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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26
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EoLDCRoFT, VA. Nov. 90
This section OF Charles
City which is known far and
wide as Brass Ankle has al
ways been noted for it's
game and also for an abun-
dance of sportsmen. Our
forests and fields often re
sound with the rattle OF
small arms and recalls to
the minds of old veterans
the stirring scenes of the ear
~ sixties.
One of our prominent citi-
zens not long ago shoulder
eel his gun and was seen dis
appearing in the forest III
/ quest of turkeys, his search
was very successful, found
plenty of them and after a
! furious charge he retired for
dinner aud reported to hls
! devoted wife that he haC
| shot five times but did nO-
bring home any game.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26
4TCAe1 Brooks,
OeneraI Insurance Agent

0enerai Insurance Agent
Representing the following
tiirst-class Companies
Va. Fire & Marine and Va.
State, Richmond. Virginia
Home. of n. Y; Hamburg
bremen, Norwich I mon
Pennsylvania Fire and Fire
Association, of Philadelphia.
also represent the Fidel-
ity & Deposit Co. OF Md. and
the Fidelity and Casualty
Co. of y. y.
All business entrusted,
whether reinsurance bond
or of indemnity on Officials
or employees will receive
prompt attention.
Office Over Spencer Bros Store,
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26

Pay your poll tax now to
vote in 1905.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26

Clerk T. III. Geddy and
Mr.. X. l.. spencer spent
Thursday in New Kent.
- - -
Mr.. W. l.. Schenck, the
Oak Tree merchant was In
town Monday.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26
From Williamsburg.

From Williamsburg.
LEAVE. wEsrBouSp.
S:26 IN ExSpt Sunday toRichmouj
Connects at Richmond with
James River Division train
daily for Lynchburg. Lex
ington, Va, and Clifton
Forge.
1O:4T a. IN. Fast train daily 10 CHI.
mond. No stops. Buffet Par
lor car OLD Point 10 Stauu-
ton Connects with through
Express. leaving Richmond
at =. NJ. with Pullman u
St. Louis
col p. m. Daily Fast tram 10 Rich.
mond. Parlor Car. No
stops. Connects at Rich-
mond with +. T. Y. with
pullman Sleeper TO Ci8cinua-
IL
6:32 p. m. Except Sunday Local 70
Richmond,
RAsrBoUNDs
g.O4 a m. Local except Sunday TO
Newport News.
| s:56 a. N. Fast train daily, with Parioi
Car TO old Point, Nor,olA
and Portsmouth.
ass p. m. Daily. Fast trans
| with Parlor Car for Old Point
Norfolk, and Portsmouth.
No local stops. Connects
at Old Point daily with
Steamers Tor Washington
and Cape Charles and
except Sunday, tor Balti
more; and at Norfolk With
New York Steamer.
6.32 p. M. Daily. Local TO Old Point
For detail information, connections
rates, tickets etc. apply TO your statior
agent, or 10
II. ". FULLER.
General Z. A.
". .. WARTHEN,
District Pass'r Agent
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26
Here and There

MIR. Dick Bryan. manager
OF "Temple farm, was here
Thursday.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26

Mr.. J. p. Johnson will sell
his personal property at
War Hill farm on December
Sth,
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26

Treasurer :. :. Hankins
will sit here on Nov. %, ~
and 30th to collect taxes Tor
1904.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-11-26

Gameis getting scarce even
now, and before the season
is closed few birds or other
game will be left.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28

paint. On account of the dampness,
no glue should be used. Instead of
trying to fit the edges of the boards of
the top tightly as in gluing, round off
all the edges both above and below,
leaving an obvious crack. Round off
all the corners of the table and the
weather will raise" no splinters.
Treat the boards of the seat same
as the top. Screw the seat and top
boards down with solid screws, plac-
ing the screws near the edges of the
boards to keep them from Wrapping and
curling up. Then let the sun and rain
have their way and you will have a
real weathered oak piece, which
could be used in winter as a unique
indoor piece.
Two braces should run lengthwise
under the seat, screwed or mortised
into the end pieces and screwed to the
seat boards.
To operate the affair the top would
have to be lifted off and set on edge
on the ends of the cross-pieces, the
back braces" being hooked over the
pegs in the outsides of the arms. When
used as a table the top should be fas-
tened on by running loose" pegs
through the arms into the cross-pieces
on the under side of the top. The back
brace will then fold up under the top.
While this piece might appear rough at
first sight, its design would make it
odd and nteresting.-Chicago Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
A FEW POULTRY JoTTINGs.

Don't pick the geese and ducks while
laying. It will be time enough after
ward.
Not many know that the sort of
food you feed poultry determines the
flavor of the meat.
Feed the fowls skim milk. 1t serves
them in place of meat. For an occa-
sional meal mix it with bran.
Dry sawdust makes a good bottom
for the coops. Clean it out and put
in fresh sawdust each week.
Don't force the chicks on the roost
too soon. This causes the crooked
breast we SO often find in chickens.
The oftener you feed the chickens
the faster they grow. You can scarce
ly hurt a growing chick with dry feed.
Never feed damaged feed-that is.
moldy corn, soured mashes. Serious
diseases too often alone come. from
feed Of this kind.
The Buff Orphington, the handsom-
est of fowls, equals the Plymouth
Rock as a table fowl, and the Leghorn
in its egg producing qualities.
Don't place the eggs of the Asiatic
and Mediterranean fowls in the in
cubator to hatch at the same time.
The Asiatics have a thick shell and
require more moisture to soften the
shell. The same amount of moisture
would prevent the thinner shelled eggs
from hatching.-Twentieth Century
Farmer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
IS FASTEST IN THE NAVY.
New Armored Cruiser Colorado De.
clared to Be Peer Of Any Naval
so. Vessel in the World.

The new armored cruiser Colorado
attained a speed of 22.31 knots an hour
over measured course in its unofficial
or builders trial trip off Delaware
Breakwater recently. Experts declare
that on the official trip the cruiser will
steam 22h knots. making it superior
to any armored cruiser in the world.
The Colorado is one of the eight
modern armored cruisers now in
course of construction for the Amer
lean navy. All are of 1850 tons dis
placement. Practically they are bat
tleships with high speed.
In speaking of the result of the test
the vice president of the Cramp Ship
building company, Edwin s. Cramp,
said:
"The performance of the machinery
was perfect in every respect, the maxi
mum speed being obtained without the
heating of single bearing. When it
Is considered that the cruiser had
never been tried before; that it had
been overheard one year since the
launching and consequently the bot
tom is necessarily foul; that the coal
was the ordinary run of the mine,
and that the course was comparative
ly shallow, the results show the Col
orado to be without a peer in the
American navy or any other navy"
The official trial probably will take
place about the middle of September
over the usual course off the Masso.
chusetts coast.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
rs E'fEs1ps1En
1IEs {!l!| ;
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FURNITURE MADE AT HOME.
Comfortable Combination Settee and
Table for the Porch Of Odd
and Pleasing Design.

A combination settee and table can
be made to Oe used and left or the
porch. If one likes the rustic" this
could be made of unplaned lumber, the
seat and arms and back being rubbed
with coarse sandpaper to take off the
worst of the roughness that would be
likely to catch on the clothes.
1t might be well, perhaps, to plane
the upper side of the table top, though
that, too, might be left rough to be
used without a cloth. This piece could
be left to be "grayed" by the weather,
or could be made of boards already
weathered, or the gray could be start
ed with a stain. A water stain (ani-
line) might be better than an oil stain,
because little Of the stain could be
wiped off and unless the oilstain were
very thin it would look too much like
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
THE WAY TO SCHOOL.

Its starting-point the old back stoop. was
gray with weather-wea
But tribute OF the freshest bloom a rose
bush offered there,
And white and scarlet hollyhocks shook
dewdrops, silver-cool
Each morn. upon the struggling path that
led away to school.
1t sauntered leisurely between the aisles
OF vineyard bloom,
Ihen dipped, with arrow straightuess.
through the orchard woven gloom,
And trailing out where, notified pink. the
bergamot grew dense, .
II struck the weedy angle OF a stake-and-
rider fence. '7-'1 =.
Small wonder that 1t loitered there. where
berry bushes grew
The brier-roses were so pink, the spider-
wort so blue! 80.
The misty opals OF the notwithstanding
youthful feet
Lay stored away amidst the grass and
clover blossoms sweet.
But once beyond the fences line the path
ran. straight and prin -
Where locusts interlocked their bouphs and
made the morning dim q -
With musky shade; then suddenly It took
headlong turn
And scrambled down a hollow throurh q
snarl Of brake and fern.
1t led US to lazy stream, and temn,aa ne
to lag
And gather pungent peppermint and root
of fragrant flag:
The mandrake lured with golden fruit. the
witch-elm wove a spell >-e
That shattered at the echo of loudly peal.
ing bell, -
way firmly sped, :. SS''.'
And up the heights, at duty's call mn.
swervingiy It led;
And as with moist and scarlet cheeks our
daily seats we took. =
Unwittingly we closed page Of Natures
fairest book.
paniop. = : =
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
EVERYBODY HAS TROUBLES.
So Don't for Single Minute Think
Your Lot Is Harder Than That
of Anyone Else.

Don't think when the clouds of ad-
versity hang heavily over you that
your lot is harder than that of every
one else. Things are pretty evenly
divided in this world, and no matter
how bad the trouble is, bear in mind
the fact that it might be worse.
No one goes through life without his
share of sorrow. Some fortunate peo-
pie are able to throw it off and rise
again buoyant and hopeful; others are
conquered by their troubles and never
rise above them.
: Don't assume that the man or wom-
an with the CHEEKY face and manner
have never known grief. Their sor-
rows, says the Chicago American, may
have exceeded yours tenfold, but they
have simply made up their minds to
make the best of things and present a
brave face.
There is enough sorrow in the world
without adding to it by going around
with a long drawn face and whining
manner. With the responsibilities of
manhood and womanhood come cares
and trials; we cannot escape them, be-
cause we cannot live and love without
sometimes seeing the reverse side of
the shield.
But we need not meet trouble half
way, and we need not succumb to the
little worries, for if we do we have no
strength left to fight the big ones when
they come.
Nearly every cloud has a silver lin
ing If we only look hard enough to find
it, and it is well to remember that
sometimes the very thing that brings
sorrow to us brings Joy to some one
else.
1t is a great mistake to expect too
much sympathy from our friends. Up
to certain point they will sympathize
and listen patiently to our tale of woe;
but too much woe tires even the most
ready sympathizer, and if we always
carry a sad face We will find we are
left much to ourselves.
Nothing commands so much respect
and sympathy as trouble bravely borne.
A smile makes more friends than a
whine and a hopeful nature is a great
blessing.
Things are always at their very
darkest just before a turning point.
Let us learn to take the bitter with the
sweet, to make the best of our woes
for the sake of our joys.
Into each life some rain must fall"
but some of the showers are only sun
showers after all, and let us take
refuge under the umbrella of hope and
watch for the rainbow that is shining
brightly across the dark clouds.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28

ture Of rubies and diamonds. About the
room, here and there, single crimson
chrysanthemum echoed the note of her
poignant personality. Awhile she elud-
ed me, 1.-THE and slender as flame; but
at last my pleading touched her.
II believe you do love mel" she
cried. Her superb bosom swelled
against its jewelled barrier.
II love you more than life! Who
ever and whatever you are, I love
you'll"
She gave herself to my arms and
my lips had their will.
But you don't know who I ami"
she laughed, escaping.
"You are my wife to be! I have told
you that the name of my family is
honorably known to every man in the
street. And our wealth is equal to
our honor. Will you hear my name
and tell me yours tonight.
mot tonight" she said, and her
eyes grew suddenly dark and terrible.
mot tonight! Tomorrow! But do
not come till night"
Ou the IuOTTOW ulSuI sue was HOI III
the drawing room when entered.
White chrysanthemums clustered in
every available place, large, loose.
crinkly-petalled abandon or delicate,
staid reserve. I was vexed to see
among them her favorite pied variety.
white petals splashed and streaked
with red.
Then she came, a seductive bridal
vision in floating, glimmering white.
I sprang forward.
"Wait!" She threw up her hand for
biddingly.
Her voice was clear and dulcet and
self-possessed.
81 am Christine Tyrone"
"Impossible!" gasped.
You remember the famous Tyrone
murder case-every one does!-the
California millionaire who was killed
in his bed. The mans wife, 80 years
younger, and her lover were impli-
Gated. Evidence showed the guilt of
the woman at least, conclusively But
she was q woman and strangely beau.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
WHEN POULTRY is AILtN0.
A Short Description of the Symptoms
of the Many Diseases of
Hens and Chicks.

When the excrement secreted by the
kidneys, which is normally pure white,
appears yellow, though the droppings
are solid and the bird appears perfectly
healthy, look out for bowel trouble.
When the crop is hard and unyielding
there is danger of the bird becoming
crop-bound.
When the discharges are streaked
with blood, it is time to give preventives
for diarrhoea.
When the joints are hot and swollen,
and the fowl is disinclined to stand,
rheumatism has taken hold.
When the nostrils are clogged with
dirt, and the eyes water, ward off pos
sible case of roup by timely treatment.
If the case is bad, apply the Ratchet and
bury the carcass.
When the bird seems lame, and has a
small swelling on its foot, remove to a
house with no perches, and oblige it to
roost on a bed of straw. Bumble-foot Is
easily cured in the early stages if the
cause is at once removed.
When hen seems to drop down be-
hind, and goes repeatedly to the nest
without laying, she is usually suffering
from a disorder of the oviduct, and
might as we'll be killed and eaten.
When a bird is going light" has
good appetite, but passes food from the
bowels undigested, it is the early stage
of consumption, and treatment is USE
less.
When the hen seems giddy, and turns
round and round, she is probably suf-
fering from apoplexy.
When the bird has leg weakness, with
no disorder of the liver, feed lighter,
and give plenty of Oone-feeding mate
rial.
When new fowls are bought, quaran-
tine them until sure they have no dis
ease.
When a fowl has difficulty in breath
ing, look out for pneumonia.
When fowl is dangerously sick with
an organic disease, it is worse than use
less as breeder. 1t is usually safer to
kill bad case of illness than to try to
cure it.-Farmers' Gazette, Canada.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28

is trimmed in front with bands and
knots of velvet and the jabot is of lace.
The other gown is of champagne
colored wolfe. The skirt is composed of
box-plaited breadths, alternating at the
top to little rounded tabs. The box
plated breadths are ornamented with
buttons and cords matching the gown.
The bolero-like bodice is gathered at
the top and again at the bottom, and
is trimmed with the cord, forming mo-
tifs. The fronts Of the blouse are fin
ished with revers of white silk en-
broidered in delicate colors, and open
below over a waistcoat of champagne
colored silk ornamented with cord, or
passementerie motifs to match The
plastron is of white silk or linen and
the corslet girdle is of the material or
of silk of the same shade.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
DRAINAGE OF A WET FIELD.
The Work Was Not half So Hard as
It Seemed in Advance and
the Benefits Great.

A little experience is worth more than
q whole lot of theory. The theory OF
draining land is generally all right, but
it does not get hold of ones thought and
purpose as very little experience
|, does.
For instance, I had piece of land that
was so wet and soggy could do nothing
with it after it was plowed. The weeds
grew on it like bushes, the corn like
blades of grass. Last fall and early this
spring dug some bitches in the lowest
places, and laid two-inch tile in them. !
dug deep ditch at the head of the wet
piece, just under the hill, picked the
stone from the piece of land and filled
this head ditch with them. This cut of
the water from the hillside. The main
ditch led from this head ditch straight
down through the field. The effect is
marvellous. The land broke up we'll in
blowing and narrowed down smooth
The corn is growing on it as well as
elsewhere, in spite Of the cold season.
The main point in this item is this:
The amount of work involved appeared
mountainous at first, and deferred me
from undertaking 1T. But the actual
work Of digging the bitches, laying tile,
picking stone and filling in the head
ditch was surprisingly small, and easy
in comparison with the apprehension
Of what it would be. A few days of con-
tinuous work transformed that Doggy
piece Of land into one of easy filth.
One thing more in this connection:
The road to the lower fields lay across
the former wet piece of land. I cut
two bitches across the road, at the head
of two cross drains, and filed them with
stone, and now, instead of having q
heavy, wet piece of road to haul manure
hay, etc., over, have a dry, hard road.
Altogether. the work has been small,
the expense light and the satisfaction
great. And-this is another point-the
experience is so encouraging that an
other field which presents like Difficult
ties Of culture is no longer dishearten-
ing. but, on the contrary. inviting, know
ing, asone may, by trifie of such expe-
rience that it will easily yield to the
same method of treatment and become
fertile instead of waste, as at present.
w. R. Cary, in N. Y. Tribune Farmer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
The Proper Care of Clothes.

After the walking dress has been re-
moved the skirt should be well brushed
and hung in the wardrobe on two hooks
by means of two loops. Or, better still,
fold it carefully in the seams, pin to-
gether at the band and suspend, so
pinned, on the hooks. Some wardrobes
are now made with movable hangers.
which are very useful. Coats should al
ways be stretched upon hangers when
not in actual use. Stoles and boas,
whether of feathers, chiffon or fur. are
always freshened up and benefited by a
gentle shaking in front of the fire after
wear on wet day. The feathers be-
come quite crisp again under such treat
mont, while the chiffon loses the
wrinkled, curled look that rain gives It,
and assumes It's normal lufiness. Chi
cago News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
Dressing Fowls for Market.

In scalding ducks and geese the wa
ter must be of the same temperature
as for chickens, but they must remain
longer in the water, as their feath-
ers are shaped to turn even hot wa
ter. Some people prefer not to leave
them in the water so long, and after
removing them wrap them up in a
blanket to steam. But this is a lit
tie risky when picking for shipment.
as not all persons who help in the
picking process know just exactly how
long to let them steam, and often
when taken from the blankets the
flesh is cooked. After picking OFF all
down and feathers hold them about IL
seconds in scalding water to plump
them.-Rural Home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28

LONH fOU! ! SAID. ABRUPTLY.
tiful. The jury acquitted her and con-
demned the man.
brain. And-hQrror Of horrors! That
dim, haunting likeness in the face of
Chrysanthe was for the newspaper
pictures of the murderess!
Eyes, / killed him. my husband"
she said slowly. 81 hated him and he
hated Roland. I struck the blow my
self to spare Roland. But the jury
Her face went suddenly white and
wild. She beat her clenched hands
against her breast. Roland died to-
day." she whispered, Gin that western
slaughter housed"
In an instant she mastered the wave
of anguish, and became the woman I
knew.
"You must forgive me for making
you love me-" she smiled. 81 wanted
to be loved once more. I thought it
might help me to forget. And chose
fastidiously! But it has hardly worked,
has it," She laughed in my face.
shrank.
"Ah, you are shocked, monsieur.
Wait! I will show you one of my pied
chrysanthemums!"
She moved across the room toward a
great bunch of the splotched beauties.
wheeled away stricken and
stunned. Raising my eyes to the mir
ror just caught reflected the CLEAN
and plunge of her lifted arm.
whirled about. Too late! I was
only in time to catch her as she fell.
She herself pulled out the dagger, and
the blood gushing forth streaked and
stained her white gown.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
Proved Bevond a Doubt.

-, Middlesex, N. Y, July 25.-(Special)-
That Rheumatism can be cured has been
proved beyond doubt by Mrs. Betsey
a; Clawson, well known here. That Mrs:
Clawson had Rheumatism and had it bad
all her acquaintance know. They also
know she is now cured. Dodd's Kidney
Pills did it. Mrs. Clawson tells the story
of her cure as follows:
Il was an invalid for most five years
caused by Inaammatory Rheumatism,
helpless two,thirds of the time. The first
year l could not do as much as baby
could do. then rallied a little bit and
then a relapse. Then year ago the govt
set in my hands and feet. I Suffered un-
told agony and in August, 1903, when my
husband died I could not ride to the
grave.
81 only took two boxes of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and in two weeks 1 could wait
on myself and saw my own wood. I dug
my own potatoes and gathered my own
garden last fall. Dodds Kidney Pills
cured me-"
Rheumatism is caused by uric acid in
the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills put the
Kidneys in shape to take all the uric acid
out of the blood.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28

in the second leaf and while the fields
were covered with a solid green mat
of plants, I went over them with my
sprinkling tank, spraying them with
the following solution: Eighty gal
Ions of water p a in a 2h per cent.
solution Of bluestone or sulphate of
copper. This solution must be
strained before placing in the tank TO
prevent .clogging Of the sprayer. The
result of this spraying was the prac-
teal eradication of all the mustard
plants, but few remaining in grow
ing condition. The cut shows the ar
rangement 1 used for spraying the
field A wagon water tank may pc
used instead of barrel, as shown, in
which to place strong force pump
A pipe is attached horizontally at
about the height of axle to rear of bed,
being connected with barrel or tank
by a suitable hose. At proper in
tervals spray nozzles, such as are used
for spraying fruit trees, are attached
to pipe pointing directly downward as
shown at a. A second spraying will
seldom be found necessary.-Rud Nc
Waters, in Farm and Home.