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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-03
Poetry.
A MISUNDERSTANDING

A MISUNDERSTANDING
1t was a very aged man
met long time ago;
The color of his face was tan,
His beard was white as snow,
A trfe faltering was his walk,
A trifie stammering was his talk;
But everin the saddest tones
He crooned this simple rhyme:
1.-THE same are women, maids OF crones,
In every age and cline;
Mems hearts they use as stepping stones
Across the stream Of time.'
"Give o'er' cried, 'thou aged man!
Repeat those lines no more!
What if they do correctly scan?
The spirit deplore
I've known of women, hundreds, who
Would discount men inbeing true;'
He answered-by repeating groans,
Grooming anew the rhyme.
1.-THE same are women. maids or crones,
In every age and cline:
Mems hearts they use assteppingstones
Across the stream of time.'
"But are all women thus?" asked.
''Are none to be exempt?
False were all smiles in which I've basked?
Vain all the dreams I've dreamt!
Can none be trusted? None believed?
Am r.; gasped, "by Maude dece1ved?''
His look pierced to my very bones;
Again he crooned this rhyme:
1.-THE same are women, maids or crones,
In every age and cline;
Mems hearts they use as stepping stones
Across the stream of time"
listened more attentively,
"a depot we were in;
Before the entrance gate stood he
His voice rose DER the din.)
When next he spoke moved more near;
could at last distinctly hear
What-spoken not in clearest tones
had supposed was rhyme:
"This way for Needham, Windsor, Doanes!
Iniyery stage at Lyme!
Please pass right through! This stops at Stones!
Next steamboat train at miner"
The Magenta
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-03
Baltimore Advertisements.

Baltimore Advertisements.
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conduct the
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Our regular sales of Furniture &c. will take
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Sales OF Real Estate Stocks at Stores and Pr
vate Dwellings taken at any time, upon moder-
ate terms.
Consignments solicited and cash advances
made when required.
BROKER & LEWIS, Auctioneers,
No. 239 W. Bait. St., near Charles
72jun23y Baltimore.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-03

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ianl4-tf
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-03

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eP MANUFACTURER AND
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
AKuLE THAT WORKS BOTH wars.

We have recently quoted sermons
from eminent Protestant ministers in
which they oppose the expulsion of
the Protestant Bible from the public
schools, and proclaim the doctrine
that this is Protestant country and,
therefore the King James version of
the Bible has an exclusive right of adj
mission to the schools. What will
these champions say when told that
this very logic is used in New Mexico
to justify the use of the Catholic BIZ
BILE in the schools. The Catholic
clergymen of that territory argue that
as the population is ninetenths CathO-
lie, the schools should be Catholic;
hence Douai Bible is read in them, the
Catholic catechism is taught, and
prayers according to. the ritual form
part of the school exercises. 1t is
evident from this difficulty to be found
in the assumption that this is Prot
estanf, or Catholic, or even Christian
country for, while come parts of it
are Protestant, others are Catholic,
Others are Mormon, and the time may
come when some portion may be
Buddhist. The only safe rule seems
to be that there shall be no religions
nor religious textbooks of any kind
whatever, in the schools, but that peo-
pie may learn out of school any reli-
gious textbooks they incline te.-Re-
publicd7i-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
WHAT Is THE sun?

Professor Rudolph, in lengthy pa
per on the sun says: A molten or
white hot mass, S56, 600 miles in diam-
eter, equaling in bulk ], ,260, 900 worlds
like our own, having surrounding
ocean of gas on fire $1,000 miles deep.
tongues of flame darting upward more
than $1,000 miles, volcanic forces that
hurl into the solar atmosphere lumin-
Gus matter to the height of 100000
miles drawing to itself all the worlds
belonging to our family of planets, and
holding them all in their proper places !:
attracting with such superior force the
millions of solid and stray masses that
are wandering in the fathomless abyss
that they rush helplessly toward him,
and fall into his fiery embrace. And
thus he continues his sublime and rest
less march through his mighty orbit,
having period of more than 1S,OOO,-
600 Of years.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
TIE cuRE FOR GOSSIP.

DR.. Holland, in Scribner's, gives us
the following: What is the cure for
gossip? Simply. culture. There is
great deal of gossip that has no malig-
nifty in it. Good-natured people talk
about their neighbors because, and on
" because, they have nothing else to
talk about. As we write, there comes
to us the picture OF family of young
ladies. We have seen them at h0mf.
we have met them in galleries of art,
we have caught glimpses of them GO
ing from a book store, or library,
with a fresh volume in their hands.
When we meet them they are full of
what they have seen and read. They
are brimming with questions. One
topic of conversation is dropped only
10 give place to another, in which they
are interested. We have left them,
after delightful hour, stimulated and
refreshed and during the whole hour
not neighbor's garment was soiled
by so much as touch. They had
something to talk about. They know
something. and wanted 10 know " more.
They could listen as well as they could
talk. Te speak freely of neighbor's
LONGS and belongings would have
seemed an impertinence to them, and,
Of course, all improperly. They had
10 temptation TO gossip, because the
Ioings of their neighbors formed a
subject very much less interesting
'han those which grew out of their
knowledge and their culture.
And this tells the whole story. The
confirmed gossip is either always ma
icious or ignorant. The one variety
needs change of heart and the other
a change of pasture. Gossip is always
a personal confession, either of malice
or imbeciiity, and the Young should
aot only shun it, but by the most
thorough culture relieve themselves
from all temptation to indulge in it.
1t is low, frivolous. and too often q
dirty business There are country
in which it RACES like
pest. Our churches are split in pieces
by it. Naighbors are made enemies
by it for life. In many persons it de-
generates into a chronic disease,
which is practically incurable. Let
The young cure it while they may.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
IMAGINATION,

Imagination has a marvellous eject
on mind and body. In proof Of which
good story is told of a certain Dublin
professor, whose special hobby was
good ventilation. One night at ho-
tel he was put in room with another
guest, and feeling the air too close, he
asked his companion to raise the win
dow Il can't raise it, said the guest,
after making several vain attemps.
Then knock out a pain of glass; said
the Professor; which was done. After
a while he got up himself and broke
ou: another pane, aud then he was
able to breathe freely and to sleep.
But in the morning it was discovered
that they had only broken into the
bookcase.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
TREATMENT OF SORE rHsoa

In case Of ordinary sore throat, the
simplest and best treatment is the wet
pack, using linen cloth wrnng from
cold water, and over this knit or
crocheted yarn band, four feet long
and four inches wide. Apply this
two or three nights in succession, un-
less it is a very serious case, when the
pack should be kept on during the
day. If taken off in the morning
wash the throat in very cold water,
and rub dry with coarse towel and
with the hand. This will prevent
taking more cold. The more friction
used the better; let it be a sort of
squeezing of the parts so as to affect
the deep seated tissues. Sore throats
may be prevented by these means from
becoming chronic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

faintest sound, her eyes to see th,
slightest movement under the bed.
AT last, in the mirror, she saw the
dark body move. She could distin
gnish hand with Stay! Was iha
! gleam knife? 81 am to be mur.
dered them" and with the calmness oi
despair she watched.
! The knife had a terrible fascination
! for her; now it flashed in the blue
light, as the man slowly emerged from
the bed, crawling fiat on bis face. :
Was there nothing she could do
Must she simply wait until the man
rose to kill her?
"If only had rope" she thought,
"I could make a slip-noose and throw
1t over his head!
So thinking, she mechanically glanc.
ed about the room. Her eye caught
sight of picture hanging on the wall
by stout cord. Quick as thought
the picture was unhung, the cord in
her trembling hands. She could hear
the slow, cautious movements. Should
she be too late? At last the moose is
made. No need now TO watch the
mirror.
The mans head and shoulders were
all out from under the bed. At the
moment he raised himself, glanced in
the mirror and saw Jennie sitting up.
He saw her but one moment. lie half
turned, with his legs and part of his
body still under the low bed. But in
that moment the moose feb over him,
and Jennie was pulling at the scarlet
rope with all her strength.
The next morning when the servant
went to call Miss Linsee, she knocked
again and again. Obtaining no reply
the woman went to her young mistress
telling her that her guest must be i'll
Alice was not in the least disturbed,
but with light song on her lips
danced down the corridor.
"Jennie," she cried, knocking at her
friends door, "may come in p
No reply came, but in its stead
low gurglins laugh-Jenny had such
a pretty laugh. Frightened, she knew
not why, Alice opened the door and
went i'm.
The wax candles burned low in the
silver sconces, shedding their yellow
light on .he bed where Jennie sat.
| iugbing idiotically, still holding in
her strong, white hands the ends OF
the scarlet rope. On the floor. halt
under the bed, lay the dead body of
a man.
lie must have had murderers face
living; but dead, who can describe
It? The eyes were starting from the
head, and seemed to watch ones every
| cannot describe the scene as it was |
described 10 me, nor would if could |
When they pitied Jennie, she burst
nto tears, and this alone, the doctor /!
aid, saved her reason and her life.
l have often read of hair turning
white in single night from terror. L
Wonder if this be so. | think not:
or if it were, Jennie Linsees fair
lair would to-day be as white as
lewly fallen snow.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
SAVED BY SCIENCE.
An Accused Mans Innocence Happily and
COnclusively Established

Conclusively Established.
After dinner the boarders gathered
in the parlor and told of their expert
ences. Magruder, who is by big odds
the greatest talker in the house, took
about half an hour to tell the follow
ing story:
"At house where | was living last
year, in Thirty-ninth street, there was
boarder who excited great curiosity.
lie came from Egypt, and his name
was Wenyxter. One morning when
we were standing on the back porch.
he took three cornered seed from his
pocket and thrust it into a flowerpot
on the rail. In less than five minutes
it had sprouted about six feet high, a
stalk like q sun-flower. One of the
boarders hung his hat on it for Jest.
lie turned moment to call attention
to the feat, and when he turned about
again the hat was beyond his reach !:
the stalk had grown six feet i'm as
many seconds. 1t was still growing
when the boarders went down town,
and when they came back to supper
they saw the stalk up above the roof OF
the hOus;, with several twists around
the chimney, and sticking up above il
like lightning-rod, with the rash
mans hat still on the end"
"With one exception" said Mr.. Mag
uiiin, looking hard at Magruder, "the
biggest liar ever knew lived in the
same house with me on Thirty eighth
street, he came from Abyssinia, and
his name was Gigyxter. And l may
add that, present company always eX
cepted, he was the longest winded
man ever knew. Talk? lie would
talk by the hour and bore the boarders,
and after he had driven two men crazy
the landlady secluded him somewhat
by making him take his meals alone at
a separate table. Bat he would keep
up his clatter-lightning on the people
in the halls and in their rooms. and
when he had exhausted every body he
would GO to his room and talk to
himself.
Gone night the boarding house was
burned down. Gigyxter lost his life
and in saving two ladies who roomed
on the top floor | got the scar which
you see here. Maguflin brushed the
hair off his forehead, revealing a slight
scratch. Suspicion fell upon poor
servant who had been discharged the
day before, and he was locked up in
the TOmbs on circum stantial evidence
that looked dead against him. Bnt
after the inquest, enlightened by the
testimony of those who had roomed
next to Gagyxter, that he had been
heard talking rapidly for an hour be-
fore the fire broke out. the surgeons
again examined the Abyssinian' re-
mains and proved beyond doubt the
innocence of the servant, by showing
conclusively that Gagyxtcr's coniinu-
Gus talking had made so much fric-
ton in his jaws that it set his head
afire, the flames communicated to the
room, the house went down, and Gag
yxter went up, beyond q doubt the
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
A GOOD NAME.

Inc othef day young African ask
ed us if it were "agin de law" Il
change his name. We replied that i
he had good name he had better
keep it, as a good name was one thing
to be desired in this world.
"1'se got pretty fair name. he said
''wat Use had ebcr since de war" but
it won't do for dis chile any moah."
"Why, what's the matter with 1t p
we asked.
"Well you see, boss, dar's fool mig
ger come hyar from Chillicoffee, an
he's a buzzin around wild my name,
and no two niggers can circumgate in
de same town unless one or de uder
OBJ ..em hab different prodognem."
Perhaps you can prevail on him to
adopt another name."
mo, sab offered him foah bits an
a raizor to call hisself something else
sides Geowge Washin'ten Jones, but
the yallar fool wouldn't do it,
"Yellow, is hep"
"Yes, sir, an dat's what makes me
so injurious bout ii. lie says de
Joneses was the furstest families in
Firginny, and dat he's condescended
in a direct line from dem, and conse-
quently darfoah values de name noah
exceedingly dan uderwise."
$50 you propose to off with the old
name and on with the new ?"
"Somethin' like that, l s'pose, boss.
An | wants to AK you de favor to se-
jest some disappropriate name datm
do for cuilud pusson oh standin.' l
don't soshate wid lie common low
class niggers, aud l wants name %
dere uncomprepension wat dey cant
steal you know"
How'll Benedict Arnold do?'
DE Arnold am tonish, foa suah, but
dar's too many Bennys and Dicks
around. Try anoder one, boss
well, Algernon Sartoris, how's
that?
Oats superlagant! Alegerneyman
Sartoris Arnoll-dat'll do for some Ob
de name. Please reach fur anuther
one, sab.
why, that's name enough. How
much do you want, for goodness sake p
Boss, you must member dat I'se
deekin in de church, an 'prietor OBJ a
house on lot
oh yes; well, lets see-BiIlAl p
'Dats too common
abraham Lincoln
Toe ordinary, sab Git up higher
'Phil Sheridan
Higher yet, sab, if you please
sWilliam Tecu.nsc Sher-'
stop, sab, dat's nuff-needn't feel
no furdcr. Willyum Cherkumsey-
that sounds like old Kaintuck-Will-
yum Cherkumsey Algerneyman Sar-
toris Arnold! Yes, sir, dat1l do-no
low-class nigger can get inside a dat.
You'se de so!um witness, boss, dat
oat's my name from hencefor'th on all
preccdn' time. I'se obliged to you,
sah.'
AS he walked majestically away, re-
peating the name over TO himself, he
was the proudest darkey inBrunswick.
Aud yet Shakespeare says there's
nothing in name.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
ORGANIZING THE FOIsTY-FIFTH CON
GRESS.

Saturday, when ''Big English" saw
that it was going to be a lonesom,
day for the bootblacks, he set his heaC
to work to devise something to break
the mOnotony. About 10 o'clock hs
got number of boys into the allie,
behind the Post Office, and organized
the "Forty fifth Congress" "BigEng.
lish is regular reader of the daily
papers, and he is great organizer. II
took him but fifteen minutes to get the
"House" and s.Senate" running SC
smoothly that lawyers and Others
looked down from their windows with
great interest.
"Who's liar ?" yelled whitehead.
ed boy. as he jumped up.
"Oh, dry up!" shouted "Sixth Ward
Tom.''
''Put him out-he was in the rebel
army!" called boy from Grand Riv-
er avenue.
"Some one dubbed my dog fifteen
years ago. and l can meyer forgive
him. howled Strawberry Bob.
''Git out the records and less see who
was loyul," put in Kings boy.
Big English raped on his box TO re-
store order, but Kink Tommy threw
up his hat and yelled:
81 moves for the aiscs and nozes."
'lie can't gag mel" shouted lathv
boy from Windsor.
"Lcss have salary grab," piped a
Congress street boy.
''The peepul won't stand it," whoop-
ed another.
"Ain't we the peepul ?" demanded a
boy on the railing.
care we one country?" asked the
Speaker as he rose up.
81 are, but you ain't!s yelped "Nick-
ETY. Nick
Doesn't one flag float for us all %
continued the Speaker
''It does about tax time!" screamed
a cross. eyed youth from Springwells.
Somebody kicked the honorable
Speaker. lie then struck the honor
able gentleman from Wisconsin, smash
ed at the honorable gentleman from
Georgia, and hair stood up and coat.
tails stood out. When the row had
quieted down, the honorable Speaker
''lt was pretty good for the fust
time, though you didn't abuse each
other enough. ."-DetroH Flee Press,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02
NOW.

Aii-c, for the day Is passing,
While you lie dreaming on:
Your brothers are cased in armor.
And forth TO the fight are gone;
Your place in the ranks awaits you
Each man has part to play;
The past and the future are nothing
In the face of the stern to day.
Arise from the dream of the future.
OF gaining hard-fought field.
OF storming the airy fortress,
or bidding the giant to yield;
lour future has deeds of glory,
Of honor God grant il may):
But your arm will never he stronger
Or needed as now-to-day.
Arise. If the past detain you,
The sunshine ami storms forget;
No chains so unworthy to hold you
As those of a vain regret.
Sad or bright she is lifeless ever:
Cast her phantom arms away,
Nor look back. save to learn the lesson
Of nobl>r strife 10. day.
Arise, for the hour is passing;
The sound that you dimly hear
Is your enemy marching to battle
Rise, rise, fer the foe is near,
Stay not to brighten your weopcnS.
Or the hour rwill strike at last,
And IRON dreams OF coming battle,
You will waken and find it past
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

While some boys were skating re-
Gently, gentleman noticed one on the
bank who locked longingly, but who
had no means of enjoying the sport.
swell, bub, haven't you any skates q
'No, sir.' "Why not;" cCause moth,
er says | amt prepared to die, and
father says he needs the money to buy
him some undershirts was the lone.
some reply.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

A ScoTcH gentleman of fortune. on
his death bed, asked the minister
"whether, if he left ten thousand
pounds TO the'kirk, his salvation would
be certain" The cautious minister re-
sponded, 'sI would ma like to be posi-
tive, but. it's weel worth trying" The
gentleman paid the money, and soon
afterward gave up the ghost,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

SPEARS to me you've got a putty
slim fire. Mirandy," said a spindling
youth the cother night, as he sat in
front of the fire place by the side of a
buxom young lady, who had no earth
ly use for him. '.Yes," she said, as
she wickedly looked at the floor be-
hind him 'Its about all yon and the
fire can do between you to get up a
respectable shadow"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

THE German nurse-''Is it Cher
man or an Enklish papy? p The man.
ma-"Weli, | don't know. You see
she was born in England, but my hus-
band is German" The German nurse
Sob ! Zen We will yait to see
vat lenkyetch she will schbeak, and
zen We will kuow,-Puach,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

first recorded case of the man who
was talked to death.
''Maguffin," dMagruder, soothing
" laying his hand on his friends head
wouldn't talk any more just now if
l were you. Your head is quite hot
already. ~. Y. Sua.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

A MONTANA Justice of the Peace
doesn't splurge any when he marries q
couple. He say: "Arise, grab hands
-hitch-six dollarsv And that's all
there is to it.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

THE checklist man yet is dog-fan
cier W no wanted pass over a railway
on the ground that he was a s.pup doc
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-03-02

To "prcserve plants during the
Winter, boil them down-two pounds
of sugar to each stalk.