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pichmond, fredericksburg and
LIZ Potomac Route.
ON AND AFTER NOVEMBER 28th, trains
on this road will run as follows:
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The True Reason.

A young man in a Western city, be-
coming aware that-a good lady of his &C
qualntance was very much interested in
the work of Foreign Missions, said: go,
why do so much for the PARKWAY heather
Why don't you look after us wild young
men at homer" II would like to reach
you young men in this city, and do you
good; but and the Christian people here
find ourselves unable to bring you into
our churches, and win you to the Saviour.
We appeal to you; we try to throw good
Influences around you. We invite you to
our homes and to our churches, but you
refuse our invitations, and 90 off to your
theatres and balls and clubs and fast COM
pany." Well, l will show you how to
reach US young men, was the reply.
" You need not spend your energies on
the heather; you can save US young men
when / show you how to do it," So,
when this young man went to his club
next time, he told the boys about this
good motherly woman, and what she
wanted to do if they would tell her how.
Well, they smoked and drank, and talked
it over, and came to the conclusion that
they didn't want to be reached" So
ILLS young man, naClVe OF ola OOnnecCl-
cut, and once an attendant upon church
and Sabbath School, reported. And this,
no doubt, is the condition of thousands
of young men in this city. They do not
want the Sabbath, the church and the
society of the virtuous and pure and cor
rect. They know there is such society,
that it is open to them, and that they
would be heartily welcome. The trouble
is not that there are no good homes to go
to, and no good motherly and sisterly
women to make their lives better and
purer. The trouble is, "they do not
want to be reached"
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A Spider Story.

One chilly day I was left at home
alone; and after | was tired reading
" Robinson Crusoe," I caught spider
and brought him into the house to play
with. Funny playmate, WASH t it? Well,
[ took wash basin and fastened up a
stick like vessels mast, and then poured
in just water enough to turn the mast
into an island for my spider, which I
named Crusoe, and put him on the mast.
AS soon as he was fairly cast away, he
anxiously commenced running round to
find the mainland He'd scamper down
the mast to the water, stick out a foot,
get it wet, shake it, run around the stick,
and try the other side, and then run
back to the top again. Pretty soon it
became a serious matter to Mr.. Robinson,
and he sat down to think over It. AS in
moment he acted as if he wanted to
shout for boat, and was afraid he was
going to be hungry, l put treacle on the
stick. A fly came, but Crusoe WASH t
hungry for flies Just then. He was
homesick for his web in the corner of the
woodshed He went slowly down the
pole to the water, and touched it all
around, shaking his feet like pussy when
she vets her stocking in the grass, and
suddenly a thought appeared to strike
him. Up he went like a rocket to the
top, and commenced playing circus. He
held one foot in the air, then another
two or three times. He got excited, anc
nearly stood on his head before I founc
out what he knew, and that was this
that the draught Of air made by the fire
would carry line ashore on which ht
could escape from his desert island. HI
pushed out web that went floating il
the air until it caught on the table
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How to Do it at Home.

doctor" said gentleman to his pas
tor, how can | best train up my boy in
the way he should go2"
by going that way yourself" blandly
responded the pastor.
No sounder advice could have been
given. Sound instruction is excellent.
Education in morals and correct theories
of living are not by any means to be
neglected. But those families where the
quiet influence of pure and noble ex-
ample is found are most likely to be the
ones where childhood is most successfully
trained. In nothing is the influence of
little things more important than in the
domestic circle. Parents naturally and
properly live free and unrestained life
In the presence of their own families. If
they are cross, petulant fault-fnding, it
is idle to expect that the children, who
are hourly witnesses to this petty i'll
temper, will be of sunny disposition or
unsel6sh in life. But if home life is
filled with little deeds of kindness, with
gentle, loving helpfulness, the "small,
sweet courtesies" of hourly intercourse,
they will descend from father to son, and
from mother to daughter. Home will
borrow a radiance that is the best fore
taste of the blessedness of the heavenly
world, and children that are reared in
such an atmosphere are likely to fulfil
the expectations of those that are in
terested In their welfare.
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Work and Play.

And then remember, my son, you
have to work. Whether you handle a
pick or pen, wheelbarrow or set of
books, digging bitches or editing news
paper, ringing an auction bell or writing
funny things, you must work. If you
look around you, you will see that the
men who are most able to work are the
men who work the hardest. Don't be
afraid of killing yourself with overwork,
son. 1t is beyond your power to do that.
Men cannot work so hard as that on the
sunny side of thirty. They die some
times, but it's because they quit at P
M. and don't go home until 2 A. M. It's
the interval that kills, my son. The
work gives you an appetite for your
meals, it lends solidity to your slumber it
gives you perfect and graceful apprecia-
ton OF holiday.
There are young men who do not
work, my son; young men who can make
a living by sucking the end of cane;
whose entire mental development is suf-
ficient to tell them which side of post
age stamp to lick; young men who can
tie necktie in eleven different knots
and never lay a wrinkle in it; who can
SPehu more money IN q Gay Cnan you
can earn in month, but who will go to
the sheriffs Office to buy a postal card,
and apply at the Office of the street com.
missioner for a marriage license. But
the world is not proud Of them, son. 1t
does not know their name, even No
body likes them, nobody hates them; the
great, busy world doesn't even know
they are there. Things will go on just
as well without them So find out what
you want to be, and do this take of
your coat and make dust in the world
The buster you are, the less deviltry you
will apt to get into, and sweeter will be
your sleep, the brighter and happier
your holidays, and the better satisfied
will the world be with you.-Burhmg
ton Hd1Ukeue.
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The Sabbath.

It is an easy thing for minister Of the
gospel who has general reputation for
orthodoxy, to secure for himself in these
days a little notoriety. Let him only APP
pear to 90 over to the camp of the
enemy, and show the weak points in his
own citadel, and his own party will cry
out against him as traitor, while his
qatondane opponents will welcome him as
a recruit. DR.. Donald Fraser is at pre-
sent enjoying what comfort there is in
such cheap popularity. He has published
a sermon which has delighted those who
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No. Mail runs daily from Huntington to
Williamson's; daily except Sunday from vii.
liamson's to Richmond. Elizabethtown, Lex
ington, and Big Sandy trains from Ashland,
KY, connect with No. 2.
Virginia Midland Mail from Danville and
Lynchburg connects closely at Gordonsville with
No. for Richmond
No. EXPRESS, C. B. S. & P. P. steamer
leaves Cincinnati at P. M daily, and is due at
Huntington to connect with No. Express,
which runs daily to Richmond. Elizabethtown
Lexington, and Big Sandy trains from Ashland,
KY, connect with No. 4.
No. 6 ACCOMMODATION, leaves Gordons.
vile daily, except Sunday, at $40 A. M, and
arrives at Richmond at 800 A. M.
No. % mixed, leaves Stanton daily except
Sunday at 7:15 A. M, receiving passengers from
Virginia Midland mail from Washington, and
arrives at Richmond at 715 P. M.
No. 26 Mixed leaves Huntington daily ex.
cept Sunday al 2:30 P NJ, and arrives at Can
Melton at 10 P. M.
Sleeping Cars on No 2 from Huntington to
Aldersons. On No. from Williamson's to
Richmond
For Rates, Tickets, Baggage Checks, &C., APP
ply to R. H. Fisher Agent, c. & o. Depot Or
A. W. CARRIER, Agent, 1926 Main st., Richmond.
w M. S. DUNN,
Engineer and Superintendent.
CONWAY R. HOWARD, General Passenger
and~Ticket Agent.
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Lynchburg passenger train, No. A, daily
Leave Richmond at $50 A. NJ. arrive at Burke
vile at 11:30 A. M.
Train No. Al connects at Burkeville with A.
M & o. r. r. for Farmville, Lynchburg and all
points in the Southwest
Trains Nos 48 and ~ connects at Sutherlin's
with M. & S. N. G.. r. r. for Milton, N. c.
Train No. 4S connects at Salisbury with W.
N. G. r. r. for Asheville and all points in west
ern North Carolina.
Trains Nos so, 4S and AZ connect at Air Line
Junction with A. & G.. A. r. r. for all points
South and Southwest and at Charlotte with c.
Q. A. r. r. for all points South, Southeast and
Southwest.
Train No. 80 stops only at Jetersville, brakes
Branch, Barksdale's, Danville, Greensboro, and
Salisbury.
Trains from the above-named points arriUe in
Richmond at ABS p NJ, 4:0S A. NJ, and 6:45
Pm.
Trains on North Carolina division make con
nection at Goldsboro' with the w & w. r. r. TO
and from Weldon and Wilmington.
Pullman Palace Drawing-room and Sleeping
Cars lun through on Train No AZ from ~ York
and Richmond to Atlanta, and from Greensboro
| 10 Augusta, and on Train No. AZ from Boston,
Mass, to Savannah Ga, MA Richmond
Tickets sold to all points south, south cast, and
southwest, and baggage checked through.
! No lay-over checks given on local tickets.
J. r. MACMURDO,
General Passenger Agent, Richmond, Va.
] 7. M. r. TALcoTT, General Superintendent
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How Our Children Leave Us.


Watch, and within the brief circuit of
year, sometimes even in the course of a
few months, you will see change in the
little faces. Take photographs of them,
and if you happen to lay them by for a
few years, and then open the book, you
will have a surprise. You will have
something like the following "Why, I
have lost these children. Surely they
have gone from .le Has God taken
Them No. They are "about" you still.
They are beside you now, looking at
the pictures, much amused that thew
should be pictures of themselves. They
can see no resemblance to the image they
see every day in the glass So they van
ish from us, even when they live, and we
see them no more. The little girl with
the ringlets is wayfarer who is tarrying
with you only for night. She will go
on again in the morning towards woman
hood. And the sunny boy will keep her
company on the way to his manhood
Very soon, now, you will see touches of
the manhood and womanhood on their
faces. Then will come their lovers, their
marriages, their cares, their children
and you will be grandfather and grand
mother before you know it, Many are
taking these honors continually while yet
they are not old. Their conditions con
spire to crown them without their leave,
although generally much to their delight
Then a few years more, and your chill
dren's children will leave you as they
shoot up into men and women. You
will have to reach across two generations
then to find the children.
Nor can we forget that there are al
ways some who far outstrip the rest
who do not glide away on feet along the
earthly ways, but who have wings woven
in silence on which they fly up to the
fields of heaven. We have spoken of the
facial change as children grow to be men
and women but there is another change
which sometimes comes on a young face,
which betokens growth quite out of this
world, and putting on of the beauty
and glory of another A change this,
sad at first to see, sorrowful exceedingly
to our earthly affections Yet change
growing more and more fair to look on, a
rebuke to our sorrow, lifelong memory
to our love.
And so we lose them. And many
Job stands amid the relics of the past,
looking back, and plaintively or thank
fully recalling the days when the chill
dren were about him. Well, but look
forward. Antedate the time. Antici-
pate the inevitable severance, and work
for the formation of the deeper, the i'm
mortal union. If you have wealth.
heart property-in these children, as
children, know it now, for the riches
will make themselves wings and fly
away" If you have nurture to give
them suitable to their tenderness, pre-
paration for their strength, give it now
in little while they will be too hard
and strong in Natures growth to take
it. If there are lessons which the Mas
ter would have you learn Of them when
you are older, then learn the lessons now,
for soon the little faces will be seen no
more at your table, the patter Of the lit
tie feet heard no more in your rooms.
alexander Raleigh.
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lslizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy R. R.

No. MAIL runs daily except Sunday from
Richmond to Williamson's; daily from William
sons to Huntington. Connects closely at Cor.
louisville for Lynchburg. Connects at Hunting.
ton with Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Big
Sandy railroad for Ashland, KY.
No. 3 EXPRESS, runs daily. Connects at
Huntington with Elizabethtown, Lexington and
Big Sandy railroad for Ashland, KY. Connects
closely at Gordonsville for Lynchburg; and con-
meets with the Virginia Midland train leaving
at $3.50 A. M. for Washington. :
No, ACCOMMODATION leaves Richmond
daily, except Sunday, at $3.50 P NJ, and arrives
at Gordonsville at 7:2o PM
No. q MIXED, leaves Charlottesville daily
except Sunday, at 4:35 P. NJ, on arrival of Vir-
glnia Midland Mail from Danville and Lynch
burg, and arrives at Staunton at P. M.
No. 20 Mixed leaves Cannelton daily except
Sunday at A. M, and arrives at Huntington
at 1925 A. M.
SLEEPING CARS on No. from Richmond
to Williamson's, On No. l from Alderson's to
Huntington.
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are seeking to open our picture galleries
and museums on the Lords Day. and
which has called forth sorrowful re-
solution of condemnation from the Sab
bath Observance Society. There is moth
ing new in what he says What there is
of argument in his discourse has been
considered thousand times The whole
pith and power of it lie in its having
been preached by minister of Maryle-
bone Presbyterian church. And we
must express doubt as to whether the
responsibility of that act was fully con-
sldered. For, you may say, everything
is conceded to anti-Sabbatarians like
Dean Stanley, when it is admitted that
the Lords Day has no divine and au-
thoritative sanction. DIR. Fraser makes
some very good remarks upon the ques-
ton of how the Sabbath should be sane
titled. But the remaks are obviously in
spired by his own upbringing. They
simply represent his private opinions.
Professor Tyndall, who has been show
ing his anxiety to help the Glasgow peo-
pie to get above their drunkenness and
their Sabbatarianism at one and the
same time, has just as good right as
DIR. Fraser to insist on his views being
adopted. And if we have no solid
ground for believing that conscience and
the moral law have anything to do with
the matter, and if that conviction com es
to be as general as DR.. Fraser must wish
1T to be, then the time cannot be far dis
tant when the idea of anything life a
national recognition of the Lords Day
will be held to be preposterous. At
present we are as people keeping holy
the first day of the week, under the i'm
preston that we are thus honoring a
divine institution; and we have adopted
certain rules for its observance, in the
belief that the fourth commandment is,
n1utataS nautamdiS, still of obligation.
Let our faith in these points, however,
be shaken; let the popular minds catch
up the idea that, in the opinion even OF
our orthodox men, we have in this con-
nection been living under an illusion,
and the consequences may prove regret
table in more ways than one. That
there will come to be greater practical
laxity goes, of course, without saving
But that is not all. The consigning Of
our Sabbatarianism to that "limbo'
which 10 dlIeauy Iull OF SO many OF our
traditions, will help to strengthen the
misgivings which are already SC rife as
to the security OF all our foundations
If indeed our faith in the Lords Day as
under divine sanction is really nothing
better than fancy, then the truth must
be told, however painful it may be. But
when that faith is intertwined with the
religious history and all the religious
practices of the nation, orthodox minis
tiers should feel very sure of their ground
indeed before joining with others who
are very unlike themselves in the en-
deavor to uproot it. Christian Monthly
and Family Treasury.
DIR. Fraser has expressed regret for his
conduct, and suppressed his pamphlet
| EDS.
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Then he hauled on the rope until it was
tight struck it several times to see if it
was strong enough to hold him, and
walked ashore. l thought he had earned
his liberty, so put him back in the
woodshed again.-Hearth.
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RiohmOnd, Fredericksburg and
LIZ Potomac Route.
ON AND AFTER NOVEMBER 2Sth, trains
on this road will run as follows:
NORTH BOUND.
505 A. NJ, leaves Byrd Street station daily; due
at Washington, 9:10 AM, Baltimore,
1850 AM; Philadelphia, 100 PM:
N. York, $50 p NJ. Connects with
New York Limited Express. This
train stops only at Milford and
fredericksburg.
1928 A. NJ, leaves Byrd-St station daily, Except
Sundays) due at Washington, 1:2O
P M; Baltimore, 3:20 P. M Phila-
delphia, 7:05 P. M. N. York, 1895
P M.
458 PM, train leaves Byrdstreet station dai.
ly; due at Washington, 925 P. NJ;
Baltimore, 11:25 P. NJ; Philadelphia,
1926 A. NJ; New York, 6:45 A. NJ.
1858 P. M, ACCOMMODATION TRAIN for
Junction leaves Broad st. station
daily Except Sunday)
SOUTH BOUND.
11:38 A. NJ, arrives at Byrd Street station daily
Leaves New York, 10 P. M; Phila-
delphia, lilo A. NJ. Baltimore, 445
A. M; Washington, A. M.
2:2S P. NJ, arrives at Byrd-street station daily.
Leaves Washington, 1 A. NJ; Bal
timore, 9:35 AM; Philadelphia, 705
A. NJ; New York, 4:30 A. NJ. This
train makes no local stops.
9:48 P. NJ, arrives at Byrd-Street station dai-
ly, Except Sunday Leaves Wash
ington, NJ; Baltimore, $50 P.
NJ; Philadelphia, 11:45 A. NJ; New
York, 815 A. M.
Sal A. NJ, ACCOMMODATION TRAIN ar
rives at Broad-Street station daily
Except on Sundays)
Trains leaving Richmond at 505 A. NJ, and
arriving at 2.2S P. NJ, do not stop at Elba
c. A. TAYLOR.
General Ticket Agent
E. D. T. MYERS, General Superintendent.
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TNHR CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY

On and after DECEMBER Sd, 1880 until
further notice. EXPRESS TRAIN No. 8, leav-
ing Richmond at IL P. NJ, will connect at Hunt
ington with Ohio river steamers for all points
west.
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MILLINERY.
SPRING AND SUMMER.
MRS. E. J. THURSTON

No. SIS East Broad ST., Richmond,
Has just returned from New York with one OF
the largest and most carefully-selected stocks
ever offered in the city, with all the latest nov
elites for spring and summer trade.
WEDDING and MOURNING orders prompt
ly attended to,
A call is specially solicited
MDE. De LA FORCE thanks her customers for
their very liberal patronage for the past season,
and solicits a continuance of the same at the
above address Due notice will be given of the
opening. no5-1y
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ID edmond & DANVILLE RAILROAD.
LIZ On and after NOVEMBER 28th, 1880, the
trains on this road will run daily as follows:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-16

ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOLICITOR IN CHAN
n Gerry and Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans ana
Collects. Office And Avenue, 3rd door cast OF
Bengston' Drug Store. Rock Island, iuF
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cHILIAN-pERuv1Gw WAS.

PANAMA, Dec. l6.-The long expected
Chiiian advance on Lima, IS at last an
aotuality. November 18th. Is vessels,
all war vessels, or armed transports,
except sailing vessels. which we're tow
ed, appeared off Pisco The Augarno and
two other vessels steamed into the harbor,
the former approaching tho Mole as closely
as possible, and sent officers ashore who
demanded the surrender Of the place and
were refused. Fire was at once opened
from the ships and was returned by the
Perugian's force Oh shore. There were
only 1900 men. commanded by Colonel
Famudi, and landing at Pisco was resisted
so hotly, that most of the Chilians at
Paracas, about 10 miles off. Immediately
marched on Pisco, almost surrounding
Famudi's small force That officer, hope
less of further defencs, without sacrifice
of bis entire force. retired, after blowing
up the shore section of the wharf and
other property to prevent its falling into
Chilisn hands. The rolling stock of the
Piseo railroad was burned, a severe loss to
English bondholders. The Peruvian loss
in the fight is placed at $50 men, and the
Chilian at thrice that number. The
Chllian force which landed, consisted of
the second and fourth regiments of ] 200
men each. The Coquimbs. Talca. Cal
chRqua, Chalaco and Atacama regiments
of 200 men each, naval brigade of 900
men, and 800 artillery and cavalry. aking
in all 10000 men. Transports having
landed troops they returned to africa for
further reinforcements.
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SKIN DISEASE,
Great Suffering for Sixteen Years. A
Wonderful Cure by the Cuticura
Rpn1pdIp5

Messrs. WEEKS i POTTER: GcHtlcmcn.-CUT4
CURA REMEDIES have done me power of good.
have been afflicted with skin disease for sixteen
years. Some days it troubled me more than others
but at night the Itching nearly drove me wild.
would scratch until the blood would run down
my limbs.
have had several physicians. Some said they
could cure me, but Others said cot.
will say that before / used the CnTIcrRA RENT
DIES was in q fearful state, and had gwen up all
hope of ever having any relief.
But. ike drowning man grasping at straw,
thought ] would try the CUuCURA REMEDIES
about which had read so much
They have performed a wonderful cure for me
and of my own free will and accord recommend
them. Yours truly.
s. A. STEELE.
o5 ". VAN BUREy ST.. CHICAGO, ILL,
March Z, IS79