or l except on one point.
He was really man of considerable
wealth, but his delusion was that he
was a pauper, and he would tell the
most pitiful tales Of his restitution,
begging, with tears in his eyes, for a
few coppers with which to buy bread
According to the story told me, he
was the only son of wealthy mer-
chant In his youth he had fallen
among evil companions and had led
such a dissolute life that his father
not only threatened to disinherit him,
but forbade him ever to enter his house
again. After that he seems to have
sunk into the lowest depths of poverty
until he was glad to earn Il few cop
pers by selling papers or matches in
the streets.
1t was at this last and lowest stage
that news came to him that his father
had died intestate and that he was heir
to all his vast fortune The sudden
news completely turned the mans
brain and brought on such condition
of excitement that he had to be sent
to an asylum and when he Gained
down again he had lost all recollection
of his good fortune, and nothing can
shake his delusion that he is on the
verge Of starvation
Another patient in the same asylum
was a young and in his lucid moments
most intelligent fellow, whose brain
was turned" as the saying is, on learn
ing that he had passed an examination.
He had sat for the matriculation exam
/ nation at the University of London, on
passing which he had set his heart
and had asked a friend in London to
wire the result as soon as the names
were screened at Burlington House.
About three weeks later came a fatal
telegram, "Failed-sorry" which sent
the young man into the lowest depths
IF despair, for he was too old to sit
again. Not many hours later, however
came another telegram, PASSED honors
very sorry crush so great did not see
name this morning" The revulsion
of feeling was so great that the stu
dents reason gave way, and he be
came so violent in his excitement that
he had to be confined, Fortunately III
was not with us long and is now, | am
glad to know, doing very we'll as SO
licitor.
Disappointed love sends many PEG
pie to asylums, but it is very seldom
that success in wooing drives Il man
mad. 1t had this strange effect, how
ever. OH one of my late patients. IL,
girl he loved had gone out 70 India t
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-09-13

A lobster is found in the water, but
not always-in fact, some of the most
successful Holsters that ever lobstered
were born and raised on dry land.
One can usually tell lobster by its
actions. For instance, if young man
enters Il crowded drawing room and
walks all over the feet of the assem-
bled guests without their consent or
approval the young man at once be-
comes a lobster.
The fathers C Holsters usually have
money. In fact, it is difficult to be q
real stand up and fall down lobster
unless the holsters father has money.
1t is an odd fact that many girls
seem to admire Holsters. 1t would
seem that a girl ought to know better,
but she doesn't until she marres a
lobster. Then she tumDles.
HOLSTERS have 10 brains. If you
don't believe it. split a Holsters head
open Will an ak If you don't care any
thing about the ax.
This world would be q much more
desirable abiding place if there were
no Holsters in it.-Ohio State Journal.
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Keep mouse for her brother before he
had screwed up his courage to the point
, of proposing to her, but an offer fol-
lowed by mail very quickly after her.
Weeks and months passed, and no an
sWer came to the impatient lover until,
after waiting two years i'll despair, he
became engaged to a girl who had
nothing but her money bags to recon-
mend her and for whom he had not Il
particle of love. Scarcely, however, was
his fate sealed than he received the
long despaired of letter from India, ac-
cepting his offer and explaining that
the girls brother had received and mis-
laid the letter, which had only just
been found and had come into her
hands.
Within an hogr of the receipt of this
letter the man was Il raving maniac,
and although his condition is improved
| doubt whether he will ever recover
his reason.
In another remarkable case it was
the JOY at seeing her husband again
that robbed a lady patient of her rea-
SON. IltI HuSDuuu WIS the captain VI
a merchant ship which was reported
to have gone down with all hands. The
widow had deeply mourned her hus-
band for nearly a year, when one day
on returning from walk she found
him sitting in the drawing room as
hale and robust as ever.
With a shrek she fell unconscious on
the floor, and when she recovered her
reason was gone. 1t seems that her
husband, after floating for some time,
had been picked up by a passing
tramp" and had been landed on the
west coast of Africa, from which he
had returned home by the first availa-
bic vessel.-London Tit-Bits.
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TOOK HIM LITERALLY.
That Was Why His Signature Wa
Rejected Mt the Bank

RGycCtGu ut Ine BANK
"Bank clerks are so often called upon
for directions that they sometimes faf
into the habit Of giving them in hur-
ried and mechanical manner, conse-
quently they are frequently misunder-
Stood" remarked the clerk of a saw
ings institution to a reporter the other
day. "For instance, the usual formula
when stranger is called upon to sign
his name is, Sign here; pen and ink at
your left hand One morning last week
stranger entered our bank and asked
me for a certificate of deposit for con-
siderable sum of money which he hand
ed over. counted the money and found
the amount to be as stated and hurried
ly said, Sign there sir; pen and ink at
your left hand
''Well, it took the stranger long
time to sign his name, but l thought
nothing more of it and issued the GER
tificate of deposit About week later
the same man, whose face l had for
gotten, reappeared and presented the
certificate. He dashed off an ornate
signature, which / proceeded to COM
pare with the first signature. The two
were vastly different, as the first one
was apparently the labored effort of an
old man.
81 can't pay you this money, SIR
said. @1I = l%aTSfs =. sas.S
"'Why not?' asked the astonished
stranger.
because it is not the signature of
the man to whom / issued the certifi-
cate of deposit replied.
Well said the stranger, when l
was here week ago you told me to
write my name with my left hand, and
1 did so, but 1 can't write very well
that way
"'Then will you oblige me by writ
ing your name with your left hand
again. asked as a light dawned upon
me.
Certainly said the man, and after
much labor he produced a facsimile of
his first signature, and | apologized
and paid him his money. Washington
Star.
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II am hereAgenbemen," explained the
piclpocket to his fellow prisoners, ''aS
the result of a moment of abstraction.
And | am here said the incendiary.
because of an unfortunate habit OF
making light Of things And ]" said
the forger, &" on account of a simple
desire to make a name for myself.
And L." added the burglar, Through
nothing but taking advantage of an
opening which offered in large mer-
camille establishment in town."-Kan-
sas City Independent.
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How Did Jim Know?

For several years my early morning
walk lay through the first block of West
Fifty-seventh street, where l used regu-
larly to meet milkman delivering milk
He would take from his wagon a rack
containing several bottles and go from
house to house. while his old gray horse
walked sedately on alone.
One morning as l was passing the pair
midway the block the man said to his
horse:
go on, Jim, and turn at No. T."
l watched with interest. Jim did go on
until exactly opposite No. Z. Then he
carefully turned and walked back to his
master, or shall l say comrade? Yet
some people think that the lower animals
cannot reason.-Our Animal Friends.
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sn1nting with the Hat.

Before the invention of wigs the hat
was rarely removed except to salute
others, especially royal personages. 1t
was worn at table when ladies or per-
sons of rank were present. Except
when saluting royalty it was the Gus
tom merely to raise the hand to the hat
somewhat after the manner of mill
tary salute. When it became the mode
to wear a profusion of false hair, the
hat was less needed as a protection for
the head and was carried under the
arm.
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In all sleeping apartments where car
pet IS used in the interest of health, an
uncovered painted margin should en-
tirely surround the room so as to pre-
vent the accumulation of dust, possibly
containing dangerous microbes IN the
cracks. If this border is regularly
washed with water containing disin-
fectant, it will also aid materially in
purifying TIE room.