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Before the Curtain Rises.

When Napoleon Ill, before declar-
ing war upon Prussia, asked one of his
ministers if everything were in readi-
ness for the army to move on Berlin,
the latter replied: "To the last button
on the last gaiter." Unless everything
pertaining to an operate performance
is in readiness to the last paper-mache
shield for the last super" there will
be an operate Sedan. The operate
host must be placed on war footing.
Some idea of the labor this involves
may be formed from the statement that
at the Metropolitan Opera-house it took
from August, 1887, until January, 1888,
to mobilize this host for the conquest
of Mexico under Ferdinand Cortez,"
a period of about the same length as
that usually consumed at large opera
houses in preparing work for produc
tion.-ScriJner' Magazine.
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harbor with drift-ice, the gulls walk
about upon the smooth white surface
with evident satisfaction. The seals
lift brown heads to peer over the edge
with wondering baby faces, and drag
their soft, shapeless bodies to a perch
beside the gulls. A gull and seal
riding off to sea on a block of ice, in
serene and contented companionship
one sometimes sees. | have a very
pleasant memory of a certain stately,
solemn gull | once saw admiring him
self in pond of water that lay in an
ice-block. The water was very dark
all round the ice, and the tide was
carrying the ice out to sea, drifting its
pretty freight past buoys and beacons
and passing vessels. The gull shifted
from one foot to another, keeping one
warm under his plumage, while he bal
anced himself on the other little pink
foot which rested on the bare ice
With head bent this way and that, he
arranged his feathers, looking into the
little pond-mirror before him. He took
a sip of water, and still another, hav-
ing lost all fear of men and eagerness
for food, in full enjoyment of this
happy hour of gull-hood. A steamer
passed so close as almost to crush the
little ice-craft in its wheels-but the
gull did not finish or look up. Though
the raft tipped uneasily in the wake of
the steamer, and the swell rolled over
it, even then he did not put down his
tucked-up foot AT last, in the climax
of restfulness Of soul and body, he
nestled down on the ice, and rested his
soft white breast on tie cold slab with
out shivering. They are so often quite
alone in their rest or amusement that
they have about them a dignity and re-
serve quite peculiar to themselves
Louie Lyndon, IN 81. Nicholas for
October.
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The Chicago Convention of 1860.

1t is not surprising that Charleston
and Chicago should furnish many strik-
ing contrasts. AT the Charleston con-
vention, the principal personal incident
was long and frank speech from one
Gaulden, Savannah slave-trader, in
advocacy of the reopening of the Afri-
can slave-trade. In the Chicago con-
vention, the exact and extreme opposite
of such theme created one of the
most interesting of the debates. The
platform had been read and received
with tremendous cheers, when Mr.,
Giddings, of Ohio, who was everywhere
eager to insist upon what he designated
as the "primal truths =" of the Declare
ton of Independence, moved to amend
the first resolution by incorporating in
it the phrase which announces the right
of all men to " life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness" The convention
was impatient to adopt the platform
without change; several delegates urged
objections, one of them pertinently
observing that there were also many
other truths enunciated in the Declare
ton of Independence. "Mr. Presi-
dent" said he, " l believe in the ten
commandments, but do not want them
in political platform. Mr.. Giddings'
amendment was voted down, and the
antislavery veteran, feeling himself
wounded in his most cherished philoso-
ply, rose and walked out of the con-
vention. Personal friends, grieved that
he should feel offended, and doubly
sorry that the general harmony should
be married by even single dissent, fol-
NJ TO
change his purpose. While thus per-
suading him, the discussion had passed
to the second resolution, when Mr..
George William Curtis, of New York,
seized the chance to renew substantially
Mr.. Giddings' amendment. There were
new objections, but Mr.. Curtis swept
them away with captivating burst of
oratory 81 have to ask this conven-
ton" said he, whether they are pre-
pared to 90 upon the record before the
country as voting down the words of the
Declaration of Independence?
rise simply to ask gentlemen to
to think well before, upon the
free prairies of the West, in the
summer of 1860, they dare to vince
and quail before the assertions of the
men in Philadelphia, in l776-before
they dare to shrink from repeating the
words that these great men enunciated. "
"This was a strong appeal, and took
the convention by Storm" writes re-
cording journalist. A new vote form
ally embodied this portion of the
Declaration of Independence in the
republican platform; and Mr.. Giddings,
overjoyed at his triumph, had already
returned to his seat when the platform
as whole was adopted with repeated
and renewed shouts of applause that
seemed to shake the wigwam. Century.
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Trust and Trusts.

A Norwich school ma'am put the
word trust in a spelling lesson the
other day. Trust used to be simple
word meaning confidence-a word with
out guile, and within the grasp of the
youngest pupil. The effect of the
times upon the word became painfully
apparent the moment the definition
was called for. "Define trust" COM
manded the teacher. The little fellow
at the head of the class, who evidently
read the papers, replied, "Trust is
big snakel" Where did you learn
that?" asked the teacher. In the
Herdld," replied the boy. "It said
trust is an anaconda" " That wasn't
what l saw in my paper" spoke up
clever pupil, {" for it said trust was
like a devil fish" "It's monster"
said the third boy. "Where on earth
did you get that idea?" asked the aston
ished teacher. "Outen the papers" re-
piled number three. 81 guess the papers
Dunno" remarked the fourth, for mine
said it was an octerpus!' "Trust
means confidence" said the teacher.
In future l hope the class will put its
trust in the dictionary, and not in the
newspapers" The class was then dis
missed. -Nor,cich Bulletin.
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The Real Woman Problem.

Recognizing heredity as the dis
tinctive attribute of the female sex, it
becomes clear that it must be from the
steady advance of woman rather than
from the uncertain fluctuations of man
that the sure and solid progress of the
future is to come. The attempt to
move the whole race forward by ele-
waiting the sex that represents the
principle of instability has long enough
been tried. The many cases of supe-
rior men the sons of superior mothers,
coupled with the many more cases of
degenerate sons of superior sires, have
taught us over and over again that the
way to civilize the race is to civilize
woman. And now, thanks to modern
biologic science, we see why this is so.
Woman is the unchanglng trunk of the
great genealogic tree, while man, with
all his Wanted superiority, is but a
branch, grated scion, as it were,
whose acquired qualities die with the
individual, while those of woman are
handed on to futurity. Woman is the
race, and the race can be raised up
only as she is raised up. There is nc
fixed rule by which Nature has in
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Are All Weapons Justiiiable in War!

l remember well conversation with
Charles Sumner and Francis Wayland
almost half a century ago, in which any
discrimination between justifiable and
unjustiiiable weapons in war was by
them both, the aspiring statesman and
the moral philosopher, disallowed as
having no ground. Sumner flouted the
phrase, "jura belR," rights of war, as
absurd. Wayland replied in accord
that, when people had fallen out as in
the contention related by the Roman
poet, no matter what sticks and stones
to wage it with they might pick up,
anything that came to hand would do,
the more effectual to kill the better.
Are the rules in this game founded in
conscience and nature, or are they
purely conventional and possibly un-
sound ?-Rer. DR.. c.. 4. Bartol, IN the
October Forum.
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The Lace. Makers of lie Puy.

The old town with its narrow, sun
less streets and antiquated hotels, is
very curious, and not over-heathy,
Judging from the poor physique and
pallid looks of the population generally.
Seldom in France is seen so much lame
ness and deformty. The lameness is
easily accounted for, the steep, almost
perpendicular ways of the ancient quar-
ter being paved with sharp pebbles,
very fatiguing and injurious to the feet.
Glimpses of these narrow streets per-
hitting of hand-shake between win
dow and window, and the overhanging
roofs, dark walls, and a bit of blue sky
overhead, recall ancient cities of Italy
and the East. At every doorway in the
old town you still see the lace-makers
at work, and striking pictures many of
them make. The younger are not i'll
favored, and what good looks they pos
sess are set off to the best advantage by
the charming coife of the country, a
butterAy-like lace or muslin cap adorned
with a large top-knot of kind of rib
bon made for the purpose, rich in quail
ity and elaborate in design. The older
women, less given to personal adorn-
ment, have frequently that withered,
hag-like look, interesting to the lover
of the picturesque, but not engaging to
the general behoder. They Groom to-
gether, hardly looking up as they busily
ply their reels, the most pathetic incar-
nation of righteousness and patienc e
imaginable. In the market-places, on
the steps of the churches, and before
their doors, you see these indefatigable
lace-makers, one and all, like the ven
cradle straw-plaiters of Dunstable. sur
vivals of an dustrial-rather, an ar
tistic-phase passing away. And just
as the decay of the straw trade at Luton
has affected the prosperity of the entire
county, so has the decadence of hand
made lace at lie Puy had most serious
effect on the material well-being not
only of the town but of the neighboring
villages, indeed, of the entire depart
menu Few readers are unfamiliar with
what is called torchon lace-that cheap,
durable, thread lace, sold at every
Diapers shop for siXpence and upwards
yard. More elaborate and expensive
kinds still find their way into the mar
ket, but the staple industry of lie Puy
now consists of the former kind, and
indeed, may almost be said to have sup
planted the other. What a degenera-
ton! To realize the beauty, finish and
elaborateness of torchon lace in its
most flourishing epoch we must visit
the MuSee de Dentelles of lie Puy, but
our illustrations will suffice to bring out
the contrast.-MiSS Bentham EdudrdS
IN Woman'S World.
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ELECTRIC BITTERs.-This remedy is
becoming so well known and so popu,
lar as to need no special mention. All
who have used Electric Bitters sing
the same song of praise: " A purei
medicine does not exist and it is guar
anteed to do all that is claimed" Elec'
trio Bitters will cure all diseases of the
liver and kidneys, will remove pimples
boils, salt-rheum and other affections
caused by impure blood. Will drive
malaria from the system and prevent
as well as cure, all malarial fevers
For cure of headache, constipation and
indigestion try Electric Bitters. En-
tire satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. Price fifty cents and 81 pei
bottle at G.. Blakely's drugstore.
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A man who has practiced medicine for
forty years ought to know salt from
sugar; read what he says.
TOLEDO, o., Jan. 10, IS

iOLEDo, W., Jan. ~, ICt
MeSSrs. +. J. Cheney d Co.-Gentle-
men:-I have been in the general prac-
tice of medicine for most forty years,
and would say that in all my practice
and experience, have never seen prep
aration that l could prescribe with as
much confidence of success as | can
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
you. Have prescribed it great many
times and its effect is wonderful, and
would say in conclusion that have
yet to find a case of catarrh that il
would not cure, if they would take il
according to directions. Yours truly,
L. L. GORSUCH, MD,
Office, 2l5 Summit street
We will give 800 for any case OF
catarrh that cannot be cured with Halls
Catarrh Cure. Taken internally.
f. j. CHENEY & CO., proprietors
Toledo, o.
ca Sold by Druggists, seventy-dve
cents.
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MAKE boiled custard of one quart
of milk, the yolks of four eggs and a
cup of sugar. Flavor with vanilla and
add very small pinch of salt. Place
this where it will get cold. When
wanted cut the gelatine into squares,
and serve in dessert dishes with the
custard. aim to make cake that will
use the whites, or if do not care to do
that, after the custard is made | heap
the beaten whites on top and slightly
brown in the oven.
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STIR a cup of cerealine into sailed
boiling water to make a moderately
thick mush. Add a quart of black
berries and let it boil for fifteen min
utes. Pour into deep bowl and when
cooled set on the ice. This may be
made at breakfast-time to provide an
excellent lunch or hearty dessert on a
hot day. Serve with cream and sugar.
Farina, cooked for a long time in a
double boiler, instead of the cerealine,
is even better.
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tended that one sex should excel the
other, any more than there is any
fixed point beyond which either can
not further develop. Nature has no
intentions, and evolution has no limits.
True science teaches that the educa-
ton of woman is the only sure road to
the evolution of man.-ProfesSor Lester
Y. Ward.
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Gbe 4uusebulo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DIR. T. II. HosKlNs, Newport. VT, or d.
rectly to THE wATCHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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RHEUMATISM is undoubtedly caused by
laotic acid in the blood. This acid attacks
the ibrous tissues and causes the pains and
aches in the back, shoulders, knees, ankles,
hips and wrists. Thousands of people have
found in Hoods Sarsaparillaa positive cure
for rheumatism. This medicine, by its
purifying action, neutralizes the acidity OF
the blood, and also builds up and strength
ems the whole body.
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The one who will be found in trial
capable of great acts of love is ever the
one who is always doing considerate
small ones.-F. W. Robertson.
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MANY persons criticise in order not
to seem ignorant: they do not know
that indulgence is mark of the high
est culture.
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THE Christian Endeavor Society at
Middletown, Conn, as r." smile-them-
up" committee, whose duty it is to
smile the people up to the front seats,
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If we are created after the image of
God, we must in our turn be creators.
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OTIS only a question of time" and a
short time, too, as to when your rheumatism
will yield to Hoods Sarsaparilla. Try it.
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ANIMALS are free in their own ele-
ment; does our slavery arise from our
being so rarely in our element?
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Sea. Gulls In Boston Harbor.

In the ice-time, when many days and
nights of bitter cold have filled the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-14

WARRENTON-Trains Nos. So 81, sd, SIS, So
and 80 connect daily to and from Warrenton
FRANKLIN DIy5SioE-Daily, except Sunday.
Lessc Rocky Mt. $50 a. M, arrive franklin
Junction 1915 d. M; leave Franklin Junction
1870 p. m, arrive Rocky Mt. 1870 p m
d0RDONsYILLE-Trai leave Orange for
GordoDsville 11:40 n NJ. 2:30 p. m. and 9:2O
p. Ia daily. aud 500 a. IN. daily except Sunday.
Returning, leave Gordonsville for Orange $50 q.
m, l:36 m and 1856 p. IN. daily, and 10:40
II. daily except Sunday.
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
On trains nos. 81 and 81 Pullman Buffet Sleep
ers between New York and Montgomery, via
Danville.
On trains Nos 80 snd So Pullman Buffet Sleep
ors between Washington and New Orleans and
Washington and Augusta, via Danvlle.
On trains Nos. 81 sud SO Pullman Sleepers be-
tween Washington and Louisville, and Char
lottesyile and Cincinnati.
On trains Mes. 54 and SO Pullman Buffet
Slecpers between Washington and Memphis,
via Lynchburg and Washington, and Nashville
viz Lynchhurg and Bristol
On trains Nos. SIS and 50 Pullman Buffet
Sieepers between Washington and New Orleans,
via Lyrchbur and Sennesaw route
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FANCY GOODS, NOTlONs, &c.
LEGAL.

VIRGINIA: In the CleI ks office of The Corpo-
ration Court Of the city Of Alexandria, o.
The st day Of September. 1883.
Mary Lawler complainant. .s. Margaret &, Law
Ter, r. f. Lswler ard Mollie Iawler. HE wife,
L. H. Beynon and Mary Z Beynon, his wi c.,
John Ash, ir., and Elltn Ash, his vito. In
chancery.
Memo. The object Of this suit i. to obtain a de-
cree constituting the last will and testament CT Ed
ward Lawer late of the city of Alexandria, in the
State of Virginia, deceased
The defendants l. H. pcynon and Mary L.
Peynon his wife, and John Ash. jr, and Ellen
Ash his wife, not havin. entered their appearance
and given security according to the act of As.
sembIy and the rules of this Court, and
it appearing by affidavit that they are not
residents of this State; 1t is ordered that the
said defendants appear here within fifteen days at
ter due publication of this order. and do what is
necessary to protect their interest in this suit and
that copy of this order be forthwith inserted in
the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE, newspapcr published
in the city of Alexandria, once week for four sue
cessive weeks, and posted at the front door of the
Court House Of this city. copy-teste
VI JOHN 6 BEACH, Clerk.
Albert Stuart p. q. sep5 w4w
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DIRECTORY
OF IKE
PRINCIPAL Business Houses Of The CITY

1snks.
gurke & Herbert, cor. King and Fairfax str~''
Citizens National Bank. Il. ". COZ. Prince
Lee streets.
First Nationsl Bank, 3 W. cor. Prince spd h."
Books, Stationary AND PrIut!as
q. E. French, 95 King street.
Boots and Shoes
+. PAT, 423 King street.
Carriages.
Summers & Bro, Pitt street.
China, Glassware, sc.
FL. Miller, Son & Co., 60 King street
Capfectloners.
Henry Brengle, 129 King street
Dry GoodE and Notions
A. B. slaymakor, 105 King street.
J. E. Tackett, 100 King street.
Drugs and Chemicals.
WI. Creighton & Co., n. ". cor. A.us an.
"A y A. Wsraeld, 1872 King street.
? s. Leadbeater & Bro, : S. Fairfay ifcoi
s II. Lunt cor. King sud tair:as stEoe7s
I'D. H. Lunt, n. o. cor. King aad Wsei;rsi
l.. Stabler & Co., II. W. King and > SSH
wsrseId & Hall, cor. Prince and Fairfax slrp,.
erccers and Liquor Dealers.
&c. Milburn, II n Royal street.
Charles King & Son, 81 Cameron street.
Harlow & Bro IL W. cor Royal and Camera
ltreets.
". a. Johnson, L.. e. cor Royal and Camero
streets.
q. McBurney & Son. 8 w.eor. King and Wasi
ington streets.
Hardware and CUTLERY.
IT. Creighton & Son, IS King g.rac:.
B. F. Peske, cor King and Pitt streets
Jewellers.
H. Wildt, 10 n. Royal street
Lumber, &c.
Perry, smoot & Co., No. % corner Cameron E',i
Union sts.
Josiah II. D. smoot, 81 north Union
Aachipists
US. Moore, 65 Union street.
Real Estate Agents
The Alexandria Real Estate Investment irns
and Title Company.
Wood and Coal
W. A. Smoot & Co, foot of Princess ST
J. P Zimmerman. foot OF Queen st.
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HEN AND PARrRIDeHs. J. II. Bur-
ton Gays enc of hi+ mowers turned up par
fridge nest recently, His dau-her took the
eggs and placed them under hen, which
Matched cut seven The little ones are all
doing we'll, seeming to have lost their wild
nature entireI. aad have as much affection
for the mother hen as fthey were of the came
breed Of birds. IL tie course Of his harvesting
and bayng be discovered five or Xix par
fridge nests Not only from the Co'onel tut
from many other farmers we learn that the
indications ere that pariridges VIII be aoun'
dant bis fati-W chichester Times
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RAILROADS.

, s,.ao1,l slHlIsE aor1s
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e;si.gxautirIa (Daze1te.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER / 4.

SUDDEN REoovERY-Miss Emma Ben
nett, 80 years old, living near Oshkosh, for
nine years past has been bedridden invalid.
Her disease was called consumption of the
blood. During her nine years confinement
she has not uttered loud word. Part of
this time she was able to lisp in faint
whisper. Frequently she was thought to be
dead. For upward of three years one side
OF her body was parelyzed, rendering her
still more helpless. On Sunday, while the
family was at dinner. suddenly from the
sick room came the sound of q full round
voice singing strongly and awee,ly the
words: ''He rose, He rose, He rose lrcm
the dead" The startled family rushed into
the bedroom, and there was the sick girl
sitting in bed singing She asked TO De help
ed TO her feet saying hat she felt that she
could walk, and she did walk across the
floor. She ssid she felt as though che had
risen from the dead
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1883 ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE :,


The GAZETTE oarOnOlosically, is in +.
eighty-ninth year Of ita existence and I.
only the Oldest paper in the State. but. ri.
very few exceptions, in the country. y.
withstanding the fullneea of Its wears +.
kept, and will continue to keep abreast o,u
time in all that pertains to netO, nav,
furnishing ita readers daily with ps,.,
mirror of passing events, domestic and :.
eign. Its facilities for obtaining nav.
they increase are taken advantage Of -,
used for the benefit OF it's readers, who =.
thus kept thoroughly posted as to all that.
of interest politically, socially, financial,
and commercially. Special attentjo,
given to matters concerning the Ststs,,.
its welfare, while it's Local columns cort..
all that is Of the slightest interest 10 Al.
andria. Its regular correspondence tror
Washington and Richmond are ieatura, =,
| peculiar interest, as attested by the esr..
ness with which they are read and eoni.A
by other papers, while its editorial deu,s
ment, conducted with reference to the Ia.
interests of the city, State aud country. vi,
continue to advocate what is believed to "a
right, just. honest and patriotic. With
view to the Interests of merchants fam
ers, and all interested, its commercial o.
umns are carefully edited and its mark,
reports are acknowledged by all to be s;b.
full and accurate. Through all this seclo,
of the State and in all parts OF the couptr
where Virginians have located, there VII
! the GAZETTE generally be found, and tn
as an advertising medium it has few eQn,
outside the large cities. In the househai
counting room and workshop, it is an eye,
| welcome visitor, acceptable alike to old anl
young, the grave and the gay.