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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
Dewey SIGHTED of Las PsImas.

Las Palmas, Canary. Feb. 24.-The
United States dry dock Dewey has
Just been signalled OF this port. The
Dewey reports having encountered
heavy weather In the vicinity Of the
Island of Bermuda, resulting in strains.
II is the intention that the dry dock
shall remain here fortnight for over
hauling and repairing.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
January 24th
a CLEARANCE SALE of our
entire stock of
Hamburg EdgingS
and LaCeS.

As this is our first sale of
the kind, we invite your in
spection and iudgmentof the
following facts and figures:
l Lot Hamburg, was 10, 12T
and 13c., at Sc.
1 Lot Hamburg, was 6, 3
and 10c, at 4Ac.
l Lot Hamburg, was 30, 30
and 40c., at 25c.
l Lot Valenciennes, was s, 10
and 12c., at DC.
| Lot Valenciennes, 4, 6 and
8, at &c.
| Lot Yalenciennes, was ), 4
and Be-, at &c.
/ Lot Torchon at q to Z off.
All other Laces x to !. off.
Cost has not been consid-
cred in this scutin prices. Our
aim is a clean sweep.
Act quickly and don't let
this chance escape. We ad-
vertise only facts. Call early.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
Lonuworths Going to the Msrdl eras.

Lonqworths Going TO the Msrdl eras'
New Orleans, Feb. 24-It was re-
ported on the arrival Of the steamer
Chalmette from Havana that Mr. and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, who are
now in Cuba. have engaged passage
ON the Southern Pacisc steamer Prince
Arthur which leaves Havana today,
and will arrive in New Orleans on
Monday in time to participate in the
Mardi Gras festivities.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
,uls. sam nushand Drawn.

Lancaster, Pa, Feb. "a. - William
shaub, 25 years Of age, was drowned
in a mill dam at Conowingo, Drumore
township, while skating. His wife was
standing on the bank and saw him go
through the Ice.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
Boston Variety
Store.
300 COMMERCE STREET.
What About RubberS
For the Family?

One OF these days it will begin 10
snow aud by morning the earth will be
covered with beautiful white mantle.
Its beauty, however, will be marred by
the dreadful thought that you have neg
ected to buy Rubbers for yourself and
Tor the children. Why not fit out the
family today? We've an overshoe TO sell
that don't get smooth on the sOles the
first week you wear them. IL is the
"Banigan," manufactured by the Joseph
Banigan Rubber Co., for which we have
the agency. We have the largest
stock OF Rubbers in town and take par
ticular pride in that department. We
are going TO offer 10 the trade this sea-
son brand of Rubbers with the reputa-
ton OF being the best goods manuiac-
tured in this country at the same price
son will have to pay for theinferior kind.
You can find at our store anything you
want in the Rubber Shoe line with a rea-
sOnable and right price attached.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
WANTED

100 tons L az Sumac, for which
the highest casn price will be paid.
We are headquarters for Leather.
Rubher and Cotton Stitched Betting
John g. HuFkamp Co.,
fredericksburg, We
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
wIll onarantIne AGAINST cub!

New Orleans. Feb. 24.-The state
board of health adopted quarantine
regulations and decided that the re-
strictions against Cuba and the Gen.
tral American ports should becoms ct.
fective on March Is.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27

All persons having bills against the
firm OF Harris & Frazer will present the
same to the undersigned trustees, and all
persons indebted to the said firm will
come forward and settle their accounts
at once, object OF this sale being to dis
solve the partnership of Harris 4 Frazer
Lee j. Graves,
Frederick w. Coleman,
Trustees,
Spotsylvania, Va.
February 10Th, 1906.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
Why Not Try 1t?

IN SPITE OF the poor wheat crops the
Deering Binders aud Mowers have
hbroken all records this season. Our sales
on these machines have been remarkable.
considering crop conditions, and not one
breath of complaint has been heard.
They are the best that money and brains
can build. Everybody in touch with
fredericksburg knows the history OF the
Husker and Shredder business last fall.
The Deering won the highest praise
where Others failed. Deering Corn Har-
yesters gave satisfaction last year, they
are better now When yen come to town
call and see US and let us talk Corn Har-
yesters and Huskers and Shredders.
Thanking the farmers for their strong
support, we are,
Yours truly,
CHAS. WALLACE 4 BPO
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WALLACE&CO.
POPULAR SHOE STORE.
P. h'CRACKEN, BRO. Q CO.,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
GROCERS and LIQUOR DEALERS.
Offer Ten Thousand Gallons PURE RYE mi
BOURBON WHISKIES from the following wgn
known distilieries. Graft & Co.. Of Ohio. Boz ne
County DistilliDg Co., OF Kentucky Monte do
Distillery. Of Maryland. and W. +. Gray. Of
Pennsylvania.
Agents for Bergner Enge's Lager Beer.
They also offer Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Agricultural Implements. Seeds. Guano and
Cement
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27

The Free Lance is prepared to do all
kinds Of job printing In 6rst class style
at moderate prices.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27

There are also sermons in bricks--when
they are coming your way.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1906-02-27
TUESDAY, Feb. II, 1906

First. The one-hali acre of land, with
large and commOdious building and
warehouse attached, situated in the an
gle OF the roads leading from Spotsyl-
vania c. Ii. to Fredericksburg and Sun
light and opposite the Historic Hotel,
this being the place OF business con
ducted by Harris 4 Frazer.
Next, the entire stock OF goods, AZ a
whole, consisting OF Dry Goods, Notions,
Boots and Shoes. Hats and Caps, Crock
cry, Tinware, Hardware, Castings,
Canned Goods, Drugs, Soaps, COflins and
Caskets, all Store Fixtures Show Cases,
Computing Scales, new large Iron Safe;
in short, any and all articles such as are
kept in an up-to-date, frst-class country
store. Goods will be inventoried and
purchasers will know just what is sold.
TERMS CASH.
Lee J. Graves,
Frederick W. Coleman,
Trustees.
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Trustees Auction Sale
OF VALUABLE
StOrePrOperty Merchandise
At SpOtsyIvania, Va.

BY virtue Of power OF sale OF date
February 14th, 1906, and duly recorded
in the Clerks office OF Spotsylvania
county, Va, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale, at public auction. at
the front door OF the Court honse of said
county, mt II O'Clock NJ, on
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per; walked into the city and out
again-he had walked in and out for
thirty years, being now five and forty,
and his salary now reached the very
handsome figures of three hundred, at
which point it would remain. His
father was q clerk before him; his
brothers and uncles and cousins and
neplews were clerks; his wife was
the daughter of a clerk; he was stepped
in clerkery. In appearance he was
neat, clean, small and spare, with a
modest whisker of black hair; he had
ventured to become as bald in front
as if he were a partner; he believed
that he had attained to a really lofty
elevation on the social ladder; GER
tainly there were fewer above than
below him; and he considered his ca
reel n remarkable example of what
may be effected by ability backed by
industry and honesty.
His wife was small and neat. like
him, but she looked much more worn,
because to keep six children neat and
respectable is work of an even more
responsible character than that of q
clerk in a city house. I suppose there
was nowhere a harder worked woman,
and, fortunately for her governess,
there was nowhere a kinder-hearted
woman.
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The Crusade in Brief.

New Orleans receives S151,5 500 FROM
tho saloons and pays $231,374 for the
support of the police.
The consumption of spirituous liq-
uors in Canada last year was less by
S7O9, 900 than in 1904.
St. Louis receives 81, 051 1863 from its
saloons and pays S1,6O2, 1S2 for the
support CT its police force.
In answer to a query Berry, former
~ the English executioner, states that
not one of the 500 persons whom he
hanged was a total abstainer.
The working population of Glasgow
spends annually in drink, on an aver
age. S16,G7G,250, which is three times
as much as it pays for rent.
The Prussian Minister Of Public
Works has ordered that in future driv-
ers and firemen OH the State railways
must be total a%bstainers. 1ntemper-
ance has caused many accidents on
Prussian railroads Of late.
OFT of forty-nine school children III
the lowest class at ~NOrdhausen, Ger
many. the medical officer reports that
tnirty-eignt had drunk wine, forty
spirits. and all more or less beer. while
out of a class of tWenty-e:ght girls SiX-
teen confessed to having been drunk.
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Out Of the Pick.Uu Workbasket.

Crocheted sachets are dainty and
easy to make at oLd times. White lus.
ter crochet cotton is used and the most
simply stitch is satisfactory.
They may be Of any size or shape,
round, square, oblong or heart shaped,
They are made in :wo parts; the edge
is finished with q border in a fancy
stitch, and after a layer Of cotton, on
which sachet powder has been sprin-
killed., his been put in, they are threaded
together with narrow rihbtn.
A useful safety pin holder may be
made of odds and ends, the odds con-
sisting Of one large and three small
brass rings, the ends of three six-inch
pieces CT fancy ribbon n inch wide.
Cover the rings with crochet silk in
q b%uttolhole stitch, using a color to
match lie ribbon. Fasten one end Of
each of the three pieces of ribbon to
the large ring, fosiing the other ends
to form a point and attaching a small
ring to each.
The safety pins are attached to the
small rings, n holding large, another
medium and the third small pins in
both black and white.
For the traveller a washrag case is
made of q piece Of brown linen twelve
inches long by six wide. Oiled silk is
used al a lining and the edges are
bound with tape in any color desired.
One end is turned up to the depth
Of four inches and the sides stitched
FIRMLY together. The remaining four
inches form the flap, which is fastened
with q button and loop. A small
square Of Turkish toweling, daintily
overcast with cotton to match the
braid, is placed in the pocket, which is
ready for use.
Shadow embroidery is so quickly
and easily made that it is useful pick
up work and no end Of dainty pillow
tops and work bags and other articles
aside from clothes are decorated with
it.
Some Of the prettiest bags on which
shadow embroidery is used are made Of
scrim, the open mesh Of the material
giving the very prettiest effects. With
a piece of scrim and some colored silk
and ribbon the daintiest sort Of work
bags may be made at small expense.
For the little guimpes worn by chill
dren with their summer clothes it is
particularly satisfactory. The work
of identifying such little garments is
simplifed with the best results.
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Why Flannels Shrink.

Flannels or any articles made of
wool are entirely different in their ul-
innate fibers from linen or cotton or
any vegetable fabric. The fbers are
spiral in form, and heat and cold and
rubbing make them draw up, while
certain strong alkalies seem to pro-
duce the same effect. It is, there
fore, necessary that fannels should be
washed in water Of even temperature,
wrung dry and rubbed as little as pos
sible. Rub when necessary with the
hands, and not on a board. Do not put
flannels outdoors to freeze in winter,
but hang them before the fire or in a
warm room to dry as quickly as pos
sible, and they will not shrink.
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Too Ready to Suspect.

There is q moral to the tale OF the
Chicago woman who discovered an
alarming letter in her husbands
pocket and planned a divorce based
upon it's contents. 1t turned out that
the letter was received through the
"postofice" at a church social n
was doubtless written as a joke by
one of the husbands fool friends.
There is no evidence that this
woman's life was unhappy. Nor is
there any evidence that her husband
gave her any cause to be miserable.
The point is that her peace would have
been undisturbed if she had not gone
through her husbands pockets. Why
should people who are getting along
all right look for trouble ?-Kansas City
Star.
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Nnx a Puakerless Persimmon.

Persimmons without a quicker are
now being grown by the Department
IF Agriculture. Owing to the Objec-
:ionable feature Of the Old-fashioned
oersimmon, which caused the lips to
quicker after eating, the sales have
1een anything but gratifying to the
farmers. TO remedy this defect the
Department of Agriculture imported
some Japanese persimmons and
crossed them with the American pro-
duct. A finer specimen has been pro-
iuced, and in the near future the de.
oartment will begin the distribution
Of persimmon trees which Will produce
fruit guaranteed not to pucker the lips.
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CHAPTER vi.
DIFTMER Book.

There is not much society for fam
lilies such as this of Doughty Square;
friends and relations of course there
are; but there is little hospitality, and
one can not expect much visiting
when the ladies of the household are
occupied all day long in keeping the
family neat and respectable to out
ward show. The theater, with an or
der to the upper circle, is the most
desired form of female recreation.
Nevertheless, the Emptages had one
regular and even constant visitor. He
came every morning and smoked a
cigar-of Hamburg manufacture-and
conversed with Mr.. Emptage and the
ladies. He came at first with. the
view of improving his English by con-
.versation, but, it must be confessed,
he now came chiefly for the purpose of
conversing with Katharine.
He was a young German named Dit
mer Book. He conducted correspond.
ence for the house, which also en-
ployed Mr.. Emptage, in many foreign
languages; he wrote letters and took
down instructions in shorthand; he
drew forty pounds q year; he lived
upon that salary, and he presented the
appearance of one who lived upon
four times that salary. The young
Germans who come to London in the
day Of small things practice the small
economies; they share bedrooms; they
know where to go for meals of a sat
isfying kind, large in bulk to satisfy
the Teutonic hunger, but cheap. Eigh.
teen pence O day is considered by
some Of the younger adventures as
an ample allowance for food; for ev'
erything not absolutely necessary a
German who means to rise must wait.
Dittmer was a sturdy, well-set-up
young fellow, actually without spec.
tacles. He had the blue eyes and the
fair hair of his country; his manners
were gentle; he firmly believed in the
enormous superiority Of Germans over
the rest of mankind. He loved dane
ing, though he got none; he could sing,
playing his own accompaniment, tne
folk songs of which the good German
never tires; he sung them with great
feeling, and in the evening when the
largest lamp was ~lighted-the gas lamp
and the children, with Mrs. Emptage
and Katharine, sat at the table saw.
ing, and Mr.. Emptage sat by the fire.
side, his legs crossed with an even.
ing paper, enjoying the leisure of a
gentleman who has put away care for
the day, it was pretty to see Dittmer
spreading his fingers over the keys
and to listen while he warbled one
after the other the ditties Of the father
land.
1t became the custom with the young
man when Katharine stayed until nine
no one could stay later because that
was the time for the family supper
to walk home with her as far as the
door of Harley House.
Go be continued.)
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John Barleycorn, PusHIst.

II John Barleycorn knocks out a
prize-fghter at forty-two, at what age
will the business man throw up the
sponge to the great champion?
We are told that Bob Fitzsimmons
was not a drunkard. He was a steady
drinker. Few business men are drunk
ards, but many of them are steady
drinkers
A business man may so on for years
drinking steadily, and if the punch
in the stomach" in the shape of un-
.foreseen difficulties does not come ne
may pull through. But who can say
when it will come or that it will not
come at all? Is it possible that the
business man has a better chance to
survive the punch than the puSilist?-
st. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Who SlaW Con. Custer?

CiO" oohs
There are those living to-day who
can remember how the American peo-
pie. we're horror stricken when the
press of the country published the news
that the brave General Custer, with his
whole company of soldiers, had been
massacred IN the Big Horn massacre,
and they can remember how loud were
the calls for revenge upon the Sioux
; Indians,and the demand for a war OF
determination urged.
The battle that General Custer and
his brave men fought witt. so much
desperation was a battle having for it's
object the subsection of tie red man to
the ciyilizing influences of a Christian
nation. And how was that battle lost?
Not until a book entitled Indian Fights
and Indian Fighters" by Brady, was
published, was the true known.
Drink! that is what caused the death
of General Custer and the battle to be
lost.
In that uook the autsor makes tn,
statement that Major Reno, who had
corps of soldiers under his command
within reach of General Custer, and
who had received orders to come to his
relief, was too drunk on that day t
lead his soldiers. His drunkenness
was not only his shame and n dis
grace Of The American army, but was
the cause of the destruction of Custer
L. and .hiss entire command. This story
was published about four years ago in
the Northwestern Advocate by Rev.
Mr.. Thompson. General Reno con-
fessed all that is here above stated to
his friend, Arthur Edwards, AID from
him the confession was given to Rev.
DR.. Thompson, vino published it in the
paper. If the determination OF an
army was caused by a man who had
lost control of himself through strong
drink, fresh emphasis is laid upon the
contention of the temperance forces
that the army saloon should not only
remain in Punishment from the army
posts, but the territory adjacent to all
barracks of our soldiers should be
cleared of saloons for miles about. NO
one can predict with safety that a SIM
liar event might not overtake some por.
ton of our army in future warfare II
men who have the lives OF their own
men and that of their fellow command
ers at their disposal drink. Total alb
- stinence for the men who obey ought
to be the rule for the army. God has
ten the day wheE a liberty loving peo-
pie shall demand that their flag shay
be protected by sober soldiers COM
manded by sober officers. - National
Advocate,
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CHAPTER V.
KATHARINE.

Tom was dead. The worst misfor-
tune that could happen to any girl had
fallen upon Katharine. She had lost
her lover. In modern warfare the
war correspondent run more risks
than the warrior. The latter only
takes his turn in the fighting; the
former must be always in the front;
the combatants are looked after and
kept in safety; they are like the pawns
of a chess board, moved from cover
to cover; the correspondent has to find
his own cover. The earlier war CORE
spondent had to keep in the ear with
the camp followers and the commits
sariat; he picked up what information
he could gather, an object of much
suspicion and some contempt. He now
marches with the van, goes out with
the forlorn hope, sits down in the
thick of the fight With his note book
and takes ten mems share of the bull
lets. Consequently he sometimes gets
picked OF.
The hope that the two missing Eng
lishmen might return was never strong
and grew daily more faint, until it
finally vanished quite. They were
dead. There could be no longer any
doubt.
The governess who knows nothing
and is only amiable and kind to the
children, with a leaning in the direc-
ton of religion, is rapidly dying out;
the march Of civilization tramples up
on her. The high schools and the
Cambridge colleges are making her
existence impossible. Therefore Kath-
arine was happy in having obtained a
post as governess in the simple and
unpretending family of the Emptages.
They lived in Doughty street, where
they occupied the lower part of the
house-that part which commands the
kitchen. There were six children, all
girls; the youngest was six and the
oldest fifteen, and they were all Kath-
arine's pupils. The bread winner was
a clerk in the city; he had, I do really
believe, all the virtues Of his profess
sion; not II or two, but all; they
are too many to enumerate; suffice it
to say that he wrote like copper plate,
and kept books with accuracy; was as
punctual as the clock; never wanted
any amusement; did not smoke to-
bacco; drank 4 half pint of beer with
his dinner and another with his SUP
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A Horrible Death.

a revolving form of punishment is
still practiced in A%fghanistan. At the
top of the Lataband Pass there was
recently discovered, by a party of Eng
lish tourists, an iron cage containing
q shriveled human body. The cage
was suspended from a pole. The mum.
my was that of a thief who had been
imprisoned, and allowed to die OF
thirst and hunger in this iron cage.
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Grace and Faith.

ar
These words represent the part of
God and the part Of man in the work
Of salvation, writes the Rev. j. Richie
Smith. Faith is the condition, grace
the cause. We are saved by grace
through faith.
Grace is more than love- 1t is love
to the unworthy. In this regard 1t
may be termed the highest exercise OF
loys, for it is love unmerited, love that
is not drawn out by the loneliness of its
object, but finds its source and spring
in God alone. Grace is Gods love to
sinners.
Faith is mans response to Gods
grace. Grace is in the hand that God
reaches down to man, faith is the hand
that man reaches up to God. =
Faith is not q theological term Or
religious experience alone. There Is
no more frequent or familiar exercise
of the soul. Our life is built upon it
We walk by faith; not by sight. AL
business is based upon credit. There
is no interest dear to men that they do
not entrust to others. We commit our
property to the lawyer, our bodies to
the. physician, u children to the
teacher. 1 once heard a woman say, /
know what faith in God is from my.
faith in the doctor. No man p~retends
to administer all his affairs in person.
We trust all our fellow-men with every,
interest Of our lives. Why, then, may
we not trust ourselves to God? !.
Faith lays hold of God, and, what Is
far more important, it gives God some
thing to lay ho'd Of. When the hand
of faith clasps the hand Of grace, 1t
is not our strength but His that en-
sures our safety. Faith is man laying
hold of God, grace of God laying hold
of man. The power in faith lies not
in itself, but in its objects. It r.
not faith that saves, but, faith in Cod.
God saves through faith. Properly
speaking, faith does not save. but It
let's God save. Faith is the yielding
of the soul to God that His grace may
have it's perfect work.-Presbyterian
Banner.