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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-16
For Over FinY Years

Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup has been used
Tor children teething. 10 sOothes me cilsi
softens the gums, aliays all pain. cures wind
collie and is the best remedy for diarrh9s
Twenty-Five cents "a bottle.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-16

Take simmons Liver Regulator. one
dose Is worth 100 dollars.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-16

yARBRoUGus "uiLD Bur LEE
TOBACCO DOES Nut MAKE YOU
NERVOUS.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-16
Big Money

in Fredericksburg stock. EaSy payments
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-16

One sometimes hears odd bits of CONVEX
satiOn in travelling. A party OF men from
East Virginia were sitting behind me:
We'll" said one, my wife got on a good
saying on me the other night. When l
went home it was dark, and j thought L
would have little fun, so | turned up my
coat collar, knocked at the door, and asked
in "A muflled, disguised voice, Does Mr..
Blank live here ? mentioning my OVID name.
Yes said she from the other side OF the
door. "a man of that name calls this his
home, but he only takes his meals here"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-16

What do you think OF our new towns in
CIinch Valley? asked gentleman OF your
reporter.
some Of them at all. You remember hear
lug Of a boy who Is now celebrated VINO re-
marked. after a visit from the country TO the
CITY. that he could not see the town on ac-
cmlnt of the houses. Here the trouble Is
that YOU cannot always see the city on ac-
count of the number OF vacant lots between
the houses. In tact il does take s0me little
experience and observation to tell when you
are in the city aud when YOU have gotten
back 70 the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
1T WAS THE HAT HE MASHED.
Young Man Pays Twelve Dollars for Sit
ting Beside a Belle.

Young Man Pays Twelve Dollars for Sit.
ting Beside a Belle.
New York SUM-
Along about the middle of the coach was
young lady, not beautiful girl, but just
ordinary, although she had very jaunty
hat and sealskin sacque. A young man
got on at CASTLE, who stood at the door and
looked the passengers over for minute or
two. and he then walked deliberately down
the aisle and pumped himself down beside
the girl. AS he did so there was a crash
and crush, and he sprang up to discover that
he had sat down upon bandbox and
mashed it fiat.
"I'm so sorry-so sorry!" he stammered
as he turned all sorts of colors.
sMister man" she replied as she in
spected the ruin, Shave you got $12 in cash
about you?'
"w;whstl l,,1 I really beg your pardon. In
"Fork Over!" she interrupted, holding
out her hand.
Twelve dollarsp'
EXACTLY. You have mashed S12 bon
net, and want the money"
"But Miss-but-"
"My brother Bill is forward in the smok-
ing car. and if you don't pay I'll call him!
There's nothing cheap about Bill. He'll
knock $50 worth of jaw off your chin before
he gets throug h with you"
"I'lI pay miss"
"That's business. Fifteen dollars, eh?
Twelve from 10 leaves three, and here's the
change and the hat. Next time you go 10
kerplunk down beside anybody look out for
breakers"
"I beg to apologize, miss" he replied.
"Oh Won needn't YOU got off cheap II
you hadn't mashed the hat I'd have pulled
$25 worth of hair out OF your head any
how"
Everybody felt sorry for the man. He
got into seat at the end of the car, closed
himself up like jackknife, and every time
the door opened what we could see of him
turned pale for fear it was her brother Bill
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

climbed up by grapevine to second
story window, that had been left unguarded,
and would have entered but for a miss-steP
that sent him down by the run.
TRIED TO BRIBE IKE.
They caught Ike and tried to bribe him,
but he had exhausted his fund of in
formation at the wharf, Alter hours
of effort their forces withdrew, each
prepared to draw upon prolific fancy
for facts, and the diverse reports that aD-
peared were living testimonials of phenome-
nal genius. All had seen her and the ac-
counts she had given of her disappearance
and adventures were most marvellous.
One assumed, from her own lips. to de-
scribe her travels in Europe. She had hob
nobbed with Queen Victoria, and firted with
the Prince o. Wales; had spent some lime in
Paris among the Pensioners, been to Cologne
for the benefit of the waters, went through tine
Simpelton Pass to Switzerland, and to Berne
to cool off; thought Mount Blank small hill
compared with Mount w Washington, and none
of the Horns were equal to Powder Horn in
her own vicinity at home; she had seen
Rome, ana the leaning tower Of Pison, sug-
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against which she was thrown, she soon
reached her destination. where she was
warmly welcomed. Cousin 81 had told that
she was coming, this voyage, and SO they
were prepared for her.
The reporter had taken seat with the
driver, and, going on, had been seen by
others of the vigilant craft, who, suspecting
his purpose, had followed, and were ready,
note book in hand, to interview the dis
tinguished absentee and passenger by the
Seven Pollies.
Two parties are generally essential for an
authentic interview Gas an autobiography
or an autograph is to be valued by the fact
of being written by the individual claimed),
and the absence Of the one interviewed dero-
gates from its correctness. Thus Mrs. Part
ington refused to be a party in that inter-
view. For hours the house on Sycamore
street was besieged by interviewers. The
door bell rang an incessant peal. They en-
vironed the house, boosted one another up
to look into the bower windows, and one
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
ANotevorfhy Exception.

From the klmball, South Dakota, Graphic
While the columns of the Graphic are
open to any and all unobjectionable adver-
tisements, yet it is quite impossible for us to
speak knowingly of the various articles of
merchandise advertised. Particularly is
this true of patent medicines But there
are exceptions occasionally, and a note
worthy exception is the celebrated Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. This now univers-
ally known medicine has been advertised In
the Graphic for four or five years, but not
until recently had we any personal knowl-
edge of its wonderful efficacy, when mas
come about through the prevailing influenza
and the stubborn cough that has SO Oft
en- attended it. In the writer's family this
medicine has on several occasions this WIN,
ter cured q cough that battied any and all
other remedies; and the number OF families
in Kimball and vicinity in which this rem
edy has been used with like effects attests to
its value as specific for coughs and colds
of every nature.
For sale by E. G. Stuckey. Seventeenth
and Twenty-fourth sts-, Penn ave. and cor.
Wylie ave. and Fulton St; Markell Bros,
cor. Penn and Frankstown aves.; Theo. E.
Ihrig, 361O Fifth ave-; Carl Hartwig, 4016
Butler ST., Pittsburg, and in Allegheny by
E. E. Heck, 72 and 1914 Federal ST.; Thos.
r. Morris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves.;
f. H. Eggers, 172 Ohio St, anG +. II. Egg
gers & Son, 1s9 Ohio st. and IL Smith
field st. Wsu
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for he lad tendency of brains to the head
and might be elusionary."
And so he went, to become a man by and
by, should he live and grow up. and reflect
honor on the name Of Partyngetone, which
came in with the Conqueror.
"And where are the little girls left?" as
she so called number whom she missed.
"They were tired of being Missed, she
was told, "and had got married"
"Well, WE'LL" she replied, taking pinch
OF snuff, and handing out her box with the
remark that they didn't take snuff half the
time;" "well, we'll, there seems to be ma
nammonia among girls nowadays for getting
married, but it is an honorable compilation,
as the good book says, and acceptable Of great
happiness, if they only enjoy themselves.
Bless them! they have my best wishes for
their conjugation."
She here switched off to side track lead
ing to other subjects and was soon deeply
immersed. B. P. SHILLABER.
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ton was sitting at breakfast, partaking of 1t
with all equanimity without trace OF dis
ease about her. She received him very
graciously. =,
"Pardon me, ma 'ap, for intruding," said
he, seating himself on her trunk, taken out
for transportation; I'VE have pnblic dooty
to attend to, and feel that the heHlth OF the
community rests upon us, and therefore II
we are remiss down she goes.
"Havs a bit of toast and cup of coffee, ="
said Mrs. Partington, "you look delicate
yourself, and some can't breathe the air OF
the docks with impurity."
IT don't care if do" replied he, "the air
is little freakish."
In the meantime the sentinel on the wharf
had collared Ike for an interview.
"What sort of voyage have you had?"
"Good, but for icebergs."
"See many?"
sThousands. Ran into one and sunk it. -
"Where were you from?"
"South America"
"Did Mrs. Partington live there while
awav?"
"Yes; she didn't die there"
"What did she do?'
"Fried doughnuts for an Indian king"
"Did she make anything by it?"
"Makei You'd better believe she did.
Brought back three trunks full of gold dust,
and diamonds as big as hens eggs, enough
to shingie meeting house."
"Isaac!" came a voice from below, and he
left his interlocutor, notebook IN hand.
"Isaac," said Mrs. Partington, this gen.
tleman will tell you where to find your aunt
Belinda; 60 and tell her will come to her
as soon as can procure a curriculum"
He was put upon a horse car and soon
performed his mission, followed imme-
L. s,,a La~Is
COMFORT IN HERDIc.
"Good gracious!" said she, capsized by a
sudden lurch, "this is more decomposing
than riding out gale. Dear me! there it
goes again. and by the time I get to
Belinda's I shan't know which end my
head is on. I shall be all black and blue,
and it will take whole bottle of anarchy to
cure the depravity."
She held on as we'll as she could, and, be-
yond striking her 'funny bone" against the
door frame and cracking a window pane
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gesting that it should be shored up, had sat
down on the steppes of Russia; went to
Naples to see Mount Vociferous, but it
wasn't eructiating, and, in short, to close a
column description, she had seen every OBJ
stacle of interest and had now come home to
enjoy her opium cum digitalis in peace and
obscurity. Tine report was mastery effort
and Is editions of the paper hardly served
to supply the immense demand.
Ike's information given to the sentine! on
the wharf was also published, with embel-
lishments, illustrated with cut, from an
actual life drawing, showing Mrs. Parting
toms mode of frying doughnuts.
MRS. PART1NGroN's COMMENT.
"Belinda," said Mrs. Partington. after
reading these things about herself, "Belin-
da, I've always had the presumption that
Anonymous and Sophia were too severally
dealt with for telling one lie, and Peter, who
knew how it was himself, was the last one to
condemn them. but my heart aches for them
now, when we see lying like this, without
any equivalent, and all the town laughing
at it. Poor Anonymous!"
Mrs. Partington gave herself up to old
time pursuits and pleasures, llluminlng by
her wise sayings every circle she entered.
The boy Ike was still family appendant,
and, though little subdued by time, was a
"human boy" still, with many of his old
characteristics.
"Auntie,'' said Captain 81, "Ike is
too old to be tied to your apron
strings He'll make capital sailor.
Why not let him 60 with me? I'll
take good care of him, and make man
OF him.
This was an entering wedge, and the idea,
at other times repeated, led her to think Sc
riously OF 1t, and Ike. not objecting, it was
decided that he should 60 to sea. 1t was
hard to part with him, but she wanted him
to go back and see their old friends, and
this did most toward reconciling her to the
separation.
HER FAREWELL TO IKE.
"Well, go, dear" said she. with my
warmest interdictiou; and, 81, don't let him
60 up the rope ladders at night, will you?
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Of the seventh evening. He dismissed his
weary little guide with the ass and the
wages at the foot of the familiar hill that
rose to his mothers house; and being quite
sure of his way, where every pebble, nay,
every grain OF sand, was better known to
him than neighbors and friends to men who
see, he climbed the ascent alone.
He was exhausted; but he was quiet and
his face was filled with q divine light. He
walked slowly, with his head bent; his
heart was full of high thoughts; he put out
his hand and CROPPED for the latch of the
gate.
As he did this it was flung open suddenly,
and girls voice cried:
"Baruchi come to seek thee, and thou
returnest to me. Baruch! Baruchl'
Then the blind man remembered the
saying Of the Nazarene, and he fell upon his
knees at the gateway of his own home, and
he bowed his head and clasped his hands in
prayer.
"Lord," he said aloud, "I call upon Thy
name that Thou mayst be justified of Thy
works, and mercy come to the maiden, who
is dearer to me than cyesight to the blind. "
Now when this had happened, Baruch
opened his ewes and lifted his face, and 'be-
tween the opening and shutting or an eye
lid, the man born blind looked, and be-
hold he saw.
And what he saw was the fairest sight in
all the world-the maiden of his hearts de-
sire. Ariella, bending forward, painting a
little with her flight from the house to the
gate-Rachel, his mother behind her hold
ing high a torch that she had snatched to
follow the girl-and the fre-red light of the
torch shining all over Ariella's face and
body. Her eyes burned like stars in mid
heaven; her delicate lips were parted; her
cheeks were as red as the roses of Sharon,
and her soft hair foated in the wind over
her forehead and about her sweet lace. Her
slender form swayed toward the kneeling
man; her white robe was blown against him;
she stretched out her thin, little hands.
Thou God of my people" cried the blind
man, "have mercy upon me, for do behold
an angelp'
Now, at this, Rachel, his mother, gave a
mighty cry, and flung down her torch in
ecstacy and terror. But Ariella restrained
her, took it from the ground, held it aloft,
and stood resplendent and self-possessed, as
she had been an angel indeed.
''She whom thou beholdest is only girl,
dear Baruch," said Ariella gently, "and
blesseth thee
Baruch stretched out his arm to her. He
did not touch her. But he lifted seeing eyes
to Arlella. Wonder, awe, delight, delirium
dwelt in them. The two women who loved
him stood dumb before that transcendent
look.
Lord" said Baruch, ST bless Thee that
between the opening and closing of an eye
lid L have beheld the maiden. Now do with
me as Thou willest. Now, though
return unto my darkness forever, yet am I
blessed of God among all seeing men.
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CHEATED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

Lawyer Hfourns the Loss Of 4 Cents
Wasted on Postage.
Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer.l
One of the elderly well-to-do lawyers of
the city called at the postofice a day or two
ago and epdeavored to secure the return of
cents that he had paid as overdue postage
on package that came to him through the
mail. On opening the many successive
layers of wrapping, paper which encircled
tine. All this he explained to the clerk,
and said that he felt he had been the victim
of an imposition, and that the Government
would be a party to the wrong unless it re-
funded the cents,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
HOLDING DOWN THE DISHES.
Gamblers suggest a Plan That May Help
Matters on Ship Board.

Gamblers suggest n Plan That May Help
Matters on Ship Board.
1t has been suggested that plates and
dishes used on board ship should be fitted
with iron bottoms. so that by means Of cleo
tro-magnets placed beneath the table they
might be held firmly in place during the
rolling of the vessel. AS our many readers
know, the slipping of the table utensils is at
present guarded against by the use OF
wooden rails. The new expedient seems to
have been suggested by the alleged NAL
practice of certain transatlantic gamblers,
who have cleverly taken advantage OF the
resources of science to help them in their
nefarious doings. These men, it is said, use
dice so loaded with iron upon one face that
they will always fall in one direction upon
a table furnished with concealed magnets In
the manner described.
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IKE AND HIS MOTHER.
Their Experience With the Reporters
on Reaching Home.
AMALIGNANT DISEASE REPORTED.
Published Accounts of Mrs. Partington's
Lengthy Tour in Europe.
THE LAD GOES TO SEA WITH CAPT. 81
WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPATCH.1
CHAPTER x.


A sedulous ship news reporter, while
mousing about the wharves for news, after
midnight, discovered the arrival Of the
Seven Pollies, with Mrs. Partington on
board, and, giving the fact away, there were
II reporters, two hours before daylight,
tumbling into the little cabin. Captain
Pelton rushed out of his stateroom, armed
with shotgun.
"What ever devil do you want?" said he.
"Mrs. Partington," was the unanimous
reply.
"Can't be seen-sick with a malignant
distemper-got it myself, and If you don't
go you'll catch it, said the captain, nerv'
ously handling his gun.
They left without more ado, but stationed
picket guard on the wharf and went to re-
cord the arrival of Mrs Partington in the
morning papers, with a full account of her
dangerous illness, even to diagnosis of her
disease which was described as being OF
most malignant type.
The first thing after the papers appeared,
health officer came running down the
wharf and stopped Ike as he was going
ashore to buy pint of fresh milk for the
breakfast.
Don't come ashore" said the official,
'till we've seen what this malignancy
means;" and he pushed the boy back on the
deck.
Captain 81, hearing the talk, came up the
companion way to learn the cause.
"Are you the Captain?' he was asked.
"Yes, SIR"
"Well, why didn't you stop at quaran-
tine?"
"Why should I?'
"Cause you've got malignant disease on
board"
"Who said SOP"
''The papers,"
"Oh, see. Yes, we all were malignant
when walked before daylight by a band Of
reporters. Come on board and see for your
SELF"
THE HEALTH OFFICER.
He entered the cabin where Mrs Parting
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Wing Tee Wee.

Wing Tee Wee
Was sweet Chinee.
And she lived in the town OF Tao.
And her eyes we're blue,
And her curling cue
Hung dangling down her back;
And she fell in love with gay Win Sill.
When he wrote his love on laundry bill.
And, oh, Tin Told
Was pirate bold,
And he sailed in Chinese junk;
And he loved, ah, mel
Sweet Wing Tee Wee,
But his valiant heart had sunk.
So he drowned his blues in tickle fzz,
And vowed the maid would yet he his.
So bold Tin Told
Showed all his gold
To the maid in the town of Tao,
And sweet Wing Wee
Eloped to sea
And nevermore came back,
For in far Chinee the maids are fair,
Anj:the maids are false. as everywhere.
-Harrard Ldnpoon,
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-09-26

Taste is not equally distributed over
the whole surface of the tongue. There
are three distinct regions or tracts, each
of which has to perform its own special
Office or function. The tip Of the tongue
is concerned mainly with pungent and
acid tastes; the middle portion is sensi-
tive chiefly to sweets or bitters, while the
back or lower portion confines itself en-
tirely TO the flavors of rich, fatty sub
stances. This subdivision of faculties in
the tongue makes each piece Of food un-
dergo three separate examinations which
must be successfully passed before it is
admitted into full participation in the
human economy.
The first examination gets rid of sub
stances which would be actively and i'm
mediately destructive to the tissues of
the mouth and body; the second dis
eliminates between poisonous and chem
ically harmless food, and the third
merely decides the minor question
whether the particular food is likely to
prove wholesome or indigestible. The
sense Of taste proceeds, in fact, upon the
principle of gradual selection and elimi.
nation; it refuses first what is positively
destructive, next what is more remotely
deleterious, and, finally, what is only un.
desirable or over luscious .-Hall's Jour.
nal Of Health.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-09-26
rAe olD Folks, loNaMa.

DON'T 60 the theatre, lecture or bal
But stay in yofr room tonight.
Deny yourself % the friends Tint call
And q good, long letter write
Write 70 the sad OH folksut home.
Who Sit eheu tho day IS done,
with foldei hands and downcast eyes
And think o, NE absent one.
Don't selnshiy scribblc, Excuse my haste
I've scurcciy the time 10 write
lest their hrooding thoughts 80 wandering
back
To many n bygonc night,
When they lost their needed sleep and rest
And every breath was a prayer
That God would leave their little babe
To their tender love and care
Don't lot them feel that you've no more need.
or their love and counsel wise,
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
when age has dimmed the eyes.
It might be well to let them believe
You never forget them quite
That you deem Il a pleasure when far away
Long letters home 70 write
Don't think that the young n giddy friends,
Who make your pastime gay,
Have half the anxious thoughts for you
That the old folks have to1ly,
The duty Of writing do not put on;
Let sleep or pleasure wait,
Lest The letter for which they waited and
ionged
Be a day or an hour too late
For the sad old folks at home,
With locks fast turning white,
Are longing to hear OF the absent one
80 write them a letter tonight
Portland Oregonian
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-09-26
FoRFEITURE NOTICE.

To ID. G. Roberts;
You are hereby notified that I have expend-
ed one hundred dollara In labor and improve
ments on tho Missris Chest lode. situated Ia
the Virginia mining district. Grant county,
New Mexico. as shown by notice OF location
ton records. ia the ofioe OF the recorder OF
said county, In order 20 hold sold premises I'M
der the provisions Of section 1924. revised
statutes OF the UDited States, being the
amount required b hold the same for the year
Guiding December 81. 1889. and II within ninety
days from tho publication Of this notice you
fail or refuse 10 contribute yOut proportion
Of such expenditure As a oo-OWner. together
with the oOsts Of this publication. YOU inter
est IN said claim will become the property OF
the subscriber, under said section 23kA.
W. T. ARRIHGTOH.
First publication July %. 1890.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-09-26
Dr.PIERCE,S PELLETS

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BsvspspeEs N We tfui ed Hiatea
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paraiia tsHist 10 leads all 10 ahisity. enterprise
mud news
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atPths h,trat mud H"is reliably It's fsoaal &tNs
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thv nah-i trrs Ia ,.e Gu nj y
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lnars -nd~ai IA ever thing. hentf.L q nOtdlug
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-09-26
A Daily Paper
FOR
] Cent a Day.

A dairy newspaper now
costs bat little more than
the old-time weekly. The
CHI G. , DAILY
NEWS isial impartial, in
dependent newspaper. 1t
is a member of the Assoc
ciated Press. It prints all
the news and sells it for
Cent Z. day. Mailed, post
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IS cents per month. THIS
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the price of any other
Chicago morning paper.
The CHICAGO DAILY
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sheet. 1t is a condensed
paper. You can read 1t
and still have time left for
an honest days work. 1t
is a daily paper for busy
people. No one who has
the advantage Of a daily
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be content with a weekly
newspaper. The oircula-
ton OF the CHICAGO
DAILY NEWS is, with a
single exception. the larg-
est in the United States
it exceeds that of all other
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You ought to read a daily
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