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THE FARMYILLE HERALD.
HONOR FORTHE PAST, HELP FOR THE PRESENT, HO
VOL X. FARMVILLE, VA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY !>. li NO. lu
CITY DIRECTORY.
i
inti .1. B.
- iud W. K.
I.. Kriitnlti-ri
inl.i rt ntul W.
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Edwakd County Directory.
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? ..linty
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1.. Dupuy,
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?
I W FLOURNOY,
?
u C FRANKLIN.
kTTORNEY-AT-LAW,
I'AMI'l IN CITY, \ A.
i Iwiird
n nf
\d. ?> R. H. WATKINS.
WATKINS<f WATKINS,
-ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
r i RM VI LLB, va.
\*ur.l. ('inn
mond.
i.mik
W HODGES MANN. J M CRUTE,
(? S. WING,
ATTORNEY VI LAW,
Green Bay, Prince Edward County, Va.
(' H. BLISS,
SER \I. AUCTIONEER,
FARM** H.l.K. V \.
,.in ni;
^| M. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Richmond, Va., Farmville, Va.
? . Mun
PLANTERS' BANK,
FARMVILLE, VA.
-
-
NUI paid up, $50,000. Surplus $30,000
DIRECTORS:
?? I K. M. IH'KTiiN,
\|. vv \ik;
re,
. il lated.
ll .! fol.
White &, co.,
BRUGS,
Medicines and
Druggists' Sundries,
? ? pounded.
I V KM V| I.I K. V V
JEWfLRY.
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A BEAUTIFUL
22*--.-ixxzxzxxxxxxzxxxxxxxx
? of
- Iver Noveltii
Silver Bracelets
ll irts for -.iiii<-.
^ '? Clocks, ;iinl a va?
ried assortment of
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i ? ?
W. T. BLANTON.
GOD SENT THE WHEEL
The Theme for Dr. ]
Thanksgiv.n ; Sei
i in- \\ heel ii* ii *\ min,1 ,,i I-,. ?
?-*......- it. ns..,,s foi \ ?. ...nil
1. rmi t K.l.- ? Iii- uv ill, ,,| |*j.
\ inti* ?? tie.. i..-.
Ultu.
.ill*.ll
?
f.ir tl
in in.v
?
ter in
half !
the triumpl
?
nf peace, fur nol
"
year i
?
!;..lt |
Of til*
Man,
?.vu iii ii b
mount
:
? ? ?? I
by physical eapai
?
tviti 1:
?
'?
until.
I .". un von in *: ? i '
of ma <?
i
pict ur.
?
*
-
lay.
'
.,ut of Paradise, Imt. i
'llill-.' to I ?
work.
:1h- wheel. It I
if turned '
tour pralsi
I
?
? r..r Minni ?
have round it ag
hero v
fl
? health g
?
I
?
:hk1 bo.
I bimbi -'lied frotn ?
?
tm.tn!
imt it will
trumpet to find tl
?
he sei*
?
if til'
I'.tit I htur tin t
on the bai
. [Hits llt-t '
i. Bi tore the whir and rattle
. consumptions,
? I eai? :outed. The
? iv r:int, be?
ll icerfu * md rumble
. the family wardrobe ls
ind winter li . num
wi .-..nu tl, mn! the m
ol tl season en
Ihe bobbin, threading the shut
'.'.':? ' ? -.'. : ni"!
i derbraiding, si t to mu?
li titi . t -,i ted loop stitch, cro
cinating ingennl
d linn
: il Wil?
li for Muir
woman fruin the
But, mort' than tl
commemoration
? si wing machine. \\ ba! it has
sra God 01
I the making of mt
??iii iii one
'
eai
l look intu tin' agricultural
? what tin v\ I., el liiiMitTi.in
it the stalks ol
ne bread for man, Ihe
off and
it of lin or *i\ Ho?
of sharp steel, the
?cross the Held, stroke
te, perspiration rolling down
I.....I
?j t lu- consuming sun and lip
. the men t air,
e workmen lyii .
? ? .. One of mi moat pain
- that of my
? ' ? "in ex
r thi
? "i.t . g ,i- lt -ni down,
brought to the bern, the
. re unbound and *-j>r*;i<: on a
i. and two men with flails
? in li other, hour :? ft. r
j aftt i "ni. poundii
' thi stalk. Tun st
!
imp, thump, thump, thump!
tu vcr lo
d again, slow. Tin
nv the
?
? : .i i ? ;
"- hei ? t he haj had b
?. ? buzz of vi hei ls in the
:" ? ? ?
a ri aper. I
vi ii li ann of
?? vi Uh ann of iron. He starts
of the vi ht ii * Iii*.
? i'm! of tl.
\i the stroke of Iii* it"'
?
ii and roll
it, until the
it hich would have be* n accom
ii accomp
i! prostrate
t the wheel
i- tin- tr:n.-Uni.' world. No
i how many noble and self*
? -.. tori hai ?? been
I ween the coach wheel and
? muli*.', between the
? aiid the ' mer.
? ter Into the conti**
John Tittil or R
merse! waa the
of the steamboat, Thej all
? ?! .'iin! were mart,! rs of the
shall be honored.
Fitch wrote:
lary, 1713. ?
! know
i .
??
I
?
' ,,i h. bs
unfor
iv. John Fitch was in a bad
;. If the steemboel boiler
i lilt.u liim up, his wif*- would,
there are those to proph
lnri- of any useful invrii
, mi tlo not know wli.-it the In
? ? th*- day suffer. When it was
'., i,: ht London with
'i.i.i. the greel philos
?aid that he should as soon
of cutting a ?lice from the moon
it ilium a pole to light thu
! all aim*!' end earlca
: nit.ni w.'iit until yon
. wheel is in motion, and the
ont, th*- first steamboat, is going
up tin- North rivi-r. running tbe di*
hold your Breath while I tell
, Kew fork to Albany In
ra. Bul the steemboel wheel
til the Le?
the Cunard, end the M
? the White Star line, and the
, ork, of iht- American Hoe, and
u illiclri, of the North Ger
i line, cross il"' Atlantic
sis .'.I
... t n the two counti li
: ,i - , constant that whereea
? wini had been to Europe
, re for the reel *>f their mor?
tal li\ to ii-- for man] yean
ni I could
the man who bed i"
,-. despising all American pic
' \iiitaiitini musk ;ind Amer
i ty because i hey had seen
picl ii? * and heard Euro
music iiiul mingled In European
ow a trans-.Ulantir voyage
, irnmon that ;i sensible man
? nf it than if he
r York or Boston.
? under the .-mil?
li hi el. li
!.; wake of it ?-.?iii the
-
e of t hal w i,
to Ven?
* ..ur pictun
d sp
I will
"rn and ri
.
I will giv< ' lour
l I will give you alli
re," And t Ulai
At lan!
bandi in brotberti
While tli doing on 11
.
ni noli on the land. How wei i
ber Sa
from N* n Bi ii iwick to Easton,
drove through Somerville, N. .1.. turn?
ing up to i
the mail bags with ten letters and two
or Ul ri Ililli
tlu box, six feel te i
in u propoi
hand, the n the
other, t!if "leadi ?
line of the traces, foam dripping
iht i.
It waa the < en the
came. It was our big
lion to beci
the hoy*, climbed on i
boot of iin stag , and tl ?-? ol
could not jj-* t on shouted: "1
hind!" I sew ti ?
,. mt
surprise that one around w
? ti a h;ilo of glory in m.v boj
time was onlj i man like the ri
Chieag -rain ivim
ence, all t be great ci tit
n iron thread of
\t I Lu cast* r, Ei g land, I *aw < ??
Stephi ? re. If in
good repair it could rm, yet, but be
of its make and size it wi,uid be
the burlesque of ell i !??
tween thal rude machint
down the iron track, followed
clumsy nnil lunn
our Rocky mountain I
itijr rooms by il 11
by night, w hal ot
the train n
Ml aboard I Ti*
bagga| and portt I
tO .Lil v,
with dampi
along ledges wi
track would be Ihe dill
;i hundred men living and
dead, full head of st
tin- lo
?
. Clank! I
Small nly hi ar ? ht I
iiml see the whh
shoots past, a city on the wii
startling, sublime, n
spectacle?e rail train ll
. 'ii.
struck for wages, our country
threatened with
? d vv hat fhl
done for thi*. countr*
in the Uni
in one year on r *
fl Kill |
mount
Iii>* ky
lng to the iron yoke; all the r
stock of New York Cen!
South.-rn, Unio
the other w heel* of |
?
?
car*, passengi r i ais, of nil the b<
* and special I
started by '
? at I'
For vi hat lt for all < l i
dom I
-
While the world ha
the righi v* heels of the rail car
four wheels of tl
...
I
delphia, that the miracle of thi
teenth century rolled In thi I
could not belli -?
.ml not until quite far
eighties were the continent ienc
with thc whirling,flashing,domii
de of a it,
?
the health and the profit of
The win-,,! had bi ?
?
Importance
that the reindeer or I spidly
exchanged jungli
man should get swiftly from |i
/ Waa the business ?<' the
the roebuck more nrgi i I r hai I
thc incarnated in
we have tin obliteration of di
pneumatic tire. At last vie havi t
And what has tl
woman ? The cj
al growlers would deny hi i
cipation and -ny: "What I
Cise can she have than a i ?
ur a eli urn or I
or running np and don
to church with a prayer bo
her arin?" And they rath, r l
find ber disabli tl with brok
punctured tire half way out to '
Chase or Coney Island. But all *.
people who kim"
iiml the In alth ii
Ihe au
tin exhilaration of ri
that wife and mother ai
'
glad at the arrival of any mw u.
healthful ri cn ation. We di ed ha
laughing and Jubilant whi ?
Iirection, tow ird place of
? ?
?
ward |
never toward In
. My friend, Wi I Cai
the poet, said what I like when he
ist In
im from li
A
?
Thru bids us
Qod blt-Ps th*/ w |
?
I
'
run over, and in amazemei
gratti.ati ui erv out. In li" kit I's phrase?
ology of the text: "O wheel!"
Tin ,ONEL TALKS.
Et B -.arkable Alventure
While Hunting Buffalo.
Mle nerd Portsea ? itiiiirntui Train
fruin lite Tra?lt anil ? ni rle* ll Hu)
ti tit. Prairie, il vi.it*
fruin An.t it lure.
"(),' uffalo hui
ii kt tl the
? d of the Cim .minti
,
.- weat, we
Mr ns
- wert*
?
-.
:
I voil can bet v
i and
with us to run out on t;.
? ii a light locomotive
with pot
I ?? animals would ?
t'. the engine us it ran along
i .Idlers
rued < rldi on the
thc anima
If hitch about thc SI
r.t, and tl..
would get with
thrown
would prab th*;
her tip ll
.way would steam mir en
Imll would he
"f jerked buffalo
'it of
ming dnring thc early
" theil
? ititi lt
? v are
that
?
'
INTO A HEI
? r until the
?-, lindulat
ly, without
. lui by one old
in tiie air,
mud gallop and
for miles. W(
?
, who
. ;? he Used in
and ran smack I
herd '
. rd tlrawi; ely to?
iled, Hill .!
for it
along with
?
I
? ? lied: 'We're
, and .< herd
"We knew what that incant! Tho
i sharply just ahead, and
ive 1, ld Would keep
*! We
? lime to breathe
when the 'Ginger'
tide to
,| kept on. We
??? : ! left the
.r tlic prai
iti the
to n
i. We
f the pi le with
an hour or so the herd
Other direc
: n to rub
boulder up
ii-lit struck
?
herd. Bill Job
ick the reverse lever,
?
?
I 1 left
The herd
? d after a little
?
D that
as he
:
.
l i<* Maree rr ra.
I mur
?
?
?
:. r..r.tiitf.
? iain's
n Eu?
rope uni, an heirloom In the familv.
/ i*i liir
nf.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Ininirnae I.tmil* Untiled Our n l.n
nelly Mnrnda mired lt na tl Ices
( mullen. V I .
The Illustration dhows one of Ihe
?? 1 he
f ti loud tl tidied
ble to be drawi . (l|rt
Prof.
.1. A. ;
the follow!
adopted: Upon the gri
earth surface, n mai
HAfl.I.VO A.RIO IaOAD
(Section of Macadamised Road Near Cam?
den, M
nd about nine Inches thick,
Uj in the ci
h In places on one side of the
?ion from four tr
iiicln
'tom ls then carefully
rolled willi a si earn roller. I'ponf
about four Inches th'
?; this
surfu -
*t.in< .
in size.andafterthlahi rough?
ly rolled ti
about two Inches thick, of I
crushed stone, including sere. ?
is In turn thor"
I. The average cost of ?
including grading and macadam!
i lew.
MASSACHUSETTS ROADS.
Tliey Are Ooimtrneled littler Ibe
Sti|.er\ Ullin of Trained 1.11*-, I nee r?
and Well Knit I p.
da annually about
comph permanent
work ls lintier thc
charge of a stat* i lon of three
frith offices I and a
aiiiiis
- iou meeta, on thi enet than
d bolds
luring the year in each coun?
ty in the st all the en
gineei at the end of tl
re work In detuil.
Mus*:n lue : 0 of the first
io undertake i; illy to
? i highways, and b'so about
to provide instruction in
road building. Complel i of In?
struction nre given In the Institute of
?
school, Harvard university, pl
and drawings
n the lector litabe
' eon
ion. This work ls admirable, but
it requires time to <
ra, and in the meantime many
miles of highway must be maintained
sion has always
inate Information and g'we ns much in?
struction ai Tin' work done
dorine ra lo
iiiunle
ipalitiea of the stat.-, wi .
. ?io a
viii larrie imiiii | anil cities
The first ? tracts
to co ids within
nwr. territory is
and a tb< mselveeof Its
so it i bout that hundreds of
?
In building high
tent foremi
a few
yean
I 1 in. Tow ;
value of n leery in .*
most practical way, ai
learn it if .
of thi
?
?
In th
','TB0f
acquainted willi the
? ntlcman.
?
Hy (.f
IT butti r. or
the ci your
In an old plantation of br.th bla**k
tvill appear than should be allowed to
/.?row. All J ones should bs
cut away.
I he (.mle-.- Dredge*
KATri'
The ? drawing in "Au In?
diana li 'iii.'iiii't " i-t-.\i'i-piionally clean
and dear. Ami yet tites,, familiar
homely types are with us araiywhwe.
? itu. lin h"U-cliulil
drudge, whose untied stioei ind drawl
lng humor, fairly represent a familiar
i- Lo milled bf
iii-h washing aini grob -pic headgear.
vVlicii .', ? "!ii|iarative
luxury through ber marrtetfi witb
Un- inveiii .; .| iin- crn-sheller,
il mi llor-cliiick" is illus
l rat.tl nilli tlic deft, delightfhl toni'lu-s
wbicb the author dlsplajn In every
line of du- remarkable play. Opera
da-, night in \i
Atlantic mid Virginia
Fertilizer Co.
Branch of Virginia-Carolina Ch. mical Co.
OFFICE
I HE,
I, Ve.
i mi: < i;i.iuic v n:i?
BRAND
And Standard Grades
of Fertilizers
for Spring Crops,
Will i Track, 1
l .ruin, i ? the! "lop-.
fi, L, Barnes Safe & Lock Co,,
Sill" ?!- I,I
I.. L Bashes A Co.,
ll il lv M lin Stn ? t, Ki'limoiiil, Va.
DI V I.KItS IN
Staudard Fire-Proof
Safes,
Burglar-Proof Safes,
Railroad, Jewelers',
Skeleton and House
Safes.
Fire-Proof Vaults.
Burglar-Proof Steel
Vaults.
Safe Deposit Boxes.
Time Combination and
Key Locks.
Expert work by skills I vrork*
iii'?!!. Apply t?>
S. W. PAULETT, Jr., Ag'..,
I'AKMVIl.l.K, VA.
You'll Need Us
When You Want
Clothing.
VI i
OUR SHOES
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
NTH
Richardson & Cralle
HAVE ?<" R PRINTING DON!
ai i iii-: uki: \u> J<?m of
FARMVILLE.

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