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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
CAYNOR IS WORSE
RumOred That He Has Had
a Relapse.
BLOOD POISON IS FEARED
Mayors Secretary Credited With the
Statement That Executive Has
Never Improved and Doc
tors Concealed Truth.
BLOOD POISON is FEARED

New York, Aug. 1S.-Reports from
the hospital that the bulletins from
the mayors bedside were masking the
whole truth. were widely current with
considerable basis for credence be.
meath them.
The assertion was credited to
Robert Adamson. the mayors sec
rotary. that the mayor'se condition
was fully as serious as at any time
since he was shot. eight days ago. II
was rumOred the mayor has had re.
lapse and Is In dangerous condition.
Other reports had II that the glands
in the mayors neck had begun to
swell. indicating the development Of
dreaded blood poisoning. and from this
II was reasoned that if the swelling
blood vessels. abraded by the passage
Of the bullet. might induce a hemor-
rhage. with Immediately fatal results.
Secretary Adamson answered all
these statements, which had found
their into print with a fiat denial
None of the doctors in attendance
would even discuss them The alb
sence Of the customary night bulletin
was explained by the fact that the
mayor was sleeping at the time. and
that II had not been thought worth
while to risk waking him to take
his pulse
There remains the fact that there
has arisen a consciousness among
those in touch. both with the public
and the sick room. that the Official
bulletins are vigorously confined to
the stated symptoms, and that at no
time have they ventured on an asser'
ton that the mayor is out OF danger.
or any definite prognosis OF his ulti-
mate recovery
Counterbalancing the disquieting
rumors. the mayor was able to eat
milk toast and eggs the nearest ap-
proach TO solid food since he was shot.
The immediate members OF his family
still see him only FOR brief intervals.
and nobody else but the doctors. Mr.
Adamson and the nurses see him at
all. City officials who called were not
admitted 10 the sick room. When they
left none would admit there was foun-
iation for the alarming rumors.
Mr.. AdamsOn denied the statement
credited to him. but be admitted that
as layman he did not share the ultra
optimistic tone Of the Official bulletins.
while the mayor has had no marked
turn for the worse he said, 1T Is
my opinion. as | have said all along.
that he is not yet out Of danger"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
:. Blanc wilma 4e4.miIs Race

Paris. Aug. 1s-Mlle. lie Blanc wor
the last and deciding stage in the
worlds greatest cross-country aero
plane race OF 49i miles, completing
the final stretch from Amiens TO lssy
10 miles, is minutes ahead Of NJ. Au
brun. the only other competitor in the
race at the finish
BY his victory, lie Blanc wins the
$4,000 prize offered by lie Matin and
other prizes that bring the total W
TO $4,000.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
FINDS SKELETON IN WOODS
Solves Mystery Of Woman Missing
For Three Years.

Utica, N. Y, Aug. 1S.-Horace Bur
bingham, a ginseng hunter. has solved
the mystery of the disappearance Of
Mrs. Keller Clark. who left her home
in Middlefeld Centre, three years ago
after writing a note In which she said
she you'd never be seen again.
Entering a dense thicket, Birmingham
stumbled across the skeleton OF
woman. 1t was at point two miles
from the Clark home. Beside the
skeleton was an empty laudanum bot
tie, telling a story Of suicide.
Identification was made by means
Of a watch, rings and other jewelry
worn by Mrs. Clark at the time OF bel
disappearance, and was later confirm
ed by DIR. Knapp. who had done some
dental work for Mrs. Clark.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
No Air FLYING For Roosevelt.

Oyster Bay. N. Y. Aug. lS.-Colone
Roosevelt has no intention OF coins
I'D into the air at present. He denied
that he had planned to make an as
censlon on Friday at Hampstead
Plains with Aviator Harmon, and SAID
that he did not even intend to at
tend the aviation meet that day.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
Gale HaIts FLIGHT at Asbury Park.

Asbury Park. Aug. 1S.-No fights
were made at the aviation GROUNDS
Wednesday. owing to a 3O-mile gale
which is blowing from the northeast.
Scheduled for tomorrow are a balloon
race for a silver loving cup, fights
in Wright biplanes by tombstone
Hoxsey, Lachapple. Coin and Brook
is. who will try for An altitude rec
ord. A new Wright machine will be
tried out for the first time by Co1yn-
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
Southern Railway

N. y. Following schedule figures published a.
information. and are not guaranteed.
Schedule effective June 25. 1910.
Trains leave Washington from New Union
7;so a. m. Daily-LocaI for Warrenton, DanvilIe
$50 a. m. Daiy-Local for Harrisonburg. Va.
900 a. IN Daily-United States Fast Mail.
cars 70 Birmingham & New Orleans. Dining car
service
800 .. m Week Local for Warrenton and
Strasburg.
AIS D. m. Daily-Bi Birmingham Special and
Florida Limited. Through coaches and sleeping
cars 10 Columbia. Savannah and Jacksonville.
Sleeping 70 Augusta and Aiken. Sleeping
car to Birmingham. Dining car service. Tourist
car 70 California Monday. Wednesday. Thursday
40 D. m. Week Days-Local for Harrisonburg
and way stations on Manassas Branch.
4:b5 D. m. Daily-Local for Warrenton and
1910 p. m. DaIly-New York and Chattanooes
Limited (vis Lynchburg) First class coach and
sleeping cars 10 Roanoke. Knoxville. Chattanooga.
sleeping car to New Orleans. Dining-car service
l0:45 D. m. Daily-New York. Atlanta and New
Orleans Limited-A Pullman trains. club and OBJ
servation cars to New Orleans; sleeping cars 10
Asheyille. Atlanta. New Orleans. Sleeping car TO
Charlotte. Dining-car service.
$40 a. m. Daiy-kemphis Special. Through
sleeping cars and coaches to Roanoke. Knoxville.
Chattanooga. Nashville and Memphis Washing-
ton sleeping car open 1000 D. M. Dining car
service.
Through trains from the South arrive Washing
ton 645 a. m. ESQ q. m l0:40 a. m, daily; 746 D.
m. and 1880 D. m. l2:l6 A. m. daily. Harrison
burg ll:46 a. m. week days and $50 D. m. daily.
From Charlottesville, 945 a. m. 230 D. m. and 7:t5
.. m. Local from Warrenton arrives $40 a. m.
week days.
Trains leave Richmond: lO:l6 a. m and ii:s5 D.
m. Daily Express for all points South.
6:l0 A. m. Daily Local for Danville and Charlotte.
800 p. m. except Sunday. Local for Moseley, Va.
500 D. m. except Sunday. Local for Keysville.
4:30 a. m. except Sunday and 2:l5 p. m. Monday.
Wednesday and Friday for West Point
40 D. m except Sunday. for West Point con.
Meeting with York River Line for Baltimore. Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday.
Tickets. seeping-car reservations. and detailed
information can be had at ticket Office. 706 18th
St.. 905 st. N. w.. and New Union Station.
Baggage checked through from hotels and resi-
dences. Cab service.
f. II. COAPMAN, Gen. Man.
s. II. HARDWICK. Pass. Traffic Mgr.
III. r. CARY, Ger. Pass. Agent
L. s. BROWN. General Agent.
Washington. ID. O.
g. =. Burgess. ID. p. A..
Richmond. Va.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
Aviator White Coming to America

ANldkOF "UlhC OS'hb ~ 'N''~''~
London. Aug. iS.-Grahame White
the English aviator. who has beer
making some good flights recently
and who came into prominence wher
he attempted to win the Daily Mails
prize for the London to Manchester
flight is soon to appear in the United
States. He has accepted the invita-
ton OF the Harvard University Aero
Club. and will fly on the university's
flying grounds from Sept. to Sept. IL
After he has finished his flights there
he will remain over for the Gordon
Bennett aeroplane cup. the Royal Aero
Club OF Great Britain having named
him as one Of It's representatives In
the competition.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
PUBLIC SALE
OF A VERY VALUABLE AND
HIGHLY DESIRABLE
Residence on Hanover
Street,
In Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Acting for the owner. Mrs. VIM. II.
Fitzhugh. the undersigned will, before
the Law building. on Princess Anne
str, q, fredericksburg. Virginia. at IL
O'Clock NJ, on
TUESDAY, AUG. 23rd, 1910,
offer for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder, for cash, that certain
valuable and highly desirable lot with
house thereon, situated on the south
side Of Hanover street, IN Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, now occupied by Mrs.
VIM. II. fitzhugh, fronting on Han
over stree; 80 feet, & inches, more or
less, ard bounded on the west by the
property Of Geo. II. Chewing. and on
the east by the former residence OF a.
Randolph Howard. Possession given
September lst. 1910. Water rents paid
up to January LIST, 1911, and the pur-
chaser Of the property will pay the 1910
taxes and leyies. The aforesaid prop
erty is insured in the Old Mutual.
Prospective purchasers, who desire
10 90 over the property. will kindly call
upon J. Conway Chichester.
J. Conway Chichester.
For Mrs. Vim. II. Fitzhugh.
n. x. knsey, Auctioneer
s-all-l3-l6-ls- -22-lal3-20
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20

Washington. Aug l8.-Governol
Charles r. Hughes. Of New York, has
leased a house at 240l Massachusetts
avenue for a term of years. with op
ton Of purchase II comes nearly
within range OF what Governor Hughes
desired to obtain. II Is a brownstone
and brick structure of three stories
basement and tower. with large
grounds. It is just west of Sheridan
circle, and in the midst of some OF
the finest homes in Washington.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20
DEPEW COMING HOME
Leaves London on kronprinz Wilhelm
For New York.

London. Aug 1S.-Among the pas
sengers who sailed for New York OF
the steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm
we're United States Senator Depew ant
wife; HIldebrand Dehamptlnne, chic
abbot OF the Denedictines; RiccardC
Martin. the American opera singer
Archbishop Szeptyckl, OF Ruthenia
Florenz Ziegfeld and J. II. McCreery
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-08-20

As executor Of the estate Of the late
Thos. f. Wallace. will offer for sale
at public auction. in front Of the Law
Building. in Fredericksburg, Va, on
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05

adjustable disk can throw up a whole
cotton field at one go and do 1t bet
ter. without marking of, than four
men with single mule and pillow
each.
Next comes the one-seed-at-a-time
cotton or corn planter, putting down
Just the amount wanted, wasting
none. and at the same time applying
the exact amount of fertilizer want
ed, wind or no wind.
Considering the amount Invested
In the implement and the quick and
efficient work done (sometimes when
the land is too wet for other imple-
ments). the weeder pays for itself in
shorter time than any other imple-
ment l have used. The weeder used
on young crops will save from 81 to
Sc per day: the double-cut disk or
gang pillow. 81 to So; the combined
planter and fertilizer distributor, 81
to 50; 2-horse cultivator, 50 to SO
per day.
The improved slide or lap-over
teeth In lever harrows save much
wear In passing from field to field,
by holding the harrow OF the hard
ground and stones.
The little Jack OF all trades'-
tho gasoline engine-is working his
way fast into the farm society re-
gardless OF his unpleasant. fashion
able perfume-the gasoline smell.
A fortune awaits the man who will
get out farm auto that will 60 to
town with farm products In the
morning and rear up It's hind wheels
In the barn In the afternoon. turning
the cutting-knife. grain mill. shred
der. grindstone. pump and churn
and light up things az we'll when the
sun goes down.
j. c. STRIBBLING.
Anderson Co.. 8. G.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05
DON'T PUT A $4,000 BOY BEHIND
A 81 PLOW.

Such Work In Too Much Like Driv,pr
Canvas Tack With n SIcdg.
Hammer.
Mcssrs. Editors: II the farme,
can't arrange to use up-to-date i'm
PIGMENTS and machinery himself. b,
should let some other farmer hav.
Tho boy and match him up witt
these things and prom, both. Don.
undertake to sell your $4,000 bo,
TO yourself for about 80 cents. whe,
the world needs him at his full vain.
That In abou, why boys won't sta,
on tho farm.
bright young man who under
stands the use OF up-to-date farm
implements and progressive farm
methods. can take a good team an.
about $1,000 worth OF improve,
farm implements and treble his cit,
cousin In profits from tho sam,
amount. and still DO way ahead on
health. freedom and happiness.
Al this season on the farms on,
can SEQ one man driving a team OF
Tour TO doubie-cutting disk harrow
or gang plow. doing better work than
TOUR or i've men In another place.
Later on. one man with a s-horse
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05

find that good work stock. good tools
and good labor have really. in dollars
and cents. cost you less money than
the cheap kind. and you will also
have the satisfaction OF having had
always something TO work with that
could do effectual work. | have never
found economy In anything that is
a makeshift- The best will prove the
cheapest. c. F. AMEs.
Mississippi Delta Experiment Station.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05

fact that our soil should be we'll stor-
cd with moisture during winter for
summer crop use. With an abund-
ance OF rain during the winter, many
soils are able TO store an ample sup
ply OF moisture. even II not broken.
But soil that has been deeply STIR
red and Is loose will be able to alb
sorb much more moisture than one
that Is not: and as II now seems
likely that we are not to get our
usual precipitation before the next
crop Is pitched. II would be we'll to
put our soil In condition to save
rs much as does fall. Not only
deep turning OF the surface but the
following OF this with the subsoil-
or will certainly be found profitable.
II has been many day since con-
ditions were so favorable for fair
test OF subsoiling. As a rule during
winter. even when the surface soil
was In fair tillage condition. the
subsoil was too wet to be stirred.
and there Is no doubt that doing SO
under this condition has often re-
suited In actual injury. Doubtless
this fact will often explain some Of
the unsatisfactory results that are
reported therefrom.
The good farmer will see to 1t
that his teams do not stand In the
lot while this bright sunshine Is
calling to him to get into his fields
and turn over the soil that Nature
may have more ample opportunity
to store It with gold In the form OF
available plant food. Whether he
is preparing to plant more cotton
TO be used In making up for last
years deficit. or more corn and feed
stuffs. to be used in feeding his In
creased supply Of live stock and
thus incidentally add to the perma-
nent fertility Of his land. the dirt
should still be turning.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05

NIX no, true that "tillage ia ma
nure." yet for all practical
purposes. TO a certain extent. this Ia
srue-for good preparation of the
soil at this time 10 often equal to the
application OF several hundred
pounds OF commercial fertilizer. Il
In even more important, To the man
who Ia going To invest In fertilizers.
for IL viii go a long way toward In
surfing n profitable return therefrom.
Tho sooner NO can all realize that
our noii fertility IL not primarily a
question of absolute plant food but
rather ono OF availabi. plant food.
the better II will be for our pockets.
Tho freezing aud thawIng action OF
winter and tho admission OF air arc
great factors In increasing the avail.
able plant food In our soils. and were
fall and winter blowing more com
mon thorc 10 no doubt that there
would DO much icss work next sum
NOR and spring for tho plant doctor
and tho bug man.
A@Ay Va khs lhaEttS afV at1
tined TO give us trouble next season
are now securely housed and protect
ed within the upper layers OF our
soil. The dry winter is rather in
their favor. and IL behooves the
farmer To stir that soil and bring
them TO tho surface. thus enabling
the frost TO kill many Of them. The
same 10 truo OF many OF the diseases
TO which our plants are subject. The
seeds. or spores. as the scientist calls
them. are frequently destroyed by
winter blowing.
The dry winter offers still another
strong reason for winter blowing and
emphasizes the fact that this should
DO deep. Already many are predicting
That crops are apt 10 suffer this yea'
Tor lack OF moisture. and In this pre-
diction We find a confirmation OF thu
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05
DO ALL THE FLOWING YOU cAN-RIGHT NOW.


broad sense IL 10
AH not .ue that uage Ia cd with moisture
-0 nure" ah,rd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
THE DISAPPEARING DRUNEARD.

Mayor Gaynor's remark the other
day, when signing the inebriates bill,
that there used to be five topers for
one that you see today may not have
been based on comparative statistics,
but it roughly represents the strides
made Ill this country in the elimination
Of drunkenness. The Mayors comment
was doubtless meant to apply to the last
three or four decades only. If condi-
lions sixty. seventy or eighty years ago
were considered, the decrease shown In
inebriety would be far more striking,
one drunkard being found in a thousand
where formerly there were probably
twenty to thirty. In the early days of
the Republic whiskey was an article of
wide consumption, made so because it
was the only alcoholic stimulant easily
obtainabIe az q distance from the sea-
coast and because large quantities of
grain could be proftably converted into
liquor in the interior communities. The
Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsyl-
vania grew to formidable proportions
not so much because the federal govern
ment seemed to be encouraging abgti-
nence by taxing whiskey at IL cents a
gallon as because it seemed TO be put
ting too severe burden on an industry
which used on the spot a large fraction
OF the farmers crop. The protest was
economic and not based on considera-
tions of personal liberty
Economic causes have operated pow
erfully to diminish hard drinking Fifty
or sixty years ago there were thousands
of communities in which professional
men could drink to excess without suf-
fering in public opinion. Now such Of
tenders would quickly lose their stand
ing. and not only professional men, but
workers in all the trades, especially in
those in which machinery is employed,
are obliged to keep sober in order to
hold their places. The inebriats is a
dead weight in modern society. The
older order was more than kind to him,
but the newer is relentless The younger
generation has accurate views on that
point and the proportion of young men
handicapping themselves with drinking
habits is becoming smaller every year.
Young men nowadays are too intent on
other things TO be greatly attracted by
the cheap lure of dissipation.
The brewery has also supplanted the
distillery, and a relatively harmless bev-
erage has thus driven ont liquors which
enfeebled and brutalized rather than
cheered. All progress i'll the past half
century has helped the use of moder-
ation TaoisIafi ion has heen aDpaa lodi Ia
both TO end the sale of liquors and to
regulate it. But economic aud educa-
tional pressure has done more than leg
islation TO put rigorous ban on inc
briefly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
both of China and of other countries to
keep that department of administration
under British direction.
4 CENrnRY OF Il. O. q. e.

L. ".
The death of King Edward eclipsed
and caused TO pass almost unnoticed the
celebration in Great Britain Of the one
hundredth anniversary Of tile founding
of the great organization commonly
known as the Odd Fellows. The Prince
of Wales. now King George, was to
have presided at the centenary BAN
auet at Southampton. thus manifesting
q continuation of the. interest in the
society which royalty notably showed
during Queen Eictoria's reign.
There Is some doubt concerning the
actual date of the founding of the I'm
dependent Order Of Odd Fellows. Man
chester Unity" with its motto of
Friendship, Love and TRUTH Ger
tainly it, or a society of similar name,
existed much more than hundred years
ago. since Defoe makes mention of
odd Fellows" 1t is also certain, how
ever. that in 1910 two citizens of Man
chester. Messrs. Naylor and Bolton, or
sanized or reorganized the order and
started it upon the career which it has
so successfully maintained to the pres
ent time.
Mutual support, protection and adj
vice" were the purposes for which the
various lodges We're associated from the
beginning In 1864 their system of
benefits was put on scientific actuarial
basis of graduated tables. and this i'll
turn furnished the basis upon which in
1879 was framed the general friendly
societies act of Great Britain, which
regulates all mutual benefit Organiza-
tons. At the present time the order in
the United Kingdom has more than Il
million members. with an aggregate
capital of more than ST $4,000, and is
by far the greatest of all the friendly
societies. 1t is, Of course, a prominent
organization in the United States and
other lands
This estimable order and a few others
present a striking contrast TO the nu-
merous pretentious organizations which
fiourished for a time a score or hoe
years ago. and then went out of exist
ence, leaving a net and considerable
deficit in the accounts of their members.
There is no doubt that q friendly or
mutual benefit society can be conducted
profitably. hut there is also no doubt
that it is very easy to conduct one I'M
profitably The century-long record of
the Odd Fellows is highly creditablc,
and the secret Of its credit lies largely
in the fact that it was established Il
hundred years ago on the conservative
principles which then prevailed In
these later days of get rich quick"
schemes it is unfortunately doubtful If
so secure foundation would be laid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
IFroa The Tribune Bureau ]

Washington. May 2S.-The Yice-President
and Mrs. Sherman will spend Sunday In
Utica, and when they return next week
they will be accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Lotion Hunt. of Utica, who will be their
guests for the week
MI. and Mrs. Robert Goelet Of New
York. who are the guests OF Miss Eikins
at the home Of her parents. Senator and
Mrs EIkins, will return 10 New York this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles II. Strong and their
daughter Mrs. Reginald Ronalds. who
came here for the Townssnd-Gerry we'd
ding to-day. will return to Their home in
Erie. Penn, on Saturday
Mrs L.. z. Letter will go To Beverly.
Mass. on Saturday. accompanied by MIR.
and Mrs. Joseph Letter. She will not re-
turn to Washington. but will sail fer Eu-
rope on June .
Mrs. John E. Reyburu will go TO Annapo-
lis on Saturday, accompanied by her daugh-
ter, and will join Mr., Reyburn, who will
be there on his yacht, the Gretchen. They
will spend June week az Annapolis
Mrs. Richard II. Townsend will spend
several weeks in Washington. closing I'D
her house for several years. She will rlaks
long visits in various parts OF Europe
Mrs Champ Clark and Miss Clark, wife
and daughter Of Representative Clark, Of
Missouri will go 10 New York tomorrow
and sail on Saturday to spend several
months abroad. \ number of other women
Of the Senate and House circles will sail
for Europe on Saturday.