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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-03
The Modern Way

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30 pleasantly and efiectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
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system and break up colds, headaches,
and fevers without unpleasant after eff
fects. use the delightful liquid laxative
remedy. Syrup of Figs. Made by Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company.
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Black and Tan Sox, that command
no less than Zoe. everywhere, ana
some places nickel more. Pick and
choice, all sizes, seven cents.
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Paraf, still a large shareholder. next
came 10 san Francisco TO dispose or the
right 10 manufacture oleomargarne in
this State and 10 superintend the cree
tion OF works. During his absence the old
company in New York collapsed. and a
new one was founded. from which Paraf
was excluded Paraf then disappeared
from San Francisco, where his career had
~sen marked by the same lavish style OF
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match Company will be given pfoi'p p.,cs.
tention. and the STA OF work aHu W.
Will be sure to please you.
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NlNEItEN-CENT UNDERWEAR.

HEAVYWEIGHT Random Under
wear, full suits TO match, actually
retailed for less than wholesale price.
No clubbing, no haggling, no tom
foolerv. Nineteen cents each Tor
Shirts and Drawers.
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FOR SOLID WC0LLEN KNEE PANi5.

Nothing better or more durable has
ever been offered under S5c. There
will be no duplicates after this lot is
sold. Every pair made with patent
hands and buttons. As long as they
last I1c.-all sizes to age 10.
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COMPEN ENSdTIONS.

When They Wrote on Stones.-Egyp- tian Poet (angrily)-"Then why don't you return my manuscript?" Egyptian Editor (coldly)-"You enclosed no OK team."-Life.
 Mamie (breathlessly sucking 6 big stick of candy) - Quick, Billy, or Mickie'll be here before we've eaten it! Oh! Don't ye wish we wuz sword swal- lerers ?''-Brooklyn Life.
 Wife-'I knew you wouldn't think of ordering all those things I told you to, dear so I went down town myself and got them to- day"
 Husband-"But I did!'--Detroit Free Press.
 MT. Jimson-"Won't yo' sing some things for us, Miss Skylark?"
 Miss Skylark (modesly)-"Wah, I'll try Mr. Jimson."
 MT. Jimson-"Suttinly Miss Skylark, wot I v'-Puck
 q suppose you feel that much is due to your lawyer for your success in the suit?"
 "Oh,yes; I'll acknowledge that there's a whole lot due him, but still I don't think it amounts to as much as he fig
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since 1880. increased to 7S2S03 square miles.
 Portugal had 7O4,495 square miles in 1900, which she has. since 1880, expanded to 100 square miles.
 Russia had 100000 square miles of colonial area in 1S00 which she in- creased to 6,2s9,S S97 in 1880 and e,564,77S in 1898.
 Spain, on the other hand, has declined from some 1OO0O,OO0 square miles in 1900 to 244,SS7 square miles at the pres- ent time. Her colonial population in 1880 was nearly 1oOOO,OOo. At present it Is only 1s2OOO.
 Of the 52,OOO,OOO square miles of the world some 22,2SSOOO are held as pro- tectorates or colonies by Christian na- tions. About 7OO,OoO,OOO souls, or nearly half the population of the globe, are in these protectorates or colonies.
 The United States contains 3501, ,0o0 square miles, to which the treaty just ratified adds 16S,221.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14
THE WEATHER,

Last summer when the corn-w weather was so continuous and searching the general feeling on this part of the coast was that however savage the win ter might be there would be no com- plaint about it's severity. But nobody expected a succession of blizzards which would stop traffic, cut off the mails, raise the price of coal, etc., etc. Here we are. showed in again by a storm that has exceeded even the big blizzard in fierceness. The February thaw is not in sight. but let us have faith until the end of the month if nec- essary. This storm is a great surprise for old inhabitants and great thing for young inhabitants to remember and talk about when they become old in- habitants.
 It will take some time to dig out in the usual way. Can't the fiery spirit that just now animates the Register of- flee in some way be turned in melting power upon the snow in our streets and thus be made useful? It's hot stuff and ought to be utilized.
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} ures out his bill to e"-Philadelphla

ures out his bill to be" be"-Philadelphia | Record.
 Lifes Compensations. can't 1 spell long words like hippopotamus and parallelogram," said the little boy who | wore spectacles and a sailor suit. Well" answered the boy who was leading dog by piece of rope, "dat's
 where Pm lucky. don't have to"- Washington Star.
 How did it happen that Miss Single ton refused to marry the young clergy man?" Why, when he proposed to her she, being little deaf, thought he was asking her to subscribe to the organ fund. So she told him she had prom ised her money to some other mission" -Harpers Bazaar. A New Theory.-"Can you account, general, for the small percentage of fa- talities from bullets as compared with the great number of shots fired at our soldiers during the battle of San Juan hiH?"
 Yes. Since reading the war articles in the magazines, I have decided that the reason so few of our men were hit was that there were so many newspa- per correspondents in front of them. "- Harper's Bazar.
 Her Thought.-"Now, I suppose" re-
 marked Mrs. Snaggs, that the sur
 geons of the army are attached to the
 Medical corps" Your supposition does
 you great credit" replied MT. Snaggs
 sarcastically. Its wonder you didn't
 imagine that doctors joined the army
 for the purpose of building bridges or
 going up in balloons. Where should
 army surgeons be except in the medi-
 cal corps.' Well, l thought that
 they might possibly belong to the lancers." Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele-
 graph.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14
INTERPRETING AND sADDENING.

The progress of degeneration can
 sometimes be traced with considerable accuracy. The tracing is interesting, though apt to be saddening, as in the
 case of our dear friend the Register, to whom or which, we are bound by many ties. When the Register was all right it was cheerful, lively, kindly and gen.
 orally human. It's queerness first be-
 came noticeable when it threw it's Bible away and began to break the Sabbath.
 Then 1t took its humble but very useful
 wheelbarrow off the alley news-route
 between its office and the office of the Journal and Courier. Then it went back on Thomas Jefferson and the big Jack son. It became a loose constructionist, so loose that the Constitution didn't seem to it to amount to anything among friends. It mugwumped. It became oblivious of Westville. It discovered the mock turtle in Branford. It made minister to New Britain. It turned up it's nose at the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It rejoiced in frequently "sassing'' its oldest and best friend the Journal and Courier. And it has now reached the stage where it has delusions of grandeur, and other symptoms of megalomanie, as we say in French, or the darned big head, as we say in Eng fish.
 What the Register imperatively needs is rest and freedom from excitement. It accuses the Journal and Courier of stealing while asleep. Perhaps if the Register could do it's stealing while asleep it would feel better. We feel pretty we'll, and we recommend the Register to try somnambulistic stealing instead of the wideawake and noisy | kind it so delights in.
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The Signs of the Times.

| "So you think you fell on evil times; vol want born soon enough; You look around you and you find tha things are pretty tough; The rich are grabbin every thing, the poo don't stand q show, And the troubles gettin worse and worse you say There's goin to be a rumpus like the French had long ago, Unless the big monopolists are halted
 right away You look upon4your little boy and ther your eyes git dim, Because you cant help worryin' at what's
 in store for him; With al, these trusts controlln' every bless
 ed thing in sight, The oy that's growth up today won't
 stand no show at al- You say you re rather lookln for big and And it woufdn'F be surprlsin if the gov,
 er'mentd fall. "The world is gttln' wickeder than what it
 used to be, And freedoms but mockery-the rich
 alone are free You say you cant see anything but anarchy
 ahead;
 stay and live 1t through Say, when I was a boy my dad he used to
 shake his head. And make iist such predictions as I've lis-
  "Folks used to worry over things that we've
 forgotten now And they used to see disasters that hain
 never come somehow, The railroads they were looked upon as
 things that Satan planned To bring disaster to the folks and turn
 things wrong side out, And every new invention was dead sure to
 put the land Into the rich mans power and bring awful
 things about. "When first got my awkward old machine
 for mowln' grass The farmer boys they the ught an ugly thing
 had come to pass Shook their heads and muttered about bein'
 robbed of bread, And sort of looked at me as you look at
 the mlllionalres; And when Jeremiah Bag.ey got his reaper
 father said
 The government had ought to stop the use
 of such affairs. Well. the troubles folks predicted, back
 there in my younger days, Haven't come to make us wretched, and l
 guess the newer ways Of doin things are better than the old ones And know that folks don't suffer as they
 had to long ago; And livin's twice as easy as It was, It seems to me.
 when l LOOK DhcK OH lule HdTuSuipS tuuC
 us old folks used to know. "So you think you fell on evil times--you
 wish you'd lived before; You think that things are goln' wrong, that
 troubles are in store: Why, ever since old Adams day that
 thought has worried men, Each one of us has thought about the
 comln' years with dread;. We've always kept a-slghin' for the good
 old times agen, Not knowin' that the best times of them
 all were jlst ahead Forgettln' somehow that the Lord still
 reigns up there above. And that ne haint forgotten us nor robbed
 us of His love"
 s. D. Riser in Chicago News.
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counterpart of a railroad which the English have just constructed on their side of the Afghan frontier. It is now said in India that the Russians are &C., cumulating at the Kushk all the ma- terials necessary for the construction of light railroad to Herat, in the case of an emergency, while in St. Petersburg the English are accused of doing exact ly the same thing. Evidently both sides are preparing for a forward dash when the time comes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14
ONE FISH STORY EXPLODED.
That About Boiling a Fresh-Caught

That About Boiling FreSh-Caught Trout in the Geysers. You needn't think that just because I have been out there I am going to give you all the details of a surprise which did not feel at the stock tales of the Yellowstone Park" said the crit
 ical tourist. Anybody knows that boil ing water will cook fish, and as long as you know that the Yellowstone is full of geysers and boiling springs l don't see what there is wonderful about catching a trout and then turning
 around and dangling it in a boiling spring until it is cooked. It would begin to be wonderful if boiling water didn't
 cook fish everywhere.
 But I wish when they are telling this
 old story they would finish it up-nlalfe
 it complete. he next time you hear any
 body tell that story just you watch out for the way it ends. It never ends. The man tells how he caught the trout. We'll and good; anybody can
 catch hundreds of trout in those over- stocked waters. Then he tells how he
 swung around on his heel, lowered it into a pool of boiling water, and cooked
 it. Well, what's the end of the story? There isn't any end. He just chortles
 about how he was overcome by the marvels of nature and that sort of
 thing. He doesn't say any other word about the fish. Now, if you will only let the marvels of nature alone and keep your eye fixed on the fish with which the story began it will look mighty different.
 There is the pool of boiling water pretty handy, but not by any means to be reached by pivoting on the fiSherman's heel. Then just sos to have something to talk about when he gets home the fisherman souses his live trout into the boiling water. If it's cruelty to broi a live lobster there ought to be something done to a man who will boil a trout alive. And it spells the fish; the man has to throw it away after he has showed it through natures marvels for the sake of his miserable little story. Nobody can eat a trout that has been boiled with all it's scales on and all the machinery in place; it's got to be thrown away. There is another thing, too, about this story. The next time you hear 1t ask the man if he took the trout out of the pool of boiling water. If he says he did, then the fish didn't begin to be cooked, for anybody who has ever seen a boiled fish of any sort knows that when it's done it won't hold together tight enough to be lifted un- less it's wrapped in napkin before it's cooked.
 50 there you have the plain facts about cooking trout on the hook. know, because I thought it such great marvel of nature that I had to go and try it. Then l saw what happened, and l haven't yet got through feeling dis gusted with myself f'-From The Chica l go Inter Ocean.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14
COLONIZING.

Dr. Daniel Dorchester, in the Review of Reviews, sketches the drift of various governments toward colonial and pro- tectorate governments in the last three
 hundred years and shows that the
 movement has been greatly accelerated
 in the twenty years just past, owing to the adoption by protectionist nations of the idea that territorial expansion is an efficient means of commercial expansion.
 Formerly the extension of dominion abroad was the outcome of conquer ing spirit or the result of sending emil grants over sea to exploit new lands, or was an incident of maritime commerce but nowadays the large development of manufacturing industries supplies the motive Protectionists want their ex- elusive markets widened and free trad- CTS want the "open door" kept open, and the effect of their efforts in either casa is a general scramble for territory.
 Excluding part of what is now known as Canada, the British dominion in 1900 was but 1,799004 square miles; in 1SS0 it was 5,O22691 square miles; in 1891 it was 901O,OO3 square miles, with col onial population of 307,S46, 122. Since 1891 there have been new acquisitions in South Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Asia and Oceanica, which in- crease the Queens dominion to 100000 square miles and the number of her subjects to about 400,000,000, exclusive of Egypt, the Soudan, Afghanistan and Beluchistan, which are virtually British protectorates.
 France in 1900 had colonial area of 377, ,056 square miles; in 1880 her area was 6so, 764 square miles; at present she has 5,617,S27 square miles.
 Germany in 1880 had no colonies, but now beasts colonial area of 1,02O,070 | square miles,
 The Netherlands in 1900 had 659,126 l square miles of colonies, which she has,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14

of white chiffon quilling, and was l headed with deep band of black vel vet ribbon held in front with rhine stone ornament. The upper part of the skirt showed narrow bands and bow knots of the velvet finished with white silk threads. On the bodice were cross ed bands of the velvet and belt of the same. The bretelle was heavy white lace finished with double ruff1es of white chiffon, the sleeves were gath cred and the high collar was band of the velvet.
 Wearers of such fine feathers have spoiled their dealers in corsets, or so it would seem from the following essay on stays by seller of them. There is no excuse these days" said she, flor wearing badly made or poorly fitting corset. Women no longer wear one cor set till it is all out of shape. First, they choose such as conform finely to their own lines, and then they have at least four pairs. This is economy. As soon as the bones of a corset begin to lose their line, the corset is sent back to the maker and is supplied with new bones. The corset is changed as often as is the costume. That which is worn under the morning gown is removed when the sailor dress for classes or morning shop ping is donned. Still another is worn for the dressy afternoon costume. and for the evening or dinner gown yet an- other. There should be one for the wheel or golf, and for dancing there ought to be corset especially suited to the exercise. It may cost a little to collect one's outfit, but once done you will find that clothes last better, and that at most you need to buy one new pair of corsets in a season, while you are never obliged to wear an old pair"
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14
FASHION NOTES.
Pointers on Corsets From Dealer.

Pointers on COrsets From n Dealer.
 Dressmakers take great pride in the spring from the knees that they arrange in street skirts, but to the ordinary eye the fact that wearers are turned into so many pavement sweepers makes the skirts less admirable. So it is in skirts of like cut but for ball or recep- ton use these outlines appear to the best advantage. And 1t is here that the contrast between the hips sheath fit and the flowing fullness at the hem is at its strongest. The gown shown here is illustrative of this. and was, be- sides, rarely tasteful bit of designing. Of canary liberty silk, Its skirt founca was pleated and edged with two rows
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NO DEFENSE,

The Register says the Journal and Courier makes a desperately weak de- fense of stealing from the Register. Nay, nay, not so. We do not make any defense of stealing from the Register. Stealing from the poor and needy Reg ister would be almost as mean crime as stealing coppers from dead man S evec
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he 4ulrrmAl and Uumrter
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small hdvertlsemonts. One Cent a Word each in- aertion. Five Cents Word for full week fseven tlmes).
 Display advertisements. per Inch. one in. sertton' certs' Sl2o each subsequent Insertion do one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. 15 cents per line. Notices of Births Ma-- Local Notices. IS cents per line.
 yearly advertsers are limited to their own Immediate business (all matter to be Include Wants. To Let, For Sale. etc.
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speaking of stealing, the Register yesterday stole our careful report of Pr. Newman Smyth's sermon. It is well come to 1t, and it might have had the type if it hadn't been too proud to send It's wheelbarrow over through the alley.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14

An effort to adopt the Torrens system of land tenure has been made in Min nesota. and the Attorney General of the State has reported to the Senate that while the Torrens system of land-title registration could not be adopted in the State in it's original form, without con- flioting with the State constitution, a modified system may safely be made a part of the State laws.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14

King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, always ready with his purse in the pro- motion of scientific research, appears to have rendered a great service to man. kind by having, at his own expense, caused 8 deaf and dumb man to be treated under certain system of mas ing parts of the head, advocated by great Swedish surgeon, with the result that the lucky patient has begun to speak and can hear.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14
5hsJohqfBasscttG&. 754GAApEL ST. 32O STATE ST.
PALACE MARKET.

Extra Bargains Th4s week. POULTRY Turkeys 12c lb, Chickens 12c, Fowl Sc, Ducks 12c. Geese 10c. Capons 15c, Grouse 1Oc. Pot Roast 6c, legs Lamb 10c, fine Steaks Sc, best Hams 10c, fresh and Smoke Shoulders 7c, Bologna and Sausage Sc. Boiled Ham (whole) 15c, English Breakfast Bacon 10c. Hundreds of bargains in the Meat line All kinds fresh Vegetables Or dsrs delivered promptly, Phone 42N T, SCHOENBERGER X SONS Palace Market.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-17
PICKED UP AT SEA.

Monday morning Captain Willie
Wainwright and crew left here on the
schooner George Wainwright for POGO
sin river after q load OF oysters. They
arrived at the mouth OF the river in
the afternoon and found that it was
frozen up. They came TO an anchor
that night with the intention of re-
turning to Portsmouth on Tuesday. but
when day broke they found themselves
drifting out to sea.
During the day the schooner became
wedgcd in the ice, but on Wednesday
the ice broke loose and they again
started for sea. Yesterday morning
about o'clock they We're picked up by
the tug Trenton and lowed to Ports
mouth.
Their provisions and water had given
OUT and things began to look rather
gloomy. They We're five miles outside
the Canes and HELPLESS and liable to
bh cut down by the ice at any time
when they reached Portsmouth each
one lreathed n sigh of relief
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-17
SEVERAL ACCIDENTS

Yesterday morning, about O'Clock.
light rain began TO fall and it froZe
as 1t fell. making walking for man and
beast dangerous. y number of per-
sons fell ana hurt themselves quite
badly. y colored cook. named Bette
Johnson. who was en- route 10 her place
of service. fell and injured herself She
was kindly cared for by white fam
lily until she could be removed TO her
home
Mrs. VIM. Qulllin. who lives on Fifth
street. between Henry and Lincoln
slipped and fell, breaking her arm at
the wrist. DR.. Hopkins was sent for
and set the limb
Three young ladies, who were pass
ing down Middle street. slipped. and
in grabbing At one another fell. one re-
coiVing severe cut on the forehead
and several bruises.
horse attached to n coal cart fen
on High street and was cut quite bad
~.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-17
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING.
The Movement in the Interest of Our
PpOnle Growing

The Movement in the Interest of Our
People Growing.
The Council committee appointed to
confer with the Central Labor Union
on the eight-hour law and the build
ing of n battleship at this yard, held a
very enthusiastic meeting last night,
and discussed a course of action to
further the matter. and decided to ask
the cooperation of the different navy
yards of the country; also to attend q
general conference of all the different
committees on Monday night at the
BUSINESS Mems Association of Norfolk,
and also to secure such data as will
assist in informing Congress on the adj
vantage of the proposed legislation.
~ resolution was unanimously passed
asking the cooperation of Mayor Baird
and other prominent citizens of the
city.
The Council committee is composed
OF John j. King, j. Davis Reed, l.. p.
slater. G. w. Walker and l.. c. Brin-
son. and City Clerk T.. Thompson, Jr.
The committee representing the Cen
tral Labor Union is G. G. Williams and
j. Il. Casey.
Daniel j. Reardon. of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists Ports
mouth Lodge No. Al, and c. Ii. Her.
bert. representing the n;Lyy-yard en-
ployes' were also present.