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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31

A comparison of the army statis-
tics of the United States with those
OF the principal European states
furnishes a reason that he who runs
may read why the condition Of the
people of this country is so much
more prosperous than that of our
neighbors across the water. With
55,O00,000 Of people the United
States supports an army of 10000
men and the militia Of the states
comprise 100000 more, the volun-
teer organizations being composed
Of men who support themselves. As
an offset to this it appears that the
combined military force by which
the seventeen principal European
countries maintain the peace of that
small continent is %, 248, 900. Not
all this immense force is on duty at
once or drawing pay, but it is all
organized and liable to be called
into service at a moments notice.
Another significant feature of the
present European military force is
that 1t has more than trebled since
1869, showing that the Franco Ser
man war turned all Europe into an
armed camp.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31

John Johnson, eighty eight years
old, whose home is in Wisconsin,
had a remarkable experience in
Plainield, N. j.. on Tuesday. He
was on his way to New York on the
Royal Blue Line train. lie fell
asleep in his seat, then arose and
walked out upon the platform. He
was seen as ne started to decend the
steps Of the car. The train was
running at full speed, about fifty
miles an hour. Before any one
could stop him, he swung himself
off as easily as il jumping from u
staeet car. He struck upon his feet
and then rolled over several times
anal lay extended beside the track.
Those who witnessed the occurrence
expected to find him dead, but when
help reached him it was found that
he was not even awakened, He was
aroused, and it was found that he
had escaped apparently unhurt.
He did not have the slightest idea
of what he had done. He proceed
ed to New York.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31

A Boston business man, carrying
a policy in life insurance company
applied for SIC, 900 additional insur-
ance a few days ago, and though
able TO pass a perfectly satisfactory
examination, was asked if he hac
ever been pensioner. lie replied
that he was then drawing So a
month, when the additional insur>
ance was refused. He admitted
shat he had never really suffered
any injury or illness emitting him
to pension, but he had made out
some sort of case of nervous shock
or deterioration, at the instigation of
pension agent, and had taken his
S12 a month from the United States
government, rich man though he
was, on the principle that they all
do it," The ground Of the insur-
ance company for refusing the adel-
tional insurance was that man who
would periure himself to secure a
pittance of S12 month was quite
capable Of cheating an insurance
company.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31
AGENTS FOR THE JOURNAL.

The following Agents have clubs and
will take subscriptions to the MARIETTA
Journal at One Dollar per year in adj.
vance:
Middleton Mrs. Emma d. Handy
Ponder Sprjmgs-W W. Scott
Sto'y-T. j. Lunsford
SmyrnG-J J Payne.
Due WeSt-B. W. Griggs.
Lost Mountain-E. L. Maycs.
Gritter--G w. York.
Acworth-H. M. Putnam. M. }. Abbott.
RosweU-J. B. Watson.
Austell- E w. Medlock, and Tom. W.
Norwood.
Big Shanty-C. N. Price.
OAKLEY MiUs-W S. Dodgen.
Marietta Dist-Martin w. Frey.
Due Ea9t-L. M. Power.
Now is the time to subscribe. Agents
are in the reach of every man in the coun.
Y and the p-.ce as low as the cheapest.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31

The town of Bloomsbury, Pa,
maintains a squad of bicycle mount
ed police, and is just now in great
glee over the performance OF two of
its "coppers" on wheels. A horse
thief, who had TWO hours start of
the Blue. coats, was run down and
captured by the police bicyclists.
The policemen carried their clubs,
revolvers AMI o repeating rifle each
on their wheels.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31
A good wife is Heavens last, best

A good wife is Heavens last, best
gift to man-an angel of mercy
minister of graces innumerable-Eis
gem Of many virtues-his casket Of
jewels her voice his sweetest mu.
sic-her smiles his brightest day
her kiss the guardian of innocence
her arms the place of his safety,
the balm OF his health, the balsam
of his lite-her industry his surest
wealth-her economy his safest
steward-her lip his faithful coun-
or-her bosom the softest pillow
of his cares-and her prayers the
ablestadvocate of Heavens blessings
on his head.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31
A pathetic instance is related 0

A pathetic instance is related Of
poor old woman who had Just
seen the ocean for the first time.
She was asked by her son, ''What
do you think of the sea-" ''Think,"
replied the old dame, after a long
pause. II can't think, | can only
thank Providence for having shown
me something in my life of which
there seems to be enough and TO
spare" 1
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31

AN exchange says: Advertising gives
character and standing to firm. Go into
any town as an entire stranger and pick
up the local paper published there. Look
for their largest advertisers and you can
invariably depend upon it that you have
found the most reliable and desirable firms
of that town."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31

YOUNG AND
MIDDLE
AGED MEN:
Remarkable re-
suits have fol.
lowed our treat.
ment. Ma ny
YEARS of varied
and successful
EXPERIENCE in
the use of cura-
tive methodist that
we alone own
and control for
all disorders of
MEN. who have
veal. OF undevel-
oped or diseased
organs, or who
are su fe ring
from errors OF
youth and excess
or VIII o are nerv-
Gus and IMPO.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31

Too much cannot be said of this coun-
try as country for diversified farming.
If the time ever comes when it is used to
the best advantage financial panic will not
be felt. Honey will circulate freely all
the year round.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-31
MEN AND WOMEN HELf
DIR. HATHAWAY g. CO..
SPECIALISTS.
Regular Graduates,
guiar Graduates,

Acknowledged to be tao leading, and most
successful Of all specialists a2d viii give you HEIR
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12

The second edition of the Cosmepeliton
for September brought the total edition
up to 900 copies, without doubt the
largest edition of any magazine in the
world for that month 1t remained for
the Cosmopolitan to have the Worlds
Fair treated in q single number by
twelve different writer's. AS the expo>
sition OF 1898 must remain one of the
leading events in the history of the
United States, the most distinguished
men were asked to prepare this maga-
zine volume, which is designed to be-
come valuable as one of the most per-
feet descriptions of the Worlds Fair.
Among the number of those who coz
tributed are our only ex-president,
Walter Besant, the most distinguished
of the English literary men who visited
the exposition, and host of others.
Besides the usual fiction, including
story by Mark Twain, entitled, rs He
Living or Is He Dead, and the regular
departments, the Cosmopolitan contains
nearly one hundred Illustrations devot>
ed to the Worlds Fair, including eleven
full pages. 1t is pronounced one of the
most remarkable of the publications yet
issued regarding the Fair. 1t is a COM
pletely illustrated guide or souvenir, as
one prefers to call it, by the most famous
writer's of the day, put before the reads
ers at the price of 124 cents, and more
than the equal of the books of the Fair
which sell for Is cents and $1.0O.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
Why Sugar is Scarce.

The effect of the prevailing scarcity
of sugar with which the manufacturers
and refiners throughout the country
have to deal has been felt seriously by
the Richmond dealers in that staple for
the past two weeks, and the wholesalers
are now in an embarrassing situation to
supply their customers with sufficient
amount for the needs of business
The wholesale dealers say they can
obtain only about one half the supply
for which they have demand, and their
orders are received by the refineries only
for future indefinite delivery.
One of the causes to which this con-
dition is attributed is the extensive fruit
crop of this year, with it's consequent
large increase in canning and preserving
and unusually heavy demand on the
market, and another is the inability of
the refiners to obtain in sufficient guam
titles the raw material. Notwithstand-
ing this, the prices have not yet been
raised.
The present prospects are anything
but favorable, and should there be no
improvement in the near future, the
situation may assume serious aspect.
Richmond State.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
What Home Is.

A London paper offered prize for the
best definition of home. About 5,00o
answers were given. Some of the best
were the following.
A word of strife shut out, word of
love shut in.
Home is the blossom of which Heav en-
is the fruit.
Where you are treated best and gruM
BILE most.
The fathers kingdom, the children's
paradise, the mothers world.
The best place for married man after
business hours.
The place where the great are some>
times small and the small often great.
The jewel casket containing the most
precious of all iewels-domestic happi-
ness.
Home is the contest, kindliest, sweet
est place in all the world, the scene of
our purest earthly joys aud deepest sor-
row.
The only spot on earth where the
faults and failings of fallen humanity
are hidden under the mantle of charity.
A little hollow scooped out of the wins
DIV hill of the world where we can be
shielded from it cares and annoyanees.
A hive in which, like the industrious
bee. youth gamers the sweets and mems
cries of life for age to meditete upon.
An abode in which the inmate, the
superior being called man, can pay
back at night with fifty per cent. inter-
est, every annoyance that has met him
in business during the day.
That source of comfort which youth
does not fully appreciate, which the
young men and maidens lovingly desire,
which the middle aged generally pos
sess, which the old rightly value
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
IN THE GREAT BAZAAR.

The Liberal Arts building is too great
to describe, too great to understand. AS
an architectural continuance, it is worth
going to Chicago to see. and it's contents
are of surprising interest People tell
you it is only bazaar of all nations, and
that you can always find shop windows
to look into, so that time put in here is
wasted. But never mind who says it,;
the people do not listen. The sight
takes them nightly. Under this roof
are the choicest products of the worlds
cleverest workmen. Few of the hun
dreds of thousands of visitors can afford
to buy any of the things they SO admire.
1t sets you wondering at the contradic-
lions of world where skill devotes itself
to the production of what is out of peo>
pies reach when it is made. But for
this trip everything is within reach.
Bought by Mrs. ]. J. Astor, 37i Fifth
avenue may be modestly laid upon
some choice ware, but until Fthe air is
over you have the same right to look at
it that she has, and you can see what
the whole world makes Russia shows
wonderfully spirited bronzes and most
attractive work in the precious metals,
besides furs and other national products.
There is always a crowd about the Rus
sian bronzes. Ia the Austrian exhibit
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
Deserving Praise.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for wears we have been selling DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, Dr.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arniea
Salve and Electric Bitters and have
never handled remedies that sell as well
or that have given such universal satis>
faction. We do not hesitate to guaran
tee them every time, and we stand ready
to refund the purchase price, if salts
factory results do not follow their uset
These remedies have won their grea-
popularity purely on their merits. Far
rar g. Williamson. Druggists.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12

The settlement of the wage quest il
ON the Chesapeake. Ohio and Southwes-
tern and Ohio Valley railroads now de-
ponds entirely upon the ability OF the
men and the company to agree upea
terms. 1t was said at Louisville that
the next fortye eight hours will witness
the end of the controversy.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The BEST SALyE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheuh.I
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hana1
Chilblains, Corns and Skin Eruption
and positively cures Piles, or no pay RI
quired. 1t is guaranteed to give perfe
satisfaction, or money refunded. Fri
So cents per box. For sale by Farrral
Williamson.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
Piles. Piles! Itching Piles!

SYMPTOMS: = Moisture; intense itching and
SI1nglng; most at night worse by scratching
II allowed to continue, tumors form, which often
Dleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore.
owAfNE's OINTMENT stops the itching and bleed
ing, heals the liberation, and In most cases re-
moves the tumors. AT druggists, OF by mall fer
So cents. DR.. Swayne 4 Son, Philadelphia,
apr-221-02-1yr
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12

Thirteen hundred coal miners went
out ON strike at Springfield, Ill.,, last
week. The miners demanded As cents a
ton. The operators offer 40.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
the Laws Delay.
Two Very Old Violins.
Correspondence of the Dispatch,

CREwE, VA, September 30.-While
visiting recently at ''Chevy Chase Cot
tage," the pretty home of Mr.. Louis de
Ferni1, near this place, your correspon>
dent was shown a couple of antique vio
Inns, one of which was made by an
Italian named Albinae, at Tyrol, Italy.
in l741, making it 1852 years old. The
other instrument was manufactured by
hand at Cremona, Italy, and on the in
side has inscribed "Antonius & Hieroni-
mus Amati, 1871, which makes it 22s
years old. Both instruments are in ex-
cellent state of preservation. They are
made of sycamore and white pine, with
mahogany trimmings. The latter is one
OF six that was made of that style, and
lately had offered for it the princely sam
of 5000 Both Instruments have very
sweet tone.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
The Vanderbilt Family.
Hands off.

Flung in among the gods and god,
desses of Olympus, behold these Ameri-
can deities, transplanted from Fifth
avenue with their best clothes on, to re-
ceive the admiration Of the world. hands
off. Strangely enough, it strikes specta-
tors as the most out of place thing in
the whole show.
People In the ready made clothing
business must be oppressed by sense of
opportunity lost in rambling through
the picture galleries, but there really is
deal else there .besides nude fig
ures. There is room in this article
only to mention few noteworthy pic
lures. There are in the German collec>
ton Lehnbach's portraits of Bismarck
and Pope Leo, the latter especially
noteworthy, and Menzel's Rolling
MILL" downstairs, and upstairs his
wonderful drawings; in Austria you can't
help seeing Makart's Five Senses, y
which are there with no attempt to cons
ceal anything about them; in Sweden
several of Zorn's paintings have Away
an intelligent group of spectators about
them; in the English collection are many
familiar and famous pictures, not few
of them already popular through their
engravings; and the American artists, too
many to name. furnish admirable works.
Nowadays the gallery is crowded all the
time. Here, as elsewhere, the rule of
true art is followed, and the public is
duly perplexed in consequence. The
pictures are all numbered. Then they
are hung, and hung without regard to
the numbering. Your catalogue tells
you what they are when you find them
but you must find them without any aid
from catalogue or any other source.
This is senseless, and causes no end of
worry, but it's the usual way. The
straight ahead common--sense way
would be too practical.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
AMONG THE PICTURES.

The Fine Arts building offers to the
visitor occupation for all the time he can
spare. Gallery after gallery opens for
you, and in each there is something
worth seeing, as well as deal that isn't.
But you must look to determine. The
main hall is given to statuary, some good
ton. In the middle of it, with lack of
taste that provokes almost universal
comment, is marble group of little fig
ures wearing this label:
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
Distress after Eating.
INDIGESTION,
SICK HEADACHE,
AND DYSPEPSIA
Are cured by P. P. P.

-]HN 0eH1SW W
(Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potassiura.)
Abbotts East Indian Corn Paint cures
all Corns, Warts and Bunions.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
QUEER THINGS PEOPLE DO.

QUEER THINGS PEOPLE DO.
The crowd always an object ofinterest
keeps suggesting itself as the subject of
comment. One night when the whole
space about the fountains was packed
and the Examinations were specially
beautiful brass band went by in the
background playing for all it was worth.
Who hasn't heard bands play? They are
among the most familiar disturbances
of the peace in all communities. More
over, if you are are looking at something
you still can look and hear the music.
perhaps more, turned their backs at onse
upon the fairy spectacle and walked off
to see the band And this is typical
rather than peculiar. One day out near
the moving sidewalk somebody nailed
dime on the plank walk and people pass
ing would reach for it, and they couldn't
get it, look sheepish, and move on. It's
funny sight and an old joke, but right
there, amid all the lavish wealth of
things to see, hundreds if not thousands
of people gather for hours to watch
people stoop for that coin and to laugh
at them. The Worlds Fair was forgot
ten for that ridiculous entertainment.
Several times, too, | saw men fishing in
the lagoons, slowing themselves out of
the sun under bridges where no outside
object would distract them. Think of
that, fifty cents TO come in, the world on
exhibition to all who enter. and people
paying their half dollar to go fishing
amid the geese, ducks, gondolas, launch
es, and people that cover the water
ways! It is said that to see each object
in the show would require thirty-two
years of constant work. Likely these
people had stumbled upon that valuable
statistical fact and given up the attempt.
But to see them patiently fishing there
amid the opportunity of the century
was one of the queerest of all queer in
cidents of the great gathering. Another
queer spectacle | encountered was in
the great Liberal Arts building. It was
a blind man being led by small boy
from one choice exhibit to the next. 1t
recalled the time l saw a hand-organ
playing Justify in front TO the deaf and
dumb asylum at home.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12

Is some OF the most beautiful Bohemian
giass>works imaginable. The porcelain
and china Of Great Britain and America
are exhibited in large quantities. Every
thing in the Japanese section is of inter-
est. And so with the rest, while the the
United States has no reason to be asham-
ed OF what its people can do Louis Tiff
fanys exquisite glass chapel is always
1uil OF admirlng people. You can spend
large part of the alleged thirty -two
years in the Fine Arts building if you
let yourself. In the middle of it swings
the largest telescope in the world, the
product of Messrs. Warner 4 Swazey, of
Cleveland, o., formerly Hartford ma
chanists.
TRANSFORMATIONS OF "OLD GEN :
ERAL.n
Transportation building, and deseryedly
SO. 1t shows the whole history and
development of locomotion, butreaIy in
terests as much by it's complete presen-
tation of the methods now in use as of
the older. The great locomotives, the
models of steamships, the carriages.
railway cars, ETC.. cover the main floor
and stand beside earlier specimens of the
same sort of conveyances. The Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, for instance, il
Eliminates the evolution of the locomo-
tives from The very first attempt. Off in
one coroner among other engines is the
General" Many people will remember
the thrilling story of adventure in the
war, when party of Union men stole a
locomotive in Tennessee or Georgia, /
forget which, and made wild trip across
the country, trying to destroy the rail-
roads that the rebels controlled They
took up rails, burned bridges cut wires,
etc., but were pursued and finally most
OF them captured. Several were execut-
ed. 1t was a daredevil, reckless raid,
but its story is one of the kind boys
never tire Of Well, the "Gene,al' is
the engine our Union men ran away
with. There it stands, the same machine
that held those brave excited patriots the
same machine that frightened rebel
towns as it dashed by, vibrating all over
with the agitation of it's urgent speed.
You bare your head in reference before
this venerable relic, and then ask ques
lions. There's where you err. Respect
it and leave it, For found that one of
the brave leaders of the band, a survivor
of the affair, has turned Democratic
politician, and the locomotive itself is
taken from town to town to be exhibited
crative uses of historic association. Up
stairs in this building are the bicycles,
marvellous display, in which the Pope
Company takes leading part.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12


The electric illumination of the fouh-
tains in front of the Administration
Building is wonderful and beautiful BY
an arrangement of glasses and lights
down below the columns of water thrown
into the air are colored red, white, vel
low, purple, green, and SO on, the shape
of the column frequently changing and
the colors chasing each other one after
the other through the dancing waters.
Now and then all the jets are combined
in great tower, and when it reaches it's
height a remote search-li ght shoots across
the top of it a great shaft of colored
light, visible only as it meets the water.
The spray plays about in this, and taking
the rich color, often glowing red, caps
the white and shivering column with a
mysterious beauty. People never tire of
this exquisite spectacle. Take it from a
launch or gondola floating in the court
of honor among twenty similar boats,
with $4,000 or 100000 people standing on
the shore and the scene is one long to be
remembered.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-12
MILLIONAIRE WEEDS HousEMAIp.
Minneapolis Society Upset and Will Not
Receive the Bride.

Receive the Bride.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Sept. 30-Nil-
lionaire H. B. Frey, of the lumber firm
of Nelson, Tenney Il Co., was married
Tuesday to Miss Marie Lena Strand,
who has served as his housemaid since
his second wife died three years age.
Mr.. Frey has just completed magnif-
cent mansion ON Fifth street, and has in
stalled his bride therein She is extreme
ly pretty, and said to be bright and ac>
complished. Mr.. Frey's friends are in
dignant, and the leading society lights
say they will not recognize Mrs Frey.
the Laws Delay
From the Baltimore American.
The trial of the men who are held re-
sponsible for the accident in Washing.
ton, when the old theatre building fell
and killed number of government en-
ployes, promises to be long drawn ost.
In fact it has hardly yet begun, as up to
date most of the time has been spent
with arguments on demurrer to the
Indictment. Meanwhile it is the duty Of
the government to see that every build
ing used by those in it's employ is made
safe, and the repetition of such an acci-
dent made impossible.