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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-12-06
1853 ALEXANDRIA, 0AzETTI

ae GAZETTE edronoogicaag. ia in tn,
-i.-5 .l.:-.a GEAR ofits existence ana il l.;
o1ly tas Ode! gapsf in the state, out, wit
very feN exceptions, in the country Nor
r.tbelsndiog The MHness of its years, It has
kept, sod a cpatiuueto Keep s5reastofthe
.!9es is sli ,hac persoins to asn. paper
furnishing is readers daily with perfect
p,jrEo' Of passing events, domestic and for
eign. I.a facilities for obtaining ness IS
theg increase are taken advantage Of sad
used for the benefit of its readers, who are
thos kep- thoroughly posted as to all 'ia;
OF interest politically, socially, fnancl.'l
and commercially Special attention {.
given to matters concerning the State end
its welfare. while i'9 local columns contain
oil that is Of the slightest interest to alex.
andria. Ifs regular correspondence ron
Washington and Richmond are features 0.
peculiar interest, aa atteated by the eagsr.
ness With which they are read and copied
By other papers, While its editorial depart
ment, conducted With reference to the hes,
interests Of the city, State and country, vii.
Continue to advocate what is believed 10 be
right just, honest aud patriotic. With
view 10 tbeio;erests of merchants, farm.
ers, and all interested, its commercial COL
umns are carefully edited and its market
reporto SIC acknowledged by all to be faith
ful and accurate. Through ell this section
OF thsstate and in all parts Of the country
where Vi'einjana have located, there will
the GAZETTE generally be found, and tdu'
as an advertising medium it has few equals
outside the large cities. In the household
room and Workshop, it is an ever
~e!aolas visitor, acceptable alike 10 Old and
young, the grageand the gay.
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DIRECTORY
-og THE
PRINCIPAL Business H0uS8s d The CITY

Banks,
Burke G. Herbert, cor, King and Fairfax strcs,
Citizens National Bank, Z. ". cor Prince eo1
First NstionGl Bank, 3. y. cor. Prince a'.3 T.
''''''' Books, stationary and 2Tt1t:ag
a Z. French, SO King stress.
8. T. Dyson, sos King street.
China, Glassware, &c.
e. J. Miller Son & Co., 65 King street.
Confschoners.
Henry Brengle, 129 King street.
Dry Goods and EOtioua
T Eichberg & Co., cor. King and Royal sis.
A. B. Slaynaker, 100 King street.
J. E. Tsckett, 100 King street.
Drugs and Chemicals.
W.T.. Creighton & Co., n. W. cor. Kiug
= g 2 T.esdbeater G. Bro, Z g. Fairfax stToei
4 Fl. Lunt, cor. King and Fairfax strocts.
Id. q. Lunt, D. 9. cor. King and Washiaet
ereets.
Wsraeld &. Hall, cor. Prince and Fsirfsz ssrn-
arooers and Liquor Dealeru.
7 n Milbu-n II Il. Royal gtreot.
Charles King & Son, CT Cameron street.
Harlow & Bro Il. W. cor. Royal and Camern
atreets.
w A. JonnEol, o. coz. boySl anu CaIcera
streets. ~,
{. WTl. Ramray, cor King and 81. AsspR y57c.
Hardware and Cutlery.
1T. Creighton & Son, SO King street.
3. F: Peake, cor King and Pitt street7
Jewellers.
Il. Wildt, 10 n. Royal street
Turbcr &c
Porry, smoot Is Co., No. IS corner Cameron and
Josiah Il. D. smoot, q north Union st.
AachiDistO
N.s. Moore, So Union street.
WOOD and Csal
WA. Smoot & Co, foot of Princess at
]. &. Zimmerman, foot of Queen ct.
A RTIsrs' GOLD PAINT.
Just received, complete IN ono box, saucer,
brush, ono bottle liquid and OF gold. Price
NH mh21 VIZ cREIGHToN g co
G1RosTILLA, the new, popular and fragrant
e remedy for chapped hands, chatting, &c. Price
25 cents per bottle For sale by
nov22 Z. S. LEADBEATER q BIO.
NoUARE, oCTAG0N .ud FLAT CAST STEEL
NJ will be sold ST 30 sing street, corner o. 10Y
al, at greatly reduced price Quality warrant
cd [oct2Sl J. T. CREIGHTON q SON.
NEW YORK CHAMPAIGN CIDER SOC. per
IN gallon, just received.
oct26 GEO. McBURNEY & son.
IF YOU want the best all-wool SHIRTS and
l. DRAWERS for the price look at
noy1 AMOS &. SLAYMAKER'S
DRIED CHERRIES Evaporated Peaches snd
~ Apples for sale by
FODDER YARN at reduced prices to close cut
the present season, at 32S King street, corner
of Royal. [oct23l ]. 7. CREIGHTON & SON.
JNINE MEssINA ORANGES and LEMONS re-
ID ceived to-day By
apo J. Q. MILBURN.
NOE "BEsT RETURNS" try the POTOMAC.
= SEosA'' J. c. MILBURG
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WAKEFIELD & EALL.
D E . G G. s ! s
Corner Prince aid Fairlaz street.

Prescriptions specially. English, French,
Farina Cologne: Magnolia Hedgcs:liis Gara:ri1,..
and Florida Water Genuine Lublns ;111trayis !:
Sponges, Hair Brushes &nd Combs best English
Tooth Brushes fan assortment Of Satent @eai.
cines Coze's Gelatine Com 5larcf Sos &oss fa-
rine; Spices of ali kinda AID select stock 81 1T
articles sold by druggists at prices IS los TIC
same quality can be obtained olsuUhere tcs
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T sTABLER & CO.,
tsuccessors to 2. II. ssablcrl

DRUaeIsTs AND CHEMISTS
N. W. Corner King and Washington srroos
Dealers in Patent biodicines, Drugs. Cigsrs end
Cigarettes, Fine Tooth Brushes Nail 8rusneo,
German and Domestic Cologne, Hair Brushes,
sponges, Flesh STRAPS &c. Especial care given Il
prescriptions. jan2S-6
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ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.
FINANCIAL.

F7IRIlSS'I'HITIlIAL BANK
GIgXASnR1A ~.
CoBFER Lee And PRICE sTaES1S
8. rzR g15E93sas snAo8 oEAe c. E aooFz
Prompt attention sivon 20 eli business mead.
ing collections throughout the United 5tssas sno
Europe. sg3
szT g2s1i5 za.A7' va 6 as 1sss7s5
Citizens National Bank.
.CaDitaI 100000. Surplus $4,000
COLLECTIONS MADE And PRoMP1Li
REMIT TED
@ALL KIEns OF INVESTMENT aEcURITies
DIaEcroRs-- whe4., E. L. osingeraed P. 3.
Hooe, John Perry, F. l. Smith sP4
Burke g Herber !.
BANKERS ard BROKERS
DEALERS IN
Government Bonds
LOCAL STOCKS AND ALL FIRST CLASS
RAILROAD eONDs AND OTHER
GOOD INVESTMENT
SECURITIES.
uy9 BURKE & HERBEhI.
DRUGS, CHEMICALS, &c.
Eow D. s, LzADn2AzEa rzos. ls4Ds 3
" s. LEADBEATER & BIO,
u. Moa. and + g. Fairfax c..
Established 1899,
DEALERS IN
PURE DE0es and MEDICINES, GHE2tjSsh.
PAINTS. OILS, PROPRIETARY MEDi.
OINEs, GARDEN SEEDS, SPICES
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS,
FINE TOILET GOODS. &c.
Proprietors OF Anodyne PICTORIAL, L15Tica5i. Z
Liniment Easenco Jamaica Ginger ard Cough
Syrup; and Agents foI Ayers Medicine, Res3y
mixed snd Tinted Gloss Paints, &C.
Every effort will Re made 20 msintci; -aa aish
reputation OF our OLD establishment. ~
W F. CREIGHTON Z co,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer IN
DRUGS, CHEMICALS, PAINTS, PATENT
MEDICINES, OILS DYE STUFFS
GARDEN SEEDS, &C.. &C.
Corner King and Royal streota,
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounds
Orders Will receive prompt attention.
mh24-h
John D. q. LUNT,
Successor to Lunt & Davidson,
DEALER IN DRUGS. CHEMICALS PATENT
MEDICINES AND FANCY ARTICLES.
H. z. corner King and Washington streets.
ALEXANDRIA, VI.
Physicians Prescriptions specially. Lj2n1P
7 sTABLER CO.,
(succeosors to 2. Il. stablcrl
DRUGGIsTs AND CHEMISTS
N. W. Corner King and Washington s5roos
Dealers in Patent biodicines, Drugs, Cigsrs end
Cigarettes, Fine Tooth Brushes Nail 8rusneo,
German and Domestic Cologne, HsiI Brushes,
sponges Flesh STRAPS, &c. Especial care given Il
prescriptions. jan2o-t
WAKEFIELD q EALL.
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7LOURl

GREEN AND FIGURED SCREEN WIRE "a,
VI 30 and So inches, wholesale Gnd retail, at
80 King corner Of Royal street. You can buy
wire, and have Window and Door Frames made
of better quality, to cost no more than the COM
mon Frames offered for ssle in the city. Call and
$50. Ut. CREIGHTON & SON, ..
iei 80 King cor. Royal st.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27
A Wife's Duty.

1t is woman's duty to be helpmeet
for her husband; to stand at his side
ready to counsel him; to share his joys,
his sorrows. his triumphs. In order to
do this she must be his equal. She must
be willing to lay aside the last novel
and talk with him upon those subjects
which interest him; and if he is a little
of upon the tariff question her intui-
tive mind may grasp an idea that may
set him right. Let them deliberate to-
gether upon the temperance question.
upon the license system and upon the
relative fitness of the several candidates
for office. Your husband wants to talk
of these matters with some intelligent,
interested person and if his wife mani
tests perfect Indifference he will go to
the club, the corner grocery or, worse
still, the saloon. to talk with other men
driven there by their lady wives who
stay at home to spend the long, lonely
evening on crazy patchwork, and he
comes homes late scented with the
fumes of tobacco if not of whisky. Is
such wife promoter of domestic
happiness? Has she dignified her sphere?
Has she performed her duty as a wife?
-WOman'S Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27

spicuous should stand upon their own
merits as well as upon q pedestal it is
difficult TO determine, but we are sat
isfied the former sentiment Is largely
responsible for it.
There are plenty Of men 50 blown
up with self-pride, so permeated with
sense of their own Importance and
superiority, that they think the race
ought by good right to date from their
nativity. that they sneer at monu-
ment of Adam or any one else but
themselves. They demand to know
what Adam did to merit monument,
aside from catching unanimous vote
for himself for all the Offices in Eden.
and laying the foundation for race
of beings who can never cease to re-
greet that such a man named Adam
was ever born.
Men who have always charged their
own mistakes to their wives, openly
taunt Adam with his cOwardice in Law.
ing that little transaction in fall apples
to Eve and trying to sneak out of all
responsibility himself. We are far
from attempting an entire exculpation
of Adam in this notorious affair, but
perhaps there were extenuating cir
stances of which we know nothing.
Perhaps Adam was passionately fond
of mince pies, yet felt that one ingre.
dent was wanting. and the apple sup.
piled it. Not to mince matters, Adam
was taken on his weak side-the one
that was a rib short, prObably-and
was justified in claiming that Eve
tempted him, for what man who loved
pies wouldn't welcome any improve
ment.in them. particularly when made
by young wife?
But detractors of Adam do not stop
with the apple. They charge him
with being poor provider in his fam
lily, treating his wife shamefully, par
ticularly in the matter of clothes. He
scrimped her in fig leaves. only allow.
ing her to buy the smallest and most
inexpensive patterns. He never bought
her new bonnet in his life, and dur
ing the whole course of their cOnnu-
bal career, which lasted some nine
hundred years, he never took her to a
lecture, a theater, circus, or even q
concert. TEXAS Sittings.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27
A MONUMENT TO ADAM.

The Good and Bad Traits Of the Father
of Mankind Carefully Scrutinixed.
Some Congressman has announced
his intention to introduce bin prOvid-
ing for the erection of q monument to
Adam. It will be a sad day for Adam
when this scheme is accomplished.
Respect for the father of the human
race has heretofore prevented any
very close scrutiny of the life and
character of Adam, but an effort to
build q monument to his memory will
be likely to set Investigations on foot
that may result in placing that gentle
mans reputation in very unfavora-
BILE light
One might think that after a lapse
of SO many years the vail of charity
might well be thrown over one who,
however much he may have erred,
might truthfully claim that he had no
human precedents to guide him, and
that all would cheerfully concur in q
movement to perpetuate the memory,
through lasting marble or enduring
bronze, of the first man of his time, or
any other time that We have any rec
ord Of. But such is likely not b be
the fact. Adam must take his chances
with all other men to whom monu-
meats arc erected
How much this Is due to cankcrinG
envy and how much to IN honest dealre
Inst nan rsndsred monumentally 60
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27

He will succeed sooner and moro SURE.
" If, in these plans. he Identifies him
self wholly with his own country and
its life. Many young Americans are
educated in Europe. and acquire. In
the repose and picturesqueness OF an
older civilization. the habit of looking
with contempt and pity on their own
country. which is mighty field OF
struggle and endeavor. The feeling IS
becoming prevalent even among our
educated young people at home.
Among the pictures offered 20 the
Paris salon three years ago, there
were probably twenty by American
artists. representing Norman peasants.
Italian sunsets and French models,
that had all of them been painted ten
thousand times before. But the crowd
gathered about two pictures, one Of
cotton-feld. with negro pickers. tho
other of an Omaha woman and her
child. These were declared. by crit
les and connOisseurs alike. to be the
most picturesque and novel subjects
treated in the exhibition.
Germany had no art nor literature
as long as her educated classes despised
their own country, and only read the
books and bought the pictures sent to
them from Paris. At last Goethe and
Richter and Schiller taught them the
greatness and the meaning of their
own language and life. The ruling
class in Russia initiated the French,
studied French literature. spoke French
as the language of the court, and hence
Russia had no place in the world OF
books or arts until Tourgenieff, Tolstoi
and GogOl. in their own tongue. paint
ed the life of Russia as it is. and COM
manded the attention of the civilized
world.
If the American artist and writer
can not find material in the scenery
and conflict of human nature. races
ard creeds of his own country, the
fault is in himself. Let our boy read
err remember that the orator. the
writer, the painter, who has held the
attention of the world has always
been he who best understood and ex.
pressed his own time and his own
country. The pot of gold for all of us
lies under our feet. if we will dig for
| it.-Youth'S Companion.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27
VOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
EQUAL RIGHTS MEN.

some of Those Who Have Expressed
Themselves in Favor OF Woman SUI
fraSe.
OF the men now recognized as the
noblest who have lived within the last
forty years, remarkably large pro-
portion have been outspOken In favor
of equal rights for women. Lincoln
declared for woman suffrage in the
carly days of the movement; Garfeld
voted for it in Congress; Seward SAID
s.Justice is on .he side OF woman SUI
frace:" Charles Sumner said, ''In the
progress of civil ization. woman suffrage
is sure to Gomez" Chief Justice Chase
said, 81 think there will be no end TO
the good that will come by woman SUI
frage, on the elected, on elections, on
government, and on woman hersen.
Longfellow said, woman suffrage Is
undoubtedly coming, and l, for one.
expect great deal OF good to result
from it." Whittier says. ''For over
forty years / have not hesitated to de-
clare my conviction that justice and
fair dealing, and the democratic prin-
ciples OF our government, demand
equal rights and privileges OF citizen
ship, irrespective of SEX" Emerson
said. cit is very cheap wit that finds it
so droll that woman should vote. Ii
the wants, the passions. the vices, are
allowed full vote, through the hands
of a half-brutal, Incorporate population,
! think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations, should be allowed a full
voice, as an offset. through the purest of
the people," Henry Ward Beecher, in
reply to the objection: 'Why not re-
main at home and exert an influence
upon public affairs through husband.
father and brother?" answered, BE
cause, while woman is excluded with
contempt from political duties, her ad-
vice and influence at home must always
be at the minimum. If once she began
to accept public patriotic duties. she
then would exert a ten-fOld indirect in
fluence at home. But now men take it
for granted that women know nothing
of public affairs, and that all their sug-
gestions must, of course, be the result
of an ignorant simplicity. A woman is
not made a safe adviser by being kept
at home in ignorance of all public af-
fairs; and if she informs herself intelli-
gently, then why should she not act
just as much as man?" Among those
who have expressed themselves in favor
of equal rights for women may be men,
TONED Charles Kingsley and F. ID.
Maurice. Garrison and Phillips, Heber
Newton, James Freeman Clarke, Phil
lips Brooks, Huxley. Spencer, Robert
Browning and George w. Cable. The
list of names might easily be length
cned; but perhaps enough have been
given to show that the manifest men
are not always the most strongly con-
WINGED that they are entitled to
''mastery over women. Alice Stone
Blackwell, in Christian Union.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27

| would have been shocking. to Mrs.
| Grundy, at least. Indeed, this feeling
to great extent, unhappily, still pre-,
walls. l say unhappily, for Is it not a
pity that so many valuable lives should
be sacrificed to blind, unreasoning preju-
dice? Prejudice, which cramps and
letters and thills the free spirit BY false
notions of right and wrong or OF deco
rum, giving the brother fresh air in
abundance, with free exercise for all
powers of body and soul, keeping the
sister shut in to a narrow and often dis
tasteful routine of petty household de-
tails, or matters connected with dress
and society, till she is ready for any
escape from so monOtonous existence,
and hence so many miserable, ill-assort-
ed marriages; to use homely proverb,
.1Out of the frying-pan into the fire. y
Ennui, caused by dearth of congenial
or varied employment, exists to far
greater extent than is generally known
among girls of all classes, especially
just after the business and stimulus OF
school life is over. For the brother,
there is then business college, or pro-
fessiOn, or he may 60 out into the great
world ito seek his fortune" to get new
ideas, and to practice what he has
learned. He learns to labor. she learns
to wait: the latter is much the harder
task. Well has de Maistre said: 10
know how to wait is the secret of sue
cess"
In a recent newspaper, is the sad
death of young woman who put an
end to her own life. for no apparent
reason other than disappointment in
her first efforts at earning something.
In other words, she had not learned to
wait. Without doubt, every year hum
dreds of young women of good families
and education, with excellent natural
abilities, lose their health, their reason,
or their lives, simply from ennui. or
from the want of cOngenial employ
ment. If these same girls had been
in business or college. with their
brothers. or had given vent for their
energies in any of the many ways of
usefulness for which they were designed
by their Creator. they might to-day be
well and happy, busy with their proper
vocation, and at the same time finding
the truth so well expressed by sanity
Herbert:
'All worldly joys go less
To the one JOY Of doing kindness"
1t is matter for rejoicing, that as the
world advances in civilization, new
avenues of usefulness are continually
opening to wOmen.-Anna HolyOke
Howard, in Woman's Magazine.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27
YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

Words of Adsice Which should He Heed
cd by Every American Boy.
There is an old German legend of a
peasant who owned his hut and patch
of ground. on which grew twelve APP
pie trees that had ceased to bear. His
mind was full Of schemes by which to
grow rich. One night, in his dreams.
an old man came to him and babe
him travel round the world until he
should meet his good angel, who would
instruct him where to find a hidden
treasure.
He set forth. and visited every coun-
try In the world, but nowhere found q
good angel or . treasure. When he
returned home. despairing. he told his
story to his old mother, sitting in the
chimney-corner.
why should you put faith in
dreams?'' she said. II dreamed once
that under one of our apple-trees was
hidden q pot Of gold"
The man seized q spade, rushed out
and began to dig. He made a great
hole under the roots Of the first apple
tree, and, finding no treasure, filed it
in With fresh loam, and went to work
as the second. In . week he had dug
under each trae, but had found moth
.ns. In the apring the trees. for the
arst time in years, were laden with
bloom. The fruit was Of rare kind,
ana cold hiGh in the market q Vienna
In lew years our peasant was rich
The old legend has meaning which
every American boy should take 70
heart Each lad who reads Il begin
nin~ 70 form plans for The future. how
h. too. nay VII taAne an4 fortuna
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-09-27
WONDERFUL THINGS.
A Russian Peasants RiGliculOusly Print.
tive Idea of Railroads.

tive Idea OF Railroads.
When the railway was first operated
between Moscow and St. Petersburg
it was an object of great terror to the
superstitiOus peasantry of Northern
Russia, who thought there must Ger.
tainly be some witchcraft or magic
in an invention which could make a
train of heavy cars run along without
horses at the rate of twenty miles ar
hour. when the best speed of wagons to
which they were accustomed was
only three miles an hour, or four at
the very outside.
Some of them would not even &c
within sight of train. and made the
sign of The cross whenever they heard
one ratsle past. Others peeped timidly
over the palisade of the railway sta
ton to catch glimpse of the fearful
smoke-breathing creature, which they
believed to be a living monster. and
when the steam-whistle sounded they
cried out: "Hear him screaming! He's
hungry and wants to eat somebody
and took to their heels at once.
But little by little this terror began to
wsar away. The village priests were
seen to 60 to and fro by train, and the
simple country folks thought that what
they did could not be wrong. By de-
grees the peasants themselves began
to try the "smoke wagons" too. and
one day an old man named Ivan Petro-
witch Masloff, who had never been out
of his own village till then. made up
his mind to go and have look at
mother Moscow" which all Russian
peasants reverence as the finest city in
the world, and the real capital of Rus
STA.
Now it happened that the down ex.
press and the up express met each
other at the station of Bologoe (mid-
way between Moscow and st. Peters
burg), where the passengers of both
trains stopped for half an hour to have
supper. Among the crowd of people
that go out of the other train Ivan sud
denly recognized an old friend. The
two went into the refreshment-room
together, had chat over their steam
ing tumblers of tea and lemon juice,
and then Ivan, without thinking of
what he was doing, got into his friends
train instead of his own, and was soon
travelling back toward the spot whence
he had started.
Their talk went on merrily for
awhile, for Ivan's friend never thought
of asking the old man which way he
was going. But presently Ivan began
to grow silent and grave. as if ponder
ing something which puzzled him very
much; and at length, after sitting for
nearly five minutes without uttering
word. he suddenly broke out:
"Ah, Pavel Yurievitch paul. son
of George). "what a wonderful thing
these railroads are, to be sure! Here
am going to Moscow, and here are
you going to ST. Petersburg. and yet
we're both travelling in the same cart!
David Ker. in Harpsr's Magazine.