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Decorative Palms.

1t is singular that palms, perhaps the
noblest OF decorative plants, do not find
place in the collection of amateurs who
grow plants in rooms. The size of most
OF them has doubtless had much to do
with this, and the high prices of many
probably, a good deal more. There is no
special difficulty, however, in growing
some of them. A selection could be made
from the medium sized, slOw-grOWing
species that would not evertax the abili-
ties of a person somewhat experienced in
window gardening. Some of these make
their growth in the summer, and are
mostly dormant in the winter, except
when forced in high, moist tempera-
ture.
1t is said of the palms that, after the
grasses, they are the most useful of all
plants. The reader will think so too when it
is stated that they furnish food, clothing,
oil, wax, sugar, material for building
and making rope, mats, fans, and so on
to the end of list too long for an article
like this. The boys and girls will be in
terested in learning that plantains,
bananas, dates and cocoanuts are pro-
duced by palms, as is also the rattan,
with which some OF them become familiar
at school. The rattan sometimes grows
five hundred feet long, and the bad boy
seldom gets beyond it reach.
Palms are largely used for decorative
purposes by florists, who devote extern
sive glass houses exclusively to their
growth. Perceptions, church festivals
and similar occasions, they are now
thought to be indispensable, and consti-
tute a most interesting and instructive
feature. They are admirably adapted
for vases and for use on the lawn in sum-
mer, and charming effects are often pro-
duced in this way. 1T is not necessary
that the lawn should be large. A small one
will answer the purpose well, or even a
front doOr-yard; and it is just this that
we want to encourage.
To aid the amateur we will name few
that are easily grown, and that may be
kept within comparatively small bounds.
Weplace first the dwarf CocosWeddeliana,
the gem of palms, in our estimation.
There are others of nobler aspect and
grander proportions, but none with such
an expression of grace and beauty. 1t
has such an air of refinement that an
artist at once falls in love with it. And
then, too, it grows in such a kindly sort
of way that it should be the amateurs
pet, if not every body's. Begin with a
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G.. M. Scott, of Ekolona, Miss; wrote

G.. M. Scott, of Ekolona, Miss; wrote
to DR.. Shallenberger:
"Your Antidote for Malaria is certain
ly the best thing for chills and fever
that has ever ben in the South. | have
ben selling it for twelve years, and know
it to be the best medicine [ have ever
dealt in. 1t is perfectly harmless, and a
sure cure in every case. Sold by Drug
gists.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02
Does the Ivy Destroy d?


when asking your subscribers to give
their experience, leave it to be inferred he
supposes the African to be the one in
common use here? The ivy most in use
here, and elsewhere within our know
ledge, is called the ''English" Ivy. 1t is
the kind which is, at the North, coaxed
and petted to grow indoors in winter
that they may have greenery and the
beauty of vines through the many dreary
months of cold. The florists there often
assured us that fifteen or twenty inches,
in a season, was a good growth. Here
when well-established, it literally grows
with no care. Ii you want it to cover
and shade spot you have only to plant
and give it direction and it goes on and
on with a growth that would once have
made us open our eyes with incredibility
if we had been told it. But we have
several other vines with the same glory
of luxuriance here. And yet some people
will say they do not see the luxuriant
growth they expected. And they don't
''see the land of flowers" This "English
Ivy" does not cling by aerial roots to
pillar or wall as the old Virginia Creep
err ca quinquaefolia) does. 1t has only
rudimentary aerial rootlets. They can
be just barely seen opposite the alternate
leaves. 1t is naturally procumbent, and
so can be made to cover the bare sand in
cemeteries, or other unsightly baroness
Where wanted to grow upward we are
obliged to tie it up to get it started, and
the woodiness of the stems carry it until
atsome pointsit is bent over by the weight
OF it's own foliage. At such places, if
pinched off, added woody fiber stiffens it
up, unless it branches so much as to
make it too heavy, when it needs more
help to direct it.
We have it in such beautiful masses
that if it were to be condemned as de-
svructive, the house would loseits familiar
look. Ona porch across the front of the
house, forty feet long, it would make a
room with a green walk in front so thick
one could not see out, and which could
not be looked into even when close to it;
but we have trained it away from the
front of the double windows, making
wide arches of sunlight and outlook.
And over the steps leading from the
porch it covers hood about fourteen
feet high and perhaps eight feet deep,
thus forming another deeper arch.
All this mass of vines is from two roots
originally planted on each side of the
steps, ten years ago. On pillars and in
corners it is mass OF foliage one foot in
thickness, but in no case has it gone be-
tween the boards on to the upper floor,
though James Sprunt rose, from the
south end of the porch, has run over it
and passed up through the floor OF the
upper porch long shoot where there was
apparently no crack in the matched floor
ing. The ivy having no support on the
upper porch lies in masses on the edge of
the floor and on the hood, but they show
no signs of decay, though the floor away
from the edge does, in places, show some.
But, most conclusive OF all, the scroll
work on both upper and lower porch has
a molding across the top of it, and on
the lower porch this is decaying. Not
Tnder the vines hut in the snace left clear
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adore IS STANTON MILITARY ACADEMY, Staun-
ton, Va.
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FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
EDITED BY WALTER N. PIKE,
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06

DESCENDANTS OF DAvY CRocKET.-The
Mdec-A Appeal says an interesting reunion
will be held, on the 10Th of August, at
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. The descend,
ants of Colonel David Crockett will meet
there to celebrate their famous ancestors
one hundred and fourth birthday and to or
ganize David Crockett Monument Asso-
citation. The call for this meeting has
been issued by Robert Hamilton Crockett,
of Stuttgart, Ark, and it is expected that
nearly every state in the union will be rep.
resented. One of the peculiar and inter-
esting features of the occasion will be the
formation of the Clan Crockett and the
election and installation of a chief. All
that gather there should bear in mind, and
preach wherever they go, old Davy's
motto: "Be sure you're right and then go
ahead"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER
Yes-Of Course!

The Philadelphia Ledger, one of the most
conspicuous of the protection papers, now
proposes that Congress should drop the
Tariff bill and 90 home. We have been
expecting this suggestion from the Ledger
or some newspaper with authority to speak
for the protection barons and the monop-
olists.
We have never seen the slightest inten-
ton on the part of the protectionists to
deal honestly with the tariff question:
When Mr.. Cleveland brought tho issue
home to the country in one of the most re-
markable papers ever written by an Ameri-
can statesman the republican protectionists
shi.ked it. When the. Mills bill came it
was debated almost to death in the House.
The Senate sent it toa committee and there
it was starved.
There has always been talk about new
tariff, lifting the burdens from industry,
reducing war taxation and enabling the
people to enjoy their share of the blessings
with which as nation we are dowered.-
This talk is about convention times When
action is possible tariff reform is smothered,
talked to death, or so hacked and torn that
there is no life in it.
There is nothing to be wondered at in
this. What else can we expect? The pro-
tectionists have tariff that suits them
Why change it? The tariff barons are
making more money than ever before
Why disturb their profits? The company
of Philadelphia gentlemen who sent Mr..
Quay four hundred thousand dollars in the
nick of time to secure the election of Har.
rson are satisfied with the tariff. They
paid their money for it, and why disappoint
them?
The time will come, and in good season,
when the country will have something to
say about the iniquities of this tariff. The
American people can wait; but patience is
not always virtue. We may as we'll make
up our minds, however, that the protective
policy will not be disturbed until public
opinion assumes the force and volume of a
revolution. The tart a will remain as long
as fraud, menace, legislative evasion and
delay and the raising of four hundred thou
sand dollar funds can maintain it. Those
who are on the inside, Carnegie and the
tariff barons and monopolists whose inter-
ests the Ledger champions with so much
ability, will be in no hurry to come OUT
They will only come when dragged by pub.
lie opinion, and when the country simply
says it is tired of war taxation and will no
longer end ure it.-N. Y. Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
The Elections Bill Not to Pass this Session.

1u0 LicCtlUuS Dill NUb " aco thiS ocooiVn'
1t seems now that the Republicans in the
Senate have despaired of being able to pass
the Lodge Elections Bill this session, as
they find that there are ten or dozen
members of that body who are opposed to
adopting such gag-law on debate as they
have in the House, and without it the
Democrats could prevent its passage by
dscussin it without limitation. The ma
jority would pass it if they could, but find
ing that they cannot, they have agreed not
to make the attempt this session. 1t is
not that they have abated in the least their
fell desire to trample upon the rights of
the South and the principles of liberty, but
simply their inability to effect their dia-
bolical purpose that has determined them
to abandon the effort. They are just as
responsible as if they had perpetrated the
outrage. The guilt consists in the will and
purpose, and every freedom loving citizen,
without regard to party, should hold them
to a rigid responsibility, and visit upon
them their most emphatic condemnation
and righteous indignation. They have
shown what they would do if they could,
and that they have no regard to the rights
Or liberties of the people, whom they
would reduce to political bondage if they
could,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
and M echanical Education.

The 10Th session of the Virginia Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College commences
18th of September. Genl L. L. Lomax is
the President. Biology, mathematics, and
the English language, liter ature and histo-
ry, bookkeeping, steuography, chemistry,
geology, mechanics, physics, drawing,
French, German and practical mechanics
are taught under full corps of professors.
The students are organized into cadet
corps, and are under military discipline and
military tactics taught by detailed officer
of the U. S. Army, graduate of West
Point.
At the College Ithe State established its
Agricultural Experiment Station, and prac-
tial farming, as well as mechanics, is
taught.
The law authorizes the appointment OF
ten United States students who pay no tut
tion fees. They are selected by the County
Board of School Trustees of the respective
counties and cities, to which application
will be made, or they can be made to the
President OF the college.
The institution should be more largely
patronized than it is. Its graduates are
well equipped for the battle of life and can
attain almost any distinction to which they
may aspire, so far as theoretical and prac.
tical training may be applied to the effort
The charges, which cover all expenses,
including the outfit for uniforms, ETC., in
the military department, do not exceed
1928 per session.
Instruction in horticulture and the man
agement of orchards and vineyards, is in
tho agricultural course.
The mechanical department is furnished
with two e0-horse power boilers, and 80
horse engIne, and other excellent machin
cry which is now receiving an additional
outfit at the cost of $3.50.
The building and barracks are heated by
steam and supplied with water for baths
and other purposes.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
Gov. Mckinney on the Federal Elections


Gov. Mckinney is spending some time at
the Blue Ridge Springs ia Botetourt coan-
ty. At that place 10 speaking to cores
pondent of the Bait. Sun in reference to
the Federal Elections Bill, that correspond
ent represents him as SAYING
"The force bill is unnecessary, uncalled
for and unconstitutional. Elections in Vir-
ginia are fair and as free as anywhere in
the Union. Virginia is opposed to the sys-
tenn of boycotting. By it we would punish
our friends as well as our enemies. Non
intercourse is not to be thought of or tole.
rated. Virginia makes no threats during
the tendency of the bill. She believes
there is conservative element in the North
among republicans as well as democrats
which will defeat it, but if she is mistaken
in this she will bear herself with courage
and dignity which has always characterized
her actions. She believes that remedy
will be found under the constitution which
will prevent the wrong which this bill was
designed to inflict."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06

MONEY SAFE AT RoNcEvERTE, w. Va,
ExPLoDRD.-The safe of j. H. D. johnson
Il Son, of Ronceverte, was blown open on
Tuesday night of last week by burglars,
and about $40 in money stolen. The Neaos,
in giving an account of the affair, says that
hole had been drilled in the safe door,
just above the combination, in which a
cartridge was inserted and fired. The eH-
plosion must have been tremendous, as the
safe-door was torn from it's hinges and hurl.
ed some ten or twelve feet. Even the out
side weather boarding, opposite where the
safe STOOD was bulged out by the force of
the shock. The cash-drawer had also been
thrown out, and was found some distance
away. 1t is probably due to this fact that
the burglars failed to secure the entire CON-
tents of the safe, which contained about
$65 in cash, but which was SO scattered
about that they overlooked $25 in bills and
silver lying on the floor.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

In the Chancery suit pend ing In the Circuit
Court of Bath county, Virginia, In which VIM
NJ. McAllister. Administrator and Trustee OF
Robert j. Glendy, decd. and others are plain
tiffs. vs.J ulia A. Moon and others, defendants,
NOTICE is hereby given to the parties, plain
tiffs and defendants. that 1 shall proceed at
the Clerks Office of Bath County Court, on ~
THURSDAY. AUGUST 2lrt. 1901
to take the following accounts
LIST. An account of the aceings and doings of
VIM. McAllister, as administrator of Robert
Glendy, decd.
3D. An account of the actings aud doings of
VIM. NJ. McAllister, as Trustee of Robert j.
Glendy.
80, An account of the debts of every descrip-
ton due and owing by the estate of Robert +.
Glendy. decd, with their several and respect
i've legal dignities and priorities.
4th, An account OF ali the liens OF every de.
scription upon the lands In the bill and pro.
ceedings mentioned with their legal dgnities
9Th An account of the personal assets of the
estate OF Robert j. Glendy, decd.
9Th. An account OF the annual rental and fee
simple values respectively of the one-half of
"WiIdnerness Estate" which shall be laid Off
allotted and assigned to the estate OF Robert j.
Glendy. decd
7th. Any other matter specially deemed per
tinent by himself or that may be REQUIRED by
any party to be so stated.
Given under my hand this 23d day of July,
1890
G. r. McDANNALD,
Comm'r in Chy Circuit Court Bath county.
July 3O-4t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
SEVERE SToRM.-A terrific storm passed

SEVERE SToRM.-A terrific storm passed
over Sioux Falls, S. D., Sunday morning.
1t was preceded by tremendous roar and
a black cloud of dust which hid from view
everything it enveloped. 1t is estimated
that the wind blew at least 80 miles an
hour directly from the northwest. Build
ings rocked like vessels on the ocean, but
not one succumbed. Following the wind
came hailstones of wonderful size which
fell for hours. After the storm a sample
was exhibited which measured eight iLches
in circumference and weighed pound and
three quarters.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06

JULY AND JANUARY WEATHER EXACTLY
ALIKE "A writer in the London Times
calls attention to the remarkable fact that
for some days the temperature of July in
this year has almost exactly conceded with
that of January. For example, at 9 A. M.
on January 9Th the thermometer registered
so degrees, and at the same hour on July
18th it stood at exactly the same point;
while the lowest (night) temperature On
January 9th was Al degrees, and OIL July
5th, 4S degrees.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06

REPUBLICAN MISTAKE.-The Baltimore
Sun says that cit was mistake of the
protected industries to fight the practical
tariff proposition which was the result of
the Cleveland message. The Mills bill
made very moderate reduction. If it had
become law none of our industries would
have suffered and the business of the coun-
try would have been spared the continued
agitation of the question and saved from
the possible effects of such radical schemes
as the desperate party in power seem bent
upon fastening on the country. Cleveland
tariff would have been blessing to pro-
tected industries in compa :ison with the
disturbance likely to ensue from resort to
federal force in elections, usurpation in
Congress, and robbery of the people under
the proposed Mckinley tariff. Let any
man-republican Or democrat-ask himself
if the country to day is as well off under a
congressional tyranny as it was under the
Cleveland regime, when peace was winning
its victories all over the land. Are not the
DuSiGeSS lutoTtStS, luo pTOl0Cltu luuuSGrleS
themselves, worse eff now than they were
then? Yes, it was q grave mistake the
manufacturers made in selling power as
they did and making the use they have
made OF it. Mr.. Blaine graphically sums
up their tariff work when he says: "There
is not section or a line in the entire bill
that will open the market for another
busbel of wheat or another barrel of pork. -
So we have Mr.. Blaine .'courageously'
bringing the country to the verge of for.
eign war and then discreetly backing down
going up like rocket and coming down
like the stick-and Mr.. Reed and Mr..
Lodge Lighting the fires of sectionalism on
every mill, while we are not bushfl OF
wheat or barrel of pork the better off for
it ali. Neither the agricultural, the manu-
featuring nor other business interests of the
country can be benefited in the least by
what is going on in Washington, and all
must dread the effect on the country tc
follow from the wild legislation it is pro.
posed to force on them"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
ADVANCE IN REAL ESTATE AT FIR

ADVANCE IN REAL ESTATE AT FRONT
ROYAL On the gath of July the property
of George W. Macates consisting of 40
acres of land with Improvements mostly
within the cooperate limits of Front Royal
was sold at public auction to Mr.. j. L.
Mailman, who recently removed to that
place from Florence, Ala, for the sum of
SIS, 100. The Front Royal Sentinel says;--
"Mr. Maeatee bought this same property
in 1878 of Special Commissioners at 81. 525,
and Six months ago it could have been
purchased of Captain Downing, Trustee,
for SO, 600. In this sale is furnished proof
of the large advance in real estate here and
the con6dence felt by business men of all
classes ia the success in the near futnre IF
The # ,rts nnw ~ ". ely managed 20 make
Front Royal and Rive, on great industri-
a centre. M. Hallmsn will improve his
purchase and add much to the taxable val
ues of our Corporation by the plans he
has devised aud will execute"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06

The sagacious Baltimore American dis
Germs the grand future for this trunk line
through Virginia and can well estimate the
advantages which would accrue to Balti-
more or any other city which can control
the trade it will take in and carry out of
city-the fortunate beneficiary in such a
commerce.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06

Mr.. Plumb cut loose from bis party al
lies in the Senate Friday on the tariff bill,
and took the part of the people against the
protected mine ard factory owners. He
said: 1.-THE Senate owed some duty to the
American people, as we'll as to the manu-
fscturers. There was point where politi-
cal sym oathies ended and where business
interests began One Of the republican
Senators, at least, has head the echo OF
the murmur coming before the wreck OF
the high tariff.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-06
Ruckbridge Moving.

A well-attended and spirited meeting Of
the people of Rockbridge was held in Lex
ington on the 4.h instant in aid of the
movement of extending the Cumberland
Valley Railroad southwark along the west.
ern side of the Valley counties. Professor
A. L. Nelson presided, and Hon. J. Ran.
Tucker, M. W. Paxton and j. G. Shields
addressed the assemblage. A committee
of eleven, of which Professor Nelson is
chairman, was appointed to confer and &C.
operate with the committees of the other
counties in forwarding the objects in view.