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! With this comforting conclusion, her
fair head sank on bis shoulder, and for the
first time in her short life Kitty knew
what it was to be supremacy happy.
Rupert carried his lovely burden to his
own carriage, which stood apart from the
crowd, and carefully placed Kitty in it.
s'There now,'' said he, 81 shall take you
home Immediately, and stop for doctor
on the way. Nobody can drive you with
so little pain as can," he added, seeing
she was about to object. ."Besides, you
must begin, to obey me, so as to get your
hand in, for sometime you are going to be
my wife, you Know
| ''Your wife2'' cried Kitty.
| She gave apout and a toss Of her head,
but she blushed,. and not. with anger,
either Yes ) blushed to the tips of her
dainty ears.
/ s.Of course" retorted Rupert, as he
stepped SOFTLY into the carriage, and took
his seat beside her, looking half-saucily,
half-fondly into her eyes which fell before
his. 81 have meant it all along. Didn't
you. dearest?'7
Really, you are the most 'impudent
puppy ever saw retorted Kitty, burst
ing into laughter in spite of herself.
But, for all that, she did not repulse
tie kiss with which, before starting, Ru-
pert thought it necessary to fortify him.
self for the journey.
What more is there to tell? Very little
For Kitty and Rupert were married early
IN the autumn. and were superlatively
happy.
DO you know" said Rupert, one day,
that it was by the merest accident We
ever Wet each other? / had come down
to my uncle's for a single night only,
when I saw you in the wood, and my
whole life was changed. fell in love at
irst sight, and resolved to stay and make
your acquaintance, even if it took all the
summer
$50 / owe my happiuess,'' answered
Kitty, archly, ITO my faithful dog-dear
old fellow being off guard that after
noon.'
''And to an 'impudent puppy coming
along" retorted Rupert. with kiss. '.just
III the nick of time, and taking his place."
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IN THE WOOD.

Pretty, saucy Kitty sat on fallen tree,
her light muslin dress waving and hutter
ing in the bret re.
GLORIOUS, Rupert, isn't it ?" she cried.
calling to her pet and companion, a huge,
shaggy dog. but where are you? Why
don It you answer, sir p And, turning,
she looked everywhere around her.
Suddenly merry voice cried out.
sHere ~ and young man leaped the low
fence, and advanced towards her, laughing
merrily and doffing his hat.
Kitty's eyes flashed.
II beg your pardon,' said the intruder,
bowling half-mockingly; "but was taking
short cut across the field when heard
yeu call me-"
"~all you? ?" Kitty looked as if she
would anihilate him.
Certainly" with the utmost GOODNESS.
"You called Rupert didn t you ?"
Il was calling my dog, SIR" said Kitty,
with infinite hauteur.
well, I'm not exactly dog" was the
laughing answer; "but I've often been
called AN impudent puppy'-at your ser.
vice, Miss
He bowed again, profoundly.
Il should think so," replied Kitty. And
she muttered to herself, not expecting to
be heard, "Impudence"
The stranger heard the word, neverthe-
less. His manner changed. He became
rs serious and deferentlal az tho most
chivalrous knight of old in the presence Of
his mistress.
II beg pardon; I'm afraid I'm trespass'
ing. But the path through the field wa
trodden az if one had the right-of-way
there, and heard you call-well, made
q mistake" Again the mirthful look
danced in his eyes. "Good morning"
He swept the very ground with his hat,
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HOW THIMBLEs ARE MADE.-The
manufacture of thimbles is vts-y simple.
but singularly interesting. silver is
mostly used, and is obtained by purchas-
ing coin dollars. Hence it happens that
tn profits of the business are affected in
stan taneously by all variations in the ma
lions greenbaek promises to pay. The first
operation strikes novice as almost wick
ed, for it Is nothing else than putting lot
of bright silver dollars. fresh from the mint
into dirty crucibles, and melting them up
into solid ingots. These are rolled into
the required thickness, and cuff by stamp
into circular pieces of the required size.
A solid metal bar of the size Of the inside
of the, intended thimble, moved by power
full machinery up an down in a bottomless
mould of the outside of the thimble bends
their circular disks into the thimble shape
as fast as they can be placed under the de-
scending bar. Once in shape, the work of
Frightening, polishing and decorating is
done upon lathe. First, the blank form
is fitted with rapidly revolving rod. A
| slight touch with sharp chisel takes thin
shaving from the end. another does the
same on the side, and the third rounds off
tho rim. A round steel rod, dipped in
oil, aud pressed upon the surface, gives it
a lustrous polish. Then little revolving
steel wheel, whose edgei is raised ornament
held against the revolving blank, prints
that ornament just outside the rim. A
second wheel prints different ornament
around the centre, while a third wheel,
with sharp points, makes the indentatlons
on the lower half and end of the thimble.
The inside is frightened and polished in =
similar way, the thimble being held on a
revolving mold. All that remains to be
done is to boil the completed thimbles in
soapsuds, to remove the oil, brush them
up, and pack them for the trade.
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Hands Off:

Some men are never happy unless their
hands are in motion. They are eternally
Strengthening the necktie of the man with
whom they are talking, or fumbling with
his watch chain, or picking speck of lint or
dust from his coat, or picking at button,
or illustrating how the beard should grow.
With ladies these fellows are insufferable.
They find breastpin out of plumb, or a
hairpin sticking sixteenth of an inch
further out than it should, or lock OF
hair astray, or watch slipping out Of a
bolt, or a gather of dress has started the
stitching, or the flower in the hat droops
little, or the shawl pin don't hang just
80, and they insist upon fixing these mat
tiers. and keep fumbling and paving and
picking away at lady until attention ID
drawn to the performance, and an annoy
ance is the result. Ono of these fellow
will put his hand under a lady's elbow to
lift her over straw on the walk, or cross
a six inch gutter, and when going up a
rise Of two or three steps will insist upon
putting his hand upon her waist and par
TALLY lifting her up. If he helps her into
a carriage he wants to lift her in, and in
assisting her to alight he makes her jump
into his arms, where he holds her as long
as he dares. While riding with her he al
ways has his hand upon the seat behind
her, ready to seize her waist every time
there is a jolt big enough to give him an
excuse to do so, in fact, he seems to be
continually aching to paw, in one way or
another, every lady into whose company
he is thrown. It may not be improper be-
tween people pretty well acquainted with
each other, but it don't look we'll, and
ladies who don't like to appear annoyed,
still feel 30, and wish to be let alone.
Gallantry is one thing, but nam by-pamb by,
unnecessary attentions are altogether diff
ferent, and should be put down by the
ladies who suffer from them.
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You are coward if YOU. fear tell the
truth when you should do 50. You are a
coward when you insult the weak. You
are coward if afraid to do right; if you
shrink from maintaining that which you
know to be good; and you are especially a
coward if you know certain things of
yourself and are afraid to own it.
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1oetrr.
THE SUGAR NAPLES.

THE SUGAR NAPLES.
Along the vale and DER tho hill
see d ue aEd SMOKY haze;
The afternoons are warm and still.
And presage longer, warmer DAYS.
The bluejay on the sumac Dough,
Is screaming with discordant note:
The ph9be-bird arouses now
The longing heart with trembling throat.
Tho hills are peeping through the snow,
And buried fences greet the view;
On bare, brown KIN lis squaw-berr es glow
Or tiny snow flowers fl ut llue,
The fresh, new earth nov scents the gale,
As, rising from her sepulcLre,
She casts aside her snowy veil,
And greets her train who wait for her.
The athered odors of the flowers
That lurk withn the map;e's veins,
The golden light Of summer hours,
The boarded wealth o. summer rains,
The garnered s~ eetness of the years
Tha pulses through the mighty trees,
Await a wound to flow III tears
Sweet as the hoard Of shining bees
Now stands the drowsy team asleep
Before the bucket-laden sleigh,
While sink, the cruel steel full deep
To draw the crystal sap away,
The steady drip from wooden lip
Makes music in the soft spring air,
And soon The laden buckets tip
And waste the nee ar Itch and rare.
Anon the pungent smoke wreaths rise
. Abound the kettles tossing surge;
Haze youths 4tI end the sacrifice,
And hign he flames with faggots urge,
All, transmutatiun wOndrOuS sweet!
That steals tine blood Of b ire brown trees,
And in he CT ackling flames and heat
Has power those golden grains to seize!
Ovanished youth! O balmy days!
The doris is O. e rly flowers
see again tn GU h smoky haze
T, e picture, # those fl citing hours;
l hear again the wi d hal 90
Of boys long silent in the tomb.
The fitfnl campfire rings to view
Glad faces from the outer gloom.
They tel of an eternal spring
Forev, bri2ht with springing flowers,
W ere morning is an endless ring.
Existence knows not passing Tours.
1t MAY be that the flames of strife
Have stored for US some sweets away.
Or frozen dfiits Of earthly life
May yield for us brighter day.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

When, in the case Of doubtful morality,
you have to ask, els there any harm in
doing thls?" anwer by asking, 'Is there
harm in letting it alone2"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

Blessed is the man who loveth his wife'a
relations; and not only blessed, but also
scarce.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

CURE FOR FELON.-The following
cure for felon has been tested by wide
experience among friends, and is worthy
of circulation: Roast or bake thoroughly
large onion; mix the soft inner pulp with
two heaping tablespoonful of table salt,
and apply the mixture to the affected part
as poultice, keeping the parts we'll COW
cred. Make fresh applications at least
twice a day, morning and evening, and
cure will follow in at least a week.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

ARTIFICIAL METEOROLOGICAL SPARs.
-Saturate water, kept boiling, with alum;
then set the solution in cool place, sus-
pending in it, by a hair or fine silk thread,
cinder, a sprig of plant, or any other
trifle' As the solution cools, beautiful.
capitalization of the salt takes place upon
the cinder, ETC., which will resemble speci-
mems of spar.
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THORNBURG & SHAFER'S
LIVERY
AMI

BAGGAGE TRANSFER COMPANY,
New Street, near Railroad,
STANTON, VA.
xxe=zm- All orders for Hacks Buggies and
o6HssEszss Riding Horses, promptly attended to;
2a2--ss- parts Of the city, and for all Trains, at
all hours, Day and Night, Dol
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YEAST CAKEs.-Boil handful of hops:
pour on Indian meal sufficient to make
still dough; when cool enough not to scald
yeast put in q cupful; mix we'll. Ii the
weather is warm, make into cakes imme-
diately; put meal on molding board, set in
shade in airy place to dry; turn every day
till dry.
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FATTENING BEEV Es.-An agricultural
authority says as to beef, the most success
full moGe we have ever tried was to fasten
the animal to be fattened by the horns to
a stake in the stable, keeping it we'll bed
ded and never taking it out until it was
sold to the butcher or slaughtered for FAM
lily use. All expenditure of muscular force
takes from the supply which the food con-
stantly gives and the net increase is les
sened, and so the quieter you keep the ami
NAL the better. ALI they will eat, and the
best you can give them is the cheapest in
the long run.
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LAYER CAKE.-Three cups of sugar.
one cup OF butter, SIX eggs, four cups of
flour, one cup milk, four teasponfuls of
yeast powder.
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NMONIA ON PLANTs.-For house
plants. five or six drops to every pint of
water, once week. will make them -four
ish. 1t is also good to clean plant jars.
So be sure and keep bottle of it in the
house.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

YEAsT.-Five potatoes, one cup of white
sugar, four tablespoonful of flour, with a
little salt and yeast to raise it.
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CORN MEAL Observation-Disclosures
pound corn meal. one pint milk, boil to-
gether fifteen minutes, add one-fourth
pound butter, six eggs, rose-water, sails
and sugar to taste.
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PICKLEs.-.Pickles should be touched
only with dry spoon or ladle. A few
drops of water, or the introduction of a
wet spoon, will sometimes spoil the entire
contents Of a pickle jar.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

In the New POWELL BUILDING, on Augusta
Street. They will keen large and general assert
ment of FAMILY GkOCt RIES, FLOUR. GRAIN,
&C., and will be glad to ZEE their friends, promising
them every attention and the most favorable prices
and terms.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-06
REpunLIcANIsM ~ TENNESSEE.

The Knoxville (Tennl Chronicle is among
the journals of the South that dorcs TO
speak the truth in discussing the principles,
achievements, and interests of the Republic
can party and face the worst consequences
of the act. OF this class the number is very
limited, and hence they are the more
precious to the cause Of TRUTH justice and
right. On the lst day Of January the
CRrOaicie INDUCES a review Of the Republic
can record, which fills nearly four columns
of its space, in which il deals with the sub
iect learlcssly and truthluly, We regret
that we have not space for this outspoBen
discussion Of the Republican interest entire,
but give the following as a specimen brick
from the well-burned kiln:
This retrospective view of the past shows
with what fidelity the Republican party has
kept its pledges in the settlement Of some of
the greatest questions ever submitted to the
American people, That it has made some
mistakes we are willing to admit. But, taken
as a whole, IL has record Of which any party
might well feel proud. Aud its days Of use
fulness are not ended There is work for it
to do yet. 1t must complete the restoration of
the Union. Until every man, white or black,
rich or poor is free to express his political sem
timents without restraint and in absolute
safety in every State in the Union, there is
still work for the Republican party to do.
There is work for the Republican party as long
as men are found who advocate repudation, or
insist that promise to pay n dollar is dollar.
Until honesty prevails in public life; until
free education is afforded to every child in the
| land until all political bitterness and strife
| has been healed until all men are free and
| Cqual as GoD created them and intended they
should be, there is work for the Republican
party, and it will continue to exist. And as
! long as men are controlled by reason, and not
by blind prejudice, so long will the people of
tilis country trust the party that has so sa-
credly kept its pledges.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-06
PERSON-IL.

Hos, CHARLES Foster, of Ohio, Is at the Riggs
House.
Hos. r. Jackson, of Utica, n. v, is booked at
Will0rd's.
Hon. HARRY WHITE, Of Pennsylvania Is stopping
at the lbbllt House.
Hon, THOMAS RYAN, of Kansas, is registered
at the Ebbtt House.
THE condition of Commissioner Dent was much
improved last evening
Mr.. W. +. CossARr JR,, of Philadelphia, has
apartments at the National,
GENTLEMEN in mourning in Philadelphia wear
black ribbon in the button'hole.
DIR. IIESRY MCELEvEY ana Colonel c. II. CaTlC.
ton, T.. $. A., are at the Ebbilt House.
A ASACRAMENTo woman has land turtle for u pet,
aud has carved and polished its shell.
PROFESSOR GoRISl is building CrematOry on the
site belonging to the Cremation Society, of Lon
don.
EX-GOVERNOR CURTIN has almost recovered his
usual good health and expects soon to regain his
usual vigor,
HoN. J. NJ. THOMPSON aud wife and Miss Flora
Thompson, Of Pennsylvania, are guests at the Eb-
bltt House.
GEORGE WASuINGroS is 10 be hanged in Louis
vile next month, and the country Will be left an
orphan again.
BAYARD TAYLOR was city editor of the New York
Tribune at one time with salary Of sl2 week and
one assistant,
GENERAL TOW THUMB told reporter that he
stopped playing chess when his wife learned 10
beat him at the game
FORTY young ladies lost their wardrobes IN the
fire that destroyed Millersburg Female College at
Paris, Ky, on Saturday,
EX-GOVERNOR DlNGLEY, OF Name, Is taking II
easy In Rome, unmndiul of tho worry the folks
have been In 1T homo about his latest successes,
Mr.. KMBALL has entered new field. lie has
secured $4,000 toward building a $4,000 church
! for Presbyterian congregation at Penn Yam, ~ Y.
! A DAUGHTER OF Governor Hampton Is expected
10 create quite a sensation in Washington after the
first OF the year. She Is said 10 be very beautiful.
| A DAUGHTER OF Loyl Bartlett Of Boston promises,
/ II Is said, TO endow chair OF mental philosophy
Sj1 900,
| PosrMAsTER, GENERAL KEY has accepted an in.
yauOn to attend the dedication Of the new capitol
/ pose tonight.
| EN.Dlsllop MCCOsKRY was In Dresden at last nc.
| counts lie recently wrote 10 u FREUD In OwOssG
that no expected To return 10 Now York and take up
/ his residence there.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON and his wife viii so 10
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-06
MORNING,

Canada this week TO visit the MARQUIS OF Lorne and
the Princess Louise. The Misses Thornton 0re to
enter society this winter.
THE following Copgressmen registered Mt the
National yesterday j. X. Tarbox, Massachusetts,
j. g. Cannon. Illinois; j. A. Hubbell, Michigan,
and II. II. Harris, Georgia.
Mr.. DAVID A. WELLS is about TO retire from the
presidency of the American Social Science Associa
ton. President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni.
Yersity, is mentioned rs his successor.
Mrs GENERAL LANDER occupied box at Fords
Opera-llouse last Saturday night, and despite the
cold complnented lotto" and the company by
witnessing the performance to It's close.
SENATOR THURNAN, Sergeant alarms Thompson,
and nearly all the Buckeye Democrats as well a
number Of Others of the same kidney, have gone to
Columbus, Ohio, TO take part In the celebration of
the anniversary of the battle Of New Orleans day
after tomorrow.
AMoNG the talented women who will take
part in the National Women's Suffrage Con.
vention the present week the press will not
be unreprescnted. Matilda Jocelyn Gage, editor of
the National CHieen, Of Syracuse, n. y. Mary i.
Haggart editor the lIOmdn's Tribune, Indian0po.
lis, Ind. Theresa Juan Lewis, Of Philadelphia, and
Snrah J. Spencer, of Washington, editors Of U0ndTs
Iordsi Dr. Caroline u. Wlnslow, editor of the
alpha; Elizabeth Boynton Herbert Of the Chicago
Inlcr. Ocean, and Lille DevercNux Blake, of the
New York Sdr, will be present and address tho con-
yentiOu.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-06

only lacks the power 10 re.enslave the millions
who have been emancipated on her soil, in
order to save the Union and ba1lohor treason
able designs; that in nothing does sho so
much glory rs in her attempt to de-
stroy the Republic and in the successes of
her Confederate leaders on tho battle
field that she has repented of nothing, and is
ashamed of nothing that she has done, but ex-
acty the reverse that she dospisos the North
(barbarism sneering at civilization as she al
ways has done, and counts as "mudsills' the
Northern working-classes, while ondeavoring
to use them for their own evil ends; that she
is gloating over tho prospect of soon having
the reins of government over the whole coun-
try In her own hands that as for her leading
men in Church and State in Congress and out
of IT, "the best of them are sharper than
thorn. hedge and the most deeply responsible
for the numberless atrocities that have been
rerpctmted upon the Southern loyal populn-
tion, white aud black and that nothing but
perfect unity of spirit and action at the North,
to the extent, at least, of out.voting the Solid
South" at the approaching Presidential cleo
ton, can avert the most disastrous conse-
qucnces to the country. "Tho bloody shirt !!
III hoe siglio riRccs! Yours, very truly,
WM LLOYD GARRISON,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-06
POLITTCIL NOTES.

TEXAS expects to gain fifteen Congressmon at the
next apporonmcnt
TnE Lynn Greenb0ckes invite hard.moncy
speakers TO lecture before them.
JOSEPH PULITZER thinks that IIoratlo Seymour
VIII be the strongest Democratic candidate for the
Presidency in 1880.
THE fh ernor of Massachusetts recommends that
CONSTITUTIONAL amendment relating TO woman
suffrage be submitted to the people Of that State.
THE DdRg Free Prose, an afternoon fourpage
sheet, was started Of Emirn, n. w. last week u Is
Crat,
BECAUSE Samuel J. Tilden Is a deod cock IN the
pit II does not follow that New York will not de-
mand and secure tile next Democratic nomination
Tor the Presidency. -NorriiGuR Hefdd, Rep.
THE Washington correspondent of the Savannah
Vi0) Noes says that Stanley Matthews Is to be
given high Federal Office as soon as his term eX.
pires in the Senate on the ith of next March.
THE True BluC is the title of Il new weekly Green
back newspaper printed at Rochester, which
adopts the motto, I'VE want no bonds, no national
banks, no resumption, but paper absolute money"
THE Nicksburg Commercial imprcssivey remarks
that President Hayes has the South by the tail -
The Buffalo Express agrees but arguess that the
President Is like the fellow inside the hogshcad
who had the tiger by the tail. lie don't want to
let go, aud he can't hold on.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-06
The Washington Monument.

To me EdttOr Oj Nc -NutiOBdi RCDUbticdH:
SIR Mr.. story the sculptor has of late presented
n design for the completion of the Washington
monument and has also written letter contain-
ing some good artistic advice in regard to the char
meter of the original design and the proposed
changes therein that Il has been generally under
stood would constitute the revised and adopted
plan for completing the monument.
What Mr. story says Is not particularly new, at
least to the architects of the country for they have
been talking the same general ideas in regard to
this monument for twenty years or more. What
he says however Is good and there Is at least some
subject even though 1t be late in the day If thereby
he can at the eleventh hour induce those in author
ity TO abstain from perpetuating an absurdity, or
erecting In the name of the Ametican people a poor
design when n good one could be erected at the
same cost The original design Of the monument
was not in accordance with classical taste. A
change Is suggested, which Is simply cutting
down, on the basis OF less cost and which Is only
an improvement because of being less prctentlous
The monument, fortunately, Is not yet past 70.
demption. With proper artistic treatment and
with trife expense beyond what the proposed re-
duCel plan would cost a design worthy OF the age
may be constructed upon the present unSighty
work, and II Is most sincerely 10 be hoped that Mr.
Storys remarks even at this late day, may have the
good effect to stay any further proceedings upon II
bad work, and in its place substitute design that
will commend iscfto TO the good taste of the age.
JANUARY 3, 1879. PlIMAN.