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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-06-14
TO The PUBLlCl

FARMyILLE, VA, Jan. 10, 1901
do here gladly and truthfulIy state
that w. T. Blanton can help and cure
weak and failing eyes. / suffered with
my eyes so that / could not read a
minute without fearful pain. i'm fact |
could not use them for anything with
out intense pain. ] went 10 w. +.
Blanton, he fitted my eyes and they
are now perfectly strong and well.
Yours very truly,
GEORGE HAZLEGROvE.
The above is one of many
testimonials which | have rel
ative to the manner in which
| have treated those suffering
with defective vision. If
your eyes are giving you trou-
BILE come and see me. Con
sultation will cost you moth
ing.
w. T. BLANTON,
Optical Graduate.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-06-14

The Government is borrowing money
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-06-14

No matter how small, no mat
ter how large,
Evening star., 1901-09-23

may congratulate himself on not having
lived in Charles Is reign. At that time,
although London barely extended to Boil
ton street, Piccadilly, 1t was thought that
the increasing growth of the town was
becoming a danger to the state: and in
order to prevent the arrival Of new resi-
dents the country cousin was very closely
watched during the whole of his visit A
squire from Sussex was actually fined
1900 In 1852 for stopping too long in
time. when the boundary turnpike stood
at Charingcross, the same unreaSoning
fear seems to have existed, for acts were
passed again and again to forbid the erec-
ton of new houses and the admission of
new inhabitants. Probably. however, the
size of London was more striking in those
days, because, with regard to the other
important towns of England, it was SO
now
Evening star., 1901-09-23
Automobile Patents.
From the American Automobile.


BY all odds the automobile section is the
busiest of all the divisions of the patent
Office these days. Since all the fashionable
world has taken to automobiling, and this
sport is no longer a fad, the inventors of
the country seem to have turned their at
tention to bringing out improvements in
motors, carriages and other parts The
number OF applications that are being re-
ceived for patents on devices for automo-
bues Is so great that It has been found
necessary to have five special examiners on
this work. Four separate divisions have
been organized to which are referred pat
ent papers. according to the specific kind
Of patent that is demanded One division
handles electric motors another steam mo-
tors. another gas and acetelyne motors and
another looks out for compressed air mo-
tors. 1t Is very seldom that the rush of
business for certain division is so great
as to cause an increase in the number OF
special examiners or to bring about the
establishment OF additional divisions. One
special examiner Is ordinarily able to take
care of all applications relating to one
branch Of work. The only record there is
of q greater volume OF work coming to one
automobile bureau occurred some years
ago at the time the bicycling craze was at
it's height. There was such deluge of
claims for patent on wheels, chains. bear
ings. handles and the other parts of a bi-
cycle that ten special examiners were de-
tailed to help out the chief OF the division
These cases have dwindled down since
until now only two men are required In the
bicycle division. The electrical division is
pushing the automobile section for first
honors in the matter Of work. There has
been marked increase in the development
OF the electrical science In the past five
years, and this Is shown in the patent Of
ice to greater degree than anywhere else.
Evening star., 1901-09-23
Historic Spire to Fall.

Bowtng to the march of proeress and
Improvement, the old steeple on the Roman
catholic Church of SITS. Peter and Paul. in
Wythe avenue, near South I'd street, fs tn
be demolished. This spire was made
famous when the late Father Sylvester
Malone, at the outbreak of the civil war
hoisted the stars and stripes to its peak
There is some talk Of preserving some mart
of the historic steeple. Father Malone was
an ardent and outspOken abolitionist. In
1904 when he was in Rome, a mob, stirred
by the religious and political passions. being
fomented in Williamsburg at the time. at
tacked the church, and would have burned
it except for the prompt work of the au
thOritieS.
1t was therefore considered a bold thine.
when Father Malone insisted upon flying
the Union flag on the church when HOSTILE
ties between the north and south actually
broke out. He hoisted the ensign with
his own hands, where 1t flew until taken
down in order to have it carried to the
front by Williamsburg regiment 1t was
replaced by another, presented by the ctti-
zens, which flew below the gilded cross
until peace had been declared In 1856
this cross was removed and made into
small crosses which were distributed
among the parishioners. Father John T.
Belford, who became pastor upon the death
of Father Malone, has made many changes
Now he has planned extensive alterations.
which will necessitate the removal of the
entire front of the old building and all of
the steeple
Evening star., 1901-09-23
FARMING IN MEXICO.
HacfendadOs Being Instructed 4,
American Agricultural Ways.

American Agricultural Ways.
Mexican Correspondence New York Evening Post
The Chihuahua and Pacific railroad has
inaugurated an enterprise which, while ex-
penslVe now. Will soon be of great benefit
to the country and indirectly to the road
ITSELF This Is the education of the Mex-
can farmer. The primitive way in which
many Mexican farms are conducted would
seem almost impossible to the average
American who is familiar with the i'm
provements in agriculture machinery used
In the United States. But in many parts
OF this country, especially in those away
from railroads, wheat is still threshed out
with a hand fail, wine Is made by treadinR
the grapes under foot, transpor ia ton is ac-
complished by OK teams awtng huge and
Immensely heavy carts, the wheels of
which are made from the solid trunks OF
trees, and modern plows, harrows and Gull
t1vators are unknown.
With such appliances ONLY small crons
can be obtained and the officers OF the
road decided that If they could introdnce
modern methods they would increase the
route and would in the end greatly improve
their own business. So they hired Prof 7
G Haney of the United States Agricultural
experiment station in Kansas and told him
to show the MeXicans how to run farm
They furnished him with a supply of Ynnd-
ern farming implements, such as the Mexi-
cans could buy If they wished, and sent
hlm along the line to give practical lessons
to the haciendados. Mr.. Haney found the
farmers willing students. He furnished
them with seed. and showed them how 10
use the tools which he had with him. For
the nrst time In the history of the country
American plows, harrows and double culti.
nators were used on the farms along the
line of the railroad. The Mexicans were
QUICK 10 see the benefits of the new tools
and the crop that they have lust eatheraI;
mas proven to them that the results of
properly working the soil are to their finan-
cial good The result is that they are buv-
as Ms Illpemehts similar to those used by
'heir farms more scientifically in future.
Evening star., 1901-09-23
Frightful Disaster in Austria.

dispatch from Bucharest yesterday
says: The collision Saturday at Palota be-
tween the Vienna express and the petroleum
train appears, in the light of the latest de-
velopments, to have been a most terrible
affair. In few seconds the whole area of
the collision became a large lake Of burn
Ing petroleum. Trees and everything in
fammable within an area of a quarter Of a
square mile were destroyed
There were some CHASTITY scenes. A girl
was burned to death in sight of both her
parents. who escaped. NJ. Dinu, a Rou-
manian millionaire, got his foot jammed
III the wreckage, and begged one of the
train guards to sever the foot with an
ak, promising him a large reward If he
would do SO. Before the guard could help
him he sank back into the flames and was
burned to death.
Schwartz, the conductor, who was SINH
larly jammed, clung so desperately to the
ln man who tried to extricate him, that his
would-be rescuer sustained flesh wounds
in the neck. and had to be dragged away
Just as Schwartz perished in the flames.
Most OF the thirty-two who were killed
were burned to death.
Evening star., 1901-09-23
On Charges Of Larceny.

Desdemonia Pleasure, alias Foster, alias
Matthews, and Cora Burke, alias Stella
Moore, who were arrested in Philadelphia
last week, are to be tried here on charges
Of larceny. 1t is alleged that the women
robbed G. P. Voelker of a pawn ticket and
Blake Harper of $40 bill.
1t is said the women met Mr. Voelker on
the street and engaged in conversation
with him. While one of them was doing
the talking the other woman, it is charged,
took the pawn ticket from his pocket
Later, when Mr. Harper was accosted and
robbed OF his $40 bill, the pawn ticket
taken from Mr.. Voelker was put In his
pocket. A third man. who was stopped by
two women, was invited to meet them at
house in Philadelphia, and it was at
this house that they were arrested
Detective Parham went to the Quaker
city and the women were held in $500 Sc
curity by United States commissioner to
answer the charges filed against them
here.
Evening star., 1901-09-23
COLOMBIAN REBELS DEFEATED.
Gen. Echeverria Reported to Have
Been Shot.


A dispatch from Willemstad, Island of
Curacao. dated September %, says: The
Venezuelan gunboat Miranda has arrived
at Caracas from Guajira, badly in need of
repairs. She cannot go to sea again until
she has been overhauled.
Her commander brings news confirming
the reports of the defeat of Colombian lib
erals and their Venezuelan allies near La
Hacha September 13 and ii. 1t appears
that the Colombians, the regulars, with
drew and scattered as the liberals and
VeneZuelans advanced and then gathered
again In large numbers, surrounding Gen.
Davila's command just prior to the en-
gagement of the 18th. There is no reliable
information to the number killed.
An Indian chief, Jose Dolores, whose fol-
lowers are fighting with the Colombian
government, is reported to have cut off
Gen. Davila's retreat to Venezuelan terri
tory.
1t is now persistently reported that the
Colombians have captured and shot Gen.
Echeverria. Inquiries seem to show that
he was born at Barranquilla, Colombia,
and was a Colombian If shot, it was be-
lieved he was a native who had aided
foreigners to invade Colombia. There is
no doubt that he was the commander of
the Venezuelan gunboats lately cruising
before La Hacha and Guajira-
The decree under which he is reported
to have been executed was published about
a month ago. 1t characterizes as treasOna-
BILE and punishable with death the act of
a Colombian invading Colombia with for
eigners. But whether executed not,
there is no reasonable doubt that General
Echeverrta has been captured by the Co
1t is Mporteh that about 200 wounded
have reached Maracaibo.
The Venezuelan government has just
acquired $50 tons of coal in Caracas. which
was shipped today to Fort San Carlos and
Nnr no of for hnfn n
parture, and the owner vainly attempted
to stop the shipment.
Evening star., 1901-09-23

and c streets northwest with Louisiana
avenue, In the space now under the control
of the Commissioners If it be deemed in
advisable to request an appropriation of
s1S,0OO for this purpose an appropriation of
at least $1,000 should be asked to prepare
plans, In order that the matter may be
brought into more advanced state of
preparation"
DIR. Ball highly compliments his force,
and recommends in connection with the
estimates for the next year the increase Of
the field force by two assistants One is
needed on account Of the increased volume
of work due to the great number of build
ings under erection and the added attention
devoted to the design of plumbing In Dis
trict structures, and second is required to
conduct the work of final inspections and
tests
Evening star., 1901-09-23
LOOKING FOR PAY.
COnstructiOn Company on Railroad
Sued for Unpaid Wages.

Sued Tor Unpaid wages.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
LAUREL, Nd, September %, 1901.
The Taunton Construction Company OF
Taunton, Mass, recently contracted with
to build a branch of the road from the
present terminus of the switch at Savage.
Howard county, Nd. to Guilford In the
same county. distant about three miles
from the former place. The work was
started about the middle Of August, and
about one-third of 1t Is completed.
At quitting time Wednesday evening last
the men were notified that they were to
have the next day as a holiday out Of re-
spect to the memory Of President McKin-
ley. Some time during that night the
agents of the construction company had
withdrawn from the scene Of activities and
were not to be found.
When they left. 1t is said, the company
was in debt to nearly two hundred men, in
cluding mechanics and unsltilled laborers
whose wages will amount to nearly $4,000.
Instead of giving bond, as is usually done
the construction company, it is said, agreed
with the railroad company that it should
be paid for its work in installments upon
certificate OF the railroads engineer, allow
ing to reserve 10 per cent of each payment
until the work was completed and accented
The first installment, 1t is said, was paid
the construction comp~ny some time ago
but little or none Of the amount. II IL
alleged, was paid to the employees OF the
company.
The construction company inaueurated a
system of payment by checks, or rather
small pieces OF pasteboard. which the men
Evening star., 1901-09-23

Surrendered to Capt. Detchemendy y
North of Naler.

surrendered DctChe menOy
North of Raler.
A dispatch from Manila, dated September
%, says: Aguinaldo's body guard. Major
Alhambra; two captains, two lieutenants
and twenty nine men with twenty EIGHT
rifles, surrendered about forty miles north
nf Baler, Island of Luzon, to Capt. George
A. Detchemendy of the Twenty-second
United States Infantry, and yesterday took
the oath of allegiance and were released.
After Alhambra kidnapped the presidente
of Casigurian. September II. Capt. Detche-
mendy reuuistioned a steamer and pursued
him closely. He would have been captured
within an hour If he had not surrendered.
Capt. Detchemendy reports that he has
recovered a portion of the body Of Denzeu
George Arthur Venville. the Inflated ap-
prentice of the United States gunboat
Yorktown, who was one Of Lieut.. Gill
more's party when that officer was cap
tured by the Filipinos in April, 1880 The
remains will be forwarded to Manila for
shipment home.
Gen. Frederick Funston who has been
in the hospital suffering from appendicitis
for about a week, has undergone sue
cessful operation.
Since Aguinaldo left Gen. MacArthur's
house for his present place Of confinement
he has never left the premises. although
he Is at liberty to do SO, II accompanied
by an officer. The reason assigned is that
he fears assassination at the hands Of the
partisans Of the late Gen. Luna
Gen. Chaffee has refused the request
for the release of the prisoners IN the
Island of Guam He considers that their
release would not be safe until the sur-
render or capture of Malvar and Lukbap,
and he also believes that the friends of
the prisoners desiring their release will
use their influence to bring about the sur
render of the insurgent leaders named
The bishop OF Cebu conducted memorial
services in the cathedral today for the
late President Mckinley. and the Spanish
speaking protestants held service in the
RiZal Theater.
Evening star., 1901-09-23
RAILWAYS IN JAPAN.
European Methods Being Replaced by
the American System.

european MethOO9 Being Replaced by
the American System.
From japan and America.
Mr.. S. Sugiura of Tokyo, who has been
visiting this country for the purpose of in
specting American methods of railway con-
struction and management, has reported a
condition of affairs in Japan that should
be very encouraging to American engineers
and constructors. Mr.. Sugiura says that
the European method of railway manage
me mt, which was first adopted by the Jap
anese, is being replaced by American meth
ods Until about six years ago. he says,
all the rails and locomotives came from
England Since that time, however the
United States has been supplying Japan
with a large proportion of railway material
Even the uncomfortable and obsolescent
compartment carriage of English design is
disappearing before the American paSSen-
ger coach.
Formerly English and German engineers
surveyed and constructed the Japanese
railways. Now this work is being con-
Quoted by native engineers, educated and
trained in the United States or by Amer
ican engineers. According to Mr.. Sugiura,
the only European engineers now engaged
in railway construction in Japan are those
employed by the government to build a
viaduct for street railway in Tokyo.
Japan has 1900 miles Of railway, of which
OIlc-1OuIl LII HdS DccH DuiIt "ltAlIl the last
six years, and it is expected that another
thousand miles of line will be put in opera
ton within the next six years. The first
railway in Japan connected Tokyo with its
port, Yokohama, and was twenty miles
long. 1t was built by English capital. and
all the material and even some of the
laborers were brought from England.
Japan is now building its own railway lines.
1t is unfortunate that the government has
adopted the narrow-gauge, or three feet
six inches, as the standard. The service is
good the trains making twenty-five miles
an hour, including stops, and the speed is
Being gradually increased every year. Both
passenger and freight rates are fixed by
the government. The highest passenger
rate is two and quarter cents mile, and
the lowest three. fourths of cent a mile
Mr.. Sugiura says that his company pays a
dividend of 10 per cent on $50, 600 COO Rail-
way construction in Japan calls for a high
degree of skill, and the national universi-
ties are training engineers with this special
View. and the government Is constantly
sending engineers to this country to learn
our methods
Evening star., 1901-09-23
SERVICES AT CHEVY CHASE
REV. DIR. CHILDS SPEAKS IN EULOGY
OF Mckinley.
Gods Warning to the Nation The
Lesson of the Hour Out
lined.

Memorial services were held yesterday in
All Saints Church, Chevy Chase, to the
memory of the late President. An address
was delivered by Rev. DIR. r. s. Childs, who
chose his text these words Of Isaiah:
When thy judgments are in the earth, the
inha bitants of the world will learn right
eouSness."
DR.. Chflds said. in part:
This expresses not what always is, but
what should be the effect Of Gods judg-
ment, or 1t may, perhaps, mean that 1t Is
only through the judgments of God that
the people learn Righteousness. In that
sense His judgments are necessary to turn
an unthinking and ungrateful nation to
righteousness In this aspect His judg
ments may be supreme mercies. They Will
be, if the nation understands and accepts
the lesson.
This is Gods way-His will be DONE
These last words of murdered Presi-
dent contain deeper truth than, perhaps,
he thought.
1T was Gods way of giving His servant
rest: of crowning a life of honor here with
the imperial honor and glory OF the lie
eternal. There are those who cannot see
the hand of God in this event. They see
only the hand of the assassin, and the out
cry is-justly enOugh-for a stern and
speedy retribution. But when we remem-
ber that not sparrow falls to the ground
we recall of the worlds Divine Martyr,
who by the hands of wicked men was cru
Gifted and slain,' that He was delivered by
the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
Of God We cannot fail to acknowledge, in
the great tragedy that has seemed to
darken all the heavens, the permissive
Providence of Him who doeth His will in
the army of heaven and 'mong the inhabi-
tants of the earth 1t is Gods way. If
thus He chose to open the gates of heaven
to His servant, to end for him the perplexi-
ties and responsibilities and burdens of his
high office here, and to give him higher
refuse to unite in his own last sigh Of sub
mission: Thy will be done.
The Lesson Taught.
This is Gods way of warning to the ma
ton. This, solemnly believe, Is the great
lesson of the hour. The question has been
to be cut off in the midst Of his days and Of
his usefulness Why, too, in less than Lalf
a century, while the worst deSpotisms of
Europe have had no such experience, We,
the freest nation upon earth should be
paralyZed by the murder of three Prest-
dents by three American-born citizens? Does
it not mean that God has a lesson for us
emphatically as nation? To the question,
cessive terrible judgments above those in
ficted upon any other nation, believe the
first reply is, because He has favored us
above all other nations. The individual ma
ton with whom God Is purposing to work
out His highest ends and whom He would
crown with His supreme blessings He
leads through supreme trials"
Evening star., 1901-09-23
Argentine Hares I'm England.
IN the ChicaOo Racord HorSld

AAoh' the SniSaso necoruf1erAl0.
One Of the novelties in the London res
taurants today are hares from the Argen-
tine Republic. which are brought by hum
dreds of thousands In refrigerator ships
with mutton and beef. They were intro
duced only few months ago. but were
quickly taken up by fashionable people, and
are now all the rage. You win find them
on the menus of all the big hotels and
fashionable restaurants, and all the first
class butcher shops keep them for the pri-
vate trade.
The experience Of the farmers of the
Argentine Republic with such ground game
is worth considering by the authorities of
the United States in connection with the
Belgian hare craze. Sixteen years ago an
English ranchman living in the province of
Cordova, Argentine Republic introduced
few English hares for sporting purposes.
They increased so rapidly that they soon
became a nuisance, and, It was customary
several times year for the ranchmen in
the neighborhood to call out ali hands for
a campaign against them. Somebody sug-
gested the idea of sending their carcasses
to market, and during the last three or
four years they have been a staple article
OF food and have become quite popular,
particularly with the working classes They
are SO plentiful that they can be sold at a
very low price Then somebody suggested
their export, which is likely to prove a
profitable enterprise and give fixed value
to what people feared would become pub
lie scourge.
Evening star., 1901-09-23
Rural PhilOsOuhy.
From the Rochester Post -Express.

From the Rochester ost-Express
Al Stoehr, while spending last summer in
the country, boarded at the residence of
an old granger in Clermont county, who
had decided views of his own on every
subject under the sun. One day a light
ning-rod peddler came along and persuad-
ed the old man to allow him to- afix rods
on one of his barns. The old fellow had
two barns and had lightning rods put upon
the building as an experiment The Sec
ond day after the rods were PLACED in po-
sition a heavy August thunder storm swept
over that part Of the country and flash
OF Ightn1ng rent the sky eand the bolt
struck one Of his new rods. The barn
Vas. was not injured red in the least, and the
That saves me money, be goshr' he ex-
claimed.
"Of course It does" answered Steehr
suppose you'll have rods. put, upon the
other barn at once?'
mot by a dern sight! answered the
old man. I'm goin' to have them rods
moved over to tn other barn i Lightnin
knoW! IT
Evening star., 1901-09-23

were told to keep and present at the time
when the company should have received
the next installment from the railroad
company.
Suits have been brought by large num-
ber of creditors, and most Of the men are
represented by Messrs. Charles. W. Darr
and James p. .Curley, both Of this town. 1t
has been ascertained that number OF
bills were contracted in Laurel and Savage
for merchandise. feed, &C.. which have not
been paid. 1t Is stated that the agents OF
the construction company left without any
notice or explanation to any of their cred
itors. -..,-
Great indignation exists among the men,
a large number of whom are Italian stone
cutters, and many threats of personal in
jury were made against the members of the
firm. MesSrs. Darr and Curley are now en-
gagged in tabulating the claims against the
company. ,..