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RECORDER
VOL. XXV.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., FEBRUARY 6,1903.
NO. 4.
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IN THE CHINA SEA I
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A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE. ?g
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'CHAPTER V.
[continued.]
/ "No!" I replied, notiug the time.
?'You had better keep it. It is now
two o'clock. If Cha Fong does not
arrive before night I shall be vary im.
patient. Dont forget to wind your
iratch, for wo may want it to-morrow."
I "I will not forget."
We went into the temple and ate
lome rice from the golden bowl.
"Do be careful, Mr. Criokmore,"
Miss Arnold said. "You must not
give Cha Fong any advantage. He is
no ordinary Chinaman."
. "Do not fear. I shall be prudent,"
I replied. "Now I think I will go on
deck and reconnoiter."
p "On deck?" she said, smiling.
f "Well, what would you call th? top
of this thing? How does 'roof strike
you? By the way, is this the tenth ol
January?"
I*, "No?this is the eleventh."
B "Then I spent all day of the tenth
In stupor, as a result of meddling with
Cha Fong's tobacco. No wonder I
?was hungry when I got into this world
again. Well, Ralston and Langston
are surely on shore by this time."
ir We went through the garden and
ont into the pit. We climbed up to
tho top, and I carefully scanned the
horizon to see if Cha Fong's yacht
was coming. It was not in sight, nor
was any other vessel. I led her to a
spot that was somewhat screened from
view?to prevent any prying glass from
coming suddenly upon us, and we sat
(down on the rock.
"This is refreshing!" exclaimed
Miss Arnold, drawing the invigorating
"Air into her lungs. "I did not know
the atmosphere down there was so
dose. But it is grand here."
I "It is," I replied. "This is an
Ideal place for a residence, but one
would need a fast yacht to establish
a ready communication with the main
land."
"I tlon't think I would ever wish
to see this place again," she said
with a shudder, "if I only leave it
alive."
. "Probably not. But you will leave
It alive. Don't worry any more about
that. How far do you thiitk we are
from Hong Kong?"
"I cannot even imagine. I was con?
fined in a stateroom in the yacht
when we came here, and could not
see how fast we came or the direotion
we took."
The mention of Hong Kong brought
to her mind her father's anxiety for
her safety. Her face saddened.
"My poor father!" she said. "He
is no doubt frantic with grief and
worry over my disappearance."
"Then he will be frantu with joy
in a few hours, when you are restored
to him," I replied.
We sat there some time, talking.
Aside from the fact that her life and
mine depended upon my efforts, I was
beginning to take a more than ordinary
Interest in the girl who had been so
miraculously thrown under my protec?
tion. She was very winsome. I
wondered if our acquaintance would
continue after Miss Arnold had re?
sumed her place among the friends
from whom she had been taken.
I was musing thus when she spoke:
"I think I see a speck coming this
way, Doctor Crick mora."
I followed viie pointing of her
Auger.
"You are right. That is a sail, and
if I am not greatly mistaken it is Cha
Fong's yacht. It will be some time
before he can reaoh here, as there is
very little wiud stirring. But it will
not do for us to remain here. He
mig"ht see us, and it would put him on
his guard."
We carefully made our way into the
pit and down the long flight of rough
hewn steps. I led Miss Arnold into
the garden.
"Have you noticed the beauties of
this place?" I asked her.
"No, I did not pay muoh attention
to it when we went out," she replied.
"It is indeed a beautiful place. How
?musical the fountains are!"
As the time passed, I noticed my
companion was becoming nervous, al?
though she was evidently laboring
hard to remain calm. After a time 1
went out to see where the yacht was.
It was slowly coming toward the rock.
I did not show myself, but cautiouslj
peered from behind the ledge. 1
judged that in half an hour she would
be in the inlet.
I returned to Miss Arnold. Then
were traces of tears on her face. I
was a tryiug ordeal for me. What
must it have been to this gentle girl!
I strove to encourage her, and soot
had the pleasure of seeing her smile
again.
"I think it is time we made a move,'
I said, after a time. "You take thii
pistol?you know what to do."
"Can't I help you if I remain witl
you?" she asked.
"No. I prefer to have yon ont o
harm's way until it is over."
"Very well?I will go."
I put her down in the trap and closet
lt. I told her to be perfectly calm ant
not to fear the result. I did not fee
sure of it myself, but no harm coull
eome from encouraging her. I care
fully rearranged the rugs, and remove
all evidence that any one had bee
there. I took up the knife and pnt i
in my pocket. Then with the rifl
olasped fondly in my hand, I went t
the rear of the big idol in the temple
and entered it by way of an apertux
nsed no doubt to fill the lamp Inside;
I took my position to one -:ide of the"'
amp, where I could look through the
hideous month between the rows ol
priceless teeth. The air was suffocat?
ing, but I did not dare put out the
lamp. I knew the absence of the light
In the idol would attract the attention
jf Cha Fong at once. So I breathed
the hot and stifling perfume and
waited. .
The minutes seemed like hours. My
position was cramped, and it was with
difficulty that I remained quiet. And
I cursed Cha Fonar far bains so lone
tn coming?when it might have been
more to the purpose to curso him foi
coming at all.
But, notwithstanding my belief to
the contrary, time passed.
I could hear footsteps approaching
in the garden, the heavy tread of mili?
tary boots and the softer step of ?
second person. I oould hear loud
voices in angry argument. Ths lan?
guage was a queer mixture. Now and
then I could catch a word or a sen?
tence that I could understand; but il
was mostly Chinese.
I felt a queer sensation at the sterl?
ingly familiar sound of one of the
voices. It Bounded unmistftkablv like
the voice bf a pef flon whom Iliad cause
to remember, and whom I would be
glad to meet under circumstances
favorable to (myself. My blood grew
hot, my fingers tingled as they rested
upon the rifle in my grasp.
The angry speakers advanced and
came into the temple.
I bent a little lower that I might
look up through the idol's mouth and
see the faces of the newcomers.
They stopped before the idol.
One was the gigantic Cha Fong,
dressed as I had seen him before, in
full military costume and evidently in
a towering rage. The other was Mr.
Gambok Snell.
How I longed to empty the rifle in?
to Mr. Snell's snake-like carcass)
With what joy, I thought, would I see
him writhing in dying agonies before
me! But it was not yet time for me
to act. There was so much that I de?
sired to learn. I thought perhaps by
remaining quiet I could catch enough
from thei'Jx;tt^xt" conversation to tell
me of vj friends, Ralston au^ jc^.n?a.
ton.
J gathered from the bits cf their
gibberish that I could understand that
Cha Fong was accusing Mr. Snell of a
breaoh of trust. It appeared that
these two precious rogues alone pos
seesedthe seoret of the hidden spring
by which entrance to the island could
bo effected. Hence it was plain to Cha
Fong that Mr. Snell was the person
wjio had been there in his absence,
a$sl upon departing had left open the
rolling doors. This was evidently i
serious matter in the estimation ol
Cha Fong, for he was greatly excitec
and wrought np.
Mr. Gambok Snell way apparently
engaged in a frantic endeavor to dis
tibbse the mind of Cha Fong of his
error. He seemed to be telling bin
that he had not had time since the ar
rival of the City of Rio de Janeiro a
Hong Kong to visit the island and re
turn to Hong Kong again. Howeve:
patent this fact may have been to Mr
Snell, it was a difficult task to thrus
it down the yellow throat of his mas
ter.
But the vehemence and earnestnes
of Mr. Snell made at least a little im
pression on Cha Fong, for he switchei
the question of Mr. Snell's infidelit;
from the intrusive presence of himse!
in the submarine palace to the stil
greater crime of divulging the secrete
the place to a third person.
In reply to this awful charge Mi
Snell grew perfectly wild in his protei
tations of innocence, and seemed to b
invoking the wrath of the idol, insid
of which I knelt, upon himself if h
was not telling the truth. I chuckle
inaudibly to myself and patted m
rifle fondly. The wrath of the id<
would come sure enough if they onl
waited with patience.
I heard the name of "America" an
"girl;" and from the ugliness of Cb
Fong, JI concluded that he was accu
ing Mr. Snell of playing him false i
still another respect. I also hear
the Ketoto mentioned. Putting th.
and that together, I judged the acci
sation against Mr. Snell to bethe sei
ing, for his own ends, of the girl wi
had been sought and abducted I
Cha Fong's agents for Cha Fong
own purpose. I had no doubt thi
Annie Ralston had been taken fro
her home to be the victim of Cl
Fong, and that Gambok Snell had a
propriated her .himself, and now wi
trying to hoodwink the Chinami
into believing something else.
So far as the fortunes of the gi
were concerned, I could not see th
it made any difference whether si
was the wile of one or the other
these scoundrels.
While* the two were engaged
their wordy war, 1 was calmly and d
Jiberately shaping my course. I w
pot naturally of a murderous dispo
tion. In fact, it bad always been n
boast that I was almost womanlike
my gentleness in the practice of r
profession. Even the most sim]
operation in minor surgery called I
the utmost sympathy within me i
the sufferer. But tuere was no roi
for sentiment here. I was wi
awake to the fact that whatever I t
must be done boldly ^nd quickly.
| It was the lives of Cha Fong a
Gambok Snell as against the lives ol
Graoo Arnold and myself.
Miss Arnold was, no doubt, at that
moment shivering with fear in the
vault to which I had sent her. If I
failed in what I undertook now, her
fate was plain. My own would be
death; hers worse than death. I did
not know the extent of Cha Fong'a ac?
complishments in the way of crime. J
did know that Gambok Snell was, so
far as his knowledge and intentions
went, a cold-blooded murderer.
I had no doubt that both these enii
?nent gentlemen would regard the sec?
ond effort to kill me a mere pleasantry.
Existence had, as I have stated be?
fore, always been very sweet to me;
and since my mishap at the bands ol
Gambok Snell, resulting in the sud?
den acquaintance and friendship of
the beautiful English girl, whom I was
now called upon to rescue, existence
had become sweeter than ever to rae.
My love of life and my resolve
to save Grace Arnold had be?
come now my motive to act; and, as I
said, it was the lives of Cha Fong and
Gambok Snell as agaiust the lives of
Miss Arnold and mvself.
The"argument of my two enemies
waxed hotter and louder. Cha Fong
pointed to the despoiled rice-bowl be?
fore the idol in support of his accusa?
tions. Gambok Snell shouted his
angry denials and shook his fist in the
face of his Mantchoo master.
As Cha Fong, with a gesture of rage,
turned from Mr. Snell and was about
*to leave the temple for the room in
'which he had left Miss Arnold, I
cramped myself still more in my suf?
focating hidingplace and took good
aim at his breast, where, if he had
any, his heart was located.
Carefully sighting along the barrel,
I fired.
The report of the rifle awoke a thou?
sand reverberations which thundered
around the rocky cavern.
Cha Fong fell prone upon the floor
?dead!
Mr. Gambok Snell became panic
stricken. His face became lived. He
trembled and seemed to lose his head.
Mr. Snell, perhaps, was a brave
enough man in open warfare or in the
face of known and palpable danger,
but when idols dealt out death, and
the very walls of the temple rolled
with the reports of cannon, he was not
terrible as a warrior. He turned and
fled.
t This was not according to my plan.
fl did not fear the result if Mr. Snell
came back with reinforcements, but j tc
he would do nothing of the kind. He
was on the run, and if he gained the
yacht and made off with it, Miss
Arnold and I would be no better off
than before.
I have always entertained a hearty
contempt for au assassin. To shoot a
?man in the back was, in my estima?
tion, a cowardly thing to do. But it
*tjsrAs Snell or Crickmore, and I had no
!^|uce.
EeWe .nc ^ yU^'figure got out
of my sight 1 fired again.
Mr. Snell shrieked with pain and
sank to the floor.
I made a hasty exit from my hiding
place and went to the side of Mr. Snell.
, As I stood over him, my rifle still
grasped tightly in my hand, he rolled
his eyes up at me. He lecognized
me, and with a howl of terror he
gasped and fainted.
If it had been to my advantage be?
fore to shoot Mr. Snell, it was equally
to my advantage now to keep him
alive. I seriously questioned the re?
sult, if I, with Miss Arnold, should
attempt to board the yacht, and the
two priests of Su Foo fail to appear.
I had no means of giving orders to the
sailors, and as they were no doubt
faithful adherents of Cha Fong, they
would unquestionably be inquisitive
enough to spoil things. Hence, Mr.
Snell, wounded, but alive aud sub?
missive to my will, was just then a
valuable adjunct to our escape.
I rushed to the bedroom, kicked
aside the rug that covered the trap
and pulled it up.
"You can come out now," I called
to Miss Arnold.
"Is it ali right now?" she asked,
emerging from behind a pile of silks.
"Are we safe?"
' "So far we are safe," I replied. "I
have killed Cha Fong and wounded
Gambok Snell. I want to prevent his
dying, if I can, until we get away from
here."
"Gambok Snell!" she exclaimed.
"Why, that is the name of the man
who threw you overboard."
"Yes, and this ia the man," I re?
plied.
"He is not a Chinaman, is he?"
she asked, shuddering.
"No. I don't know what he is.
But I know what he will be if I don't
hurry up. He'll be a dead man."
I hurried back to the wounded Mr.
Snell, leaving Miss Arnold to follow
at will. She soon joined me, and I
was delighted at the coolness and
courage with which she took hold and
helped me in my attentions to the un?
conscious man.
She had wits, she had tact, she had
a mind.
"By Jovel" I exclaimed, approv?
ingly, after we had succeeded in get?
ting Mr. Snell's eyes open in con?
sciousness again. "You would make
a capital nurse or physician, or?er?
er?a physician's wife."
She smiled slightly and blushed.
I succeeded in getting Mr. Snell
laid out on two or three rugs, and
plied him with restoratives. I was
not so very particular about the
gentleman's comfort, but I was eager
to get him where he would not bleed
to death.
With Miss Arnold's assistance I
stanched the blood from his wound
and bandaged it.
He lay for some time with his eyes
fastened upon me. In them there
wore wonder, surprise and the fire of
hate.
Pretty soon hts curiosity overcame
him. I heard his voice.
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COMPROMISE OFFERED
cst Plan May Solve the Venezuelan
Question.
NISTER BOWEN WAITING ANSWER.
Proposition Suggested by a Represents*
ive of One of thc Allies, ls That for a Short
?erlod of Ihe Year the Allies Shall Exclu*
ive!y Receive a Percentage of the Custom
tulles.
Vashington, D. C. (Special).?Prop
ticns involving a compromise of thc
ed powers' contention for prefercn
1 treatment in the settlement of their
ims against Venezuela have been
jmi'.tcd to the governments of Great
itain, Germany and Italy by their
iresentatives at Washington, and,
ile no answers have been received as
:, there is reason for the belief tfiat
: al'ics will see a way to accept the
e.-t proposition. This compromise
s been suggested by one of the rep
entatives of the al'ies herc, and
ide it bas n~t formally received thc
lorscment of Minister Bowen, it is
t that he will not enter serious ob
tions to its adoption, provided thc
lited States and thc other claimant
tons outside the alliance can be
minced that their own interests in
nezucla will not bc substantially in
ed by yielding to a plan which seems
offer a solution of the present seri
s hitch in the Washington negotia
>ns.
rhe details of the proposition now
der consideration bv the three allied
tions are not obtainable, but in a
neral way it is understood to be a
iditication of the allies' contention
lt they be recognized as Venezuela's
cfcrred claimants in thc payment of
! indemnity. The plan suggested
Brides that for a short period, per
ps six months or a year, Great Bri
n, Germany and Italy shall receive
elusively a percentage of customs re
ipts of the ports of Porto Cabello
d Laguayra. and that at the end of
is period?the exact length of which
yet open to decision?that all the
limant nations be placed on the samf
o'.ing. and at the expiration of that
ne thc 30 per cent, of the receipts of
ese two ports be divided among all
e claimant nations in ratio based on
e amount of each nation's claim.
Tlie plan is regarded as a compromise
lich will enable the allies to with
aw their ships from Venezuelan wa?
rs without a serious loss of prestige.
Whether the claimant nations outside
e tripartite agreement will assent to
is scheme is not yet known. The
'itish ambassador rilled by appoint
cnt on Secretary Hiv this afternoon
2 o'clock, and it is believed that some
ch plan as this wis under consi'er
ion, the British ambassador wishing
acquaint hirme'f w'th the exact at
ir'e of the United SfatAs recrardin*?'
ord Lansdowne'* contention for pref
ential treatment fer the allies.
BOY MURDERER GETS 20 YEARS.
"-* Landis, at Lancaster, Pa., Thinks
Sentence too Light.
Lancaster, I\. /c ? ,N r.,
r /- ..?.?. Snccial).?Clarence
Ic Coy and William Gu. ..
olumbia (Pa.) boys convicted ,
. *">ur
er in the second degree, were given ti.
laximum sentence of 20 years by Judge
.andis. who stated he was sorry he coule
ot make thc punishment more severe.
The prisoners are each 20 years 0!
ge, and the crime for which they wen
onvictcd was the murder of Jacob H
lostick, a trackwalker on the Pennsyl
ania railroad. After shooting and beat
ng him over thc head the murderer
ilaced the body on the track, expectinj
hat a train would run over it and hid
he evidence of murder.
The body was discovered a few min
itcs before the passage of a train.
$1,000,003 DEAL REPORTED.
Chicago Concern Miy Buy Four Minis 0
Perry Company.
Clarksburg, W. Va. (Special).?A rc
port is current at Clarksburg that tb
Perry Coal Company will sell its hold
ings in this county to the Weaver Co;
Company, of Chicago. The price is n
ported to be $1,000,000.
The Perry property consists of foi
mines?the Howard, at Wilsonburg: tl
Perry and Gore, at Adamston, and tl
Pooz, near Lumberport. The three la
ter plants are modern and were coi
structed at considerable cost. In tl
tract of coal lands is comprised 2,000 ?
3,000 acres of the regular nine-fa)
"Pittsburg vein." It fronts on the Ball
more and Ohio and the Short Line rai
roads.
Will Work Day and Night.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?T
three-shift system, by which work w
be kept up clay and night, has begun
thc gun-carriage shop at the Washingt
Navy Yord. There is an imperative i
maud for completing thc orders now
hand, and this step ls taken with a vii
to expediting the completion of wo
thc orders for which were given o\
two years. It is the purpose of thc nai
officials to keep thc other shops at I
yard in full operation during thc ent
day and night as soon as sufficient wot
men can be obtained.
Fatality ou thc U. S. S. Boston.
Vallejo, Cal. (By Cable).?The bio
ing out of a plate in thc engine-room
the United States steamer Boston c
Edward Lee Baker his life and anoth
Concord Tate, lies in a critical con
tion. The two men were naval mach
ists and were endeavoring to repaii
leaky valve.
David P. Jones Dead.
Pittsburg (Special).?David Phill
Jones, Chief Engineer of thc Uni
States Navy, retired, died at his ap;
ment at thc Iroquois here. As fathel
modern engineering in thc navy Cl
Engineer Jones was prominently kne
throughout the United States. Tlie <
Unction was earned by bis establishn
of thc engineering department of
Naval Academy. After the course
opened he became one of tlie profesi
and was one of thc most successful
popular ones ever at fhe naval schoc
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
Thc Pennsylvania Railroad's famous
20-hour special between New York and
Chicago will be abandoned in order to
aid in removing thc traffic congestion.
Justice MacLean, of the Supreme
Court of New York, has denied an ap?
plication for separation based on an
antemarital error on the part of the wife.
L The Thomas Jefferson Memorial As?
sociation has issued an appeal through
its president, Admiral Dewey, for funds
to erect a memorial to Jefferson at thc
capital.
At the Indianapolis wage conference
the operators unanimously voted not to
grant the demand of the miners for
higher wages and certain changes in the
method of mining. The question was
discussed and referred to the scale com?
mittee.
C. B. Allison, an electrical contractor
of Shcradcn, a suburb of Pittsburg, was
called to the front door of his house and
shot down by an unknown person.
The Southern Pacific has reached an
agreement with its firemen on the wage
question. The increase granted aver?
ages between 6 and 12 per cent.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
has voluntarily increased the wages of
all its machinists, boilermakers, black?
smiths and car repairers.
An appraisal of the estate of thc late
Augustin Daly, of New York, shows
that it is not sufficient to cover his debts.
Jean Jules Jusserand, the new French
ambassador, and his wife reached New
York on thc French liner La Lorraine.
The schooner Minnehaha sprung a
leak and sank at thc entrance to Winyah
Bay, South Carolina.
The big department store of Weni
stock, Lubin & Co., in Sacramento, Cal.,
was destroyed.
At thc opening of the afternoon ses?
sion of the Strike Commission in Phila?
delphia Attorney Wolverton, for the
Reading, announced that at a conference
I held during the noon recess between j
: John Veith, general mining superinten
j dent of the Philadelphia and Reading
I Coal and Iron Company, and George W.
j Hartlein, secretary of District No. 9, of
I the miners' union, it was agreed that the
I weighing of coal in th* Ninth district,
1 which takes in all of the southern coal
j field, is impracticable because of the
I pitching veins. This settles, so far as
the lower fields arc concerned, one of the
principal issues in dispute in the other
two regions.
\Tlie National Board of Education,
which was incorporated by a recent act
of Congress, organized by electing W. H.
Baldwin, Jr., president. John D. Rocke?
feller, Jr., is a member of thc board.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., has given $100,
000 for io years.
Levy Ankeny, the millionaire banker
and farmer of Walla Walla, was elected
United States senator by the Washing?
ton legislature.
Mr. Abraham Gompers, son of Mr. I hu
Samuel Gompers, president of the J.
American Federation of Labor, died in J pe
Denver, Col.
While crazed by drink at Titusville,
Pa., John Fiddler shot and killed his
wife, tried to kill his son and then killed
himself.
John Beard Allen, a former United
States senator from Washington, is
dead.
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Foreign. pl(
arm .storX jfcaJWFffflts i1* the.. proyincM li
of Saxony is determined to renounce his m
succession to the throne in favor of his th
son, George, who is io years old. \\
United States Minister Powell and a $1
representative of thc Dominican govern- T
ment signed a protocol to submit an fe
American company's claim to arbitration, p;
Brazilian generaL, with guns and C
ammunition, have gone to the Bolivian
frontier to take command of the Brazil?
ian troops there.
The French Chamber of Deputies,
amid a patriotic demonstration, adopted
the first chapter of the army budget.
The engineers of the' Netherlands Rail- p
road struck, stopping traffic between
Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Sousa's Band played American airs in
Waterloo Castle, London, for King
Edward.
Serious floods have been caused in
Scotland by the melting of thc snow.
Herr Ballin, director general of the
Hamburg-American Line, explained that
the French Line has renewed the usual
traffic agreement, but has not entered
into the'shipping combine.
Dr. van Lynden, the Dutch foreign
minister, announced that Carnegie's
offer of $250,000 for a library for the In?
ternational Court of Arbitration had been
rejected.
Countess Isabella Wesierska Kwilecki
was for the second time arrested in Ber?
lin on the charge of palming off a bogus
child as the heir to a large Polish estate.
Foreign Minister Prinetti, of Italy,
had an attack of paralysis while attend?
ing a conference of the ministers with
the King at the Quirinal.
An American chamber of commerce
was organized with 101 members, who
are engaged in business in various Ger?
man cities.
Thc Crown Princess of Saxony has
been excluded from all rights and dig?
nities of a member of the Saxon royal
house.
It is reported that Ben Kamara, the
pretender to the throne of Morocco, has
been defeated.
Financial.
Thc Reading is producing an average
of 33,000 tons of coal daily.
Standard Oil brokers freely sold St.
Paul when it bad risen to 179.
St. Paul Railroad is putting Eastern
freight in storage, the railroads being
so badly blocked.
European exchange rates were un?
changed, money conditions running
smoothly despite Venezuela.
Storage battery jumps about very
nimbly. It is so closely held the in?
siders can do anything they care to
willi it.
Chicago Great Western is to be trans?
ferred to one of the big railroad sys?
tems, says vice-President Oppenheim.
Of. seventy-nine independent tin plate
mills only eighteen are now running
owing to a reduction from $4 to $3.60 a
box. There are 227 out of 264 trust
mills in operation. _
Movirin will rpadiiy QiSHJHSTIS IjOS3 ot Hair,
__ "SCAICrtll l)13eas?Ml Hoofs nn.lSoratrhcsin hor
iYlUStang Liniment ses mules aa*a cattle. Farmers try it.
A toad under
a harrow
suffers no more than the faithful horse
that ia tortured with Spavins, Swinney, Harness
Sores, Sprains, etc. Most horse owners know thia
and apply thc kimi of sympathy that heals, knovvu
far and wide as
MIUlstaI^lg,
Liniment
Never fails?not even i;t the most aggravated cams.
Cures caked udder in cows quicker than any known
remedy. Hardly a disease peculiar 1) muscle, skin
or joints that cannot be cured by it.
Mexican b the b?^ remedy on iho nwrfcaHfor
_ i * * a. ^ i'l'K'^l's iSpr.iius.-'.iidfikiii Lunn*.
lUUStang Liniment Itkee'wl.Gr.r.^n-inHdesmcuiiditioi',
THE OLD DOMINION.
test News Gleaned From AU Over
the Stale.
V strong delegation from Tidewatct
teared before the House Committee on
lance in advocacy of the $_'oc,ooo ap
?priation for the Jamestown Exposi*
rs. Messrs. D. Lowenberg. Director
neral, and H. L. Page, of Norfolk
i 0. D. Batchelor and J. L. Patton
ike in behalf of thc bill. Gen. Fitz
?h Lee was present, and he and Hon
taylor Eliyson will make the fina! ap
ds this week. General Lee declared
t the $200,000 was all that would evel
asked from the State by the Exposi*
n. He thinks the sale of stock, with
ltrihutions from the Government,
es and counties, will yield aniplV '
cnues.
Ihe Courts of Justice Committee of
House reported favorably Mr. Cum
rigs' bill amending the Divorce law SC
t a partial divorce may be made com?
te after three years where there has
'fi, no reconcilliation.
md Telephone CoUYff..Y../>f the Rich
t Virginia Trust company, n ..sold bj
amer, Moore & Co., whose bid wai
0,000. There was no other bidder,
ie purchaser is believed to have acted
r the Southern Rell Telephone Colli?
ny, which recently has obtained the
ty Council's permission to take over
e business of the independent concern.
was only an hour before the sale that
was certain the property could be sold
ider foreclosure, W. C. Heinroth, of
ncago, having sued out a temporary
junction forbidding thc sale. Detail
the settlement have not been made
lblic. but it is said that Heinroth and
ose he represented were secured to the
nount for which they contended,
t.oto.
Plans to greatly enlarge Roanoke Col
ge, at Salem, have been prepared and
?"proved by the faculty and trustees of
ie institution. The expenditure will
nount to $25,000. This improvement
as projected by the alumni and former
udents of the college, and they will
resent it as an offering in commemora
011 of the semi-centennial of the col
:ge, to be celebrated at the fiftieth an?
nal commencement in June. The propo
ition is to include in the new building 3
cience hall.
In the case of William J. Bott against
-ane Bros. .& Co., railroad contractor:
t Woodstock, the jury gave Bott $1.20;
amages. This was the second trial foi
lamages against Lane Bros. & Co. dur
ng the present term of court, the resul
?f an accident in their quarry, when J
N. Bauserman and Bott were terrilT
nanglcd by an explosion and J. W
*lidenour lost his life.
A. B. Montcurc. of Reams. Dinwiddi
rounty, has been assigned space for ai
?xhiblt at the Sportsmen's Show n
Madison Square Garden, New YorV
next month. This will bc the first ex
bibit of its kind from thc South. Fair
dus possum and turkey hunters of thi
section will accompany Mr. Montcur
with three days' camp outfit and liv
(jame.
A mysterious assault, in which J. V
Egger, of Philadelphia, was the victit
xcurred at Winchester at an early hoi
the other morning. Egger is a pres
man at the Eddy Press. He says he wi
jjoing home when he was held up by
:rowd, who demanded some money ai
upon his refusal assaulted him with
blackjack.
The verdict rendered against the Vi
ginia Fire and Marine Insurance Cot
Dany of North' America and the Niaga
Insurance Company in favor of S.
Lonas, of Mount Jackson, for damap
\o his store building by fire in Februa
1902, for $1,500 was reduced by t
court to $050 and judgment docketed.
Mr. John W. Payne dropped dc
from heart failure. Mr. Payne was c
of the most prosperous farmers of C
peper county and highly respected,
was in the fifty-fifth year of his age a
leave a widow and four daughters.
The Tunis Lumber Company of N
!olk is said to have made a combinat
.yuh, big lumbej concerns,, insuring^
ts immense planing mills an anim
riant supply of timber. The big timber
interests of Mr. John Harker and hil
associates in thc firm of Wiley. Harker
& Co. have, it is stated, been secured by
?.be Tunis concern. The Norfolk con?
cerns have been after the more heavilj
wooded districts of North Carolina for a
long while. The Tunis Lumber Com?
pany, however, appears to have gotten it*
reported alliance with the Angola and
the Carolina lumber companies, recenth
reorganized, the pick of all thc immense
timber lands of the Wilcy-Harker peo?
ple.
Mr. Thomas Ford, thc blind mattress*
maker of Lexington, died at bis bonn''
in that city, aged 73 years. In his youth
he lost his sight by two accidents. The
prong of a fork which be was using to
untie his shoestring slipped, pierced his
eye, destroying the-sight A sill*. >? iinji
afterward a whip lash destroyed the sig"
of the other. He was buried in thc Lex?
ington Cemetery. Five children survive
him.
Thc work of double-tracking the
Southern railway is progressing rapidly
at Manassas. Some valuable property in
the town will be impaired. The trees in
front of the Hotel Maine and the
Howard House will have to be cut down
to make way for the tracks.
been appointed watchman at the Nava'
Academy. Annapolis. He held a sim
ilar position in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington, and was trans
fcrred to the Naval Academy at hil
own request.
Lynchburg Elks arc to build a band
some new home for thc lodge. Work
will probably begin within two months
Dobyns Bros. are to build a large bo
tel and storeroom at Dublin, to be com-,
plcted and ready for occupancy the 1st
of May.
John H. Detterman died at Western?
port, Allegany county, of rhcuumatism,
aged 39 years.
Mr. Hugh M. Blain, who for two
years had been associate principal of
the Valley Seminary, a large female
school at Waynesboro, bas been ap?
pointed adjunct professor of English in
the Louisiana State University at Ba?
ton Rouge.
The Federal Government bas notified
J. Clements Shafer, a Richmond con?
tractor, that his bid on thc proposed
improvements on James River, to cost
?237,000, has been accepted. The con?
tract will be signed in a few days.
While pursuing two negro fugitives
near Windsor, Officer Bradshaw shot
three times and one of them fell badly
wounded. They were suspected of rob?
bery at Dwight, but it appears that the
real thieves have been caught.
William Watkins was cut and mor?
tally wounded by John G. Ball in a row
at the crossroads near Hampton. Ball
jsed a caseknifc. Watkins' throat was
rut from ear to ear.
Cdd Museum in Paris.'
Paris has a museum of objects re
leting to the ballet, lt includes every?
thing, from old ballet skirts to jew?
elry worn by famous dancers. There
are also casts of the feet of tues?
U-rpsichoreans, among them being one
of Mme. Vettris' feet, lt was made
for Lord Fife at a cost of $5,000, and
1 sold after his death for a small sum.