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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
Public Sale
PERSONAL PROPERTY.

Intending to quit the Dairy business
and return to the Christian ministry,
| will sell at auction, at Plunkett's
Spring, near Lexington, on
Tuesday, March 81, 1903,
the following Personal Property: 1
valuable Work Mare, Cows, 1 Now
ing Machine, l Hay Rake, 2 Riding
Plows. South Bend Chilled Plow, 3
Harrows, . Wagons, 9 Sets Wagon
Harness, | Tornado Fodder Cutter,
! Horse Power Grinding Mill, 2
Gravity Cream Separators, | Milk
Aerator, Cooking Stove, Heating
Stove, Dining Table, 2 Bedsteads;
with many other things not necessary
to mention.
TERMS: Six months credit on all
sums Of $40, and over, the purchaser
giving negotiable note with approved
security. All SUMS under $40, cash.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock.
A. P. BOUDE.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
Land Buyers.
| will offer for sale the following

/ will offer for sale the following
property;
1. A farm OF about 246 acres, 8 miles
west OF Lexington, in Valley Seclusival
fair dwelling, large new barn, new
granary, spiinb house, etc. Land lies
southwark and mostly set in grass. Young
orchard. One OF the boldest springs in
the county, which can be easily arranged
to water every field. Good fences and
plenty OF timber. Convenient to churches.
school and mill. Prosl ect Of raising
|, 800 bushels corn the coming season.
Party raised last year 42j bushels wheat
and 800 bushels corn. Call soon, for IL
not sold this spring, will be taken of the
market. On rural free delivery mail
route.
2. Farm which makes good home. 4
miles west Of Lexington. Dwelling house
contains 8 rooms, all plastered. Water
brought TO the kitchen by telegraph wire.
Barn 32x6S feet, granary 1924 feet,
smoke house and dry house, horse, COW
and sheep stables. Two bold springs.
water in every field. SIEVE.
acr's in good fruit. and some grazing
land. Well adapted to wheat corn and
hay. Contains about l75 acres, 40 acres
in timber. Convenient to church, school
and mill Good neighborhood. Possession
given in reasonable time. Title Is
JAMES G.. DIXON.
Real Estate Agent,
Lexington, Va.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

ill as reported, inasmuch as it was
the best he could get, and he be-
lieves it will practically drive the
cross roads bar-room out of business
in the rural districts.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
EVERY CHURCH or institutio

supported by voluntary contribution
will be given liberal quantity of the
Longman 4 Mart nee Pure Paints
whenever they paint.
NOTE: Have done so for twenty
seven years. 'al's: Tens of millions
of gallons; painted nearly two million
houses under guarantee to reraint ii
not satisfactory: The paint wears
for periods up to eighteen years.
Linsred oil must be added TO the
paint, (donc in two minutes Actual
cost then about S1.2j II gallon.
Samples free. Sold by our Agents,
McCrum Drug Co. Lcxington and
II. l.. Gilkesol, Buena Vista.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
The Coal Strike Award

The Coal Strike Award
The report of the commission
appointed by the President las
October to investigate the anthra
cite coal strike was made publ,
Saturday. The report is dateo
March Is, and is signed by all thu
members of the commission.
The verdict is not wholly salts
factory to either Of the contendine
parties, though under the agree
ment made by both sides the terms
imposed will have to be accepted
The operators will object to it,
because it will compel them to dc
what they have all along contended
there was no occasion for doing
treat their employees with more
liberality and consideration than
has been shown them in the past.
The mineworkers, while winning
almost without qualification all
their really material demands, will
be displeased because the award
does not give them other things
by which, during .he strike, they
placed as great, if not greater,
store than they did by their de-
mands for increased wages and
shorter hours.
Summarized, the findings of the
commission are as follows:
Ten per cent increase in wages
for contract miners.
Water hoisting engineers, 10 per
cent increase and eight-hour shifts.
Other engineers and pumpmen, 5
per cent increase. Firemen, eight
hour shift without increase, after
April /, 1908.
Other minewOrkers, present To-
hour pay for nine-hour day.
Cancellation Board of three
members selected by operators and
three by miners, with umpire APP
pointed by Circuit Judge of Third
District, if necessary, to interpret
awards. No strikes or lockouts
pending its decision.
Check weighmen and check
docking bosses shall be employed
when requested by miners.
Cars shall be distributed equit
ably, and output shalln be limited
save by agreement; where paid by
car, increased wage is based on
car and toppingof April l, 1902;
any increase in size of car or top
ping to be paid for proportionately.
Sliding scale of wages provided,
based ON market price of white
ash coal, with $3.50 per ton the
minimum, on monthly computation.
No person shall be refused en-
Dloyment, Disseminated against or
nterfered with becarse of member
ship or nonmembership in II labor
All employees to be furnished an
tented account.
The awards shall continue in
'orce till March 81, 1906. Employers
IAN discipline for violation of pro-
visions. Violation by employer or
,mplOye does not invalidate pro-
The commission, of most dis
inguished and competent per-
jOnnel, has been hard at it for
and has rendered a ver-
lict which is imbued with the
spirit of fair play and justice to all
no matter what in
may crop out here
md there. The thing, then, for
miners, operators and the public,
6 to accept the award in the spirit
n which it is given. This done
md careful regard paid to its
numerous provisions, and the coal
trike of last year and the famine
# the winter will quickly be for
,Otten under the new conditions.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

On Friday afternoon President
Roosevelt reappOinted w, d.
Crum, colOred, to the position OF
collector of the port of Charleston
The Sen ate at the regular session
did not act on the appointment,
though the Committee On Com
merce, to which such appointments
are referred, reported against
confirmation.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
Writ of Prohibition Denied


In the case of j. s. Lewis and Others
against the Hon. &. q. Grattan, Judge
of the county court of Rockingham,
and others, for writ Ct prohibition
preventing the collection of fines i'm
posed on ID. 5. Lewis, Jr., Char les
A. Hammer, NJ. NJ. Jarman, Charles
w. Fletcher, John F. Lewis, s. A..
Davis and +. l.. Dechert for assault
on Hon. John Acker in the Republican
convention, in March 1900 Judge
I.etcher sent the papers in cause to
the clerk of the circuit court Monday
morning. declining to grant the wit
of prohibition. 1t is understood that
Lewis and others, through their at
torneys, ID. o. Dechert and Charles
d. Harrison, will appeal from Judge
Letcher's decision to the Supreme
Court Of the State.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

a household necessity-Dr. Thomas
Electric Oil. Heals burns, cuts,
wounds of any sort; cures sore throat,
group, catarrh, asthma; never fails.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
To Cure Cold in One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
il it fails to cure. K. w. Groves
signature is on each box 25c.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

Weinberg's Millinery Opening
Thursday, Friday ana Saturday.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
Notice..
QTATE or VIRGINIA.:
~ At Rockbridge County Court, March
3rd, 1903.
March 7. 903.

% At Rockbridge County Court, March
3rd, 1908.
A settlement of accounts OF S. F. Ne.
Glue. Executor OF Mrs. NJ. +. Moffett,
dec d, having been made by W. S. Hop
kins, Commissioner OF accounts Of this
Court, and filed in the Clerks Office
thereof for exceptions on the Bird day OF
March, 1908, and it appearing that more
than one year has elapsed since the
qualification Of tn said Executor; on the
motion Of FraI ces Il. buchanan, Mary
Stuart Caldwell Matti Evelyn Stain
and James Nee. MofIett, lcgatees and
distributes OF the said Mrs. NJ. A.
Molrett, deceased, it is ordered that all
creditors Of the said Mrs. VI. 4. Moffett,
deceased, do appear before this Court
the Court House OF Rockbridge County
Virginia. on the fist day of the next May
term thei eof (being the 4th day Of May,
1909 and show cause IL any they can
against the payment and delivery OF the
estate Of the said decedent TO her legatees
and distributes, in accordance with the
distribution made in the aforesaid settle
meht; and in the event good cause Is not
so shown, this Court will on that day
order and direct the said Executor TO pay
aud leliver to the said legatees and dis
tribut, es the money now in his hands fol
distribution among them as shown by
said settlement, without refunding bonds
being executed by them therefor.
And it is further ordered that the Clerk
OF this Court cause a copy OF this order to
bp nublishpd for fOur successive week =
in the Lexington Gazette, newspaper
published in the town Of Lexington, Vir-
gnia, and post copy thereof at the front
door Of the Court House OF said County.
OH the first day Of two successive terms
Of this Court.
\ Copy Teste
At. SHIELDS, Clerk.
Moore Il Moore, p. q. mch 5t.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

"A dose in time saves lives DIR.
Woods Norway Pine Syrup; natures
remedy for cough, colds, pulmonary
disease of every sort.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

All babies cut teeth. Then all
babies need Victor Infants relief. It's
unsurpassed in teething, and Is the
babies digestive tor 10.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

WHY have blues. Tired Feeling,
Headacnes, Constipation, or Indi-
aestlon? Positive cure may be had
in Victor Liver Syrup.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
IN COLOPED WASH GOODS 7.

mercezed plain ranging in price from 5c to SOC yard
IN COLORED WASH GOODS Lawns Dimites Baistes etc,
the Dresden particularly good
this Black and white designs much in demand
and dotted swsses sought after be We
have the largest lines these goods United
States and have selected from it what consider the very CREAM
OF The LOT
Having secured another lot of those famous 40 INCH
SOLID COLOR LAWNS offer them ID cents the
lowest price at which they have been solo, in spite the
advance cotton They without doubt the greatest value have
The color includes Black Pink Light Blue Navy
Nile Lavender Yellow and Cardinal We have the line of
cooIs 81 inch 10 Lighter weight
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
Wash Goods.

IN WHITE GOODS show MADRAS CHEyIOTs and PIQUEs in
plain and fancy patterns, stripes dots and floral designs
mercerzed plain ranging in price from 5c to soc yard
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25
Thee Is Clothing Company.

We still here and doing nice business Our goods and
must be right Of have kkertha IS nau
ral They help to advertise We receiving
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-03-25

Moore Il Moore, p. q. mch jt
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
American Interests in Korea.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: It will b.
well to remember at this time that when
Japan, by the intrusion of the European
powers, was deprived Of the spoils Of
victory on the continent of Asia, she &C
guessed in the establishment of Korea
as an Independent kingdom, but advised
that it would be to the interests of those
same occidental powers to demand equal
industrial and commercial concession
from the hermit kingdom. If this advice
had been followed, in all probability
Japan and Russia would not now be fac
ing each other; but the powers were sus-
picious and declined to take concerted ac-
ton in the matter.
But what the powers declined to do
concertedly and officially was done by in
d1V1duals n corporations, and it Is
worth while noting that an American con-
Germ was first to Obtain a mining conCes-
sion. Since 1885 German, Japanese, Eng
,-lsh and French companies have all OBJ
tanned more or less extensive mining
areas in the hermit kingdom. The Amer
lean mines give employment to about
1900 Koreans, and considerable British
capital was embarked in the American
ventures by some of the leading South
African magnates, who, with their labor
difficulties in South Africa, appreciated
the value of labor at from Is cents to 81
cents a day for the best artisans, so that
the company might be regarded as an
Anglo-Amertcan undertaking, although an
American company. 1t had 200 head Of
stamps at work, and had paid during ths
present year about $50 900 in dividends.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
In the Tennis Court.

Boston Herald: The following con-
versation between two young women
was overheard the other day at a ten
mis- court near Boston. After one girl
had listlessly tried to return the ten
mis- ball with her racquet she remarked
to her companion, Tn glad May left"
S am l." was the response. She's
simply awful. She thinks she knows
nll about the game and likes to boss US
around"
"Oh, she makes me SO mad. 1 suppose
she would try to teach the great Doher-
ty how to play If she had the chance"
Say. that was a pretty shirtwaist
she wore. Do you suppose she made 1t
herself?"
~"Probably. Blu. she tried to make me
think she had it made for her"
shes too proud. l don't hin her
waist is half as pretty as the new one
I got the other day"
Where did you buy It, Annie?'
"Well, I-I-er-I got the cloth at
and mother made 1t up for me-"
OH"
well, let's play"
81 don't care to-"
"Whst did you come here for2"
~Oh. just to talk"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18

on the runners will stand on the GROUND
at the angle shown In the large view
which Is the proper spread to make the
sled run easy. The planks used for the
floor should be an inch and a half thick
or thicker If the sled Is to be used for
carting stones or any rough substance
which will wear the boards. The runners
are braced at either end with a rod as
shown in the cut and any attachment
desired for fastening a team to the sled
can be put on readily. Next week an
illustration of a sled tongue will be given
which could be attached to his sled very
nicely.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
a Handy Post Fuller.

Pulling out old posts is a difficult task
for they have a way of sticking that
makes one feel as If they were twenty
leet long. The handy device shown in the
Illustration can be readily made at home
and Will make the pulling of posts an
easy task. The lever, indicated at b.,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18

1t is reported that In view Of the loot.
Ing of Boer bibles that took place dur
Ing the late war the bible society Is to
make a free distribution Of 5000 Dutch
bibles bound In leather.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18

Hoogley-When I entered vour r.,a
last evening your dog barked at 49,
Wllby-You could hardly expect me ~
Keep and let them FIJI In their
time barking at folks, and I'm too h,'su
myself to attend to it. o"'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18

A locomotive testing laboratory with
BIO a feature of the transportation
building at the worlds fair.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
Some Famous Giant.

foilow1ng Is the height of some IA no,,,
giants: AaAiouA
feet 3 inches. .
Patrick Cotter, the Irish giant" !,
feet 7 inches. ' .
charles Byrns, Ireland, s feet 4 inches
Big sam, porter Of Prince Of Wall.
George IV.), 8 feet. ""
Robert Hales, 7 feet 6 inches.
Chang Woo Cow, s feet,
The Amazon Queen" 8 feet 2 1ncba.
Joseph WHITEWATER. s feet 9 inches
1Ai2apeth Lyska (aged IL. 6 feet 8 tnches
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
Tho Street WRONGLY ksn.d

Yonkers Statesman: Churchman-Th.
man VINO named the New York streets
made some great mistakes. ~
Gotham-Do you think So?
Il certainly do. Wall street
stance, should nave been ca1Iad W.
street." wafer
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18

To keep the whole German army in
the field for a week would cost $50, 00O,-
900,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18

A wine cask has just been built in
California TO hold 81 900 gallons. It's
iron hoops weigh 40 1000 pounds,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18

Cork has the best dressed and most
prosperous looking population In Ire
Iopi I'D. -... .E. r-tH.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
RESIGNATION.

Yonkers Statesman: The
will you, have your steak today! u
The Crank-Oh. ! suppose buIae0'
usual
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
Skim Milk for Cows.

may be a crude way but it is better than
no protection, costs but little and can be
putin place in a few minu
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-17
SAMUEL ARCHER.
Statesville, Iredell Co., n. @.
North Carolina Farm Notes.

An Evansville, Ind, man has pur-
chased 1000 acres of land near Ashe-
boro, in Randolph County, and will
raise Angora goats.
Goldsboro Argus: Horses and
mules are very high-far too high
for our farmers at the present price
of cotton and tobacco. Wayne Coun-
ty could easily raise plenty of horses
and mules and we have here in East
ern Carolina just as good country
as the world affords.
Wilson Times: There is a differ
nee of opinion here as to how the
tobacco crop will be pitched. It is
understood that some will reduce
their crop one-third, while others are
figuring on a short crop everywhere
else except in Nash County, and are
going to plant all they can set out,
hoping to coin all the money this
fall and get ahead Of all the rest.
L%ouisburg Times: We hear talk
of steps being taken to organize two
stock companies for the purpose of
establishing two factories in Louis
burg-one for the manufacture of
smoking tobacco and the other for
the manufacture of cigarettes. The
successful Inauguration of these two
industries right here in the bright
tobacco belt, would mean a great
deal, not only for the producers of
tobacco, but for the general business
interests of the town and section.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-17

This picture does not represent
the little Merino sheep of an hun
dred years ago when they were first
imported in 1902; nor do they rep
resent the small American bred stock
of thirty years ago, which up to
that time we're bred for almost the
exclusive purpose of wool; when
mutton was by no means so much in
demand nor so profitable as it is now
in the United States.
Really wonderful progress has
been made with these sheep in the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-17

last thirty years. They have in
creased in gross weight from 100
pounds and 125 pounds up to $50
pounds and even over 200 pounds,
which fully equals the small breed of
SOC lied mutton sheep in size. Dur
ing this time the fleece of rams
with ewes in proportion-have in
creased from 20 to 80 pounds up to
80 and 40 pounds and even 48
pounds, it has been claimed, of wool
unwashed, has been taken from the
improved American Merino.
This improvement of these thor
oughbred sheep has been made with
out going outside of their own breed
ing line to French, German or any
other blood to aid in accomplishing
this work.
1t is true that many wool-growers
and some excellent breeders dipped
into the French and German strains
to accomplish the work and-as a
general thing-their sheep from
such breeding show a jump upward
in size but often a drop downward
in too much length of bone and IN
desirable form and also in weight
of fleece. The increase of fleece in
such breeding does not keep pace
with the increased weight of carcass
from the fact that neither the Ger
man nor French families of the Me-
rino clip shear the per cent of wool
according to weight of carcass that
the American Merino does. There
fore the loss in these two or three
points of excellence by this mingling
of foreign blood is unnecessary and
dangerous, unless it be done by most
skillful breeders with rams having
excellence of form and weight of
fleece, combined with other good
equal to the American Meri-
no, on which he is to be bred-a COM
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-17

for length and quality of wool staple
and great weight of fleece.
The reader, by examining the pic
ture, will easily note the s~quareness
of the hind quarters, the straight
back and perpendicular line from
the tail to the ground like Durham
beef cattle, the round body, wide and
square shoulders, the short neck we'll
set up on the shoulders-so that a
finely formed head is we'll set above
the line of the back. The whole pic
ture presents a symmetry of form
that is pleasing to the artistic eye
and satisfactory as we'll to the butch
er who is looking for heavy roasts,
thick saddles, prime chops and deep
cuts. These sheep are not walking
on stills, ready any moment to leap
over an eight-rail fence, but they
pull down the scales when dressed
for the table. The weathers of such
a flock can be made fat enough to
weigh .125 to $50 pounds gross, or 60
to 80 pounds dressed.
There is generally a kind of
"doubting Thomas" ready to chirp
out: "That is a picture; it is not a
sheep" To this all [ have to say is,
Bring the picture to our sheep barn
and if your Judgment will at all dis
criminate between animals you will
readily pick out the sheep that fits
the picture" Especially is this so
of one of them, for [ never saw a
picture more like the sheep, and be-
he is broad on the back, full
in the loin, round in barrel, wide and
deep in the breast, and in every way
indicates such a vigorous constitu-
ton that Prof. Burkett and DR.. But
Ter, of the A. & M. College at the
Raleigh State Fair expressed sur
prise at seeing such a fine mutton
sheep carrying such an enormous
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-17

fleece Of fine wool. They we're free
to say they had never seen such Me-
rinos.
A thousand pounds of mutton, or
Spring lamb" can be made as easily
and cheap with the improved Ameri-
can Merino as with the German or
French Merino, and nearly as cheap
as with the best of the mutton
breeds, and it will sell at very near
as high a price on the fancy market.
Neither the scientific cook in the
kitchen nor the connoisseur at the
table can discover any difference In
these Merino hams and chops and
those from most of the South-downs.
"The world do move" The United
States are not behind, neither is the
American sheep breeder. for he has
improved the carcass as much for
mutton in the last 20 years as he i'm
proved the fleece for wool in the last
40 years, and that is saying a great
deal. I will assert that the thousand
pounds of American Merino NUT
tons above referred to can be select
ed that will shear twenty to fifty
per cent more fleece annually for
five years, both in weight and in
money value, than a thousand
pounds of any other breed of sheep
not having any American Merino
blood in it.
1 am only saying this to show that
[ practice what I talk and write, and
not to discourage any farmer or
planter from buying any kind of
sheep his judgment or fancy chooses.
[ dot not think there is any breed
but what can be made to do we'll and
sbe profitable. I would like to see
all kinds bought and tried and if I
had the opportunity and means
would try all others on a small scale
myself.
SAMUEL ARCHER.
Statesville, Iredell Co., n. @.