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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Obituary.

Obituary.
o. Sunday morning, July IL, the
sad news soon spread over our lit
tie town that Mrs. Eliza Coffin, an
old mother in Israel, had passed
away between II and o'clock, Sat-
urday night and that her spirit had
gone to join the hosts Of the blessed
around Gods throne.
She was member in good stand
ing in the A. NJ. e. Zion church, q
devout christian and an ardent low
er Of the Sunday school.
She had been engaged in the
Sunday school work for more than
40 years, and is lovingly called the
mother of our Sunday school.
. CHILDREN whom she used to gath
er around her on Sundays during
the days of slavery are now men
and wamen.Of families and are
glad to acknowledge that both they
and their children have been taught
in the Sunday school by mother
Coffin.
She was ever ready with the Wild
owls mite to aid the cause Of her
Master. Almost her last act in
this liSs was to give slOe toward
seating the church of God.
She was noted Bible reader,
having read the Bible through IS
times from Genesis to Revelation,
besides the hours of study placed
upon the different tbooks of the
Bible: making her very familiar
with its teachings and furnishing
her well of scriptural knowledge.
1t was her daily delight to peruse
the word OF God. What an exam
pie for her Sunday school children!
She was the oldest member of
our church and Sunday school, be-
Ing over ~ years Old.
But she Is gone. She died as she
lived ever faithful and jealous In
the service Of our Saviour. She
had consecrared herself to the AL
mightys work and Willingly bowed
herself to the inevitable, exclaim-
ing With her last breath, heaven,
sweet heaven!
! MRS, r Il MCTEKR.
Since Il has pleased God 10 His
initiate wisdom to remove from our
midst this eminent christian lady,
this dear friend and sister.
Deit Resolved, LIST, That we, the
members Of the A NJ. f Zion
chsrch and Sunday school have
lost true christian friend, one 80
ussfal and 90 zealoss, but We feel
assured that eur loss is her eternal
| gam and that she IL now at rest
, with her Saviour; 20 we bow In
humble submissioa TO His decree
'wAo doeth oil things well.
! Resolved, End, That we extend
; our heart felt sympathy to the be-
, reaved son and family and COM
mend them to His care, into whose
! loving embrace, Mother Cefin has
gone.
. Resolved, 3rd, That these resOlu-
| lions be entered upon the minutes
( Of the Sunday School, and that
copies of them be sent to the Mary
vile TINES, Star Of Zion, Weekly
, Waterman, and the Negro World
. for publication, and also to the be-
= reaved family Of the departed sis.
ter.
:, G. H. GAMBLE,
MRS. r. Il. MCTEER,
MRS. ]. T. GAsKILL, =
8 II. LILIARD,
u
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Boarding,

The undersigned can accommodate
a few summer boarders. Large
airy rooms.
DIR. w. c. STANLEY.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
For Sale or Rent.

An s room house in South Mary
willie. Inquire at Griffen's Bakery,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
The MaryviIIe Times
WEDNESDAY. JULY %, 1891.

Notice.
All accounts for job work and
advertising will be presented for
payment at the close of each month.
A. GODDARD.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
Instinct In Roots.

There seems 10 be an orderly in,
stinct in roots that cannot be accounted
for When the seed sprouts and the
stem starts upward to make the trunk,
one bud pushes down into the earth to
form top root. What it is that gives
the order for one to push up and one tc
push down is incomprehensible But.
more than this, while the top root is de-
scending deep into the ground, as If to
anchor tho tree securely against wind
and storm. other roots start to grow hori.
zontally just beneath the surface of the
ground, These surface roots are at first
but mere fibers When the autumn ar.
rives, and the leaves fall, most of these
fibers die also, leaving only a few to live
over, and these become permanent sur
face roots.
We know why some live to become
permanent roots, as against the thou
sands which die. We say they are gifted
with greater vital power. They were
able to get more nutrition than the 9th
ers, and nutrition to some extent means
vigorous Iife-but in what way this or.
dering of some roots to go down as an.
chors, and the others to spread out neal
the surface where food is to act as feed
ers, is just as deep an unsolved problem
as it was hundreds Of years ago.-Thom-
as Meehan in Philadelphia Ledger
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

To look after the city's standing army
of dependents and delinquents requires a
big official force. There are three COM
missioners with $1,000 year each, a
secretary who gets g., 300 and staff Of
eleven at the central office, besides the
superintendent of the outdoor poor and
six assistants.
There are As employees at the Tombs,
including 4 physicians and 4 matrons.
There are 81 employees in the district
prisons Jefferson Market, Essex Market,
Yorkville and Harlem), ~ employees at
the Bellevue hospital, besides 81 trained
female nurses, chemist and 3 assist
ants, and GO male nurses and employees.
There is staff Of 10 at the Gouyerneur
hospital, of 10 at the Harlem hospital,
of 1870 at the Charity hospital on Black
wells island, of SO at the penitentiary,
of AZ in the almshouse, of 45 in the work
house, of $50 in the city insane asylum,
of so in the Wards island hospital, Of
300 on Randall's and Wards islands, OF
% at the Harris island workhouse, OF
$50 at the Harris island asylum, of rs at
the Islip asylum and of 1S in the store
house department on BlackwelPs island.
New York Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
A True Hat Story.

Here is new and absolutely true hat
story. a New York gentleman, dining
at a hotel in Boston, found on coming
out that he was the last to leave the
dining room, and his hat had been taken
by somebody who had preceded him,
leaving one very similar, but unmis-
takably not his, in its place. 1t was a
sufficiently good substitute to allow of
his wearing it for three weeks after his
return home, when, after dinner one
day, three weeks later, he said to a
friend with whom he had just been din
ing:
II must replace this hat; its not mine,
and it doesn't fit Come with me and
I'll do it now"
Together they sought neighboring
shop and began to examine hats. One
after another was tried on by the intend
ing purchaser, none quite suiting him.
Its too bad" said his friend. Like
you, am hard to fit. Now, this one is
the most comfortable hat ever had"
at looks So" remarked the hat seek
er; ''let me try that on" The hat was
handed to him. 1t adjusted itself per-
fectly to his head. "Man alivet he
calculated, "this is my lost hat" and he
took it off quickly, turned back the in
side band, and, sure enough, there was
his name and residence in indisputable
proof. 1t turned out that the friend had
been in Boston the same day, though
they had not met, had dined at the ho-
tel, but had not discovered that he had
worn away another mans hat. And the
shop lost sale of hat-New York
Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

came out one evening and threw you
off the stoop aud told you never to
come back that you wrote me you--!''
"Threw me Off the stoop! Your
fatherl BY the great hornspoon, but
this is too much, Mrs. Bowserl Threw
mel I'd like to have seen the whole
caboodle of your relations throw me
off stoop!'
perhaps you don't remember how
you used to compare my eyes to stars
and tell me that it would be the one
effort of your life to make me happy"
Eyes! Starsl The idea of me talk
ing any such boshl l came home ex-
pecting to spend a happy evening in the
bosom of my family, and you've gone
and knocked it all overl That's the
way with the tarnal women-always
kicking and complaining about some
thing"
There was II time when you used to
pet me, Mr.. Bowser."
That's It'll Keep right on harping
on that same old stringl IL a husband
don't tell his wife forty times day
that she's his shining star she's ready
to kick and make his home miserable.
l may be driven out any day now. I've
seen 1t coming for the last two years
but was helpless. I'm going to lock
up and go to bed. Good night, Mrs.
Bowserl''-M. Quod, In N. Y. World.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

For a considerable time the Old Col
ony railroad has had in use a piston valve
packed with Trips packing, this de-
vice, according to the report, giving nc
trouble from leakage, which is the great
objection to the plain piston valve. The
port does not have to be bridged, the
packing being such that il cannot fall
out or catch on the edges of the port
and to give still larger area of port
opening with the same travel of valve
a square piston valve has been devised.
The latter is sixteen inches wide and
about three inches high, and for certain
width of opening admits steam past the
upper and side edges us well as the seat
opening, thus more than doubling the
area of opening for the same travel of
valve. This applies as well to the ex-
haust as the steam edge, giving n quick
release as well as admission of steam.
Being of the piston type, the valve is
balanced, and, to keep it steam tight, is
packed on top and at the sides. The
packing is an inch thick all around, and,
as it is held out by springs, an excess OF
pressure in the cylinders will cause the
valve to lift from the seat, acting rs a
relief into the chest. This device, there.
fore, is said to possess all the advantages
of the simple slide valve, and in addition
practically double ported and balanced
New York Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
AN AVERAGE MAN.

A realistic story
Without any gush or glory,
With no sentimental limelight
And no firework display.
Bout poor old ignoramus
Who was never rich nor famous,
And who couldn't ignite the river,
And who worked out by the day.
very common fellow
Was this Ebenezer Weller,
With the usual share OF virtues,
And with vices two or three
He'd no fatal gift of beauty,
But an average sense Of duty.
Neither very good nor evil
Just about like you and me.
And he wed an average woman,
Very nice and very human,
Just about like Ebenezer,
Neither very good nor bad;
Oft in harmony they'd MARBLE,
Often they would scold and sQuabble,
But they loved each other dearly,
And they couldn't continue mad.
Never had enough on Monday
To supply the house till Sunday,
Never made enough In April
To support themselves in May;
~ tHSy "Of8SG iate III november.
They must work hard in December,
And the coarse bread OF to morrow
Was the hard work of to. day.
They worked on, grew gray and grayer,
Yet they never made him mayor,
And she plucked no social honors,
And his wages still were small.
Then the load of years grew weighty,
Aid they died when they were eighty,
And they put them in the graveyard,
And they left them there. That's an
a realistic story
Without any gush orglory-
Yet this fellow Ebenezer
Represents the human clan;
His the average share OF pleasure,
His the average lack OF leisure,
His the average Joy and sorrow
OF the common average man.
IS. w. Foss, In Yankee Blade.
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wasting away because I feared goae
would say nor'
do you remember the pet name you.
used to call me?" she asked.
pet nonsensew
"You called me your red wild rose. -
Red wild pigweed! Are you get.
ting soft in the head, Mrs. Bowser?"
ut seems curious to me-" she con-,
tinued, without noticing his sarcasm,
that when a young man is counting q
girl no one can make him believe that.
she is not a perfect angel. He can't
work daysnor sleep nights for thinking,
of her, and the sight of her mile
away sets his heart to beating like an
engine"
ut does, eh2 1t might in the case of
u spoony young noodle head, but it.
wouldn't with q sensible fellow. T.
never lost any sleep on your account"
NEARLY all your letters to me were
dated anywhere from midnight to four
o'clock in the morning. and
.Eeyer! Never wrote you letter,
except in the afternoon, when l hadn't
anything to do and wanted to use up
half an hours time" replied Mr.. Bow
ser.
And every one of them speaks Of how
lonely you were, and with what joyous
anticipations you looked forward to
your next call"
Lonelyi Joyous anticipations! I'D
be apt to be lonely when there were a
dozen or more mighty good looking
ri Fta az 1lxx9%
But in few brief years after mar
rage how the average husband does
changep observed Mrs. Bowser, as ii
speaking to herself.
Yes that's it,. You hunted me down
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
Artista and Pats.

Why are lyric and dramatic artists SO
fond of animals and birdsl The ques-
ton has been repeatedly asked, but
never, as far as we know. satisfactorily
answered. Adelina Patti always travels
with her canaries and several dogs.
Sarah Bernhard drags about small
menagerie with her, and nearly every
singer and actress has a canine pet Of
some sort.
Laura Schirmer-Mapleson has weak
ness for talking parrots, and possesses
some remarkable specimens Of these or
astrological bipeds,--Galignani Messen-
ger
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

and got nae to marry you, and now you
are trying to make my home happy
If you are feeling badly why don't you
go and make yourself some catnip tea2",
Husbands talk about happy homes"
she continued, as she looked the paper
over, but what do they do to make it
happy"
Yes, pitch into husbandsl" growled
Mr.. Bowser, as he swept over the shoe
peg and savagely kicked at the cat,
which came to rub herself against his
leg.
while they are counting they are all
smiles and soft talk, but the honey
moon is no sooner over than they stand
revealed in their true colors."
Keep pitching right in, Mrs, Bow
ser Nothing like fault-fnding wife
to make home pleasant
do you remember that Fourth of
July evening when we sat on the YER
anda?" she asked. 81 shall always re-
member what you said that night and
how much the situation affected YOU"
Affected mel What on earth are
you talking about2n
You took my hand in yours, Mr.
Bowser, and you asked me to please try
and learn to love YOU"
"Neveri If you'd swear to that on
sixteen family Bibles l wouldn't be-
heve it."
''You said that life was but dreary
waste to eyou before crossed your
path, and"
81 never 'did-never! neveri neverr'
he shouted, as he sprang up. mo one
but you ever charged me with being an
idiot or u lunaticl"
"Mr. Bowser, didn't you say that if
I didn't marry you you would surely
kill YOURSELF"
MOP
Didn't you once show me some
baking powder in q pill-box and tell
me it was strychnine, and that you'd
take it If married anyone else?"
'Never! Never cared two cents
whether you married me or mott"
And you deny that when father
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
Registering Under . raise Name.

1t is usually mistake to write u
false name on hotel register. A
country merchant was obliged to de-
cline an invitation TO trade conven-
ton in New York last spring. While
the convention was In session he was
suddenly called to the city on pressing
business. He arrived at hotel, and
seeing the register covered with the
names of his friends at the trade con-
vention, he signed false name. The
next day he went out to lunch with his
lawyer, leaving his overcoat at the
latter's office. Iu the middle of the
afternoon he telephoned to have his
coat sent to his hotel. The coat was
sent but 1t took the owner two days to
get it, because the lawyer had put the
mans own name ON the box contain
ing the coat. There was no such name
ON the register, and the box was put
aside to be called for. Meanwhile the
falsifier missed telegram from his
wife, received cards from people no
didn't know, and found himself an OBJ
ject of suspicion on the paurt of the
hotel people.-N. Y. Sun.
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Its funny about some people one
meets travelling" remarked drummer
at the Cadillac as he threw his feet upon
the writing table.
How" inquired the man next to
him.
son a dining car, for instance, the
other day. he went on jerkily.
What" asked the other man en-
couragingly,
Coming over from New York. Odd
sort of genius across the car from me.
After he left the car the waiter who had
served him brushed the crumbs off of
my table.
- See dat man, boss2' he asked.
Reckon he nevah was on dinin car
befo'
Why | inquired.
Gaze, boss, he axed for n second
helpin. Gemmen what eats ON desc yer
dinin cabs, boss, knows dey amt no
charhble institutions fer givin victuals
away in no SIGH mannah rs dat.
"a had been thinking wanted little
more than had been allowed me, but
didn't ask for it after that and the
drummer sighed. Free Press.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

CT SEE" said Mrs. Bowser, as she
sat reading the paper the other
evening, while Mr. Bowser was
trying to dig peg out of his shoe-"I
see that another Brooklyn man has run
away and left his W ife."
Has, ell? Well, don't wonder at
it. replied Mr.. Bowser.
ibid you read the item?"
mo, but l know how it all hap.
pened. He found out that he couldn't.
take q bit of comfort in his home and
he left 1t. No one knows the misery
that poor man suffered before he took
that step"
ut doesn't say he was unhappy"
"Of course not. No husband ever.
gets justice, to say nothing of pity.
I'll bet he suffered u thousand deaths
before he walked away to die in some
lonely spot by his own hand. "
WE'LL dear, you'll never be driven
away by any act of NINE" she said,
as she went over and kissed him.
''W-what in thunder are you doing?"
shouted Mr.. Bowser, as he dropped the
shoe and sprang up.
"Why, kissed you.'
We'll, | don't want anybody blow
ing into my ears or splitting on my
chin What struck you all at once?"
There was time, Mr. Bowser-
there was time when
"When WHAT"
"When you said that IL l would kiss
you you would be the happiest man in
the whole world"
Never! Never even limited at such
a thing! wasn't that sort of noodle
head"
'Mr. Bowserl Why, there was for
three months, while | was waiting to
make up my mind to marry you, that
You said you could hardly live from day
to dayl''
"Waitingi you waitingl Well, that
Is cool! That tickles me-ha! hal hal"
he shouted as he held his sides.
Yes, waiting"
"Why-hai ha! hal-you said yes So
mighty quick you bit your tongue in
doing i'll The idea of mo pining and
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
LIVING on EIghty-four Cents a Week.

While on the subject of abstinence in
food, may be pardoned for mentioning
that many years ago, when a schoolboy,
l tried how cheaply | could live, and
found that was able to get, in summer,
everything | required in the shape Of
good, wholesome food for three shillings
six and half pence a week. or course
had little meat, and kept principally to
fruit and vegetables, which l could buy
cheap, as | was near large town.
National Review.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

Leave Lamhertvile for Manunka Chunk s.2T
94J u m, LBS, 5.27 and $40 p m. sunday $50 IN.
For Phillipsbnrg aud Easton only 80 m week
days.
Leave Frenchtown s So 1904 a NJ , o. 5 SO p M
weekdays. For Phiilipsburg and Easton only
06 p, M.
Arrive Phillipsburg 1886 and 1910 IN, $50 6 so,
Z A and 30 p II. sunday, o 80, p M.
Leave Philiipsburg 726 9.S6 aud 1910 a m, $50
~ and 9 80 m, sunday $50 IN.
Arrive Beiyldere 800, f00i and I'LL a M. 324
100 aud y.57 m. sunday. 957 pm
Arrive Mauunka Chunk 500, 1910, Ills IN
80 1.u7 and 1908 M. sunday 1903 IN.
Additional trains leave Beividere tor Manunka
Chunk 6.46 40 a. m, aud LIS p, IN. Sunday 6 4b =
M Returning, leave Manunka Chunk for Belvi-
dere l0l ~, ITO, 1908 m. Sunday 1906 p. m.
Freight or mixed flains leaving Manunka
Chunk AT 500 a. m. Belyidere 6lT a. m, Martins
Greek nj 6 10 M. arriving at lehigh junction at
1906 a. m, will carry passengers and make stops at
nag stations north OF Phillipsburg. Trains eav-
lug Manuuka Chunk at $40 IN, and 4.3O p m
viii carry passengers to BelvideTe.
Connection is made ut Manunka Chung with
Delaware, Lackawanna Western Railroad; lie
high Junction with Lehigh Valley Lehigh 4 Sus-
quehanna Morris 4 Essex. and New Jersey Central
Railroads. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pennington Rail-
road AtTrenton with trains to and from New
YorE, Camden, sc,
toi further Information see timetables which
can be obtained at the ticket offices
tHAs Il. PUGH, j r. WOOD,
,icneral Manager. tieDerul Passenger Agent
=. " JACKSON
eien'lsupt U. X. X. of n. J. Div
WILSON BROWN, Supt. Bslvhlere Div.
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The story of the dismissal of Igna-
tieff, lately prime minister of Russia,
is thus told Ignatiefr one day pre-
scented some papers to his imperial
master, saying: Your majesty may
sign these without reading them, as
they are not of much Importance. :"
The car handed the papers back with
the answer: keep these for your sue
cessor. I never sign papers without
looking at them"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

The phrase, "castles in tho air" has
been attributed to Sir Philip Sydney.
Swift. Fielding. Churchill and Shen-
stone. 1t was first used more than $50
years ago by Robert Burton In his
ANATOMY Of Melancholy"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
In Dress Goods We Offer

49, 49,
10 pieces yard-and-a half wide
Habit Cloth, all the desirable col
ors, at 59c.
10 pieces imported Habit Cloth
at SOC.
20 pieces 4o.inch Bedford Cords
at 49c.
20 pieces 4o-inch Henrietta
Cloths, in all plain colors, also
plaids and stripes, at Zoe.
20 pieces 40-inch English CASH
meres at 39c.
20 pieces heavy German Henri
eta Cloth, all colors and black, 40
inch, at soc.
10 pieces all-silk Faille Fran
caise, full "a inches wide, worth
81 40, at CSC.
10 pieces orr 46-inch Hortense
fast black Henriettas at SO, rs, 89c.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09
IN Flannel Department

We have the finest line of En-
broidered Skirting Flannels in
white and colored Flannels.
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COAT DEPARTMENT.

Just come and look into our win
dows and see the beautiful things we
are showing on the ground floor.
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Leave Lambertyille Tor Fleming tuu . ~ y Ill. 2V9
anu 6.2S y IN week days,
Arrive Flenltngton lU.Il am, 2.5b and SOS IN.
week. days
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BLANKETS AND QUITS

Have our attention this week.
See the line in our east window.
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Leave Lamhertville for Manunka Chunk 1927
$40 II m, Lbs, 52 and $40 p M. sunday $50 p IN.
For phillpsbnrg aud Easton only 80 p week
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rratns from Philadelphia and Se,e FORK

lrrive New York, via Trenton, s.2o, and
10 a N, 2i0, 400, 100 and 9s3 p m. Sunday.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-12-09

Leave Frenehtown $50, 1904 N. OF. 5.5S p IN.
For Phllipsburg and Easton only
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20 Philadelphia Broad Street statIon) s67,
nd 1910 a m, 100, $50, 6 0s and 900 M,
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

week days.
Arrive Lambortvlle s.i5 m, i.2S and 1875 p IN,
week.daYa
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At Zoe. the very best shilling
Canton.