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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

THACKERAY ON THE CLERGY.-Mr.
Thackeray writes as follows ]: ''And I
know this, that if there are some clerics
who do wrong, there are straightway a
thousand newspapers to haul up these I'M
fortunates, and cry fe upon them while,
though the press is always ready to yell
and below excommunication against these
stray delinquent parsons, it somehow takes
very little count of the good ones-of the
tens of thousands of honest men who lead
Christian lives, who give to the poor gen.
erously, who deny themselves rigidly and
live and die in their duty, without ever a
newspaper paragraph in their favor. My
beloved friend and reader, wish you and
| could dc the same, and let me whisper
my belief, entire nous, that of those emin-
ent philosophers who cry out against par
sons the loudest. there are not many who
have get their knowledge of the church by
going thither often. But YOU who haveever
listened to village bells, or have walked to
church as children on a sunny Sabbath
morning; you who have seen the parsons
wife tending the sick man s bedside, or the
town clergyman threading the dirty stairs
of noxious alleys upon hissacred business.
do not raise shout when one of these falls
away, or yell with the mob that bowls after
him.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

WHAT THECoUNTRY n EEDs.-A South
Carolina paper correctly says the country
needs fewer men who seek Office and more
men whom the Office seeks.
Fewer dogs and more sheep.
Fewer trucking demagogues who are
anything or nothing, as interest dictates,
and more brave men who dare to do their
own thinking, and say what they think.
Fewer great men made to order, and Of
small material, and thrust in front Of men
who have a capacity for greatness.
Fewer impetuoqs young men, eager to
rush into print and raise thedeyil general
ly. -... -
Fewer wire-pullers in popular conven-
tions, and more people.
Fewer leaders to knuckle to popular
prejudice, and more real leader to combat
such preludioes when wrong.
Fewer bar-rooms and more schools.
Fewer fences and more pastures.
Fewer scrub cattle and more good ones.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
A Brave Sheep.

Toby. the sheep, hated the whole canine
race. One day when the captain and his
pet were taking their usual walk on the
promenade there came on shore the skipper
of Falmouth ship, accompanied by very
large formidable looking dog. And the dog
truly resembled his master, as you observe
dogs usually do. AS soon as he saw Toby
he commenced. to set his dog upon him );
but Toby had seen him coming and was
quite en- garde so long and fierce battle
ensued in which Toby was slightly wound
ed and the dogs head was severely cut.
Quite multitude had assembled to wit
ness the fight, and the ships riggings were
alive with sailors. At one time the
brutal owner Of the dog, seeing his pet
getting worsted, attempted to assist him !;
but the crowd would have pitched him
neck and crop into the river had he not
desisted. At last, both dog and sheep
were exhausted, and drew off, as if by
mutual consent. The dog seated himself
close to the outer edge of the platform
which was about three feet higher than,
the rivers bank, and Toby went, as he
was wont to do and stood between his mas.
ter's legs, resting his head fondly on the
captains clasped hands, but never took his
eyes off the foe. Just then dog on board
one of the ships happened to bark and the
Falmouth dog looked around. This was
Toby's change and he did not miss 1t or his
enemy either. He was upon him like a
bolt from catapult. One furious blow
knocked the dog off the platform, next
moment Toby had leaped on top of him and
was chasing the yelling animal toward his
own ship. There is no doubt Toby would
have crossed the plank and followed him
on board, had not his feet slipped and pre-
cipitated him into the river. A few min
uyea afterward, when Toby, dripping with
wet, returned to the platform to look for
his master, he was greeted with ringing
cheers; and many were the piastres spent
in treating our woolly friend to fruit, Toby
was the hero of Galatz from that hour; but
the Falmouth dog never yentured on shore
again, and his master as seldom as posi-
bic.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

The VALUE. OF DIsINTEREsTED VIR-
TUE.-Life is short, and you have much
work to do. Work for others as we'll as
yourself. You will not pretend you are
never selfish. You are more or less so every
day of your existence. In the very face of
conviction you play the part of contracted
littleness. How often do you forget the
interests of others, in eager desires for
yourself? and how readily you silence the
whispers of reason by calling in for pre-
cedents, respectable example. Yet you
know the value of disinterested virtue, and
how that avarice, or any other selfish pas
sion, can never secure your felicity; but
the appearances of the moment persuade
you otherwise, and hence the cause of error
and crime. Study, therefore, not only to
be convinced of truth. but to establish it
firmly in your mind, beyond the reach of
doubt. Then, not till then, your charac-
ter will be uniform, and your principles
strong enough to carry you through the
trials and temptations of life. No one can
be happy long unless he is governed by
virtue; and to be regulated by this sublime
principle, he must early learn to make any
sacrifice, even life, and all that tends to
make it sweet in the eyes of mankind.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
VEGETINE

HAS ENTIRELY CURED ME OF VERTIGO.
CAIRO, ILL, Jan. %, 1878.
Mr.. II. r. STEVENS
Dear Sir:-I have used several bottles of 'Vege
tine;' it has entirely cured me of Vertigo. have
also used it for kidney Complaint" It is the best
medicine for kidney complaint I would recon-
mend it as good blood purifier N. YOCUM.
PAIN AND DIsEAsE.-Can we expect to enjoy good
health when bad or corrupt humors circulate with
the blood, causing pain and disease and these hu-
mOrs, being deposited through the entire body, pro-
duce pimples eruptions, ulcers indigestion, costive
ness, headaches, neuralgia. rheumatism, and numer-
'Vegetne," the most reliable remedy for cleansing
and purifying the blood
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
Female Beauty.

A London medical journal of high au-
thority says that efforts are making by a
number of women of prominence to form
a "Sehool of Beauty in England, the
members pledging themselves to do every
thing in their power to render themselves
comely by natural means. Prizes are to
be given to those who can move with ease
ard grace, and so furnish evidence of good
health and physical unstrainment. Some
thing of this kind is needed here. AL
though American women have, to great
extent, seen the follYfn the ugliness of
lacing and going thin1y clad in cold wealth
er, there are still many who think an alb
surdly small waist attractive, and any
number that 80 pinch their feet that they
cannot walk comfortably or becomingly.
They do these ridiculous things generally
because they imagine that men admire
them. If men have done so, they do so no
longer. They prefer healthy and graceful
women to invalids and awkward ones, as
all women'must be who cramp their waists,
wear shoes too small, or dress in any
way to interfere with their freedom and
satisfaction, Nature and Beauty are one.
No woman can be beautiful who letters or
hinders nature. The more nearly she ap-
proaches the natural, the closer she comes
to loneliness. Women have heard this
thousand times, and accept it mentally.
\ ct in their blind worship of false gods.
they sacrifice themselves to infrmitv and
deformity. 1t is entirely incomprehensi-
BILE to men that so many women will en-
dure pain and incure disease from mis-
taken notion of beauty.-Nc,v York Times.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

Every man, woman, and child, ought to
have something to do. So closely is our
welfare connected with habit of activity
that it would be vastly better to pay for
the privilege of working than to be idle.
Do not shirk. do not hunt for excuses !;
swhere there's will there's way" And
let parents consider that daily occupation
is as necessary to children as daily food.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

When we are young we waste great
deal of time in imagining what we will do
when we grow older, and when we are old
we waste an equal smount Of time in won
dering why we waited SO long before we
began to do anything.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
SEPTEMBER.
VEGETINE
PURIFIES THE BLOOD AND
GIVES STRENGTH.
SEPTEMBER.

DU QUOIN, ILL, Jan. q, 1878.
Dear sir:-Your "vegetine'' has been doing won
ders for me- Have been having the Chills and Fever
ing me relief until began the use Of your vegetine
purifying my blood, giving strength whereas all
other medicines weakened me- and filled my system
with poison. and am satisfied that if families that
live in the ague districts of the South and West
would take Vegetne two or three times week, they
would not be troubled with the Chills the nalig
nant "Fevers' that prevail at certain times of the
year, save doctors bills. and live to a good old age.
Respectfully yours,
j. Z. MITCHELL,
Agent HendersOns LOOMS St. Louis. Mo.
ALI. DISEASES OF THE BLooD.-n VEGETINE will
relieve PAIN cleanse purify and cure such diseases
restoring the patient to perfect health after trying
different physicians, many remedies, suffering for
years, is it not conclusive proof if Yen suffer-
er, YOU can be cured? Why is this medicine perfor-
ming such great cures? 1t works in the blood, in the
circulating fluid. 1t can truly be called the Great
Blood purifier: The great source OF disease origi-
mates in the blood; and no medicine that does not
act directly upon it. to purify and renovate has any
Just claim upon public attention.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

Line IOllOWlHg was IOuuu Ill dill uupul
lished work by Charles Moreau Denie,
Memphis. who died in New Orleans seve
al years ago. He was on the staff of Il
New Orleans "Picayune:''
The night hath come,
And DER the trembling city the curse
Hangs brooding DER the music it hath stiled
In MANY hearts and homes,
M The sickly moon
Hides, shuddering, her sad and dimmed face
Among the shroud-like clouds that ragged hang
Upon the limbs of the distressed night
AS up from the devoted city there doth rise
The ceaseless sound of one incessant prayer,
Clogged with the cries of anguish, and the wall
OF childless ones and orphans.
Lone and dark
And STILL for want of any human voice,
A thousand dwellings from against the skies
Where once the laugh of children, and the songs
That burst from the light hearts of mothers, filled
The echoing halls with gladness.
In yon poor room light has flickered out;
But ere it fled from those damp, dingy walls,
A human spirit left its home Of clay,
On its dead mothers breast the sleeping babe
Lies like blossom on blighted Dough;
Oh! doth it dream that it hath lost what here
Below, can never be replaced?
List! God!
1ad Aoch at fh at wild
Which leaps upon the foul and covering air,
Like the despair Of an O'ermastered heart
Upon the thing that breaks it IT'S the shrek
Of a sick mother DER her dying child,
"Mother, weepnot for NEWELL meetup there!'
A fearless wife clings to the stricken form
OF him in whom is merged her very self,
AS if she would resist with her embrace
The fell Destroyer's grasp. Poor, loving thing
The man is gone thou lovest-thou dost but CLASP
The chain he wore.
The Watcher-StarS grow pale.
From the far East herald, clad in gray
Proclaims that Morning, blushing from her bed
Like young bride, is getting, timid, up
To meet the eyes that wait her Upon high,
With a continuous melody from earth
To Heaven, the awakened birds take flight,
And dewy mouths of flowers send welcomes out,
Fragrant to greet her in.
Still the curse,
The Yellow-Plumed Destroyer flaps his wings,
And, as he wheels and circles in the air,
A thousand shadows from his pinions fall
Upon the earth below. Harshly he screams,
And fixes in the heart his burning beak;
Death, with grim smile, hath cast him from
His wrist, and bid him swoOp.
Forever gone!
The old, the young; the rich the poor; grave gay:
The bad, the good; the homely and the fair!
Gone to common end.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

CHOPPED PICKLE.-For nne chopped
pickle, use green tomatoes, cabbage, GU
cumbers, peppers, and few onions, all
chopped small, we'll sailed and allowed to
stand over night. The next day strain
through colander, and pour over boiling
vinegar, to which two lbs. sugar for each
gallon, and spice to taste, has been added.
In few days draw off the vinegar, boil,
and return it.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

M1NNIE's ORANGE PUDDINa.-Peel
and slice four oranges and lay them in your
pudding dish: sprinkle over that cupful
of sugar, and two tablespoonful of corn
starch together; pour into this quart of
boiling milk and let it come to boil and
thicken; then cool little before pouring
it over your oranges. Beat the whites of
the eggs to froth, and pour over. Set it
in the oven just long enough to brown. To
be eaten cold.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

Show may be purchased, but happiness
is home made article.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

A wise man seeks to shineIin himself; a
fool, to outshine others,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
CARRIAGES AND BUGGIEs,

aenr business you can engage in. IS TO so per
nTV1 day made by any worker OF either sex,
kk\ right in their own localities. Particulars
ulUy and samples worth t5 free. Improve your
Portland. Maine. m8rSS'
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

When tho world has once got hold of a
lie, 1t Is astonishing how hard it is to get
it out of the world,
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poetrp.
THE PESTlLENOE.

The following was found in an unpub-
lisbed work by Charles Moreau Denie, of
Memphis, who died in New Orleans sever
al years ago. He was on the staff of the
New Orleans "Picayune:'
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

SLICED CUCUMBER PICKLEs.-Mediurn-
sized green cucumbers pared, and sliced,
as for the table. To four quarts of slices
add one large spoodful of salt, mixing it
through them. Let them stand over night,
and in the morning, rinse, and drain
through a colander. Boil vinegar with
whole, white mustard seed, half a teacup-
full OF seed to two quarts of vinegar and
SGT it away to cool. Pack the sliced GU
cumbers in quart cans, and cover with the
prepared vinegar. Place bit of alum on
top Of the pickles in each can, and seal.
Keep in dark, cool place. Pickles made
after this rule, retain much of the natural
favor of oucumbers.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

RECIPE FOR RENovATINa BLACK Al
PACA.-First rip apart the garment and
carefully pick out all the old thread. For
one dress take two quarts Of soft water, one
and half pints of sweet, skinned milk,
and two cents worth of glue. The glue
must be perfectly dissolved. Put it in
warm water and let it stand over night,
before it is to be used. When ready to go
to work, mix thoroughly the water, glue
and milk. Dip each piece of alpaca separ-
ately, and put it through wringer, as
wringing by hand leaves SO many wrinkles.
Hang the pieces as they are dipped on a
rack. By the time the last piece is taken
out the first one will be ready to be ironed
as it must be ironed wet. Use hot irons,
but of course not hot enough to scorch. I
am sure you will be delighted with the re.
suit. IT the alpaca is gray it will not re-
store it, but it the color is good it WILCOX
as good as new. This has been thorough
ly tried. and has always given satisfaction.
Try it,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

The night hath come,
And DER the trembling city the curse
Hangs brooding DER the music it hath stilled
In many hearts and homes.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

The sickly moon
Hides shuddering, her sad and dinmed face
Among the shroud-like clouds that ragged hang
Upon the limbs of the distressed night,
AS up from the devoted city there doth rise
The ceaseless sound of one incessant prayer,
Clogged with the cries of anguish, and the wall
OF childless ones and orphans.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
The Site Of Eden.

The following original solution of { {
site of Eden is from Mr.. A. Shelton, in
the "Tribune'':
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

FL. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sir,-We have been selling your 'sVegetine"
for the past eighteen MONTHS and we take pleasure
in stating that in evety case to our knowledge, it
has given great satisfaction. Respectfully,
BUCK & Cowgirl. Druggists,
Hickman Ky.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
VEGETINE.

XENIA. O., March ], 1877,
Mr.. STEVENS:
Dear Sir:-I wish to inform you what your Veg
etine has done for me. l have been afflicted with
Neuralgia, and after using three bottles of the Veg
etine was entirely relieved. also found my gener-
al health much improved. believe it to be good
medicine. Yours truly,
VEGETINE thoroughly eradicates every kind of
humor and restores the entire system to a healthy
condition.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06
A Superiority Of Lawyers.

A prominent member of the bar in
forms us that we were mistaken when, a
few days ago, we stated the number Of
lawy ers at the Cleveland bar as 324. He
says they number $40, or one lawyer
for every eighty-seven male adults in
the city. The numerical increase Of
the lawyers of Cuyahoga County within
ten years has been so great, and the
average quality so poor, that the bar Of
Cleveland seems to have decreased in
learning and ability in about the same
ratio as it has increasd in numbers. Not
that within the last ten years the bar
has failed to receive valuable additions
to its ranks. Far from it. Some of the
best educated and most promising men,
bers are among the younger represen-
tatives of the profession. But too large
number of the so-called lawyers prac-
ticing in our local courts are notorious.
ly uneducated and illiterate, having
only a smattering of law, and that of a
character which enables them to be
simply stirrers up of strife and pander-
ers to the worst passions of their fellow
Cleveland Herald.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06

commenced. It Is for use in those
parts OF the country where the daily
weather indications cannot reach in
time to facilitate agricultural operations,
and its issue has been forced upon the
government because the American farm
ers are wise enough to see that for them,
well as for sailors, to be forewarned, is
to be forearmed. In q few centuries
We may expect to have something Of
the same kind here"
OF all the accidents to which sub
merged submarine cables are liable,
one would suppose that by fire would
be the very last that would occur.
Nevertheless such an accident has hap
pened to the Forth cable, belonging TO
the post-office. Lately all four wires
were found earthly. The fault showed
itself by Test to be close to the shore.
1t was found below high-water mark at
the foot of the cliff. Some boys during
the low water had been making fire
with the shavings and rubbish found on
the beach, Immediately over the cable,
melting the compound and gutta percha
Of the core, and leaving the copper
wires bare and in contact with the out
side sheathing."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06
The Ladies' FaVOrite.

Among the many thousands of ladies
who have used DR.. Prices Favorite
Prescription and pronounced it their
favorite remedy, because so efficient in
the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to
woman, are many who are well and
favorably known in the world of letters,
as we'll as .rtists, musicians, and a
whole host of names from the brilliant
ranks of wealth and fashion. 1t is pre-
eminently the Ladies' Favorite Pre-
scription, its use, while being far more
safe and efficient, exempting them
from those painful, canstic operations,
and the wearing Of those mechanical
contrivances made like Peter Pindar's
razor-sellers razors-to SELL rather than
to cure.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06
Though Shaking Like an Aspen Leaf

Though Shaking Like an Aspen Leaf
With the chills and fever, the victim OF Mala-
ria may still recover by uein2 IT, celebrated
specific, Hostetter'a Stomach B,tters, which not
only breaks up the most aggravated attacks. but
prevents their recurrence. II 10 Infinitely prefer
able to Quinine, not only because 1t does the
business far more thoroughly, but also on account
Of Its perfect wholesomeness and invigorati ~ &C
ton upon the entire system. Testimony 10 con.
current positive and ample showing the decisive
nature Of Its effects, and that 1t IL mere pali.
there 10 con. tant influx Of communications IRON,
pereons in every class OF society svOuch hing is
merits, and bearing witness to its superiority
over other remedies for malarial disease Its o..
pecially popular throughout the West. wherever
fever and ague prevails, II does in many OF the
fsirest and most fertile lorlions of that vast 70
gion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06

ness was asked to explain Why she shot
the druggist. She said: "This man
was man who had caused separation
between my husband and his second
wife; was his third. This man was
the cause of their being divorced, for he
was in the habit of conceaaine my hus-
band for days. He kept q miserable
place-a resort Of vile characters-and
he used to inveigIe my husband to this
den and keep him there two or three
days at time; found it out and went
there and asked for my husband. He
had spatula in his hand and he rushed
at me and struck me with it. The blood
flowed out, and / had a little pistol and
/ pulled j. out and shot him in the
wrist-because he held me at the time
and was bearing me down-and he had
me arrested. 1 was also arrested and
held as prisoner of war under General
Banks, charged with being spy, and
during the war l was arrested at the
south because had bought what was
called Federal notes. For shooting the
druggist l was fined $780,"
Q. You paid it, of course? A. 1
didn't; don't suppose it has been paid
to this day.
Mrs. Helen c. STEELE was introduced
to prove that the Commodore believed
in fortune-telling. Mr.. Clinton objected.
Mr.. Lord offered to prove that the Com
modore had told the witness that "Mme.
Morrow" was the seventh daughter of q
seventh daughter, had been born with a
caul and was a wonderful woman who
had told his fortune and could tell hers.
The testimony was excluded.