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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-11-06
FARM and PRESIDE.

70 CORN BEEF OR PORK, take one
gallon of water, one and a half pounds
of salt, half pound of sugar, and
half ounce of saltpeter. Boil these
together until the scum ceases to rise
Skim as the sediment rises to the sur
face; then take it off and set 1t away
to cool. When cold pour it over the
meat. The meat will be sufficiently
corned to use in eight or ten days. It
may be kept for weeks.
DON'T peel your potatoes and throw
away the best part of them, but prepare
them nicely with their coats on, -
steam them until done, remove their
skins with knife and fork; place in
tureen or platter; spread butter on
them quiet freely; sprinkle with salt
ard pepper; set in the oven to melt
the butter; then pour over them a lib
eral quantity of sweet cream; serve i'm
mediately.
DOUGH CHUMPETs are Boston favor
ties and easily made. A pound of Or
binary bread dough. white or brown.
needs "a half cupful of white sugar.
three ounces of butter, and three eggs.
to be beaten hard into it. Bake in
muffin rings well buttered.
PLAIN CAKE.-One cup of butter.
two cups of sugar, two eggs, one cup
of sweet milk, two teaspoonful of
baking powder sifted into three cups
of flour; half cup Of corn starch, one
teaspoonful of lemon favoring.
Hot SALT and water is the hest
thing with which to clean mating.
Give it thick coating of varnish when
dry. This will preserve it and improve
its looks.
TO TAKE stains OFT of mahogany.
use spirits of salts, six parts; salt of
lemon, one part. Mix them and drop
a little on the stains until they disap-
pear.
MANY GOOD laundresses advise SOAP.
ing linen into warm water the night
previous to washing, as facilitating the
operation, and less friction being re-
quired.
SAVE tea leaves from the table and
steep them for half an hour. Strain.
and use water to wash all vanished
paint. 1t removes spots and gives
1resh and new appearance.
HOT wood ashes applied to a stow
when cold will remove grease. Cover
the spot entirely; do not be sparing of
the ashes.
STRAW mating may b. clean IL with
a large coarse cloth; dipped in salt AMI
water, and then wiped dry; the SUI
prevents the mating from turning
yellow.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-11-06

[ TO be Contanued.1
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

make this table TO show the result of a
beginning of one thousand bushels. and
where the company would stand if the pe0-
pie would refuse TO be gulled by such a
business. Their whole income, deducting
nothing for expenses. would be Si4. 600 in
three years; but their liability would be
Sl2O. 900, $50, 900 more than they are able to
pay. beginning on one thousand only, and
running three years. But the mild-eyed,
kind-hearted agent gets one-half of the
Sii, 600 SO you can add S22. 900 to the S16.-
900. making S9s. 900 that the company is
unable to pay on the small beginning of one
thousand bushels.
Now. this is no exaggerated statement,
and no chimera. but an actual business go
ing on in Clark, Greene. Warren, and do
not know how many counties 10 the north
of US. And this is not all. Every farmer
that goes into il becomes pecuniarily inter
ested in extending the fraud. Several of
my neighbors have raised from three 10
seven hundred bushels. and they are now
securing the country trying to sell upon the
same terms.
| understand that a company is now
formed and incorporated in the city of
Springfield, with capital Of $4,000, and
therefore liability of $50. 600. to push this
business. How long would this capital
stand before the rapidly-increasing liabili-
ties of such an operation? And now the
same men are coming forward with Red
Lion wheat at SIS per bushels for the
company and 80 for the farmer, TO be
operated in the same way.
S. c. HOWELL.
CLARK COUNTY, ONO.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

In An Acquaintance with Grant" pa
per by General James B. Fry in the North
American Review. an interesting anecdote OF
the occasion when Grant appeared as a can
ddate for admission 10 the Military Academy
Is related Il wandered" says General
Fry. Into the riding hall where the mem
hers of the graduating class were going
through their final mounted exercises before
Major Richard Deafield. the distinguished
engineer then superintendent, the aca-
demie board and large asSemblage Of
spectators. When the regular services
were completed the class. still mounted.
was formed in line through the center of
the hail, the riding master placed the leap
ing bar higher than mans head. and
called out Cadet Grant" A clean faced.
slender. blue eyed young fellow, weighing
about 40 pounds. dashed from the
ranks on powerfully built sorrel horse.
and gallOped down the opposite side
of the hall As he turned at the farther end
and came into the straight stretch across
which the bar was placed. the horse i'll
creased his pace, and, measuring his strides
for the great leap before him. bounded into
the air and cleared the bar carrying his rid
er As if man and beast had been welded to
gether. The spectators were breathleSs
Very well done sir growled old HerSh-
berger. the riding master, and the class was
dismissed and disappeared. but Cadet
Grant remained a living image in my mem
DRY. A few months before graduation. one
of Grants classmates, James A. Hardie
said to his friend and instructor: Well. sir.
if and great emergency arises in this coun-
try during our life time. Sam Grant will be
the man 10 meet it If had heard Hardie'S 5
prediction | doub, not should have be
lieved in il. for thought the young man
who could perform the feat of horSeman-
ship had witnessed. and wore a sword
could do anything"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

In recent lecture on leprosy-a disease
which has been widely discussed of late
Professor Hutchinson. of the London Hos
pital. stated that ii is not contagious. nor is
il an hereditary disease. though it may. of
course. be transmitted. He believed lep-
rosy to be caused by eating fish which had
been somewhat decompoSed or has been
salted. Healthy fish in any quantity will
not cause il. but small quantity 50 poisoned
will. When leproSy prevailed in England
the inland consumption Of fish was very
large He cites two cases of the cure OF
the disease. one of which was treated by
himself.
One of the most remarkable of clocks
has Just been constructed in London for a
banking establishment. 1t is on the
twenty-four hour principle. and is notable
as possessing probably the simplest method
which has Vet been rcsorted to for indicat-
ing time according Ia the new enumeration.
The clock in question has only one hand
the long minute hand-amd the figures
around are placed as heretofore. Instead,
however. of indicating the hours. they i'll
dictate the minutes only. which are marked
from ) To 80. The hours are shown on a
sunk dial revolving under the upper dial. a
space being left in the upper dial III which
the next hour figure comes forward in
simultaneously upon the minute hand com
pletiug its circuit of sixty minuteS-ihai is,
in a word. the solitary hand marks the min
utes, and the sunk space shows the hour.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04
Ibad heard Of the wonderful cures ofswi

had heard of the wonderful cures of.Swift's
Specific. and resolved to try IL. | commenced
taking IL in April, lSSi, My general health was
much improved, yet the cancer which was in
my breast continued to grow slowly but surely
felt that must either have II cut or die. But
IL commenced d discharging quantities of almost
black, thick blood. Ii continued healing
around the edges until February, when II was
entirely healed up and we'll Betsy WOOD.
C0chpsett. Plymouth Co. Mass, July lS. lss7.
SwiftS Specific is entirely vegetable. and
seems TO cure cancers by forcing out the i'm
purities from the blood.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free.
THES~IFT Specific Co. Drawers. Atlanta, Ga.
\. Y. Isl ". I'D St
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

we lake lllt iplibNiilS INSTRUCTIVE anu en-
tertaining letter. written BY well-known
c;,i,a, of ,bis coun,, f,,,, am, ,,,;,,,,,,,,.,,
'''''' o'' "s ''' '''''' al
'"i''ehni'""s
BOHEMIAN OATS.
( Editors Farm and Fireside:
/ The most extraordinary business ever
witnessed by the oldest settlers is now being
carried on in this locality. 1t makes us
blush 10 think how barren of eNpedients.
and shortsighted we have been all these
/ years of low prices and hard times. The
master mind that concocted this scheme
I will. no doubt. stand alongside of Captain
Kid. the James brothers. and other like
benefactors of the race, with this superior
ity that while he has piled a lucrative bus
mess, he has not laid himself liable 10 the
prosecutions and dangers his predecessors
have incurred.
This business is begun somewhat in this
way: An agent THAT is what they call him)
makes his appearance in the neighbor-
hood in some unaccountable way-a good
deal like the measles, smallpox or
chicken cholera He does not 20. like St
Nicholas, straight to his work" but
chooses his subject watchfully, warily and
cautiously, and goes at him by gradual ad-
rances, something in the way 1.-THE wild
. Doaf ol tne iuitsi goes 10 war. Ills Dusl-
ness looks 50 very bad upon the face of it.
that II he can get but the ear of respecta-
Die. influential citizen, I've thinks he has ac-
complished great deal, and the victory is
half won. He Is well supplied with ready
answers to every objection that can he made,
and II lie can convince such one. and get
him INTO the business, 1t gives great impetus
to It's progress. Al the proper time, after
having said some very pleasant things about
the baby. about the surroundings. or your
influence As citizen OF this country, he
proposes TO enter INTO little operation in
bohemian oats
Il don't intend he continues, Ito dllOr
more than fifteen men in one township in
this business. | will not sell more than
fifty bushels 10 anyone, and not to the
same ones next year. These oats. he says,
''are worth one dollar per bushel in the
market. | will sell them to you at ten
dollars per bushel, take your note. due in a
year, at per cent. payable 10 order. and
give you our bond to sell twice as many for
you next year at the same price taking out
-. 80 per bushel for ourselves yourselves is
said 10 be the company, and paving YOU
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

For many years was sufferer with cancer
OF the nose, and having been cured by the use
of ;. :. :, feel constrained by a sense Of duty
10 suffering humanity To make this statement
of my case. With the fourteenth bottle the
cancer began 10 heal rapidly and soon disap-
peared. and for several months there has been
no appearance of a sore of any kind on my
nose or face, neither is my nose at all tender
to the touch. have taken about two dozen
bottles :. :. 5. and am SOundly cured. and |
know that ;. :. ;. effected the cure after every
known remedy was tried and had failed.
ROBERT SNEDLEY.
Fort Gaines, Ga, May l, 1885.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04
In the Supreme Court,

The Cincinnati Gang have now got theiI
whole batch of frauds, forgeries, ballot
stuffery. drunk election-returns, and con-
spiracy of law-points into the supreme
court of Ohio These things were all
sneaked into the clerks office the night be
fore and slumped down on the judges five
octave desk yesterday morning; and the
noblest representatives Of the Gang were on
hand at the bar and in the lobbies of the
court before the sun had begun to cast its
early shadow. The counsel for the people
were not there. having been kept in the
dark about the date Of the proceeding, as
usual.
Ii was a back-door entry, as might have
been expected. Drausin Wulsin. Of the
counsel for the relators, when he heard of it
at Cincinnati, telegraphed that they had no
appropriate or sufficient notice. and demand
ed the customary land, We believe, statu-
tory, ten days time for preparation.
Meantime. on the petition Of George
NoadIy and james S. Robinson, pepreseue
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04
EPITHELI0MA
OR SKIN CANCER.

For seven years | suffered with a cancer on
my face. All the simple remedies were applied
to alleviate the pain. but the place continued
To grow. finally extending into my nose. from
which came a yellowish discharge very often
annoyed me great deal. About eight months
ago | was in Atlanta, at the house of a friend,
who SO strongly recommended the use Of
Swift's Specific that | determined 10 make an
effort TO procure il. In this | was successful.
and began its use. The influence of the medi-
cine at first was to somewhat aggravate the
sore: but soon the Inflammation was allayed.
and began To improve after the first few bot
ties. My general health has greatly improved.
am stronger, and able To do any kind Of work.
The cancer on my face began TO decrease and
the ulcer To heal until there is not a yestigr Of
il left-Only little scar marks the place where
IL had been. | am ready TO answer all ques-
tions relative TO this cure.
MRs. JoICIE A. MCDoSALD.
Atlanta. Ga. August IL, 1885.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

The danger to pedestrians from
passing close TO horses hitched to the
:urb-stone is eHempiitied in the follow
ing. clipped from the Worcester (Mass. }
Spy: Miss Mary A. Brown, of Oxford.
was passing vicious horse in the street
recently when he male lunge at her
and bit her ear entirely off. She raised
her haud 10 ward the enraged animal
of. and he seized it in his teeth and bit
quite through the flesh.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

In London play the stage swarms with
a demonstrative crowd cheering the troops
returning from Egypt, and among them po-
licemen are seen moving in the most natur-
al manner 1t struck one of the supers that
the interests of dramatic realism would be
forwarded if he assaulted one of the stage
police So he approached 44s E. and at a
favorable moment gave him zone in the
wind 1t led to free fight that brought
in a real policeman. and the super was next
morning fined six shillings.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

The day is not far distant when We
will have to depend on the Galloway
cattle for buffalo robes. Their robes are
equal to the buffalo, but first-class robe
must come of Of a full blood, or very
near It. and will be high priced, unless
the Gallowsys becomes very popular and
arc more extensively used. d.-
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04
There was an announcement of the Il

There was an announcement OF the mar
rage of John l.. Sullivan. and the Awful
Slugger was telegraphed TO with the i'll
auiry if il was he. And thus the Awful
Slugger replied: You can bet all Boston it
was not Boston's John Lawrence Sullivan.
Once is enough for me" And once was
one too many for Mrs. Sullivan. no doubt
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

As the senate Is about to meet. those gen
tlemen who have. during the vacation, been
slipped into places that offensive partisans"
have been fired out of are on the anxious
seat. There is cold sweat upon them
with the effort of guessing what the senate
will do about their appointments and what
persons and papers will be asked for in the
debates an continuation
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

The point is very solemnly made that the
supreme courts decision on the registry law
should be held in great respect because ii
was unanimous But there have been oc-
casions where much larger bodies Of men
have made unanimous asses OF themselves.
Even popular majorities sometimes do 50.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

1,have had a cancer on my face for some
years, extending from one cheek bone across
the nose TO the other. it has given me great
deal Of pain. at times burning and itching 70
such an extent that IL was almost unbearable
| commenced using Swift's Specific in May
1855, and have used eight bottles. 1t has given
the greatest relief by removing the infiamma-
tion ana restoring my general health.
W. BARNES
Knoxville, Iowa, Sept s. 1885.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04
Mere apuars to I've technical obsti

There appears to he technical obstacle
n the way of putting Logan into the presi-
Aency of the senate, because he has first to
be sworn in as a reelected senator and
there has to be president to perform the
swearing-in. Very well, Sherman would
be about the proper person to be in to swear
Logan in And then, if Logan found he
couldn't get votes enough to elect him,
Sherman would be there.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04
FRIDAY EVENING. oeceMsEa = 1885.

Mr. Cleveland is beginning to discover his
mistake in not attending the vicepresident' 5
funeral. Ii was a most fiabby and ridlcu-
Ious mistake: and he will not hear the last
of il for a long time.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

The liberals are deriving great comfort
from the later elections in Great Britain.
The counties are coming in. according Ia
prophecy. with large liberal gains, 1t is a
little too much to hope that the liberals will
have majority over both tories and Par
nellites combined. but there is just chance
that such will be the result. The list now
ssspds-liberals 2Ii. tories 215, Parnellites
5s. The Grand Old Man is looming up
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

A pIeasure-seekIng company OF the gen.
tie Apaches have broken out of their reSer-
yation again, and are amusing themselves
i'm Draining. scalping and mutilating the
palefaces of the frontier. These unSophis-
ticated and romantic children of the forest
must have their pastime. The Us. troops
will go after them. and, after an expense of
two or three hundred Thousand dollars in
the chase. will catch them. bring them back.
and issue Us. rations To them all winter;
while the fond philanthropists of remote
New England will write pretty lamenta-
tions over their wrongs.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

Mr.. Cleveland, by his solemn printed
statement OF his reasons for not riding
across the country to attend funeral at
which he was due, has set all the bloody
cranks in the United States to thinking
about the fame that might be attained by
removing" him at home
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

ed by attorney Geo. K. Nash, a petition
was filed for mandamus to compel his royal
hi highness clerk Dalton, of the empire OF
Hamilton county, to do his duty and make
returns of the votes for state officers cast at
a late alleged election there. The court al
lowed an alternative writ, returnable to-
morrow; and tomorrow the question will
be argued whether the said Dalton. namely,
to-wit. s. aforesaid, is to act under the laws
Of Ohio or under the higher power Of Gin
cinnati bummerism.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

1t looks as if the fighting We're about to be
resumed in the Balkans-if it has not al
ready been resumed. Alexander has sent a
circular 10 the powers ASKING them 10 appre-
ciate the fact that he had been attacked and
was fighting on the defensive; that he had
forced the Servians 10 retire TO their own
territory: that Austria had forced him to an
armistice: and that even after the armistice
declared, and during its continuance, the
Seryians had continued hoSriities at Wild
din. The Turkish pasha tried to assume the
government of ROumelia, and the people
those of them not in the Bulgarian army,
would not have it. They said they were in
with Bulgaria and intended To stay there,
and would not hear to any status quo ante.
Thus Turkey seems to have put herself into
a parenthesis that she will probably have to
fight out Of Russia and Austria are just on
the bloody edge of h0stilities; and the whole
war-cioud blackens and deepens.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04
wooD-NoTES FROM A CAGE.

Hhst-what-what there, nv pet canary
What are you trying, my town-bred birdl
You, whose performance used never 70
vary.
All, can guess II the rogue you've heard !
Day after day, in.your bright brass dweih
ing,
You lived in comfort; you took your dip;
Your cup ran over with seeds for shelling;
Your dear delight was celery-up.
PrimJy and trinity you slick ed your feathers;
To swing in the ring yOg considered bliss.
And you sang, sang. sang in all seasons
and weathcrs,
With Il swelling throat, such & song -
this
"Sweet, sweet. sweet,
Seeds-to-eat!
Swee-eetr
Just-hear-me-trIll like . riIL rill, riii
Sweet sweet, sweet"
But away at the farmhouse last July, sir.
Don't | know who, in the dawn and dew,
Tame. Ike flame, TO the branch near by
Flashing, and dsshing. and tauntins your
Who hut the Oriole. orange and sable?
Brilliant Lord Baltimore. velvety -necked.
Nhistling out clear, through the morn 5
gay babel.
Something to this provoking effect:
"You're Gagged ] see. T is MT fair, but
don't care!
I'm free, free free! Ohio, it's rare,-and
don't care!"
"FrceF-You listened and learned his
meaning
Shadow and meadow and hreez tree
Cherry and berry,-fitting and cleaning
Mating and building
"Oh, free, FREQ, free!"
And now you repeat, though n trihe queer
ly,
That nonchalant melody, Ger and DER,
And persuade yOurself-or so very near
ly.-
You are quite as content as you were be-
fore:
"-'T is MT fair. but don't care!
~ don't care"
Helen Gray Cone. in 81. NichOids.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

Mayor Grace. of New York city, has a
suit of libel against Joseph Pulitzer, owner
of the World At his instance. Mr.. Pulitzer
was arrested yesterday morning in his
office, and had to hustle round and give bail
in s.. 900. though he offered a cheek for
$50. 900 or slO0.O if the officer thought
the court wanted money. But the officer.
speaking for the law, said that filthy lucre
would not keep 10 out of jail unless he
put up the statutory bond: which Joseph
finally inconyenienced himself so much as
to do. The World seems to have been in
dulging in Enquirer methods as to Mr..
Grace's name and reputation.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

The Xenia Torchlight surprises us with a
long catalogue of Springfield republicans
who. the Torchlight says. don't want the
earth but want places under the new
deal The names are. eX-Sheriff Coffin,
Chas W. Shewalter, Graham Deuel.. Ali.
Cowan, and Dr. Hazard; the first for war
clerk in the adjutant general Office. the third
for clerk in the governors Office. the fourth
for transcribing clerk, and the fifth for state
stock commissioner. We have heard moth
ing about all this. and We hardly believe it
light has omitted-R. F. Hayward. for ser
geant-at-arms of the house; which the same
he is going to get there.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-04

Our intelligent and valued correspondent
C.'s communication entitled Tribute to
the Memory of the Late Thomas A. Hen
bricks" is exceedingly well written. and
appears to us to be the truth of history; but
We question the taste of making distin-
guished mans death the occasion for
preaching the mistakes of his public life.
The faults of live mans character are not,
10 our thinking, becoming or charitable
texts for the dead mans funeral. What
would be legitimate criticisms on him while
he was alive do not seem tO us to be appro-
pirate topics for discussion about him when
he is lying in his coffin. Let those who
love him and mourn for him say such sooth
ing and flattering things of him as they feel
al the sad hour. 1t would not be decorous
10 crowd in and shock the mourners with
disputative words. however true. At any
rate, that is our feeling; and that is the
reason, and the only reason, We decline to
print our correspondents communication.