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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10
King George Crops.

CONFORM, KING GEORGE COUNTY,
VA, July 9.-(Special. )-There is very gen.
eral disappointment throughout this and
adjacent counties in the wheat crop. Up
to harvest-time the luxuriant, fiattering
growth led 10 the opinion that the yield
would far exceed that Of last year. The
threshing so far has been done on every
variety OF soil, from the poorest to the
most fertile. and the general yield is from
% TO So per cent. below an average crop.
In some parts of the county the bore
worm has attacked and ruined the grow
ing corn.
There is an unusually large number OF
cases OF sickness throughout the rural
districts this week. many OF them being
the result OF the intensely warm. dry
weather last week-or. rather due TO ex-
posture 10 re weather.
Work is progressing finely on the large
steam grist-mill in course Of erection at
Chatterton, this county.
Miss Lille Barbour, Of Richmond coun-
ty, has been visiting the Misses Tayloe.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10
Why She wanted Him Pardoned.

Governor Taylor, Of Tennessee, is noted
for his ability TO tell a good story as wen
as for a softness Of heart that compels
him to make more frequent use OF the
pardoning power than does any other
Governor. An illustration Of both or
these traits came under my observation
a short time ago. during visit 10 Ten
nessee, says a writer in Leslie's Monthly.
Tho mention OF the word pardon al
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10
ummering Mt Hon Air.

The following are among the guests
registered at lie Noel" Bon Air. Va:
Rev. DIR. James Il. Taylor and wife, Miss
Anna Taylor ana Mr.. Herman Taylor. OF
Salem. Va: Mrs. Manfred Call and Miss
Bessie Call, Mr.. and Mrs irwin Watkins:
Mr.. Mason. wife. and child, Of Norfolk.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10

IT has always been a source OF regret
TO me that hotels do not allow guests a
rebate on what they leave at meals. Some
years since / remarked on the inscription
adjoining n mountain-resort bill OF fare.
which read: Guests will be charged ex-
ira for what they take away from the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10
WAS AT OLD POINT.
THE IDLER LUxURIATEs AMONG
THE GAY, WEALTHY, AND GIDDY.
he WAS MISTAKEN FOR 4 JUDGE,
And the Lawyers Made Things Very
Pleasant for Him-Gossip About the
Soldiers and Fort-somo Table
Talk. iL.a i.aa,
Old Point Comfort. July 81

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10

In view OF the success Alabama pig rof
producers have met with In Europe
makers in Nova Scotia are now said 20 4
investigating the possibilities OF he eH'
port trade.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09

OF Bishop Short, who held the see of
ST. Asaph, many curious stories are
told. Occasionally be put questions to
candidates for ordination that apparent
ly had no connecti1uwith the discharge
of their parochial duties. They tested,
probably, their wit or tact, two neces-
sary qualifications to public men, but
nothing more. One such question pro-
posed by the bishop was the following ::
Which has the greatest number of legs
"a cat or no cat:"
As might be expected this created a
litter. but the bishop would not take a
laugh as the answer and consequently
he repeated the question and desired
some one TO solve the problem. AT last
one of the candidates, smiling, said, II
should think, my lord, cat
mo-" retorted the bishop; There
you are wrong, for cat has four legs
and no cat has five. London Tele-
graph.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
A Real Grievance.

The young man who had just come
into the business Office of the newspaper
had taken his silk hat off to brush the
hair back from his brow.
~ am writer OF distinctly mod
ern school of felton, he said to the
urbane gentleman behind the counter.
"Our advertising rates aie''-
81 don't intend to buy advertising. I
wish to see an editor. -
''That can be arranged. Of course -
land n compassion. -
"Yes?"
"And proofreader. -
Indeed"
"And representative OF each of the
other departments. -
"All at once?'
81 don't care whether they are all in
the same audience or whether 1 make
seven or eight separate and distinct ap-
pearances. But desire to be sure Of
finding the person who is responsible
for an attempt TO aliude to me as a
decadent iitterateur.
"Well-isn't that what you ere:"
perhaps. l will not discuss that.
But think that l am entitled to an op-
pcrtunity to demonstrate with the indi-
vi6ual who put that y in the word
'Gecaydent!' - Washington Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Nutrimep.. I'm Malt Ilouor..

Wines and malt liquors, while con
tanning FAR less amount of alcohol
than the distilled liquors, do contain o
definite amount of nutritive material.
Perhaps the best definition of beer as
brewed today is that of a fermented
saccharine infusion to which has been
added "a wholesome bitter. 1t consists of
water, alcohol, carbonic and acetic acids
and bitter principles from the hop. Ac-
coTding 20 Professor Atwater's investi-
cations, ale. beer and wine contain
small quantities Of nutritive material in
addition TO their alcohol and other COL
stituents. That Of wine consists mainly
of compounds akin to carbohydrates
and averages trifie over 3 Fer cent of
the whole weight. That of ale and beer
includes. on the average, little over
one half Of / per cent of protein and
other heterogeneous compounds and or
per cent az carbohydrates and allied
Substances. y pint tpound) Of ale or
beer would contain, roughly speaking,
about as much of these nutritive sub
stances as | 10 ounces of bread, and
pint of wine about as much as three
quarters of an ounce Of bread. Out
look
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Splendid Crystals In California.

Some time ago John L. Burton of
Lake Geneva, Wis, leased the right to
prospect for crystals in the old Green
Mountain mine, near Mokelumne hill,
in Calaveras county, Cal. He found a
number of fine specimens, and enc of
them is claimed to be the largest group
or mass of crystals ever found. AS taken
out from the drift where it was uncov-
cred it was IL feet inches in circum-
ference. Il was feet inches long, 3
feet inches wide and feet inches
high. 1t weighed 1900 pounds. The
mass included one large central crystal
and a surrounding group of smaller
ones. From the central one it was esti-
mated that a perfect sphere ii inches
in diameter could be cut, while several
others from three TO eight inches in
diameter could be obtained from the
mass. Mr.. Burton has found in all
about IL tons of crystals. Engineering
and Mining Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
The Force of Imagination.

"I had read, as illustrations of the
force of the imagination, said Mr.
Billtops, ''tbe stories about people get
ting fresh air by opening window that
really opened into an adjoining room,
and about their getting up an Jreak-
ing a window that they discovered in
the morning was the window of a book
case and all that sort of thing. l felt
a terrible draft the other day in a
street car, and CHANGING over my shout
der L saw that q window at my back
was open. l didn't want to shut it my
self. l didn't want to take the trouble
to ask the conductor to shut it. l Just
simply shifted over to the other side of
the car, and from there I saw that the
window that 1 had thought was open
was in reality closed. But 1 was not
chagrined by the discovery. On the con-
trary, l was amused enough over it to
smile, and that relieved the tension and
c.ssipated the draft. New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
His Own Spoon.

heard capital story OF Charles
Mathews, writes Mr.. Joseph Hatton,
from an old actor at the Lotus club in
New York. He was invited, with his
manager and two others, to dine with a
citizen who carried on the business of
pawnbroking and though well off kept
but one assistant.
Mathews was well known among his
friends and admirers for his remarkable
powers CT rapid imitation and charac-
teriZation, off the stage as well as on,
but probably he never gave q more re-
markable illustration of these powers
than on this occasion.
The host being called out of the din
ing room at the back of the shop, Ma
thews altered his hair, turned up his
collar and put on another mans hat.
Then, making suitable change of
Countenance, he took u large silver gravy
spoon from the table, ran into the street,
and, entering one of the little boxes
which universally shield one customer
from another at pawnbrokers' counters,
pledged to his unsuspecting host his own
piece Of plato and returned TO his place
at table as the pawnbroker re-entered
the room.-Youth' s Companion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Dors Meet the Train.

The oriental express, the famous
train from Paris to Constantinople, ar
rives at the Turkish capital three times
"a week at q certain hour i'll the after
noon. When the train comes III, says an
exchange, there are always many dogs
ready to receive il. Before the passen-
gers have had time to get out the dogs
jump into the carriages and search ev-
erywhere under the seats and in corners
for the scraps of luncheon left by the
passengers, and when they have found
all the pieces they go away. The re-
markable thing is that they never come
at any time except when the oriental
express is due; that they never make q
mistake in the day, and always remem-
Der that between Friday and Monday
there are two days and not one. They
pay no attention TO local trains, because
little or no food is left in them owing
TO the short rides the passengers take.
Exactly this same knowledge of the
time table and Of the difference be-
tween local and long distance trains has
been noticed at the station of the Asiatic
railways in Scutari, across the Bosporus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
How She Ansu.red Him.

II the average American tourist can
Eot speak French, the natives can.
Nothing Will stop them. Calling ut the
house of an acquaintance. l was greeted
by the concierge, a female janitOr, soul
leo as a corporation, and with no aspi-
rations 10 beauty. Carefully reading
from my phrasebook, l said as best
could, a. Is Nr. Blank at home:''
The woman should have said mo"
or yes" Instead of that she said
much more, and l missed the monosyl-
tables if she uttered them.
When order was restored, l repeated
my question Again she was yclumi-
nous Then / played for safety, which
the pbrasebook suggests. 1 said in
French: Il do not speak much French.
Please speak deliberately in order that 1
may if possible properly understand
you. / did not want TO say all this.
but 1 did net know what words TO leave
out. L let it all go. think the woman
did her level best, bet to this day do
not know if she said my man was in
or out. 1 could only make her pro-
found bow and sly in United States.
Heaven bless yOu for those words. 1t
was horse and Horse.
Then 1 sent my man a letter asking
him to call BE told me that it was
curious that two Americans had called
on him the day before, his concierge
telling him one of them seemed half
daft, for although the woman had told
him her master was in and requested
his name OF him he kept repeating his
question and finally left.-PGris Letter
in Kansas City Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Origin of a We'll preserved Joke.

Nasica, having called at the house of
the poet EnDius, and the maidserva1t
having told him, on his inquiring at the
door, that Ennius was not at home, saw
that she had said so by her masters or
der and that he was really within, and
when few days afterward Ennius call
ed at Nasica's house and inquired for
him at the gate Nasica cried out that
he was not at home. WHAT" says En-
MUS. ''Do l not know your voice:"
"You are an impudent fellow, rejoin-
ed Nasica. when inquired for you,
believed your servant when she told
me that you were not at home, and will
not you believe me when l tell you that
l am not az Cicero's ''De Ora
fore -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
His First Deer.

Buck fever is q hunters disease the
symptoms Of which are pretty well
known, but thar have seldom been more
feelingly described than by Mar
Quette citizen, Whose first experience
in deer shooting is related IN Tbs Min
ing Journal.
After spending few hours tramping
through the woods. feeling tired. he sat
down on log TO rest. Like most hunt
ers, he had taken his pipe and tobacco
along. Filling the pipe, he smoked for
q time without interruption, when,
happening to turn his head little TO
one side, he saw a large buck coming
straight toward him. As luck would
have it, ne had sat down to smoke near
a deer trail.
The deer came nearer and nearer, I'M
til he was nearly opposite the place
where the hunter sat concealed. While
the hunter was watching the approach
of the deer he forgot that he had gun
and that the deer was This meat He
began to tremble and shake in every
limb and joint and it was difficult for
him to restrain a yell of fright.
He watched and trembled until the
deer passed his hiding place and went
into the thicket beyond. Then, feeling
for his pipe, he discovered that it lay On
the ground near his feet. By the time
he had picked it up the deer was out of
range, and then he discovered that iii
his excitement he hnd bitten the mouth
piece of his pipe in two.
He was greatly relieved to see the
deer move On, rs it seemed to him that
he was the game and the deer was the
hunter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
The Latest People on Earth.

The LATEST and Girties5 people in the
world have recently been discovered in
the Caucasus. They live in an inaccess-
ible mountain range between tho Black
sea and the Caspian sea. ard as they
were 1900 years ago 50 they are today.
Seen from without, there is "a certain
picturesqueness about IA Svanctian vii
lage, although IL merely consists Of
miserable stone novels without any at
tempt ut form or adornment. Within
the houses are incouceivably filthy.
They are filled with rags, veTmin and
dirt of every description. They possess
no fireplace or chimney All the cock
ing, in fact. Is done over II hole scoopcd
out in the middle of the floor. In these
houses men and women and children
are huddlcd together. During tho long
winter months they are shut i'll FOR
days at a time, the cattle often sharing
their quarters. Every aperture has 70
be closed on account OF the cold. This
long imprisonment Is perhaps the cause
of the degradation Of the people Horri-
BILE diseases result from it. which are
aggravated by an abnormal consumr-
ton of arrack. the strong distilled drink
of the Asiatics. Besides this. it Is al
invariable rule To make four days
week holidays, with saints days as ex-
tras. Since they have adopted the holt
days of every other country with which
they have been in contact, it is not sur
prising that tie men find little time for
work. Farming, bee culture and cattle
breeding are the only industries OF these
people. while throughout their territory
there is not a single manufactured arti-
Gle. New York Ledger
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
She Didn't Say Nay.

eyes, said the summer girl to be as
she held up two shortened skirts, one
of duck, ''all our gowns for exercise are
short, ending at what would be our
shoe tops if we wore high boots, but
we shall wear low shoes. 1 don t
know" she said shyly, whether we
think we have nice ankles or if we wish
TO show our stockings. which are gayer
this season than ever. Both ven
t1red. and she didn't say nay.-Pitts.
turg Dispatch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Dime Novel Cnre.

81 had hard work to keep that boy Of
mine from reading cheap novels, " said
the resolute man, but l finally sue
ceeded- ="
How? By keeping them out Of his
way:'
"No. l knew it would be of no use
to try, so / merely required him to
learn two pages from one of them by
heart every day, and now he lodges
them and reads schoolbooks for amuse-
ment. Washington Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
SheIled.

When the conqueror came out upon
the hills that overlooked the doomed
city, his stern face lighted
Nuts for usr' he exclaimed.
us it your excellency's wish, asked
an officer of the artillery, galloping up
just then, that the town be sbelled:''
A raw recruit laughed loudly in the
ranks, but the trained soldiery merely
groaned. Detroit Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
A Hin. to the Girls.

y bachelor philosopher remarks that
mo man ever wants TO kiss girl after
he has once seen her hold a nickel the
conductor has given her for change be-
tween her teeth while she gets her
purse OPEN, and he further intinates
that such girl is only fit 20 kiss pug
dog. OF course bachelors are not always
responsible critics.-Boston Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Hone<fY.

vatts-This is the most honest town,
l think. on the continent. The conductor
missed me this morning, and everybody
in the car looked as if they were angry
because / did not pay.
Potts-They Were not angry because
you hadn't paid, but because they had.
indianapolis Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09

In times of scarcity the South Afrl-
can natives sometimes rob ants nests OF
the termites, and as much as five BUSH
els of grain have been taken from a sin
gle nest
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Earned Hi. pleasure.

A little darky sat on the horse block
pounding his thumb nail with ham,
mer.
Why do you do that?'' asked a man
riding past.
Cause. he whined, IS cause it do
feel so good when stop. Lewiston
Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09

Where on earth could she have pick
ed up so insignificant a man for a hus-
bandE''
II haven't any exact information.
but he looks as if he might have gone
with pound of tea '-Cincinnati En-
ouirer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09
Found Be.ton Girl. Friria.

She-Did you notice the white ruch-
ing around that Boston girls neck:
He-Oh, was that ruchi1g? i thought
it was icing.-Yonkers Statesman
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-09

Food, drink and tobacco cost the peo-
pie of New York city 81. 600. 600 aud
over Fer day.
The Globe-republican., 1898-09-15

It almost passes belief that any
portion OF the American people should
be deceived or misled by the trans
parent falsehoods now spread across
the front pages of our yellow con-
temporaries. Does any man with a
grain of common sense believe that
because q debilitated soldier falls in
a faint on the street that the head of
the War Department is to be charged
with neglect and cruelty? Does any
one believe that because fever patti
ents are not permitted by physicians
to satisfy abnormal cravings of ap-
petite the Secretary of War is to be
charged with conniving at the star
walton of hundreds of soldiers? Does
even the most malignant enemy of
General Alger believe that the Secre-
tary of War would countenance O
conspiracy to destroy the American
army through neglect or through in
sistence on bad sanitary conditions?
And yet all these things are charged
to the extent of columns by the yel-
low journals.
The Globe-republican., 1898-09-15

In the campaign of 1892 Repub-
lican speaker, in making an address
in the State of Ohio, referred to the
depression of business that existed
in 1912 and noted the fact that horses
sold as low as two dollars and COWS
at one dollar. When some Democrat
asked the question if he though: that
we would ever return to such times
again in this country, the speaker re-
piled, "Not unless the control of the
country should pass into Democratic
hands" One need not look far now
to find a record of horses selling at
two dollars per head and COWS at
one dollar; but it was during the ad-
ministratlon of Grover Cleveland
that both horses and COWS we're
slaughtered because it was unprofit-
able to feed them. They are today
commanding fair prices, something
near that which was commanded in
1892; but the Republicans are run
ming the government and accordingly
prices are remunerative.
The Globe-republican., 1898-09-15
low journals.

The Wharton Baker Ignatius Don
nelly Populist national ticket, which
has just been nominated in Cincinnati
for 1900, will not be elected, and none
of its friends expect it to be. It will,
however, split the Populist party into
two parts, and possibly three. and
cut down to small dimensions the
only section of that party with which
the Democrats will have any hope to
make deal. Thus the outlook for
the Democratic candidate in that
year, whoever he chances to be, will
be dark. Bryan is Populist. yet if
he gets the Democratic nomination
two years hence he will receive very
few Populist votes. He will not
come So near election as he did two
years ago. The base money aggre-
cation can never again be as formid-
able as it was in 1896. That Bryan
lite reign of terror between the nd
journment Of the Chicago convention
in that year and the night of election
day can never be repeated.
The Globe-republican., 1898-09-15

Democrats of small caliber can
whack away at trusts and monopolies
in county and State conventions, but
it is an indisputable fact that the Of
ficers of some of the worst truats in
the country are influential party
Democrats, notably the magnstes
who own the bulk Of the stock in
sugar, coal oil, hard coal and rail-
road combinations. It is fact,
furthermore, that the legislation on
the statute books for the restriction
and Gripping of trusts was secured
from a Republican Congress and
signed by a Republican President.
Trusts abound in all European and
American countries, and nowhere
has greater efforts been put for their
than in the United States.
The Globe-republican., 1898-09-15

A novel plan for elevating Georgia
morals has been formulated by a
well known citizen of Atlanta. He
proposes that each county shall de-
eide by vote on January LIST of each
year who the worst man in the county
is, and that the man receiving the
highest number of votes shall, on the
ensuing February LIST. be hanged. It
is claimed for the plan that it would
induce bad men to emigrate, and that
the complimentary vote" received
by those who had just begun to be
bad, but were not generally recog-
nized as such. would tend to create q
desire within them to be enrolled
among the well behaved.
The Globe-republican., 1898-09-15

For one thing military men have
not, so far, criticised the commanding
officers, for the war has been one
series of successes from beginning to
end. And the bowling about Alger
would indicate a conspiracy. What
country-this or any other-ever ac-
complished 80 much in the short
time of this war? Alger was all
right, but enough upstairs were ap-
pointed who did not know their bust
ness-in the quartermaster's and
medical departments of the almy-to
cause privation, sickness and death
to many brave soldiers. In all wars
there are complaints of q similar
character. The American people
have faith in the conduct of this war.
They have faith in Mckinley, in Al
ger, in Shafter and Miles-ln Dewey,
Schley, Sampson and all the brave
soldiers and sailors-aDd there is
nothing too good that this nation
will not do for them.