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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-07

palmed on as q rich ore-prDducer upon
a speculative Frenchman. on whose Won
derful and amusing. as well as compli-
Gated. adventures the plot hinges
The cast is a particularly strong one.
and is headed by two ie$ceedlngly clever
actors and comedians-Frank Tannehill,
Jr. and Ignacio Martinetti. The latter
great hits In "Delmonico's At Six" and
as zou you in ''Trilby." are easily re-
&spembercd. IL also includes Anna Boyd,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-07

"Wheezing'' in children Is soon cured
By the famous DR.. Bulls Cough syrup.
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"PO' WHITE TRASH y
THE IDLER DISCUSSES THIS
wRETCmED CLASS OF HUMANITY.
He HAS NO USE FOR "TACKY FOLK.
Good Clothes and Wealth Cannot
Hide Their Status-Tbe bright
Things He Might Have Said Bat
Didn't Say.
Didn't Say.

When 1t comes TO a case Of 'po' white
folks" or 'niggers." / say give me mig
gers" every time "Niggers" don't
count for much any way you take 'em,
and their love for watermelon surpasseth
their affection for soap, but for all
that they've got their redceming quail
ties. They at least don't try to pass off
for gentecl. But "po' white folks" amt
good for anything leastwise nothin' ex-
cept for votes. They make you mad to
look at EN-. You wonder why they were
born-why they had the impudence 10
be born. in fact-and why they don't
go right Straight of and die. The more
you think about 'em, the madden you
get, especially. If they're any kin to you.
They don't have TO tell anybody they're
'po' white" 1t speaks for itself. "Po'
whiteness' Is the most audible thing on
earth. You can hear it miles of. They
say blood will tell. 1t certainly does. In
''po' white" folks 1t not only tells; it
shouts. 1t manifests itself unto the
fourth and fifth generations. Nothing can
eradicate "po' whiteness." You couldn't
pull II by the roots. 1t sticks like a dog
tick. You may try TO smother IT with
cash; you may seek to obliterate It by
education; or, you may clothe ii In purple
and fine linen, but just the very time
the disguise begins to bluff, out pops that
indescribable, ilrepressibie something
that discloses the secret. "Po' whiteness"
is. to my mind. the hardest of things
to define and the easiest of things 10
recognize. 1t needs no brass band 10
Introduce 1t, nor would a ten-acre lot
hide It, But no matter how you find It,
or where you get it. or how you hide it
excuse me from the article. Give me
ringers" every time.
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BARGAINS IN GROCERIES

at prices never heard of before Now is the time buy your
supplies Read how cheap selling everything Though
our prices are rs per cheaper than any other house
guarantee the quality be the very best Try and be
yinced.
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I've seen bricklayers q wish l could
have more dealings with this class. for
all flesh is but clay, after alb who didn't
show a sign Of ''po' whiteness," and then.
on the next wink OF my eye, Ia run
across a silk hat, broadcloth rooster who
possessed all the attributes-whO was
dead po white" If / may be allowed to
squash a human being with so hideous an
epithet. Without meanin' to make enc
mics, and with heart full Of love for
humanity, and even for monkeys. which
are thought by some TO be folks, l will
hint that people who wear paper-coliar
suggest 'po' wilderness" TO me. l aint
amin at anybody in particular, any
more than is my wife, when she says
that women who put their rings on the
outside Of their gloves are "tacky." Gel
luloid cuffs certainly amt aristocratic,
bat still, I've got nothin' to say on that
subject, for you might next consider the
man who don't wear any. While, too.
don't want TO hurt anybody's feelings,
think it's a heap nicer not TO have q
bed in your parlor. and not to put too
many Biblical chromos on your walls
These things mayn't be 'po whiteish
but somehow, l always catch myself
thinking Of 'po whiteness" when / see
them.
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perfect white light; no odor; cannot get
out OF order; easily wicked; does not
break chimneys; made in all styles, and
cheap as any other.
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Poor folks and 'po' white folks are
by no means the same. Like everybody
else In Virginia, haven't been rich my
self since the war nor was I before the
war, for that natter. but I'll carve my
initials on the bloody residue of the man
who says I'm "po' white" Such an ac-
cusation is the quintessence of Islander.
In fact, II is often used by women when
they can't find anything else mean to say
about a pretty girl whose goods looks
are offensive Only they amt so fond of
the word 20 white" as of it's expressive
synonym "tacky."
You doubtless ask me what is the critic
rion OF "po' whiteness." Perhaps you
believe that some Of your neighbors
possess the attributes of this class. but
little do you suspect that they are placing
you in the same category. / can't de-
scribe 1t, but you realize II through all
Of your five senses. It's like the seven
years itch; you get it all over. "Cullud
pussons" always say "po' white trash"
which expression solves at least in part
the mystery. "Tacky" people are un-
doubtedly, and beyond the peradventure
of a doubt. the trash of humanity-the
'scum of Screemusville," as it were.
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When company comes to our house
we make a conscientious effort. cos
what it may, TO put the best foot fore
most. All we ask Is ten minutes notice
In this time one may reverse cuffs, comb
hair, hide a soiled shirt-front with a large
cravat, and do divers other things cal
culated to create good impression. II
there are apprehensions that the visitors
will stay to meals, as ninety-nine out OF
every hundred do, ten minutes Is a
chronological sufiiciency for sending 10
the grocery store to buy Clipped beet.
or for filing up the empty table with d
dish Of preserves. Preserves, by the way
are the light artillery of housekeeper's
defences. They are quickly brought into
action, and. when eaten, take the appe-
tite for other things away. My wife
and !, though in constant state Of BEL
igerency, have amnesty in the presence
IF visitors, and on such occasions we are
as pie towards each other. People envy
US, and after a visit to our house, bache-
Tors and old maids forthwith conclude TO
marry. We make things comfortable
for everybody, and even address the cook
in dulcet tones. In conversation, we
fairly let ourselves loose. In fact, we
talk like people i'm books, who all appear
to have been to college and to have ar
somehow or other in spite Of all this.
when the visitors are gone. ] think OF
the brilliant things L might have said,
but, remarkable to relate, didn't think Of
at the time.
Way late in the night, as lie tucked
away in bed, recall the topics / dis
cussed and my brain is phosphorescent
with brilliant ideas and clever jokes.
which would have made the company
chuckle themselves to death. l coo among
the silken coveIlets, and If my wife
is enjoying a sweet repose, l even con-
descend to arouse her and convey my
luminous ideas to her. Sometimes these
mental Jewels begin their coruscatioDs
almost Immediately after the guests have
departed, and 1 wonder il the recording
angel credits me with the tardy With
cisms. When l don't feel very brilliant
| try TO be literary and to discuss books.
| endeavor TO keep the conversation on
the works I've read. but some fellow in
variably pops up and nails me on some
book / never heard o.. In all my ex-
periences [ never cafDe across a person
who appeared to have heard OF the
authors i like and the favorite writer's
of other people are those who are UNI
known to me. / believe it's best to be
plain and commonplace, anyhow. Then
folks won't expect anything of you and
Won can 20 along and do like you please
wear carpet slippers down to your place
of business, II you want, or wipe your
zen on your hair.
THE IDLE REPORTER.
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England's Future Coal supply.

cit may now be accepted as geolog.
ically certain that between Dover and
Bath there occurs a more or less inter
rupted trough Of coal measures of 100
miles in length and of a brt adth vary.
ing from two to four miles, measured
from north to south. Dr. Hull lie.
lieves, however, that this trough is in
terrupted by considerable textures and
disturbances, and that it cannot be ex-
pected TO compensate for the possible
exhaustion Of the Lancashire and n ID
land areas. Nor, though he considers
that it must extend under the channel
toward Dover, does he think that it
could be worked under the sea to any
extent with profit, as, except at an enor-
nous depth, the difficulties of intruding
water would be too great.
Taking each coalfield separately, DR..
Hull discusses its probable lateral ex-
tension under overly ing strata, and, on
the basis that about 1000 feet repre-
sents the downward limit of practical
working, he arrives at estimates in
round numbers of the amount of coal
that will be available at the end of the
century, The total for the United King
dom is 81, 6o3, 600, 900 tons. AS the out
put of coal for 1896 was over 1876, OO0,
600 tons, ON the extremely improbable
assumption that the rate of production,
which has more than doubled since
1860. will remain practically stationary,
these figures of DR.. Hull would give
life of about 400 years to our coal mines
Within this period, then, an enormous
readjustment of social conditions, and
probably Of commercial conditions, is
bound to occur. London Spectator.
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A Quiet Family.

The French minister of foreign af.
fairs, it is said, asked the king of Siam
why he did not leave his foreign minis
ter at home to take charge of things.
Because he is my brother" retur d
Chulalongkorn, with grim smile. !
should probably have found him ON my
throne when got back to Siam. but
you have your other brother with you.
Eyes, but his nature is even less benev-
client. He would not only have seized
my throne, but cut off my head as qui =
ly as l returned. " You all seem on ex-
cellent terms together" exclaimed the
astonished Frenchman. Exactly, SAID
the king, land, as l like to be ON good
terms with them, always take them
along"
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SHOWER OF STARS.


Rain of Meteoroids Coming with the
Close of the Century.
The astronomers look for the next
great meteoric shower on the morning
CT Nov, 10, 1899. They calculate that
the earth will then pass again through
the center of an immense swarm of me-
teoroids, as they are called Le1Ore cCm-
bustion. These great 'leonide star
showers" as they are called, occur at
intervals of every 33 years and one day.
The great shower Of 1893 occurred on
Nov. IL; that of 1888 on Nov. 49, that
Of 1866 on Nov. IA, and consequently q
repetition OF the next wonderful phe-
nomenon is expected on the morning Of
Nov. 10, 1899.
In the meanwhile, however, as tho
aggregation of meteoroids is Of immense
length, one end of it will encounter the
earth III 1888 and the other in 1860,
making, as Professor Lewis Swift, the
distinguished astronomer of Rochester,
says, considerable showers in those years.
Professor swift says, "The thickness Of
the meteOrUidal stream is 100. 600 miles
and the duration of the shower is equal
to the time Of the diagonal passage Of
the earth through it, usually from mid
night to dawn. " EIe adds, Gas there is
a light show r of leOllds every NOvCm-
Der we know that there is a vast ring
formed by the comets tail and that the
immense shoal in one portion is the
product Of tie exploded comet itself,
through which we pass once every J3
years and d day"
The meteoroids are dark bodies, and
it is only when they pass into the earth
atmosphere that they are ignited by 11iC-
ton and become visible for a few sec
Onds. The stream makes a revolution
around the sun in about 49, years,
and by consequence the earth passes
through it in new place each year.
The length Of the swarm is so enormous
that, although at periheliOn it moves at
the rate of nearly 20 miles a second, yet
it takes it two years to pass the earth,
SO that when its hinder part is still with
US its advancing side will have reached
the orbits OF Jupiter and Saturn. Not
withstandinG this extent it is but frac-
ton Of the entire orbit Professor swift
says, "This great cluster Will reach the
earth's orbit about June l, 1899 but
the earth will not have arrived there
then, but Will be due nearly six months
later, WHEN our planet will plunge into
the swarming mass and for at least five
hours we shall experience literal rain
of fire - Ra ltinOra SIN
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ity at disadvantage, or as brilliant as
Voltaire's "niscorrses Upon Man" If
they inoulcated injurious theories. CT as
rhythmic as Byron s "Dcn Juan" if it
sacrificed the deaencies On that day
the flying roll which Eechariah of the
text saw thousands OF years ago and the
rolls which we see f ing over all orr
towns and cities and flying from tie
swiftest printing presses tb<U were ever
invented Will be found to contain mes
sages divine or satanic. Not only the
inkhorn which Ezekiel saw, but all the
inkhorns, will come to judgment. "And
| saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God, and the books were opened. "
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Wayside Wells.

The caution uttered by Mr.. G. F.
Wingate, sanitary expert against in
discriminate drinking FROM wayside
wells by bicyclists or other travellers is
one that it will be we'll to heed. Mr.
Wingate affirms his positive knowledge
of several cases of typhoid fever traced
to this cause. He points out the fact
that a well may be considered health
full by those who habitually drink from
it, and may in fact be so as far as they
are concerned, and yet be dangerous to
stranger who takes only a slight
draft. New York Post
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The very best way to know
whether Dobbins' Electric Soap
is as good as it is said to be, is 10
try IL y0urSelf. 1t can't deceive
you. Only be careful not to get
an imitation. There are a great
many Electrics and Magnetjcs, all
intended to deceive the public
into suIposing that they are Dob
bins Electric, or just as good.
We have made this since 1869
1t is the original Electric and is
guaranteed 70 lie worth four times
as much as any other soap ever
made. For washing anything,
from the finest lace to the heav-
lest blanket, it is without a peer.
Only follow directions.
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This is to certify that the co-partnership
heretofore existing between H. W. Hib-
bard and James b. Hale under the firm
name and style of II, W. Hibbard 4 Co., is
this day dissolved by mutual consent.
All bills due said firm will be paid to II.
w. Hubbard who assumes all outstanding
liabilities of said firm, and will continue
the business under the firm name of II.
W. Hubbard & Co. as heretofore.
II. w. HIBBARD,
JAMES B. HALE.
So. Ryegate, VT, Nov q, 1897.
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in them" That oniS IS helpful news
paper which, as we fuia it up after read
ing, leaves us in mood to pray for all
men and in a spirit that wishes prosper
ity for all Christian workers, whether
they work our way or some other way,
and we feel as though the angel flying
through the midst Of heaven, having
the everlasting gospel to preach, had
with the tapping Of his wing stirred
the air on our cheek and forehead.
Pray also for religious journalism,
that it may be alert--not abreast OF the
times, but ahead>Of the times. In this
day, when by cablegram we seem to get
from Europe news five hours before it
starts we do not want in our religious
columns information .scissored out of an
old newspaper or information sent by
means of letter which comes to us
through the dead letter postoffice be-
cause it was misdirected, nor do we
want it to take the pace of religious
journalism as it was i'll 1915, when Ma
thaniel Wilson started his religious pa
per called The Recorder, or when The
Waterman was born i'll 1919, or when
The Christian Register made its first
appearance in 1921. The canalboat
drawn by mules Oh towpath did well
i'll its time, but now we prefer the yes
tibuled limited express. Because Il
thing is pious it need not therefore be
dull. The printing press may beat the
Argus of mythology, for that fabulous
being had only 100 eyes, while the
newspaper has 1000 eyes and 1000
ears and 200 arms. The secular news
paper gives the secular news and does
not pretend to give its religious mean
ing, The religious press ought to put
all the events of the day in companies,
regiments and brigades and show US in
what direction that divinely disciplined
host is marching and let us know what
victories for God and righteousness they
will win. The Christianized printing
press is to do in our time ON large
scale what the battering ram did in old
en- time on smaller scale. That old
war machine was a stout timber, hung
by chains to beam supported by posts,
and many men would lay hold of the
stout timber and swing it backward and
forward until, getting under full mo,
mentum, it would strike into awful
demolition the wall besieged, God grant
that all of us who have anything to do
with the mighty battering ram of our
century, the printing press, may be
clothed of God with especial strength
and oneness of purpose and that, having
pulled it back for one mighty assault,
we may altogether rush it forward,
crushing into everlasting ruin the last
wall of opposition and the last fortress
of iniquity
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NOTIGE-

This is to certify that have this day given
my son. Heber 6. Gamsby his time during tn e
remainder of his minority, and shalt claim
none of his wages or pay any debts of his con
tracing after this date.
Corinth, W., Nov. 10, 1897
Gee. r.. GAMsBY.
Witness. H. L. PARKER.
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Any lady can make her soiled kid gloves
look like new by rubbing either Dobbins'
Electric or Dobbins' Floating BOrax soap on
piece o. dampened flannel, and applying it
lightly to the glove. 1t works like magic.
Try it.
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READ
ca r Y

ever use any other soap than this, after
having heard its own story, told you by
your own test of it.
DOBBINs SOAP MFG Co.,
Successors to /. /. Cragin & Co.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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Complete Unity.

Undenominational journalism is alb
solutely necessary to demonstrate the
unity of the Christian world. Wide
and desperate attempt is made to show
that the religion of Jesus Christ is only
a battle-ground of sects, and the cry
has been: IF you want us to accept
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Pens Dipped In Vitriol.

Pray also for the religious newspapers
of America, that they may resist the
temptation to become acerb, harsh and
damnatory of those who think different
ly from themselves. In all denomina-
tions there are disappointed people who
put mean things in religious newspapers
about ministers and other prominent
Christian workers. Unsuccessful men
and women never like successful men
and women. There are editors and re-
porters who, instead of writing with
ink dip their pens in oil of vitriol or
lampblack. When a religious newspaper
does lie, it beats all secular journalism
in contemptibility AS Adam Clarke,
the commentator, said, "SOme people
serve the Lord as though the devil were
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The Tender Christian Heart.

Again, ON this seventh anniversary of
The Christian Herald l notice there is
room for a religious paper thoroughly
humanitarian. The simple fact is the
of the human race have not
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All that we say on
the two wrappers
around the soap,
and then see for
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-21

We received a pleasant call from
Mr.. H. w. Watson, a young gentleman
now in our midst. engaged III the
insurance business. and connec-
necttd with the insurance firm OF A.
j. Ttaue & Co.
Nj Watson represents the National
Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn.,.
and ,sltcts tn make his stay among
US fol quite a while. He appeared TO
us to lie a man Of progressive ideas,
and v e hope he may find life among
us ~ag,..able.
Nj. Watson very seusihlv enrolled
hins, / among our subscribers for
year. vi irh shows that he wants to
keep formed abnnt the doings OF
the lttts social world wherein he has
cast his lot. Some of u home folks
might follow his example with adyan-
tage to themselves.
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Mr.. E. P. Roberts, of our staff. -
turned last Friday night. viii, ht-
"compaanons de voyage, after "a fir
teen days trip TO Chicago, Milwank. ..
st. Aouie, Nashville, and other cities
Mr.. Roberts says they have had q
most. delightful time on their little
journey and be is we'll satisfied with
what he has seen. He was much
interested by the sights at the expo-
sition and thinks the fair we'll worth
visiting. We have been trying to
get Mr.. Roberts To write US out an
account Of his trip for our readers but
he maintains that he has seen 40
much that he would not know by
which end to begin his relation.
which, he says, would be too lengthy
for simmer reading.
While in St. Lonis, he learned by
the press of that city that Augustr
Genar, who was arrested here and
sent back to St. Louis to answer u
charge of murder, had had a trial
while they were there, end the jury
being unable to agree, after being
locked up for %thirty-slx hours a mis-
trial was entered and the accused
remanded to Jail for another tlial.
BURGLARS AT Work AGAIN.-For
a time town had had no burglaries
within it's precincts and we had begun
to think that the light-fngered gentry
had departed for some new field of
operation. But we were much mis-
taken in this view, for last Welnes-
day night-an ideal night tor sucl,
nefarious work, as it rained aud the
wind clustered nearly the whole night
without intermissiop thieves entered
the store of Messrs. Levy & Block On
Canal street and stole therefrom some
:hirty-ive or forty dollars worth of
goods. Sheriff Beary and assistants
act to work early Thursday morning
to ferret out the thieves, which is
not an easy work. A suspected dar-
Ky who failed to give a proper account
Of himself was taken into custody but
ut the present writing it is not known
what evidence there is against him.
These repeated b~urglaries are a
menace to every householder in tile
community, and it is high time to fluid
mean to put a stop to them. Our
people cannot continue to live in a
state of insecurity in their homes at
night.
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IN Nj EMORIAM.

Be it resolved that in the death Of Major
8. T. Grisamore our Lodge, Excelsior No.
"a /. o. o. f., has sustained a blow that IL
irreparahle.
That his purity Of character. his determi.
ratiou of purpose, his fidelity to every duty.
every trust and every friend is an example
that should stimulate to higher efforts and
noble achievements the members OF cur
Lodge.
As a member'of our order he was ever
faithful, as a husband he was all that q mar
could be, In church he was a leader la both
theory and practice of its teaching, and
wherever found he was true to his friends,
TO his Order, to his church and to his God.
May the recollection of his many virtues
prove a benediction to his stricken wife,
to whom we extend our warmest sympathy.
That as q further mark OF respect these
rcsolu ions be spread upon!our minutes, that
they BITE published in both of our local pa
pers, and a copy sent to the widow of or
beloved member.
j. w. WILSON,
r. ZERNoTT,
G. p. SHAVER.