Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-09-01

EVER PRODUCED,
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facilities to the student as will not be
disregarded. It must add materially to
the prosperity of the University. Indeed,
we understand that her prospects are
brighter than for years past. May her
light burn with undiminished lustre for
generations yet unborn, and may her sons
and her sons sons rise up and call her
blessed. ~ BOTEToURT.
An Hour Around the Pool Of
tsiiOam.
Correspondence of the Staunton VINDICAToR.1
Hot SPRINGS, Aug.
Mark my words
This is very serious exclamation, what
ever you may think Of it 1t WAS used by
Spurinna when he told Caesar about the
Ides of March; David said it to Absalom
before he had to pick him out of a tree; the
witch of Endor said it to Saul when
telling him that his chances for third
term were gone; and, if 1 mistake not, the
INDICATOR made the same remark to
the Republicans when it informed them
that they couldn't carry Staunton. So,
when I say, ''Mark my words, this place
will be great medical establishment in
stead of a watering place in ten years from
now," you may be sure there is something
in it. AS a watering place it has rivals, as
a health establishment it can have none.
To-day it presents some of the marked fea-
lures of one, and is daily stealing further
in that direction.
'sThose two new buildings" said Mr..
August, the manager, ''are only part Of
the great building that we are going to
erect. They are in place of the bath
houses burned last year, and are worth
$4,000. You might call them the wings Of
the coming one. Between them will be d
large hotel for the sick, five stories high,
the ascent being made by elevators, so
there will be no going up and down stairs
for the sick. There will be parlors, bath
rooms, halls, electric bell indicators, every
thing that 2 frst-class hotel has, and every
room in it kept at the same temperature,
so as to prevent the chill Of changed tenn
perature so troublesome to rheumatic pa
tients. The timber is already out and
dressed by our own mandatory on the
grounds, which is run by the power Of the
water from the Hot Spring flooring,
sashes, and all. The stone work is already
done, and when the season closes we will
go right to work on it. On the top of that
mountain is plateau as level as this
miles long, and where we will have some
summer houses to which the visitors can
drive, and an observatory with telescopes,
to take in the scenery for miles around. -
This is the talk of young man, for Au-
gust is a young man with vim and fire in
side of his walstcoat and level head on
his shoulders, and therefore is likely to be
carried out. 1t isn't like an old man talk
ing. An old man talks about how he
means to do this, and how he means to
improve that, and just as you are expect
ing him to commence, you get an invita-
ton to his funeral. It always touches me
to see an old man hopeful about things of
the world. He will tell you Of all sorts of
plans -and he has plans for everything
without ever thinking of that most i'm
portant plan of all, escaping an introduc
tion to the undertaken. What excuse an
old man has for not being Christian is a
great puzzle to me. Perhaps we never
know we are old till all the world has found
it out for us.
Speaking Of undertakers, I think l know
Of man that they could handle to advan-
| tage-Mr. Trotter, that runs those stages
to the Springs. He has a first -rate, and
what is rare, q most accommodating agent
here, Capt. Waldo M. Allen, formerly
Mayor of Staunton; the drivers are care
| full, the horses are good enough, and the
time is regular, but the stages simply
I damnable. A man feels after an hour Of
two in one of them like he would just like
4 to be behind fence with a double-bar
relied gun as old man Trotter went by anl
give him both barrels. 1t would be {
sweet surprise.
You know why headed this letter will
Sloan? You think it is only because tn
cripples and diseased and all that hang
around the edge of the pool But it,
more than that. You remember the poo
Of Sloan was stirred by an angel now ant
then, and the patients went in at once be
before the troubling ceased and wer
healed. Well. at the Hot Springs jus
that water troubling occurs. The Sprin'
is perfectly still except the ripple made b
:. the yelling up Of the water, but at lon
, intervals, several weeks, often longer apart
, there comes burst Of water throwing IL
"a column two feet high, and whoever get
lin right then is more benefited than at an
.other time. There is a stronger impregna
tion Of the water then. The superstition
Israelites attributed their troubling to- a.
angel, the wiser people of this generation
see in it the hand of Him who made tn
/ world and gave it its laws.
/ The manager here, Mr.. James 7. Au
I gust, had d narrow escape the other day
/ He was out on the Warm Spring Noun
1 tain showing some guests the scener
+ Through an admirable glass he owns, and
+ storm coming up, he moved the glass from
[ the tripod and went into house for shell
( tee. They had hardly gotten away whe
/ lightning struck the tripod and scattered il
/ Ehe company at the Hot includes Gov
! Salisbury, of Delaware, brother Of SEM
/ tor salisbury, and several prominent phys
! clans from CINCINNATI.
Would you allow me in closing, to inforl
/ you that ! have found pearl of great pric
which. in Staunton society will be invalu;
BILE. 1t is new slang phrase. eff thu
was me, said our driver, land that hors
was to carry on so, I'd hit him a bel
snoozer over the nose" A bellsnoozel
It will be long time before there is al