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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16
CASToETA.
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WHEN you WANT

n truss fitted exactly ana OF the best
make come to see US. We keep crutches,
ALI kinds of braces, all kinds of rubber
Goods. air cushions and pillows. also full
Stock OF hair brushes, clothes brushes,
shoe brushes, fine coioGnes, toilet soaps,
handkerchief extracts, etc, etc. Al! kinC-
of patent medicine.
OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO.,
Opposite Postoffice.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16

where. the great works Of creation are
being repeated. It is never necessary to
travel to the ends Of the earth to learn
about a great many interesting things
that are going on out of doors The fam
ilar incidents about our door steps are
never to be despised. y cat in the grass
can tell as much as a tiger in the jungle.
st. Nicholas
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16
Eevice for rIc~nne the Tec.,,

( The danger of njurins the enamel OF
the teeth by removing foreign matter with
metallic or other hand p cks Is well known.
yet the majority OF the toothpicks proyid-
ed at the present are OF metal or wood
The cut shows an entirely new implement
Tor this work. which was recently patent
ed by William G. CoryeIl. OF Youngstown
o. The object Of the invention Is to pro-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16

and was the manager of the baseball
team. Shortly after the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war he was appointed
a lieutenant of volunteers. He is now q
lieutenant in the Tenth United States
Cavalry His father is Brigadier-General
Whitside, military commander OF the
province of Santiago.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16
HE DID NOT APPEAR.
lion. George Il. Weddings Manager
Gets Dates Mixed.

UcIS DakSCS A'Aa-NOis
Hon. Geo r. Vending did mot deliver
his lecture on 'MirNoeau and the FRENCH
Revolution at the Academy las; nighs,
and young man was kept busy until az
ter nine O'Clock telling the members OF the
T. z. \. Course why the noted lecturer
had failed to appear.
AS a matter of fnct, Mr.. Vending or
the local committee in charge of the lee
ture course are not responsible for the
unfortunate occurrence, as will be readily
seen from the following correspondence
Col. J. Y. iBidgood. secretary of Post
A, T. P. A, received the following letter
yesterday afternoon:
johnson City, Tenn, Jan. "A, 1901
J. Y. Bidgood Esq, care I. 7. A., Rich
mond, Va:
MY Dear Sir,-A1r Vending will reach
richmond at 6:25 7. NJ. on the 18th, in
slant. Tn order to reach his next point. it
viii be necessary for him to leave Rich
mtnd at 1910 over the Seaboard Air Line.
south. as he must be in Athens, Ga, the
next day. AS he will get into your city
so late, he requests me to ask you to en-
gage a sleeping car berth for him from
Richmond to Athens on the train leaving
Richmond at 1910 P. NJ. over the Seahoard
Air Line, ETC.,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) DE LONG RICE.
Lir. Rich is the mana ger with WllOm the
lecture committee contracted for MT. Wen
ding. The contract cnlls for January 18th,
and the date is confirmed in two letters
and a telegram from Mr.. Rice. all of
which are in the committees possession.
On receipt OF the above letter, Col Bid
good wired Mr.. Rice, calling his attention
TO the discrepancy as to date ind later
received the following telegram from Mr..
Rice appearing below. together with the
answer to same by the chairman Of the
lecture committee:
Johnson City Tenn. Jan. 10. 1901
~. e Bidgood. Esq. cire T. P. A, kicl-
mond. Va:
Understood 10th to be Weddings date
Impossible to get there before tomorrow.
Leave spartanburg early tomorrow morn
ing. Answer.
(signed) de LONG RICE"
To which Mr.. R. W. spilnlan. chairman
of the lecture committee, at once re-
piled:
"Richmond. Va. Jam Is. 1901
'iDe Long Rice Johnson E''tv. Tenn:
Cancel engagement. Hold you respon-
sible for our loss.
(SignedD 'R. w SPILMAN.
fChaiTmn1l Lecture Course,
''Post A. T p. A.
Mr.. Spiman says he will confer with
his committee at once and adjust the
matter to the entire satisfaction of every
holder Of course tickets. due notice of
which will be given in either this after
moons or tomorrow mornings papers.
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tight. being held either in the hand ttlas
carries the cleaner or the other The mold
er is item inserted in the mouth and tao
floss drawn between the teeth, when
reciprocatory movement cleanses Doth
sides OF the tooth. and will at the same
time draw out any foreign substance
which may have become lodged there.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16

I take pleasure in stating TO you that
Dr. Davi6's Liver Pills have done me
more good than any medicine l have ever
tried for dyspepsia and stomnch trouble.
JOHN A. POWELL. CROZET. VA.
Price % cents a box everywhere
OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO..
Domestic PoStOfice
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-16
TO CURE TIT GRIP IN TWO DAYS
Laxative Bromo-Qmn!ne Tablets.

INAUGURATION Oh THEFLORIDA
ANb Aisff:OPOLlTsS LIMITED.
sEABO ARD Viz LINE RAILWAY
On Monday the 18th. instant. the Sea-
board Air Line Railway inaugurated their
new Florida. and Metropolitan Limited
train. This train via leave Richmond at
uo:4o P. A., arriving in Jacksonville at
80 2. N. and Sit. Augustine al 800 =. NJ.
1t Will be composed Of Pullman Sleeping.
Library and Observation Cars First-class
Day Coaches will be put on and run be-
tween New York and Washington, and
Washington and St. Augustine. Dining
Cars between New York and hdchmond,
Va. End Hamlet, y. C., and Jacksonville,
Fla. No extra fare will be charged on
this train.
T. P. SMITH
District Passenger Agent
r. E. i. BUNCH,
General Passenger Agent.
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say. this park has already accomplished
an appreciable amount in elevatins the
tone of living among the poorer classes
of the city-Cosmopolitan-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24

trains will be handled with
facility by the improved high-pressure
compound locomotives of that period.
The loading gauge of our trunk lines
will not prevent doubling, or even
trebling, the power of locomotives for
freight traffic. Double boyle engines
similar to those used abroad, but on
the American idea, will be employed,
thus reducing it to an almost per-
petual operating machine, any part of
which can be removed in short time
and duplicate substituted.
Electricity as motive power will
steadily gain friends, large plants
will be erected for supplying current,
water power where available is now
being employed; the lives of great
men are being spent in an endeayor
to solve this great problem. One of
the greatest, if not the greatest of all,
relies upon the use of gas, made at the
mines and sent through pipes to the
power plants placed at intervals along
the line, and used direct in gas
engines of huge units for generating
the current necessary to operate the
traffic of the road. Perhaps SO, but
it is the opinion that for our trunk line
traffic electricity will not be used until
it can be generated economically on
the locomotive itself. 1t is in this
direction we look for success, as we
now use up but small per cent. of the
calorific power of coal in our best
steam locomotives. AS the electric
locomotive occupies relatively the
position that steam locomotives did a
century ago, those who live in 2001
may merely have recollections of the
wonderful events of our present age.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
PEARLS IN JERSEY RIVERS.
Occasionally One of Great Value Is
Discovered.

The publication of the fact that
pearls had been found in the Hacken-
sack river, and exaggerations of the
value of the find, have caused some ex-
element among people who live near
the river. Several men have taken
up the occupation of pearl-hunting, but
unless they find more valuable mus
sells than those from which the first
pearls were taken they will probably
reap small reward.
In speaking of the New Jersey
pearls, George r. Kunz, who mas made
the subject a study, said it was moth
ing unusual to find them in New Jer-
sly, but that the pearls he had seen
from the Hackensack river were of
small value, and would not bring more
than $40 or SIS in the market
In his book on the subject of Amer
lean pearls Mr. Kunz speaks of a fine
specimen weighing ninety-three
grains, which was found in 1857 at
Hotch Brook, near Paterson, N. J. 1t
became known as the Queen pearl, >
and was sold by Tiffany & Co. to the
Empress Eugene for $1,000. The
news of this sale created much excite
ment, and search for pearls was start
ed in many places. The pearl-bearing
mussels were gathered by the million
and destroyed, often with no result.
One large pearl, weighing about 400
grains, which Mr.. Kunz thinks would
have been the finest specimen OF mod
ern times if it had been properly
handled, was ruined by boiling open
the shell.
In 1889 pearls of rare beauty were
found in the creeks and rivers of WIS
consin. About 10000 of these were
sent to New York, and one specimen
was sold for $500.
me collection of pearls bought by
J. Pierpont Morgan from Tiffany &
Co. for the American Museum of Nat
ural History contains brown pearl,
weighing about seyenty-eight grains,
which was found near Nyack, where
the recent pearl discoveries were
mad
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
Wit and Wisdom Of Children.

One very cold day Tom, in his first
trousers, was walking out with his
tiny overcoat turned back to it's ut
most limit Iom,' said his father.
button your coat The boy de-
INJURED. Look at mine," added his
father. Eyes" said Tom, ruefully,
"but everybody knows that you wear
trousers"
Mamma Why, Susie, you've offered
your butterscotch to everybody but
little brother Why didn't you hand
it to him? Dusie with innocent cam
dor)- Because, mamma, little brother
always takes it.
A Sunday-school superintendent,
who happened to be dry-goods mer-
chant, and who was teaching q class
Of very little tots, asked when he had
finished explaining the lesson:
Nov, has anyone a question to ask? ?"
A very small girl raised her hand
what is it, Martha?" asked the
superintendent. why Mr.. Brooks,
how much are those little red parasols
in your Window said Martha.
Mary was a very conscientious
child. One day she was allowed to go
and spend the day with some little
cousins about her own age After
taking off her wraps she went to her
aunt and said very soberly, Now,
Aunt Cassie, if Sallie and Lizzie are
bad today pleace don't hesitate to
punish them because am here"
Five-year-old Hugh c. had over
heard some bad language in the
streets and had been disciplined for
repeating it. One day at dinner after
accidentally dropping his bread and
butter on the floor he exclaimed
"God!" A moment of shocked silence
followed and his mother demonstrate
ed, Hugh, you know l told you yester-
day" With folded hands and closed
eyes Hugh continued: "Bless mamma
and papa and Aunt Mamie. Amen, :
Current Literature. =
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conscientiousness Now, I'm old
enough to take care of myself.
He certainly was, as his silvering
locks proved, although he did not look
within ten years of his actual age.
''Do you wish me to speak to Sc
dalia?"
"Wel1-it wouldn't hurt. But any
how, the next time she attempts to
give me advice I won't take it,
This declaration of independence
was put to the test the next morning.
1t was a bleak spring day. Rain had
fallen in the night and a raw east
wind was Blowing Mr.. Trimmerth
came downstairs with a new spring
raglan on his arm. Sedalia eyed it
scofnfully.
You'd better not wear that" she
said 1t isn't but half as heavy as the
one you always wear, and this wind is
going to do damage. Put on our win
ter oVercOat."
Mr.. Trimmerth ate his breakfast in
stony silence, but there was resolute
glare in his eye The meal ended, he
ostentatiously donned the raglan, and
without even buttoning it went off re-
bellious and victorious with his head
in the air. But that evening came
Sedalia's revenge. For the boarder
came home with touch of fever, a
headache, and a racking pain in his
side. BY the time the hard siege of
in "a
thanks chiefly to Sedalia-on the con-
yalescent list, he was surprised how
pleasant he found it to have the deep
chested and comedy young woman
around. What a pretty throat she
had How neat she always kept her
dark brown hair! And there was a
fine look of loyalty in the gray-blue
Irish eyes.
tSedalia,' he asked one day after a
prolonged and thoughtful silence.
why have you never married?"
MAY yet," said Sedalia laconically.
Don't think will, though, l don't like
to be taken care of. I'm more used to
taking care of people, am"
so I see he said dryly. '@Was it
habit only, then, that induced your in
terest in me?" He slipped at her ex-
cellent broth and watched her mar
rowly.
"You needed more looking after
than the Others she explained. ''You
had no one else"
Mans Unborn dependence on the ma
ternal love of a good woman con
quered Mr.. Trimmerth. "Sedalia,'' he
begged, Twill you take care Of meal
ways? Will you marry me?" Sedalia
smiled-but she also blushed. "Per-
haps," she said, eff you'll promise to
wear the coat I tell you to!''
Mr.. Trimmerth suddenly set down
his cup. 81 will-O, I will, Sedalia!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
Edison's Platinum.

A story will serve to throw new
light upon Edison's character. At one
time there was great fear in the scien-
tific world that the deposits of plati-
mum were about to become extinct.
Edison thereupon organized a cores
pondence bureau, and sent letters to
every American consul upon the globe,
to British consuls in ports where the
United States had no representative,
and to scientific men in every land.
The letter gave a clear statement re
spectirg the metal, how and where it
was found and might be found, how
it could be identified and treated,
and much other information In each
letter were inclosed samples of plati-
mum as found in the various rock beds.
This may seem to be a small under
taking, but when it is remembered
that the letters were sent off by the
thousands, that the postage was ten
cents to each letter, and that the
pieces of platinum inclosed were al
most as valuable as metallic gold, the
cost of the achievement is readily
seen. While he did not succeed in
greatly increasing the output of
platinum, he set at rest all fear of it's
extinction and thus earned the graft
tude of every scientific investigator.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
The Lost Garden.

Somewhere in the distant southland
Blooms a garden-lost to me
Warm with peoples burning fragrant,
Drowsy fires I may not see.
Subtle shadows fit and beckon
Down dim pathways bound with
yew,
Where white wrath wanders lonely
'TWixt the darkness and the dew.
I'm the ruined walls that echoed
Once to happy-hearted moods,
Now the stealthy, ightfoot lizards
Unmolested rear their broods.
"And beneath the oleanders,
No clear voice sings, as of old.
But the fleet caressing sunbeams
Whisper secrets to their mold.
Though | follow as the southWind
Fares his way through wood and
plain,
Though I question hill and valley,
l shall never find again
my lost garden-Where lie buried
Joys that swift the glad hours sped;
Only one could bid me enter:
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
TALKS WITH THE BIRDS.
Pretty Story About a Fond Du Lac
Girl.

Reina " Wright, a young Fond du
Lac girl, has learned the language of
all Wisconsin species of feathered
creatures, till, it is said she can talk
to them as one of their own family.
The girl did not study at great univer
stiles to learn the habits of birds, in
order to initiate them, but with her
own love for anything that flies went
ahead and studied them in the re
cesses of the woods or in the barn
yard. Now it does not make any diff
ference to her whether it is brilliant
scarlet tanager or the lowly leghorn,
she can talk to the creature of the
feathered coat. It was not until Miss
Wright had reached point where her
imitation of bird talk could be dis
tinguished from the real thing by the
birds themselves that she began to
study to perfect herself. and then
there was little left to be learned
Miss Wright has not confined her
studies to "bird talk" but has delved
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24

to lesser extent into the mysteries
of the spoken languages of various
animals> She has been successful to
a. considerable extent in learning the
infection of the tongues used by can
ines, cattle and even cats. Miss
Wright, though now only eighteen
years old, has been talking to the
birds for six years. She discovered
her own gift, and from the first time
that her imitation brought a circle of
wild bird listeners to her side as she
sat on log in a bit Of woods, has de-
voted most of her days to the study or
| the bird languages. There are many
stories told of her powers. She has
now passed the time when she would
go into the woods for the mere pleas
ure of it, to initiate the birds, but
the time was when she would sit on
log in the woods and call the birds
to her side. When she would begin
her calls the birds III hearing would
all gather in the trees about their
imitator, and except for a f1uttering
of wings, would remain silent until
she had finished her song to them.
Then all the birds would break forth
| in song, each doing it's best, appar
emily, to Guido the girl who had stolen
it's cadences. 1t is said Of her that
on one occasion she visited house
where canaries are raised for sale
and while the birds kept silence imi-
tated their song. When she stopped
the birds tried to show that a mere
human could not sing their songs bet
ter than they could themselves. Where
Miss Wright had sang loud the birds
trilled and ran through their cadence
with all the strength their little
threats could summon. Then the girl
sang again, still louder The birds
exceeded their first effort and trilled
till their threats seemed almost to the
| bursting point But the girl who had
stolen their song was still their SUI
perior, and finally the canaries, almost
exhausted, gave up the contest and
went to the corners of their cages de-
| feated
For a time, while the girl was busy
| learning the languages of the various
/ Species OIL Lie I'LL lO11I1Iy S11O
/ ed the woods, and then, after learn
/ ing the language of the wild songsters,
! took to the study of barnyard fowls.
! Here she was able to give the ROSTERS
| points in their own early morning vo-
l,cation, and might have set up as a
| teacher of growing for the young
| America Of the roost variety, for the
best that the Oldest rooster on the
perch could do would be less artistic
than the smallest effort of the Fond
du Lac girl.
| Miss Wright is now a teacher of
elocution at Grafton hall, Fond du
Lac Miss Wright was born in
| Nebraska, but came to Fond du Lac to
make her home with relatives when
only three years old. Her ability in
bird imitation brought her to the at
tention of people who made it possible
for her to attend the Ralston UniverA
! sity of Expression and Physical Gull
ture at Washington. There she was
put under the direct care of President
Edgerly. She graduated in 1900 from
that school
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
PEBBLE FOR EVERY OATH.
Profane Golf Enthusiast Astonishes
His Country Club Friends.

There is a well-know young man in
Omaha, says the Bee, who does sew.
eral other things better than he plays
golf. He is a past master in artistic
swearing. In fact, his anger finds
expression in such coherent streams
Of expletives that his reputation as
member of the Country Club is based
chiefly on this accomplishment
But to get at the story of a famous
bit of golf playing this loquacious
young man did last week His record
is 81 or Whereabouts and every time he
makes the round of the course his
score grows worse and he gets more
vehement in giving expression to what
is uppermost in his mind.
Last Wednesday before he started
on the course one Of the young mans
friends jokingly remarked:
Every time you swear put a clod or
chip or piece of gravel in your
pocket
This was early in the afternoon.
Just as the sun was sinking in the
west a weary young man with bulg-
Ing pOChGCS staggered 1uIO the cruz
house.
His friends had forgotten him and
supposed he had gone home AS he
entered the door he emptied coat
pocket and pebbles rolled all over the
reception room floor.
That's the plain d-ns," he exclaim-
ed. From another pocket he dumped
100 pebbles which stood for stronger
member of the purely masculine vo-
cabulary. Other pockets produced
still more pebbles and clods which
represented other bad words.
His friends tried to call halt, but
he persisted in littering up the floor.
remarking:
''This amt a circumstance. Just
wait till you see the wagonload of
oats and caddy and the teamster are
bringing"
This story is told on the authority of
friends OF the artistically profane
young man.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
A Ballad of Procrastination.


Some day
I'll write the promised letters that l
owe
To all the many dearest friends I
know,
And big and little debts I'll surely pay,
Some day.
Some day
I'll scorn the soothing weed in various
forms,
The fragrant pipe, the mild Havanas
charms,
And shun the flowing bowl for e'er
and aye,
Some day.
Some day
To one fair maid my heart l shall re-
sign,
To her myself and worldly goods as
sign,
Her girIish wishes and commands
obey,
Some day.
Some day
I'll reach the topmost pinnacle of fame,
Blazon abroad the glory of my name,
All you .hful follies sternly cast away,
Some day.
Some day
I'll realize that spring has long gone
by,
Sweet summer past and winter draw
ing nigh,
December SHOWS instead Of flowers OF
May,
Some day.
Some day
These things I prophesy might come
TO pass,
But long e'er then beneath the wind
blown grass,
I fancy I shall make pleasant stay,
For Aye.
George T. Pardy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
THE LOCOMOTIVE.
Looking Forward to Its Future De-
Observation-Disclosures Enuines,

Looking Forward to Its Future De-
VeIopment-EIectric Engines.
Speaking at the meeting of the New
England Railroad club on the locomo-
tive of the future, Mr.. S. M. Vauclain
said: "The improvement of the
locomotive will embrace the future
development of those features in
vented in the previous century; COM
pounding of all locomotives upon
some system now used, or yet to be
invented, will be almost universal:
the wide firebox and tubular boiler
will be carried to the limit of human
ability to- manage it. This will give
place to the water tube boiler, es-
pecially so far high speeds. Already
bright minds are employed in design
ing a boiler of this description which
can be placed on our arrangement of
cylinders, UNDERTAKING., wheels and
machinery-a system that will give
three times the heating surface for an
equivalent weight. Higher pressures
will then be common, and we all may
live to see triple and even quadruple
expansion locomotives almost noise
Iessly performing their work.
High speeds will be used for
all trains carrying human freight,
but long and heavy express
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
Rather Complicated Runaway.

An Ellsworth (Me.) horse ran away
the other day and turned down a wood
road. Here it overlook a wood sled
and jumped aboard. the driver of the
wood sled jumping off to make room
for the newcomer. His own horses,
frightened by the unusual situatin, had
frightened by the unusual situation,
had started to run. The original run
away staid ON the sled. When next
seen the original runaway turned up
at his own etable-Illinois State.