Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-05-25
49,, mo. FL.

He did with me Just as he liked, and in what
he liked he was not very particular. was in
bed for a week, hardly able TO see out of my
eyes or move a limb. ! am also covered with
scars 1 may not return to England for some
years, and when / do ! am not likely, if III my
present mood, to renew my acquaintance with
my cousin Kate Filters and her amiable hus-
band. If you take my advice, you will not en-
tighten Mr.. Filters as to the facts of that dis
creditable affair. Yours faithfully,
GEORGE CHALFoNT.
Kate took her cousin s advice and be-
lieves to this day that her husband is
absolutely ignorant of the disastrous
burglary plot. She thinks he is the
bravest man in the world, while he
laughs up his sleeve and is happy.
don Tit-Bits
Luther's Wife.
Believing that ga good wife is of the
Lord, "Martin Luther chose good woln-
an-Catherine de Bora-a lady of noble
birth, a nun, and, if we may credit Hol-
bein's portrait, a very pretty woman.
Better still, she was faithful and af-s.
fectionate wife, though her temper was
not the sweetest and her tongue at times
could scold. Luther loved her dearly.
With him indeed reverence for woman
was at once a natural instinct and a
point of doctrine He observed that
when the first woman was brought to
the first man to receive her name
he called her not wife, but mother
GIVE, the mother Of all iving'-a
word, he says ''more eloquent than ever
fell from the lips Of Demosthenes. +" So
when Catherine frowned he smiled, when
she scolded he bantered. With the gen
tlest soothing he chided her anxieties,
and with the most self denying devotion
he sought to make her life happy. And
happier home, it is said, than the
home of Luther was not in that land Of
domestic tenderness. In one OF his let
tiers to his wife he says: 1.-THE greatest
favor of God is to have a good and pious
husband, to whom you can intrust your
.all-your person and even your life
whose children and yours are the same.
Catherine, you have a pious husband,
who loves you. You are an empress.
Thank God for it. - And more playfully
he says another time: eff l were going
to make love again, would carve an
obedient woman out of marble in de-
spair Of finding one in any other way. "
He addresses her sometimes as my
Love Catherine Catherine the
QUEEN the Empress, the doc
tress,'' Or as Catherine, the rich and
noble lady of Zeilsdorf, " where they
had cottage and few roods Of ground
CULVER;
The Cost of Firing the Thirteen Inch Gun.
The cost of each pound of projectile
is IS cents, which makes each one fired
represent $207. The powder costs 33
cents pound, OF $751; so for the charge.
Bags in which it is incased, fuses, ETC.,
bring the cost of each shot up to $500.
The expense of each shot makes it ex-
ceedingly desirable that each one hits
the target it is sent at.
There are other remarkable features
about this leviathan besides the projec-
tile Powder such as no one ever
dreamed of 10 years ago is used. It is
technically known as brown prismatic
and takes the latter term from the pecu-
liar shape of the grain. Each grain is
probably 2 p inches high and 2 in width
and is prismatic in form, with a small
hole through the center Eleven Of these
grains make one pound. Each grain
would make several rounds for an ordi
nary fowling piece. The extent of the
charge necessitates its being placed in
four parts, each part also prismatic.
These parts are forced in the gun, and
when in place hug one another closely.
Thin muslin bags hold the powder in
place. Baltimore Sun.