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!. THE CHARM OF
. THOMAS JEFFERSON


In December, 1900, a few days at
ter Congress had for the first time
met in our new metropolis, 1 was one
morning sitting alone I'm the parlor,
when the servant opened the door,
and showed in a gentleman who
wished to see my husband. The usual
frankness and care with which met
strangers were somewhat checked by
the dignified and reserved air of the
present visitor, but the chilled feeling
was only momentary, for after TAX
ing the chair l offered him I'm a free
and easy manner, and careleSsly
throwing his arm on the table near
which he sat, he turned towards me a
countenance beaming with an express
sion of benevolence and with a man
ner and voice almost femininely soft
and gentle, entered into conversation
on the commonplace topics of the
day, from which, before I was con-
sciOus of il, he had drawn me into OBJ
servations of more personal and in
teresting nature. I know not how It
was. but there was something in his
manner, his countenance and voice
that at once unlocked my heart, and
III " us con-
corning our situation in our new
home. as he called ii, found myself
frankly telling him what | liked or
disliked in our present circumstances
and abode. I knew not who he was,
but the interest with which he list
ened to my artless details induced the
idea he was some intimate acQuaint-
ance or friend of Mr.. Smiths and put
me perfectly at my ease; in truth so
kind and conciliating were his looks
and manners that forgot he was not
a friend of my own, until on the
opening of the door Mr.. Smith en-
tered and introduced the stranger to
me as Mr.. Jefferson.
1 felt my cheeks burn and my heart
throb, and not a word more could
speak while he remained Nay, such
was my embarrassment could scarce
ly listen to the conversation carried
on between him and my husband.
For several years he had been to me
an object of peculiar interest In
fact my destiny, for on his success in
the pending Presidential election or
rather the success of the Democratic
party (their interests were identicaD,
my condition in life, my union with
the man ] loved, depended.-From
Washington in Jefferson's Time" by
Margaret Bayard Smith, in Scribner's.
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POrpOises at PLAY.

- remarkable photograph of half
dozen porpOises, playing under
water, just ahead of the bow Of
steamship travelling at the rate of
thirteen knots an hour. has been pub
lished by a correspondent of Knowl-
edge, Mr.. c. II. Gale. The sea was
calm and the photograph was made
by leaning over the bow OF the YES
sci. Mr.. Gale calls attention to the
singular fact that the porpoises, while
easily maintaining their position
ahead of the ship, showed no appar-
ent effort or motion of body, tail or
fin. Yet he thinks that they were
not carried along by movement of
the water in front of the vessel. be-
cause air-bubbles we're seen rushing
from their backs. and the photograph
shows the effect of these bubbles by
the white streaks on the backs of the
animals. Sometimes they rolled over
sidewise. but always maintained their
position
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live Stock.

New YOrk.-Beeves-R Receipts. l.
OS9; all for slaughterers. Nothing
doing in live cattle; feeling steady.
Exports. 1900 quarters of beef.
Calves-Receipts. 1852 head. Feel.
ing about steady; Veals, 5.5OG7.30;
no choice stock here; culls. 4.25;
buttermilks. 400.
Sheep and Receipts, s.
4S1 sheep; a trile firm; lambs, 10
"a 15c. higher; sheep, 3.OO@4.5O;
lambs. 6.5O@7.25.
Hogs Receipts, zoe; market SC.
lower; prime New York State hogs.
695.
Chicago. Receipts, $500:
market strong to loo. lower: steers.
$50 a 8.25; cows, 3.60@5.75; hei'.
ers, $50 a $50; bulls, 3.4OM6.OO;
calves, 5.406c $50; stockers and
feeders, 3.75@490.
Hogs - Receipts. $4,000; market
weak; choice shipping, G.55M6.GO;
butchers, $50 a $50; light mixed.
go a $40; choice light, G.45M6.5O;
packing. 5.75 a 6.45; pigs. $500
500
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Wholesale Markets

New EOrk.-Wheat-R Receipts, 3
OOO; exports. 30.02S; spot strong
No. red, 1855 q 80 IS elevator; No
red, 995s f. o. b. ahoat; No. 1
Northern Duluth, 1.21 f. o. b. aioat;
No. hard winter. 1.O6A f. o. b.
afoat
Receipts. 1925; exports,
1,7OS; spot steady; No. 2, SO1s
nominal elevator, and S11z nominal
f. o. b. afloat
Receipts. $500; exports.
5,32l spot barley steady; mixed,
26N 30 pounds, 55056; natural
white, 26 G32 pounds, So a SO; clip
ped white, 80 q 40 pounds. $50 60.
Poultry-Alive. steady; spring
chickens, IS; fowls. II; turkeys, ID;
dressed firmer; Western spring
chickens Is q 20; turkeys, 12@17;
fowls, 1908.
Butter-Firm; receipts, 6.S49.
Creamery specials. 23M; extras.
22% thirds to firsts. 19d 225
dClphia.-Wheat 49, Firm. 1c.
higher; contract grade, July, 91h q
80.
Corn-Quiet but firm; No. ,, for
local trade. 81 a SIC.
Oats-Quiet but firm; No. 2 white,
natural, 80 Y a 60.
DuNOSl o'Sdu9 anu III tdiT ne
mand; extra Western creamery.
241kc.; do, nearby prints. 26.
Eggs-Firm and in good demand:
Pennsylvania and other nearby, firsts
free cases, 19c. at mark; do, current
receipts, in returnable cases, 1Sc. at
mark; Western, firsts. free cases, 10,
at mark; do, current receipts, free
cases, IS, at mark.
Cheese-Dull and lower; New
York full creams, choice. liz a
11A c.; do, fair to good, 10A G11H.
Poultry-Alive, firm; fowls higher.
Fowls, IS Is nc; old ROSTERS,
y a 10c.; spring chickens, Is a %.
BaltimOre.-Flour-DuU and UNI
changed; receipts, 1,715 barrels; ex
ports, 22,764 barrels.
Wheat-Strong; spot contract,
92M 80 y No. 2 red. Western. 946J
"a Y July, 80 a 92A; August, 90 a
80 y ; September, SO a 93H steamer
No. red. $50 SO 4; receipts. 6S..
535 bushels, exports, 90. 900 bushels;
Southern. by sample. IS a So; South
ern, on grade, sc q a 9O24.
COrn-Steady. Spot, mixed. 1917
d a 10 q; No. 2 white. 50 p qS2s4
July, 791 ares: September. 10;
receipts, l 1866; exports, 1,600.
Oats-Easy. No. white, 5S p q
500: No. 3 white. 81 y @5SA; No
?, mixed, IA 81 u receipts. IL.
I35.
Rye Steady. No Western ex
port, SS a 80; No. . Western domes
tic. $50 SO; receipts. 34S.
Butter - Firm and unchanged
Fancy imitation. 2O@21; fancy
creamery, %; fancy ladle, 10 a 20,
store packed, Il ais.
II Y.
c h @ - Firm and unchanged
New large, II "; new flats 1251;
new small, 1924.
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when Women Admired whiskers.


For ages boards were the delight
OF ancient beauties. The sight Of
a shaved chin excited sentiments of
horror and aversion. To obey the
injuctions OF his bishops. Louis VII
or France cropped his hair a la POM
padour and shaved of his luxuriant
whiskers. Eleanor Aquitene. his con-
sort. found him with this uncom-
mon appearance very ridiculous and
very contemplate. She revenged
herself by becoming something more
than a coquette. The king obtained
a divorce. She then married the
Count of Anjou. who shortly after
ward assembled the English throne.
and gave him as her marriage dover
the rich provinces of Poitou and
Guienne. And this was the origin
or those wars which for 300 years
ravaged France and which cost the
French nation 100000 men; all of
which. probably. had never taken
place IL Louis VII had not been so
rash as to shave off his whiskers.
by which he made himself so dis
gushing to the fair Eleanor.-N. Y.
Press.
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DIFFERENT NOW.
Athlete Finds Better Training Food

1t was formerly the belief that to
become strong. athletes must eat
plenty of meat.
many trainers feed athletes on the
well-known food, Grape-Nuts, made
of wheat and barley, and cut the meat
down to a small portion, once a day.
Three years ago." writes a Mich.
man, having become interested in
athletics, l found would have to stop
eating pastry and some other kinds
of food.
Il got some Grape-Nuts and was
soon eating the food at every meal,
for l found that when / went on the
track. / felt more lively and active.
Later, l began also to drink
Postum in place of coffee and the way
] gained muscle and strength on this
diet was certainly isreat. On the day
of field meet in June / weighed 124
pounds. On the opening of the foot
ball season in Sept. l weighed 140.
/ attributed my fine condition and
good work to the discrimination of
improper food and coffee, and the
using of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my
principal diet during training season
being Grape-Nuts.
Before ] used Grape-Nuts I never
felt right In the morning-alway
kind OF out of sorts with my stom-
uach. But nov when I'rise feel good.
hd after breakfast largely of
srape-Nuts and cream, and cup Of
Postum, ! feel like a new man"
S-There's a Reason"
s. Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
creek. Mich. Read ~The Road 20
Rellyille." In pkgs.
ffFer read the above letter. A new
appeaVs from time 60 time. They
..'g'pe,> true. and fuIi of human
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A New Auto Danger,

HedgehOgs are said to be causing
lots of trouble for Bangor automobil
lists. who are fond of the wooded
highways a score OF miles from the
city. In the evening these spiny,
bristling animals are often found in
the roads, and, fascinated by the
glare of the head lamps of the motor
cars. refuse to bulge from the track,
with the result that they are often
run over. The danger lies in the
sharp quilts which pierce the tires,
making a puncture which cripples
the car and is hard to mend.-Kene-
bee Journal.
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The Weather Prophet.

II always have been under the
impression that there ought to be
a society for REFRESHING information
as TO symptoms of disease" remarked
the phlegmatic man. land now I've
come TO the conclusion that we need
another society. one that will prevent
people from getting to know too
much or little about the weather. /
am afflicted with a brOther-in-law
who thinks he knows something
about the weather. and all summer
long my life and that OF my wife,
who takes him seriously-is made
miserable by his predictions that we
are going to have a thunderstorm
before night He keeps us in the
house when in our ordinary ignor-
ance we would go out and enjoy our
rainless days; he drives us indoors
by knowing looks at thunder heads
And on the one day recently when
he never spoke of the weather at all
we went on an excursion at his sug-
gestion and got soaked to the skin.
If any one will start that society
Ill be one Of the charter members"
N. Y. Press.
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INDICTED AS NIGHT RIDERS.

Bristol Especially = The special
grand jury to investigate the case
in which a band of nightriders shot
up the lumber town of Damascus. in
Washington County, found indict-
ments against % persons of the
mountain section alleged to have
been implicated in the riot.
Judge +. b. Hutton. of the Circuit
Court, is quoted as saying he will ex-
haust every legal remedy to keep
down the nightriding spirit in Wash
lngton County. The sheriff and his
deputies are searching for the men
against whom indictments have been
returned.
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Having a Good Time.

a wholesale scorn OF physical ills
is a good thing. according to- the
philosophy of a boy in the State
School for Dependent Children, who
wrote his father thus:
Dear Papa: We children are
having a good time here now. Mr..
Sager broke his leg and can't work.
We went on a picnic and it rained
and we all got wet Many children
here are sick with the humps. Mr..
Higgins fell off the wagon and broke
his rib. but he can work little.
The man that is digging the deep
well whipped us boys with a buggy
whip because we threw sand in his
machine. and made black and blue
marks on us. Ernest cut his finger
badly. We are all very happy. -
From the Delineator.
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Attending Strictly To Business.

The Leroy Reporter tells this story
about John L. Watrous. of Burling-
ton. one of the deputy collectors OF
internal revenue: Travelling along a
country road Mr.. Watrous was at
tracted by frightful screams coming
from a little house not far from the
road. He ran to the house and found
that little boy had swallowed a
quarter. and his mother was frantic
Mr.. Watrous caught the little fellow
by the heels, and. holding him up
gave him a few shakes. whereupon
the coin dropped on the floor
We'll. mister" said the grateful
mother. you certainly know how 10
get il out. Are you a doctor?"
mo. madam" replied Watrous
I'm a collector of internal revenue"
Topeka State Journal.
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COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly RI Jew OF Trade and Lates'
Market Reports
Bradstreet's says:

says.
Midsummer quiet still reigns in
general trade and industry. but the
advance of the season and the prom
Use or good average crops have ac-
centuated the feeling of confidence
as TO the ultimate outcome of future
tall business. Filling in orders from
JODDerS are numerous. but small.
probably indicating widely broken
retail stocks, and retailers have rath-
er earlier than usual put in force
reductions as a means of stimulating
consumption. At the West prepare
tons are making for buyers eXcur-
SionS, and more thoroughly or
gained effort to stimulate buying is
looked for this fall than ever be-
fore. Industry is possibly a trihe
more active following last weeks
holidays, but shut downs for inven-
tory, repairs or TO limit production
have apparently more than counter
balanced assumptions that have taken
place. The iron and steel industries
SuIl report things quiet, and ca
pacity in operation, both in furnaces
and finishing mills, shows only a
thrilling enlargement, as compared
with month ago. Pig iron pro
duction in June was the smallest
since February and the output for
six months was So per cent. below
1907.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending July num-
Der 246, which compares with 236
last week, 1S5 in the like week
of 1907, 143 in 1906, 166 in 1905
and 203 in 1904.
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NeuOs of Virginia
COCAINE MAN GETS TWO YEARS.

Norfolk Especially Charged with
having cosaine in his possession con
trary TO law, X. ID. Taylor, formerly
clerk i'm b. F. Weisel's pharmacy
was sentenced to two years i'm the
penitentiary, the minimum punish
ment for convictment on that
charge.
Taylor testified that he had order
ed the cocaine from Albany. n. Y,
Tor reshipment from here TO Hen
derson, n. c., and that the forbidden
drug was not intended for sale in
Norfolk, but according TO his own
testimony he was associated with
Richardson. the Norfolk man, now in
the penitentiary for the sale of the
stun.
Counsel for Taylor made a motion
for a new trial of the case.
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TWO CURES OF ECZEMA.
Baby Had Severe Attack-Grand.
father Suffered Torments with
the DiSease-OWe Recovery
to Cuticura

In 1884 my grandson, babe, had an
attack of eczema, and after trying the doc
tors TO the extent of heavy bills and an in
crease of the disease and suffering, l rec
commended Cuticura and in n few weeks
the child was well. He is to-day strong
man and absolutely free from the disease
A few years ago i contracted eczema, and
became an intense sufferer. A whole win
ter passed without once having on shoes,
nearly from the knees to the toes being
covered with virulent sores. tried many
doctors to no purpose. Then l procured
the Cuticura Remedies and found immedi-
ate improvement and final cure NJ. w.
LaRue, S45 Seventh ST., Louisville, KY,
April % and May II, 1907"
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One of the most recent inventions
In locomotives is the fireless engine
now used in Germany. 1t is employ
ed for shunting work only. and is
driven by one man. The tank of the
engine is filled with steam from a
generating station. and so charged
will work for four or five hours. The
locomotive boiler, according to the
London Globe, is first three-quarters
filled with superheated water. and
then the steam is admitted and thor
oughly mixed. The steam is admit
ted at a pressure of 10 pounds on
the square inch, and it is found that
only half an atmosphere of the pres
sure is lost in transferring from the
powerhouse 10 the engine. The fill
ing requires s or 10 minutes.
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The Sun.

One hundred years ago the diam
eter of the sun was four miles greater
than it is now. One thousand years
ago thee suns diameter was forty
miles greater than it is at present
Ten thousand years ago it's diameter
was four hundred miles greater than
1t is to-day. The present diameter
of the sun is 100000 miles, and if
this diameter were to shrink to-
morrow TO the extent of 10, 900 miles
the change would not be appreciate
to common observation, though a
much smaller change would not eIude
the delicate astronomical measure
mentS
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STATE ITEMS

Alleging that he has been brought
into public disgrace, scandal and in
fanny by reason of false arrest and
imprisonment" suit for $4,000 dam
ages was instituted in Richmond by
c. Linwood Williams against G. B.
Cooke.
Mr.. NJ. @. Kelly, of Lynchburg.
has been named as battalion quarter
master and commissary on the staff
of Major Martin, the position being
new to Virginia military. The ap-
pointment carries the rank of second
lieutenant.
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REV. CARTER H. JONES TO WED.

Lynchburg Especially Formal an
nouncement was made here of the
engagement of Mrs. Lizzie Hutter
Christian to DR.. Carter Helm Jones,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
the wedding TO take. place here in
october. The exact date is not Civ
en-. DR.. Jones, who for many years
was pastor of Broadway Baptist
Church, Louisville, Ky, came here
last October. Mrs. Christian is
social leader and prominent in
Daughters of Confederacy circles.
The announcement created sensa-
ton in Lynchburg.
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Walter y. Allen Drowned

Charlottesville Especially Walter
j. Allen, son of Jasper Allen, of Bar
rem Springs, Carroll County, was
drowned in the Rivanna River neal
this city, while in bathing with a
friend. He tainted. and before aid
could reach him sank. The body
was recovered. Allen, who was an
unsuccessful candidate for Common
wealth's Attorney of Carroll County
accepted a position eight months age
with the Niche Law Publishing Com.
pany of Charlottesville.
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Unnecessarily Scared.

A young man had been calling now
and then on a young lady when one
night. as he sat in the parlor waiting
for her to come down, he's mother
entered the room instead and asked
him in a very grave. stern way what
his intentions were.
He turned very red and was about
to stammer some incoherent reply
when suddenly the young lady called
down from the head of the stairs:
Mamma. mamma. that is not the
one. Ladies' Home Journal.
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Overlooked.

Aunt-Tommy, put three pies in
here yesterday, and now there is only
one. How is that?
Tommy-Please. it was so dark,
aunty, | djda't-see that onel-Punch.
A Decorative Accomplishment.
so you are going TO teach your
daughter music?"
Yes" answered Mrs. Thingilt,
Just enough to give us an excuse
for having piano lamp and a ma
hogany music rack. " - Washington
Star.
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S2,OOO,OOO For TrucIs

Norfolk especially Two million
dollars has came to the farmers in
the Norfolk trucking belt during che
past 30 days for truck shipped by
them to Northern and Western mar
kets. One and a quarter million of
this was for potatoes alone The
trucking season has been an unusu-
ally successful one
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She Knew The Formula.

A stranger approached a little girl
who was somewhat accustomed 10
interviews with the usual question,
What's your name, little girl?"
The little girl. without looking up
from her sandpile. replied: My
name is Edith and I'm four. She's
my little sister; her names Mildred
and she's two. | don't want TO go
with you and be your little girl, and
] know you can't steal my little Sis
ter. Harper Weekly
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Receiver For Virginia Lumber Co.

Staunton especially On petition
of B. o. Blackford and Arthur
Blackford, stockholders, the Corpora
tion Court has appointed J. w. Cri-
der receiver for the Virginia Lumber
Company, and he gave bond in the
sum OF $4,000. The company is
capitalized at S25, eco and has been
dealing in lumber and building ma
terials. The liabilities cannot be as
certained. The company was organ
lied about a year ago.
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Dug Up Civil War Relics.

Fredericksburg Especially Work.
men on the foundation for the new
$4,000 public school building, in
this city, have dug up number of
relics of the bombardment of Fred
ericksburg in 1862 during the Civil
War. Among them was a 12-pound
cannon ball, musket barrel. a bullet
a lot of buckshot and two coins.
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Do Your Feet Ache ana Burn.

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot-Ease. a
powder for the feet 1t makes light or
new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions.
swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet
and lngrowing Nails. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample sent FREF.
Address Allen s. Ohnsted, Leroy, N. Y,
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Efforts are being made in London
to further the emigration of British
women to South Africa. 1t is de.
clared that the only immigrants de-
sired at present in South Africa are
women. OF the 341 who went there
from the United Kingdom in the
last 2 months large majority were
teachers, all of whom found ready
engagements at the Cape.
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About 40 differet kinds OF whales
and dOlphins are known. and al
though they live in the open sea and
look like fish, they are not fish at
all. but are true mammals. breathing
air and feeding their young on milk,
like COWS and horses.
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To all who enclose
postage he will re-
ply. telling how
Doan's Kidney Pills
cured him after he
had doctored and
had been I'm two DIFF
ferent hospitals for
eighteen months,
suffering intense
pain in the back,
lameness. twinges
when STOPPING or
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Something woman can never
learn is that when a man who works
hard all year gets a little holiday
he'd rather spend it enjoying him
self than visiting her relatives or
have them visit him.
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Mason ApoIogized; Case Dropped.

Richmond Especially - Lewis f
Mason, the insurance man who went
after Manager Teele of the Tidewater
TrusC Company with a double-bar-
rel shotgun, escapes punishment
Teele having accepted a written apol-
ogy from Mason the case was dis
missed in the police court Mason
in his letter. said his wife had not
been mistreated by Teele or any one
in his office
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Heard In Paris Shop.

IL would like to take my wife a
souvenir Of Mention"
I'VE have mos,Hcs from Florence.
olive wood from Sorrento corals
from Naples"
81 should like something local"
Very well; Will show you some
English objects. - Petit Journal
Pour R.re.
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htting' languor, dizzy spells and rheu-
matism- Before 1 used Doan's Kid
ney Pills." says Mr.. Winney, II
weighed 143. After taking 10 or ~
boxes weighed 162 and was COM
pletely cured"
Sold by all dealers. 5Ocents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.