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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
WANT MARRIAGE ANNULED.

Attorney for the guardian OF George
Rhodius, the young millionaire Of In
dianspolis who recently married woman
named Dare and who was declared in-
competent to manage his estate, brought
suit yesterday to snnul the marriage.
The complaint charges that Elma Dare
entered Rhodius's room late at night,
while he was physically and mentally
weak from excesses, forced him to dress
himself and accompany her to Louisville,
KY, where they where they were married,
the Dare woman answering all the ques-
tions propounded Rhodus. The com.
plant says that Rhodius's real estate
holdings in Indianapolis are worth 500,
600, in addition to personal property OF
great value, and that he was kidnapped
and forced into an illegal marriage in or
der that this fortune might be secured by
the alleged wife.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22

CORPORATION Court OF the city OF Alexan-
dria. on the 2lst day Of August, 1877.
Ide B. Cayce
vs.. In cnancery'
William E. Cayce
Memo. The object Of this suit is 10 procure
divorce a yinculo matrimonii from the de-
fendant on the grounds Of willful desertion
and abandonment for period Of more than
three years. e., :. .l;.
II appearing by an affidavit filed in this
cause that the defendant, William z. Cayee, Is
nonresident ofthis State {: 1t is Ordered Ihat
said defendant appear here within hiteen
days after due publication Of this order, and
do what is necessary to protect his Interest
In this suit, and copy Of this order be forth
with inserted in the Alexandria Gazette,
newspaper published in the city Of Alexsn-
dria, once q week for four successive weeks,
and posted at the front door OF the Court
House Of this city.
A copy-TRsTE.
NEWELL s. GREENAWAY, Clerk.
Malcolm Hufty D. q. aug21 w4w-w
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
AIuasmDriar Gazgitss

TERMS: Daily-I year, $500 months.
$3.50; 8 months, $1:25; month, 4S cents
/ week, 10 cents. .o
Tri-weekly-1 year, $500; months, Sl'oO
months, rs cents: month. 70 cents. ~,
GFntered AT the Postofiice Of Alexandria, Vir
ginis. as second-class matter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
PROPOSALS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE
of the Supervising Architect Washing.
ton, D. c., August 16, 1907. Sealed proposals
will be received at this office until 3 o'clock
p. m. on the 10th day Of September, 1907. and
then opened. for an electric passenger elevator
in the U. S. Post Office and Custom House at
Alexandria, Virginia, in accordanee ee with
drawing and specification, copies OF which
may be obtained at this office. at the dis
creton of the Supervising Architect. JAMES
KNOX TAYLOR, Supervising Architect.
augl9 q, %
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22

40, 80 and Coo BLENDED TEAS, Suitable
for iced Tea, at J. 9. AlLbUBN'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
LOWenbaCh Bros,
The Family Liquor Store,
po,h phouea Cor. King & Alfred Ste

NOTICE is hereby given that the initial
~ meeting of the incOrporators and sub.
scribers 10 the capital stock Of the DINE
SAVINGS BANK of Washington, D. c.,
Inc, a copofation created under the Jaws Of
the state of Virginia, will be held at the
company's principal Office in The State Of
Virginia, 1l9 south Fairfax street, Aiexan'
dris, Virginia, on the 29th day OF August,
1907, at 5 p. m, for the purpose of transact
ing any and ali business which may legally
come before said initial meeting.
MAURICE d. ROSENBERG, President.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, Secretary,
aug13 I'd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
Remedy for DiarrhOca. Never Known
TO Fail.

81 want to say few wo:ds for Cham
berlsin's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. | have used this preparation
in my family for the past FIVE years and
have recommended it to a number oil
people in York county and have never
known it to fail to effect cure in any
instance. feel that l can not saying too
much for the best remedy of the kind IN
the world. d."-S. JEMIsoN, Spring Grove
York county, Pa. This remedy is Tor
sale by Gibson & Tinberman and w.
+. Creighton & Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
A Valuable Lesson.

"Six years ago learned valuable lesson
writes John Pleasant, of Magnolia. Ind. II
then began taking DR.. Kings New Life
Pills, and the longer take them the better ]
end them" They please everybody. Guaran-
teey at E. s. Ieadbeater Sons, druggists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
COMMI5e IONER REMOVED.

Gov. Hoke Smith yesterday morning
issued on order, to take immediate effect,
suspending Commissioner Joseph M.
Brown, of the Georgia railroad commits
sion, from Office and appointing Gsyton
McLendon to fill the vacancy. Cover
nor Smiths order suspends Commis-
sioner Brown indefinitely, aud Mr..
McLendon will serve during the remain
der of his time. The order gives no
specific reason for the suspension, but
simply cites a section of the code confer
ring authority on the Governor to sus-
pend q commissioner who does not
meet the demands of the Office. The
naming of Mr.. McLendon to place on
the commission to fl the vacancy made
by Mr.. Browns summary suspension
will meet With general approval, as he
has already been elected to place on
the commission by the people and by his
wide knowledge of rate making is fitted
for the position. The attitude of Com
missioner Brown on all important rate
questions that have been before the
commission is known to be the cause for
his suspension. The announcement of
Commissioner Browns suspension, which
practically amounts 10 dismissal from
Office, has created profound sensation.
Brown is a brother OF the late Joseph M.
Brown, formerly governor OF Georgia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22

CANN ED NEATS.-Luneh Tongue, Pot
tei Tongue, Ham and Chicken, Veal Loaf
Beef Loaf, etc., for sale by
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
DRY GOODS.
BIC MIDSUMMER
SALE.

These reductions will enable
you to supply your deferred
wants at a great saving. Posi-
lively superior values at great
reduction.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
M. RUBEN & SONS.

LEADBEATERS'S Perfected Preparation
of the Tasteless Extract Of COD LIVER OIL.
l2 ounce bottles Zoe. For sale by
z. 8 LEADBEATER h SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-22
ThOS.LannOn
Grocer and Importer.

WIRGINIA.-ln the Cierk's Office OF the
V Corporation Court Of the city Of Alexan-
dria. on the 2lst day Of August, 1877.
The Press., 1907-11-20
A raunh ConAraek.

''Wel, CalebS" said'% Captain W .Oi Massachusetts years ago, what wil you ask day to saw wood for me I've got several cords that want saw ed In two for the fireplace" .
 T should charge you about half. g dollar 8 day If. l. had saw. replied Caleb 'but I ain't got none, captain ;so don't see how can accommodate you.": %r: = ':~3 .''9
 "If that's all that's lacking I guess we can manage it,"&said the captain ''T've got. prime new, one, keens as 8 brier, and I'll let it to yok 5reasona ble, How,swould .ninepence Q21a celts) 2 cord do for the use of it?', <.'.
 "I reckon that's a fair price, captain. III be over3in the 1InoriaiH. De j -'|.'=''2 ;
 Bright and early that next July morn, ing Caleb 4wasaat work, and he kept at 1t SO faithfully that he. finished before sunset, when he. went to the house to settle: -.-...., <. ...e ..t. ..
 "Aet's see," said the captain, you were to have half dollar a, day. Wen call it day, although 1t ain't sundown yet That's 50 cents for you, .ll.d you were to pay me ninepence a cord for the use of the saw. There were three cords and half in the pile. That makes 43A cents due me. Somehow, Caleb. you don't have very much con- ing to you ''sa> ''; ..'<
 How unfortnit," said Caleb after scratching his head ,dubiously, for half a mfnutea and then looking ..pp quickly, as fla new light. had broken, in upon his mind n "how unfortnit that you didn' have half a, cord more. for then we'd "a come ondft jest square" !" '''' -'
The Press., 1907-11-20
Difficult to Inf1jct Pain

The doctor smoked slowly on his cigar. It was plain that he had some. thing to say.
 'I was thinking of my early college days" be said. and of a peculiar in- cident that happened very soon after ! began my studies. The professor was instructing the class one day on the corpuscles of the blood. In order to get some fresh blood for microscopal ex- animation each student was ordered to tie a rag around his forefnger and strike the top of the finger suddenly with needle with sufficient force to draw blood. Seems easy, doesn't 1t? Do you know there wasn't a man In the class that did It at the first attempt. 1t was funny to watch some of those embryo surgeons poise the needle with determined air and launch 1t to with In a hair space of the flesh and there stop dead. Others tried to force the needle in slowly. but paused very short ly, with an expression of pain con- mensurate to that of an amputation. I myself gave 1t up as a bad job and hacked a cavity In my thumb with a penknlfe and found 1t easier.
 '-The fact that we were very young and inexperienced is no explanation for this peculiarity. as I have since found by personal test. Almost everybody exhibited the same repugnance to in- nicting pain in that manner. Try it yourself"
 The other man tried and succeeded on lhs fourth trial
The Press., 1907-11-20
DIET AND SLEEP.
Eating Before Retiring and Digestion
 Durino SIunnhAr

Eating Before Retiring and Digestion
 During Slumber.
 Diet has little influence on sleep ex- cept in so far us it may produce dis turbances of digestion and through these of the general balance of health
 The hypnotic effects of certain foods such as onions, lettuce, milk, etc, are chiefly imaginary. Even the time of the last meal of the day is of relative ly little importance except that it is well to let this be at least two or three hours before retiring. But even this rule has many exceptions, as snany healthy laboring men habitually fall asleep over their pines directly after supner, and children after .poking the spoon into their little eyes nod off over the ten table, with the bread and but ter still clutched in their chubby fists.
 The processes of digestion probably go on more slowly during sleep, but they are perfectly carried out. as Is H. lustrated by tue almost invariable hah- It among animals of going to sleep directly after q meal. ....s a... :. Indeed, q moderate amount of food i'll the stomach or intestines seems to promote slumber. Many night workers, for instance, sleep much better for talk ing light or even full supper just be- fore retiring-Dr. Woods Hutchinson in American Magazine.
The Press., 1907-11-20
SHEPHERD CARVERS.
The Lonely Sheep Tenders of the Cali
 fornia Sierraa

The ,L0nely Sheep ! enderS ot the CaIt~ fornia Sierras.
 There are few ionelier lives in the
 world than those lived by shepherds in the high meadows of the California Sierras. All alone they follow their sheep, seeing no one for many months of the year but the sheep, their dogs and perhaps an occasional--a very oc- casional-traveler. Probably this soli. tude dries up the springs of speech, for they are said to be very silent when they do encounter any one.
 One of these strange men is Basque from the Pyrenees. A lean, dark vis- aged. ragged fellow, he is now and then overtaken by some wanderer in the mountains. Along the trail before him his sheep feed. His mongrel collie hangs at his heels. He may raise his stick in mute salutation; he may slouch by without sign. Yet this uncouth being has one talent-he can carve His amusement Is carving quaint sheep buckles out of boae Every herd hNs its bellWether. about whose neck hangs d bell. The bell depends from a leather collar, and it is the buckles of these collars that this old Basque shep- herd and some of these other Sierra shepherds make in the course of their lonely days. Sometimes buckle rep resents summers work, for some of them are very elaborate. Some are in the semblance of saints or angels, some have the monograms of the sheen owners or of the shepherds in curious designs. All are patiently cut bit by bit, with the pocketknife of the shep- hefd,-EXchange. -
The Press., 1907-11-20
Convenient Rankinu.

The bank examiners of the treasury department have some odd and anus ing experiences during their lnyestiga- tions of country banks. At one small and primitive institution an examiner found 8 deficiency of $10O. Of course Rn explanation was demanded. The cashier made brave attempt to look wise Finally he took $1OO from a private money drawer. There, that will fix 1t, he said.
 How will you enter that to make good. the balance?': asked the exam iner.. .---- -.-~' -s<a's:..r,
 The cashier looked -bewildered, but finally said he; would not enter it at all. ... x ...,.... ....... ,.
 You see," he remarked, that draw CT I just went into to make the bal ance is what we call the outs and over drawer. Whenever we're out of balance we go to outs and over to make things right Then, again, when the sheet shows more cash than we ought to have the surplus goes to the drawer. Funny the city banks never thought of that scheme" :, - Harper's Weekly.
The Press., 1907-11-20
D0UGHERTY ISLAND.
It Is the Most Remote and Desolats
 Spot on Earth.


 Spot on Earth.
 Which is the loneliest, most desolate and most inaccessible island on the face of the globe? Many people would doubtless plump for one of the CPozets, in the south Atlantic ocean. And yet Hog island, the westernmost of the group, Is by no means an undesirable place of residence, abounding as it does in hares and rabbits, penguins, albatrosses and sea elephants.
 Herd island, in the same seas, is far more isolated as we'll as more bar ren, but 1t possesses, as does Hog, a shelter hut for castaways, and 1t is visited by whalers occasionally. So, too, Is South Georgia, but 1t has no shelter hut, and as 1t Is right out of the track of shipping any one unlucky enough to be cast away thereon would stand a very poor chance of ever get dng of alive
 Bouvet island, in the same seas, is visited even more rarely, and on the last occasion when a ship touched there five corpses were found frozen on the beach. grim mementos of some unrecorded tragedy of the sea. Pos session island. in It's turn, Is still lonelier and more inhospitable than Bouvet. ...s
 But probably the palm in this direc- ton must be ascribed to Dougberty island. on which. so far as is known, no landing has ever been effected. It has only been sighted twice in a cen tury and Is officially described in the admiralty sailing directions as ''the most remote and isolated spot on earth. Weekly.
The Press., 1907-11-20
The First House of esmmons

The earliest traces of. the. English house of commons, are found in. the year 1265. That year simon de Mont fort, earl of Leicester, caused writs to be issued in the kings name requiring each sheriff: of 8 county to return to a parliament which he. proposed to hold two knights for the shire under his Jurisdiction. two citizens for each city within its limits and two bur gesses for each borough. The parlia- ment thus called met In London on Jan. p, 1265, and was, practically the first in which the people,, as dis. tinguished from the nobility and aristocracy, had ever participated. If was not until the revolution of 1888, however, that the people were fairly and squarely represented lin parlia- ment. The house of commons is to- day the supreme power in England
 Its will is law, the lords and king be- ing, Gs Walter Bagehot long ago de- clared, men ornamental" The power of the crown in England is merely nominal, as is that also of the house of lords. When people speak out loudly through their house of coni-@ mons, that as. general rule settles it.
The Press., 1907-11-20
WANTED THE GIBLETS.

An Incident of Revolutionary Days ln
 South Carolina.
 There are innumerable stories of Revolutionary days in Charleston. The old ladies used to tell with glee how, when the British were supposed to be out of the way, the young fellows would come home to dance with them. A message would go to the nearest cousins and friends and a supper be cooked. It might be only rice and ba- con, but 1t was good to hungry men. declares Charleston's historian, Mrs. Ravenal The dance and the feast would continue until the stars grew pale.
 Often these merrymakings were dis turbed by the enemy. but there was al ways a negro or two on the watch, and the harsh note of the screetch owl or the cry of the whippoorwill would give the alarm. then ''partlngs in hot scuffle. hot pursuit and perhaps a prisoner taken.
 The young men had odd adventures. One young fellow betrayed himself by his appetite He was pursued and had taken shelter at Mrs. Motte's place, on South Santee. She rolled him up in a carpet and, pushing it against the wall, told him to keep quiet until the enemy had gone and she could release him.
 Unluckily he heard through the open window his hostess giving directions to the cook about the chickens which were to be dressed for the dragons dinner He could not bear to be left out and thrust his head from the car pet chrysalis and cried out, Keep the giblets for mev'
 The soldiers heard, and he was at once caught and carried of to repent at leisure of his indiscretion.
The Press., 1907-11-20
f'f r a 8 Rules For Rioh4 Eaxinc.

The rules for eating, which ought to sbe a part of every child's A~.B C's. are few and simple, though neglected by half of the adult population. $
 Expressed. in. den'ts, they rarea l.5 4,ab
 Don't eat in hurry; don't eat when tired; don't forget to chew well; don't drink much with meals it before don't eat all one Kind of food; don't take much cold food at one time.
 Most of us live as if unconscious that there are such things as laws of health whose violation brings pain and sickness. The stomach will bear as much abuse and neglect as any organ of the body, perhaps moro than most of them. But when it Rebeas there is usually one. more cross dyspeptic in- hicted on society and destined to spend the rest of his days alternating be- tween diet of soft eggs and toast and sundry excursions into mince pies, pork and cabbage and other things that he likes, but which make him miserable. Charles H. Cochrane In Metropolitan Magazine.
The Press., 1907-11-20
The Tenors' Parts,

Probably the composers are largely responsible for tenor worship. InVer, dis operas, with hardly an exception, the tenor plays a more important part than the baritone or bass. and the same is true of other opera write~. .AIoZart's Don Giovanni" being nota- ple exception, Wagner wrote one opera, "The Flying putchman," in <Nhich the baritone is king. whereas in six of his works the supremacy of the tenor Is indicated by the very titles 'Rtenzi" 'Tannhauser," "Lohengrin,' '' rTristan und Isolde" "Siegfried," /" s'Parsifal." This being so, we shall prohably continue to be subject to the tyranny of one tenor or another, unless 1t be true, as was maintained at con- caave of French savants. that the tenor 5zpoice is a relic of barbarism, destined sdo become eXtinct.-Argonaut
The Press., 1907-11-20
ENaa kaan Enr HnInrn

A young man who had made applica- ton for the position of clerk in the silk department of a large store was questioned closely as to the exact shade of gre,t variety of samples shown him. "We do that" the super intendent explained. ito make sure that you are not color blind A dry goods store Is the one place where color blindness is positive bar to efficiency. Very often you hear of color blind workmen in all other branches of business. There are, it ap- pears, even color blind engineers and color blind artists. but the big stores absolutely shut out men who have not keen eye for all colors."-New York Post
The Press., 1907-11-20
They All rhouaht About AIik.

Three tired" c1tizens-a lawyer, a doctor and newspaper man-sat in a back room in the gray light of the early dawn. On the table were many empty bottles and couple of packs of cards. As they sat in silence a rat scurried across the hearth into the darkness beyond. The three men shifted their feet and looked at each other uneasily. After a long pause the lawyer spoke. "I know what you fellows are thinking" he said; you think I thought saw a rat, but l didn't"-Argonaut.
The Press., 1907-11-20
Poems.. Pictures and Songs.

It takes. all kinds of people to make tip a world and all kinds of poetry to make up world literature. Despite the efforts of the critics to lay down definite canons of judgment for the literary, pictorial and musical arts most of us continue to ikea poem, a picture or a. song for no better reason than because we like it. It appeals to us, and if it does that 1t Is for us a true poem, picture or song. Whether it is to be classed among the great products of art Is another question. That depends upon the unlversaltty and permanepce of the appeal, 1t, makes.-C1rrent Literatura, ss .-..
The Press., 1907-11-20
DIsTRICT OF STAFFORD, ss. Pro-
 D bate Court, November lQ, ,1001

D bate Court. November I9, ,,190T. Estate of Justice ]. Ellis, late of stafford, In said district, deceased.
 Upon the application of the administrators, praying that an order may be granted to sell the real eStateOf said de0eased, and an order grant, ed authorizing dislnterested person to sell the same, as by said application on file fully ap-
 Ordered-That said application be heard and determined at the Probate On1ce in stafford, in said district on the 26th day of November, A. D., 1907, at 10 oclocktn the forenoon, and that notice be given to all persons interested in said es- te and naee f of hearnS eV S1o pTS fishing the same once in some newspaper hav- ing circulation in said district, and by posting & copy thereof on the public slgn-pO5t in the town Of Stafford, in said district.
 L &1 MARCUS B. FISK, Judge.
The Press., 1907-11-20

vanced in arts and devout iwOrshff5Gfs of the Great Spirit. In fact, one of their number so excelled i in wisdom that the others fell down and. wor- shiped him, and in jealous anger the Great Spirit caused the earth to shake and swallow. up the entire population, afterward wiping out every vestige of their idolatry by pouring water into the valley until it became an inland sea.
 Later repenting him of the evil and in impatience over his own vengeance, the Great Spirit. threw up the earth smoking with heat into the Sierra Ne | vada mountains, broke away the hills damming up the lake at it's foot and drained off the water into the sea at mouth of the earth and released the Jonahs from their. long captivity.
 Little took they the lesson to heart. No sooner had the place blossomed into beauty again than they fell into idolatry once more, the worshiped chief going so far as to challenge the Great Spirit to single combat. The an swer was a thrust of the gage Tn their very faces. The race was eXterminat- ed forever by a horde of savages from the Mojave desert, while a whirlwind swept away all vegetation.
 But if we are tracing back to the origin of things we must dig deeper till we reach the legend of Mount Shas- ta, the very first part of the earth to be created.
 The Great Spirit broke a hole in the floor of heaven with a huge rock and went on throwing down more rocks until he could step from the sky upon the top of the pile, ,%
 Then caressingly he touched the sides of the heap with his hands, and forests sprang into being Leaves from the trees he plucked and breath ed upon until they futtered into the air, fleet winged birds. Beasts and fishes he also formed from his staff.
 And so in love he became with the mountain of his creation that he hol- lowed it out into wigwam, where he dwelt for centuries, the smoke of his lodge fire being often seen pouring from the cone. before the white man came. May, O.. Ringwalt in Los An HeleS Times. s.t. s,.-... :. .&
The Press., 1907-11-20
Married.

Stafford Springs. 18th, by Rev. Thomas lyric, Carl L. Helm and Miss Alice Barnaby., ~ @4 South Wilmington, 18th, by Rev. c. W. Wolfe, Edwin J Lyon and Miss Mary P. Leon, both of Bridgeport.