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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
Rcsiuued I'm Her Favor,

Passer: Hello. Unclei Is it true. as l
have heard, that you have given up poll
tics?
Uncle: Well, as ter dat, sab. hain't
egzakly CUB hit up. but Use sorter rer-
signed in Tabor er mer wife.
Passer: Indeed. and what's your idea
in doing that.
Uncle: We'll, yo' see she got de notion
dat ef she done git in de feel an wuk,
she'll Ian up in de halls er Congress
afore long. and bertwix you an me, I
hain't KNOWN no udder place so far fom
home whar like ter hab her go ter; an
hopes, when she done git dar, hit won
be no short session. needcr.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
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ELECTRIC { COMPANY.
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TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC.

Commencing January I. 1890. this
company extended It's transfer system
TO embrace all connecting lines or street
raiixyev in Richmond and Manchester
4 passenger Is allowed the privilege ~
tran.fer 10 any connecting line IN either
city. and in any direction at Juuc'lon
The payment OF a scent fare entities
A passenger 10 only ONE transfer ueket.
bnf additional transfers are allowed on
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tnereon which does not return the pas
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transfer tickets must be obtained from
conductors az the time fares are paid.
and passengers are requested 20 see that
sIctsts are properly punched for the de-
This arrangement enables passengers TO
interchange between the Main-street ana
Clay-street lines. at central points. IN
any direction. 49,.
can be reached from any point In either
city BY payment OF one fare. ia Its
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Colonel CockerlIl telegraphs from 10
kohama to the Herald that the queen oi
Korea IS really dead. Thus Is ruthiess'y
knocked into smithereens most START
ling politico-romantic or romanuco-po-
ltical story. The Herald's recent resur-
rection Of the Korean Queen, after all
the funeral-baked meats had been eaten
and several men had been decapitateu
for numbering her. opened up vast
field for speculation. as to what would De
the future of the Hermit Kingdom when
her Majesty again got her hand upon
the royal broomstick, and was in position
10 bang the King around. But, alas'
the resurrection proves fake, and our
editorial brethren. who predicted an en-
tire change of the situation in Korea
az a result of the Queens being sui
alive, are left lamenting-not her Ma
jesty, but their own credulity.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
nv shadow.
Robert Louis stevenson)

Robert Louis Stevenson)
I have a little shadow that goes In and
out with me,
And what can be the use OF him Is more
than / can see.
He Is very, very like me from the heels
up 10 the head;
And | see him jump before me when
jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him Is the way
h likes 10 grow
Not at all like proper children. which is
always very slow
For he sometimes shoots up taller like
an Inda-rubber ball,
And ne sometimes gets so little that
there's none OF him at all.
One morning. very early. before the sun
was up.
| rose and found the shining dew on every
buttercup:
But my lazy little shadow. like an arrant
sleepy head.
Had staid at home behind me, and was
fast asleep in bed.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
4 Modern View.

Bachelor: Why do you want to marry
again. old fellow? You've tried five wives
already, and been divorced from them
Doesn't that prove matrimony failure
Much Married: Not bit Of it, 1t only
proves the wives a failure. Matrimonys
all right. II there's anything l do like
it is an institution that isn't monotonous.
There couldn't be anything more versatile
than the groove ormatrimony I've struck.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
In the Composing-Room.

Visitor: Is the editor in?
Pressman: 40, cir Anything I can do
for you?
Visitor: Perhaps. ] want 10 get peep
al your library I'm studying ethnology,
and want to find out something about
the Monaghan type.
Pressman: Oh. we haven't got It, sir.
Mnlon and nonpareil are about all we
are having any use for just now. but we
may get the Monaghan for jobbing some
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
TOO Expensive.
nEastern Shore HeraldO

The present Constitution was force
upon our people. and even after tWcnty-
five years OF existence does cot now
suit US, although amended in some par
ticulars. IL is too complicated and ex-
pensive; while some of its features are
very good, yet there are so many that
should be changed that il would be less
expensive to have a convention than TO
make those changes by means OF amend
ments. The question Of calling a conven-
ton should certainly be put to the people
that they may choose what they like.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Upper: All men have forefathers' OF
course.
Clipper: Certainly. excepting, as you
will admit, the cannibals; they have ate
fathers.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

During the past week upper Franklin
street was besieged, both day and night,
by fighting and bowling dogs. Police of
the Second Police Station were called
upon. but said they were powerless to
give relief VIII the Committee on Or
dinances please meet and set the ball
in motion that will free our city from
the dog nuisance?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

In behalf of the good citizens Of Rich
mond, we call upon you, the Committee
on Ordinances-Messrs. Sol l.. Bloom
berg. W. ]. Mcdowell, ]. II. Lawder.
and John Mitchell, Jr.-to meet and act
upon the dog ordinance.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

The Farmville Herald thinks that the
secret Of good roads is in the supervisors
of the several counties realizing that
rock bottom highways are the only ones
worthy Of the attention OF civilized
people.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
The UurgIar Mt Work

This minds me OF my youth" he said,
With laughter as a light refrain;
For then my life was on the seas,
And now I'm on the seize again"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Duty, to the immortal Lee, was the
"sublimest word in the English Ian.
guage." and every boy should be en-
couraged 10 make the sentiment his
Watchword.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
A. IsunI.

Unto the pessimist this is
Like every winter since the biz"
OF making winters has upriz-
In line OF natures gen'ral bent,
"The winter of our discomfort"
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

We most respectfully. but earnestly
call upon the Council Committee on Or
dinances to take action upon the dog
ordinance. as framed by the Police Com
rnissiOners.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

ST. Louis has notified the electric-lieht-
ing and street-car companies TO get their
wires underground by January /, 1900,
under penalty Of having all left above
ground after that date cut down by the
city a pretty general movement Of this
sort will soon be under way, says the
Springfield Republican. VIII Richmond
ha in ito
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Mrs. Showalter. the wife of the chess
champion Of the United States ana pro-
baby the greatest woman chess-piayer
in the world. is said to be a direct de-
scendant Of Chief-Justice MarshaHs.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

II seems to be generally agreed that in
the list of English poets laureate we
have now Alfred CTennyson), the Great
and Alfred (Austn). the Small.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

As the Chicago Tattersalfs may be the
meeting-place OF the Democratic Nation
al Convention, we presume there may
be trotted out some dark horses for con-
sideration.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

As we understand the Eastern-Shore
clergyman who is talking about the
honorable appellation OF Reverend" he
simply wants the title In his own case
Dunaway.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

ships of the field to fight in virsinia's

ships of the field to fight In Virginia
cause.
II there IS not I'm the Treasury the
money 10 do all these things as they
should be done. then we say submit 10 the
people the question whether they are
willing TO bear a special tax for this
purpose. We know what their response
viii be. We care nothing az TO details
OF taking the sense OF the people on this
question. n we have the will we may
find the way
IL we love Lee, let us care for his SOL
diers and for his monument.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
SUNDAY .."~..JANUAkf ~ lo'o'

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Uptown OFFICE. iss EAST BROAD
STREET. .,t- u. ~.
wEsT- END OFFICE. PARk-Pi.A. =
pJARNACY. Beividere and MAIN s. I,-,
MANCHESTER OFFICE. l2S HULL
STREET.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

II the destination Of the new British
flying-squadron really is Bermuda, what
are we going to do about it?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Camposs retirement would seem TO be
Gomez's opportunity. What will the
Cuban do with his chance?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Has anybody yet remarked since the
days OF Harvey that the Circulation OF
the blood was i'm vein?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

The geological garden is the place to
look for gnoos items.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

The voice Of the Charlottesville Progress
is vigorous for a new courthouse at that
place. or the entire remodelling Of the
old oua
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

1t is quite significant that the Spanish
commander to succeed Campos in Cuba
is known as "the butcher"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

In the dog-kingdom there are few dogs
that have a higher standing than the set
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

All letters and kilograms must ee Nv ~
,,,essed IN THE DISPATCH COMfNN e
rejected communications viii not Os IT,
snrpeH
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Rather paradoxical-it Is only when you
shed tears that they are no longer under
cover
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

In the proud lexicon Of the politician
there is no such word as resignation.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

Morrison and Whitney" is a cry that
may now be heard.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

II seemed to be about Is to l against
st. Louis in the Democratic convention
city matter. ..
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19
To Cure a Cold In One Day

take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II II
falls to cure 25c.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-19

missioner
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27

Two steps to one side and either one of
the men would have tramped upon him
where he lay.
they strike light?
go on, you coward" said Parker. i'm
patiently. "There amt no human bein'
but them in the cottage within miles OF
us. Go on, tell your
"Ugh! White man, him fool!' the In
dian answered, mnttering discontentedly
as he passed downward.
Parker followed, and soon their echoing
footsteps died away in the distance, and
Hale rose, with prayer of Thanksgiving
on his lips, Tor the danger was past.
Quickly he ran up the last fight OF
stairs, and one glance showed him all.
The wreckers had not extinguished the
lamp, but simply broken the revolving
apparatus. In another lighthouse further
down the coast the light was stationary.
Pilots, therefore, would naturally mistake
one for the other, and run their ships
upon the rocks. The plan of the wreckers
was perfect in its diabolical ingenuity and
in its certainty Of success.
Hale, however, was equal to the occa-
sion. Closing the heavy door of the little
circular apartment na bolted and barred it
firmly. This was scarcely the work of q
minute. Then, standing ON a stool, he
found-oh, Joy of jovs!-that he could
reach the lamp. and move it easily with
his hands-in fine. that he hlmself could
perform the work of the revolving ap-
paratus.
lone, two. three, four. five, six" he
counted. with the regularity of a clock,
until he reached "sixty," and then the
brilliant light flashed out upon the dark
ness, and many a pilot, miles away upon
the bosom OF the stormy gulf, saw the
well-known signal and steered his vessel
accor ingly.
1t is scarcely necessary to relate how the
infuriated wreckers, vowing vengeance
upon the person who had outwitted them,
ran up the narrow stairway and flung
themselves again and again upon the
stout barrier which separated them from
the heroic boy. Suffice it to say that
amid the bowling of the storm, the curses,
threats and pistols shots of the baffled
ruffians five feet away from him, Hale
calmly and precisely continued counting
the weary minutes of that long, terrible
night.
His arms ached; his limbs could scarcely
support him; he was almost overcome
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
Ch@ Li$5t-
Keerer' s Son
A Story Of Cape Hurricane.
BY E. J. M.

long, narrow strip of land belonging
to the Canadian Government and jutting
out into the Gulf OF st. Lawrence was at
the time 1 write OF known by the appro.
pirate title of Cape Hurricane.
On account of the dangerous condition
of the coast a magnificent lighthouse had
been built at the extreme point Of the
cape and hard by stood the cottage of the
keeper, an old seafaring man named
Samuel tombstone.
Besides two daughters he had four sons,
the youngest of whom Hale, aged four
teen years, is the hero of my story.
One day in the early part of September
the boys and girls with the exception of
Hale drove about ten NJ lies inland for the
purpose OF being present at a wedding the
same evening.
Samuel tombstone, who was a widower.
was consequently left alone with his little
son.
AS night approached the former per-
ceived, with some anxiety, that the sky
was overcast by heavy clouds; that cold,
wet wind was blowing from the north and
the experienced mariner at once concluded
that great storm was impending.
Hale he said, entering the cottBge
and addressing the bow, who was reading
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27

tin bed by good, faithful black Aunt Roxy,
their uncle's housekeeper, II believe l will
try and learn 10 cook. Uncle wants us to- y
Nonsense !" responded lilly. 81 wouldn't
bother. Uncles an old bachelor, and Miss
Smart says old bachelors are cranky and
ave funny ideas"
II don't believe it," differed Edna, land
my uncle's good, anyway. He thinks lots
of us. and We ought to try and please
him."
But TIlly had nestled her head under
the quilt. and was asleep by this time.
"Oh, Uncle Grimble! Uncle Grim BILE
Guess what you're going to get for Christ
mas present"
"Bless us!" exclaimed Uncle Grim BILE,
ropping his newspaper as Edna danced in
from the kitchen the day before Christmas
with a warm odor OF holiday goodies fol-
lowing her. "Whatever can it be?"
"A pie'' said Edna, futtering into an
excited tiptoe jig-"a pie that Pm going
to make all myself. I've been learning OF
Aunt Roxy. and now she says can make
one myself"
"Just hear the child I" said Uncle Grim.
BILE, pulling off his spectacles and rubbing
them briskly on his big red handkerchief.
Does she really care enough for her old
uncle to learn to make pie expressly for
him"
eyes, indeed, uncle" assured Edna, put
ting her plump arms around his neck and
giving him a loving hug. You're the
dearest, bestest uncle in the world!'
There" said Uncle Grimble at last,
Jump down now. Pm going to put on
my great coat and 20 to town and see
what l can find in the way of pretty
things as presents-extra presents besides
those Santa Claus brings. you know-for
industrious little girls who learn to make
pies"
Miss lilly slid off the lounge where she
had been engaged in the manufacture of a
flock of paper chickens, and trotted for
ward with little pout on her red lips.
II can make pies as good as Edna can, -
she said. shaking the curly brown locks
out OF her eyes.
We'll done!' commended Uncle Grim
bic. This is encouraging, little girl.
And now, to add still more interest to the
occasion, suppose l offer first premium
that is, choice of presents to the one
who gets up the best pie tomorrow, while
the manufacturer of the second best gets
the second choice. Hey?"
"All right" assented Edna, while lilly
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
Esna,g Ctrtgtm.g PIE.
Bu Hattie Whitney.

Little girls don't seem to be good for
much nowadays" said Uncle Grimble,
with shake of his head that made his
bright spectacles glitter and snap. "There
was a time once when they used to know
how to wash dishes and sweep floors and
liked to learn about breadmaking and all
that. But that time went out with can
dlesticks and Dutch ovens, and if my
nieces were big china dolls they'd be
about as much practical value and have
quite as many ideas of how pie is made
Wouldn't they, Edna?'
Edna, who was benevolently rocking
the black kitten to Sleep stopped so sud
denly as to make Jets bright yellow eye:
pop open in surprise.
why, uncle" she replied. II never
thought about making pies, or-or any
thing of that kind. Aunt Roxy always
tends 10 that, you know. But IL think
could"
"Ha, hal" laughed Uncle Grim BILE
rather skeptically; land so could lilly
couldn't sne?''
II wouldn't" said lilly, with toss o.
her pert little head. II don't want to
know how TO do that kind of things"
"Humphp' answered Uncle Grim Bile
ut strikes me you want to eat, though. ;.
"Tilly," said Edna, that night, when the
wo were carefully and snugly tucked w
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with fatigue; but he never fiinched-he
stood with invincible determination at
his post of duty, saving by his exertions
the property of anxious merchants and
the lives of.storm- tossed mariners.
And when the anger of the storm SUBJ
sided and the sun rose in the east, hinging
It's glorious radiance over the sparkling
waters of the Gulf of st. Lawrence, 1t
flashed brightly on the sails OF many ships,
which, but for the heroism of a little boy,
would have been shattered on the cruel
ROCKS of Cape Hurricane.
The wreckers, who had made their es-
cape before daylight, were afterward cap
| tured and punished as they deserved TO
be-by mprisonment for q long term of
years.
When Hale, on descending from the
lighthouse in the morning, released his
father, the latter wept tears of Joy in
thanking heaven for SO heroic and noble
hearted son.
Later the little fellow received bron ee
medal for heroism from the Government.
Even to this day visitors to Cape Hurri-
cane, hearing this story told. unite in APP
plauding the grand and noble deed and in
calling down blessings upon the hero. Hale
tombstone, the lightkeeper's son.-Golden
Days.
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STREET CAROLERS.

born cooks and some aren't. That must
be the difference.
1.-THE proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing" remarked Uncle Grimble; land the
same may be said of pies. So we'll give
both a, fair trial before we decide"
And here Uncle G-imble took a good
sized bite of Tilly's pie, and Immediately
shut one eye and squinted the other up
fearfully.
"Tilly." he said, sits sour enough to
make pig squeal."
Aunt Roxy's red-spotted turban was
poked inside the dining room door.
II lowed to tell yo' all befo' dinner"
she said, mot to eat none O. dat ar cherry
pie, cause hit amt got no sweetnin' in.
Thar amt but only one cherry pie, cause
1 tuck all de cherries to put inter dem
little patty tarts; wasn't only jest huff
left TO- one pie. an when I'd done got de
pies in de pans an was hxin' OBJ 'em TO
de top crus', dat ar white chiny bowl OBJ
sugar guy out jest as I got to de cherry
pie, an l lows I'll leave dat one go tell /
gifts a rest, an when l puts on de top
crusties I'll go fetch some mo- sugar; an
1 clare to mercy l neber thought no mo-
about hit tell jest little while ago-don' It
even member noticin' dat pie when l fin
ished t'others. an reckon 1 jest put on
de top crus' 'dout thinkin' nothin' 'hout
nit; but yo' all needn't cut dat ar pie tell
opens hit an puts sugar in HIT
II think, Aunt Roxy, that we have cut
it already" replied Uncle Grimble, look.
ing gravely at lilly, who turned as red as
the cherry juice running in bright
stream from where the pie had been cut.
| 1t was all he said. But lilly, suddenly
realizing the gravity of the offense she had
committed, ana overwhelmed with morti-
fcation at its detection, felt herself justly
punished.
Edna, plying her grief, proposed to go
on equal shares in the gifts; but Uncle
Grimble would not permit it from a stern
sense of justice.
AFTER all" he said to himself. perhaps
1 should not have offered a premium.
Love is the best motive to work from, and
one not likely to induce deceit"
But as the premium had been offered it
was now awarded to Edna's Christina
pie.-Golden Days.