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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
Reflections at Eighty.

Rufus c. Hopkins in the San FrancIsc
Jewish Progress)
What on the journey have I done?
what have l lost? What have / won?
I've made by toll my daily bread.
And on the way have others fed.
I've nothing lost since had naught
When began this life, unsought.
I've won whate'er has stilled a sigh.
Or dried tear in sorrows eye.
on this long journey 7 have learned
That wisdom is by suffering earned.
AS We can suffer. so the mind
In thought may compensation find.
The diamond rs by cutting made
a brilliant gem Of highest grade.
No filming process e'er can place
Dull lead above a metal base.
I'll not complain because that I'm
My eighty years I've scourged been.
But rather will l thankful be
That / have known adversely.
Had ne'er slept on sorrows bed,
No tears Of pity could l shed.
Nor will now in grief repine
On life's mysterious border-line
Because 7 have so little done,
Nor think that | have nothing won.
But. with this testimonial give.
That well il paws on earth to live!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

The New York Botanical Garden, plan
ned for Bronx Park. will be the third
largest I'm the world. 1t embraces go
acres. The famous Royal Botanic Gar
dens. at Kew England. in which are the
most valuable of all collections of the
worlds fora. are 260 acres in extent. This
area is far exceeded by that of the mag
nificent and wonderful botanic garden es-
tablshed by the Dutch In 1917 at Buiten-
zorg. Java, which has 100 acres.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

The striking cabmen in New York
made trouble Monday. According to the
Morning Journal, they mobbed con-
veyances in which prominent society wo-
men and club-men were being driven by
non-union hands; they maltreated one
coachman so that he had to be taken to a
hospital, and at least one lady leader of
society had to walk home. The Journal
gives the lady's name.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

book is arranged in question and answers
and the pupil puts the proper cylinder In
the monograph before beginning Lesson.
With the book before him and the tubes
OF the phonograph In his ears. he reads
the lesson and also hears the phrases re-
peated with the proper accent.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

The New York Journal prints a state
ment from Emilio Castelar,, Spain S
greatest thinker" on the Cuban ques-
ton. He is represented as saying to
the Journals representative, 1--WE have
not attacked the United States but II we
are attacked we shall defend ourselves
as we did against Napoleon" and his
statement is an elaboration of that idea.
He fully supports Canovas in the latter's
defiant attitude.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER %, 1896.

THIS PAPER RECEIVES THE COM
RINED TELEGRAPHIC-NE NEWS SER
VICE OF THE SOUTHERN ASSo-
GATED PRESS. THE UNITED PRESS
THE WESTERN ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATED
PRESS. AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

The accident to Sir Henry Irving. which
caused him 10 announce that he is COM
PEELED to close the Lyceum Theatre. where
his revival OF Richard Ill" was being
played. was the straining OF a ligament
on the inside Of his left knee. The
Lyceum VIII be reopened after Christmas
Irving's injury was the effect OF sunni
ling upon the stage stairs at the close
Of Saturdays performance.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
A Delicate Suggestion.
CTit-Bits.)

Young Lawyer ION his first case): I'd
give anything 10 win this case. but
don't sec how It Is possible TO clear you.
Prisoner modestly suggesting): / don't
sp'o yo'd like ter swear yer committed
the crime yerself. would yer?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
once Of Commissioners jackson.

20 VNrT NTlTl NTr0eT
Richmond. Va, November 81. lS96
All the parties TO the above suit are
hereby notified that | have fixed on my
place and the 3ist day OF December.
1896, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. as the sime. 70
proceed to take the accounts ordered bv
the decree. Of which the foregoing is an
extract.
Given under my hand this. nth day OF
November. 1895.
q. CARLTON. JACKSON.
Commissioner.
Coalter Wise. Harvey Wilson. p. q.
dc 2-Wft
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

The statement Is made that widespread
political corruption has been shown 10
exist In Delaware. Evidently the state
ment Is a mistake or libel 1t is
geographically impossible for anything to
be widespread in Delaware.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
Explains the War Fever.

No doubt 5000 men could be recruited
In this country for Cuba in a week. This
~ not so much a testimony to the war
like nature of Americans as to the lack
OF peaceful pursuits entailed by bad legis-
lation at Washington.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

a professor OF languages IN New York
mas brought the phonograph into use as
an assistant. lie uscs II 10 teach his
pupils the proper pronur citation. His
method III to send with hir text book a
photograph and twenty Loaded and twen-
~ blank cylinders. Each rsson in the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

UPTOWN OFFICE. BROAD-STkEhl
PHARMACY. Ns EAST BRoAi'
STREET.
wEsTEND OFFICE. PARK-PLACE
PHARMACY, BELvIDERE AND MAIN
STREETS.
MANCHESTER OFFICE. 1903 HULL
STREET.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
Hereditary.
Brooklyn Life.)

C3rooklyn Life)
Bobby: Pop. what does hereditary
mean?
Fond Parent: 1t means. Bobby. some
thing that goes from parent to child. Now.
see If you can We me an example OF
something that Is hereditary
Bobby: Measles. l got 'em from mo-
Their.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
ADVERTISING RATES.
HALF INCH OR LESS.

Wanted situation. payable IN au- AZ
vance e5 words or iess)......:..,,'.' "a
Above rates are for every day or au-
ver,lsements running consecutveiy.
Reading notices in reading-matter Vpe'
Az. lines or less. 81; In nonpariel. leaded'
1--we lines or less. 70 cents
Card Of rates for more space iurh'sn''
On application.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

executive and legislative departments Of
our government are co-ordInate. At least
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
THE j. ". RANDOLPH co.,
HAVE BOOKS FOR YOUNG AND THE OLD THE GRAVE AND
H1A'1

they will have which
tire but always What appropriate for Christmas
John Cook May,
Hood
Moore Leigh Hunt Ceg Cowper Father Ryan
Father Jobn the Red Line Poets d
ton for Soc Ruy Kipmgs $3.50 Maybe prefer Bible
BookEpopa
Ole? the city from 2c to So Hymn Books
Methodist Ladies Centemens Purses
Lap Tablets and Writing Desks Abums-Phoph and
rated l0c to 5c Juveniles from 2c
to Blocks Checkemen and Board Chesme1 Domno
RED Won for yourself Gold Penshandes Ebony
Don't of Calendars toS
All
w. RANDOLPH
Bookseners.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

and balances" does serve a good purpose
now and then. after all.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

All letters and kilograms must be ao-
sres.ed 70 THE DISPATCH CONTAIN
Rejected communications will not be re-
turned.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

1t may as well be borne In mind that
should war really come. the jingoes would
not probably do any large part OF the
fighting.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
Noisy Christmas Fun.

baltimore Herald)
Only few days separate US from the
joyous Christmas festival, and the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

All letters recommending candidates for
oftice must be paid for to insure 'hei'
publication. This is long stahoihs iu''
of ours.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23
CHRIST mis- GIFTS
FOR
EVERYBODY,
BOTH OLD AND YOUNG,
AT
MITTELDORFE R'S,
FL 80 RROAD -


Our store will be kept omen every ii
until 1920 o'clock. SANTA Ga. Ni
be here with gifts in an parts o- oi H
mensc store. tr.r
The largest stock OF Christina BOG
dav Goods ever shOWn-bOugtr Is .lN H
cash could buy them. 90 le SOLD '
cut-d0wn dry-gOOls prices
presents for father. mother
brother. and the lituc ones. An A
force OF salespeOple engaged flr
day sale. Economical buyers
fail TO give us an early call. com
the rush and get your choiee '. "'
TOIS or ALL KINDs-Horns p,.
Wagons. Iron Toys. Iin l.t-
Sleighs. Desks. Trunks. DOLLS oi
scrintion ShOo-Flies. Chairs.
rows. BICYCLES Games ol an s.nis
suits. Chinaware Wooden Toys.
Tovs. Paby-Carriases, BisIie D. 'i'
and Saucers. Lamps and sl. ..-
and Pewter Tea sets. Silver lni o..
cy Boxes, Shaving-Cases, Nt'. "-' $50
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22

to apply only to the political state, for,
individually and collectively, the Turks
are about as healthy a lot of people as
exist on the globe. The Government is
weak and inefficient, as despotisms grown
old are wont to be, but that is no sign
that it is near the end of its days, for
these Oriental despotisms have trick
of hanging on to life, sometimes for CEN
turies after they ought to die. The
Greek empire at Constantinople lived for
five centuries after its territory had been
reduced to the region Immediately sur
rounding that city, and it is not at all
impossible that the Ottoman empire may
not follow its example, and it probably
will unless the powers show more unan-
unity in regard to disposing of its estate.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22

Alano III. f,,,ti,r, e II,,,,,,,r,, .,,l :. .
iand tboy ,yar,, ann,ll,, hatad ar5 fa.roa
For ooo yaars. rho pnnos nf tba tifteanth
ard s;xtoontb oont,,r;as issued .,,o,;ai
nrovers for nrotection osainst tbon. tba
inhshitapts ~ Southsrn Rnssia for a con.
tnry and a half bad nm annual fast doy
70 insure Immunity from their raids
No tho regular troons of onv c;v;I;voa
nower they are eontamntihle Tbev a no
armsd viii ont;,uotad ait Ioo,, .nooth
hora mnsLats a or 7 faat lono n;stoIs ,e
equally onc;en, nattarr ord sahars o.
cowboy, with a Winchester, a pair of
good revolvers and horse fleet enough
to keep him from being overwhelmed by
numbers, would be more than match
for dozen of them. They are brave
enough III their ferocious, brutal way,
Out the worthlessness OF their weapons
renders them scoH to any organized
pouy Oh troops. During the war OF 1879
one resiineht oi nussiah ioot drove before
H. III heaoiohg route, over oOo0 of these
liar"euers' company OF forty nus
siah lrohuer euaras nus peen known to
snht,no ,,,,r,,l.,. No., "o,.n,ess ,., lor
,.han n,,,rdar 81 mi. ,u"e -. a oni'
Thay ora rio,,rasnra 49, ~ I.
Or,an,oI oost,n,as u,;.h haIta - s'.n,
% n;st.is "a dar,a,a ~ - 9'uen ,uii
n;ot,,ros,,,anass is ,ai;,,, iu.e',
small oonsennaroa N Vi 'ei'
IT, oot,,aI ,,.o.eano ,houae. .,..
,;,;raad nnu,on Tn,Lan 49, , %''n ahy ~,
,nfnntrr ana art;l,nrr tha a,sao,;,a as, o9 sne
nf .haso - t,,,a arr,s - ,esa ~ iU,S' sno
100 mon Suoh a foroa 20 th;s on"ia e.
s+rnng nrotast 70 tba narti,;on af th.
TrrLish an,nira hnt avan oftor ,,s rn
s;stanoa u,as ovsrcon,o tba ,rorh,o ,'ouIa
no. ha a. on and for hafora tha d;u;sin,'
'''o.
could be performed campaign IN every
neighborhood would De necessary Inc
tanaucal hatreo entertained oy Mosiehs
for everybody ana everything Cnristiah
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22
military system has been put in working

military system has been put in working
order
There is another class, comprising wide
ly different races of men, who resemble
each other in nothing but the fact that
they are all alike, sayages. The Turkish
irregulars are all cavalry, and probably
not since the time of Atilla has worse
lot of thieves, robbers cut-throats, muir
derers and all round desperadoeS been got
together. Turks from Anatolia, kurds
from Armenia, Circassans and Georgians
who prefer wandering life of rapine and
murder to the iron discipline of the Rus
sian military service, Persians, the de-
scendants of the Parthians SO much
dreaded 1000 years ago, Arabs from the
Red Sea Coast, Druses from the noun
tains of Syria and Palestine, negroes
from Egypt, fugitives from justice or
every surrounding country, escaped jail
BIRDS anybody is welcome to their bands
who has horse and arms and can ride,
steal and shoot. These are the men who
desolated Bulgaria; these are the men
who are now making Armenia desert.
The only discipline they recognize is obe-
dience to their leader; they have no sys-
TEN of drill and the terror they inspire
is due solely to their well deserved repu-
tation as butchers. When they wage
war it is not war; but determination, for
they make not the slightest distinction
between the armed and the defenseless,
killing all alike with equal ferocity. To
them an expedition is raid, during which
neither man, woman nor child Is spared
and what property cannot be carried OIL
is burned Our American Indians were
gentlemen compared with them, for the
Indians did occasionally spare the chill
dren, adopting them into their tribes ana
raising them as members of their fami-
lies, but to the natural savagery of their
dispositions the Turkish irregulars add
religious fanatcism of the most exag-
gerated type-a fanaticism that causes
them to regard the murder of nom
Mohammedan as a religious duty, an act
extremely lnudable in the sight of Allah
and which will entitle them to much
credit, both in this world and in the next,
Principles, if they can be so called, such
as these render the Turkish irregulars OBJ
| jects of the utmost terror TO defenseless
villagers subject to their raids, and have
at one time or another made their name
a terror word from Vienna to Teheran
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22
Water Scoop Accident.

The accident to the water SCOOP on
the New York CentraPs locomotive
which prevented the Empire State ex-
press from making a record, says the
New York Mail and Express, recalls the
first experience of the officials Of that
road with that device.
General Manager Toucey and Super
lntendent of Motive Power Buchanan
undertook to try the method, and the
latter agreed to run the locomotive ON
the occasion of the test, while the for
mer was to stand at point where the
water trough began. so as to enable the
tlreman to drop the scoop at the right
time. Mr.. Buchanan moved his en-
CINE along, and when that point of the
track was reached abreast OF Mr..
Toucey the scoop was lowered. Instead
of scooping up water the device tore
I'D the ground and created a small
sized sensation among the onlooklng
officials. 1t was afterward discovered,
on investigation, that the scoop work
ed all right, but that Mr.. Toucey had
inadvertently moved down the track
anu W Iclulh W iiio "pS'b $500
point. Mr. Buchanan subsequently
tried the scoop again, but he took pains
that it was dropped at the right time,
Another instance of a similar nature
is recalled of an inquisitive yardmaster
of an Eastern line who wanted to see
how a water scoop worked and got on
the blind end of baggage car next
the tender to make his observations.
The train struck the scoop going at full
speed, the engineer not slowing down
because he was behind time, but more
especially because he was aware of the
yardmasters presence on the platform
behind him. For two hundred yards
perfect avalanche of water plowed up
between the tender and ear, half
drowning the enthusiast on water
scoops.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22

pay an exemption tax of about 81 90 a
head per annum.
Theoretically, every Moslem in the do
minions Sf the Sultan is soldier ON fur
Tough liable at any time to be called on To
serve his master in field or garrison, but
such is the corruption prevailing in every
part of the Turkish administration, both
civil and military, that any one can secure
an exemption who is able to pay for it,
There is, moreover, a system of conscrip-
tion organized by law that is supposed to
be carried out in every part of the empire.
1t is based on the military system of Ger
many, for since the last urco-Russlan
war the army of the Porte has been en-
tirely reorganized by German officers,
who naturally adopted the plan prevailing
In their own country, and with which
they were most familiar The military
system consists of the Nizam or regular
army, two classes of Redfs, or Land
wehr, and the Mustafiz, answering to tho
Landsturm of Prussia. At the annual
conscription the ranks of the regular
army are supposed to be filled by the men
of the levy, who must serve six years with
the regular army and first reserve. They
then pass into the second reserve, to be
called out only on emergencies. Here
they remain eight years, subjected to an
nual drill at their homes, then become
members of the third reserve for six
years longer, thus passing twenty years,
either in the army or in one of the re-
serves. This is the system and, In work
ing order, it would furnish the Govern
ment with an army, in time of war, Of
nearly 100000 men. But, like every
thing else in Turkey, theory is one thing
and practice quite another, and, as
matter of fact, there are very few districts
where the system has been put in run
ming order, and none where the conscripts
of the year do not buy exemption from
service whenever they are able to do 80.
In one case in Il military district near
Smyrna, the population made a contract
with the enrolling officers that, In con-
sideration of lump sum, paid down in
cash, the district should be exempt. The
money was paid, and the conscripting
officers returned fictitious rolls, and went
back, rich and contented, to CONSTANT
nople In another, the conscripting Off
Ger was prevailed on to enroll the popu-
lation of the prisons; in a third all the
beggars and poverty stricken wretches
to be found in the district were entered
as conscripts while the able-bodied men
escaped.
In reality, the Turkish army is COM
posed of young men, unable, under the
oppressive system of taxation, to make
their living on the farm or in the work
shop, who, therefore, entered the army
voluntarily, and such conscripts as could
be secured in those districts of Asia
Minor and European Turkey where the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22

With the character and extent of Cal
ifornia mountain forests most persons
are tolerably familiar, as a large por-
tion of them can be seen from the great
interior valleys, the traveller also get
ting glimpse of them when crossing
over the Sierra by rail But about the
redwood lands situated far from the
main lines of travel and difficult of ap
proach few persons have much accurate
information, and yet the tree growth
here presents more that is calculated to
interest and attract even the unscientific
mind than anything found on the
mountains, save only the few scattered
groves of the Sequoia gigantea, our
wonderful "big trees" With the ex-
ception of the latter, the average size of
the redwood, the Sequoia sempervirens,
greatly exceeds that of any other class
of the conifers, the quantity of lumber
they turn ont to the acre being without
any parallel elsewhere. The total prod
uct of the redwood forests of California
amounts to about 100000 900 feet per
ear.-Wood and Iron
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22
---- ----
The Indomitable Man.

Genius is really only the power of
making continuous efforts. The line
between failure and success is so fine
that we scarcely know when we pass it
so fine that we are often on the line
and do not know it. How many
man has thrown up his hands at time
when little more effort, a little more
patience, would have achieved success
As the tide goes clear out, so it comes
clear in. In business, sometimes, pros
poets may seem darkest when really they
are on the turn. A little more persist
ence, a little more effort, and what
seemed hopeless failure may turn to
glorious success. There is no failure
except in no longer trying. There is no
defeat except from within, no really
insurmountable barrier save our own
inherent weakness of purpose. -Elec-
trical Review.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22
THEY WE'RE SUSPICIOUS.
How Indians from the West We're
Mystified by the Telephone.

How Indians from the West We're
Mystified by the Telephone.
Maj. Pollock, who was superintend-
ent Of free delivery In the postoffice
department under the last administra-
tion, was for some time stationed C.
the frontier as an Indian agent, anu
was we'll and favorably known to
many of the principal chiefs among the
red men. Whenever they sent dele
gates to Washington to have u pow
WOW with the great father, the Majors
Office was sure to be visited by them,
and they came sometimes in crowds.
On one occasion, while the Indians
were making call on the Major, he
went to the telephone, in another room,
and called up the Indian office. When
his call was answered he said:
'Tell Frank to come to the phone"
Frank was IA half breed, employed In
the Indian office.
Hello! Frank" said the Major.
Hold the phone a minute. Your un
Gle is here and wants 10 talk with you"
Then he went into his office and led
one of the chiefs to the telephone.
want to talk to Frank?" said the
Major, placing the transmitter in the
chiefs hand
After many grunts and suspicious
glances at the mysterious contrivance,
the little ear trumpet was finally held
to the Chiefs ear, and the Major said
"Now, go ahead, Frank
A grin spread over the Indians face,
and he dropped the transmitter. After
trying in vain to look behind the in
strument, he stuck his head out of the
window and looked around. Then
with a bewildered look he ran to the
door and looked up and down the cor
ridor.
The Major explained to him that
Frank was up town In another build
Ing, but the Chief wasn't convinced,
and called another Indian. While the
second Indian was listening the first
chief watched the Majors lips closely,
evidently suspecting some trick of ven
triloquism.
"Ugh!' grunted the second chief, as
he dropped the transmitter and looked
under desk and out of window.
The Major couldn't satisfactorily ex-
plain the matter to the chiefs, and
finally was forced to put on his hat and
take them over to the Indian office,
where they found Frank at the phone,
waiting for more talk. ."-Washingtou
Star.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22

great fatigue and hardship without break
ing down, of marching long distances
without food or rest, and all these quail
ties, in soldier, are invaluable.
The Turkish army, therefore, is a fac
tor to be considered in the discussion of
the fate of the Ottoman empire. for if the
Turks should make up their minds not TO
be divided up into parcels without
struggle they are capable of offering
very effective resistance to any proposed
plan for the partition of their country
among the powers of Europe. The area
of the Turkish empire is about 100000
square miles. or a little over one-half
that of the United States, and the popu-
iation is nearly 4O,000000, or about two
thirds that of our own. These figures,
however. 40 not furnish definite idea
of the strength, or more properly, of the
weakness of the country, for comprised
in the enumeration of inhabitants are the
people of all the races that We're con
quered by the Turks, who constitute
more than one-half of the whole number.
Christians within the limits of Turkey
are regarded as aliens, or rather as enc
mics, whom both the Government and the
Mussulman population would be glad to
see removed or eXtermnated. They are
not liable to military duty, but, instead,