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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23
THE COAL MINING TRUST.
Morgan,s Agent Gets All Kentuck,
Mines Save One Company,s.

Mihes SnVc Une OoHpaHs2s.
LOUISVILLE, KY December 22.-tSpe-
ciai.)- representative OF j. p. Morgan.
now In this city. has successfully complet-
ed negotiations, forithe purchase OF every
coal mine in Kentucky. except those OF
the st. Bernard Company. The price paid
is IS, 100000 This Is the first step to get
possession Of all the coal mines Of the
South and Southwest and is believed to
5be part sof sAlorSan's coal trust scheme,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23
aLINrATCRE .ALMANAc

December g. 1862.
r-- -fses es....7:22 HIGH TIDE.
e-sn sets -.- s. Morning IL IS
sE1o- rises I'll "a Evening ....-... -
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23
market. omen Christina. Eve.

The reports that the markets ~ouid DC
closed Christmas Eve is erroneous !hey
viii be open. and Will doubtless 90
rustling business.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23

santa Claus I'm a Boat.
Rante Claus fn q boat will visit Holy
Trinity Sunday school this afternoon q
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23

THE HAGUE. December ae.-The gov
ernment of the Netherlands has decided
TO observe a strictly neutral attitude In
the Venezuelan trouble Ships of the;
bl2ckading Powers will be prohibited from rom
coaling sat ports of the Dutch colonies.
AnKlo-BritishsSI Invitatio ms.
BERLIN,FDec q The uotes of 0sE-s
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23
Ho1lands strictly Neutral.

| The declaration will have the effect OF
/ leealizing the seizure OF Venezuelan war.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

There is great deal OF noise made.
and il is justified by the facts. about
our wonderful progress in manufac-
lures. In fact. the civilized world is
astouuded because our manufacturers
are invading countries from which we
took our first lessons and SURPRISING
them in the quality of products and i'm
economy of Manufacture, even with
higher priced labor In agriculture
there has been as much progress. hut
much less has been said about IL. Some
years ago corn. wheat, oats. cotton and
potatoes constituted about 90 per cent
of our farm products Now. with the
exception Of few supcrtropical prod
ucts. We arc producing all the prod
ucts OF an thc nations OF the earth and
are shipping large quantities over
every sea. As an example If acricui-
turIl progress we can mention the fact
that vc can 10y our advanced methods
grow rice mt less cost than any other
country ana pay eight times as much
for labor. I'm bread. grains. fruits and
live stock Of every kind we now lead
every other country. So true is this
that an embargo on American products
would inauguratc famine over half
the earth. And yet we have not reach
90 one-hnlf the capacity Of our SOIL
Farm and Ranch.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
GLASGOW Old Fos,Ish.

Glasgow is quite free from corrup-
ton, but there is considerable bosh
about the ideal municipal government
of the city" said "a Glasgow man now
touring this country 10 an interviewer
the other day. The public improve
ments are far behind those of many
cities i'm the United States. The cleo
tFic lights are queer. old fashioned
things, and the city permitted the con
struction Of overhead wires for the
street railways Commissions were
sent 20 various cities 10 look into cleo
trio light systems and electric railway
systems. l can't imagine where they
went, for they brought back Il lot OF
very old fashioned IDEAS"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
Condensation.

II science goes on discovering new
means Of coudcnsing things for us,
there seems 60 hc every reason 60 be
lic,c that the time is at hand when
existence viii mean nothing but tab
loids from the cradle TO the grave Tho
great French chemist Bcrthclot de-
clarcs it quite possible 10 exist without
any of the foods we now POSSESS. even
milk being dispensed with hut at pres
cnt the process is too costly 10 be Of
use, hut he hopes some day this cost
may be overcome. And as another
French chemist has invented a method
or COMPRISING sea air into tahloids it
is obvious that life viii not be worth
living at all in the coming 10y and by
II the piiulc system is adopted. We
shall care nothing for carly asparagus
or Strawberries; ducks and game. salm-
on and the spring chicken VIII cease to
bc. and the flying machine means Of
locomotion viii render us Indifferent to
scenery.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
HINTS FOR FARMERS


Tho value Of sin~lc plant Is well g.
Illustrated 10y the Concord grape /;
shay seem am cNtravacant statement O,
SAY the original Concord vino was
worth Sl0oo.o0O. In one year i'm a sin
glc district the value Of the product of
Concord srapc Vineyards amountcd to
100000 That one vine WAS the faun
dation OF an interest that represents
more than SloO.UoC00
Surprising the original Ben Davis
apple had been destroyed before il had
been propacatcd. what world be a rca-
sonahlc sum % represent its loss ?
Thousands Of people have made large
sums growing the Ben Davis who
would have made but little had they
not had this variety.
There are single berries that. had
they been lost. would have held back
hundreds of farmers from paying on
MORTGAGES on their homes. Take the
Kansas raspberry. the Early Harvest
blackberry. the Waricld. Candy. Arc
ma and other strawberries and est
mate the money these plants have put
into the pockets of growers.
And then hut FOR the art Of grlfting
In it's many forms there never would
have been but one Concord grapevine
ana but one Ben Davis apple tree. and
the same with all the popular varieties
Of fruits. whether growing on trees.
shrubs. canes or vines.
The originator of a really meritorious
fruit is "a bcucfacior TO his race.-Prac-
tical Fruit Grower
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

]. Sterling Morton. secretary OF agri-
culture dCring President Clcvcland's
second administration, whose death
was announced on April -. has left To
the farmer few innovations which
will pcrpctually remain as monuments
10 his memory, says an exchange. He
was known as the Father of Arbor
day" a day when trees are planted in
all portions of the United States not
only hy aEriculturiSts, but also largely
participated I'm 10y school children. Sec
Rotary Morton also believed that con
grcss when appropriating money for
nowor and vegetable seeds should
spend an equal sum I'm publishing hul-
ictlns which might be useful 10 the
farmer. out OF this idea grew the In
auguration of the publication of farm
ers bulletins
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
AneIe,vorn.s Are An Rirht.

AnSlcworms are in your garden he
cause they find plenty OF food there
and tile soil conditions suited to them.
Boys who 20 fishing know where TO 20
and get worms with the least work.
They pick out cool. moist places where
the soil is dark colored and full Of rot
ting vegetable matter. This rotting hui
mus is what the angleworm feeds on.
swallowing chunks or masses OF the
soil, digestinS the organic matter and
eXpelling the undigestcd soil. These
worms will do no harm to your gar
den. They are among the useful friends
of the farmer. for they work over the
soil and open il to air and water.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

on Sunday afternoon when Mary
Jane goes out with her sol lior you see
the streets fairly lighted up with the
gaycty OF the coiors She Displays Her
hat is marvel of invention. Her
wages. which have gone up i'm a dec
adc from tlG 10 t29. are spent upon
dross-aud such dress, She will not
come TO You unless YOU keep a foOtman
and butler Her duties. defined by
herself. arc To- clean the ornaments and
to look after one or two rooms Clean
Windows: Never, Wash handl cr-
chief: No. That belongs to the laun-
dress department, etc. Therefore it is
found convenient 10 move into flats,
and the rents OF Mayfair mansions 60
down and down until they I'm turn are
finally turned into hathouscs them
selves. The small families who occupy
them are readily adapting themselves
To household cares without a maids
assistance. London Letter i'm Town
and Country.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
A GOOD cOUGH MEDICINE.

IL speaks we'll for Chamberlain : Cough
Remedy when druggists use il in Their
own families in preference to any other
Il have sold Cham berlain's Cough Rem
edy for the past five years with com
plete satisfaction TO myself and custom
ers, says Druggist J. Goldsmith, Van
Etten, y. Y Il have always used it in
my own family both for ordinary coughs
and colds and for the cough following
la grippe, and find it very eifcacious.' IS
For sale by NJ. NJ. Lewis druggist
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
Rape For Swine.

The value of rape as pasture for
fwine is matter of controversy among
farmers who have tried it. Some say
that hogs do not like it and will only
eat it when especially hungry for green
feed. Professor Shaw urges farmers
not TO give il up; thathogs will become
fonder of 1t as time rolls round; that il
Is the same with sheep. Those fresh
from the ranges do not like rape at
FIRST. but grad aally overcome this dis
ike and afterward are very fond of it.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

Umpire Hank O'Day can never for.
get the game the Pirates won from
Louisville which he was umpirine
when Mccarthy drove ball through
the players gate in right field and =
small hoy locked the gate. Every time
Hank goes TO Pittsburg he casts a
look ut that gate. and il it is open he
orders it closed. He discovered it omen
IN the nth inning Of recent game
ana stopped play until some one pulled
il shut
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

Jacob Law. the new first base man Of
the Buffalo team. began playing ball
NJ Mansfield. o.. in the Interstate
league After remaining with that
team three years he went to the Min
neapolis team i'm the Western league
from which club Manager Stallincs Sc
cured him. Jack says he has played
every position from surveyor Of bats
TO first base. lie was a hit AT short
stop and did well I'm the field. but he IS
Mt home on first base. the position hs
will play for Buffalo this season.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
Farm Lnborers In Kansas.

T. Il. Grow, state employment agent.
authorizes the statement that Kansas
can get through the harvest without
extra help. Statements of an exa gger-
the effect that there was great need of
harvest hands in that state. and this
as resulted in a food Of inquiries on
the subject. Mr.. Grows announcement
is confrmatory of the estimates that
have been made of a materially re-
duced yield of wheat from Kansas
fields
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
Let the Man Do the mixing

While it may be rather hard to say.
yet 1t is the fact that one of the adj
vantagcs in making the farmer himself
do the milking and take care of the
milk and cream is that in short time
he will supply himself with all the nee
essary convenicnces for doing the work
with as little labor as possible. 1t may
be difficult to induce him to do this as
long as his wife does the work. but the
necessity will become readily apparent
IL he is obliged to do the work.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

The readers Of this paper win be pleased to
learn that there 81 at least one dreaded IL
sease that science has been able to cure In all
its stages and that is Catarrh. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure IL the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is taken'internaily, acting directly mp
on the blood and mucous surfaces Of the sys-
TEN. thereby destroying the foundation OF
the disease. and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assist
ingnaturci IN doing its work. The propretOrs
have so much faith In it, curative powers,
that they offers one Hundred Dollars for any
cnsc that IL falls to cure. Send for list al
testimonials.
Address. r. !. CHENEY \ CO.. Toledo q
sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

"Stuny" Place is not the first divini-
ty student who has made his mark in
University Of Chicago athletics. Fred
Merriiicid was captain of the baseball
team of 1900. and Flanagan has with
stood many football onslaught.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

Maud King. dam Of Afrlte. 2:071b.
rrilby. 2:l3h. and All Right. 2:14, has
been bred to Allertcll. 2:1Sh. at the
Walker stock farm, Maquon, Ill.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24
LIQUORS, CIGARS, GROCERIES

LIQUORS. CIGARS, GROCERIES,
Mrs. j. E. Monroe
Commerce St, fredericksburg, Va, keep
the largest and most varied stock Oi
Wines and Liquors in the city. She ear
furnish you Whiskey at prices from 81 40
to 81 per gallon. 1t includes Star A.
Kentucky Rye, Live Oak, Lord Balti-
more, King Lear, Jefferson Co. Rye, Wig
wan, Indian Hill and many Others.
Wines of every description. Apple
Brandy $3.50 to 81 per gallon. A full
line of Cigars and Tobacco, Groceries, etc
MRS. j. +. MONROE,
313 Commerce St, fredericksburg, Va
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Reid took the midnight
train for Scotland l. N F.
ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.
MR.. REID'S ADDRESS ON POLITICAL AND
COMMERCIAL TOPICS.
subway excavations.
by The Associated Press3


by The Associated Press1
Liverpool. July 17.-Speaking at dinner
given tonight in his honor by the American
Chamber of Commerce. Whitelaw Reid. the
head Of the United States Embassy to the coro-
nation of King Edward, congratulated the coun-
try upon the extraordinarily rapid recovery of
the King Referring to the conclusion of peace
in South Africa. Mr.. Reid said:
1t has now become plain that this peace is to
be permanent, that the cOalescing of the hostile
parties is to he genuine, and that as in the case
or our civil War there is 10 rise from the bat
tenelds or two determined and worthy foes a
compact. united power. embOdyiug BOTH and
greater than both. Your amnesty was followed
only a few weeks later by
Dealing with LiverpooPs improvements of her
docks and her ability to hold her own as a
seaport against southampton, Hamburg and
the Manchester Canal. MIR, Reid said:
If you have sustained the threatened dangers
OF recent years, you surely face with equa-
niln1ty the terrors of the Pierpont Morgan
venture. l suggest that the apprehension
aroused by the recent change in shipping with
which his name is identified is somewhat ex-
aggerated. Your power to secure at will for
the navy as many cruisers as ever seems to be
not in the least impered. If built in Your
shipyards. such vessels are forbidden to pass
under our flag by a law almost old as our
history and almost as hard TO change our
constitution. If you accept the gloomiest view
regarding the future control of the Atlantic
carrying trade. it does not follow that New
York would that control to weaken the
porst most important to it, namely. Liverpool
Even mOnopolies are not supposed to thrive
by damaging their best customers Besides, the
monopoly in this is fanciful None has
been created, l think none is desired and /
know none can long be successful.
Mr.. Reid maintained that the Morgan
bination obviated violent fluctuations in rates
ard insured to Great Britain "A great neutral
fleet in which its food could be borne in spite of
any possible enemy, adding:
1 do not for a moment admit the possibility
of war between our two nations. Nature
volts against it, and all the interests of that
vast body of English speaking peoples who In
both hemispheres lead the world upward for
bid ii.
The speaker declared that neither Great Brit
ain nor the United States would ever rule the
world as did ancient Rome, seek to do So
though there was question that the English
speaking race led the world III moral material
and intellectual progress.
Previous to the dinner Mr. Reid visited the
Liverpool Exchange. where he made a short
speech expressing the sympathy Americans felt
for Great Britain in the illness of King Ed
ward.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
CONFERENCE on TRUSTS.
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SAID TO HAVE
PROPOSED THE PLAN.

London, July 17.-Detais Of an important
move by Russia, which have evidently been
suppressed hitherto by the censor, have reached
London. This move is no less than proposal
by the imperial government for an international
conference to deal with trusts.
Baron de Staal, Russian Ambassador in Lon
DON about ten days ago presented to the Brit
sh Government a note from NJ de Wttte, the
Russian Minister of Finance This note was
sent also to all the powers that signed the Brus-
sells Sugar Convention, proposing that these
mowers should consider, in common, means 10
protect international commerce against the arIi-
fetal depression of prices, not only py govern
ment measures, such as export bouhties Vi liie
control of production but also by the huch
more dangerous processes adopted Dy rus.s'
prIyate undertakings or carteis, Which leho al ~
fcially to influence the international market
This explains the mysterious reference naue
in THE Financial Messenger. OF 81. Feters-
burg early this week. to a recent note OF M ue
Wftte which the paper said is an appIlca C, t1Tii
in the economic domain, of the prlhclpies oI Inc
Hague Conference" -. \, do
.The Financial Messenger says that M. ue
Wires note protests against RUSSIA Deils
nIaced on the .same footing as those states
which grant export premiums TO the sugar IN
dustry and also contests the rght OF S such
States to impose special taxes on sugar OF rus
sian origin as being contrary 10 the most Ia
vored nation clause.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
THIRTEEN PERSONS LOST.
ONLY THREE OF PARTY OF SIXTEEN

Portsmouth, n. H, July 17.-Thirteen persons
lost their lives in drowning accident here to-
day. In heavy squall in the lower harbor this
afternoon a sailboat, carrying a party of six
teen persons, was capsized, and only three of
those on board were saved The bodies of eight
of the victims recovered
The party was composed of walters and wait
resses employed at the Oceanic House, Star ISL
and, Isle of Shoals. They out in the bay
on a pleasure trip and the boat capsized
in a sudden squall. The three saved were
cued by fishermen, who put out from the shore
in their dories.
Two of those drowned. Charles Harrington and
w. A. Award, were law students at Harvard
University. They were good swimmers and
lost their lives in trying to rescue the others.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
BODIES IN SLO0P'S CABIN.
THE APHRODITE, OF BOSTON. FOUND
BOTTOM UP BY THE JATHNIEL.

Portland, Me- July 1.-THE 4O-foot sloop
yacht Aphrodite, of Boston, was picked up
fifteen miles southwest of Cape Elizabeth to-
day by the steam yacht Jathniel, owned by
Charles NJ Pratt, of New-York. The Aphrodite
was bottom up, having lost her fin keel: her
tender was gone, and there were bodies found
in the cabin after she was towed to Peaks
Island by the Jathniel
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
THE BRAGG INCIDENT.

MENT FROM THE CONSUL GENERAL
Washington July 1.-THE first official step has
been taken in the case or General Bragg United
States Consul General Havana The State De-
partment has heard from Mr.. Squiers the Minister
to Cuba on this subject. ano also has heard in
directly from General Bragg. IL is understood that
the general takes the ground that this Is purely
personal matter and therefore he IS not open TO
ofhcial criticism; that he had right 20 say any
and no one had right TO question her respecting
the nnhIication Thus II is gathered that the gem
rsI netther admits nor denies the accuracy or the
Quotation AS the matter has been formally called
ernment II is expected that this reply from Gen
eral Bragg will be sent 70 the PRESIDENT who ap-
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
BALFOUR'S FIRST COUNCIL.
Earl. CADOGAN'S SUCCESSOR NOT YET
CHOSEN
Copyright 1902: BY The Tribune Association.)


Copyright; 1902 BY The Tribune Associaton)
(speclai to The New-York Tribune by French Cabe)
London, July 1S / a. m.-Mr BaIfour yester-
day presided at his first Cabinet council and
thus formally assumed his place the execu-
tive of the British Empire. Contrary to general
expectation. Mr.. Chamberlain was well enough
to be present The Colonial Secretary seemed
little the worse for his recent accident, and in
conversation with some personal friends he de-
clared that he was feeling almost well again.
Mr.. Balfour was anxious for Mr.. Chamberlain's
advice and the two statesmen remained in con-
sultation for some time after the council
broke up.
Earl Cadogan did not attend the council. and
the official announcement Of his resignation oc-
casions no surprise. 1t had long been under
stood that he anxious to be relieved from
the burden of the Lord Leutenancy of Ireland.
Fully dozen candidates are mentioned for the
vacant office and the Duke of Marlborough. the
Marquis of Londonderry and the Earl of Penn
broke are we'll in the running 1t is probable,
however, that the new Viceroy will not have
seat in the Cabinet. Mr.. Balfour has not yet
given any hint of his intentions, but it may al
most be taken for granted that in any minis
teriaI rearrangement places will be found in the
Cabinet for Austen Chamberlain and George
Wyndham.
The strange case of Sir Redvers Butler and the
heliogram is apparently never coming TO an end.
1t should have been disposed of when General
Butler received permission to publish the exact
text of his famous message TO Sir George White
in Ladysmith, but yesterday in the House of
Commons Sir Edward Grey brought the case
forward again, with the object of proving that
General Butler not fairly treated by the
government Mr.. Brodrick had no difficulty in
showing that the government actually shielded
General Butler by appointing him to command
the First Army Corps at Aldershot, and the
War Secretary, in excusing himself for making
the appointment. said that General Butler was
after all a good peace commander.
d. c. Longworth. of Cairo, who is just
in England, brings the warning that the Egyp-
tian Sphinx is rapidly decaying. 1t will not
now. he says, be able long to Withstand the
altering climate of Egypt. due to irrigation OF
recent years.
The Colonial Premiers left London yesterday
in motor cars for Clandon Park, Guildford.
where they are guests of the Earl of OnslOw.
Lord Kitchener will spend this weeks end at
I2aacopsdald R,,clip shira
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
FOILLNG CUBAN PLOTTERS
THE TRIBUNE'S REVELATIONS CAUSE
A GREAT SENSATION AND HAVE
GOOD EFFECT IN THE
ISLAND.
Copyright; 1902: BY The Tribune Association.)
IBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNEl

IBY CABLE THE TRIBUNE.l
Havana, July photographic advices telling
of The Tribune's exposure of the sugar planters
annexation movement have caused a sensation
at this end of the line and are believed TO have
upset the scheme The plans. however, are deep
laid and the promoters are absolutely unscrupu-
Ious Some leaders acknowledge themselves
willing to organize mock revolution in order
TO bring the United States to terms
The prime movers in the annexation agitation
here are sugar planters, who have a society
called the Circulo Hacendados. They have called
a meeting for July 80. when pro-annexatiOnistS
are to be elected TO office and campaign begun
1t is rumored that there is possibility Of post
ponement on account OF The Tribune's ex-
poSure,
Much feeling exists here against the annexa-
tionists because it is felt that they are partly
to blame Cor the failure of reciprocity.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18

Excursions every Sunday to the Lackawanna
Railroads new picnic resort Special train leaves
New York az S:45 A. NJ returning. leaves the lake
at $50 p. NJ. Delightful ride through summit. Nor
ristown and all the Oranges.-Advt.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-18

Improved service via Rutland halIIoSau;; .S cross
,raIns Saily 10 Vermont Three To Siontfsa LIE,
the Islands OF Lake Chamnaln: -, i1escgtP VIZ =