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IF.

If.
II the skies were bluer
And fogs were fewer,
And fewer the storms on land and sea.
Were shiny Summers
Perpetual comers-
What Utopia this would he,
b If Life were longer
And Faith were stronger.
rieasure would bide-if Care would flee:
If each would brother
To all the other
What an Arcadia this would he,
n Were Greed abolished
And Gain demolished.
We're Slavery chained and freedom free.
If all earth's troubles
Collapsed like bubbles
What an Elysium this would be!
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-27

A pastor of a Wheeling church re-
quested that his salary might be reduced
two hundred dollars. After consulta
ton, the congregation refused to accede
to the request. What is this world
coming to?
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-27

The difference between Mr.. P. Loril-
lard and Mr. President Hayes-one has
good rider for his Parole; the other
don't want any for his pay roll.
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FRIENDLY CoUNsEL.-1. Resist the
temptation of circulating ill reports;
spread them not at all.
2. If you cannot speak well of anoth-
er, at least do not speak ill of him.
8. Never speak i'll of another behind
his back. Why should you consider
his character Of less value than your
own.
4. Speak of others as you would were
they present, speak of friend of him
who is absent, and cannot speak for
himself.
5. Consider yourself the guardian of
the character of those who may be alb
sent as you would wish others guard
your character in your absence.
6. Whenever it may be needed to men
tion anything to the disadvantage of
another, let it be done with truthfulness,
tenderness, humility, and with the re-
collection of how much has been for
given thee.
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A STORY OF LINCoLN.- Gentle
men, said Mr.. Lincoln one day during
wartime, to several western men who
called upon him to criticise the Admin
istration, suppose all the property you
were worth was in gold, and you had
put it in the hands Of Blondin to carry
across the Niagara Falls on tight-rope,
would you shake the rope while he was
passing over it, or keep shouting to him,
'Biondin. stoop little more Go lit
tie faster?' No. I am sure you would
not. You would hold your breath as
well as your tongue, and keep your
hands off until he was safely over. Now
the Government Is in the same situa.
ton, and is carrying acress a stormy
ocean an immense weight; untold
treasures are in its hands. It is doing
the best it can; don't badger it; keep
silent and it will get you safely over.h
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-27

Old men delight in uttering good pre-
cepts-to console themselves for being
no longer in a condition to set bad ex-
amples.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-27

h. n. MATHEWa, ALEX. y. NATHEWH.
MATHEWS & AATHEYe.
N1 ATfORNEYS-AT-LAW,
TKVIsBUR0. WEST VA,
practice regularly in the Courts Of Greenbrier,
Monroe, P0cahontas and Nicholas counties w.
Va., the Court OF Appeals, and the Federal
Courts for the District Of w. Va.
Ad-Particular attention paid to Collecttona
nd to special cases anywhere In their State.
may lily
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TUFTS PILLS.

Their first effect is 10 Increase the Appetite,
and cause the body to Talks on Flesh, thus the
system is nOurished. and by their Tonic Ac.
zion on the Digestive Organs, Regular
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DR.. J.F. HAYWOOD,

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az DR.. TUFTS MANUAL of Valuable Info--
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A TTENTION FAT MEN.-Use ALIENS
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The Stuart Papers-No. 4.

LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE LATE
JUDGE ARCHIBALD STUART, OF
STAUNTON.
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A Noted Divine saws

: Dr.. TUTT:-Denr Sir: For ton years have been
martynto Dyspepsia. Constipation and Piles, Last
Spring your Pills were recommended to mo; used
them but with little faith) am now u well man,
have good appetite digestion perfect regular stools,
They are worth their weight in gold.
Rev R L. SIMPSON Louisville Ky
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DRESCRIPTI accurately
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WE offer to families and contractors, anG
w all who wish to paint,
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At BOTTOM FIGURES.
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N K. TROUT. We CRAIG
TROUT 4 CRAIG,
Il ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW -
STAUNToN, VA.
I'VE have entered into Partnership Is
Lawyers, occupying the old Ofnces OF the Senior
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-11

would like to address a few words to
the jury. The District-Attorney not
Directing, the lawyer made the noblest
effort OF his life. He made out that his
client was descended from a noble Cas-
lillian family that had shed their blood
like water to hold this country against
the Indians; how bad company had
ruined him; how his family was in dis
tress; and much more of the same
stuff, until all the jury were more or
less affected, except the prisoner in the
jury box, who. being the only Mexican
there, was not much moved. Itwasn't
his funeral. The jury brought in q
verdict of guilty, and assessed the PEN
atty at five years. The jury, among
them the real culprit, were dismissed,
while the Sheriff put handouts on the
innocent Mexican in the chair, and led
him off to Jail. No doubt he had been
guilty OF some rascality, for he went
along without murmuring, he also not
being very familiar with our legal Gus
toms. The upshot of this was that the
guilty juryman got wind of it and made
his escape. In the meantime the
friends of the missing Mexican hunted
the whole town over for him, but in
vain. At last he was discovered in
jail with hobbies on. As he owned
several carts and oxen, hence was a
man of wealth and influence among
the Mexicans, a lawyer got him out on
writ of habeas corpus. On the ex-
animation all these facts came out, and
the lawyer who had defended the Mex
lean had great deal of fun poked at
him. Judge Thomas j. Devine, before
whom the Mexican was brought on
writ of habeas corpus, and Judge John
H. Duncan, City Attorney of Houston,
will substantiate the facts contained in
the foregoing.-Dallas (Teras) Cor.
Galveston Meas.
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In the Jaws Of q Lion.

WAS out after pOrcupines, and was
lying down one night near a porcu-
pines hole, waiting for him to come
out. had no gun, but only my hunt
ing-knife and large knob kerrie with
which to knock the porcupine on the
nose; for that, as you know, kills him
at once. did not hear a sound until
found the grass near me move and a
lion got his paw on me and lifted me
up. The brute pressed his claws into
me, but, luckily, my leather belt pre-
vented his teeth from damaging me,
and he carried me, holding on to my
belt and coat. If either of these had
given way l should have been laid hold
of in far more rough manner. A lion
is like a cat in one thing-he can hold
a live creature in his mouth and not
damage it, just as l have seen a cat
carry a mouse. I knew the nature of
the lion well enough to know that if 1
struggled 1 should have my neck
broken or my head smashed in an In
slant, SO did not struggle, but quietly
drew my knife and thought what was
best to do. thought at first of trying
to strike him in the heart, but I could
not reach that part of him, and his
skin looked so loose that I could not
strike deep enough, carried as l was.
I knew it would be life or death with
me in an instant, so turning myself a
bit, l gashed the lions nose and cut it
through. The lion dropped me as
should drop a poisonous snake~ and
jumped away roaring with pain. He
stood for an instant looking at me, but
l did not move, and he did not seem to
like to carry me again. More than
once he came up to within few yards,
licking the blood asst poured from his
nose; but there l remained like stone,
and he was fairly afraid to tackle me
again. know q buffalo and an OK are
very sensitive about the nose, and a
cat, if just tipped on the nose, can't
stand it, so l thought a lion must be
the same, and 50 it proved.-Fron1
I" among the Zul,ss.'
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@r 8egs and @ifls.
The LAND OF NOD.

LAST night I went to the Land Of Nod:
What do you think saw there?
Why, all the babies in all the world
YellOw-haired, dark haired. frowzy and curled
Some black. some tawny, some fair!
What il the way there7" On and ON
Over the velvety sod;
First you 60 up, and then YOU 10 down.
ana then You come into Shut-eye-tOwn,
Away in the land of Nod.
The houses are made of jujube-paste,
ana the doors OF plum-cake sliced:
ANA II you are hungry by day or night,
lou may 60 to the door, and nibble bite
All plummy and iced and spiced.
The fountains, you know, run Lemonade
And their playing, it never stops:
ana, whenever 1t rains in that fortunate town.
Torrents OF honey and cream come down.
And lemon and chocolate drops.
Oh, it SHOWS white sugar and pink ice-cream.
And 1t freezes lemOn-ice!
Tall sugar-lOaf hills all around Won zee.
And cookies and tarts grow on every tree,
And they taste remarkably nice.
Tell you some morea" Oh, haven't the time
But may be, if each little elf
Will run and climb into mammals lap,
And cuddle right down for forty -winks' nap.
He may see the land himself.
Alice W. Broths,ton, In Nursery.
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Going on an Excursion.

They had been preparing for the
excursion for about two weeks. The
day at last dawned, and, as the boat
was to start early, the young wife de-
termined to be on hand. The clock
struck eight, and still she was in the
kitchen, her hair down her back, pack
ing edibIes in her basket.
Hurry up?' said John, her young
husband.
"rn be ready presently" and away
she darted to blacken her shoes and
put on a clean collar. Then she stuck
her head out of the back window to
ask her next-door neigbbor to lend her
breastpin.
"Hurry up, John!' said she. "You
bring the basket. Now I'm all ready
and am going down to the boat. And
say, John, don't forget box of sar.
dimes you'll find in the closet, and
bring the pickles and tongue, and be
sure and bring big knife. Do you
hear me, John?''
John reeled into the kitchen and be-
gan his work. He was interrupted by
his wife's voice from below, yelling:
"John, there's can of Strawberries
in the ice-box; don't forget them. Now
hurry-we'l be fearful late; and say,
bring one or two more handkerchiefs
and a sun-umbrella-or, don't know,
il looks like rain, bring my water
proof. O, you old poke! you're going
to stay there all day. Now run back
and close those back shutters, and put
the Cat in the kitchen, and leave a pan
of milk for her; and, say, just step
around to the butchers and tell him
we won't need any meat to-day; and
leave the key of the cellar under the
parlor door-mat. Now hurry, John.
I'm off. And don't forget anything,
or I'll 60 wild!'
He didn't forget anything; but when
he reached the wharf he found the boat
had been gone two hours..-N. Y. E1-
press.
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of right. But what do you think the
despotic lady does to begin with?
Why, walks to every cell containing a
royal grub, or baby queen, and stings
each poor little thing to death, and
then proceeds to drive out the old
queen. This seems like a very cruel
BUSINESS but, as two queens cannot ex-
ISL IN the same hive, so the young
queen does this. OF course the whole
hlve Is thrown into great confusion by
the arrival OF this second queen. The
workers collect in impenetrable
ranks around their old sover-
eign and prevent personal con-
flict between the two royal ladies.
An end to the matter has to
come, of course, and, generally, the
oldest inhabitant flies out of the hive,
in great fuster, leaving it to the new
queen, and followed by all her devoted
attendants, who cluster about her
wherever she may see fit to alight,
hanging to the object and to each other
with their little hooked hands till they
sometimes form complete ball. This
is called swarming. 1t may be guessed
where the swarm will alight when it
leaves the hive, for scouts are sent out
in advance to select the place, and
these, by going and coming with great
buster and Importance, give some
notice to the owners of the bees as to
what is to be done.
After the swarm has come out of
the hive and settled, it is only required
to strike the object from which they
are suspended quick blow, at the
same time holding an empty hive be-
meath. The bees at once cluster about
the new abode and take possession.
After the old queen and her attendants
have left the hive, the young workers
see the necessity of going at once out
into the world to provide for them
selves and their young queen. The
cells in which they were batched are of
course empty; so these they fill with
honey, and business goes on with the
young people who occupy the hive just
as it used to do with the old.
Bees do many strange things, showing
their ability to reason in case of emer-
gency. No greater proof of this can
be found than that given by the sagac-
ity of the little creatures in times of
calamity, when enemies come into the
hive, or when they are by accident de-
prived of their queen. In the latter
case they do very curious thing.
They select one of the common grubs,
and all begin to lavish every attention
upon it; feed it with the food kept only
for queens; enlarge its small cell, and
by care convert it into a royal person.
age, SO that, when it leaves the cell,
instead of common worker it comes
out a queen. How this change is pro-
duced merely by change of food and
enlargement of cell, we do not know,
but that the common little grub be-
comes a real queen we are very sure.
Bees, as you see, are very curious
little insects, and the more we learn of
them the more astonished we become
at the wisdom and goodness of God,
who has fitted them so entirely for the
work they have to do, and given even
to creatures so small powers SO Won
derful.-George Klingle, in N. Y. o.
CCT1,1T.
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Recently an engineer on the First
Division of the Atlantic Road, while
running his engine along at tremen-
dous rate, was suddenly startled to
hear the report of q torpedo, which, to
an engineer, is warning of danger
ahead. He Immediately stopped to as
certain the cause of the signal, and
looking ahead espied the track-master,
whom he asked if he had placed the
torpedo on the track, and his reasons
for doing it, to which he replied that
he bad. that there was q broken rail.
and upon the engineer asking him
where, he replied: /" Be jabers, and no
lie in it, placed the torpedo on the
top OF it." And upon investigation it
was found that the torpedo had been
placed upon the broken rail, sure
enough.-AeadvilIe (Pa.) Reporter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-11
Russian Peasantry.

In an article on the Russian peasant
ry the M0lvG observes that the chief
peasant in a village sometimes has
more power than any man in the EN-
pire except the Gar. He has the pow
er, for instance, of ordering a culprit
to be f1ogged-a right which is denied
by law to any other public functionary
or citizen in the Empire. Further, q
majority of the peasants in q commune
can sentence one of their number to
be beaten with sticks, and there is no
appeal against the sentence. II is true
that women may no longer be logged
and that the maximum number OF
blows which may be inflicted on man
is twenty, while formerly men were
sometimes beaten to death by order OF
the commune, but the commune can
still sentence man TO Punishment to
Siberia for life. This sentence has
been passed for such petty offenses as
stealing handkerchief, or q little
honey, or opening a brandy-shop with
out the permission of the commune.
In the Government of Samara man
was sentenced to be banished, together
with his family. Shortly after, how
ever, the Senate, to whom the case was
referred, decided that the man should
be permitted to remain in his village
on the ground that his health would
not permit of his going to Siberia.
The case of the mans wife, however,
was not considered, and the sentence
was carried out SO far as she was con-
cerned, though she was innocent of
any crime, and had been directed to
90 to Siberia merely in order that she
should not be separated from her hus-
band.
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1866. but was less destructive thar
those of previous years.
Since that date there have been out.
breaks in various districts of Turkey
and Western Asia, but none of these
have been destructive. In India the
cholera maintains its footing, and the
epidemics create alarm in Europe only
when they seem to take up with the
old westward movement.
1t the present epidemic reaches the
main line of travel, or is carried by
the British army in Afghanistan, OF
the Russian army in Turkestan, to the
commercial centers, will it extend to
Europe as it did in 1880 and in 1858,
and finally reach this country
in the shape so dreaded in
1882, 1s4s and 1852 If there
is possibility of this the
most thorough preparations should be
made to meet the disease and prevent
its spread. 1t is singular that while
the cholera RACES this summer in India
and adjacent countries there should
prevail in this country milder disease
having some of the symptoms of chol-
era, and yet none of the disastrous eff
fects. Do the causes that shape an
epidemic on the frontiers of India con.
tribute to the prevalence of the milder
disease here, and is the latter pre-
monitory ripple preceding the cholera
wave that is to come?
An official report to the British Gov
eminent on the cholera epidemic OF
1856 in India declares that cholera is
never a product of the soil where it &C.
ours. That its spread is not effected
by means of air currents, but by human
intercourse alone; that the infective
material may multiply in water con-
tanning sewage or other animal organic
matter in state of decomposition; that
cholera may be induced by errors in
diet and by bad sanitary conditions.
The remedy is in eradicating these bad
conditions and in limiting human in
tercOurse. 1t is comparatively easy to
secure a good sanitary condition, and
this is the main thing.
Under the old style of commercial
travel the cholera was seven years in
moving from India to America. I'm.
der the modern style of intercourse,
through the use of railroads and steam.
ships, it reached this country in less
than q year. This was in 1866, and II
the old theory that the disease is viru-
lent every twelve years is true there is
special need for such preparation as
will prevent its spread. 1t is better to
keep cities and dwellings always clean,
as q preventive measure, than to ex.
pend money and energy in cleaning up
when the cholera is at our dOOrs.-Chi-
cago Inter- Ocean.
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His Lost Leg.
Down by the shore, where wavelets play,
They find drunk most every day.

DOWN by the shore where wavelets play,
They find drunk most every day.
And yesterday was the day for find
ing big James Wheelock, whose last
residing place was in Elizabeth, N. j.
He stumped into court with a wooden
leg and a very anxious countenance,
and Bijah followed close behind and
whispered to the Judge:
1t wasn't very bad drunk, sir,
and he has behaved like perfect gen.
tleman since he woke up"
"Prisoner, where did you lose that
leg?" asked his Honor, after stacking
up the papers.
cat Gettysburg" was the pleasant
reply w. ,o+ 10 ,,,.. ,.., s.,..-,,,
whispered Bijah, whose sympathies
were strongly enlisted on the side OF
the stranger.
"Mr. Wheelock, truth counts for a
great deal in this Court" resumed his
Honor. "Did you lose that leg during
the battles around Gettysburg?"
Bijah turned pale at the idea of such
question, and the stranger flushed
up, swallowed hard, and finally re-
piled:
"No, sir, not exactly during the bat
ties"
"Met with some accident there after
the war, l suppose?'
"Y-yes, sir. My leg was cut off by
the cars three, four or five years age" "
"Well, you have perfect right to
say that you lost your leg at Gettys-
burg, and your truthfulness regarding
particulars shall not be forgotten.
The officers say, you were pretty drunk,
but very quiet."
"The great aim of my life is never
to disturb anybody when I'm drunk, :"
was the modest reply.
6 think it would be better if your
aim was not to get drunk al all. 1t
seems that you have some money and
ticket to Grand Rapids. You would
like to get out of the city right away
this morning, wouldn't YOUR
81 would, sir.'
swell, you'd better be going. Go
up this street three blocks and turn to
the right to reach the depot"
He had told Bijah an hour before his
trial that he was a Colonel and led a
IeSiment 1T OeCIySOuTg, anu InaI he
had slain seventeen men with his own
hand before losing his limb. Bijah at
once procured and paid for nice
breakfast, and promised to use all his
influence with the Court. When the
man walked out, after telling "the
true story" the old janitor raised his
fist on high and exclaimed:
Hereafter, if hundred preachers
were to tell me that this world is flat
I wouldn't believe the whole caboo-
dler-Detr0it Free Press.