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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01


aration for Christian work is person
al conservation.
oh. for a closer welk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame.
4 light to shire upon the road
That leads me TO the Lamb!
There is in a forest IN Germany .
place they call the deer leap"-two
crags, about IS yards apart; between
them fearful chasm. This is called
the deer leap" because once a hunt
eT was on the track of deer It
came TO one OF these crags. There
was no escape lor il from the pur-
suit of the hunter, and in utter de-
spair IL gathered itself up and in the
death agony attempted to jump
across. OF course il fell and was
dashed on the rocks far beneath.
Here is a path TO Heaven. II is plainy
| il Is safe. Jesus marks IL out for
every man 90 walk in. But here Is .
| man who says: II won't walk In
that path. ! will take my own way"
| He comes on up until he confronts
the chasm that divides his soul from
Heaven. Now his last hour has come,
and he resolves that he will lean
| from the heights of earth TO tho
| heights of Heaven. Stand back now
aud give him futI swing. for no soul
ever did that successfully. Let him
! try. Jump! He misses the mark. and
he goes down, depth below depth.
destroyed without remedy" Men,
angels, devils! What shall we GALA
that place Of awful catastrophe? Toe
IL be kzowp forever - he sonl's
dsash leap
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01

Que pheasant thing aDour exposl-
ti0ns. seys the Chicago ReeoFd-Hssaid.
= shat they si,s fhs post Office depart
osens q sbsses ~ vary the xpeaeio1y
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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01
RIVAL TO siLKRK FANS.
Device That Looks Like an Egg
Beater, Bat It Makes a stun
ntnE DrRuEht.

a man without sense Of romance
has invented and patented a mechani-
cal hand fan and sets Is up "a rival
Of the TOY gauze and lace which has
been . feminine weapon through un-
told ages. His Fan buzzes and is-not
beautiful. but IL provides a steady
draft ~ cool air, says the New York
sun.
IN appearance 81 j. a cross between
an egg-beater and glove-stretcher.
IL j. made OF wood and brass. and
he asserts that IN expert hands il can
be made - reach speed Of 5000 rev
Olutions a minute and will throw q
current 81 air a. far as an electric
fan " the same size.
IL works by COMPRISING in the hand
two wooden handles Of 8 glove-stretch-
eriiLxe arrangement 4 ratchet and
two small cog wheels at the end OF
the arms transmit this force 10 the
blades Of the fan. shich are miniature
electric fan blades. Both Of these are
detachable. so that the fan may be
easily carried when not in use.
The inventor SAYS that he has dis
posed OF 1000 Of his hand fans In a
few months. He isn't sanguine OF is
general adoption BY the gentler sex
bus he thinks that lots of men would
use IL "a hot weather. Sentiment
oughfn', 20 play any part in comfort
seeking, he says. but he has 10 admit
that IS generally does.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01

Col william Frederick Cody is said
90 have earned the name Of Buffalo
Bill" by killing $3.50 buffaiOes ia IL
months (i5S7-s), having contracted 10
furnish the Kansas Pacific railroad
with ali the buffalo meat required to
feed the Iaborers engaged in con-
strus.fson
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01
wHISTLED UNTIL he DIED.
POLISH H~~asnaaR Kept It - Evea
while Uscon.ctsas froHs Fatai
Injury.

Dr. William Krauss. in the Journal
q Nervous and Mental Diseases. de-
scribes a. case OF a Polish heEdsman,
81 yesr= - age. Weighing 20 pounds,
who. some months previous 20 an sc-
cidenf. had suffered from apOple1y re-
sulfing IN left hemipiegia. He was
slowly recovering the use Of his arm
and leg when be was struck by
train. and was found unconscious on
the trac<- with scalp wOunds- There
vas Q depressed fracture of the
sJcuu three inches above and one inch
behind the RIFT ear. He was imme-
diateIy trephinsd and the depressed
bone removed
At ten o'clock 1T night be began 10
whistle. not. however. the popular
songs OF the day but the whistle
calls be Was accustomed 90 use in
calling or driving his focks. He
svoulS con<fnue rhistiing for aboHt
one minute. <hen would cesse for Ave
or ten. minutes, and kept this up at
regular intervals until he died, jan
uary :. 1880. 40 1890 o'clock p. m. At
no firnr ~zs Il possible 20 distinguish
any melody. The sounds were Of the
same pitch and intensity and OF the
same character. They were audible
throughout the ward and attracted
the attention Of patients and attend
ants. To the physicians in attend
ance II was = strange experience 70
hear those vt 'stfe calis coming from
a patient fn a state Ct unconscious
ness. IL was impossible 20 rouse the
patseut At any time t'efcre or after
the accident. and he died. ~histiins
= few minutes before death.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01

That the art Of cooking ranks high
in the estimation OF British army Of
fieials IL shown by the recent granting
OK s. 800 90 the widow OF the late chief
instructor Of the army cooking school
al Aidershof. Ia recognition Of the val
uable services rendered by her hus-
hand
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01

The father of the game Of whist,
Edmond Hoyls, lived 10 be 81 years
old. His treatise on cards has been
Published In ali languages. and prob
ably NO work except the Bible haA
passed through more editions. The
cr1sssss ~sosk sPpssrss IN Londos TO
sztT,
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
Says Her Husband Cruelty Beat Her To
Make Her PRAY.

Denver, Colo, Jan. 12.-Mrs. Emma
Fitzgerald wants a divorce from Chas
Fitzgerald, because he makes her pray
too much, and because he whips her
when she refuses to comply with his
demands. The papers were filed by her
attorney in the District Court today.
Last, night, according to the petition,
Fitzgerald drove his wife out of bed
and compelled her to- repeat pater-
nosters, while kneeling on the floor,
in cold room and scantily clad, until
she tainted from exhaustion. Other
acts of cruelty are alleged, but forcing
his wife to pray seems to be the form
Of torture which gives the man the
most satisfaction. Mrs. Fitzgerald
as soon as she was able to evade her
husbands vigilance today, ran home
to her mother, Mrs. N. D. Award, and
Immediately sent for a lawyer. She
was married to Fitzgerald July 16.
1900.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
Miner in Colorado Buried Under Heavy
Masses of Snow.

Ouray, Colo.-J. H. Collier, miner
of Ouray, is probably buried beneath
a hundred feet of snow.
Collier left Camp Bird mine Tues
day afternoon on his way to Ouray,
and has not since been seen. Short
ly after he started a huge snowslide
plunged over the trail, which is a mere
nitche in the mountain side, a thou
sand feet above a yawning chasm.
The path of the slide was fully 500
feet in width and it started 700 feet
above the trail along which Collier
was walking. 1t will be impossible
to recover the body before July.
Buena Vista, Colo.-After several at
tempts at rescue, a large herd of cat
tie, snowbound in Mineral Basin, u
miles from Buena Vista, has been
abandoned. The valley is surrounded
by almost perpendicular walls, thou
sands of feet in height, and the en-
trance is so blocked with snow that it
is absolutely impossible. While try
ing to get the cattle out the rescue
parties were in great danger from. the
snowslides that are almost constantly
plunging down the mountain sides.
Snow from ten to twelve feet in depth
covers everything in the valley, and
the cattle will slowly starve to death.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
Prisoners Daring Escape.

Seattle, Wash.-Eight prisoners who
were being brought to the United
States on the transport Grant, made
a daring escape while the steamer was
in the harbor at Hong Kong. Hand
cuffed they managed to crawl through
the ventilator leading to their place
of confinement. Then they broke their
chains, secured life preservers and
by crawling down the anchor chains
got into the water. Strange to- say,
the men were not noticed by the SEN
tries, if there were any on duty.
Tho convicts were picked up by the
Chinese commissary launch, Jubilee,
and landed at a pier. Before anything
could be done by those in the boat,
the prisoners made a wild run for lib
erty.- According to later reports some
of them were captured and it seemed
probable that more of them would be
found. Some of the men were under
sentence for ten years.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Covering Every County and Many De.
partment Subjects
FOR INTERESTED READERS
Who Enjoy their Information in a Con-
densed and Pithy Form and are too
Busy to Read Long and Useless Re.
ports of Space Writers.

San Francisco, Jan. 13.-Tne trans
port Californian, which arrived today
from Taku, brought the remains of
seventy-four soldiers who died in
China
Minneapolis, Jan. 12.-Mrs. Mathil-
da Helstrom today struck her 16-year-
old daughter with bottle, killing her
instantly. 1t is claimed that Mrs. Hell
strom had made two previous at
tempts on the life of her daughter 1t
is believed that the mother is insane.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 12-W. ]. Bryan
announced tonight that the first issue
of his paper, the Commoner, would ap-
pear Wednesday, January %. The
printing will be done by contract, but
the mailing and all other business de-
tails will be under Mr. Bryan's super
vision.
New York, Jan. 1.-THE wet wealth
er Of the past three days has increased
the number of cases of grip. All the
hopitals are congested and some have
notified the superintendent of the out
door poor to send no more cases. The
dispensaries are crowded from morn
ing to night, and an entire force is
at work preparing mixtures and pre-
scriptions for the grip.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

A regimental physician in the French
army has Investigated the effect upon
soldiers of regular marching in discip-
lined bodies. The uniformity of the
soldiers step causes the indefinite repe-
dtion of a shock of the brain and bones,
and consequently the mode of motion
Is far more deleterious than an irregu-
lar walk. He attributes the peculiar
aches and pains of the men to the fact
that the same parts of the body receive
the series of Shocks What does the
doctor suggest by way Of relief? Ex-
periments have shown that his plan is
efficacious. The device is simple: A
rubber heel for all military boots The
brain-jar and other unfavorable sensa-
tons are so diminished as to give the
infantrymen a new lease of activity.
The relative efficiency of the army may
thus be increased by what might be
considered an unimportant change. The
scale might be turned in a long and
close contest in favor of the rubber
heeled men, and the map of Europe
altered.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
Terrible Suffering of Snowbound Ry.

London, Jan. 1.-THE Odessa CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail sends a
heartrending story of the suffering of
railway passengers snowbound while
on the way to Odessa The blizzard,
he says, ragged continuously for more
than 100 hours over the whole of
southern Russia He describes the
gradual arrival of trains at Razdyel-
MIA with hundreds of passengers from
the north, who had become entrained
six days before.
'"'They hSd been showed in for five
days." he continues, land fighting
among themselves for the scanty food
supplies provided at the railway buff
fets. Women and children were weep
ing with hunger, while gangs of men
battled with snow drifts which were
thirty-five feet deep in some places,
and that. too. without snowplows, al
though these would have been useless
even if they could have been found.
A regiment was sent from Kieff
southwark and 5000 troops went north
ward from Odessa with shovels. On
the third day the relieving party sue,
ceeded in cutting passage for a couple
of trains, which started with -2UU0 pris-
oners. after a mad rush. the weakest
going to the wall,
The trains proceeded for eighteen
hours and were again stuck in the
snow, unable to go. either forward or
backward. The blizzard continued,
prevailed, the passen-
gers cursing the railroad management.
and weeping. The trains were
buried and all passed horrible night
When morning came a peasant volun-
teered to walk six miles to the nearest
station with kilograms beseeching as
sistanee, supplies. firewood and water
having been obtained.
Finally, driven to desperation, sixty
with Count Kapnist, deter
mined to walk to Odessa. Count Kap-
mist, with forty, reached a point where
he was able to secure sledges and all
arrived at Odessa, though uncertain as
to the fate of those they had left be-
hind.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
The Greatest Gusher Ever Developed.

Austin, Tex, Jan. 13-The great oil
gusher, near Beaumont, is the over
shadowing sensation throughout Tex
as Thomas D. Jendall, an oil well ex-
pert of Pennsylvania, who was visit
ing the Corsicana oil field at the time
the phenomenon was discovered, ar
rived here this evening from a visit
to the well. He says it far eclipses
any we'll drilled in the United States,
and the output of oil is several thou
sand barrels daily, greater than the
greatest gusher ever known in Russia.
Mr.. Jendail tested the flow of oil
as best he could, and estimates that
it exceeds 5000 barrels every twenty
four hours. The flow is constantly
growing greater and increasing in vol
ume. This is due to the fact that when
the oil was struck the iron easing was
blown out of the head and the size
of the hole is gradually increasing.
The solid six-inch stream of oil is now
shooting straight into the air to
height of over 200 feet
1t is Mr.. Jendall's opinion that it
will be impossible to anchor the well
and that the oil will have to be saved
in dirt reservoirs. The reservoirs are
being constructed as rapidly as posi-
BILE, and number of them are already
filed and over flowing.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
ALL ALONG THE COAST
Interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That viii Be of Great Interest To
Both Old And Young.

Alameda is musical. 1t has an APP
ollo club.
A Redlands grocer exhibits coal
black apple.
1t is to be hoped that President Nc
Kinley will soon lose his grip.-San
Jose AEeIl-r-,.
There is nearly seventy feet of wat
er in Lake Helmet. The outlook for the
irrigation season is fine.
Pasadena spent nearly $4,000 on its
tournament of roses and came $12O to
the good-a fine showing.
Frank James, ex-bandit, wants to be
doorkeeper of the Missouri legislature.
Missouri should object. The average
legislature has thieves enough already.
Michigan Slim king of heroes, has
lust been released from the county
iail at San BernardinO. He expects
TO favor Los Angeles with his pres
ence.
The reason Congess is devoting so
much time to oleomargarine is prop
ably to have the ways we'll creased for
the Nicaragua canal bill.-Oakland
Tribune.
The Los Angeles woman who admits
the theft of several bicycles offers as
a singular excuse for her wrong doing
the fact that she has wheels.-Marys-
vile Appeal.
California needs the voting machine
and will have it. The legislature that
first permits its use will deserve to re-
ceive most favor from the people.Sa
ramento Record-Union.
When DR.. Kinyoun has finally been
sent somewhere else the people OF this
city will probably agree that we have
had plague here, but that it has
gone.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The Mercury is asked to state what
in its Judgment California needs. The
answer need not be long drawn out
California needs organization of its in
dustries, plain morality-and the cop
per cent.-San Jose Mercury.
The Visalia man who received Sc
we're sentence because he fraudulently
attempted to collect bounty upon a
large number of squirrel tails secured
in another part of the state is no
doubt convinced that every tail has a
] I."
Orpheum-Last week of the Great
Orpheum Road Show. Everything new
this week. Hawthorne Sisters; Sweet
Singers Beautiful Girls in Leslie Stu
arts Bewitching Operetta, THE Viii
low Pattern Plate" William Cahill
Davis, the Man from Ireland" Sew
erus Schaffer, John Davenport and Lo-
rella, Jack Norworth, Weston and
Herber, Will M. Cress and Blanche
Dane A new offering, "Grasping the
Opportunity" Louise Dresser, BERTHE
Fowler.
One appreciates the fact that Cali
fcrnia is great state when he reads
about snow shovelers being paid 81
per. hour up in Siskiyou county to
keep the snow from the roofs, while
/ here in Southern California the roses
are in bloom, the robins are caroling
in the pepper trees and oranges are be-
( ing harvested at the rate of several
hundred carloads per week.-Riverside
Press.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

The news that Sousa is coming here
shortly for a grand concert with the
band that won so much fame in Eu-
rope last summer will be welcome
news for the many admirers of the
March King" and his men. The
great band is at it's best now and Sou
sa has so replenished his library at
the foreign publishers that he is pre-
pared to offer programmes on this tour
fairly replete with novelties. An ad-
ditional honor has been accorded Sou
sa in the engagement of his band to
appear for four weeks at the Interna-
tional Exhibition at Glasgow, Scotland
next October, at the highest price ever
paid for military band abroad. Sou
sa will also make an extended tour OF
England in connection with his Glas-
cow engagement. His present winter
season at home, which begins January
3rd, embraces 100 different cities. to
be visited in II weeks.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

silver during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1900, exclusive of redeposits,
amounted to 81, 1877, standard
ounces, against 14,O79,454 standard
ounces reported for the previous year.
The average price of silver for the
year, based upon daily London quo
tations, was 27.375 d. equivalent at par
of exchange to $0.60O17 per ounce fine,
in United States money.
At the highest market price for sill
yer during the year the commercial
ratio of silver to gold was as l to 49,
Oh at the lowest price 1 to 35.41; at
the average price 1 to 34.44.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

Horses, cards and women" There
seems little else to say in the case OF
defaulting Cashier Brown, of the New
port Ky.) bank. The story Is old
much too old. Many sermons and many
columns of editorials will not make
palmer to people the fact that, if a man
sows the wind, he must reap the whirl-
wind. Brown is reaping the whirlwind
after his career of vice. In the mean
time the moralist ponders over the mat
ter and honest men mourn the loss of
their money.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

The practical extinction of the buck
wheat cake of our fathers must be laid
at the door of the miller. He is accused
Of mixing with buckwheat flour wheat
bran and shorts in the interests of
economy. For a while the adulteration
was undetected, but gradually consum-
ers began to complain that the buck
wheat cakes don't taste any more like
they used to do in the good old days
back on the farm, and people began to
stop buying buckwheat flour. AS the
demand fell of, the farmers raised less
and less buckwheat. A race of honest
millers, cooperating with the farmers,
might raise the buckwheat cake to its
former proud position.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
Wants to Swim Back to Sweden.

Tacoma, Wash.-Andrew Petersen, a
Gig harbor farmer, jumped into Puget
Sound and announced to his friends
on shore that he intended to swim
tn his old home in Sweden. He struck
out heroieally toward the open sea
and gave evidence that he meant what
he said. Petersen's friends on shore
got boat as quickly as they could
and went after him. He resented their
interference and it was sometime be-
fore he could be induced to leave the
icy cold water and come into the boat
On being landed he wanted to start
for Sweden again.
Today Petersen was committed to
the insane asylum at Steilcom.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

or money as tnar, nor could ne nave.
Any effort to convert those holdings
into money or into other forms of prop
erty would bear" the market and ma
terlally reduce the value. The estimate
is actually based on the earning power
Of his property, calculating the capital
value according to the current rate of
interest. The lower the rate of inter-
est happens to be at given time, there
fore, the greater Is the estimated value
of the fortune from which the enormous
dividends are drawn. The annual in
crease of the fortune, likewise, does not
mean a corresponding reduction in the
wealth of others, for it is not drawn
from stocks of commodities and money
previously existing. 1t Is drawn, in
stead, from the years increase in the
general wealth of which this particu-
lar fortune obtains such a conspicuous
share. The prophecy that such a for
tune could be accumulated by any
means, legitimate or otherwise, by the
end of the nineteenth century would
have been considered wildly fabulous
100 years ago. Washington died the
richest man in America, yet he was not
a millionaire with all his land, slaves,
accumulated crops and similar posses
sions. Jefferson throughout his writ
ings continually calls attention to the
essentially agricultural character Of
this country, and the fact that by force
of nature the development must be
along agricultural lines, virtually assum-
ing that the country must be relatively
poor, and that great fortunes could
hardly be accumulated-th too, when
81 100000 would have been considered
a stupendous sum. That is hardly
strange when we remember that for
the whole of Louisiana territory Jeffer-
son paid but $15OOO,OOO. He could not
anticipate the astonishing wealth which
that very agriculture would create, nor
the minerals that the new territory
would produce, far less the bonanza
fortunes that would follow with the
era of railway building, manufacture
ing and general industrial expansion.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19
Why Man Is Snnerior.

Man is a perfected marsupial. He is
a creature of pockets. With him the
necessity of a pouch simply develops
one. This is the law of evolution.
The first we read of him as a pocket
bearing animal was on a level with the
kangaroo. He then had one pouch
fastened to his belt. Now look at him
and compare him to women, for whom
in his chivalry-he is truly sorry.
She, in her helplessness, is usually be-
hind the kangaroo, and at her best only
equals him with one pouch fastened at
her waist. She was not evolved through
the laws of nature, but under the stern
er DEGREES of the dressmaker.
What a difference between no peck
cts and a score of pockets! The first is
woman; the other, man. Woman is lit
orally fettered for want of pockets.
She must carry in her hands whatever
is not a part of her clothing, while
mans arms, palms and fingers are free
free to help his unfortunate sister.
Thing of five pockets in trousers, five
in vest, five in jacket and five in over
coat-an exact score in all. Some men
have more than this. When man took
up the handkerchief habit he made a
pocket for that convenient article. He
doesn't have to be picking them up
except for the women.
He made a pocket for his knife and
a pocket for his watch; pocket for his
keys and a pocket for his letters; a
pocket for his tobacco and a little
pocket for his car tickets, and he
kept on making pockets as fast as he
needed them.
Women, in their helplessness, envy
him. They reach out to him to borrow
his knife, to borrow his pencil, to Dor
row bit Of string and to borrow a
dozen articles that he usually has
stored away about his clothing. He is
kind and lends, for he is sorry for them
in their arrested development.-N
York Herald.