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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15

Kingan & Co. beg to thank their friends
and customers for the sympathy extended
them in their lossby the disastrous fire Monday
night and have pleasure in announcing they
have rented the Blanchard warehouse on VIZ
ginia street. and that there will be no inter
ruption in the carrying on Of their business.
They are receiving shipments daily ana ex-
meet bv the end of the week TO have a full as
sortnent of their famous reliable brands of
smoked meats and lard, and all orders in
trusted to them will receive their usual
DrOmpt attention.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15

Commencing Sunday, May 18th. the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Peninsula division train
leaving Richmond $40 A. M. for Old Point,
and the train arriving at Richmond 600 p;
NJ returning will on Sundays stop at all
stations between Richmond and Old Point
for the accommodation of local travel.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15

One thousand five hundred lots will be sold
at auction at Norfolk, Va. May goth and DIST
Excursion tickets on all railroads May 18th
and 18th. Thousands Of persons will be IN
attendance, and the prospect is that this will
be the greatest sale that ever took place in the
State NJ w. Mason, Norfolk, Va, will send
oalticulars
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15
Ask your Family Grocer

For Perfection Coffee. Reliable coffee. Per-
lection Baking Powder. These goods are re-
commended by the entire wholesale grocery
trade of Richmond, people whose experience
in handling food products gives weight 10
their opinion. They are put up and guaaran-
teed by the Southern Manufacturing Com
pany. Richmond. Va.
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Perfection Coffee

Is a combination of the best drinking coffee
imported.
drinking coffee to be had, unequalled for rich
ness and delicacy of flavor. 1t Is roasted by
the most improved process, and Is always
guaranteed 10 give satisfaction.
Ask your grocer for 1t.
The SOUTHERN MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
Richmond Va.
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Wn Iha1lenPe

any man. woman or child who is affected VIII n
Constipation, Dyspepsia Headache OF IOp pn.
Liver Regulator will not relieve them. II never
fails and Is so pure sure, so harmless INA. al
infant can take If and never have ssconh
of collie An adult can tax 1t, keep the D0"oI'
ra0ular and secure health.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15

Kingan & Co were very fortunate in their
late fire. Their books, papers and money were
secured by Hall safe, furnished by b. f.
Smith, q north Ninth street X. l.. Barnes,
eitv sal
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15
Don't Fail TO Take

In time for coughs, colds. Group; consumption
bronchitis, hoarseness, and all throat ana luns
froubles. that old-fashioned remedy DR. DAVID
Cough Syrup, Of pure pine tar horehouna And
IoIr
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R. B. CHAFFlN & co.. Agents,
THE WEST END LAND AND IMPROVE
/ AlENT CO.-s33 PER SHARE FOR
lis STOCK.

This Company offers to sell its lots. located
between Grove road and Cary street az regular
schedule prices, and accept its stock in payment
at s33 per share.
and is good only until July /, 1891. Apply at the
Office, 1903 Main street.
JAMES H. DOOLEY,
ap9f-30t President
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Now Perfection

Ia the name Of G.. 3. Sydnors Refrigerator
Go and buy one and if not as represented the
money is refunded.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15

1t will please you. Sold only in one pound
packages The Southern Manufacturing Com
pany, Richmond, Va.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-15
How's
Your Liver?

Is the Oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot exist without a
healthy Liver. When tho
Liver Is torpid the Bow
els are sluggish and con-
etipated, the food lies
in the stomach undi-
gested, poisoning. the
blood; frequent headache
ensues; g. feeling Of lassi-
tude, dependency and
nervousness indicate how
the whole system is de-
ranged. Simmons Liver
Regulator has been the
means of restoring moro
people to health and
happiness by giving them
q healthy Liver than any
agency known on earth.
1t acts with extraor-
binary power and efficacy.
nEvER BEEN DISAPPOINTED.
AsaReneraI family remedy for Dyspepsia,
ToTpId Liver. Constipation, ETC. / hardly
ever use anything else, and have never
been disappointed IN the effect produced;
IL seems TO be almost a perfect cure for oil
diseases OF the stomach and Bowels.
W. =. MCELRoY. Macon, Go
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Use Perfection Baking Powder.

Always guaranteed TO give satisfaction. Made
by the Southern Manufacturing Company,
Richmond, Va
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ForMa1aria, Liver Trou-
bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWNS IRON BITTERS
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES,


Fashionable men in Paris and London are
now using electricity as cure for excessive
tippling.
The French peasant is said to be changing,
for the worse. He is losing both his THRIFT
the inhabitants Of tn, city siums, and his
thirst is for brandy.
A successful competitor for the prize in
foot-race made this graceful temperance
speech in accepting it: "Gentlemen, have
won this cup by the use of my legs; | trust
that may never lose the use Of my legs by
the use OF this cup"
Cardinal Manning says that the chief bar
to the working of the Holy Spirit OF God In
the souls Of men and women Is intoxicating
drink. Though l have known men and
women destroyed for all manner OF reasons
vet know no cause that effects them with
such universally Of steady power as this
curse of drink.
A Congo native, who has been taught to
read and write, has just sent letter, his first
to the Archbishop or Canterbury. 1t reads
as follows: "Great and good chief OF the
tribe Of Christ, greeting: The humolest OF
your servants kisses the hem OF your gar
ments and begs you to send to his fellow
servants more gospel and less rum. In the
bonds of Christ, Ugalia.'
The Washington Post, commenting upon
the effect OF the prohibition Of the liquor
traffic within one mile Of the Soldiers Home,
says Real estate has taken a boom every
where within the prohibition zone" 1t adds
that ''the abolition of the liquor traffic
throughout all that section of the city made
rea! estate investors eager to get hold OF
property there" and that there IS no other
part of the city or district where an absolute
absence OF the liquor business is assured
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The Sacred Bo-tree Of Ceylon.

The sacred Bo-tree of Ceylon is q
branch of the original tree under which
Buddha was born. This branch, which
is low believed to be the oldest histori-
c.. tree in the world, was brought to
Ceylon by the sister of Mahinda, the
great Buddhist teacher. 1t ,-sAs planted
where it now stands (near the Dagaba in
the city of Anuradha-pura), ,2S9 years be-
fore Christ. This is the tree upon which
Whittier founded his beautiful poem,
"The Cypress Tree of Ceylon." Ibu
Batuta, the Mussulman writer and the
traveller of the Fourteenth Century, has
the following to say concerning this re-
markable vegetable relic: ut is held sa-
cred by every true Buddhist; its leaves
fall only at certain intervals; the person
fortunate enough to find and eat one OF
these leaves is restored at once to youth
and vigor."
Sir Emerson Tennaat, who wrote on
Buddhist relics of Ceylou about the year
1860, has this to say Of it;
"The Bo-tree of Anuradha-pura is in
all probability the oldest historical! tree
in the world. 1t was planted in the third
century before Christ, and is now about
220O years old. Ages varying from one
to four thousand years have been as
signed to the Baobab of Senegal, the
Eucalyptus of Tasmania, the Dragon
tree of Orotava; the Sequoia of Califor-
MIA and the chestnut at the foot of Mount
Etna. But all these estimates are mat
ters of conjecture, and such calculations,
however ingenious, must be purely infer
ential, whereas the age of the sacred Bo-
tree is matter of record. Its conservancy
has been an object If solicitude to sue.
cessive dynasties, and the story of its
vicissitudes has been preserved in series
of continuous chronicles, among the
most authentic which have been handed
down to mankind. Compared with it,
the Oak of Ellerlie is but sapling; the
Conoeror's oak in Windsor Forest barely
numbers half Its years. The yew trees
of Fountain Abbey are 1900 years old;
the olive trees in the Garden of Geth-
semane were full grown when the Sara
Gems were expelled from Jerusalem; the
Cypress of Senna, Lombardy, was tree
in the time of Julius Cesar; yet the Bo-
tree is older than the oldest of these by a
century, and would almost seem to verify
the prophecy pronounced when it was
planted, i. e., that it would "aourish
and be green forever. ."-&. Louis Re.
public.
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Habits Of Wild Ducks.

At the perlod of incubation dnckf
make their nests whenever the desire to
deposit the first egg comes upon them.
If they have neglected to provide suit,
able retreat, it is too late to mend mat
tiers. Since then have passed and re-
passed the spot, and have seen the, egga;
handled frequently, but for all that
Madame Duck does not desert her rocky
home. Jock suggests that go to hiz
camp, three miles distant, for dinner.
On the way we cross an immense marshy
fiat, and in the middle of this is beaii-:
tiful spring, some eight yards in diame-
ter. The water is fairly blue, icy colds
and no bottom can be seen at the CENTRE
but about the edge. where the water b..
from one to ten feet deep, are massive
rocks that are fantastically draped with
aquatic MOSES and alg@ so that It seems
like looking down into fairyland. The
waters of this spring run for quarter OF {
a mile and then sink to reappear a mifa
away, bursting into the creek from crew
ices in the volcanic rock. The swamp
is a great breeding place for teal, and2
three or four ducks with their young
broods are swimming in the miniature
lake. As we burst upon the scene one !
duck flies off, but the rest stay to conceal
their young. How do they do ita Bring
them in to shallow water, where they can
rest upon the bottom and stick their
bills up through the moss. Then the
old ones swim out into deep water and
resort to the same tactics. We drive I
the ducklings from their place of con-
cealment and they swim out to their pa
rents with half OF their bodies exposed
Though the moss is just as inviting they
will not hide where they caunot feel
bottom and their mothers bring them
back to shore. Young ducks can dive.
but have not the power of remaining be-
meath the water for any length of time
until they can make strong fight. The
power of remaining beneath the water il.
acquired by practice aud is not innate
Forest and Stream
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aons had pone toward E9ypt snd had gons

sons had gone toward Egypt snd had gone
with the very finest equlpage and had not
taken BENJAMIN along with th am, and to
the question they should have been obliged
to answer: "Sir, we didn't bring him, as
father could not lot him 60; we didn't want
to be bothered with him. a voice from
within would have said: ''Go away from
You shall not see my face because your
brother is not with you" And II we come
up toward the door Of heaTen at Lost, though
we come from all luxuriance and brilliancy
of surroundings, aud knock for admittance,
and it Is found that Christ Is not with
US, the police Of heaven will beat US back
from the bresd,hOuse i o, saying; "2}spaSTs }sppaT.
sons, coming toward Egypt, had lost every.
thing ON tie way; if they had expended
their last shekel; i. they had come up ut
terly exhausted to the cora-cribs Of Egypt,
and it had been found :ha: Benjamin WAS
with them, all the stoTeEouses would have
swung open before tn IN. And 80, though
BY fatal casualty we lacy be ushered into
the eternal world; though we may be
weak and exhausted by protracted sick
ness-if, in that last moment, we can only
Just stagger and faia.., and fall into the
gate of heaven-it seems that I'll the corn
cribs Of heaven will op.n for our need
and all the palaces Will op"n Tor our recep.
ton; and the Lord OF th--t place. seated at
His table, and all the angels of God seated
at their table, and the martyrs seated at
their table. and all our gloriaed kindred
seated at our table, the King shall pass q
portion from His table to ours, and thu
while we think Of the Fact that it was
Jesus who started us on the road, and
and Jesus :, 'ho kept us g. the way, and
Jesus who at last gained admittau CO for our
soul, we shall be glaG IL He has seen Of the
ira vail Of HIS soul and been satisfied, end
not be at all jealous II it bs found that our
Divine Benjamin's mss Is five times larger
than all the rest. Hail! anolntod of the
Lord. Thou art worthy.
My friends, you see 1t L. either Christ or
famine. If Shere were two banquets
spread, and to ore of item only you might
90, you might stand an think for q good
while as to which invitation you had better
accept; but here it d feesting or starvation.
II it were a choice 5ttween oratorios, you
might say: II prefer the Creation" or
II prefer the Messiah" Bat here Ii Is
choice between eternal harmony and ever
lasting discord. Oh, will you live or die:
Will you start for the Egyptian corn.crib,
or will you perish amid the empty barns of
the Canaanitish faminef "ye sht II not
see My face, except your Brother To with
you.n -
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HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDES Us.

Sometimes by direct, special communica.
tions. They may or may not be in answer
to specific prayers. They may be novel in
form, or they merely may take the shape OF
endorsements of purposes already partly
formed. They are likely to be made when
emergencies occur for which previous ex-
perience never has prepared us. as when the
early disciples were first brought before
magistrates or governors to be questioned
concerning the faith; or when duty involves
some action or course of conduct unlikely to
be recognized as obligatory without par
ticular revelation to that effect, as when
Philip was hidden to accost the Ethiopian
eunuch; or when we suddenly find our
selves obliged to make important decisions
without sufficient time for reflection, when
we cannot feel certain that 1t is safe to act
according to the principles which we know
to be trustworthy guides. 1t is easy to be
misled in regard to such special communica-
tions, and to suppose that we receive them,
when we are mistaken about the fact. Yet
that they are made to us sometimes, Is be-
yond reasonable denial.
Ordinarily, however, the Holy Spirits
guidance assumes another form. Usually 1t
is assistance in the enlightenment and eXer-
else Of our own judgments in regard to what
our duty is. If this seem only a common
place sort of aid, it should be remembered
CQ1ti our CARRIERS aTe uaue up, lOI tuc HOSt
part, of what we term commonplace occur
rences and actions, and that we are expected
to illustrate our loyalty to God in regard to
them as readily and as fully as in the cases
of our more UNUSUAL experiences. This kind
of spiritual guidance generally Is all which
We nesl: SPECIAL anl qniqus ail ,MQu|d be
superAuous. It even might disturb and con-
fuse us. The former sort of aid is safer for
US. 1t involves less danger Of being mis-.
understood. 1t is he who supposes himself
to hold exceptional relations with the Holy
Spirit who is in chief danger of becoming
dogmatic and even fanatical. Belief in ones
possession of q special revelation often has
been the cause of bitter Ligotry and has
caused many positive crime.
We are to believe in, accept, follow and
be thankful for the special guidance which
the Holy Spirit now and then unquestion-
ably vouchsaies. We are to depend chiefly.
however, upon His aid in instruction and
direction OF our own powers Of judgment.
Using either and both Alright, as given us,
we shall be led to the results which He de.
sires for us.-[Free Church Monthly.
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Tables.

A year or two ago the people who
owned a round dining.table envied those
who possessed square one, and now the
matter is reversed aud still the madame
with the oblong table is out OF fashion,
I heard lady say of her square table.
which, of course, is Il long one when
few table boards are put in it: ''Tnis IS
hopelessly suggestive of boarding
house, this long table; so | have had
great cover made for it, which is seven
feet round aad a. which can seat eight
cen people" Aud so it goes. We who
have obIong tables are worried because
they are not round, and those that are
square are in fashion one year and ont Of
fashion another, and things have to be
kept going, so that trade may boot1 and
that those who are afraid of the dictates
Of fashion may be Kept miserable. --2ss-
tlo Journal. j..
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What a Volcano Can 10.

A volcano can do terrible work when
thoroughly aroused. In 1888 Cotapaxi
threw its frey rockets 5000 feet above
the crater, while in 1857 the blazing
mass, struggling for an outlet, roared so
that its awful voice was heard for dis
tance of over 900 miles. In 1897 the
crater of Tunguragua. one of the great
peaks of the Andes, flung out torrents of
mud and lava, which damned up the
river and opeued new lakes, and male a
deposit 600 feet deep and twenty miles
long in valley that was over 1000 feet
wide. The stream from Vesuvius, which,
in 1897, passed through Terre del Greco,
contained 5000, 900 cubic feet of solid
matter. In 1898, when Terre del Greco
was destroyed for second time, the
mass OF lava amounted to $4,000, 900
cubic feet. In 1850 Etna poured out
food of melted stone which covered
eighty-four square miles of surface with
boiling lava from ten to forty feet deep.
On this occasion the sand and scoria
formed mountain (Mount RosinD near
Nicholosa, a cone two miles in circum-
ference and over 1000 feet high. The
stream thrown out by Etna in 1910 was
in motion at the average rate of d yard
day for nine months after the erup.
tion. In the eruption of Fesuvius, A.
D. 79, the scoria and ashes vomited
forth far exceeded the entire bulk of the
mountain, while in 1860 Etna disgorged
over twenty times its own mass. Vesu-
vius has sent It's ashes into Syria, Egypt
aud Turkey. 1t hurled stones 500
pounds in weight to Pompcii, distance
of six miles, during the eruption of 70,
A. D. Cotopaxi has projected a block
of stone containing 100 cubic yards a
distance OF nine miles, and shot out
solid stream to height of over 5000
feet on more than one occasion. In 1873
q volcanic eruption in Java covered 300
square miles with ashes and lava, and
out of a population of II, 600 only twen-
ty escaped with their lives. During the
terrible earthquake of 1883 not less than
twenty large and small Javanese vol
canos were in eruption at the same time;
fifty square miles of land and two vii
lagos entirely disappeared, and section
of mountain chain, sixty-five miles in
length and twenty in breadth, was Who'll
ly engulfed and lake left in its stead.-
st. Louis Republic. -
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DO NOT EE A SLAVE.

Why will you keep caring for what the
world says? Try, oh try, to be no longer
slave to it! You can have but little idea of
the comfort of freedom from tit is bliss!
All this caring for what people will say is
from pride. Hoist your flag and abide by it.
In an indefinite short space Of time all secrets
will be diyulged. Therefore, if you are mis-
Judged, why trouble to put yourself right:
trouble it will save you. Roll your burden
on Him, and lie will make straight your
mistakes. He will set you right with those
with whom you have set yourself wrong.
Here am l, a lump Of clay; Thou art the
potter. Mould me as Thou in Thy wisdom
wilt. Never mind my cries. Cut my life
off-so be it; prolong it-so be It. Just as
Thou wilt, but rely on Thy unchanging
guidance during the trial. Oh, the comfort
that comes from his!-[Gen. Gordon.
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pRUNNSN DOCTORS.

The Legislature of Georgia has passed a
bill disqualifying Incorporate physicians
from practice. A method o. indictment has
been frame1, and upon conviction the ac-
cused becomes subject to a heavy fine if he
attempts to practice again. As protective
measure the wisdom OF such law is mani
fest. Patients by families worship the
doctor with blind idolatry. They prefer
him drunk to any other sober. It is patri-
erchal act that steps in to protect such
people from their own superstition. It is the
highest scientific temperance ground yet
taken by the law. We believe it will be
widely copied in other States whenever such
q bill is offered. With this legal encourage
ment, the common sense Of the people will
soon make total abstinence the path to pro-
fessional glory for Esculapius. There will
get abroad conundrum something like this;
Il abstinence from drink is essential to the
steadiness Of hand necessary to couple cars,
"down brakes" or tend telegraph plant;
to the clear brain requisite for transmitting
messages or taking fares on a street car,
how much can man drink and have head
and hand at their best to set bone or write
a prescription? Enlightened society will
not give it up" but will give up the tip
pling doctor.-Ur:on Signal.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
RECONCILIATION.

RECONCILIATION.
Repentant, weak and weary, Christ, this
night
I knee beneath Thy cross. o.! would
fain
Be spotless in Thy sight-as free from stain
And guile as angels are in realms of light;
Thou knowest that struggle to do right;
Thou knowest that yearn to be again
Thy loving child; but sick and faint with
pain,
Sin conquers in the fierce, unequal fight!
All this Thou knowest, Christ! and now
pray
For courage to be steadfast in the strife;
For strength to bear the burdens Of my
life;
For guidance as walk the narrow way;
0 listen to the prayer of Thy lost child,
My Father. that we may be reconCiled!
-[Henry Coyle, in Boston Journal.
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A SUDDEN wave of tntemperance
among the school boys OF Philadelphia
has resulted in startling discovery.
It is said to be due to the statement in
the temperance textbooks that small
quantity of liquor makes man lively
and gay. When the boys read this
they began to experiment little. The
temperance people have decided to
have their books revised.
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IT seems at this distance little se-
we're for English justice to doom a man
10 five years imprisonment for merely
stealing q bundle of canes, but it must
be taken into consideration that no real
EngIishman is complete without bis
walkiuR-stick,
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A Boston wife boasts that, afte,
years of marriage, her husband kisses
her five times day; whereupon Chi.
cago paper retorts that there is lady
out there who has been married
more than ten years, and another wo.
mans husband kisses her twenty times
day. There is no use trying to beat
Chicapo.