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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06

NF,-Flrm 40 as &C.: receipts.
l.5ep casks. sales. 80 casks: exports, 1T
casks.
ROsIN-Firm and unchanged: receipta.
Gcll barrels: sales. - barrels; exports
l.4IS barrels.
TNINGTON y. c.. Dec. 5.-SPIRITS
or TTRPENTINE-Fir az 4SHislsc. !
receipts. iuJ casks.
ROSTN-Firm AT Sl.OJn1.1O: receipts, 9Il
barrels
CRUDE TURPENTINE-Que at $50
~ ~: receipts. 81 barrels.
TAR-Firm al Sl.io, receipts 40 bar
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06
HIS ARM TORN OFF.
Machinery Ordered for Big Gas
Plant.

WINSTON. y. g.. Dec. 5-SpeciaL-In
stokes county yesterday Wesley Slater
was caught n his fathers planning ma
chime one arm was torn off and "a bad
cash was cut m his head Physicians
-av he cannot live
Machinery has been ordered for Win
ston-Salem's fifty thousand dollar gas
plant The company will have IL IN
operation next May
The County Commissioners to-day Of
rered the courthouse free of charge to
the government for holding the Federal
court OF this district
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06

WASHINGTON. Dec. 5.-ReprcSenta-
tive Corliss Of Michigan. has introduced
p bill for Pacihc cable 10 b. built by
the government 70 Hawaii The Philip
pines. Japan and China. az a limit 90
cost Of 100000. OF which sooooo is TO la
Immediately available.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06

pFANnr hfARKETS-

NORFOLK. w. Dec. 5-PEANUTS-
Farmers st0ck-FauCy 24c. strictly
rhine. 2iac.. prime. 2ifc.. common 1iqU
d, pound New Spanish. shelled, csc.
lushcl Tone of market active.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.


PORT OF RICHMOND DEC. .. 1879.
ARRIVED
Steamer Toclnoutss. Graves Norfolk
ard James rfvor -ii.u-s W.rDhI1dI-e ans
l-..ue,re. VIRGINIA saw alton GO
schooner Potter o. schultz. Lower>
Now York v'1 N0rioik. h-lt for ralir'ad
Tu- STELLA Paul Baltimore. Nd. with
ODD Uir-e. STANDARD on 'o.
SAILED
Steamer GuIf srem. Tunnel rhnadei-
nnI. Ia merchandise lud passengers
Ctle Line
r.r-e Ann Thompson Nonago. Phila-
$ aaoncr JOHN S. Beacham. Morgan
Sow Haven. pig from
PORT NEWPORT NEWS DEC. ., 1899
ARRIVED
steamer Arlcon. Providence.
Steamer Rio Jauo. Galveston.
SAILED
schooner M1riory Brown. New Haven.
Barge Alabama. Boston.
Barge i. j. carleton. Providence.
Steamer Rio Jano. Liverpool
PORT OF WEST POINT DEC .. 1890
ARRIVED.
Steamship Baltimore. Murphy Balti.
more f,a--enlors and general cargo.
Steamship Accomack. Thompson. Nor
foIk. Messengers and general cargo
Steamship Elm CITY. haynes Malta
poni riv5- landings. passengers and gen
rrIl cargo.
SAILED
Steamship Baltimore. Murphy. Balti
more. pas -engcTs and general cargo
Steamship Acc9mack. Thompson. Nor
f0ls passengers and general cargo.
Steamship Elm CITY. Haynes Malta.
Q0nl river landings. passengers and gen
utIl cargo.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06
NA~AL STORES

CHARLESTON. S c.. Dec. 5-TUR-
PENTlNE-Market firm at 47i4c.; sales.
- casks.
RoSIN-Firm: sales none; quote-C. D.
T.. $l0j.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06

celebration, and tho idea is to unite and
make it a credltabie one.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06

SAVANNAH. GA. Dec. 5.-sPIRITs or
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06
GRAIN AID COTTON EXCHANGE.

Quotations are Jon bonds maturing 90
u -t.. ilII tru years.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-06

COTrON-Fuiures opened steady at the
decline, December. 7.40. January, 7.4o.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

State a railway connects the Upper
Congo with the Lower Congo around
Livingstone Falls; in Portuguese
Angola, a road extends eastWardly
from Loanda, the capital, a consider
able distance, and others are projected
from Benquela and Mossamedos, with
The ultimate purpose of connecting
with the Cape to Cairo road and
joining with the lines from Portuguese
East Africa, which also touch that
road, thus making a transcontinental
line from east to west, with Portuguese
territory at either terminus.
Farther south, on the western coast,
from Walfish Bay to Windhoek the
capital of German Southwest Africa,
and this will probably be extended
eastwardly until it connects with the
great transconditional line from the
| Cape of Cairo, which is thus to form
the great nerve centre of the system
| to be contributed to and supported by
these branches connecting it with
either coast. Another magnificent
railway project, which was some years
ago suggested by Leroy Boileau, has
been recently revived, being no less
than an east and west Jranscontinent1l
line through the Soudan region, con-
Meeting theSenegal and Niger countries
on the west with the Nile Valley and
Red Sea on the east and penetrating a
densely populated and extremely pro
ductiye region of which less is known
perhaps, than of any other part o.
Z Africa
At the north numerous lines skirf
! the Mediterranean coast especially r.
5 the French territory of Algeria and il
, Tunis, where the length of railway Is
in round numbers, 2,250 miles, while
the Egyptian railroads are, including
= those now under construction, about
2 500 miles in length. Those of Caps
2 Colony and Natal are nearing 5000
miles. and those of Portuguese Eas
l Africa and the South African Republic
another thousand. Taking into con
) sideration all of the roads now con
= structed or under actual construction
! their total length reaches nearly 10,
600 miles, while there seems every rea
t son to believe that the great througl
e system connecting the rapidly develop
4 ing mining regions of South Afric;
5 with the north of the continent an,
S with Europe will soon be pushed to
5 consummation. A large proportion o
t the railways thus far constructed ar
+ owned by the several colonies or State
!. which they traverse, about 1000 mile
d of the Cape Colony system belongin:
; to the government, while nearly al
= that of Egypt is owned and operated b,
r the state.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
RAILROADS IN AFRICA.
Nearly 10000 diles in Operation q
Under Construction.

Railroads in Africa are discussed at
length in publication entitled Com
mercial Africa in 1899, issued by the
treasury bureau of statistics. 1t shows
that the railways now in operation or
under actual construction are nearly
10000 miles in extent. About two
fifths of the distance from the Cape 10
Cairo has already been spanned by
railway lines, which are being ex-
tended from the northern and southern
extremities of the Continent toward
the equator, where they are expected
to meet early in the twentieth century
Already railroads. run northwardly
from Cape Colony about 400 miles
and southwark from Cairo about loo
miles, thus making $500 miles of ,he
Cape to Cairo railroad complete, the
intermediate distance being about 5000
miles Mr. Cecil Rhodes, who recently
visited England and Germany in the
interest of the proposed through line
from the Cape to Cairo, and whose
visit to Germany was made necessary
by the fact that, in order to pass from
the southern chain of British territory
to the northern chain, he must cross
German of Belgian territory, is re-
ported as confident that the through
line will be completed by the year 1910
/ 1t may reasonably be assumed that
continuous railway line from the
southern to the northern end of Africa
will be in operation in the early years
OF the twentieth century. Toward Ohis
| line, present and prospective, which is
/ to stretch through the eastern part OF
! the continent lateral lines from either
coast are beginning to make their way.
A line has already been constructed
! from Natal on the southeast coast;
another from Lorenzo Marques, in Por-
! tuguese territory and the gold and dia-
mond fields; another from Beira, also
in Portuguese territory, but consider
ably farther north and destined to aX-
tend to Salisbury, in Rhodesia, where
| it will form a junction with the Cape
to Cairo road; still another is pro
/ jected from Zanzibar to Lake Victoria
/ Nyanza, to connect, probably at Ia
bera, with the transcontinental line,
another line is under actual construc-
/ ton westward from Pangani JUS
north OF Zanzibar, both of these being
in German East Africa; another liue
| is being constructed enthusiastically
from Mombasa, in British territory
toward Lake Victoria Nyanza, and Is
completed more than half the distance
while at the entrance to the Red sea q
road is projected weStWardly int.
Abyssinia and is expected to pass far
/ Their north toward the west and con
meet with the main line.
At Suakim, fronting on the Red sea
road is projected 10 Berber, the pres
ent terminus of the line running south
/ wardly from Cairo. On the west oi
Africa lines have begun to penetrate
! inward, d short line in the French
Soudan running from the head of naYi-
cation on the Niger with the ultimate
purpose of connecting navigation on
these two streams. In the Congo Free
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
BLUES" THE FATE OF ALL.


If we call the roll of the great teach
erS OF this generation We discern that
not one but has had his hours OF de-
preston when his reform has seemed
failure, and, weary of strife he has
asked God to take away his life.
writes Rev Newell Dwight Hills, in
the Ladies Home Journal. Carlyle
enters into gloom saying | shall die
leaving no man the better for the liv-
ing Spencer, TOO, in the saddles,
pieces of writing our generation has
seen, affirmed that he had failed to
influence his generation, since a phil
osopher has done little for man who
simply shows him what is right, while
Ruskin, like Elijah bitterly and pas
sionateiy prays for the end of mis-
career. But in retrospect we now see
that in his depressed hear TIE prophei
stood in the golden haze of glory thar
| yelled the future fame and victory
So far from forgetting Turner, Eng
land has consecrated the noblest room
in her gallery to that man who was tn,
great master of orchestral effects il
color. If the sense of failure once
choked Ruskins heart now we see al
economic teachers are writing theil
philosophy under the influence of hi'
christian spirit. If Carlyle and Spen
Ger once felt that they looked out upoI
wild tracts of sayagery, ignorance ant
vice, 1t is given us to see afar OFF Xix,
some nebula just swinging into sight
the vision of a new era for man: al
era of wisdom and justice and love"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

1t CHANGED that the Mlser and the
Spendthrift took ship together.
En- voyage. the Spendthrift bought
much wine and sat long at the gaming
table.
"The fool and his money soon paru
sighed the Miser.
Presently a storm rose, and the shin
foundered, and they were all cast int
the water, and the Miser, having his
gold in a belt about his waist, sank tC
the bottom.
The fool and his money" observed
the Spendthrift, sadly, for he was ,
generous soul, don't always part"
After that the Spendthrift swan t
raft, where he starved to death.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
TOO MUCH TO EXPECT.

The horseless carriage, and
The horseless earrigae, and
The cowless milk, the grapeless wine
Are everywhere at hand.
Now doctors, with L..eir microbe scaIes
Appear upon the scene
To have the kssless maiden, too,
Would like full well, | ween,
But, come what may through human
skill,
New fashions teach us that
The chances are we never will
Behold the birdless hat.
Chicago Times Herald
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
THE REAL FILIPINO.

The Negritos are tb0 aborigines of
the Philippines. Befc-n the coming Of
the Malays, they pro lly occupied all
this island group, d many of the
numerous islands " hich lie in the
Pacific to the southwark. Some of
them are found to-day in the PENN
sula of Malacca and the Andaman
islands In Java they have recently
died out 1t is likely that some Of
them still exist in the forests of Bornco
and in the interior Of other large
islands Halfbreed Negritos are found
| from India ia New Guinea. Here the
Negritcs have qalgamated with the
savage tribes Hindostan; there,
with the negro-h. Papuans of NAL
aysia. But everywhere the pure race
is dying out. War, bitter and unre-
lenting, seems to have existed for cen
turtles between them and the invading
Malays. The latter have proved the
stronger. The Negritos have persisted.
or been driven to the depths Of the
forests and the Businesses Of the noun
tains, and most of the land which
once knew them knows them no mora.
A policy of determination has pre-
vailed. and few Of this once numerous
race survive.
What can be said Of them as indi-
viduals? They have two claims TO
notice, They are a race Of dwarfs, the
smallest people on the face of the
10 ont t. IN,
clude the pigmies Of Africa. And men
tally they are the lowest or one of the
lowest. Of the human races, stupid in
mind, degraded in condition, forest
wanderers scarcely more settled than
the apes; "man-apes" they are called
in parts Of India.
But, II deficient mentally, the Ne
siitos are largely endowed physically.
They can run Ike deer and climb like
monkeys. In fact, they approximate
they have great powers Of movement
and Of prasping in the great toe, being
able 10 pick up minute objects with
their feet. When on board ship they
are as nimble as monkeys, and can
descend the rigging head foremost.
holding on by the toes alone. Some
Negritos are employed az servants By
the Filipinos. Most Of them, however,
dwell i'm their forest retreats, where
they live mainly by hunting; though
they also eat the wild fruits OF the
forest, the roots OF the arum, the honey
Of the wild bees and other woodland
products Their weapons are simple
but effective. They consist Of baui-
boo lance, bow OF palmwood and a
culver Of poisoned arrows. II is al
interesting fact that the art Of poison
ing arrows is common to the pigmy
race wherever found. The African
dwarfs use arrows a puncture from
which Is fatal. The Negritos have
another way u getting food, not agree
able 10 the natives OF the open country
They win swoop down upon the valley
steal covertly ronud a herd Of browsing
cattle. and drive them of 10 their
strongholds IN the hills.
The Neritos-or Aetas, the Spanisf
call them I've In the simplest AMI
most primitive fashion. They wander
to and fro about Fifty families In 8
group. obtaining shelter from few
sloping poles covered with leaves
Sometimes they built rude hnts raise
On bamboo poles II tho Malay fashion
They have d nrete~~o 81 farmiue
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

At Hanover the socialist conference
discussed the Bernstein evolution the
DRY of socialism, Liebknecht declaring
that liberalism and the bourgeois must
be enemies of socialism. Kautsky,
who is regarded as the greatest scien-
tidc German exponent of theoretical
MarNism. followed with a strong refu-
tation of Bernstein's arguments, de-
claring socialists must acquire political
before economic power.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
A GOVERNMENT POSITION.
Not So Difficult for One Who Has Had
Some Special Training.

Naturally, positions under the
government are in demand, and it is
not altogether an easy matter TO secure
an appointment to one, writes Barton
Cheyney in the Ladies' Home Journal
1T must be remembered, in connection
with this, that large number of mea
and women are ambitious to serve the
country, and the army of applicants is
growing year by year. If one can per-
form well some kind of work that the
government wants done and can ascer-
tain the governments needs in this
respect, entrance to the service is not
SO difficult. But it would be practi-
cally useless for one capable only of
doing clerical work to attempt to Sc
cure a position in the government ser
vice If one, however, has any techni-
cal training is a bookkeeper, stem
ographer and typewriter, or a lawyer
or is schooled in any special line OF
work-he will have a fair chance OF
appointment But he should have a
very good knowledge of whatever kind
of work he puts forward in support Of
his claim for appointment for the com
petition is exceedingly sharp and the
contestants many"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
Mrs. Barnard Thanks
MRS. pINNHAM FOR HEALTH.
frfrrrx We MRS. Y,axnAN NO ss,oDal

fLETrERtYG MRS, Yi&xRAN No, ss.oeal f. .,.
DEAR FEIENp--I feel it my duty to
express my gratitude and thanks to
you for what your medicine has done
for me. was very miserable and los
ing flesh very fast, had bladder trouble,
fiuttering pains about the heart and
would get SO dizzy and suffered with
painful menstruation. was reading
in n paper about Lydia f. PinlShams
Vegetable Compound, SO wrote to you
and after taking two bottlesl felt Ikea
new person. Your Vegetable Compound
has entirely cured me and | cannot
praise it enough. Mas. j. o. BARNARD,
MuITowN, WASHINGTON Co., Me.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
A West Indian Hurricane

Recently travelled up the coast at win, and
acted In an entirely different manner from
any other storm. Sometimes dyspepsia acts
In the same way +. refuses to yield to
treatment which has cured similar cases.
Then Ho.tetter's Stomach Bitters should be
taken II la. cured stomach trouble for
half century.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

When mans wife's sister gets mar
ried he is never sure whether he ought
to be glad for her or sorry for her hus-
band.
Bill: Did you ever know an anna
teur fisherman TO tell the truth?" Jill:
"Oh. yes ] heard one tell another that
he was a liar. Workers Statesman
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

ASH your Grocer to-day to show you
plrNagr OF GRAlNO, the new food
drunk that takes the place Of coffee. The
children may drink It without injury as
we'd as the adult. All who try it like it.
GRAIN-o has that rich seal brown Of
Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
grains, and the most delicate stomach re-
teiyeS il without distress. the price OF
coffee llc and Zoe per package. Sold
hy all grueers
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

az tried three doctors, and the last
one said nothing but an operation
would help me. My trouble was pro-
fuse flowing; sometimes would think
I would flow to death. was so weak
that the least work would tire me.
Reading of so many being cured by
your medicine, made up my mind to
write to you for advice, and ] am so
glad that did. | took Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and Liver
Pillsand followed your directions, and
am now well and strong. lshall recon-
mend your medicine to all, for 1t saved
nv life. Miss A. p, Box 81 ABBOTT,
Iowa.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
sWANsoN's - DROPS" is the $

SWANSON'S - DROPS is the sun
Of the sick room II has saved the pub
lie, in less than FIVE years, more money
Than the national debt of this country,
when you measure the value of health re-
stored, suffering humanity relieved Of It's
agonie, and diseases. Money which 9TH
erwsc would have been expended in fun
erals, doctors aud drug bills, loss of labor
etc
SWANSON'S - DROPS" never fails
to cure. It has cured and is curing mill
ions of people afflicted with ACUTE and
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, SCIAT-
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sent free, on receipt of 10 cents TO pay
for mailing. Agents wanted. SWAN
SONS RHEUMATIC CURE COM
PANY, No. lG4 Lake street. Chicago, III.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

Judge Laplace. prominent planter
living near New Orleans and a member
of the state senate, was called from his
house by a mob of white-masks who
seized and pinioned him. He was led
some distance and shot to death
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
UNCLE SANS NEXT BLUE BOOK.
Biennial Register VIII be Issued
About January Next

THE blue book, a biennial register
which Is now in course of preparation,
viii be issued from the government
printing office about January, though
members Of congress may have adj
vance copies two weeks earlier, or
about the time congress meets. AS
usual, the preparation Of the blue book
is i'm charge of the Interior Depart
ment. though | think there Will be an
amendment OF the law the coming ses-
sion quitting future editions of the
work in charge OF the superintendent
OF public documents. Though the work
is in charge of the Interior Depart
ment, that department has nothing
further to do with il than to assemble
the various parts which are prepared
by the different departments Thus the
Treasury prepares all portions OF 1t re-
iaciug to that department, the Post
Office Department state, War and
Navy, Agricultural and Department OF
Justice the portions relating to thei"
Departments, though they are as
semhled by the Interior Department.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
THE NEXT CENTURY BEGINS,

Hundreds of persons contend that
the twentieth century will begin with
January /, 1900, while other hundreds
contend with equal positiveness that
the correct date is January /, 1901 4"
writes Edward Box In the Ladies
Home Journal. THE 20 contingent
argue that Of course, the new century
begins WIKI its numeral date, and go
on to figure out very deftly that with
the last da' e year 1899 the hun
bred years will have run their course
They argue that If che first year ended
with December 81 1899, that tho
first day Of January. 1900, is, therefore,
the first day Of the new century. And,
.curiously enough this latter figure Is
correct but only In a numeral sense.
These statistlclans overlook one very
important fact, however: that It re-
qulrcs one hundred years 80 make a
century, and 1t calls for no expert
mathematician to figure 1t out that the
full hundred years Of che nineteenth
century viii not have run their course
until twelve o'clock midnight OF the
thirty-frst of December, 1900, Numeri-
cally, we enter Che twentieth century
with January !, 1900 But. neverthe-
less, we must complete that entire year
Of 900. and 90 through It's ,hree hun
dred and slxty-fye days, before the
actual nineteenth hundred years shall
have run their course
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

scatching the ground with a stick and
throwing in a handful OF seed; but
they seldom remain in one place long
enough TO gather their slender crop.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

Forest fires are raging near Oconto
Falls to an alarming extent SIX farm
houses have been burned and large
amount Of hay and miles Of fences
uEnmpd
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

Hetty Green, the woman millionaire,
is reported to be living IN New York
incognlto, styling herself Mrs g.
Dewey"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
OshhoSh, Wa.

Senator Davis, for the attorney gem
eral Of Minnesota, begins proceedings
in the national supreme court against
the government In school land con-
troversy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

poat give them tea or coffee, Have
You ,iad The new food drink called
GKAlN-O2 ltis delicious ana nourish-
ina, aud takes the place of coffee. The
more GHm.n you give the children the
more health You distribute through their
sysIcm> Grain q is made of pure grains,
ant when properly prepared tastes like
the eanlrr grade, of coffee, but costs
about "A as much. An groeers sell it. l5c
aud 1Jy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19
Halls Catarrh Cure
II taken internally Price rs centA

A drilling rain made the Industrial
parade, the last feature of the festival
in Chicago fizzle
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

Mrs. NinsloW's SOOTHING SYRUP Tor children
teeth'uE soft"ns the gums, reduces iutiamma.
ttput ullHys pain, cures wiud collie 2,c a bottle
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-10-19

An enormous volume OF trade is in
dicted by clearing house reports