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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-05-06

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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-05-06
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.

XXTHITE d GORDON,
" AiAonN STAUNToN, VA.
CoURrs.-Augusta and adjoining cou9'
Federal Court at Harrisonburg, Coure 20, y, Hp'
peals of Virginia, at Staunton. IeDAl-u
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-05-06

Sheep.-For those sheep which have the
sconrs use a little linseed meal with the
feed.
Guinea hens.-Guinea hens keep hawks
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

Tho report of the Minister Of Ma
rine and Fisheries places the total value
of the fisheries of Canada at Sl7,2l5.-
675.
There were 1,676 accidents last
year in the Pacific coal mines; 1923
deaths, making 1853 widows and 512
orphans. There was one death to
every 10000 tons taken out.-SdH
Francisco Call.
Canada has 5000 lacrosse players,
5000 curriers', 1900 snowshoers, $500
cricketers, 1000 football players, 1000
rowng-men, 1000 base-ballists, 1000
bcyclists and 10000 given to other
ports.--McRtreat Witness.
--Tulare Lake, in California, is
rapidly drying up. A few years ago it
was SO miles long and u miles wide.
Now it is about 10 miles long, and has
an average width of less than s miles.
San Francisco Chronicle.
BY the will of the late Stephen
Williams, of the Roxbury division of
Boston, the Hampton Normal School,
of Hampton, Va, will receive 5000
the Home for Little Wanderers. Boston,
$40, 900; the Home for Aged Men, S5,-
600, and the Home for Aged Women,
$1,000, the remainder of the estate to
be equally divided between the Rox-
bury Charitable Society. Boston Post.
The following schedule of charges
for the sale of strong drink at retail
was fixed by q Judge of Dorchester
County, Maryland, in 1885: West India
rum, one gill, 10 pence; continental and
French rum, z pence; country brandy,
9 pence; French brandy, l shilling 2
pence; beer per gallon, 4 shillings;
cider per gallon, 3 shilings; rum with
sugar for punch, 2 shillings; rum with
sugar for toddy, shilling 6 pence.
The number of school libraries in
France is increasing rapidly. In 1865
the number was 1885, in 1871 the num-
Der had risen to 1869; five years later
to II, 76i; in 1879 there were 20,55 of
them; and last year France counted no
less than 10000 school libraries. Be-
sides these there are 1000 free public
libraries. of which excellent use is being
made. In England there were in 1882
only ninety-siX free libraries.
According to the census report of
1880, New York leads the States in the
manufacture of cheese, having produced
during that year 10S, 722, 1852 pounds, in
which production the value of, material
was Sc, 375, 500, and the value of prod
ucts was SO, 720,4 No other State
at all compares with that, Ohio stand
ing next, with 17,808,1 91 pounds
value of materials, 8, 0l3,663 value OF
products, 81, 1851, 124. Close upon Ohio
comes Wisconsin, with 1896, 994
pounds; value of materials, 1882, 308
value of products, 81, SON. y
| Sun.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

The best way to deal with cold is
to avoid it Chicago Tribune.
is the neigh of the horse a negation?
1t comes from the region of the noes,
anyhow. - Yonbers Gazette.
The Washington Sentinel, the brew
ers' organ, speaks of "elderly women
lager beer is not intoxcating!-OA city
Derrick.
-"W We're down on boss stealin',"
said the chief of the vigilantes to the
horse thief they were acout to string
up, "and we are pleased to see you are
in accord with u.s. ~. Y. NeDS.
"A facetious swell, who danced with
a couple of Chicago girls at party re-
Gently, remarked that, although he liked
rings on his fingers, he couldn't stand
bellies on his toes Chicago Herald
-"Where shall we find our teach
ersP" asks an educational exchange.
Well, many of our sweet girl teachers
may be found sitting on sofas with nice
young men, any time after eight o'clock
p. m.-Detro1 Post.
-"Now, darling, will you grant mo
one favor before go?" "Yes, George,
l will" she said, dropping her eye
lashes and getting her lips in shape.
"What is the favor l can grant YOUR
"Only little song at the piano, love.
| am afraid there is a dog outside
waiting for me, and l want to scare him
away. Philadelphia CAL.
-"Never leave your clothes on the
line all night remarks the household
department of an exchange. Well,
yes, it's better to hang them over the
back of a'chair in your room. Then if
you should happen to oversleep few
hours you won't have to 90 shining
around the back yard in the daytime
grabbing up your raiment. -BoSton
Post.
"A youth of limited means, who had
Just married, sent his wife's rich father
beautiful copy of Tom Hood poem,
"What Can an Old Man Do but DEP"
The gratifed father-in-law at once took
away his daughter, dubbed his son-in-
law, and, having broken his leg on the
front steps of the youthful schemer,
sued him for $4,000. And now the
young man has concluded that an old
mans sphere of action is not so limited
as Tom Hood supposed.-HarCdrd Lane
doom.
-"I used to run a newspaper my
SELF" said bald-headed and earnest
| eyed man who came in one day to sell
us map of Central Africa; ''but some
| how or other | never could hit on mot
to that would take. First | tried, Be
| just and fear not' next, The truth is
mighty and must prevail then, The
early bird gets the worm and lastly,
| HeW tO the line LEFT the chiDS nV where
they may While l was running that
motto, the foreman accidentally left it
out and ran for four weeks in its place,
before l discovered the error, Take
Sockdolloger's ambitious pills. Be-
fore l could think of motto under
which l could win success the Sheriff
took the paper of my hands. Middle
tos0ia (Del.) Transcript.
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CHAPTER V.
There he angels and some be of light, ant
some be OF darkness"


:" There be angels, and some be of light, and
some be of darkness"
"Come, Philip, aren't you ready?"
1t was the voice of Grace which broke
in upon his reverie one evening early in
June, and suddenly rousing himself and
looking up, he beheld his sister in be-
coming gown of gray. with crimson
knots scattered about it; she was draw
ing on a pair of gloves, and was evil
IDENTITY armed for conquest.
READY What's the matterp Where
are you goingP' he asked, starting, as
he closed the book over which he APP
peared to have been dreaming
"What memory you have! Or
rather, what memory you wantl
Have you forgotten that there is a sort
of party at the Berghauses' this Satur-
day evening, and we promised week
ago to be therep There will be dancing,
too; and l do love dancing. Therefore
come. sir!''
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THE SCHOoL-MARM's STORY

a frosty chill was in the air.
,rH HOW plainly | remember
Inc bright 9utumnal fires had paled.
save here and there an ember:
A Az sky looked hard, the hills were bare,
0n ~ tnere were tokens everywhere
Ihat it had come-November.
LOCKED the time-worn school-house door.
Inc village scat of learning.
across the smooth, well-trodden path
MY homeward footsteps turning;
NY heart troubled question bore,
ana III my mind, as oft before,
VeXing thought was burning
Why is it up bill all the wayY'
Ihus ran my meditations;
Inc lessons had gone wrong that day,
a. T.. And had lost my patience.
Is thcre no way to soften care,
ana make it easier to bear
Lire SORROWS and veXationsP'
Across my pathway, through the wood,
A ia len tree was lying:
On this there sat two little girls
And one of them was crying.
heard her sob: And If could,
get my lessons awful good,
but what the use of trying?"
And then the little hooded head
sank on the others shoulder,
me little weeper sought the arms
Ihat opened to infold her.
thC yOuUE KIM anu true,
she nestled close, and neither knew
That was beholder.
And then / heard-ahl neer was known
such Judgment without malice
NOR queenlier council ever heard
In senate, house or palacei-
should have failed there, ] am sure;
Don't be discouraged; try once more,
And will help you, Alice"
And will help YOU" This is how
10 soften care and Prieving;
Life is made easier to bear
- by helping and by giving.
Here was the answer / had sought
And |, the teacher, being taught
The secret of true living.
If will help you" were the rule,
How changed beyond all measure
Life would becomel Each heavy load
Would be Il golden treasure;
Pain and veXation be forgot
Hope would prevail in every lot
And life be only pleasure.
Treasure 7roue.
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MADE OR MARRIED.
BY JESSIE FoTHERGILL,
Author of zone of Three" Probation" "Ihe
Weufelds," Etc,
CHAPTER Iv.-CoNTINUEp.

CHATTER lN.-CONT1NUED.
He strobe down the street with this
object in view, and gradually gained on
figure he knew-the figure of one of
the girls Grace had been talking about
the girl from next door, who went to
the High School. To-day she was
dressed in a long gray ulster cloak
Philip checked his pace. He found an
unaccountable pleasure in walking be-
hind her, as she stepped quickly for
ward, her garments well raised from
the ground, and displaying what seemed
to Philip the very neatest and most COM
pact pair of rough-weather boots he
had ever seen, together with the merest
suspicion of dainty ankle, which
matched the rest of her lissom figure.
She was walking very rapidly, when a
book slipped from under her arm and
fell to the ground, while she uncon-
sciously pursued her way, the sound of
the fall being drowned by the rattle of
a passing cart.
Philip stopped picked up the book,
and contemplated it with a strange SEN
sation of pleasure. 1t was, indeed,
more of ''fnd' than might have been
expected, for it was one of her lesson
books; and at school where over three
hundred girls daily assembled, it is nat
ural and necessary that each one should
/, have her name legibly inscribed on her
property. What Philip saw, therefore,
on picking up the book, was small
volume covered with shiny black calico
or linen, on which was pasted white
label. with "lrkford High School fol
Girls printed on it. and below the fol
lowing inscriptions: 'Name, Mabelle
Fairfax; number of form, upper fifth. -
This was not all Above the white la
bel was a vivid yellow one, on which
was inscribed, in red letters, poison.
It was such label as chemists put
upon little bottles containing dangerou:
drugs.
Philip Massey, walking quickly on
ward, soon mastered each and all o
these details, and implanted the name
Mabelle Fairfax, which was certainly
easy enough to remember, firmly on hi
mind. Then, with a few long strides
? he overlook the girl, and raising his hat
said:
pardon me, but you have jus
dropped this book.
''Oh," said she, coming to n full stop
and, in strictly feminine fashion, search
inc through the books she held, in or
der to make sure that the one he hel,
out to her was not amongst them, $50
have / am much obliged to you.
was in such hurry this morning that
had no time to strap them up"
She held her hand out for it, bu
Philip, remarking; "It is quite wet AM
dirty with having fallen on the pave
ment.n drew forth his handkerchief an
"Oh," said Mabelle Fairfax, smiling
"what a pity to spoil your handkei
chief.
Not at all. If you are going t
school"
Eyes, l am"
s.Perhaps you will allow me to carr
your books for you; | am going as ia
as Carlton Road"
"You are very kind. l don't like
trouble you,' said she; and PHILIP
smiling. took her bundle of books, an
they walked side by side to Garlic
Road
MAY | ask why You label you
French Grammar 'PoisonP " he inquire
The girl laughed.
at was not l who did it," said sh
..but one of the other girls. Her trenc
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-03
Commercial Travellers

! III any evideHSe were wanting TO con-
i'ViEce one that business is fiat il might
be found in tie knots of weIhdressed
men who sit sbout the wholesale stores
exchanging stories, smoking saDd smil-
ing, but never looking about for any
thing to do. These are the commercial
travellers. Trey are at home, and when
they pack their samples and leave their
well-worked paths it is good time to
rest. They are the hayPiest, most
genial class an the world With both
eyes darling about keenly in search of
trade they 1--we yet time to make life a
merry one. They are very distinct
class, and IDoften wonder they are not
seized on offener by our rising novelists
and playwrights and drawn as they are
not distorted as Phipps- Like most
other pushing people, the shap drum
mers get rich, and often very quickly.
They usuallE all of them have several
irons in the fire all the time, end keep
a telescope lookout for chances besides.
Competition keeps their invention active
for means Ia get ahead L know of one
dry goods man, who has aI extensive
territory, wEo subscribes for mere news
papers than are on the exchange list of
great many metropolitan Journals.
He reads them carefully, painfully in
fact, and remembers what he reads,
and when he reaches the townsof, say,
Dead Eye, Tex, or Prairie Deg, Neb.,
he can talk with merchants GA local
affairs Just Ike native. 1t pays him,
for it tickles them. Chicagc Inter
Ocean.
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A Remarkable Young Lady.

Young Freochwomen evidently dc
not intend to be left behind their En-.
giiSh and American sisters in the matter
of academic caps and gowns. We have
10 record the brilliant success of 8
Young Vendean lady (Aille. BenoiO in
the recent examination at the Sorbonne
for the Baecalaure3t-eS-let one of
three sisters who have all distinguished
themselves. Mile. Gabrielle was lately
made "bacheliere es iettres ct es sci
ences," while Mile. Vietorine, the eldest
of the three Last year received her
degree of n. D.. her thesis on that oc-
casion being generally regarded as re-
markable. The aforementioned lady is
6 notable example of the indomitable
energy and courage of French women.
While pursuing her medical studies at
the Sorbonne she not only maintained
herself by giving lessons, but also con-
tributed to the education of her Youngest
sister. 1t is to be hoped that such
qualities asst these viii meet. the en-
enlargement they deserve. Hall
BslGgek. = =
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-I'SOan' kere how smart er man il
dat pa~t o. him Whit puts on de strut j:
er fO0l--Ar6GnSGU Traveller.
1t is the fashion now for dudes ia
eat dried apples. They are so lawfully
SWELL you know. That's dried apple.
are.
4 little instruction.: what, give a
prize to yOur son? He persists in doing
nothing well, give him the prize
of perseverance,, them Chicago Trtb-
u1ae.
AN that's the pillar of Hercules
she said. adjusting her silver spectacles-
"GrScious! what are the rest of his bed
clothes like, wonder. ''-Ydte NeIcS.
Perhaps no man was ever more dis
turbed by trille than the reporter who,
concerning the appearance of the belle
of town at picnic, intended to say
"She looked au fat, and found the
types had it ''she. locked all feet"
7. Graphic.
A man whose knowledge is based
ON sctual experience says that, when,
calling on their sweethearts, young
men should carry affection in their
hearts, perfectioniin their manners, and
CONNECTION in their pockets. - Boston
Journal.
Yes, you may come again next
Sunday evening; but''-and she hest
tated ."What is it, darling? Have |
given you pain?" he asked, as she still
remaiaed silent. "You didn't mean to,
I'm sure" she responded; ''bEt next
time 6an't wear one of those collars
with the points turning outward. -
AnnterS Student.
DEMONSTRATIONS rainy day last
week GlhoOly got into an Austin
Avenue street car, which was crowded
20 the very utmost. When he put his
fare in the box. he remarked te the
driver: 1.-THE railroad company think
they are very smart; but You can Just
tell them for me, that if they les so
many people crowd into enc car, 40
body will ride in the cars at all:''
IerGS SytinPs.
"A Recommendations
~'What? Bob in love with Miss FOsl
nEalba, the comic actress at the Parth
GOn?" Bob (fring uP). '''Yes, grand-I
pal And if YOU We got word to saw
against that lacy, it had better not heI
said in my presence. that's ALL
Grandpapa- say word against her
WHY, bless your heart, nay dear boy!
WAC head over ears in love with her
myself-when l Nas your ager'-
London, Punch.
-Sn the concert noon: She-'5sn't
Il lovely? l never did hear such de.
IicioUS music. So teRder, so plairtiye,
so refined. so soul possessing He
81 am delighted to ksow that you are
such a .muSic-lover: but this is nothing
to whst you will bear when they
have got through tuning their ipstru.
ments." She wishes she had not begun
her ecstas;es quite so soon; but, poor
thing. hoy was she to know that thisH
wasn't fHgue or sonata or gazette /
or something or other?-BostOn Post
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-03
The Art of Orator,

As have before observed, gesticula-
ion is foreign to our Nation, and yet
he man who would be an orator must
learn what TO do, as well as what 10
avoid doing, with his arms and hands.
The word is but an echo, the ambassa-
dor of thought. An energetic passion,
Ill deep sentiment, must be heralded
oy expression or by outward and visible
sign Of some sort; otherwise the words
will fall coldly, as emanating from the
intellectual machine, and not spriRging,
warm and irrepressible, from the heart.
Tslma, in his treatise on the art of act
ing, says: The gesture, the attitude,
the look, should precede the words, as
the flash Of hghtning precedes the thun-
der. Yea, if you watch any unculi-
tivated speaker, you will find that his
action never Indicates the path he is
travelling, bit follows it. Observe the
itinerant preacher, whoseapsplectic elo-
quence suggests that he issufering from
determination of words tie stick in the
mouth you will find that the flinging of
his arms to and fro is an effort to add
force TO his words, not the outcome of
stroag feeling before it has broken int
speech. The true orators movements
must appear so spontaneous that
they lpass unnoticeG, and yet ils-
seRsibly, they will affect his au-
dnnce. The most powerful speakers
are always, more or less, actors, who
identify themselves with the cause they
advocate Cold rhetoricianS who have
rot this capacity may bring conviction
to our reason when we read their
speeches in the papers in the morning
after they are delivered; but lacking
] the passionate responsiveness of men
whose voice and frame vibrate with the
emotion their words evoke, they will
never touch the 4sseart or rouse TIE en-.
thasiasm of al audience.-HGaailton
| diAx.
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The Soap Caper.

Avery successful swindle, operated
by street peddlers, is what is technically
known as the ''soap caper." Any COM
mon soap will wash the dust out of a
grease spot, and person is apt to come
to the conclusion that the stain itself
has been taken out, until more dust ac-
cumulates on the grease and he finds
himself mistaken. For the purpose of
the swindle two fellows will buy lot
of cheap soap and cut it up into small
pieces, which are daintily perfumed and
nicely wrapped in fancy colored paper.
This is all the stock in trade needed,
except a generous allowance of cheek.
One of the fellows dresses himself up
like dude and generally conducts
himself so that everybody to whom he
appeals makes fun of him. Perhaps he
does sell few pieces of the soap, for it
appears to do what is claimed for it,
but he purposely makes such an ass of
himself that nobody wants to trade with
him. Soon. when he is Boosting of how
much soap he can sell in day, COM
mon-looking fellow in the crowd calls
out: "Well, why don't you sell it
them" and at once they get into
wrangle, which is ended by the plain
fellow betting that he can sell more
soap in ten minutes than the proprietor
of the stand can sell is half an hour.
The bet is generally quite large one,
and as sympathy is entirely with the
communicating fellow the crowd
comes to his support, and he READILY
sells out his share of the soap, and
finally also disposes of the greater part
of the others packages. It is needless
to say that the fellows are confederates
and are playing into each other hands.
I've good operators can make tremen-
doIss profits by working this game, and
they run no risk of being arrested
Boston COurtsr.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Forty million acres in Texas are
devoted to educational purposes.
"A Baptist lady in Texas devotes to
the Lords cause all the eggs laid by
her hens on Sunday.-ChicGgo Tribune.
jim Mexico the school children who
have done best are allowed to smoke
cigars while pursuing sneir studies
N. 7. Sun.
The London Telegraph, rejoicing
in the decision of the University of Ok
ford to admit women to degrees, says
the life of married homes will be
happier when equal intellect and Gull
ture are to be found in husband and
wife"
The alumni of the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy have condemned
the sale of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage in drug stores as a growing
evil, tending to degrade the profession
of pharmacy and damage the morals of
the community. Philadelphia Press.
-Parson Newman says that religion
does not interfere with business life,
nor business life with religion" No;
they always keep a respectful distance
AAOiA CebSh OlhCls anu lutlI ID WHY
is so much rascality in the world
Rochester Democrat.
AN English vicar has complained
to the Department of Education that
children of five years are compelled in
the schools to learn all about the prop
critics of rhomboids, trapezoids, penta-
CONS, octagons and parallelograms of
every kind. He says they cannot even
pronounce the names.
The Society of Quakers, in England,
although it may not have kept pace
with the increase of other religious
bodies, has shown steady growth.
The statistical statement issued at re-
cent meeting of the sect shows total
of 1920 members in England; so
that, although the rate of progress has
been comparatively slow, it has been
continuous for over twenty years
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Christian T1te'LigGgcer says:
at is good plan that some churches
are adopting Of having vigilance com
mittees' to look after the absentees from
Sunday worship. Any member out of
his place for two Sundays is reported to
the pastor, who Immediately takes
measures te learn the reason why.
Strangers attending for two Sundays
are visited with the view of attaching
them to the congregation.
The English diviEes and scholars
have been rery slow in examining and
adopting The Teaching of the Apos-
tleS"-mBch slower than we have been /;
but now they are getting quite excited
over it. Recently representatives of all
denominations met in the Jerusalem
Chapel, Westminster Ahbey,to listen to
DIR. Hatch exposition of it. He spoke of
toe newly discovered manuscript as the
~tgreatest discovery'of modern times, ="
and hoped that itwould prove the basis
for greater unity of spirit, if not of or
ganization, of Christendom.-M Y. En-
GnlineZr
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An Indiscreet Wife.

i An Austin Israelite has his dwell.
ng and place of business in the same
mousse, which is quite a small one.
There were several customers in the
store, when his wife, who Is a very at.
fectionate creature, called out from the
next room:
20. Schon, my dear Schon. come to
Gnner.n
A shade of rage passed over hN He
orstc features. and going to where.she
yss, he seized her brutally by the arm,
md with a malignant voice, hoarss
with annoyance, said:
"Rebec6a, does You want to ruin me
n my pishness? What for you call ne
dear Schoa, ven I wants be known as
cheap Schon? Do you want to have
dot PEBBLES lose confidence in me?"-
Texas Sylin0A