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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
STAFFORD NOTES

Stafford Store, Va, June /.
Mr. Carlisle Bolts has a piece of grass
averaging five feet high, which IL the
best we have seen this season.
Mr.. e.. A. Bolts has moved his saw
mill To the Wamsley place and will saw
tract Of timber belonging To Johnson
and Wimsatt.
Mr.. Fred Lyman, Mr.. Bolts sawyer.
while tightening "A bolt had the misfortune
to have his thumb and fingers cut very
badly. Dr. Sneed dressed the wounded
hand
Miss Hope Dniiey il visiting her sister.
Mr.. Clarence King, at Stafford Springs.
Misses Virginia and Octayia Robey are
visiting in SpOt'ylyania and louisa
counties.
Judge r. II. L. Chichester aud Com.
monwealth's Attorney &. Is Nallac,
were here recently ON legal business, with
Professor H. Sacks, Of Brooklyn.
Mrs. II. NJ. TulsOn has eturm from
a visit To her mother and brother ~
Alexandria.
"Children's Day" will be observed at
Ebenezer church on the third Sunday III
June in the morning, and in tile even
ing there will be a lecture 10y the pastor
Rev. Mr. Sarver.
Miss Hattie NJ. Shacklett has returned
from n visit to relatives in Washington
Mr.. James Shacklett and Mr.. TOmmis
Gill are at home for their vacation from
the medical school, Richmond.
Little Miss Dorothy Bolts has been
quite i'll, but better now aud was abb
to enjoy her third birthday, june I'h
She il n bright little tot and the pet Of
her many friends, who wish her very
many happy returns Of the day.
Mr.. Lipscomb, OF Dakota, is visiting
his sister-in-law, Mrs Murray Herndon,
of this place.
Miss Lyon, of Baltimore, is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. T. J. Waller, OF Garrison
vile.
Mr. and Mrs. X. A. Moncure, OF CARR
sonvile, are visiting their brother in
Louisa.
Mr.. Albert NJ. Sneed, OF William an(
Mary College, has arrived home forvaca-
ton. +. l. Is.
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all diseases put
tOgeIUtT, anu uHblt tit idcb itN ytdiS
was supposed to I've incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven catarrl
to be a constitutional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.
]. Cheney 4 Co., Toledo, Ohio, is The
only constitutional cure on the market
Ii is taken internally in doses from IL
drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly
on the blood and mucous surface OF the
system. They offer one hundred dollar
for any case it fails to cure. Send foI
circulars and testimonials.
Address: +. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo
Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for rconstipa
ton.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
College of William and Mary
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.

Williamsburg, Va
Two hundred and thirteenth session
begins SEPTEMBER 20th, 1906. Two
Courses: CD Collegiate Course leading
70 the degrees OF b. A. and NJ. A. 81
Normal Course. Tuition free and board
at reduced rates Buildings renovated
and newly equipped, lighted with elec-
trieity and supplied with pure artesian
water. Send for catalogue
LYON G. TYLER,
President, NJ. A., LII. d.
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Don n'tRunChanCeS

or purchasing your Hquor any
where and everywhere, but al
ways go where you are sure OF get
ting the best and purest goods
Adulterated goods are not lit to
use. We are doing the largest
business In Fredericksburg, be-
cause we never misrepresent our
goods and always give you your
moneys worth in quality and
measure. We have the largest
assortment OF
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
For Over Sixty Years,

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
has been used for over sixty years by
millions OF mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success.
1t soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pains, cures wind collie, and
Is the best remedy for Diarrhoea.
IL will relieve the poor little sufferer
Immediately Sold by Druggists il
every part OF the world. Twenty
five cents bottle. BE sure and ash
for MRS. Winslow's Soothing
syrup" and take no other
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
INSTAFFORD COUNTY. VIRGINIA.

Pursuant To II decree of the Circuit
Court OF Stafford County. Virginia, en-
tered ON May lIth, 1906. in the chan
cery cause OF Skidmoe " Skidmore, th
undersigned special commissioner will
offer for sale before the courthouse ol
stafford county at 1870 O'Clock p. m oI,
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
SMILE

Smilr awhile.
While YOU smile
Another Smiles.
Aud soon there's miles
And miles
OF smiles:
hnd liie'- worth while
II yOu but smile.
-'hicago Record-l Herald.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
RIPANS.

There is scarcely any condition o.
i'll health that IL not benefited by thu
occasional use of RIPANS Tabule
For sale by druggists. The Five.
cent packet ls enough for an ordi
nary occasion. The family bottle, q
cents. contains snpplV for p ear
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
PUBLIC SALE
OF
REAL ESTATE

IN STAFFORD COUNTY, VA
Pursuant to DEGREES OF the Circuit
Court OF Stafford county, Virginia. en-
tered in the chanceFy cause OF Embny
and Others W.. Jones on March 18th,
1906. and on May lith, 1906, the under
signed special commissioners will offer
for sale mt public auction TO the highest
bidder before the front door OF Stafford
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-06-14
A wonderful
ice saver

We have Investigated and found the
Ee.rigeratorthat makes the air cOldest
for the longest period is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-24
Evidences of ProaperItv.

Prosperity in the rural districts of the
southern states was the subject of con-
versation some days ago as a result of
Representative c. B. Lands remarks on
the piano prosperity in that section"
said Washington correspondent
lands might have substituted the par
Tor organ for the piano, for all among
the rural population nowadays in the
south you can hear the tones OF that in
strument. In the negro cabins the sound
of the organ can be heard at any hour.
night or day, with a dusky damsel sit
ting at the instrument pumping and
handling the machine.
There is another evidence. either of
advancing civilization or prosperity,
among the rural population of the south,
both white and colored, and that is the
use of the sewing machine. The young
colored girls have long since learned how
to run a sewing machine.
But" continued the southerner, the
following is one of the most striking in
stances of prosperity in the south caused
by 10-cent cotton. On one occasion while I
was down there T counted twepty-seven
buggies, all in row. passing the home 1
visited. each drawn by fat, sleek horse
or mule. In most of the buggies sat
young colored man with his best girl. I
made inquiry about the caravan of bug
giles passing, and was informed that there
was a protracted meeting going on at a
church called Mars Hill near by where I
was visiting. The suggestion was made
that we ride down to the church.
1T was one of those general protraet-
ed meetings or religious revivals that are
common in sections of the south between
the time the crops are laid by and the
cotton picking begins, when the colored
population gathers from all sections of
county. The church was located in a
beautiful level country. and as far as I
could see there was nothing but bug
giles, third Of which were new, many
of them never before used. A local mer-
chant told me that he had already sold
several carloads OF Columbus and Cincin-
natl buggies for the trade, especially to
the negroes of that section
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Immune Gotten.

Entomologist Newell of the Louis
lana state crop commission says that
tests on Red river bottom lands and
on Mississippi bottom lands alike show
that the variety of cotton known as
Triumph" is not attacked by the boil
weevil or by any other pest. The bolls
grown in Rapides parish on the Red
river are extremely large, some of
them being five inches and a half in
diameter. This cotton has passed the
stage where it can be damaged by the
weevil, and it will yield over half a
bale to the acre.
Triumph" is not a new variety of
cotton, but it was not known that the
weeyif would not attack 1t until the
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Rains in the Cotton Fields.

Cotton is in a waiting position
waiting for the clouds to pass by, for
the Russians to become less disturbed,
for the development of plant growth
for a continuance of trade prospects,
for easier money-for many things, in
short, that will be pretty we'll deter
mined and worked out in the month of
August. AS things stand, every ut
break in Russia is as much bear cot
ton movement, as is every additional
rainfall
The weight of evidence is that the
moist. hot weather has not materially
injured the crop, always provided dry,
sunny days come to us in the imme-
date future. Every part of the cotton
belt has been wet down, and all that
is needed now is sunshine.
Much interest is taken in the report
of the agricultural bureau at Washing
ton ON the condition of the crop. II
will be issued early next month, and
many will accept its figures as good.
expert evidence, despite the record of
such guessing in the past.
The hope is that the American crop
will be 100000 bales, for fully that
amount will be needed by a naked
world. Spot cotton is in sharp demand
today. 1t sells above contracts. All
experts agree that comparatively
small amount of old cotton will be
carried into the new crop year-less
than had been anticipated. This fact
leads all to believe that crop below
100000 bales would not be suffi-
cient at reasonable prices. No one is
looking to see cotton in any probable
crop outcome fall below 10 cents. Sup
plies are decreasing rapidly, and all
spinners are watching the growing
crop with hungry eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-24

EVERYBODY OUT OF TOWN."

From the New York Herald.
Everybody is out of town! Mrs. Grun-
dy says so, and she ought to know.
Are these spectral forms that we see
filling the hotels, hanging to the straps
In crowded surface cars. occupying all the
tables in open air restaurants and taking
up all the seats at the roof garden shows?
They seem to be pretty substantial Great
ures of flesh and blood. and others like
them are bustlng round in the mercan-
tile districts making Wall street hum
and giving to the vast industrial, COM
mercial and financial machinery of New
York the appearance of being in actual
and active operation. It's curious, but
everybody doesn't seem to be missed,
and a great army of visitors from out
of town are so simple minded that they
imagine they see the real people of New
York in the millions of nobodies that are
in the city during this hot weather. en-
gagged in producing or exchanging COM
modties by day and taking their rest
and pleasure in the evening.
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funded Into per cents, which are
wanted by national banks as collateral
to secure deposits and circulation.
The placing of 2 per cents at a pre-
MUM of nearly per cent invites com
PARSONS with other great national
loans. British eonsols bear ~ per
cent interest-some of them 20 per
cent-and the former are selling down
to 81. The last Russian loan was al
lotted at SO. It bears 3 per cent inter-
est, and yet 1t is selling today at So!
Russian As are worth but 20. Japan
ese SIS are selling at 102A French
per cent bonds are worth 81, and Ger
many's bonds, bearing 8 per cent. are
offered at SS.
These facts are sufficient TO show
that the position of the United States
is unequaled, but this country could
not place per cents at a premium If
the matter were one of plain invest
ment only. The investor does not buy
2 per cents when he can get bonds
that yield more interest money 1t is
the national bank that wants ? per
cents, and the home demand exceeds
the supply.
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artillery OF eleven batteries, of which
two are horse batteries-that is to say,
those in which the gunners are mounted
on horseback, instead of being seated
on the caisons. This gives for each French
army corps ninety-two pieces of field ar
tiilery, while, owing to the advantage of
six-gun batteries, a German army corps
would, In time of war, have IA pieces
of field artillery The new German ar
tiliery guns of the 1899 model are capable
of dlscharging from twenty to twenty
five shots minute, while the old model
&C. 1896 could be discharged only seven
or eight times a minute.
The technical artillery committee in
France, when the rapid-fire recoilless field
pieces was adopted some years ago, ac-
cepted the principle that it would be
practically impossible for a commander
of battery of rapid-fre guns to dis
charge more than four pieces. and as this
view also carried with 1t great economical
advantages, the four-gun organization
was decided upon. Until the results of the
Russo-Japanese war had been fully re-
ported upon by French artillery officers,
there was a tendency to increase the
number of batteries. while still retaining
the organization of four guns for each
battery. Now that the French authorities
have had time fully to weigh the artillery
lessons of the war in Manchuria they are
of the opinion that battery commander
can control and direct the fire of six
guns in each battery, and consequently
the problem will be solved by simply
adding two additional guns in each bat
terry of field artillery. In this way it is
believed that the French artillery, if it
does not retain its former superiority
over that of Germany, will at least re-
main equal to 1t as far as the quality and
number of guns are concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-24
The VIceroy,s Wife.

THE untimely death of Lady Curzon re-
calls the death Of Lady Canning in De-
cember 1861, when the singularly gifted
wife of the viceroy of india expired at
Calcutta" says an Anglo-Indian writing
In the New York Sun 1.-THE American
wife of the ex-viceroy of India seems to
have possessed gifts of similar character
to those of Lady Canning. so beautifully
depicted In the Life of the Second Earl
Granville, just published by Longmans.
Il observe that In some of our Ameri-
can papers Lady Curzon has been re-
ferred to as the ex-vlcerelne of India.
There is no such title as vicereine. The
viceroy of India occupies a rank CORE
spending to that of the King Emperor
and receives an imperial salute of 101
guns. He ranks even above the Prince
of Wales within the limits of British In
dia. The wife of the yiceroy of India en-
joys the privilege of being the first lady
of the land only when she Is accom-
panied by her husband. AT other times
she merely holds her husbands rank in
the peerage. AS a major general COM
handing division In India the royal
prince the Duke of Connaught. occupied
an official position far below that of the
viceroy but the Duchess of Connaught
socially occupied a position much higher
Correspondents in India inform me that
at first Lady Curzon found it very diff
ficult to realize her precise social position,
difficulty experienced in Great Britain
by the wife of the archbishop of Canter-
bury, and even by the wife of the prime
minister; but gradually the tact of the
gifted American lady enabled her to adj
Just herself to the situation.
There have been many ladies of grace
and beauty. who have been wives of the
viceroys of India, as, for instance, Lady
Mayo whose terrible lot 1t was to be
with her husband when he fell by the
hand of an Afghan assassin; Lady Lyt-
ton, whose remarkable gifts enabled her
to pilot society at Simla and Calcutta
when 1t suffered much from the erratio
vagaries Of the author of Iucile;' and
above all. the marchioness of Dufferin,
who was unquestionably the most popular
Of all the wives, not only of the viceroys,
but of the governors general of Hindus-
tan in the long line of succession. Lady
Dutferin's book of travels in India is
singularly graphic and interesting. and
she now mourns in dignif1ed widowhood
not only the loss of her husband but of
son. who died for his country In South
Africa.
1.-THE nntimely and lamented death of
Lady Curzon and the serious illness of
Lord Curzon are indications of the ire
mendous cost with which Englishmen
keep their hold upon India, the bright
est Jewell in Britain's crown"
Retail Trade.
1.-The retail merchants have had fairly
active trade this summer; not quite as
large as last summer, but on the whole
very satisfactory said Third avenue
man. 1.-The old rule of summer dullness
holds in Birmingham no longer
Our periods of comparative dizziness
are certainly shorter than they used to
be. September brings a. brisk trade and
by October all merchants are rushed with
business. Birmingham is great shop
ping center"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-24
TOO MANY TEcHNIcALITiEs.
English Practice More Conducive to
Justice Than Ours.

Charles F. Amidon, United States Judge
for North Dakota, in the Outlook
Men will say il we do not reverse these
appealed cases for error, what will become
of our rules; what will become of the
rules of pleading and the rules of evil
dence if we do not reverse these cases
for their violations? What has happened
in England? For more than generation
II has been impossible to base error on
any matter of practice, pleading or evil
dence unless 1t was fundamental to the
cause What has been the result? Are the
rules of pleading thrown away in Eng
land? Are the rules of evidence dsre-
garded in their courts? By no means. 1t
is the testimony of all who are familiar
with English practice that the rules of
pleading and the rules Of evidence are
much better observed there than they are
with us. So the fact that causes are not
reversed because Of errors in matters
of pleading or practice or evidence has
nothing whatever TO do with the observ-
ance of those rules.
Some might say, as has sometime been
said. that this practice Of English courts
cannot obtain here because with us trial
by jury is secured by. the constitution. Is
the right of trial by jury any more sacred
In America than 1t is in England? Was
not the provision found in our constitu-
tions securing that right taken from Mag
ma Charta? Is it not as much matter
OF constitutional law In England that
a man with a proper cause shall have a
trial by jury as it is here Most certainly
II is. Is there any provision in any con-
stitution that you know anything about
that secures to q man the right of several
trials by jury? Is there any provision
in any constitution that you know any
thing about that secures to any citizen
an absolutely infallible trial by jury?
it means in England-that a party shall
have right to have controverted ques-
lions of fact passed upon in the trial court
by jury. 1t does not hamper the power
of the appellate court here any more than
IL does there.
l shall never forget the remark of the
most distinguished Jurist that this state
has ever produced, and one of the most
distinguished jurists of this countryside
late Judge Mitchel-on this subject of
jury trials He said to me once when dis
GUESSING it; The English have had the
good sense to keep trial by jury on earth
as an instrument for doing justice be-
tween man and man here in this world:
whereas we in America have worked 1t
up into the thin air Of presumption and
metaphysics" The jury. like every other
fundamentally for the trial of causes,
exists for the purpose of justly settling
controversies between man and man. and
when the controversy has been settled
Justly the litigation should end
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Louisiana crop commission tested 1t at
its experimental farm north of Baton
Rouge and at its other experimental
farm on Red river. The discovery Of
It's immune nature, If fully confirmed,
will mean millions to the cotton belt
1t will lift the pressure from Missis-
sippi and Alabama.
The history of the immune variety
is unknown in this district. but no
doubt all the facts will soon be spread
before readers in the cotton belt. 1t
certainly will fill long-felt want, for
all have come to feel that the Mexican
pest cannot be stopped in the course
of its march unless indeed 1t can be
starved to death by the planting Of
immune cotton only.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-24
sUNFLoWER PHILOSOPHY.

From the Atchison Globe.
If you believe in fortune telling, any
body can fool you.
A man with toothache is more to be
pitied than a man with a heartache.
IL you want a grateful smile, tell a
man of so that he doesn't look a day
over 40.
You can throw sentiment into most peo-
pie with a scoop shovel, and they will
enjoy II.
effort to be good natured he should see
a doctor at once.
When a man is very thin. he is sick: but
a woman isn't really healthy unless she
Is thin.
At this season of the year good house,
keeping should include lessons in putting
opened its contents will not look like a
scrambled egg.
If a boy had half the pride in his young
er brothers and sisters that his mother
feels, he would shut them up in the barn
and charge two pins admission to see
them.
A woman may admit that she is tired
out and has to work too hard. but it is
in her relation as wife that she makes
the complaint, never in her relation as a
mother.
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SUM MER DRINKS.
New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
The London Lancet, scussing ''effer-
vescing beverages" agrees with the Her
aid regarding their extensive use among
all classes.
Probably" it says. there are two rea-
sons for it. First of all. carbonic acid gas
gives piquancy to a beverage, a briskness
TO it and an acid taste" and, second
there are reasons for believing that the
effsrvescent properties of a liquid pro-
mote digestion in two ways; first by the
carbonic acid acting as a stimulant to
the movements of the stomach, and. Sec
ond. by assisting In the disintegration of
the contents OF the stomach
On the other hand, however. it may be
undesirable to distend the stomach with
so much gas, as it may lead to the en-
barrassment of action of a weak heart
and may even poison the blood by the
direct absorption of the gas by the stom-
ach. In such cases. therefore. such bev-
ereges should be avoided 1t Is the ques-
ton. then. OF mere immoderation in the
use that oauses real trouble.