Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-08-10

of his wife, who in all expenditures, all
charities, first considers whether or not
she can afford the outlay and while she
is liberal and hearted, is never asham.
ed to exercise economy or to decline an
extravaganza.
How an American was Entertained en- Famille
by the Queen.
After all Gen. Grant had less special honor
paid him by Queen Victoria, than she has
sometimes chosen to give to less notable
Americans. One of the pleasantest stories
told of her, concerns the reception she gave
Capt. Henry J. Hartstene, in 1856, when
he took to England the British exploring
bark Resolute, found abandoned in the
Attic seas, rescued by a New London
whaler, and bought by Congress as pres
ent to the British government. The Queen
invited him to be her guest, at the Osborne
House, from Saturday evening to Monday
treating him with just the courtesy and
ceremony practiced by any lady to guest.
To his pleased surprise, he dined the even
ing of his arrival with the Queen and
Prince Albert alone, his hostess observing
that she presumed an American would pre-
fer to escape the formalities of a state din
ner. The children came in and shared the
dessert, and the Queen poured the tea when
that meal was served. At bedtime she
said goodnight, and lcft the captain to
hot fha ho
spent in the same simple way, and he went
to church with the folks. The next morn
ing he came away, and always said when
he told of his visit, II could not have felt
myself more at home if 1 had been on a
visit to my sister and her family Queen
Victoria has always been fond of dispen-
sing with formalitieS, as at Baamoral,
where she is nothing but the good woman
friend to all the people. And everyone
must remember that charming account
Men delssohn gave in one of his letters
home of his visit to the Queen, when, after
playing for her, she at his request took him
up into the nursery and showed him the
babies.-Spraoqield Republican.
MARRYIN G METHODIST PREACHERS
The Virginia Conference as married more
wives than any body of men of it's number
on this continent. Forty have been mar
ried twice. There is also good]y company
of widowers, some double-malr ied. A re-
spectacle number have wived three times.
II the reader will look through any village
and count out one hundred and sixty male
adults as he comes to them, he will not find
over five to ten men married twice, per-
haps none with ''third.'' ''How do you
explain such large mortality among the
wives of your preachers ?" We have our
notion on the subject, but whether it would
clear up the cause OF these mOrtuary fgur
Or not. we will not pause to discuss. We
have another other object in view just now.
The record shows that there is deadly
risk in marrying one of our preachers.
This is fact. The figures say so. A great
battle with hours of musketry, shell and
sabres, has four times less mortality than
there is among the wives of the Conference.
peaceful home of the Itinerant. The girl
who goes to the altar with the boy preach
er has frightful odds against her. Judge
CASTOR, Of North Carolina, wise man, in
the by-gOne times, gave his admiration to
the Methodist system, and thought it's
machinery perfect, and, with unmarried
ItinerantS, irresistible. He counted wives
the weakness OF the Wesleyan scheme.
CASTOR shrewd in judgment, was warped
by his sympathy with the Romish plan of
celibacy in it's priests. While scouting the
idea of enforced singlehood in the minis
try. we thought it worth while, as a kind
office to our maiden sisters, to show how
they will shorten their days by matching
with a member of the Virginia Conference.
-Ricana0nd Christian Advocate.