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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-09

J. R. TUCYnE H. ST. GEO. TUCKER,
Lexington Va Staunton, Va.
TUCKER GE TUCK ER,
L ATTORNE YS-AT-LAW,
STAUNToN, VA,
Will praa I4o la Csis &C 1rts of Augusta and the
adjoining; ccLaLgs5s. Also in the Court of Ap-
peals of Virginia, and will attend regularly the
Circuit Courts of Rockbridge. au22-u
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-09
MATHEWS. ALEX. f. MATTHEW'S.
HE4G SS HIATHEWS,

MATHEWS 6S MATTHEW'S,
IVA ATTOR RNEYS-AT-LAW,
LEwISBURG WEST VA,
practice regularly in tha Courts of Greenbrier,
Monroe, Pocahontas and Nicholas countless W.
Va, the Court of Appeals, and the Federal
Courts for the District of w. Va.
s8-Particular attention paid to Collections
nd to special cases anywhere in their State,
LILY
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-09

CHEAPER AND BETTER
than any similar concern now operating in
Virginia. We employ none butthe best mate
rial and most skilled workmen, enjoying spe-
cial advantages in the purchase of goods,
AND GUARANTEE
every job we do, both in price and quality
Sena in your orders to
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Irs ADYANTAGEs OVER SHINGLES.

NINE-TENTHs OF THE FIRES OCCUR ON
THE ROOFS.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20
None but First Class Goods.

In Watches, JeweIry and Silverware
one should have the best or none.
Messrs. Shurley q Co., Chicago, are
making speciality of fine goods, and if
you need anything in Watches, in dust
and water proof cases, Solid Silver or
Triple Plated Ware, Solid Gold or
Rolled Gold Jewelry, send to Surley
g. Co., they will send single article at
the dozen price, They are vouehed
for and endorsed by the United States
Express Co., American Express Co.,
Southern Express Co., F. w. Palmer,
Postmaster of Chicago, Gen. A. G.
Smith, Ex>State Treasurer, and many
others. Goods sent on approval, with
privilege of examination, enabling you
to do your purchasing at home. Re-
member, Shurley & Co., II State
street, Chicago, Ill. Send for their
new and beautiful illustrated catalogue.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20
SANDWICHES.

An endorser is man who signs q
commercial philopena with friend,
and gets caught.
Itching Piles cured by Duncan's
Ointment, it is unsurpassed. For sale
by all druggists. x
A president is the big fat man who
promises to boss the job, and afterwards
subjects it. l'''
Sore Eyes promptly cured by Dun-
cans Ointment, it is mild and harmless.
For sale by all druggists. X
A bankrupt is a man who gives
everything to lawyer so that his
creditors will not get it.
c No one should be without DIR. Dun
cans Family Medicines. For said by
all druggists. X
A bank is the place where people
put their money, SO it will be handy
when other people want it.
Old sores, Cuts, Burns, Scalds, Chap
ped lips or hands, and all eruptions O.
the skin cured by Duncan's Ointment
For sale by all druggists. =
A depositor is man who dOesn'
know how to spend his money and get
the cashier to show him.
Sour Stomach and Constipation o
the Bowels cured by DIR. Duncan'
Liver and Kidney Medicine. For salt
by all druggists.
A hotel is advertised as kept By
the widow.of Mr.. Brown, who died las
Summer, on a new and improved plan.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20

NHANCERY-Sit LIST Monday in May and
v November; John w. Burton, Judge; j.
c. Biles, Clerk. tff 100 u'nd
NIRCUIT-Sits Tuesday after 4th Monday
v in January, May, and September; j. j.
Williams, Judge; A. ]. Curl, Clerk.
OOUNTY-Sits by quorum LIST Monday in
" every month; full court every quarter;
J. L. Miller, ESQ., Chairman A. 81.
Gross, Clerk.
OTHER COUNTY OFFICIALS-H. P,
v Maxwell, Sheriff; Jno. L. JacO, Register
H. A. Cunningham, Trustee and Tax Collec'
tor; Geo. 7. Purvis, Ranger; r. NJ. Argo,
Jailer; Sam O'Neal, County Superintendent
of Public Instruction
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS-Mayor, ]. F,
u1 Morford; Aldermen, H II. Faulkner
D. F. Wallace, NJ. B. Harwell, G. W. Hood
enpyl, j. L. Ramsey, Ed. Seals.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20
General 2irsstorg.
/ CHURCIIEs.

Southern Methodist-Rey H. B. Reams.
pastor; services every second and 4th Sun
days at IL m, and at night every Sunday.
Prayermeeting Wednesday night.
Observation-Disclosures every Sunday. Prayer
meeting Wednesday night.
Methodist-Rev. A. E. Barnes, pastor
services first and third Sundays; prayer
meeting every Friday night.
Presbyterian-Re T. M. Mcconnell, pas
tor; services every Sunday morning II
o'clock; prayer-meeting every Wednesday
night. a es,l ru1r (
Cumberland .Presbyterian-Rev. G. T.
Stainback pastor; services every Sunday and
at night; prayermeetng Wednesday night
Episcopal-Rev. DR.. Fl. R. Howard, Rec
tor: services second and fourth Thursday
nights in each month, atM E. Church, South
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20
1LODGES.

!
II & A. NJ Warren, No. 125--lst Monday
L night in every month, in their hall over
the court room. JAS w. HOWARD. w. NJ
-DOYAL ARCH CHAPTERS Thursday
II night in every month. en-
r. KENNEDY, II. P.
r 90. F.-McMinnville, No. las; every
i. Tuesday night, in their Hall over Fl. IL.
Faulkner's, JAS. NJ. MoFFITT, N. G.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR-Mountaini City,
N No. lao; meets in Masonic hall I'd and
4th Monday nights in every month.
VI R. KENNEDY, d.
KNIGHTS AND LADY'S HONOR-2nd
N and 4th Thursday nights in every month.
r. KENNEDY, P.
A O. u. w. meets LIST and Sd Thursday
"A. nights in each month in Odd Fellows
Hall oGfr J.P. BosTIoK, NJ. w.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20
Malls.

Tullahoma to Observation-Disclosures 2:5O p.
M: leaves Cos a. M, daily except Sundays.
McMinnville to Sparta-Arrives 600 am;
leaves 800 pm; daily except Sundays,
Beersheba Springs-Arriyes 500 pm;
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; leaves
900 a. M, same days.
Smithville (route No. 19299) arrives 1900
M, Tuesdays, THURSDAYS and Saturdays;
leaves 100 pm, same days.. SOD dll
smithville (route No. 1929 -arrives 500
D. M, Mondays and Fridays; leaves 900 a.
M, same days. 5n
Woodbury-Arrives IL m, Wednesdays
and Fridays leaves 100 pm, same days,
Horse Shoe Falls-Arrives 1900 m, Mon
days and Thursdays; leaves 200 pm. same
days.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20
Wheat and Cheat.

st. Louis Miller. ea lnn i.'
evil wheat turn to cheat?" is the
interrogatory which heads long and
able letter in a recent issue of the Re-
publican. 1t is one of quite a number
of letters on the same subject which
have lately appeared In the daily press.
The positions taken by the correspon.
dents have been decidedly various.
One claimed to have "drilled in" en-
tirely clean seed wheat in which there
was no cheat. Not a stalk of cheat
could he find outside Of the drill rows.
He therefore held that since there was
no cheat in the wheat sown, the wheat
must have degenerated into the inferior
plant. If the cheat seed had already
been in the ground, he argued that it
would come up promiscuously both in
and between the drilled rows. Another
agricultural writer insisted that wet
weather will almost certainly turn a
large percentage of wheat sown into
cheat. But the author of the letter
first referred to contends that wheat
cannot under any circumstances be
changed into cheat, for the reason that
such a metamorphosis is totally against
nature in that the cheat and wheat pro-
ducts are distinct and essentially differ.
ent plant developments. He supported
his view with verses II and II of the
first chapter of Genesis to show that in
the beginning it was determined that
each plant should produce only its own
kind. He certainly has the best au-
thority on his side, for the Department
of Agriculture has decided that they
are different species of plants and that
wheat cannot produce cheat. The lat
ter gives signs of being much the har-
der of the two, and it is believed that
its seed does not die in frozen ground
and is not killed by severe winter,
Hence the freedom of seed wheat from
cheat does not initiate against the ap
pearance of the latter in the crop.
Moreover, it is, like all other vegeta
ton, most likely to appear where cir
cumstances are the most favorable fol
it. This is thought to be the explana
ton Of its sometimes growing in the
rows drilled for wheat. The drill
moved and adjusted the earth SO tina
the cheat seeds already there grew NOR,
readily than those between the rows
! And the growth in the rows was nj
proof that there was no seed between
the rows that might have grown if tn,
earth had been similarly stirred up ant
in a manner made favorable for sucl
growth. Then too, the extra develop
ment OF cheat in wet seasons in we
ground would, on this theory, merel,
indicate that cheat is less set back b,
wet weather than wheat. Or, indeed
it is more than probable that sucl
weather is more favorable than an,
other to cheat, and that the poores
wheat growing weather is the best tba
cheat can have. Such is the contras
between other valuable plants an,
, mere weeds. The vexed question ough
to be considered settled by the invest
: cation of the Agricultural Department.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20
cure for Group.

DR.. Duncan's Cough Balsam is sure
cure for Group, it will never fail, Try
it. For sale by all druggists. *
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-25
THE PRINCESS AND THE RABBI

In olden time-in ages long since flown
rrnere lived a rabbi-one whose great renown
NJ ~iSaoh- learning, and for many things,
MADE MN much sought by Emperors and
fs tfaIs6 his wisdom made him wondrous
His face Vas ugly. and his crooked eyes.
NAT mated with his soiled and blackened skin,
gave 10 his countenance a horrid grin.
One day an Emperor asked him TO his court,
Where Ugly Face" was subject TO the sport
" lords and ladies, and amid the laughter
None mirthed II more than did the Emp'ror's
Is Good rabbi, tel. me'-were the words she
said
How wisdom dwells in such an ugly head:"
Ihs1nbeFEspt his temper. though his check
EAxsd et5he insuit-anG with voice so meek,
Orjar IN which herfat6er kept his wine :
. The bin Know not" quickly shelreplied:
But earthen jars have all such wants sup
piled.
I'm edrthen jars--Tfsr has-.hafs very nne-
iha' Where the common people keep their
An Emperors is worthy of greater place;
NO handso.ne Fessel would such wine dis
So said the rabbi;-the Princess thought that
That one who many clever things oft spoke
ouid nee indulge in playing paltry joke;
so 70 the butler she ran of in haste;
And babe him best of all the wines TO place
In jars OF gold;-the butler quick obeyed
Princess wDrd must never be gainSaidi.
b0SsaFom the eartheTI jars the wine so old,
AM poured stTinto those of finest gold.
When next the wine was TO the Princess
brought.
1t tasted HAT and stale. twas then she thought
On her the rabbi Some foul triek had played.
And, finding him, she. flushed with anger
said:
= SO, rabbi. do you know the wine poured.
In golden vessels, j. ali spoiled and soured:'
To which the rabbi with a touch of pride
AND sterney accent than before. repIied:
Ihen shave You learned lesson. Princess
uifre:
lis not the rssSsTs beauty makes the wine:
Neither doth knowledge find a resting-place
Behind fair more than an ugly face"
Cheer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-25
PITH AND POINT.
TO speak of the thread of

TO speak of the thread of an argu-
ment would imply that the whole thing
is a yarn. ~. I. Life.
-The late Mr.. Yale, of New Haven,
left fortune of 100000. Like Sam
son, his strength was in his locks
Rochester Post-Erpress.
for stealing potatoes from, their field.
SUCH conduct is tuber-rootal for any,
thfng.-Piasbargh Telegraph.
Six months after marriage: "Weel,
weel, Sandy, how dye like the little
leddt?'s ..Ah, weel, Alec. I'll nae deny
that she has fine conversational pow
ers. "-Hicago Tribune.
A Pennsylvania lady ninety three
years of age milks. washes and bakes
for family of three persons. A great
deal can be got out of old people if they
are properly managed. Young people
do not get enough rest. - Louisville
CourIer-Joarnal
-s'Gentlemen," said the Texas man
in the restaurant when the waiter
dumped plate of hot soup down his
back, gentlemen, don't laugh" AS
he had risen to his feet and drawn two
revolvers, his wishes were respected.
The New York Morning Journal
says that "a man in Harlem is so fat
that the shadow he casts'is as round as
a ball. He's pretty corpulent, no
doubt; but there is a man in Norristown
so fat that his shadow leaves grease
spot wherever it touches.-NorristosUn
Herald. @
knowledge
Knowledge-who hath it? nay not thou,
Pale student, pondering thy futile lore;
4 little space it shall be thine, as now
Twas his whose funeral passes at thy door
Last night clown that scarcely knew to spell:
Now he knows all U wondrous miracle!
I'D vas PETER said the German
tourist at Watkins Glen, who fell over
precipice into a gurgling brook, I'D
was peter dat Watkins pui up some of
does warning dangers pill poards SO
dem prides und orooms apoud here
doan attend dere funerals. IN. Y
Hail.
When Lord Coleridge returns to his
native cath and writes book about
America, we trust he will not saw that:
Chicago is larger State than Hoboken;
that Louisville is an lsthmus that con-
meets California and Hartford: that the
Hudson River is a beautiful CITY; that
the AIleghanies are lovely archipel-
ago; and that Idaho is the capital of
Brooklyn.-Puct.
Working up to it: II can swim the
whirlpool at Niagara said a stranger
in confidential whisper to a hardware
man on Woodward avenue yesterday.
Ian ycu?' Il feel that can. should
like some advice from you. Would you
try it if you were n,e?" NO. sir-no.
sir. wouldn't think of such a thing. A
man who hasn't been in bath-tilb for
year. nor had on n clean shirt for
month, wouldn't stand the ghost Of q
show with whirlpool. You'd better
90 and tackle drink of water and
gradually work up to it - Detroit Fro
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-25
Prepared for an Emergency.

OF late it has become very common
thing for newly married couples to ap-
ply for divorce before they have been
married six months. The papers are
full of such cases.. In. fact the early
divorce threatens tosbecome the proper
caper. i +
Some time ago young gentleman
was about to be married to widow
who had had several husbands at one
time or another. They were talking
about their approaching wedding when
it occurred to him to remark that he
proposed renting pew in a fashiona-
bic church for their mutual accommo-
dation. :. -44x
% I think it would be good idea to
rent two pews. my dear
"Why, darling, why should we rent
two pews2 We certainly will not need
more than one"
.sThat depends on circum instances.
After we are married we will 60 off on
a bridal trip of five or six weeks. won't
we?'' 81 fs ss -
Yes. my loves''
''Well, then. don't you see before we
come back something may cause one OF
Us to file suit for divorce, and then If
we had to sit in the same pew people
might think we were strange and &C.
centric, and accuse Us of trifing with
sacred things and each others affec-
tons. '--IeIas Siffings- -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-25

If pumpkins are jed to milch cows
the seed should not be allowed TO be
eaten. They reduce the flow of milk
through their action on the kideeys.-
Cincinnati Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-25

Charles II. offered reward to any
one who could find rhyme to ''por-
ringer Some man claimed the reward
ON producing these lines:
THE Duke of York a daughter ia
He gave the Prince OF orange ner;'s
So now your Majesty will See
We have rhyme to porringer-
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-08-09

N. B.-Don't lose sight of the fact
that we are still retailing carpets %
per cent. cheaper than they can be
bought elsewhere,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-19
Playing Gypsies.

Mabel and Fay thought it would be
nice to play gypsies and steal their baby
brother away from mamma. Then
they would make her pay piles of money
for bringing him back. So they dressed
up, and were dreadful looking gypsies,
in slouched hats and long coats. They
hid little George carefully on the front
porch behind some chairs and an open
umbrella.
Mamma was listening, and soon she
said: "Where is George? / saw some
gypsies near here to-day; am afraid
they have stolen him." So she looked
in all the wrong places she could think
of. Then she sent Dinah, the cook, and
told her to offer ten dollars for the lost
baby. a.
Presently the two dreadful gypsies
came in and asked her If she wished to
buy baby. She paid ten round pieces
of gilt paper to the chief of the robbers,
which was Fay, and gother stolenbaby
back. Then she made believe" she
had been very much frightened about
George. The gypsies broke down.
and one of them wept, because she
thought mamma really had been
troubled. Then Mrs. Goodwin kissed
the terrible gypsies and told papa all
about it when he came from the Office.
Our Little Ones.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-19
The Ashantees.

The Ashantees are a proud people,
who think themselves now to be an i'm
portant nation, and believe that they
are ultimately destined TO be a great
power in Africa. Their ambassadors
have always stout1y maintained before
the Governors of the English possession
and the officials of other nations that
they were the representatives of peo-
pie raised up by the hand of God for
the greatness OF Africa. This can
scarcely be called mere braggadocio,
for the Ashantees have often been de-
feated by England, and yet they are
still to the front No mere savages
could have recovered so rapidly or so
completely, for example, as they have
done from the effects of the late war.
1t is thing unknown among low-class
races to regain power and prestige they
have once lost. Only high-class races
can do this, who have policy which
lives through defeat, who pursue with
perseverance and determination a fixed
national idea. Of course, in saying this
no one means to contend that the
Ashantees have in their system of do
minion and government any moral quail
tiles which merit special commenda-
lions, regarded from European point
of view. But on the coast of Africa the
powers which are actually on the spot
have to be dealt with; and that the
Ashantees have shown qualities of a
higher order. speaking relatively, than
their neighbors is acknowledged, will
ingly or unwillingly, by the neigh
bors themselves. They show facul-
| ty for assimilation which, in Africa
especially, has many advantages. En-
gland would find it advantageous
in many ways if she had to deal main
ly with a people having this quality,
rather than with the Fantes and other
coast people, whom she can hardly ever
get to work together or to agree in
policy with her, while they manage
| perpetually to start bitter feuds and TO
bring on wars which they are unable to
wage without her aid. If Ashantee in
spires fear she is also undoubtedly re-
| spected, and 1t NAV be here remarked
that the few MOhanmedans who pass
| by Kumassi to the coast towns seem
especially to like her. Indeed. signih-
cant signs are not wanting which in
dictate the possibility of the acceptance
of the Mohammedan faith by the
Ashantees. They have qualities much
in common with some of its character
istics, and many of the chiefs have al
ready adopted certain of its fOrma tiles
The prospects of these movements of
Mohammedansm in Africa must not be
judged by the slow progress made by
Christianity. Mohammedanism does
not impose on its adopters foreign dress
or manners, as Christianity has been
made to do in these countries. To-day
Kumassi and the neighboring towns
may hold all their various grotesque
supersttions, and practice bloody rites
to commemorate some great festival,
and a year hence they may be inhabit-
ed by compact Mohammedan people,
1t needs some great mind like St.
Paul, or one of the national apostles of
old, to show the people of Africa that
Christianity could Just as easily become
their national faith. - Contemporary
! ReUieU.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-19

1t was q sorrowful family that even
ing. The parents 'perched upon the
tree, and fitted from limb to limb,
mourning piteously the distressing end
OF their birding. 'sAnd / was going
to give you your first lesson in fying
this very evening"" the mother twit.
tered, sadly, eff he had only waited;
but now that the hateful beast has
tasted our blood, shall be afraid 10
show your faces in this neighborhood
for several days."
Many time did the other two recall
their brothers sad fate when tempted
to murmur at their mothers short les
sons, or Their own slow progress in fly
ing. And, long afterwards, when they
had homes OF their own, they would
tell the mournful story as a warning to
their own little nestlings. Annie E.
Wilson, tn S. S. Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-19
A Long-Felt Want.

I have had occasion to travel consid-
erablv during the past year. and at half
the houses / stopped the Biscuits were
raw at the bottom, and either as heavy
as lead or yellow as a pumpk n with
soda, while the meat was swimming in
grease. Why. it is enough to give
razor-back hog. sheep-killing dog. or
a Bengal tiger dyspepsia. And then the
coffee-how detestablei What it is
made of have not the slightest idea; but
whatever it is, it has not the remotest
kinship to genuine Rio or the delicious
ly-flavored Java. Horace Greeley Wis
tied the South soon after the war, and
the only criticism his kind heart made
was in these memorable words: 1.-The
South needs twenty thousand cooksr'
1t would not have been prudent for Mr..
Greeley to have made q visit to the
South before the war, but if he had,
and been entertained by 2O,OOO farmers
and planters. he would have said: The
South has 10000 of the best cooks in the
worldn' Southerners always educated
their daughters, and when these daugh-
tiers married they made the home at.
tractive in various ways, and especially
in the cooking department. They edu-
Gated negro women in the art o. cook
ing, and allowed them to do nothing
else, consequently the cooking was ex-
cellent. But the abolition Of slavery
also abolished good cooking, except as
to the negro women who were educated
by their mistresseS in the culinary art,
and the mistre>ses themselves. / heard
gentleman make a very sensible re-
mark recently. Vanderbilt, Peabody
and Slater have given millions of
dollars to the cause of educa-
ton in the South, and | honor them
as great benefactors of our section; but
If had several millions to give away
L would establish all over the South
schools In which the art of cooking
would be taught. In doing this l
would be subscribing the cause of NOR
atty and religion, as well as Of civiliza-
ton and humanity. Properly-cooked
food causes health. and perfect health
is conducive to good temper, cheerful
ness. kind feeling, efficient and capa-
b e work, mental and physical, while
badly-cooked food produces indioes-
ton; indigestion causes lad health in
every part of the human system, fret
fulness, hatefulness. discomfort, poor
mental and physical labor, and renders
life curse to himself and all those
around him. A man cannot be a true
Christian, in all that it means. if he is
fed upon badly cooked food allLis days
The great need of the country is good
cooks and plenty of them. Young
ladies should be instructed in the art.
both at school and at home. 1t is time
the country was awakening to this
great need. A well-to-do parent spends
$500 to give his daughter musical ed
ucation. and another 500 to buy her a
piano. and nine chances to one she new
er plays on it year after her mar
riage. If the $1,000 were epent in Civ
ing her practical and eoreti al
knowledge OF cooking, it would be far
better for her and infinitely better for
her future husband and children. :"
The man who made these remarks is
married, and has three beautiful daugh-
ters.-''hence these tears. Cor. Nash.
citte (1enn.) american.