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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-18

Farewell! How soon unmeasnred distance roll
Its leaden clouds between our parted souls!
How little to each 9th er now are we
And once how much I dreamed We two might !
]. who now stand with eyes undimmed and dry
To say good bye.
To say goodbye to all sweet memories.
Good bye to tender questions, soft replies;
Good bye to hope, good bye to dreaming. too,
Good bye to all things dear good bye to yeu
Without tear, lrayer, sigh
Our last goodbye.
had no chain to bind you with at all;
No grace to charm. no beauty to enthrall.
No power to hold your eyes with mine, and maxi
Your heart on fire with longing for my sake.
TIL all the warnings pressed into one cry
'.Leve, now goodbye - :
All, no l had DO strength like that. you know:
Yet my worst weakness was to love you so!
So much too well-so much too well-er Ill
Yet even that might have cen pardoned still
1t would have been had been you-you Il
But now-g0od bye.
How soon the bitter oliows Oh the Heet!
Could not chain your fancy's fyin g feet?
Could not hold your soul-tO make you play
To morrow in the key OF yesterday
Dear do you dream tn 1t would stoop to try
All, no-good bye!
--Argosy
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-18

SALT FOR THE THRoAT.-For many
years past, indeed we may say during
life of more than forty years, we have been
subject to a dry hacking cough, which is
not only distressing to ourself, but to our
friends and those with whom we are
brought into business contact.
Last fall we were induced to try what
virtue there was in common salt. We COM
menced by using it three times a day,
morning. noon and night. We dissolved
a large tablespoonful of pure table salt in
about a half a tumblerful of water. With
this we gargled the throat most thor ough-
ly just before meal time The result was
that during the entire winter we were not
only free fr ON coughs and colds, but the
dry hacking cough had entirely disappear
ed. We attribute these satisfactory re-
suits solely to the use of salt gargle, and
most cordially recommend trial of it to
those who are subject to disease of the
throat. Many persons who have tried the
salt gargle have the impression that it is
unpleasant, but after a few days. use no
person who loves nice clean mouth and
first-rate sharpener of the appetite, will
abandon it.-Household.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-18

GATHERING APPLEs.-Apples are ready
to gather when the stem detaches itself
readily from the limb.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-18
4 lLAIM AGENCY,

4 lLA1M AGENCY.
The undersigned respectfully informs the citizens
Of the City Of Staunton and counties of Augusta
Rockir CHAM and Highland, that he has opened an
office in Staunton for the collection of claims His
long experience as Constable and Deputy Sheriff
enables him to promise prompt collections and re-
turns. He may be found at the Law Office of A. G.
GORDON, ESQ on Court House Alley. or in his abb
sence, Mr. Gordon is authorized TO receipt for any
claims left with him. All claims on which it Is
found necessary to bring suit will be turned over to
reliable attorney.
VIM A. REED.
REFERENCEs:-Wm. A. Burnett, Clerk of County
Court Of Augusta; samuel Paul. Treasurer Angus
county: Hon. John T. Massey, LIST Auditor; John
a. English; Baltimore, Md. pr. R. s. Hamilton
risonburg; Thos A. Plfdsoe, Cashier National Val
Bank
narn
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-18

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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-01-18

TT E. LOVING & CO.,
lSuccessCr to J. s. LipScomb,)
Under Virginia HOTEL
STAUNTON. VA.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
ACTIVE AT EIGHTY.TWO.
Captain Ericsson Never Has Time for
Vacation.

One of the active old men of New York
is Captain Ericsson, the famous inventor
Captain Ericsson is also one of the rare
men who never have time for vacation.
But the Hartford Times correspondent says
he seems to get on very well without va
cations. Though now eighty-two years
old, he enjoys excellent health, and can
get through nearly as much work as when
he was constructing the first monitor,
twenty-three years ago. 1t is one OF
can't stop. His brain is always busy and
his hands must be busy too. Few men
that reach his time of life have desire for
anything but rest. but rest is the least
thought with him. All his time is divided
between the studying of problems and their
demonstration, and very little of it is
spent away from his study-room and his
workshop, both in the same house. He
still lives where he lived when the first
monitor was built, and he will probably
end his life there. The house is in Beach
street, near the Vanderbilt freight depot
that stands ON the site of the old st. John S
park The neighborhood was choice one
when Captain Ericsson settled there, some
twenty-five years ago, but it is decidedly
otherwise now. The distinction of St
Johns Park drove away nearly all of the
old residents, and most of the present
dwellings are tenements or cheap boarding
houses. The inventors chief occupation
at present is the perfection of his ''solal
engine, to be operated by the heat of the
sun. He is entirely confident fits success
and enthusiastic to high degree about it,
usefulness.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

more brilliant social reign than it had
ever known, provoking Mr.. John Agg, the
first shorthand reporter ever in Washing
ton, to the production of his famous poem,
a couplet which runs thus:
Bellies and matrons, maid and madaIns
All are gone to Mrs. Adams
Her reign was quite in contrast with that
of her predecessor, Mrs. Monroe, who was
the daughter of British officer and little
given to social enjoyments.
Her predecessor, Mrs Madison, is spoken
of as the only woman of social genius ever
occupying the White House Her reign
was, of course, brilliant.
Jefferson, who preceded Madison. was a
widower when he entered the White House.
He was not believer in social life as it
then existed and gave few leyees, or enter
tainments. His daughters presided at the
few which he did give. and Mrs. Madison,
the wife of his Secretary of State, occupied
the place of chief lady at the White House
at the state dinners
Abigail Adams. wife of President Adams,
who preceded Jefferson, was the first mis-
tress of the White House She dried her
clothes in the great East room ON wash
day, but was for all that a remarkable wo-
man. No one who was not such could
write of her husband as she did when the
English kings proclamation regarding the
colonies was published This intelligence
will make plain path for you, though a
dangerous one. could not join to-day in
the petition of our worthy pastor for recon-
Citation between our no longer tyrant
State and these colonies. Let us separate
They are unworthy to be our brethren. =
pntch
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
A VETERAN ENGINEER.

The oldest railroad locomotive engineer
in the United States is Lawson Lufkins
generally called esquire Lufkins, of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. He is
as tall as Don Quixote and almost as thin,
but his career and character are the reverse
of Quixotic. For nearly forty years the
rider of the swiftest of steeds and in con-
slant danger, he has never met with a wind
mill or other serious accident, and so far
from roaming in search of adventures, he
has devoted his whole thought and energy
calmly to his plain duty-to the carrying of
his passengers safely to their destination and
on time.
Mine has been very simple life, said
the squire recently, land when look back
over thirty-seven years | ran swift pas
senger engine, it makes me wonder that so
few things stand out. It's all dead level
now. began engineering when / was just
twenty years old which was pretty young,
and you see | needn't be tottering on the
edge of the grave to be the oldest engineer.
When began hadn't served an apprentice
sill as llTtlldii. DuJ L Was IL
machinist. Locomotives were my delight
to study, and when got one to run myself
my ambition was realized. | just settled
down to my life-work then and there. AT
first | was bothered by people wondering
at such boy engineer, but | attended
strictly to my work. and soon | knew !
was all right and safe, and the officers came
to the same opinion before long. / loved
my work, and never let my mind run off
the track. My engine and my duty We're
more to me that anything else | could
think about. When an engineers mind
goes off on side trips his train is apt to fol-
low"
Didn't you feel the effects of the work
and responsibility on your nerves."
Il can't sayI did. Eve read of doctors
saying that no man can stand the physical
and mental strain of running an engine more
than twenty-five years. | don't believe
/ am just as capable to-day as | ever was
in my life, and think / could go on and
complete my second twenty-five years. Of
course the engine shook me up and there
was noise and exposure all the time, but |
got used to these things. They got to beas
matter of fact as eating. AS to the sense
of responsibility, | felt it, of course, but it
sustained me instead of breaking me down.
Why, it is the soul of engineering, this
thought that one is taking care of the lives
of others. IF didn't have it wouldn't run
an engine. 1t would be like running
church without any God. And | would
not work on any railroad if the safety of
the passengers was not the very first
thought in every department, from presi-
dent down"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
NERVOUSNESS IN WOMEN.

One cause of the extreme nervousness of
American women is living too much in the
darkness when indoors. The rooms are kept
dark to save the carpets and keep out the
flies, and as consequence both the houses
and the occupants lack the benefit of the
fresh air and sunshine. Houses from which
the sun is excluded are not wholesome.
There is always damp, depressing condi-
ton in them that makes itself evident at
once to a sensitive temperament Theminds
and bodies of all who live i'll such houses
are affected by it. Both health and spirits
are depressed Their occupants have not
only the depressing effect of the lack of
light to contend against, but the reaction
consequent upon living in unwholesome
conditions. All the rooms i'll the house
should have both light and sunshine freely
admitted at all times, whether they are i'll
daily use or not. They are thus kept sweet
and are in good condition when they are
wanted.
Nelson Sizer once said when making a
chronological examination: BE as much
as possible in the sunshine. People who
live in dark rooms and wear black are pale
all through" You cannot have too much
light and sunshine, either in your lives ol
in your houses for good health. You may
live; but it is not all of life to live. Merely
to exist is but small portion of our work
in this world. We should SO live that body
and minds are at all times in their best con
dition. We are then ready and able To d,
whatever duty may be required of US il
sueh way that the doing shall be pleasur
able. and the reaction on ourselves ant
others beneficial. 1t should he, in fact, th'
religious duty of everyone SO to live.
Many woman and child have been sac
rificed to save the carpets and keep out tn
| flies Many fit of illness has RESULTED
from the same cause. Many disappoint
ed. cheerless life can be traced back to sun
less rooms as a beginning. Multitudes 0
women and children are only half living TO
day because only half fed. Sunshine am
| light and air are as much food for the bod
and soul as the fruits and grain and vegs
tables that we take into our stomachs ; an
we cannot get surfeit of them as FOOD
The more we have of them the better.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
SOMETHING FOR THE WIDE AWAKE
Roy TO THINK OVER.

But as | told you at the outset, if yon
have arrived at the age of Is or 1G, it is
time you looked matters square in the face
and had some idea of your future. If you
We're to answer at once you would say that
you would take a profession in preference
to trade. A profession means several
years of hard study, quite large cash out
lay and then trials aud rcbuffs to get start
in business. 1t is one thing to graduate as
Il lawyer or a doctor, and quite another to
pick up clients and patients If you have
fully decided on 4 profession be careful of
your first move IT, you have a large head
your ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS doubtless many times
exclaimed; ''What great lawyer this boy
would make Don't try to make one on
the size of your head. We've got amy NUM-
Der of that class in the country now, and
they can't pay their grocers' bills. If you
can pull silver out of your finger without
winking. it may be a sign that you would
make great surgeon. 1t may also be a
sign that you are born to be a butcher
How will you know what to pursue?
Your own feelings are the safest guide. If
left to your parents and to circumstances
you may be forced into a trade or profession
which You can never make success. When
you come to realize that you must make
your own way in life your particular forte
will be apt to reveal itself. One OF the best
LAWYERS in Detroit was intended for the
ministry: another served three years as a
journalist, but all the time feeling that he
was out of his element; another was forced
by his father to learn the trade of harness
maker. | know machinist who at first
studied medicine; of a matchmaker who
tried to become a lawyer; of carpenter
who threw away three years of his life try
ing to become a dentist
After you have selected your profession
or trade, what then? Strive to master 1t III
all it's details and to excel. Ii you become
a carpenter don't be satisfied when you can
saw and plane and match. Don't be salts
fed with So per day. Make yourself worth
So. Master details and push yourself from
carpenter to builder Don't imagine that
man in search of lawyer walks down the
street and stops at the first sign hanging
out. 1t is the lawyerwho has climbed above
his fellows that he seeks out. flour friends
are i'll we want the best doctor. We want
the man who has made himself the best by
study and energy The blacksmith who is
content to mend old wagons will never iron
a new one. The machinist who stands at
the lathe to do about SO much work IN ten
hours need not hope to be better off. 1t is
the men who put their heart into what they
do who succeed.--M quad
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
WHILE WE MAY.

The hands are such dear hands,
They are so full they turn at demands
SO often; they reach out,
With trifies scarcely thought about,
So many times they do
So many things for me- for yor-
If their fond wills mistake
We may well bend not break,
They are such fond, frail lips
That speak to us. Pray, if love strips
Them of discretion many times
Or if they speak too slow or quick such
crimes
We may pass by; for may see
Days not far off when those small words may be
Held not so slow, or quick, or out of place,
but dear,
Because the lips are no more here.
They are such dear familiar feet that go
Along the path with ours-feet fast or slow,
And trying to keep pace-if they mistake
Or tread upon some flower that we would take
Upon our breast or bruise some reed
Or crush poor Hope until it bleed,
We may be mute,
Not turning quickly to impute
Grave fault for they and we
Have such a little way to go-can be
Together such little while along the way,
we Will be patient while we may.
So many little faults we find.
We see them, for not blind
Is love. We see them; but if you and
Perhaps remember them some by and by,
They will not be
Faults then-grilve f;,uts-to you and me-
But just odd ways-mistakes or even less
Remembranccs to bless.
Days change so many things-yes hours;
We see differently in suns and showers
Mistaken words tonight
May be so cherished by to-morrow's light .
We may be patient for we know
There's such IL little way to go
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
A Number of Hints that May be OF Ser
vice in Growing Family.

Do remember that other people have
children as well as yourself.
Do believe in child's statements until
you are sure they are incorrect mistrust
breeds estrangement.
Do reflect that pert child is an abomi-
nation train your children to be respect
ful and hold their tongues in the presence
of their superiors.
Do, if the baby cries, warm its feet be-
fore you dose it.
Do sing to the little ones the memory of
a nursery song will cling to them through
| life.
Do attend to them yourself; go-bc-
tween betwixt mother and child is like a
middle-man in business. who gets the
largest share of the profits.
Do dress the children sensibly; cover up
their limbs in winter, and study health
first and appearance second.
| Do show the children that you love
them; do not expect them to take il on
trust.
| Do. as they grow older, win their conf
dence; if you do not some one else will.
| Do maintain a respectful tone to their
father before them; if he is not all you wish,
still make them respect him he is always
their father, and disrespect to him is a re-
/ Election upon yourself
Do. as the boys grow up, make compan-
ions of them; then they will not seek con
| partnership elsewhere.
Do let the children make noise some
your nerves.
| Do respect their little secrets; if they
have concealments, worrying them will
never make them tell and time and patience
will probably do their work.
Do allow them, they grow older. to
have opinions of their own; make them IN
dividuals and not mere echoes.
| Do remember that without physical
health mental attainment is worthless; let
them lead free, happy lives, which will
strengthen both mind and body.
| Do bear in mind that you are largely re-
sponsible for your child's inherited charac-
ter, and have patience Nth faults and fail
| ings.
! Do talk hopefully to Your children of life
and its responsibilities; You have no right
| to depress them because you have suffered.
Do teach boys and girls the actual facts
of life as soon as they are old enough to
understand them. and give them sense of
responsibility without saddening them.
! Do find out what their special tastes are.
and develop them, instead of spending
time. money and patience in forcing them
into studies that are repugnant TO them.
Do teach them courtesy by example: be
courteous to them.
| Do, as long as it is possible, kiss them
good night after they are in bed. They do
| like it so. and it keeps them very close.
Do, if You nave lost child, remember
that for the one who has gone there is no
more to do: for those remaining, every
thing: hide your griefs for their sakes.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
THE MIGHTY FALLEN.
Two Distinguished Jurists Tumble Ten
Feet Out of Bed.

Judge William Carter. of Sheboygan, and
Judge Caswell Marks, of Selma, were both
natives of Lexington, Ky. In boyhood
they had damned the same cats head into
the same milk pitcher, stolen peaches from
the same tree. got trounced by the same
farmers. were otherwise enviously intimate
friends. afterward chums at college and
then errand boys in the same office. Later
in life they parted and rose to sublime
honors in their separate places. Last Jan
uary they met for the first time since their
parting in Lexington, and brewed con-
vival bowl in honor of the event. About
midnight. full of affection and enthusiasm,
they retired III the same bed. 1t was a
huge affair standing in the middle of the
room and capable of being drawn up by
ropes to the ceiling while the room was
being cleaned. 1t was a very cold night,
and they placed their clothing upon the
foot of the bed Just after they fell asleep,
four friends entered softly. drew the bed
by the ropes nearly to the ceiling, and left
them thus suspended about ten feet from
the floor. They then locked the door out
side and retired.
At 3 A. NJ. Judge Carter awoEe with
that species of thirst which usually comes
after Kentucky punch and technically
known as ''hot coppers." Leaping lightly
out of bed to get the ice pitcher he went
wlfirling down ten feet, alighting with a
soul stirring thump ON ali fours. There
was long and painful pause. Then he
peered upward through the darkness and
called:
''Caswellr'
No reply
''oh, Caswellr'
feeble cries.
.'Cazr
..Eh?-um?-w The Judge was
awakening.
I've fallen through a trap yelled the
now affrighted Judge. Get up and light
a candle. Where are youe'' queried
Judge Carter. sleepily, framing his opinion
that his honorable brother was drunk.
down here. Fell through trap.
Don't get cut ON my side OF the bed. FAN
right And Judge Marks, springing out
on his own side, turned three somersaults
and landed on the small of his back. Both
were now convinced that they had fallen
into den of thieves, and were possibly to
be murdered. The jokers had closed the
heavy wooden shutters, SO no light could
enter, and removed all the furniture. The
/ i 1. il. l.
nearly frozen to death. and only at day
break discovered the bed, climbed into it,
and got warm enough to talk the thing
over.
There were recently two temperance so
cieties started under glorious auspices
The headquarters of one is at Selma, thu
other at Sheboygan. Detroit Free Prsss.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

The drought in the West is causing great
anxiety among the corn growers. The dry
weather extends over Ohio Indiana, Iowa,
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Hi
nois. Ohio and Indiana are the States
which so far have felt the heat the most.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

A commission of the State of New York,
has appraised the property lying next to
Niagara Falls with view to its purchase.
The value is set at 81, 900, 900, but the own
ers wish for three times as much.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

A man during life time of fifty years.
according to a paper recently read before
the Academy Of Science, Paris, sleeps
away an aggregate Of COCO days, works
away the same period, eats away 1900 days.
walks away 800 days, Is i'll during 500
days, and amuses himself with the remain
der Of his half-ceutury on earth.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

Where are there two things so oppo-
site and yet so nearly related, so unlike
and yet often so hard to be distinguished
from each other, as humility and pride?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

The coming corn crop is estimated at
/, s97, 900, 900 bushels, against S5s, 66d, ooO
last year and s12, I'll 900 in 1882.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

We shalt all be perfectly virtuous whs
there is no longer any flesh Ga our bop
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

''lt's is no use trying to get the matter
rghted," said Farmer Lynn to his wife,
speaking in great vexation. This man
Green's a tricky knave. Ever since the
day his sheep broke into my field and got
mixed up with my flock, the fellow has
been claiming some twenty or so of my