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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

On the long and tempestuous voyage Of
life many brave and happy souls have al
most been eyewitness of their des-
tined homes filled with rapturous expec-
fancy when met by alluring temptations
almost too hard to resist. None OF US can
avoid our passage home, wherever it may
be. WHITTIER it leads to the region of
Satan and his thousands of victims or
to that OF heavenly bliss where all of our
most brilliant hopes are centersd. We
commence on this great and eventful
voyage in sweet and innocent infancy.
travelling until childhood thinking all
things good and beautiful.
In infancy we neither think nor know
Of anything, for at that time our under
standing has not been opened for us to
comprehend the wise. and even the most
simple are far too deep for US to undsr-
stand But when we have outlived In
fancy and as We ripaa into childhood our
uuders standing is opened to soma extent
and our attention is drawn towards those
things which our childish hearts delight
in.
Our bodies are the skips In wt5oh wa
ale travelling homeward. Some are ugly
and deformed and we are sometimes all
NEST ashamed to peep from UNI
der our dropping eyelids to behold our
homeIness. Yet some are of lovely
formation and our hearts are swelled with
jealous envy other than sweet submissive
ness, which renders ones inward life SO
beautiful. But even the most lovely and
beautiful forms, which are beauty's most
requisite feature, were originally DUST and
h1ck TO dust thew must return.
Sometimes our hearts are pricked and
pierced from the thornS Of the most ar
tistic and picturesque flowers OF evils
hounteous plenty. We are much too prone
to love and admire their seeming beauty
and only realize the fact when we find
we are in their power and not our own.
Lfe,s journey is simply a very sweet
dream filled with brilliant fancies of a
wonderful and exquisite home. We dream
dreams here earth, but they are only
minute representatives OF the wonderful
dream of life. They are merely casual
occurrences, which occur during our deep
sweet slumbers while taking our nightly
repose.
In Iife,s wonderful dream there is some-
thing so majestic, something so sublime.
that even the most learned savant of tha
modern age cannot comprehend its nsove-
ments. Why is there so much difference
between the casual dreams OF this life
and the wonderful dream Itself? 1t. with
all its grandeur and splendor. is the han-.
diworF off, heavenly Father, who, by
his divinGSnand made all thingEsoms
TOO wise and deep for us to fa'E. m Lie
is a mystical problem and will ever be-
left for conjecture until. like a flower. it
fades away and nothing remains bus B
sight of eternity.
NIcKenney, Va.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
Old Man Greenhut Tel
s Mans Confidence Was Rewarded
and His Future Assured.
Copyright, 1902. by Robert Howard Russell.

done that If his vito hadn't drove him
out O. the house. His strong hold, though,
was waitin' for chanst o gett1n' into
game o. poker. He sure were GOOD
poker player, an If he'd had sense enough
to hold on to q dollar when he got it,
he might ha' been rich But no, 1t didn't
made no difference how much he win in
a. game, he never had a cent left In
couple o. days. an somebody'd have to
stake him to set in when another sucker d
come along an they needed Waters
help. It were important to have him in.
sometimes. for he were the on'y man
in Arkansas City that could shuttle the
deck SOS to bring every card just where
he wanted it without holdin' out none
Of 'em, nor dom no clumsy work, like
dealin off m the bottom. or SIGH.
A GOO SPENDER.
''Bein' gifted that way. there was times
wiler the boys was anxious to have him
play an they'd stake him for a start,
KNOWN he'd always play square an
not do I'D none O. the home talent. They
treated him square, too when 1t come
to dividin upt the winnin's, an always
give him ten or fifteen dollars for his
nights work, but o course that were
nothin to what he might "a done If he'd
had his own money to play on.
ST used to reason with him. sometimes,
FOR he were a. man that might 11a' been
a valuable citizen if he'd had money. He
were a spender FIN Spendervil1e as long
as it lasted Play with your own money
I'd tell him, AN then what you win'll
fbe your own Hut he'd say. How can
] play with my own money when I
hain't got nonc?, 'Peared like he hadn't
no proper ambition. nor good sense, an
'twa'nt nobodys business to take care
of him special. more particular because
he were mighty useful when the time
come that his pecooliar talent were need
ed. But nothin' ever 'peared to disturb
Jim. He'd set as calm as a alligator
waitin' for a. shoat or a niger baby to
come along, an when things looked the
very worst. all you'd hear Jim say. was,
THE Lord will provide The Baptist
preacher up to the north end of town
used to say it We're a beautiful example
of faith rewarded to see how Jim alays
seemed to get took care of when the
wust come to the wust, but there was
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
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first time the famous oyster cocktail,
which is a typical-2Ea Virginia drink,
and his friends believe that the pleasures
of that and similar occasions will go a
long way toward encoura ging him to re-
main in public life for a longer period
than his present term In the House. Mr..
Simmerman is a jolly good fellow, and is
quite popular with his colleagues here and
with his constituents at home.
Hon. Moses M. Green. of Fauquier, is
one of the new members Of the House
who is a unique and picturesque charac-
ter. He is a warm personal and political
friend Of Farmer Pitcher, whose man
tie he wears, both as the representative
OF the people of Fauquier and as the
Ellmorist of the House of Delegates. Mr.
Green is a civil engineer by profession,
and he ranked as one of the best in the
State UP to the time he retired from &C
tive service. For some years past he has
lived quietly at his home in Warrenton,
but has always been an active particl-
pant in the political affairs of his county.
Like Mr.. Simmernan. Mr.. Green is a
leading member Of the Committee on
Roads, and his counsel and advice count
for much in the deliberations of that
body. He has hardly been in the House
long enough to "strike his gait" as a
hun1orist, but his storytelling proclivi-
ties have become proverbial about the
Capitol and hotel lobbies, and he is set
ting his sails and getting his bearings to
edo some business in this line in the
House. Mr. Green is making many strong
friends among his colleagues. and unless
carly signs fail, he is going to make a
very valuable member.
Hon. C. A. Woodward, of Norfolk city,
is a new member OF the House who is
making friends very rapidly. lie is a
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
OF SOME OF.
THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE
Hon c. c. Booker the Poet Laureate---Mr. Zmmern
Likes Legislative Life and Mr.. Green is Humor
ist---PopuaritY Of Hon c. a. Woodward

In electing the present House of Dele
gates the people Of Virginia preserved a
custom which has become we'll estab
lished. and that is to send nearly 10 per
cent Of new men to each succeeding body.
Some fall outside the brcastworks at
each recurring election and a great many
are satisfied to serve only one term ana
do not stand for reelection. One of the
new members of the House this time is
the Hon. G.. Conway Baker, of West
1noreland, the poet laureate OF the lower
branch Mr.. Baker succeeds the late
George J. Gouldman. who died shortly
after the last session ended. He IS
Young lawyer of recognized ability> and
is quite popular in his district, where
fu1 some years past he has rendered
valiant service for the Democratic party.
Mr. Baker has decided talent as a poet,
and many of his rhymes have been print
ed in the newspapers. He is making a
most valuable member Of the House and
looks after the interests of his constltu-
ents in a most dilieent and watchful man
ner. Sneaker Ryan was quick to recoS-
ME Mr. Bakers ability and placed MA
en- two of tie n,ost important committees
of the House, namely: Privileges and
Elections and General Laws. He is a
regular attendant upon the sessions OF
these bodies as well AS those of the
House. and promises to make his mark
as a law-naker. When Mr.. Baker came
down in December to take his seas as a
member of the House, he brought with
him his bride of a few days to snare
with him the honors Which his people hau
conferred upon him. and is still enjoying
the happy hours of his honeymoon.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

One Of the surprises OF the recent Leg
islativc elections in the State was the
return of a Democrat from the county OF
Wvthc. The county had just previously
elected Hon. Robert W. Blair Rcp) 10
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

The Medical Expert: I'm sure your baby
shows what our modern methods Will do.
Did YOU follow my directions?
Mother: ooh, yes. First, skinned the
milk, and added two parts OF hygienic
water and two parts of your celebrated
modifier. Then carefully steriIized the
whole"
..And then p
II threw it out of the window and gave
the baby the cream. Life
The craze for young men is got to sucn
stage that advertisements for help read
as follows: '.Wanted-Yo Dung man not
over twenty-five, of great experience; per-
1oanent employment TO right party"
Such a youth must have gotten his great
experience" through metempsychosis. He
must I've the reincarnation Of some de-
parted captain Of industry.-New York
Press.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Hon. C. A. Woodward, of Norfolk city,
is a new member OF the House who is
making friends very rapidly. lie is a
man of about middle age, and is noted
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

'Twere one O these here relief parties
that goes out, flood times. 1ookin' for just
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09

Miss Waters she were clean out O.
patience, an nagged at Jim good deal
about it, like women WILL seemin to
think it were his doin's stead Of a, act
O. Providence, which it sure were, but
Jim he just stood in the doorway hour
after hour, "a lookin out All not maxim
no answer 'ception' to say, once in a
while, The Lord will provide He told
me when he were a spinnin' the yarn,
that he never lost faith, but I reckon
that were outrageous lie. There
want no doubt but Jim were pious all
right but he would lie, sometimes.
Pears they hadn't eat nothin' at all
for two days, an they'd been stuck in the
branches O that there cottonwood for
nigh a week, when Jim see somepin COM
in towards em that didn't look like
drift. It were towards evenin an he
couldn't see plain at first, but he climbed
up on his roof an stripped off his shirt
an began a waving it like mad. for a
signal. It were boat, an the men in
it seen the signal after time, an they
come to the house just as 'twere gettin'
dark.
t'Twere one O these here relief parties
that goes out, flood times. 1ookin1 for just
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-24

| Scrooge seized the ruler with such en-
ergy of action, that the singer tied III
terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog
| and even more congenial frost.
AIT length the hour of shutting up the
counting house arrived. With an i'll Will
! Scrooge dismounted from his stool, ana
/ tacitly admitted the fact to the expect
| ant clerk in the tank, who instantly
snuffed his candle out, and put on his
| hat.
You'll want all day tomorrow,
| suppose?" said Scrooge.
| IF quite convenient sir
It's not convenient" said Scrooge,
"and it's not fair If was to stop half
a-crown for it, you'd think yourself Ill
used, I'll be bound?"
| The clerk smiled family.
and yet" said Scrooge, you don't
think me i'll used when l pay days
wages for no work"
The clerk observed that it was only
once a year.
"a poor excuse for picking a mans
| pocket every twenty fifth of Deem
bert" said Scrooge, buttoning his great
coat to the chin. But l suppose you
must have the whole day. Be here all
/ the earlier next morning"
| The clerk promised that he would;
and Scrooge walked out with a growl.
The office was closed in a twinkling,
and the clerk, with the long ends of his
white comforter dangling below his
waist (for he boasted no great-coaD,
went down slide on Cornhill at the
end of lane of boys. twenty times, in
honor of its being Christmas eve, and
| then ran home to Camden Town. as
hard as he could pelt, to play at blind
mans buff.
| Scrooge took his melancholy dinner
in his usual melancholy tavern and
having read all the newspapers, and
| beguiled the rest of the evening with
| his bankers book, went home to bed.
He lived in chambers which had once
belonged to his deceased partner. They
We're a gloomy suite of rooms, in low
ering pile of building up a yard where
| 1t had so little business to be, that one
could scarcely help fancying it must
have run there when 1t was young
| house, playing at hide-and-seek with
other houses, and have forgotten the
way out again. 1t was old enough now,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-24

and dreary enough, for nobody lived in
it but Scrooge, the other rooms being
all let out as offices. The yard was so
dark that even Scrooge, who knew it's
every stone. was fain to grope with his
hands. The fog and frost so hung
about the black old gateway of the
house, that it seemed as if the genius of
the weather sat in mournful meditation
on the threshold.
Now it is a fact that there was moth
ing at all particular about the knocker
on the door, except that it was very
large. 1t is also fact that Scrooge
had seen it, night and morning, during
his whole residence in that place; also
that Scrooge had as little of what is
called fancy about him as any man In
the city of London, even including
which is bold word-the corporation,
aldermaen and livery. Let it also be
borne in mind thai Scrooge had not
bestowed one thought on Marley since
his last mention of his seven-yearS-
dead partner that afternoon. And then
let any man explain to me, II he can,
how it happened that Scrooge, having
his key in the lock of the door, saw In
the knocker, without its undergoing any
intermediate process of change,-not a
knocker, but Marley's face.
Marleys face. It was not in impene-
trable shadow, as the other objects in
the yard were, but had a dismal light
about it, like a bad lobs1r in dark
cellar. 1t was not angry or ferocious,
but looked at Scroge as Marley used
| to look: with ghostly spectacles turned
up on it's ghostly forehead. The hair
was curiously stirred, as If by breath
or hot air; and tho the eyes We're wide
open, they We're perfectly motionless.
That, and it's livid color, made it horri-
BILE; but its horror seemed to be in spite
of the face, and beyond it's control,
rather than a part of its own express
sion.
AS Serooge looked fixedy at this
phenomenon it was a knocker again.
To say that he was not startled, or
that his blood was not conscious of a
terrible sensation to which 1T had been
a stranger from infancy, would be I'M
true. But he put his hand upon the
| key he had relinquished, turned it stur-
Oily, walked in, and lighted his cam
| die.
He did pause, with a moments irres-
| olution, before he shut the door, and
he did look cautiously behind it first,
as if he half expected to be terrified
with the sight of Marley's pigtail stick
/! ing out into the hall But there was
nothing on the back of the door except
the screws and nuts that held the
knocker on, SO he said, Pooh, pooh!
and closed it with bang.
The sound resounded thru the house
| like thunder. Every room above. and
every cask in the wine merchants cell
lars below, appeared to have separate
| peal of echoes of it's own. Scrooge was
not man to be frightened by echoes.
He fastened the door, and walked
| across the hall, and up the stairs, slow
| ~, too, trimming his candle as he Went
You may talk vaguely about driving
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-24

| eyes in silence, for a moment, Wouio
| play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with
| him. There was something very aw-
| full, too, in the spectre's being provided
with an internal atmosphere of his
own. Scrooge could not feel 1T himself
| but this was clearly the case; for tho
| the ghost sat perfectly motionless, his
/ hair and skirts, and tassels were still
agitated as by the hot vapor from an
oven.
you see this toothpick?' said
Scrooge, returning to the charge, for
the reason just assigned; and wishing
tho it were only for second, to divert
the visions stony gaze from himself
| II do" replied the ghost.
j "You are not looking at it." said
Scrooge.
but I see it," said the ghost, mot
withstanding."
| Well" returned Scrooge, II have
but to swallow this, md be for the rest
Of my days prosecuted by a legion OF
COLLINS, all my own creation. Humbug
tell you; humbug!"
| At this the spirit raised a frightful
cry, and shook his chain with such a
dismal and appalling noise, that
Scrooge held on tight to his chair. to
save himself from falling in swoon.
But how much greater was his horror
when, the phantom taking off the BAN
dage round his had, as if it were too
warm to wear indoors, his lower jaw
dropped down upon his breast!
Scrooge fell upon his knees, and
| clasped his hands before his face.
Mercy" he said. Dreadful appari-
| ton, why do you trouble me?"
Man of the worldly mind!" replied
the ghost, do you believe in me or
not?"
Il do" said Scrooge. Il must. But
why do spirits walk the earth, and why
do they come to me?"
1T is required of every man." the
ghost returned, that the spirit within
him should walk abroad among his
fellow men, and travel far and wide;
and If that spirit goes not forth in life,
1T is condemned to do so after death. 1t
is doomed to wander thru the world
OH woe is me.-and witness what 1t
can not share, but might have shared
on earth, and turned to happiness!"
Again the spectre raised cry, and
shook his chain and wrung his shadowy
hands.
You are fettered," said scrooge.
trembling. Tell me Why"
II wear the chain forged in life re-
piled the ghost. II made it link by link,
and yard by yard; girded it on of my
own free will, and of my own free will
wore it. Is its pattern strange to
you ?''
Scrooge trembled more and more.
"Or would you know" pursued the
ghost, "the weight and length of the
strong coil you bear yourself? 1t was
full as heavy and as long as this, seven
Christmas ewes ago. You have 1abored
on It, since. 1t is ponderous chain!"
Scrooge glanced about him on the
floor, In the expectation of finding
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-24

personally known to Scrooge In their
lives. He had been quite familiar with
one old ghost, in white waistcoat,
with a monstrous iron safe attached to
his ankle, who cried piteously at being
unable to assist wretched woman
with an infant, whom he saw below,
upon a doorstep. The misery with
them all was, clearly, that they sought
to interfere, for good, in human mat
ters, and had lost the power forever.
Whether these creatures faded into
mist, or mist enchrouded them, he could
not tell. But they and their spirit
voices faded together; and the night
became as it had been when he walked
home.
SScrooge closed the window, and ex-
amined the door by which the ghost
had entered. 1t was double-locked, as
he had locked it with his own hands,
and the bolts wkere undisturbed. He
tried to say 'Humbug!" but stopped at
the first syllable. And being, from the
emotion he had undergone, or the fa-:
tigues of the day, or his glimpse of the
invisible world, or the dull CONVERSE
ton of the ghost or the lateness of the
hour. much in need of repose, went
stranght to bed, without undressing.
and fell asleep on the instant.
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a coach and-six up a good fight of
| stairs, c.. thru a bad young act of par
! lament; but l mean to say you might
have got hearse up that staircase. and
taken it broadwise, with the splinter
! bar towards the wall, and the door to-
/ wards tho balustrades, and done 1t
easy. There was plenty of width for
that, and room to spare; which is per-
haps the reason why Scrooge thought
| he saw a locomotive hearse going on
before him in the gloom. Half dozen
gas amps out of the street wouldn't
have lighted the entry too well, so you
may suppose that it was pretty dark
with Scrooge's dip.
| Up Scrooge went, not caring n but
| ton for that. Darkness is cheap, and
| Scrooge liked it. But before he shut
| his heavy door, he walked thru his
rooms to see that all was right. He had
| just enough recollection of the face to
desire to do that.
| Sitting room, bedroom, lumber
room. All as they should be. Nobody
under the table, nobody under the sofa:
a small fire in the CRATE; spoon and
basin ready; and the little saucepan OF
Cruel (Scrooge had cold in his heod)
| upon the hob. Nobody under the bed
nobody in the closet; nobody in his
] dressing gown, which was hanging ur
| in a suspicious attitude against The
wall. Lumber room as usual. Old fire.
| guard. old shoes, two fish-baskets
4 washing stand on three legs and a po-
/ ker.
| Quite satisfied, he closed his door, and
| locked himself in; double-locked him
| self in, which was not his custom. Thus
secured against surprise, he took off his
cravat, put on his dressing gown and
| slippers, and his nightcap; and sal
| down before the fire to take his Cruel.
1t was a very low fire, indeed; moth
| ing on such bitter night. He was
obliged to sit close to it, and brood over
| it, before he could extract the least
sensation of warmth from such hand
! full Of fuel. The fireplace was an old
one, built by some Dutch merchant
| long ago, and paved all round with
lauaint Dutch tiles, designed to Illus
trate the Scriptures. There were Gains
and Abels, Pharaoh's daughters, queens
of Sheba. angelic messengers descend
/ ing thru the air on clouds like feather