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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
FAUQUIER.
Letter From The Springs = Many Guests
There-Fine baby Show, Etc.

Correspondence of The FREE LANcE)
Fauquier Springs, Va, Aug. IL, 1901.
The regular Saturday evening german
event marked "hightide" in the season
festivities, large crowd present inc!ud-
ing many Warrenton people. Mr.. Ken
nedy, as leader, assisted by his WIFE,
acquitted himself in most praiseworthy
manner. Among those from Warrenton
were: Mr.. Jas. X. Maddox and wife,
Judge C. NJ. White, Miss Mary Forbes,
Miss Mamie Payne, Mrs. Willis, Mr..
Semmes and Others.
The baby show, held by the King :
Daughters in Town Hall, Thursday, was
a perfect success, the proceeds amounting
to $125, and the display OF babies excep-
tionally fine. There were - entries and
43 babies present. Many mothers were
of course disappointed, but all returned
home with consciousness OF letting her
baby contribute all ii could to the good
work
The Potomac Baptist Association will
meet in Narrenton Aug. l4th. Judge
Nicol will he the presiding officer. Rev.
DIR. ThornhiIl will preach the introduc-
tory sermon.
WarrentOn il filled with summer board
ers and visitors. Youmeet the summer
girl" on every turn. Thelovely cottages
here are all occupied.
Mrs. Sallie Wickliffe Waller and Miss
Norma Smith are the guests of Mrs An
derson Smith.
Miss Pauline Marstella, OF Thorough
fare. who is summering here, is consider
ed the prettiest dancer here.
Mrs. Thomas Poultney and daughter,
Miss Hattie, of Baltimore, are here Tor
the summer. So many Fredericksburg
peopIe will remember Miss "Queen Ward"
of ante bellum days.
MFR. Anderson d. Smith is occupying
his cottage here and entertains with his
usual hospitality. lie will celebrate his
golden wedding in few days.
Mrs. DIR. A. A. Marstella is here for the
summer.
Among the prominent arrivals today
were DR.. Edwards wife, children and
servant, Of Lansing Michigan.
rDkNfp
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
PRICE, 3 CENTS
(FOr THE FREE LANCE
GREENE COUNTY GLEAEINGs.

Near Quinque, Va, mid showers Of rain
Yonr Greene correspondent is trying
again
To be interesting as we'll a. amuse
THE FREE LAME readers in giving the
news.
wish TO avert. ii possibly can,
The war in sight OF the King George man;
His number is right and III stand by
But help him to fight, oh no, not |.
BY the afix ser" the erring was done,
And being younger" should have been
young
"Ihe eldest Of a lot Of four young boys,
Who also contribute 10 his comforts and
Joys"
The Spring Hill meeting has come to a
close
With nine additions and among those
4 man over eighty, old Mr John Hill,
4 maker Of barrels for John Fray's mill.
Miss Izetta Davis, on the way TO Paran,
Lost gold watch at a creek in the sand,
For which her attendants looked all
about,
But the gold in the dust didn't pan out.
George Wise Shelton, last night soon,
Fell from a window Of his bedroom
And when found was apparently dead
The suppositiOn is he fell on his head.
The night being hot the opinion is fair,
He sat in the window 70 get the fresh cir,
Enjoying the breezes he got in a doze-'
One Of the fractures was breaking his
nose
1t il my opinion he soon will be well
Under the attention Of DR.. L. l..
Thrice have fallen, was wounded each
time,
Two ribs were broken, leg and a spine.
For a year | was sick and helpless in bed.
The doctors consulted to cut of my leg
Had a contrivance hung TO the ioist,
But an injured vertebrR forbid me to
hoist.
The Lord in His mercy brought me
through ALL
And am now trying 10 keep from the
fall
The fall applicable to the human race,
The fall most sastrous-the fallingf from
grace. j. +. II.
August Il, 1901.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
Smallpox Almost Eradicatsd.

Smallpox appears TO have been almost
eradicated from the State, according to
reports received by the Secretary OF the
Board OF Health for July. Troughout
the State there is more or less typhoid
fever, which ispretty generally distribut-
ed in all sections The following is com.
piled from reports received at the Office of
the secretary Of the Board OF Health,
CuIpeper, Essex Gloucester, Madison,
and Middlesex, making no report.
Accomac-W Whooping-cough. measles
and typhoid fever. Fairfax Measles, o.
Hanover-SmalIpox, 1. Loudoun-Iy-
phoid ?. Northampton - Whooping-
cough, A. Northumberland-Whooping
cough. epidemic; measles, A. typhoid, /;
smallpox. 1. Orange-Typhoid 4,
whooping-cough, l. Primes William
Diphtheria. q smallpox, several Spot
syIvania- Typhoid, ?. Staiiord-sieas-
Ies. 10; Typhoid, l. Westmorelaud-.
measles, Z.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
Tot Causes Night Alarm.

"One night my brothers baby was
taken with Group, " writes MFR. }. c. Snider,
of Crittenden, Ky, it seemed il would
strangle before we could get doctor,
so we gayeit DR. Kings's New Discovery,
which gave quick relief and permanently
cured it. We always keep it in the house
to protect our children from Group and
Whooping Cough. Itcured me ofachronic
bronchial trouble that no other remedy
would relieve" lnfallible for Coughs,
Colds, Throat and Lung troubles. oOc
and $1.00. Trial bottles free at NJ. NJ.
Lewis.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Schedule corrected to June l. 1901.

Schedule corrected To June Il lJNi.
All trains arrive At and depart from Penn
eylvania Passenger station. W ashingtoh ~
Sol a. IN -Daily-for DanYllle, thhrlotle
and WAY stations, connecting AT taINtFt"h
for WaFreuton, at Manassas Tor StrasburE
and Harrsonburg daily and stanton week
days at Lynchbnrg with the NoHoiN dnu dnu
Western daily for Roanoke and points South-
west and with &. y o. Il. X. daily for Natural
Bridge and Lexington am NM.
IIsi5a. .m-Daily ly-THEUN STATES
FAST MAIL carrics Pullman Sleepers New
York and Washington 10 Jacksonville, wa
Savannah uniting at salisbury Win iuu-
man SLEEPER for Asheyille and Hot springs
\. c., Knoxville, Chattanooga ana Memphis
Tenn and az Charlotte with fuilmam sleep
pr for Augusta and at Danville with sleeper
Tor Birmingham; and AZ Columbia Win
sleeper for Charleston, iulimah SievPer , NvM
York to New Orleans. solid train dshlhg-
ron to New Orleans without change. connects
at Lynchburg daily for Natural Bridge ana
Lexington Va. Dining car service.
II.31 A. M.-Daily-LOcal for Charlnttes-
yille. connecting az CalyertOn for Warrenton.
4.O1 T.. M.--LOcal for Strashurg ana iar-
visOnburg daily except sunday: .......,,,.
4:3O +. VI. daily. local for CharlotleSFhe'
connecting at CalyertOn for Narrenton
9.5O d. IN. daily, Washington ana ,haitt-
nOoga Limited. via l.ynchlurg. with Siecpefs;
New York and Washington 10 Mehibhls % anH
New Orleans through Bristol lhfough
coach to Memphis ParlOr and Obserya-
zion Car between RadfOrd, Va, ana Attain,
Ala. Dining Car service. - -,
900 l.. NJ. tulll New pth anu i'iiNt -
Dress Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars, New
York and Washington 10 Fort Tampa, VIA
Jacksonville and To Augusta via columbia
with connection for Aiken. Through coach
Waehinlst ON To- Jacksonville. Sunset Person
ally Conducted Tourist Sleeper on mus tram
leaving Washington every Monday, Neihes-
day and Friday, Washington 60 san Fran
cisco without change ....,,,,.,.,,,,,. ....
SOUTH WESTERN, NESTlBULED LIMIT
ed" The only exclusively Pullman tram be
tween Washington and the south. COM
nosed OF Dining Cars AID Day Coaches,
Pullman Vestibuled Seepers, New YORK
To Nashville, Tenn, Ashyiile, Knox
Vile and Chattanooga. New York 70 Mem
mia via Gfrmingham: New York To New Or
teans Via Atlanta and Montgomery, Pull
man Library and Observation car between
New York and Washington and Macon. cub
car Washington To Atlanta. Dining Car
connection leaves Richmond at 100 p m
Trains on the Narrow Guage reach Orange
daily at lO:4O "A. IN. -
Tyains on the Southern Railway pass
Orange DAILY AZ follows:
SOUTH BOUND
II A. m 2.35 p m, 7:4S p. III.
NORTH hound
IL a. IN. GAO p. m. 5.31 a. m
For rates map folders and sleeping car
space apply TO nearest southern Runway
EEBANK :. CANNON, 3rd V. Z. x g. NJ,
III HARDWICK, Gen. Passenger Agent.
T. q BROWN General Agent,
WASHINGTON, ID. q.
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ola soldisr's Ezperiercs.

NJ. NJ. Austin, a civil war veteran, OF
Winchester, Ind, writes. my wife was
sick long time in spite OF good doctors
treatment, but was wholly cured by DR..
Kings New Life Pills, which worked won
ders for her health. They alwaysdo. Try
them. Only 2jcatdrug store. NJ. NJ. Lewis.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
She Didn't Wear A Mask.

But her beauty was completely hidden
by sores, blotches and pimples till she
used Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Then they
vanished as will all Eruptions, Fever
Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Carbuncles and Eel
ons from itsuse Infalible for Cuts, Corns,
Burns. Scalds and Piles Cure guaranteed
0Sc az NJ AZ lewis
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17

"My baby was terribly sick with the
diarrhoea," says J. IL. Doak, OF Williams,
Oregon. ''We were unable TO cure him
with the doctors assistance, and as a
last resort we tried Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and DiorrhOea Remedy. am
happy to say it gayeimmediate relief and
a complete cure" For sale by NJ. M.
1 or,.io
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17

I read my answer in her eyes
Those eyes Of azure blue.
For / had put the question: Is
1t hot enough for you.g"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
INV Norfdk%Western
... sSH @ Schedule in Effect
June 80. 1901.
LEAVE RICHMOND, BYRD
STREET STATION.

600 a. M, NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives
Norfolk ! 20 "a. IN. Stops only al feters-
burg WaVerly and Suffolk.
COS "A. m. TuE tHTAGO ENrRESs, Tor l.yhch-
burg. Roanoke. Columbus and chicago.
Buffet Parlor car Petersburg To koanoke.
Pullman sleeper Roanoke to tolumuus'
also. for Bristol. Knoxville and chat ttano"-
IA. Pullman sleeper Roanoke 90 Knox
Vile.
q af5p m. OCEAN SHORE LIMITED. Arrives
Norfolk > 80 y. m. Stops OQJy ut feterS-
burg Waverly and suffolk
& ST -. m. for Suffolk. Norfolk anu inter
mediate stations. Arrives at Norfolk al
1O4O y. m.
QiO y. m. for Lynchhurg and Roanoke.
CONNECTS At l.ynchburg with the W ashing-
ton and Chattanooga Limited fulimaH
Sleeprr- Lynchhurg 10 Memphis ana NeW
Orleans Cafe, Harior ana Observation
cars Eadford To- Alfalfa. Ala. Pullman
sleeper between Richmond and Lynchburg,
aud berthS ready LDr occupancy at $50 p;
m. also, Pullman sleeper Petersburg ana
Roanoke.
Trains arrive Richmond from Lyuchburg
and the West daily nt 30 "a. m. and : % p.
IN. from Norfolk and the East at l.lV, "a. 10.
1I2 a my and $50 q. M.
Office SIS Main street
JOHN T.. WAGNER,
City Passenger ana Ticket Agent.
C. H. BOSLEN. District Passenger Agent
" Il. BENlI.L, General Passenger Agent.
General Office. Roanoke, Va my2G.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
Vol II. No. rs.
c. & @. l u T17 5T7ITl5

CINCINNATI. LOUISVILLE, CHICAGO ST.
LOUIS AND ruE WEST.
TIE SHORTEST ANp QUICKEST ROUTE 20
Tur W1~r.
The most direct and popular route tn old
Point ana Norfolk.
TRAINS LEAVE DOSM VEIL, VA.
June 30. 1901.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17

Additional trains leave boswell = - a. m.
except sunday and :. 20 p. ma. daily for ldch-
mOnd.
For other Information. address
JOHN u. POTTS
f. A. Richmond. Va.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17

Time marked daily except sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars ou Nos. ! ana 3 Tor
Cincinnati and Louisville.
TRAINS FoR OLD POINT AND NORFOLK.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-08-17
FREDERICKSBURG VA, SATURDAY. AUGUST IL 1901
MONTAGUE NOMINATED By AooLA-
NATION
Mr. Swanson Withdrew some OF the Pro-
ceedings

The Virginia Democratic Conventional
Norfolk nominated Andrew Jackson
Montague for Governor Wednesday night
by acclamation and Joseph +. Willard
for Lieutenant Governor and elected j.
Taylor Ellyson chairman of the State
committee.
FIGHT OVER STATE COMMITTEE.
The three committees Of the convention,
those on permanent organization, reso-
lutions and credentials, were selected
without trouble. But the election Of the
State committee. which IL composed OF
five men from each Of the Congressional
districts and chairman elected by the
convention. developed factiOnal differ
ences The result OF the contests seems
to be drawn battle between the Monta-
que and the Martin factions. IL has been
figured that there are - Montague men
and the same number Of Martin men in
the new committee. The Governor hay
ing the OthVt huIilniStTdciOIi hhS al di-
vantage and his side may attract re-
cruits. In Senator Martins own dis
trict, the Seventh, the whole lot, with
the exception of George W. Kinsey, was
turned out and new men put In. The
First district reelected the old commit
teemen. all Of whom are Montague
men. The chairman Of the Second
district committee was G. +. Day, father
in-law Of Senator Martin. and he is the
only man who was not reelected. The
Fourth and Fifth districts are controlled
by Senator Martin and the old commit
teemen were retained
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25
OF COURSE NOT.

Those who ventured to guess that
the Helena grand jury which was
convened for the pupose of investi-
eating the recent lynching there
would fail to return any indictments
now have the satisfaction that comes
from the ability to say 81 told
you so.' OF course, no indictments
We're returned, but in that respect
nobody was disappointed, for it was
not supposed that any bills would be
found. Thirty-eight witnesses were
examined before the jurors became
satisfied that nothing was to be ac-
complished by going any further into
the thing. There may be some who
think they should have continued thei.
investigations and examined more
witnesses, but if there are any such
they fail of understanding the pecu-
liaI conditions existing and the diff
culties the jury had to contend with,
With men who are strongly suspected
of having taken a leading part in the
affair forming a portion of the Jury
itself and witnesses refusing to ties.
tify on the ground of liability of self
determination, the wonder is that as
much of a report as was submitted
vas returned.
In its censure of the sheriff and the
recommendation that the night jail
er and a certain policeman be dis
charged for failing to do their duty
in refusing to offer resistance to the
mob the jury went a long way and
that part of it's report must have
proved a shock to the men on whom
the jury's displeasure was visited,
According to all reports they had
reason for expecting more c~onsiderate
for, if as has been init
mated some of the lynchers were
of the jury, they have cause
Of complaint. Proper regard for that
known esprit du corps, it
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25
"A CRIME"

Minneapolis Journal: Some of the
southern newspapers are working
themselves up to red and white heat
over the incident of President Roose-
welt entertaining Booker Washington
the distinguished colored educator of
Tuskegee, Ala, at dinner in the white
house. The Memphis Scimitar de-
clares that it was not only a breach
OF refined etiquette, but a "damnable
crime" Other southern journals are
expressing themselves in almost as
severe terms of exacerbation. They
regard the act as forerunner to a
policy which will embody the appoint
ment of many negroes to federal Of
fees in the south and they are show
ing symptoms of bitter hostility to the
president, who had just received their
commentator for appointing ex-Gov-
ernor Jones to a federal j%udgeship in
Georgia. They will find, however, that
their absurd vituperative talk has
iouO Y 1AulSulOuo Au JAot tuCll
fears Of enforced negro domination are
groundless. They will have to be
prepared, however, for a large in
crease Of the public sentiment against
their policy of obliterating the politi-
cal rights of the negro.
Bishop Potter declared yesterday
that he had entertained Booker Wash
ington at dinner last winter, and found
him eft to sit at any table in the
land" and that Mr.. Washington is a
man, than whom mo more courteous
or exact man exists" This is undoubt-
eddy true. It is safe to predict that,
as the colored men Of Washington's
type increase in numbers, as they
certainly will, the bitter prejudice
against the color will pass away and
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25

1t will, not even in the south, be re
garded as a 'damnable crime for 8
white gentleman to entertain at his
dinner table a colored gentleman OF
excellent manners and intellectual
culture.
The American negro is rapidly
showing his capacity for Industrial
success. The best artizans in the
south today are negroes, who are en-
ployed in the reineries of Louisiana,
the iron works at Birmingham in sup
ervisory positions, and show their
ability. John D. Rockefeller is en-
ploying skilled colored artizans to pre-
side over the construction of the
great heating and lighting plant at the
University of Chicago, and in Ohio,
Illinois and other northern states
may be found successful negro manu-
facturers and merchants, while the
patent office reveals the expansion of
the Inventive faculty of the negro.
From the laborer to the artizan class
is one step, and already the negro
is reaching out with justifiable am.
bition to the realm of the professions
and is entering them proving his abil-
ity in whatever line he has chosen.
Comparatively few in number in the
professions, yet the number is certain
to increase, and within the first mar.
ter OF this new century there will be
a marked diminution of prejudice as
men OF the Booker Washington type
increase, and we may look for a per-
iod when no a will have the face
to- critIctse the president for enter
Il courteous and we'll educated
colored man at a white house dinner.
u.s. committing "a damnabIe crime"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25
NJ AGAINST LAW.

The Butte Miner, which has bee1
Il of the strongest advocates of thu
proposition to raise a fund by popula,
subscription and then asking for leg
lslative enactment reimburseing the
subscribers, as the best way of secur.
ing money with which to defray the
cost OF an, exhibit At the St. Louis
exposition, has ascertained that the
plan is not feasible. 1t has discovered
a constitutional clause which express
ly forbids that manner of raising the
money. Section 20, article 5 provides:
mo bill shall be passed giving extra
compensation to any public officer.
servant or employee, agent or contract
or, after services shall have been rem
dered or contract made. nor ,royid-
ing for the payment of any claims
made against the state without prev
ious authority of law, except as may
be otherwise provided herein" Enin-
ent legal authority to which the Miner
has submitted the matter holds that
the section quoted is an effective bar
supporting as the most feasible one
for raising the money.
The Miner now thinks effort should
be made to raise a modest fund, say
$4,000 by outright donations from cit
liens, the money to be used for gath
eritg an exhibit and then trusting to
the legislature to vote an amount sui
ficient for the erection of a state build
ing and to meet such other expenses
as might be incurred. While The
Gazette may be in error, it strongly
adheres to it's belief that a majority
of the people of the state are of the
opinion that $4,000 is about all that
should be expended On an exhibit and
that if the Miner succeeds in raising
the amount which it thinks necessary
as a preliminary it will find plenty
who are opposed to any further appro-
priation by the legislature. With the
knowledge obtained through expert
ence with former expositions, it would
seem that a c%reditable exhibit could
be made at a cost much less than was
incurred on past occasions and that
$500 is all that is needed for gath
ering the exhibit, constructing a state
building and paying incidental expen-
ses. AS is we'll known much O
was needlessly spent by Montana at
the Columbian exposition and that de-
spite our l%iberality, in many respects
our exhibit, taking it from one end to
the other, was not worthy the state nor
did it in any measure represent the
amount expended.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25

would seem, was not manifested b
their comrades. But perhaps, the gel
tlemen who tugged on the rope an
z.osequently acted in the capacity q
grand jurors were in the minority OF
the inquisitorial body and consequent
ly were out voted and could not he'll
themselves. But, all the same. tn,
ether fellows feel that they have no
been treated exactly as they SHOULD
have been. To be singled out ever
to the extent they have been as the
ones to bear the brunt of condemna
ton of an act in which some OF the
most prominent citizens" had a hand
and in which a goodly portion Of the
community of which they have hith.
erto been regarded as respectable
members was implicated is to be plac-
ed in an unenviable position. The
worst of it is, as far as they are
concerned, that they dare not retail
ate by telling what they know, for
the consequences to themselves might
be worse than they have so far prov
ed. 1t is safe to say, however, that
the next time some Of the influential
ones of Helena wish a little diversion
in the form of a lynching bee in
which some rapist is the chief actor
the men who have been censured and
recommended for dismissal from Of
hclal positions will study, long and
profoundly before they permit them
to be drawn into the affair in
any manner whatsoever.
While pretending to feel sorry that
somebody was not indicted, the Hell
ana newspapers make much out Of
report made by the jury on tile
ground that it shows the community
% be opposed to lynching and frees
t from the suspicion that every mani
n the capital city is walking around
With a rope concealed about his per-
son. waiting for an opportunity to
n end around the neck of
other fellow and throw the
over a convenient cross arm of
telegraph pole and then pulling on
disengaged end. Nobody will be
leartless enough to attempt to de-
rive them of the satisfaction and con-
olation thus afforded, but a suspic-
will always find Judgment in the
minds of the outsiders that if ever
man attempts the same crime
n Helena Of which Brady was guilty.
'lenty of men will not be wanting toll
% onto him the same as was done
INTO the n whose shade is now do
rag time On the tasselated floor
# the lower regions.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25

The fact that President Roosevelt
asked Booker T. Washington to
stretch his legs under the presidential
dinner table, and. the row they are
making in consequence CT it, may be
accepted as proof that the southern
editors and politicians are beginning
to realize that his appointment of a
southern democrat to an important Of
flee had no policy in it. He simply
made it because he thought it a good
n and one that should be made. All
the same not as many bouquets will
find their way into his corner as did
before that now famous dinner.