Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-12-11

| the returned Y lrglnlalls. They were dlned
daily at his charming residence when they
could be caught, and his watchful care of
them is remembered wildly. The business
place of the firm, 1873 Gravier street, WAS
the headquarters. The citizens who ac-
companied the knights were quartered
generally at the City Hotel.
SARAH.-You have not,heard from her :?
Few of US thought that she would write.
When she appeared on our floor, she was
colored and thirteen years old, and she
hadn't improved much on that when she
left. She produced certificate that she
was a nurse. 1t was badly written, and
many of us thought she had written it her
SELF After she had BEEN there a month
| we were sure of it, She had on a calico
dress cut with q polonaise, and a string of
| blue beads around her neck, and a pair of
mems CATERS very long at the toes, and a
/ tasty bunch Of red ribbon in her hair
which had kinks III it so tight that it look
ed as if it had been made by machinery
/ Some of us thought that if she we're
searched a letter from the oyerseers Of the
poor would be found in her pocket, but
none of us searched her. Nobody could
have improved faster than Sarah did. 1t
wasn't two months before she was fitted
out in the cast off finpry of the floor but
she was true to herself, she discarded moth
ing and all of us remember the ouds ard
| ends of the old calico and the poionaise
] that peeped ont from rents in the new uni
form She never discarded the beads either
! She improved them by tying little bits Of
ribbon on them, and when one Of the
ladies on our floor put Oh a loclzet Sarah
/, promptly sported the top of backing box
! well rubbed up. She said she was nurse
| though few of us ever saw her nurse any
| thing but her hair, but she gave us all a
| great deal Of exercise Of the lungs. From
morning till night her name rang through
our hall, and we have often seen male
! boardeI So excited that they would Say
'tWhere che devil is that gill NOM" She
was rever there when you wanted her,
| but she made it up 10y being always there
| when you didn't want her Ii modest
young man wanted to change his shirt !,
confusion. but she made it square by always
| being al her ''aunt's'' if thirsty man
wanted pitcher of water. To her credit
| he it said, however, though a professional
nurse, she spared the life Of every child
in the house. She burnt them lighting
| parlur matches, she threw them out of
| the swing, she turned them over in the
wagon. she took two of them to he1
'aunt's" where they got tie cholic from
| cold cabbage, but all of us can gratefully
| testify that she ddn' kill them dead. Per-
haps he next most curiotls thing to Sarah
was Ter aunt" who appeared on the
premises in all forms. If it was a fat wo-
man, On a lean woman, OF a crOss-eyed WO-
man, it was always her ''aunt." And the
places she lived If Sarah was gone an
hour, it was to her ''aunt's," and if it was
five minutes it was her ''aunt's." No one
could tell how far she lived. Perhaps she
would have lived longer with us, if hadn't
been for a backing box. She couldn't
find it one morning and she took refuge
in the stove polish. Ferguson looked like
he had en- a couple Of well polished coffee
pots. We saw Sarah scudding up the pas
sage followed by q shower Of silver shining
boots and Sunday morning oaths. We
have never seen her since. Perhaps she will
write.
There are few housekeepers that don't
know Sarah.
The HEBREW FEAST OF LIGHTS The
Hebrew Feast Of Lights, commemorative
OF the heroic deeds of Judas Maccabee5,
began 10 be celebrated in the families Of
Israelites Thursday evening. Antiochus
Epiphanes conquered Judes, and upon
making d tour through that country he
commanded the Hebrews to forsake their
laws and customs and adopt those preva-
lent among Grecians and other people at
the time. He prohibited the reading Of
the Pentatetch in the Hebrew houses of
worship, and ordered the Islaelites to wor-
ship the gods of Greece. He despoile0 tile
Temple at Jerusalem of a great portion Of
the sacred vessels, and placed upon its
walls paintings of the kings and heroes of
SYRIA. and statues of the great men Of his
in subjugating the people Of Palestine to
his will lie met considerable opposition at
| Modn, a village in Judra, the inhabitants
of which did not seem willing to Obey his
mandates. The father of Judas MAcca-
bees urged his sons to take up arms against
| the tyrant, and under the leadership of
Judas small army was gathered, who, in
splred with a love for the laws of their
country, expelled the host of Antiochus
from Judea After their victories they
returned to the Temple, singing hymns of
praise and thank giving, and displaced the
| pictures and statues put there by the Sy-
rian monarch. They then rededicated the
| Temple, and illuminated it for eight days
| in honor of their achievements on the field
of battle. 1t is ut present customary
among the orthodox lsraelites to light Il
number of tapers each evening, and an ad-
ditional light for each night during the
festival, in c0mmemoration of the events
which TRANSFERRED about 100 years ago
The festival will continue until Friday
evening next,