Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-20
LOCAL EDITORS CHIT-CHAT.

Scarcely tithc of honor gains.
STAR only $l.0o per year.
Until further notice wet summer
is predicted.
No man ever did a designed injury
to another without doing a greater to
himself.
The Virginia Midland Railway is
preparing local passenger tariff on
very reduced scale.
A man should always be polite to
the minister who married him. ANY
other treatment mi ght be misconstrued. |
An advertiser says Hands wanted
on calico waists. " All right; if it's
pretty figure, ours are at your service
A woman never thinks she has said
anything until she has talked for half
an hour. And often, very often, she
hash even then.
We experienced quite wet spell
last wick, showers of rain falling al
most faily, completely soaking the
ground and causing some inconveni-
enee ro the farmers
To see one of Funk & Rays deliv-
cry wagons up here from Winchester
nearly every day in the week looks as
if they had established a lively trade
in our town and vicinity. So much
for advertising.
Undertake, Stickley & Guyer (Mid-
dletown), have 90 barrels New York
grown Peach Blow Potatoes for sale
at S1.25 per bushel Also, 10000 it.
prime Lumber, cheaper than in any
town in the Valley.
The new spring hat is becoming
multiplied on our streets. 1t is about
three times as large as an ordinary six
lap race course. 1t appears to be
trimmed with anything from artificial
violets down to sunfowers.
He who asserts that life is but a
dream has never been called upon to
help move the cook stove, put up the
pipe or shake carpets. A little expe-
rienee of this kind carries with it the
conviction that life is real
There is nothing so dear as cheap
it is dear at any price. This
is true of the large packs of condition
powders now sold. Buy Sher7dan's
Cavalry Condition Poapders, and you
can't make mistake. The large packs |
are utterly worthless.
The adjoining landscape is now in
its glory. The newly plowed fields,
the springing up Of emerald wheat and
grass, the fresh foliage, and the pure
white and crimson tints Of the peach,
apple and other fruit blossoms, make
up most charming panorama.
The Bradford Era tells of young
lady in chat city who, in the absence
of hired girl, assumed the role of
servant herself. She baked batch of
biscuit and used epson salts for the
leaven. The biscuits didn't rise, but
those who partook Of them did.
Jones, who 8 very nervous, heard
terrible racket at the back door, and |
began to wait for an internal machine
TO e. plole. 1t turned cut to be an
old cat with tin-can attachment, and
the irrepressible small boy was sent to
bed early on account of premature
nihilistic tendencies.
Now the good housekeeper rips up
the household goods, throws them into
the back yard, ties a handkerchief
around her head, climbs a step ladder,
washes, paints, and raises the old boy
generally, and imagines that she is
cleaning house, when she is merely
working herself to death out of re-
spect to spring customs.
The man who stands up in a plush
cushioned pew and with tears in his
ewes. sings, Come, We sinners, poor
and needy and then goes home to
dinner passing every SHINING beggar he
meets with a frown, may get to heaven
some day. But it will be when God |
and the angels leave the place and |
move into another realm of bliss.
Rev. M. P Remington, Ithaca, N. |
Y, writes: From too close applica-
ton to my calling my health under
went a severe strain. | felt a weak
ness in every part of my body. My
digestion especially failed me, and my
nerves became all unstrung. Recrea-
tion did not do me proper benefit.
Finally, on the recommendation of a
brother minister, | tried Browns Iron
Filters. 1t has made me feel better
and stronger than | ever before felt
since | was a young man.
Decoration Day preparations are be-
ing made throughout the entire Val
ley With the assistance of DR.. Mil
Ter, we contemplate running the town
on the 9th prox. by proxy, and hope
to inaugurate different state of affairs.
We have twice tried tohave something
to do In the management of that little
known as Winchester.