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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-08
The Modern Mother

has found that her little ones are> i'm
nrov,d more by the pleasant Syrup OF
Figs. when In need of the laxative effect
OF a gentle remedy than by any other.
children enjoy IL and II benefits them.
The true remedy. Syrup OF Figs. ~ manu-
featured by the California Fig Syrup
Company only.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-08
A Coat Sale.

CT 10 Black Beaver Coat. shor,. ro ~ y,
value.
CS Black and Tan Melton Beaver he,-
% sey Coats. all-sM lined. Plain or VEL
vet collars. new. short cuts. - value.
CT Black Beaver or Light Ian IN sn n,ac =
w round cut single or COMPREHENSIVE
with dart sleeves; real value, -.
G = Black, Light Tan. and Chocoiats-
o. Brown Kersey Coats. aii-silk nneu'
velvet collars. plain or double-breasteo'
the regular $40 value.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-08
A Cape Sale.

$3.50 Plush Cape. trimmed In Astradhan
fur. Jet. and braid. for $3.50.
Special values In Plush Capss At - ~
and 81. oil neatly trimmed. some sold ~
high as S.
Is Plush Capes. some plain and seus
trimmed. in fur and braid. jet, for ~;
they arc worth SO to si2.
20 Cloth Melton Tan Beaver cspes. ssid
for s., for 81
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-08
JULIUS SYCLE & son,
Corner Second and Broad Streets.
In Our Coat, Cape, and Suit Department

will be objects attention. comment and speculation Why NOS
see prices and qualities cling together With such prices
placed upon them they will make quick saesnot only in this
department. but IN department.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05

sried past Uncle Ben into the cabin. He
came out, brushing the banjo and say
ing NVhew, the dust IS '
The old man sat dazed as the instru-,
ment was thrust into his hand. He
looked pitifully into the faces about
him, but they were all expectancy.
Then his fingers wand Tered to the neck,
and he tuned the old banjo. Then he
began to play. He seemed inspired.
His listeners stood transfixed.
From piece to piece he glided, pour
ing out the music in silver stream.
His old fingers seemed to have forgot
ten their stiffness as they flew over the
familiar strings. For nearly an hour
he played and then abruptly stopped.
The applause was generous and real,
but the old man only smiled sadly, and
with q faraway look in his eyes.
AS they turned away, somewhat awed
by his manner, they heard him begin to
play softly an old hymn. It was ''Hark!
From the Tomb" :: @..: ~.
He stopped when but half through,
and Robert returned to ask him 10 fin7
ish, but his head had fallen forward
close against the banjo's neck, and there
was smile OH his face, as if he had sud-
denly had a sweet memory of Martha.-
Saturday Evening Post. II j.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
Funston sailed away to Join the insur-

Funston sailed away to join the insur
gent forces in Cuba, and accompanied
him to the steamer to say good-by.
While the pair were talking at the
steamer landing, Funston spoke of his
probable future, and said:
willis, have no ambition to get
rich. Iwouldn't tgetinto politics for any
thing. I am afraid have no settled
aim or clearly seen ambition. But, new
ertheless, I want to cut some ice in the
world, and l intend to keep hustling un-
til my time comes.'
This yearning to cut ice has been
manifest in all the movements of the
restless, tireless, always moving young
Kansas soldier. He has searched for
his opportunity from the Arctic to the.
equator. Never staying anywhere long,
he has dropped one thing after another.
in a fashion that made his friends fear
he was a changeiing and unstable.
Z But now they begin to comprehend
that it was stheseagerness and fretful-
ness Of a mighty ambition, and that
what they deplored IN him was the very
characteristic that was to lead him on
toglory. Atlast, 10 900 miles away from
home, he found q chance to. cut the ice
Of his ambition, and il cutting he cut
nplenty. . +.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05

have been compelled to be contented
with whatever they could get. Some
days not more than four barrels would
be received. The supply has varied
from that amount to Is barrels. The
famine is due to the severe cold
weather of last winter. It usually oc-
ours that after exceeding cold weather
the supply of shell fish becomes scant.
Five or six months time is required to
get the sources of supply back to their
normal producing condition. The very
cold weather of last winter had the ef-
feet of driving the crabs to hibernate
in the mud and to seek deeper and
warmer water. The hibe- nating crabs
have not yet made their way out of the
mud, and it win remain for the next
change of tide to uncover them. Dur
ing the winter months the crab supply
is received from Norfolk, few from
Annapolis and from the lower points
on the Chesapeake bay. In summer
the Potomac river supplies the crabs
used in the city zs-.*. +. n. r
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
CRUSHED A DIVING BELL.
The The me8$'TremendousS Water Pressure 1t
Great Depths shown By an 5*s.
49, Odd Accident. z4z: ssss

"a crushed mass of iron in Pitts
=burgh scrapyar demonstrates the tre-
mendous pressure of water at a great
depth, says the New York World.
II It was constructed for diving bell
for usein Lake Michigan. AS originally
constructed it was about six feet square
and tapered slightly at both ends. The
material was phosphor bronze, more
than half an inch thick. Each plate
was cast with a fange, and they were
bolted together, the bolts being placed
as closely as was consistent with
strength. The side plates were further
strengthened by iron ribs an inch thick
and two inches wide. -. ..'.
In fact, the entire structure was
strongly braced. The windows to be
used ais outlooks by the divers were
three inches square, fortified with iron
bars and set with glass plates an inch
thick. The weight Of the bell was 3d.
900 pounds. II ....., ..
When completed it was sent to Mil
waukee and towed out into the lake
about IL miles, where there was over
200 feet of water, and was sent down
for test. The manufacturer was so
confident of the strength of the bell
that he wanted to go down in it,
He is glad now that he didn't. When
the bell reached the depth of about 100
feet strong timbers attached to it came
to the surface in splintered condition.
Suspecting an accident, the bell was
hauled up and found to be crushed into
a shapeless mass. The inch-thick plate
glass bull's-eyes were shattered. The
pressure that crushed this seemingly
invulnerable structure amounted to a
total of {, ,723,54s pounds, of 1852 tons.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
Told 81 the king 81 spatn.

"A writer in the London Telegraph
tells the following story a bout the king
of Spain as throwing light on that royal
lads life: t.One day, during his history
lesson, the king asked his professor to
tell him how Spain came to lose Chilli.
Mexico and other Spanish american
colonies. The story was narrated SO:
thnllingly and artistically that the
royal boy listened spell bound and con-
.tinned after Sit had ended to sit alb
sorbed in med ton. tlast thought
having struck him, he looked up. to his
professor and inquired hat must$l
do in order to get back those countries
for Spain? he. first and most inn
portant thing Of all eplied the eau
5tious and diploma tic pedag gogne, is
that your maj jesty should hould--
grow up to be d ma d. len you are d
mutt tered the lad, dis
enchanted, when man tis not q
history professors advice that i shall
be asking shall have 81 prime minis
sterstot tel llsme then g ssss
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
PLAYFUL HARBOR SEALS.
Antics in Their Pool ut the AQUARIUM
-One Seal Learning from
the Other.

Nellie, the larger of the two harbor
seals at the Aquarium, long ago devel-
oped in her play very pretty juggling
trick, which consists in tossing things
on her whiskers, the bristles that pro-
ject from the sides of her nose like
cats whiskers. She would find floating
IN the water a fragment of fish skin
that had become detached from the
pieces of cut-up fish fed to the seals as
food, and juggle that, putting her head
under it in the water in such a man.
ner as to get the whiskers on one side
under it, and then bearing the scrap up
on them and balancing it on them.
After awhile she would throw her head
up and toss the scrap over and catch it
on the whiskers on the other side and
balance it there for time, and then,
perhaps, toss it back; and sometimes
she would take the scrap between her
teeth and toss it up and catch it on her
nose or whiskers and then juggle it
about in like manner. Now the smaller
of the two seals in this pool has taken
up the juggling trick, having appar.
emily copied it from Nellie. The lit
tie one, indeed, appears to be learning
all of Neliie's tricks.
One thing that they both do is to
straighten themselves out in the wa
ter and then begin to turn like a spin.
die. When one of the seals gets to
turning in this manner it turns so
rapidly that it seems to elongate, and
its rotation is SO rapid that it's eyes
cannot be distinguished. They both
turn somersaults in the water, both
forward and backward. For general
skylarking they are both alike, swim.
ming and dashing about with remark.
able swiftness, jumping almost clean
out of the water. se
Another form of play that they have
is to make rings of themselves and
whirl around. In this play the seals
bend themselves pretty nearly into a
hoop and chase their! tail 4 fiippers
around, just as kitten would chase
its tail, round and round, and every
now and then one of the seals will get
one Of its tail fippers in it's mouth:
making a complete ring Of itself, and
in this form whirl rapidly in the wa.
ter, looking like a big life preserve1
Whiring in the water horizontally.
The West Indian seals in their pool
over on the other side of the aquarium
floor have been, what with their greater
8 bulk 1'1 their barking, and especially their
Playful habit of squirting water on the
81 . = go
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
TRICKY PETS
The D0ssy and the MOngOOse Are
Fond Of Playing Jokes ON =:
Their Owners. @TsS.-- Z

.* The dossy, or rock rabbit, is new
pet which has been brought from South
Africa, and he IS a very nice little fell
low, but he has one little trick that
nervous old ladies do not like. He
waits till he finds his master or friend
" visitor. asleep or reading or writing,
and then he creeps as quietly as. q
tnonse TO as great a distance as he can
Jump, and when the busy person is not
looking for anything Of the kind he
springs square on that persons lap
or knee, or on the table beside him, fly
ing off again, light as a bird, and is out
of thereon while the astonished person
is having four kinds of fits.: .Z.5
The mongoose, furry little animal
about the size of cat, which is used to
hunt snakes, also plays$a trick of this
kind. cannot jump, So il climbs up
behind the busy person, never making
the least bit Of noise, and all at once,
while the busy one is thinking perhaps
of some hing clear on the other side
of the world, they feel a cold black nose
pushed up against their ear, and turn
around with q shrek to see the mon
goose, with its face full of mliischief,
running away g it, box as fast as it
can co.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
IL ], ] SURPRISED HIM.


The late Prof. Marsh loved to tell Of
an adventure which once befell him
while q member Of q party Of fossil
hunters u in the Indian country, says
Forest and Stream.
The whole party realized that they
were in q dangerous country, and all
hands were constantly on the watch for
enemies, and were careful not to wan
der far from the command; or if two
or three fossil gatherers did go off from
the main body they took with them a
number of soldiers to stand guard while
they worked. as. s.,G= ,=.1@.. s...: /.
One day Prof Marsh was hard at
work on his knees in the bottom of the
narrow ravine digging away the soil
from q bone which stuck out of the
bank. He was entirely absorbed in his
task and noticed nothing of what was
going on about him until the brilliant
sunlight was cut off by dark shadow,
and he looked up to see standing above
him grim Indian warrior holding his
rifle ready. *'..':' ~ : 80
The professors heart leaped into his
throat. He forgot where he was. He
strove to utter propitiatory~ "How,' -
but his dry lips refused to form the
word, and he could only swallow, try.
ing to get rid of the lump in his throat
Suddenly the savage bent toward him
and spoke:T r.
"Have the honor of addressing Prof.
OthneH Charles Marsh, the eminent
paleontologist of Yale college?" he in
quired. ,,ss..s.,- -, ~ 49, '
The revulsion of feeling was almost
too much for the professor, who was
now even less able to speak than he had
been before:
1t developed that the Indian as a
small boy: had been sent east, Chris
tianized, educated, taught the element
of theology and sent back to the west
to civilize his tribe.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
A CRAB FAMINE.
An Unexpected Scarcity Causes 4
Rise of Three Hundred Per
Cent. in Price.

The prices of crabs have risen 300 per
cent. in the east. During an ordinary
season the price per dozen is in the
neighborhood of Is cents. This year
crabs bring from 60 to Is cents per
dozen. From one dollar barrel the
price has SCARED to three dollars. four
dollars, and even five dollars. AS a
usual thing New Workers consume
about rs barrels of crabs each day. For
the past few months, since the severe
cold weather of the winter, the leaders
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Increase In Area, Population ana
Revenue in the Last
: Thirty Years.

The empire is now territory of H.
500, 1000 square miles, or $4,000, 900 if we
include Egypt and the Soudan; and in
this territory there is population of
about 407, 100000, or of over 42O, 900 900
if Egypt and the Soudan are included
"a population about one-fourth of the
whole population of the earth. OF this
population about $4,000, 900 are of Eng
ish speech and race, the ruling race
in the United Kingdom, In British
North America, and in Australasia;
and the remaining 35O,OOO,0OO to 37O,-
600, 900 are the various subject races, for
the most part in India and Africa, the
proportion of the governing to the sub
ject races being thus about one-eighth.
says the Spectator.
The increase in area and population
IN this empire, excluding Egypt and the
5Soudan, amounts since 1871 to 2,854, 900
square miles Of area, or more than one
fourth of the whole, and to 1875, 900 900.
of popdlati ton, which is also more than
.one-fourth Of the whole. The increase
of the ruling race included in this popu-
Slation amounts to about IL, 500, 900, or
about one-fourth Of the number in 1897;
and the increase in the subject races is
s112, ,0OO, 900, or nearly one third The n,lm-
8ber in 1897. This increase is largely due
to annexation. The existing grevenuezof
the different parts Of this empire added;
together amounts to s257, ,653, 900, and
the imports and exports to s 1875, ,OO0,-
gFTrNS - 2.5SS
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05

". !
STORM.

Storm and stress on the land.
5sSss And stress and storm on the sea;
4 And wind that tolls for the unblest souls
8 That asleep in its green caves be. B
The raindrops splash on the pane; &
The fogs sweep III from the east; Z
!; And the seagulls fly DER the breakers high.
On the hearts ofsthe drowned to feast.
"A horror lies on the sea; = - e,
E8 On the land does a terror fall; 90 81
! Twas in storm like this sailed the fated
!. To the the death that lay wait for all. :.s
And the laugh of the treacherous sea
Il Rings out DER their unknown graves;
While its scorn leaps high to the cloud
EE4s5 wracked sky, '5-'< -
With the hiss of its conquering waves.
For the ships may sail from the east,
sFsAnd the ships may sail from the west,
They may pierce with their anchors its
+ss nntamed heart, i 4fTw -
SgsAnd furrow with steel its breast.
II 1t pleasure that heart to wait. - =
1t can smile like some guilt!ess thing,
And no words can tell of the magic spell
The throbs Of its surges sing.
But It's hunger is heavy to see:
And it's anger is death to feel:
In the aWeSOme hour that beholdS It's
power.
Like reeds are the ribs Of steel.
|4a BE-.
II Is hungry for souls tonight;
: al It has won, it would win once more.
It is sick of the wrecks it has dashed on
the rocks
And strewn DER the sand-paved shore.
Oh! the moan of the wind and the rain
Oh! the crash of the seas fierce hand,
As it filings the gage of its quenchless rage
- At the feet of the cliffs on the strand!
God pity the ships that reel >
Ger it's pitiless breast tonight.
And guide their way through the storm
: = swept bay,
Ere the dawn of the longed-for light.
And God pity the souls that wait,
In anguish and nameless dread, + .,
Till the morn shall wake and the storm
shall break,
And the sea toss back their dead.
Boston Transcript.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
MABEL's GOOD LUCK.
A Pretty Story Showing That 1t Pays
to BE Respectful to Old
People.

Perhaps the young woman who wrote
this moral story had read about that
nice girl who always looked pleasant at
the deaf and dumb man and found her
self heiress to his large property when
his will was probated. This is only a
supposition, of course. The story
speaks for itself, as the reader will see:
"Mabel was a beautiful girl, just
dawning into womanhood, and she ran
a typewriter. She helped support her
widowed mother, her father having
been lost at sea many years previous to
the beginning of this tale. Mabel could
earn but little wages with her type
writing, because she was also obliged
to answer the telephone, and she
couldn't expect regular typewriting
wages for doing that. But she did not
complain. Every day when she rode
downtown in an electric car she noticed
were old-fashioned and pretty shabby.
He had good face, but she could not
help seeing that his trousers bagged
at the knees great deal. Other peov
pie noticed it, too, and snickered and
made remarks, and even called him old
Baggy Knees but Mabel never did.
She was too well brought up, for one
thing, and, besides, she had good
heart. Whenever she could she made
room on the seat for the old man, and
once when there was no room to make
she stood up and gave him her seat.
After awhile he talked with her, and
found out who she was and where she
lived. One day she missed him. In fact,
she saw him no more. It may have
been a week or so when there came
a heavy rap at the door. It was man
with a package. The address was
Miss Mabel Pinklington, No. 972 Skid
more place. and Mabel opened it with
nervous haste. All it contained was a
pair of much-worn trousers and card
which read: For the little woman who
never called me, Baggy Knees, from her
sincere admirer, John Tewksbury.'
Mabel laughed, but her mother shock
out the garment and said That's a
funny present. She felt in the pockets,
but there was nothing there. Then
she threw the trousers across a chair
and plaintively said: You know, Ma
bel, dear, that if we cannot make the
last payment on this home tomorrow
we will lose it,
"Mabel sighed heavily and answered:
Yes, mother, we will lose it,
" "Just then her mother, who had been
looking at the trousers idly, said: +
don't think I ever saw such baggv
knees on human person. They look
fairly solid.'a She came little closer
and felt of them. I,declare, they are!'
she excitedly said. She turned them
inside out, and 10! two huge wads of
$40 bills fell on the floor, one from each
knee. When they counted them up they
found there was $4,1s0 in the two
punches. Oh, but that was a happy
household! And next morning when
the cruel agent came for his money he
was given it before he could ask for it.
"An of which shows that it always
pays to be good and respectful to old
persons. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
Ge Mrs.. :s:,,,:> 2>laA4qm, IN 4 m,
lynn, HIass.


"DEAR FB1END-A year ago 1 was q
great sufferer from female weakness.
Ny head ached all the time and would
get so dizzy and have that all gone
feeling. in the stomach and was so
nervous and restless that I did not
know what to do with myself.
my food did me no good and I had a
bad case of whites. Iwrote to you and
after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound as directed, can
truly say that feel like a new woman
and cannot tell you how grateful am
to you.
81 have recommended it to all nv
friends and have given it to my
daughter who is now getting along
splendidly. May you live many years
to help our suffering sisters. Mrs. c.
CARPENTER, 253 GRAND ST., BROOKLYN,
N. Y. }
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
A PAINT MANS STORY.
He Had Line of Lies That Was Good
Enough to String Most
Anybody. @st ~

This drummer travels for paint house
and as it was up to him be told the fol-
lowing:
II am organizing a new stock company,
and am going to pass up the travelling
business and go to clipping coupons for
think it was the trip before last, when I
ran across the most remarkable thing in
the paint line that have ever seen. l was
riding through the most forlorn bit Of
country that it has ever been my msfor-
tune to be cast into. / came to little
house. 1t was very peculiar affair, and
noticed that although it was adorned with
have been nailed on. Inside found little
man working with mortar and pestle. I
asked him about the house and most par.
tlcularly about the paint. He then told me
that he was an inventor; that ten years
before he: had invented what he called as
bestos paint-a paint that would not burn.
ne built house and laid on thick coat
OF his newly-found preparation. Shortly
atterward the interior of the house caught
hre and burned up entirely, leaving the
paint; standing. After he had cleared away
the debris, he spread big canvas where
the shingled roof had been and lived com.
ttIIrtaoiy tIrGy inside the four walls of paint for
money to build up the house inside the
paint again. He did so and nailed the paint
on to secure the interior of the house from
falling down. L have lived in it as YOU
see it ever SINCE he said How would
you like to buy some slices of stock in my
inventicn?'
IL Immediately bargained for New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, North Dakota and Michi.
gan and am now organizing my company.
Can l sell you some shares of stock or
even some territory?" '''"'
While the remainder of the company were
looking for their weapons, the paint man
made good his escape.-Detroit Free Press.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05

Over eighty thousand
such letters as this were re-
ceived by Mrs. >Pinkham
during 1897. Surely this is
strong proof Of her ability
to help suffering women.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
The Fa.test River Boat.

land Ore. inns to have tho
fastest sternWheel Ssteambo IN the
world The Hassalo, recently comp plet-
ed for the Golnmbia rive trade, has
mad spurts 26 2-3 miles an
|shesi 1876 feet long a tnbed boilerS
eight feets iin iamete and com pound
ngiines 81, over lhorse d power Tnes
boat s. sgi stthalt itS tound neo-
IS strsne hen her rudde q
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
3Qlneen victori ia,s y, Eyes.

Queen Victoria arst trouble with
her eyes caIne on long fore she as
s.cnded the l1lrone a 3 giirl she was.
quite nearsiig hted, and q sspas one,
Etinle feared she would have to wear
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
WHERE ICE IS WELCOME.
Gen., Funston LOnged to Cut the Ice
of Success and Has at Last
Found 1t.

In connection with the possibility of
Gen. Funston having political ambi-
ton, j. w. Glecd tells story which
gives much insight into: the character
of the man, says the Kansas City Jour-
nal.
Gleed was in New York on the day
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
German E1nigrati0n. |.

Last year the number Of Germans
who enig grated Is other countries
across the Atlantic g wa s only 90 1866. .as
against 12o, ,0s9 il 1891 and 220,9o2 ii
1881 Chica 90 Inter Ocean.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05
He Needed Practice

MaeN Why did you break your en-,
gagement with young Golfer?
8 Ethel Every time he tried to kiss me
he fooled his approach and landed on
my nose OF. chin z. Journal.