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THE FARMVILLE HERALD.
HONOR FOR THE PAST, HELP FOR Till I. HOPI FOR THE FUTURE.
VOL. XI. l-AKMVIIJ.i;, VA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY Ll. 1901. N<>. ir..
CITY DIRECTORY.
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W. FLOURNOY,
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ir C FRANKLIN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
ITY, VA.
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1 D WATKINS.
R. H. WATKINS.
WATKINS tf WATKINS,
?ATTORNEYS AT LAW,?
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12 P. VANDERSLICE,
ATTOKNEY VI LAW.
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(t S. WING,
ATTORNEt AT LAW,
Creen Bay, Prince Edward Counly, Va.
Edward nnd iid
?J H. BLISS,
MT: Al. AUCTIONEER,
PA BM VILLI, I
?laing
H. C. CRUTE,
Druggist.
Flavoring Extracts,
whole atul
I, Farmville, Va,
White a co.,
DRUGS,
Medicines and
Druggists' Sundries,
r.VKMVll.l h. V V.
PLANTERS' BANK,
FARevlVILLE, VA.
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Capital,
Undivided 1'roiits,
Total.
R'M'2.5.
1,000.
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DIRECTORS:
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' M ' I. I. DAV
? i Col"
Kodo
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
.?land aids
mature In strengthening and recon
"?uciiriKtl ted digi stive or
I tis the lal reddleest
""land t..i,i,-. No other preparation
Bclency. It in?
ri? ?' 1pcniianentlyciires
ti, Heartburn,
mach, Nausea,
:," * '?? .lia.Cramps and
aiiotli. tion.
s. ' ' . times
.-pt-pstamailed fros
petpartd by E. C. DaWITT A CO.. Chicago.
"??kau. and World ool/|160.
GOBLINS, (INOMES AND ELVES
? nd of tin- fays and fall
' way,
in your
the trillion whick liv*
rlKht whsrt
' ? h o'er BBortals, their Bs*
i
In sheave* of in
They . brina
?
And lend m.n lr triumph In
inti maris.
Don't wa I wh-n
Will brighten the poon st hot
Of course we are full of mischief, 'tia a
But ur,wu folks
'
? - bjr making
then, ?
But vv
? ?
jUbie , ??
Their wort would flaR- nr.d filter but for
"nlttlnsj
th- BO
lt.. it
And we ev. n make hard sinner! rene m
!?? r their ?
,
i -
For WC turn to ; ? g, and
we turn the sot
aa are the fays nnd fall
?
Combining all tl. ft and wily
rk kt,mi! ?
th* i
When papas waits in "nighties" and trot
to a I
Don't strain your b; for
hit'.: ;nis.
I lng right In
your laps and isl
1. BDOA1
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: The Settee's Story |
By KatlitriiK- Hinlsall.
4ttt^4ft*TtTlt4t??*tTt4ft
it
BR-R-R-BUGHI "shivered the wick?
er settee. "I never realised whst
? ? one could make rattling his
before?ll - it all my
joints needed oiling, like the spring
chair inside the doctOl
"What do you know shoal the doc?
tor's otlice'.'" asked ths white painted
: .nt iv back
and forth in the wind as if -
its snap. "Hine von seer seen s doc*
thee, and if you hara, pray what
is it like'.'"
"Why," laughed the sett ?. "I was
born in one--or, rather, 1 was boin ina
factory like you were, hut that
BgO that I can hardly remember
The cane-seated nieass chair snick?
ered, and looked at the white rocker.
while he whispered almost loud enough
for the settee to hear:
"ThereI I told you he waa an old
. And that proves he ls weak in
his memory as well as in his legs. I'm
going to give the old fellow a glue pot
for his birthday."
The white rocker laughed softly. "Do
hush, you funny boy," she said, shak?
ing her head at him. "He's very nice,
if he is old, and he is very interesting,
too. He certainly knows more than
some people do."
The cane-seated chair looked proper?
ly rebuked, and nodded a "yea," al?
though he was a chair of settee experi?
ence himself, having for a number of
years held an important position in ths
butler's pantry. It was worth while to
be a little meek if it pleased the white
rocker, for every one wished to be in
her favor, she was such a bright, lively
little thing.
"What is a doctor's office?" repented
the settee, when he ha.' answered a
question asked by the capacio
"Why, it is ;i room where?"
"And what is a room'.'" interrupted
the white rocker. Whereupon tba
Others hurst out laughing.
"Why. my thar ch oil." cried the red
rocker, '"what a baby you are, to be
sure. Bul you came here right from
the factory, didn't you'.' Do yon I
to say you have inver looked in the
window Inre? A I S place in?
side of a 1. *
tiler or lar?
ger, surrounded by four wal's, wilh
window.a snd doors cit through. And
? ? - ka sommer In a
room, willi as.ft carpet on thi
I thing like ?
- a fine crackling tire in the chim?
ney corm r."
"Like they make on the lawn with
and tit ail ikl d the lit
k< r. "0, hoe lori v I I'd give
anythii om."
you will Miine day." said
th.- ol "The only trouble ia
thal yu feel the cold so when you are
I m, with a
r of u. i
from the
for a long
?
upon me and ral
arked the <
chair. "Ii ' hinh von would
.1."
"Ia
, ind I
v. rv h
?
,
1 his uiedi
I - o's."
??Hi - " me
ont dav la-' week." said the little
proudly; "but it mads DBS feel
? faint. I nu:, inlier
had to be cut Ott with un instrument
a -.mv, iiiui 1 was Belated, for '
the man who made me made them tor
long. It waa dreadful!"
"Weil, ns I was about to say." shlr
ered the settee, "everythingunder the
nm sa; on mc from a little pickaninny
i to the general of the army. I
I d once in awhile and
? ra I just wouldn't hold snothcs
I .v thc dirtiest old tramp
came in and had the Impudence to sit
en my fine cushi
"I had just made up my mind to com?
plain of a, pain in ,nv leg to the revolv*
? v"iir by the desk, anti then try to
? f my bones anti throw
the tramp on tho floor, when the door
id Bridget?the fussy old
woman who would whisk every scrap
of dirt off me every time she came into
the room, even to digging out the holes
the hui tons were sewed in opened the
and in walked the most oeautiful
thing 1 ever laid eyes on."
"You must he blind now." suggested
the cane seated piazza chair. 1
at the little white rot ker. when
"ked more violently than ever to
hkle her embarrassment.
"It was a young lady who had hurt
? :ne with her mother to
see thc doctor. The old tramp jumped
vu p. and a,! I was the most comfortable
:i the room, they sat down. 0,
joyous moment I Had my arms only
1"?? t, ? H tht old sett, e
i and leaned against the green
Window shutter.
"Well," he continued in a minute,
"win ri the doctor caine into the room
I coull s.-e that he was p
The tramp was disposed of in short
order, anti then the doctor talked wiih
lynn- Faith Lynn, she said her
name waa,
"Many happy days for the doctor and
for me followed. I had the advantage
of the doctor in one way, but he could
shake hands with her when she earns
and went, which certainly ought to
have satisfied him.
"He began to grow very thoughtful.
Indeed, anti instead of spending his
leisure time in study, as he usually
did. he vvent out a great deal. One
nitrht he cann in quite late, and acted
in such a queer way that I thought he
had gone insane. He looked at I.
in the mirror from top to toe. examined
his hair, his eyes and his mustache
thoroughly, and finally said aloud:
" 'You're not such a bad looking
chap, after all. Jack?perhaps you've a
chill;
"Then he came over and sat down on
me for awhile, thinking deeply. Sud?
denly he jumped up. flung my cushions
across the room and shouted: 'I'll do
lt?I'll do it to-morrow?what's that,
you old duffer?' he added, turninir to
me. T must ba growing* crazy. I de?
clare I thought the settee sp
"I had spoken, of course, and quite
freely, too, about his treatment of my
cushions, but I said nothing more.
"Well, I did not see Miss Lynn for
some days, and the next time ahe came
In it was with the doctor, nnd they
both looked so happy, and he kis*ed
her right then and there. I could feel
reen cushions almost turn red. I
was so shocked. In a minute I under?
stood, though, when they sat down to?
gether on me and discussed the date for
the wedding."
The old settee stopped and cleared
his throat, which had Income quite
husky.
"And was Mrs. Greer Miss Lynn be?
fore sha married tbe doctor?" asked
the little white rocker, softly.
"Yes -and I held the bride on her
Wedding day when she felt faint and
had to rest," said the settee. "Hera
conies Miss Phyllis, who is the Image
of her mother."
Phyllis Uregg. her cheeks rosy from
B brisk early morning wslk and har
, ii hair blowing kisses to them,
came up the steps with her sister Doro?
thy, age I 12.
how human the chairs look.
Dorothy," she said. "You could almost
Imagine that father's old settee had
been telling stories of the tim. i whi n
s vining?the others seem to be
turning toward it to listen."
"Isn't that funny!" cried Dorothy,
her black eyes sparkling. "Phyllis, I'm
ta take the little white rocker
rs, It ll so pr,<* tv and I need a
ii." nnd she pro,
to carry it off, never noticing the
groans oT the Settee, ths pained look
the cane-seated chair gave her, the ap
1 of the old red rocker or the de?
light of the little white one on her way
lore the mysteries of the world.
? ii Globe.
Vl.ilaliin- Him Whole.
"It takes the glorious old west to
do businessa." said the man with the
alligator grip ns he boarded the train
at St. Paul. "We of the east ure not
in it a little bit."
"Anything to relate?" queried one
of tht , ? ss he wyke np.
"Just a few words. I traveled from
New York to Chicago with a staving
looking girl. At Buffalo I was gone
on her. As we | ' hlesgO she
bed set the date. I returned home,
? her 320 love let ft rs and came
out here to gel married."
that she would mar?
ry another, edie estimated th*
of my time st ?.""". the worth of my
Bl - ind my broken heart
?>. mill drew mc a check for
iiml here it ls.
Ll full to d
ooa-by, nnd there you are nnd
1 am. There's but i
do lc real knows all
abour
and how ri ii will
sn.oke :i Henry ( lay Bl mv
?buffalo Courier.
Illa l.nlrat ll..ok.
TOW
: ... ii. "a v. iv proud of it, I
ht ar.
BroWBC Ah. tut be'.- prouder of hil
...
"Oh, ba- In Britten another?"
"Nt?; but his tir.-t book has enabled
him to acij . ' B ll quite
new to him. It's a bank bock."?Poi.'e
delphi* Preta.
TO HELP THE CAUSE.
Morrl Mrtli.,,1 \,l.ii>11-,1 In Ness isrntia
sslek. ."sets- Jrrsr), tn Aiutlat
Ihe ( lilt i .
The Pitman Met!
. of New Brunswick, N J .
. for nn income upon what
la put into Its r*
the N.vv York Journal
At the last church mi ! won>
'
thal tbe ".?
?
"turn." Those who I
fined ruc).
ilunee committee
Bear] Ai
begin* Wit letter of I
phabet, wu* called upon to
blushed and started
bim $5 on
William I lark recited "< urfew .Shall
Not Bing To-night," and had to ?
for being guilty of conduct
to create u breach of the |
pf the men provided BUbat it
nlshment.
Five of ti. ition were m> nn*
oined to public
when they were called upon they
could only sit its if gined !?? their
and blush. One man u
overcome with bash fl
couldn't put his hand in his poe
get the money to paj i id an
? h lt out
The chm
tertalnment, and it win ht
of the same kind next time it ?
money.
NOT PIETY, BUT PORK.
Dinners, Not I),,ni,la. s.n- What Heal
Men Are Wrralllnir Willi,
"ttl I 'In-ar VA .nilen.
The following blt ofnon-conft
humor ll taken from "Thi
keri are M Mrs.
Hankey, worthy wivei
I
ure ll! show ii g up the vv
"They've no se
Mrs. Bank) mat?
ter with them."
"Y ko a truer word, Mr^.
Hankey," . i
rerj besl of them don't propt riv know
?
?
are ii ?
lt Is their dir
lng with them.
"Now, take Bateson bli
tinned afr
han,' drew
?
bit of pork, he 1
about the doctrine i I till
there's no living with him.
B the front par
gage In pr irs at a t
1 says to him:
" "Beti BOB*' I urned
to go troubling the Toni with a ;
when a pinch o'
would set things straight again.'"
RAILWAYS OF CHINA.
They Are Tess I n Niniilirr and Tlioar
Are VI..alls ( ell I nil led I,)
li, re I un rr*.
China has few railways, the
of foreign exclusion so lol g In
having prevented their construction,
the New York Sun. Moat of the
linen in existence arc In the r
which ls now the seen.- ( I
operations nm! of the deprt
the Boxi re. a rails i
belonging to an English compel
tends from the | ntsln north
to Peking. At Pengtal, five
south of Peking on I
the Belgian "I.u-Han" railway, which
extends southwest 7-1 mill
lngfu, where tl been
particularly active. Both I
nntl the Belgian lim i I ?
ly deatroyed t
Tientsin a railway extends
? ard to Chenchou, and th.-?
branches aggregating SO mil -
miles and the Belgian 88. It
former that ls to be ultimately con*
I w irh Moukden, In thi
sphere, when- ir will connect * :'
Siberian railway. Ab
the American Ilaikaii-I't k ?
been gradell, but work is now stopped.
Ilr.iiel. nf rn|inl 1.1 lintel le.
A story from 1
nindi- th.ir appearance nt a
papal reception, to the .?
rc of tb" pope, .In ballroom
A well known cardinal s
atructed to opp:
their breach of clio
dinnl thus fulfilled li?
ri: "The
; but 1
med to thi m, for I have h
much ann ? when n ml
arv that I do not mind them."
Pllt-ri.n Pie for anil.,ra.
A ri
tl;at -
?
port.
first craft, that
lmpn
'
Irrigation In the ?nlinrn.
\ | man's triumphs
over adverse natural conditions is to
n in thc .-allara. 'I
has long been Identi!
ly and barren!
ient of irrigation by
rn wells, more than 12
ncrc of it have already been mad*
abundantly fertile.
DONKEY LIKES BEER
A Sad Case of What Seems to Be
Inherited Inebriety.
V ? " al] ".. t- limul. Herself.
Uni ll ii ? li .-a. 11,, (.russ ler fur Her
Mather Slays Bahes on
? n li tl ll j a (lill).
r Kvening
Post, ?
? H. ri?
ver. ? ...
little
\. li. Thom?
as, vi at Ninth
waa a
i inny, Ihe mother
?
: v her
.
i could be piled in hi r
1
i about lnr
tl 1 v? i t h
nort unity to eat
'
key went - ful in
i H.- aol ! tor I
i ? d him
u.t.v with
1 ride
abm after '
er he could hold.
night, just for fun, some of the
I lound tte poon d
enough beer down Granny's throat to
? r." Then
hall like a
drunl I in av. d at t he noisy
thal time on Granny
k animal. When
on h.-r back and
she was started up the hill Granny
I pd II ott ai
could for a dance hall The electric
CARUYINU BEER TO GRANNY.
lights, the piano and the beer formed
a coii.bina- ld not
to the
r gen
? ? decidi d t,
Thomas for the
purpose of breaking her nf her bad
I aw av from I vi!
hack of the
and it was not long until
ilt waa bern to her. The odd
v. lt
I it walked
1 up to
.
?Irank
n safe
rigible, without a
? from a brok' n-hesrted mother,
| ms to glory In the un
lifer.
-i/y re
r drinking
? liter that the kind pan nt
off her daughter'i
<I on
? ed in
. and
l intllshe
Mid."
nail bucket
r In her teeth and carry it out to
.. not carry it un?
til -he had been givei i lated.
Or the
beer josi for
' he little d
. it.
'rtink,
.
er and tl
aeei
r wail must
rhing awful in di
in to
? motlnr.
too many
' of ("ripple
?
ii the
? from her ;
rice.
!
?
r for
v
ls tryit
?? for
?rd or no drunkard,
. . has many friends in
West Denver, but children are not al?
lowed to associate with her on account
of her habits.
INGENIOUS BOATMEN.
Stone-W orUrrs Out 1st Oregon Devise
a Hutt Which rulla Itself
Bb Isisaae
Tn fit. Nicholas Fi ands Ellington
,1 describes an ingenious device
b] which certain Oregon stone-work?
ers save them.eives a deal of unneces?
sary labor.
Doubtless Dearly every boy with a
for out-of-door sports, he saya,
has mada a boat which the wti
the current would causa to float over |
the surface of s pond. I have
some lads rig up rafts on which I
themselves ride down a swift
flowtag creek; and I knew one, even,
who was clever enough to build a
- tile steamboat. He could
light a lamp under the Uti
uml the steam would form, and the
piston w.i..d work, and tte w
ROPE WINDING ITSELF AP.
AXLE.
would revolve, Just as tn a Mg
I hat carries passengers and freight.
The trouble witn all these toy I
however, is that they will go only one
way. Hating made their trip, they
have to be toilsomely dragged h.,
Ha nil to be started again in the same
direction.
While traveling In Oregon, some
time ago, I discovered a boat which
seemed to me the most Ingenious
thing of its kind I had ever seen. It
wss built by some stoneworkers to
?y their stone f om the quarry
well up toward the head of a small
river, down to the mouth. The Stream
is everywhere so shallow that lt can
be forded without danger; but lt is
broken at intervale by stretches of
rapids, or "riffles," aa they are called
in that neighborhood, often extending
as far as 160 feet. The men built a
tlat-bottomed boat, which they loaded
with stone, and lt carried Its cargo
down the stream admirably. Hut then
arose the prihlem. how to get lt back
when lt had been emptied. It was too
heavy to haul up the stream by hand.
Where the water was comparatively
smooth there was no troub.e. br?
onc men could ride on the scow and
make his way along with a paddle
and a pole; but the difficulty was to
get lt up the rapids. The best of
boatmen could not hope to propel lt
against so powerful a current, and up?
hill at that.
How do you suppose they accom?
plished the task, finally?
By making the boat work its own
iga.
They made two large paddle-wheels,
which they placed one on each side of
the scow, and joined them by a thin
but strong piece of wood, in tlie shape
of a cylinder. Thia turned with the
wheels, and served tne nouble pur?
pose of an axle and r windlass. Each
end of the cylinder, near where lt
Joined the wheels, played In a I
somewhat like the row-lock ased
an oar, only stationary, and nv
on the top of a triangular truss. To
the cylincer was fastened a rope
about 900 feet long. When the
sd thi bottom of a rapid, lt
would be made fast to the
Then the man in charge of the
ford tbs stream ann mount the
opposite liana, taking with him the
rope in a coil, and paying lt gradually
out as he walked, so as to keep it al?
ways taut. At the heat! of the rapid,
or a trifle I fasti
further end of the rope to a tree
nioorir ?s of the
nnd the current left to do the
without assistance. The pu
ls, unable to resist the I
the wster flowil .
en blsdi s. and.
of cotirae. every revolution of I I
wheels would cause ihe rO]
' around the axle. With
turn of the rops I
?arily ba arawa forward and ap
?n; so. by the lated thi con?
tinued windin?, it would grad
tad rise till lt reach.-.! rh.
where the current ceased to exert so
MOAT FLI.I.IN ? ? t7P8TBBABT.
much power. 1 made
fa>t again, until the rope could be dis?
engaged from tlll
for use when Bl ? SB the
mau would cut loose, seize his ;
next
rapid was rene ?
start
opera'
This process is wearisor I with a
heavy stone-boat but it struck me, as
I watched lt, that a bright boy could
adapt it to a tc grt a deal
of amusement out of lt. If the ai
ment did nothing more, lt ?
least be a lesson in the art which
mechanic of mak?
ing the forces of nature his servants,
ami compelling them to do for
what would otherwise require a good
deal of labor at his bands.
1*-.
THE LONE SENTRY.
'
.i
?
To ku,u I
he,
-
Th. rat
h
! by
V Ita
I ? the cause
Tho ri. ?? halls
Vt itli ?
'
-ht.
We mourn for him who flied for ua,
w nh thal I
AV). :
. ? ?
I
?i. un.) pur, ?
: willi him
unit Bleat.
?Si. Louis ?
IN AWE OF GENERAL LEE.
Darky Pear.-.I I IT. el of Iii. ?'.i.iua
<I.t'? I,!,,.a on nu tlrillintri
limit.
In s group of old o
ered around the campfire at the
quarters, at Ni
t, the other evening, was an
I tain of Stonewall Jack?, n's foot
cat ain Pbs '? ? had drtfU d to the
love that the men of the sou
army bore for their leader, anti a
ra told of
some little incident in which that
love 1 a ihi
Louisville < I tin
captain spoke:
"Your stories prove ihe love that
the men of the ' for Gen
ruber a COB 11 n a tim
B ;'h an old negro, w:.
n iruer appreciation ol lils worth than
any of you.
"After the war ch I | BB as
i the presidency of Wash i
e.. now known ns Washington
l ?. ? | rei
I years ac.
lt see thc gTSVS of Lae, who lies
burled in the family vault of the urii
s chapel, 'i
then a whit
-
a party of I
? ?
king of 'Mar
awed reverence. I ashed him a ?
I ' i that his
| ja ?
JJ
av
???.
" -TA ll Z TE I
fia a '
I
nen. L, e. sd h s
'i
" -li
"'\\ f?I ?
night '^ar I
a cun'us man y
apti .
whar i
? 'ir. .
.Trill.
Aid . r
?
it' lek all per
l'm darin (I ef I I s
(iin'l I
" -v. bat dh '
Tom'.'
"1 say tsi
? r, I , lit tn
then ser. ter 'in
reckln yer does know wbul *
j er haiti 'twould bus' ll
tin.. Whs le I
lit?Have you -
and saved SOI
ind asked him r.
lilaetter.
al