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CTOVES, Ranges and Furnaces.
y Agent for Wood Bishop & Co.'S Goods.
W. d. AAES, 20 Market Square.
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Health Hints.

Try eating onions and horse radish to
relieve dropsical swellings.
Try to cultivate an equable temper
and don't borrow trouble ahead.
Educate the stomach. When it is
once accustomed to simple food, vora-
cious appetite, distress and disease will
disappear.
There are no two substances known
that can furnish better sustenance to
the body and brain than whole wheat,
unleavened bread and cows milk.
On matters of life pertaining to
health, there is at present no coscience
with the people, but there should be
one, and you and I ought to help create
it.
A five minutes nap is often better
than half hours sleep, because you do
not wake up with that half-dead feeling
which some people complain of when
We urge them to rest, and the sleepless-
ness is gone.
Seven rules by which to get we'll and
keep well IL. Keep the head cool. 2.
Keep the skin cool. 8. Keep the feet
warm and dry. 4. Keep the bowels
open. There is no such provocative
cause to disease as constipation. 5. Rest
regularly and profoundly. Empty the
brain at night of all the days proceed
ings. Train the will to help do this.
6 BE careful in the choice of associates
Do not be demaguatized or vampired
by people. Z. Go to bed and get up al
regular hours. thus cultivating the ha.
bit of sleep. InvSlids need to be recon
stitutiOnalized. Genius and intelligence
should be locked up and laid away
while the process of reconstrcution is
going on. No human being can get
we'll in defiance of Gods law.
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ABOUT half way, and having crossed a
cnatterfDg rivulet, was ascending lei.
surely gentle knoll denseIy wooded.
when an apparition, clad In q white
flowing shroud, rose on my right. and
apparently floating on vampire wings.
approached me at a rapid rate. NV
senses at this time were fully under nv
control, and you better bet / heeled it
away from there, clearing a pair of
draw bars nearly eight feet high that
stood in my way. naver-no. newer
taking time for casting 'one long and
lingering look behind.' Again. I re.
member, Doctor, OF lodging in a time
worn caoin hard by to q cluster of pines
IN TO the left OF Greenville, near what
is locally known as South Bottom. II
was dark clustering night. Tradition
mas IL tnat long ago q man was mur.
dered In that house. Sometime about
midnight | was suddenly awakened by
the tread of something heavy upon my
chest.. With quick jerk landed the
trespasser out upon the floor, and all
night long that being walked my room
floor, now and then uttering the most
indescribable, hideous groans."
Thus our superstitious host continued
until the hours grew late, and our de-
parture concluded the ghost stories of
the evening.
The spirit of an aged woman, long
since laid in the silent tombs, frequents
this humble cot, and do not be sur
prised if perchance you hear, in a sue
ceeding hour, of the precipitous flight
OF our hero before spirit, but not of
the dead. THETA.
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
.STATEME EN- T
+ UNDER OATH.

ssT HAVE been afflicted for twenty years m
with an obstinate skin disease, called by
some M DIS Psoriasis, and others Leprosy,
commencing on my scalp, ana IN spite 0I AZ l
could do, with the help of the most skillful
doctors, it slowly but surely extended until q
wear ago this winter it covered my entire per-
son In form of dry scales. For the last three
wears have been unable to do any labor. an d
suffered intensely all the time. Every morn
ing there could be nearly a dustpanful of scales
taken from the sheet on the bed, some of hem
half as large as the envelope containing this
letter. In the latter part of the winter my skt2
commenced cracking open. tried everything.
almost, tn It could be thought of, without any
relief The 18th of June started West, in hopes
could reach the Hot Springs. I reached De-
troit, and was SO low 1 thought should have
to go to the hospital, but dnaliy gnl as far az
Lansing, Mich, where / had Eister living
One Dr. treated me about two weeks, but
did me nc good. All thought bad but a short
| time to live. ! earnest prayed todfe Crack ed
through the sktn AL over IDys bsck, acrpss nay
ribs. arms. hands. limbs, feet badly swollen.
toe nails came OF, finger nails dead sna hard
as bone, hair dead. dry and lifeess as Old straw
Oh, my God! how did suffer-
my sister, Mrs E. n Davis, had small part
of box OF Cuticura in the house. She wouldn't
give up !; said I'VE Will try Cuticura.' Some
was applied on one haad and arm. Eureka! !!
there was relief; stopped the terrible burning
sensation from the word go. They Immediate
Cuticura and Cuticura Soap (the great skin
cures). I commenced by taking one table.
spoonful of Resolvent three t mes day, after
meals had q bath once day. water about
blood heat; used Cuticura Soap freely; applied
Cuticura morning and evening. Result, re,
turned to my home in just six weeks from the
time left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet
of paper HIRAM E. CARPENTER,
Henderson, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
Sworn to before me this 18th day of January.
1880 A. M. LBFFINGWELL,
Justice OF the Peace
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HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE.-A mat G.
cover of felt or cotton flannel will add
greatly to the appearance of table
cloth, making it look much heavier an 1
handsomer. and preventing any noise
when dishes are set down on the table
All iron ware needs thoroughly clear !,
ing every time it is used, and nor 8
more than gridiron. The bars should
be kept perfectly clean and buttered
every time they are used if one desires
steak cooked to perfection.
If stone china.is used the glazing sell
dom cracks, and if the dishes are care
fully washed and aired each time the
are used. and once week boiled in a
little lye water, they can be kept sweet
till destroyed by accident or careless
ness.
A lady correspondent of the Countr
Gentleman claims that by dipping the
joint or fieshy ends of turkey, geese O.
chicken wings into strong solution o.
copperas they are made moth proof, as
well as more durable than when treatei
in the ordinary way.
A table daintily arranged with food
dainty cooked and served produces q
more favorable impression upon guest
than one Overburdened with elabOrate
decorations and an unending variety G I
perhaps poorly prepared dishes with n
regard for order or appropriateness.
1t is quite in order to remove the out
side from oranges and bananas, AM
have the oranges divided into quarters
or even into smaller parts, and the ba
nanas cut into several pieces. The,
can then be interspersed with grape
and canned fruits of different kinds.
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This evening"" faltered Edith, tn,
violet eyes softly dropping.
"Tell him, Edith, that he may hav,
you next Wednesday, just the same AZ
ever. And as for law -practicing-why
there's time enough for that afferward
Child, don't strangle me with kisses
keep them for Phil. ~
Helooked after his daughter with eyes
that were strangely dim.
"Tried-and not found wanting" he
murmured, instinctively.
r. X ,e
The perfume of orange blossoms had
died away, the glimmer of pearls and
satin were hidden in velvet caskets and
travelling trunks, and Mr.. and Mrs. Acre,
old married people of q months dura-
ton, were driving along country road
in the amber glow of a glorious June
sunset. .u
Hello! which way is Thomas go-
ing ?" said Philip, leaning from the win
dow, as the carriage turned out of the
main road.
Il told him the direction to take
Phil, said Edith, with bright sparkling
eyes. "Let me have my own way lust
for once. We are now going to our new
home" as
''Are we ?" said Phil, with a comical
grimace. ut is to be love in q cottage,
I suppose?"
swat until you see, sir" said Mrs.
Acre, pursuing her little rosebud OF a
mouth. And Philip waited dutifully.
Where are weW he asked, In as
tonishment, when the carriage drew up
in front Of a stately pillared pOrtico
which seemed to be not unfamiliar to
him. "Surely this is Mortimer Place!'
II shouldn't be surprised If it was,n
said DR. Wyllls emerging from the door
way. walk in, my boy-come, Edith.
Well, how do you like your new home?'
"Our new home! !" repeated Phil. II
do not understand you, sir"
why, mean your little wife yonder
is the sole surviving relative of Thomas
Mortimer, although she never knew it
until this morning. Her mother was
old MOrtimel's cousin, but an absurd
quarrel had caused a cessation of inter-
course between the two branches of the
family. was aware of the fact all along,
but wasn't sorry to avail myself of the
opportunity of seeing what kind of stuff
You were made of, Phil Acre. And now,
as the deed of conveyance isn't made
out yet, do not suppose your lawyer
need trouble himself about it. The
heiress won't quarrel with you, I'll be
bound"
Phil Acres cheeks flushed, and then
grew pale with strong, hidden emotion,
as he looked at his fair wife, standing
beside him. thesunset turning her hright
hair to coils of shining gold, and he re-
f1ected how unerringly the hand of
Providence had Strengthened out the
tangled web of his destiny.
Out of the darkness had come light!
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The Fifty DOlIar Bill.
SATURDAY NIGHT.

Mrs. Dean sat alone in her little
kitchen. She never used her parlor,
There was the extravagance of an extra
| fire-the fact that the best rag carpet
woven by her own hands must not be
worn out too recklessly, the dread pos
sibility of sunshine fading out these
chair covers. Mrs Dean was an econo~
mist. She believed in making everv-
| thing last as long as it possibly could.
And so she made the kitchen her head
quarters, and sat there knitting, with
her feet comfortably balanced on the
stone hearth. the sauce. pan of apples
bubbling softly away at the back, and
the sound Of her husbands ak ringing
| from the back shed as he cut and split
the kindliDg wood piled up there In
| well-seasoned logs
She was little wrinkled faced vO,
man "f fifty. with stiff ribbon bows tn
her cap, hair that seem dried up instead
of silvered, aud keen blue eyes that
twinkled as if they had discovered the
secret of perpetual motion. To save
money was her chief end and aim in
life. The very mtttens she was knitting
was to be sold at the village store in
exchange for sugar tea or spices and all
necessary groceries. IA penny saved is
as good as penny made, Twas the gold
en- rule by which she shaped her life.
II am glad I took that money out of
the savings bank yesterday" said
Mrs. Dean to herself, as the bright
needles :clicked merrily away. People
say it isn't quite safe. And one can't
be too careful. But then, again there's
the danger of burglars-though to be
sure. no burglar. she added with com
placent, inward chuckle, "would evel
think of looking in the folds of the old
Clinkerville Clarion newspaper in the
wall pocket on the wall It's the bureau
drawers and the trunks and the lock uI
cheats that they aim fer. A fifty dollar
bili clean. crisp, asv Efty dollar
oil! And all saving, too, out of the
house money"
just then there sounded a knock al
the poor, and in came old DIR. Bridg
man, rubicnnd with the touch of the
March winds. and unified up in the
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the folds of the newspaper and lodged
mere" =,
"The Lord has sent it back to u.s."
said Mr.. Dean, after moment or two
of silence, there's lesson in almost
everything he does, if we did but know
IT,"
And all the theologians in=the world
could not have improved upon the faith
of this simple, unlettered old farmer.
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from the Richmond State.l
MIDLOTHIAN.


Down in the mines, deep under earth,
Where red volcanic fires have birth.
Where goblins grim and spirits drear
Haunt the cavernous depths with fear,
Exhaling with their fetid breath
The poisoned fume whose touch is death,
The toillng miners dig.
Down in the mines, from day to day.
Where yet ne'er comes its blessed ray.
Nor eye of the all-seeing sun
Can mark the seasons as they run,
The grimy workmen delve and moil
To garner out the ancient spoil ~
In earth's deep bowels hid.
Through day and night. from year to year,
With hearts that dare not feel the fear
or what they know is ever nigh
When gazing up they see the sky N
Diminish to APPOINT OF light
Perhaps the last to greet their sight
Asswift they downward go;
While up above, on Gods green earth
The herald airs proclaim the birth
OF early spring, whose genial powers
Shall deck the ground with bloom of fiowe
And birds on every grassy slope
Sing blithe to human hearts of hope,
As wives and mothers work.
What thought impends the constant threa
OF lurking dangers to be met,
That o'er their daily partings cast
The dread that this may be the last!
Yet must they work, and woman's face
With hopeful smile conceal the trace
OF apprehension drear.
Down in the mine. from youth to age
Thus toiling for the scanty wage;
Cheered only by the thought of love
That in his cottage there above
A woman's eye will brighter burn
And greet with smiles his safe return
From darkness up to light.
Down in the mine their corpses lie
With shriveled limb and staring eye,
Where prone the fell before the blast
The poisoned fire that kills so fast;
And none survive to tell whence came
That instant hurricane of fire,
Hot with the breath of hell.
All! men and brothers hear the wall
That moans through fair Midlothian's dale
Where wife and mother maid and child,
Lament in bootless accents wild;
Or yet, with horror stricken dumb,
Crowd round the pit-the fearful tomb
Where those they loved are hid.
And as around your cheerful hearth
You see arrayed your best on earth,
Let Charity remember then
How much to labor of such men
The hearth its shining radiance owes,
In every flame that lambent glows
On them that you love best.
RICHMOND. February l4th, 1882.
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SEass
POET r y.
LID WEATHER OUTSIDE.

WILD WEATHER OUTSIDE.
MARGARET E. sPANasTER, in Harper's Nag
Gzine.l
Wild weather outside where the brave ships
And there from all quarters the four winds
blow
Wild weather and cold and the great waves
swell
With chasm beneath them AZ black az hell,
The waters frolic in Titan play,
Then 6ash the deck with an 10y spray,
The spent sails sl,iveF, 'she 1.-the masts reel.
And the sheeted ropes sras smooth as steel.
And oh that the sailor were safe once more
Where the sweet wife smiles IN the cottage
door,
The little cottage. 1t shines afar -,..i
o'as the lurid seas like the polar star.
The mariner tossed in the jaws of death
Hurls at the storm a defiant breath;
Shouts to his mates through the writhing
foam.
Courage! please God we shall yet win home %
Frozen and haggard and wan and gay,
But resolute still. tits the sailors way,
And perhaps at the fancy the stern eyes dim
Somebody is praying for him.
All me- through the drench of the bitter rain,
How bright the picture that rises plain!
Sure he can see, with her merry look,
His little maid grooming her spelling book;
The baby crows in the cradle fair;
The grandma mods in her easy chair;
While hither and yon, with quiet grace,
A woman fits, with an earnest face,
The kitten purrs. and the kettle sings,
And nameless comfort the picture brings.
Rough weather outside, but the winds OF the
balm
Forever float o'er that isle of calm.
Oh friends who read over tea and toast
OF the wild nights work on the storm-swept
coast.
Think, when the vessels are overdue,
OF the perilous voyage, the baffied crew,
OF stout hearts battling tor love and home
Mid the cruel blasts and the curdling foam,
And breathe prayer from your hsppy lips
For those who must go ''to the sea in ehips;"
Ask that the sailor may stand once more
Where the sweet wife smiles in the cottage
door.
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EFFECT OF LIME ON THE SOIL.-Lime
decompOses organic matter and helps
the production of the nitrous fermeDta-
ton. 1t also dissOlves silicates of potash
and frees the potash from its insoluble
combinations. 1t also provides the
crops directly with lime, Of which near.
ly all of them contain considerable
quantities. 1t only acts as it is held in
solution in the water in the soil, and as
the colder the water the more lime is
dissolved, the fall, winter or spring Is O
better time to use it than the summer.
Lime is most useful to crops that con-
tain much silica and require potash, and
corn. clover, wheat. rye and grass are
chiefly benefited by an application of
it. AS lime has the effect of decompos-
ing heterogeneous substances and setting
free any ammonia contained in them, It
should not be mixed with fresh manure
unless in compost with abundance of
earth. in which case the nitrogen Ia
changed to nitric acid. which combines
with some of the lime and the potash
liberated from the soil.
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A SOAK FOR SEED CORN.-A corres-
pondent of an exchange has tried soaking
seed corn in a solution of chloride oflime.
and says of it 'By soaking seed corn
for seven hours In q very strong decoc-
tion of chloride of lime, corn can be
forced ahead to maturity two or three
weeks sooner than it will mature others
wise; besides, he thinks, it renders the
seeds almost proof against the depreda-
tions of gophers. The lime warns up
the germ of the seed, and sends it up
quickly, giving it two or three weeks
the start of corn planted In the ordinary
way, thereby insuring against the frost
at the close of the season."
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CUTTCURA

CUTTCURA A
Remedies ave for sale by all druggists. Price
Of CUTICURA, Medicinal Jelly, small boxes,
&c.; large boxes. 81. CUTICURA REsoLvENT,
RA MEDICINAL TOILET SOAP. 25c. CUTICURA
MEDICINAL SHAVING SOAP. l5c.; in bars for
BARRIERS and large consumers, 35c Principal
Depot, WEEKS & POTTER, Boston, Mass
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MY NEIGH BORIS BABY.

Across in my neighbours window,
With the drapings Of satin and lace,
see meath the flowing ringlets
A baby's innocent face.
His feet, in crimson Shippers,
Are tapping the polished glass.
And the crowd in the street look upward,
And nod and smile as they pass.
Just here in my cottage window,
Catching flies in the sun,
With patched and faded apron.
Stands my own little one.
His face is as pure and as handsome
AS the baby's over the way,
And he keeps my heart from breaking
At my toiling every day.
Sometimes when the day is ended,
AS sit IN the dusk to rest,
With the face of my sleeping darling
Rugged close.to--my lonely breast,
pray that my neighbor's baby
May not catch Heavens roses all,
But that some may crown the forehead
Ofmy loved ones as they fall.
And when draw the stockings
From the little weary feet,
And Kiss the rosy d1mples
In his limbs, SO round and sweet
think of the dainty garments
Some little children wear,
And that my God withholds them
From mine so pure and fair.
May God forgive my envy
Iknow not what said;
My heart is crushed and troubled
My neighbor's boy is dead!
sa " the little coffin
As they carried it out to-day
A mothers heart is breaking
In the mansion over: the way.
The light is fair in the window;
The flowers bloom at my door;
Ny boy is chasing the sunbeams
That dance on the cottage floor.
The roses of health are blooming
On my darling's cheek day;
But the baby is gone from the window
or the mansion over the way.
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Consumption of the lung tissue uahst
steadily increase by the retention e fSS
foul corruption. DR.. Bulls Conel{ Bvrs
up promotes gentle expectofstion. aI1d
gives great relief to those su uffarinx with
CONSUMPTION. -
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"I'd jump at PROPOSAL" said the
lively Miss Lottie. "Ilottie, my dear"
demonstrated hez mother, remember
this is not leap year"
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A point which weighs much with US
is that several intelligent gentlemen OF
our acquaintance after attending the
trial came back profoundly convinced
of the prisoners insanity, though pre-
viously they had been equally convinc-
ed that he was an impudent and muir.
derous impOstOr. They remarked that
while the reporters gave his words they
entirely failed to give an accurate idea
of his manner - Winchester Times.
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Is GUITEAU INSANE ?-Not long be-
fore Guiteau shot the President he ap-
piled to the Pension Bureau for a pen
sion, and his application was market
applicant insane" by the officer who
examined it. This important fact we
do not remember to have seen in the
printed testimony during the trial.
There is nobody but will admit tina
Guiteau's mind is unbalanced-in othe
words everybody is satisfied that he il
cranky. But most people contend that
though cranky he is responsible. Men.
tai crankiness is nothing in the worlG
but form of insanity or mental de.
rangement. Crankiness is menta
disease which in its more acute and VIC
lent forms we call insanity. Recollect
ing this we can understand how Gui.
teau came to think himself the divine.
ly appointed executioner of Garfield.
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HARNESS AND SADDLES.
N b w III A RN ESS
AND
Saddle STORE.

E. ALEXANDER Il C0.,
Have opened new and first class stock of
Harness, Saddles, Brides. Collars, Valises,
Basdle Blankets. Call and inspect our new
and large stock which will be sold very close
for the CASH. OUR TERMS ARE CASH, and
We can offer special Inducements In low prices
70 cash buyers. DIR. G. ALEXANDER, late
with Frank Alexander Il Co., will have charge
Of the business. We solicit Call and inspac-
,tion OF our stock. Respectfully.
decl3 3m E. ALEXANDER & co,
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TUFTS HAIR Dye.

GRAy HAIR or WHISPERS changed TO GLOSSY
BLACK by a single application Of this DYE. It
ilppsrts a natural color. acts Instantansously
Eol ~ Druggists sent by express receipt OF 81
oflce, SE Nurray ST., New York.
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WV w VAv worth IS free. Address
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TXyM. M. McALLISTER.
w ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WARN SPRINGS, VA
Courts-Alleghany, Bath and Highland, va.
nd Pocahontas West Virginia.
&5-Special attention given to collection o.
claims and proceeds promptly accounted for.
dec Diff
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81. II. MATHEWS. ALEX. r. MATHEWS
MATTHEWS q KATHEWS.
XA ATTCR RNEYS-AT-LAW
LEWISBURG. WEST VA,
practice regularly in thu Courts of Greenbrier
Monroe, POcahontas and Nicholas counties, W.
Va, the Court Of Appeals, and the Federal
Courts for the District Of VIVA.
09-Particular attention paid to Collections
nd to special cases anywhere in their State.
NAV 17-lV
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MAUD MILLER,

THE LOVE OF AN HONEST MAN.