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nann4r.. and from the deck Of the. yacht
\ a nohife inytf,c river below. a number OF
bombs we're Aired In salute. These burst Y
Inn f,sibS air. releasing para cftutcs from
which, were suspended the national COZ
All Il Later there were whistle salttes
from the sscnnor Sycamore. John fief $. 8
Yacht Sapphire and August belmont
sra6St. the Scoat. which brought former
senator David b. Hili, from Hyde st,aI Ef..
"a periy 10 shake the candidates hand
AMI 10 congratulate him on bis speech.
7The reception was continued on the
Syerar,tia until after O'Clock, when Ine
company broke up and the VISITORS re-
turned TO their boats and trains.
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8 You como, 70 the Worlds AF-aIr?i

Are You Going 70 tn Worlds ,e'rl! Sc 70
~ "a. von should take along Ia bottle of
orr nl..rinin's q Coli q, q olera and d Ola r.
rhocn remedy The hot wealth flltigues
& nj c,a nge Of drinking water and diet
i nre almost certain to produ gda 1T hoea,
and when you have this rene ysnf lnll g
Hvo,I can check q K at once. 7yo1. Wish
\ "a buy it While there YOU can get It nj
4any drns store in 81. louis, nd at the
inside Inn Drug store. For sale by ii az y
Edrugg!sts, sg q n & 23S:.
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an N VA old Dominion and sound INES
ola I. a1 ana ra 18th
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including .HG meals ana atate-room berth on
.ne On sale August 18th, 18th and ND
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III a. ! leaving , BOSTON with privilege Of.
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over at that point ten days not 70 en-
coed flnal limit by dsp e " faa W.
i Nor tickets and state-roonl reserya tloil'l
anrly at IA. sos East Ma ~. street.,
q y q, WILLIAM 81, RR oNsoS,N,
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andiaa,e and as Chief Magistrate Of the
epublic, 4
Letter of Notification.

q AT the CONCLUSION OF his. speech Mt,
Clark banded JS1ge Parker the following;
Issopus. n. ", Aug, 10. 1901.
nTotthe Hon Alton B,3Parker; l
''Sir,-As The regularly appointed and
dnlyraccrcdited committee of the national
convention OF the Democratic party. held
al the city of ST.. ,ouis. Mo, on the 9th,
.ith Sth and 9th days Of July, 1904. re.
ihe npdersened. have the honor ard Il
lis our pleasure, 10 convey Ia you. as We
now do The official encouragement OF your
historic marty of TIE people as its cam
didate for the exalted office Of the Presi-
dent Of the United States at the election
to be held on November 8, i9aia nomi-
nation SO manifestly Wise and appropriate
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I Yellow Fever in Mexico

C3y AssocIated i'res s,s2,, -
MEXICO CITY, y August 10. Said cruz, on
ire Pacific coast, the terminus of the Tehuan-
tepec Railroad. reports four 6. srs q
yellow fever the ,a u me
reports three cases OF low fever Prosre4sso
has ono case.
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nine, with, a corresponding reduction In
wages. became effective to-day at The
Lonsdale shops Of the Southern Rail way
here. No explanation Is made as tho
reason for the action, and solno regard
1t as IA permanent5cut. More than seven
hundred men are employed ut the Ions
dale shops. tFss i5i} siys & IN
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been captured near boswell and lodged in
jail again.
Mr.. =. +. stcrne, farmer Of Stafford
day When oy Vas ~; feet in length u ard .
inches In circumference, II was raised on
his farm.
Mr.. %, r.. Hicks has purchased the
"Den Merryman" tract OF land. situated
near Rappahannock Academy. In Caroline
county,
Candidates for the Democratic non,ina-
tion for the House or Delegates from
Fredericksburg and Spotsylyania county
at the next election continue 10 multiply.
[ Dir, c. r. Massey, OF spotsylvania a
member of this Board OF Supervisors and
CHAPMAN of the Democratic COMMITTEES OF
| the county, Is the latest addition.
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No d oubt Appropriate.

the Harrisonburg, Ya.,l Spirit OF the VAIN
ley prints an account Of the Wedding of 4
Mr.. Parker. TALL Sweet and Miss Agnea
NJ &. Eeller, at the residence o. the bride Z,
In New Mar et. % n -
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..vlRolN,lA MouNIT.rA.lN REsoRrs.

BLUE RIDGE SPRINGS, VA.
Botetourt County Va,4l IN
IA Thirty-hoccnd consecutive summer sea-
son under proprieto ship Of !.
''s .l5 q PHIL r. BROWN r
Write for pamphlet and tsrmA
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Are: Not United.

I IT seems true that the men in charge
or the Democratic national campaign are
not united AS to the field on which the
principal fighting IS to- take place. Chair
man TN ggart is set upon making a 4
%shIsf effort 70 capture Indiana, He has
never failed to carry the State in "a
national election when he was In charge
of tile campaign. He does not Gwant any
relaxation OF efforts to carry the doubt
tful Eastern States or the silver States
of%the Transmisslssipp country because
fsthas fight he wishes to wage In Indiana
but The wants the fight to be carried
along In all three sections III Ri
#s Unon the other hand. 1t Is understood
that Il he Democratic National Executive
COMMITTED, or a. majority Of IT. Is ir-$
Scined " make New FORK, New Jcrsey,t
Connecticut, Delaware and West vir-gt
ginIa the battle-ground In the East, and 4
several or the sagc-bru sh States the
scene OF the fighting IN the West -
tho states included in the territory
marked out were to so Democratic, In n
diana would not be needed to elect Pa rk-i
fe,,5nnd Davis. But Taggart IL con fidenti
sof being ablei to carry his state e y }ys
sprobnbIe that lles will y have his way and
he glven5san opportnnity to NAL e good
his premises OF victory fol 4 he Il Demo-
Gratis N, fioosierd ION. sSs
cowl1erd's Opinion.
Chairman cowherd. 81 tho Democratic
Congressional COMMITTEES, Is OF somewhat
the mind Of Mr., tTaggart.J n "a; s
1--WE arc going to max a fight for
members az Congress In every State.
he said to The Times Dispatch corre-4
s,ondent this morning. Mo- not every:
State. we are not trying to gain any
members OF. Congress- from Vermont |" and
he aughed the laug Inter OF one Who re-;
sign political Ephrallns to thell ssssAdols,.
.serInusly.,f n he continued, we will not
confine5 our efforta to any one part of.
he country butt will ATTEMPT to make
CONVERSATIONAL gains. and with prospects
81 success, in every section Of the coun-'
Stry.5 and prac tically in every at ate. We
are just now preparing litsra ture for dis
san1inat!oh In the West on the sui tect Of
IRRIGATION The Republicans alH claim
ing that they initiated the system Of irri-
gation Of arid lands by the government
bur we shall circulate a speech In that
country. made by Representative Van
sDuzer in which he shows thNt tho first
| Bill on the subject was introduced by n
4 Ismocrat, and that the fight tor the
Limitation Of the system was I pushed
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SUNDAY EXC Rsl0] \

Via Atlantic Coast Line to Peters,
z t4lrg, 4
Round~Tr 4oe, Il
Good going and Nsturning on regular
trains, commenclng {. Sunday, May l5th,I
1904. I'm Il e it4
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Reduction in Hous and Wages.
4 KNOXVILLE TENN. Ausnst 1o.-A
reduction In working hours from ten 10
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\ Support Of Voters.
INV Associated \ Press, J z

hope is not too extravagant for
entertainment that In this campaign our
Candidates will have The support not only
iof every Democrat III the land, but also
of every voter. by whatever political
named called who believes that the Com
Jstituiion Of the United States is a living
reality and thatrit applies equally to high
and low, TO great and small; TO public
official and 10 private citizen.
Il ''They. will also be supported let us
/ hope. By ALI men, without regard to poll
teal affiliations, who favor maintaining
(, the lines Of demarfatlon between lhe leg
3 islatiNe, judicial and executive depart
ments OF the government. Tic separation
$s0f which has been generally regarded as
the most salutaIy and difficult achieve.
menl of the masterful statesmen who
framed the Constitution 1t is believed
and hoped that as President you viii
x command to restore and preserve the
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for him to come to me. / see one day
he was tryin' TO arrange it so we could
have good talk together, so / planned
for him to take me to town. l don't
know OF a better place to talk than in
a buggy. An then l kind O. think
Jimmie's more used to talkin' on such
subjects as he was goin' to talk about
when he's out drivin'. So we started
out for town, an as soon as we got
started he begun. l don't remember
just what he said, but the substance
was that he wanted my advice about
girl that he'd been goin' with, an he
thought she was the only one for him,
an she seemed to like him, but when
he popped the question she give him
the mitten, an the poor boy was all
broke up. He kind o. stammered an
get so mixed up that 1 had to guess
about half he was tryin' to say, but
knew most of 1t before, so it didn't
make q difference. OF course, l
couldn't let him know that knew 1t at
all, cause it's just as well sometimes
that the men should think we womens
as slow an dull as they be. l KEEP on
askin' questions, an he KEEP on feelin'
worse an worse. / knew the boy was
pretty badly smit. as l thoroughly ap
proved of the girl OF course, l knew
her. There amt a girl in our part Of
the country, nor many in other parts
that / don't know An know whether
they ever look at my boys, too, an
know ev'ry one Of their families back
as far as when they first come to the
county, anyway. Why, a mothers got
to know them things. How's her boy
goin' to be happy If she don't see that
he gets the right girl? OF course,
never interfere when a boys in love,
but it's just as well not to let him get
in love with a girl that amt the right
one. l don't know what boys does that
amt got no mothers, or is so far away
from em that the mothers can't know
the girls the boys knows. But usually.
if the boy is right smart, he'll look
around an find a second mother. who'll
kind o. take the place of the one that's
gone, or amt there, an help him out
when he needs help.
LAS was sayin', knew the girl. I'd
been to a picnic once where she was.
Picnics? OF course we go to picnics, as
long as we can stand to ride in rockin-
chairs in the backs of wagons, or can
stand to be dressed long enough to get
to the picnic place and back, an / have
heard of one old man who always had
a cot took along in the back of the wa
gon, so, If he had to. he could lie down
all the way home. What's picnics for
but to go to? An do you think the
young folks is goin' to have all the
fun? Well-seems as if I couldn't stick
to what I'm tellin' to-day TO save my
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CHAPTER VIII.
A WOman's Wiies.

why. good afternoon. I'm awful
glad to see you. Haven't seen you to
have a visit with since I don't know
when. Two years, Is it2 Well. several
things has happened since then. OF
course, if you lived over in our neigh
borhood, you'd know all about 'em.
At least the neighbors there think they
do. But l came over just to free my
mind. I've just got through about the
hardest plan to work that ever under
took You know how hard 1t is to do
anything without tools that you can
depend on. Well, it's sight harder to
do with tools that thinks they know
what they're doin' all the time, an
you're afraid they'll go ahead an
spoil all your plans.
"You know I've always taught the
boys to come to me whenever they got
in trouble Real trouble, l mean, oh,
no, 1 make 'em stand little things by
themselves, but whenever l see 'em
worryin' for some little time, usually
manage to give 'em the chance to tell
me about 1t, an IL 1 can't help 'em out,
we'll, they're pretty near past helpin'.
though / do say 1t myself.
Jimmie had been kind O. blue an
fiidgety an tired-lookin' for some little
time All right again? Well, you just
wait till 1 get through an you'll know.
1 stood it havin' him around that way
till l thought 1t was pretty near time
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be worse than the coffee. so he'd try
some Of the fried potatoes. My, how
mussy they looked in the dish! He
passed his cup back once for some
more coffee. He liked coffee, an
didn't see how he could stand it, but
guess he thought he had to drink 1t
anyway. An before she could fill the
cup she had to brush back some strag-
glin' hairs that looked as if they was
goin' into the cup, an / see Jimmie
scowl, an / thought what great big
difference il makes whether you see
the light hair 1uffin' round her face
when you're settin' beside her on a
moonlight night, or on mornin' from
across the breakfast table.
Then ,Jimmie'd try to talk. l al
ways made the boys talk at meals.
don't believe in folks settin' down an
feedin' themselves as if they was stuff
fin the business end of a thrashin' ma
chine An all Jennie could say was
just nothin. an giggle, only she didn't
feel much like gigglin' now, she was so
cross. Then Jimmie gave up an sat
tryin' to eat an not sayin' word, an
/ thought again how much different the
same giggle sounds when you hear it
in the moonlight or on Sunday after
noon, when ev'rybodys careless an
happy an when you set opposite that
same giggle at the breakfast table ev'ry
day.
Finally Jim made such a fuss that I
was afraid the young folks would hear
him, cause / wouldn't go back to bed.
Why, do you know, he really thought
was sick all the time an / didn't dare
tell him what 1 was .tryin' to do for
fear he would give 1t away? So went
back to bed an Jimmie come in to see
how l was before he went off to work.
He looked hungrier than ever an /
pitied him. ! almost wanted to reach
under the pillow an give him some of
the cookies that l had to nibble on be-
tween times, but 1 thought it better
not to. Then he started off to work an
] knew that he was quite cured when
see him start off to the other end of
the farm in spite of what his father
had planned for him to do near the
house.
About ten o'clock sister drove up,
all alone, an she brought me round
in short order Or at least that was
what Jim thought OF course / told
her what was up. An she cured me
right away an at eleven Jim started
home with Jennie an right glad she
was to get away. Then we pitched In
an If we didn't have a rousin' old din
ner for those two men when they come
TO answer the bell. Jimmie was as
pleased as could be to see me up an
around. An he looked mighty relieved
when he looked around and didn't see
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neck. One reasons cause I'm feelin' so
good. Why? Oh, Just you walt till
get done an you'll know.
We'll. at this picnic that / was at,
this girl that Jimmie liked so well
started in gettin' the tables set for din
ner. / could see by her business-like
way that she knew what she was doin'.
I'd never met her before, but / knew
her folks back for three generations.
She took right hold, an she ran things.
She didn't boss round. My, no! That
amt the way to run things. She just
started the poor sticks that wasn't any
good at heipin' off after water an ferns
to decorate the table, she said. knew
that 1t was just to keep 'em out Of the
way. An the worst old crank In the
lot she got to maxim sandwiches. /
heard her tell this one that she could
cut the incest, thinnest, even slices, an
that old crank just swallowed II all in,
an believed 1t. Catch anybody gettin'
round me that way. She just kept
things goin' that way till she had the
dinner all fixed. an the folks down to
the table. an she played those folks or
against each other (the old Grabbed
ones. mean) till she got 'ern all seated
round the table cloth, so that each one
thought he was the one person In that
crowd that was bein' honored by the
way the seats was placed.
saw Sle ndQ ncT eye on 81
as soon as dinner was over, an heard
her say, We'll. l helped get the dinner
on. Somebody else can get II picked
up, / calls Jimmie an says, i want
some of that peppermint that's CROWN
down by the spring in the next pasture
VIII you get me some? He looked
kind o. as If he had some other plans,
but he said he would. / thought II just
as well that she shouldn't think she
could whistle, an have Jimmie come,
like as If he was puppy.
II saw him start of, an then / got
to visitin There was some folks that
lived over where / used to. an / had
about twenty years of ketchin' up to
do, an had 70 hear all about the folks
that had died, an got married, an all,
since I'd left there. Then one old man
got started on a long -winded yarn q
thought nobody else would ever get a
chance to talk again) an began
thinkin' about how that girl. after
she'd got the dinner, just walked out
an left the rest to do their share. An
| made up my mind then an there that
she was the right kind. There's the
awfully willin' kind that'll work an
work an never seem to know when
they've got their share done. Then
there's the kind that knows when
they've done their share. an stops
when they get it done. That's the kind
l like. / believe it's as wrong to do
more than your share of work as II is
to shirk your share. One way, you
cheat somebody else out of the chance
to do their share, an the other you
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force somebody else to do your share
An I don't know but cheatin' is the
worst of the two. know I'd rather do
the shirkin'. An 1 could see that she
knew when she'd done her share
Come time to start gettin' ready 10
on home. an somebody began yellin'
for the young folks to come back. we
all come in wagon loads, so there
wasn't to be any leavin' the young
folks to come home in their buggles
when they got ready, an besides most
OF us had our chores to do. Wen, oe-
gun to look around for Jimmie L never
needed to look for Jim. If he ever got
out from under my feet / was glad
enough. frankie was in town, In the
doctors office studyin'. Pretty soon
see Jimmie comm up the hill, an who
should be with him but that girl, an as
! live, he didn't have sprig or pepper
mint I didn't say anything when he
come up, but that girl, she looked at
me kind o. sassy like, an / could have
hugged her right then an there, when
she said, L guess Jimmie forgot all
about the peppermint. but here's some
l brought for you, an she pulled out
from the front of her shirt waist lit
tie smitch with about three leaves, an
handed it to me. Jimmie didn't have
nothin' to say all the way home, an
he'd shut up like clam II so much
$50 you see / knew the girl, an /
felt as bad as Jimmie did about it, only
/ knew 1t was the best thing for him
that she wouldn't have him first askin.
It's lots more worth while hayin any
thing if you have to work an scheme
an contrive for a year or so gettin' II,
than if it falls into your arms first
thing.
II told Jimmie that the best thing he
could do was to keep away from her.
OF course, he didn't want to. / told
him, of course, that 1 thought there
was nicer girls, an girls that would
make him better wives, an that he
ought to remember that he was goin' to
have the farm, an that he'd be one of
the best catches in the county, so he
ought to look around, an not get
snapped up by somebody that didn't
have anything at all. Maybe ] stretch
ed the truth when l said what 1 did
about better wives an nicer girls, but
if a mother amt got the right to
stretch the truth for her boys sake,
who has, I'd like to know?
Then began real serious-like askin'
him if he'd ever stopped to think what
it means to get married, an to give up
all the f1irtations with other girls, an
just stick to one. An if he thought
this girl was the one girl that he'd like
to set down to breakfast with, an din
ner an supper, too, for the rest Of his
life Just think says /, there are
three hundred and sixty-fve days in
a year, an three meals in the day, an
you'll live at least fifty years. so you'll
have to set down to the table with her
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an wanted to go for the doctor. Then
told him that all we needed to worry
about was for some one to do the work
till my sister come on Thursday l had
felt the spell comm on, so I'd written
Tor her.. But we'd have to have some
one 10 do the cookin' an look after me
little, cause the men had their work
TO do around the farm So 1 told him
to go over an see if Jennie couldn't
come over an stay till my sister come.
1 said somethin' about that she ought
to be willin' to come, an Jimmie
olushed like anything. But he started
on, so as to have her back by dinner
time After he was gone, I got up an
hid away some more of the bakin' I'd
done the Saturday before, thinkin' it
just as well that Jimmie should have a
plenty of his girls cookin'. You know
since Jimmie had been workin' on the
farm, We didn't have any hired man,
so l couldn't get the hired mans wife
TO help out.
"She came back with him, an they
found me in bed, restin a little easier
than when he went away, but it was
pretty near time for Jim to be home.
an Jimmie had left some work that
had to be finished so they both had
to go TO work. 1t was kind O. lone
some layin' there fiat on my back, but
IL
II that wasn't one / never see one. The
girl had her conceit right with her an
went TO work TO get a big dinner
could smell it when she some in to see
how l was gettin' along. / hated to
have so much good yictuals go to
waste. an yet / thought of my plans,
an can give UP a good deal to have
my plans go through.
Jim come home before dinner, an
for a minute was pretty badly scared,
but / calmed him down. an finally per-
suaded him not to think he had to go
for the doctor. / told him we could get
along all right till my sister come, an
then she'd bring me round all right.
Jennie looked smart an clipper as
could be at dinner, an I guess 1t wa mt
more than half spoiled an besides
there was some Of bakin left, but
knew that would run out at supper
time. Then she would have to make
bread or biscuits. I hoped she'd try
both. I could hear Jimmie come in
ev'ry once in awhile durin' the after
noon an stop an talk a while with the
girl, an finally after what seemed like
days, supper time came. All had was
tea an toast an the. tea was too weak
an the toast was cold. But 1 remem-
bered the other martyrs, an thought
how glad / ought to be to get even that
much. Before gettin'-up time next
mornin', / made up my mind that most
of them that's what they call chronic
invalids' is really sick. so sick of layin
round that they're so weak they can't
get I'D.
IT don't think breakfast went off so
very well the next mornin', for /