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WHOLESALE SWINDLING.

Mr.. A. Frank Richardson, of New
York, in his recent address in ST.
Paul, Mimi, before the National Edi-
torial Association, called attention to
the fact that druggists all over the
country are continually defrauding
their customers by offering them imi-
tations or substitutes for various Pat
ent Medicines, thus also swindling the
Proprietors Of such medicines who
have created the demand by extensive
advertising. This practice of substi-
tuition by the druggists has grown to
such an extent that Mr.. Richardson
invokes the aid of the newspapers in
its exposure and defeat But no one
should allow themselves to be thus
swindled, especially in the purchase
of Simmons Liver Regulator, the
great remedy for Indigestion and als
Liver troubles. The genuine article
is stamped with large red Z on the
face Of the package. Take no other.
Any substitute for this is fraud upon
the purchaser who invariably pays the
penalty in not securing the relief to be
had from taking the genuine article.
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NEwsrApEaa AnpeTurrIB FRIENps.

NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR FRIENDS. "A
newspaper, if it has any brains, oonsc ience
and muscle back of it, must continual y do
eide between doing its duty and iDjuring its
pocket. 10 anJ position but that of au
editor the public is able to separate the in
dividual homo from the collective citizen.
But if the editor does not please them, il e
his pocket they aim at. Thus it is that
newspapers learu who their friends are.
The ma who reads a newspaper and ad-
mires it all the year around, yet gives his
business support to GONE other concern,
whose principles be detests, is not friend
of the former paper.
Admiration alone will not run a news
paper. Sooner Or later such admirers will
find that the objsct of their affections has
become welded to other ways that they do
not admire-in other words, a newspaper is
compelled in order to live, to seek the
friendship of those who are not SO platonic
in their love, but unite that practical
esteem with sentiment that binds mutual
admiration in other professions. There are
too many men who expect an editor TO slave
in defense of their pet notions and hobbies,
advocate their views against the strongest
opposition and cooly withhold the bust.
ness support by which alone a small news
paper can live.
Talk about newspaper having a public
duty to perform, an editor having to labor
for his principles, is cheap when others
stand back and, while extending luke
warm neutrality with one hand, are filing
their pockets with the other hand as a re-
suit of the editors labor for his principles
which they admire bat do not suppo t.
The Avalanche.
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MOTHERS AS MATCH MAKERS There is
kind OF matchmaking which it is moth
er's duty to attempt, writes Amelia E.
Barr, in The Ladies' Home Journal" /"
But it has strict limitations. 1t resolves
itself into the simple duty of introducing to
her daughter young men whose moral char.
acter is good, who are in a position to mar.
ry, and who, physically, are not likely tc
repel her. The young people may then
safely be left to their own instincts. There
should be no attempt to coerce; no moral
force used to make even suitable mar
riage; though extremities may lawfully be
used to prevent an evil marriage. A moth
er's match making really begins while her
daughters education is in progress. Aud
it is one of the strongest of facts, that
mothers generally force this education in
the direction of those qualities likely to
smuss young men-music. dancing, sing
ing, dressing, playing games, ohsffing wit
tily, etc. Now, such attractions are likely
to procure plenty of fl rtation; but young
men rarely mary the girls they Airt with.
Aud why do not mothers consider, most of
all. that approaching period in their daugh.
ters' lives when they will, or ought to,
cease being made loveto? Why should the
preparation for young ladyhood absorb all
the girls education? How many curricu-
lums contain any arrangement for eduoa-
ton for wifshood or psrenthood? Yet,
what man wishes to pass his life with a
woman whose only charm is the power to
amuse him? He might as wisely dine every
dsy upon candy sugar.
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When it was recently charged by leading
North Carolina papers that L. L. Polk,
who is president of the National Farmera'
Alliance, was traitor of the Confederacy
during the war and disgraced himself as
soldier by skulkipg from the ranks during
battle and hiding himself from the bullets
of the enemy, we were disposed to be
charitable, and to believe that there was
something possibly wrong and unjust in the
charges. But what has since been uttered
from his own lips, makes it clearly appear
that the charges were not as bad as his
conduct really merited. In speech made
by M. Polk few days ago at an Alliance
meeting in Kansas, in which he deecsnted
upon his war record, he made the humiiiat-
confession that he 'was strong Union man
at the commencement of the war bat was
compelled to DIN the rebel army, and that
he took commission in the army only to
help the opposite cause"
We cannot imagine more disgraceeul
confestion which Confederate soldier
could be induced to make. It is not only
makes him appear as coward and trai-
tor" as charged by the North Carolina pa
pers, but as confessed spy in the raI ks OF
his own camp and doing service for our ene-
miesl OF course, after these Developments,
Mr.. Polk will have TO step down and ont
from his present position as president of
the National Alliance party, and all of bis
ambitious calculations about being one of
the leaders of this new party on the Presi-
dental ticket of 1892 will be completely
dissipated long before the meeting of the
National Alliance convention February 23nd
next. He will be repudisted by his order,
both North and South --Lynch5urg Nsacs.
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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

The attitude of the medical profession
toward what is known as ''patent medi
cines" is not at all unreasonable. Thou
sands Of these nostrums arc offered to the
public every year. Some of them are
dangerous, and most of them are futile
SRift's Specific Is. s. s.. J, we are all glad to
say, is not classed among these nostrums.
1t has overcome the wholesome prejudices
of physicians in all parts of tho country,
and some of the strongest testimonials in
its behalf come from medical men who
have used it in their practice, and who do
not hesitate to endorse its wonderful re-
suits. This is extremely gratifying, but by
40 means astonishing, for every claim that
is put forward in behalf of S. S. S. is based
on series of actual experiments extended
over long period of time.
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A DRUNKEN BEAR KILLS Four PER
Ns.-The ST, Petersburg correspondent
of the daily Chronicle states that a
strange and terrible accident has occurred
near Wilma, the fact of which has been
mentioned iu the "Gazette.' A large
tame bear, which had been trained by the
servants of a country gentleman to drink
votky (whiskey), entered village tavern
and killed the tavern keeper and three
members of his family in fit of intoxica-
tion. The tragedy was brought about by
the owner of the tavern, Isaac Rabbanov-
itch, attempting to snatch from the bear q
keg of votky, which it had commenced to
drink, after staving it in with its paws. In
the conflict that ensued the infuriated ami
NAL hugged to death the tavern keeper, his
two sous and daughter. When some pea
SAINTS arrived on the scene with guns they
found the intoxicated animal asleep on the
floor in a pool of blood aud votky, sur
rounded by its four victims. The bear was
Immediately shot.
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Sensible.

We heartily Commend the recent action
of the Farmers Alliance of Augusta conn.
ty. Ia that county the Alliance is large and
influential. lts mem bars are certainly as
much attached to tho principles ard objects
of their organic itiop az those of any aIii
ance in the State can be. Bat although
ioyg! TO the Alliance, the sturdy farmers of
Augusta hold fast their al!egiaacs to the
party which has for thirty years iu defeat
aud in victory defended aud upheld the
rights OF our people, recognizing that but
for that party the South would now be
struggling with all the horrc1s of a second
reconstruction era, and that tie union and
strength OF the Democracy alone stand be-.
tween our people and he proposed Wind C.
tive legislation OF the Reeds and IicKiuleys.
In Stalking contrast to The action of some
of tic couDiy Alliances, the farmers of Au-
gus'a net III aonVentien, indicated the men
whom they pei rred ss candidates for the
Legislature, and submitted their names to
the Democratic convention, with a pledge
to abide by the decision of that conyentioD.
To this action no good Democrat can OBJ
ject. The Democratic members of The al
lance are still Democrats, entitled to all the
privileges of Democrats. If they have the
majority in the county or are more active
or united than other Democrats, they will
control the organization of the party and
name their men for the places of honor and
profit within its gift; or if out voted thew
will submit like other good Democrats and
support the nominee. Inthis the members
of the Farmers Alliance are acting fully
within their rights.
But this is very different thing from the
action of the Halifax Alliance, for instance.
These gentlemen, as we noted last week,
met together in secret convention, from
which all Democrats not members of the
Alliance were excluded, and nominated
full legislative ticket. This action, if ad.
hered to, must result In one of two WAYS,
viz: either the Democratic majority outside
of the Alliance must submit and support
candidates about whose selection they were
not consulted or they must make nomina-
tions of their own, thus insuring split in
the party and the consequent almost cer-
tain success of the Republicans.
In the courses of the Alliances of Angus
ia and of Halifax the farmers have two OBJ
ject lessons before them. By following the
example set by the former they will insure
the success of the Democratic party and the
accomplishment of the ends of the
Alliance: by following the latter example
they will certainly compass the destruction
of the Democratic party of the South and
Nation. and must look 20 the monopoIists
of the Republican party to carry out their
Charlottesville Chronicle
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A REMARKABLE FREAK OF NATURE
There arrived in New York handsome
Hindoo youth named Lalloo Ramprasad
Bhikaree, who is exciting much interest
among medical men. Projecting from his
breast-bone are the legs, arms and part of
the body of another human being Of min
iature proportions. According to the New
York Herald. all the doctors who saw Lal-
loo and his little half brother Monday said
that they could be separated safely. They
named New York surgeon, IN fact, WHO
could do IL. This, it was said, is where
American abdominal surgery is ahead of
European, for Malloo and his little half
brother have been through England, Scot
land and Germany, as well as Hindostan,
and all the foreign doctors have decided to
leave thin together.
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repetition of the event gotten up for my
especial benefit, or was it portent in
tended to foreshadow the coming of the
dread visitor to myself?
Now, as have before stated, am no
believer in ghosts. but certainly this re-
m arkab!e experience of miue has entirely
upset all my previously conceived notions
of the subjest. leaving me in quandary of
doubt. On the evening upon which / saw
the mysterious funeral at Knotty Ash
was exceedingly wide-awake, had met
several cyclists on the Prescott road with
~hom l conversed. Strange that a few
hundred yards farther down the Ioad
should encounter so ghastly an experience
-an experience shall never forget to my
dying day.-Liverpool Post.
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a WONDER.


She is college graduate. Packed IN her little
Are all the living languages and many that are
dead;
She thinks her thoughts In Latin and she whis-
ties in high Greek,
While with Chinese washee man she easily
can speak.
The whole array of sciences are at her fin ger
tips,
And problems mathematical Just bubble from
her lips;
Whene'er she talks her hearers try their hard
est to look wise;
But, to conceal their ignorance. they venture
no replies.
Not only is her learning far ahead of any
dream.
But she in college tennis was the captain of a
cam;
And in the colleEe races en- the Jake and on
the land,
Was always Gro wned the victor. TO the music
of the band.
A dainty pair of glasses on her dainty little
nose
Adds to her look of culture and her statuelike
repose;
But when discussing subjects with Boston
maiden's might
Her eyes flash through her glasses like a loco
motives light.
Oh, she Is just daisy. Though the drawback
ofher sex
Keeps her from being president, her mind 1t
dosen't vex;
For there are higher stations she is able to ats
tain
By having so much knowledge in her active
little brain.
And now the wonder cometh; this sweet col
lege girl, who might
Reform the very universe which men have
ruined quite,
Stays at home to help her mother In the kitch'
en-, where she makes
The most delicious puddings, pies and home
made bread and cakes.
4 man who thinks womfn's higher educa.
tion tends
To make her hate domestic work. on which his
bliss depends.
Should taste this maiden's cooking, for the
more that women know
The more Of sweet home happiness they're able
to bestow.
H. c. Dodge in Chicago InteI-Ocean
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"Despise not the day of small things" as
the tiny pill (tsken from vial of DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgatfve PelIets) said to
the 5O0.pound man, suffering from indi.
gestion. AS gentle, thorough laxative,
these Pellets resemble Nature more closely
in their action than anything before dis
covered. Business aud professional men.
whose habits are sedentary, need some
thing of this kind to ward Oft sick head.
ache, biliousness and dyspepsia, but which
will not strain and rack the digestive
organs as did the old-fashioned pills. 25
cents per vial, at all druggists.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-09-30

How TO ACT AT TABLE.-Do not eat
hurriedly or bolt your food-it is vulgar as
well as being bad for digestion. A knife
should not be held by the blade nor a fork
by the prongs. Grasp both knife and fork
By the handle, directing both by extending
the forefnger along the backs close to the
handle. Never eat potatoes, vegetables or
anything for that matter with the knife
blade, which was made for cutting only;
the fork wss designed for carrying food to
the mouth. Always be polite and pleasant
to those with whom you are dining and en-
deavor to anticipate their wants. Do not
reach across the table for the salt, bread,
etc.. if they are not close beside you ask
your neighbor Or servant for them polite
|Iy.
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ZEK'EL BROWN DNBURDENS HIM
SELF.
Portland (Me.) Transcript
The neatest woman in this town
Folks say I've got for a wife,
And what folks say Is gospel truth
This time. you bet your life.
Keturah Brown, she beats the world
On bakin' bread and pies,
But her best holt is fightin' dirt
And circumventin' flies.
Her temper's like her pie-crust, which
They're both uncommon short;
An tho I'm eeand easy like
Sometimes she makes me snort.
There amt no sense in havin things
So dum'd all fired neat,
Nor sayin' ev'r time step,
"Now, Zek'el, wipe your feetH
I can't sit down in our best room.
1t is SO slick and spruce;
Fact is, most everything we've got's
Too good for common use.
Though next to godliness the Book
Puts clean illness, I'm bound
To say Keturah's mighty apt
To run 1t in the ground
There amt no use In kickin'. I'm
Prepared to bear my cross.
Some day, perhaps, I'll wear my crown
Keturah she can't boss
Things round in Heaven. An since we're told
That there no moth nor rust
Comes to corrupt, guess it's safe
TO say there amt no dust.
But, oh, what will Keturah do
Within those pearly gates.
If she 70 longer finds the dirt
That she SO dearly hates?
O'ershadowed Heaven itself will be
Engulfed in awful gloom.
When my Keturah enters in
And cannot use bro3m.
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Mr.. MILLS Purs FREE COINAGE ASIDE.
According to the Hon. Il. Q. Mills, speak
ing for Gov. Campbell in Ohio Satur day
week, free coinage would add only some
$4,000, 900 or $4,000, 900 a year to the
circulation in addition to the $50, 900, COO of
silver treasury notes put out annually un-
der the existing law. Since 1878 we have
coined, he says, $945 900, 900 of gold and
silver. Would our additional $12, 1000, 900
of silver under free coinage make great
difference, when an average yearly increase
of over $72, ,000,00 has not satisfied us?
The great evil, Mr. Mills holds, is not the
small circulation. Excessive taxation,
blighting taxation by the federal govern
ment is the cause of the peoples bard
ships. Not State OR county taxation, but
''thst other taxation that comes over the
wall like thief in the night, decreasing
the price of what you have to sell and in-
creasing the price of what yon have to
buy" The increase of price of home
made and foreign manufactures caused by
the tariff Mr.. Mills estimates at some ST..
400, 900, 600 year. That is the sum the
tariff robs consumers of yearly. No won
der some get rich and the many get poor
under such a system of taxation, Free
coinage would not care this unequal dis
tribution of The products of industry. Mr..
Mills thinks it would be possible to keep
the silver dollar at par with gold under
free coinage, but he thinks the increase of
money, which is the object of free coinage,
would not do much good under our present
blightiug system of taxation. What is
wanted is freer trade, more demand for our
products abroad, more commerce, more in
dustry on rock bottom basis.-Baltimore
Sum
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THos. c. ELDER. FITzHUGH ELDEf
TIh AUGUSTA COUNTY HEDGE GO.

j. W. TODD, President and Director.
M. F. GTLEESON, Vice. Pres. and Director
J. N. MCFARLAND. Sec'y and Treas'r.
H. A. S. HAMILTON. Director
STEWART BOWLING, Director.
Under the charter granted by His Honor
Judge Mclaughlin on December nth, are now
prepared TO contract with the farmers of An
gusta county to plant and finish Hedge on the
plans of the Shenandoah Valley Hedge and
Wire fences. Ea-This is the CHEAPEST, BEST
AND HANDSOMEST FENCE farmer can
have, M KINGSBURY,
Jan-Iy Manager
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[ D0DDs' CATARRH CURE.
LOCAL AND INTERNAL TREATMENT

In order to cure catarrh 1t is necessary to
allay the Inflammation OF the irritated men,
branes with q soothing application, cleanse
the head of the plugging mucous secretions,
ana neal the dischargtng ulcers For cold in
the mead and nasal catarrh Dodds local treat
nent does this without the aid of snuff. douches
or fumes. II the dis ease has extended down.
wards, Affecting the bronchial tubes or lungs,
digestion and blood, the internal treatment
both removes from the system the scattered
poison, and by it's building up properties as
slsts nature in restoring the impaired parts
Send Tor our book treating on catarrh FOSTER.
MILBURN & Co., proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y.
Sold in Stauutoo, by
sept %, 1891. ly w. M ALLEN
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l suffered from severe col in my head
for months and could get no relief. Was
advised to use Ely's Cream Balm. 1t has
worked like magic in it's cure. l am free
from my cold after using the Balm one
week, and believe It is the best remecy
known.-Samuel d. Harris, wholesale
Grocer, 119 Front St., New York.
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How natural it is TO hate man who,
when he hears that you have sworn to re-.
form, reminds you that he has heard you
take the same oath btfore,
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There is nothing lihs prayer for produc-
ing calm self-poSsession. When the dust Of
business SO fills your room that it threatens
to choke you, sprinkle it with the water Of
prayer, and then you can cleanse it out " it'll
comfort And xpedition.-Rev. James
Stalker.
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AFTERThOUGHTs.

after recovering q little from the shock
Immediately aroused female relative
who had retired for the night and related
to her the above particulars. She assured
me that must have been suffering from
meutal hallucinatlon, but seeing the great
perturbation of my mind, and at the Same
time knowing my natural skepticism with
regard to all so called supernatural phe-
nomena, she came to the conclusion that,
after all, might possibly have seen what
has been described above.
The next day l made inquiries in the
ueighborhood of Knotty Ash, and ascer.
tained from very old woman that she re-
membered a story in her youth having
reference to the mysterious and sudden
death of an old occupant Of Thingwall
Hall, who was hastily and quietly buried,
she thought, at midnight, in old Knotty
Ash churchyard. If so, was this a CHASTITY
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nope may be but another name for de-
ception and disappointment; but yonth is
supreme happiness in itself, because all
possibilities lie in is, and nothing in it is
vet irrevOcabie
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l was sufferer from catarrh for fifteen
years, with distressing pain over my eyes.
l used Ely's Cream Balm with gratifying
results. Am apparently cnred.-Z. G.
Warren, Rutland, vt.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-09-30

There ia nothing like DIR. Thomas
Eclectrio Oil to quickly cure a cold Or re-
lieve hoarseness. Written by Mrs. NJ. ].
Fellows, Burr Oak, st. Joseph Co., Mich.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-09-30

If a fool knows a secret he tells it be-
cause he is fool; if knave knows one, Jhe
tells it whenever it il his interest to do SO.
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DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup was
used for years as a prescription by sue
cessful physician. 1t ia in all respects the
best cough medicine made to day. Sold by
all dealers on guarantee of satisfaction.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-09-30

Most of oar misfortunes are more sup.
portable than the comments of our friends
upon them.
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CURE FOR CRoUP.-Use DIR. Thomas
Eceotric Oil according to directions. 1t is
the best remedy for all sudden attacks of
colds, pain and ILLUMINATION, and injuries.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-09-30

So easy in its action, harmless aud eff
fectual in relieving is Simmons Liver Regu.
lator.