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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-08-15
Poetry.
BEAUTIFUL HANDS.

Such beautiful, beautiful hands |
They are neither white nor small,
And you know would scarcely think
That they were fair at ALL
I've looked on hands whose form
sculptor's dream might be,
Yet are these wrinkled, aged hands
Most beautiful to me.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands
Though heart-torn, weary and sad,
These patient hands kept toiling on
That the children might be glad,
/ almost weep as looking back
To childhoods distant day,
! think how these hands rested not,
While mine were at their play.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands
They're growing BILE now,
For time and pain have left their mark
In hands aud heart and brow.
Alas alas ! the nearing time,
And the sad, sad day to me,
When, meath the daisies out of sight,
These folded hands will be.
But, oh beyond this shadow lamp,
When all is bright and fair,
I'll know full we'll these dear old hands
With palms of victory rare,
Where crystal streams through endless year
Flow over golden sands,
And where the old grow young again,
Tll clasp my mothers hands.
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SAVE THE BEST Fowls FOR BRzzD1Na.-
1t is the worst possible policy to kill all
the best and handsomest fowls, and save the
mean and scraggy ones to breed from. This
is precisely the way to run out your stock ;
for like tends to breed like, and the result
is, that by continually taking away the best
birds, and using the eggs of the poorest,
your flock will grow poorer and poorer eve
ry succeeding year.
1t would seem as though this was too
plsin to be insisted upon, but, in fact, line
upon liue' is needed. 1t is the crying want
OF poultry upon the farms the country
through this careful and intelligent selec-
ton OF the best for breeding.
Nothing is lost by little self.denial to
start with. The extra pound or two Of poul-
try flesh that you leave on its legs, instead
Of sending it to the market, is as good seed
and will bring forth ten fold and twenty
fold in your future broods Save your best
stock for breeding.
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MATCHMAKING.
" AMI DIT A

UTAGON.MAKING.
w AND BLACKSMITHIEG-
The undersigned. formerly of Churchville, has
opened Wagon-making and Blacksmithing
establishment, on
NEW COURT HOUSE ST., STANTON, VA
next door to the Carriage Factory of Capt.
Waters where he is prepared to execute all work
in his line, out of good material, in the best
manner and at low fAures..
~ REPAIRING promptly done and all
work warranted.
Ma. also manufacture FASIG'S PATENT
J LIFTING JACK, the grea ties thing out and in
dispensable to farmers generally. Call and set
it.
febI4 JAS. NJ. LICKLITER.
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BREAKFAsT CAKEs.-One quart milk,
seven eggs, piece Of butter the size of an
egg, enough rye -four to make very thin.
batter. Beat the yolks Of the eggs and the
butter together, add half the milk, then sift
in the -four and pat in the whites Of the
eggs beaten very light, salt to taste, and
pour in the rest Of the milk.
Rssh Boil pint Of milk and melt in is
a quarter pound Of butter !; beat pound of
sugar with two eggs and pour over Thorn the
boiling milk, stirring all the time. When
nearly cold, stir in half a teacup of yeast, q
teaspoonful of salt, and -four enough to
make stiff batter, in which, when light,
knead in sufficient -four to make soft dough.
and grated nutmeg let it rise again tilH
very light, then make into shake aud bake.
When they come out Of the oven dust a liz
tie sugar over them.
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r. BURKE'S
BAR ROOM AND RESTAURANT

(D1AGoNALLY OPPOSITE VIRGINIA HOTEL
STANTON, VA.
The BAR is supplied with best County Whis-
key, Certificate of purity exhibited if desired }
Best BOURBON and MARYLAND WHISKEY,
BRANDIES, WINES. &C., and an elegant as
sortment of CIGARS.
ALE AND BEER, fresh and on draught, in
the only "Improved Cooling Pump" in the city.
and served in Tom Burke's Model Mammoth
Glasses.
THE RESTAURANT will be con stantly sup
piled with every thing in season and at moderate
prices.
LODGING. 25cts.
maYG.
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VOL 2s
Business Cards.

Me- Entrance on the left ~
AFTER CROSSING LEWIS CREEK BRIDGE
Having recently leased the above Stables, late
" occupied by Ed. Burke, and having supplied
them with every adjunct to complete livery,
we are now prepared TO furnish our friends, and
the public generally, with anything they may
need In that line.
Our horses are young, fresh, fast, and
we'll 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 hours
with single or double buggies, riding horses, for
ladies and gentlemen, Carriages, Spring wagons
&c. Parties wishing to visit Weyer's Cave
would do well to give us call.
Horses fed by the day, month or year, at usual
rates.
Special attention given to the sale of stock.
We still occupy the extensive stabling at the
old National Stable ground, where our friends
(if they find it more convenient to call) can be
accommodated as heretofore.
Hoping, by strict attention to our own brsi-
ness, to merit continuance of the favor shown
US in other places we respectfully solicit share
of the public patronage. decs-t.
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FROSTED GRASS BAD FOR MILKING Cows.
We have been told by one of our most
careful dairymen, that he has found his COWS
invariably to fall off in their milk, when they
have free access to frosted pastures Late
in the fall he husbands the thrift and gen.
eral good health Of his cows, obtained from
the summer feeding. and tries to keep
up their status. On cold nights they are
kept in the barnyard, and have besides their
barn, some sown corn fodder or little hay
and are not turned out in the fields till to-
wards midday, when frost is melted. It is
always better economy to keep cows up to-
their milk and in good condition, than to
recover them after they get below or fall of.
While cow. well wintered, ,is said to be
half summered, it is also true that COW
we'll summered, and up to the time of going
into winter quarters, may be said to be half
wintered.
We recommend our dairy farmers to ex-
pertinent little with cotton seed meal
While promoting the secretion of milk, IL
also keeps up nutrition.
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Business Cards

Business Cards.
MCCLURE & MILLER,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
and COMMISSION MER CHANTS,
Opposite G. & o. r. R. Freight Depot.
SOLE AGENTS FOR
Snow Hill Kanawha Salt Works,
JAMES RIVER CEMENT WORKS,
JACKSON & CO.'S CELEBRATED KEROSENE
and LUBRICATING OILS.
1000 barrels Kanawha Salt
500 barrels Flour
100 kegs Nails,
100 boxes chewing tobacco,
rs boxes smoking tobacco,
80 kegs Burden Horse shoes,
10 kegs Burden mule shoes,
so barrels sugar
30 barrels coffee,
so barrels kerosene oil-test no.
rs barrels lubricating,
Is barrels molasses,
20kbarrels crackers,
100 barrels cement
100 barrels IA, No. l" Lime,
SO boxes candles,
so boxes glass,
10, 900 lbs. bacon at Jobber's prices to mer
chants. apl. l.
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LIVE STocK.-All kinds need some at
tention now-the horses, mules and oxen,
that they are regularly fed and watered and
If possible, not overworked sheep should
be supplied with tar, over which salt is
strewn. as protection against the fly which
deposits the eggs from which tho grubs or
worms in the head are produced hogs
ought to receive green food. Or have The
run Of clover field.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-08-15

For scratches in horses take whisel pine
pitch rosin. oeeswax and honey, one ounce
each ; fresh lard, one half pound mels
well together over slow SIRE, stir till quite
thick so that the parts may not settle and
separate. This also makes an application
for harness galls,cu and sores Of all kinds.
on horses and cattle.
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j. fl. g. Y. IN. BICKLE

~ sNs - II SN' LII NHA
before purchasing elsewhere, as we are deter
mined to sell our goods as cheap, if not little
cheaper, than can be bought in the city. We
are now receiving a large lot of NEW and
ern cities for cash, and will sell for cash for less
than any other house in Stanton. Give US a
call.
We keep always on land large supply of
Cane and Wood seat Chairs Bureaus, Bedsteads,
Washstands, Tables, Lounges Mattresses, and
Parlor and Chamber sets in Walnut, Mahogany
and Oak. manufactured in our shop of dry ma
terial and by the best of workmen. Give US q
call. Guarantee work to suit and prices to tit.
Fisk's metallic cases and caskets always on
hand. Undertaking promptly attended to.
Vs. Main ST., Staunton, one door above Lu-
theran Church. decl
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Obj StauntOn Dinoifator.
FARM AND FIREsIDE

FLOWER. GARDEN AND LAwN.-The most
important consideration this month is weeds.
tits easy to write-indeed we have written
it-'let not weed be seen," but how diff.
6cult it is to carry out the teaching. When
We think bed or border is perfectly clean,
some rascally weed that has in its early
stages sheltered itself under plant wild
show its head in defiance Not long ago
we visited place that has the reputation Of
being the best kept of any in the country,
| and we must own to malicious sort of sat
isfaction at finding here and there weed.
Weeds in flower beds are not difficult to
keep under, but
Weeds IN Ldaons are a trouble. Frequent
moving soon disposes of the annual ones,
| and the perennials under this treatment, be.
ing generally broad lea we'd, are SO weaken.
ed that the grass soon crowds them out
In England they have a continuance that
let's down few drops of sulpburic acid into
the heart of a plantain or other weed, and is
said to be effective in exterminatipg them.
Dah1ias are largely stick and strings, for
if not kept well supported they will break
down just at the time when they ought to
bloom. 1t is often necessary besides the
main stake to supply smaller stakes to the
larger branches.
Chrysanthemums should not be neglected
during the summer Pinch into shape, and
keep clear of insects. Caterpillars and
pIaLt-lice will do much injury if not pre-
vented.
Roses.-Tbe Chinas and Teas are to be
Gu, back as fast as they bloom The Re.
mortaDts will often flower in fall if tho
plants have not been weakened by the depre-
dations Of insects.
Fuchsias do best in partial shade, and
are more satisfactory grown in pots upon
vsranda than when beded out. They must
not be allowed to suffer from dryness. Cut.
tings of the young shoots root very readily.
Gladioluses will need stakes to their
flower stems or they are apt to bend with
their own weight and grow crooked As
soon as spike is out Of flower cut it away.
The same remark applies to
LILIES which are especially apt to become
tup.heavy. They are subject to attack of
small white caterpillar that eats the under
side of the leaves. We have never found
them too numerous to remove by hand-pick.
ing.
Seeds should always be saved from the
choicest flowers, and all clusters not wanted
for seed should be removed as soon as their
beauty has passed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-08-07
WHOLE NO. 1919

"lIow many kinds of crude sugar
are there ?"
"Three-cane sugar, fruit sugar and
milk sugar. Cane sugar is found in
sugar cane, Indian corn stalks, sorg
hum, beets, melons, sweet potatoes,
cocoanuts, chestnuts, palm trees, birch
trees and sugar maple. Cane sugar
IS three times as sweet as milk or fruit
sugar. Syrup contains a good deal
OF huit sugar, generated by fermenta-
ton, etc. Therefore syrup is not 50
sweet as pure sugar dissolved in wat
en- Beet sugar smells badly, and
sorghum has too much acidity. They
both contain salt, to remove which is
very expensive. They are things of
the past when sugar cane can be had
reasonable and in sufficient quantities.
In Europe brown sugar is not used;
white is considered cheaper and bet
ter.-EH Perkins, IN Daily Gguphic.
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How TO Make an EOIian Harp.

1t is not at all difficult to construct
an Eolian hap, and you will OBJ
sci We closely the following directions
we think you will be amply repaid for
Crying once more" The first al ticle
necessary, is smoothly planed,
white pine board. about six inches
vide and half an inch thick; the
length must be governed by width
of window-the board should slip in
easily. Next you will require two
bridges, seven inches long, two inches
wide at one end, and half an inch at
the other; in thickness they should
be same as first Divide board into
eleven or twelve equal parts, and
place a tack at each division on the
auader side at the ends. Next you
will require some common spool silk /;
the first string should be composed of
but one strand, the second of tacO
strands, the third of three, and so on,
the twelfth having twelve. Twist
strands of each string well together
and wax thoroughly Tie strings to
taclis drawing them tight. Slip your
bridges between the board and strings
draw them gradually to the extreml-
ties OF the board, and your harp is
ready for use. TO apply it to the
window let it rest upon the sill, half
in and half out, keeping it level by
placing small blocks or feet upon the
under side. Draw the window down
to within an inch ofthe top string,
and create draft by opening an op-
posite door or window.
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From the New York Observer.

"Cast thy burdens upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee.'-Ps. 30 : %.
As the sentiment of the following
lines has proved a support and COM
fort to the writer, he sends them to
the Observer, in the hope that they
may prove useful to others:
| would not dstrlst him nor fear if could,
For al things 10 Christians WI work for their
good;
There's not, then, an i'll that can ever betide,
Jehovah hath said it, "the Lord vii provide"
Though the clouds that ensf 'oud us are heaN !
with gloom,
The light that shines though them our faith
will illume
And when we are doubtfr'l which way wo shall
Well cling to the hand that has led us safe
tho.
If ever we're anxious for clothes or for bread
Wen think how the ravens and sparrows arc
fed;
For He who thus feeds the w'd bids of the /"
Win not leave lis children in want or despa'"
Though the labors, and trials, and Burdens Of
life,
With losses and crosses and dangers are rife,
Well roll al our burdens on Jesus, our friend,
Who'll free us and bear us safe through to the
end.
o then let us trust him, obey, and adore,
Ill the days of our pilgrimage here shall be
DER.
Then join the bright cho" on the banks of the
river
And sing hallelujah for ever and ever.
Norwich, Conn.,, July 5th, 1873. G. F. NJ.
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The Republican journals have
for years past displayed in startling
headlines each month the great re-
duction being made of the public debt
That these figures have been doctor
ed" so as to deceive the public, we
have always in our own mind believ-
ed. In his last annual report Secre-
tary Boutwell, estimated that at the
close of the present fiscal year, June
80, 1878, the surplus ofreceipts over
expenditures would admit Of the ap-
plication of $44,S00,000 toward the
reduction of the public debt. The
year has terminated, and the debt has
only been reduced S19,175,967.SO-
in the face of the tact that the reven-
ues were increased about SlO,OO0,000.
AT the above rate of annual reduction
it will require over 100 years to en-
tinguish the national debt.
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lrvest wheat rose to the extraordin-

Ilul NSOU W llCdu lOoS w NhS SNoA "Ni'Ah
ary price of forty five shilling quar-
ter, it fell Immediately after to five
shillings and four pence. Beef and
pork were half-penny, mutton was
three farthings pound. So fixed by
the Sd stat. of the Oath of Henry
VIII. This law was, however, un-
popular with buyers and sellers. -
Therefore the custom was to sell
them by the head. The new arrange
ment of selling by the pound, since it
increased the cost, was very unpopular,
"for at that time say an old author,
"fat oxen were sold for six and twenty
shillings and eighteen pence the piece,
fat wethers for three shillinGs, fat
calves at a like price, and fat lambs for
twelve pence. The butchers of Lon
don sold penny pieces of beef for the
relief Of the poor-every piece two
pounds and u half sometime three
pounds-for a penny. Other articles
were in proportions: the best pig or
goose in q country maket could be
bought for four pence 4 good capon
for three pence Or four pence chick
en- for q penny a hen for two pence
Strong beer, such as we now buy for
eighteen pence a gallon, was then a
penny a gallon ; and table beer less
than half penny. French and Ger
man wines were eight pence the gal
lon ; Spanish and Portuguese wines a
shilling. This was the highest price
at which the best wines might be
sold and if there was any fault, in
quality or quantity, the dealer forfeit
ed four times the amount"
The price of Rents cannot be fixed
upon so accurately, for Parliament did
not interfere with it. Bishop Latin
er says "his father was yeoman, had
farm of three or four pounds year,
whereon he raised enough to keep
half dozen men,-he had room for
one hundred sheep, and thirty COWS.
He found the king a harness and a
horse and went himself to the Black
heath Field. He sent young Latimer
to school, married off his daughter S
with five pounds or twenty mobiles each,
was hospitable, and gave money to
to the Church." This was certainly
considerable revenue from Il farm rent
ING at less than 5000 of our green
back currency. All such calculations
of course, are only approximate, but
we may estimate that penny (about
two cents) was worth, in the time OF
Henry the With, as much as q
shilling (25 cents) at the present time.
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
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How a Girl Helps TO Clean House.

She is perfectly willing to help. She
tells her mother she would just as lief
stay at home a week as not, and in
forms her teacher, with semi-triumph-
hant air, that she has to stay home
next week to help clean house.
The carpets are to be taken up first,
and that girl, delicately reared though
she be, bravely sits down in the mid
die of the floor and reads a paper
while her mother and hired girl take
out the tacks and make frantic efforts
to use the same form Of common pray
er that the head of the house uses
when his boots don't come on easily
in the morning.
The carpet is rolled up and taken
out into the back yard and hung on
the clothes line to be busted. Now
the girl comes out strong and shows
the latent energy that is in her. She
seizes an old broom and starts towards
the swinging calpet with an ait of
determination. On her way she
spies her friend Kate passing and
goes off to the side fence TO talk about
an hour and q half about-well, about
whatever girls do talk about under
the same circumstances. Then she
goes into the house and eats her din
ner and complains of being tired.
In the afternoon she begins dusting
and arranging the books in the book
case. She finds, pretty soon, one OF
Ouida's novels, and sits down on the
floor to read, while the ink, from
bottle she knocks over when she
throws her duster on the table, runs
all over the parlor curtains stuffed
under the chair near by. Her moth
er finds her there, and sends her into
the parlor to gather up her music
ready for to-morrow's campaign. She
gets along well enough with her fin
Ger exercises and marches, but present
w she comes across Don't be angry
with me, Darling" that Robert gave
her last week, and begins to hum it.
She opens the piano to find the key
note, to be certain she can take the
high note nicely, and begins to sing.
1t don't sound well without the ac-
compartment that Robert thought
was so sweet, so she sits down and be-
gins to play. While she is practising
Robert comes along. He hears her.
He stops. He enters. She steps
He wants to hear that sweet song.
Come in only for that. She is too
hoarse. She couldn't think Of sing
ing with her hair tied up in towel,
but she does.
Robert sighs as the song ends, and
she proposes game of croquet. They
go out and play croquet till tea-time.
-Icyre Hd,te Free Press.
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Written for this Paper.
"Merrie England

In modem times in England, and
also to certain extent in America,
it has become Il practical question
whether the larger advantages was
derived from large estates or from a
large number Of small proprietors.-
On the one hand capital and con-
centrated energy can produce large
results in crops, while spirit of self
repecting manhood is pestered by a
large number of persons, being inter
estcd, in the welfare of the public
This question, for the time at least,
was settled by the peculiar arrange
mcnts of the Fcudal System--for al
though special privileges were con-
ferred upon the mobiles, yet they in
turn were subjected to restrictions
which would gall even the lowest
plebian of to-day. In 1886 4 law was
passed which dictated to the nobility
what they should eat At no time,
nor at any meal should any person be
served ''with more than two courses,
and each mess of two sorts of victuals
at the utmost, be it flesh or fish, with
the common sorts of pottage, without
sauce or any other sorts of victuals.-
And if any choose to have sauce tor
his mess, he may, provided it be not
made at great cost and If fish or
flesh lc, to be mixed therein, it shall
be of two sorts only, at the utmost,
either fish or flesh, end shall stand
instead of mess, except only on the
principal teasts of the year, Oh which
days man may be served with three
courses at the utmost after the manner
aforesaid" The chief persons in
England thus learned subsection, and
so downward, through all the state
of society there was a regular depend
ence of rank of people upon another
This fact throwing great power into
the hands Of a few great families, gave
opportunity for great wars, which for
centuries devastated England. In
the plays Shakespeare, we have
perfect picture of "Merrie England.
Sir John Falstaff would be an imposi
bility now. The implicit freedom
the ready gallantry, the intense loyal
ism, are now no longer possible
The great ''shins ofbeefs" cooked, anG
the enormous fire places are still seer
at Oxford and in the great public
schools of England in the old halls
4 of Rugby and Eton, the great vats for
: ale there, are no more. 1t was rlcf
AGE for honor, when an oath was KEEP
inviolable, before the din of moder1
= controversies and the emascu'ation ot
Il modern thought.
1t seems strange to us, but as
= matter of fact, in the era of the Tudor
wages and prices were regulated b.
acts of Parliament. Wheat in th
fou teenth century averaged ten pence
a bushel, barley three shillngs tn
= quarter. Wheat fluctuated more thai
other cereals in price. A table of tn
possible variations ranging fror
eighteen pence to twenty shillings tn
quarter. The average being 'six an
and eight pence" When the pric
was above this, none, save the mercf
ant, were allowed to import-whe
u below-the farmers were allowed t
export Tn the twelve years fror
1851 to 1862, although once before
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-08-07

He who teaches religion without
exemplifying it, loses the advantage
of its best argument.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-08-07

"A negro witness on horse trial
in a New Jersey court was asked to
explain the difference between u small
box and a stall. Strengthening him
self up, he pointed to the square en-
closure in which the judge was seated,
and said, "Dat ar's what l call box
stall, dere what dat old hoss is sittin' !"
1t took the sheriff some time to re-
store order in that court.