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Artasian Wells in Australia.

In no other parts of the world are. arte'
sian wells Of such an Importance as in
Australia. According to recent returns by
the Minister of Agriculture there were, at
the close of last year, in Queensland alono.
934 urtesian wells, as against 562 three
years ago.. The combined depth of these
934 wells is no less than 282 miles. The
greatest depth of any of these wells is 4205
feet, while the average depth is about 1900
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The Fearless Preacher.

The venerable DR.. T. C. Cuyier advocaH
the fearless preacher. Bear this in mind
said he. before a recent Methodist Comic
enee. that no Presidential chair, no 81
peror's throne, was ever yet built hi3
enough to be within ten leagues of the p1
pit in which the fearless preacher stan
winning immortal souls to Jesus Christ.
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A Pauer For Africans.

The North German Missionary Societ,
CT Bremen, has started publishing a pap'
in the interest of the negroes Of Tog,
Africa. in their native tongue. The nan
Of the paper is Nutifasa Ma Mi, wbie
e Angel OF Peace" The paper
published monthly and largely Distribute
among The natives 49,, ITS sa, contents De-
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The Command to Go.

B. F. Jacobs says OF the gospels messag
''There is a mighty go in the gospel
well as come. 1t is come, go. Go pTea'
and heal; 60 home to thy friends; go ~
the highways; 60 into all the world. Maj
Christians do not obey; many church
have 70 blessings, because they 20 not SO
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Honors the C. E. Society.

The Rev. Harlan P. Beach pays a III
nte to the Christian Endeavor Society
these words: " am especially grateful j
the foreign department of the Endeav
Society, since it means so much to have
organization in non.C Christian lands VIII
makes real the phrase of the creed, 'bede
in the communion of saints
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at Am Not That Man."

? Mr.. Taylor, during. his visit to Ireland
c1me Years ago, was dining with a mer.
liant at Sligo. He had eight beautiful
children. He had his wines and brandy on
the table. and. Of course, asked me to
drink, and I had to give my reasons for de-
eliEing. This gave me an opportunity TO
put in a little temperance, and while l was
making my little speech by way OF apology
[ made this remark: No relative OF friend
of mine ever fell through intemperance:.
l saw that this had struck him; his knife
and fork fell from his grasp and he re-
NAMED silent for some seconds.
We'll" said he at length; II am not
that man.. My first sunday.school super,
intendent was a man of genial spirit and
noble mien. He went into the wine trade
and died n drunkard before he was forty
NV first class leader. l believe, was a good;
intelligent, useful man, but he, too. yielded
to the habit of intemperance, and died .
drunkard. My own father suffered through
intemperance.@ -,
Yes" l exclaimed, and You yourself
are spreading before your friends and yon'
children the Instruments Of death whlct
slew your first Sunday.school superintend
ent. YOUR first class leader and your father
The very rope with which they were hung
YOU arc adjusting to catch your children
I cannot afford to put my head into such :
halter as that"
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Hanged BY His Apples.

:. Strangled to death on a tree by a bag
apples was the fate of William Jackson,
farmer, of Bethel Hill, Pa. After ascenf
ing the. tree he tied the bag about his nee
and dropped apples into it. He fell, an
the weight OF the bag falling over q Jim
balanced his body while he strangled t
daotb 4 -s
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After the Wolf.

Rev. Mark Guy Pearse was once :
proved for making too many tcmperan
speeches, and when tod he ought 20
taking care Of his flock, he answered: IT
flock is all right, just now; | am looki,
FL. - ,,-o1fc
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Mothers.

1t was a horrible sight that Magistrate
Smith, of the Long Island City Police
Court, was called upon to witness rece- y.
In arrow before the dumb-struck as
trate' stood ten mothers, blear-eyed, with
bloated faces, disheveled hair and soiled,
tattered garments, their limbs still tremb-
ling from the debauch Of the day before.
And las the ten mothers stood there.
shaking from the dissipation which had
degraded them, twice that number of lit.
tie ones stood or sat in the court room and
witnessed their mothers shame!
1t was a tremendously natural thing for
Magistrate Smith to exclaim as he viewed
the long line of wretched womanhood be.
fore him: why, this is something awful!
Mothers-with little children, ;oo!"
When France was in the throes OF a
great crisis, some one remarked to Napo-
leon, "Sire, wherein lies our hope" "In
the mothers of France" was the Emper.
or's li~ghtning-like reply.
If our national salvation depends upon
the mothers of the land, in the name Of
God WHAT'S to become Of US if the drink
habi; gets hold of the women?
A drunken father IS bad enough, but
when it comes to a drunken mother we
have reached the bottom of the abyss.
We have heard of the devils" who. il
is said, "laugh" real heartily when we hui
man beings do anything that is especially
wicked or degrading. 8,
1 don't know how it may be. but if there
arc such fendish creatures it is safe to say
that. they made hell" fairly echo with
their internal glee as those ten mothers
stood up in that Long Island City Police
Court,
It was indeed an awful sight, a spectacle
to chill the very blood in the veins. II.
If the home is the heart Of the world"
what. may we look forward to if that heart
becomes paralyzed by strong. drigk?
home still .befsaved by the purity and de
votion of the mother. but when the, moth
or becomes debauched-then the deln3e!
With a depraved motherhood our doom
is sealed, and not all the prayers of all the
saints on earth and in heaven can save us.
Where is Signor Biondi? In this stor!
Of the ten inebriated mothers with their
little children gazing upon their trembling
frames and inebriated faces there is ample
material for another and more terrible
"Saturnalia." So
Tt were a severely interesting question
to ask. How far has this strong.drink viru.
worked its deadly way into the heart O.
our American w~omanhood?
How many women, how many mothers
are there in the land who drink? 1t is al
legged by those who know what they arr
talking about that society is LITERAL,
honeycombed with alcoholism. ard here.
IN this Long Island case, we baye the other
extreme, but how about the middle term?
Ask'the wine merchants and grocerymen
what it is that their wagons carry to lar
too many doors? 80.
But it will not answer to push the in
quiry too far, and for the present we stop
with the horrible sight Of those ten drunk.
en- mothers lined up in the Long Island
CITY Police Court.-The Rev. Thomas B.
Gregory, in the National Advocate.
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Beginning n mile west Of the.haad
of the Galops Canal in Canada and
extending for over two miles. 4 chan
mel has been cut 300 feet wide. By
the use of this channel the large YES
sells now navigating the st. Lawrence
are saved the tortuous and dangerous
passage by the south channel through
American water.
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FREDERICKSBURG. VA.
especial to The TImes-Dlspatch.)

FREDERICKSBURG VA, April 3D.
A large number of the young people have
enjoyed watching the game of baseball.
interest In which has been revived owing
to the success of Fredericksburg College
team in two games this week. one In
Washington, where Gallaudet was de-
feated by the Fredericksburg team and
another In Maryland. where the Asrl-
cultural College team was defeated. These
two victories have greatly encouraged the
Fredericksburg team, and the men are
now playing with vim and snap, which
will count against any opponent they may
meet.
Miss Mary Stanley Miller. who has been
tho guest for a week or more of her rela-
tives. Mr.. A. B. Yates and family, has re-
turned to her home in Baltimore.
Miss Mamie Pendleton, OF Ashland.
visited her relative. Mrs. Anna G. King,
this week.
Miss Alice NJ. Cannon. is the guest Of
friends at tho Union Theological Semi
nary, near Richmond.
Miss Mary Custis Lee and Miss Edmo
Lee are in Washington, the guests OF Miss
Georgia Green.
Miss Minnie Henderson, of Roanoke, Is
here the guest of her sister Mrs. ]. w.
Hilleary.
Mrs. Fannie Jackson, who has been
visiting Miss M. p. johnson here. has re-
turned to her home in Maryland,
Miss Carrie F.. Moore, of Bon Air. Is a
visitor at the home Of Mr.. w. ID, Bradley
and family.
Mr.. Il. il. Miller OF Baltimore, is visit
ing relatives and friends here.
Mrs. w, G. Tibbey, Of Patterson. n, j,
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STAMPEDE in A
TOBACCO FACTORY
False Alarm Of Fire Throws
Eighteen Hundred Women
Into Panic. "a
(By Associated Press

y L H / r Il
NEW YORK. April PEI Eighteen hum
dred employees mostly women and girls,
In the cigar factory of Hirschorn, Mack
and Company. In slxty-eighth Street.
were thrown into panic to-d,ar by a
false alarm Of fire, and numbers were
injured in the mad rush from supposed
danger.
Ono woman, who either jumped or was
crowded from a balcony, is thought to
be fatally hurt. The condition of the
others Is not serious .i
When tho cry was raised the employees
on the second floor made rush for tho
exits. The tramping Of feet and the
shouts of frightened men and women
were heard on the other floors, and the
employees there Joined in the stampede. v
The stairways and fire-escapes were
soon crowded with struggling men and
women, and not until the police reserves
arrived did the panic-stricken cigar
makers discover that there was no fire
or danger of any kind. Many women and
children were crushed and bruised during
tho rush, but tho only one seriously In
iured was the unknown Italian woman
who fell from the balcony. 1t was Thought
her skull was fractured.
Hardly had the army of employees re-
turned to their work when the clatter OF
fire engine responding to an alarm In
the same neighborhood again agitated the
easily-alarmed factory workers, and they
rushed once more to the windows and
fre-escapes Then the management de-
cided that the employees were In no con-
dition to remain Mt work. and the factory
was shut down for the day.
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PROVIDENCE FORGE DRY
Colonial Mansion Being Placed
in Fine Condition.
Especial to The Times dispatch.


u PROVIDENCE FORGE, VA. April 23.--
Tie temperance people hefe are very
much elated at the idea that after May
this town will be free of saloons, as all
licenses We're refused at the last term
OF the court, 1t has been many n long
year since this little hamlet was free of
such objectionable places. and since so
many towns below hero have gone dry, 1t
Is even more necessary that this place
should follow suit as the tide seems in
clned to turn in this direction.
Farm work is now going forward very
rapidly. the land has at last become dry
enough to plough and corn fields nro be-
Ing put i'll shape for planting.
Col. y. B. Townsend Is having his colo-
NAL mansion here put in first class coll
dltion, the house has Very handsome in
terror, with It's wanscoted walls and
beautifully carved stairway, and now With
tho addition Of two new and handsome
porches and other improvements. 1T Is
Mr.. ], IT, Christian. OF Stirling
Heights" Is having his residence painted
and made attractive In many ways,
Fish are now pretty scarce In the Chick
ahomlny river, the cid anglers say 1t Is
owing TO the cold weather No doubt
with tho advent of May and It's warm
days the fish and the tispermen too VIII
appear certainly at "Qld Sallie's
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SPECIALLY Low ROUND RIP RATES;
OFFERED BY THE SEABOARD
@.a.4 AIR LINE RAILWAY. all3a

S2O.70-Richmond, Va, to Jacksonville,
Fla. and return, account meeting "In-f
terstate Sugar Cane Growers Associa-
tom" tickets on sale May Cd and 3d.,
good returning until May s, 1904.
$50 TOR richmond. Va, to Carthage, Mo-,
and return, account Annual Meeting Ger-
man Baptist Brethren, May 19th-27th;
tickets on sale May nth to oath, inclu-
sive, good returning May 3oth;. can be
extended until June Goth by depostingg
same and payment Of fifty cents.
$39. 05-R Richmond, VA. to-Dullas, Texas,
and return on account General Assem-
ly Cumberland Presbyterian Church,"
May 19th-27th; tickets on sale May 18th
to 18th, inclusive. good returning May
81, 1904.
s65.25-R Richmond. Va, to San Francisco
or Los Angeles, Cal, account General
Conference Methodist Episcopal Church,
May Sd to 3lst, and National Associa-5
ton Of Retail Grocers of United States,,
May Sd to sth; tickets on sale April I'D
to Goth, inclusive; good returning June 80,
1904. Stop overs are allowed both go-s
ing and returningsa AT a number OF points.
! also side trips are given to holders OF
these tickets to various points Of inter-
est.
Rates given above are from Richmond:
same reduction from other points on the
seaboard. Information In regard to the
above gladly given.
$50 East Main Street, =
TT g. LIZARD, d. p.
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have had the pleasure of rneandering,
will serve as description for all.
!, TyyC ACRES OFF FLOOR ROOM.


will serve as a description for all
TWO ACRES OF, FLOOR ROOM.
| The house refer to is not the lar
! gestgin town, nor Is 1t the smallest It
! standc on the half OF an acre Of ground,
I and has four floors packed with dry
| goods and notions. Four floors Of half
acre each make two acres Of floor room.
Think Of 1t! Two acresSof dry goods and
notions, and all SO mcthodically arrang-
! ed by the small army OF clerks, floor
! men, helpnro, superintendent, bosses etc.,
/, that any item from a spool OF cotton or.
! a paper OF needles ZIP to a case Of ging-
+ ham or II car load Of white cloth could
! be found and packed and shipped almost
! as quickly as a market man could weigh
/ out and wrap up pound of butter or
1. q dozen eggs for customer.
/! Elevators, run by electric power con-
meet all these floors and all the other
i up-to-date fixtures and arrangements are
/ made use of to keep business moving
+ on fast schedule time. There are no
dry goods houses to the north of us or
to the west Of us and certainly none to
the south Of us that are better equipped
for business than those to be found in
Richmond.
Why 1t was SO, nobody can now ex-
plain, but the fact Is that in. the olden
time Wholesale houses In Richmond new
ser thought Of catering to the Richmond
retail trade. If the Richmond retailer
of sc olden time wanted goods lie had to
send to New York or Boston. or some
where else for them. Times have chang
ed, and Richmond dry goods folks have
changed with them. Some Of the best
customers OF the Richmond wholesale
dry goods houses are among the Rich
lmond retailers This is as 1t should be.
1t keeps a small army of porters and
deliverers and transfers and teams at
work. and to that extent increases the
volume of money that Is distributed
every week around this good old town.
in the way of wages, incidentals, repairs
etc.
WEEKLY PAY ROLLS.
And that brings us down to the ground
floor fact that this wholesale dry goods
land notion business In Richmond. pouls
out a lot Of money every week that finds
Its way into the regular channels Of
i3of men and women is needed to do this
business ana they get paid for 1t In
amounts varying all the way from
dollar day UP to fancy salaries. l
guess from what I have seen and heard
that somewhere close to four hundred
people are on the pay rolls of the isx
wholesale dry goods houses in Rich
mond.
And then think of the money paid out
for boxes, draynge. incidentals and this,
that and the other.
Truly the wholesaleairy goods and no.
ton business Of Richmond Is something
that every Richmonder ought to be proud
of. and in n way every Richmonder
ought TO be a drummer for it.
Blow we the trumphets blow,
1t won't hurt. On the contrary
1t will help. help everybody.
Blow We the trumphets, blow.
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Bright s Disease and
Diabetes. News.
1887 Broadway, san Francisco,
Anril 8 10O4

April s, 1901.
10 the Church Women Of Virginia:
1t is so hard for people TO believe that
Brlghts Disease and Diabetes are now
curable that l am asked TO permit ref
erence to my own case. shrink from
it, but there are too many dying to re-
main silent. TO he brief, 1 had both
Bright's Disease and Diabetes for oyer
five years. Usual Dropsy, nails came off
and the case was SO hopeless that the
physicians told us there was no need to
diet and to give me anything ! craVed.
/ heard that people We're being cured
in this city and procured the treatment.
In a few months the nails came back.
dropsy disappeared and IN year was
WE'LL 10 show how WELL Will say that
several years after my recovery stood
a capital operation at the Waiaeek san
itulium in the presence OF six physeians
Many friends, including DR.. Markell, OF
Cloverdale. and Judge T. -, Cutler Of
Pine Street, arc fully cognizant OF my
recovery from Bright's Disease and pa
betes, In fact, Judge cutler IS himseii
now recovering from Diabetes under me
same treatment. Let the cure DE pro-
clalmed to the world,
MRS. S, u. CLINE,
This isSentirely correct.--ll. =. Cutler
The above refers 70 the newly discoy-
cred fulton Compounds the first cures
the world has ever seen foi Br'ghts Dis
ease and diabetes. We are the solo
agents. ASK for pamphlet Owens and
Minor DRUG Co., Rehmoha' va
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sllSeDsey Johns and MI. IidMatd Hforkeii-
brolgl."
lion. and Mira S. M. NewhotiHe, of
.Rixeyvillc Cuipeper county, has issued
cards for the marriage OF tlelr#daugh-
tor Miss Eva Rixey Newliouse, TO MI.
ADDISON Casper Hudson, Of Smithfield
w. Va, the ceremony to take place In
st, stephens' Church. Culpcpcr, on We'd
fh1csdnS, April 9TH
Bishop Robert A. Gibson confirmed a
while there was tile guest or Judge Will
liam NJ. Atkinson and DR.. William n.
Mcclure.
Mrs. Bette q. flowers returned satur-
day from Visit TO her sister, Mrs. L. H.
cnrtmcll, of Winchester. Va
Invitations will be Issued this week
fora May german to be held In Murpby's
Annex, Tuesday evening, May 10th. under
the management Of A. E. Cousins.
Mr. and Mrs. u. william stearncs arc
visiting friends II Culpeper county.
Nfrs. J. Vernon ellis and children, Of
Lynchburg, are visiting Mrs. Gills's
mother. Mrs. r II. Godscy, of No. 1ll2 1-2
Wcst Clay street
A.. !, sa.
Az !, ss,, r7 - :, S's,.lhe IN mer son.
Franklin Street
Mr.. nnd Mrs. u. Rosenberg, Of Phila-
dcpnia formerly of this city, an
nounqe the engagement Of their daugh-
ter, Ada, TO Mr.. Emanuel We'll
MIS- Static imlhian. wlio has been
~ ~. III 49, 49, -, returned on sat
uraaS " ~ io''i. ~ iSo"hatah county.
Miss Bettie Dickinson, daughter Of the,
late Judge Dlckinsor. who at present is
u meinoef OF ne lilcuilS e liollins In
iulitoii:
ME- D ~, 95., ,,as neM uenshtinlly
Gh1ies III !, ~" Ir3a o.ret lfe,las
e. i '. : ''s''Ss' 80
$3.50.
The Sutnmf Rnst Wiil be opened by
Mrs George l5arkaaaie IN June. and
.thoso who wish f 70 leave the city early
and secure comiort at moderate rates.
Mr. Edgr r. Ford and sister, Miss
Emma Fort. Fill leave for Paducah, KY,
Mrs. w. G. Johnston, Of Williamsburg,
Va. Is visiting her prother Captain s.
i. Brooks. in Manchester VA
Miss Pattie Gregory, of Norfolk, will
a., II, NJ. ,rtSpSt al Mics TGtty Christian on
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richmond IN DRY
GOODS AND NOTIONS
CONTINUED From First Page)

Dds and notions as It does Of meats.
ID provisions.
i A GROWING BUSINESS.
[The Richmond wholesale dry goods men
lay possibly>4be a little slow in footing
heir own horn, for they arc modest men.
Ind therefore the Times-Dispatcn pro
loses TO do alittletootIng for them. The
limo was and not a great while ago, when
there were more Wholesale dry goods
in Richmond than now.
For some reason unknown to this writer,
some houses that had made mark in
The trading world, saw proper 70 go out
IF the jobbing business, and members
IF such concerns embarked IN other lines
If business. Because Of this, some peo-
pie have conceived the iuea that Rich
nond has lost some of Its prestige as
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Is visiting her relatives. Mr.. "A. B. 30
on Broad sfreef.

Is visiting her relatives. Mr.. "A. B. Bows
ering and family.
Mrs. a. r. Chichester and Miss HALLE
r. Chichester have returned from Bethes-s
5da, Md, where they spent the winter with
Mrs. Charles NJ. Lewis and are now at
their home in Stafford.
Mrs. W. a. Moncure and children have
returned from Philadelphia. where they
spent the winter, and are at the homo Of
Mr.. r. J. Moncure, in Stafford Cor the
summer
Miss Mary Buck, Of Tuscaloosa, Ala, ID
visiting her aunt. Mrs. Medora Little.
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THE WHOLESALERS.

The wholesale dry goods houses of
Richmond that have. an army of drum
mers throughout the South and South
eastern section are: NJ. Cohen, Son and
Co.; Drewry Hughes Co.; Straus Bros.
ana CO.; Mosby, Wilkerson and Ander-i
son; The Southern Bargain House; and
Tho j. r.. Riddck Co. llaufmann and
Co.. who deal in millinery and notions.
may be properly clnssed with the whole
sale dry goods and notion houses of
Richmond. These are all large estab-
lishments. equipped with all the up-to-
date paraphernalia for doing business,
and with roomy houses, carrying
Immense stocks, and with ample capital,
for doing business, hey are doing bust
ness that should make all Richmond
proud OF them. "A casual description OF
one of these houses, through Which 1
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williamsburg, Va.
Especial to The Times. DIspatch,}

WILLIAMSBURG, VA, April a3-Mrs
Alice Moore FRANKLIN. OF Richmond is
the guest of Mrs. Della Braithwaite on
Francis Street, Mrs, Franklin is the
daughter of j. S, Moore the author,
The Kappa Sigma Fraternity gave n
charming tea in their chapter rooms,
which have been recently much beaut-
fed, Cards were INDUCED in, after which
delicious refreshments We're served, The
following young ladies were presents;
Misses Henley, Tyler, Taliaferro, Stubs,
Spencer, Meade and Foster. The men
present were Messrs Wilson, Mason
Meade Henley, ELLIS, Tyler, Farksdale,
iIinson, Spencer, and representatives
from each Of the other Fraternlties.
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S. VIA NORFOLN3 q YVES
ERN RAILWAY.
Tickets will be sold April 9th, 2Sth
and 29tll good for return passage until
May Sd. The Norfolk and Western Rail
way, via Petersburg Is the only line
operating three daily trains between
Richmond and Lynchburg Leave Rich
31nond 905 a. NJ, 1910 P. M. and 9:fO p.
M. Pullman pnrlor and sleeping cars
For tickets, Pullman reservations and
further information. apply to Richmond
Transfer Company, ticket agent Bryd
street station, or at companyis office.
No. S3s East Main Street.
JNO. n. WAGNER.
e. II. BOsLEY, City Pass. Agt
II Dist. Pass. Agent.
q AsToHIA.
Bear. tho 7h' Kind .m YOU !a!s Always Bought
Signature e L,nzzzzz1