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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-16

The WEATHER IN RICHMOND YESTERDAY
was clear and cold. The stars were sum
ing at midnight.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-16
MEETINGS.

MASONIC NOTICE. COM w
IvI. PANIONs: Attend slatcd Coz XAX
vocation Of LAFAYETTE cHAPIEc, szUO
No. %. ROYAL ARCH MASoNs. 10 be
held al Masonic Temple. Broad and
Adams streets. THURSDAY EVENING.
January is. 1895. at 100 o'clock.
BY order OF the Most Eminent High
Priest. AUG ARSELi> Jh..
ia i6-it Secretary.
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IN TWO PARTS.

Every lens II made Up OF two parts.
the crown. or convex glass, which goes
In the outer end OF the telescope. ana
the fat glass. which Is placed directly
behind H. For grinding the crown glass
a concave polishing tool u used. IL covers
the glass. and works on the same prinei-
pie as the fat tool.
When the Globe man called az the snop
thu Nat glass OF the Lowell lens lay under
the poIssher. and the crown glass on a
table near Il, covered with tissue paper
and q piece OF soft cotton hznnti Mr..
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She Was the First Star.

Every now and then an anecdotes
comes to the front showing that our
first president liked the theater as well
as do his followers of to-day. The point
is mentioned in one of the many the
atrical stories narrated in that new
book: "Shakespeare's Heroines On the
Stage" Says the author of the book;
"a Philadelphia Portia of this same
season of 1893 and 1904 comes of a
noted family, being none other than
Mrs. Eliza Whitlock, the sister of Mrs.
Siddons and of the Kembles. In Eng
land, at the age of %, she had made her
London debut as the heroine of Shy
lock- on February %, 1883, and, though
somewhat masculine in face and figure,
yet displayed SO animated countenance
and so graceful bearing as to win u
moderate degree of favor. a few years
after coming to this land she enjoyed
the distinction of playing the first star
engagement on the American stage, be-
ing engaged for $3.50 and benefit tc
play at the Boston theater in October,
1916. There she repeated her Portia.
contending with the remembrance of
Mrs. Powell's impersonation of a pre-
vious season. She also had the honor of
playing before George Washington in
Philadelphia. Chicago News.
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A Dangerous Passage in the Rhone.

Below Viviers the Rhone breaks out
from its broad upper valley into its
broader lower valley through the de-
file of Donzere. Here the foot hills of
the Alps and the foot hills of the Ceven-
mes come together, and behind this nat
ural dam there must have been ancient
" a great lake which extended to the
northward of where now is Valence.
The defile is veritable canyon that
would be quite ia place in Sierra Madre.
On each side of the sharply narrow
river the walls of rock rise to sheer
height of 200 feet. The rush of the
water is tumultuous. In midstream,
surrounded by eddies and whirling
waves, is the Roche des Angalais,
against which the boat of luckless
party of travellers struck and was shat
tered a hundred years ago. Indeed, SO
dangerous was this passage held to be
of old, when faith was stronger and
boats were weaker than in our day of
skepticism and compound engines,
that it was customary to tie up at the
head of the defile and pray for grace to
come through it safely; but nowadays
with the same practical RESULT they
put extra men at the tiller and clap on
more steam.-ThOmas Janvier, in Cen.
furv
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cold, and so opened the door. Then 1
could not open the other door-and so l
cried and went to Sleep"
And where did your mamma go, lit
lie one?" Dickey Culvers voice could
BE- gentle as mammals upon occasions.
"Why, don't you know? She said she
was coming. too"
Dickey dropped the curtains of the
berth and went into the forward car to
look for the conductor. One of the
curious passengers of the night before,
an early riser, stopped him as he went
along and presently good woman, the
curious passengers wife, went back
into the sleeper and came out with the
child in her arms. The matter was well
known to all the women in the train by
this time, and, as women will, from
mysterious recesses of handbags and
satchels, they drew enough material to
n axe the child presentable in no time
at all. She was pretty child enough,
with dimpled checks and blue eyes and
golden hair, and she told her story, all
she knew of it, over and over again to
whoever asked her-but there was q
CULVER in the warm, red lips now when
she asked for her mamma.
Dickey in the meantime had found
the conductor. The train stopped at
Green river anyway, and that was only
few miles further on.
When the station was reached Dickey
and the train men jumped down from
the rear platform of the last sleeper and
peered under the trucks What with
SNOW and the cinders they could see
nothing at first, but presently the
brakeman muttered curse and crawled
under the car. The others followed.
There, on top of the trucks, wedged in
so hard and fast that it was amazing
how she had ever gotten into such po-
sition, was the body of woman. OF
course it was frozen stiff. Nothing
that lives can survive the blizzard that
sweeps across the Laramie plains. And
upon the body was no scrap of paper
giving the faintest clew to her name.
Dickey told the boys about it at the
Green Shades on the first night after he
came home. They were drinking hot
punches at the time, Dickey and Fes-
sender and the third assistant, and the
third assistant called for another and
shivered and swore in his beard that he
would adopt the little girl.
why no." said Dickey, you cannot
10 that exactly, either. She came to
California to find her father, and pro-
pose that she shall fird him.
.'I3ut how?"
That. my dear fellow, is a story not
yet told. San francisco Bulletin.
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Lord Bramwelrs Piety.

The late bishop of Winchester is said
to have possessed among his many other
qualities that of sarcasm. A good story
is told of retort made to the late Lord
Bramwell, who, meeting him on his way
back to his room to take off his robes
after reading prayers in the house OF
lords, apologized for having been alb
sent from the ceremony. when. / kneel
down it gives me palpitation of the
heart" said Lord Bramwell, land it
would not be respectful for me to sit or
stand while your lordship was pray
ing" Bishop Thorold, perhaps know
ing almost as much about the old bar
on's sanctity as did Lord Bramwell him
self, answered in measured tones:
spray do not mention it, Lord Bram-
well! ! am sure your lordship can be
equally devout whether you are stand
ing, kneeling, or sitting-I will not say
lying!" The playful cid judge after.
ward inquired who had read prayers
that afternoon, and, on being told re-
marked, with sparkle in his eyes:
"He's a sharp fellowl"-Household
Words,
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ElREslpE FRAGMENTS.

"A little -four crcdgrd over the top
of cake will keep the icing from run
ming.
Fruit cake can be preserved for
long time by placing it in box with
an apple, and keeping in cool place.
If the apple shows signs of rottipg, it
must be replaced by good one.
"A most delicious homemade flavor
ing may be prepared by grating into
onc-half pint of alcohol the yellow
rinds of four lemons. Shake this daily
for three or four weeks, and at the end
of that time it will be ready for use.
"A Delicate Pudding. Cream a
pound of butter and sugar, add eight
well-beaten eggs. favor the mixture
with nutmeg. Line a pudding dish
with thin puff paste, pour in the pud-
ding and set in 4 very hot oven for ten
minutes. Serve without sauce.-N.
Y. Ledger.
Baked Ham.--Scak the ham in cold
water over night; trim, wipe dry, cover
it with paste made of -four and water
and bake in slow oven. When done,
take off the crust and peel of the skin;
allow to cool, glaze and Cornish with
carrots and beets cut into fancy shapes.
-Harper's Bazaar.
-Eanana charlotte makes good
desert and one capable of being pre-
pared in hurry. Line the sides of a
quart mold with slices of sponge cake.
Cover the bottom Of the mold with a
thick layer of thinly sliced banana.
Fill the mold with stiff whipped cream
and set it aside in the ice box until
wanted, then remove carefully from
the mold and serve.
Apple Rice Pudding.-Pare, quar-
spread loosely in Luttcred agate pud-
ding dish Add three-quarters cupful
of sugar and three tablespoonfuls rice
to one quart of milk; turn the mixture
over the apples, spread a few bits OF
butter over the tops and bake in mod
crate oven four hours. Serve hot with
sweetencd whipped cream. Orange
Judd Farmer.
Colds, With or Without Fever
On gong to bed, let the feet and legs
be bathed in warm bath. Drink free
~ of warm, thin Cruel or warm weak
tea with plenty of milk in it. If there
is pain IN the head, apply mustard
poultice on the back of the neck until
the skin is red and painful. If there is
pain i'm the chest, the side or any part
of the abdomen, put the mustard
plaster directly over the painful part
until the same effect is Produced
LIVERPOOL Mercury.
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| the steel rails through all the long

the steel rails through all the long
night.
In the last sleeper little Dickey Culver
sat and smoked, while the child slept
peacefully in the luxury of double
lower berth, and from the stateroom
came the steady snore of the porter.
Dickey did not even doze in the night,
for that was his day, and he was puz-
cling over how the child came to be up
on the platform. Certainly she had not
been there when the train left Medicine
Bow, for he had stood upon that plat
form himself and watched the station
out of sight-and il had been broad day
then. The train had stopped nowhere,
and vet how absurd it was to suppose
that the child had been put there while
the cars were in motion. How could
done it? Even a Wyoming blizzard,
strong as it was, did not bear little girls
! about on its wings and deposit them
upon the platforms of the sleeping cars
for passengers to pick up.
Dicl<ey could never tell afterward how
| many cigars he smoked that night, but
he exhausted his supply. 1t was in the
early gray of daylight and the storm
had spent its force when the child
awoke. The train was making fast
| way through the desolation that lies
along Bitter creek and over the vast
plains was n mantle that glittered as
| though studded with million dia-
monds. They are rare jewels that arc
carried in the blizzard when the wind
has done its work of spreading them out
to deck the white bosom of the snow
covered plain. Far away to the north
there was a CLEAN of mountains, white
above blue. and in the northern sky be-
yond the hills a pIainsrnan would have
told you there was still more snow to
come. Dickey only saw sort of ashen
gray sky, flushing to pink as the sun
came up, which was like no sky he had
ever seen in California, but was never
theless most beautiful.
"Winter has it's compensations," he
thought--and then, hearing the child's
voice, he FASTENED into the sleeper
proper and parted the curtains of her
berth.
81 want my mamma" the little one
said, smiling up into his face-the sweet
smile of childhood just awakened.
Here was a dilemma. 'Where is your
rlamma, little one?' DiclSey saba
mans laundering capacity for saying
the wrong thing.
"Why," she said. don't you know?
We were going to my papa in California
and we rode q longways, and we had no
more money and the man would not
let us ride. Then we walked and l was
tired. 1t was cold, too. My mamma
put me on the steps and told me to DO
good-but the dark came and it was
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HuRRAn ron PENNSYLVANIA.

Tho farmers Of Pennsylvania are to
be congratulated. M. M. Luther, East
Troy, Pa, grew over 200 bushels Sal
xer's Silver Mine Oats on one measured
acre. Think of It'll Now there are
thirty thousand farmers going to try
and beat Mr.. Luther and win 5000 in
goldI and they'll doit. Will YOU?
Then there is Silver King Barley,
cropped on poor soil 116 bus. per acre
in 1898. Isn't that wonderful-and
corn 23o bus. and potato es and grasses
and clovers, fodder plants, etc., etc.
Freight is cheap to all points.
If you WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND
It with 1oc postage to the John A. Sal
ger Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.,. you will
receive their mammoth catalogue and
ten packages grains and grasses, in
Guiding above oats. free. (K.)
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LOOK FORWARD.

Never back to the rose hues of sunrise.
Though at even the clouds be gray,
Does he turn who would know the full
meaning
OF the busy, care-laden day.
Not the dimples and smiles of our child
hood,
Nor the innocence dear of our youth,
But the wisdom and strength of the victor
In the cause of eternal Truth.
Show most clearly the love of the Father,
Underlying all mystery,
Give Us hope in the night OF our sorrow
And comfort with prophecy.
As the mighty swift current of being
Hastens upward and onward Away.
Let us look not behind but before us
For a CLEAN of the perfect day.
Frances G.. Richard. in Union Signal
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Rockies the north wind came sweeping,
bearing before it great drifts of snow
that eddied and swirled about the cabs
of the two locomotives, but with no
sign as yet of banking up on the track.
The engines, putting and blowing made
brave way against the blizzard, and
from the cab of the foremost the en-
gineer looked out, keen-eyed, against
the blast, though the bits of ice in the
wind stung his face like the flicls of a
whip. The firemen, swart with coal
dust and stripped to their undershirts
even in that temperature, steadily kept
the fires going, and now and again bent
low to the furnace doors to melt from
their hair the icicles formed of the
pores and froze as it ran
In the smoking-room of the last
sleeper of the train little Dickey Culver
dozed as the night fell, arousing him.
self now and again to look out with a
great WEAKNESS upon the white waste.
Little Dickey Culver had arrived at the
dignity of vacation and had taken it
IN trip TO chicago.
Its devilish queer taste at this time
of year," Fessenden had said to the
boys at the club. after night of see
ing Dickey off, ''but a man must take
his vacation when it Genes, and sup
pose we all feel longing to get back
into the world once in awhile. know
] look forward to reincarnation my
self some day"
Dickey had his vacation, at all events,
in his own way-which is the only
proper kind of a way-and now he was
on his way back to San Francisco, find
ing the road almost interminabls in
the wintry weather. You see, there is
always so much to look forward to for
q Californian who comes back.
Night comes down fast upon the
Laramie plains when it comes bearing
a blizzard, and as the darkness closed
in the wind arose, moaning and shrek
ing the chorus of the lost. 1t dashed
particles of ice against the double win.
dows of the car, and there was a
shivery feeling in its million voices,
though no touch of it came into the
snug smoking compartment of the
sleeper.
The porter came in presently,
touched button and lighted the in
candescent lights. That shut out the
sight of the sweeping drift: of the
blizzard, but could not shut out the
moaning of the wind or the beating
of the ice particles against the win
dows.
Its beastly night, porter Dickey
said, in sheer desperation for some
body to talk to.
Oats right, boss. Hits The wust
run I've had this fall"
He went out feeling the same human
craving for company in the storm that
Dickey did, but finding it more to his
liking in the porter of the next car
forward. Then D;ckey dozed again.
He was the only passenger In the car
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A Trip to tho Garden Spots of the South.
On January IA and 2S, February IL and
March 10, tickets will be sold from principal
cities, towns and villages of the north, to
all points on the Louisville Il Nashville
Railroad In Tennessee, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Florida and q portion of Kentucky,
at one single fare for the round trip. Tickets
will be good to return within thirty days
and will allow stop-over at any points on
the south bound trip. Ask your ticketagent
about it, and il he can not sell you excursion
tickets write to c. p. Atmore, General
Passenger Agent, Louisville, KY, or
Jackson Smith, d. p. A., Cincinnati, O.,
]. X. Ridgely, N. w. p. A, Chicago, Ill.
Geo. B. Horner, D. p. A., St Louis, Mo.
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~ ,oc.I apnlicatious, as they cannot reach
tTa S;eeased norton of the ear. There y
o mi one way to cure deafness, and that =
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this tube COTS infiamed you have rSmo y e
an tire,v closed deafness is the result, ana
unless tho Inflammation can be taken ous
and this tube restored to its normal con.
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nine cases ont Of ten are caused by catarLns
which is nothing but an infiamed conoitio"
Of the mucous surfaces. g.,
we will give One Hundred Dollars JOE
suy case of Deafness caused BY catarrH
that cannot DO cured by Halls, Catarrn
Cure, Send for circulars, free
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, "
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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rs it Glanced, and winter travel over
the Pacific railroads is dreary business,
even when there is plenty of company.
Presently he shook himself together
and lighted cigar. Then he looked
out into the darkness. There was a
curve in the track just there, ana he
saw the two brave engines beating
their way into the teeth of the wind,
fighting it down, and the long train,
like great serpent of fire, dsfiled be-
fore him. Then the engines vanished
into n cloud of steam, lurid with their
own passing fires. and the lights were
gone into She darkness.
"If were in San Francisco tonight"
sid Dickey, thinking aloud from .
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Tho Glft of : Good stomach

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Frs.-All Fits stopped free by DIR. Kline's
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ON THE LARAMIE PLAINS.

lie Pacific ever
land, west bound,
pulled out of the
station at Medi-
cine Il ow a n d
Strengthened 70 r
the run across the
Laramie p a i n S
to Rawlins. Down
through the gap
where the North
Platte breaks the
barrier of I h q
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You've BUSINESS MAN-"When do you
think is the best time to advertiser" Old
Business Man-"AH the time, young man."
-Somerville Journal.
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How CALMLY we may submit ourselves TO
the hands of him who bears up the worio.-
Richter.
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as MARRIAGE q failurei" s'No;. not as q
means of grace" 'Er-what2" ut leads
to repentance. Truth.
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SUGGESTIONS are, for the most part, but
the shadows Of great truths.-Tryon Ed
wards.
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THERE is no courage but IN innocence
no constancy but in an honest cause
Southern.
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CnrErLY, the mold Of mars fortune v
In his own hands-Bacon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-14
THE SPLIT ~ TAMNANY WIDENING.
p1rppoy SUPPORTING ST. JOHN IN THE HOPE
OF WEAKENING sHEEHAN-TIE w1GwAM
TOO PURE FOR ALTGELD.

The Bryanite leaders OF Tammany held what they
called an Executive Committee meeting last evening
a. the Wieyam at which efforts made 20
bsrmonize the ugly differences which have broken
ont in the organization but with poor success. Tho
rivalry between John c. Sheehan and Henry D.
purroy and their respective coeres Is OF 90 bitter
nd personal character that II was with difficulty
that John j. Scannell and some OF the more exeiia-
bile partisans could be restrained from starting an
other fight In the meeting.
To weaken and dlscred, She-han, Purroy and his
followers have been aiding Mr.. 81. John in his
scheme OF running Popullst free-slver candidates
for Congress and Assembly in many OF the districts
of this city Sheehan has been aboring TO get these
"a ndidafes Of ST. John 20 withdraw 10 concen-
,-sfe the frea-silver the Tammany candi-
dates but little success mas attended his efforts 81
John expressed regret yesterday that he was I'M
able 10 get. mis- Popullst candidates 10 decline their
nominations but his sincerity was doubted at Tam
many Hall last evening by Sheehan's friends. They
believe that Purroy has had something 10 do with
the refusal OF St Johns Populists TO withdraw in
favor Of the Tammany candidates
Another source OF trouble IS Altged. the noto-
r,ous Illinois Anarchist Alteeld invited 10
come here and speak nj Bryan and Sewali mass
meeting to be held next Saturday evening at ram
many Hall. Sheehan and his associate rulers uc-
cided that the appearance Of a person OF Altgeld
infa nous record would be damaging TO Iaminhily
IiIy white reputation, and 40 the place for Atgeld
ueeting was changed 10 Cooper Union. The Tam
many Annex that has charge OF the Altgeiu meet
ing is called the German Democracy, put no
straightforward German Democrat inside or OUT
side OF Tammany Hall, so far az Is KNOWN mas