Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-08

"Oh. there ain't no business IN backing
now" said a commercial traveller NJ an
uptown hotel last night. TOO many tan
shoes. Look at peoples feet You don't
see BACKED shoes any more. Occasionally
you will run across a pair, but nearly
everybody wears tans or patent feathers
guess the trade in tan polish is good. III
ought to be.
Ever think OF how business Is Changing
these days?" continued the drummer as
he got down further in his CHAIR an"
drew reflective whiffs from his TAT cigar
"Chaneing all the time. The dlsapPca'
snce or decrease Of the demand lot piacN
ing Is only a sample. LOOK at the n.y.
business Ten years ago, even hFe y'"'
ago that paid as well or better IMAM az
most anything a man could go mo. ~
in the smallest towns men mace IOI t"i'
hiring out horses and carriages
know an Irishman who can scarceiy
his name who went 10 a niue 'oW",
can In the livery business in smali way
and AZ once made money. lie kept on get
ting rich. increasing his business an 'he
time. until a few years ago he was worm
three or four hundred thousand uoHaiS
md retired from business. .o,,s
"Now. | was In that town re" MeONS
400 7 asked about the livery business
lis dead. There is a sort Of stable lheIe'
hui the owner is about bankrupt
bicycles did" IT, Wheels nave Jill ,,
out horses. The boys so bicycie iiulns
with their girls instead or driving ou'
with them The girls all nave Nheels'
too. and ride them instead OF uIiHi,s ,t,,,
Win tho boys. The old people are Ilulne
hicvcles. also. The liveryman is "ilhou'
natronage. No wonder he Is DanKr upt'
It's that way all over the couh'i -, I'
cvcles are killing business Tor the lively
men. It's so everywhere 1870 ,,,st
s.plcvcles have hurt the tobacco ousl-
NC TOO {" continued the drummer. V'
can't well ride a wheel and smoke az 1.
same time Every tobacco dealel ""
teu YOU so much wheel ridlns mas aiiC
"a bis business This is especlaliy -
- aioorStte sales. Everybody rides
wheels but young fellows. persons OF lIle
a. ~ the majority Of cigarette snokeIS
,'redo,ninate. They don't smoke Hlu0i
when they ride. $500 ogo
.sTake barbed wire. a rev y'"is "s
-, ,,.ce no better line 20 handle. lheio
us immense demand for the wire -
'.a.,s ~ land in the West were enciosou
60 ~, frst time. Barbed wire was uscu
Tor the fences The land Is ehoIo s
vol Barbed wire don't wear out $50 ~
The demand Is not one hall as -
n was a few years ago couIu 90
,ro,t many lines that We're very pioN-
table a few years ago. put a.e 49,, a.
- T-be face OF this old eartA =
ohorginr an the time, they tell US put
IN S,ou trade Is changing mucn Hoie
,rcstIv rs reason Of progress IN 'He
arts and sciences
81
81 know Captain Dreyfus very We"
said Mr.. Paul Well, the pfopIle'ol
~ew Fords. the other night ne "',u
are both from Mulhouse Alsace, ne -
tine man. and at the time Oh M ~
49,, Was one Of the best soldiers III uie
tsre,cb army. That is what Is the mat
Ter lie was too good HIS supeflors IV
cos-rized his ability, and II there was ever
an,. diftict,lt duty connected with the army
g. no discharged DTeyfus was lhe man
selecfed for It, He was a recoBhlNeu nm
torv expert The result was thal oshSl
oe,cers in the army became jealous. 90
NOT know-nobody knows, cerhlh'1
believe that jealousy OF DreNius CAUSE
some Of his brOther-Oiilcers III 'ho '4n,s
10 make the charge against MN ol 20
inc The plans of French foruhcauohs ~
re German Government. He Is going 10
he vlndicated. That is as certain as any
thtrq In the future can be. Dreytus leit
Alsace when he reached the age OF mill
tar, service and was commissioned III
,he French army. II he had been so much
OF a German sympathizer OF coutFe, NN
would have entered the German army
"Drevfus is a jew Many OF the hnest
officers in the French army are jews. Ih e
wife of Dreyfus is the finest woman VI
ever saw The way she has s'ucA pS HeI
hushand has caused her 10 merit ana 10
Hon 81
FMS Is about Sc years OF age, ana hhe-
Hacking fellow. His wife is seVeral years
younger. / think they have two children
81 served in the German army, cohtlh-
,sd AR WE'LL II did not do so wiihngN'
for though Alsace has belonged TO Ger
many since the franco-Prussldh wal
am Frenchman. Every Alsauah Is q
Frenchman. They won't let us even 'e"ch
Errench in The schools, but that makes no
adherence. A hundred years from now
,,ou viii hear the Alsatians declaring
themselves Frenchmen. II France anC
germany ever go TO war / shall enter the
French army, II am young enough 10 Dc
soldier"
ona ~ the brainiest men in Virginia re
marked TO me the other day that INT
subjects which most interested MN a
present We're; ,., O..
L The entrance or inc bHIlcu PtaNS
upon a career of colonization.
III The recent proposal Of the speake
~ the Canadian House OF Commons ina
England trade the United states Jamaica
60 several islands adjacent for one q
two of the New England states,
III. The frequency with which humai
life Is taken in the United States and tn
rarity OF the infection OF the death pen
atty.
House OF Representatives.
They are big subjects. but the man VIII
A. deyoting so much thought 10 them Is
big man--intelleetually.
II was while discussing Imperialism tha
the gentleman referred TO remarked; nc
the first time in my life agree with Ser
ator George f'rishie lIOar-'Ihe deciii
OF the American republic will date frol
che rule Of William Mckinley"
eve thought the campaign for frs
coinage made queer political bed-felloN
In the United states In 1886. That whic
We saw then is as nothing 10 what "
will see at the next presidential electio
The question OF expansion Is going
shake up American parties as nothir
has ever done save the questions
slavery and those growing out Of the Il
terpretation OF the Federal Constitute
Think N Il. Cleveland. and Bryan. an
Hoar and BoUtelle- Goldbug. Democra
Republican, In the same boat again
the policy New England and Wright
thu Puritan and the Cavalier. are stan
Ing together. Mr Mckinley finds himse
the FIRST Republican President who ev