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Sowing Sorrow.

Every one in this country aspires to be-
ing, not only as good, but better than his
neighbors. When we say every one, we
mean the generality of people, the majority
1t is not confined to towns. where those who
serve at the counter to-day plan that their
children may roll to the shops they purchase
at IN carriage, and in their turn patronizs f;
nor to the country, where the mechanic
would have his daughter marry the shop
keepers son, and the shopkeeper would train
the youth in question to aspire to the law
yer's daughter, and the lawyer seeks an al
lance with the ex- Congressman family
Educ ton takes its color from these aspra-
lions, and the damsels of the household are
taught, like the worthy Bragwelps girls, i'll
Hannah Moore's admirable story, to do eve
rythlng but keep the house, assist and res
pect their mother, and wait on or nurse their
father. We do not mind hard work-not
We. Like Mrs. Bragwell, We are content
to burn our faces over the kitchen fire, 10
the hope that our children shall never put
hands to pie crust. Fathers can rise up
early and eat the bread of carefulness cheer
fully, to keep their sons from the necessity
Of SO doing but is it real kindness to them :?
We think not. We think it is s'sowing
sorrow" rather than happiness. William
Colbert, ever sensible, has most admirable
paragraph on this point
''You should bear constantly in mind,
that nine tenths Of us are, from the very
nature and necessities of the world, born to
gain our livelihood by the sweat of the brow.
What reason, then, have we to presume
that our children are not to do the same p
The path upwards is steep and long. In.
dustry, care, skill, excellence in the parent
lay the foundation of a rise under more ia
vorable circumstances for the children
The children of these take another rise, and
by and by, the descendants of the peasant
laborer become gentlemen. This is the
natural progress. 1t is by attempting to
reach to the top at a single leap that SO
much misery is produced in the world. The
education which is recommended consists
in bringing children up to labor with stead
mess, with care. and with skill; to show
them how to do as many useful things as
possible; to teach them to do all in the best
manner to set them an example of indus
try, sobriety, cleanliness, and neatnsss; to
make all these habitual to them, so that
they shall never be liable to fall into the
contrary: to let them always see good
living proceeding from labor, and thus re-
move from them the temptation to get the
goods of others by violent and fraudulent
means"
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Somebody gives tho following advice to

Somebody gives the following advice to
girls. We think the ideas are very correct !:
"Men who are worth having, want wo-
men for wives. A bundle of gewgaws, tied
together with string of fats and quivers,
sprinkled with cologne and set in carmine
saucer-this is no help for man who ex-
poets to raise family of boys on veritable
bread and meat The piano and lace frames
are good in their places, and so are ribbons,
frills, and tinses, but you cannot make a
dinner of the former or blanket of the
latter-and awful as such an idea may seem
to you, both dinner and blankets are neces-
sary to domestic happiness. Life has its
realities as we'll as fancies but you make it
all decorations remembering the tassels and
curtains, but forgetting the bedstead. Sup
pose man Of good sense and of course coed
prospects, to be looking for wife, what
chance have you to be chosen You may
cap MIN or you may trap him, but how
much better to make it an object for him to
catch you. Ren'er yourself worth catching,
and you will need no shrewd mother or
brother TO help you find market
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Tue D1TFERENcE.-One young lady rises
early, rolls up her sleeves, goes in..the kitch-
en- to get breakfast, or insists upon doing SO,
and afterward, with cheerful and sunny
smiles, puts the house in order without the
assistance Of mother" She will make
good wife and render home paradise,
Young man, "get her p
Another young lady is parlor beauty,
pallid from company, dissipation and want
Of exercise, reads novels and almost dies of
lazinesa. while the poor old mother does her
washing. She is useless piece of furniture,
an annoyance to her own household, and
curse to the husband she may chance to
"rope in" and will go whining to her
grave. Young man, "Let her alone p
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-08-26
Damascus, the Eternal.

Damascus dates anterior to the Oldest CITY
in the world. 1t was founded by ", the
grandson of Noah. The early history Of
Damascus is shrouded in the hoary mists of
| antiquity"
Leave the matters written of in the eley-
enth chapter, of the Old Testament out, and
no recorded event has occurred in the world,
but Damascus was in existence to receive it.
60 back as far as you will into the vague
past, here was always Damascus
In the writing of every century, for more
than four thousand years, its name has been
mentioned and its praise sung To Damas-
Gus years are only moments, decades only
fitting triAes of time. She measures time
not by days, and months, and years, but
by ths empires she has seen rise and pros
per, and crumble to ruin. She is a type of
Immortality. She saw the foundations of
Baalbec and Thebes and Ephesus laid saw
them grow into mighty cities and amaze the
world with their grandeur-and she has
lived to see them desolate, deserted, and
given up to owls and bats. She saw the
lsraelitish empire exalted. and she saw it
annlhilated. She raw Greece rise and -four
ish for two thousand years, and die. In her
old age she saw Rome built; she saw it
overshadow the world with its power she
saw it perish
The few hundred of years of Genoese an d
Venetian might and splendor were, to grave
old Damascus, only trifing scintilation,
hardly worth remembering. Damascus has
seen all that has occurred on earth, and
still she lives. She has looked upon the
dry bones of thousand empires, and she
will see tombs of a thousand more before
she dies. Though another claims the name
old Damascus is by right The Eternal City.
Boston Investigator.
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SINGULAR AR1rHMEr1cAL FAcr.-Auy
number Of figures you may wish to multiply
by 5, will give the same result if divided by
2. much quicker operation but you must
remember to annex a CIPHER to the answer
when there is no remainder, and when there
is a remainder, whatever it may be, annex a
5 to that answer. Multiply 464 by S, and
the answer will be 1890 divide the same
by z, and you have 232, and as there is no
remainder you add a CIPHER. Now take
359-multiply by 5. the answer is 1,795 ;
on dividing this by 3 there is 179 and re-
mainder you therefore place at the end
of the line, and the result is again 1,795.
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Business Cards.


lG MANDELBAUM,
I'D UNDER VIRGINIA HOTEL,
is receiving his second supply of Spring and
Summer Clothing, which will compare favorably
! with any City House
He has entered into arrangements whereby he
receives all the late styles Of Clothing and Gents
| Furnishing Goods, daily by Express.
! He calls particular attention to his assortment
of light Cashmere Suits, also his supply of white,
| brown and fancy
LINEN SUITS.
His clothing has been manufactured according
to his order and expressly for the Valley Trade,
| (by which arrangement he saves the enormous
profits paid to Northern merchants.) He guar
| antees to sell at less than city prices
His assortment of Furnishing Goods is COM
plete.
Hats He Makes Il Speciality.
A fine lot of city-maoe Boots and Shoes on
hand, which he sellsas cheap as Northern work.
Goods sold only for CASH apd at small adj
vance above COST.
AS he always announced he still recommends
every garment that is sold.
A fine assortment of Samples on hand for Or
dered work. Shirts made to order.
No trouble to show goods
A call is solicited at the Emporium of Fashion
under the Virginia Hotel, Staunton, Va.
N. B.-Agent Tor the celebrated PIVOT ACTION
BRAcE-a superior suspender for skirts and pants,
and an unequaled Brace for the shoulders.
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T ARGE AND SUPERIOR
IL Stock of Liquors.
envy Stock of Liquors is Large and Complete
and would call the attention of those wishing
to purchase, to the
FINE AUGUSTA" "ROCKBRlDGE."
''TENNESSEE-
PURE AND OLD WHISKEY.
FRENCH, GINGER, APPLE, BLACKBERRY
~. AND OTHER BRANDIES.
Madeira, Sherry, Port,
Champagne and other Wines.
GIN, RUN. ALE, PORTER dc.
ANGOSTURA,
MORNING STAR AND STOUGHTON
BITTERS &c. &c.
All ofwhich will be sold on as good terms as
can be purchased anywhere.
ROBERT W BURKE,
Wholesale and Retail Liquor Dealer.
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DY W. HUNT TILFORD.
IT'S sweet, though sad, at even,
When the fires light ia low,
To gather round the hearthstone
In the embers' fftful glow;
And call from memory's keeping
The cherished ones of yore,
The beautiful and lovely,
Who dwell with us no more.
Those bright and happy children
That used to please us so,
Like buds at Autumn's coming,
They persisted long ago.
The fair and gentle maidens
Who blessed these homes of ours,
All, me, THEY too departed,
And left us with the flowers.
As these come thronging round us,
From friendships broken chain,
We half forget our sorrow
In seeing them again;
Once more their eyes seem sorrowing
In sea of holy light,
As if their souls were dreaming
OF a better worlds delight.
% Thus, at the close of even,
When on the half-lit wall,
The shadows seem to lengthen
Into phantoms grim and tall;
Dear memory brings around US
The friends Of other years,
Till our minds grow full of thinking
And our eyes grow dim with tears.
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Business Cards.


He has now on hand and offers to the trade
and his customers generally, the best assortment
of Imported and Domestic Liquors ever kept for
sale in Stanton.
All of his goods having been bought for cash,
he has peculiar advantages over others OF the
trade.
The following Imported Liquors, purchased
since the decline in Gold, now offered far be-
low the usual price, viz 4
French Brandy, Sherry, Port Wine, Rum,
Holland Gin, Stoughton and Stomach Bitters,
McEwans Scotch Ale, Guinness Brown Stout
Dublin Porter &c. &c.
Also on hand full supply of Old Tennessee
Whiskeys, Old Kentucky Bourbon, Baker Whis-
key, and full line of the best brands of Angus
ia and Rockbridge Whiskeys, some of which are
over two years old and of Superior quality.
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WoMAN.-As the dew lies longest and
produces most fertility in the shade, so wo-
man, in the shade of domestic retirement,
sheds around her path richer and more per-
manent blessings than man, who ia more ex-
posed to the glare and observation of public
life.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-08-26

They who doubt the blessing of religion
because they find no Christian who is per-
feet, might as we'll deny the existence of the
sun because it is not always MONDAY.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-08-26

Fashionable girls in Paris are at present
Wearing low sandals and stockings made so
as to leave the sides and upper portion Of
the instep bare.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-08-26

There is only one thing worse than ignor-
ancc, and that is conceit. Ofall intractable
fools, an overwise man is the worst.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-08-26

God is a great God, and therefore we
should wait upon him; he is a good God
and therefore it is not in vain to wait upon
him.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-08-26

Corner of Frederick and Market Streets.
Having recently erecte commodious stables
upon these grounds, weare gratiied toannounce
to the public generally, and our friends that we
have stocked them with every adjunct to a COM
plete Livery. Our horses are young, fresh, fast,
and well broken; our Buggies, Carriages &C.,
new and of the latest style. and our drivers Sc
lected with special reference to the comfort and
safety of our patrons.
Pleasure parties accommodated at all hour
with single or double buggies, riding horses, 70
ladies and gentlemen, Carriages, Spring wagon
&c. Parties wishing to visit Weyer's Cav
would do we'll to give us call.
Horses fed by the day, month or year, at usual
rates.
Special attention given to the sale of stock.
Hoping, by strict attention to our own bust
ness, to merit a continuance of the favor shown
US in other places, respectfully solicit share
of the public patronage. apr22-tf
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How TO KILL LICE ON CATrLE.-A cor
respondent in the Country Gentleman dis
solved about a pint of strong soft soap in
pail of warm, soft water, and saturated the
whole surface Of lousy cows body with it;
after about thirty minutes, repeated the
operation, and in thirty minutes longer took
pail of clean. warm water and quickly and
thoroughly washed out all the soap water and
dead lice in large quantities. put her in a
warm stable. and covered her with dry
blanket. The next day, after being thorough
ly dried, she looked and seemed to feel like
new animal, more than doubled her guam
tity of mi; within twenty four hours. and
Immediately commenced gaining flesh and
general thriftiness. ''I
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Bustness Cards.

Business Cards.
ALEX. H. II. STUART, ORLANDO SMITH
r. D. LILLEY, fHos. Y. ELDhh.
GTUART, LILLEY & CO.,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.,
STANTON, VA,
Offer their services for the sale of Real Estate OF
every description, in all parts Of Virginia. especi-
ally in the
VALLEY AND PIEDMONT DISTRICTS.
We wish only the cop.rol ofsuch lands rs ow-
uers really DESTROYS ofselling affair prices.
Wemake no charge for advertising or showing
lands unless q sale be effected.
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DIANOS! PIANOS 1t is admitted by
every one, that the KNABE PIANOS
which have brought here are the best to be
found in the whole community and beyond COM
petition.
These Pianos were selected by me personally
at the Factory in Baltimore and as shall visit
Baltimore again in short time l would be glad
to select Instruments for those wishing to pur-
chase.
In addition to these magnificent Instruments
which have received rs Premiums in this country
and Europe can furnish a cheap Piano, which
can sell for $50 less than any other Manufac-
tured in acknowledgement warrant them for five
years
For further particulars address,
E. Louis IDE,
may6-3mos Staunton, Va.
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Better be uprig ht with poverty, than un-
pripcipled, with plenty.
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Tbs 9, union Winoifator,
jTERTISING RATES.

Adve s 1nents for less tnan tl,tt mouth
will serted at the rate of One Dollar per
sqr IF Eight Lines, or less for the first and
1tsfor each subsequent insertion. Unless
number of insertions be marked upon the
4anuscriptit will be publisheduntiforbida and
charged accordingly. Nza
Obituaries, Announcements Standardization
Office, Communications calling upon, advocas
ting proposing candidates, and all Communis
cations or Notices OF a personal orprivate chap
acter, or intended or calculated to promoteany
private enterprise or n terestwil lb echargedfor
as advertisements.
rs Special notices20 cents per linefor ev-
eryinsertion.
rs liberal arrangement MADE with those
who advertise for Three, Six or Twelve month
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R1cH.-He whose soul is rich with grace,
will surely find it richer in glory
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BUsYBoD1Es Beware of busybodies.-
A man who NEEDLES in other peoples af-
fairs is sure to make mischief. He gener-
ally NEEDLES to serve himself, and conse-
quently puts different constructions on the
same things when said to different people,
SO that the most innocent words get distorted
into applications which those who used them
never intended they should bear.
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8 TRAyERs PHILLIPS FRED. EFFINGER.
nHILLIPS h EFFINGER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
STA UNION, Va.
Will practice in all the Courts of Augusta and
Allegheny, and in the Circuit Courts of Rock
ingham, Rockbridge and Nelson.
Special attention given to collecting.
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A NJ. HENKEL, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
s. III. HENK ID. s.,
DENTIST,
Formerly of New Market, Va.)
Respectfully announce that they have located
in Staunton, Va, and offer their services to the
public in all the branches of their professions.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours, unless
professionally engaged.
Office on corner of Augusta and Main Streets.
Entrance doors North of Bicke's corner.
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ATEDICAL NOTIOE.-Doctors G. R. Harris
wi and B. P. Reese having formed copart-
nerahip in the practice of Medicine, very respect
fully tender their professional services to the pub
ic.
Eighteen years experience qualities the junior
partner for the general practice of medicine, and
will enable the senior partner to devote especial
attention to the diseases offemales and children.
Calls in the country promptly attended to-
Ofice-Main street, doors East OF DR.. Chap
mans, D. D. S.
All letters strictly on professional business,
should be addressed to
,anl4-em DRs. HARRIS REESE.
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Food.

Few persons eyer give thought to the
amount of food which they consume during a
lifetime. From an article recently publish
ed we extract the following estimate Of what
a noted English epicure ate during the 70
years that he lived: 10 oxen, 200 sheep,
100 calves, 200 lambs, so pigs, 1900
fowls, 800 turkeys, $50 geese, 400 ducks,
900 pigeons, l 400 partridges and quail,
900 woodcock, /, 400 snipe and other small
game, besides 500 hares and rabbits, 40
deer, 100 guinea fowls. 10 peacocks and
250wild fowls In fish, 140 turbots, 140 sal-
mon, 230 cod, 260 trout, 400 maokerel, 400
founders, 200 cells, $50 haddock, 400 her.
rings, and 10, 900 smells; also, 20 turtles, 3d.
900 oysters, $500 Holsters and crabs. 300, :
600 prawns, shrimps, sardines and anchovis.
In fruits, $50 pounds of grapes, SO pineap.
pies, 1000 peaches, 1.400 apricots, 240
melons, and some hundred thousand plums.
greengages, apples, and pears. and millions
of cherries, strawberries, currants. walnuts.
chestnuts. figs, almonds, &c. In vegetation
of other kinds, 25,475 pounds weight i;
about 1884 pounds Of butter; 6S4 pounds
of cheese; $1,000 eggs; bread, $4,000
pounds; of sugar 4, 500 pounds. In liq-
uids, 40 hogsheads of wine, 1894 gallons
of beer, 584 gallons Of spirits, 1894 gal
long of coffee, cocoa. and tea, 1864 gallon
Of milk, and 2,736 gallons of water.
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To MAKE SALT BUTTER FREsH. Put four
pounds of salt butter into churn with four
quarts Of new milk and a small portion of
arnatto. Churn them together, and in about
and hour take out tho butter and treat it ex-
actly as fresh butter, by washing it in wa
ter and adding the customary quantity of
salt. This is a sing liar experiment. The
butter gains about three ounces in each
pound, and is in every particular equal to
fresh butter. 1t would be greatly improv
ed by the addition Of two Or three ounces of
fine sugar in powder. A common earthen
churn answers the same purpose as wood
en- one, and may be purchased at any china
shop.
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CARE OF Horses LEGs.-Few men who
handle horses give proper attention to the
feet and legs. Especially is this case on the
farms. Much time is spent of a morning
rubbing. brushing and smoothing the hair
on the sides and hips, but at 10 time are the
feet examined and properly cared for
Now, be it known, that in this six thousand
year old world of ours the feet need more
care than the body. They need ten times
as much-for in one respect they are al
most the entire horse All the grooming
that can be done won't avail anything, if the
horse is forced to stand where his feet will
be filthy. In this case the feet will become
disordered, and then the legs will get badly
out of fix, and with bad feet and bad legs
there is not much else Of the horse fit for
anything. Stable prisons, generally, are
terribly severe on the feet and legs of horses.
and unless these buildings can afford dry
room. where horse can walk around, lie
down Or roll over, they are not half so
healthy and comfortable to tho horse as the
pasture, and should be avoided by all good
hostlcrs in the country World.
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nor THE LADIES'
L Just received at the "Temple of Fash
ion," direct from New York and Baltimore, the
most beautiful and varied assortment of Millinery
and Fancy Goods ever before presented in this
market. They have been selected with the great
est care and consist of the latest Partisan Novel
ties in Bonnets, Hats, Ribbons, Flowers, Laces,
&c, together with Ready-Made Walking Suits
for ladies and children. Also Infants Robes in
endless variety. cordial invitation to call and
examine our unsurpassed assortment, extended
to each and all.
Stamping done at the shortest notice.
MRS. K. NJ. KELLEY.
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MORE NEW GOODSl +
AT /. WIFI & BROS,
MAIN STREET.
We have just received another supply Of Spring
and Summer Goods, of thelatest and most beau
tiful styles, consisting of
LADIES' l. GENTS DRESS GOODS,
LADIES' Il GENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
ST.aPLE s. Ea.V'CY
DRY GOODS.
And, in fact, everything kept in first class
Dry Goods House.
Give US a call, before purchasing, as we pledge
ourselves to sell good Goods as low as any other
House.
Our goods were purchased after the recent de-
cline and will be sold at very small profit.
va Everything guaranteed as represented.
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Professional Cards.

N11IYY Office, SouthSide Main Street at
his old stand.
Artificial teeth mounted on Gold. Silver and
Vulcanite.
All operations erformedin the Notwithstanding
and skilful manner with strict regard to Perma-
nancy and warranted to compete witha n work
done in the cities.
Thanking the people of Augusta andt sur
rounding Counties for their very liberalpatron-
age prior to, during and since the war, l re-
pectfully solicitits continuation
The highest price paid for old gold and
silver plate. June 1-tf
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To CLEAN FLINT GLASS BoTTLEs, DEcAN-
TIERS, ETc.-Roll up, in small pieces, some
whitey-brown or blotting- paper then wet
and soap the same; put them into the v s.
sci, with a little luke warm water shlke
them we'll for few minutes then rinse
the glass with clean water, and it will be as
bright and clear as when new from the
shops
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Poetry.
BY W. HUNT TILFoRD.

Ills Sweet, Though Sad. at Even.