davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
THE NEGLECTED TALENT.
The Road tn Success Hints for Those
Who Are Discouraged.

Who Are Discouraged.
When one becomes alivs to tho value OF
any quality or talent he or she may pos
sess, there ceases to be any such thing rs
failure. for every trial Of the quality and
every exercise of the talent serves to in
crease its power.
The quality or talent is the tool given
by nature to effect results. Its every
exercise makes it sharper, brighter. more
efficient for use II may fail of obtaining
the desired end today. but 1t is so much
the better for use tomorrow, providing
that this truth is known and recognized,
and the spirit be not broken by a sue
cession of failures.
You have. we will assume, certain
amount OF mechanical skill, though not
professional mechanic You attempt the
construction of hencoop. doghouse, or
YOU repair a broken lock or window
shutter Suppose you do not make
"clean job of it? Suppose you would
fain hide your botched work from the
critical eye of the professional carpenter?
Yon have gained more or less of mechan-
zeal skill You can do the same job bet
ter next time You have added some
thing to talent. 1t is gain for eter-
nifty.
You feel keenly your lack in some quail
ity You may SO lack in order, neatness,
method. You may feel the want OF per
severance or patience You look back at
the occupations or the studies which you
have taken up time after time and aban-
doned; at the good resolutions made-ahd
broken You are discouraged and say,
There il no use in trying further
But YOU must try You cunt help 1t.
The very knowledge of your lack Is the
proof that you are to conquer The "eyil
known, is half cured 1t IL when none
are aware that the ship is sinking there
is the most danger. That you have taken
up many employments or studies and
abandoned them is proof that you have
a capacity for many-that your powers
are varied, that you are not harp OF ii
single string.
Is Your defect that of lack of control in
appetite? Have YOU fallen time after
time? Have you dragged your soul count
less times out OF some mre OF degrade
ton. carried thith.r by passions of the
body? Have you cried with Paul, who
shall deliver me from the body Of this
deathr"
Your misery, your sense of degradation,
is your greatest hope. 1t is the contest
of the spirit warning with the higher man,
striving to subdue the lower; of the angel
within you trying to conquer the devil
Were you comparatively Indifferent there
would be much more cause for alarm
You know your defect You can never
escape from this knowledge. You can
never cease trying to put the evil down
and to cultivate whatever quality or
qualities may be most eiiicacious in put
ting it down. Your aspiration is saving
you By making each succeeding fall more
painful than the last and its agony more
intense, while the paths Of the better
way" become moro and more beautiful
Prentice Milford in New York Star
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
Deuew's Advice to Young Orators.

The best thing for & young man who
desires to become successful public
speaker to do is to join debating society
Here he should take part in two kinds Of
debate: one requiring elaborate prepare
ton as leading speaker and the other with
out preparation, but still as one of the
chief disputants. lie should also hear all
the famous speakers of the day and study
their style and method of presenting their
subjects. lie should endeayor to dis
Germ the thoughts which produce effects
and also bring out whatever may be
suggested to his own mind II he has
the stuff in him in time a method OF cor
rectly expressing himself will result. Ii
he has not got the faculty, as soon as he
finds this out he would do well TO
abandon his efforts to become speaker;
for otherwise lie becomes a slavish imita-
tor of some speaker and proves failure.
don't believe any successful speaker
could tell how he became successful or
what was the element of his success; while
he is sure footed, every effort is neverthe-
less an experiment. But for man to be
good ordinary speakers expressing him
self well without attempting to be ali
orator-to be able TO give his views to a
society, address meeting Of citizens, the
people of a church or similar gatherings,
the debating society gives facility OF
speech and confidence on ones feet.-New
York Mail and Express.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

Fred. Douglass called on the Republi'
can party to make The path of the black
man to the ballot box as smooth as that
of every other citizen. And the platform
calls for " effective legislation to secure
the integrity and purity of elections.
But in what manner such effective
legislation would be interpreted by The
Federal Supreme Court has been fully H.
lustrated in the decisions upon the valid
ity of the Ku Klux and civil rights laws.
The Supreme Court Of the United States
pronounced those laws unconstitutional
and remsnded the question to the
States
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
A Deed Of Darkness.

never hunted deer. but think | can
understand how any man, thrilled by the
excitement Of long chase, full of the
ardor of pursuit. giving the game all the
fair chances of the field. himself enduring
fatigue, thirst. peril in the chase. match
ing his own endurance, patience and skill
against the speed. strength and instinct
of the game, can at last bring his rifle to
his shoulder and shoot down the antlered
monarch bounding away for life. But to
lie in boat. hidden away in the dark
ness, crouching back in tho shadows of
the glowing decoy. waiting through long
hours Of darkness, listening to every
sound. gun in hand, finger on the trigger,
hiding. in cold and mist, silent. notion
less. waiting, watching until the beauti-
ful creature comes timidly to the water,
lifts its startled head to gaze with bright,
curious eyes at the light that is death,
coming nearer and nearer--to kill this
creature then, at pistol range. in cold
blood -pshawl this is not hunting. 1t
is assassination. 1t is murder. 1t 10 a
deed of darkness worthy of the gloomy
shadows that hide tho perpetrator.-Ro
ert J Burdette.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
SUGGESTIONS FOR HOT WEATHER.

SDGGESIlONS fOk hui WEAihEh'
when the sun crosses the liae," as the
saying is. on his way southwark, and the
DAYS begin to shorten, that is the signal
for the hottest wave of heat
The suffering sinner cannot expect
much comfort in his hours Of work, but at
home he feels that there ought to be some
way to gain relief and recuperation
American city jewellers have failed to
utilize as they might the coolest and
pleasantest part of their dwelling, viz
the roof. In Spain, Italy, Northern
Africa, and Syria almost every
dwelling contains roof garden,
where shrubs, Towering plants, and
even trees of considerable size are made
to thrive, and where the residents spend
their evenings and in many instances
their sleeping hours in comparative COM
fort, even In the hottest weather The
same idea might easily be put in practice
here, and the fact that this has not been
done to any extent can only be explained
on the theory that until very recently
city population In this country has not
been confined to cramped quarters.
A cheap roof garden has been made by
running latticed railing around an or
binary timed roof, covering the deck
with common mating, bordering the en-
tire roof inside the ratings with boxes
OF Towering plants and climbing vines, and
spreading over all an adjustable awning.
To effect this the only permanent addi-
ton to the building required Is an eight
foot addition the height of the chimneys.
Tie water supply is easy to manage, and
II :he awning is moistened In the hottest
day the evaporation will lower the TEN
perature ten degrees
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

Patrick Chalmers, Of Wimbledon.
England, has been engaged for some
years. and apparently with much success
IN demonstrating to phlllatelists that hij
father, the late James Chalmers, Of Dun
dee. was the inventor Of the adhesive
postage stamp. The credit is usually
given to Rowland Hill, who succeeded %
getting penny postage adopted. and GER
tainly rendered a great service IN so do
ing, but it is claimed he took his idea
from a postofiice blue book OF 1885, and
that. when the idea was becoming q full
ure in practice, Mr.. Chalmers saved it ~
his device. In fact, a German WRITER
has pointed out a passage IN the Penny
Cyclop1dia" wherein it Is said that Mr.
Hill stated that the idea did not originate
with him. When he died, about eigh'
years ago, and the London press gave
him the entire credit Of the postal re-
forms, there was a general protest from
Dundee, where moro than thirty years
before Mr.. Chalmers had been presented
with a testimonial in honor If his having
originated the adhesive stamp. chi
cago Times.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
Funeral Customs In Turkey.

When Tux dies, the relatives ara
forbidden TO weep, but rather rejoice
that saint has reached Paradise N
tears are quickly suppressed no matter
how hearts may ache. As soon as breath
has quilted a body, the professional
dresser of the dead is sent for, and
most thorough system Of cleansing car.
ried out. The body is then wrapped in
a winding sheet. outside Of which the
clothes of the person are placed. Then
very frail wicker or thin board coffin
is brought, and into this the BODY is laid
and sometimes even before il il fairly
cold it is carried TO the cemetery and
buried. The graves are very shallow
not over two feet deep 4 coin is put
into the mouth of the dead person TO pay
his passage across the river Of death -
The reason Of the frail collins aud the
shallow grave is that the BODY may he.
cay more quickly, as it is thought that
the soul will go wandering around and
not be able to enter the abode Of the
best as long as any flesh remains on the
bones.
Men only are supposed to inherit P3ra.
disc, the women having an inferior order
of souls, unworthy the exquisite ioys
prepared for all devout believers The
women who have been unworthy in life
will 20 to Shaitan Tor Satan and those
who have been good will 20 to a pleasant
place where all their senses will be crati.
fed; but this life Is all they can look %
for It's own recompense. The funeral
procession generally consists of a priest
and few male relatives and slaves. who
go on a regular jog trot with the corrse
OH their shoulders. so as 10 hasten he
release OF the soul from its agony of union
with dead carcass They believe that
the body IS dross and vileness. and ONLY
the worthless covering for the spirit
within. that cannot die nor be deG.oI
So when Turk dies, only his Useless and
valueless covering Of clay falls of Ikea
disused garment, aud he himself IL de-
livered from its dragging load. Klsmet
lit is fate) and his time had been written
in the Great Book from the beginning Of
time. - Olive Harper in Dcmorest's
Monthly
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
An Odd Method of BOOkbintlinC

The British museum has a capital way
of binding it's books and collections ac-
cording to the color Of the contents. Of
course, theology has thoroughly estab-
lished its claims to be bound in blue.
Poetry, one would say without hesitation,
should be in pale yellow. soft sufiusion
not quite defined, half way from green TO
being red. Then it stands to sense that
natural history should appear in green
covers, like nature herself, with which it
deals History being a record in the main
Of bloody events-the struggle to survive
should monopolze the red. Novels
might come in pink, or in particular mot
ley jacket; biography in sober black. This
is hint for private collectors as well.
Browning should have a color all to him
self-a mixture Of theology. philosophy,
biography and poetry. Bind the realists
in flesh color. -ilobc- Democrat.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
A soNa.

The dewy spring time fingers,
The birds sing on the tree;
There is bursting bloom and blossom,
But no happiness for me.
For thou vert all TO me, love,
For thou vert all IN me;
What .seaven can there be, love,
When thou vert all to mef
Still let the olden, mellow
Light shine on land or sea,
For the hearts that come hereafter
II shines no more for me.
For thou vert ali 10 me, love,
For thou vert oil 10 me
What heaven can there be, love,
When ttfSu vert all to mel
As In some chord OF music
A pain too deep for tears,
So now the very beauty
OF the saddeued spring appears
For il doth tell what heaven
Here on this earth might be,
II You were here with me, love,
II you were here with me.
still let new hearts awaken
Meath summer suns agiOw;
Some hearts will miss their heaven
Some heaven may not know.
Aud where for me afar. love,
on earth. can heaven be,
When thou vert all 10 me, love,
When thou vert all TO mef
Still let the dewy dawning
Arise for hearts that wake,
And the twilight shadows deepen
Ger the human hearts that break.
Still let them tell hereafter
Of the joys that are to be,
But thou vert all TO me, love,
Oh. thou vert all to me.
- Bennett Bellman in Philadelphia Times.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

The convention tried to straddle the
temperance question by saying nothing
about it. This attitude, if the failure 10
mention the subject at all can be digni-
fed by the name of an attitude, will not
do much to conciliate Republicans OF
prohibition tendencies. The only indi'
cation of the Republican position On the
oues,ion iha, is at all observable is in
the suggestion of a repeal of the internal
taxes, which means cheap whisky II IT
means ANYTHING. OF course that means
to antagonize the liquor men.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

We have called attention several times
to the following important facts
1t was resolved in 1884 that the Re
publican party pledges itself to correct
the inequalities Of the tariff and reduce
the surplus, by such methods as will re-
lieve the tax payers, without injuring
the laborer or the great productive in
terests of the country"
In 1888 the Republican party pledges
itself to keep the tariff unchanged, to re-
duce the surplus only by spending, and
to afford no relief to the taxpayers eX-
cept by free whisky and tobacco
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
The Wicked Reporters Reward.

St Peter-You were 4 wicked reporter,
see. and only went to church when sent
there to take sermons. How many ser
mons did you report!
Reporter-One week for twenty years;
twenty times fftytwO is-twice nought's
nought, twice two are four, twice five are
ten-1 ,0i0 sermons, sir.
go over to that 6eecy cloud and lie
down and rest"
How long can | stay there?"
Forever Omaha World.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
Not the Music of tho Spheres.

My dear, said sick husband as he
lay with his eyes closed, II think my
time has come at last. can hear strains
of the sweetest music that ever mortal
ear
That's a little German band on the
street. John"
That's So" he said, rousing himself.
Tell EN- 10 move on. New York Sun.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
The Same Old Conccit.

He-Ah, Miss Filbert, have just com.
pleted another poem.
She-Indeed, Mr.. Peanut? dow charm.
ing! What is the subject2
He (hopelessly)-The same old conceit,
Miss Filbert; the same old conceit.
She (sweetlySAh, an autobiography
Mr.. Peanut.-Washington Critic.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

Malone and John Wise when the can
vsss opens will be like that tenor and So
prano In the opera singing love duet,
"Oh, how love thee" while they did not
speak when of the stage.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
Tho SCIENCE of Paths.

Proprietor of fine grounds Ito young
landscape gardcner)-Havc you ever
studied cr-er-pathologyY
Landscape Gardener-No. sir.
Proprietor Well. then. you won't do
mus, have a man who thoroughly under
stands laying out paths. Burlington Free
Press
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
(1re of Cauurics.

1t is said that canaries and other birds
may he freed from insects by placing
white cloth over the cage at dusk Dur
ing the night the insects will leave the
birds for the cloth. and in the morning
they can be destroyed by placing the cloth
in hot water repetition OF the process
will soon clear away the pe5ts.-Chicago
Herald
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

If The tobac % tax is touched at all in
the name of common sense wipe out the
whole thing and do not tinker with 1t so
as to disturb and confuse business. To-
bacco in pipe, or paper, or case or
plug. or twist should he relieved ali
alike, or else principle is asserted and
then lodged Why should poor man
or woman doing business in stall or
at a stand he worried by revenue officers
merely to collect pit,anceY The idea is
absurd.
Leave the tax alone or wipe it out ell
tirely.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
A Nice Birthday Party

A little girl at Byron, Mich hAi
birthday party recently, and went do%'
TO tell the editor about it. 50 he 'coai.
nut it in the paper" She said We
had two kinds Of cake and sin litle shia
md didn't have . single fight. '--b'00S
I'm Eagle.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

There wasan old party, horrid old shrew,
the had 50 many (" fav'ffte" sons she didn't
know what to do;
bed
The other got spanked In November instead.
Birmingham (Als.) Herald.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
The Word "Checkmatc."

1t may be interesting to chess players
to know the origin of the word check
mate" According to Notes and Queries
it is literally the Arabic les sheik imat
the sheik (king) Is dying.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

THE business interests" that were said
TO be 80 alarmed at the danger of Dem
ocratic Administration seem to have taken
to 1t very kindly.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

On the 22d inst, at the annual meeting
OF the stockholders OF the Nicaragua ga
nal Construction Company, held at Den
yer, II was decided TO wait no longer Tor
Congress to grant them a charter but TO
incorporate Immediately under the laws
OF Colorado. This decision was srrivei
at for several reasons, one being that III,
laws Of this State give them greater scope
under which to work than they could
expect TO get from Congress or from any
oaher State. Another important fact Is
that the railway facilities of Colorado
are better suited to them than are those
of any other State In the Union.
The estimate for making the canal
amounts to $5O,0OO,000, bu, the company
decided to organize with capital OF
$lOO,OOO,OOO.
The company decided to begin work
on the canal September /, and calculated
to have it completed and in operation In
five years The directors are 10 take the
preliminary steps and act upon reports
placed upon file at a meeting TO be held
in New York in few days.
The route of the canal Is from Grey
town, on the Caribbean sea, TO BritO, on
the Pacific coast 1t goes up TO river San
Juan, and thence to Lake Nicaragua.
Its total length is almost all water, AMI
the exception =, forty miles OF excaVa-
ton. It's superiority to the Panama
route has already been demonstrated IN
the press through government reports
and IN the discussions in Congress.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

King Humbert's palace in Rome, the
Quirinal, contains 1900 rooms, only l2o
OF which are occupied by the king and his
household.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

The Republicans who now talk for civil
service reform never performed any re.
form when they had the Government
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

According to the naturalists, wasps re
member the locality Of their nests JUS
ninety six hours.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

Fishing for compliments Is doubtful
sport.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25

Colonel Shepard telegraphed to his
newspaper yesterday, in a spirit of ex-
ultalion, the following
Ingersolis overthrow was complete.
lie has abused audiences by disappearing
God, and the Divine wrath fell upon him
in he sight of as splendid an audience as
ever gratiied an orators ambition and
angered and beaten, he retired from The
field desoate and broken.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
THAT MAN FROM SALEM.
HE GOES INTO SOCIETY AND DEP
RECATeS THE OBELISk.

New York City Dono Up In Crisp SEN
tences--scenc on Lower Broadway-Pcd-
dlers on the Cur!,--The Bsttery-severai
Great Ncn.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-17
DISPOSING OF GARBAGE.

Probably nobody is satisfied with
the existing system of getting clear
Of refuse in Honolulu, while at the
same time nobody is ready with a
feasible alternative that would be an
improvement. A gentleman has
handed us the following clipping,
which is submitted for the considera-
ton of the authorities
A correspondent of the Scientific
american gives the following particu-
lars as to the mode of burning town
refuse, which is adopted at Desmoines,
Iowa: 1.-THE furnace is 10 feet long by
feet 6 inches wide, has a capacity of
50 yards of garbage daily, and cost,
with building, about 81, 200 About ,
feet from the bottom of the furnace is a
solid iron plate, and above that and
upon which falls the substance to be
burned is a heavy iron grating. In
the center of the furnace is a circular
hole, closed by trap, into which
were thrown, while | watched it, ,
dead horses, Z dogs, Is barrels of garb-
age, 3 loads of manure, Is bushels of
rotten eggs, and 8 barrels OF rotten
fish. This was all consumed in enc
hour, with no offensive smell from
the combustion, and no smoke. The
furnace was cold when started. There
are two fires, one in front and another
in the rear. The rear fire was started
first. The refuse is dumped upon the
grating through the man-hole, thus
being Kept away from the fire so as not
to extinguish it. The heat from the
flames in the front and rear rapidly
dries the matter, and soon all is burn
ing. The theory of the inventor is
that if there were only one fire, the
combustion would be offensive. The
draught carries the smoke to the rear
fire, which consumes the nOxious
gases, and destroys all germs.n
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-17
CAUGHT IN ITS OWN NET.

Before the Bulletin undertook to
discourse upon "perversion of Ian
guage," it should have reflected upon
its former arguments, editorial and
communicated, upon the veto ques-
ton. One of the main contentious
of the vetoists in the press and in
Court was that it was purely a legis-
lative function of the Sovereign.
Equally strenuous was the argument
that the Cabinet as members of the
Executive, or in any other capacity,
had nothing to do with the preroga-
tive. The Executive Power is defined
in the Constitution to belong to the
King and the Cabinet By the Su-
preme Courts decision the Cabinet is
authoritatively deprived of all share
in the exercise of the veto power.
Therefore, when the AdTerfiser invoked
the conservatism of the Executive to
prevent injurious Legislation, our
point was perfectly well taken that the
Executive was powerless in the matter.
1t is exceedingly significant that the
Bulletin, in its III considered attempt
to convict this journal of perverting
language, Las had to abandon its
former position, which it does in call
ing the veto power RegGl, whereas it
formerly never tired of relterating
that 1t was Legislative The Consti-
tuition must be changed to become
adapted to our contemporaries ideas.
Now the fundamental law declares
the Government of this Kingdom in
its exercise to be divided into the
Executive, the Legislative and the
Judicial Henceforth the subdivision
will have to be into the Regal, the
Executive, Legislative and Judicial