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MILK AND OIL IN DIsEAsE.-Dr. w. w.
Townsend well known physician in Phil
adelphia, in writing to the Scientific Amer
ican on the use of milk as diet in dysen-
terry and typhoid fever, says: 81 am now
in my seventy fifth year, and have witnessed
several epidemics Of dysentery, typhoid,
scarlet, and relapsing fevers, smallpox,
measles, &C., and have used milk in every
case coming under my care for nearly forty
years. in every stage of the disease. l will
not say it is cure, for I do not believe in
the so-called cures and specifics Milk is
the natural food of all mammals. 1t not
only sustains life, but promotes the growth
of every part of the system. No other ar
ticle contains all these ingredients. 1t is
the recuperative power of nature that per-
forms the cure and he who studies how to
assist it by sustaining the system is the best
physician, and milk is one of the best agents
that can be used. In dysentery prefer
fresh buttermilk, as all the patient wants is
perfect rest, and discard all irritating Ca
thartics and purgatives. Mercury in any of
its preparations is poison in dysentery or
scarlet fever and the physician who gives
them will never be successful. If his pa
tient RECEIVERS it will be despite his treat
ment | will add that in smallpox and
scarlet fever l anoint the patient from head
to feet with olive oil, by means of badger
brush, and repeat as often as it disappears,
thereby allaying the heat, keeping open the
pores Of the skin, producing quietude, pre-
venting congestion of the capillary circula-
ton and obviating the necessity of ano-
dynes. l have practised the greasing for
thirty years, and was sneered at by my
medical brethren for it and the milk treat
ment Now 1 believe it is in general use
with the best results"
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How a Woman Goes to Sleep.

| There is an article going the rounds en-
titled: 'How the Girls go to Sleep" The
manner in which they go to sleep, accord
ing to the article, can't hold candle tc
tho way married woman goes to sleep.
Instead of thinking what she should
have attended to before going to bed, she
thinks of it afterward. While she is re.
volving these matters in her mind, and
while snugly tucked up in bed, the old
man is scratching his legs in front of the
fire, and wondering how he will pay the
next months rent. Suddenly she says:
"James, did you lock the door,"
(Which door?" says James.
sfThe cellar door," says she, =.
ssNo." says James.
s'Well, you had better go down and lock
it, for I heard some person in the back
yard last night"
Accordingly, James paddles down stairs
and locks it. About the time James re-
turns and is going to get into bed, she re-
marks:
''Did you shut the stair door?'
stNo," says James.
'fWell, if it is not shut, the cat will get
up into the bedroom.
'Let her come up then,' says James, i'll
natured.
''She'd suck the baby's breath
Then James paddles down the stairs
again, steps on tack, and closes the stair
door, and curses the cat, and returns to the
bedroom. Just as he begins to climb into
his couch his wife observes
Il forgot to bring up some water. Sup
pose you bring some up in the big TIM
And SO James, with a muttered curse
goes down into the dark kitchen and falls
over a chair, and rasps all the tinware off
the wall in search of the "big tin," and
then jerks the stair door open and howls (:
"Where the deuce are the matches ?"
She gives him minute directions where to
find the matches, and adds that she would
rather go and get the water herself than to
have the neighborhood raised about it. AT
ter which James finds the matches, procures
the water, comes up stairs and plunges in
to bed.
Presently his wife says:
"James, let's have an understanding
about money matters. Now, next week l
have to pay"
81 tsson't know what you'll have to pay,
and don't care," Shouts James, as he
lurches around and jams his face against
the wall ga u Iwant is sleep"
"That's all very we'll for you, snaps his
wife, as she pulls the covers viciously !;
''you never think IF the trouble and worry
I have. And there's Araminta, who I be-
heve is taking the measles
'Let her take 'em," says James.
Hereupon she begins 70 cry softly, but
about the time James is fal ling into gen
tie doze she punches him in the ribs with
her elbow and says:
'Did you hear the scandal about Mrs.
Jones ?''
'What Jones ?" says James, sleepily.
"Why, Mrs. JONES'
''Where ?' inquired James.
II declare" says his wife, "you are get
ting more stupid every day. You know
Mrs. Jones that lives at No. 81? Well,
day before yesterday, Susan Smith told
Mrs. Thompson that Sam Baker has said
that Mrs. Jones had
Here she pauses and listens. James is
snoring in profound slumber. With a
snort of rage she pulls all the cover off him,
wraps herself up in them and lays awake
till a. m, thinking how badly used she
is.
And that is the way married woman
goes to sleep.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.
THE CRADLE SONG.

Twas soft, low tune that the mother crooned
As she touched the cradlewhere baby lay,
Sleepy and cross, with fretful toss
At having to pause in his pretty play.
sweet. low tune, and soft caress,
The loving touch of mothers hand,
Soon quiet the child from its sports beguiled
And carried it captive TO Sunderland.
The restless fingers and feet are still;
The dear little drawbridges drop ere long
Der the baby's eyes and the baby lies
In the magic spell OF Its cradle song.
With joy we list to the wondrous notes,
AS the prima donna performs her part
With voice so clear that the birds appear
Outdone by one who has learned their art.
But the Queen of Song, though she sing in
truth
With seraphic splendor, may lack the power
To bring relief and repose to those
Who fain would rest in the weary hour,
And though many q melody be forgot
By busy plodders amid life's throng.
Yet they always hear, and they hold most dear,
The old melodious cradle song.
The old, old song. that was half pra ger
When the mother murmured it soft and low,
Again and again, with its soothing strain,
Comes back to whisper of long ago.
And around our hearts and around our lives
These cords are woven so firm and strong
That, when Death draws near nothing else
we'Il hear,
But sweet voice grooming a cradle song.
JOSEPHINE POLLARD, in ". Y. Ledger.
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CHILDISH DIsREsPECT.- is the fault
that some persons would punish with es-
pecial severity, and such persons are apt to
judge specifically, or more by a child S
words than by his meaning or motive.
Very young children often speak disrespect-
fully without any idea that they are doing
wrong. They are natural democrats, mot
in modem political sense,) and they have
an innate sense of Equality" '1f you
won't be saucy to me, won't be saucy to
you, "said little Fanny when her mother
reproved her for sauciness. Fanny's moth
er, perhaps, had never thought that pas
ent could be guilty of sauciness, but Of
ten think of the child's remark when chill
dren speak disrespeetfully to their parents.
| can usually see that they have brought it
upon themselves-that more patience and
gentleness on the parents part would have
prevented the hasty reply.
Parents certainly should treat their chill
dren with respect Not as though the
children were their superior, but as though
they had rights which all were bound to re-
spect, and feelings which the parents
should regard, and tastes and preferences
worthy of reasonable consideration. Chill
dren so treated will not be tempted to Sc
rious impudence. | do not say that they
will never speak words that sound saucy.
The only way to prevent that, is to bring
them up in state of constant fear, SO that
they never speak at all except in well-con-
sidered words.
If children feel free and easy and conf
Dental with their parents, they will be apt
to address them sometimes very much as
they do their playmates of their own age,
and sometimes this will seem diSrespectful
when no disrespect is intended.
Of course we should try to teach them
good manners, and this includes gentle and
respectful behavior, but if we send them to
school, or allow them to play with their
little neighbors, they will probably pick up
expressions that we cannot admire, and use
them in the family. Few children OF nat
ural independence or spontaneity have never
said 81 WON'T to their parents. But often
this means nothing more than an expression
of preference-or too vehement expression,
which should certainly be modified. But the
child expresses the momentary feeling, and
Immediately repents, and intends no DISC
bedience.
If we are the children's parents we are
part of the ''old stock whence the chill
dren, with their various dispositions, have
sprung. If the disposition is what is called
s'bad" did the child deliberately choose it
Did it it even ask for you as its parents
Did you not bring it into the midst of life s
grave responsibilities without asking its
consent or consulting its preferences 1t
is certain, then, that the child has right
to great patience and forbearance from
those whose duty it is to give it support
and education.
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A MINISTER'S VIEWS OF LIFE.-The
Winston Leader says: ''The following was
taken down uer6atim in shorthand as the
words fell from the lips of a broad-faced,
ell-fed-looking Methodist minister, who
was preaching in country school-house:
Brethren, much has been said concerning
preachers who take delight in the good
things of this world. am one who think
it very right and proper for a minister to
eat heartily. Life is short, and the whole
earth is mans. Man cannot live on bread
alone, nor religion alone. While it is true
that Christian faith gives glorious CON-
fort not to be found elsewhere, it is also
true that yellow-legged chicken, when
properly cooked, furnishes an essential joy
not especially antagonistic to orthodox re-
ligion. Act justly, be charitable, pray
fervently, eat heartily, and, my word for it,
you will be happy"
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A BABY's FEET.

A baby's feet, like sea.shelis pink,
Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
An angels lips to kiss. we think,
A baby's feet.
Like rose-hued sea. flow ers toward the heat,
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
No flower bells that expand and shrink,
CLEAN half SO heavenly sweet
AS shine on life's untrodden brink,
A baby's feet.
A baby's hands, like rosebuds furled,
Whence yet no leaf expands,
Ope II you touch, though close upcurled,
baby's hands.
Then fast as warriors grip their brands
When battles bolt is hurled,
They close. clenched hard like Tightening
bands.
No rosebuds yet by dawn inpearled,
Match, even in loveliest lands.
The sweetest flowers in all the world
A baby's hands.
A baby's eyes, ere speech begin,
Ere lips learn word or sighs,
Bless all things bright enough to win
A baby's eyes.
Love, while the sweet thug laughs and lies,
And sleep flows out and in,
Sees perfect 10 them Paradise,
A baby's eyes.
Their glance might cast out pain and sin,
Their speech make dumb and wise,
By mute, glad godhead felt within
A baby's eyes. -SwINBURNE.
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We hope for the best results as the out
come of this gathering of the peoples rep
resentatives, and especially from the new
organization of committees and the gen.
eralship OF so able an organizer as Mr..
Barbour. And now for steady drill and
active preparatory work of all kinds in ad-
vance Of the great battle in November,
when all that we hold dear in Virginia
must survive or perish.-CharlottesUiHt
Chronicle,
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FAMOUS EARTHoUAKEs.-Ca Casamicciola is
in one of the two great earthquake zones,
the other district being the western portion
of South America. In no century since
the earliest recorded history has Southern
Italy and Sicily escaped suffering from fire.
quent and severe earthquakes. In Sicily,
in 1893, 10000 people perished in one earth
quake. During the reign of Tiberius, 16
A. D., 120, 900 people lost their lives in one
day in consequence of an earthquake. The
earthquake attended with the most serious
results in the destruction of human life
was that of 500, when 250,000 human be-
ings perished, according to Gibbons fig
ures. Antioch, which had previously been
destroyed at least twice, and several other
Syrian cities, were completely destroyed,
and the shock extended into Italy, where
great damage to life and property resulted.
In 63 Herculaneum and Pompeii were de-
stroyed by an earthquake, this being six
teen years before the burial of those cities
by the eruption Of Vesuvius. The city of
Judea was destroyed iu 81 B. c., when
10000 people lost their lives.
The most famous earthquake of history
was that of Lisbon, November 1, 1865,
when 80, coo people were buried alive and
30, 600 more were killed. Calabria, Messi-
nj, and a number of smaller villages were
destroyed February 5. 1888, and some 100,-
900 lives were lost. In 1926 Murcia, Spain,
was destroyed, $500 houses being thrown
down, and couple of thousand people be-
ing killed. Lima and it's harbor, Callao, in
Peru, were destroyed in 1886, and again in
1746, and thousands perished. Arequipa,
Peru, was wiped out of existence in 1868,
$4,000 people being left homeless, and sew
eral thousands losing their lives. In the
same year the cities Of Ibarra and Ottavalla
were destroyed, and not one Of their 10000
inhabitants escaped, or could ever be found
afterward. Catocachy was also obliterate6
from the face of the earth, and lake now
covers the spot where it stood. In that
earthquake the United States war-vessel
Wateree was carried from the harbor of
Callao two miles inland. The famous
earthquake which devastated and depopu-
lated Callao in 1882 continued at intervals
for four years. 1t took but three minutes
for an earthquake to make the entire city
of Port Royal, jamaica complete wreck
in 1902, and even less time for the destruc-
tion of San Salvador, in the West Indies
March 10, 1878. The city of Mendoza, in
the Argentine Republic, was destroyed and
1900 people killed by shock of but
moments duration in March, 1861.
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Let the people in every county demand
of every candidate that he shall move, (if
elected, actively in the Legislature for a
reduction of the rate of taxation and econ
omy in expenditures. The colored people
are interested in this matter; the less used
for salaries, criminal expenses and State
extravagances, the more will be for educa-
tion. We oppose taxing the people to put
money in the treasury for politicians to han
die. The Democratic is the low-tax party
noW.-LYnchburq Adponce.
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No preparation has ever performed such
marvellous cures, or maintained so
wide reputation, as AYERS CHERRY
PEcToRAL, which is recognized as the
worlds remedy for all diseases of the
throat and lungs. Its long-continued
series of wonderful cures in all cli-
mates has made it universally known
as safe and reliable agent to employ.
Against ordinary colds, which are the
forerunners Of more serious disorders,
it acts speedily and surely, always re-
lieving suffering, and often saving life.
The protection it affords, by its timely
use in throat and chest disorders,
makes it an invaluable remedy to be
kept always on hand in every home.
No person can afford to. be without it,
and those who have once used it never
will. From their knowledge of its
composition and operation, physicians
use the CHERRY PECToRAL extensively
in their practice, and clergynen recon-
mend it. It is absolutely certain in
its healing effects, and will always
cure where cures are possible.
For sale by all druggists.
feb7 'SS-ly
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REPUBLICAN BRIBERY AND CoRRUP-
TIoN.-Gen. Garfield and the Republican
party, encouraged, sustained, and endorsed
the expenditure by Dorsey of $4OO, 600 in
the last Presidential campaign in Indiana.
And after the election, the leaders of the
party in New York rewarded him with
banquet Where did this $4OO, 600 come
from ? Was it taken from the United
States Treasury and col ,cealed by false en-
tries Charlottesville J Jefersonian.
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The more we analyze the work OF the
convention, the more we find in it for con-
graduation The spirit that prevailed, the
men placed in control of the coming Cum
paign, and the series of beneficial refol ms
adopted as platform, tell in very forclble
language that the party, to use Mr.. Bar
bour's happy phrase, ''means busil iess. -
The platform, irl our opinion, is an emil
nently wise one, and receives our mo st cor,
dial support, as very much of its proposed
work we have heretofore Advocated. nan
chester Times.
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The Alexandria Gazette well saws:

General Malone is more ineficiently
equipped for his present campaign than for
any he ever fought. Heretofore he has had
the invaluable assistance of political assess
ments and offices; but the civil service rules
have deprived him of the former, and he
has given away all of the latter that were
at his disposal. In vain does he now cry
for his Jay Hubbell and for his federal pa
trOnage,"
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SHEEP LOSING THEIR WooL.-When the
wool falls off from sheep it indicates dis
ease of the skin. This may be caused by
overheating, crowding together when the
wool is wet and sweating, lying on manure
or on damp litter when the wool is wet,
overfeeding on clover hay or grain, want of
salt, and, in fact, anything which tends to
disturb the condition of the skin. Once it
begins it cannot be cured, because the wool
has already parted from the follicle in the
skin, which is its root. But it may be pre-
vented by avoiding the causes.
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DELEYAN. WIS. "a. 1878.

w 1h''3 y ''O'0'
GENTs-I have taken not quite one bot
tie of the Hop Bitters. was a feeble old
man of rs when 1 got it. To-day | am as
active and feel as well as I did at 80. see
great many TINT need such medicine.
D. BOYCE.
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*x*''Men often mistake notoriety for
fame" but they never mistake Kidney
Wort is universally recognized as stand
ard remedy for all diseases of the liver,
bowels, and kidneys.
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Did She Die

mo!
'she fingered and suffered along, pining
away all the time for years."
1.-THE doctors doing her no good"
"And at last was cured by this Hop Bitters
the papers say SO much about"
Indeed! Indeedp
"How thankful we should be for that medi-
cine"
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Mr.. G. II. Harman, President Peoples
Bank, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, testifies to
the value Of Browns Iron Hitters for reliev-
ing indigestion.
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The belle and the hunter are alike in one
thing-they both use powder before the
ball, and the object of both is to bring down
the game.
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Mr.. w. o. Shanks, PETERSBURG, VA,
says: ''Brown's Iron B itters caused erup-
tons on my skin to entir ely disappear.
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The individual who wa injured by the
accidental discharge of iuty is still very
low.
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Some people are never satisfied. Show
them how to live happily an small income
and they will want you to furnish the in
come.
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'sHello, boyl has your paper anything
more about the earthquake%' s'No, sir, not
in this Ischia.'
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"BUCHU.PAIRA.. J.

Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kid
ney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. 81.
Druggists.
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II. N. MATHEWS. ALEX. r. MATTHEW'S.
MATHEWS & ,,sd5 MATHEWs, HETS
LEwISBURG. WEST VA,
practice regularly in the Courts of Greenbrier,
Monroe, Pocahontas and Nicholas counties, w.
Va. the Court Of Appeals, and the Federal
Courts for the District of w. Va.
RS-Particular attention paid to Collections
nd to special cases anywhere in their State.
may lily
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CROUCH ON RATS

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants,
bed bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 10
cents Druggists.
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t n D"us AEcE misery.
"Eleven years our daughter suffered on a bps
of misery,
From complication of kidney liver, rheu-
matte trouble and Nervous debility
"Under the care of the best physicians
who gave her disease various names,
"But no relief,
"And now she Is restored TO us in good health
by as simple remedy as Hop Bitters, that we
had shnnned for years before using it."-THE
PARENTS.
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Father is Getting Well

my daughters say
How much better father is since he used
Hop Bitters."
HE is getting well after his long suffering
from disease declared incurable"
"And we are so glad that he used your Bit
IA LADY OF Utica, N Y
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ssMOTHER SWANS UfORM SYRUP"
Infallible, tasteless, ha rmless, cathartic ;
for feyerishness, restlessn, sss, worms, con-
stipation. 25c.
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1t is said that good musicians execute
their music while bad ones murder it.
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LIVERY STABLES.

STAUNToN, VA, January Is, 1888 2
MY brother, d. G. GRAHAM, will have an
WI interest in my Grocery and Produce bus
iness, to date from Jan. lst, and the firm name
will be ]. z. GRAHAM & BROTHER.
jsnl6 j. E. GRAHAM.
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T. O. ELDER

T. O. ELDER. WIN. ]. NELSON.
ELDER <& NELSON,
u TTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
and Real Estate Agents,
may STAUNToN, VA.
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EORGE nj. HARRISON,

~ GORGE ri. HARRISON,
" ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
STAUNToN, VA,
will practice in all the Courts holden in Au-
gusta county, and in the Circuit Courts of the
adjoining counties.
R1-Strict attention given to the collection of
Claims.
oFFIoE-No. 10 lawyers Row. Courthouse
AueV. oc 3l-tf