Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-11-11
A QUIET TAKEN.
The Mild hammered Man and His Won
derful Scheme.

Tho MILO hammered Wan anu HIS WON
derful Scheme.
He was a quiet looking, elderly gentle
man and he came into my presence almost
with humility. We exchanged some vital
opinions concerning The weather. and when
the conversation began to limp he slipped
towards me and said with sly glance:
"A great many OF the young men are
trying 1t now"
The remark took ne by surprise. SO.
without the least idea what he meant.
said, rs that so>'
Yes" he answered. "and the young
women too
'Indeed!"
"Of course it's 20 be expected, though
that young people in this age will KEW q
good thing when 5Ley see IT.
'Qsite Eatrrai," said
And everybody, too, Wants TO make
money-snch restless. money getting age.
TIE mac that CANT make d fortune ncw iii
sweEty years is set dcwE as 4 TOOL"
'Yesf" l answered. thinking how many
fools there are, but growing mors ,h.e-
estec al! the tin.e
When / was young u was very differ,
ent." be went Or. "A m&n had to work
hard and economize to acquire compe-
aeEcy liz sixty years. This generation il a
hundred years ahead OF that A young
woman came to NE last week and said she
was going to branch out ard accomplish
something ard wanted me &c help her. OF
course ! did, ard | consider Ter fortune
made =
By this time was burning u D with curl |
osity to know who this man was that had |
sortuEes Io dispose Of so reckiessiy. ard l |
was growing exceedingly nervous. He saw
u, fer he said.
Il see you interested, and should |
have been greatly deceived if you had lot
LeeG You want &c make something for |
rainy day. That's right. young widow
came 10 me last week and shook my hand
and told ne she never would forget my
kindness to her; and week before last a
young man told me I'd been the making OF
him."
could stand it no longer. will you
tell me how you do it," asked nervously |
couldn't control my eagerness to grasp
fortune, but he was cool us cucumber.
Certainly" he said, drawing a red
bound book slowly from his pocket. 81
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Assurance society, that not only gives You
The cheapest term insurance. but pays
larger dividends than any other invest
ment in the world-perfectly safe, too-as
sets, $50 100000 liabilities, S23, 000, COO, cash
surplus, exclusive Of unpaid dividends
SCI. 600, O00-has $4,000 members young
man. by an economy of fifteen cents per
day, can lay up fortune in twenty gears
woman same rates as men''-
was into it. l felt as cheap as we'd
ding present. He ratified away about in
surance with volubiity that was re
markabe even in we'll trained insurance
agent l got rid Of him by promising To
give the matter Of insurance my careful
frs Il Il
read thoroughly all the circulars he gave
me meantime will not say kept my
promise. for great portion Of my time is
given upt avoiding man with gray beard
and furtive glance. -Detroit Free Press.
Negro Folklore.
Here is a strange piece of folklore. For
many years, even long before the war, the
fiddle playing and the banjo playing had
been dying out among the negroes, owing
to \ superstition that de devil is fid-
der The very cid people have noticed
this The master of the mansion says: "In
my fathers time. and When | was boy,
there were few regular musicians and at
parties unless it was very grand affair,
d lady played the piano. accompanied by a
gentleman on the VIOLIN and monstrous
good jigs and reels they played too. But
anybody's carriage driver could be sent
for out Of the kitchen, who could fiddle
we'll enough to dance the Virginia reel by.
But wEen grew up negro iddlers were
scarce among the plantation hands, except
the professionals who were free negroes.
They have been growing scarcer, owing to
this superstition about old Pluto.
among the city negroes the piano is the
favorlte Instrument. as it is so much easier
TO acquire a certain proficiency on it than
on the violin In the country, though. it
is generally thought unbecoming, at least,
for 'chu 'ch member to play the violin, if
not actually an auducous communication
with Satin himself But it involves
neither deadly sin nor any spiritual risk
whatever to play the accordion or the
lap orgsn,' as they callit. The cor jon
consequently, is very popular iustru-
nlent.'' Boston Transcript.
Measuring the Grand Falls of Labrador.
At St. Johns, Newfoundland, we had
provided ourselves with several balls of
stout linen cord with which to measure |
the height of the fall, if the situation
should be found suitable Fortunately
alongside the chute just above the brink
OF the main cataract we found a floor of
rock OF the same slope, about 30 degs
below the horizontal. Along this it was
possible to go, but with some peril, nearly
to the edge over which the stream plunges
in its final descent Fastening a heavy
billet OF green fir to one end of the cord,
the weight was carried and thrown down
on the surface of the rock to the brink of
the fall, the cord being paid out from the
upper end of the slope.
knot was made in the cord to mark
fha diCfn fO + bnn RI 81, l,:l 1ok
allowed to fall over the precipice into the
chasm. Montague, having climbed along
the bank at the edge of the canyon, was
holding on by the trunk of tree, from
which he could see when the block of wood
struck the water below as the cord was
paid out by me above The instant of con-
tact was plainly visible to him, and was
equally sensible of it. The cord was now
drawn up over the edge and carefully
measured with tapeline. The whole
length paid out was sos feet, the part
which measured to slope was 1S9 feet, leav-
ing for the height of the main fall below
the chute SIG feet
Allowing for a few degrees deviation
from the perpendicular and for a slight
stretching of the cord, though this last
was probably counteracted by wetting, the
height of the fall may be considered some
thing more than 800 feet. The vertical
height of the chute, about thirty-two feet, q
added to the other measurement, makes
the descent from the head of the chute to
the surface of the water in the chasm
about 348 feet.-C. A. Kenaston in Century
Educated Workingmen.
Philadelphia is conceded to have the best
educated workingmen that live. One OF
this citys bricklayers h,., written articles
on Shakespeare's plays that have been
commended by D. Fnrne,,. A carpenter
here is deemed an authority on Horace,
and a mau who work, III the same shop
with him reads Greek. In great shoe
factory is employed a man who won q
prize for New York weekly's leading ar.
tiele on the tariff \ local compositor has
written Il we'll known llfe OF Cesar and
member Of .he cabinet makers union has
translated and edited an edition of Karl
Marx. The granite cutters strike brought
into prominence a member of their union
who is an accomplished mathematician.
To he cOnyerSant with two or thrpp Ian.