Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-20

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DETROIT, Mich.
Mrs. Pinkhams advice Is at the free
disposal of every ailing woman who
wishes help. Her address is Lynn. Mass
Every case is sacredly confidential.
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oises. chopplng wood, and doing domes-
! tic chores.
In the matter of food I've tried so many
health-producing experiments that my
brain has become befogged and my men
| tai faculties hopelessly obfuscated. For
| months j lived on crackers. until 1 dis
| covered that they were unspeakably in
digestible and dead sure 10 kill IL you
stuck TO them. Doctors told me that the
moisture OF the stomach made them
swell out until they pulled up like mush-
| rooms. This was too much for me. I fed
to oatmeal, and devoted all my energies
to this mushy diet until knowing persons
| Informed me that this food made one too
hot internally in summer. Then | took
up vegetables. and became a sort OF her
| blvorous animal, which devoured the out
| put Of one truck-garden per day. / got
| TO love vegetables like a mother loves
her children, but they had to go. Eat
| meat, man; eat meat" said the doctors;
what you need is blood and muscle"
| BY this time i felt the same way; in
| deed. | yearned for the blood OF physi-
| clans, and the muscle wherewith TO en-
| tract ii. Thus I made the transition from
the herbivora to the carnivora. and de-
voured more meat than a Royal Bengal
| tiger. The slaughter-pens could hardly
supply me, but after a short season of
| flesh eating I was induced 20 take up the
egg-and-mllk diet. After this | success
| slveiy abandoned dessert. coffee, tea, to-
bacco. pickle, fish, whiskey, and a few
other articles which, while they did me
no harm, were interdicted because they
| gave me pleasure. The early Christians
| OF Nero's time have not suffered more
! self-abnegatiOn than |, yet / am still far
from that blessed goal which CLEANS
| with the light of a perfect digestion and
sheds the effulgence of a good, hard
working, dutiful liver. IL there is any
more self-denial on the list I'd like 10
have my attention pointed to it. They say
| Though I've never seen It demonstrated
| that good health is above wealth. I need
| capital and am looking for it. But o. if
they could only arrange 10 so that a little
| Ingredient of happiness or comfort might
be slipped in somewhere.
|
Nothing could so delight my soul as for
| some good, quiet. slow-taking man to
take me off in a corner and i'm few
| words tell me all about this Dreyfus mat
| ter In France. Two or three years ago
thought / had gotten fully abreast Of
! the complicated affair, but it has gradr-
/ ally grown and grown and become more
| ana more mixed up until the thing has
gotten to be a journalistic nightmare. To
| begin with, / don't even know how Drey-
| fus pronounces his name, and even If l
! did know, / wouldn't be much better of,
! for there are a thousand other fellows
/ concerned whose names would paralyze
/ ones Jaw. Just as soon az Il man finds
out that ne has got an unpronounceable
name he goes and gets mixed up I'm this
french muddle. There's my friend Du
/ Patty de Clam (whoever he Is, or was).
aud Esterhazy. and Major Panzzardi.
| and Colonel Schwartzkoppen, and Homo
taux. and Quesnay de Beaurepaire. and
! Picquart, and Labori, and Jouaust and
Carriere, and Guerin. and Casimir-Pericr
and Dubois. and Clemenceau. and Mer-
cier, and NJ. de la Roche-yernet. and NJ
| Paleologue, and NJ. de Freycinet and a
few score other persons who couldn't get
/ the entree in a city directory at S. an
| inch. space-rate. If some Of our Smiths,
| or Browns, or Joneses had had charge
Of the dod-blasted, poky. long -drawn-out
business they would have run iu through
! in at least a week and adjourned sine
| die without occupying more than two
| columns space per day I'm the papers
I'm getting tired OF all this hurrah
anyhow. If Dreyfus could take his wife
and children up i'm Louisa for a few
! weeks or retire to Henrico county (where
politics are almost as intricate as they
are i'm Franco, ! believe It would do him
| lots more good and relieve people on half
| a dozen continents | haven't got any
thing against the gentleman. but It does
| seem 20 me that he Is the head OF a great
7 newspaper trust. which will print nothing
| except facts. fancies. and fctions about
| himself and those for or against him.
| And by and by, IL things continue az they
are now going. every man in France Will
get mixed up in the row.
Christopher Columbus never had one
third as much said about him as has
| Dreyfus, and yet everybody knows Col
umbus discovered America, whereas
there isn't one man in a hundred who
knows what Dreyfus did or what he
didn't do, or what he ought TO do, or
what he ought not to have done. one
day we hear that somebody has commit
! ted suicide about the affair Il fear I'll
| have TO do ii MYSELF, and the next day
! the same fellow apparently pops up
again and becomes liveier than ever. No
wonder General BilOt (whOever he isl
| has been weeping: no wonder General
| Roget whoever ne is) has been weeping:
no wonder Dreyfus Tor Dri-foo, or Dri-
fuss. however you pronounce iD himself
has shed tears. II is enough to make
them all weep: really, | don't believe
they clearly understood what the trouble
Is about. II somebody doesn't untangle
me I won't know whether to hate the
prisoner. or to love him. or admire him
or scorn him. 1 want light, and / want
IL in a nutshell.
That cheerful. bright. genteel, and
highly respectable little blonde insect, the
lady-bug, whom the children all admire,
is at present being put to practical uses
by Professor Arthur Rochelle, now of
Hawaii and formerly OF the United States
Department Of Agriculture. The Pro-
lessor Is an entomologist OF much
learning. and what is better still. he Is
an adept In the science of arboriculture
and fruit-raising. That's the reason he
left this country for the distant island
where he is now located. His studies led
him TO Observe tho ways of insects, and
ne found that II was practicable to rout
the scale upon fruit-trees with the So
called lady-bng. In other words he's
lighting the devil with his own fire. II
the fair sex will permit me to use this
figure Of speech in connection with the
aforesaid effeminate insect. Indeed. re-
cent Investigations have induced the Pro-
lesser 10 believe that he can wage war
against one set OF pests by utilizing an
other set, or by scattering germs OF dis
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