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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10

Grove City. Pa. Oct. 6.--John Moore
was killed and Thomas Graham and
Frank Moore perhaps fatally injured
at Eakins Corners, few miles east
Of here. by a bolt Of lightning The
three young men were returning home
when a storm came up. and they took
shelter under a large tree. They had
been there but a few minutes when
the fatal fash Of lightning came. At
latest report neither of the two sur
vivors had recovered consciousness
and It Is feared that Graham, and pos
sibly Moore, cannot recover.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
BRITISH CABINET NAMED
Alfred Lyttleton Succeeds Chamber
lain as Colonial Secretary.
DUKE or orVoNsHiaE RESIGNS

DUKE or orVoHsHiaE RESIGNS
Crisis i- FURTHER Complicated by His
Action. end There are Small Hopes
Of the Cabinet Lasting Many
Months.
London. OFT 6.-Tte three weeks
cabinet crisis has ended In manner
rore remarkable and dramatic than
that oi its Inception. Mr Bali1urs
aew ministry affords measure 0i the
enormous dimuify hc has bad to con-
tend VITA ia the tasH Of rccouauuc-
uon. aud les composition seems TO in-
dlcato that the premier himself can
have llttlo belief OF JOS durability. The
most sonmnc supporters OF the gov
ernmout express the smallest hopes
OF spch an administration living many
months and the prevalent idea Is that
there w.u Dee q general election before
parliament reassemh'os.
Th. Duke of Dcsonshife who was
loader oi jhe Con eryatiee parry IN
Le house oi lords. it was announced
bias resigned Ue onco OBJ l0rl prasi-
delt ol Use council. and ihe King Aas
accepted hs resignation.
TIE Dew cabinet was also annomc-
ot n .e eo.sro.eI Cab foi,gws.
wWnr So John proIr.ok. formerly
..l..r for war succoe.s Lord
Cr.r-e Hamilton as sccrciury for ia
.a. tA Chamberlain postmaster
u..i u.t..a. .tr. Hieh.. aa chan
..rrr o. o.. ,,....uef
Irnf Lr,fu.cu /. lori.r o.. O.f0rd.
-r.,..Is los.uh mnarsln as see
rotary f.- fae colonies.
H. % Arnoil.Forster. secretary 70
ro admiralty. succeeds ..r Biodrick
., ..rr..a-r .or war
tr.... t...t .It.,r.fs ef
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
He Learned a Great Truth

IL is said OF John Wesley that he
once said TO Mistress Wesley: "Nhy
do YOU tell that child the same thing
over and over againsn John Wesley
because once telling is not enough, q
Il is for this same reason that you are
told again and again that Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy cures colds and
grip; that IL cOunteracts any tendency
Of the diseases TO result i'm pneumonia
and that it is pleasantend safe to take.
For sale by VI. NJ Lewis, druggist.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10

Nearly l,OOO, 600 foreigners came to
the 'nited States 10 the iast fiscal year
to make this country their home, nnd
they nre rtill hockiug herein drOyes To,
- ssibilty that Congress may DO some
thing TO shut out thousands Of the most
undesirable people in the future is having
something TO do with the rush that is
now on
The prospects are that the fiscal yeai
ending June 30, 1904. will show that
many more than q million people arri,ef
IN this country during the year, three
iOurlhs u them unfit Tor citizenship H.
the lowest grade South American c. un
triea.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
Gained Forty Pounds in Thirty Days

For severs months our youbge
brother bad been troubled with
Indigestion. he tried several rem
edies but got no benefit from them.
We purchased some OF Chamberlain.
Stomach aud Liver Tablets and be-
commenced taking them. Inside OF
thirty days he had gained forty
pounds i'm flesh. He is now fully re-
covered. We have good trade on
the Tablets.-HOLLEY BROS, Mer
chants, Long Branch, Mo. Fer -aic
bv NJ. NJ. Lewis. druggist
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
900, 900 900 TONS o. COAL
American Production IN 1902 e.
eeedec Rll PREVIOUS Recof5t

4 preliminary STATEN nt ~hf ~irA im
rpal pruluriiHu ui she iDi el at,s .i
ueen i--urd hy thc mied oisits Gee. %
es,l Survey ltsfaie-tha- for th~fir-i iff
in the history ~ the lniieI States th
production of c1nl has ached tu' B %
over BOO 600. 900 shrrt tone. t1- ar ua.
showing h.ife 800 $50 $50 tpns. va.ue
At $3I3.l33.-i3
Throu.put oiantIraci'rcHa' gnonl cd
tn 3G. .sj5 no long trhs equivalent O.
81. .1SD Ju5 short tpfsl. "a 30 efea-r ot -J-
$40 $50 long toms. ora most llpfr c.nt
from 1901 This dDrrfass Wac o.
entirely t1 tlr suspension ni operate n-
by the snrike iu she Hrthrarflsn reel 'l
7 he vaiur Rrthe mines ui thr gn'hfar'r
product ia 1900 Amounted to S-I.tl1
gs1. ~ against SIly. .5Oi u2u 900 1901
The average 1sIpe 600 thr marketed ,ag
-old during the year nt ta. mines "a-
$3.50 per long tom. thu v.lne DO 1901
having been S2.u3
The output of hitnminnus amlIli
el 10 1902 to 25e.tll OGi rharr 0.n-
valued az S2y1.llG gU6. ns agsin.t 80.
>2G. SO short tons. ya!ued al s-'ii. i'".
40 IN 1901
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
Rsn Ten Penny Nail Through His
Hand.

While opening box, j. G. Mount,
of Three Mile Bay, y. T., ran a ten
penny nail through the fleshy part
of his hand. IL thought at once OF
all the pain and soreness this would
cause me, " he says, "and immedia tely
applied ChambePiain's Pain Balm aud
occasionally afterwards. To my sur
prise il removed all pain and soreness
and the injured parts were soon
healed" For sale by NJ. NJ. Lewis
druggist.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
Liquor Men and the Mann Bill.

The nomination Of Mr Rosencghk, in
Henrico, and the defeat Of Mr. Christian
in Richmond, has emboidened the liquor
men TO think they may defeat Judg.
Mann. for reelection e. the state Senate
which they believe would largely breal
the force Of the operation oihis bill The
belief Is expressed by some OF the liquor
men that had they organized and made
fights in all the districts they could haY'
secured sufficient nominations to insure
the repeal Of the Mann law.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
The ceIoneI's One Error.

Several years ago Col. W. W. Berkeley
represented us In the General Assembly
when we were connected with Roanoke.
II will be remembered that he was the
author of a bill apparently offered in @
spirit OF pleasantly, making 1t compulsc-
~ on ministers to visit, at stated peri
DDS, each member Of their congregations.
Whether it was due to spirit OF resent
ment on the part OF the preachers or q
spirit OF fear that the bill would become
law on the part Of tbeeongregations,
the fact remains that Col. Berkeley has
never had any sort OF political luck since
but the quality marked bad, notwith
standing the fact that they have had
ample time and opportunities to "coD
slider bis claims. New Castle Record.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10

TIE Celebrated Appleton Corn
Husker and Shredder, three sizes
husking from 55 to 30 barrels OF corn
per day; guaranteed to shell less corn
than any other HuskerOn the market.
It will pay you to get our catalogue
and prices on same before placing
your order for any other make. Easy
payments. Eclipse Sprayers for gen
eral orchard spraying and lighting
the San Jose Scale. Cider Mills, all
sizes: Sugar Cane and Sorghum Mills,
all sizes; Stump Pullers, Gas and Gas
oline Engines. Portable Grlst Mills
and Turbine Water Wheels, all sizes
Steel and Felt Roofing, Plaster Hair,
Candy Leather and Rubber Betting,
Wholesale dealers in Lubricating
Oils, Fish Bros. and Studebaker
Wagons, Buggies, Surrys. &c. We
can save you money Oh all kinds Of
machinery. For sale, l S-horse- power
Engine on Wheels, lin good order,
cheap. Address
ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO.,
- SHILOH. VA.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
Pointed Paraaraphs.

To the seli-made man all other self.
made men are nothing but upstarts.
Energy usually brings success and
success invariably bring energy.
All men are bora without intelligence
and great many never get over IL
One half OF the world is anxious to get
" hat the other half Is anxious to getr
OF.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
Special Excursions to Nisssrs Falls

will leave Washington via B. & o. r. r.,
PAR r. r. and l.. V. X. K. at $50
a. N. September 1lth and 18th and
October 9Th; and via Z. K H., Buffalo
and N. Y. G. 4 II. K x X. at 500 q. m
September 18th. and October 2nd and
18th
Round trip from fredericksburg Sl1 :
~ c. 6. cox. Agent.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10

For pleasant physic take Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
Easy to take. Pleasant in effect.
For sale 10y NJ. ". Lewis, druggist.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
UNIQUE ADVERTISEMENT
How the Merchant Told o. ih
Wares Just After the War

1AsA fNAAaN AfN~ - 80
Capt Pat Waring. of E.sex county. 200
looking over some ui his papers few
DAYS ago found among them a cift lll.f
advertisement Oi Mr George W S.ep
herd in verse. printed ia l0l5 D., the
late .lrrse White In war printed un
good paper aud is well preserved and
Mr. Naflnc -rut 10 tO Nr shepherd rs "a
reminder oi the times il-t after thr var.
Mr. shepherd wa- ipr years "a .r1 in2
day goods merchant bore ami nil a
long record of harl work. during So Ii'h
be- wns very succ s-iilnnd accumua dn
cOmpetoncg. h-fetifcl and not nov o.
gagged in active business lie has % p o.
some home on Princess Anne street au.
i- taking llie comfortably
The advertisement be verse reads az
follows.
u,dirated TO Shepherd
Market Corner
"nr Ihr Great nknown
"Air-D'f in the sulls Night
O,t 90 the -tily night,
Ere rlumber- chain has bound me.
Fond mem ~ brings the Hight
Oi >h. ulcri p Store around mc
|le smiles thht WIN
Il- Ready Tia
ihe w.rl- polite there spoken;
i. ilne display
N-rNnf7 zach faT
sni 'ff,-t supplies unhrofe
Thus ia -filly night
trr-.rH ff.r- chain ll-a hnurI q
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
Unavoidable

Mrs Kuickcr-"So she is a good house
keeper
Mrs Bocker-"Yes; she says she hotes
to think that her ancestors are dust"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10

Don't fail to call on b. Goldsmith 4
Son for bargains within the next ten
days.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10

Mr- Dixon says ~ was completely
rnn down and could not sleep. lbecame
nervous. had trembling spells and want
OIL 20 avoid society. tried various
remedies. but without apparently bene-
dung me Recently have been taking
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-10-10
PRICE, 5 CENTS
Mrs. John Dixon
Was All Run Down

Grafton, Pa, August If, 1905.
Paine'- Celery compound and feel that
my former good health has been restor-
I'd by means Of this wonderful remedy.
have taken bnt two bottles and my
friends tell me am myself again. Itisa
marvellous remedy
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
From Wilson County.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
Please allow me enough space in
your paper to let the farmers know
what we farmers in this section are
doing. We are doing all that lies
within our power to keep the work
of Farmers Alliance moving onward
and onward. Dear farmers, you who
are not members of the Alliance, we
ask you to put your shoulders to the
wheel and help us to push along the
work. Do you think that you are do
ing your duty by your fellowman to
stand back and not help a work that
has done so much for the farming
class of people? There is more yet
to be done than has already been
done. We are being oppressed hard
er every day by trusts and combines.
If ever the farmers needed to be or
ganized it is now.
At a regular meeting of the Farm
ers' Alliance of Wilson County, held
with Rock Ridge Sub, January 8,
1908, the following resolution was
carried:
We, the Wilson County Farmers
Alliance, now in session hereby de-
clare our sympathy with the Tobacco
Growers Association, and heartily
second its efforts for the improve
ment of the farmer.
j. II. FLOWERS, Sec.
Wilson Co., n. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
TO FIND OUT.

Fill a bottle or common glass with
your water and let it stand twenty
four hours; a sediment or settling
indicates an unhealthy condition of
the kidneys; if it stains the linen it
is evidence of kidney trouble; too
frequent desire to pass it, or pain
in the back is also convincing proof
that the kidneys and bladder are out
of order.
WHAT TO DO,
There is comfort in the knowledge
so often expressed that DIR. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney and
bladder remedy, fulflls every wish
in curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every
part of the urinary passage. It cor
reefs inability to hold water and
scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcome that unpleas-
ant necessity of being compelled to
go often during the day, and to get
up many times during the night. The
mild and the extraordinary effect of
Is SOOu FGd1IZ6u. II
stands the highest for it's wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases.
If you need a medicine you should
have the best. Sold by druggists in
ffty-cent and one-dollar sizes.
You may have a sample bottle of
Swamp-Root, the great kidney rene
dy, and a book hat tells all about it,
both sent absolutely free by mail.
Address DR.. KiImer & Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y. When writing be sure to
mention that you read this generous
offer in The Progressive Farmer.
Don't make any mistake, but remem-
Der the name, Swamp-Root, DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root, and the address
Binghamton, n. Y, on every bottle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
Cumberland County Alliance.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
Cumberland County Farmers Al
lance held it's regular meeting, Jan
uary 7th, with Goodwin sub at God
win. There were not many brethren
present, but we had a very nice meet
ing. Our next session will be held
with Wade sub at McMillan's Chapel
on Wednesday before second Thurs
day in April.
All the members of our order
should work and work in earnest, and
get all the good farmers to join that
they possibly can. We should all
devise means and ways how to save
money, and how to make money, and
not be trying to devise plans and
ways how to cause the farmers and
laboring class of people to spend
their money foolishly. Do the best
we can, we have no money to throw
away.
D. D. Balm, Secretary.
Cumberland Co., n. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

The following quotation is from
a private letter from Bro. @. w. P.
Gates, of Rock Spring, Orange Coun-
ty: "Our Alliance is doing well. The
tide seems to have turned, and we
are getting in new members at every
meeting. I am glad that our people
are waking up. However, we have to
lament the death of one of our
truest members, Bro. Thomas Sykes,
who died January 3D."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
WONDERFUL NERVE

Is displayed by many a man endur-
ing pains of accidental Cuts,
Wounds, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Sore
feet or stiff joints. But there's no
need for it. Bucklen's Arnica Salve
will kill the pain and cure the trou-
bic. It's the best Salve on earth for
Piles, too. 25c, at all druggists.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

Now is the time to terrace and ir-
rigate your farms. You should not
delay this work any longer. See adj
vertisement of Bostrom's Improved
Farm Level in this paper.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
More About Silk Raising in We Olden
Time.
Editor OF The Progressive Farmer:

munication all I had to say on silk
culture and the mulberry without be-
ing too lengthy, so please indulge me
in a few more lines.
The question may be asked why the
raising of silk was entirely abandon
ed in Orange and Alamance. In the
first place, there was not a silk fac
tory in North Carolina, perhaps not
in the United States. Hence there
was no market except for the small
quantity used by the ~tailors in work
ing button holes in the fine broad
cloth coats and satin vests and for
the samplers of the young ladies who
were in those days taught lettering
on fine linen, many such specimens
of the handiwork of our mothers and
grandmothers remaining to this day.
No little was used by the boys for
fiddle strings. The price per skein
was five cents. There was in those
days none of the fine machinery now
in use for reeling the silk from the
cocoons
About the year 1910 John Trolin-
ger of Orange County, planted an
orchard of Chinese mulberries on a
sandy bluff at the mouth of Stony
Greek where it empties into Haw
River. The twigs were cut one bud
to each piece and planted just like
corn, the rows six feet apart and the
buds about four feet apart in the
rows. The buds were covered three
or four inches deep. They germinat-
ed and came up fully as well as corn
and the third year afforded a fine
supply of large tender leaves. Mr..
Trolinger gave my father enough
buds to plant an eighth of an acre.
The land would have produced about
at the rate of two barrels of corn per
acre. At ny fathers death the null
berry patch fell to me. Not wishing
to raise silk I dug them up and threw
them into a gully where they sent up
shoots, and some of them may be
growing there to this day. Mr.. Troll
myers son Joseph, raised a quantity
of silk, but not having proper ma
chinery to reel it, it all got into a
tangle and he sustained a total loss.
There is no profit in silk raising in
North Carolina now, nor will there
be in generations to come. The
profits from a good hen or a row of
snap beans will afford more income
than the silk raised by an ordinary
family.
As for the great tree that I spoke
of in my former article as being a
relict of Governor Burrington's col
onists, it was called an English null
berry just as the Catawba grape was,
simply because fine things came from
there about thirty years ago. This
great tree was split into four parts
the stumps of which still remain
green. A tree of the same species
grows over Kernodle's well at Os-
sippe, Alamance County. 1t makes
one of the finest shade trees that
grows. B. +. WHITE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY
"CAPITAL CITY ROUTE."

Short line to principal cities OF the South
and Southwest, Florida, Cuba, Texas, Cal1for.
MIA and Mexico, reaching the Capitals Of six
In Erect March s., 1902.
Amador ledger., 1903-08-28
The Art of Li,tentns.

There is grace of kind listening as
we'll as grace Of kind speaking Some
men listen with an abstracted air
which shows that their thoughts are
elsewhere, or they seem to listen, but
by wide answers and irrelevant ques-
tions show that they have been occu-
pied with their own thoughts as being
more interesting, at least in their own
estimation, than what you have been
saying. Some interrupt and will not
hear you to the end. Some hear you to
the end, and forthwith begin to talk to
you about a similar experience which
has befallen themselves, making your
case only an illustration of their own.
Some, meaning to be kind, listen with
such a determined, lively, violent at
tention that you are at once made un-
comfortable, and the charm of con-
versation Is at an end. Many persons
whose manners will stand the test of
speaking break down under the trial
of listening.
Amador ledger., 1903-08-28
PICKINGS FROM FICTION.

What is genius? 1t is the power to be
a boy again at will. = Tommy and
Grizel."
There is one consoling thing about
being disillusioned-it presupposes the
lllusion.-"A Social Departure"
Thar never was a quicker way to
kill courage in feller than to fight his
fights for 'im.-"The Substitute"
Women have us back to the condition
of primitive man or they shoot us high
er than the topmost star.-"The Ego
ist."
Tact is the exercise Of that wit where
by woman renders man unconscious of
the chains in which her beauty binds
him.-"A Summer In New York"
When a man has once treated a mat
ter as joke, be it for ever SO brief a
period, he can never take it back again
into the region Of the highest tragedy,
where alone danger lies.-"Flower O.
the Corn
Optimism in life is a good working
hypothesis if by optimism we mean the
open eyed faith that force exerted is
never lost. Much that calls itself faith
is only the blindness of self satisfac-
ion.-"The Philosophy of Despair"
Amador ledger., 1903-08-28
A valley of Death In Bolivia.

There Is valley in Bolivia, South
America, which might we'll be called
the Valley of the Shadow of Death. II
has been inhabited for an indefinite
period of years by the Kanaa Indians,
who are kindred to the various South
American tribes and number now only
a few hundred souls. That they were
once very powerful tribe is indicated
by the condition Of the land which
they as tribe still inhabit One can
not travel any distance through their
land without coming upon the old and
forsaken burial grounds of the Kanaa
dead. These places cannot be called
graveyards, for the bodies are not
buried, but rather placed upon elevat-
ed platforms, wrapped in the garments
of death and bound to the crossbeams
that they may not be displaced.
In one Of these burial grounds there
will be probably fifty high skeleton
platforms and on each will lie from
three to five of the Kanaa dead. The
air in that part of Bolivia is very pure
and preservative, for it is one Of the
highest plateaus Of the continent, al
though Kanaa valley is just little
below the plateau's height A traveller
passing through that land at night and
by moonlight would be awestricken at
the gloomy vision those graveyards
present.
Amador ledger., 1903-08-28
PIT BROW WOMEN.
Hard Lot of Female Workers About
English Coal Mines.

English Coal Mines.
Pit brow women are among the most
remarkable women workers in the
world. They work as hard as men and
dress almost like them. Five thousand
Of these women find employment in
Lancashire, England, in the coal mines.
Their work lies on the pit brow at the
surface and not down below. Once wo-
men were employed in the coal seams,
but in 1912, in the face of great oppo-
sition from colliery owners, an act was
passed prohibiting women and children
from being employed below the surface
in coal mines.
At present the duties of the pit brow
women consist in dealing with the coal
as 1t comes up the shaft to the pit head.
When the cargo reaches the top they
haul out the wagons, which contain
several hundredweight of coal each.
and run them on the rails to a sort Of
tipping machine, which shoots the coal
down below to the screen of the rid
ding machine. Among the other du-
ties of the women is the leveling of the
coal on tne wagons which receive 1t as
1t drops from the screen.
They start work at o'clock in the
morning and finish at 4 in the after.
noon. They receive 2 shillings or less a
day, and men that do the same work
get 4 shillings. Their costume consists
OF trousers and clogs and often enough
a cape which has at one time been
worn by brother. When going to
and from work the girls and women
wear petticoats, which they roll UP
around the waist while engaged on
the pit brow. The hair is closely COW
cred with handkerchief, on top Of
which is a soft bonnet.
Amador ledger., 1903-08-28
Mutt and Gold Lace.

Officers of the army on duty in the
war department wear uniforms the
same as If they were on duty at mill
tary posts. The practice has resulted
in making nearly every room occupied
by officers a dressing room, where
wardrobes are kept. Most officers dis
like very much to appear on the street
In uniform; it makes them too con-
spicuous. Uniforms for use In the de-
partment are kept In wardrobe, and
the officers put them on when they
arrive in the morning, take them of
and don civilian dress to go to lunch
con, and upon their return In the
afternoon and departure for home
later go through the same process.
They don't like 1t, but it is an order.
For people doing business at the de-
partment 1t is much better, for a
stranger knows whether he is talking
with an officer or a clerk, and if ia
miliar with the emblems can tell the
rank of the officer.-Washington Post.