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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-07-21
PUBLIC SALE
Desirable Spotsylvania
Realty on Court House

Pursuant to the terms OF decree OF the
circuit Court Of SpOtsylvaDia entered in
the chlncery causes Of ll0user VS. Russell,
Administrator, and H0user vs. HOuser.
ON July 10th, 1908, the undersigned special
commissioners will expose TO sale at public
lucti0n to the highest bidder on
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-07-21
TERMS OF SALE:

One-half of the purchase money IN cash,
and remainder on credit of one year, eyi
denced by bond bearing per cent inter.
est, payable semi-onnually, and secured
By deed of trust.
ST. GEO. r. fITZHUGH,
+. w. COLEMAN,
SDecial Courmis sinners
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-07-21

Shelton Beaten Into Unconscious
ness and Miss Mullen Carried OF
by Rssaiiants She is Rescued by
Motorman Reader Militia and Pc
lice Make Unsuccessful Search for
the 5rutes.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-07-21

International Association Has Paid
No Benefits Alleged Consp'rators
Held FOR Grand Jufy More Troops
Leave.
The independent., 1903-05-28

grow with fixed amount of blood.
In conclusion, believe that the sys-
tenn of currency that | propose would
give us currency that will always be
Of the same value; that will expand
and contract with the requirements of
trade; that will prevent usury; that
will make it easier for the laborer to
obtain capital; that cannot be con-
trolled by monopoly; that will make
a financial crisis caused by scarcity
of money impossible; that will in
crease the revenues of the country.
and at the same time tighten the bur.
dens of the people
JAMES S. PATTON.
Riverside, Cal.
The independent., 1903-05-28
Do You Want a Camera9

Boys and girls, here is a chance to
secure a good camera absolutely free.
We will give you Brownie Camera,
made by the Eastman Kodak Co. This
camera is not toy, but is reliable
and accurate instrument making pic
lures 2 1-4x214 inches, which are as
sharp and clear as pictures made by
most $40 and SIS cameras.
Send us three new subscriptions to
the WEEKLY WORLD-HERALD,
prepaid for one year, and we will at
once mail you, postage paid, Brownie
Camera.
The subscription price of the
WEEKLY WORLD-HERALD is $1.00
per year. Address
WEEKLY WORLD-HERALD
Omaha, Neb.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Why the Hen cackIes.

The accepted explanation of the
cackling in which hen indulges af-
ter laying an egg is that she is so
pleased that she wants everyone to
know it. The rooster answers the
cackle with crow, and this is taken
as further indication that both are i'm
mensely proud of the achievement.
This explanation is not tenable. If
the question is considered fairly, it is
very easy to see that instinct would
teach the hen that to cackle is to call
the attention of the enemy to both
herself and her embryo offspring,
which she would naturally avoid do
ing. The cackle is a relic OF long by
gone days when fowls were not do
mesticated, and ran about wild. When
the hen wished to lay, she retired
from the rest of the fowl community
and performed the task. By the time
she was ready to rejoin the common
wealth the other members had wan
dered some distance. and she did not
know where they We're. She waited
till she. had gone some distance from
the egg in order not to endanger it,
and then she cackled, after also hav-
ing taken good look around to as
sure herself that no enemies were
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
When Aldrich Lauahed.

Did you ever laugh at funeral?"
said Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island.
81 did once. 1t was the funeral of an
old-time acquaintance, and the min
lister who made the opening address
was absent-minded. He got up in
the pulpit, began to speak, and then
hesitated. He had forgotten the sex
of the corpse.
"'Our deceased, our deceased
brother-or sister he said, and then
went on and spoke with great feeling
about the virtues of the deceased, call
ing it always 'brother-or sister, Fin
ally, pausing a moment, | heard him
say to the aged deacon who sat in
a loud whisper:
1.-The corpse, which Is it, brother
or a sister,?
THE deacon was very Old and slow
of wit. He answered in a whisper:
Neither. Only an acquaintance
Here" Senator Aldrich ended, Il
laughed.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Women Who Carry the Mail
Many of Them Are Doing Good Work in Rural Free De-
Ivery-Losc Little Time Gosstpine and Are
Valued by the PostohIce Department.

Nrichin the last few months the
women of the country districts of the
United States have found a new occu-
patton in the government service.
Some hundreds of them all over the
country have been appointed rural let
ter carriers, and the reports to the de-
partment show that the women have
done wonderfully well in their new
occupation.
Indeed only a few days ago Supt.
Machen of the Free Delivery Division
of the PostofTice department received
reports that a number of his female
rural carriers braved the severe bliZ-
yards in the West, and while acting as
substitutes for the men carriers made
the daily deliveries in the deep snow
and sleet of the blizzard in most
remarkable and satisfactory manner.
There are at present no less than
thirty-seven female rural letter car
riers, that is, thirty-seYen women who
have stood the civil service eXamina-
tions and passed so well that they ex-
Celled the male candidates and have
been appointed regular rural carriers,
not substitutes.
Under the rules for the appointment
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
The WhaIers of New Bedford,
Simple Hcroisn, of the Men Who "Go Down to the Sea
Ships- Hazardous Exploits 7hatSeem Common
place to Those Who Undertake Them

We have raised a race of men who
have gone down to the sea in ships
on the most hazardous of enterprises,
says the New Bedford Mercury. No
men have hourly for n lifetime taken
such disastrous chances as our whale
men. and their voyages have been fire.
quently crowded with moving acct
dents, hairbreadth escapes and dis
tressful strokes. And We go to these
men. like Desdemona. with greedy
ear to devour up their DISCOURSE The
records of the thrilling voyages of our
whalemen are kept in log books and
in the hundreds of volumes stored in
old sail lofts. How many of us have
pored over them to have our nerves
played upon after the manner of the
fictionists, but it is net there. And
we seek out the man whose ship is
struck and sunk by a whale in mid
ocean. and who takes to the boats
and reaches land after weeks of buff
feting, and the men whose ships are
crushed in the ice, and their story is
as prosaic as the story of the man
who goes to the days work in the
electric car. We are thrilled by the
boat journey of DR.. Kane. of tramp
in the Arctic ice by Nausen. Last
week man arrived here who had
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17

of rural carriers the regular carrier
after his appointment has the right to
name a substitute, who is to do his
work when the carrier is sick or inca
pacitated for work. Generally the
carrier appoints some member of his
family, as he has to supply his horse
and wagon for the service, and of late
the carriers have been naming their
wives. sisters or daughters and some
times their mothers as their substi-
tutes. The department has found that
these substitutes have performed good
work, and that their sex has not inter
fered with the rural delivery. so when
a woman is named now as substitute
she is accepted.
The department officials say that
women make very good rural carriers,
and they do not lose time gossiping
when delivering the mail as one would
suppose, and that the innate love of
gadding about and visiting their
friends to see what is going on makes
the female like the work and forget
the drudgery and hardships incident
to a daily drive of twenty. thirty or
even more miles in all sorts OF
weather.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17

The San Francisco News Letter
doesn't believe in brain fag. 1t ex-
ploits the so-called disease in a man
ner altogether its own; a manner
made popular by the distinguished edi-
tor OF that coast publication, Freder-
iclt Marriott. This publication in ques-
ton has never yet been afraid to say
what it meant, and its conclusions on
any subject are worth attention, If
only to catch a fresh point of view.
Brain fag is frequent subject of
discussion. Here at the East we ire
quently hear of citizens falling by the
wayside because they are beset by
this irsidious diTculty. and this is
the more apparent. the careful OBJ
server believes, among those who have
no particular brains to flag, The source
of the prevalent complaints about the
spread of this disease-we find them
chiefly in religious papers and in nam
by-pamby society journals-plainly
suggests the question whether tho re-
cent discovery of the hookworm. as
the bacillus of laziness is called. has
not some connection with this sudden
epidemic of brain flag. The brain is a
most reasonable as well as 4 reason
ing organ. Its habit is to give exceed
ingly little trouble. The eye. the
stomach, even the useful hand, is a
pared with the brain. Nobody knows
just how the brain does its work, but
ordinarily ii goes on doing it without
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
TOO Much for the Jockey.

James r. Keene. anticipating the
opening of new racing season, went
outside his own wide experience as
an employer of jockeys when he re-
lated story concerning an over
anxious horse-owner and a particular
Iy conscientious rider. The horse
owner had issued full orders as to
the way horse was to be ridden in
a coming race to a small negro boy,
the only rider he could secure. The
original orders then were added to.
with provisions for all sorts of emer,
gencies. until the Jockey became be-
wildered.
Look yere, boss" the boy broke
in at last. Dis yere race is only one
mile. KANT do all you done told
me in just one mile."-New York
Times.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Whx Chickens Never EaII.

Little children who have big beds to
roll around on often fall ont in the for
getfulness of sleep. and wake to find
themselves on the floor, usually more
frightened than hurt.
But chickens, whose beds are rarely
more commodious than a slender rail,
never, even in their deepest slumbers,
fall off their perches. This is not due
to superior intelligence on their part,
but because chickens leg is so made
that whenever 1t is bent the tendons
that move the toes are tightened. and
consequently the foot is clinched
Watch a chicken and see how the toes
close every time it lifts its foot to
take a step. Now. when a chicken is
on the roost its legs are bent under
it and the toes are firmly clasped
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
A Few Conundrums.

If Mississippi wore Missouri's New
Jersey, what would Delaware? Alas
kat I'll ask her).
Old Mother Twitchhead had but one
eye,
And long tail, which she let fly;
Every time she went over a gap
She left a bit of her tail in a trap?
needle and thread.
Why are men like facts? Because
they are stubborn things.
Why is lazy dog like hill? Be
cause he is a slow pup (slope up).
Who is the greatest chicken thief
spoken of in Shakespeare? Macbeth; ;
because he did murder most foul
Why does minister always say.
Dearly beloved brethren" and not
refer to the sisters? Because the
brethren embrace the sisters.
Which musical instrument is the
NEST moral? An upright piano.
When did George Washington first
take a carriage? When he took a
hack at the cherry tree.
Why is life the greatest of all
conundrums? Because we must all
give it up.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Scrap Picture Books.

l know boy of . who has half
dozen scrapbooks. They are all la
beled and whenever time hangs heavy
on his hands, as it is likely to do on
rainy Saturday and Sunday after
moons. he gets them out and sorts the
pictures, which he has thrown into a
box between times. When the Vene-
Zuelan war began he saved pictures
and clippings of that and now has 4
first-rate history of the war. Another
book is made OF clippings and pictures
of the great coal strike. another of the
faces of great men and another is all
about President Roosevelt. One book
contains an odd assortment of pic
lures of art and historical subjects
clipped from the illustrated period
icals. A man who was writing a book
about the Venezuelan situation offered
him IS for his scrapbook.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17

made a boat journey in Hudson bay as
remarkable as the journey of DR..
Kane, and he had nothing to say ex-
cept that 1t was four weeks and five
days from the time he left his ship in
a whaleboat with two comrades until
he reached fur station. In answer to
persistent questioning a reporter
dragged from him that it was hard
work" and shipmate spoke up for
the adventurer and eX .lalned to re-
porter that there was not minute of
those five weeks, night or day, when
the little boat was not menaced by the
floating ice which piled up about them
on occasions as high as the church
steeples. And against Nansen's per-
formance we can produce whaleman
who put half dozen pieces of hard
bread in his pocket and. in midwinter,
left his ship in the Arctic, in latitude
Is or thereabouts, and walked 1,5OO
miles back to civilization. And to
save him he couldn't understand why
the reporters wanted to talk with
him. He didn't see why he was an
object of interest.
Hence it is our habit to say, often
in the spirit of criticism or at least
regret. that our whaleman is not i'm
aginative."
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Tie Cause of "Brain Fag, "
Som. Good Advice for Chronic Sufferers from Disease
That Seems 10 Have d PreJilecion for Those Who
Have No Particular Brains TO Fae.

any fuss whatever Now and then, 70
be sure, it appears to be raising a
great disturbance. Its plant of agony
on such occasions is heard through
the whole system. But the chances
are that it is merely fighting some
other organs battle-the stomach s.
probably, or very likely the liver, or 1t
may be that cold feet have sent an un
due flow of blood to the head. AS to
becoming brain tagged" it is eX-
trmely rare that the hardest work
tires the Drain out. The seat of the
trouble is not there. The brain grows
brighter by work. 1t was made for
toll. 1t works while we sleep. and
does not seem to mind that. Nine
times out of ten those who think they
have tired brains simply have tired
conscences, or much more customar-
lily, weary and sadly overworked stom-
achs. Or else they have those same
redoubtable and pestiferous germs.
the hookworms of laziness. The very
excellent Mail and Express of New
York recently found that the hook
worm had seized upon all too many
of its staff. and it set about appli ing
a cure. 1t gives the following recipe:
Take a large dose of determination
every morning, fortified with cold
bath on rising, and followed up by an
hourly dose of persistence" 1t guar
antees that this will dssipate brain
fag as the rays of the summer In
scatter the dew. Try it.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Cause for Thankfulness.

Lieut.-Col. r. H. Pratt, who recent
ly resigned from the dictatorship of
the Carlisle Indian school, once slept
in tent with eight young men, all
of whom snored. Col Pratt listened
in disgust to the medley of gurgles,
E-unts and means. In this horrible
chorus each participants snore could
be distinctly heard, for each had in
it something characteristic and unique
Col. Pratt writhed and fretted. A man
on his left snored nervously, with a
kind of fiuttering, wavering accent
His was perhaps the most unbearable
snore of all Suddenly the snore
ceased-its producer snorted and ther
lay very quiet.
Thank heaven" murmured Col
Pratt, "one is dead"
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17

and by apparently pulling the ends un-
tied again. Take two ends of the
handkerchief one in each hand, the
ends dropping from the inside of your
hands. Tie single knot, when your
hands and your handkerchief Will be
in the position shown in our illustra-
ton. Instead of pulling the ends C
and d, grasp the part marked G with
the thumb and fore6nger, dropping
the end d and pulling upon the end
C and the bend b. when instead of
really tying you loosen the knot. All
this must be done as quickly as posi-
BILE to prevent detection.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
The Worst Fool Under the Sun.


He is fool who sits anG pines
While other men push along.
Who thinks that his lines are the hardest
lines
And croons a pitiful song.
lie is a fool who sEhs: "Ah me!
I've arrived in the world too late!''
But the worst fool under the sun is he
That nurses hate.
Tie is a fool no matter how high
Who fancies that when he dies
No other may worthily occupy
The place that he occupies.
lie Is a fool who claims 10 be
Foredoomed to the scorn of Fate,
But the worst fool under the sun is he
That nurses hate.
There was never a man who nursed a
wrong,
Intending to scourge his foe,
Unless he dragged future sorrow along
And added to future woe.
The anger foster Is sure to be
Remorse for us soon or late,
And the worst fool under the sun Is he
That nurses hate.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
THERE ARE STILL WARS.
Some of the Battles of a peaceful"
Year.

Some of the Battles Of Peaceful"
Year.
The year of grace 1902 which saw
the end of the Boer war, the practical
end of the rebellion in the Philippines,
and the termination of half dozen
South and Central American revolu-
tions, will probably go down into tims
labeled as a year of supreme peace
And yet in 1908 battles are waging in
nearly dozen countries and war is
abroad upon every continent.
The average reader, if asked to
name the wars now in progress, would
very likely stop uncertainty after men
tioning the struggle between Britain
and the natives of Somalilarl. But
this Is not the only war of the day by
any means. Here is little list of
the places whereat battles have been
going on, either now or recently, With
the names of the opposing forces:
Venezuela.
Hayti-Three revolutions.
The Afghanistan-Indian Border
Waziris VS.. British.
Morocco-Revolution to dethrone
the sultan.
Upper Nigeria-Arabs VS.. British.
Somaliland-British VS.. Somalis.
Southern Arabia-Arabs VS.. Turks.
Macedonia-Turks VS.. Macedonians
and Bulgarians.
Sarawak-British native force VS..
Dyaks.
Corea-Corean regulars VS.. rebels,
Sumatra-Dutch VS.. Achinese.
The guerrilla warfare in the lower
Philippines and the aftermath of the
Boxer troubles in China are not in.
cluded.-London Answers.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
LITTLE SEEDS OF KINDNESS.
How Representative Curtis Came Near
Making an Enemy.

Row Representative SurtlS CdTnc wear
Making an Enemy.
Secretary Wilson is receiving nu-
merous requests from all parts of the
country for seeds, and is replying to
all of them that congress at this ses
sion has made no provision for seed
distribution. and there are no seeds
left on hand at the department of ag-
riculture Representative Charles
Curtis of Kansas, who was one of the
contestants in the recent fight for SEN
atorial honors, told story to-day
about the farmers in connection with
this matter. one of his newly elect
ed compeers came to him in great in
dignation. The compeer was rapidly
reaching the conclusion that career
in congress was humiliating sort Of
business With a few words more
lorcible than elegant, he showed Cur
tbs a postal card he had just received.
Its back merely bore this inscription;
II. ID. Jones, Ownena, Kansas" Moth
ing more, nothing less There was no
key to the possible code; no accom-
panying diagram to explain the brief
but apparently inexplicable puzzle.
W het hi' Spu t5oihS " VIZ abOuS
it?" asked Curtis, smilingly.
do about it? Fold up the postal
very carefully and throw it in the
waste basket, of course"
Then you can count on losing a
few votes next campaign"
WHY" asked the surprised new
statesman.
Simply" replied Curtis, that that
is an established way for asking for
government seeds. You'll get a great
many of them before the time comes
for the annual seeds distribution to
begin, and what such postals mean is
to put the name forwarded on your
list of those to whom you Will have
the seeds sent this year out of your
allotment from the agricultural de-
partment." 1t was a surprise to the
new member, and he went away nut
tering at the divers duties of congress
men, but, nevertheless. his constitu-
ent, Jones. was one of the first to get
the seeds in the ensuing distribution.
New York Tribune
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Not Our Weak Hand.

How small is this that has been asked OF
US
IT'S but to try;
Not our weak hand has been required to
set
With stars the sky,
or swing the great gold moon above the
clouds.
Nor yet have we
Commanded been, to place the singing
shell
Beneath the sea-
But just to try. with but our humble
might.
with our whole heart.
Not waste our strength by doubling that
success
WIN be our part,
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
A Trip Around the World.


Did you ever play the game called
"Trip Around the World? 1t is the
very thing for children's party. Each
player should be provided with a
small notebook and pencil. Blank
dance cards. with the tiny colored
pencils attached, are pretty for this
purpose. The leaves should be num-
bered to correspond with various ar
ticles distributed about the room. The
game is then to guess the country or
city designated by each of these ar
ticles. A tiny jar of cold cream stands
for Greece, a miniature pot of baked
beans for Boston; bottle of perfume
for Cologne; a cigar for Havana, etc
difficult, but just enough so to brush
up the memories of laggard geograph-
ers. Prizes should be awarded to
those who secure the greatest number
of correct answers. A book Of travels,
a travelling cup. book for notes, good
pictures of the places named, are all
appropriate souvenirs. When the COM
pany is marshalled for supper let the
little ones find their partners by
means of duplicate postal cards.
These can be had now in the shops
and are very pretty and interesting in
themselves. They boy who gets a
Pixies Peak card takes out the girl
who receives a similar souvenir OF
Uncle Sam, etc. For the table tiny
suit cases or little steamer trunks or
bonbons or foreign conserves and i'm
ported fruits make pretty and appro'
pirate favors.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Noah's Arrannement.

'It has interested me much" said
the scriptural literalist, Ito speculate
on how Noah arranged all those mis-
cellaneous animals in the ark
well" replied the cheerful idiot,
'he probably arranged the crocodiles
in tears and the jungle beasts in
iairs."
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17

around the perch so that it actCally
cannot let go without first straight
ening up to an erect position. 1t thus
clings to its perch and maintains
fixed position without any effort
Little Chronicle.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17

aear. The rooster, hearing the cackle,
answered it by crow. and thus III
formed the hen of the whereabouts oil
the tribe. This sort of thing may De
seen now among the ancestors OF our
domestic fowl in the Malay countries
and India.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
First Indication,

Young Wife-I'm afraid Jack does
not love me as he formerly did.
Her Mother-What reason have
you for thinking SO, dear?
Young Wife-He is beginning to
read the paper every morning while
at breakfast.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17

species of plover found in South Amer
lea, India and Africa have wing spurs,
and sharp and effective spurs they are,
TOO. The spur is situated just at the
base of the thumb, and, like the spurs
on the legs of other birds, consists of
a sheath of horn fitting closely over
n core of bone.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Physicians Puzzled by Boys Diseas

John Kerns, l5-year-old son OF
Hanford Kerns, died at Whitacre. Va.
from a disease which has long bafIled
the physicians. Shortly after birth
his body began to shrink and at the
same time his head to expand. The
disease could not be correctly dag
nosed by the local physicians. but as
it progressed the boys limbs and
body so shrunk that he became a skel-
eton. At death his head measured 3S
inches in circumference and was 2S
inches over the top from ear to ear.
The boy was unable to walk, having
become top-heavy. and would fall over
owing to the weight of his head
Baltimore Sun.
The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
Not the Only Attraction.

Wife during the quarreD and
people say you only married me for
my money.
Husband-People are wrong. my
dear. They overlook the fact that you
also had considerable real estate.