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SITUATION WANTED-POslTION AS OF.
y fee boy or opportunity to learn trade. Can
furnish best Helena references. Address Clar.
ence, this Office.
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SITUATION WANTED-BY A YOUNG MAN
~ Of good business abilities; we'll educated; can
keep Full set Of books. Address Business, r. y.
box COZ, city.
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WATCHESl

OF which nearly Afty. are in the pockets o.
Wearers in Helena and vicinity, and all O
them showing remarkable performances
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

In one of DR.. Burton's Yale lectures the
following advice was given to the young
ministers: "When trouble is brewing, keep
STILL When SANDER is getting on its legs,
keep still. When your feelings are hurt,
keep still, till you recover from your ex-
element at any rate. Things look differ
emily through an unagitated eye. In a
commotion once I wrote letter and sent
it, and wished I had not. In my latter
years had another commotion, and wrote
long letter; but life had rubbed little
sense into me, and l kept the letter in my
pocket against the day when I could look
it over without agitation and without tears.
| was glad Ibid. Silence is the most mas
sive thing conceivable sometimes. It is
strength in its very grandeur. 1t is like a
regiment ordered to stand still in the mid
fury of battle. To plunge in were twice as
easy. The tongue has unsettled more min
listers than small salaries ever did, or lack
of ability"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Count Puneh-Your.Nose,

Charles V was a great hunter One day,
while partridge shooting, he was accom-
panied by gamekeeper, who joined in the
| sport. The servants of his majesty were
loaded with game, when partridge rose
under the feet of the two sportsmen Two
shots went off simultaneously The par
fridge dropped.
"Who killed that bird?" said the king to
the gamekeeper.
81 did" was the reply.
"You lie, you scoundrel," said the king,
tn q rage.
Thereupon the guard unceremoniously
slogged his majesty. The first movement
of Charles was to try to kill him, but for
tunately his gun was unloaded Then his
second and more successful effort was to
save the man from the fury of his attend
ants and to send him off to prison, with the
recommendation to prepare for DEATH re-
marking also that his offense was all the
more atrocious because he could not say
that he really did not lie, inasmuch as it
was doubtful who shot the bird.
II have no doubt about it, sire,'' replied
the prisoner Permit me to examine the
bird"
The king ordered the partridge to be
brought to him, and after having exam
ined it the. guard affirmed that it was he
who shot it,Ebecause it was hit by bullet,
and he had used bullets all day long, while
the king used shot. A further examina-
ton of the dead partridge by the king and
his attendants proved that the gamekeeper
was correct.
The king was sorry, but he nevertheless
sent the prisoner to Madrid, where he was
placed in the cell of offenders condemned
to death. At the last moment the king
promised him pardon if he would repent,
but the guard refused. Charles ordered
the gatelzeeper to be brought into his pres
ence and again asked him if he repented.
"Sire," replied the guard, eff l had a
thousand lives, and your majesty should
tell me thousand times, without reason,
that 1 lied, thousand times I would
punch your majesty in the nose, and a
thousand times would go quietly to exc
cution!"
"And you would thus be a loss to my
reign!" exclaimed the king. Would that
were surrounded by men like you! l not
only pardon you, out 1 attach you to my
person, and make you Count of Punon-
rostro -Face)."
In 1923 the title was formally bestowed
upon the new count, and until his death
he was one of the most faithful vassals of
Charles V.-Nouvelle Revue Interna-
tionale.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
The Last Word.

It was in a sleeping car, and they thought
that every one else was asleep. Probably
every one had been, but they woke me.
When 1 was enough awake to notice
what was going on, heard her;
"Well, don't care. think you're real
mean. All WANT
eyes," broke in he, "all you want now is
the last word, same as you always have,
amt it,"
eyes; and I'll have it, tool" spitefully.
"You won't!"
''See if l don't"
"All right"
"AH right it is"
"Have to mock every word say, don't
your"
Heavens, no! You never say anything
worth repeating"
"Why do you echo me, them"
81 don't!"
"You dol"
81 don'tp
'Shut upl''
81 won't!"
"Ughr' And there was noise like q
man tumbling into his berth.
Then we heard, rather softly, as if talk
ing to herself: IT said I'd have the last
word, and 1 did. ugh don't count, 'caust
I don't believe it is a word. "-Harper's
| Bazaar.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

1t is veraciously chronicled that once upon
time, while travelling west of Omaha, Mr..
Charles Francis Adams was visited in his
private car by a typical cowboy, dressed in
regulation costume. He was as much above
the average height as Mr.. Adams was below
it. Turning to the railway president, he
inquired:
"Be you Charles Francis Adams?"
EYES," was the reply.
"Charles Francis Adams, president of the
Pacific roads"
Eyes"
''Then you are the man who writes those
heavy railroad articles for the papers?"
Eyes"
Gracious, but I expected to see some
body seven feet high! You amt as big a
man as l thought you was, anyhow!'-
New York Tribune.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
There is a Happy Iand.o

The author of the popular hymn, 'NThere
is Happy Land" Andrew Young, now
so years Of age, was born in Scotland His
native city is Edinburgh, where he was
reared and educated, and where he has
spent the greater part of his life. His alma
mater was the university of Aud Reekie,
and there he was head master of one of the
important schools from 1880 to 1910, and
then he occupied an important place in
Madras college, St. Andrews, from 1910 to
1853 Although now full fourscore, he is
still mentally and physically vigorous, and
retains in all its early freshness his hearty
sympathy with children. The hymn,
''There is Happy Land" was composed
In the year 1898, and it is related it was
written for melody said to have been an
old East Indian air. 1t has been translated
into nineteen different languages, and has
sung itself around the globe.-Boston
Budget.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
For Bright People.

A correspondent calls our attention to
the following item which appeared in the
papers in 1868, and which we reproduce as
originally given.
A DIFFICULT RIDDLE.
This enigma has been frequently pub
Eshed but never solved:
sit stern on the rock while I'm raising the wind,
But the storm once abated I'm gentle and kind.
Kings sit at my feet who wait at my nod
To kneel in the dust on the ground have trod.
I'm seen by the world and known but by few,
The Gentle detests me-I'm pork to the Jew.
My weight is three pounds, my length is a mile
And when once discovered you'll say with smile
That the first and the last the pride of isle
The answer is word of one syllable.
No answer, SO far as we know, has ever
been returned to this riddle. 1t is probably
an English puzzle, and it may be local OF
it may be a hoax. Can any one furnish a
solution? We do not know who wrote it,
nor where it first appeared, but it was fire.
quently published about a quarter of a
century ago.-Youth's Companion.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
PERPETUATlON OF LOVE.

When am dead, my love shall be a flower
That blossoms in thy pathway, pure and white;
a gilsh of bird-song, ray of light
That Sits across thy darkest, saddest hour;
violet gemmed by some sweet summer shower;
A dream that steals across thy longest night,
And thrills thee with the old-time, pure delight
That only Weakened at my tender power
A silver wave laughing along the sand
Stirring sweet memories of my vanished voice;
A gold mist trembling from the sea to land
A tone or glance, recalling thy hearts choice;
The grieving nightcan Of a lonely dove
These things shall all be rife with my lost love.
Ella HigginSon.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
" STAUNToN, July 2Sth, 1890.
Bell, r. P.
vs.
ChildreSs, P. II.
All parties interested in the foregoing suit
pending in the circuit court of Augusta county,
Take Notice! ThatI have fixed upon the 30th
DAY OF AUGUST, NEXT, to take an account of the
real estate belonging to the defendant Chldress;
the state of the title thereto, and the annual rem
the liens binding said real estate in the order of
priority and other accounts, as directed by order
of reference entered in said the 18th day
of May, 1890. All persons holding liens against
the real estate of said ChildreSs are required to
come before me and prove the same on or before
the time ii Xed for taking these accounts.
JNO. NJ. KINNEY,
aug Lit Commissioner.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
| " STAUNToN, VA, July 2sth 1890.
Dull, Mary A.
Hanger, Coos Admir-, &C.
All parties interested in this cause pending
in the circuit court of Augusta county; Take
Notice That have fixed upon the 29th DAY OF
AUGUST NEXT, to take and state an account
showing what real estate Geo. Hanger died
seized Of: an account of the liens against the
same: an account of the transactions of L. r. N.
Specl, Admir- Of said Geo. Hanger, decd,
together with account of the assets and liabil
tiles of said estate. All persons having claims
against said estate are required TO present and
prove the same before before the da y
named herein for taking these accounts.
JNO. NJ. KINNEY,
aug LIT Commissioner.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

The fact is stated as sign of the mod
ern tendency in the construction of marine
engines that the builders of high speed YES
sells are now prepared to make quadruple
expansion engines that will give much
more economical and satisfactory results
than the triple expansion type now in use
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

An Eminent DOCLOF 5 ESCTTPCTO1T'
DIR. c. P. Henry, Chicago, ILL.,, who has practiced
medicine many years, says: Last Spring he used
and prescribed Clarlles Extract of Flax (Papil-
lolI Skin Cure in 40 or 50 cases, and never knew
a case where it failed to cure. 81 know of no re-
medy can rely on so implicitly" Positive cure
for all diseases of the Skin. Applied externally.
Clarke's Flax Soap is best for Babies. Skin
Cure Sl.0o. Soap 25 cents. AT w. NJ. Aliens
Drug Store. feb2o 1t
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

Medical geology and climatology are
mentioned as departments of science to
which more attention might be paid than
Is. Their usefulness is illustrated by the
studies of Mr.. Alfred Haviland on the dis
trlbution of cancer in the Brit;=L .-,--,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
The ELEcTRoPo1sE, 61O E. ST., NV.
WASHINGTON, D. G., July 26.

The E1EorRoPo1sE, 61o E. ST., NV,
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 26.
Decentralization Co.,
Birmingham, Ala
GENTLEMEN-1n explanation to the
foregoing letter it is proper to state
that the Electropoise has been in use
by Dr. K. but five days, having been
erected in his Office on July Goth.
He said: II used to be such a ran
tankerous allopath that | would not
look at a homeopath across the
street. But I found that they could
effect cures that l could not with my
methods, so I went to their college and
graduated. Now, if you will show me
a still better method, I will adopt it in
my practice and advocate it's use"
He has large practice among the
swell 600" and frequently has a spe-
cial train to carry him to see some
rich patient out Of the city.
Yours truly, JOHN N. WEBB,
President.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Found in the Newsnanar.

F. Und IN the NEWSPAPER.
From the Cresco Iowa) Plaindealer: eve
have never, our readers for nearly thirty
years in this county can testify, written a
puff of any patent medicine. Duty well as
inclination impel us to depart from this studied
silence, to say to readers and the public that,
HAY ing been completely Frustrated with violent
and distressing cold, after three days fighting
with ordinary remedies and getting no relief
from their use, we obtained a bottle of Clarke's
Extract of Flax (oapillon) Cough Cure, obtaining
almost instant relief and a steady improvemeI
under its USE" Large bottle only S1.09. Ask for
Clar1e's Flax Soap. .iRest on Earth % cents.
Both the above for sale by w. NJ. Allen, Drug
gst. feb2o ly
Do you want an absolute Blood Purifier? 1t is
found only in "a. L. @. AlteratiXe.,,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
? t SICIAN s
TAKING HOLD OF THE
Ell { I R0P Disc
NEW YORK, July Is, Is 50.

NEW OSA, y uly ~, 10 ~.
John ~ Webb,
President Electro LIBERATION Com pany.
DEAR SIR have been using it on
the strongest point on myself from one
half to one and a quarter hours a day
for a week, and I must confess | am
perfectly astonished at the result upon
my general system as well as local
trouble (dyspepsia).
I assure you | have never felt 50
we'll in twenty years as do now. 1t
seems as if a new world had opened
upon me and youth had been restored
as if BY GENT WITH HIS WAND. |
have cause to become an enthusiast,
which I am indeed, and now begin to
think you did not say enough in its
praise.
am treating experimentally num-
Der Of my Wall street patrons for brain
fatigue and general debility to give
them some idea what the instrument
can do in the hands of one who under
stands it.
I am treating case Of secondary
syphilitic eruption on the body and
face with the most prompt and salts
factory results. We can do very little
with medicine in this disease and l
look with establishment at the effect OF
the Electropoise upon it.
I see a great future here for the
Electropoise. Refer every one you
like to me-
For further information apply to
Electropoise Company, room Is, Watts
Block, city.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
CITY NOTICES.
An Eminent Doctors Prescriptio,

A child's first impressions. "a. B. Co. but
after life it is often needed for bad blood.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

For Lowest Rates, Correct County Maps and
full information call on
S. T. SWIFT, City Ticket Agent Phoenix Hotel
CIV. SCHULTZ, Depot Ticket Agent.
FRANK w. WG0LLEY, Trav. Pass. Agt,
LEX N(1T0N XIV
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
95 MILES The SHORTEST TO
CAITFOR MT 4

The only line to JACKSON and VICKsBURG
MISSISSIPPI making direct connections without
omnibus transfer at SHREYEsPoRT, LOUISIANA,
for Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Galveston
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

Do you want an absolute Blood Purifier? 1t is
found only in IA. Il. G. Alterative.'
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

C. c. HARVEY, d. G. EDWARDS,
Vice-President. G. P. & I. A.
jul IS CINCINNATI, o.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

d EN- EMBER the Va. Hotel Barber shop when
IL you want good shave.
jul IS VEIN & PFIFFERLING, Props.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21

all wealth, more refreshing than all foun-
tains, deeper than all depths, higher than
all nights, and broader than all breadths IS
the salvation of Jesus Christ which / press
upon your consideration. Come. all We
travellers of the desert, under these palm
trees. Oh, If l could gather before You
that tremendous future UPON which you are
invited II enter-dominions and prln-
cipalities, day without night, martyrs under
the throne and the four aud twenty elders
falling before 1t, stretching off In great dis
tances the hundred AMI forty and four
thousand, and thousands of thousands. host
beside host rank beyond rank, in infinite
distance, nations of the saved beyOld ma
tions of the saved. until angelic visions cease
to catch anything more than the faint out
line of whole empires yet outstretchIng be-
yond the capacity Of any vision save the
eye Of Tod Almighty. Then. after L had
finished the sketch, would like to ask you
if that place is not grand enough, and high
enough, and if anything could be added,
any purity to the wilderness of the robes,
any power to the acclaining thunders OF its
worship. And all that may be yours.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21
THE DRY GOODS CLERKS.
Life Behind the Counter Not All Sun
shine and Joy.

Life Behind the Counter Not All Sun
shine and Joy.
From the Hartford Times.
The girl was bright-looking and deft of
hand and the articles at her counter quickly
customers had left.
What kind of people do you have to
deal with; everything!" l asked, moving
nearer.
What kind p' she repeated, ''all kindsm
Then the sparkle in her eyes grew keener,
the smile about her mouth enlarged, and
soft, merry ripple of laughter burst from
her lips.
eff you could only see and hear some of
the funny things that happen you would
never stop laughing.
''There was woman in here a few min
utes ago who wanted some lace. l asked
her ABOUT the width and the price she
wanted to pay. She just snapped me up
with, Il want to look at some lace, l say!
No matter what width; III tell You when |
get the right kind Well, began at the
best. That is too wide said she Then
unwound a narrower piece. Too high
priced Narrower and cheaper | went
Too coarse, was the criticism; haven't you
anything better than thisT And all the
time she was undoing the laces of every
width. Down we went, width after width
grade after grade, and what do you think
she took! A yard and a quarter of 5-ceut
lace / couldn't tell you how long it took
me to put back all those laces in proper
shape.
"Abd the other day a woman wanted a
pair of 25-cent scissors for 20 cents | told
her l couldn't sell them for that price. She
urged and talked, and at last went to the
proprietor and told him she had only 30
cents in change. and $50 BILL she didn't
want to break the bill. And she got the
scissors for 20 cents, and we got rid of her
Last Saturday night, after the cashier
had the money all counted and put away,
and we were getting on our wraps TO go
home, in came woman to get a spool of
thread, and banded out a $40 bill That
was exasperating, and you should have
seen the cashiers face as the 80 IS was
being counted out.
And then, the goods that people expect
to find in a dry goods store! l have heard
them ask for tinware, shoes, groceries,
pastry, hardware, and in fact everything
Queer, isn't it!'
thought it was.
DO they usually know what they want,
or how much"
Very seldom. They ask me the quantity
of goods for about everything. I give a
guess, just as they could if they wanted to,
| and they accept 1t for fact. and matter
of superior knowledge on my part. But it
isn't. For instance, a lady said one day. i
want some lace for skirt. How much
will it taker Just as if knew how wide
her skirt was. But was expected to be
equal to anything, so | answered promptly,
Two yards and half | am sure l hope
that quantity was somewhere near right"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21

stranger came up to Mr.. Williams and
said: IF YOU succeed in getting that
woman off you Will do her the worst turn
ANYBODY ever did herr
Considerably astOnished, turned round
and closely Questioned the speaker. learned
he was a member OF the Lincoln police
force and he had instructions, if the prIs-
oner were acquitted, to take her into Gus
tody on seven separate charges of wilful
murder. If she we're convicted when, of
course, she would be sentenced 70 penal
servitude, even for life or a considerable
lumber of years. the authorities, it ap-
peared, had determined to take no further
action.
AT about s:45 o'clock the jury returned.
and upon Mr.. Avory, the well-known clerk
Of arraigns, asking if they had agreed upon
verdict, the foreman pronounced one of
Not guilty.
IAN expression of delight came upon the
face of the woman, whose appearance, by
the by, was a very peculiar one, her chin
being the most receding one | have ever
seen. She turned round abruptly to leave
the dock, but the instant her foot was onthe
hoor OF the court she was arrested by the
officer who had recently addressed me.
"On Thursday, Sept. 25. 1862, Catherine
Wilson was tried for the murder of Maria
Soames, the case coming before Mr.. Justice
BYleS. Messrs. Clarke and Besley, who then
represented the treasury, appeared for the
prosecution and l appeared for the defense.
The murder was alleged to have been
committed in October, 1856 1t appeared
that the prisoner had acted as nurse during
an illness of the deceased, giving her her
medicine and generally administering to
her wants. In the course of the case it
transpired that six or seven persons with
waom the prisoner had lived as nurse, and
who, strangely enough, had nearly all of
them been suffering from govt, had sud-
denly died.
at was proved in this aud the other
cases, that the prisoner had so ingratiated
herself with her patients as to induce them
either to leave her considerable sums of
money In their wills or to make her hand
some gifts in their lifetime. ana that, as
soon as she had accomplished her OBJECT,
she quickly dis oatched them.
after the trial, Justice Byles sent to ask
me 60 come and sea him in his private room.
found him unrobing and walking up and
down like lion in its cage. He said: Il
sent for you to tell you that you did that
case remarkably well. But it was no good;
the facts were too strong. [ prosecuted
Rush for the murder of Mr.. Jenny. | de-
Tended Daniel Good, and defended several
other notable criminals when l was on the
Norfolk circuit; but, if it will be of any sat
isfaction to you, may tell you that in my
opinion you have to-day defended the great
est criminal that ever lived.