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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

READING.-Let us take time for read
ing. It will never come if we wait to have
every speck of dirt removed from each ar
ticle we use. We can always find some
thing else to do; and conscientious house.
keepers, with little taste for mental pur-
suits, are apt to make great plumbers.
ssThe life is more than meat, and body than
ralment, !" which means-if may be al
lowed to preach wee bit of sermon
that you yourself, with all your immortal
faculties, are of more, vastly more, i'm
portance than your house and furniture,
and clothing and cookery; and those are
utterly worthless if they serve as him
ORANGES, instead of helps, to your indi-
vidual culture. No kind of labor is de-
grading if done from worthy motive. and
no motive can be nobler than the womanly
desire to make pleasant home. With
this end in view-With love as prompter-
washing and darning and scrubbing are
all elevated from drudgery to a noble
place. But our home cannot be properly
attractive and profitable to our families if
we ourselves are dull and harrassed. Our
brothers and fathers and husbands and
sons need cheerful an intelligent COM
panions at home far more than they need
nice dinners and spotless linen. 1t is ne
cessary that good housekeepers should also
read and reflect and listen and converse.
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Celebrated Men Of Humble Origin.

John Adams was the son of farmer.
and Benjamin Franklin was the son of
tallow chandler. Pope, one Of the great
est of English poets, was the son of linen
draper. Bloomfield wrote his best poem,
.ssThe Farmers Boy" while working in
the garrett as a shoemaker. Clifford. the
first editor of the ''Quarterly Review"
began life as sailor boy, and afterwards
served an apprenticeship to shoemaker.
Ben Johnson, the dramatic poet, worked
for some time as bricklayer. Shakes
peare was the son of a poor man, who
could not write his name, Burns was
the son of a small farmer; Allen Cunning
ham of gardener; Hogg was shepherd;
Ebenezer Elliott worked in an iron foun-
dry; Falconer was sailor boy; Thomas
Moore was the son of a grocer; Gerald
Massey is the son of canal boatmen, and
began life as an errand boy, and was next
an operative in silk mill. Daniel Defoe,
the author of Robinson Crusoe, !" began
life as an hosier, and was almost wholly
self-taught. Cobbett was in early life a
farmers boy, and afterward private SOL
dier. Isaac Walton, the angler, was lin
Ell draper. DIR. Isaac Miller, Dean of Car
Isle, and his brother Joseph, author Of a
History of the Church." began life as
weavers DIR. John Prideaux, Bishop of
Worcester, got his education at Oxford by
entering the University as a kitchen boy.
John Bunyan, author of the 'Pilgrim's
Progress, :" was tinker, and entirely self
taught James Ames. the antiquary, was
an lronmonger. Hugh Miller, the geolo-
gist and journalist, was quarryman.
Camden, the great historian, was the son
of house painter. Caxton, who was the
first to set up printing press in England,
! was apprenticed to weaver. The dra-
matist Holcroft was groom. Sam Pops
! was the son of tailor. Richardson the
novelist, was the son of a joiner. Among
scientific men, Simpson, the mathemati-
clan, was a weaver. Captain Cook was
the son OF peasant, who, at seventy years
of age, learned to read that he might pc
ruse the narrative of his sons voyage. Sil
Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the
cotton-spinning machine, commenced life
as barber. Brindley. the engineer. com
lnenced life as mechanic. Sir William
Herschel, the illustrious astronomer, was
Ia musician in the band of regiment
Faraday, the chemist and natural philoso
pher, was book-binder. Ferguson, thu
astronomer, was shepherd. John Hun
ter, the celebrated surgeon, and his broth
er William, the eminent physician, thu
sons of farmer. Chantry, the sculptor
was milk boy; and Flaxman, anothel
great sculptor, was the son of plaster
cast maker. Sir Thomas Lawrence, thu
painter, was the son of an inn-keeper
Opie, the painter, worked in saw pit; ani
Hogarth was apprenticed. to working
engraver. Sir John Hawkins, the famous
admiral, began life as house builder.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

A PAPER HoUsE.-In the exhibition at
Sydney, Australia, there is house built
and furnished throughout from paper,
The structure is enc story high, and its
skeleton is made of wood. The exterior
is moulded in cartonpierre, while the in
terror is covered with the same material.
being plain on the floor, forming splendid
arabesques on the walls, and moulded in
imitation of plaster on the ceilings. The
doors, cupboards and shelves are of the
same material; while the entire furniture
including chandeliers and stove, in which
a fire can be lighted, is made of papier-
mache. The carpets and curtains are of
paper. and there is bedroom in which
there is large bed made of papier-mache,
but there are also blankets, sheets, and fe-
male under clothing, dresses and bonnets
in the latest styles. composed solely of
carbonate. 1t is proposed to give series
of banquets in this building. in which the
plates, dishes, knives, forks and glass es
will all be of paper.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

STANDARDS OF BEAUTY.-Dean Swift
proposed to tax female beauty, and to leave
every lady to rate her own charms. He
said the tax would be cheerfully paid, and
be very productive. Fontenelle daintily
compliments the sex when he compares
women to clocks-"The latter serve to
point out the hours, the former to make
us forget Them" The standards of beauty
in women vary with those of taste. So
crates calls beauty short-lived tyranny;
Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophras-
tus, silent cheat; Theocritus, a delight
full prejudice; Carneades, a solitary king
dom, and Aristotle affirmed that it was
better than all the letters of recommends
ton in the world. With the modern Greeks
and other nations on the shores of the
Mediterranean, corpulency is the perfec-
tion of form in women. 1t was from the
common and admired shape of his country
women that Rubens in his pictures de-
lights so much in plumpness. When this
master was DESTROYS to represent the "beau-
tiful, he had no idea of beauty under two
hundredweight. His very graces are all
fat. But it should be remembered that
all his models were Dutch women.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

EXAMPLE is more forcible than precent
People look at my six days in the week to
see what mean on the seventh,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16
FARM AND. FIRESIDE.

VALUABLE TABLES. Many new hands
at gardening find themselves at sea with
reference to the quantity of certain seeds
necessary to SOW an acre. For the benefit
of all such Mr.. Henderson makes out the
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

THERE is transcendent power in ex-
ample We reform others unconsciously
when we walk uprightly.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

Men may bend to virtue, but virtue can
not bend.to men,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

A kind word can no more die than the
noble nature which prompts it's utterance.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

Ice CREAM WITH EGGs.-TWO quarts
new milk, ten eggs, one tablespoon corn
starch, beat the eggs, wet the corn starch
and cook it in the milk, then stir in the
eggs and cook. but do not let them curdle,
one a half pounds sugar. Cook the night
before so it will be thoroughly cool, add
two teaspoons vanilla. If you wish straw
berry flavor to the cream, mash and strain
them, and add sugar, one pint of berries,
four ounces of sugar to two quarts Of
cream. Put the cream into the freezer
and set in tub or pail, fill the pail with
broken ice, strew coarse salt in
large quantities between each layer
of ice, taking care that it does
does not get into the cream. Break the
ice by putting it in an old grain sack and
pounding with an axe. AS the cream
freezes scrape it from the bottom and
sides of the freezer with knife or spoon,
A large size lard can or tin pail may be
used instead Of freezer, but in that case
the cream must be often scraped from the
sides and well-heaten, to make 1t fine.
grained.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

THE SUNFLoWER.-We have lately
met with paragraph in several of our
exchanges recommending the planting of
sunflower seed in the middle Of each hill
of pole beans, so that the stalk of the sun
flower, growing faster than the beans and
always keeping a little ahead, would serve
instead of a pole, saving to the grower
considerable labor and expense. How
this would work in practice we cannot
say, but we do know that for many uses
the sunfower is valuable plant to raise.
1t grows very rapidly, and when thickly
planted around sink drains, privies and
other unsightly and offensive places, it not
only serves as screen, but it also is said
to have the property of absorbing mala-
rious exhalations and purifying the atmos-
phere. The seeds are much Ielished by
poultry, and, if not fed too literally. are
very wholesome. A correspondent Of the
Country Gentleman" recommends the
seed as cure for the heaves in horses, and
says: GA gentleman told me that there is
nothing equal to sunfower seeds for that
purpose. He had one bushel of the seeds
ground with two bushels Of oats, and gave
horse two quarts of the mixed meal, wet
with water, three times day. He took
the time when the horse was not used at
hard work. In two weeks not sign Of
the heaves could be observed, and the
horse looked as sleek and bright as if his
hair had been oiled. He had cured two
horses of his own of this distressing COM
plant, and recommended it to others, who
had experienced like result. In cases Of
horse distemper and coughs it is an excel
lent remedy.''-N. b. Farmer.
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= The quantity will look large in the case
of carrots, parsnips and some other small
seeds. Mr.. Henderson admits the estimate
to be large, but argues that seeds are I'M
certain germinators. and that. therefore,
it is best to be on the safe side by putting
an ample supply into the ground. AS to
the quantity Of seeds necessary for given
number of plants, Mr.. Henderson favors
US with a table, which, he says, 10 approx
mately correct. as follows:
One ounce of seed of either of the kinds
named below will usually produce plants
To the number affixed.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-16

PROFIT IN Hoas.-In raising hogs, as in
other departments of live stock husbandry
the interest of the farmer is to get the
most money for his care. labor and feed.
1t has been shown repeatedly by expert
ments that well-bred Berkshires and Po-
land-China swine will, under favorable
circumstances, produce twelve pounds of
pork for bushel of corn. These instances
may not be very numerous, but they show
what can be done and done without diff
Guilty. From list Of experiments in feed
ing swine made in several States, the low
est average was five and three-quarter
pounds of pork to bushel Of corn fed on
the ground, and the highest an average of
twenty pounds, made by feeding pair of
pigs green corn IN the ear. From thirteen
experiments made. the average for every
bushel of corn was 10 pounds Of pork
With good breed of swine properly cared
for, five and one-sixteenth pounds of corn
ought to produce one pound of pork. This
is better average than is generally OBJ
tanned, but it is both possible and practi-
cable. Instead of six pounds to the bushel
which is fair estimate with inferior
animals to consume the grain-the farmer
ought not to be content with less than ten
pounds. It is not difficult to calculate
what one is doing in feeding corn to hogs
in the way of returns. IF one bushel of
corn represents ten pounds of pork. and
the price Of pork is So per hundred, the
farmer is receiving 80 cents per bushel for
his corn. and if pork is 81 per hundred he
is getting 40 cents for corn.
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OUR REMNANT COUNTER

Inspections II
OF Goods
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-10-13
NUMBER Al

Which of the two does the reader
suppose has most to do; the merchant
clerk, for instance, who earns his salary
/ by SIX or eight hours work in his Office
or his wife, who has To pinch and scrape
and shape and sew, and sit late at nights
and rise early in the mornings i'm order
TO Keep a neat and cheerful house. and
turn out the children in such a guise as
to do no discredit to their fathers black
coat If | had to choose between the
two, | should choose the husbands
share and not the wife's. The man i
more exposed to outside risks and
dIScomforts but the moment he enters
his home he is privileged to rest and be
waited on as much as if he were Sui
tan. The same rule exists everywhere.
Among shop-keepers of all bur the
highest class, the wife, in addition To
her natural work, takes her share in the
business, and such Is the case in a great
many other occupations She keeps
the books she makes out the bills
IN one way or another she overhows
from her own share of the work into
his.
Usually wealth means cessation
iii"iO vi AeSS Vi IdDoT. but LAWYER,
or Il great doctor, for instance. may
have reached the very height of success
without having his actual toll dimin-
lshed; and his wife in that case NAV be
carried high upon the tide of his success
to a position of ease and luxury which
bears little proportion TO the labor
with which he must still 90 on, keeping
up the reputation and the career which
he has made. Even in that case she
will have great establishment to
servants to rule and social
duties to perform, and always, the first
and most sacred duty of all, the child
rem to care for, which makes her life
anything hut an unoceupied one. But
the wife of professional man who is
struggling into work and celebrity has
Is tough a task as her humber neigh, ,
Dor
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Home Adornmcnts.

There is too little attention paid to
the surroundings Of rural homes. Too
often the landscape Is bare Of fruit or
shade trees. the fences are sometimes
made Of refuse material. and are delapi-
dated to the last degree Old carts,
wagons and other implements find a
graveyard in close proximity, and "a few
razor backs add liveIiness 10 the aspect.
Now, it is in easy reach Of the poorest
man to make his home paradise so far
as its outward appearance goes. II he
lives in a log house or a slab shanty,
the front can be hidden by beautiful
climbing vines, shade and fruit trees
can surround the house, af0rding cool,
delicious shade in summer and breaking
the force Of the chilling winds Of win
ter. A grassy lawn, smooth and YER
dant, is easily made by aBy man, and,
being made, can be kept in order with
out expense, Even old outbuildings,
fences. gates and other unsightly places
HAY be made positively beautiful by
covering them with some Of the many
things provided by Him who sendeth
rain. upon the rich aud poor alike, but,
by all means, whitewash them and make
them look neat and clean.-Southen
Farmer.
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Rest Better than phrsi !.

Rest would cure half the accidents
that horses receive, but people will not
give il them because it costs money. A
pet horse of mine had very bad sprain
consequent on groom's disobedienee !;
his leg was almost as useless as Though
it were broken he was seen by many
veterinaries ana pronounced incurably
injured. ] vas advised to sell him or
Kill him. | did neither had mis-
plates taken off, put him into the largest
loose box | have-one eighteen feet by
thirteen feet-with straw up to his
knees, and then, giving him no treat
ment except cold water bandages, kept
him doing nothing for year, gently
walking him about an the soft paths Of
my woods when /. was fine weather.
He recovered entirely after twelve
mouths rest, and now he is ready to-
Jump over the moon, and the only hard
task is to make him not gallop. Whfte-
hall Review,
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HON. CHARLES E. HOOKER.

A. upon the CORY battle field,
So j. it,, in legislative hall,
His arm then gave, YET be would not yield.
Aud now his speech list: true words for al
Our true. oar gallant, and our brave
Defender, still thy voice we hear
In clarion tones our land to save
From the tyrants, who year by year
Have with unrelentiug power
Sfris-n 70 crush our dear Southland.
All seized they-bank and tower -
with right of -peech-the fierce North-band.
Bot Sol to- us has been most good,
Our dear country honor did not fade,
For 30 darkest hour fair Hope stood.
Singing freedom thine-not freedom :
shade,
Col will send thee aad ID due time,
one Of fearless and dauntless mein-
Despair not S5ujhron hope be thine,
Ia the dim vista, he ~ .eeH.
nHoaker" now comes Truths dispenser,
Firm be stands a. fair Liberty shrine,
Flows from his souls golden censer-
Thoughts pure and Iofty-aye thoughts
Sublime,
T5 -enseless tyrants, who with scourges
Would still the throb Of Southern heart,
lie .ueaks. and his bold speech like surges
From Ocean deep cavern. make them start.
For tae peoplr-for southern freedom,
Most boldly his THAN word he speaks,
PfaIity Will Hooker, mob ie freeman,
WItu God help, restore the right he seeks.
July 9TH, 1873.
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AUTUMN FASHIONS.

AUTUMN CAPS, HATS ASH BoNNErs.
Extracts from Jennie Junpl
Caps are now regularly added In the Hst
OF hats and bonnets which make uo tbe
choice IN fail and winteg head-gear. and az
they are the novelty they must have the
hrst place. The IaOst "tak:np" of the new
cap styles is the Cam O'Shanter.r which
consists OF large full, irregular crown set
"a Dand, which must be at the side Of the
head, above the ears and frizzcs. The can
requires very little trimming. 1t may be
furnished with band Of feathers and "a
Pompon or algrette set high at the side
out the most approved method is 10 cross
silk cords upon the crown Zone or more
colors being used in their manufactured
and put three rows upon the band plush
being the tavOrite material for the pros
ductlon of the caps themselves.
The Russian" cap is a round turbau
which may be Of felt or felt with a plush
border, and Is Often made entirely Of feath-
ers, the Golden and Quipeyan pheasants
and small cocks feathers being used ana
the brilliant head of a bird added. The
( lam OShanter cap is also made Of satin.
garnet or gold color, and covered with "a
Melted crown Of silk, The band in such
case Is of the soft cut silk of which the
pompons are made, and two of these form
the decoration. But some of the prettiest
are Of black velvet trimmed with gold cord.
and one merit of them is that with a cor,
rect pattern any clever girl could make
one.
There is an immense variety in the hats.
some being large and Of the Gainesborouph
order, Others small and oval crowned, with
brims turned up, turban fashion ana
bound with velvet, when the material Of
the hats is felt.
Ladies who have black chip hats retain
them and have them retriInEied with black
velvet and feathers the lining being gar
net or red, or gold -coIored satin, perhaps
covered Wish network, Of silk
There are some large black bonnets, but
as remarked IN previous letter, the poke
is not at all 80 quaint IN satin or velvet or
plush as in straw. ia a modified form the
"Grsny,N a. the coal scuttle was called.
was a success last summer. but it is not
liked IN heavy material, and the really ele-
CANT bonnets are small, hut very brilliant.
in hues, feathers and beaded trimmings
Satin is almost always used in conjunction
with 'Jet, white amber bronze, cashmere,
OpalinS or black-all Of which are tech
nically jet, and this season are used t5 form
close melted massea IN bands, borders crowns
plastrons, panels, vests and the like with
startling effect.
JENNIE JUNE.
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WEAYER'S GAME EXPosgD.
ne BetrayS His Own Party for Republican
GreenbaCkS.

WHAT THE SECRETARY or his COMMITTEE
KNOWS ABOUT THE BARGAIN.
/ NEW YORK, October dyer ID. Ium
assistant secretary ofthe National Commits
tee OF the Greenback Labor PARTY. has NIL
dressed a communication. dated at Vvosf'-
lngtOn, ID, c., September -, to Hon. Thou-
son II. Murch, chairman, i'm which he s4v.-
distinctly make the charge that fb.
Greenback National canvas, now conducted
Is manipulated in the interest of the Repuh.
lican party, and Gen. Weaver's evDauses
are borne, ia large measure. from tbe
hepubhean campaign fund, and that ths
cuaIge can be substantiated in every de-.
tan. lie adds that a member of the svs.-
utive committee informed linn tbaf C,e1r,.,
q. Jones, of New York, the financial aya6t
OF the National Committee had received
$o,OO0 from the Republican campaign fund
ana that, when he demonstrated with Com
Weaver on The matter, Weaver reulied that
II made no difference how much had bean
received, for hls tour in Alabama and Ar
kansas would have been simply impossible
without the aid Jones extended to bim.
weaver further stated that in Alabama he
had received from Jones between SgOO anil
y GOO, and several hundred in Arkansas.
Lum says, in his capacity as secretary. i'm
response ia a written request from Marshal
Jewell, he has had several interviews with
that gentleman. In one of these interviews
Gov. Jewell denied having paid Jones any
such sum as stated, and said that Mr.. Dor
'eey, secretary of the Republican Mas
.Ional committee, had only given him
) 900, and that the rest probably
came from Gen. Arthur for State purposes
he concludes by saying, "Sick and disc
5uested with the treachery of our leaders.
moving from personal knowledge and cor
espondenCe that several of our State or
notably Indiana and New York
re managed in the interest OF the RepubH-
an party, against whose legislation we
rganlzed, and the fact that the men who
ssay to lead our party % day are duped
nd made tools of hy crafty and scheminr
Ime-servers, renders my connection with
he committee, rs at present managed, mo-
anger possible. / have not touched upon
ne relations existing between Gen. Wea-
er's adviser. and the prominent Republi-
an officials in Washington, in the POST
nee and Treasury departments, nor do i
eslIe to, unless an effort is made To im-
each this statement. In that case. the
lets could be spread before the National
)mmittee"
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LOOK UP NOT DOWN

Life 20 some Is f,tll of sorrow
hatf IS real, BALI thew borrow
Fun of rocks and full ot IadE.s.
FORMERS sharp and cutting tr.s
Though the jos hells may br rIueiur.
Net a song you'll hear tb.m singing
Seeing never makes them wise
Looking out from l0wucast eyes
All 80 vain ihe sun T. shining.
alters spa sling, bios amz ttvfufnp.
They but see through these same -Errar-e
Sal to-daYs and worse to-uarro,gs
See the Clouds thar must pass over
See the weeds among DE clover
Everything and anything
But the gold the sunbeums briur
Draining from the bitter fountain.
10 your mole htli seems RI mountain
Drops OF dew and drops of rain
swell INTO the mighty main.
All IN vain the blessings ~LoNcr
Aud the mercies fall with p,ver
GSathering chat. We tread The wheat
htch anu royal Meath Your feet.
Let il not be So, my neighbar
Look up, as you love and labor
Not for one alone woes ,iql-.
Every one has cares aud trials
JOY aud pain are linked together
Lake the fair and cloudy weather
May we have. oh, lct MS pray.
Faith and patience for TODAY.
The Advance.