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TAILORING.
r A. LEONARD,
q. CUTTER AND TAILOR,
Opposite J. ". Alby & Co.'s Clothing House,
NEW STREET, STAUNTON, VA,
offers his services to the public, and is prepared
to guarantee perfect fit in all cases.
na- All Work Warranted. ESa
He was formerly Cutter at the Merchant Tail
oring establishment of NicOls, 143 BoWery and
Ill Nassau ST., New York. may1-3m
TAILORING! TAILORING!!The CO.
i partnership heretofore existing between
Graves & Sprinkle has been mutually dissolved
and the business will hereafter be conducted
py P. B. Graves.
He has reduced his prices for cash. and will
do all kinds of work pertaining to the Tailor
ing business, in the very best manner, and at
figures so low that no one will fail to be salts
fed. He has removed his shop to Court
House Alley, and invites all his friends and the
public generally to give him call.
nov 30 P. B. GRAVES.
ID FASHIONABLE TAILORS.
New ST., next door to Mrs. Scherer's Millinery
Store and doors from Loeb's Corner,
StauntOn, Virginia.
All work in our line executed with neatness
and dispatch. Special attention paid to cut
ting repairing and cleansing. aug ST.
JOSEPH HAMMERS,
TASHIONABL TAILOR,
Shop isl Bruce Building, next door to Glenn's
Store,
AUGUSTA ST., STAUNTON, VA.
~ All work done cheap for cash. decl4-ly
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TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
DEAD THIS.

DEAD THIS.
For sails at the old Tobacco stand, Corner
Main and Augusta Streets, formerly occupied
by Armentrout. a large and carefully selected
Stock of
CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCOS,
At Old Prices.
Notwithstanding the increase of the prices OF
all Tobaocos ia consequence Of the addition
al Revenue Tax, yet at this old stand you can
buy at the same low figures as heretofore.
Nineteen different kinds and styles open at
Retail.
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RATES OF ADvERTIsIXq.

ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rata
Of 90 per square Of eight lines or less for the
first insertion, and so cents for each Subsequent
insertion.
~ A liberal discount viii be made on advee.
tisements published for 8, 6, or Y months.
~ SPECIAL NOTICES will be inserted at don.
BILE the advertising rates.
~ Obituaries, ,AnnouncementsO Of Candidates
for office, and all communications of personal
or private character, will be charged for as ad-
vertisements,
Address-"Staunton Spectator" Stanton, Va.
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WHAT is NEEDED.
BOSTON, Feb 13, 1871.

BOSTON, Feb 13, 1871.
Dear Sir-About one year since found myself
in feeble condition from general debility.
VEGETINE was strongly recommended to me
by q friend who had been much benefited by its
use. L procured the article, and after using sew
eral bottles, was restored TO health and discon-
tinued its use. feel quite confident that there
is no medicine superior to it for those complaints
for which it is especially prepared and would
cheerfully recommend it to those who feel that
they need something to restore them to perfect
health. Respectfully yours,
u. l.. PETTINGTLL.
Firm of S. NJ. Pettingill Co., iostate ST., Boston.
CINCINNATI, Nov. &c, 1872.
Dear Sir-The two bottles of VEGETINE fur
nished me by your agent, my wi . has used with
great benefit.
For long time she has been troubled with
dizziness and costiveness; these troubles are
now entirely removed by the use of VEGETINE
She was also troubled with Dyspepsia and
General Debility, and has been greatly benefited.
THOS. GILMORE, 229ia Walnut street.
FEEL MYSELF A NEW MAN.
Dear Sir-Through the advice and earnest per-
% suasion Of Rev: u s; Best, Of this place. have
which have suffered for years.
have used only two bottles and already feel
myself new man. Respectfully,
Report from Practical Chemist and
Apothecary.
Boston, Jan. l, 1874.
Dear Sir-This is to certify that | have sold at
retail 154h dozen Q852 botllcs) of your NEGE-
TINE sAnce April II, 1870, and can truly say that
it has given the best satisfaction of any remedy
for the complaints for which it is recommended
that l ever sold. Scarcely II day passes williour
some of my customers tcstifying to its merits On
themselves or their friends. | am perfectly coz
nizant of several cases Of Serofulous Tumors
being cured by VEGETINE alone in tliis yicin-
ity. Very respectfully yours,
AL GILMAN iGs broadway.
To II. r. STEVENS, Esq:
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RAISING TOMATOEs.-Burr tells us
that the French mode of raising toma-
toes is as follow: AS soon as cluster of
flowers is visible, they top the stem
down to the cluster, so that the flowers
terminate the stem. The effect is that
the sap Is Immediately impelled into the
two bads next below the cluster, which
soon push strongly and produce another
cluster of flowers each. When these
are visible the branch to which they be-
long is also topped down to the level;
and this is done five times successfully.
By this means the plants become stout
dwarf bushes, not above Is inches high.
In order to prevent their falling, sticks
or strings are stretched horizontally
along the rows, SO as to keep the plants
erect. In addition to this all laterals
that have no flowers, and after the fifth
topping, all laterals whatever are nipped
on. In this way the ripe sap is directed
into the fruit, which acquires beauty,
size and excellence unattainable by 9th
er means.-Bost0n Globe.
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Died. near Sangersville, Augusta Co., April
18th, after several weeks of intense suffering,
during which painful and difficult surgical
operation was performed upon his windpipe,
ToMMIE, youngest child Of VIM. Fl. Fl. and
Lucinda Kiracofe, aged Is months and days.
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Prepared by H. r. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.

yEGEGINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
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"We can not speak too highly Of Dr.. TUFTS Ex.
pectorant, and for the sake of suffering humanity
hope it may become more generally known, s4AHIE
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
His delicate INQUIRIES led her to confide

His delicate inquiries led her to confide
to him that she was the daughter of
deceased officer, and that her mother
and herself were reduced to such penury
as to part with their few remaining
clothes as last resource. ''You
ought" replied Joseph, "to have petit
toned the Emperor" She told him
this had been already done, but without
success, not concealing her opinion of
his Majesty's want of generosity. "You
have been deceived" he replied, sup
pressing his emotion. "I will myself
report your case to the Emperor. i
know him too we'll to fear he will refuse
you assistance" The girl now broke
forth into expressions of thanks, which
Joseph hastily interrupted, saying
"Allow me to lend you II ducats for
your present necessities" In a day or
two Joseph despatched messenger,
bidding her and her mother repair to
the palace. When the young girl saw
the Emperor she tainted from fear and
emotion. On her recovery Joseph said,
in delivering to her pension eqnal to
the appointment of her father :-'T en-
treat you and your mother to pardon
the delay which has been the cause of
your embarrassment. You are convinced
trust, it was involuntary on my plrt;
and should any one in future speak ill
of me, expect you to be my advocate"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
What Is a Good Education.

Edward Everett, the gifted orator,
never spoke more truthfully than when
uttering the following words: "To
read the English language well, to write
with despatch neat, legible hand, and
he master of the first four rules OF arith-
mteic, SO as to dispose of at once, with
accuracy, every question of figures
which comes up in practice call this
a good education. And if you add the
ability to write pure grammatrlcai
English, regard this as an excellent
education. These are the tools. You
can do much with them, but you are
belpless without them. They are the
foundation, and unless you begin with
these. all your flashy attainmen:s, a
little geology, and all other ologies and
osophies are ostentatious rubbish" IL
is generally the custom among the
schools of to-day TO neglect these So
called .scommon branches" They
omit the foundation, and build up vast
and imposing structure of snowy accom-
plisbments. No sooner does pupil OF
one of these schools attempt to enter
upon the busy scenes of life, than he
finds his "castle in the air" built at SO
great q cost of time and money, come
tumbling down on his ears.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
A Good Emperor.

To avoid ceremvnIous receptions,
which he cordially hated, the Emperor
Joseph III assumed the title of Count
Falkenstein. This incognito some
times led to amusing scenes. Once, on
the road to Hungary, his Majesty halted
at post-house, when the newly-born
babe of the Postmaster was about to be
baptized. Joseph offered himself as
sponsor. The priest asked for his name.
"Joseph," replied he. ''But the sur
name?r Second" "What rank or
profession?" Emperor, twas the
reply. The amazement of the party
soon gave way to a burst Of gratitude
when his Majesty presented his little
godson with the customary gift, but in
this case of really royal magnifcence.
On another occasion Joseph alighted at
a hotel before the arrival of his suite.
The inquisitive host inquired if he be-
longed to the service of the Emperor.
EYES," answered Joseph; 81 shave him
sometimes" Many anecdotes are told
of his amiable benevolence. Hearing Of
an old officer who possessed large
family with straitened means, the En-
peror Unexpectedly called at his house,
and finding eleven children, said:-'I
know you have ten children but whose
is the eleventh." cit is an orphan"
replied the veteran, "whom found at
my door, and 1 could not suffer it to
perish from want" Joseph struck by
this act of humanity id:-"I.et the
children be in future mine; VIII pro-
vide for them, and do you continue to
give them examples of virtue and
honor" Another time passing down
the streets of Vienna, he saw young
girl, with bundle under her arm, SEEM
ingly plunged in the deepest distress.
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Proverbial Philosophy.

ITO make virtue of necessity
comes from Chaucer the father of Eng
lish poetry, man of infinite wit /;
and to him can be traced the saying,
I'm at one ear, out at the other;
though in the quaint language of the day
he said: ''One ear it heard, at the other
out it went" The proverb, "Man pro-
poses, but God disposes." comes from
Piers Plowman's Vision, a better letter
than poem, and ''Oftwo evils, the less is
always to be chosen" and "When he
is out of sight, quickly also is he out of
mind, the originals of "out of sight,
out of mind" and ''of two evils, choose
the least''-are from Thomas attempts.
Thomas Tusser gave us "The stone
that is rolling can gather no moss"
Better late than never" sit is an ill
wind that turns none to good, J"
"Christmas comes but once a year, :"
''Safe bind, also find, - ''Look ere thou
leap, see ere thou go" and "Such mas
ter, such man." Chaucer died in 1900,
attempts in III, and Tusser in 1880;
so that these are venerable remains.
Cervantes says, Every one is the son
of his own works." and tells of "A face
like benediction. 1t was Sir Edward
Coke, the great lawyer, who said "a
mans house is his CASTLE" and Christie
pher Marlowe, the founder of the great
English drama, who wrote of "Infinite
riches in little room," and of man
who was "More knave than fool" 1t
is also to him that we are indebted for
''Love me little, love me long"
1t is John Milton who tells of Ozark
with excessive light" "a heaven on
earth,'' "All hell broke loose"
Heavens last, best gift" "a wilder
ness of sweets, ''Moping melancholy
and moonstruck Madness" and EVIL
news rides fast, while good news
waits"
1t was from John Dryden that we re-
ceived s'None but the brave deserve the
fair, "Pity melts the mind to love-"
''Honor is but an empty bubble, "All
delays are dangerous in war;" and "A
argument; it's but a
word and blow
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had ever lodged there before. The
bear couldn't get him, but neither
could he get the bear. He had nothing
to shoot with, neither food nor drink,
and yelling at a bear to clear out and
go home has no effect in this rarified
atmosphere. The mouth of the crevice
was ten feet long, and Smith could
look out over his trail for forty rods or
more, no matter at what point the bear
was. The animal was walking up and
down before the ledge, probably fishing
for plan by which he might get some
thing better than roots for dinner, when
the miner caught sight of three Indians
creeping along on the trail he had made.
They had, perhaps, followed il for n
mile or more, and must have known
that the bear had the first claim. The
redskins had just come into view when
they saw the bear, the bear saw them,
and Smith saw the whole thing, and
was willing to go one better.
The meat under the greasy dcer-skin
worn by Indians ranks next to white
mans meat, and these Western bears
are always ready to take the ''next best
thing" This bear looked in on Smith
in despairing manner and then made
a bee-line for the redmen. They fired
at him once piece and then. turned
and ran, and after about three minutes
waiting, Smith crawled out and made
, 40 time until his breath gave ont.
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y few days ago, says corre>pOn-
dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a man
named Mon gomery Smith, hailing
from st. Louis, had two singular and
narrow escapes rolled into one. He
left a camp about thirty miles up the
Black Hills to bring letters here to post,
and in trying TO shorten the distance a
little he lost the regular trail and got
into bad bit of country. While hunt
ing for the trail he came across fresh
signs of Indians, and while hurrying
out of the neighborhood he ran directly
upon large brown bear which was
sleeping on the sunny side of thicket.
The thicket was on side hill, Smith
was going at good pace when he
turned the clump. The bear was 80
near when the man caught sight of him
that there was neither time to halt nor
chance TO turn out, and bruin was
cleared by flying leap. He made Il
stroke at Smith as he went over, inflict-
ing a slight scratch on one leg, and then
set off after the miner with the intention
of masticating him for dinner. The
flight led over broken ground, up and
down ridge, and then along the base
of broken ledge.
knowing that the bear would soon
Overtake him, Smith had his eyes peeled
for some place of refuge, and he found
good one. Close to the ground was a
rift in the ledge made by part of the
rocks settling down orcrumblingaway.
He saw it when only thirty feet away,
and the bear was not hundred feet in
his rear. There was no time to guess
whether the crevice was big enough to
bear in after him. or so small that the
victim would be there overtaken and
devoured. He had dropped his gun to
aid his flight, and running at full speed
crevice head first, raking enough hide
off his shoulders and back to make
pair of baby shoes. The bear wasn't
ten seconds. behind him, and as Smith
reached the back end of the cave, which
was not over six feet deep, the bear
put his head into its mouth and tried to
work in his body. This he could not
accomplish, owing TO his stout shoul-
ders. but for quarter of an hour
Montgomery Smith was doubtless the
worst frightened man in North Amer
lea. There was room enough for him
to turn around in, but he was compelled
to lie at full length and look into the
frey eyes of a bear which could get
within four feet of him and wanted to |
come nearer. Bruin didn't give up
trying until he had sadly cut and
bruised himself against the stones, and
his snarls and growls put more relig-
ious thoughts into Smiths head than J
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
The Origin of the Telescope.

With reference to Galileo's claim to
be the. inventor of the telescope, NJ.
Wolf quotes ApRdleR der Physk md Che
mie) from manuscript of Scheiner1 1916
in library in Zurich, a curious pas
sage, of which the following is part !:
sit must be allowed first, considering
what the telescope does, that Baptista
Porta has better right TO be thought the
inventor, because he describes, after his
own way, in obscure words and
puzzling expressions, an instrument
like the telescope. But secondly, if we
speak of the telescope, as it is now used
after general perfection, we must say
that neither Porta nor Galileo is the
first discoverer of it, but the telescope
in this sense was discovered in Germany
among the Belgians, and that accident
ally, by one Kramer, who sold spec
tacles, and either for amusement or ex-
perimentation, combined cOncave and
convex glasses, so that with glasses he
could see quite small and distant
object large and near; at which success
being rejoiced, he united several SINH
lar pairs of glasses in tube, and
offered the combination at high price
to wealthy people. Thereafter they
(the telescopes became gradually more
common among the people, and spread
TO other countries. In this way two of
them were brought for the first time
by a Belgian merchant to Italy; of
these, one remained long in the college
at Rome; the other went first to Venice,
later to Naples; and here the Italians,
and especially GalileO, at that time
Professor of Mathematics in Padua,
took the opportunity of improving it,
in order to apply it TO astronomical
purposes, and extend its use further.
Thus the telescope, as we have it to-day,
was discovered by Germany and per-
fected by Italy: the whole werld now
rejoices in it.''-NdtUTe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
A Good Name.

How true is it that good name is a
capital in itself. Such capital, like
every solid accumulation, is not bnilt in
day, but is the result of years of con-
tinuance in well-doing. No man can
hope by squirt of good nature or hon.
orable dealings to acquire an enviable
reputation which is implied in the pos
session of 'good name" Little
things done and observed in a series of
years, the trifles of which life is made
up, if done conscientiously, are what
contribute to the result, and win for a
man the confidence of his fellows; and
when one has thus acquired this good
name, men seek him in business. rely
on his word and prefer his goods. Such
a capital is within the reach of the
poorest. 1t commands confidence, and
helps one in securing all that is desira-
BILE in life, and as it is to be acquired
without outlay, does not depend upon
birth or influence for its attainment. II
is wonderful so many prefer to travel
by crooked ways, which, though they
may seem short cuts to success, do not
lead in that direction at all. Let every
young man strive to add good name
TO his other capital
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
Regulated Production.

Now, for a series OF years, labor aud
capital alike have been in trouble. Cap
ital has not been able to buy labor, be-
cause it could not sell its product. Labor
has not been able to buy anything, be-
cause it could not earn anything to offer
in exchange. 1t has seemed like an ir-
remediable deadlock. We look for
better times, but they do not come. and
there appears to be no mind so gifted
with foresight as to be able TO predict
the date of renewed prosperity. Machin-
cry in vast and multiplied organizations.
and capital in large accumulations, lie
idle, while labor lives from hand 10
mouth, and waits for something to do.
In the meantime, fictitious values have
died out, speculation sleeps, and at
what point matters can possibly begin
to improve surpasses conjecture. Large
expectations of produce may start con-
sumption again, and so set capital and
labor at work: but nobody knows any
thing about il.
VI titAN ti' Asat - hONtNtAs ftiA iAiNh ~
this time have come te be well aware,
viz, that we have the machinery and
the labor for producing more of the or
dinary materials required in civilized
life than we can sell. The further fact
TO which we have already alluded, that
1.-The law of demand and supply" works
clumsily, and often disastrously, when
left to itself, is also pretty definitely APP
pretended. There would seem, there
fore, to be no alternative policy but that
of regulated production" That this
is possible in limited spheres has already
been abundantly proved. There is at
this time in Massachusetts, society of
paper-makers who are intelligently and
successfully regulating" the produc
tiOn of their mills. They understand
that if they run their mills day and
night, as they did when business was
good, they will produce paper in such
quantities a to raise the price of stock
and reduce the price of paper, a. well
as glut the market. So, by keeping the
supply as nearly even with the demand
as possible, they manage to run their
mills half time-that is, only in the day
time-and to make profit on which
they and their employees can live. This
is what may be called regulated pro-
and we know of no reason
why the policy may not be adopted by
every manufacturing interest in the
country.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
The Pecan.

In Arthur Bryant's work on ''Forest
Trees for shelter, Ornament, and Profit"
is the following account of the pecan
tree, which some of our agriculturists
ought TO attempt to cultivate in the
North:
1.-The pecan tree is found principally,
if not exclusively, upon river-bottoms
from Northern Illinois to Texas. 1t is
a stranger TO the Atlantic States. 1t
most resembles the bitternut hickory,
and will thrive in the same soils. On
the Illinois River it is found as far north
as Lacon, and on the Mississippi as high
as latitude AZ degrees. The pecan
grows in the forest TO the height of sixty
or seventy feet. It is beautiful tree,
with straight and well-shaped trunk.
Its timber is inferior to that of some of
the species of hickory already described; /;
but it merits the attention of the culti-
fruit. No other nut, native or impor-
ted, can be compared with it in flavor.
The shell is thin; the kernel destitute
of woody partitions and easily extrac-
ted. BY cultivation and the selection
of superior varieties for propagation the
fruit may undoubtedly be increased i'm
size and probably improved in flavor.
Like other hickories, il does not trans
plant well, and must be removed from
the seed bed when one year old. 1t
is said to be tardy in coming into
bearing, though producing abundantly
when well grown. This fault may,
perhaps, be corrected by cultivation.
The nut of the pecan tree would be
more abundant in market but for the
practice, worthy only of barbarians. of
telling the trees, TO come at the fruit
more easily This was extensively done
along the Illinois River when | first
settled in the West, forty years since.
still perpetrated where it can be done
with impunity. If, on trial, it should
be ascertained that the pecan can be
successfully grated on the black wal
nut or butternut, its growth would
probably be more rapid, and, conse
quently. its propagation and improve
ment facilitated.
1t is no trouble to start this tree from
seed. In November, 1870, put seeds
of it in the ground at Bosland, on the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, in the open
plains, 239 miles west of Kansas City,
and they came up finely in the spring.
In the spring of 1873 l got dry nuts
from the store out there, probably two
or three years old, and after scalding
and soaking about two weeks, had
them 10 grow. If planted in the fall,
the nuts need no soaking. OF dry
hickory nuts, brought to Bosland in the
spring of 1873, by settlers, few germi-