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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24
Ons Hundred and Whereabouts.

Mrs. Sybil Tickner, Of Cornwall, Conn.
was 100 years old on Feb. 4.
Emily Ayers, for forty years servant
in the family of W. E. Wyatt of Balti-
more, died recently, aged 104.
The Rev. Edward Palmer of Barnwell
S. c.. still breaches every Sunday, although
he is in his esd year.
Mrs. Polly Cleveland of Morrisville, N.
Y, is in her Tooth year, and in good health,
and Mrs. Deshon of Portland, Me-, was
1903 on Dec. II.
When Caroline Taylor was sold as a
slave to Col. David Sloan, in Charleston,
S. G, in 1895, she was %. She died re-
Gently in Centreville township.
A lady who died recently in Newbury-
port. Mass. in her DIST year, was attended
by a physician for the first time in her life
in her fatal illness.
At the date of the Declaration OF INDIE
pendence, Andreas Blsconair Of Saranac,
N. Y, was one year and a half old. He
is in tolerab!e health.
Uncle Davy Colsop, living on Col. Jor-
dams plantation, Hawkinsville, Ca, is ia
years old When he first rode a mule to
mill the Revolution was not over.
One of the American seamen seized by
the English and confined at Dartmoor
prison in 1872, was David Wingate, who
died recen ly in Rochester, n. H., at 90.
When Mrs. Mary VIM died recently in
Philadelphia. at 1O1, she left surviving her
6 children, 35 grandchildren, 81 great.
grandchildren, and "a great-great-gr
children.
The oldest person in the State of Indi
ana, is Father Imhoff, of Richmond, who
is now in his 10th year. He has a good
appetite, but his faculties are failing.
The Dominion of Canada gives pension
of $25 to Louis Vatican, an Indian chieI
born in Canada 1O6 years ago. He was
commissioned by Queen Victoria as Chief
of the Banogwais.
In the war of 1912 James Isom spent his
time in a mountain cave making saltpetre
for the manufacture Of gunpowder for the
American army. He died on January 4th,
at Richmond, KY, aged 1902.
samuel 6ecRIey dleu recently at fllnI.
Mich, in his 109th year; Mrs. Caroline
Carey at Buffalo, aged 1O4; Mrs. Ann
Denny, at Smyrna. DEL, in her 105th year,
and Mrs. Catherine Branch, in Boston,
aged Ill.
The oldest married couple in Rhode Is
land are Cromwell and Deborah Gorton of
East Greenwich. On the 10th day of April
Mr.. Gorton will be 90, and his wife has
completed her Goth year. They were mar
ried sixty seven years ago.
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poetry.
Too Much of a Lady.

When Eve in the garden was plucking the rose'
And enjoying the Eden walks shady,
wonder If ever she turned up her nose,
And sighed, Ppm too much OF lady!
Too much Of lady, dear Adam to work,
hepmeet was made to be petted; J..
You keep things in order, really must shirk.
Though the fact, dear, is deeply regretted.
To-day she has daughters whose delicate hanos
Are wholly untitled for labor,
1t almost fatigues them to lutter their fans,
When they languidly call OH neighbor.
Their mission on earth is to gossip and dress,
And live upon life's sweetest honey,
And they haven't a bother or trouble unless
Their masculine bank fails in money.
1t isn't the lovelieSt thing to be sure
To dabble In cooking and dishes,
Bnt never home was kept tidy and pure
By dainty asthetical wishes.
I'm free to confess there is something in life
More attractive than putting stitch in,
And many weary, Industrious wife
Isn't deeply in love with her kitchen.
But duty is duty, and dirt always dirt,
And only the lazy deny it.
Crochetting is nicer than making shirt.
But man never yet was clothed by it.
To sit in parlour in indolent ease,
Till one grows all fragile and fady,
Or lounce through the street silly gazers to please
Is being too much Of lady.
Too much of 4 lady to darn up her hose
Or govern her house with acumen;
Toe much of a lady, wherever she goes,
To ever be much Of a woman.
The muscles that God made are useless to her,
Except to be wrapped up in satin,
And as for an intellect-she would prefer
A bonnet to mastering Latin.
Too much of a lady to own grand heart,
To be a true daughter or mother,
Too much of a lady to bear the brave part
That neer can be borne by another
By fashion OF birth too fine for this earth,
When it comes to The judgments payday,
Though our Lord may delight in the lilies in white.
Will he smile on "Too much of a lady ~
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24
The PULsE.-Every man may not know

The PULsE.-Every man may not know
what ''normaF' pulse is. 10 such the
following table may be interesting:
Pulse in the newly born infant 100 to 14O
Pulse in the 1st year. lis to $50
Pulse during the I'd year. ..... 100 to 1O5
Pulse during the Sd year. ....... IS to 1O5
Pulse during 18th to 18th year. 80 to 80
Pulse during 18th to 21st year. .. rs to IS
Pulse during 21st to Goth year. go to rs
LII oId age... .................... 70 to 50
In infammatorY or acute disease the
pulse may rise to 100 or even 100 or even
$50 in the adult, and become so FREQUENT
in the child that it cannot be counted
Muscular exertion, mental excitement, in
digestion, alcoholic drink, and elevation
above the sea accelerate the pulse, and as
a general rule, it is more freq aent in the
morning than in the evening. It is slower
in sleep, and from the effect of rest, diet
cold, or blood letting. The pulse in a
grown woman exceeds that of man of the
same age as much as 10 to IA beats min
ute, and according to some authorities is
less frequent in the tall than in the short
person, the variation being about four
beats for each sixteen inches in height.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24

WHooP1NG CONGRATULATED opinion
seems to be generally unanimous as regards(
the efficacy of the carbolic acid treatmenr
in whooping co ugh. DR.. r. J. Banning
has been in the habit of using it for some
time with very good results. A few drops
evaporated upon hot stove in the bed
room upon going to bed will generally pre-
vent any severe attack during the night.
He has also found the administration in
the ordinary doses Of croton choral ex-
tremeIy beneficial. Mr.. j. r. Clouting. M.
r. e. S. E., considers carbolic limitations
the most successful mode OF dealing with
the disease which he has employed during
the ten years DO haa been in practice,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24

How FRIzE-FIGHTERs DIE.-Ben Ho-
gan, the reformed pugilist, lately told
Chicago "News" reporter that ''prize-
fighters die prematurely Of weakness and
disease brought on by their Injuries. In
fact, they die at or before the time when,
if they had not been prize fighters, they
would have been at the prime of life.
Charley Gallagher died at the age of 80 of
consumption. caused by an injury received
in his fight with Davis. Davis fell on him,
planting his knee in his upper left breas t.
Brundy bears the blame of killing Tom
Sayers, but in my opinion he died of the
injuries inflicted by John G. Heenan.
Heenan jumped off a train and hurt him
self, and some lay the blame of premature
death on that accident, but he died of con-
sumption, produced, in my opinion, by
entertaining, and by the punishment he
got in his fights with Sayers and King
John Morrlssey's death is laid on Bright's
disease, but be stood beating enough to kill
ten men, and believe that is what killed
him. Yankee Sullivan is said to have been
killed by vigilance committed, but the
truth is that he went crazy from the inju-
ries to his head he had received, and COM
mitted suicide by opening an artery. Pat
sy Riordan, one of the grandest men ply
sically that ever lived, died at thirty-six
years of age, complete physical and men
tai wreck. Bob Riddle died the same way
the very flesh dropping off his fingers. Joe
Womble died in Montreal insane asy-
lum. And so they go-all of them dying
at what ought to be the prime of life."
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24

'tCertainly.'
why. but for him I might never have
seen you again ?''
perhaps not.
ell give Blbbs regular hug when [
get home" she thought. And she did,
and the day before she was married she
bought him a rocking horse, which he de-
lights in to this day.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24
Mother.

Don't call your mother ''old lady, Let
her always be mother" cold lady" ap-
piled to her who gave you your life and
nursed your infancy, is rude and unkind.
A writer has these reflections upon it:
Once it was Mother, I'm very hungry"
Mother, mend my Jacket" "Mother put
up my dinner" and then "Mother" with
her loving hands would spread the bread
with butter and stow away the luncheon,
and sew on the great patch, her heart
trimming with affection for the impetu-
GUS curly little pate that made her so
many steps and nearly distracted her with
his boisterous mirth.
Now she is the ''old woman" but she
did not think it would ever come to that.
She looked On through future years and
saw her boy to manhood grow, and he was
soon TRANSPORTED in the light of her own
beautiful love. Never was there more
noble son that he, honored of the world
and the staff of her declining years.
Ay, he was her support even then but
she did not know it. She never. realized
that it was her little boy that gave her
strength for daily toll, that his slender
fora was all that upheld her over the
brink of dark despair.
She only knew that she loved the child,
and felt that amid the mist of old age his
love would bear her gently through its in
frmities to the dark hall leading to the
life beyond.
But the son has forgot the tender minis
trations now. Adrift from the tender
moorings of home, he is cold. selfish, heart
less. "Mother" has no sacred meanings
to the prodigal. She is the 'old woman"
wrinkled AID gray, lame and blind. Pity
her, oh grave, and dry those tears that
roll down her furrowed cheeks! Have
compassion on her sensitive heart and
offer it thy quiet rest, that it may forget
how much it longed to be ''dear mother"
to the boy it nourished through careless
childhood, who in return of all this wealth
of tenderness has only given back reproach.
Reader, are you guilty of like ingratitude?
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24

There is no man who has so little spare
time as the ohe who is thoroughly idle.-
Idlingis of itself business which finds
even all the waking hours of the day not
quite sufficient for it's needs,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24
Where Buttons Come From.

The button trade of New York is esti-
mated at FROM eight to ten million dollars
a year. Last year the importation Of but
tons exceeded three and half million dol
lars, the aggregate for the four years just
passed being but little short of thirteen
million dollars. AT American rates of wa
ges many of the imported buttons could
not be put upon the cards for the price
they sell for.
Glass buttons are made mostly in b.
hemia, and children are largely employed
at the work, which they do as quickly and
as neatly as adults. The children get ten
cents day, men from forty to fifty cents
and women little less. Pearl buttons
are imported from Vienna, where they are
almost exclusively manufactured, and the
all-important shirt buttons are received
mostly from Birmingham, England, where
the majority of metal buttons are likewise
procured. The most extensive of all the
button manufacturing, however, is that Of
the Partisan and Berlin novelties. In one
manufacturing village near Paris, where
there are from 5000 to 5000 inhabitants :,
all the working people are engaged in ma
king the agate button, which, even with
80 per cent. duty added to the cost. sell
when imported into this country at the ex-
tremely low figure of 81 cents per great
gross. The material alone, it is reported,
could not be procured here for double that
amount.
While American manufacturers make
no attempt, and probably have no desire,
to compete with European producers em
ploying hand processes, they excel in ma
king bone, composition, brass, ivory and
gold buttons by machinery, and are able
to export considerable quantities of these
styles. In Providence, r. l., for example,
sleeve buttons and jewelry buttons are
largely manufactured expressly for expor-
tat1on.-- Scientific american.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-24

The leading Scientists of to-day agree that most
diseases are caused by dsordered Kidneys or Liver
IT, therefore. the Kidneys and Liver are kept in
perfect order perfect health will be the result This
truth has only been known short time and for
years people suffered great agony without Icing able
to find relief. The discovery of Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure marks a new era in the
treatment of these troubles. Made from simple
tropical leaf of value it contains just the ee
ments necessary to nourish and inviKsrate both of
these great organs: and safely restore and keep
them in order. 1t is POSITIVE REMEDY for all
the diseases that cause pains in the lower part Of
body:-for Torpid Observation-Disclosures aundice-
-Gravel-Fever, Ague-Maarial Fever.
and all difficulties of the Kidneys Liver and Urinary
Organs.
It is an excellent and safe remedy for females dur
ring Pregnancy 1t will control Menstruation and is
invaluable for LencorrhOea or Failing of the Womb.
AS Blood Purifier it is unequaled for it cures the
organs that make the blood.
This Remedy, which has done such wenders, is put
up in the LARGEST SIZED BOTTLE of any medi-
cine upon the market and is sold by Druggists and
all dealers as 81 Is per bottle, For Diabetes, en-
Quire for WARMERS SAFE DIABETES CURE. 1t
is POSITIVE Remedy.
H. H. WARNER CO..
Rochester, N. Y.
ian27 tt
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-02

effect. At times he closed his eyes, or
turned them heaVenward; waved his body
back and forth j; sunk his voice to whis-
per, or raised it to high treble. At
times the intensity of his utterances seem
ed to react upon himself, but the effect
was transitory, and with the exception Of
one instance, there was no indication Of
breaking down. At frequent intervals he
paused to emphasize some sentence or
sentiment by repeating o. commenting
upon it. At one time, pausing, he leaned
toward the jury, and emphasizing with
his head and hands, said, with an attempt
at great solemnity: IT tell you, gentle
men, just as sure as there is God in
Heaven, if you harm hair Of my head,
this nation will 60 down in blood. You
can PUT my body in the grave, but there
will be a day of reckoning!'' Guiteau
concluded at IL :25, and upon the announ-
cement by Corkhill that Judge Porter
would be unable to speak to-day, court ad
jOurned until Monday.
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between New York and South American
republics will also be established by way
Of Vera Cruz and Panama. The Central
and South American Telegraph Company
is pushing the construction of it's land
lines and laying the cables as rapidly. al
wires are supplied. Rear-Admiral Balch,
commanding the Pacific squadron. has
been ordered by the Secretary OF the Navy
to render assistance in laying the cables.
the President Of the company having sug-
gested that an early completion of the
lines is desirable, owing 20 the disturbed
condition Of affairs in Peru and Chilli. 1t
is expected that the lines will be compile
ted by June. che route of this system is
to De from Vera Cruz to Coat Zacoalees,
and thence by land across the Tsthmus of
Tehuantepec to the Pacific at Salina Cruz.
From that point the cables are to continue to
San Jose de Guatemala, Salinas Bay.
Panama, BuenavenfuIa, Santa Elena, Pay
Ia, and Chorillos, where connection will
be made with Lima. At ChoriIlos the
lines will join the West Coast of America
Telegraph Company's lines to Valparaiso,
where there is ineacross the continent.
Therefore, after Mr.. Gould's cable is laid,
communication can be had with Chill and
Peru by two routes, whereas now des-
patch to our Minister at Peru has gone
down to England, thence to Pernambuco,
thence down the eastern coast of South
America, and, after crossing the continent
up the western coast. Il has been said
that Mr.. Gould wanted to purchase the
Central and South American Telegraph
.Company's cable, but he may be satisfied
with his cable,
There is to be telegraphic convention
in Buenos Ayres3 during the exhibition
there next month, and the indications are
that1the Emperor of Brazil will attend, in
order to promote d better understanding
of the telegraph business in the republics.
The Land lines of Brazil end at Ceara,
where Mr.. Gould's cable is to land, and the
desire is to have the land lines under
perfect system for better communication
with the United States.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-02
JAY GoULD's NEW CABLE
To Establish Direct Commune
cation Between North and
South America.

Telegraphic communication between
North and South America, which has
been carried on in a very roundaboutw way,
is to be made more direct under scheme
originating with Jay Gould, who is at the
head Of the American Gable Company.
Il has been known that Mr.. Gould sough,
TO get a concession for landing a cable a
Brazil, and the Rio de Janerio JornaZ de
Conansercjo Of December 9Th, announces
that Mr.. Gould's plan is to lay a cable
through the. Berrnudas to St.@aThomas@
thence in unequal curves to .Paramaribo
in Dutch Guiana, and from that. pointt,
the city of Fortaleza, the capital Of th'
province of Ceara, in Brazil. The cabl,
has been ordered, and the Brazilians are
waiting anxiously for. the completion OF
the line.
Communication with Brazil and the
South American Republics is now carried
on By way Of England, and the cost is
about So a word to Rio de Janerio Eng
lish companies have a cable from Pernam-.
buco to England, and control the lines
down the coast OF Brazil to the Argetine
Republic, across that republic, and up the
Western coast of South America, through
Chill, Bolivia, and Peru. For some time
the Brazlians have been dissatisfied with
the service Of the English companies, and
when, last summer, Mr.. Gould applied to
the Brazilian Government for privileges
equal TO those the English companies en-
joy. he was fortunate in hitting upon a
time when the English companies were
particularly aggressive in trying to force
communication over their cables to Bue-
nos Ayres instead Of over the land lines.
He was also fortunate ii interesting Off
GERS fthe Brazilian Government II this
country into having the econeession granted.
His cable will shorten the distance be
tween New ork and Rio de JaIeffo more
than tWo-thirds, and the Brazilians will
not be confined To the use Of one line.
Besides this, telegraphle communication
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-02

! lips, satin-brOWn hair. and q complexion
as fresh as roses and ivory. We talked
our ideas coincided exactly. It seemed as
If our souls were two looking glasses, to
mirror each others.
"Miss Willis" cried I, "why is 1t that
we have never met before / feel as If we
were old, old friends
AS spoke gently pressed her hand,
and she smiled back unutterable things. /
went to my friend Webster, who was ma
king up quadrilles on the upper deck. We
were accompanied by an excellent brass
| band.
| 90, Harold!n exclaimed /, ssI can new
er thank you enough for introducing me
to that angel ~
s'Do you mean Barbara Willis p, said
he. "Well, do think she is rather fine
girl
We grew confidential as we sat together
on the promenade deck and watched the
moonlight ripples over the surface Of the
tides.
"a bachelors life is but half a life, Miss
Willis" said I.
II can readily imagine that she said
softly.
"I live in fiat.'' confessed I.
"Do you," said Barbara (the sweet old
English name was just like herr z"Why,
how strange! So do |! Y
"Isn't it lreadfu1!'' said I.
sHorrid 7, said she, closing her.lips as
though she meant.it.
''And there's female dragon occupies
the floor above me, and torments me out
of my life.
"Weil, if this isn't remarkable coinci-
=dence,o replied Barbara. 'rrhere's de-
testable old crab Of a bachelor under me,
who takes all the pleasure out Of my ex-
istence!" f.
'should two lives be thus blighted ?''
said |.
"I-don't think So" replied Barbara,
looking intently at the boluet of pansies
she held in her hand.
1t was past midnight when the boat
landed. Harold Webstereame up.
]. IT promised to see you home, Miss Will
lis" said be, rubbing hfszf1ands briskly.
: @sSYou need not trouble yourself, Web
ster,o said I. II shall be most happy"
called hack, helped the divine Bar
bara in, feeling more and more as if
were walking in e1oudland.
"Where shall I drive to?'' said the
man.
''No. 50 Ravenal street." said she,
Fourth floor"
'sWhat!" cried I--esnot the Fernandine
fiats?',
Exactly" said she
"Why, that's where [ liye."
Care youthe third foor?'' she cried out,
breathless.
care you the fourth ~ I counter
questioned. 4z
"But you're not crab at all -
''Nor are you a dragon. On the con-
trary-''
But what matters whatwa said. Things
were altered from the very beginning. [
took my violin up stairs the next day, and
helped my divine Barbara out with SON
alta of Beethoven's. I suggested a new
theory for the hob-nailed classes. / lis
tened enchanted to her recitation Of Ten
nyson's Brook; and at the end Of the
quarter we are bound to be marlied-Bar-
bara and I.
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The Dead OF Last Year.

The political world has lost such great
names as James A. Garfield, slain by the
assassin Guiteau, now ON trial for his bar
barity; Lord Beaconsfeld, the ex-English
Tory leader and literateur; Drouyn de
PHuys and Emile de Girardin, the French
statesmen; Baron won HaymerIe, the Aus
tro-Hungarian Minister Of Foreign Affairs );
and from our Congressional circles, Fer
nando Wood, Matt. Carpenter, and Gen'l
Burnside. The military world has lost
Major General Colley, slain in the Boer
war; M.jor General Emery Upton, the
great tactician Of our army, and General
Benedek, Of the Austrian army. The most
prominent loss to our navy is DR.. Benja-
min Bache, an expert in naval science.
The only prominent death in royal circles
was that Of Alexander L., Gar of Russia,
slain by the Nihilists. The bar has lost
Justice Clifford, Of the United States Su-
preine Court, and several Judges OF the
State Supreme Courts. Theology mourns
the loss OF William Morley Punshon, the
English Wesleyan; Archbishop McHale,
the Lion Of ,Ilam;n the Rev. John Cum
mugs, WHO died before he had seen the
Second Advent; and Arthur Penrhyn
Stanley, the eloquent Dean of Westmin-
.ster; while in this country Alexander
Hamil Vinton, DR.. Stuart Robinson, Bish-
op E. O. Haven, and other prominent men
have closed their labors on earth. The list
of workers in science and education has
lost Professor Wood, the botanist; John
Gould, the ornithologist; Prof. Kirsch,
the historian; Karl Weyprecht, the geog-
rapher; Matthew Vassar, the founder OF
Vassar College, and Isaac !. Hayes, the
Arctic explorer. The active world Of COM
merce and business has lostsAppoHo r.
Wetmore, Isaac Sherman, Thos. "a. Scott,
Elisha Riggs, William Fl Weld, II. G.
stebbins, Baron James Rothschild,
William G. Fargo, and Fletcher M. Har-
per. The arts mourn Verboeckhoyen,
Hughes Merle, Moeder; music, Semmens,
Rubinstein, icholas, j sehlefnitz, Vfenx-
temps, and Wuertz, and the drama, soth-
=ern, Lingham, Dillon, Seton and Mrs.
Edwin Booth. III the literary world,
Thomas Carlyle, Anna Maria Hall, James
a.Tr. u Fields, John 6. Palfrey, Franz DIngel-
stedt, Sidney Lanier, and John G.. HoI-
land have Laid down their busy pers.SSttt.
Joseph Herald.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-02

"sThe DEVILS March from Won Suppe's
operatta. The Devil on Earth and
Cradles Empty, Baby's. Gone a Vio-
let from Mothers Crave and Speak,
only Speak, I don't make q tragic opera
selection for hand organ once in five
wears. Everything must. be either funny
or sentimental."- z. Sun.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-02
Genteel Robbers.

Diaro Nicio Garcia, messenger lin the
postofice at Laredo, Texas, and Hernando
Garzia, connected with the Laredo Times,
both. belonging TO highly respected fainf- mi
lies were arrested night before last for rob
bing the mail.