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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-11

The height of the srss throwing shad-
ow of twenty feet whould be thirty feet
because, as two feet is to three, so is twen-
ty feet to thirty feet. By this method
you can measure any tree that the sun
shines upon, provided there is nothing to
hinder measuring its shadow.
But suppose the sun isn't shining, 5hap
here is another method; Take two stakes
of any convenient length-say S, and 10
feet; take direction from. shs. tree in
which the ground is leve. and set up the
stakes so that their tops will range with
the top of the tree. Multiply the distance
from the short stake to the tree by TIE
difference ia the length of the stake and
divide by the distance which ,',e stakes
stands apart, then add the length of the
short stake and the sesr If will bs the
height of the tree.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-11

ia" EGGS FOR THE SIcK.-We may
speak OF o article. highly nutritious,
Easily y .gested and retained, and but
n'.le used, viz: raw eggs. The only OBJ
!o lion to their use is the individual OBJ
]ectlons of the patients, and this only
before the first is taken, for they seldom
object afterward. The egg may be broken
into glass, care being taken that the
yolk is not broken, and little salt and
pepper may be added if desired. The patti
emit has scarcely the trouble of swallowing
it, for it goes down itself. We have seen
patients retain easily and even relish
raw egg who could retain nothing else;
more than six hundred have been taken
in one case within three or four months.
1t goes without saying that the egg should
be carefully selected; and, indeed, for
fear that one which has seen its best day
should disgust the pat tent, it were better
to prepare the egg gu. of his sight.
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2;poefrp.
A Culprlt.

The maiden aunt In her straight-backed chair,
With flush on her pale and wrlnked cheek,
And Mortified, mortified, mystihed air,
Was just about to speak.
And the maiden mecca nice little maid
Stood meekly twin ling her thumbs about,
With half triumphant, half-afrad
And wholly bewitching pout.
Said the maiden aunt; twill you please explain
What your heads were doing so close together?
You could easily, assure you. Jane,
Have KIN ocked me down with feather!
"When think Of your bringing up-my care
. My scrupuous care-and it's come to this! You
Appeared to be sitting calmly there,
And letting young man kiss you!
'.Now tell me at once just what he said,
And what you replica. This is quite trial.
So do not stand there and hang your head
Or attempt the least denial!
"If catch you once more in such a-fx,
Though YOU are eighteen, I can tel you, Jane,
shall treat you just as if you were six,
And send you to school again!
ssAre you going to tell me what he said
And what you said? I'll not stand this trifng.
So look at me. Jane! Lift up your head!
Don't do as If you were stifing!'
Her voice was shaken-of course, with fear,
'He saddle said. will you have me, Janef,
And said I would. But indeed, Aunt, dear,
Wen never do SO againr'
Margaret TandegrJss, in the Century.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-11

Potato MUFFINs.-Bake with their
Jackets on, four large-sized potatoes until
they are mealy. Then take them out of
the oven. cut them open, and beat up t It
inside until quite smooth, asoning wi
a little salt and adding two ounces OF cl II.
flied butter and enough warm wa er to
make the mixture thin batter. The I.
add three beaten eggs and three plnts OF
the best -four. Mix into dough and then
knead into it tea spoonful of soda dis
solved into pint of luke-warm water,
alse cupful Of fresh yeast. Let the
dough rise over night, and then put it
into rings, baking the mullins On griddle
to light brown. When done on one sid
they should be turned. They should no
be cut when eaten. but first toasted a lit
tie, torn open and buttered. Caterer
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-11

TRAIN NOTES.
Trains 290 and 29l daily, 2S8 daily to Harrison
burg only.
Connections at Harpers Ferry for all points
West at Strasburg with Manassas Branch Va
Midland at StauntOn with Chesapeake & Ohio
R. r.; at Lexington with Richmond & Allegheny
r. II.
WESTWARD.
Fast Limited Express, daily. for Chicago and
Pittsburg leaves Baltimore at 9.G0 a. m !; Washing
ION 10 90 a IN. Arrives at Chicago 90 a. m Pitts
burg SOP m.
Express daily for Cincinnati and St. Louis lea
Baltimore at 80 p M; Washington 81 p. m and
Harpers Ferry at Sc p m. Arrives at Cincinnati
at 7 80 a. NJ; st. Louis Bop M
Night Express daily for st. Louis and Chicago
leaves Baltimore at 90 p III Washington 10 10p
m, and Harper'S Ferry IL 81 p. m. arrives at
Cincinnati $50 p. m, st. Louis 80 a. M, Chicago
$40 a m
Night Express daily for Pittsburg leaves Balti-
more at s 90 p. m. Washington 10 p NJ, and
Harper'S Ferry at 10 40 p M Arrives at Pittsburg
80 a. m.
B. & o. Palace Sleeping Cars run through to
express trains.
For tickets and further information apply to B.
& .. Agents or to F. BOND. Pass. Agent Balti
NOR c. E. DUDROw, Travelling Pass. Agent,
StaunIOn, Va
*. LORD, L. M COLE.
Gen'l Pass. Agent. Gen'l Ticket Agent.
DAVID LEE.
may15 Gen'l Supt.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-11

PUMPKIN MARMALADE.-Pare, corr
and cut into small pieces medium-siz-'
ripe pumpkin of rich color; take six
pounds of sugar. one pint of good cider
vinegar, dozen cloves and oun &c Of best
root ginger; bruise the ginger and tie it
with the cloves in spice bag, put it With
che sugar and vinegar in an earthen jar or
porceIain-llned kettle that will hold two
gallons; when it gets warm put IN as much
pun kin as the jar will hold, pressing it
down, and boil it until it is well cooked
lit will be quite transparent and soft;
take it out with strainer and set it near
the fire while the liquid boils to thir
syrup, put the pumpkin back Into the jan
aud let it boil for half an hour. crushing
it as much as possible the while with :
wooden spoon.-Boston Budget.
VEGETABLES which lose soma Of Their
color by being boiled may have that co.. +
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nR. Fl. NJ. PATTERSON-offers his profession
~ al services to the citizens of Staunton.-
Office No ll5 Main St, opposite the Opera House.
nov 81 On
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-12-11

VEGETABLES which lose some of thei,
color by being boiled may have that co.. r
restored bv plum ling them for an instant
in cold water, Immediately after removing
from the boiling water.
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Will treat all diseases of the Eye Ear and Throat
Eye tested and suitable glasses prescribed.
OFFICE.-No. Is, N. Augusta Street,
july 31-3mo, Stanton, Va.
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FARM AND PRESIDE.

MEASURING HEIGHTS OF TREEs.-A
writer in The Garden reproduces an old
but convenient method of ascertainiag
the height of tree as follows;
Suppose l want to find tie height of a
tree which throws shadow of twenty feet.
In the first place, 1 should cut stick.
say 9, feet long, stick it up opposite the
required tree, and measure the shadow of
it. We will suppose the stick throws
shadow of two feet, now all I have to do
is just to make simple proportion sum
of it.
Shadow of Shadow of Height of
stick tree stick
2 feet: 90 feet: 8 feet
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20

force. The tendency is to arrest the mo-
ton of the comet i'm its fight from the
sun, till, by and by, its flight is arrested.
like the upward flight of a stone which has
been projected is arrested by gravitation
and turned, and drawn towards the
centre of the earth. The rcpelling force
exerted upon the comet itself now being
overcome by the attractive force exerted
upon the particles which are associated
with it, the comet begins to move towards
the sun. slowly, perhaps, at first, but still
gathering to itself the ~sweepings of space
and moving on with accelerating speed as its
load increases and the distance to the sun
diminishes, till it reaches the point in
relation to tie sun where the struggle of
forces going on-tle repulsion Of the comet
and the attraction of its load by the sun
splits the comet and takes from it its load,
and drives it again emptied back into
space to repeat its journey Of a longer or
shorter duration in the same or some
other direction. sOh, Lord. how mani
fold are Thy works; in wisdom hast Thou
made them all. The Heavens declare Thy
glory and the armament showeth forth
Thy handiwork.'
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20
F0UR LITERARY MARRIAGES.
People of Letters whose Married Life
Sayors of Romance.

savers of Romance
William d. Howells, who welded the
sister of Larkin G.. Mead, the sculptor,
divides his time between literature and his
family. He is SO much i'll love with his
wife that some of his friends say that he
sees in her all the fine varieties of her sex
and from her fashions his interesting hero
ines, looking at her from different angles.
He does not need, like Goethe, Balzac, and
so many literary artists, TO WOO women in
order to pluck out the mystery of their
hearts for the establishment of his fiction.
To him his wife is representative of what
ever is womanly in woman. THIS is the
~loftiest idealization of marriage.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. the nov
elist, differs from the most non-literary
wives in the circumstance that she is con-
spicuously-they might say foolishly-in
love with her lord. They are as intimate
no thought or feeling that they do not
share. They might be termed a connubial
pair of spoons. The late II. H, Mrs. Helen
Hunt, whose second husband was William
S. Jackson, had many of the traits aseribed
to genius, but indifference to her husband
was not one of them. They were very
fond Of one another and he was always her
last court of appeal. The same might be
said of Julian Hawthorne, J. w. DeForest
Mark Twain (Clemens), Charles Dudley
Warner. or almost any writer. If there
las ever been a time when INK caused
matrimonial discord it has long gone by,
especially in this country.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. who made a
loye-match when amere boy, running away
with the pretty girl who had fascinated
him. has kept up the romance ever since;
and he is now, although comparatively
young, a grandfather. He does not, after
the manner of many singers. reveal all bis
poetry to the outside world and preserve
his prose for indoor employment. What
ever lie writes his wife hears first, and she
is, he says, his g%entlest and yet his most
exacting critic.
Harriet Prescott (Spofford) has written
from her early girlhood. change of cir
cumstances having thrown the support OF
the family mainly upon her. A poet and
a genius, she might be thought to be me
of those Maynard, emotional, %inconstant
creatures who could never possess perma-
nent feeling and who would be constitu-
-
tionally incapable of true wifehood. But
the fact is that she is domestic to the
core. She and her husband, Richard s.
Spofford, went to school together, were in
love with one another as girl and boy, and
are as much in love to-day as when they
were in their teens. She thinks there is
but one man in the world-indeed, there
is but one for her-and that man is her
husband. She is never quite content in
his absence and welcomes him on his re-
turn as she probably did when he had
first declared his love. And he, too, is
literary, though he seldom writes, having
the duties of his profession to engross his
time. They are an idyllic couple in their
affections. dyed though they be in ink.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20

floor while bravely waiting for father, =
and two pale-faced boys asleep on a low
bed against the wall. Upon the boys
faces were traces of tears, fer they were
only little fellows of four and six, and had
cried themselves to sleep because they were
hungry.
The face moved from the window. and
the mar to whom it belonged opened the
door and walked in.
wife, he said, bending down TO kiss
his wife's worn face for the first time in
years, I've been an idiot and a brute, and
III net ask you to forgive me tonight.
I'll wait until you thank God that | am,
All. Celia, you're waking, child. Flor
ence Burr will never buy any more pink
boots with the money that belongs to the
little ones. I've been over to Sergeant
Wright's, working hard at backing
toves for four hours, and while I black
ened the stoves, he whitened my heart a
little. God bless himl lie paid NE, too, a
good price and tomorrow I'm to begin
work in his tin shop. Wake up the poor
little boys, Celia, my lear little girl. Tell
them their father. and not a brute. has
come home, and brought such a supper
that they'll shout for iov.i
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20
A POw,FUL LECTURE ON TEMPER
ANCE.

Two colored BARRIERS. one an old man and
the other a young one. The young man
took off his apron and started out the door.
"You's gwine to get a drink, Jim?'
asked the older.
Oats what Is gwine ter do"
Go and git yo' drink. used ter do de
same ting when I wuz young. When |
wuz fust married dar WIZ a gin-mill next
to the shop whar' wicked, and | spent in it
fifty and seyenty-fiye cents a day outen de
dollah an a half l earned. Wall, one
mawnin' | went into de butchah shop, and
who should come in but the man what KEEP
de old Ticker shop"
"tGib me ten or twelve pounds of potter
house steak, he said"
'.IIe got it an went out. | sneaked up
to de butchah. an looked to see how much
money | had lef.
Now what do you want?H asked de
butchah.
s'Gib me ten cents wuf oh libber'' wuz
my reply.
at wuz all | could pay fur. Now yo' go
an get yo' drink. You'll eat libber; but
the man what sells yo' de stuff W i'll hab his
po'terhouse steak. De man benin de bar
eats po'terhouse steak-de man in front
cats libber. l amt touched de stuff in
thirty yeahs, an | am eatin po'terhouse
steak myself. "-Detroit Free Press.
4 young lady tells of a very novel expert
ment she tried which resulted in a pretty
household ornament. She took a common
goblet. put in one tablespoonful of salt and
one spoonful Of blueing, and filled the
goblet two-thirds full of water. The glass
was put in a place where there was plenty
of warmth and sunlight, and 4 beautiful
transformation took place. In a short
time sparkling crystals began forming on
the outside of the glass and soon the entire
goblet was ~encrusted, presenting a pretty
sight. When the sunlight shone on tbs
glass the crystals shone like so man,
diamonds. The goblet has been placed OF
a bracket and filled with grasses, and forms
a very attractive ornament for any room
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20
a YEARS POSTAL APPOINTMENTS.

First Assistant Postmaster General
Stevenson, in his report upon the opera
lions of his bureau, places the number Of
Presidential Post Offices at 2 e23 with 40
019 under his own control. The whole
number of appointments during the year
was II 203, made up as the follows: On re-
signations and commissions expired, 6,204;
removals and suspensions, $40; changes
Of names and sites, 207; deaths of post
masters, 412; establishment of new offices.
2,221. The total number Of money order
offices was G, 1922. an increase of 749 over the
preceding year. The number of changes
in postniasters during the preceding year
and the large decrease in the number of
cases acted upon during the year. as com
pared with the preceding year, was due,
says General Stevenson. to the fact thai
very few changes were made in those offices
during the winter months.
The report states that the number of free
delivery offices at the end Of the year was
15S, an increase of 10 and the number of
carriers. 4, 1853, an increase of 4GS. The
entire cost Of the service was So, 985. 952.
The service has now been extended to
arly all cities having a population of 90
600 inhabitants or returning $50, 900 gross
receipts per annum. The First Assistant
Postmaster General recommends its extern
sion to places of 10, 600 inhabitants having
a gross revenue of so, GOO.
The total amount for clerk hire in Post
Offices was 81, 924, 500; for salaries of Post
masters q, 435) adjusted during the year,
So, 701, 600; for salaries of Presidential
Postmasters, SO, $50, COO. Sixteen thous-
and five hundred and twenty-one salaries
were reviewed and readiusted. As a re-
suit fourteen offices were added to the
Presidential list, and 1874 were reduced to
the fourth class. The grand total of gross
receipts at Presidential offices for the four
quarters ended March 81. 1885, was $751;
49,. POO, and the aggregate salaries of the
Postmasters will absorb 11.42 per cent of
the revenues. Three million eight nun
bred thousand dollars Will be required TO
pay the salaries of Presidential postmas-
ters during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1887. The amount of compensation for
clerk hire required during the same period
is estimated at So, $50, 900, making the total
estimates for this branch of the service, in
cluding miscellaneous items, 50, 81, 900.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20
ONE DAY AT TIME.

One day a time! That's all it can be;
No faster than that in the hardest fate.
And days have their limits, however we
Begin them TOO early and stretch them TOO
late.
One day at a time
Its a wholesome rhyme.
y good one to live by,
\ day at a time.
One day at a time. Every heart that aches
Knows only too well how long that can seem;
But it's never to-day which the spirit breaks,
H'sfhe darkened future without n CLEAN.
One day at a time.
Its a wholesome rhyme,
\ good one TO live by,
\ day at a time.
One day AT n time! A burden too great
To be borne for two can be borne for ono:
Who knows what will enter to-morrow's gafes
While yet we are speaking all may be done.
One day at a time!
It's a wholesome rhyme,
good one to live by
One day at a time.
One day at Il time. When joy is at height
such as the heart can never forget
And pulses are throbbing with wild delight,
How hard to remember that suns must set.
one day at a time,
Its "A wholesome rhyme.
\ good one TO live by,
day al a time.
One day at a time But a single day,
Whatever its load, whatever its length:
And there's a Bit of precious Scripture to say
That, according to each, shall be our strength.
One day M Il time,
It's a wholesome rhyme.
\ good one 10 live by,
\ day at a time.
one day at a time. 'Tis the whole ofiife,
All sorrow. all joy are measured therein.
The bound of our purchase. onr neiilest strife.
The one only eountersign, sure 70 win.
One day at a time
Its II wholesome rhyme.
\ good one TO live by,
i day at Il time.
IN H." in Independent.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20
THE SENGERs.

tod sent his singers upon earth
With songs ofsadness and of mirtl.
That they might touch the hearts OF men.
And bring them back TO heaven again.
The first. 4 youth. with soul Of fire,
Held in his hand 4 golden lyfe:
Through groves he wandered and lay streams
Playing the music Of our dreams.
The second, with a bearded face.
stood singing in The fnarket-placc,
And stirred with accents deep and loud
IN hearts ofall the listening crowd.
a gray old man, the third and last,
sang in cathedrals dim and vast,
While the majestic organ rolled
Contrition from III mouths of goid.
And those who heard the singers three
Disputed which the best might be;
For still their music seemed to starr
Discordant echoes in each heart.
But the great Master said, Il sec
No best in kind, but in degree
L gave a various gift to each,
To charm, TO strengthen, and TO teach.
These are the three great chords of might,
And he whose ear is tuned Alright
VIII hear no discord in the three,
But the most perfect harmony
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20
riaE WIDOWS BULL noG.
Two bad Mem Induced Her TO Let
Him Fight.

Some weeks ago a widow moved into
Detroit from IA town in the western part Of
the State. She brought with her a bull
dog, which showed game in every move
ment. and it was not long before every
butcher and sport in the neishborhood
wanted to buy that dog. The widow
wouldn't sell at any price. The next thing
to buying tile dog was to get UP a fight be-
tween him and another canine of blood
thirsty appearance, but the widow wouldn't
hear to this.
Il want you to understand, = she indig-
nantly replied, that | am a respectable
woman and give no encouragement to such
things"
Still, there were one ortwo men who did
not despair. They began to conspire, and
as a result they led a fighting dog into a
barr near the widows house the other day,
and one Of they paid a call at the house
and said:
sIn course vi knows how you feels about
this dog fighting. We feel the same, but
there's a woman across the alley who owns
a dog which she brags on"
''She can't be no lady was the retort.
exactly, ma'am, or she wouldn't speak
of you as she does
''Speak of me9 Why, | don't know
herr
sIn course you don't, and should hate
to tell you what she says of you"
e.But you must! If she's talking about
me | want to know what she says!'
"But, ma'am, yoa'll excuse me- you
know
"No. won't! What does she say?'
"Well, then, begging your pardon, she
makes fun of your red hair
.'She does?"
''And she ridicales your dress.
.sThe ~vixen.'
.sAnd she says she never saw such feet
on a woman."
'I'll sue her for SANDER! I'll see a law
yer at once..'' exclaimed the woman.
s'We've got her dog in the barn, ma'am.
It's a dog she brags on. She was a-saying
yesterday that if her dog could only get at
o Il dog once there
s.But he can, You go into the backyard
and unite Bravo and take him over there.
If he can't whip any such woman's dog
I'll disown him.
Exactly, ma'am, and you can trust me
to see fair play. The arrogant head OF
SIGH a slanderfuI, boasterous woman should
be humbled, you knew, and it's you who'll
do it,
The dog was taken to the barn and he
did not ~disappoint his hackers. After a
fight Of fifteen minutes he was declared
fine victor. and as the referee gave his dc
cision the widows voice was heard, say
ing:
Good. that pays her for abusing my
hair. I'll fix her ON the big feet before the
week is out!'
She had been watching the fight through
the cracks ofthc harn.--Dcfroa ffee Ffess.
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HE REFORMED.

There is a young man in this city, a good
looking young fellow, who has sweetheart
out in the country a few miles, and he
spends two evenings every week in her
society. A few nights ago he stayed to the
usual hour, and, as he passed ont the front
door. he discovered that it was cloudy and
dark.
He did not relish the idea of driving home
alone through the gloomy night, and hint
ed around a good deal to get an invitation
to remain. but. it was not forthcoming. But
the young man was equal to the emer-
gency.
Going down the steps he artiicially con-
trived to slip, and fall gently to the ground.
Thereupon he quickly set up a tremendous
groaning.
The ruse worked admirably. The girl
screamed, and the men folks jumped out
of bed and carried the young man tenderly
into the house. His horse was put up, and
he was assisted to undress, and deposited
in the spare chamber.
He had hardly begun to chuckle over the
success of the stratagcm when the girls
mother put in an appearance, armed with a
mustard plaster a foot square, and of ten
horse drawing power. This She Immediately
proceeded to clap ON the small ofthe young
mans back, where he had incautiously
located the damage to his frame.
For two mortal hours that woman sat by
the bed. and was not satisfied till she be-
held with her own eyes, a blister an inch
deep. The young man is now a reformed
liar couaca Bluffs Noaparea.