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regard. have, till within q few days, been
able to gather tropeolums and sweet peas
These two flowers especially delight in.
The sweet pea, if planted in the fall, blooms
very early in summer and continues IN
bloom until November. Everybody likes it.
1t is wholesome. sweet clear and hOrifer-
GUS. The best flowers influence character
and become our friends. The rose and
sweet pea are two of the most domestic OF
flowers. But do not see why more people
do not plant the nasturtium or tropeolum
freely. Early in bloom and always in bloom
1t must be set down as specially whole
cut few end twlgs and place them in
water and they will shortly root. You will
then have vines for winter towering, Pan
sizes can be picked ali through November
and often down to Christmas, by throwing
an armful of dry leaves loosely over the
plants. They will bloom under the leaves.
Thanksgiving has, like Christmas, good
deal of its charm in preparations and an
ticipations. We discussed our dinner last
evening and who should be invited. On
the whole, did you ever get SO much happi-
ness any other way as in making others
happy? So we agreed to make up these
dinners for poor neighbors. They shall
have their oysters and oranges at least. We
lack most in positive moral culture. Why
not make it part of education that our
children shall engage in kindly efforts to
that way we shall make them capable of
thinking of something besides themselves,
and 80 they will be true and loving to our
selves.
am not quite vegetarian, but am de-
sirous that our relations to the animate
world about Ms may change. 1t is detesta-
BILE that We should eat our pets. Admire
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THAN K SGIMING DAY.

come for every girl to make thankseivinc.
Somebody signs and wonders what the,
have to be thankful for; somebody else i
very positive that it is certain abe has mo-
thing to be thankful for; Int there isn't !.
human being en- the face Of Gods earth vho
can't find something for which to say, Il
thank Thee, oh God" One girl has chat
greatest of all blessings good health: an
other, though she lies on an inyalid,s
couch, the blessing of sunshine and the con-
sideration of those Who are Less
afflicted. One is glad because on
her third finger is bright ring that
means she has become mistress Of some
body's heart; and another is glad becanse
worry and trouble are all swallowed IN IN
that great pacifer It will do more
for you and for me when our hearts are fnlI
of sorrow, and our eyes are sore With nm
shed tears to feel that the hands must be
busy and tho brain must be at work. If on
thanksgiving day you can do nothing else.
then go down on your knees and thank
God for work. It is the best gift Chat ont
His plenty He can offer Won.
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was born in an old canvas-covered wagon
and all honor to the mothers OF
the nation, who centuries ago braved
the dangers of almost unknown eeas to
establish American homes from the New
England coast to the Georgia shore. Then
over the Alleghanies they came. and then
across the Mississippi river. But American
women stopped not there. They, too.
braved the wilderness of plain and desert,
and the storm and dangers of unknown
mountain passes. The children whose first
sight Of the world was from a canvas wagon
train. and who are now grown to manhood
and womanhood, cannot look back to q
mansion or vine-olad cottage as their
birthplace. There is no such sacred home
for them to meet in Tor the happy reunion
on Thanksgiving. But they are proud of
their birthplace on the feetinR trails Of tho
western empire, at time when brave men
were blazing pathway for new common
wives went with them. Sometimes this
story vas sad one. grave was dug;
comm was made from few pine
boards torn from the wagon bed.
Her siaters-for at such times ali
women are sisters-made what preparations
they could; mother and child were buried in
the same grave. and the caravan moved on.
Nelt1er minister nor priest was there; the
board. with the name rudely carved thereon,
mas rotted away, and the drifting sands
have long since obliterated what elss could
have marked the spot.
No wonder. then, children born amid
such SURROUNDINGS. have grown mp int<
strong, solf-reliant and courageous mer
and women. Their hearts 20 out in thiI
Thanksgiving season TO the grandmother
Of the east and south, to whom they CLAIM
kinship. Who among the children in th.
far west would not love TO sec ono dear and
venerable faee in the old homestead =
Thanksgiving Dayf
WILL G. FRasu.
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CHOOSING A TURKEY.
The Hen Turkey Has the Call, One Of IL
Pounds Weight

The Hen Turkey Has the Call, One Of IL
Pounds Weight
The Ladies' Home Journal: On Thanks
giving day every American family makea
an effort to dine on turkey. The turkey.
being gift for which all Americans should
be thankful, seems especially appropriate
as Thanksgiving Offering. II You are q
town-dweller you must secure your bird
from poulterer, and let me whisper to Won
not to rely too implicitly on his Judgment.
Tastes differ. and upon this occasion You
wish to suit your own. Some persons pre-
fer gobbler to a hen-turkey, but will ad-
wise you to buy hen. The meat is winter,
sweeter and more tender. The bill and
toes should be soft and the q esh have 3
biueish white cast, II pounds being an ex-
ceedlngly good weight. The fortunate
untry-dweller has his own turkeys. OF
should have at least, and can mould chem
at will. The feed can be 30 managed that
the meat will be white, tender and Of del
,cate flavor, or the flavor may be greatly
heightened BY change Of diet. Chopped
eufnips, cabbage and parsley. varied With
cotnmeai, boiled rice and chopped celery
sope. impart peculiar gamey flavor,
wnicn 70 many persons ia very desirable.
before killing.
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The New York Dry goods store.

Speaking of the methods Of busines.. thu
proprietor of the New York Dry Goods
ssose remarked: We believe in doing . biz
business IN popular manner. We haye
only one price, the same to all. We guar
eosee every article named in our eeta6iieh-
nsns 70. 70 Be from Is to 80 per cent. lower
enan the same goods can be purchased for
elsewhere. We would freely refund mo, ns.
On any goods It unsatisfactory. We sdver.
- the truth, the whole truth and noshino
~! "a sne 2. Truth. and back mp any and every.
ehmdiae. With the largest store tore a ". % IS,
laxes.s itcek and the best qualities, 20 ~
Deepered 70 meet every grade Of ccmueti.
So. ~. w. present display ia we'll worth the
neoaon OF every lady throuohout Nom.
tana. e our productions for the vinter -. ~.
49, -. p.siea and exposed upon our coun-
- Sos e.n am and sale. We badly
e s.a@a ..on et ~ the finest and bss4 eoods
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people. That region includes more than
one-haH Of the land over which the flag of
the republic will Aoat ON Thanksgiving day
yet native grandmother can scarcely be
found. II the far west can do SO much in
building an empire without grandmother,
what will it not do when it has grandmoth-
for GOOD u felt No better mothers can be
found - the whole country than the moth
ess Of the vest. Many OF them have reared
model families in the face of almost over
vhslDinR obstacles We have only to look
forward > few years to $50 them peaoeful.
indy: loving and honored grandmother.
xnsn, indeed. viii the far west BE- at last in
al possession Of one Of the greatest blsa-
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sured that the hearts of their western
grandchildren 20 out to them as tenderly az
il they had known them and been rocked
bv them in the cradle. It is kind of des-
ert spot in children's lives not to have seen
a grandmother and felt her tender caresses.
The birthplace of some of those earlier
grandchildren was, in the pioneer DAYS of
the west, in the old freight wagons and
prairie schooners. On the Oregon, Cali
fornia and Pixies Peak trails, MANY q baby
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70 inch, second hand, but in good order, will be
IN one piece or in lengths to suit the purchaser.
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C'opyfighi
81 THANK THEE, OH GOD, y

No One On Earth Void OF Reason for
Thankfulness.
Ladies' H5ms journal: Ths time has
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-15
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Democratic Convention of South
Carolina has met, the Tillmanites were
largely in the majority, the bolt Of the
minority occurred. During the next two
or three weeks, until the meeting Of the
nominating convention, may be expected a
repetition OF the bitterness on both
sides which characterized the earlier
stages of the campaign. This will
be doubtless intensified by the re-
suit of the convention, which was not
unforeseen. There seems 10 be great need
of GOODNESS and patriotism in dealing with
the political problem in South Carolina.
From present evidences ii is not at all I'M
likely that two nominating conventions will
meet, or at least two sets Of delegates con-
testing each others seats in the same con-
vention. The Democratic party cannot
afford 10 be disunited at this time, particu-
larry In any Southern state. 1t is the patri-
otto duty Of all Democrats 10 sink
personal differences or side issues,
and to present solid front IN OPP
position TO the party which by force of
arms has once already assailed the consti-
tuition, and which seeks by the same means
to make another attack upon American liber.
ty. Has not South Carolina some leader wise
enough in counsel and powerful in influence
TO draw together the two sets Of men who
call themselves Democrats, but who are
rapidly reaching the point where they must
separate as political oppOnentsi
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-15

"Flshbals and coffee" cries Senator
Hoar. of Massachusetts, in denying his re-
puted wealth. Read his remarks to his
friend of the Pittsburg Post:
..The chief carnal luxury Of my life is in
breakfasting every sunday morning with an
orthodox friend, lady who has rare giit
for making flshballs and coffee. You I'M
fortunate and benighted Pennsylyanians
can never know the exquisite flavor OF the
Goldfish, sailed, made into balls, and eaten
Of Sunday morning by a person whose
theology is sound, and who believes in all
the five points Of Calyanism. am myself
but an unworthy hereto; but am of Puri-
tan stock Of the seventh generation, and
there is youchsafed to me also some share Of
that ecstacy and dim glimse of that beatiiic
ysion. BE assured. my benighted Pennsyl-
vania friend, that in that hour when the
week begins all the terrapin Of Philadelphia
or Baltimore, and all the soft-shelled crabs
Of the Atlantic shore. might pull at my
trousers legs and thrust themselves on my
notice in vain"
Senator Hoar will pass into history as the
member OF the United states Senate who at
tempted to smuggle Reedism into the al
legged deliberatiye body, supposed to hest
tate for the sake of decency, before broach-
ing a Radical measure. His Republican
colleagues were shocked at his unwarrant-
ed proposition to quit dallying with the
Force bill and to pass it at once. They
were panied at his ehrOntery in speaking
out in meeting. They had 90 explanation
of his rashness to offer except that he was
liOar.
Voluntarily, with malice aforethought
apparently and with self cOngratulatory
relish, he has explained everything in three
wOrds-fishballs and coffee. He made one
mistake. lie should have omitted coffee
from his menu. Then the Goldfish balls
would have stood forth in all its pristine
mystery.
Any man who can deliberately malign a
sOft-shell crab and the terrapin, is beyond
redemption. He confesses that the natural
tctlDllltA vi human udlulc mas hcNtl NViiN
under the softening influence of two of the
greatest factors in the development of AN
American citizen. lie places himself be-
yond the pale OF or1 nary men. He forgets
that some of his is in the other house
base their claim. representative honors
upon their skill n connecting a terrapin
stew.
ii is no wonder that he should be anxious
to force down the throat Of the Senate the
Force bill, reeking with violence. He for
gets that Pennsylvanians, whose fat has
been fried for campaign purposes, must
have the Mckinley Tariff bill passed. They
want the interest on their investment. lie
should wait until the Tariff bill has been
settled.
Senator IIoar announces that his nOmina-
ton upon several occasions was a surprise
to him. Ii Will doubtless surprise him more
than ever before when he is nominated &c
succeed himself IN the Senate. Fishballs
and coffee.
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,ers NAV thank Heaven that they are safely

lers may thank Heaven that they are s"'e'!
landed. =,
The sporting spirit is deeply implah'ed
i'm human nature. II leads men 10 become
enthusiastic over a trial Of speed between
horses. other contests OF human OF
other animal skill and endurance
boat.racing, pedestrianism, pug"'sm'
and cock-fighting. In late years this
Unborn sentiment has had another line LOT
deyelopment in steamer racing across the
Atlantic. and some persons have been ven
turesome enough 10 take passage on 'esse's
which il was known would race. The eN-
element of sport is so intense that they are
willing 10 risk their lives to ENJOY IL. III
does not matter 10 them that there Is a
likelihood of disaster at any moment; that
they NAV have 10 face death in one OF It's
most terrible forms, that is, without any
hone for burial save under the coid
waters. II is of really slight I'M
nortance 10 the steamship compa-
MOS that 10 vessel is entrust-
cd the lives Of a thousand persons or
more, perhaps, so long as that vessel may
bo advertised as belonging TO the fastest
line. when by strain upon human and me-
chanical energy and by solid expenditures
for fuel the time Of the trip across is les
sened by thirteen minutes. While every
progressive man is ready 10 welcome any
Improvement by which he may travel more
rapitlIv than his fOrefathers did, yet every
sensible man wishes to feel that his Journey
will be made in safety.
Years ago il was customary for western
pioneers to scrawl upon their prairie
schoorers pixies Peak or bust This may
have been rather an uncouth term, but IL
was terse and TO the point, and is spirit
seems to animate the racing steamship
companies. The difference between the
record-smashing steamer and the prairie
schooner is that the latter mode of travel is
much safer than the former. But the de-
termination to lower the record is as stern
"a that which led the pioneers to declare
1--WE shall reach Pixies Peak or explode in
the attempt The steamship company
saws "we shall lower the record half a
second anyhow or bust
some day something will explode sure
enough. some day the would-be record
smasher will be smashed by an iceberg OF
another racer. When thousand people are
suddenly hurled together into eternity, the
feeling of sport may be satisfied and the
steamship company will be advertised in a
manner not particularly agreeable.
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A True story.

\ well known English jockey on hi.
death bed WAS lately asked by his only SOL
II he had anything on his mind, and alsC
for such parental parting advice as ht
could think Of. Eyes, AIRY" said I'll,
poor voyaCer, IL ave got suthin' on my
mind, boy and | can give yer advice a:
will be useful TO yer all yer days What:
on my mind is this When Lord Boot,
backed his mare Catch-em-Aliye, rs you've
heard me tell on, against Sir James TOots
horse Scurvygo for ten thousand, | rod,
the mare as you know, and Charley Snig
gins, rs you've often heard me 20 on about
he rides the horse. Well, you see, I'd com,
10 an understanding with Sir james, and
was 10 get whole couple of thou. if so bt
as could only lose the race, COS, OF course
Catch-em-AUve. a. rode. was out and
away the fastest OF the two.
"Well, just rs we gets within about three
or four 'undred yards OF the post leans
over to Charley as was Furnishing Sour
vygo awful, and | says. Charley, ole man
| amt spinning Amt yerr he says
well, then, no more am |, and blow me
AIRY, II he didn't there and then go and
chuck hisself off, and was Obliged to win.
lost two thousand by that bit Of villainy
AIRY, and you're the worse off for It to
day. And your advice, dad'r said the du
tifui son as soon as his parent had recov.
cred from a fit Of coughing which the re-
membrance Of Mr.. Snigins' wickedness
had brought ON. "My advice. boy, is this,
always keep your bloomin' mouth shut. "
Toronto Mail.
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FRIDAY. AUGUST Is, 1890.
TILE rEICE OF SILVER.

.rhis troublesome metal is disappointing
the expectations of some Of the sages'
wiscacres.
Its fluctuations in value 10y the gold stand
ard from 1873 to the present time nave
hecn wide and rapid. II will be remem-
hcred that an ounce Of silver, at the goiu
standard. is worth one hundred and twenty
nine cents. That is,whcn an ounce OF siI'erl
worth 81 .29in gold, our standard silver uoiiar
of four hundred and twelve and haIi grains
is equal in market value to gold dollar OF
twenty-four and one-eighth grains. Inc de-
prccia,ion Of the silver dollar has been such
that. during the year 1889, an ounce oi ST.
yer. instead Of selling for one hundred anu
twenty-ninc cents. was only worth on an
average, about ninety-iiye cents. The agi-
tation of the silver question, and the pros
poets Of legislation for the beneht Of
silver, raised the price TO nnety-seNeh
and half in January OF TINS
wear. In April last silver sold from
st.OO to sl07, all these prices being per
ounce. On the passage Of the silver bill II
advanced 10 Sl.lO. II subsequently fell 10
si.Osik. A week ago silver sold as high as
sl.13iL. The 18th instant was the day upon
which the Secretary of the Treasury began
his purchases. which the Silver bill fe-
auires shall amount TO four and nan
millions of ounces per month. one would
naturally have supposed that silver would
have gone to a higher price than at any pre-
yious time during the year, but the Secre-
tary only purchased 10000 ounces and Sill
yer closed at SLID. Yesterday 1t Is re-
ported that he made no purchases whatever
and silver closed az $l.l3.
One Of the surprises incident to this sill
Yer agitation has been the expectation OF
silver from New York TO London, when 1t
was confidently asserted by the opponents
of the Silver bill that its effect would be TO
give Europe and India an opportunity to
unload their surplus silver upon the United
States Treasury. Quite the reverse seems
10 have been the result. 1t seems probable
that the price of silver will gradually and
steadily rise, and as it becomes valuable
here its value will increase throughout the
world That silver money is the fayorite of
a large class OF our population is a fact,
which every settling day with laboring PEG
pie demonstrates.
so much of this is boarded in hooks and
corners that there is no estimating what
amount OF silver coin can be put out and
absorbed by our population. This boarding
of itself creates necessity for constant
increase Of the volume Of currency. 1t Is
comforting, therefore, to know that through
the operation OF the silver law new money
at the rate of $4,000 per day will be issued
TO the country.
With these simple facts before them, 1t
will be interesting to many of our readers
TO watch the price of silver.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-15
KEEP GRACE STREET FREE.

Not only persons living on Grace street
but many others in this city are gratiiied
at the intimation that the committee on
streets will recommend TO the Council that
the franchise for a railway on Grace street
be not granted. Through the press and by
private conversation the members Of the
committee as well as of the Council have
become thoroughly acquainted with the
serious objections to laying tracks upon
one Of the few good driving streets in the
city extending east and west. Property
holders who signed the petition to the Board
OF Aldermen rightly named the three princi-
pal objections 10 the plan-that il was I'M
necessary, that IL would seriously incOn-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-15
DROpOsAIS WILL BE RECEIVE

PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
L up to3o'clOck 4. NJ. Of SATURDAY, Au-
gust D. 1890, for the I, lowing BILLS OF
LUMBER for repairs 10 the Free bridge OF
WHITE OAK:
One hundred and eight thousand (1OS,OOO)
feet BOARD MEASURE, three (3) inches
thick, In lengths OF eight ~ feet SIX 90
inches, or multiples Of that length, not less
than EIGHT (sl Inches nor more than Twelve
40 inches wide.
-FOUR hundred and twenty li2Ol pieces two
% inches by six (6l inches by ten (lO) feet
long All 10 be accurately sawed TO thick.
ness, with al ends square, no torn edges, and
Tree from wind-shakcs and checks and other
Injurious defects. OF ALL-hEAkT PINE.
The following numbers and lengths OF
pieces four "a inches thick by ten TO- inches
wide, namely: Thirty-nve (S5) pieces six
teen 40 feet long, sixty go pieces eighteen
(li,) ieet long, one hundred agd nve tlO5)
pieces twenty-four (24) feet long, twenty
(25) pieces twenty-six Cl6l feet long, and
twelve 12) pieces twenty-eight (2s) feet long.
All 10 be accurately sawed 10 thickness, with
all ends square. and free OF knots wind
shakes, and checks and other Injurious de-
fects calculated 10 impair strength
Lumber Ia be deliN cred at either Richmond
or at Seventh street, Manchester deliveries
10 commence within fifteen (i5l days and 10
bc completed within sixty go days after ac-
ceptance of bid. Payments 10 be made upon
delivery of each twenty-five thousand
(k5, OOO) feet. The right is reserved 10 reject
any or all bids. Bids 10 he addressed to
4. l.. CAMPBELL. Chairman,
aui3.l5,l7.22 Richmond, va,
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FRANK p. CLARK,
solicitor for Compliments. Jel9-'d
Under AND BY VIRTUE OF \

TNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF \
L deed Of trust executed 70 me. the under
signed. trustee by H. b. Hawcs ana Wile,
dated July ,. 1850, and recorded ID me
clerks Office OF King William County 'ourl
i'm u. y. p. 81, default having been made
i'm the payment OF the money secured there-
IN, ana beng thereto required by the behe-
nciary therein. / Will. on the
SIN DAY OF SEPTEMBER. 1872
AT Mechanicsville. King william county, pro-
cecd to offer for sale az public auction. To me
highest bidder, the property described IN s'ld
dcci, as fOllOWs-tO vii:
.Tnat certain TRACT OF LAND lying ln
Acauinton magi- tcral district, King william
county. containing 23B ACRES, more or less
adjoining the lands Of Fleming Hay ana ROD
eri Campbell on the nOitn and east, and by
the public road from H3noveftown Terry 10
Manquin on the south and west
This is one OF he most desiraDl} located
farms in the upper end of King W uiam
county The soil is good. and the nel2hDor-
hood healthy and desirable.
TERMS: Cash as 10 SO much of the proceeds
a. may be necessary tO defrav the expenses
Of executing This fust aud 10 paw OF ne
amount now due under said devd, estimated
TO he about $3.50, and the balance upon such
terms as may be announced al the sale.
GEORGE 4. HAW.
aul4, %, 2S&sep1 Trustee.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-15

THE Norfolk Nirginian appears now III i's
new and attractive eight-page FORM III ~
enabled to present this appearance by re-
cent valuable additions TO its mechanical
department. and the change shows that the
vircinian is meeting with the support and
encouragement which its able manage
ment deserves
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-15

BrrIrrIN No. !. July. 1890, has just been
received from the Virginia Agricultural
Experiment station. II treats OF tests
with varieties Of Strawberries made the
present season. giving full discussion, with
critical descriptive notes OF forty-nine vari-
ties; also full tabular statements showing
Yields. earliness, quality. etc.