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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-29
Not n tery Clear Idea.

A very pretty commentary upon the IN
tellipent way in which much philan-
thropic work is done was afforded the
other day by vivacious lady who is often
concerned in such labor. She was reiat-
ing to friend how much difficulty she
and few other pious souls had in raising
sum of money sufficient to send lie
male missionary to Constantinople.
I'VE did have TO work so hard, she
said pathetically People absolutely re
fused to be interested We held fairs and
made people buy things, and we had par
lor concerts and actually forced our friends
to take tickets; and we sewed and we
begged subscriptions But now we've got
the money it is worth all our trouble to
see the zeal of the young lady we are
going to send out. OF course she won't
introduce religion at first, until she's won
their regard; but she's bought Turkish
grammar, and she is so eager TO begin to
civilize the Turks. and she has such clever
ideas about how to 90 to work. too"
But how will she 90 to work. the
friend inquired What will she teach
them first?"
..Oh. all sorts of nice things" the other
returned rapturously Things that tend
to elevate She'll teach them Toto
why, to eat with knives and forks and not
TO have harems and to sit on chairs
Her friend asked no more questions
BOSTON Courier
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Tho Bull and the Rand.

The village of Strinesville has new
brass band. 1t played its first piece the
other day. considerably going some dis.
lance out of the village to do it. That
delicate consideration probably saved the
life of Strnesville small boy, but it killed
Farmer Stautfer's valuable young Jersey
bull At the time the band went out TO
play the bull was feeding in its pasture,
which was near the spot chosen by the
band While the band was getting it's
collective lip ready to compel tune from
its horns. the small boy referred to was
taking a short cut through the pasture to
reach the band. The bull took note of
the small boys presence, and proceeded
at once to hasten his trip across the lot.
The band had not seen the procession
moving through the meadow, although
the bull was mouthing his displeasure
Justify a. he ran, and the small boy was
lifting up his voice in audible and pene-
trating tones. The blll was within three
Jumps of the boy when the band had got
Aady to play. The band played. At the
f\s; burst the bull stopped chort, threw
up his head and shifted the air The in
struments blarcd again. The bull turned
and rushed wildly toward tho stone wall
Tho band threw its soul once more into
its horns, and tho bull sprang over the
wall He came down on his head on the
other side and broke his neck. Harris.
burg pa Cor. New York Sun.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-29

The weather seems TO run in cycles OF
about seven years; that is. when we have
a hot summer, it is always followed by a
cold one and it takes about seven years
to reach another equally hot 1t will be
remembered by many that the summer of
1867 was very hot. and so dry that during
August the grass crumbled under the feet
when trod upon The summer of 1865
was noted for its GOODNESS, the thermom
eter very seldom getting above - dogs.
and we did not reach the top wave of Their
mality again until 1874 when it was eX
tremely hot The following summer was
cold to remarkable degree From then
on the summers grew gradually warmer
until 1881, which was excessively hot and
very dry, no rain falling for over nine
weeks. and there were more sunstrokes
that summer than there has been in all
the summers since.
The summer of 1892 was quite cold a
few flakes of snow fell on the morning Of
July A, followed by hail in the afternoon,
and during the rest of the month and
through the month Of August the TEN
perature was SO low that overcoats were
necessary for comfort, particularly at
night. The summers since 1882 have
grown warmer, and last summer was Q
moderately hot one; but unless all signs
fail the coming summer will be the eli
max of the cycle, and a hot, dry season
NAV be expected. Indiana Pharmacist.
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sh..c uerdips IN New Mexico.

At daybrcak the flock gets up-each
sheep opening himself to greatness, much
after the fashion Of four bladed JACK.
knife and Begins grazing. The shepherd
has to unlimbcr himself then. also ana
after breakfast his monotonons routine
begins again In winter he has an I'M
mistakably tough time. Fearful storms
and hungry beasts scatter his sheep to the
four winds OF heaven. and he has to hunt
them I'D at all hours of day and night and
bring them together again: instead OF
the firm summer sward Of New Mexico Tor
tramping ground, he is up to his knees III
mud, or to his waist in snow. altogether
too often for comfort. He lives IN
snow. nail. sleet and razor edged
winds His flock is like thousand
babies, just beginning to walK-tha'
is. in the amount Of care required.
The shepherd has to take them to tie
best grazing place lest they starve to
death. Sometimes they are caught IN a
snow so heavy that he las to go oil ana
ret a band of horses or cattle. drive them
through the drifts and thus make path
through which the sheep may emerge 10
lower valleys When the grass Il 100
deeply covered he has to cut down plnon
trees. upon whose piney needles the sheep
browse greedlily. When there are SICK or
exhausted sheep that lie down and VIII
not bulge. he has to take grip In Their
wool, lift them to their feet and shove them
along-perhaps carry them in his arms
He was to keep the flock constantly
changing base, that they may not stop
twice on the same ground and thus breed
disease. The general yearly range OF a
flock of sheep is within radius OF thirty
miles, and up and down and across tins
area the shepherds keep shifting them
When there is snow on the ground the
sheep drink no water; but the burros OF
The pack are not so conveniently const-
tuted. and would die of thirst If the shep'
herds did not melt snow for them to drink
In the east sheep have TO be "salted, but
here in place of salt they eat alkali, ana
once month the shepherds take them
down to some water course. along whose
banks they find abundance of this abomi
nable stuff which believe would forever
bankrupt the internal economy OF any
other animal New Mexico Cor. Globe
Democrat.
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Compressed Gas for Car Lighting.

Ii has been urged that the use of com
pressed gas for lighting cars is attended
with the danger of the gas exploding i'll
the event of collision The imaginary
nature of this danger was shown by the
recent accident on the Philadelphia and
Reading, where an escape of compressed
gas from leaky hose simply burned for a
few moments without any exp ion.
Experience in Germany has been of q
similar nature and recent collision near
Birkenhead. Eng, between two trains lit
with compressed gas was unaccompaned
by any explosion. AT the time Of the col
lision between the Hoylake and Mersey
tunnel trains the gas in the latter was
aligbt. The gas cylinders of the smashed
coaches were taken from the debris and
tested to a pressure of $50 pounds per
square inch, and they were found TO be
entirely uninjured beyond few severe
dents The gas fittings of the remaining
portions of both trains had not suffered
in the least through the collision, and,
with the exception of those in the smashed
cars. not q single lamp glass vas broken
IN either train.-Scientiic American.
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Garden Concert Sanger Halle to night.

IL Subscribers aciH please telephone No
$40, the Times" office, If the paper Is not
reguiarlyand promptly.
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Courage of nn ArI.S .

Discipline, that well spring of victory.
is recognized as one of the most potent
means Of raising the standard Of courage
in an army. 1t teaches men that their
best reliance is in their own bravery;
gives them confidence in each other; re.
moves the fear that they may not be
properly supported in emergencies; con-
vinces them that they are part of an in
telligent machine moving methodically
under perfect control and not guided by
incompetency, and establishes that esprit
de corps which goes SO far toward making
armies formidable in war 1t was disci
pline which enabled the commander Of the
troops on beard the English ship, when
laundering. to form his men in line on
deck, present arms. and 60 down with the
vessel. while the band played God Save
the Kingston. Horace Porter in The
Century.
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE
New York stock Market.
Reported by g. w. Branch a Co. hsnxe"
md brokers. No. I'LL Main street.
REVIEW.

RENIEh
NV YopE. June 2s-There was nc
more activity in the market than ye-ter'
Iav IL dragged along all day with MI
occasional squirt, which was followed al
,oon by oeclines, leaving prices abou'
sLerc they started from. Reading ied
N activity, but the extreme prices were
e.s than | per cent. It's May statement
ant today showed that although the
Reading Railroad Company showed
gr.ss increase of Ss9, 1913, the net was
ie. rease of $3G 4l9 and from December
If 10 January LIST, both the railroad
omnapjes ana coal and iron companies
how decrease of 81 ,53O9 500. in no
manner could the bulls twist these state
mems in;o anything favorable, 80 a,
70 suit on only limited transactions ,he
took was heavy all day Al the opening
" Paul was fraciiODally higher upon
DOM manipulations, hoping that Lon
ION would come in as buyer. In This
hey were disappointed. LONDON did
iuie, If anything, hut sold some. a
Tory was out that there was bull p"oi
n The stock, bni the most earnest search
ould find no traces Of il. Certainly the
condition of affairs in the West and the
insane desire of the railroad company
vas in many Of the Western States to
drive all railroads into Bankruptcy, would
prevent The formation of pools on This OF
kindred stocks. The close showed little
changes, the underlone being weak and
feyerish.
sterling Exchange, 4S7!@s9t. Money.
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Tobacco Market.

RICHMOND. VA, June 20.
Good rains have fallen here, and we
have the same reports from very many
other parts of this State and North Caro-
lima, as well as from the West and as
much as it is against our desire to say so,
we can but believe that the better crop
prospect will cause more quiet market
till we have some more encouraging
news on the tax. 1t is dull already. Very
little was done on Change to-day outside
of sun cured, which sold well again. al.
though the lower grades predominaied
Hurleys may hold their own, but we
think The advance will be checked for the
present, but we cannot advice with con-
tidence on this scarce grade The rain is
not welcomed TO holders, but they make
the best they can Of the situation. Our
agricultural commissioners report will,
We hope, cover the date Of late rains.
The Tobacco Committee appointed, in
part, judges for the exhibition to-day !;
these will be selected, AS we have suggest.
ed. from all the tobacco markets MS well
as from home trade, and will be chosen
for impartiality in their respective lines
Winston, N. e., will make a big display.
and We expected that much from that
lively, thrifty town. Other parties and
places are quietly making big prepare
lions 10 show the world their best pro-
ducts. Let the trade have no laggards
in il. Now let us have the Committee on
Invitations, and so employ all of our
talent, put all the trade here on some
special work, and thus create solidified
interest
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Wallpaper,
WINDOW SHADES AND FIXTURES,
AWNINGS. OIL-CLOTH>, ETC.

The entire stock must be sold III limited
time orders. large and small. promptly hlled-
Parties wishing rooms paperod before the EX-
10 stion should call. Will sell the stock as an
entirety or in large or small lots.
-ie2i cod ALLEN g. Coz LIN'. 1rusreP.
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RAILROAD BOEDH
Richmond stock Market.
Reported by John l.. Williams q Son,
bankers ana brokers' I'LL Main street
RICHMOND, Va, June 2s
RICHMOND
First Board.

;2i0 Nirg mia new rs at oat
ii ONO no Il 6Jt,
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He Was Doubly Grateful.

A certain minister Of our acquaintance
was invited to dine with q member Of his
flock who. though well enough of in the
goods Of this world, lived sparingly In his
greed for the dollars and cents. When
dinner was Aerved the host said: Il can't
give you nothing but bacon and green's,
parson; it's all can afford these hard
times. VIII you ask blessinY' The
minister responded lord. make us truly
thankful for what we are about to receive.
We expected nothing but greens-and BE-
,holdl hero Is bacon also Make W truly
Notwithstanding Ca News.
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EXCURSIONS.
Az ARWlCK PARK.
GONDOLA MbORAZO

Loves her wharf daily except Sunday at
3: > am. go, 500. and 80 pm. Returning,
leaves Warwick Park at l:ii. 3i5, 6:l5 and
1910 pm.
on SUNDAYS leaves Richmond at 10 am.
In. 100, and 500 pm. Returning, leaves War
w.5k Park at HE am. 2ij 5:lj, and 20 DIN.
Fare. l5c each way. Round trip, DC; chill
d. n under years free.
D,ating. sailing, fishing, and bathing Re
n shments served at city prices
Thc company reserves tn" right 10 hold
p.ftions of the grounds AID of the pavilion
TO- private partie
THOMAS ELLETT. Sec'y.
p North Ninth street. Richmond. Va.
my9-3m
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CITY COLLECTOR's NOTICE.
CITY COLLECTORS OFFICE, |
RICUMpND, MAY 81, 1883.

RfCHMOSD, MAY 81, lhcs
THIS OFFICE WILL BE OPEN
daily, between the hours Of o'clock, am.
All o'clock. p III from the ,TH TO III
nth DAY OF JUNE INCLUSIVE, for the
~ rpose of receiving from any person charged
WIN CITY TAXES, the whole or one-h half the
AZ cunt Of tax charged.
Five per cent. will he added to the amount OF
10 charged in every case where the party as
SC scd shall fail to pay the whole or one-hali
g thin the time 20 limited. Real estate agents
a. others BAY ing a number Of bills 10 pay
vii please send lists, so that their bills may 10
>, iten together. Where property is held Il
tiiist. it is necessary 10 give the name of q o
Or lstee.
Any person desiring TO pay taxes after June
Isl nay do so during the usual business
hours. JAMES d. CRAIG.
-icl-lm City Collector.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05
THROUGH MISTY EYES.
BY STANLEY WATERLOO.

The sHR makes glorlOus the window pane, And falls across the floor in bars of gOldi The young blood dances in my veins again It was dream that was tired and oldl It was a dream. l see form of grace, No vaugely outlined creature of the air; see you, darling, with your girlish face, see your brow In eyes and your wind tossed
 hair
 see the tiger lilies in the field. In mottled glory OCT a bed of green, see them wave their heads and lightly yield To the west wlnd; they scarcely deign to lean,
 For they are queenly flowers, fit for your
 brow.
 Do you remember how we wandered throu gh The fields to gather them? They're waving
 now,
 The :iger-lilies that sought with you. see the bobolinks. in leafy June, Sing auttering above the clover bed. What bubbiing joy was in their merry tunei I've wondered if all bobolinks were deads- They swayed upon the alders by the stream, An, how they sang as we two listed near | hear them nowi It cannot be dream. For, as hear them, can see you, dear. Let us sro hack Oh, sweetheart. let u go, Let us live OCT the life of long ago, When hope was highest and hearts were
 young.
 I see your face before me-ah! wakei- I see & grave with grasses thick above; You cannot come-not even for my sake But can come to you, and will my love
 -Chicu00 Adaf.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05

On the first of the present month the offices of the ell-known news paper advertising agency of J. II. Bates, New York City, were removed to the Potter building, 3s Park Row, corner of Beekman street. A quarter of century has passed since MT. J. II. Bates, in partnership with s. Nj. Pet teDgill, whom he has since bought out, began in modest way the busi- ness which has grown to such grand proportions. During the twenty five years of its existence, this agency has paid to the newspapers of America, for advertising, over fifteen million dollars in cash, and 1t Is claimed that J. II. Bates now expends with news- papers, year by year, more money than has ever been done by any advertising agency in the world. Unprejudiced, progressive, maintaining always friendly relations with both publisher and advertiser, Mr. Bates may con- template with satisfaction the large business which his enterprise has built up.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05
Burdette on Womankind.
New York Star.

Why am woman suffragist? Be- cause I am. Because a woman has more good, hard, common sense than a man. Because she won't give dollar and a half for an article that she knows very we'll she can get for sev- enty-five cents. Because she does not stalk loftily away from the counter without her change if the robber be- hind it is a little reluctant about counting it out. Because she is too independent to pay the landlord two dollars and quarter for her dinner, and then pay the head-waiter one dollar to send her a waiter who will bring it to her for fifty cents. Be- cause she will hold her money tightly in her own good little right hand for two hours until she first gets a re- ceipt for it from the fellow who made her husband pay the same bill three times last year. Not any just give you credit for it" for her. Because one day Pullman porter complained to me "No money on this trip; too many women aboard. Don't never get nothin' out of woman 'ceptin' just her regular fare" I had just paid him twenty-five cents for black ing one of my boots and losing the other and when he said that, when l saw for myself the heroic firmness of those women, travelling alone, paying their fare and refusing to pay the sal aries of the employees of 8 wealthy corporation, said "These women have right to vote. To vote? By all that is brave and self-reliant and sensible, they have right to run the government
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05
his pocket, was one of the most touch

his pocket, was one of the most touch ing of all.
 "Dear wife," he wrote, "take good care of Mary. In book in the bed room you will find & thaler. Fare well, dear mother! We will meet again"
 The Mary he mentioned was the miners only daughter, who was blind. A miner named Richer, whose brother was mentioned as dying in Moretz's message, simply wrote on 8 piece of paper which was found on his breast: ''No more toll in darkness" :" The story of the terrible struggle these poor men made for life in the gas choked depths is told in few lines found in the notebook of a miner named Bahr:
 This is the last place where we have taken refuge. IL is the last we can take. give up all hope. The ventilation has been destroyed take my self and relatives. and dear friends who must die with me, as we'll as our fam lilies, under His protection.
 There are many other passages in this pathetic diary, made up of all the messages from these dying miners, all breathing a simple piety and unselfish resignation. This uniformly pious spirit was explained by the old miner. He said that the miners of Saxony are all reared in strict religious school, and that on entering the mines they all petition heaven for protection while they are surrounded by ever present perils in the depths, and on leaving the mines they return thanks to God for guarding them and bring ing them safely through the dangers of toll.
 "I never read these simple messages of those poor men without moistened eyes," said the old miner. "I can pie ture to myself the scene of the rough handed but tender hearted men, spend- ing their last moments not in wild cries for mercy and screams of re- morse, nor in repining against their cruel fate, but of sending these fare well words to their loved ones, who were even then bewailing them as dead. While my heart bleeds over the picture, l thank God that, humble miners though they were, they showed the world how bravely and nobly they could die"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05
Gems.

The new book for male voices called "Emerson's Male Voice Gems," will please the average male quartet, glee and chorus club, and supply a want that has been manifest for some time. The music is of good grade, without being too difficult. MT. Emerson has selected and arranged such pieces as his experience has suggested as being exactly suited to the wants and abili- ties of male quartets and clubs who are desirous of improving the taste while enjoying good music. The book is octave size, contains 176 pages, and is filled with good things, selected and original. Send for 6 descriptire cir- ea:dT giving full particulars concern ing this and other books. The cata- logues cost you nothing. The price of the book, "Emerson's Male Voice Gems," is sl.OO. It viii De sent by mail, postpaid, to any address, for the price, by O. Ditson & Co.,, Boston, Macs.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05
The Oldest Roeka.
rnpnIar science Monthly.

Oldest of all formations known to geologiets. and representing perhaps the earliest rocks produced after our earth had ceased to be molten mass, are the hard crystalline, and much- contorted rocks named by the late Sir W. E. Logan Lanrentian, and which are largely developed In the northern parts of North America and Europe. and in many other regions. So num- erous and extensive, indeed, arc tho exposures ot these rocks, that we have good reason to believe that they un- derlie all the other formations of our continents, and are eeea world. wide in their distribution. In the lower part of this great system of rocks. W hioh .in some places at least, Is thirty thousand feet In thickness, we find no traces of the existence oi any living thing on the earth. But, In the middle portion of the Lauentian, rocks arc found which indicate that therc were already land and water, and that the waters and possibly the land were Nlready tenanted by living beings. The great beds of limestone which exist In this part of the system furnish one indica. tion Of this. In the latter geological formations the Dmestonos arc mostly organie-that is, they consist of accu- mulated renal of shells, corais, and other hard .sris of marine ami malls, which are composed of calcium carbonate, which tho animals obtain directly from their food, and indi. rectly from the calcareous matter dis. solved in the Seawater. In like man. ner great beds of iron ore exist in the Laurntian; but In later formations the determining cause of the accumu- lation of such beds is the partial dcoxi. dation and solution of the pero idc of iron by the agency of organic matter. Besides this, certain forms known as Eoxooa Caaadense have been recog- nized in the Laurentian limcstones, which indicate the presence al least of one of tho lower type of marine ani. mals. Where animal life is, VIC may fairly infer the existence os veSe:a hle lite as well, since the plant Is the only producer of food for the animal
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05
A Cheap Pair of Pictures.

For forty cents we will mail, post paid, to any address, the splendid col ored engravings, the "Arkansaw Trav- eler " and The Turn of the Tune 2 also, without extra charge, the orig iraal story of the "Arkanssw Traveller, !" as told by Colonel Sandy Faulkner, and the music of the "ArkanMw Trav- eler arranged for the piano. The pictures arc gotten up in the highest style of art and possessing such his- torical interest they should have . place in every household. Postage stamps taken. Address Read 4 Een- ham, 7s Calumet Bldg, Chicago, Ill.