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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-09

u
Her young son is heir TO the estate Of the
\ late Louis c. Hamersey Mrs. Richard
| Irwin comes from Baltimore. She was
Miss Mary Morris. and IS o grand
| daughter OF Reverdy Johnson Her
| cousin. Miss Louise Morris, was lately
married 70 Frederick Gerhard. Another
youthful matron IS Mrs. Thomas Hitch
| cock, born Eustis. Of louisiana Mrs.
| Thdrlow Weed Barnes is the only daugh-
ter OF John a. Morris. a New Orleans
| millionaire. And then there is Mrs. VIII
lard r. Ward. born Erskine. Of Georgia,
who visits the White House az Mrs.
Cleyeland's ch0cen guest.
IN LITERATURE.
In literature there is Mrs. ruth Nc
Emery stuart. She comes from New Or
leans. and has IN her pedigree no less
Than six Cover HOrs OF Louisiana
widow. with one small son, she makes
New YORK her winter home In summer
she goes where she listeth-is everywhere
notable and welcome guest MISS VI.
Grim OF Georgia, has written many Sooo
| short stories
H. Hopkius0n Smith was born ~ eal-
unore. and Is q grandson Of FRANCIS
Hopknson. who signed the DECLARATION
| OF independence. As Mr. r. b Smllh, nc
Is head u a nrm OF constructive enel-
neers lie is HOpksnson Smith, the artist.
who goes abroad every year or 80 ana
brings hack picture. and then he shows
! Us h HopkinsSn smith, the author his
sateT-MIs. Susan Tackle Mo0ie-in
spite or the distractions Of brilliant
social career. mas written "Ryle's open
Gate" a book that is unique, ana htr
! magaline-w0rk takes the seyerest critic
unaware.
No youngster could begr more sailanty
the handicap OF Il name already famous
than does Charles ID Lsnier, whom MS
friends never think OF calling awning
but Charley" Son OF sidney LApiet, ne
got his educntion - RaiimOtes famous
McDonough School and SIN more famous
Johns Hopkins University Amer gradua-
ton he came - New York ana began
, doing magazine. WORK, and now though
| barely Is yeaFs old, he does editorial
work Oh a magazine he - IamoJs
sportsman. and says bis dream is 70 80
away for a whole years hunting.
THEIR FANCY TURNED TO ART.
Next 10 Hopkinson smith In art one
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Samuel Spencer The last named not
ons $50 was section boss on an nnim-
t'fiaut line Being found exceedingly
,aithfui over very few things. he was
ICON given authority over many. one
'teD Ia his way 10 The ton wss tha ae-
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ceptancc Of a place that carried with II
a yearly salary OF $4,000
This ~ a bare handful from Wall
streets embarrassment OF riches. Others
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COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMME.

The commencement proper VIII begin
one week from to-day, when Professor
Stfler. OF Grocer Seminary, will preach
the commencement sermon. He Is a mas
terly preacher. He will be followed on
Tuesday night by Orator Carter Helm
Jones, of Louisville. Ky. Mr.. Jones Is
an alumnus OF the college, son OF Rev
Or. ]. william Jones, and very at
tractiye speaker. The alumni are planning
for a BANQUET on Wednesday night and
on Thursday night the diplomas are de-
llyered and the exercises close.
The jolllncation next Friday night VIII
he. as il was IN years gone by. one or
the most pleasant features OF the closing
exercises.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-09

Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin, OF Brooklyn
,s pastor OF Grsee-Avenue Baptist church
His church is one OF the largest OF MS
denomination in Brooklyn, and II Ii q
difficult thing 10 get seat there. ~
is strictly Bible preacher, speaks WITH
out notes. and generally for solid hour
Vet his audiences Sit to the end at;en'
tive. quiet. earnest listeners. lie viii
us a painted chart, - feet Iona
by six feet high, and will speak en-
tirely on prophetic subjects. Hts ad
dresses are: 1.-THE Dispensations." rs
rael. Past. Present, and Future" "rht
Times OF tho Gentiles." and The Church
OF God"
Mrs. Abbie c. Morrow. of New York
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frI ass f1r the Keutuckian. his name Is
t-.. legion. Naturally In such multi
-. one dnjs all sorts and conditions
rt mon and women who may have met
u.I great success.
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Almond Smelling.

Lvermore Call Letter TO the San Francisco Call.
An interesting and novel method of she'll
ing almonds is being introduced at the
Hatch ranch in this valley. The foreman
has force of Chinese at work in the large
warehouses handling the almonds by means
of machine, which rubs the nuts through
at the rate of nearly two tons a day. The
crop consists of about 5O.O6O pounds, and is
being handled by the Bank of Livermore.
Two or three Chinese work machine,
rocking the cradle back and forth. the
crushed shells and kernels falling through,
to be shoveled into the tanning mill. Here
the shells are blown off like chaff, and the
smooth kernels drop off the apron into the
boxes.
The rest of the work is sorting, picking
out the waXy and broken kernels; but this
has to be done by hand. Out Of every 1000
pounds of nuts 300 pounds of sound, whole
kernels are obtained, in addition to about
fifty pounds of cracked kernels, which are
marketable.
Last year the almond people paid three
cents a pound to have their nuts shelled
This year the bank has contracted with the
Cinnamon to shell and box the crop at one
cent pound. 1t is thought that next year
the cost of Smelling and packing can be re-
duced to eighty cents hundred pounds. In
previous years the work was done by hand
but the crop was smaller.
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fighting as valiantly' there as are Gomez
and Maceo in the provinces of Matanzas.
Similar reports from Puerto Principe and
Santa Clara show that thy insurgents have
almost the absolute donttN of the interior
of these provinces. Eveh in Habana itself
they know the non-official people, who
dare not utter their sentiments, are heart
and soul with the revolution, and will rise
at the first opportunity. :9Still beyond Ha-
bana lies the westernmost province Of
Pena Del Rio. which has been in state Of
iHcipient revolution IAN during the cam
paign, and which will rise almost to man
when the opportunity opens.
coed in driving thy spa niards back into
Habana and Matanzas is a question which
Is difficult to answer Habana, at least, is
strongly armed with modern steel guns,
while the Anticipated Notifications would
also be sufficiently strong to resist the as
saults of the insufficiently armed insur-
gents. These guns apd forts. however, are
all placed SO as to command the sea en-
trance to Habana, and leave the landward
side practically unprotected. The loyalty
of the garde civil, or local militia, Is also
questionable, and in case of rout or panic
1t is not improbable that they would join
the insurgents. ROBERT T. HILL.
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and political capital Of the island is Ha-
bana, which has a population about equal
to that of this city Fifty miles to the
ca eastward lies old MatanZas, the great SUI
gar shipping port of Cuba On the opposite
southern coast is Cienfuegos, also famous for
its exports of sugar, while still to the east
ward and on the south side of the coast.
RESTED against the foot of the Sierra Macs
ira range, is the old city Of Santiago.
The Cubans, through long centuries of
adaptation to environments, have become
modified into peculiar and distinct type of
people. differing in tastes, habits and Ideals
from the Spaniard of their mother ration
The writer would like 20 dwell upon the
characteristics and domestic life of these
people. AS in every other land, there are
all classes and conditions of people; the re-
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pathetic discussion OF the burdens of gov
ernment and the hope of liberty. The
writer then saw that throughout the island
there was mine of public sentiment. which
would some day explode with tremendous
perity in which Cuba then participant
ing. In the voice and tone of these people
there was a desperation that few Amer-
cans can imagine. and 1 could see that they
were in mental stage which meant readi-
ness to sacrifice every personal end in order
to become rid Of foreign rule, in which they
could only see oppression. Little did l be-
lieve, however, that this uprising would
start so soon.
When. on the 18th of March last, the exile
Marti landed on the coast of Cuba with a
handful of companions and proclaimed the
republic, even the syrnpathiZers of the
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tropical underground, through which no
one car find his way except under the
guidance of skilled native guides. These
mountains eliminate along the southern
coast in gigantic crests, standing as high
as 5000 feet above the level of the sea,
presenting as bold and beautiful an out
line as our own Rocky mountains, which
do not exceed. them in real height above
the base of the surrounding plains.
The chief cities of this region are Santi-
ago (San Iago of the Cubans) on the south
and Baracoa on the north side of the island.
The latter city is the Oldest continuous set
Element in America, having been founded
by Diego, the son of Christopher Colombo,
in the year 1903. Iron ore and manganese,
which are consumed in the United States,
and bananas, which are daily carried by
numerous steamers to Philadelphia, New
York and Boston, are the chief products of
this region.
The middle division also has few noun
tains scattered throughout it's area, but
surrounding these are beautiful undulating
plains the fertile soil of which is covered
with superb plantations of sugar, each of
which supports its villages and huge CEN
trail establishments for grinding the cane
and extracting sugar. Two years ago when
the writer saw this region 1t presented the
most beautiful landscape that could be
imagined; a scene of industry, peace and
prosperity. Under the favorable CONNER
cial conditions then existing for trade with
the United States these vast plantations
were prospecting for the first time in years.
Everywhere, through the vistas of tall
royal palms, the principal tree of this por-
ton of the island. could be seen hundreds
of carts drawing the loads of cane or sugar
in bags to and fro, while the railway car
r!ages were loaded with the well-dressed
and handsome families of the planters,
who We're travelling back and forth from
their country residences TO Habaaa or
MatanZas.
The western third of the island lying
west of Habana Is even more fertile than
this central portion, and besides its plan
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and premature. What could an unarmed
people hope to do against well-equipped
standing army as large as that of the United
States, scattered throughout every hamlet
and farm of the island, and conducting
vigilant espionage upon the movement or
every citizen, as determined, If not as eff
cient, as that maintained against the nihil
lists in Russia. 1t then looked as impossible
for the Cubans to procure firearms as it
would be for the inmates of one of our state
penitentiaries to arm themselves with rifles
and overpower their guards. Yet despite
the tremendous odds which apparently
faced this instruction, it has not only en-
dured for eleven months, but has grown
and increased until now it presents serious
and aggressive proportions, which should
no longer be underestimated or miSunder-
stood by the American public.
The people of the eastern province of
Santiago de Cuba quickly rushed to Marti's
standard. During the spring of the year
General Carpos had his headquarters at
Santiago de Cuba, and was busily engaged
In attempting to restrict the instruction to
that province, accompanying his efforts by
assertions that when winter came it would
be squelched. Winter is here, and, as shown
upon the accompanying map, the insurrec-
ton. instead of being squelched has grown
beyond all anticipationS of its promoters
and has not only completely fomented the
eastern province of Santiago, but has moved
steadily westward In an apparently Victori-
Gus march out of the mountain businesses
of tie east into the rich and populouS prov
tnces of the central region. and now its
front is threatening the political and COM
mercial capitals of the island. A study of
the movements Of Gen. Campos shows that
instead of holding the insurrection back,
he has been slowly, but surely and steadily,
retreating westward since the middle of
September.
During the last instruction, as shown
upon tho map, the Spanish authorities
built great fortified trench known as
La Trocha, across the narrow part of the
island in the western portion of the state
of Puerto Principe. A railway for the
speedy movement of troops was construct
ed along this fertilization and the insur-
rection was kept in the mountainous region
east of this line and out of the populous
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The Retreat of Campos. Figures II show the
successive camps Of Gen Canpos since Dec. l.
were the most outspoken and earnest.
When the insurgents reached this province
their numbers We're increased by thou
sands of volunteers of a class of physical
strength and Intelligence evel superior to
those of Santiago. Augmented by these
Ieinforcemcnts, Gomez and Maceo continu-
ed their westward march, and in the early
part Of December Gen. Campos is repre-
scented as again Concentrating not at
Cienfugos or Villa Clara, but still to the
westward and even nearer to Matanzas
and Habana. About the middle of Decem-
her he had concentrated at San Domingo,
railway junction in the eastern borders
of the state of MatanZas, and since that
date las been steadily falling back toward
Hablna
By impartial study of these "concen-
trations'' upon the map they can only he
Interpreted to mean steady and hard
fought retreat Today the Insurgents
front, variously estimated at from 1900
to %, GEO men, are pressing toward Habana
and Matanzas, and beyond doubt they have
captured and destroyed the eastern portion
of the railway system which has been
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UNUSED ELECTRIC POWER.
There Is Considerable Waste. rs Eco.
pie Sometimes Find Out

pie Sometimes Find Out.
From the New York Tribune.
Did you ever think asked an observing
man lately, how much loose electricity
there is around? 1t is brought to my notice,
espec tally, every time l have occasion to
ride in a trolley car on wet day. I have
frequently received a singing shock by TAX
ing hold CT the brass rail as 1 swung myself
aboard My feet are wet you see, and water
Is so good a conductor that a ground con-
Eection is established with myself as part
Of the circuit. The sensation is quite enough
to be disagreeable, I assure you.
1.-The metal doorsill, too. is another place
where the current leaks out. Since l dis
covered that by personal experience l have
often amused myself by watching the peo-
pie who enter and leave the car. If they
step over the wet threshold we'll and good.
but If their feet touch it, they are likely to
get some of the superfiuous power. Then
the expression on their faces is ludicrous.
Most of them look completely bswidered,
as if they didn't know what had struck
them, and 1 suppose they don't for the in
slant.
Those are not the only places where there
is free electricity, either. In my own office
l can get as severe a shock as could from
a battery. In one of the incandescent light
fixtures there Is a spot where the current
escapes in great force. By touching this
place with key, knife, or any bit of met
al, and resting my other hand on the iron of
the steam radiator near by, I can take
shock of such power as to burn my hand
and make ME drop the experiment in hur-
ry. The other day half a dozen of us Joined
hands and formed a line between the two
places. The man at one end held key to
the fixture, and the fellow at the other end
laid his hand on the radiator. You would
hardly believe how strong the current was.
Our hands seemed suddenly gripped togeth-
err. and, after we let go, our fingers tingled
for minutes from the effects.
Il have often thought that a computation
of the amount of unused electric force there
is around US would be interesting. There
must be numbers of other places that I have
never noticed where'it escapes. and 1 sup
the power wasted would be sufficient to ac-
complish tremendous amount Of work"
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which the revolution Is spreading. Between
these points extends the most beautiful
and largest of the Antilles, which. from its
centrally located position could command
the naval and commercial supremacy of
the immense American Mediterranean.
Its 1880 miles of sea coast is broken by
numerous harbors, which for ease of en-
trance and security of anchorage would
make other countries commercially pros
porous.
Nature has divided the island by north
and south lines into three equal PAL The
easternmost of these is mountai re-
gion covered with native forests AID dense
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sands of farms producing the choicest of
the fragrant tobacco for which Cuba is
noted.
The western and middle provinces are
easily accessible from Habana, the capital
city. by means of a system of railways
radiating from that city, by which Villa
Clara and Cienfuegos on the east or Pena
Del Rio on the west can be reached within
twelve hours. This railway system Families
into dozens of branches, and there are
no other roadways, its strategetic impor-
lance is readily seen. The remainder of the
island is only accessible by the numerous
steamship lines which encircle the 1850
miles of seacoast, putting in at the various
cities.
The populat ton OF Cuba - estimated at l.
100000 people, but attempts to procure
accurate vital statistics of Cuba are ever
made by the authorities. The principal city
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TINS MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
The Great Log Struck Rock and
Bounded Over His Head.

The Great Log Struck Rock and
Bounded Over His Head.
From, tho Ros,on Standard
wv w. -, roI,;ng Ice DOWN , h,ur into the
80, 50 go -. -, =
81. John RIVER eeiow draie raiis' saiu
lumbermsn. The dun was about forty
re DIS up from the river, steep and worn pref
w smooth nv the log rolling. A log started
49,. +ho hr,nL would roll, With a tremendous
o'ei .i'S -, -,
Nelocit! uo"h lial SHARP ueseeht. iow
the foot of the hill there was slight ridge
and now and then log would strike it and
eo bounding into the air and land well out
49, ~ r,ver
'i.o 'A-
l. WAS W. 'iiiie INA -naS anu ."e ioii-
ing logs made dusty work. The dust was so
thick sometimes that we almost lost sight
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Campos' chief reliance for disposing his
forces. The insurgents have changed their
aspect from a few outlaws hiding in the
woods to an advancing and apparently vic
torious army.
The Cubans have evidently acted in con-
cordance with skillfully designed plan
of action, and every step of their campaign
was outlined almost at the beginning of
the revolution.
Not only have the Cubans made this re-
markable march across the island, but
they apparently hold the country they have
passed over. All of their forces are by no
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Rival Dignitfes.

From l'uck-
Englishman Cproducing a pocket coin)-
NY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. was made a
lord by the king whose picture you see on
this shilling"
coincidence! My MISREPRESENTATION
was made an angel by the Indian whose
picture you see on this cent
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fined and the uncultured, the rich and the
poor, the high and low. The influences of
habit have nodded them into a gentler and
less aggressive race than that from which
they are descended, and has ameiora ted
many of the other characteristics of tenn
permanent by which we are wont to judge
Spaniards.
There is one characteristic, however.
which dominates these people, and concern
ing which Americans should not lie deceived
by represen tations from the rulin:, power of
the country, and this is that in the heart of
every native of the islau1. even the first
generation of Spanish descent, there is a
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social surroundings of administration are
concentrated there.
In the spring of 1893 the writer of this
article traversed the length of the island,
visiting the interior villages and planta-
tons, and stopping, as an explorer must do,
with the everyday people, wherever night
overlook him, and wherever a conversation
maintained for few moments the
Cubans' words would inevitably drift into a
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CUBAN SITUATION
Progress Of the Insurgents in Their
Contest With Spain.
THEIR MARCH ACROSS TIE ISLAND
"Concentration" Policy of Gen
Campos Graphically Shown.
NOW FOR ARAN IA

IMAGINE THE DIS
lance from NewYork
to Chicago and a
conception can be.
had Of the length of
Cuba, from Cape
Mayci on the east,
which the present in
8 urr e tion COM
menced, and where
the Alliance was
fired upon last
March, to Cape San
Antonio. 700 miles to
the west toward
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provinces to the westward.
In October and November although no
annourC ement can be gained thereof from
the press reports private advices inform
US that Gomez and Maceo crossed this line
without the least resistance, while Gen
CampoS was announced concentrating
at Cienfuegos in the next province of Santa
Clara, the province lying to the west
OF all the determined people met upon
the island by the writer in whose hearts
were the deep-rooIed sentiments of
revolution, the citizens of Santa Clara
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strong ineradcabe 'ove Of liberty, coupled
with aspirations that the ISLAND may be-
come a part of the United States, the coun-
try which consumes their products, and
which, to them, appears perhaps in an ex-
aggerated sense, the ideal of all that is free
and happy. The sentiment of the island
should not be judged by the utterances from
Habana. The spoken sentiment of Habana
is Spanish, because all of the machinery and
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Other welI-Knoyn Names.

Among the clerks were A. n. Zevely, who
was appointed from North Carolina and
rose from one position to another to be
third assistant, and Horatio King who is
still with us. Mr. King after some years
spent in journalism in his native state
CMaine) was in 1899 appointed in the de-
partment, and like Mr.. Zevely, steadily
advanced, and in 81 became the Post
master General. At that time Gao he re-
sided on I'd near East Capitol street. Other
clerks We're G. A. Bohrer. who, after a
business career in Georgetown, was the
later part of his life leading citizen of
the sixth ward, which he represented sew
eral terms in the city councils; d. d. T.
Leech eading Methodist Gather of G. ".
and Samuel Leech, well-known ministers),
who then lived on 1 betW cen 9th and 10th
streets; Jas. H. MARI who served until his
death, a few years since: N. c. Towle, who
subsequently was the recorder of deeds,
and w. d. Wallach, who then resided on
H between 18th and Sth streets, and who
founded The Star about five years later.
Eli Davis, who is now living on Rhode
Island avenue near 18th street, upwards of
ninety years of age, was then one of the
Watchmen.