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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

AS the birds come in tie spring
We know not from where;
As The stars come at evening
From depths Of the air;
AS the rain comes from the cloud
And the brook from the ground;
AS suddenly, low or loud,
Out of silence sound;
AS the grape comes to the vine,
Ihe fruit to the tree;
AS the wind comes to the pine,
And the tide to the sea;
AS come the white sails of ships
ger the oceans verge;
AS comes the smile to the lips,
The foam to the surge;
So come to the Poet his songs,
All hitherward blown
From the misty land that belongs
To the vast unknown,
HIs, and not his, are the lays
He sings-and their fame
Is his, and not his-and the praise
And the pride OF name.
For voices pursue him by day
And haunt him by night,
And he listens, and needs must obey
When the Angel says: "Writep
Henry ". Lo,agfello,0 in June atlantic.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

That is good old story about the
aged lady on her death bed, who was in
a penitential mood. She said: III have
Deen great sinner more than eighty
years, and didn't know it.n An old
coiored woman, who had lived with her
q long time, exclaimed: "L.ors!-I
knoWed it allthe time.n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01
STONEWARE.

y gal. Pitchers. 2.25 all sizes.......,
r8y- Ali orders promptly filled; Goods Tar-
ranted; unsouud ware may be returned a liD-
eral discount from the above rates to the trade
NOaice-Aroid sickness from being poisoned
by n Black lead glazed article, called stoneware
Use pure s:llt-giazed sioneWare, nanuac,
tured in Virgins. ASK your physician if acid
coming in contact VITA lead is not poisonous.
IAG. NJ. HICKERSON.
hS- The above stateni e7?ts chemically
correct. THOS. D ktlLLER, NJ. D.
apr27-6m j. N. GORDON. NJ. ID.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

.,; Ae Was watching a neighbor's boy
cilmp a tree, and he had a look of pain
1ui anxiety on his countenance. "Are
you afraid the lad will fall and break his
neck Z" was asked him. "No,n he re-
plled, "l'm deucedly afraid he WON'T"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

WASHING OF HILL>SIDEs.-One of
the most successful methods of prevent
ing serious damage from washing of
cultivated hill-sides during neavy
storms, is to terrace the hill by plowing.
At short Intervals two or three furroWs
Of the soil are turned down hill, thus
making nearly level bank at short dis
tances, as you pass down the slope. The
last 1urrow makes channel IL which
the downward water is caught, and may
ne carried ol at one side of the hill-at
any rate 1t Will arrest the rapid down.
ward flow, and give the water more time
to soak into the soil. A hillside. sre.
cially given to- washing, shou!a De but
into grass after beips terraced. With
terracinSS sld a firm sod as a covering.
very little damage may be feared from
gulies made by descending wstea.-
american Agricultmist.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

GIyn0 TO 5000 A YEAR, or s. to $50 a dtg N
E{1IuI your own locality. No risk. Women
Ot0UU do as well men. Many make more
than the amount stated above. Any one can
do the work. You can make from so cts to 50
an hour by devoting your evenings and spare
time to the business. 1t costs nothing to try
the business. Nothing like it Tor money max
inc ever altered before Business pleasant and
strictly honorable. Reader, If you want to
know all aboHt the best paying business before
the public send Us your address and we VIII
free; samples worth s. also free; you can then
make up your mind fof ya.,rSelf.
Address GEORGE SllA'&ON a. W,
ieI0-Iy Portland. Maine.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

A CURE FOR HYDRoPHoRIA.-yV
clip the following from The Ct. Joseph
Gds9tfG, aad giveit for what it is worth:
70: years l have been publishing a
specific for hydrophobia. [ learned it
from one who had been familiar with
its use and its history since the early
part of this century. Among the hun
dreds of cases in which it has been tried
there has never been one of hydropho-
bia, although in every one tie person
or sn1mSl Aaa been bitten by dogs be-
lleved to be mad. 1t is this: Crate two
ounces of the root of elecampane. stew
it slowly one hour in a pint of fresh
milk; take the mess, fasting, in the
morning, and take nothing into the
stomach for six hours. Do this three
mornings in succession.
ans quantity is foT an adult person !;
1or child cY animal it should be varied
according to size and strength
JANE GREY SWIssHELAr.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

rEIH0MAS ID. RANSON,
l. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
STAUNToN. VA.
offers his professional services in the County
and Circuit Courts of Augusta, and in the Hus-
tings Court and the Court of Appeals held In
Staunton. VIII also prosecute claims else
where through legal correspondents in this and
other States may 30-ly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01
GRAY,s SPECIFIC MEDICINE.

BEFORE TAXING. of Memory. .Uni-AFTfa Faaia6-
versal LassitUde, Pain IN the Back, Dimness oi
Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other
Diseases that lead to insanity OF Consumption,
and Premature grave. G2- Fun particulars lars
in our pamphlet, which we desire to Send 1ree
cine is sold by all druggists at 81 per package,
or six packages for s5, or will be sent 1ree oy
mail on receipt of money by addressing
THE GRAY MEDECsNE CO..
Mechanics Block, DETROIT, MICH.
RN- Sold in Staunton and everywhere by all
druggists. nov25 79-1y
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

x GORGE Nj. HARRISON,
" ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
STAUNTON, VA,
will practice in all the Courts holden in Au-
gusta county, and in the Circuit Courts of the
adjoining counties.
EsrStrict attention given to the collection OF
Claims.
OFFIcE-No. 10 Lawyers Row. Court house
Allev. oc 3l-tf Z
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01


FREDERICK DOUGLASS FOR SENATOR
BRUCE. Mr., Frederick Douglass has
written letter in which he says he has
no hesitation in declaring that he is de-
cidedly in favor Of the nomination by
the Chicago convention or Senator
Bruce, oolored. Of Mississippi, for the
vice presidency of the United States.
Mr.. Douglass adds,
Senator Bruce's nomination is emf
nently fit to be made. He has intelli-
gence, character and experience, ana is
a sound republican, ana there is no
more improperly in naming him for
the exalted position in question than
there would be in naming for the same
any other republican member of the
United States Senate. His nomination
and election would 40 more to honor
and elevate the coiored people of the
country and remove race prejudice than
any civil-rights bill that craftsmanship
can devise or Congress can enact. It
would settle the negro question for all
time, and settle it in accordance with
the new departure of our government
in the direction of justice and ecSal
rightsO
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

H. NJ. MATHEWS. ALEX. f. MATHEWS.
MATHEWS az MATTHEW'S.
W. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
LEWIsBURa. WEST VA,
practice regularly in the Courts of Greenbrier,
Monroe, Pocahontas and Nicholas counties, W.
Courts for the District of w. Va.
E9-Particular attention paid to Collections
may lily
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01
Stamntot, Spectator.
RATES OF ADYEHTIgING.

ADvERTIsEMENTsw will be inserted at the rate
OF Sl.W per square Of eight lines or less for the
first insertion. and 80 cents for each subsequent
insertion.
~ A liberal discount will be made on edyeY1
tisements published for 8, g. or u months.
.A6- SPECIAL NOTICES will be inserted at dous
BILE the advertising rates.
~ Obituaries, ,Announcementso Of Candidates
Tor office, and all communications of personal
OF prlVate character, will be charged for as adj
Address-"stsunton Spectator, - Stanton, Va:
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01
Falling Into Line.

rOm every uelSuUOruoOu we get III
formation that assures us we were right
IN our judgment of the masses. An al
lance between the bone and sinew OF
the Democrats of Virginia and the me-
groes can never be formed, and the lead
er howeves able, who attempts it, will
only get milestone about his neck in
the end. We have no doubts, and have
never doubted that G majority or the
people of Virginia, were in favor OF
some re-adjustment of the State debt
that many did not believe they were
able to pay the debt, and had been de-
ceived by specious arguments and false
calculations, and this majority believed
honestly that the lands were assessed
too high and would be cut down, and
were willing to support, for the Legis-
lature, any tolerably good man with
these views.
But when it comes to formal alli-
ance with Radicals and negroes, assooia-
tion in meetings-a new basis with pro-
misses of mixed juries-sbolition of poll
taE sad all tho promises of the Radical
party, the visions of the days of the car
pet-bagger and the scalawag, and the
Molungeon convention revive, and the
hard-working, honest non-political far
mers and mechanics call halt. They
are not willing to be traded off by any
leader, or longer deceived in order to be
carried into the Radical party.
They are Conservatives, and will diff
fer with Conservatives about State poll
ey and State officers, but they are Ma
tional Democrats and will not vote for a
Republican President, nor will they aid
to elect one by endorsing and sustain
ing Mahone's unpledged ticket. And
SO we hear from every county thai tE.s
element, eanad laqG ELI f.e-adJusters,
have no idea of permitting Gen. Ma
hone and his agents to lead them blind
fold into blunder as bad as crime.
The best men of the party will go to
Richmond, and the body of its white
noninaa.-Hnahla2g ~ AdSaaos. ,'s n,a'7''
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01
.RESTON A BAYLOR.

DRESTON BAYLOR,
l. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
AYld Solicitor in Chancery, STAUNTON, VA,
practices in all the Courts of Augusta and ad-
Joining counties.
OFFICE-The same formerly occupied by his
father, Col. Geo. Baylor, decd. on Augusta St.,
opposite the Courthouse. nO2l
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

TNYREE'S COMPOUND SYRUP OF
l. WILD CHERRY will cure your cough.
Price, only 20 cents.
TYREE'S COMPOUND SYRUP WORM
i SEED is a pefsect Nermiuge-pleasant
to take. Price, % cents, mario =
NIYREE'S TASTELESs CASTOR OH is
i lust as pleasant TO taste S@ syrup Price,
70 cents. Inar30
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01

T. C. ELDER. VIM. ]. NELSON
YNEDERs sG NELSON.
ID T1ORNEYS-AT-LAW,
and Real Estate agents,
may 5 STAUNToN, VA.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-01
THE POET AND HIS yOSGS.

Address-"staunton suect.to- 3, .s.suutou
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26
VOL. XXXVII.

lDLENEss IN WOMEN. Looking with Il
mothers interest upon the habits of young
people and their relations together, in this
day, and looking also upon the personal
experience of more than fifty years, am
profoundly convinced that idleness in
women has much Gf not more) to do with
tho deep rooted evil that is undermining
our social and national virtues so rapidly
and terribly, than any other influence The
girls of this generation are idle, even
where families are in moderate circum-
stances, and suffering must come in some.
where from expenses entailed by necessary
work that is not done by the daughters.
lIousework is considered degrading even
the light offices for her own room, which
every true woman should be unwilling
should be done by other hands but her
own, and by which every young girl
should make that place Il sanctuary, where
her dignity and purity are to be recognized
and guarded by each appointment and
arrangement within it; and sewing is
handed over to the machine workers rs
something out of the question TO be done.
If no more should be said respecting
these points, it is pitiful to consider how
they are missing their own happiness in
this state of things. No girl is fitted for
her future duties and responsibilities us
wife and mother who cannot do these
things, and do them thoroughly well; and
her future is not provided for unless her
present is steady and organized founda-
ton for it, and that cannot be unless the
mothers train the daughters from baby
hood for the work that is sure to come to
, h,;, hood IVhoY, chic +; IA,
happiness comes in. Mothers and daugh
tiers have life together; II bond of en-
ployment and interest that is in constant
operation. Over the household matters,
and especially over the work of their
needles, they have companionship that
grows with their lives. and brings them
into II close intimacy, of which, alas, the
mothers and daughters of this day know
very little. They are really strangers to
each ether. The steady training which
the character of the mother ought to be to
the daughter is not known, because they
have no work together. The needle is II
part of woman's dover. | will not dwell
upon " the benefits OF the benefits of the
sewing machine"
1t is great subject, and not easily
opened up in as brief space as is allowa-
bic here; but | believe-as | believe in
God and His appointments for us-that if
the girls of this generation would take up
q daily duty of work, no matter what
their position or means, the world would
be happier for it. Mothers would have
their society and their affection as they
sorely miss it now; fathers would have
many dark hour of discouragement over
hnnuU hills li,rbtnnoI. hrnt hnr- Xynnll hn,to
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26
An Editors Telephone,

The editor of the Lutheran has con
nected a telephone with the houses of it.
subscribers, and the following is the re-
suit:
lst voice: Why don't yon print any
more sermons?
I'd voice: l am glad you don't print
any more sermons.
Sd voice: Why do you give us such
long theological articles on the first pages
4th voice: You should always give us
ministers good deal of theology.
9th voice: For Heavens sake. don't
give us q series of articles!
9th voice: If you want me to write for
the paper, you must let me write series,
for that is the only way in which can do
justice to my subject and to your readers.
9TH voice: Give us all the church news
you can; full reports of conventions, CON
ferences, and the like
Sth voice: Give us news by all means
but who cares about what Tom, Dick and
Harry said and did here, there, and every.
wherep
9th voice Give us news of other parts
of the church, too.
10th voice: We don't want to know
anything about the sects.
llth voice: am glad you decline anon
ymous articles.
18th voice: You make a great mistake
in declining anonymous articles. | am
very anxious to write, but [ don't like to
put my name to it.
18th voice: l am delighted that YOU
have put the library into such excellent
hando: and that Dr. X. gives ns snch full
18th voice think you devote entirely
too much space to book notices
18th voice: always read your poelcal
selections with interest,
10th voice. You might as well omit
the rhymes, and fill the space with more
solid matter.
18th voice: I would like to know why
you didn't publish my article?
18th voice: You are entirely too good
natured about publishing things. You
ought to be more generous to yeur waste
basket.
10Th voice: Why don't you have a col
umn devoted to pleasantries?
Goth voice: Wife and are very fond OF
good eating; and are always on the look
out for new recipes. Why don't you give
themp
2lst voice: 1t strikes me you ought tc
devote at least column 10 secular news
22d voice: Your paper contains toe
many advertisements.
23d voice: You ought to get more ad
vartisements to add to the income of youl
paper.
The editor, thinking he has heard
enough for one day, suddenly drops the
instrument, and silence returns. He does
not even'talk back"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26

| ABOUT GOING WEST, Young MAN.-Tc
certain wiseacres of the easy writing and
surface thinking class, nothing seems
palmer than that the mechanics, artisans
and professional men of our cities shonld
instantly go west and proceed to raise
grain or grow stock. Neither capital,
knowledge, experience nor taste for the
lie seem to be considered. If the idle men
here were in nome way set down there,
wheat and com, beef and pork. would
! quite as matter of course result from the
change, and the great question would be
solved. Men who couldn't cultivate A
garden patch successfully. and have no
training nor fitness for farm work, are
urged to go west, as though crops were
things to be struck, like oil. The follv of
such advice is more apparent than that
given to the ambitious curnudoeon by his
son,-to come west because some almighty
mean men get Office out here! 1t is even
worse than the mistake of tho snifless
workmen, the hedgling lawyers, and the
played-out traders of the east who fiocked
west few years ago under the klse i'm
preston that the people already there
hadn t their eye teeth cut
ANY man htted either by nature or tx
perience for outdoor work, with SOUND
health and plenty of grit, can win there as
here, only by paying the price OF success.
Ii he can live in Il board shanty or "a log
hut live on plain fare and work hard, as
his neighbors do-in short. adapt himself
to the hardships and needful thriftiness of
new country, he may be independent
and give to his children the boon of a fair
start which they might never have here.
But he must rc-adjust his views of things.
The so called necessities of our older COM
munities are there largely unknown.
Natures favors are evenly distributed
after all, says the Tribune, for, in the cpl
gramatic language of the Concord philos-
opher. If we have one good thing we pay
for it by the loss of some other good thing.
The law of compensation holds especially
true in respect 10 localities, and he who
seeks country not hampered with draw
backs will fail TO find it-this side the
better world-just as he ought to fail who
seeks for success in any calling without
being able 10 pay its fair equivalent.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26

Moss BAsKETs.-Very beautiful baskets
for holding flowers can be made of the
longer and more feathery kinds of MOSES.
We have made them often; and never do
either garden or wild flowers look more
lovely than when clustered upon A yerdant
border of that most delicate and beautiful
material, which by proper management
may be made to preserve its freshness and
briiliancy for many months.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26

VELOCITY OF RIFLE Professor
Spice recently measured, before II large
audience, the velocity of rifle ball fired
across the stage. The distance was only
thirly-three feet Lieutenant Merriam CO.
operated. and his duty was to shoot away,
with Creedmoor rifle, two loose wires,
each of which connected in an electric
circuit two globules of mercury. One
wire was placed just in front of the sup
ported muzze of The rifle, the other thirty
three feet distant. Two levers were ar
ranged, with bent wire points, over n piece
of smoked glass to which uniform mo-
tion cond be impaired, and the electric
connections were such that on the first
wire being broken the point of the cores
ponding lever descended on the glass I;
but when the bullet broke the second wire
it immediately rose again by the action OF
n spring. The result of this was that the
point connected with this lever scraped a
very short line on the smoked glass. The
other point, being kept down during the
swing Of "a seconds pendulum. scraped 4
longer space. After firing, the glass was
Withdrawn, and II magnitled image of the
lines thrown on screen. The relative
lengths of these lines were then ascertain.
ed, the longer being found no inches. tn,
shorter live inches, making the duration o
flight of the ball 5.ll0th or l.22 of sec
ond, its velocity being 33x22-726 feet pc
second, or at the rate of little under 50'
miles per our,-Scientifc Afserioda.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26

MIDNIGHT SUNSHINE ON NORTHERN
FIE1Ds.-A Norwegian scientist, Professor
Schubeler, has recently reported the re-
suits of his investigations to determine
the effects Of the midnight sun during
the Scandinavian summers on the wheat
and other grain crops. The sight of the
sun shining near the Arctic Circle through
the twenty-four hours consecutively for
weeks together has attracted many to the
Northern Cape, but few have reflected on
the phenomenon except as physical Curl
osity. In the northern parts of Norway
its uninterrupted radiation is felt for two
months (from June % to August 23), and
the powerful influence of the almost un-
broken sunlight on grains and fruits, as
revealed by Professor Schubeler' research
es and experiments, is astonishing. His
experiments were made with samples of
Bessarabia wheat, both of which every
year acquired richer and darker hue,
until finally they assumed the yellow
brown tint of the hardy homegrown
Norwegian wheats. Similar color changes
occurred in Indian corn and different kinds
of vegetables transplanted from foreign
countries under the Norwegian skies. In
no case did the experimenter find any I'M
ported plant capable of being grown in
Norway lose in intensity of color after
continued cultivation there, while with
many garden plants of Central Europe
after acclimatzation they seem to increase
in siz, and weight. The conclusion he
draws is that wheat, corn and other seeds
imported from warmer cline, when cu-
tivated under the unintermitted sunlight Of
Norwegian summer, become harder rs
well Ms larger and better able to resist
excessive cold.
These are not however, the only II qni-
sitions that plants make by exposure TO II
night and day sun. The aroma and flavor
of wild and cultivated fruits, capable ol
ripening in northern lands, are much
greater than when grown under more
southern skies. This is particularly OBJ
served in the small fruits which are SC
grateful in the early part OF the warm
season, requiring in our latitude but
short period of heat to mature them. DR.
Schubeler maintains, rs the result OF hi!
patient and careful experiments, that day
and night light unintermitted engender'
aroma, as high temperature engender'
sweetness and, while tho high flavor il
obtained at the expense of sweetness, tht
latter quality is of minor Importance.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26

How TO CARE FOR CANARIEs.- Says
writer on canaries: 81 In this way |
answer the question of "How l had such
luck with bidsP" Simply by allowing
the birds to attend to their own affairs,
and by letting them understand that their
mistress would never harm them; also by
accustoming them to plenty Of light and
air and company, rather than as recon-
mended in books. keeping the cage in "a
dark room, for fear of frightening the
birds. Never give them sugar, but all the
red pepper they will eat. 1t is the best
thing for them. And if your bird feels
hoarse at any time, put piece of fat salt
pork in the cage and see how the little fell
low will enjoy it, and listen for the result.
Give him fax seed once in a WHILE and if
he appears dumpy occasionally give diet
of bread and butter, with red pepper
sprinkled in"