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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
ARREST REVEALS
Their MARRIAGE
Musician Deserted Navy 10 Wed
Miss Ada GOTmah,
HAD FORTUNE WHEN SEl RCAED

Charles f.e-rus Had Eighteen $1,000
Government Bones ard 800 In
Cash In tis Possessioa. SAID
to Sc His wae's Prope y. Vino
was a Daughter Of tie Ia, United
States Senator OF macylsna-wu
&c taken 30 Philadelphia.
LouisNUe oct. "a man .ao says
he D. ct1r. Joseph Maguus. ANA WHO
claims o. bo THE husband OF ID Nla
Gor,raa. second daughter ol tac la 20
United States Senator Arthur pac
German. OF Maryland. is in j''l d A..
CHARGED with beiug dcscr r.or from
tho United States navy.
Aalnus rla.its tnat he is a lescrtor
and asserts that hc marrioi Senator
Germans daughter in Lou. Vile on
Sept. . Nlsn searched il was found
that Maguus had eighteen 5000 GOV
ernmcnt bouds and about $1,000 IN
cash in his possession Hc was arrest
cd al the Sec bach hotel Mrs Magnus
was there @t the time. but disap-
pearej
Ma-Eus. who enlisted %. or the
name OF lilrtluvo. was FIRST c'as
musician in thc navy auI on board g..
t. $. =. Dolphin
The navy department has Ordered
that Nagnus. or Hartlove. bc trans
ferr,d so Philadelphia upon tao com.
plction Of his Identification. iIe VII
there be tried on the charge of des.r.
tion. 1ne money and bonds found IN
him VIII hc turned over to his Nlir.
ON sept 10, 10 is stated. there ap.
pe2r,i ~ a Washington new paper an
account oi the umoIed mariagc of
Miss Ada German to J. &. Iar,loyr AT
Louisville Ky. and this clue. it is
state 3, was Usei 10y Lieutenant Com
| m2ndcr Washington. OF tho DnlYl'n
10 learn the whereabouts of Alarurs
Maenus. who married Miss Ada Cor.
man Gaugh,1r Of the late Senator
German. un .er the name OF Iiar.lo,e.
met his wio al tie Vermont Avenue
Christian cnurch. 10 Washin ,ton. Ee
is described as a handsoms Young Tel
low. twenty nc years old and a fine
musician. Miss German, who is much
older than her husband. bciug ah al
thirty-eisht gears old foll IN love with
him and without consulting her fam
ly. married him
State Senator German. OF Maryland.
her brother. said that the money and
bonds Ma~nas had when arrcs sted. he
supposed. belonged TO his sister
Magnus was educated in ST Mary's
Industrial school. Baltimore. and af-
terward took a course ut the Peabody
institute IN music. showing marked
proficiency He was q great favorite
among the ladies 1t is reported in
Baltimore that he had engaged him
self 10 another girl and had given her
a diamond ring.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
MORE CAROLINE CIRCUIT
COURT PROCEEDINGS

White Bullock, action detinue to re-
cover horses. wagon, &c, Judgment OF
one wagon for plaintiff W. +. Ennis
p q and +. ". Carter, p. d.
X. ID. Dickinson \ Co. V. Stanard Hav
a Grain Co. Judgment for plaintiff, 500
Crandier and Ennis, p. q. No one for
defendant
Mercer '. Bullock Judgment of S25.75
Tor plaintiff Powers and Beal. d. q
Fred. W. Coleman, d.
Waterman n Co. v. Courtney. contin.
1ed. u. b. Powers, q. and Fred. W.
Coleman, p. q.
.Georae v. Pitts Judgment 1926 for
plaintiff W. L Ennis. p. q . and X l..
Beal, p q.
farr v Pitts. Judgment Tor plaintiff.
w W T. EaOis, p. q. and 4 L. Beal.
p d.
More common law eases have been
tried at this term than for yearp. being
more than sixteen In numter. The last
case WAS called and tried Wednesday
and court adjourned for the term, hay.
Ing been In session for 10 DAYS.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
AN OPEN LETTER
To The Editor Of This Paper. And Want This
Pscpls Of Fredericksburg to Know That Write
The Following Voluntarily Harry [ eoodeI

| have suffered for the past 1--we years.
and have tried d fferent doctors, but
have had no relief until bought a so
cent box OF Mona from our drug store
(R. W. KnOwlton's) here a short time
ago.
The first box did me so much good
that Immediately purchased another
one, and now feel better than have
at any time In the past FIVE years. Am
able to eat anything aud every thing,
and get good nights sleep afterwards
Was so bad at one time that all was
able TO eat for over a month was a raw
egg In half q glass of milk, two or three
times a day.
l would earnestly advise any one suffer
as was from dyspepsia, to give this
remedy fair trial. | remain, gratefully
yours, Harry l. Goodiel. No 9L River
St, Astabula. ..
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
URGE FREE TEXTBOOKS
lunlor Mechanics Pass Resolutions and EIect
otticsgs.

Junior Order United American Ne
ehanics, closed their session ia Lynch.
burg Wednesday. Resolutions were
adopted declaring the council in favor of
Tree textbooks in the public schools.
Manchester was selected for the place of
next meeting.
The election Of officers resulted as fol
lows: Councillor, l.. K Smith, Rich
mond; vice councillor, j. W. Camper.
Roanoke; warden. X Nj. Fox, Danville.
treasurer, McD LaRdrum, Lynchburs:
inside sentinel, F. a. Walker. Richmond.
outside sentinel. j. G. Beasley, Accomac;
trustees, 5. HUFF, Roanoke; j. .. Wiees'
Berkley; A. l.. Sampson, Manchester
The secretary was elected last year for a
term of two years.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
ACCIDENT AT NEW DAM

While number OF workmeL were
Tuesday engaged in stretching large
cable across the Rappahannock river, at
the new dam, for conveying the cement
In buckets, a chain by which the cable
was being raised broke. The cable fell
knocking some timber down on the work.
men below. Fortunately no one was
seriously hurt, but several were badly
bruised, and we're not able TO work We'd
nesday. The cable weighs about seven
tons aad VIII be stretched from towers
on either side OF the river, which are "a
feet high
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
Trunk With Gowns and Jewels les,

London. Ontario. Oct. PA trunk
containing gowns and jewels Of Mrs.
Russell a. Alger, Jr., Of Detroit. val
ued at $4,000, has been lost or stolen.
With Mrs. Maurice Williams. Mrs
Alger was on an automobile trip from
Detroit to Buffalo through ontario.
The ladies carried with them some
beautiful gowns and a quantity OF jew
elry. Those belonging to Mrs. Aiger
were in trunk strapped to the rea
of the automobile. On alighting at tie
hotel here the trunk was missing
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
Girl In stupor 100 Hours.

Pittsburg. Oct %. - Mary Thomp-
son. the girl who was taken to a hos
pital last week. supposed to be suf-
fering from diabetic coma. had been
in a state Of Inconsistencies for 120
hours. Her peculiar case is battling
physicians. and developments may
cause them 10 seek a new diagnosis.
Life is being sustained on liquid nour.
ishment.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
SALE OF CAROLINE LAND

Mr.. Frederick W. Coleman, commits
sioner OF the Circuit court OF Caroline
county in Lockwood-Scripture suit. has
sold to Garrison and Zslenek, OF Brad
dock, Pa. 3O5 acres Of land 10 Caroline
Co for 81 ,J2J. The sale has been con-
firmed by the Circuit court.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
DIED IN WASHINGTON

Miss Lucy Morris Of this city, died at
the Providencs Hospital in Washing
ton on Thursday evening. Oct. Is, OF
typhoid fever, aged % years. interment
was made 10 the cemetery at Alexandria,
She 4 survived hy two sisters and three
brothers.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24

Keep the little ones healthy and happy.
Their tender sensitive bodies REQUIRE
general healing remedies. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea makes baby
strong, healthy aud fat. 30 cents, Tea
or Tablets. W. l.. Bond.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
PUBLIC SALE
OF
House and Lot
In Stafford County. Nirginia

By authority conferred upon US. either
one of whom is given the power to act
10y decree of the Circuit court of Stafford
county, Virginia, entered on the l4th
day OF September. 1908, i'm the chancery
cause OF Magrath 4 Chesley vs. Mamie
Payne 1t ais, ], the undersigned acting.
commissioner, shall on
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
Cider Mill Blown lin

Scranton, Pa. Oct. %. - Dynamite
blew up the press of Bartree Bros.
cider mill at Lake Ariel. seriously in
juring Henry Bartree and almost
smothering 'wo otter men with a
deluge of pummice. The placing OF
the dynamite cap in the press is look
ed on by the police as the work of
some temperance fanatic.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24
CAsCAsWEET, the we'll Known reu

CASCASWEET, the well known rem
edy for babies and children, wifi quiet
the little one In a short time. The In
gradients are printed on the bottle. Con-
tains no opiates. Sold by NJ. N. Lewis
and w. T.. Bond.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1908-10-24

Do not let anyone tell you that some
thin,r else Is Just as good a. DeWftt's
kidrey and Bladder Pills because there
lent anything just as good Sold by
NJ. 81. Lewis and W. l. Bond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
Tag Day a Success

Yesterday was Tag Day in Birming- ham, and the Boys club, for whose benefit it was, is nearly $270O better off financially than it was the day be- fore. Of all the institutions in this city few accomplish such farleaching good as the Boys club. The gentle and large-hearted women who look after it's maintenance will always have the moral and financial support of the community, and the response Of the public yesterday was, indeed, most gratifying.
 Now that men know the pleasure of being tagged, Tag Day for worthy cause may be reckoned an annual event. It will be looked forward to with eagerness. It costs the individual only a small amount but by organized effort the result is large. All credit to the ladies who directed Tag Day work and to those who disposed of the tags.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
Our Yellow Peril

We have shut out Chinese coolies, and we have tried to shut out Chinese iron by imposing tax at the customs house of s4.75 a ton. But the tax is net prohibitive, and Dingley duty tha. does not prohibit is considered below standard.
 It is now known that Chinese iron can be carried 500 miles down the Yangtze river to the sea and then car ried 14,000 miles through the Suez canal to New York, where, after pay ing a duty of $475 a ton, it can be sold profitably at $17.50 ton. The price left a profit, thus rendering sim liar shipments practicable whenever the price of No. 2 foundry in New Yofas is s17.5O ton. It is worth about that much in New York today.
 Bey yond doubt there are immense undcveloped seams of iron ore and coal in China on or near nay1gable rivers, and the development of them is near at hand. Labor is low-priced and abundant in China, and water transportation goes far towards anni- hilating the taxation of transportation. Our Yellow Peril is therefore real. It it no bogy, conjured up by sensation mongers. It lies in great seams along side navigable rivers, and an awaken ing China will soon coin those seams into commercial products. When she does our Yellow Peril will stand be- fore us at once, unless indeed we utilize to the utmost an Open Warrior and get ready to lay down iron at the sea bearing minimum transportation charges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
Senator Bankhead on Good Roads

On Friday Senator Bankhead urged the Senate to adopt his amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill pro- viding for an expenditure in tenta- tive manner of S500,0 in good roads work. Primarily he desires to pro- mote rural free delivery, one of the greatest blessings ever applied in this country, but secondarily he hopes through this modest appropriation to inaugurate a system of national aid for the peoples highways. He wants their roads treated better-not quite so well, of course. as the railroads were in the past when they absorbed the better part of the public lands, nor as we'll as the waterways are treated, year in and year out, but still better than they ever have been by the government. Over the dirt roads of the country 90 per cent of it's commerce is moved and they have not been treated up to their deservings or uses.
 But our senior Senator proposes no gift outright to any locality in con- nection with the improvement of dirt roads. He would have every dollar of government money supplemented by a dollar of local money. The plan is reasonable, modest and full of prom ise i'll addition to the national wealth, and the hope is that the Senate will adopt Senator Bankhead's amendment.
 The speech of our senior Senator holds out promise that his services can be enlisted in favor of the Over ton amendment in this state. If he could be induced to speak in every county in the state the Overton amendment would no doubt be con firmed at the polls in November The Good Roads people should endeavor to secure his services. He stands for good roads in the Senate, and he should stand for them in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER.

From the Bookman.
 Charlemagne Tower may perhaps most accurately be described as a sort of Philadelphian Fairbanks. He is tall and thin and rather good looking, utterly devoid of any sense of humor, and quite uneasy in the presence of those whom he thinks disposed to see the humorous side of things. He is very wealthy man, a graduate of Exeter and of Harvard, and is interested in a number of large manu featuring and mining interests He once wrote book on Lafayette In the Amer ican Revolution" which was published in 1895. He was, however, quite un known to the public at large at the time when President Mckinley took office in 1897.
 Many persons were anxious then to have MT. Andrew D. White made Am bassador to Germany. When an influential friend approached President Mckinley on the subject the President saidi "No, no, I'm very sorry, but the German embassy has been given out to Penrose'
 MT Whites friends then went to Sem ator Penrose. Yes" said Mr. Penrose;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26

in friendly intercourse and association with some of the great leading minds of ancient and modern republicanism on the other side of the chamber
 For them," he said, this is a novel, new departure. There seems to be no want of brotherhood between them; in faet they stick as close and affection ately to each other as a stamp sticks to a love letter"
 This sensational utterance from lead Ing democrat caused senators to sit up, crane forward and take notice. It was followed by a still greater shock from the same source, a little burst of sar- castle eloquence from the Alabamian, whose tense satire almost shook the chamber with unwonted laughter
 Said Mr. Morgan, continuing his line of allusion to the strange spectacle of fra ternal affection between Senate demo- crats and republicans, and referring to the subservience of some of the former:
 The trumpet had sounded, the forces were marshaled, the clock had struck at the White House. and the cuckoos here all put their heads out of their boxes and responded to inform us the time of day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
To Prevent Provincialism.

Most cities, even the largest, have some provincial reatures or habits" said a man of the world, 'and the best preventive for narrowness is travel. Here is an article from the Wall Street Journal that should have wide reading:
 eff the representatives of more cities. towns and states were to follow the example of the "Oklahoma boom CTS" and move in special trains around the< country to see something of the larger world away from home, there would be much less provincialism in legislation, much less prejudice in peo- ple's minds and a much greater de- gree of appreciation of what the rest of the world is doing.
 |" The people of this big country of ours, with it's hundreds and thousnds of miles between great centers and sections, need to put forth a special effort to keep from becoming provin- cial. The New Yorker is as liable to fall into this rut as is the Oklah oman.
 "'The love of locality is all right but it is highly advisable to Gee our selves from a distance occasionally, and come back home with something good to say about other places and peoples. Otherwise the effect of the daily grind in a too narrow circle of contact is to deepen the rut of routine so much that one can hardly see out over it's sides T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bird Day Book.

May is to be observed as Bird Day. in the schools of Alabama. The depart ment of education has published in paper cover handsome Bird Day book, which will be read with keen interest by all lovers of nature. It contains 52 pages and is artistically illustrated. Superintendent of Education Harry C. Gunnels, in a short preface acknowledges the suggestion made by the Alabama Audubon society, which prompted the publication, and he gives due credit to that most enthusias- tic bird lover. Hon. John II. Wallace, Jr., state game and fish commissioner, for the preparation and compilation of the ma terial in this attractive pamphlet"
 In the book or pamphlet is a sugges- tive programme which Superintendent Gunnels hopes will be carried out in the schools. The first article or paper in the book is on John James Audubon, the worlds greatest naturalist who was born in Louisiana in 17SO, and who died in 1851. Following the initial article are number of short essays and 19 poems on birds, most of them of high literary merit. The essays are to be acclaimed and the poems recited in school
 No city man who ever had a passion for field or wood can take up the Bird Day book, read the poems and see the pictures of feathered beauties-the mourning dove, the bullbat, the snowy heron, the marsh hawk and the robin-without longing to break away from brick and mortar and take himself to natures wilds. The yell lowhammer is the state bird of Alabama, and one of the informing essays has this bird for it's theme The yellowhammer is known also as the flicker. It Is the largest of all woodpeckers, but unlike the rest of its family 1t feeds on the ground.
 Among the poems in the Wallace book are three on the "The Mocking Bird" one each by Stanton, Meek and Miss Zitella Cooke, all gems. But one of Albert Pilxe's greatest poems, and one of his best known is "The Mocling Bird" and the suggestion is made that it appear in next years Bird Day book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26

earth at one place and are then forced upward to expend themselves in the upper air. The weather conditions of Friday afternoon were, however, of a nature, it is plain, that bred, not sin gle tornado, but dozens of them, for in at least 20 localitiec damage was done. The total list of the killed and injured renders the storm of Friday one of the most dreadful that the south has ever known.
 The call for aid will surely come, and this city will as surely respond. It will be needed all the way from Bergens, in Walker county, across Elount county to Albertyille, in Marshall, and Sylvania, in DeKalb county. The storm never swerved from it's northeasterly course. No doubt much suffering can be averted in the long track of the storm by the prompt use of a relief fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
HUskS THE TROPICAL ATE.

From the Chicago News.
 Are the "husks' of the parable of the prodigal son still extant in the coun- tries bordering on the Mediterranean? Consul General Ravndal, writing from Beirut, says that they are and that they are now called "carobs" or locust heans.'' He continues: Arabs and Moors eat them. In the south of Europe they are employed as food for horses, cattle and swine. The total yield in Cyprus of carobs or locust beans (not to be con- founded with St. Johns) in 1906 amounted to 690O0 tons.
 "On account of the abundant sugar contained in carols the latter form a nutritious and fattening food for horses and cattle. am informed that con siderable quantity of this cattle food is exported from Great Britain to the United States.
 "One variety of the carob is called in Cyprus 'apostolike.' This, however, is not so named after the 'apostle;' it means that the three is sent (by God)'-i. e., seIf-sown"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
Lower Prices for Cotton

May options are selling at less than cents in New Orleans, and middling spots at about 10 cents. This is fall from the best prices of the season of about 4 cents pound, and such fall is indeed a crash that is felt on the farms where cotton is still held. What bumper crop next fall would lead to we need not consider.
 The decline in prices has been brought about by the general condition of trade. slackened demand for goods has placed the staple at the mercy of the mills. In hard times peo- pie can wear old clothes, but wheat and corn cannot be treated in that manner. This, no doubt, is why we have dollar wheat and Scent cotton. The prices of wheat and iron have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
DAY-DREAMING.

l built it of marble and ivory and gold, A residence royalty fair, And when it was done, if the truth must
 be told,
 I welded Felicia there; And her eyes were as blue as the sum-
 mer seas
 By the shore where the pomegranate
 grows, And her breath was as sweet as the twi-
 light breeze From the land where the magnolia
 blows. And her face and her form were imbued
 with the grace No artist could ever portray, And her hair shot its gleams in that ra-
 diant place, Turning night into glorious day l built it of marble and ivory and gold, Far richer than money could buy, On the crest of a mountain eternally old, Meath the arch of a tropical sky. And fountains made music in lanes OF
 the rose, And earth's sweetest pleasures were
 there, Removed from the toll of this life and it's
 woes And the days flowed on like the lit of
 stream, And morning and eve were the same; No cloud came to shadow the noon of
 our dream, Nor a sigh nor a whisper of blame But voice from the world-such is piti-
 less fatel- Called me back to it's work and it's
 pain. The palace so fair, I neglected to state. Was only castle in Spaini