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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-26
Snow Church Review.

The Snov--Church Company's weekly
review Of trade IS as follows
4 round among the trade for the Pc
nod ending this week shows decided IN
crease I'm business generally over that
for some weeks past. Inquiries being more
numerous ~ i greater activity being no
ticeable in II lines. 4 number OF mer-
chants interviewed with reference az 10
what tearing in particular the question
of settlement Of tariff to itS present
shape would have with business, spoke
freely on the subject. stating that ~
their opinion. as soon IS the tarln OIL
was signed by the President or became
a law, it would have a great tendency
tow ards restoration OF confidence, Which
IN itself would be the means OF business
generally moving forward This. together
with the exceedingly favorable condition
Of crops reported from all over the south
ern States especially 80 the cotton AND
tobacco belts, aids materially IN the be
lief that trade this fan VIII be good.
Merchants. however. appear satisfied that
some measures have been adopted 20
dispense With the unsettled condition or
business. which has been prevalent for
so many months past
Wholesale dealers in dry goods speak
Of better trade this week than FOR some
tine. and "a decided Improvement IN
sales over the same period OF last year.
Boot and shoe jObhers report "a consid-
erably better business. especially IN the
sale OF shoes, and think that every in
dicati0n points 20 an increase In business
from now on through the fail and win
ter seasons.
Wholesale staple and fancy groceries
do not make so favorable q report as
that given by other concerns, but state
that IN their line II Is quite noticeable
that better business is prevailing than
for several months. Country merchants
seem In better shane and greatly slim
ulated, and there seems no valid reason
why. trade should not be better
Collections are comparatively good. with
indication OF being better Farmers report
that with present outlooks for their crops
they VIII he enabled to close up their
back Indebtedness. and start afresh.
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GENERAL FIIZ. LEES LIFE OF GEN.
EKAL H. L.. LEE
Yours very truly
w. S. POW ELL.
President.

The publishers. D. Appleton & Co., have
kindly sent us an advance copy of Cen
erai Fitz Lees Life Of General r.. T..
Lee. which, we believe. will be on sale
at the bookstores in few days. The
book IS an entire surprise to us. We
had expected IT TO be in the main a per-
sonal memoir Of General Lee II is, how
ever. a work of d very differnt order.
General Lees early life is graphically de-
scrlbed. and there is good deal Of
what IS personal to him in it, and all of
that Is deeply interesting. and in perfect
harmony with what the world knows OF
his great and exalted character But the
book Is principally a critical and analytic
al study OF the campaigns of the Army Of
Northern Virginia. AS such ii is a great
work. and places its author in the very
'front.' rank OF military critics-beside
such writers as Jomini and Napier. 1t
shows talent OF the first order, a dis
eliminating mind. sound judgment, the
most patent and painstaking inyestiga-
lion. ana degree OF fairness and im>
partiality that rs astonishing in one who
was himself a conspicuous actor on one
side OF the events that ne recounts.
Every important operation OF the Army
OF Northern Virginia. from the day Cen
eral Lee took command of IL 10 the day
IL surrendered. is patiently described with
clearness that is delightful.
We don't know that We can give n bet
ter idea OF the book than by condensing
ats account OF the battle OF Gettysburg.
which, as one OF the most intricate and
disputed events Of the war. will give the
reader fair idea Of the scope and shirt
OF The work; but It IS with great distrust
that We attemp- to give the authors story
In other language than mis- own.
On the evening OF June Goth Jop..
streets and Hihs corps were concen,ra-
ted around Chambersburg. AMI toward
gettysburg. Chambersburg being between
ntpeeh and twenty miles west OF t,e,tvs.
burg. Eweiis corps had been ,yer,v
"nies farther north. but was closing IN
towards the other two corps. Ho,rs a,
vision OF Hil's corps vas advanced ,ha,
evening very near 10 GETTYSBURG ana
HEN applied 70 Hill for leave 70 novs
part OK II into the town. TO get shoes %,
his oarefooted men, Hin gave TIE ner-
mission, but on Heth moving on ,owsra.
ne town. he encountered cavalry sr,r.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-26
Endorses the Article.

Editor Times: I heartily endorse your
editorial in the issue OF the 2lth on the
Breckenridge case Would that the tone
Of the entire press We're the same on all
such matters. We should then have het-
ter officers and a better country. when
the wicked beareth rule the people
mourn" Yours with best wishes
W. r. COPPEDGT
Buffalo Lithia Springs Va. Aug. q, 1894
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and exquisitely shaped, 40 piecs,
sss. instead Of 81.

and exquisitely shaped, 40 piece,
SIS, instead Of ST.
French China Fish Sets, FISH aeo,,,.
l3 pieces. s., instead Of $40. '''0o'
Handsome French China Fish
hand decorated. SIS, instead Of r. "a
S35 Dinner Sets tor $40.
A Handsome French China Dirso. 49,.
actual value So. for 81. al
Just as good bargains in Tea Se,,.
all have been reduced.
Fun size Dinner Plates. Enc,eh r..-
per dozen. jOc. instead Of 81 b. ''A
French China Cups ana Sll.rrs ..
size. l0c each, Instead ~ Ng
dozen.
Thin White English China Table p....
ers, exquisiteiy shaped, 3-g.a-t 80.
pc each.
Fish Platters, "a inches long. g.. .a.,a.
Decorated Individual Buffers. ..-.
prices GOc 70 So per dozeu. au t.-
each.
Decorated Covered China soup r.
with Dreamer, zoe each. ins'eal o.. .'
A counter Of bits Of China. s
as Bowls, Plates, Gard Receives
Pin Trays, &C., at 100 choice. Son.
piece in the lot sold as high ,9
Real China Tea Pots. exquisite ....
rated. and worth SOC each. f.r f.
Tea cups and Saucers 70 mtt.r u.
BRiC-A-BRAC-
Cabinet Rrlc-a-Brac. Roya. W.-.,.
decoration and gold finished. a.
instead OF Sl2J.
Decorated Bisque Figures, se e..h. ID.
stead of 25c.
Imported Ornaments. u inches 81,
instead Of s..
II inches hich. 81. instead o. 81
Pyramid Ornament, =, inche 81 &
instead OF $.0Z9.
Water Pitchers, r3c.
Brilliantly Polished Glass Wafa. r,...
ers. holds half gallon, reduce u b,
each.
Thin French Water GOhlets pe- .i.-
$3.50, instead OF $50.
Wine Glasses 90 match, per t.1.
instead OK Slys
Chamber Pads, I5c.
Heavy Japanncd Chamber Pals. pr.
covers and run size. lJc each. ana.
worth 50c
THE COHEN CO.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-26
Tho Best Nerve Tonic.
HoRsFoRD's ACID pHospHAry

DR.. A Monteiro. Richmond. Va. says:
II have used Il IN many cases OF nerve
depression, and have always found 81
beneficial. The exhaustion OF debility
so prevalent In chronic alcoholism has
been benefited IN every case. con-
slider II one OF the best tonics we have.
where nerve tona ID needed"
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Hamlet.
In another place Shakespeare says: 81
see mems judgments are a parcel Of
their fortunes"
When one is given 10 speaking lightly
or bitterly Of Sin laws" or Of our broth
ers and sisters. II IS natural TO conclude
that his luck has been bad and his as
sociations unfortunate. There are al
ways special reasons for specially hard
words and complaints. Hamlet owned
that ne was dreadfully out OF sorts; but
he testifes to the honour and glory of
the general ideal man. And the voice
OF Shakespeare IS for the most part the
testimony of nature.
And what is the explanation OF the
presence OF this divine or semi-diabolic
animal here on earth? Is he only a
wonder? Is he alone? Are there no fell
low beings OF like nature or higher oc-
cupying the earth and air? Are there
no other intelligences about him. seeing.
thinking. loving. acting? DO his genera
lions only come and 20 like crops or
as the grass. In the morning green. IN
the evening twithered? Are we only
such stuff as dreams are made OF, and
our little struttlng. fretting life rounded
with sleep? Nature protests against such
view OF her most beautiful workman
ship. Man. from tho depths OF his be-
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1t5!!{S!iFE:::N|'!!(9
Il, 70, IS and II East Broad.
MONDAY. AUG. q. 1894,
TARIFF REFORM

BASIS are to 90 into operation
from to-dayon. EverythingaboI the
store that is subjected to a change IN
price under the new tariff bill pass
ed by Congress, is altered in price
without regard to what the cost or
the prices may have been. The
greatness of this store is in the
overthrow of the old mistifcations OF
business modes. We adjust prices
at once to the inevitable, and put
the great loss where it properly be-
IOngS-on our own shoulders.
Our patrons are not to travel
over the ragged road of gradual re-
auctions. based on the get-all-you-
can system. Whatever we have
on hand not already lowered goes
down forthwith and for good.
The Bonsack Mil people of Roa-
noke, Va, who have gained a most
enviable name for honest Blanket
making, telegraph: I'VE aCcePt your
offer for our entire stock OF
Blankets. It's a hard bargain for
u.s."
This puts some 1900 pairs of All
Wool, home, Virginia honeSt-made
BLANKETS into Our possession at
not only tariff reduction prices, but
at figures much below.
to 51-2-pound Blankets. sold year
ago for $40 and s. are u be E.5j a
pair.
Blankets that were sold the best Price
last season at $3.50, are to be $40
pair.
New tariff basis on PortiereS. A
great shipment OF new Fall ones.
1886 is the price with open Dados TOP
and bottom. 2 inches wide. heavy
Chenille and full width. The closest
price last season was $3.50.
Others al1-over designs, with shadings
that show great art Last season
Sll90; these S6.75.
s. does the duty Of SO I'm another lot.
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Messrs. Lulle Burnett and Persey Rich
ardson, OF Church Hill, have returned
home after a ten-days' visit 10 Cincin-
natl o,
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Good Green or mixed Tea, per pound. =
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AIRY NOTf.INGs'

What a piece of work is a mani How
robie in reason How infinite in facul-
tics. In form and moving Row express
ana admirable In action how like an
angel, In apprehension. how Ike god!
The beauty of the world, the parag2n
QuintCscerce of dust?
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Rot

Thsy were two Gaiety girls. they were. and
they we're taking in the sights Of the Capitol,
In Tie marble corridors. and the merry chatter
on their lively tongues awakened the echoes Of
the whispering gallery Ihey .sre disposed 70
thsy are familiar slth bald heads Ia the front
row. don'chsrkROW. and thsy we're also inclinsd
10 say spDrty things about our great and good
GsoFgs M~ashingtOn. They climbed the stair,
cases. they admired the pictures thsy strained
their necks 70 look up a. the topOi the rotundA
when lt vas suggested that perhaps tley might
Ike o. climb 20 the summit - The Whlte dome.
But they acre Lnpplsst - ali when They Here
escorted d1En % Tie restaurant, where tbey en-
lOysd "a charming lunch
1hsy saFa act alonf.
I've ssTT eomp4Al0h4bls sshAt1n Wsrs Nth
tksaL GRdks EIls ~ : zeal Sod uaa
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ter. and. lastly. II her husband fully agrees with
her. II will be good cause to change her mind.
The husband, IL he 10 wise. puts of the evil
day as long ~ possible, calculating that by 90
doing the limited time will compel his wife TO
make her purchases promptly. Women shop
pers, a. is we'll known. have their favorite
stores. One Is best for ribbons. another for
silks, and so on. A man rarely shops. but when
he does he goes. as a rule, to the most convent
ent place. II he had his way, he would be sat
is1ed with the FIRST big store he came to. Not so
with the wife. She must visit all the stores,
and all the argument he can bring forward will
not convince her that holiday goods differ little
in variety or price. She has started out TO visit
them all. and do IL shc will. II he is polite he
will quietly assent. trusting that she will tire
out before they have made the rounds.
A careful business man before undertaking
the purchase Of any great number Of articles
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cream soda and brace up. Reaching the foun-
tain, they find II closed for the holiday season,
but q drug store Is near. and thither they 20.
They both take refreshments, the husband wink
ing to the drug clerk and getting
again ready for business. Books are to be
bought. The husband suggests y well-known
book store, but she differs with him because the
bargain spirit Ia still with her, and so they are
damned into an elevator and landed on the up
per floor OF another big department store. There
are books by the cords, not conveniently ar.
ranged on shelves. but piled up on the floor and
on counters like so many bricks. The clerks are
extra help, and know nothing about their bust
ness, with the result that she cannot find what
she wants. But the prices are SO cheap that she
: uys, overlooking the tact that the paper. print,
And binding are bad and dear at any price.
The husband has had ample opportunity dur
ing these hours of waiting to observe how others
besides his wife shop for Christmas gifts. He
notices that there are fifty women to one man;
that the man alone quickly makes up his mind,
and usually seems TO know what he wants. The
man unused to such surroundings Is modest
about pushing himself forward and making his
wantN known, with the result that he is i'm
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posed upon by the employees. The women shop
pers treat him AS II ne had no business there.
They crowd him and push him and shove him.
He is long suffering and meek. II twisted one
way. he stands patiently until some one twists
him hack. lie acts "a II he believed himself n
black sheep. His manner Is full of apology. He
Ia different IL accompanied by some of his wo-
men folks. and Is not SO much Of a sufferer.
The women shoppers when on their native
heath are NOT like the gentle creatures seen
standing In q crowded street car. They pick up
sign Hands of. please." handle 1t freely, and
assume an air OF proprietOrship which Is dunn
founding to the modest man. He can think Of
no comparison. except II he the regular customer
attacking a free lunch the day before Thanks
giving. She always has her wits about her. this
self same shopper. She asks II the elevator Is
going down when she sees il moving w. She
Insists on %crOwding In regardless OF others
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THE HUSBANDS WORST A
IT rs WIEN mrs WIFE TAKES HIM
TO DO CHRIsTMAS SHOPPING.

Ushsppy SituattOs OF = Lous Mas IN =
Mass sr Herciiess ssa TireIess shoppers
-wows.'s Nstsre ChssEea by shoppisg.
The experienced New York shopper advises
that you 40 early In the morning to purchase, IN
match colors and patterns, or to do anything else
~ the biE department stores, except to buy
Christmas gifts. In order to do the last TO your
satisfaction you must take the busiest part Of
the day. II the shopper il a wife she should in
sist upon her husband accompanying her when
she goes TO pick out something for the children.
not that she will consider his opinion Of any
value, but his presence will increase her conf
dence in herself. To be sure she may have de-
cided exactly what she will buy for each, but
she has done this with a mental reservation that
for various causes she may change her mind. In
the first place, she has probably to keep her ex-
penditures within q certain limit. Next II may
~ that she will see something that she likes bet
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would make out . memorandum Of them. never
trusting his memory to keep track Of them.
The woman has no such need. There are the
i've children, she says, the two servants, and
her mother In tho house, half a dozen nieces
and nsphews out Of town, three children of the
woman who comes in to do days work, the wo
man. her husbands youngest brother. and her
husband. IL takes her fingers and thumbs
twice over 10 make the tally. and once In a
while she gets herself mixed in, and that makes
twenty-ons.
man with q wife and Ave children generally
Is experienced. and when the plunge Ia made at
the first store he begins to save himself. lie is
no longer the leader. and for a time all he tries
10 do Is to keen her in sight, holding himself in
reserve. The serious duty of the hour has now
commenced for the wife. She Is In a jam with
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coming on. Ten In the car, they all Try
for one place, and that the one near
est the door. IL two cars are standing
open, and the elevator man tells her which goes
first, she chooses the other, because fewer pas
senHers are In IL. and never seeming to learn
that IL will be filed before IL starts.
Toward O O'Clock the husband tries to beg on
for the day. but the wife Is inexors5le. shop
ping al night Is a novelty 70 the city resident.
The stores are not so crowded. except In the toy
and book denartmrnts. The man likes IL better,
for he is not alone in his misery. There are
nearly as many men now as women, ana the
crOuI moves along with . quicker step. IL
seems more like business To him.
An afternoon and evening spent At this work
IL too much for the ordinary man. lie aud wife
reach home at last. She sta up until midnight
telling her mother % the dAy's eAPertences.
while he rolls into bed completely used up.
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telle boirds. Certainly they arc bargains,
and one e bought AZ her husband is civ
Thought occurs that 10 might be broken
in transit, which would be a shame. OF course
her husband can carry u, she declares, for II IL
lie snERests that although liRht II Ia aomeMhat
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bulky. but to no purpose, and he takes up his
burden. As he stands waiting he watches the
apparently tireless women, and wonders how
they can do IL, His own back aches, seemingly,
as II never did before, and he feels Just as he did
when attacked with the grip last year. He real
ICES, too, that the. worst has not yet come; that
the work Is not halt done. His wife Il like
the bee, she moves from place TO place seeking
novelties and bargains, OutwardIy giving no
sign Of fatigue. and although he hates his part
Of the task he cannot help admirinR her indefa-
tigable energy. Then the crowd lurches on him
and his bundle receives the crush. Trouble is
pillng up thick and fast. His wife II without
mercy and insists that he must carry her pur-
chases. that is, part of them. and she will take
the rest. The rest Is q small doll.
The afternoon. Is more than half gone when
the energy OF the woman seems to fail. Her
husband suggests that they shall stop for the
day. For a moment che %falters; then the temp
tation Is scorned. She will take q glass of ice
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goods on the third floor Sc thinks Il would be
. pity 70 mLss Tie opportunity. aud her husband.
who has been making himself comfortable on a
stool, - quite ready for a change. Half an
hour Il spent very pleasantly snoRg the fancy
EOOdK but nothing suitable Tor pFssentl IL
fouRd. The man regrets leaving. Tor be has
bsen sampling neW rockers.
fortunately for both they have begun shop
plnE M town. auh the uIg stores are not far
spart. 81 that not much time h. lost or effort
sastel ia guing fruEI one 10 auuiAHT. Viz tie
smalitr children tAkru care ~, 'he vprk sill %
sasIer. the sife says, - the fly department. u
Fought ln tie uFAI place slsttru. auL a. ihs Al
tsuno.n Is slipplhg aNay raptdly. che dsterHlnes
10 laka : rial aud make sOma purchases -
sldas shs nDtlces = plaeAFd o4LAlE 4ttsatt1a =
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rHE WAY soME WOMEN 40 SHOPPING.
hundreds OF others OF her sex examining and
pricing. She had fully made up her mind rs to
the toys she should buy. Here they are the
toys-but the horrid doubt has arisen that the
same things may be better at the next store. and.
II not better, possibly cheaper. She recollects
that last year she paid 25 cents for a box Of
paints and that her sister bought the same at a
bargain sale for s cents. She decides
that IL will he safer to look further,
but while here she will look at the ribbons, for
she wants two yards very narrow to match a
sample. Working back 10 the proper COUNTER
in the course of the trade she learns from the
sAlssgirl that there IL an exhibition OF fancy
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