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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-05-27

Mr.. Pelham, how can you think so basely
of me ?''
"Basely, my dear? 1 don't comprehend
you ?'
She was beginning to cry now-big spark
ling drops like the first glittering diamonds
of July shower.
81 don't leve him. 1 never can love
him"
"But why not, my dear ?''
"Because I love somebody else," she
sobbed, growing pinker and prettier than
ever
"Who is it, Maggie? You'll tell me,
won't you? Why child" as she shrank
bushingly back. 81 am old enough to be
your father ~
"You are not % she exclaimed indignant
ly, ''and you are the last person in the
world | would tell ~
"My darling, why not %
The enigmas these women are Instead
of answering me, she began to cry again,
as if her dear little heart would was going
| to break.
And suddenly great light flashed in up
"Magdalen! Darling! Is 1t me that
you love-"
And in another moment she was laugh
ing and crying on my breast
And that is the way l won this peerless
rose among women to be my wife-and
don't think she has ever regretted marry
ing the oil ~.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-05-27
COAL YARD.
S1'AUNT0W STEAM MILLS
Il NeiU Establishment.

CORN MEAL, HOMINY, GROUND PLAS-
TER, CORN MEAL FEED.
The undersigned has erected new STEAM
POWER MILLS at the junction of Greenville
Avenue and Gas House Alley for the purpose
OF conducting Corn Milling and the Ground
PLASTER trade. The mills are new and the whole
esta blishment in comp etc working order.
Newly ground Bolte Meal, Corn meal Feed,
and Hominy. on hand at all times, and the
trade promptly served.
Ia IL Nj ICRS will find it to tn cir inter
est 10 send in their custom grinding, which
will be espatched with prOmptness, and also
to make their purchases of Plaster from me.
aprl5-tf ]. A. HANGER.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-05-27

SOAL. COKE, yVGOD. AND FERTILE
v EERs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-05-27
IN MAY.

NV best beloved, the Spring is fair,
The woods are green and life is good;
Will YOU not come with me and tread
The tangle-covered paths and wood?
The wild flower blanches all the copse,
With hyacinth the hedge is blue,
And every wakened leaf seems fair,
But not SO fair as you
While blackbirds sing on hazel twigs,
Through the dim arches of the trees,
The cuckeo's distant cry is borne
Across the meadow by the breeze.
The thrush's song is sweetest far,
But saddens as the hours go by;
You hear ?-the nightingale's in love,
But not so much as I.
VIII you not listen to the spring?
What tender voices do you hear?
Have violets no speech for you
Is 10: the nightingale's song dear?
Yet, somenow, though you catch the sound
You miss the meaning of the strain;
All! why not have more joy from love,
With not so much of pain d?
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-05-27

FATAL Work OF CYcLoNE.-TRe-
ported for the Spirit. j. E. Landes, OF
Augusta county, Va, who, with his family,
moved to Holden, johnson county, Mo,
met with serious misfortune on the night
of the 9th of the present month. During
a terrific cyclone his house was blown
away and his entire family received ini1-
ries, some OF which have already proved
fatal. Mrs. L., though badly hurt tried to
find shelter, when the wind blew her babe
from her arms and carried it distance of
thirty yards. 1t was afterwards found
dead with its skull broken. Mrs. L., re-
ceived serious injuries in the back, but it
is thought not fatal Mrs L., is a sister of
Mrs. Geo. W. Slower and Mrs. N. F. A.
Cupp; the former now living at Folly
Mills, Augusta county, and the latter at
Singers Glen, Rockingham county.
Mr.. Landes is well known to some in
Rockingham county, as he was miller for
Hon. John F. Lewis for several years, and
from which place he moved to Missouri.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-05-27
Cheer Up! Help is at Hand.

II am afraid will have to be taken to a
hospital or to the poorhouse. I've been
sick so long that nv husband, good and pa
tient as he is, can't stand the worry and
expense much longer" No, you won t,
dear wife and mother. See what Parker's
Tonic will do for you. Plenty of women
as badly off as you are, have been rescued
almost from the grave by it. 1t will build
usc'' -, curing all ailments of the stomach,
nd kidneys and is :; pie, pleasant,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-05-27

CAPITAL PRIZE, $15O,OOO

"We do hereby certify that aoe supervise the ar
D,GgSi1los OF The louisiana State Lottery Compa-
M ana IN person, manage and control the Dra,0-
inns themselves and that the same are conducted
s"g6 h0nestU fairness, and in good faith to,Uard
ali parties, and zoe authorize the Company to use
f6iS certificate 1Oth Jdc-si1ateS Of signatures
ottocbed in IFS advertisements"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
AN IMITATION COAL NINE.

Remarkable Attraction at the Paris Indus
trial Exposition.
Lucy Hooper's Letter.
bit of Partisan slang-its great attraction" &C
cording to American phraseology-is the coal
mine, which is most wonderful representation
of the real thing, particularly when one remem-
bers the comparatively limited space at the dis
posal of its constructors Nothing is wanting to
render the illusion perfect except perhaps real
live miners, those that people the mine being in
wood. Their working suits lamps, tools, ETC., are
exact fac-simies of the genuine article The Wis
itor is lowered into the mine from the second story
of the Palais de rIndustre, the place itself being
situated on the ground floor. A guide accom-
panies each group of visitors, and points out
everything that is curious or characteristic. In
one place is shown a cavingin by reason Of the
breaking of the wooden props that support the
roof. In another the old method of ventilating
mine by means of fire was represented-a
process that has long since been replaced by
more scientific and less dangerous methods and
baskets, most dangerous looking procedure.
AS we paced the dark, narrow CORR
doris Ia good deal higher and wider, the
guide assured us. than such passages in
the real mine), it was actually startling to come
upon the wooden figures of the miners working
pushing wagons, ETC., giving one the idea Of
&C tual human beings petrifed at their vocations,
and with their CLASSY eyes shining in the lamp
light A very few minutes suffced to complete
the inspection of this mosS curious portion of
the exhibition, which certainly seems to give the
visitor very thorough and perfect idea of the
inner workings 81 a coal mine Zola's last novel
'Germinal, has made the subject popular and,
despite small additional charge for admission,
the mine counts its hundreds of visitors daily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
LIFE IN AMSTERDAM,

Girl Athletes at the Public Pleasure Grounds
Rare Sport for the Women.
Letter in Boston Transcript.
A phase of Dutch mdde-class life was re-
vealed to us last evening. We were walking
along the quays that face the Y, or Het Ii. as
this portion of the Amsterdam harbor is called
by the natives searching for little steamboat
that would take US almost anywere when we
came upon boat that didn't look big enough to
steam very far from the city; certainly not into
Dutch very volubly, and, 1 have
no doubt. very correctly; but we got from him
only vague idea of where the boat was
going. However, we got on board, and found
thatw were on ferry-boat that went across the
to some pleasure grounds. Here we found
enough to entertain us for several hours-a grove
fitted up with all sorts of gymnastic apparatus
and scores Of people enjoying themselves to the
top of their bent The curious feature about
the place (asde from the astonishing fact that we
did not have to pay 70 enter the grounds-I still
think it was blunder on the part of somebody
that we did not) was that eight out of every ten
OF the athletes were young women, who seemed
to be fascinated with sports that are usually
monopolized by boys. 1t was not an extraordinary
thing to see young women of from twenty to
thirty swinging, but l greatly amused at
some of the feats that they did and at others
that they undertook to do. The giants stride"
as it is called in England is peculiarly boys
sport.
Four strong ropes, with big loops at the ends
are attached to movable block on a pivot at
the top of high strong post Yet these strong,
robust Dutch girls would half sit in these loops
and whirl around with all the abandon of born
athletes, touching foot now and then, sailing
into the air, laughing and shouting all the while.
1t was great sport for them, and at times it was
highly diverting to the spectators-when they
would miss their footing and get bumped against
each other. But they We're utterly unconscious
of everything except the enjoyment they got
from the exersise, and did not mind bumps or
being dragged around over the ground.
A rod or two further on would find half
dozen young women having a match to see who
could make the most rounds on a horizontal lad
der; and two or three put up spring board and
attempted jump, The girls had monopoly of
the sport that evening, certainly. There were
only few young about, and they
looked as if they thought the exercise would be
too violent for them. Moreover, these young
women were of fine appearance, many of them;
not rough, uncouth peasant girls, but intelligent
and ell-dressed-eyidently belonging to good
families. The color in their cheeks and the
buoyant easy manner in which they walked, in
dicated plainly enough the good which this
exercise does.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Arrangement of Chairs.

Anna Il. Dawes, in Good Housekeeping.
The majority of the women determine the ar
rangement of the chairs by the WALL more or less
obviously. There is sofa across corner of
the room, and in the angle is small chair; an
easy chair guards window. and another fills up
the corner made by the piano, while two smaller
chairs of different species flank the bay window.
If there is table in the center of the floor
another chair pla nts itself firmly beside that.
Otherwise and more commonly, the middle Of
the room is left vacant Now suppose visitors
appear. One sits on the sofa across the room
from the hostess, and the other, at
equal distance from the social pole,
looks out of the window. What posi-
bility of conversation is there in this talking
across spacea The situation is still worse when
a tea-party occurs. The guests literally line the
room The chairs are like those pockets in
well-ordered wOrk-bag which separate the differ
ent articles. When Mrs. A breaks through her
natural timidity sufficiently to suggest that the
day has been hot the company draws its breath
as it does when the man at the circus throws
knifes-no one knows where the remark will hit
And Mr.. B, who would have been charmed to
answer with the corresponding temperature of
year ago, dares not venture such statement in
the face of the brilliant Miss c, who sits at
other arc Of the awful circle. But if. by some
good chance, those chairs had settled near each
other, the blessed weather would have occupied
something more thar bad quarter of an hour,
and similar result having been achieved else
where. the social ball would have rolled too
briskly to need any attention from the hostess.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
The Princess Louise as ''Lady CowIey."

correspondence DObtOn herald
Aix-lesBains has been visited by over fifteen
thousand strangers. The hotels and lodgings
are crowded, and, altogether, the town is making
up for the losses last year, when the cholera
scare kept the place empty. The MARQUIS of
Lorne and the Princess Louise are the latest
distinguished arrivals. They are incognito, and
as Lord and Lady Cowley wander about at their
own sweet will, even going so far as to watch
the baccarat on Sunday evening in the Casino
Villa des Fleurs, where the crowd is Of charac
ter to which the word mixed family applies
Lord and Lady Cowley rubbed shoulders with
half the cocottes and blacklegs of Paris. What
would Victoria say And picture the counter
ance of the Duke Argyll! The Lornes occupy
suite of rooms at the Hotel DE alEurope which
the propretors of that favored establishment have
been keeping for them for the past month. and
yet, no sooner was the Princess Louise settled
in them than she found them inconvenient. and
wished to depart for a small hotel on the hill.
The royal lady was persuaded to at least to defer
this step until after the departure of the MARQUIS,
who only remains a few days. The Princess
Louise, though incognito, politely acknowledges
loyal salutes. The Marquis, though no longer
the Draw laddie he was. is a handsome man. even
in a lounging suit of dark gray cloth with blue
shirt and a brown billycock hat. He s.ros
lazily through the gardens, and seems to have an
eye for the beautiful, for he examines the lovely
guests of the Hotel de Europe with the atten.
ton of connoisseur Louise is besieged with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06

The Detroit Journal publishes from an old
newspaper, the Gazette, dated July 1917, the
following. which is good advice in 1855:
Ii you are for pleasure-narry!
If you prize rosy health-marry
And even if money be your obiect--marry!
A good wife is heavens last best gift to man
his angel and minister OF graces innumerable-
his Sal Polyesesium or gem of many virtues
his Pandora or casket of celestial jewels. Her
presence forms his best company-her voice. his
sweetest music-her smiles, his brightest day
her kiss, the guardian of his innocence-her
arms, the pale of his safety, the balm of his
health, the balsam of his life-her industry, his
suress wealth.her economy, his safest steward
her lips, his faithfulest counseliors-her
bosom, the softest pillow of his cares--and her
prayers the ablest advocates Of heavens bless
ings of his head.
If you love the Creator, you ought to
marry, to raise Him up worshipers; II you
love the ladies, you ought to marry, to make
them happy-if you love mankind you ought
to marry, TO perpetuate the glorious race-it
you love your country, you ought to marry to
raise up soldiers to defend tin fine, II you
wish we'll to earth or heaven, you, ought to
marry. to give good citizens to one and glorious
angels to the other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06


Dressing sacks are, to great extent. super
seding long gowns hitherto in use. These are
used for smoking, reading and general house
lounging purposes. They are decidedly expen-
siye, varying in price from $40 to $75. They are
made as rule, either of silk or of heavy En-
glish wooden. The dressing sack made of the
latter material is unlined and its edges are
either braided corded with handsome ma
terial A Japanese smoking jacket has been
seen that in appearance, stops just short of the
ferent colors, and is lined throughout with silk
Of the finest quality 1t is caught together in
front with Japanese knots, and it is perhaps
needless to say that the price affixed is in keep
ing with it general appearance Other and
cheaper sacks that are just as useful, probably,
as their more pretentous brothers, are made of
light weight French flannel.
Dressing gowns varied in hue and price as
the garments just described are on the market
and ready for selection. One that is particularly
attractive is made Of brocaded velvet. and lined
with satin the color of old gold Another is of
tricot, with lining of turquoise colored ma
teriai and is faced with brown satin. The
dressing gown is caught together in the same
manner as the Japanese jacket above mentioned.
Bath and sick-room wraps of tho best quality
are made from camels hair, soft English shawia
and blankets. They completely envelope the
figure, and numbers of them have soft, heavy
fringe at the bottom. They are fastened al tho
waist by corded girdle and are finished with
warm head covering in the form of a hood A
wrap of this kind made from Mexican blanket
is decidedly odd in appearance, and looks and
feels as though it would be of great service in
giving healthy glow to the body after bathing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Artistic Work that Pays.

New York Mail and Express.
The decorators and designers who are finishers
as we'll can be sure of good living, when artists
fail. And they know what hard times mean, let
me tell you. know of two ladies, we'll con-
neeted, and long established as artists, who last
winter went to charitable society to borrow SIS
to get something to eat. They had filled scores
of orders for fancy work for holiday presents for
rich patrons who neglected paying till the
artists money and credit were exhausted. Com
pare these ladies with the clever little repairer
and polisher who mends nice furniture, doing
bit of carving here, or gliding there, or paint
ing fresh decoration to suit the old style. and
counts her $50 week most of the year Put
her down by that foolish woman know who
has an idea she is poet because she has been
allowed to fill a corner in q weekly for two years
without pay, and means to spend all her savings
to publish her verses at her own expense
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Lottery Gambling.

Steamer Gossip in Atlanta Constitution.
But the Louisiana lottery is the worst gam
bling scheme / know of, he said. II have sold
on single trip $4,000 worth of tickets to parties
along the river, and not single prize has ever
been drawn by them once saw man in New
Orleans buy one hundred dollars worth interest
that he could not draw prize, and
he did not Sometimes, however, bait
is held out to catch suckers. ! know an
Industrious Irishman in New Orleans who had
accumulated a home and competency. In an
more unfortunately he won $4,000. he quit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Two Truths.

Darling he said, II never meant
To hurt YOU" and his eyes grew wet.
II would not hurt you for the world!
Am to blame if l forget9"
Forgive my selfish tears! she cried.
''Forgivei l knew that it was not
That you would mean to hurt me. love;
knew it was that you forgot
But, all the same deep in her heart
Ranked this thought, and rankles yet:
When love is at it's best one loves
So much that he can not forget!
Helen Hunt Jackson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
How 1t Tasted.
She was a maid Of many charms,

She was maid ofmany charms,
AS lovely as the rose:
She hello her poodle in her arms,
And fondly kissed his nose.
Her lover lying at her feet.
Was envious as could be;
And said, ooh. give a kiss as sweet
AS that, my love, to me-
She stopped and kissed him on the lips,
Then sprang he to his feet
She, blushing to her finger tips,
Inquired, We'll, vas it SWEET"
He wiped his mouth, picked up his cane,
And then prepared to jog,
Remarking, Sweet! well to be plain
1t kind O. tastes of dog"
Harvard Lampoon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06

attentions from the English aristocrats now So
journeying bere-they numerous. aud in
clude the Duchess of Manchester who. too.
watches the baccarat at the Casino-but as the
Princess has come here to enjoy herself she
only acknowledges those that suit her good
pleasure. Her doctor and her doctors wife ara
perhaps the most welcome guests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Treacherous Beasts.
sew York commercial Advertiser.

New YORK COmlneFCIaI AuVeIIIseT'
Empress, the performing elephant in travel
ing circus, mutilated and probably killed her
third victim of the season, at Philadelphia,
yesterday. 1t is not yet generally understood
that the elephant is the most treacherous and
revengeful of animals. That more children are
not killed at menageries through the careless
manner in which they are permitted to play with
the huge beasts on exhibition is a matter for
special wonder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
Fears the Effect of Example.

Philadelphia Times
The Oil City Blizzard has opened fund for
the erection of a suitable monument to mark
the site of the first oil we'll 1t is to be hoped
that this sort Of thing will not be kept up at the
rate at which it has begun. monument to
mark the site of the first plant of each one of
Pennsylvania industries would make a birds
eye view of the State resemble an enormous
cemetery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06

work and went into bucking against the lottery
again. In one years time he had lost his $40, 600,
his home, his other accumulations, and then
took to drink, and was dead in six months.
Money made in gambling is always lost 1t is
the honest bit alone that sticks. / have won
thousands OF dollars at the table which I was
free to tell but Fever told my losses"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-06
To Helen.

What was it drew me there that night!
Why was it, when looked on her,
My soul went out to meet her own,
And in her eyes I saw the light
OF subtle sympathy astir.
And thro' the group her presence shone
AS she and were there alonel
Howsstrange that, sitting in spell,
And noting all her bounteous charms,
Her lighting smile at words I said
And at the songs loved so well,
seemed to hold her in my arms
And stroke her autumn tinted head
And press her lips so warm and red
Why was it, when the guests depart,
That should single her from all
To say hoped again to be
Where her sweet song might thrill my heartl>
And when by chance it did befall
What one had warmly said of me,
Why should know that one was shes
o mighty sea of love! thy realm
Is wide, and deep, and all divine!
No law may check thy stronger sway
Nor bid thee not all bonds o'erwhelm,
Nor yet the poet soul confne
That finds within thy cleaning spray
The bliss and peace of living day!
For what is life if not of love,
And what has earth of happiness
If love no longer there abide?
So let no duty stand above
The duty our own hearts to bless,
To put all meaner things aside
And leap to meet the rising tide
Then beat no more thy muffed drums.
Maiden superb as she of Troy!
But shake thy hated shackles free,
For waking recognition comes
To join our hearts in throbbing JOY
Upon that happy summer sea
Whose waters wait for thee and me!
Ah on that boundiess golden sea
There shall be none to come between
To dim the glory of thine eyes
Or tear thy warm embrace from me,
And fairer shores than eye has seen
Shall on our raptured vision rise
The bl;ssful isles Of Paradise
Tho storms may darken sea and sky,
And voices call me back again,
o we will sail forevermore
And heed nor wave nor warning cry
But clasp each other closer then
And sweetly glide past every shore,
Nor wish our wild swift voyage eer!
Richard Lew Dawson