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THE FARMVILLE HERALD.
HONOR FORTH] PAST, HELP FOR THE PRESENT, Hon FOR THE Fl iil.K.
V()| ? ,v FARMVILLE, VA.. FRIDAY, JUNK 9, 1899.
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Prince Edward County Directory.
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J R. SPENCER, M. D.,
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Richmoii'l, Ya., Farmville, Ya.
White & co.,
DRUGS,
Medicines and
Druggists' Sundries,
1 >od Judgment
JEWELRY.
WATCH i
E. WILTSE,
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PLANTERS' BANK, :
FAKMVILLE, VA.
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Capital ? -. )90 ??
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. I OR B * WOOLLEY CO.
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CANDY
CATHARTIC
... CURE CCNSTIPATJON. ...
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IT IS RIDICULOUS
my min i i claim t>> nial v ni in
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say lt, ami - |t, |f
lill r.>r
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We Live, j
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3 WEE
<;<N>I> GOODS
have rom old IJELOW
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Oui .s are Good.
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Remember the Place,
Mr. VERSER'SOLD STAND,
.eaders of Fashion and Low
Prices.
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SHOES
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ewelry,
cal [nstrumenl . Hats, < apt and
Noll
WE MAKE SPECIALTIES
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I Tail<>i-M;i<l< i ? i id*, Skirt- R
Fancy Undenklrta ? id
adel wi ai ol all descriptions,
Yours foi busii ?
M. S. FELDMAN,
FARMVILLE VA.
\.\i dcor to M E Wall's Hard.
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'A'JLETT SON & CO.,
CO CHANTS
Groceries, Hardware to.,
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A Backwoods Heroine J
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By William Thomson 'fi
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IM Wi: often thbugbl it a pltj M
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Uti OCCUI : M all tba
aftei ward lived amoog
: t<xl of DJJ
boj hood.
pi lng of 18
tUb families, named McG
?
the old country to upper < 'anadi
liately nj.on their arrival
up adjoining lota of wi
?
gi. then known as "Muddy
N orlt," DOW the rich and populoui
i itj of Toronto Ai thal time I
?>\" public roada running
waid frcin *> oi k, one along the
ol l.ai,. 0 and the ol
oi Iwq, inland, which last led in i
? ?
of ll- . but when
d the l.iti ?
un tr j north
ad wai pi mi ra
When it ion our imiiii
upon both
i ii il with a di nae grow th of .
maple, basswood, elm, hickory,
and aih trees.
ii-;.- tbe stun
jrel unlearned in woodcraft, quickly
Imilt for themselves a rode log shanty
better both
families?in the construction r?f which
rap of iron
kind was used.
Md llll's fain.!;. of himsi If
md wife and thi
heeked dat
A ?
? ? -
OUt of the H
? -\ was ha .
women; and, notwitbat
. * none of tin m had
?
e toil,
. and
?
?ol other garden truck, bj
I ? ?
ant iu
? Dgth, and the :
to fall ?' rt tx neath their I
around sn:
?..ince of li* I J
bj thc aid of a
frequent);
? r; and. through the early sum
::ihs, numbera of salmon
i hy torchligl '.
of the er- ?
:;g it imp Milich
;
ibryo fara
I i
ont. within a i<
bj a falling ii'
i her bj di bej w ?
, do without this help until
bould gel better. About I
f August an os timi ly froal en
ie whole of their first little con ?
nd blighted the topi ol' li , i: .
i own potatoes, so that tow,
?.-. families found their
vied to the
IB, without llmir, in. I
getab .> subetit ute for these
I large lupplj of hickory, I
nd hutter nuts.
Presbyterian! and direct de
f the old CoTenantei -
ere the Mcdill ami U Ihej
;,.: importa
mi, w ling, and a
within them, our
thought shame to let it
,,.bi fa celebration.
il on hand a small stock of furs.
raccoon and
; the ri -uh of the fair
appii . | ?' ',i "
..- the] sal heil.tc the
.cn fireplace talking "o' auld tin
.'. Mc(iregor said to her eld
"Duncan, my mon, ye'll do wed to
t out to Yoi k the morn am! tak' these
rs and buy us a bit llooer, plums,
lice and a grain or twa ,
daj maj be
?epit in a Christianize
HOB met with g< neral
ck, un
\ mile tram]).
- ?? iTered a f<
and for the first nil.
ii the
t] only thc ?'bln/.cd" ?
; but after that he would
at.n main road. I g man
.iv along, and without
. bj 'h.- middle of
His barter waa quickly
?
pay for
march
xt mon.ii g, Hi bad
' j
ra on hia broad aLoulderb a \,,
Pl
h.
h.
In
th
bi
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foi
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h.:
da'
I lian- I of flour In thc birre 1!
?
mids nf t!
nv appeal ?
t tint
ran lu
still I . it like oar j
lng; it was tin' shape of 11
which rendered the novel task m dil
flcult. 'lin- ihopkeeper had adi lied him
t" put thc t! ick, hut with true
I I'll t(, III. .
?
calroij ibouldered i'
walked av. .
il.-- morn
tb hf wai mi thei
pecting, notwithstanding his lingular
burden, tu ri acfa borne bel
? that he .
if alive. Indi ed, the
family, knot
a tramp of 17 miles over arv kind of
i of the herculean labor bi
taken on himself, looked for his re
fternoon.
Hilt the cold, hitter. night
fell and he had not come. Il.
hour passed away, and Mrs. McGregor
lind just said: "W- t Hie
et wi' s,,iiie delaj ali
trade, and is biding i' the town a'
night," whi McGill, pointing
ld hr lUght
with them fi ml. exclaimed i
! n I at'- allin' n
He'i inuffl
a in ml!"
? led bj the girl'i queatii n. ali
? ? - ' nd, ly?
al the liott,,ni of (he door
?Iv. a- if h
fear. I a:is at last
I
with bristling hack and pricked ?
trotted hack and forth from i!
hearth and from hearth to door, al
irticnlately asking some one to
him.
"Faither, mitherl" cried Jc
"Duncan's surely I' some trouble; ole
mc kin' ai
gang swa' till his help."
The i r.- rather inclined to
???nu- |
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omi what alarmed, and when sin ;
J hu Midi'
mt will.
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'Na. na, bid rc o'
ni; her ntid Mis! ri or; Jack
ll brawl]
-al! na perish while I hu' H han'
olift."
ie. woman, what's tl
ueried Mrs. McGill, "Your laddii
e?"
"Aye. milner," replied the i.ow i
? : ill't,
mn can and me's to bl ' thc
c\t year."
Alu! then, not walting to henr the
? nf surprised mid pleased excla
tatlons, the linn
cr londed musket, powder horn and
ullet pouch, and, accompanied by
olin, who carried his rifle mid led
ic great hound in a 1< it at
ncc into tlie cold, moonlit night.
After passing through the small log
nd brush-encumbered "clearing,"
;rm*k the "blas* d" for
?ail, and followed it along tbs track
iadc by Duncan thc day bef
ned nt his
.md the furthei ncfii
tt - : furious became
? he ne\> r .
For two miles the girl and her c.mi?
nnon he'd theil ' nothing' j
it thick, hare trees, and hearing
eepl the crunching of thee; |
mw beneath their own feet; hut then, u
l turning a slight angle around a
i they came upon a 0(
{hi which caused John to recoil in .
uror and Jennie to scream aloud in .
. agonj of fright. ?
In their path, resting up- j^
ghi on its end, Mood a barrel of flour; .n
bile for many feet around on either tj,
lc the -now wan trampled down hard al
over wlU ot
of tj
furl '
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th a heart ;
nk to tl
j puir laddii ' torn to ,.
. ?;. the wild |a,
tely frantic with rage, and OOO
. by John, w 1 " I
refully looking tic
spoke in a tone whick instant ly
iced the weeping girl: w|
'Jeannie, my lass, I'm no that sure j)(,
nt ony mlsfortin' has hefa'n my ^;i
a ii rack o' clothin' ji;l
r a human banc abool here; an' I'm j)r
lukin' that Duncai I wa*and 0j
en till u tree no' far nfl
ri-hed wi cnuld w.'il fin' him safe
ld." ou
..? up wiih n
d both followed thc hound as he ll
into the wood at righi
I ? Ley tj.
shed through the dense underbru
icu tin. ra- ov
SC, in thc midst of which 0f
Here \i
.lit which might v
rc appall* >; the d
? grouped about mid under the tree
- a pack of at least 60 preat gru I
inched -'n theirhaunches ni.
nug Up ' I' with tier, ?
'i in the dis
ilium, i not
?n re: r
tmdden appearance of two >
wn pi I A probably have *
i ? beat a hasty retrc:
i now, so eager were they In their tw.
nottct
iii his
I
? Bred
Two
I .ed
i repair
?
'
Ihi trunk,
on tb< tal limb, ap*
he re?
is.
! .00 it
k' the
|
..' up the ti
?
w bich she Igniti d bj
and tinder frc
: out:
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1
.
I
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himself to tim
.\ bich formerly
!
Hu the aid of this and the dog's long
taking a half hitch around the
limb. John managed to lower the in
lit irig
. lifted hin
lid him upon a pile of
? oft bl both went rigor
?tfon, Duncan
cn bj that
? cold,
. hour
?t on trail,
rude
ff wi' gent
nd.
lilt up an
? that Duncan laj be
?
ii which invari
f rom
... I, ,,f
from
ii not
tart. d. Mcdill and McGregor a:
?
i |jj
'
I i - 11 w ,: '
? tell his
II r \ 11
J dark he had b ?
? ' ?
[bi barrel
(anding
d for awhile fought them
T with During the
- kept pouring in
om all sides, and he had then, reallz
: til at he v.
?
re 1
id
?
i
n
. ...
"Hut,
safe I' the bi. ' ell fin' a' thae
richi i' hiv
tl Juue, after the april gworl
is done, Jennie ond Duncan, having
en duly "called" for three sue
?k" at York, were
':, and the muscular
rt a ir. ly showed i
injury from his dangerous adven
I my father bought
r a to
again from the I
l!l? Irlfnlnri*.
ak nb
uk.
et
Iwfallj l
he feels. ?".'
If that was so ;:
'. of nhl age on i
tntv-flrst birthdays.?N. Y. JournaJ dei
blBULOUS BILLYGOAT
Early in Life the Creature Acquired
a Taste for Liquor.
ll* "ll ii ra it. eil" fur llrlnL. and Mads
Mini.i ll l.eiieiiillt lil.nu rt-rutil.
lo All JVaee mill Order l,o\
luw < Hiern..
, chiefly notabli
ll nat, for a
ij from the
now path, tbs
.
ant
? nb of Chicago, which
is situ in thc
mtbern precincts of the i Itj, i's
chief of railroad
Trunk railway a ? ,,, re. 1', r
?
- .ut li fill mind by the sight of
an engine bunting a OS
of
made thc deceased the most unremit?
ting and Indiscriminate "butter" with?
in the memory <?> Inhabitant
Hut that was no 6XCUSS for his
drinking, William waa a drunkard.
me day while le .:: innocent,
If Irascible, kid. he was investigating
arith the curiosity of youth a long line
'f men who wen eating their inid
i '
Hi much appar
ptha of what he
read] learned from his wander
the purlieus of Elsdon were tin
'. him
md lc
' Mtercd. bu' stammered out a
lalf-hearted refusal. The man i
:ittle William dr ink. .
of the clld.
Prom that fatal day William I
k the savory alleys and the so
iety of his kind and hung about BSV
The men nil thought Hilly in
his respect a wonder, and quel
BIJ3ULOUI RILLT.
y growing thirst. Tbs bar
indera "treated'1 generoualy and no
iper ever had I ruin.
. is Dr. I
lladon, who had taken Hilly When a
ie from William Mi
tm now lives in Riverdale. The doo*
.r watched the development of the
ise of alcoholism with scientific Inter
-t at Hist. Hut Hilly's
? a public n
rat criminal act p .ult and
liv had ito
- usual "j;;_
j along
?. I th a large bagot shai
?r back. William's wickedm
cached the point where there weano
lom left for i i respect for
\ Ra tool tart, his
iced quickened, an ecstatic vision of
ll switch engine In the \urd
a "freight" past the switch
ot through his mind. Tin D I??
I full in thc center of the bag of shav
gs. The unfortunate woman was
.inked Hat and buried under her bur
?n. Just as Hilly was making Ked]
r a 6econd charge bystanders rushed
BS of his \ [ctim and took him
dy. Owing to laxness of jus
?e In Elsdon, Hilly WM not prose
iiis career of
ime.
At any hour | Hilly might
seen zigzagging along the
lying In a drum
?I. Ol e
? ? n's din
.ind jumped on the table,
liich was aire I for a meal.
altering china in svsrj di?
ction. Som; after he im.
r m.d k: rn the doctor's wife.
icu Dr. Tate sold him to a
eper. 'I <> much for
ambition, and he now fills a j
unkard'.s grave.
The grief displayed In n?don at his
timely end was not of the grief
rickeu type.
Walk, on III. Korr>i>aw?.
C, i?. Graham, a liveryman of Otta
i, Can., has a peculiar freak of nat ure
? i a small fox terrier,
iioh walks entirely on it.s two fore
wa, without touching its hind feet
ind From Um dav of its
:s hind
-s. T P is but two
- l>orn in a litter
th live mr,re puppies, all of them in
wsj different fron h aryfox
peoullar puppy has a
mp in its back, ai ince it
iike a jugt' ?
walk, run and hop
mit with its hind legs an inch orso
(in the ground.
With the F.dllor'a llmrH..
ess in town
ths; 60 much so
? ? of it," i
: Mieless, :
He li life we arc In the midst of j
r
Bl
result of aarofal aataeMeai in M
I meal. Ui
atea
J. 6. LEWIS CO.
"Wear-Resisters"
mty. They fit well,
uni ? SH loiiciT Uian :.ny
m asaae, ah itaaa,
? ! |. i ,.r nie i>y
J. B. LEWIS CO.. Boston. Mau.
I
? areal lUnis^rs 'for uk Ly
A. E. CRALLE.
imithdeal Practical Business College,
Richmond, Ya.
MJIIfellUIII k
muii
w
\iJ?tl
The OLDEST Business College
-. ?uurtlna witn usa <>i<t
lom I ni. ?? Bulldlna;, Kirai lo
bUildlDK I" \ i Hie
tra scholarly ai ?! nraatl
i
?? !- .io- Cl)tfHKi ,| hy bllHl I -- UH ll
? ? onnaence min InsUtn*
two dun ?i re of
.. ..: ::?.. I i-oulil
MM) Ililli I.
' I writing ii ? -. N.. ? .. .nous.
nates and gentlemen. Dajr and Ql|
on-, i all or ??< i M" lor pul icuhir-.
G. M. SMITHOEAL.
I'l'i -I'lillt.
1 ? ? re .tli of the
/ I ulelphla >?'
- ol' lin- Sinltlclial Col
- muk .uni (lie .!? .'p iu
? take in Hie pu|
MM in of all
i -?.i ? : tidal inettiocU
i [ge. Moline, III.
WINE Of LARUIJI
NEW WAY.
\T70MEN used
? to think "fe
mata diseases "
Could only be
treated after "lo
c a 1 examina?
tions" by |
clans. Dread of
such treatment
k?pt thousands of
modest women
silent about their
?uttering. The in?
troduction of
Wine of Cardul has now demon?
strated that nine-tenths of all the
cases of menstrual disorders do
not require a physician's attention
at all. The simple, pure
taken In the privacy of a woman's
own home insures quick relief and
speedy cure. Women need not
hesitate now. Wine of Cardul re
quirea no humiliating examina?
tions for Its adoption. It cures any
disease that comes under the head
of "female troubles"?disordered
menses, falling of the womb,
"whites, "chsnge of life, ltmakes
women beautiful by making them
well, lt keeps them young by
keeping them healthy. $1.00 at
the drug store.
I :e lr. eaiei requlrinf ir#i-!?l
dire ? i, r<vl"l syni
thu "Ladlee' Advlery Depart
The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chatta?
nooga. Tenn.
W. 1. ADDISON, M.D., Cary, Min., fayn
"I use Wine of Cardul eitenilvely la
my practice and find llamoiteiee lent
preparation for female trouble!."
WINt Of C AWDUI
/
EEP
COOL
ifrigerators,
[ce Cream Freezers,
Flv Fans.
lame
< >il Stoves
Xo Smoke
At
CRUTE k BUGGS,
. ll.J.K. VA.

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