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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

PROTECTION AGAINST SHEEP TIcKs.-So
soon as the sheep are shorn, the ticks which
have found hiding place in thick wool be-
take themselves to the earliest and best
lambs, whose wool affords the best protec-
tion. Dipping the lambs in water where to-
bacco stems have been stepped will greatly
relieve the lambs and prevent the whole
flock going the hill road on the approach of
winter
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
One of the Brightest Charm 8

Of a fair face is fine set of teeth. The
ladies being fully alive to this fact patron
ize SOZODONT in preference to any other
dentifrice, since they know by experience
that it preserves like no other the pristine
.whiteness and cleanliness of the teeth, and
makes naturally sweet breath additionally
fragrant. 1t is one of the privileges Of the
beoltr seq to look lovely and that proportion
of it which uses SOZOD0NT has learned
that the article contributes in no small de-
gree to the end in view. All druggists sell
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

CHILDREN.-Too much love, or too much
expression Of it, never yet spoiled child;
it is undue indulgence that does that, and
is what the mother should guard against.
She must have a well-defined idea of what
is just to expect of her child, and work to
that as the builder does to his plan, if she
would develop a respectful self-respectipg
character.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

A RARE BIRD.-Mr. Dick Halsey killed
late last Sunday evening, ON Cove Creek, a
bird that he says was seven and half feet
from tip to tip, five feet high, and had q
bill measuring eight inches long and six
around. Its wings were coal black and its
body pure white. Those that saw it say it
was entirely different from anything of the
kind they had ever seen before in this
country.- WatheviUe Dispotch, July 1Oth.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

COLLAR BoILs.-Collar boil is caused by
pressure of the collar on the shoulder. To
remove them nothing more is needed but to
rest the horse, or to use a strap collar, or
pads buckled to the collar on each side of
the sore spot AS soon as the pressure is
removed the trouble will cease. An ill-fit-
ting collar is the cause, and generally the
collar is too loose.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
,GEoRGETowN GA 6 20 81.

My Dear Honey: I have just laid aside
nv work and have taken my pen in hand to
show you that do think about you in fact
the trouble is to keep from thinking Of you
all the time this afternoon just before COM
mencing dinner felt SO lonely that didn't
know what to do as never had such feeling
before met you I cannot help but think |
must be in love well. if / am in love with
you l am sure have no need to be ashamed
of it you see when got the potatoes and
was about to have them for dinner just
thought how nice it would be if was just
doing that for your dinner and mine only in
our snug little house when are you going to
get your license think you are so long a.
bout it l aint in a hurry but then L would
like to get married if we are gong to Go 1t
at all and not be fooling away all these
short summer evenings as ever your
DARLING
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

HANDSOME DONATIoN.-During his life
Mr.. G. H. Mccormick endowed Chair at
our University, contributing the sum of
$50, 900 for its maintenance. In the last
ten days Mrs. G. II. Mccormick has further
endowed the Chair established by her late
husband by forwarding to the Treasurer Of
the institution a check for an additional
$40, ,000.-Lerington Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
II is said that the cleaning falchion of

It is said that the cleaning falchion of
John A. Logan is so hacked and battered
by contact with the bones of old-tim Bour-
bons, pro-slavery propagandists and unre-
lenting Democrats (his old partners before
the war; that Mrs. Logan will not let it
hang in the parlor now. Recently the ''Gen-
eral," talking Of his old pro-slavery record,
said it was s'pretty hard to persecute a man
after joining the church for sins committed
before he was converted" He didn't '.jine'
until after the end of slavery was pretty
clearly apparent. Such conversion was
not of the approved sort. Ifthe Republican
party is his church, he is nearly as badly off
as Blaine, who has reviled the religion in
which he was taught, and in which his
mother died.-Ricb. State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

THE New York Herald does not seem to
think that Senator Logan is we'll out of the
charge that he attempted to grab some of
the Zuni Indian lands for the benefit of the
Logan family. It's Washington correspon-
dent let's in flood of light upon that sub
ject, whereupon the Herald says:
''We were hopeful that at least one.of the
Republican nominees could clear himself of
an ugly charge by simple explanation,
and we hastend to extened our congratula-
tions to the grand old party on that presum-
ed fact. Our washington dispatches show,
however, that the General not only has
tried to get Zuni lands into the family, as
was stated, but has not yet given up the
attempt to capture them, despite the Presi-
dents order"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

II have been dreadfully troubled with
disease Of the kidneys and liver during the
past six months. HUNTS Kidney and Liv-
erl REMEDY has made me new man. -
Isaac W. Fairbrother, Providence, R. !.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
Mr. CHRIS. BEARD. of Anthony's creek

Mr.. CHRIS. BEARD, of Anthony's creek,
gave to his daughter Mrs. Mary Osborne)
a pet sheep. In March, 1888, this sheep
gave birth to two eve lambs, and in Octo-
Der, '83, she gave birth to one eve lamb,
and again in March, 1884, to two more eve
lambs. In the meantime the two first-oorn
lambs each gave birth. to eve lamb
making in all a progeny of seven from the
pet sheep in about thirteen months. ms
spring the lamb boru in October, 'o3, clipp-
ed 81 los. of wool.-Does it pay to raise
sheep in Greenbrier - Greenbrier Ladepen-.
dent.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

CURIosITIEs OF MISSIONER. lead
is not lead at all, but compound of car
bon and small quantity of iron. Brazilian
grass never grew in Brazil, and is not grass;
it is nothing but strips Of palm-leaf. Bur-
gundy pitch is not pitch, and does not come
from Burgundy; the greater part of it is
resin and palm-oil. Catgut is made from
the entrails of sheep. Cuttle-bone is not
bone, but kind of chalk once enclosed in
the fossil remains of extinct specimens of
cuttle-fsh. German silver was not invented
in Germany, and does not contain particle
ofsilver. Cleopatra's Needle was not erected
by the Egyptian Queen, nor in her honor
Pompey's pillar had no historical connec-
tion with Pompey in any way. Sealing
wax does not contain particle of wax,
but is composed of Venice turpentine, shell
lac, and cinnabar. The tube-rose is no
rose, but species of polyanthus. The
strawberry is no berry, but only a succulent
receptacle. Turkish baths did not originate
in Turkey, and are not baths, but heated
chambers. Whalebone is not bone, and is
said not to possess a single property of
bOne.-PTOUldenc Journal,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
Fer the SPECTATOR.
SURELY NOT I,-NOT
BY HANNAH M. MILLER

BY HANNAH M. MILLER,
Who'H make the brandy peaches,
Or brandy-fiavored pie,
And help the liquor traffic?
Surely not I.-not 1.
Who wants in time of sickness,
A little ale to try; t~@
Or beer or wine to poison
And make her worse? NotI.
Who likes boy that tipples
A little on the sly,
Or smokes cigars in private,
Not I. surely notI.
And when we girls are women,
(We shall be by and by),
Who'll have a drinking husband,
Some silly girl,-not /.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
Stauntoll $peftator.
RATES OF ADVERTTSTNG.

ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
Si siO per square of eight lines or less for the
- insertion and 80 cents for each subsequent
81 A liberal discount will be made on ad.
Verusements published for 3.6, or Il months.
- SPECIAL NOTICES will be inserted at
double the advertising rates.
H5- Obituaries, Announcements of Condt.
dates for Office. and all communicafions of a
personal or private character. will he charged
for as advertisements ~ e0-
Address-''staunton Spectator Stanton. Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

WHAT A YOUNG WOMAN wRoTE.-The
Columbia (Ga.) Sentinel publishes the fol
lowing model letter:
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
: AR. SAMEs soEtNsFoN,

~ n L T,
MAIN STREET, STAUNToN, VA.
OFFICE Over Turner d Harmans Grocery
tore. dec 2I-tf
I. O. ELDER. WIZ. j. NELSON.
TJIEDEER Il NELSON.
"a TrORNEYS-AT-LAW
end Real Estate i 4qents
may 5TAUNTCN, VA.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

~ a. RICHARDSON.
~ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
STAUNToN, VA. .
Special attention given to the collection Oh
lainis and prompt returns made.
CoURTs-Augusta and Rockingham.
OFFICE-No. 2 Law building. OcG
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

q s. SMELFXEB,
sTAUNToN, VA
Office in Stout Building, Court house Alley
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

HOW THE WORLDS RICHEST MAN WON A
WlFE-H1s AWKWARD INTRODUCTION TO
THE BELLE OF ALBANY AND ITS HAPPY
sEQUEL-INCIDENTs OF HIS CoURTsH1p.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.

MEADE F. ws1rr. A. c. GORDON.
NET HKFE az GORDON,
w LAW, q,
CoURTs-augusba and adjoining counties,
Federal Court at Harrisonburg. Court OF Ap'
peals of Virginia, at Staunton. lepzI-Cl -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

VIM. HUDSON RM. PATRICK.
YKUDSON IL PATRICK,
Al ATTORNEYS-AT-
STAUNTOE. VA,
VIII practice in the Courts of Augusta and
adjoining counties. Special attention paid to
collections. febl2-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-22

h. H. MATHEWs ALEX. f. MATHEws.
4 F ATEEEIys & MATHEWS.
I'VE AYIUR NEYS-AT-LAW,
LEwISBURG. WEST VA,
practice regularly la the Courts of Greenbrier,
Monroe, Pocahontas and Nicholas countless w
Va, the Court Of Appeals and the Federal
Courts for the District of W. Va.
Rg-Partcuar attention paid TO Collections
nd to special cases anywhere in their State.
may lily
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
Snuff. Taking as a Cure for Cold.

/ 1t would almost seem as if we were
threatened with another revival of an
old fashion. and that modern society,
humbly initiative of the buildings and
furniture, the manners and customs OF
the eighteenth century, might once
more take to Snuff. DR.. Mortimer Gran
ville-he who lately advised the gener-
al adoption of night-caps as the b ST
method of obtaining a sound night s
sleep-now comes forward with pinch
of snuff as the cheapest and speediest
cure for cold. As the next best rem
edy 10 violent exercise on horseback or
afoOt, the doctor recommends to the
man who has caught cold g a large
pinch of pungent snuff-good rappee
or fine Scotch, anything that is sharp
and stimulating" He is likewise to
wrap his coat around him, and so pro-
duce strong, but not too prolonged, fit
of sneezing. The patient is to keep on
snuffing and sneeziDg ''until the skin is
slightly moistened with perspiration'
and the nervous organism RECEIVERS from
the effects of the chill. Already the gilded
and electro plated youth of the period
affect, along with fob-chains and bon
bonnieres, little caskets filed with per-
fumed powdered tobacco, and if DIR.
Mortimer Granville's advice gratis be
accepted and followed everybody viii
carry snuff box.-L0ndoa Daily Tel
graph.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
ONLY A MAID-OF.ALL-WORK.

t'Even the clock seems to tick faster,
as If hurrying to make upf for lost time, "
she said 10 herself as she refolded the
telegram announcing her brothers ar
rival in New York. The ticking seemed
louder, clearer, than it ever sounded
before, she thought. as her eyes rested
on the clock. and noted the apparent
rapidity with which the minutes sepa-
rating ner from her brother were meas
ured of. The house seemed so silent,
too; or was the stiffness broken at in
~tervals by the clang of the mills mere
fancy?
The summer air blew in through the
open door. tossed half dozen withered
leaves from the vine through the WIN
dow. then lifted a paper lying on the
table near her. She grasped it quickly,
sighed, and said:
Thanks be TO God. he's well over,
anyhow. He sailed on the eighth and
here it's only the eighteenth, and me
allowing twelve days at the lowest !
Sure they couldn't do much better than
that if they built q bridge over the
ocean. He'll be here before L have
everything ready for him.
- She looked at the clock again in an
-abScat-minded way. 1t was plain her
mind was not upon her work. For that
matter the bulk of her days work was
done. The room was clean; everything
WAS in its place. The maid-of -ali-worS
was enjoying q breathing spell. I"
When the messenger boy came with
the telegram she was making curious
marks on piece of paper, the paper
she now held in her hand as she looked
at the clock, rs though noting the flight
of the hours that divided her from her
brother.
al wonder what he is like now :'' she
asked herself. Like people who scru-
tinized sn unexpected letter, examining
the poSt-mark, date of reception, and
chirography. speculating upon the
writer. she indulged the pleasures of
anticipation. ''It was on q day much
like this left Bainbridge. The grass
WAS green-far greener than it is here
anyway, there's no such dirt as we have
here. viii j ever see such a sky againa
Jamie was a bit of q gossoon that cared
no more for the next dav than the wind
that tossed his curly hair. He was the
worst-and the brightest lad in school,
He scarcely sat still long enough to find
the place in his book. the master told
me, and he stood at the head of his
class. No thanks and no credit to him,
-sas nrsLsOW said more than onceS for it
cost him no trouble at all. He'll be a
head taller than me at least. if he takes
after the Sloan's side of the house.
-he Ii be six feet, maybe"
She marked spot on the side OF the
door, smiling curiously. walked back.
and looked at it. That's about the
height I'm to look up to all my life, 1
suppose: John reaches there. and If
my brother Is as tall-but what odds
whether he is short or tall. It's all one
only he might have told me. It's
grand secret be has made of it every
JWay. And he'H be here to-naorrou!''
She looked across the river at the
hilltops, where quiet stretches of farm
Aand lay in the broad, warm sunlight;
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
Faith i'm Popular GullibiIity.

Faith in the exhaustible credulity O
the masses has been the foundation O
many chariatan's fortune. At tn
time of the South Sea Bubble. whel
new projects of the most wild and pre-
pOsterous character found promoter
with ease, an astute and audacious ad
venturer advertised for subscriptions t,
an enterprise the nature of which wa
to be concealed for certain time, ant
he actually made several thousands o
pounds out of it, the people paying fo
shares with blind eagerness. With thi
adventurer deserves to be ranked tn,
ingenious but unprincipled American
citizen who has just been arrested fo
doing an extensive business in adver
| tising all manner of enticing things II
be sent on the receipt of postage stamps
Cases of this kind have occurred before
but then the impostors usually SEN
something, however fraudulent, in re
turn for the stamps. This genius, how
ever, had made no provision whatever
in that way. He simply appropriated
the stamps, and refrained from answer.
ing the letters; and though so reckless
a swindle would seem certain to come
to grief in short time, he appears to
have kept it up and made considerable
profits bv it for several months. He also
advertised largely through the newspa-
pers, never paving them, but giving
them references to aliases of his own,
and himself answering all letters in
quiring about his character. The defect
in his plan was that it was certain
sooner or later to become the subject of
investigation, and the moment it was
inquired into the truth came out
The number of swindlers who have
waxed fat on similar but more care
fully devised schemes is no doubt very
considerable. The rognes who engi-
neer them rely upon the desire of most
people to get much for little. They
know that the greed of gain often OBJ
scures the judgment, and that though
all cool-headed business men suspect
offers of the kind, remembering the
Duke of Wellington's maxim that
''good interest means bad security"
yet there are always plenty ready to
spring at any bait, If it is only gaudy
and glittering enough. The so-called
''sawdust" sharpers who pretend to
sell counterfeit money, and send the
victim box of sawdust, act upon a
shrewd knowledge of the baser ele-
ments in human nature. They select
for their dupes persons who are willing
to be knaves themselves, and whose
own knavery shuts their mouths when
they find out the swindle. Probably no
professional sharpers would enter upon
so very bold game as the young man
of the postage stamps played, for as
they mean to make their living by their
wits they dare not thus openly adver-
tise their dishonesty. Butthe fact that
such trick should have been so sue
cessful, and that it should have been
carried on for so long time without
detection shows that the crop of gulls
continues to be as large as ever, and
that whatever else fails there is no
prospect of shortage" in that line of
production.-M Y. Tribune.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

II you remain on the farm, where you
have the proud consciousness that you
are doing far more good in the world
than if you were ''seeing life in the
city. What would become of the peo-
pie in this world if all the farmers
should suddenly conclude that tillin;
the ground was not q sufficiently noble
calling?
When you are discontented with your
lot, boys, remember that it is the farm
er upon whom all the people in the
world depend on the actual necessaries
of life; then you will understand that
no calling can be more honorable than
that which is actually and in fact the
handspring of the whole.-Congreqs.
tionQLiSt
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

While others are sleeping. his forgesparks
are flying,
He talks to himself while his iron grows red
And wonders that some folks are all the time
signing
Der doIorous times and the high price Of
hraah
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
THE QUAKER BLACKSMITH

a much-honored Quaker, broadshouldered
smithy.
I've watched many years. from my windows
and yard;
And heard his blows ringing to words quaint
and pithy,
But never a grumble. though times might
l.ah o-d
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

No horse is so vicious but he can subdue him,
His magnetic touches few beasts can resist
With whoa, my good pony!" he'll fearlessly
ch
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

The practice of mulching young
trees after they are set out seems to be
growing in favor. 1t keeps the sol
cool and damp during the summer and
prevents plants from drawing from Che
soil. The mulch should extend well
out from the base of the tree.-C2sr@
land Leader.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

a much-honored Quaker broad-shouldere,
smithy,
I've watched, many years. from my window
and yard;
And heard his blows ringing to words quain
But never a grumbIe. though times nigh
be lard. - ttss1ss--a
while others are sleeping. his forgespark,
He talks to himself while his iron grows red
~ And wonders that some folks are all the TINT
Der doIorous times and the high price OF
heed. ---- -----
no horse is SO vicious but he can subdue him
His magnetic touches few beasts can resist;
With whoa, my good PonyF' he'll fearlessly
with never blow from cudgei or fist.
A faithful assistant through twenty long
winters
His dingy Old shop, with its sides all in spin
Has long been his mint though a tumble.
down shell.
His wife. years ago. did the ncighborhood
sewing,
the stray dimes; =
Content il the pile in her cash-box was grow.
ing;'
% among crimes.
Two sons and daughter. John. James and
Sophia,
Five years. more or less. have been women
and men;
You'd take either son for priest or a friar,
Orbooh worm, just out from his attic or den.
The books they have read. with the contents
well-treaSured,
The poems they've made and the ballads
If piled up together. could scarcely be meas
Or titles be told by strcct-vender's tongue.
OF London and Paris and other grand cities.
They've seen all the wonders and know
them 10y heart,
And brought home their hist'ries and legends
and dittcS,
As well as Improvement in manners and art.
Dut how will our Quaker dispose of these
scholars,
Jus: home from Japan and the land of the
Nile
To get a return for the thousands of dollars
He's paid for diplomas. art-culture and
style7
OF preachers and doctors he finds we've a
Professors have long been drug in the
mart;
OF lawyers and writers there's scarce one in
twenty
Who owns a snug cottage. entire or in part
Mechanics need vigor and well-hardened
muscle;
And farming would starve such effeninate
things;
In business they'd fall in the turmoil and
hustle.
Poor pigmics, the victims of sharpers and
rings.
And yet they must eat. and, while father has
money,
They'll sit at his table. as worthless as dudes
And live, like all droneS, on the working bees
UnmindfGi of all the worlds sorrows and
ieuds.
but little Sophia as trim as daisy,
With fair education AMI good Quaker sense
Ger Primrose's novels has never gone crazy
Or uttered one sentence of sham or preteuse.
AT homo in the sick room. the parlor or
kitchen,
The mothers best helper in all kinds of
work;
Can bric-a-b -brac fashion of mosses and Iichen.
Or reyel in rugs like the most skilfuI Turk
While many maiden is sleeping. or dreaming
OF scores of young hearts she's intending to
break
Our maiden is busy in mixing and steaming.
Or baking nice biscuit and broiling the steak.
/ know young farmer who does daytime
wOoing,
Who bitches his team to the old ouaker's
post o
Pretending that one of his horses needs shoe
But fits in and out of the house like ghost.
His time is too precious to spend much in
He owes on bis farm half a thousand or
more;
With little for pleasure. and nothing for sport
Hell soon lift the mortgage and pay ev'ry
score.
e. W. Locke. in Youths Companion
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

wAny person who takes the paper regu.
aarly from the post-ofhce. whether dlrected 70
Ehfs name or whether he Is sueeeriDer or not
Is responsible for the pay.
The courts have decided that refusing t.
cake newspapers from the post-9fnce, or re
rnoying and leaving them uncalled for. fa
eIirra facie evidence of INTENTIONAL FRAUD