Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-06

feasts--or If it be stretching forth into
the next link Of evolution, when we snail
feed on rose-leaves dipped in dew ana
imbibe the nectar of the gods.
What concerns us mostly is that Dame
Nature has fitted the supply TO the de-
mand. and that in early spring we can
keep Lent with a meagre larder from the
up-springing vegetation, and let con-
science call it self-denial If we will.
THE LADY ANSWERS QUESTIONS.
Several puzzlng questions have lately
broken in upon the calm serenity OF my
devotions, and 1 want to say that the
basket which catches the weekly over
flow of grocers bills, love-letters, and
personal conundrums is assuming too
much waste for my ideas of sympathy.
Inquirer" wishes to know what think
| Of the single tax. l should have halted
| in opinion between the taxes of the fem,
nom and the other masculine one if In
| quirer" had not kindly flourished a capt.
| tai IS" and capital "T'' around his rid
! die. and 1 am thus led to infer that he
means the single tax.
| The one single tax with which 1 am at
! all familiar is of the neuter persuasion,
/ and is the only thing known among men
! that is as certain as death. 1t comes
along about the LIST of December, and, If
! it Is not welcomed with loOscned purse
strings, tacks per cent. to its billet
| douX the following spring The other
| single tax, / take il, must be somewhere
f, for sombody if one may judge by the
! frequency with which see il is attacked.
| As a general rule the more anything Is
abused the better IT is apt to be; but this
| law does not hold good with land or
taxes. L have real Bellamy's Looking
| Backward" and these ideas of mine ana
| thine are all wrong. You work your po-
| tato-patch and I'll grub mine; II L ooh |
! l deserve to 90 without When Adam pre-
| empted the first farm in Paradise hollow
it was not long before the restless spirit
! of the single-taXer grew upon hiill-ne
was dissatisfied with what he had ana
| wanted something else. When this Iarn
| came down to Cain and Abel, Adam s
sons the lazy brother was jealous and
| envious Of the other, and it has been so
with trifing. mean people ever since. If
they cannot have what a good man owns
they would rather kill him than leave
him in peaceful possession. The single
tax movement is one Of the very few
things 1 really know nothing Of.
If ENQUIRER wishes to know what an
astral body is, or the law of self-hypno-
tism. or any other easy solution, TINS Is
tbe bureau for scientific facts-the sin
gle-tax'' query is harder TO solVe thah
DlOuEnlng the Idlu hOuid w 49, SN'AN
one else buys H.
INDISCRIMINATE KISSING.
| And ''Birdie" wants to know II L DE
ueve I'm indiscriminate hssing"
Oh. yes: I know all about this; 1t is
"iust lovely" / saw it the other day.
was at the depot when the train came In
and a great. big man, red-taced' sue
burns. fat, and froggy, stepped OH anC
into the arms of another slim, pale-eyet
fellow whom he fairly smothered Wlti
his avoirdupois and overcoat ana greeteC
with a roar Of: "Howdy-do, hoWdy, Ole
man; let me kiss you for your mother.
At this awful junctuie l turned away
az in moments of supreme peril one VIII
Won know; but / think the indiscriniihdl'
kiss was given and received.
I wish we were all Japanese as tar al
tho kissing goes Do you know the!
oe,er kiss? But Of all things weird an'
,,ncanny. the kiss of one man TO anothe
&c the worse. I've seen meG VINO peioht
10 some religious sect greet eaon othel
With ga holy kiss" but If / were elthe
brother / would vastly prefer the ioot
washing which follows.
When two women meet ana hutler any
kiss and gush over each other, one sfliie
, in pity, when two men KISS us an nuns
. crinoinate want of taste never 10 De par
Tonad No Birdie 1 don't believe II
Iise,na,-with. or without, the adjective.
FROM OSCILLATION TO MURDER.
The state proved In the preliminary ex
oroination of Coles, charged with tn
> ,nurder OF Scott Roberts, that box @
watches were struck and thrown upol
Robertss floor when the murderer reach
) ed the room after the DEED wa
acme and that one man must have don
this while another searcneu LOT paper'
, and money; also, that Coles asked al
, ola colored man to swear, in the event o
r bis (Coles's) arrest, that ne saw Mn
, az now Airstrop's store" The trlal Is sc
. For the fourth Monday in March
! The ladies of the Alton chapel VIII CIV
! sumner with an enjoyable entertainer
! On Friday night for the benefit or tn
; Cuban sufferers. Ga. mar
: Mr., and Mrs. John u. Spotls wer
: CHESTS at Chestnut Ridge TINS week.
: Mrs. John Hart is expected at avon
a few days. c..a,, g.. ,do,,
. Mrs n. b. Martin OF Staunton, is Wish
inc Mrs. Mamie Harris. OF Doby 5.
Mr. CYRUS McCue has sold MS farm
NJ w s Bailey, and expects 10 JOIN nj
D Sno.hers In Illinois. Mr.. Baileys protne
80 purchased the estate or the iate Mr'
nscC,Ye and the two tracts Will be plantc
& osohsrds -his spring. The nurserie
| are booming.
, To Cure n Cold I'm One Day.
: 49,. LAXATIVE Bromo Culnine Tabiet
so.N the money III ~ lal