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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
BUSY CANNING TOMATOES

The Home Brand Canning Co., owned
by Armstrong & Agan, is busy. A large
force of hands are at work canning to-
matoes. The fruit this year is especial
ly good and the owners expect to have
a large output of canned goods.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
GIFTS TO CHARITY
montelair, N. j., Man Distributes SOL,
900 on Wedding Day.

Montclair. y. J., Sept. 9-Wedding
gifts aggresating SlO1.O to educa-
tion and charity were made known
here on the publication of letters from
James n. Jarvie, Of this city. dated
Aug. 2S. the day he married Miss
Helen Newton. Mr.. and Mrs Jarvie
are now abroad.
The total is appOrtioned as follows /:
Westminster Presbyterian church. of
Bloomfield. n. j.. $4,000: Mountain.
side hospital. Montelair. $4,000: Job
liaines Home for the Aged, $26 900
and the German Theological school
$50 .O0O
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
Mr., DUFF GREEN BUYS
STAFFORD FARM

Mr.. Duff Green, of this city, has pur-
chased Of Col. J. M. Favill, the latter's
handsome farm of lS0 acres, in Stafford
county, in sight of Fredericksburg.
Mr.. Green may move with his family
TO the farm and occupy it as his home.
1t is desirable property.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
To Sell six Min For creditOr..

Scranton. Pa, Sept 9. - Federal
Judge Archibald ordered the trustee in
bankruptcy to sell the Chambersburg
silk mill next Saturday to satisfy the
credftOre
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
~OMMONWEALTH Of Virginia

(OMMONWEALT of Virginia. Ia
the Clerks Office Of the Circuit
- court of the county Of Caroline on
the 80 day Of August. 1909. Sarah b.
Walker, guardian of Edward j. Brax-
ton, plaintiff, against Edward j. Brax~
ton, an infant; j. T. Braxton, Lizzie
c. Freeman and Sarah B. Walker, de-
PENDANTS In chancery.
The object of this suit Is to sell the
land in the bill mentioned and reinvest
the proceeds after providing for the
DOVER of the widow. And an affidavit
having been made and fled that the de-
PENDANTS. J. 7. Braxton and Lizzie C.
Freeman, are not residents of the
State of Virginia. IL is ordered that
they dc appear here within fifteen days
after due publication hereof. and Co
what may be necessary 70 protect their
interes in this suit And il Il further
ordered that copy hereof be published
once a week for four weeks in The Free
Lance, q newspaper published in the
city of Fredericksburg. Va. and that a
coyy be posted at the front door Of the
courthouse Of this county on or before
the 9th day Of September, 1903, that
being the next succeeding rule day AZ.
ter this order was entered
Testes
E r. Coghili, Clerk.
BY T. G Valentine, Deputy Clerk.
l. NJ. Nance. Pc -
7. G. Valentine, Depnty Clerk.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
INSURANCE or $1,000

Mr.. +. H. Henderson, who died here
Tuesday night, had insurance of s., 900
for benefit Of his wife with the Hepta-
sophs.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
GENERAL CORBIN
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Shock Of Operation Kills Re-
tired Army Officer.
HAD BEEN ILL TWO YEARS
Famous Civil War Fighter Returned
From Europe Few Days Ago-tiis
Long Career In the Army

From Europe Few Days Aso-His
Long Career In the Army.
Nsw York. Sept. S-Iieutenant G IN.
eral Henry &. Corbin. L. S A. retired.
cied in Roosevelt hospital in this city
alter an operation for a disease Of the
kidneys. General Corbin would have
been siNty-se,en years old in few
days. Mrs. Corbin and Ex-Governor
Myron +. Herrick. OF Ohio his per
sonal friend, were at his bedside when
death occurred.
General Corbia had been suffering
for two years from the malady which
ultimately resulted in his death. Ac-
companied by Mrs. Corbin and the
generals daughter Mrs. Usher Par
sons. OF Ardslcy n. Y. B.. went TO
Carlsbad for treatment =, June y
last. The waters there appeared to
have improved his condition after two
weeks stay and he returned to Eng.
land. where his former trouble re-
Cured. and he went TO Paris TO con
suit with physicians. The generals
trouble developed more seriously while.
hc was In Paris and ne determined 10
return 10 New York. He sailed on the
steamer Rotterdam. which arrived here
on Sunday last. The general was taken
10 the Hotel Martinique ia this city.
and Or Frank Erdwurm was sum.
moned. The physician advised that
General Corbn be removed to the
Roosevelt hos pital, and he was taken
there on Monday. The operation was
performed Tuesday.
Following the operation. General
COrhin revived and the work OF the
surgeon Was regarded AS a success. but
later weakness OF the heart devel
oped and death ensued Il few hours
later
General Corbin's body was taken "a
his home at Highwood. Chevy Chase
near Washington. His burial will be in
Arlington cemetery.
His Military Record.
General Corbin's first military ser
vice was as a second lieutenant in the
Eighty-third Ohio Volunteer infantry
lie having enlisted July 2S. 1862. and
served throughout the war with the
army OF the Cumberland holding all
grades from second lieutenant 10 co
onel. He was breveted brigadier gen
eral OF volunteers March 13. 1865. He
entered the regular army May II. 1866
as second lieutenant OF the Seven.
teenth infantry, and was successfully
promoted until he reached the grade
OF lieutenant general April Is. 1906.
and retired Sept. Is OF the same year.
in recognition OF "gallantry shown In
the Spanish-American war" congress
In June. 1900. conferred upon him thu
rank OF major general For eight
years he served as adjutant general
OF the army
General Corbin was in the company
Of President GARFIELD when the presi-
dent was Rssassinated in 1881 He was
member OF the Loyal Legion. On
Nov. 6, 1901. he married Miss Edith
Agnes Patten and maintained his res
idence in this city.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11
A BUSY DOCTOR

Is often DELAYED. Keep bottle Of cow
ANS PREPARATION In the home and be
prepared Tor pneumonia, Group. colds,
Coughs, Snppe, pains and soreness In iunfS
and throat External and gives quick
Teilet' AL druggists, 500, SOC, 25e,
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-11

We print everything from q book TO
. visiting card on the power presses Of
xhs frss Lance. Send NJ your orders.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
Courts Tongue-Lash Two Chauf-
feurS.

Bernard McGarr, a taxicab chauffeur,
was fined SO by Magistrate Breen, in
Jefferson Market Court, recently for
driving on the wrong side of Fifth ave
nue..
1T is the highest fine | can impose
for your offence, the magistrate said,
land | want you to let your friends
know about it. | am going after you
chaps who bowl around the CITY in reck
less disregard of the lives and limbs of
pedestrians. am only sorry | can t
add to your fine. y
Frank Hamlin, a chauffeur. was ar
ranged before Magistrate House, in the
Harlem Police Court on a charge Of
turning a touring car from Fifth avenue
into East street at a high rate of speed.
Lawyer Philip COIN, who was in the
car. explained that the mechanism of
the machine had become disarranged.
Magistrate House fined Hamlin S., and
then said to Cohn:
"There are more accidents due to the
CdfeleSSneSS OF naulleufS fuSnlnR
around corners at a reckless rate of
speed than from any other cause Nine
ty out of every hundred drivers of cars
are totally incompetent. 1t is an out
rage to let such men drive those muir
der machines. The law that the Legis
lature enacted allowing it is ridiculous.
Any youth of eighteen or over can send
his name, age, address and the make of
the machine he is going to drive to the
Secretary of State and get license to
go about the streets committing muir
der.
Turning to Hamlin, Magistrate House
asked:
Have you one of those shrieking
sirens on your machine the kind that is
used to make our nights hideous ?'
Hamlin shook his head
Very we'll, said the Magistrate,
but am going to get somebody ar
rested for blowing one of those things,
and if he comes before me I'll send him
to the Island in hurry"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
Little Hope for Missionary's Re-
coVery.

Miss Grace Todd, Field Secretary of
the Woman's Home Missionary Society,
who was terribly injured late Wednes-
day night by being thrown from a car
riage in collision with an automobile
owned and driven by William H. Cram
er of Amsterdam in the vicinity of
Fonda, is still unconscious at the Am
sterdam Hospital with but little hopes of
recovery. Miss Todd, who is about
thirty-five years of age, is regarded as
one of the most efficient of the mission
airy worke of the Methodist church.
Last Sunday morning she spoke at the
State Street Methodist church in this
city. She has been lecturing in the Mo-
hawk Valley and was to have lectured
last night in the First Methodist church
in Amsterdam. For many years she
has been actively engaged in missionary
work in China. She made Chicago her
HEADQUARTERS. She has several brothers
and sisters, one of whom is Samuel
Todd of Chicago, while her mother re-
sides in Arcoa, H.. An effort has
been made to notify her family by tele-
graph of the accident. Mrs. Richard
Stevens of Albany, Conference Presi-
dent of the Woman's Foreign Mission
AIRY Society, and Mrs. |. ID. Van Valken-
burgh, also of Albany, left for Amster-
dam yesterday upon learning of the ac-
cident. Relays of three women each
of the Foreign Missionary Society of
the First Methodist church of Amster-
dam are in constant attendance on the
patient. Troy Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
Horses and Autos.
From the Groton Times

More or less automobile agitation is
going the rounds of the State press and
so far the Times is able to learn there
is one side of the question that has not
been touched. Did you ever stop to
consider what an inconvenience and
menace to safety the automobile is TO
the farmer and farmers wife. No. 1t
may be of interest to know that pre-
vious to the advent of automobiles the
farmers wife could drive to town and
do the purchasing for the family, there
by saving much of the farmers time
and give the wife little restful and
pleasant trip. Farmers wives do not
do this now. They don't dare to. 1t
would not be safe. They are almost
sure to meet an automobile if they make
the trip, and rather than jeopardize
their life and limb the housewife re-
mains at home. This has tendency to
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
To Stop Joy Riding

As means to stop JOY riding in New
York, by the detection of the reckless
riders, it is purposed to change the size
of the number signs, each figure to be a
foot to IS inches in height, and the sign
placed high on the back and in smaller
numerals in front An easier way to
stop JOY riding would be to hold the
owner of the car for any damage done
by his car and for reckless riding. The
owner could protect himself by holding
a key which fitted a lock on a chain that
would keep the machine in the garage,
or if in public garage, order that the
car shall not be taken out except on
written order from the owner. Bur
lington News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
CURB CHAUFFEURS.
Auto Dealers and Owners Will
FIGHT Against II.

Each succuceeding day adds to the
strength of public sentiment against the
law of this State which compels the is
suing of a chaufeurs license without
regard to the applicants special fitness.
No doubt remains that the Legislature
early in the coming session will be cal
led upon to take action in this matter.
Citizens throughout the State are tax
ing alarm at existing conditions, en-
phaszed almost daily with tragic force
by fatal accidents caused by unskilled
chauffeurs.
Under the law any man can have a
chauffeurs license for the asking. All
that the State demands of him is his
signature to printed application and a
registration fee of ST.
Public sentiment is demanding new
law for chautfeurs law that will base
the issuing of licensing upon the fitness
of the applicant as demonstrated by a
proper examination.
James +. March, Republican leader
of the Third Assembly District, friend
of Gov. Hughes and of ex-President
Roosevelt, is one of the men who will
aid in the fight for prompt Legislation
on the chauffeur question.
Mr.. March is not only politian, but
an owner of several automobiles. As
such, he has positive knowledge of the
requirements in general intelligence
and technical knowledge which should
be imposed in the licensing of chauffeurs
if public safety is TO be considered.
The March bill provides punishment
by fine for first and second violations OF
the law, and the loss of license for the
third offence. New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10

always to escape the savage assaults of
these murderously inclined beings who
belong behind prison bars.
The New York State law may have
answered well enough when the number
of automobiles was small and their in
crease comparatively gradual, but the
needs now call for a law which
would compel the licensing Of every per
son who sits at the wheel, with pen
alties severe and a celin sight for those
who trespass upon the rights Of other
occupants of the highways.
There is temper which BODIES i'll
for all users of the automobile in the
Empire State, unless its State associa-
ton comes forward with an amended
law which shall make possible the pun
ishment Of the guilty and their perma-
nent disappearance from the high
ways
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10

decrease the sales of the local mer-
chants and increase the sales of the
mail order houses.
Automobiles may laugh at this side
of the question but you have only to go
among the farming population to find
plenty of evidence.
The road hogs are numerous. Some
among the horse drivers but more among
the outside automobiists, many OF
whom never look back to see if they
have made trouble, or assist those
whom they have injured. Local auto
mobilists are most careful and consider
ate and try to avoid accidents to their
townspeople, and to them is set the
task, if ever it is done, of bringing the
public in general to reconciliation of
the new method of travel.
Of course it's fun to ride in an auto
mobile; it's fun to go at dare devil speed
it's fun to see the old farm horse shy,
but it's no fun for the farmer.
Automobiles must stay. But here
persons to enjoy a drive along our
ought to be some arrangement whereby
automobilists would not be the only
persons to enjoy a drive along our
beautiful highways. Atpresent the au-
tomobilists have full sway and the farm
er's wife must give up the pleasure she
has been accorded in the past Of the trip
to the neighbors or the village store to
do her shopping.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
The R.tort Erudite.

\ famous scholar. whose hobby wa
the derivation of words. had occasion
TO store his furniture while proceeding
to the continent in quest Of the origin
Of the ter. cgsins During his re
searches IN Horlin ne received from
the warehouse company the following
letter "Sir We have the honor to in
to our store had tine moth in it. Since
the epideml. would expose the goods
of other clients 10 Injury. we have
caused your nattTass TO be destroyed"
The scholar replied Dear Sir-My
mattress may, as you say, have had
moth in il, but / am confident that r.
had ID - =: - slse "--i.onuOn King
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
Struck by an Auto m o bile.

Miss Annie Nancy, seventeen years
old, of 259 Ninth Street. was struck by
an automobile owned by A. M. Shurt-
left about o'clock last evening as she
was crossing Second Avenue. The ac-
cident happened just as she reached the
curb opposite the Phoenix Hotel. The
driver did remarkable work in stopping
his machine, and had it not been for his
quick action the young woman probably
would have been killed AS it is she
has conclusion of the brain and may be
hurt internally, but to what extent is
not known, The girl was carried into
H. W. Woods drug store and later to
the Brunswick Hotel. DR.. James H.
Flynn attended her, and this morning
the girl was taken to her residence -
Troy Time.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
TO RULE CHAUFFEURS.
a. A. Hill, Editor of Autom OBJ lie
Dealer, Says Prison, Not
Fine Should be Penalty.

Some of the most prominent autoists
of America have expressed themselves
as heartily in favor of the plan urged
by The World under which chauffeurs
would be required to pass a searching
examination as to their qualifications
before being permitted to drive. They
advocate legislation which would put
stop to speed mania and the establish
ment of some such system as exists in
France, where the record of each chauf
feur is kept so that when he gets into
trouble the authorities know whether
or not to place him in the reckless
class.
During the interviews it developed
that the United States appears to be
behind both England and France so far
as the proper control and supervision of
chauffeurs is concerned, although the
Automobile Club of America has done a
great deal to eliminate the dangerous
driver and to reduce Joy riding to
minimum. In Great Britain the Royal
Automobile Club, with headquarters in
London, requires applicants for a chauf-
feur's license to pass rigid eXamina-
ton.
100 CASUALTIES A DAY IN NATION.
Nothing speaks so strongly as figures
accurately compiled and, the National
Highways Protective Society made
public a list of automobile accidents
which have occurred in Greater New
York during November. A man
thoroughly acquainted with the situa-
ton in the United States told a reporter
for The World that reports of automo-
bile accidents from all the cities in the
country would show a daily casualty
list of close to 100.
URGE DRIVERS BE EXAMINED.
At the meeting of that club the re-
commentator was made that the legis
lature pass law prohibiting the use of
any automobile unless constructed with
an automobile fuel cutoff, making
speed of over twenty-five miles an hour
impossible. A law requiring each chauf-
to pass ian examination as to his
knowledge of the car he intends to drive
as well as his physical requirements"
was also advocated.
Some of those who believe that APP
picants for a chauffeur's license should
be required to pass strict examination
are Henry Sanders on first vice-president
of the Automobile Club of America,
Dave Hennen Morris, formerly presi-
dent of the club, and Colgate Hoyt Sr.,
one of the clubs most prominent mem
bers, Mr. Sanderson.
Mr.. Morris said that for years he had
favored a system under which each driver
would be obliged to carry his license
with him. On the paper should be his
signature, his photograph and record
of the number of times he had been ar
rested, together with the disposition of
the case.
A. A. Hill, editor of the Automobile
Dealer and Reparer, was of the opinion
that examinations and licensing are no
public safeguard. In recent editorial
he took the standpoint that liability for
accidents depends far more on the gen
eral character and temperament of the
driver than upon his engineering or
mechanical ability.
IMPRISONMENT INSTEAD or FINE.
1.-The simplest and most effective way
to protect the public said he, 'is' to
make the penalty for accidents long
term of Imprisonment as well as a
fine New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10

Lewia r. Spear president of The Am
erican Automobile Association at its re-
cent annual meeting in New York said.
Il would like to urge upon all auto
mobilists, he said, "the necessity of
standing squarely for fair and impair
tial legislation, as believe the best in
terests of motor car users can be serv-
ed only by fair and equitablei laws.
Reckl less driving, especially through
our large cities, should not be counten-
anced by this association, and the most
vigorous steps should be taken to see
that this condition is changed. The
Worlds demand that the public be pro-
tected from this new danger to life and
limb is being supported by owners of
motor vehicles themselves. The Au-
tomobile, one of the chief journals of
the trade in its issue of yesterday print
ed the following leading editorial:
EDITORIAL THAT HITS THE MARK.
Recent fatalities, intermingled with
narrow escapes and numerous minor in
cidents, have aroused in New York city
an unreasoning antagonism toward au-
mobiles which has caused thousands of
considerate owners great Inconvenience
and, in some cases, positive persecution.
A daily chapter of accidents tina come
from the participation of incompetent
drivers in the congested traffic of the
metropolis.
Along with these are skillful ones
who take chances with slight regard to
the other occupants of the streets, the
poor pedestrians suffering the most as
a natural sequence of their inability
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
"OId Hickory"

The following story is told of how
General Andrew jackson got his title
of "Old Hickory" Captain William
Allen. who was a near neighbor 81 tn
general, messed with him during The
Greek war During the campaign th,,
soldiers were moving rapidly 10 sur
prise the Indians and were without
tents. \ cold March wind came on.
mingled with sleet. which lasted fOl'
several days. General Jackson got Il
severe cold but did not complain, as
he tried to sleep in a muddy bottom
among his half frozen soldiers. Cap
tain Allen and his brother, John, cut
down q stout hickory tree, peeled OF
the bark and made a covering for the
general who was with difficulty per
suaded 10 craw under it, The next
morning a drunken citizen entered the
camp and. seeing the tent, kicked il
over AS Jackson crawled from the
ruins the topper cried Hello, Old Hick
DRY! Come out OF your bark and jine
us in a drink. Detroit News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-10
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