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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
Memorial Day.

(For the Times- Dispatch.)
Make glorious the month OF Mayi
And Is this all?
To CELEBRATE a sacred day,
With wreath and bloom and tender
spray.
And then, on God to call2
Converting here. ne sadly show
TO the world outside.
How we honor those. here lying low,
Who felt Deaths sting. but not tho
Which chastens pride.
Scatter here the sweetest bloom,
Baptized with tears;
In every patriot heart there's room.
For holy love instead OF gloom.
Outlastins many years.
Ills told in every sprlg OF grass,
In waving sigh;
Every bloom aromas bear.
Embracing loyal hearts Of prayer.
That we must also die.
And In each tendrl we may learn.
OF clinsing love; a
whichever way we chance TO turn,
A holy thought will in us burn.
Which points above
A victory IN each mourner's sigh.
Made for cause unwon,
Our grief shames not the Southern sky.
or some death, we must surely do
Why not glorious one'
They have won victory,
Who die in cause so Just,
Whether to gain success or not.
A proud defeat Is not blot.
Nor humbles us in dust.
MARY STUART GRESHAM.
Lancaster county, May, 1904
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
Millionaires' Addresses.

Editor OF The Times. Dispatch:
Sir,-.Please inform me what are the
respective addresses OF Miss Helen Gould
and Mr. Rockefellow.
5j.5. A READER.
Letters simply addressed to New York,
We suppose. would reach them. Both are
in receipt Of heavy mails daily and are
we'll known to the postoffice officials
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
Sweet Gum Lumber

Editor Of THE Times Dispatch:
slr.--Wil YOU please inform inc through
tho query column OF The Times-Dls-
patch what firm handles sweet gun
lumber? a suBscRlBER
print tho information.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
sEI:.AlBoARD AIR LINE RAILWAY,

TRAINS LEAVE RlCEMOND-DAILy.
.:ey 7. M.-seaooaId Ma,,-lv;So T. M-sea.
ianta ana southwest
rRAINS ARRIVE HISlIMONp-DAILY
6;ss A. M.--No St-From Flofioa Atlanta and
the Southwest.
A:65 +, M,--No. oe-FFolh floTlda' Atlanta and
we s:s6 p *. --ss-7From Norllna and local points
II. Lizard. u. r. a.;
81 ". n. TAYLOR. C. T. A.
go East Main street. Phone 405.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
STEAM soATs
VIRGINIA NAVIGATION CO.,

JAMES RIVER DAY LINE.
STEAMER OLD POINT COMFORT ,envs.
MONDAY, WEpSEspA1 and FRIDAY at
NJ, FOR Norfolk pila . por!smou,h, Old Point,
lnudinss and connecting ut old Point for
Washington, Baltimore nnd the North. stats.
prices Electric cars direct 10 wharf tarS
only $3.50 and 81 to Norfolk. Music BY Grand
Freight received for nbove-named places and
nil points in Eastern Virginia and North Caro-,
lima. IRWIN WElsldEf Gent. Mgr.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
\ Sale Of Humn1ing Birds.

Editor OF the Times.D ispatch:
slr.--Will you kindly publish in your
enquiry and answer column where sale
can be found for hummng birds?
Yours truly
5 JOS. DUERSCN.
Mt. Pleasant, Va.
!. No, we cannot.
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saumsville. Shenandoah county.

See Acts OF Assembly, or write to the
clerk OF your court about the Pension 1i
law. It is not required that the veteran
shall pay his poll tax before being priv
ilcged to vote.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
Away-Going Tenants Cow.

Editor Of The Illness DIspatch.
Sir--Please answer the following:
If A owns tract of land and
rents 1t to b for one year for IL OF what
3 makes. and B knowing he can't stay
but one year ties his COW on AS land
after harvest can A get damage, or can
he object to BIS tying on tho land after
he gathers his crops?
A FARMER.
We can't answer. Inquire OF some
lawyer next court day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
Pension Law.

Editor of the Times Dispatch:
Slr,-Will YOU kindly give us the Pen
sion law now In force to the Confederate
Veteran. Also the law exempting vet
Grams from the poll tax.
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This subject ia covered In ,
Hard on Tennessee.

Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
Sill have been n good deal interested
In studying the local traits and customs
prevalent In different sections Of this
country. and must confess / have been
greatly puzzled when came to the peo-
pie OF East Tennessee. Where did they
GENE from originally? Why did they act
as they did during the CIVIL War. calling
themselves Sontherners. yet traitors to
their own State. and why is the standard
OF morality so low among them to-day?
While have visited good many
places, have never been there. bl,
friends in business here tell me they don't
care to sell IN Tennessee. and that many
Of the people there are moonshiners.
y DO you tablish any connection be-
tween the population Of East Tennessee
and the convicts sent to Virginia and the
Carolinas from England many of whom
escaped to the wilderness in colonial
times?
You will remember In "The Leopard's
Spot" one of the regiments sent to hui
initiate the North Catolinans during re-
construction times was recruited from
East Tennessee. and Confederate soldiers
serving there during the war were often
decoyed to their houses by the women and
while asleep We're murdered in their beds
This Is to me an interesting point OF
ethnology.
Very respectfully,
j. NJ p.
We are By no means prepared to con-
cede that conditions In Tennessee are or
have been as the correspondent depicts
them. and therefore cannot answer his
questions
Scaling the Natural Bridge.
Editor OF the Times-Dispatch:
sir.-Dld anyone ever scale the walls
OF the Natural Bridge.
William Piper. student at Washing
ton College. now Washington and Lee
University at Lexington. climbed tho
Natural Bridge about 1920. Several years
later the exploit was performed by Alex
ander shaner. who lived only short
distance away. The last OF the three
persons succeeded In scaling the appar-
entity impossible granite wall, was James
Luster. son OF John Luster. who was for
many years the owner OF the Bridge.
Young Luster was only about fourteen
years Of age ct the time. It was not
his intention to climb to the top OF the
arch when he started, but he went up for
tho purpose OF cutting his Initials above
those OF George Washington, He sue
ceeded In doing so. Dut was not az NM
BILE In descending as was the Father OF
His Country, for when he tried 10 begin
the descent, he found ne could not do so,
and he had TO climb TO the top. The feat
took several hours, and there was not
moment OF the entire time in which he
was not In terrible danger OF falling to
the earth The top OF the arch Is 2l5
feet from the water.
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PAUL JONES.

Very WE'LL let Some Times Dispatch
reader send lis a receipt.
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Making Rag Carpets.

Editor Of The Times-Dspntch:
Sir---1 saw In your paper n few weeks
ago that some OF your readers were In
quirinE about weaving rag carpets.
weave Thorn and sell them for % cents a
yard, or charge 8 cents per yard for
wenvinR when my patrons furnish all the
material.
MRS. G. E. HALEY.
kent's store, Va, May 49,
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Registration Again.

Ransons, Va. May I, 1901.
Editor OF The Times Dispatch.
SIr.--please answer the following:
First--Will a person who becomes TWEEN.
ty-one years old. say in May 1904, have
10 pay capitation tax before he can
register or vote this fall?
second--Whatis the longest time he can
be twenty-one and register and vote this
fall without having paid a capitation tax?
X. Y. n.
This subject is covered in subsection
OF section %. article /. of the constitu-
ton.
Section 2o.-After the arst day Of Jan
vary. 100. every male citizen OF the
United States having qualifications or
age and residence required In section IS.
shall be entitled to register, provided:
first-Thnt he, has personally paid 10
tho proper officer all State poll taxes as
sessed or assessable against him, under
this or the former Constitution, for tho
three years next preceding that in which
he offers to register: or II he comes OF
age at such time that no poll tax shall
have been nssessable against him for the
year preceding the year in which he OF.
fcrs to register, has paid one dollar and
fifty cents, In satisfaction OF the years
poll tax assessable against him.
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Canning Beets,

EDITOR OF The Times dispatch: & G
Slr,--Plcnsc send recipe for canning
bects. BY SO doing you will greatly obliRe
all old subscriber
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22

rrcat n concession OF yotr vnlua bic time,
you viii furnish me with a statement
of facts III this matter In accordance with
yo,irS recoections.
With my best wishes for your health
and prosperity, / am, Colonel, truly
Your friend, s
N. III. HARRIS. I
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TO Measure Boards.

EdIlor Tho TImcs- Dlspn tell
Please give the rule and an example for
measuring boards. 8.
BeulHh. Va.
we must ask some OF our experienced
friends to give us the information IS. >
seeks.
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ALBEMARLE ARTILLERY.
List of Its Officers and Men Who
Surrendered at Appomattox.

IHHUsHy, va,
Editor OF the Times.Dispatchs
;Ir--1 enclose copy of original roll of
the Albemnrle Artillery as surrendered
at Appomattox O. H.. April 9th, 1865.
which would probably bS interesting to
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
Very respectfully,

We are BY no means prepared to con
cede that conditions in Tennessee are or
have been as the correspondent depicts
them, and therefore cannot answer his
questions.
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Whit Sunday.

MRS. w. II. JESSE
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."s4 APeter at the Gate"

st. Peter stood guard at the golden gate,
With a solsfnn mlen ana an air,sedatc,
When up III the top Of the golden stair,
IA mat, ana woman ascending there.
Applied forA admission. They came and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22

Cost of Attachment.
Edlr of The Times Dispatch,
ST. had In my hands an attach,
inf against (what was supposed to bel
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-22
Scaling the Natural Bridge.

Editor OF The T1meS-D1spatch:
Sr.-Did anyone ever scale the walls
OF the Natural Bridge
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24
THE WHITE HOUSE.
President MadisOn's Part In Thus
Naming the Executive Mansion.

President MadtsOn's Part In Thus
Naming the Executive Mansion.
Just how the White House came to
be so designated Is question on which
historians differ. 4 local historian In
Washington thinks that the burden OF
proof tends to give credit for the name
to President Madison.
The structure was made OF Potomac
river freestone and the capitol proper
was built of the same stone. AT the
time the British burned the executive
mansion they did lot of other dam
age. and the country was pressed for
money to repair the same. The walls
Of the mansion We're only slightly dam
aged, other than being blackcned by
smoke Money was scarce, and CON
gress made an appropriation 10 have
the outside of the house painted. White
was selected It's the best color Madison
In letter to personal friend wrote:
Come In and see me at any time. You
will always find me In at the White
House"
The executive mansion may have
been called the White House before
TINT time but this Investigator says
that he has never been able TO ind any
record of IT, If Madison did not Off
cinte Mt the christening II has been
cmphatically stated by the historian
that he took n prominent part In pub
lishing the fact that the White House
WINS to be the name of the mansion.
the executive mansion. which Is the
| legal name for II, was generally spo-
\ ken Of ma the presidents house, but
since then 1t has been known by its
permanent name of White House.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24

The men or women who envy those
who happen To be able To dress well
and TO enjoy the pleasures of life n
little more than those who are compel
led to work continually will be misera-
BILE all their days, for, no matter how
high they may get. they Will find 9th
ers stlll higher The envious person
IN never satisfied and never can be
Take the successful men of the city,
and you Will find TINT the majority Of
them began Just where you did. Then
why are you not In equally good cir
cumstnhccs? Ii you ran race with
mnn and lost ii, you would hardly
blame your failure on the race course.
You started even aud ran together. and
You lost because You couldn't run az
fast ms he or lacked the power of en-
durance. So your failure in the race
of life is not due to the track. but TO
your lack of ability as II runner,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24
EPlGRAMS OF NOVELlSTS.

One crawls into friendship. one occa-
slonally drifts into matrimony. but in
love one Frankfort Moore
There is no place like the top. eSpe
cially when 1t Is narrow and Will not
hold many Mt time.-Anthony Hope
Love and friendship are stronger
than charity and politeness. and those
who trade upon the latter are rarely
accorded the former.-Seton Merriman.
1t is the Americans regret that at
present he can do nothing with his feet
while he Is listening at the telephone.
but doubtless some employment will he
found for them in the coming agc-Ian
Maclaren.
There are two objectionable sins in
this world, success and failure Those
who succeed can't forgive fellow for
being failure and those who fail
can't forgive him for being success
G.. III. Lorimer.
There are two classes of people In the
world. the people who are clever and
the people who are keen, and you must
never mix the two. They meet and
touch, they are necessary to each other.
but they never. never blend Rather
Inc Cecil Thurston
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24
WATER CLOCKS.
Curious Little Instruments That Are
Used In Sahara Desert.

A mans weal,h in the Sahara is cal
culated almost entirely by the number
of camels or palm trees which he owns
and by the amount of water to which
he is entitled Water in the desert is
so scarce that The ownership Of ii is
most jealousy guarded. In "A Search
For the Masked TaWHreks" the author
says that In buying Il palm grove II IL
always necessary to stipulute for 80
many sa'as per day or week. A sa'a,
literally "an hour" is the amount Of
water which Will flow In an hour
through an opening the width of a
mans fist In the side of segia.
The main segias, or channels, as a
rule follow the roads Of the oasis,
forming sort Of ditch ut the side. A
regular time table is kept, showing the
hours AT which the owners Of the diff
fercnt plantations are entitled 10 draw
water.
The time IN measured by very curl.
Gus little water clock, consisting of Il
metal cup, made usually OF brass or
"copper" with small hole pierced In
each hour this is placed In busin of
water. The water gradually runs
through the hole until at the expiration
of the hour the cup sinks to the bottom
of the basin 1t is then taken out,
emptled and set again to measure off
the next sn'a, and so the process is
continued throughout the twenty four
hours.
This instrument is usually kept In
the villnge mosque In order TO pre-
vent all interference with 1t watch
man Is set over II, who notifies the ex
piratlon of each hour from the minaret
of the mosque.
At the end Of the sa'a the opening In
the side of the segia through which the
water flows IL closed with clay, and the
water is cut Off and allowed to flow
down the main channel to the next
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24

Concerning very modlsh woman
the late Julian Rix, painter and critic,
had this story to tell:
mfr. Rix, I've come to ask you n
great favor" she said as she fairly
burst into his studio one fall day.
Everything l have is at your com
mand, madam"
Il want to show you some coats of
arms and ask your advice about max
Ing choice"
(which side of the family do you
wish to follow, maternal or
"Oh, neither! The herald says | can
choose any of these. want something
that will look well on whist counters"
Yes. Well, what about thisY'
THAT will do nicely. But don't you
think | ought to have more than one 2
| do tire so quickly of things you
know."-New York Times.
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Custom That Has Been FOLLOWED
by Many Writers.

Johnson told Boswell once in the
course of a conversation, il which he
praised the ANATOMY" that man, if
inclined to melancholy, should have a
lamp constantly burning in his bed
chamber during the night land if wake
fully disturbed take a book and read
and compose himself to rest" There
can be little doubt that in thus indi-
eating an appropriate course for any
one afflicted with constitutional mel
ancholy" ~ his own trouble - he was
stating his own practice. Many book
the wakeful doctor must have turned
over in the silences of the night, and
this increases the wonder that desire
TO read any particular work should
take him out of bed unusually early.
Gray must surely have been Il reader
In bed man who wished to be for
ever lying on sofas, reading eternal
new novels of Crebillon and Mari
vaux." must have been familiar with
the faces of his favorites in the night
hours. Elijah Fenton, now forgotten
coadjutor OF Pope, was accustomed to
lie abed Mt his lodgings, we are told
and be fed with n spoon. but Gray's
love of ease was not of this type. Gray
was n bookman, and most bookmen
probably have INDUCED in the habit of
reading in bed. Lamb apostrophlZed
his folios as my midnight darlngs,"
but those huge armfuls." as he calls
them, were not bedside books. They
were the companions of the long hours
of candlelight in the back room of the
quiet little 'gambOgish colored" house
beside the Chase at Enfield Wycher-
ley, one of the artificial dramatists
for whom Lamb wrote a quaint de-
Tense. made habit of reading himself
to sleep. Nightly he shared his pillow
with his lavnrite authors Seneca,
Montaigne and Rochefoucauld and in
the mornings made practice of writ
ing on those subjects which had caught
his attention during the previous
nights reading, with the curious
though not unnatural result as Pope
has testified, that his writing was I'M
consciously mere echo of his reading.
Somewhat later. when Grub street
flourished, If so Inappropriate n verb
may be allowed, many a poor wretch
of n hack author was glad to write as
we'll as to read in bed for the all sutli
cient reason that seemly clothes were
lacking for going Abroad London
Globe
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24
ScmIn On the Mmtcr.

Ii has been observed that Immediate
ly preceding storms an unusual amount
of scum appears on the surface of
ponds, and In London Nature II plausi-
BILE explanation of this phenomenon
attributes II To change In barometric
pressure. 1t Is suggested that the
scum formation is due 10 the rise of
marsh grass from the oo2e mt the bot
tom Of ponds following sudden fall
In the barometer, presaging weather
change, the gas carrying along with
1t some of the solid matter of the ooze,
thus forming the scum
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All Druggists

ask the readers Of this paper who ale
suffering with Indigestion or dyspep.
.ia to call on them at once aud get a
bottle Of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. II
you knew the value Of this remedy As
Ne know il. yon wonld not snfIer
another day, kodol Dyspepsia Cure
u thorough digestnni aud tissue
binding tonic as we'll II il endort
ed personally by hundreds Of people
a hon II has cured ~ indigestion, a ~
persia, paipitaiion 81 the heart aud
siomaeh troubles generally. kod0i
Dyspepsia Cure diRests what you eat
II j. pleasant, palatahle aud strength
snlug-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24

Piles upon top of piles of people have
the Piles, and De Wits Witch Hazel
Salve cures them. There are many
different kinds of Piles, but If you get
the genuine aud original Witch Hazel
Salve made by f. G. Dewitt \ Go. OF
Chicago, cure is certain. u \. Tis.
dale, of Summerton, s. Z avs 81
had piles 20 years aud DeNu's Salve
cured me after everything else failed
Sold by all druggists.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24
Irnrh In Ills iErnnc.

The ylolinist had been invited to n
family dinner hut 1t proved that sev-
eral relatives Of his host We're present,
and their demands for music We're most
persistent
The yioinist played three times, and
then, when the applause after his third
solo had died away, he turned 10 his
host
And now, monsieur" he said eager
". NOW II is that you Will show us
how you scll ze flour in 70 wheat pit
Can help roll 70 barrel in, MONSIEUR
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24
EnnI In,,.In Ernnr.

Parisians who suspect adulterntion
in the food or drink they buy take it
10 the municipal laboratory and have
it Analysed free of cost The city un-
dertakcs the prosecution, If need be.
Of the offender, who, II the case IL
proved. is liable not only TO fine and
Imprisonment, but to the exposure in
his shop window of notice OF con
Viet.iH of aduteration."
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The beat friend you have il be,
ter friend TO himself than he is To you

Let me say have used Iirs Cream Palm
far eaiarrh and can thoroughly reecomsnd il
FOR what II claims very truly, uReY II "
Hathaway. Elizabeth, n
tried Ely's Cream Balm and 80 all appear.
ances am cured NJ catarfh The terrible head
aches from which / have long suffered are
gone W J Hitchcock late Major L. T. Vol
and A. A Gen. Buffalo. NY
The Balm does not irriia,e or cause snsez-
ing. Sold by druggists at - cts or mailed
by Ely Bre theirs, 20 Warren NJ New York
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0. |. BLACK v ELL.
Law and Real Estate,
OFFICE In New Rank iuiIding, ed tionrl
LAMBERTNIIIE, n


For Rent or Sale House and Lot acre-
sale price. Stod
For Sale Farms, from II to ia acres loeat-
ed in Raritan, Amwell, Kineweod and pela-
ware townships HHuterdon co lrlrr- risht
and on easy terms
For Sale in I.ambertvlle-
Dcle,an ST, brick house, rooms barn cheap
Clinton st, frame house,
n Union ST. brick house, new
Main ST, brick house, rooms, cheap
Buttonwood ST, brick heuSe rooms rhear
For Sale in Stockton
. frame house-one having Bakery attached
Fixtures will be sold also ia right party
For Sale Hotel properties
3 desirable stands, on easy terms, loeatel in
Hunterlon County, n J., and Bucks and
Northampton Counties, Pa.
Always have good mortgages on hand for
parties seeking investment Rate of Interest
per cent on amounts of $iom ana less
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lice ;Iighest Compliment,

:" hat did you think Of my speech p
asked the orator.
1T was beautiful" said the voun,
woman. 1T made me think OF INV
commencement essay" - Washington
star
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saw IItntself

Honest, new. Jones. did you see n
burglar In your room when you called
the police"
NO. My wife lad shifted the mir
ror in my room aud didn know IL"
Detroit Free Press
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24
Her Soft side

Child pauslng in front Of grandmoth-
or. Who Is on visit, to consider her
carefully granny which side Of you
IS the soft side? Granny Why. dar.
linE? ftild Because mother says II !
keep on tie soft side Of granny. per
haps she'll eirc me bicycle Punch