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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-13
AeoYs PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
Dap,iIle the Headquarters OF the u. & T..
T.. II. R.-Paid on.

Dap,ille the Headquartersi OF the u. & Il.
r. X. E.-Paid on.
special telegram 10 the Dispatch.l
D,syuLE, Va. December 12.-Jacob
Rnasell q boy not over thirteen years of
ace SON of J. L. Russell. Of Kiyes's Mills.
f6is county, while trying 10 use feel-cut
tine machine yesterday. caught his left
hand under the cogs, and il was crushed
in a terrible manner. DR.. White, who was
called in. thinks smputation will be neces-
sary.
HEADQUARTERS.
The Danville and East Tennessee Rail-
vav Company having established an Office
in ibis city all the employee, consisting of
twentv.fiye, and members OF the engineers
corns make this city headquarters. To-
dav IA. A. Hitchcock. of Norfolk. the trca-
surer II the company, reached the city and
paid all the men on for the month of No.
yember.
SMALL SALES.
The cold snap OF harsh. windy weather
has thrown leaf tobacco out OF handling
order. and IS a result the sales of loose leaf
in the warehouses to-day were very small.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-13
FREDERICKSBURG AND VALLEY R. R,
Comp any Organized and Oficers and Dr.
rectors Elected.
Especial telegram TO the Dispatch.I

SrAUSroN, Va, December 12.-The char
ter members Of the Fredericksburg and
Valley Railroad Company met at Orange
Courthouse to-day, with G. G. Buckner, Of
Orange, in the chair nnd j. W. Morton
secretary.
The minimum subscription of S25, 900 be-
ing subscribed and paid up the company
was organized by the election of the fol-
lowing officers and directors: President,
w. l.. White, of Fredericksburg Vice
President, Robert S. Walker; Secretary
and Treasurer, T. McCracken. Directors:
NJ b. Rowe. of Fredericksburg; Charles
Payne and Chancellor Bailey, of Spotsyl-
vania John L. Payne and G. @. Buckner,
Orange; G.. b. Nolle and DIR. James Scott
OF Culpeper, and William J. Cave and DR..
William A Bickers, of Madison.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-13
BUSINESS WANTS.

WANTED, CASH FOR FUEL AT
w LOWEST PRICES. PINE WOOD, sl.75
for half 3 cord: Best HEART PINE, s2.25 for
half a cord Good COAL for CRATES and stoves.
Sf.g5 10 Si.JO per ton Best Ant ukACllE COAL,
Si55 IS, AMI s. 25 per ton SAWED WOOD, 81
ana i2'i5 for haf 4 cord ; KlNDLlNG WOOD,
s275 Tor half n cord. delivered froe. Broad AMI
Norton streets, Phone io1, and 1905 Cary street,
Phone los.
e;-lOt CHARLES II. PAGE.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11
$1.OO Per Year.
WOMAN'S SPHERE.

"Keep to your sphere" said the liquor men,
cat home is a woman's place.
Take care of your children, cook and sew,
And cherish your womany grace
These forward women who war onus
Disgrace themselves and their sex;
Plunging in filthy politics,
The peace of the land they vex."
So, gentle mother, sit still at home,
And Groom to your baby boy,
While monster turks in the street without
Waiting his chance to destroy
Soon as those little feet can pass
Out of the garden gate,
He'll be fair prey but sit you still,
Sing him to sleep. TITS fate.
Love and cherish your winsome girl,
Train up the fair, sweet life
To every pure and gentle charm
BETTING the drunkards wife.
Make her so fair and sweet and wise
She will win some careless love-
So pure that drunken stab or shot
Will only send her above
What dropping your song, and starting out
With eyes and heart afre,
And striving, with your soft white hands,
To throttle the monster dire?
WHY not? The hare for her young will fight;
The tiny bird grow wild
Defending his nest; and dare you think
woman cares less for her ehildf
Yes, home is woman's truest sphere,
It's spoiler her deadliest foe;
II viper coil by your sleeping child,
Is the gentlest too mild for blow?
Because you are womanly, tender and true,
And your home is your chosen sphere
Fight, fight as for life If you shrink or fail
You may lose all life holds dear.
Ada Z. Ferri
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

and we are pleased it had the good sense not to
name him:
"The type of the female skull approaches many respects
that of the infant and in still greater degree that of the
races and with this is connected the remarkable crs
that the difference between the sexes as regards
the cavity with the development of race
that the male European exces much the female than
the negro the negress"
BY the type Of the skull we suppose he means
the size of the cavity and the relative weight OF
the brain. 1t is well known fact that the weight
of the brain of the sexes differs about in the same
ratio as the size of their bodies. But who can say
that renders the brain power less or more. AS
well might you compare the muscles OF the
plethoric, beefy dray-horse with the finer muscles
of the blooded race horse or roadster We will
also refer the Ledger to the well known proyerbial
rhyme:
"Litte head, little wit
Big head, not blt.'
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

The Ladies' Home Journal is to have depart
ment devoted to the Kings Daughters, which will
be conducted by Mrs. Margaret Bottome, OF New
York who was the founder of the order.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. SATURDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1890.
Vol. Ill. 30.

hydrant top" One of the most ludicrous rend-
tons of familiar lines was given not long since, as
happening in lovely little town many miles away.
The seven-year-old daughter of the house was
overheard repeating, ga good name is more to be
desired than red breeches.' Upon being ques-
toned as to who had taught her this, she re-
piled her teacher "You must be mistaken; she
surely never said that, said her listeners but the
little maid was positive she was correct. However,
the next day she listened attentvely, and came
home exclaiming, mo, it is grey brooches. A
good name is more to be desired than grey
breeches.''
Still one more-a recent occurrence. Prof.
Glotfelter, in charge of the Fort Steele school,
has little one in the primary department who
evidently thinks the name 'Glotfelter" stands for
principal or head. few evenings since, visiting
relative who is employed in one of the schools in
the east end of the city, he inquired of her, 'Who
is the Glotfelter of Forest Grove school?'
WE had stopped him to ask if he had no job
printing to do. "No," he replied, she had just
had large supply Of envelopes and paper printed,
and would think of US next time; but''-he added,
looking intently away toward huge bank of grey
and amber clouds that were piled up in the west
ern sky as though to gather courage there for the
strange new confession about to pass his lips,-"I
am with you heart and soul on the suffrage ques-
ton. When was young man had chance to
vote for it, but voted against it, and now want
to kick myself whenever l think of that chance
thrown away We men grow wiser as we grow
older" Then leaving the amber clouds to take
care of themselves, before we could recover
the fire of eoquence, "Why, who is to clean up
things il the women don't do it? We men haven't
the time; we are too busy chasing the almighty
dollar, and if we stop to even think Of things some
other man gets in ahead and grabs the dollar 1t
is the business of women to rid this community Of
the saloon and other nusances, and to that the
offices are filed by good honest sober men. II
the women don't do this, it will never be done, my
word for it,. He touched his hat with MS TWO
forefngers, his little brown nag with the whip, and
ratified off around the corner, hot in pursuit Of the
big dollar, perhaps not to think again Of the words
of truth and wisdom he had only just stopped
long enough to utter. Here was man Zone OF
thousands, with young family and steadily
growing pocket-book, to whom the habit of chasing
II Mon
know when they have dollars enough, and they
will never stop chasing them so long as they lives
Then it is evidently not to the businessmen that
community must look for redress from the gross
intemperance and immoralties that disgrace its
reputation and pollute its youth. The question
then arises, to whom shall the community turn for
holm toward its ratification? Evidently to its
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

AMAN in Paris claims to have discovered pre-
yentiye for wrinkles and all other signs of old
age. He also afhrms that his discovery will DANISH
the burrows of age, even though they have been
carved deep by time and care.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11
The Anglo-Saxon Churchman says:

The AnglO-oaXUH OHu1C1HaH 0aJ0'
nThe pleasantly about woman's suffrage in the mississippi
Convention gallant but unworthy Oh men engaged IN
such serious business constitution making"
1t becomes indeed huge bit of pleasantly
remarkable as well-when one stops to think
about it, and count up the great number of CEN
turtles il has taken man to evolve the idea that
possibly enlightened women might wish to- have
voice in making the laws by which they are gov
erned The pleasantly in this thought ought
to bring very feeble grin to the faces Of thinking
men.
The New York Ledger gives the following as the
opinion Of some cold. blooded ignorant anatomlst,
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11
"Little head, little wit,
Big head, not q Bit"

SOME one-t must have been man-has writ
ten in the Ladies' Home Journal:
81" always better for to be several years the senior
of his wife, And I'll tell you why. The average girl who
maIres-God bless her-says at home and makes home
bssu abiding place for her husband and her children The
man goes the world and has the responsibility OF
caring for these who hone and yet time does not set
Its seal upon does upon the woman The little cares
of life rue her. often make her look as we say old
before her time"
Now this man probably didn't mean to make
strong argument in favor Of women going out in
the world of fresh air and sunshine He doubtless
got tripped, jumped up, and told the truth before
he thought. If it makes woman ''old before her
tme' to stay at home and make bliss for man,
why should she do it? Sef-preservaticn is the
first law of nature, and will that "God bless her"
in the third line repay woman for violating ma
lures first law? Why is it that raising family in
the home is called ''the little cares of life" while
going out into the world and earning money to pay
the rent and buy the bread and butter is looked
upon as "great responsibility Terms and
estimates appear to get wonderfully tangled up
sometimes. Likewise rewards and punishments,
when woman's sole reward for making bliss for
husband is to grow "old before her time"
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

WOMAN suffrage in Mississippi may be properly
designated as one more lost cause, yet the debate
upon the subject in the convention has led to good
results first in its widespread discussion through
out the South where hitherto it has met with small
consideration, and secondly, it has enabled Mis-
sssippi to uncover hero, COL John W. Fswell,
whose fame will inger eng after the anti-suffrage
wing of the convention has take its fight to re-
gions far beyond the reach of history's memory.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-11

The old adage that "children and fools speak
the truth, is not always correct. Children fire.
quently get statements badly mixed. An instance
of this kind occurred some years ago in one of
the city schools. Ladies visiting the primary de-
partment of West-end school requested the
teacher to have her pupils sing the elephant song
"Why, do not think they know such song"
replied the teacher. ooh, yes, they do" said
one mother, whose little daughter was in the room;
"my little girl sings it for me-" The child was
called and requested to sing the song, when the
teacher found she had completely misunder-
stood the words of "Tell me little Elm" and
rendered it elephant"
Another laughable mistake was made by little
girl familiar with hydrants "a city maiden).
The closing line Of stanza was, "On the high
tree top" She insisted upon singing it, "On the
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-27
May Thank Her stars.

The narrow escape of Mrs. B, M. Searles,
Of i khar, Ind, from premature death.
She states that "for twenty years my heart
troubled Inc greatly. | became worse
Had smothering spells, short breath, fut.
terina; could not sleep on my left side, had
much Pain in Breast, shoulder and stom-
ach. Ankles swelled. Had much head
ache and dizziness. Treatment did me no
good, until ! rrie DIR Miles New Heart
Cure and Restorative Neryine. The first
bottle helped me, ond ] was soon virtually
cured For sale at T. d. Thomas and
w r. Bierys drug store. fine book on
the Heart and Nerves free.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-27
Mass Of NTeteors.

The particles of matter producing
shooting stars may be astonishingly mi
mute. In a recent investigation Mr..
G. G. Hutchins has found that on the
supposition that the rays of me-
teor have the same ratio of visible to to-
tai energy as those of the, standard can
die the mass of meteor,at distance of
fifty miles, having magnitude equal to
Vega and velocityoof twenty-five miles
second, would be about four and one
half grains if it continued two seconds
A lump of the Emmett county, Ia, iron
meteorite burned in an electric current
gave ten times the light Of the candle;
hence the mass of meteor giving the
light of first magnitude star moving
with parabolic velocity, and lasting two
seconds, is less than half grain.-Ar-
kanSaw Traveller,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-27

The value of pepper in cooking seems
to have been known long ago. It's use
as a medicine was common in the days
of Hippocrates, who applied it, moist
ened with alcohol, to the skin of his pa
tients, just as sugar and tea have been
in past times so dear as only to be within
the reach of the wealthy, so pepper was
in the Middle Ages very costly condi-
ment. So much was it valued that a
small packet was at that time deemed a
suitable present to offer great person.
Common or black pepper is now grown
in many tropical countries, It is a
climbing plant some twelve feet high,
bearing fruit of bright red color the
size of pea, which, when dried, turns
black. k.-Exchange.
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The Oue.tlon OF contnrlon.


An exchange makes light of the idea
that there may be danger in the tubes
of the phonograph. It holds that there
is no danger in the BARRIERS chair or the
wash room or door handles, etc. The
same shaving utensils are used for diff
ferent men, the same towels, and all
sorts of people handle the same door
knobs and no harm is done. How did
the exchange learn that, through these
and other means of connection, disease
was never conveyed?
Did the exchange never hear of the
BARRIERS itchP Do not unaccountable
sores appear upon men Of pure blood
and correct habits2 How are cholera
and smallpox and yellow fever and skin
diseases conveyed In the case of the
phonograph there is no danger so long
as the instrument is a private one, as
there is none where ones own shaving
utensils and towels only are used. But
the public phonograph which is operated
by the nickel-in-the-slot process is a diff
ferent matter. The two prohgs are not
only handled, but thrust into the ears as
close to the drum as possible, and put
into many pairs of ears daily. There
may be no danger from the prongs, but
it is well enough to wipe them thorough
ly with your handkerchief before put
ting them into your ears to hear Gil
more's band play annie Rooney
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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Tho Anden Sinking.

The startling announcement is made
that the Andes are slowly sinking into
the earths crust. AS proof of this La
Gazette Geographique says that Quito
was 0,jOO feet above the level of the sea
in l7l5; in 1900 it was only 9,57O; in 1881,
g, 0,5G7, having sunk twenty-six feet dur
ing the fifty-ive years following 1745, and
but three feet during the thirty-on years
which intervened between 1900 and 1881.
In 1858 the city's level had been reduced
to $3.50 feet above the level of the Pa
cific. To sum up the total, we find that
Ecuador's capital has sunk seventy-six
feet i'll 129 years. Antisana's farm, the
highest inhabited spot on the Andes
t4,O00 feet higher than Quito, the highest
city ON the globe) is said by the same
authority to be @18 feet lower than IL was
in 1145
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-27

In room at the government printing
Office adjoining the one in which q
drawer full of gold is kept, you can see a
man putting on gold titles on superb de-
partment ledgers and such things alto
gether by hand. He lays the pieces of
gold foil on the backs of the bound and
completed books, and burns the lettering
fast with little wooden handled dies
that he keeps heated in a small gas stove.
1t requires great skill to get the titles
perfectly straight and symmetrical,
though black silk thread is used to
make preliminary lines across the gold
film for guide. Finally the gold is
rubbed off with a leather tipped stick
and with burnt rubber.
Real gold is only used in this way for
particularly fine books. Designs and
lettering Of the sort for ordinary volumes
are done at the government printing
office in nearly the same manner, but
with yellow composition called Ger
man metal" which looks very much
like the gold and is decidedly cheaper.
No trouble is taken to save the wastage
and each book cover, after being stamped
by the hot die, is simply put through a
brushing machine, Washington Star.
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Single Copies S Cents
cen nead HI. nLble In the nnrk.


When Henry G. Stevens, of Bridge
port, Conn, sits down to read his Bible
q person watching him might think he
had pile of thin cedar boards in his
lap, and as he turns leaf after leaf they
crackle and fall with thud. Another
remarkable thing about Mr.. Stevens
reading his Bible is that he needs no
light to search the Scriptures with, and
1t is not necessary for him to look at the
book. He has the biggest, heaviest and
queerest Bible in Connecticut He is a
deaf and blind soldier of the rebellion.
His wonderful Bible was presented to
him by the American Bible society, and
it cost SOS to produce the book for him.
1t ia In eight volumes, with embossed
print, and ne reads it by touch, feeling
the letters; yet he Is apt and quick at
that kind Of perusal The whole eight
volumes are quite lift for a man of or
dinsry strength. Each volume is t54
inches long, 10 inches wide and about 8
inches thick. Pile the volumes one on
another and the aggregate thickness of
the stack is 3 feet and inches Alto
gether there are I, $40 leaves in the Bible,
on each one of which is full page of
raised letters. Mr. Stevens Is 81 years
old, and began to study raised letter
reading less than three years ago. He
is now n ready reader. Cor. New York
gt1r
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rlIlnl AnectLon Amonr nshrnu..

There is nothing in the world of pleas
ure and recreation to compare with the
beautiful devotion that is paid the old
Hebrew people by their children and
grandchildren at the various summer
resorts. A rude remark is never made
in their hearing, nor disrespectful word
uttered to aged mother or father The
gentle yielding of easy chairs, the offer
ing of choice things to eat and drink,
the last consideration of self where there
is drive or sail for limited number,
and the graceful anticipation of creature
comforts are attributes of the children
towhich the filial respect of the Christian
is not approachable. New York World
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NIGHT ON PoNrcHARTRAlN.


Night on Pontchartrain how the brilliant star
OF evening shines adown the western sky,
Slowly descending in its golden car,
As If inclined TO lnger; while on high,
Her cup Of light half filed, the moon floats by,
Tipping stray clouds with silver, as through
space
They, wandering, chauce to meet her radiant
eye.
Night on Pontchartrain- for such a night
We gladly hail the closing Of the day.
How soft, but yet how brilliant, Is tho light
OF yon fair stars that flood the heavenly way,
Twinklng and shining still with lambent ray,
Like beauteous eyes oft opened and oft sealed,
Showing meath anguid lids bright display.
And the soft sounds that fall upon the ear
Are well accordant to the lovely scene,
So soft Silence, herself listener.
Is not disturbed W them; yet so serene
That the low whisperings Of the winds, ween,
Can scarce be called zephyr, while the sound
or murm'ring ripples cometh still between.
New Orleans Times Democrat
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-27

In Dumfries one cannot look upon a
single Olden structure, or follow with
the eye any close, wynd, vennelI or street,
without knowing that at some time it
was more familiar to Burns than any
portion of the old city is to any one Of
its inhabitants today. In the ancient
Bank street house where he first lived in
Dumfries, in the three tiny apartments
more than one-third of the more than
100 poems he produced in Dumfries were
composed. Then in the Mill. now Burns,
street home, which was his last, the re-
mainder were given birth Among these
were "Auld Lang Syne," MY Wifes a
Winsome Wee Thing" "The Soldiers
Return" willie Wastle," ''Contsnted
wi Little, and Cantie wi Mair," "Thou
Hast Left Me Ever, jamie" "Ye Banks
and Braes O Bonnie Doom, "My Love Is
Like a Red, Red Rose" my Heart Is
Sair, 1 Daurna Tell, " 80 Vert Thou in
the Cauld Blast, Duncan Gray" "Flow
Gently, Sweet Alton" and that grand
martial ode, "Bruce's Address" The
old, though still spruce, Kings Arms inn
could never have so long stood the
assaults of time and tourists had not
Burns, in a forgivably irreverent and
delicious mood, scratched upon its win
dow pane. Cor. New York Commercial
Advertiser.
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The Force Of EIampIs.

A few days since man living IN the
west wanted to pay off grudge against
a neighbor without any risk to himself,
and placed a dynamite cartridge IN a
sheaf of wheat The cartridge WAS dis
covered before Il went into the thrasher,
and no one was hurt, This suggested
sn idea to an Ohio coward, who tried the
same plan, and succeeded in blowing mp
the machine. burning the barn and in
iuring several men, but killing no one.
II bad examples were as slowly followed
IS good what a fine thing it would be-
Detroit Free Press.
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A luminous harness has been patented
50 that horse being driven at night
looks like a sheet of chain lightning, and
you think Elijsh's chariot has come to
earth again. There are luminous match
boxes and luminous ghosts TO scare away
grave robbers. After every noted grave
robbery metallic coffins come in by the
scores, and l looked at one coffin sur
rounded by bars Of wrought iron, bind
ing the caslxet and extending out from
it at such a distance that when set in
the earth it would be impossible to move
it except by derrick. Frank q. Car.
penter's Letter.
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A Maine Mans Trunk.

l was talking with one of the old set
tiers the other day, and he said;
Don't know Hen Jones, do you?
Wall, when you see him you'll know
him; he's got the darndest nose ON him
that you ever seed on live being.
Tother day see Hen coming down hill in
to the village, and he was driving horse
with one hand and maxim queer motions
with t'other. When he got up to mo l
seed what he was doin'. He was piclsin'
up pebbles from pile in his wsgin and
was stonin' mosquitoes off the end of his
nose. ~ Lewiston Journal.