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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
LATEST NEWS.

LONDON, June 22.--The American minister
to Turkey has refused to accept the notice
given by the Porte of the termination of
the treaty of commerce between Turkey and
the United States, on the ground that it was
given too late. The Porte has promised that
the Kurds who recently maltreated American
missionaries in Asiatic Turkey shall be pun
ished. The American minister has demanded
an apology from the Porte for indignities
offered an American physician in Tripoli.
In his late protest to President Grevy, re-
ferring to laws hostile to the Catholic Church
in France, the Pope hopes that the pacific
assurances given by France at various times
really signify desire to avoid a painful con-
fict, which wonld be equally disastrous to
both church and state. He requests Presi
dent Grevy to use his high influence to pre-
vent such conflict.
number of Hebrews are being tried in
Hungary on the charge of having murdered
Christian girl at Tisza -Ezlar to use her
blood to mix with their passover bread.
The Malagassy ENJOYS, after being refused
a second audience by Prime Minister Ferry
of France, have left Paris for London.
The difficulty between France and China
has been amicably adjusted.
tirrif1ic explosion occurred at blast fur
mace No. 8, in the North chicago Rolling
Mills. Thirty-five tons of molten iron were
scattered in every direction. Two men we're
horribly burned and will die. Fifteen men
were more or less severely burned. The ac-
cident is believed to have been caused by a
defective tlue in the steam blast.
The tornado in Chillicothe, Mo-, extended
five or six miles, destroying houses, crops
and fences wherever it touched. Edward
James and Mrs. jackson were killed out
right, and Mrs. Butch, Mrs Amy Click, Mrs.
Duzenberry, Jack Wilson and Bert Snyder
fatally injured.
At Gainesville, johnson county, Arkan-
sas, Cove johnson, James johnson, Mon
roe Mcdonald and James Herndon, who
last March murdered Conductor Cane while
robbing Little Rock and Fort Smith rail
road train have been hanged.
The sea has cut so far into the bank of the
inlet at Bernegat, N. j., that six or eight feet
of the foundation of the government light
house is exposed, and large hotel is in dam
ger of being washed into the inlet.
A package of $4,000 expressed by the
New York Marine Bank via the Erie Road to
the Susquehanna (Pa.) Valley Bank was
found on arrival at the bank to contain only
blank paper.
The bill to incorporate the Cape Cod Ship
Canal Company has passed the Massachu-
sets Legislature,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
PSALMS.
IREvIsED.l

HEAR this, all ye people. ard give ear all
- ye inralids of the world Hop Bitters
will make you well and to rejoice.
2. 1t shall cure all the people and put sick.
ness and suffering under foot.
8. Be thou not afraid when your family 10
sicA or you have Bright's disease or Liver
Complaint, for Hop Bitters will cure you.
4. Both low and high, rich and poor know
The value of Hop Btters for bilious, nervous
and Rheumatic complaints.
3. Cleanse me with Hop Bitters and shall
have robust and blooming health.
6. Add disedse upon disease and let the
worst come am safe if use Hop Bitters.
z. For all my life have been plagued with
sickness and sores, and not until year ag,
was l cured by Hop Bitters.
8. He that keepeth his bones from aching
from Rheumatism and Neuralgia, with Hop
Bitters, doeth wisely.
8. Though thou hast sores, pimples, freckles.
salt rheum, erysipelas, blood poisoning, yet
Hop Bitters will remore them all.
TO- What woman is there, feeble and sick
from female complaints, who desireth no,
health and useth Hop Bitteis and is mad,
WeU.
IL. Lot not neglect to use Hop Bitters brin,
on serious Kidney and Liver complaints.
~ Keep thy tongue from being furred, thy
blood pure, and thy stomach from indiges
zion by using Hop Bitters.
10. All my pains and aches and disease
go like chaff before the wind when use Hop
Btters.
IA. Mark the man who ,oas nearly dead and
given up by the doctors, after using Hop
Bitters and becometh well.
Is. Cease from worrying about nervous.
ness, general debility, and urinary trouble.
for Hop Bitters will restore you.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
Nelly's Tea-Pariy.


Nelly Ray lives in a brown cottage
down by the iver. There are not many
houses near, and no little children to
play with her. One day her mamma
took her to the city to visit her cousin.
She was older than Nelly, and had a
good many playmates.
While Nelly was there Emma had a
tea-party and invited her little friends.
Nelly enjoyed it very much, and after
she went home wanted to have a party
of her own.
"But," said her mamma, "whom will
you invite?"
"Oh, don't know" replied Nelly.
81 can find somebody, think. And
I'll have my dolls"
p Nelly had three dolls-Maria Louisa,
Victoria and Cinderella. Then she had
little dog named Frisk and three
cats. Snowdrop was the mother, and
Punch and Judy were kittens. Nelly
thought that with all of them she
could have quite party.
= Her mamma gave her some cookies
and milk. She picked bouquet of
daisies and buttercups for her table.
Maria Louisa and Victoria were TAX
ing their afternoon nap when they
were invited, but Cinderella was no.
where to be found. 1t took Nelly some
time to remember where she had her
last. And where do you think it was?
Up in the old apple-tree! Then Nelly
called Frisk and Snowdrop, and of
course Punch and Judy came running
after.
= So they went to Nelly's little play
house. They all had to sit on the
ground except Victoria, who had
high chair. They soon ate up the re-
freshments, and as only Nelly could
talk, the party did not last long -
g "Oh, mamma" said Nelly, sit was
such funny party; Frisk wanted all
the cake, and while 1 was talking to
Maria Louisa and Victoria, Punch and
Judy drank up all the milk Then poor
Cinderella rolled down the bank, but
Frisk brought her back again. Idon't
believe Snowdrop had a mouthful to
eat. And I'd rather have my supper
with YOU" l.I.l.
"Well,' said mamma, "now go put
your dollies to bed and have a good
run with Frisk. BY the time you come
back supper will be ready, and I'll tell
you story."-Our Little Ones.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
tvs Shoura Heln One Another.

Mr.. NORMAN Hunt, of No. 1863 Chestnut ST.,
Springfield, Mass, writes April 10, 1888, say
ing: Having the affection caused by kidney
and liver diseases, and after enduring the
aches, pains, weakness and depression incl
dent thereto until body AMI soul were nearly
distracted, sought for relief and cure from
my trouble, and Vas told by friend who hal
been cured by it himself, that the best and
only sure cure was Hunts Remedy, and upon
his recommendation commenced taking it,
ton in very marked manner, and a con-
tinuance of its use has justified all that my
friends claimed for it-that it was sure and
permanent cure for all diseases of the kidneys
and liver. Several of my friends in Spring.
field have used it with the most gratifying
results, and 1 feel it my duty as we'll as d
pleasure to me to recommend Hunts Remedy
in the highest possible terms"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
Honorable Sears.

There is one member of the present
United States government whose face
is so SCARED as to be pitiful to look
upon; but the story of these scars is
record so honorable that no decoration
of the Legion of Honor confers more
glory than do these cruel seams and
gashes.
When this man of whom we write
was but boy, he was sitting with his
younger sister before the fire of
country house, where they were spend
ing the Christmas holidays. Did
spark snap from the blazing wood that
cracked so merrily upon the hearth?
Or did some incautious movement on
the girls part bring her dress too near
the blaze? At any rate, in an instant
her clothes were all aflame.
The boy loved his pretty sister even
more, perhaps, than most brothers do.
He was proud of her cleverness and of
her beauty. Should the fierce flames
scorch her life out before his eyes?
He caught wrap from the sofa,
rug from the floor. He wrapped them
round her and struggled for her life,
so utterly forgetful of himself that, at
the end, he was burned almost beyond
human recognition, while on her fair
girls face the fire had left no mark.
And the boy was well content. al
am boy" he said, sand it does not
matter. She could not have borne it,"
For long time his life was despair.
ed of, but at length the vital forces OF
his strong youth triumphed, and he
went forth into the world again, wear
ing his scars for badge of glory in
The eyes of all those who knew the
tale.
He has made himself one of the men
Of mark of his generation. He has
won love for himself and distinction
and the fair repute Of men. But of all
The gains of his life, none do him such
honor as those scars of his early battle.
The sister, whom he saved from the
awful fate that threatened her, has
won her own laurels also. She lives in
Italy amid "the grandeur that was
Rome" whence she sends to America
some of the brightest and most charm
ing work which our journals print.
She has salon where you meet the
men and women best worth knowing
Her life is happy and prOsperous-but,
for all its pleasures, she has to thank
the scars which would make her broth
er's face unpleasant to look upon, did
not the knowledge of how they were
won make them his browning glory
Youths Companion.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
Evening Amusement.

/. To apparently burn water, I'll a
glass lamp with water, and put into it
for wick a piece of gum-camphor
The lamp should not be quite full, and
the camphor may be left to flat upon
the surface of the water. On touching
lighted match to the camphor, it
shoots up clear, steady flame, and
seems to sink below the surface of the
water, so that the flame is surrounded
by the liquid. 1t will burn for long
time. If the camphor be ignited in a
large dish of water, it will commonly
float about while it burns.
2. Wet a piece of thick wrapping
paper; then dry is by the stove; while
warm lay it down r~,7 9 vanished
table or dry wooden ss.Stn, H., rub it
briskly with piece of India rubber.
1t will become strongly electrified, and
if tossed against the wall or looking
glass will stick some time Tear tissue
paper into bits one-eighth inch square,
and this piece Of papesa electrified, will
draw them. Or take a tea-tray and
put it on three tumblers. Lay the
electric paper on it, and, on touching
the tray, you will get a little spark.
Lift the paper out of the tray, and on
touching the tray again you will get
another spark, but of the opposite kind
of electricity. Replace the paper and
you will get another, and so on.--IL
Illustrated Weekly. .-e
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

One of the safest and best ways to
send few choice cut flowers to dis
lance is to cut Sits in potatoes and in
sert the flower stems, taking care that
they are firmly fastened in and support
ed by little cotton or paper. An or
binary potato will keep most flowers
fresh for two weeks or more in mod
crate temperature. Potatoes can also
be used in floral decorations through
being disguised by leaves and flowers.
-CuticatOr.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Mr.. H. w. PAYNE, manufacturer of harness,
saddlery, franks, vali5es, ETC., No. AT Main
Street, Springfield, Mass. writes us under
date of April 10, 1888:
Gentlemen have used Hunts Remedy,
the best medicine for diseases of the kidneys,
liver, bladder and urinary organs, and Lave
received great benefit to my health from its
use, and I find that it will do just what is
claimed for it; it will cure sense and restore
health. l therefore pronounce it the best
medicine that have ever usel."
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

A Turin jeweler has made tiny
boat formed of single pearl, which
shape it assumes in swell concavity.
Its sail is of beaten gold, studded with
diamonds, and the pinnacle light at its
PROV is perfect ruby. An emerald
serves as its rudder, and its stand is a
slab of ivory. 1t weighs less than
half an ounce. Its price is $4,000
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
OUR PROGRESS.

AS stages are quickly abandoned with the
completion Of railroads, so the huge, drastic,
cathartic pills, composed of crude and bulky
medicines, are quickly abandoned with the
introduction of Nr. PierceSr siPieasant Pnr-
gative Pellets" which are sugar-coated, and
little larger than mustard seeds, but COM
posed of highly concentrated vegetable ex-
tracts. By druggists.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

DR.. R. V. PIERCE. Deer St'.--Death was
hourly expected by myself and friends. My
physicians pronounced my disease consump-
ton, and said | must die. l began taking
your discovery" and "Pellets." | have used
nine bottles and am wonderfully relieved. /
am now able to ride out.
ELIZBETH THORNTON, Montongo, Ark.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
Boston md Albany RniIrond,

ALBERT HoLT, Esq, paymaster Boston and
Albany Railroad, at Springfield, Mass, writes
April %, 1883: 81 have used Hunts Remedy,
and my experience with it has been such that
] can cheerfuly say that am satisfied that
it will do just what it promises to do, if used
according to directions"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

In the opinion of the Scientific
american there is possibility that the
wonderful comet of 1912 may make its
temperance before the year closes.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

WR1GHTsvILLE, Pa.--Rev. Elijah Wilson
says: browns Iron Bitters have perma-
nently cured me of chills and fever"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Some mems vas always like der keyhole on
der back of clock. Obey vas behint time.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Lyou's PaientHeel Stjffener, the only inven-
ton that makes old boots as straight as new.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Ladies' and sicl,ly girls requiring a nom
alcoholic, gentle stimulant, will find Brown s
Iron Bltters beneficial.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

I cawn't imagine" said young Spoonvase,
what makes my hair grow SO rapidly"
"Grows in such soft, airy soil, maybe"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Donkey meat sliced cold is called delicious
by London Truth.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

minister in Richmond, Va, says that he
has enough silver coins with holes in to fiji
n utart measure
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

A smart young man picked up flower in
The ball room after ali the girls had gone,
and sang pathetjcally, '"I'is the lost rose of
some her.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

The secret of success is TO know how t.
deny yourself, and other people.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

it is assorted that British Capital to the
extent of thirty millions went into Wyoming
and Texas last year.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

The editor of the Waynesboro' Record pro-
nounccs the report that he is the father of
eighteen children incorrect he has only
fifteen.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

What strange language we have. Insan-
ity is often pronounced 'iucurable."
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Nine young women in Erie have formed a
base bail club, and have offered TO play with
any female base ball club in the state.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Curiosity is thing that makes us look over
other peoples affairs and overlook our own.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

If YOU feel depressed in mind and body, or
have touch of general debility or malaria,
try GAsrR1NE. 1t gives tone to the stomach
and promotes thorough digestion. Druggists.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

may be retained by using DR.. Pierce's GA
vorite Prescription, a specific fer "femae
By druggists.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.--Rev. T. j. Reilly says:
81 used Browns Iron Bitters for indigestion
and chills with entire satisfaction"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

The best thing in print---A pretty girl in a
Calico dress.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Ask for Wells Rough on Corns. '15c Quick
relief; complete cure. Corns, warts, bunions.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

"Why do divers go 10 sea. George?'
"Why, 10 &c. at the bottom facts"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

that girl of mine is twice as handsome since
she commenced using Carboline, the deodor-
lied extract of Petroleum, and would not
be without it for fortune.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Durno's catarrh Snuff cures all affections Of the
mucous membrane Of the head and throat.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

That Husband of Mine
Is three times the man he was before using
Wells Health Remover. 81. Druggists.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
ALFRED DAY,

Pastor Universalist Church.
WOODSTOCK, O May 10, 1888.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Singing irritation, inflammation, Kidney,
Urinary complaints, cured nv Buchupaiba$1
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30
! IllS o Or n m

''For " years" writes Lyman 4 Aheil, Geogir,
W. 81 found no rclrt from piles. unti tried Kidney
Wort. Hhas cured me-"
The bee., 1883-05-12
News and Notes for Woman.

A school of pharmacy for women
has been opened at Louisville, KY.
Deer hunting is a favorite sport of
the young ladies' of Centerville, Tenn
A young lady near Bainhridge, Ca,
has about four acres in onions, and ex-
poets to realize $500.
Emily Faithful says of American
women: 81 am satisfied that most of
them have pretty good time of it"
At an English wedding in high life,
recently, the bride was given away by
the mother and her taSher performed
the marriage service.
The Nebraska legislature has passed
a bill providing that one of the two as
sistant physicians of the State asylum
for the insane shall be woman.
Miss Nellie Coon. of Charles City,
Ia, has p.ecel two quilts, one contain
ing 1888 and tha other $3.50 blocks,
both of which were completed before
her sixte nth year.
A police judge at st. Joseph, Mo-,
remarked in diSmissing case the other
day Il shall dismiss every case of
woman-insulting where it can be
shown that the woman first fiirted
with the &c used"
Miss Jennie Carson owns the land
on both sides of HopleyS Creek,
Meagher county, NJ. I. Her property
is one of the best ranches in the Terri
tories and she is as successful with her
herds as any man in the country.
An o,d culJred woman in Savannah.
who for five years past has made a
business of picking up loose cotton
about the streets of the city, has not
only supported herself, but has actually
saved enough money to buy and stock
a small farm, and is said to be worth
over 81, 600.
The bee., 1883-05-12
The Farmer i'm India.

The Indian agriculturist (ryOt) can
in no sense be compared to the
American farmer, but rather to the
late serf of Russia. He is a tenant on
hard conditions, and is, by custom and
bigotry, almost fixture on the par
ticular spot of lanl where he was
BON; his farming is done on a very small
scale and according to CID methods, to
which he clings with religious yenera-
ton; his wants are very few, and he
endures poverty and even hunger with
patience; he cu.tivdtes his patch of five
to fifteen acres on shares for the landed
proprietor (zemindar) who holds
under rental to the government. and
the b ter half of his gross income
generally goes to the zemindar, the
priest (Brahmin }. and tie usu e., in
the form of rent, presents, offerings
and interest, and if he can net ten
cents day by his hard and hopeless
labor that will suffice for the most
pressing wants of the household. His
home is a mud or bamb 10 hut; his
property a pair of small bullocks, a
few cows, calves and goats, IL wooden
cart and a few brass and arthel pots
in all, worth about $50; and his
implements and tools are of the rudest
kind, such as his ahce ,tors usel a
thousand years ago; and yet he is
making some progress under British
rule, and finds his wants increasing
and at the lme time better outlets for
his produce and more recompense for
his labor, and, on the whole, is 50 in
dependent on ten cents day that he
will eat or store his wheat rather than
sell it below certain price. Of
course, he does not employ machinery
in farming, but plows his land with
a crooked pie;e of iron-pointed wood,
harrows it with an implem mt resemb-
ling common ladder lad hat on the
ground and dragged by the little bull
locks crossways over the field; he sows
by hand, reaps with a rude sickle, car
ries the sheaves home on his buck or
in the bullock cart, threshe' them with
wooden club, or lets the cattle tramp
out the grain, and cleans it by hand
winnowing.-ConsuI-Gea General Mattson.
The bee., 1883-05-12
Prairie I" Signs.o

About two miles from town he sud-
denly checked his horse, gazed intently
on the grounl, AMI said: "Some
fellow has LOST his saddle-horse here
this morning"
There Was no advertisement on any
of the trees offering reward for a lost
horse, and as there was no lost horse
in sight, we were at a loss to under
stand how, if horse was lost, our
friend could know so much about it.
The doctor inquired "How do you
know that horse has been lost ?"
"I see his tracks"
"Are there not hundreds of horses
pasturing on the prairies, and how do
you know that this is not the track of
one of them?"
Because he is shod, and the horses
herding on the prairie do not wear
Shoes"
"How do you know that he is
saddle-horse, and lost?'
Il see a rope track alongside his
trail; the horse has saddle on, and
the rJpe hangs from the horn of the
saddle"
"But why may he not be horse
that some one has ridden over this
way this morning, and why do you
insist that it is lost?"
because, if man had been on his
back he would have ridden him on a
straight course, but this horse has
moved from side to side of the road, as
he strolled along, and that is plain
sign that he grazel as he went, and
that he hal no rider"
AFTER that it would not surprise
me-" said the doctor, eff you were to
tell us the age of the horse, and the
name of the owner"
"Well, that would not be very hard
to do. There are signs that have told
the owners name, and there are other
signs that, if / had time to examine,
would tell me his age | know he is
one Of old man Pendegrast's horses.
PendegraSt has large bunch of horses
down in the bottom, and an old colored
man down there does all his shoeing,
and shoes no other horses except his.
So we know his shoe track just the
same as we know his brand"
1t is wonderful how expert these
men become in reading what they call
"signs" " on the prairie or in the woods.
No sign escapes tleir practiced eye !;
all manner of tracks, trails and marks
are to them data on which to base con-
clusioas. Tne peculiar movement of
an animal will indicate the presence of
some other animal in the naighbor
hood. A broken limb of a tree, a
crushed W eed, the debris around a
camp fire, the fight of buzzard and
other such signs are to the cowboy and
the froltiersman what the signboards
and lvertisements are to people who
live in cities.-Teray Sifti71gs.