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To Circumvent the Sampler.

An effective method of reducing losses
from sampling, and at the same time al
lowing goods to be seen by customers, has
been adopted by many retail grocers. Boxes
about the height of a barrel, and Of similar
capacity, are constructed of hard wood,
with a hinged glass cover. The contents
can be easily seen, owing to the fact that
the covers slope downward from the back
about thirty degrees, and can be removed
as eXpeditiously as from an ordinary bar
rel. Only the most impudent sampler
would dream of lifting the covers to get at
the goods hence the saving in the course
Of q year must amount to considerable
sum in stores where the business is large
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17
Where Theatrical Interests CIashed.

The theatrical caterer has often to con-
tend with outside influences over which he
has no CONTROL resulting in scanty audi
ences, or it may be no audience at all. A
manager of the old Bower saloon meeting
a friend one day near the Horse Guards,
the latter inquired how he was getting on.
ooh, we live, sir, we live" was the reply
"Well, I must be off," said his friend,
'I'm in a hurry to see about seats at the
italian opera next week" ''What!" ex-
claimed the Bower manager, ''does the
Italian opera open next week? Pm very
sorry to hear it.'' "Why, what can it mat
ter to you?" cried the other. Surely you
don't imagine that the opera performances
will clash with yours?" ''Won't it,
thought" was the answer. 'sMy audience
won't be inside Her Majesty's, but they
will all be there-picking pocketsW and
shaking hands, the dismayed manager
went sadly on his way.-Chambers' Jour
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17
Beautiful Combination Suits
FROM $5 UP,

and selections $12 and SIG especially attractive Serg very
popular TOR plain material Ians and gys the popular shades We
line Of 46nch sees IS is special value % per
Grenadines the popular
the market Last could supply the demand
This we have to think the Grenadines will
especially better grades We large sales in these
goods the difference from what other merchants asking
the goods should do the business
silk Grenadn for SOC yard and 85 Last
lady sample she had from the markets country
goods had Grenae priced herself as
Especial favor at $25 We matched We stock
these goods select and lady season
Black renae Dress she "out the fight evening wear
need only call your attention line plain stripe
full line evening shades they simply beautiful
Next to- mention special sale Of
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17
A Lucrative Business,

There is good money in canvassing if it
is properly worked. l have sometimes
made s25 a day. and ! always average 30,
but that is nothing compared to a book
agent know, who makes every year from
$1,000 to $4,000. He has a speciality, how
ever-rare old books and etchings. But he
is canvasser. That man hires carriage
when he is at work and his profits are
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Chicago News.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17

Rosewood, the material used in most
pianos, is a tropical wood, with large, open
pores, and if the instrument is exposed to
the dampness for any considerable length
of time the effect on the polish or varnish
by swelling the wood of the outside case
will be extremely injurious.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17
One Dollar Fast Black Corset,

Warranted Black We agents Thomrson Glove Fitting
SETS R H ST. long medium length &C. $780, "E"
also fine stock Of "R G. ST. Also fine stock Dr. Warmers
Coses, Misses Waists, Woven Corset, g., &C.
See selections
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17
New Styles!
New Ideas!
New Prices !

Possibly the very greatest preparation ever
made for Spring trade in this market has been
made by ourselves for the coming season. You
could scarcely think so many things could be
crowded into the imaginations of one season.
We have combined every inducement that could
possibly be offered to secure your trade. We
shall, in each Of our advertisements all through
the season, mention the lines we consider of
special importance to the buyer. What we now
wish to call your attention to first are our seec-
tons in
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17
KID GLOVE DEPARTMENT !!

agents for the Celebrated Patent Hood
Gloves positively the incest fitting glove made every
Ask the civilian 81 and the Fowler Special orders
taken for all evening shades length style wanted
should try
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17

In the Wheatstons automatic method OF
telegraphy. when transmitting at the rate
OF 800 words a minute, there are 49, 900 cur
rents per minute sent out, each having q
duration not exceeding OO2 of second.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-17

1t is the experience Of physicians that
children of tuberculous parents properly
fed, with no fermentation of their food, de
not die of tuberculosis, but live to grow
I'D in decent health.
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SCALPING.
WHY INDIANS TAKE THEIR ENE
MES SCALPLOCKS.
Non-Combatants Not Mutilated by
Savages-How Mexicans Scalp
Indians-A White Man Who
Survived Scalping.

It is the fall of 1878. The Cheyennes,
dissatisfied with their place in the Indian
Territory, have broken into small bands
and are breaking for their old home in
the north. Two companies of United
States cavalry are in pursuit, but the
Indians outnumber the soldiers, and when
the troops get too close they turn and
fight like cornered wildcats. Every day
the soldiers find fresh evidences of the
ferocity of the savages they are pursuing.
Every village along their path has been
devastated. The mutilated bodies of
men lie in the streets-four or five in
every town. Finally the troops reach
the village of the Mennonites. There
they find twenty-seven dead men and
boys, almost the entire population of the
town. The Indians were less merciful
to the women. Several of them are
found stark mad wandering on the prairie.
There are other marauding bands of In
dians in the country, but the work of the
Cheyenne is unmistakable.
The bodies are not scalped. This is
the Cheyenne's way of expressing con-
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tempt for those he kills. There is no
glory in carrying the scalp of man who
will not fight. One of the articles of
the faith of the sect that constitutes the
population of the village is adherence OF
war and all manner of bloodshed. There
was not frearm in the village when the
200 Indians swept through it. Further
on the the soldiers find a wounded
horse lying on the prairie. Near him is
o cowboys hat, by it lie two or three
empty rifle cartridges. There was a
fight here. A hundred yards further on
are more shells, and the grass is spotted
with blood. Fifty yards further they
find the body of cowboy. About
him are more shells, pistol cartridges
this time. The cowboys long hair is
gone. Here was an adversary whom
there was some glory in killing. To the
soldiers familiar with life and death on
the plains there is no mystery about
what tkey see on the prairie there.
The cowboy met the Indians and rode
for his life away from them. But among
all those who pursued some must have
had horses swifter than the cowboys
pony. He tried to keep them back with
his rifle, but the Cheyennes are not COW.
ards. So the unequal race was run, the
Indians firing as they pursued. They shot
his horse, and he tried to make fort
of the animals body. Maybe be kept
them off for a time-the empty shells
would indicate as much. Then they be-
gan to circle out around him to take him
from the rear. His fort was no longer
tenable, and he ran again. Where the
second shells and the blood stained grass
were found bullet reached him, and he
went down, Sill fighting. He must have
recovered enough to make another effort.
Another shot reached him as he dropped
from exhaustion, and he fought on to the
end with his six-shooter. That is why
they took his scalp. Just the hair on the
top of the dead cowboy head was gone.
The scalping knife cut around just below
the line of the hair on the forehead. Then
the knife circled his head, taking in that
portion OF the scalp Whe-e the nalr dl
vides behind. That is the way they scalp
O white man.
Had their victim been Sioux or
Kiowa they would not have taken so
much. But q white man does not dis
tinguish his scalplock.
, The scaIplock consists of the axis of
, the scalp. Just that spot where the hair
that you brush to the front and to the
sides joins that which you brush back
toward the neck. Nearly all the Indians
take great trouble with the scalplock.
They let the hair grow longer there than
anywhere else and braid it as carefully
as Chinaman does his queue. Frc-
quently they braid strings of buckskin
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or rabbit skin in with it and ornament i;
with bits of glass or bright metal. Death
to one of these Indians, provided he does
not lose his Ecalp.ock, means little. HE
is never dishonored while this wisp OF
hair is still attached to his skull.
In the earlier days of Indian fighting
whole tribe would hold dance of re-
joicing if they found their dead after a
battle unscalped. Some Of the Western
tribes have belief that accounts for the
consideration with which the scalplvck
is regarded. 1t is that the spirit of the
dead Indian is lifted up to the happy
hunting-grounds by his scalplock, and
that without this appendage he can never
reach the Indian paradise. So these In
dians will do anything to prevent their
scalps from ornamenting the belt or tepee
of an enemy. There arc numerous in
stances of warriors who, finding them
selves cut off from all hope of escape,
have ridden over precipices and gone
down singing song of triumph, be-
cause the enemy could not get their hair.
This is also the reason that the Indians
always carry off their dead and hide the
bodies where they can never be found.
The manner of scalping varies little
among different tribes. The Sioux take
o smaller piece Of the scalp than most
others, but even this depends entirely on
the amount of time they have for the
operation. They are not, however. as
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ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.

ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA. #
of the moonlight on the wonderfully
beautiful new facade of the cathedral.
In the same way, at Naples, the Empress.
used to 60 about the city chiefly on foots;
paying long visits to the museums and;
other places of interest, and, although
often recognized, was never intruded on
There was only one episode during the
visit which it was feared might sct other-
wise than beneficially upon her, aud that
was a long visit she paiu to the royal
palace. She paced the rooms once inhabtri
tied BY her sister, the ex-Queen of Naples
for long time with a saddened brow.
In one room was portrait of her lost
son, the Crown Prince Rudolph, who
committed suicide, and on leaving the
palace her majesty's face bore the traces,
of deep care and she did not speak tor
some time. The Empress is far from bes
ing what she was four years ago, either
physically or mentally. Ill health has
compelled her to abandon the saddle,
that used to be one of the greatest
pleasures of her life, and the tragic death
OF he- son has, it is feared, left an In
eradicable melancholy that has done
much 70 rob her of the beauty for which
she was onco famous. Chicago Herald.
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John T. Cummins an old California
prospector, had this experience. He was
prospecting close to the Oregon line
when the Modocs went on the warpath
in 1878. ~ didn't know that the In
dians were out at ALL" said he, "until a
volley from the brush killed my partner.
One bullet tore through my forearm. ]
ran for the tall timber, but had not gone
far before I felt myself hit again. That's
all remember until next morning. ]
felt my face all wet and most peculiar
feeling on my head. I was not yet con-
scious enough to feel pain. I put my
hand to my head and the touch made
me quiver all, over. tainted again. A
party of soldiers found me and the sur
geon did what he could for me. The
wound that knocked me was on my right
breast. 1 went East and they cut an
arrowhead out of there. For years the
pain from the scalping kept me almost
crazy. It is easier now, Of course, but
even now the touch of finger to the
bale scalp will make me scream. l can.
not bear the weight of pencil there"
The whole top of Mr.. Cummin's head is
bare. The naked spot is not like or.
dinary badness. It is covered with a
thin, green-blue skin. The remainder
of the scalp makes a pcrceptible wall
around it.
When On Indian wants scalp he will
90 to any length to get it. Some OF the
members of the Fourth Cavalry tell of q
Sioux who carried off wounded soldier
on his saddle-bow and scalped him while
the whole command was in pursuit.
San Francisco Examiner.
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fro DE CONTINUED
TgE murder of BenyeII by Burcn,

THE murder OF Benweu by Burcnell
and the execution of the murderer have
caused the following remarks about
emigration frauds by London paper:
Is there any punishment too severe for
the scoundrel who by specious lies in.
duces igro.ant peasants to break up
their homes ard start for an imaginary
paradise beyond the Atlantic, after
parting with their all to get there? 1t
may be pretty safely assumed that the
thousands of Austrian Poles who have
thus been stripped bare by greedy sche-
mers would make things unpleasantly
warm for their plunderers if they could
only lay hands on the inhuman wretch
es. Unhappily, discovery is rarely
made until the swindlers have got away
to some place of safety with their swag,
and so it seems likely to prove in the
present instance. Here il England,
the game is still carried on to some ex-
tent, but in much more cautious way.
Our emigration bidders rarely address
their overture to the working classes;
thev aim at higher game in the person
Of the younger sons of fairly endowed
families. "What shall We do do with
our boys?" asks paterfamilias despair
ingly of the wife Of his bosom. She is
as much at loss for reply AS he Is
himself; the young hopefuls would, she
thinks, make excellent colonists, with
their strong limbs, hatred of study, and
yoracious appetites; but how are they
tc get a good start in the promised
land? Here is kind gentleman Offer
ing-in return for a paltry premium OF
hundred pounds orso-to receive the
sons of gentlemen at his farm IN Bara-
taria, to give them thorough practical
training in Baratarian agriculture, and
finally to set them up as farmers on
their own feet. So, Tom, Dick, or
Harry is appointed to make trial OF
this excellent opening, and within a
few months he either works his passage
back to England, or adds another unit
TO the substratum of some American
citv. For the splendid farm proved to
be a rank humbug, while the agicultu-
raj training took the form OF brutal
language, every sort of hardship, and
next to nothing to eat. Yet, although
this vulgar fraud has been perpetrated
a thousand times on British parents,
| the trade appears to go on rs briskly as
ever. and, no doubt, as profitably.
To DEVOTE ones self to something
higher than ones self, this is the an
swer of the ages to all who would find
perpetual interests, and live in that
energy which is immortal
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The Bells of Limerick.

The bells OF Limerick are said to have
i;cea cs:: by ~ Italian, for use in a con-
sent in Italy. In the wars between
the Italians and Spaniards the bell
founder lost his two sons. the pride of
his old age, and being now friendless,
enjoyed as the Only solace of his exist
encc the sweet tones of his other chill
dren, the bells. While the old man was
absent from Italy, the convent was plum
dcrcd and the bells carried off. He
could find no trace of them, and re-
solved to search the world. that he light
die within the sound of his treasures.
After long years, he entered Limerick
harbor. and the old campanero heard
his bells peal from St. Mary's towers.
The sounds ceased, and the life of the
wandered died with them. Denis Flor
encc Mccarthy has written very grace
full poem: The Famous Bells of LINER
ck." on this subj t.-Detroh Free Press.
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particular rs the Cheyennes and as to
the character of the man from whose
head the hair comes. Their habit is to
scalp every man, woman or child that
they kill. But the Indians are astrange
people, and no rule is invariable. For
instance, when they wiped out Clusters
command, the "chief with yellow hair"
was uot rvuvueu. ruey look Ills epauieIs
and his belt, but that was all, while
many of the soldiers were hacked and
mutilated frightfully. And yet Custer
had been their most constant enemy, and
had fought as long as there was o breath
in his body. During the devastating
march Of the Cheyennes northward q
couple of Captain Woods troopers were
killed. They buried them near where
they fell. After the Indian trouble was
over the soldiers went out after the
bodies of their comrades. They found
that the Indians had dug them up and
scalped them.
The process of scalping is very simple.
The Indian simply holds the hair on the
top of the head in his left hand. Two
semi-circular cuts are made, and then a
good pull tears the scalp off. In a
Stockton street saloon q dusty handful
of hair is nailed to the wall. It is the
scalp of Running Devil, Comanche. II
is over twenty years since the little braid
was torn from the Comanche's head by a
scout, and the scalp is shrunken and
looks like leather that has long been ex.
posed to the sun.
The Apaches seldom if ever scalp.
There was time when rewards were paid
for Apache scalps, both in Mexico and
Arizona. The fashion on the American
side was simply to skin the head; the
Me1icans, however, did the work more
neatly. They simply cut strip right
oyer the middle of the head, from side t.
side, and under the ears. This gave
them a band of hair. with the ears at
tached, that was ample proof that the In.
dian from whose head it came was dead
It must be said, however, that even when
scalps were worth $500 apiece the mar.
set was never glutted. The people or
The frontier do not like to hunt Apaches.
The Indians are usually closely pursuec
while on their raids and have not much
time to spend in scalping. On this &C
count small number of people have
been scalped and have lived to tell OF it
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After all, is he traitor?" the puzzle
CAPTAIN asked himself.
CHAPTER x.
TIE LoyERS-A DARK FACE


"Griff, said Hatchet, in voice scarce
above whisper, and that trembled with
excitement, Il tell ye We don't dar put
this of mint longer. Let's go right in
thar, bring 'em out n hang en-.
NO. no, Jack; you are too violent.
Violent! Griff; thunder! don't they
hang spies?" asked the blacksmith.
Yes; but not until they are thorough,
convinced they are Spies"
My all, Griff! amt ye thoroughly con.
vinced?" asked Jack, in astonishment
I'D like to know how much more We want
TO convince ye that they are spies?"
They may be able to explain these
mysteries, Jack. don't think it prudent
TO deal summarily with men on mere sus
picion."
Then, fur the Lord sake, what We goin
to do? jest let EN- take us in an cut oul
throats an not make move TO prevent
emf"
NO. It may be good idea to question
them on this matter and If we find thai
they cannot maze satisfactory answers Z
our questions, put them under arrest"
Better put 'em under the ground
Griff. 'Twont take no one to guard EN-
there"
For o moment the young commands
was silent, and then he laid his hand OF
! Jacks shoulder and said:
Did you ever hear the story Of the mar
who had goose that laid golden egg
every day, Jack, and lie killed the goose
to get oil the eggs at once and found
none1 We might do th't ourselves. 1;
We should kill this mysterious gunner We
know that the Xenophon could blow Us
out of existence. Let's put him under
arrest and make him sight the gun for us
He has exhibited his skill, anal If he re.
fuses TO strike the ship with solid shot OF
shell then it will be time enough to string
him up for non-perfoImaIcc Of duty. o1
be;np traitor or spVS
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Tabernacle Of Migratory Birds.

The wild water fowl which spend the
summer in the North begin in the fall to
make their way southwark, stopping on
their way to feed m stubbles and in
swamps, lakes, and rivels. They fnall y
reach the warm climate where food is
abundant during the winter, staying un,
til the heat is uncomfortable, when they
20 northward again by gradual stages:
The same habit prevails among land
birds, as robbins, swallows, blackbirds,
etc.-Nep York Times. :
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one of them, and jump through rings Of
fire without the slightest hesitation. u
Miss Tina trains her cats, rats, mica
and birds from very early age. 6h1
begins with a kitten when it is about:
four months old and manages them by
kindness. She never beats them and.
says they can be trained to almost any;
thing by perseverance. The rats and
mice become accustomed to the cats and;
lose all fear of them. All aie well led;
and seem to enjoy their life.
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Changed to Steel in an Hour.

David Simpson, a blacksmith employed
in the Carbon Iron Works, Pittsburg,
Penn, claims to have process by which,
ore can be converted into refined iron i9l
one hour. He says: ~ know I have q
good thing and am watching it care3
fully. I can put ore in that furnace, add
few chemicals and in short time D
can draw out good iron; put in somS
more chemicals and can draw out good
steel. Here is q razor blade of steel,
made, forged, sharpened and b-saght to
this city in two hours. - ghieaal
Herald =. 49,
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The Empress Of Austria. Ia. !

Empress Elizabeth has terminated her
tour incognita of the various European
cities of note and has returned to Vienna.
She has derived much benefit, both in
health and spirits, from her sojourn IL
Italy, where she has had that rare luxury
of crowned heads, perfect liberty Of
action and freedom from official attsntions
of all kinds. Her expressed wish to re;s;
main incognita was respected to the
very letter. When in Florence she
would often walk out on fine NOON.
light night attended only by q lady in u
waiting, and once, more than an hous
after midnight, she was still pacing the
Piazza del Duomo admiring the effects
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.-.. ON THE TIGHT RoPE,
together and enj,y the benefits OF o
good education. The educator Of the
animals is Miss Tina, who has taught
them some remarkable feats. The cata
walk the tight rope, which has white
rats and mice and chirping canaries'
strewn all over it. The cats pick their
way carefully among their natural prey,
without molesting them, and will eye1
carry some of them on their backs with;
out being once tempted to gobble them
up. They walk over;the tops Of chairs.
pick their way. among a mass Of chan1-
pagne bottles without displacing q single