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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07

At the request of the owner, who has
made up his mind to SELL we will offer
the above numbered s-room, detached
brick dwelling, now In excellent repair,
and occupied by a hrst-class tenant Tho
lot is a large one having Il front on the
east side OF Twenty seventh Street OF 81
feet 6la inches, and runs back 1O3 feet y
Inches, This is an opportunity to get q
desirable home, or n l.7lendld investment,
in good ncighborhoot
TEfpMS-Very liberal, and announced at
sale. MNElGH & GL1NN,
May G. IDS Auctioncers.
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The bond required OF the special com
missioners. by the above named DEGREES
mas oeen au'S s'YsiiP; +. P. WINSTON.
Clerk.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07

CO Ann 3-sTORY BRICK DETACHED
QAsVVV dwelling. on Eighteenth Street.
now renting at $40.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07

On Tuesday, by McVeigh and CHM,
valuable suburban acreage site on the
Hermitage Road. fronting on Sherwood
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07

e1 AN TWO FRAME DWELLINGS,
81 1V on Seventeenth street, one with
store front and rooms, the othar
rooms; both are now renting for 1884.
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Property Transfers.

Henrico: r. j. and w. r. Francis and
wives 10 Farrell Meadows, so acres about
10 miles northwest of city OF Richmond
10 miles northwest Of city OF Richmond
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07
Auction Sales This Week.

There will be some interesting auction
sales this week. among them the follow
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07
AUCTION sALEs--Mo nday.

BY Geo. Y. oliver, Auctioneer,
90 broad Street, between First Street and
Brook Avenue. Phone 45SL.
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REAL ESTATE.

c1feEnG3 GROOM BRICK DWELL
VlsOOV ings, on west Canal street,
These are now renting to excellent ten-
ants at $3.50 each.
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broken off were it allowed to bite
through a membrane. The fangs are
accordingly pulled forward with string.
and the poison is collected in vessel
held by third assistant. The first
process consists in injecting horses
with gradually increasing doses of the
active poison. 1t was found that the
high temperature of Bombay was not
suitable for horses undergoing this
treatment, and on the other hand that
the colder climate of Kasauli was un-
suitable for the snakes. Hence this di-
vision of labor.
The hyper immunization of horse is
lengthy proceeding. extending over a
period of about two years. 1t will read
lily be understood that an animal which
has been treated for this period is ex-
ceedingly valuable, and requires to be
tended with the greatest care. At the
end of two years he is capable of deal
ing with dose of venom which would
have killed him so times over in the be-
ginning. A week or two after this last
large dose has been administered, he IS
in coalition to be bled, and gallon
and a half of blood is drawn from his
veins. This blood is allowed to clot,
and the serum which eXudes is, the anti
venene. | may mention that anti-ve-
meme was first prepared by French
man, Dr. Calmette, of the Pastuer in
stitute at Lille in France. An antidote
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somed before he gets home, if it takes
every dollar our government has got.
think he is going to work the bandit
racket when we get to Turkey, but, by
ginger, he can leave me at convent, be-
cause l don't want one of those crooked
saberS run into me and turned around
like a corkscrew. Dad says l can stay
in a harem while he goes to the noun
tains with the bandits, and don't know
as care, as they say harem is the most
interesting place in Turkey. You know
the pictures we have studied in the old
grocery, where whole bunch of beau
tiful women are practicing useing soap
in a marble bath.
Well, don't you say anything to ma
about it, but dad has got his foot in II
clear up to the top button. 1t isn't any
thing scandalous, though there is
woman at the bottom of it. You see, we
used to know girl that left home to go
out into the world and earn her own liv-
ing. She elocuted some at private par
ties and sanitariums, to entertain peo-
pie that were daffy, and were on the
verge of getting permanent bats in their
belfry, and after few years she got on
the stage, and made bunch of money,
and went abroad. And then she had
married titled person, and everybody
supposed she was duchess, or count
ess, and ma wanted us to inquire about
her when we got over here. Ma didn't
want us to go and hunt her up to board
with her, or anything, but just to get
glimpse of high life, and see if our poor
little friend was doing herself proud in
her new station in life.
Gee, but dad found her, and she amt
any more Of duchess than am. Her
husband is younger son of titled per-
son, but there isn't money enough in the
whole family to wad gun, and our poor
girl is working in shop, or store, sell
ing corsets to support lazy, drunken
husband and whole mess of children,
and while she is seven removes from
duchess, she does not rank with the
woman who washes her mothers clothes
at home. Gosh, but dad was hot when
he found her. and after she told him
about her situation in life he gave her
a yellow backed fifty-dollar bill, and
came back to the hotel mad, and wanted
to pack up and go somewhere else,
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into ditch of dirty water, and the horse

into ditch Of dirty water, and the horse
went off across a field, and the policemen
fshed dad out of the ditch, and run him
through clothes wringer or something,
and got him dried out, and sent him to
the hotel in an express wagon, and rode
my horse back to the liveryman and told
him what happened to dad, and they
locked me up in box stall until some
body found the horse, cause they
thought dad was horse thief, and they
held me for ransom But dad came
around before night and paid my ran
som, and we were released. Dad says
Rotten Row is rotten, all right enough,
and by ginger it is, cause he has not got
the smell of that ditch off his clothes
yet.
. Now he has got new idea, and that is
to go to some country where there are
bandits, different from the bandits here
in London, and be captured and taken to
the mountain Businesses, and held for
ransom until our government makes
fuss about it, and sends warships after
us. tell dad it would be just our luck
to have our government fail to try to get
us, and the bandits might cut our heads
off and stick them on pole as warn
ing to people not to travel unless they
had a ransom concealed about their
clothes. But dad says he Is out to see
all the sights, and he is going to be ran
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mortgages, cause mortgage will not
shed rain, and you get their money and
spend it on other women" One of the
dukes turaed red like lobster, and l
think he is lobster, anyway, and he
was going to make dad stop taking, but
the duke didn't know dad, and he con-
tinued. Says dad, says he: 81 know a
rich old man in the States, who made
ten million dollars on pickles, or break
fast food, and he had a daughter that,
was so homely they couldn't keep clock
going in the house.
"She came over here and got exposed
to duke, and she had never been vacci-
mated, and the first her father knew she
caught the duke, and came home, and he
followed her. Say, he didn't know
enough to pound sand, and the old man
got several doctors for her, but they
couldn't break up the duke fever, and
finally the old pickle citizen asked him
how much the mortgage was, and how
much they could live on, and he bought
her the duke, and sent them OFF, and the
duke covered his castle with building
set up housekeeping with hundred
servants. Then the duke wanted rae
ing stable, after the baby came, and the
old pickle man went over to see the
baby, and it looked so much like the old
man that he invested in racing stable,
and the servants bowed low to the old
man and called him Your 'ighness,' and
that settled the old pickle person, and he
fell into the trap of building a townhouse
in London.
"Then he went home and made some
more pickles, and the daughter cabled
him to come right over, as they had been
invited to entertain the king and lot OF
other face cards in the pack. And the
old man thought it would be great to get
in the king row himself, so he shoveled
a lot of big bills into some packing
trunks and went over to fix up for the
king. The castle had to be redecorated
for about six miles, up one corridor and
down the other, but Old Pickles stood
the raise, because he thought it would
be worth the money to be on terms of in
timacy with king.
"Then when it was all ready, and the
old man was going to stand at the front
door and welcome the king, they made
him go to his room, back about halt
mile in the rear of the castle, and for
two weeks old Pickles had his meals
brought to his room, and when it was
over, and his sentence had expired he
was let out, and all he saw of the grand
entertainment to the crowned heads was
ravine full of empty wine bottles,
case of jimjams for son-in-law, a case
of nervous prostration for a daughter,
and hydrophobia for himself. My old
pickle friend has got, at this date, three
million good pickle dollars invested in
your ID island, and all he has to show
for it is a sick daughter neglected by
a featherhead of husband, who will
only speak to old pickles when he wants
more money, and grandchild that may
die teething at any time. You are a
nice lot of ducks to talk to me about
your English society being better than
our American civilization. You get"
and dad drove the dukes out.
think they are going to have dad ar
rested for treason. But don't tell ma,
cause she may think treason serious.
Yours, HENNERY.
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The Bad Boy Writes of Ancient and
Modern Highwaymen-He Gets a
Taste of High Life and His Dad
Tells the Story of the
Pickleman's Daughter.
nv HON GEORGE W PECK.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, formerly pub
Usher of "Peck's sun, author OF
"Peck's Bad Boy" etc)
(Copyright, 1904, by Joseph b. Bowles)
LONDON, England.-My Dear Old
Skate: Well, if We are going to see any
of the other countries on this side OF
the water before our return ticket ex-
pires. we have got to be getting move
on, and dad says in about week we Will
be doing stunts in Paris that will bring
about a revolution, and wind up the re-
public of France, and seat some nine
spot on the throne that Napoleon used
to wear out his buckskin pants on.
Dad asked me tother day what cared
most to see in London, and / told him
l wanted to visit Newgate prison, and
the places made famous by the bold
highwaymen of a century or two ago.
He thought was daffy, but when l told
him how had read Claude Duva' and
''Sixteen-String jack and all the high
way literature, in the haymow, when dad
thought l was wedding the garden, he
confessed that he used to hunt those
yellow covered books out of the manger
when I was not reading them, and that
he had read them all himself, when l
thought he was studying for his cam
paign speeches, and so he said he would
go with me. So we visited Homestead
Heath, where Claude Duval used to ride
BLACK Bess," and hold up people who
travelled at night in post chaises. and VIC
found splendid spots where there had
been more highway robbery going on
than any place east of Missouri, but l
was disguised when 1 thought what
chumps those old highway robbers were,
compared to the American highway rob-
bers and hold up men of the present day.
In Claude DuvaIs time he had a brace
of flint-lock pistols, which he had to ex
anime the printing every time victim
showed up, and while he was polite
when he robbed a duchess, he used to kill
people all right. though if they had had
cameras at that time the flash from the
printing pan would have taken a flash
light picture of the robber, so he could
have been identified when he rode off in
the night to a roadside inn and filled up
on beer, while he counted the ten shil-
lings he had taken from the silk purse
of the victim. Why, one of our Ameri-
can gangs that hold up a train, and get
an express safe full of greenbacks, and
shoots up a mess of railroad hands and
passengers with Winchesters and au-
tomato pistols, and blows up cars with
dynamite and gets away and has to have
= bookkkeeper and cashier to keep
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and since then hundreds of thousands
If not millions of people have been in
Oculated with his fluid. And yet how
few outside the med: profession un-
derstand anything about it's actual prep
aration from live plague bacili, or its
effect in rendering the system practical
ly immune to plague
l spent several hours at Parel, where
DR.. Maitland Gibson, one of the staff,
most courteously and patiently ex-
planned everything in detail, and shall
try to describe briefly what l saw.
AS most people know, anti-plague
vaccine is a preventive against attack,
and it also has the power of modifying
the disease in the event of an inocu-
lated person being attacked. If a path
ogenic germ be introduced into the SUBJ
ject, it will frequently grow, greatly to
the detriment of it's unwilling host. In
the preparation of the plague vaccine.
the pathogenic germ-in this case
plague is introduced into TASKS of
sterile chemically digested soup, and
there allowed to exercise it's mischiev-
GUS propensities undisturbed. After
period of from six weeks to two
months, the bacilli and their products
have accumulated to considerable eX-
tent I may mention that, in multiply
ing they assume the beautiful stalactite
formation which, so far as is known, is
peculiar to the plague germ. The con-
tents of the TASKS are then tested to as
certain that no foreign microbe has
gained access in the meantime the
plague bacilli are killed by immersing
the TASKS in water kept at tempera-
ture of SIS degrees C. equal to 131 degrees
F0 A small quantity-5 per cent
of carbolic acid is now added to the vac
cine, in order to minimize any risk of
contamination in the process of bot.
Ting. Everything used in connection
with this last process is thoroughly
sterilized, and the operation is carried
out by very ingenious method invent
ed by DR.. Maynard, which precludes all
possibility of contact with the air. The
bottled vaccine is then stored for ten
days, and certain percentage is tested
lOI otSI1llCy U6lOT0 UClAS oOAI OuS' Dy
another ingenious device, small SAM
pie in capillary tube is reserved from
each bottle, and is sealed, numbered and
recorded, so that the laboratory can, in
the event of any inquiry, at once give
absolute proof as to the condition in
which it was issued.
At the Parel laboratory also saw the
process of extracting venom from
snakes. The venom is collected by max
ing the snakes bite through a piece of
American cloth stretched over glass
vessel; and this, after being dried over
quicklime, is sent in the form of gran
ulated powder to the Kasauli labora-
tory, where the subsequent stages of the
manufacture of the anti-toxin are car
ried out In the case of the Russells
viper poison, this procedure has to be
modified on account of the reptiles very
long. delicate fangs. which would be
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PAINFUL SC|ATICA
EVERY SUFFERER WANTS THE VERY
QUICKEST CURE.

Mr.. Donovan Thinks the Remedy Used by
Him with Such Remarkable Success
the Best-Cured by Five Boxes.
"Men who have to do difficult and
dangerous work on electric lines at any
hour of day or night, can t afford to have
anything the matter with their health,
said Mr.. Donovan. You can imagine.
therefore, how much was alarmed one
winters day in 1902, when was seized
by pain just behind my right hip that
made it difficult for me to walk home.
It was so bad by the time reached the
house that was obliged to go straight
to bed"
"Did that relieve your"
"No, the pain grew more severe and
kept extending downward along my leg.
I sent for physician, and he soon de-
cided that I had sciatica. In a few days
the whole nerve was affected, and the
least movement brought on terrible
agony"
"Did your condition improve under
the doctors treatment2"
"Quite the contrary. At the end Of
two months wasn't bit better, and at
times feared that I would never be
able to leave my bed"
elbow did you get out again? ?"
"When was lying in bed, unable to
move and wasting away in flesh, friend
visited me apd told me about the won
derful cures brought about by great
blood and nerve remedy, DIR. Williams
Pink Pills. He strongly urged me to try
them, and luckily had sense enough to
take his advice" ..r.
"Did you mend quickly?"
eyes, that was the astonishing thing.
noticed slight improvement before I
had quite finished the first box of the
pills, could get out of bed while was
on the third box, and I was entirely
cured by the time I had taken five boxes.
Mr., Joseph A. Donovan is living at
Plaistow, New Hampshire, and is line
inspector for the Haverhill, Newton and
Plaistow Electric Street Railway. DR..
Williams Pink Pills are the remedy to
use when the blood is thin, as i'll anamia;
or impure, as in rheumatism; or when
the nerves are weak, as in neuralgia; or
lifeless, as in partial paralysis; or when
the body as whole is ill-nourished, as
in general debility. They are sold by
all druggists. ....
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AMERICA SUPREME: IN TRADE
Statistics Show Conclusively That
This Country Leads the World
in Commerce.

During the last month, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the facts as to
Americas relaive position, industrially,
among other nations, have studied the
statistical reports of our own and other
leading nations, says writer in Cent
Per Cent, and the investigations and
comment of almost every important
daily and financial journal in America.
The universal verdict of the press, ire
spective of party affiliations, is that
Americas supremacy has been estab-
lished and that the nation faces the
dawn of 1905 steadied by the knowledge
of the stupendous truth that, CONNER
cially, among the other nations of the
world, she stands for the first time in
the forefront and alone. The RESPONSE
bility which comes with such knowledge
is SOLDERING.
But the report of the bureau of Stats
tics of the government S department of
commerce will of course carry greater
conviction than the news reports and
opinions of even the most reliable jour-
nails. This reports figures are in all
cases estimates, except of the census of
1900, but are approximately accurate;
however, for the most important items
the actual figures are available.
In cotton consumption the percentage
of increase between 1880 and 1903 in the
United States is 107 per cent, as against
46 per cent. in the united kingdom, Ger
many and France combined; in pig iron
4S7 per cent. of increase for America,
against i02 per cent. increase in the
united kingdom, Germany, France ana
Russia combined; in coal 1854 per cent
increase in America, against 81 per cent.
increase in the four European countries
combined.
And as the percentage of increase is
larger, so the actual quantities of these
three articles consumed are larger. The
consumption of cotton in the United
States in 1903 exceeded by 33 per cent.
that of the united kingdom and was
nearly double that of Germany and
France combined; of pig iron, the con-
sumption in the United States was con-
siderably more than double that of the
united kingdom; of coal. the consump-
ton in the United States was nearly
double that of the united kingdom and
fully double that of Germany.
America has 82,0O0,00O people, a total
! wealth of s1O6,OOO,O OO, 900, and the cash
value of the cotton, corn and wheat
crops for the year is about 81, OLE, 00O, 900.
The new year will be one of almost un-
paralleled prosperity
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where he didn't know any titled persons.
That night couple of dukes came
around to the hotel to sell dad some
stock in diamond mine in South Africa,
and they got to talking about how Eng
lish society held over our crude Ameri-
can society, until dad got an addition to
the mad he had when he called on our
girl, and when one of the dukes sal
America was being helped socially ~
the marriage Of American women 10
titled persons, dad got a hot box, like
stalled freight train.
Says dad, says he: "You Johnnies
are lot of confidence men, who live
only to rope in rich American girls, so
you can marry them and have their dads
lift the mortgages on your ancestral es-
tates. and pull On tin reefs in place Of the
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so prepared is only serviceable against
the bite of the species of snake furnish
ing the poison with which the horse was
imD1unized. So far the only antidote
which has been successfully prepared in
India is one against the ordinary cobra,
and this, if injected in time, is un-
doubtedly an absolute remedy No an
tidote has yet passed beyond the exper-
mental stage for the bite of the deadly
Russell's viper, the KARAT, or the
Phoorsa, which are the commoner ven-
omous snakes of India.
At present there are nearly 800 snakes
in the Parel laboratory, and they are
fed once fortnight with eggs beaten up
in milk. 1t was somewhat of an ordeal
to stand within yard of these pucca
snakes, with deadly fangs intact-very
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their bank accounts straight, could give
those old Claude Duvals and Sixteen
String Jacks cards and spades.
But civilization, dad says, has done
much for the highway robbery business,
and he says we in America have arrived
at absolute perfection. However, I was
much interested in looking over the
ground where my first heroes lived and
died. and did business, and when we
went to the prisons where they were
confined, and were shown where Ty-
burn Tree stood, that SO many of them
we're hung on, tears came to my eyes
at the thought that I was on the sacred
ground where my heroes croaked, and
went to their deaths with smiles on their
faces, and polite to the last. The guard
who showed us around thought that dad
and I were relatives of the deceased
highwaymen. and when we went away
he said to dad: Call again, Mr.. Duval.
Always glad to serve any of the descend
ants of the heroes. What line of robbery
are you in, Mr.. Duval?" Dad was mad,
but he told the guard he was now on the
stock exchange, and so we maintained
the reputation of the family.
Then we hired horses and took horse
back ride through Rotten Row, where
everybody in London that has the price,
rides horse, and TO carriages are al
lowed. Dad was an old cavalry man
forty years ago, and he is stuck on his
shape when he is on a horse, but he came
near breaking up the horse back parade
the day we went for the ride. The liv-
eryman gave us two bob-tailed pags. a
big one for dad and small one for me,
but they didn't have any army saddle for
dad, and he had to ride on one of these
little English saddles, such as jockeys
ride races on, and dad is so big where
he sits on saddle that you couldn't see
the saddle. and guess they gave dad
a hurdle jumper, because when we got
right amongst the riders, men and wom-
EN-, his horse began to act up, and some
one yelled, "Tally-ho," ana that is
something about fox hunting, not a
coach, and the horse jumped fence and
dad rolled off over the bowsprit and went
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BALD HEADS COVERED
with Luxuriant Hair and Sca1y
Scalps Cleansed and Purified
by Cuticura Soap,

Assisted by dressings of Cuticura, the
great skin cure. This treatment at once
stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales
and dandruff, destroys hair parasites,
soothes irritated, itching surfaces, stimu-
lates the hair follicles, loosens the scalp
skin, supplies the roots with energy and
rourishment, and makes the hair grow
when all else fails. Complete external and
internal treatment for every humor, from
pimples to scrofula, from infancy to age,
consisting of Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Pills, price $l.OO. A single set is
often sufficient to cure.