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BISMARCK WITH HIS CANDLEsTICK.-
Etiquette is the code of rules by which
great people keep lesser ones in proper re.
spect. Prince Bismarck when a boy was
rebuked by his father for speaking of the
King as 'Fritz." "Learn to speak rever-
emily of his Majesty" said the old Squire
of Varizln. land you will grow accustom-
ed to think of him with veneration. -
Young Bismarck laid the advice to heart,
and to this day the great Chancellor
always lowers his tone and assumes a
grave, worshipful look when he alludes to
the Kaiser. If message is brought him
from the Emperor by word of mouth or in
writing be stands up to receive it. When
a wedding takes place at the Prussian
Court it is the practice for all the State
dignitaries to form candle procession
that is to say, that ministers, chamber
lains, high stewards take each a silver can.
dlestick with lighted taper in their
bands, and conduct the happy couple
round the ball room, where guests are as
sembled, and thence into the throne room
where the pair do homage to the sovereign.
At the first royal wedding which occurred
after the Chancellor had been promoted to
the dignity of Prince and Highness, Bis
marck failed to appear in the candle-pro-
cession, and court gossips quickly conclud-
ed that he now thought himself too great
man to take part in sentimental cere-
money. The truth was, however, that the
Chancellor had been seized with sudden
attack of govt, and at the next wedding
he was careful to silence all carpers by
carrying his candle bravely like other Min
listers.
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Queen Vlctoria's Eccentric1ties.

| The court etiquette has grown more rig
i'd and infexible during these months OF
increasing morbidness, and soon it is
feared the Queen will be as far removed
from her people as Chinese emperor. She
carries out her willful insistence upon ct
iquette in every least detail, and even
when it concerns only her own children
and grandchildren.
When the Princess Louise returned
from Canada and arrived at Windsor she
was kept waiting until she had changed
her attire and until the Queen sent word
she was prepared to receive her. 1t is re-
ported that the Princess entered the draw
iDg-room in tue evening to await dinner,
dressed in most lovely crimson velvet
gown, with crimson silk hose to match.
The Queen happening to espY the Prin-
cess feet, said: "Do you not know that
colored stockings are not permitted in my
presence? Go to your room at once and
change your stockings.'' And so the poor
Princess came down to dinner in GRIM
son velvet dress wearing white stockings
Not one of the royal children ever visits
the Queen except by special and formal
invitation. Her majesty appoints the
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The Assassination of Lincoln.
RECOLLECTIONs OF A SON OF Ex-yICE
PRESIDENT HAMLIN.

RECoLLECTIONs OF A SON OF Ex-vICE
PRESIDENT HAMLIN.
While in Maine last week l fell in with
Gov. Hamlin, as the ex-Vice President
and Senator is generally called there. One
Of his sons is in partnership with Eugene
Hale, the youngest Senator from Maine,
at the town of Ellsworth. about so miles
south of Bangor. From what could IN
derstand the Governors sops are much re.
spected, though they take but little part
in managing politics. The elder son en-
tered the war, and, after serving awhile
In the field, became assistant TO the Chief
of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac,
and he gave me an interesting description
of beng present IN Ford's Theatre the
night Mr.. Lincoln was murdered.
81 had never been able to see the play
called THE American Cousin, >" said Gen.
Hamlin, though had several times made
engagements to 90 and see it, and I have
never yet seen it fully performed, SO that
have sort of superstition about the
piece. The night that Mr.. Lincoln was
murdered observed that THE American
Cousin was to be played. and took my
sister, who is now deceased, and another
lady 20 the theatre. We had seats far
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hour for her Own children to come and for
them to 60. One can imagine the unna-
turalness of such household. The Prince
Consort was stately, but he was genial
happy, mirth-loving gentleman. He was
most affectionate husband and father.
and no royal etiquette ever stood in the
way of his fine German heartiaess. Since
his death his children have had no parent
al companionship, and they are as far re-
moved from the Queen as though they had
not been born of her.
It is we'll known that the Prince of
Wales has very great influence with his
mother and is personally deeply attached
to her. He was constant companion of
his father, and be quite remembers how
bis father managed the Quven az the old
days. The Prince is said to be nanst
charming in his relations to his mother.
and is always upon his most beautiful
manners in her presence. He at times
arproachs her with great affection and
even tenderness of feeling and demonstra-
tion.
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CraDks.

Many men and women have hobbies tx
which they are devoted, and which they
mount and ride with degree of enjoy
ment and energy and expenditure which
is very astonishing to other people who re
gard them either from the prancing alti.
tude of their own hobbies, or from the
more sed ate vantage ground of habitual
impassi veness and inertia. The hobby.
rider may be crank aud crank usually
keeps petty hobby or two but there is
not any essential difference between them.
The mere hobby-rider may be peace.
full, pleasant, genial, harmless person, rid
ing his fayorite steed for his innocent en-
I joyment or some other good end. But the
regular crank is usually person upon
whom some idea has seized, tormenting
him with the belief of its overshadowing
Importance and driving him into an atti-
tude of warfare with mankind in its as
sertion or defence. The regular crank
usually has strong element Of the ugly
and the disagreeable about him. To him,
by reason of his own crankiness and crook
edness, the world around him is all wrong,
and he devotes himself to the task of set
ting it right by downright aggressive
measures. What differs from him and his
views IS crooked and wrong, and the rest
of mankind is made up ofknaves and fools
of one sort or another, whom it is his mis-
sion to convert to honesty or reason.
Here and there we meet with an amiable
NJ Yo1Y hut ho 10 nm 81 nd Tho
normal crank is intolerant, obstinate, and
enveloped in an atmosphere of impene-
trable self cOnceit. Like the cranks OF
mechanicks, he moves always on the same
pivot and in the same direction, and what
ever moves in any other way is simply
wrong.
In most communities there are profess
sional cranks who acquire public reputa-
ton by their persistent revolutions In their
respective orbits. They possess singular
faculty and affinity for every eccentric
and extravagant cause that turns up. They
are apt absorbers of the sensational.
swallowing and digesting the crudest
schemes or the widest statements with a
fatal ease, and promptly espousing every
strange doctrine that rests or seems to
rest upon their pet pessimistic conviction
that ''the world is very evil.''
This type of the social crank has no diff
6culty in believing anything, provided it
inculcates some derogauorY view of man
kind. He runs after every reform move
ment, because it implies that something or
somebody is wrong and in every reform
cause. good, bad or Indifferent, the crank
will be found on a front seat among the
wisest nd the best, in his full war-paint,
thirsting to sup upon some new mess of
human depravity or see some new victim
of sensational reform scalped.-Phila.
Bulletin.
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EarIy-Day Facts.

The first white child born in North
America was Virginia, daughter OF Ana
MAS and Eleanor Dare. and granddaughter
of Governor John White. She was born
the 18th of August, 1887, in Roanoke
North Carolina. Her parents were of the
expedition sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh
in that year. There is no record of her
history, save that of her birth.
The first minister who preached the Cos
pei in North America was Robert Hunt,
of the Church of England, an exemplary
man, who came out In the same company
with Captain John Smith, in the year
1907. He was much esteemed as man of
peace, and was in many ways useful to the
colony. There is no record of his death +,
or of his returning to England; he most
probably died at Jamestown. He had a
good library, which was burnt, with all
his other property, in the burning of
Jamestown, the next winter after he came
out.
The first females who came to Virginia
proper were Mrs. Forest and her maid,
Annie Burras, in the expedition Of New
port, 1908. The first marriage in Virgin
ia was in the same year-John Layton to
Anne Burras. The ceremony was proba-
bly, by the same "good Master Hunt"
The first intermarriage between the
whites and Indians was John Rolf to Po-
cahontas. in April, 1913. Pocahontas was
also the first of the Virginia Indians that
embraced Christianity and was baptized.
The first legislative assembly in Virgin
ia met in July, 1919, at the summons of
Governor George Yeardly. One month
later negroes we're FIRST brought into the
colony by Dutch man-of-war.
The first periodical of North America
was the Boston Ne,os Letters. which made
it's appearance in August, 1705. The first
in the Old Dominion was the Virginia
Gazette. published at Williamsburg, by
William Parks, weekly. at fifteen shillings
1t appeared in 1876, and was long the only
paper published in the colony. Slavery
preceded the periodical press by III years.
The Blue Ridge was first crossed by
whites In 17l4. The first iron furnace
erected in North America was by Cover
nor Spottswood, in 1880, in Spottsylvania
county, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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r. At
down to the front, only few steps Fri
the stage. Mr.. Lincoln came In and pI

down to the front, only few steps fr'
the stage. Mr.. Lincoln came In and pI
ceeded to his box, which was the uppa
one on the right, but he was not visible U
the audience where he sat, having placei
back in the box, from which he could the1
better see the stage. Indeed. from where
| sat below 1 could see no person in the
boxes. Not long before Mr.. Lincoln was
shot there was change of scenes during
an act, and it seemed to me that it va
the longest time required to change scene
that 1 had ever observed in theatre.
was so noticeably long that I afterwars
wondered in connection with the murdes
if there might not have been some irreso-
luton or perplexity on that stage. Noty
long after there was sound somewhat
like the Shaping of your hands together,
sharp, yet not very loud, but loud enough
to make me- earn my head and wonder
what could have made it, ana whether IT.
was pistol.
tsThe next thing saw was B Doth get
ting out of that box. had seen Booth
play on two occasions, and knew his face
perfectly we'll. There never was a more
deliberate thing than his stepping out on
the sill of that box and leaping from it.
He made as pretty a jump as l ever saw.
If he had practiced that leap it could
hardly have been more elegant. He
alighted in crouching position, like ono
who had brought his body down to break
the shock of the fall. While it was good
jump in height, it was not dangerous
one at all, perhaps from where he leaped
to the stage to IL feet. His spur tore a
flag, and that seemed to bring him around
somehow so that he alighted with his face
turned more to the audience than would
have been the case had he merely hoped
directly downward. His face was marble
pale. In his right hand he held a knife,
and in theatrical way he stretched it up
ward, and distinctly said the words: Sic
semper tyrannis.' Then in very STACEY
stride, still pale, serious and intense, he
went right across the stage and out.--
Many people at tlis stood up, and near
me was naval officer whose name [ still
remember, who, hearing some one exclaim
The President has been shotl" lifted him
self. sailor fashion, up to the woodwork
and decorations of the private box below
and climbed into the box above, and be
came down the same way into the audi
ence.
"Of course, the audience was dismissed,
and as was gong up the street few
minutes afterward / met friend in the
service who said to me: This is terrible
news, Mr.. Stanton, and there forgot the
officer mentioned by Gen. Hamlin) Mr..
Seward we fear has been mortally wound
ed At this 1 went Immediately to my
Office and took the responsibility as Chief
of Staff of the Artlll cry of ordering out
the field batteries we had in the forts
around Washington. I feared the next
thing would be some kind Of rebel rising
in Washington, and summoned the artil
lery to come down at once and lad thenA
put in positions to fire upon the town and
clear the main avenues If there was to be
any more violence"
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Big Fees.

Mr.. Benjamin. by far the ablest advo-
cate in the most lucrative department of
English legal practice. received e25OO0 in
his most fortunate year-about half the
yearly income many a second rate archi-
tect or engineer or newspaper proprietor
has made in the present century. The
famous lawyer who has just ceased earn
ing incomes that perhaps average $4,000
year since he took silk in 1872, would
have been mole literally rewarded in
Elizabeth's England, and quite as lavishly
remunerated in Charles II. g London. The
bare statement Of fee tells little of a
lawyers remuneration. Though consider
able fees are sometimes taken for little
trouble, or even no work at all, the sensa-
tionally magnificent fees Of legal annals
are always found on inquiry to have been
payments for unusually heavy and ardu-
GUS services. If he had not won the re-
spect of solicitors by his dexterous mana
cement of the defense, Edward Law would
have had cause to regret his employment
in behalf of Warren Hastings, who paid
his leading counsel something under
$4,000. On taking account of special out
lay for the cause, and the value of the bust
ness it compelled him to decline, the emil
nent advocate, who. in the famous case of
Small vs.. Atwood, received fee of $4,000.
had reason to think himself under paid
and i'll paid. Serious payments for serious
service, big fees that now and then pass
from clients to counsel through the fingers
of intervening solicitors, differ widely from
the munifcent probabilities by which sick
millionaires occasionally exhibit their fear
of death and their gratitude to the doctor.
Perhaps the largest fee ever paid to a med
ical man was the fee Of one thousand
guineas, which, Sir Henry Thompson re-
ceived for a single visit-without any
operatton-to Oppenheim, the Cologne
capitalist, who, when already IN ertrenais,
determined to lure the famous London
surgeon to his bedside at any cost. Of
course such prod1gious fee-demanded
by the surgeon in the hope that the de-
mand would be declined, and paid under
altogether exceptional circumstances-is
solitary and strangely abnormal Incl
dent that may scarcely be used as an ex-
ample of the remunerations of 'the fac
ulty." Even in the annals of medicine
and surgery it must remain thing of hu-
NOR and surprise.-Leisare Hour.
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DEALERS AND
CONSUMERS OF PAINTS.
Read the Following for Yoursel

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We have now In stock the largest and best stocl
of Paints ever brought to this section, manufac
tured by Lucas Co :, the Oldest paint house il
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These Paints are guaranteed to give entire saus
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upon which it is used. Read the following guaran
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March &c. 1882.
Messrs Berkeley g. Co.. stanton, Pa
DEAR S1Rs:-We have not as yet found it neces
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Yours truly,
JNO LUCAS & co.
These paints may be obtained by wholesale and
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BERKELEY, ALLEN & co,
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Doetrp.
Sleep They Not Well.

Sleep they not well. the sainted dead?
For sorrow they have peace instead;
Our Father housed his children dear, q
Before the tempest gathered near
And burst in thunders loud and dread.
Healed are the hearts that nly bled,
The mourning souls are comforted,
And stanched the fount of every tear;
Sleep they net well
And, if, until the Lord appear,
Earth, like a mother pressing near
To watch beside the loved ones bed,
Wraps her dark mantle round their head,
And shelters them from pain and fear,
Sleep they not well?
Canon Bell, in Sunday at Home
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VETERINARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have
removed to the new residence 1.-THE Silings
property on North AUGUSTA Street just beyond the
r sidence of John B Evans. Esq where may be
found. Orders left there or at Ed Burke,s Stable
fer me will receive prompt attention
marS0 tt HENRY s. H0GSETT.
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS,
AND DEAL RS IN
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PRODUCE GENERALLY.
No. 2G NORTH AUGUSTA STREET,
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
Patent Process and High Grade Extra -Four a
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We have opened with stock of entirely new
goods consisting OF everything keptin well assort
ed grocery.
Our SrOCK is of the BEST QUALITY and we
shall sell at lowest prices, our motto being: Good
goods and low prices
Mr. C. r HANGER late of Eakle & Jones, is with
us and will be pleased to see and wait on his
friends.
We promise to leave nothing uhdone on our parts
to give satisfaction to our Gust mers
We respectfully solicit share of public patron
age
ag-All goods delivered free of charge in the city
and at depots.
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Fabulous quantities of barn-yard man
ure are often applied in vineyards of Eu-
rope; cow-manure is held in such esteem
as to cause the keeping of COWS almost ex-
clusively for making fertilizer for grapes.
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The object of this Suits to attach any estate OF
effects found in the County Of Augusta, belonging
lOt of land situated in the town of Mount Sidney
Containing about onehalf of one acre, near the
Methodist Church and the land OF Mrs. Glenn and
others to satisfy the plaintiff in the of $4,000
with interest on $50 90 part thereof from Jany I'D
1888 and on S6O90. the balance, from March LIST
1883 till paid, and the costs.
II appearing by affidavit fled that the defendant
J. A. Bright is non resident of this State, it is or
dered that he do appear here within one month at
ter due publication of this notice and do what is
necessary to protec his interest
Teste,-
j. N. RYAN, Clerk.
D. MAY, pq.
June 20 4W.
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FARM AND FIREsIDB.

DUST FOR YOUR STOCK.-AS this is
the season of the year when animals are
looking their worst, and in many cases
suffering from vermin, please inform your
readers that no remedy for parasites of all
sorts is equal to perfectly dry road dust or
freshly burned coal ashes. A quantity
should always be kept on hand, which
should be literally sprinkled and scattered
over and on all sorts of stock, from horses
to poultry, which, last will always help
themselves. if given the chance.
Nothing is SO refreshing to an animal
as good dry dust bath. In summer hors-
es will roll and wallow in it, in the middle
of dusty roads, and cattle will stand and
throw it all over their backs with their
feet. and feel much the better, looking
sleek and shining when the dust is shaken
| out OF their hair. This can only be parti-
ally initiated IN winter and spring, but the
little we can do in this way for domestic
| animals that have not had access to the
earth for many months will do great deal
towards promoting their thrift and good
| health.
A peck of dry dust scattered oyer doz-
en- full grown animals is worth all the coal
| oil, mercurlal ointment and other similar
| nostrums that ever were bought. The
only possible objection to it is that it is so
! cheap, simple and easily obtained and
used, that we can afford to despise it,
Those who have lousy calves or colts can
relieve them in a very few days without
any cost at all, with little trouble that is
scarcely worth consideration. Good far
mers never neglect to scatter and 49,,
plenty of dust over their live stock In win
ter and spring. One application is better
than half dozen extra good feeds, and
the more frequently you apply it the bet
ter.
How TO KEEP BUTTER.-The late x.
A. Willard said at one of the meetings of
the Vermont Dairymen's Association.
from actual experience, that good butter
put after the following directions will
keep in sound condition for one year:
"Use for package tub somewhat taper
AAh63 "AoA A1O0Sy ooovOo ftuu ucdUS DIOV-
ided at both ends, so as to make package
that will not leak. In packing the tub is
turned on the small end, and sack of
cotton cloth is made to fit the tub, and
into this the butter is packed until it
reaches to within an inch of the groove
for holding the upper head. A cloth is
next laid upon the top of the butter and
the edges of the sack brought over this
and neatly pressed down then the head
is put in its place and the hoops driven
home. The package is turned upon the
large end and the sack of butter drops
down, leaving space On the sides and
top. Strong brine is then poured through
the hole in the small end until it will
float the butter. The hole is now tightly
corked, and the butter is pretty effectually
excluded from the air.
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