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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-04
Mountaineering Memories.

had not long left a public school
and was unconscious of the possession
Of nerves. Given sufficient hold for hand
and foot, never felt any more inclina-
tion to fall in place where q fall would
carry me couple of thousand feet to
the bottom of a precipice than where it
would only involve tumble of yard
into soft snow. But to poise oneself
in going down series of steps that are
merely tiny chips in hard ice, tilted up
at an angle greater than Of an average
roof-this sort of work demands some
skill, which does not come by nature,
but has to be acquired by experience.
The only safe way, when a novice is of
the party, is not to allow him to move,
unless the man to whom he is roped is
firmly anchored, and this course was re-
peatedly adopted on our descent.
1t was, however, when we had reached
the ice fall Of the glacier that the Incl
dent occurred of which I have the most
vivid recollection. The SNOW bridges
over the crevasses had easily borne our
weight in the early morning, when the
frost still held them in its grip, but by
the time we returned the sun had pro-
duced its effect, and I was not the only
one of our party who went through in
the fashion already described Of
course, the rope furnishes an absolute
security, provided that the rest of the
party are on what Mrs. Malaprop would
call terra Gotta, but I repeat that it is
at first startling to find oneself
swinging in vacancy over an apparently
bottomless abyss.
In a good many years of mountain
eering I have encountered certain real
dangers, but none, think, which has
impressed me so strongly as the imag-
mary peril of that sudden descent below
the surface of the Aletsch glacier some
30 years ago. -Blackwood's Magazine.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick 81
between New and Market streets, services
IL a. m. and p. m. Pastor. Rev. A. M. Fraser
Second Presbyterian church corner Freder.
lex and Lewis streets. Services at IL a. m
and s. Pastor. Rev. VIM. Cumming.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship at Y.
M. C. A. Hall. Services at II a. m., and D. M.
Rector, Rev. R. c. Jett.
Trinity Episcopal church, Main street, be-
tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at
IL a. M, and p. m. Rector, Rev. W. Q. Hull
linen
United Brethren church, Lewis street, be-
tween Main and Johnson streets Services at
II a. m and p. m. Pastor, Rev. ]. D Dom
ovan.
Methodist church, lewis street, between
Main and Frederick streets. Services at IL
m. and p. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, D. D
Christ Evangelical Lutheran church Lew
is street, between Main and Frederick streets
Services at IL a. N. and p. m. Pastor Rev,
H. f. Shealy.
Baptist church, corner Main and Washing
ton streets. Services at II a. m. and p M
Pastor, Rev. w. j. e. Cox.
st. Francis Roman Catholic, North Augusta
street, Mass at Z and 1890 a. M. vespers and
benediction Of Most Blessed Sacrament At
p. m. Pastor, Rev. Father Mcverry.
Young Mems Christian Association, corner
Main and Water streets. Services at D. m.
Sunda
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Mr.. English's History Of Indiana

William H. English of Indiana is 73
years old, as the phrase goes, but 1t does
not follow that he is an old man. He is
young enough to be industriously and
intelligently at work on history of In
diana, sparing no expense or research to
obtain information and verifcations. He
is very liberal in the purchase of histor-
ical documents, and from the items we
have seen in print about the work the
book, when it is issued, ought to be the
most valuable extant 4 very first class
and comprehensive history of the great
state of Indiana, written as a labor of
love, will be monument to the author
greater than marble or bronze or a ca
reer in public office. Mr.. English has
not been conspicuous in politics, though
always in line as a Democrat, since he
ran for vice president on the ticket with
Hancock in l880.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-04

Bequests of hearts have been by no
means uncommon. Richard C9ur de
Lion bequeathed his heart to the canons
Of Rouen cathedral, and in July, 1888,
this remarkable relic was once again
brought to light after the lapse of six
centuries The heart, which is said to
have been surprisingly large, was in
closed in boxes of lead and silver and
withered, as it was described, to the
semblance Of q faded leaf.
Bruce's heart was by his dying wish
intrusted to Douglas to fulfill VOW
which he had been unable to execute in
person, Of visiting the sepulcher Of
Christ. Douglas, ''tender and true,"
promised to fulfill his sovereign's last
request, and after Bruce's death, having
received the heart incased in casket of
gold, set forth upon his mission. Pro-
ceeding to Spain, however, he fell in
the thick Of fight with the Moors, hay
ing previous to his final charge cast the
heart of Bruce from his breast, when
he carried it into the ranks Of the inf
dels, crying, ''Onward as thou vert
wont; Douglas will follow theeP'
Bruce's heart was afterward recovered
by Sir Simon Lockhart, by whom it
was brought to Scotland and buried
along with the bones of Douglas in the
abbey of Melrose. When the remains Of
Bruce were disinterred at Dunferline in
1919, the breastbone was found sawn
through SO as to permit of the removal
Of the heart.-Temple Bar.
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Preparing a Prescription.

II noticed,' said the druggist to his
assistant, "that a gentleman came in
with prescription and that you took
it and gave him the stuff in about three
minutes. What do you mean by that?'
sit was only a little carbolic acid
and water, - replied the assistant. "I
simply had to pour few drains of
acid into the bottle and fill it up with
water"
"Never mind if you had only to do
that, " the druggist declared. "Don t
you know that every prescription must
take at least half an hour to dispense,
or the customer will think he isn't get
ting anything for his money?
''When a prescription for salt and
water Or peppermint and cough sirup is
handed to you, you must look at it
doubtfully, as if it were very hard to
make up. Then you must bring it to
me, and we will both read it and shake
our heads. After that you go back to
the customer and ask him if he wants
it today. When he says he does, you
answer that you II make special effort.
"Now, a patient appreciates a pre-
scriptiOn that there has been so much
trouble over, and when he takes it he
derives some benefit from it. But don't
you do any more of that three minute
prescription business, my boy, if you
want to become first class druggist. -
Liverpool Mercury.
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Ina Breton Church,

The church, one finds, is here very
live thing in the midst of the life about
it. 1t is never empty. 1t is full of the
faint smell of incense and the pungency
of continual occupation. Sabots clatter
in and out, children come and go with
sudden, hasty genufections; old women
sit in the corners or tell their beads be-
fore the affairs; the lights flicker, and
the tall plaster figures look down gra-
ciously smiling or gaze upward in a
rapturous alteration. They are conven-
tionally young and round feshed and
radiant in their tenderly colored robes
and quaint contrasting gauds Of crown
and necklet and pendent votive hearts !;
conventional symbols of conventions and
stifhy beautiful with q beauty that is
itself tradition, beauty that is a
rubric and an article of the faith, and a
lingering small acceptance from the far
DAYS of a facile content in things re-
ligious.
Then the church fills with q swarm of
white caps which lift themselves
strangely into snowy wings and crests,
SO that one may pick out the women of
the different pays, and mems voices
chant sonorously, and the full rigged
model ships, hanging in the chancel and
before the Mary altar, vibrate and swing
softly to and fro at the opening and
shutting of doors. Those who have hung
them there have long been dead, but
there are faces in the crowd beneath
that are raised toward them, and eyes
that grow dim-too dim to see the dust
Of years that blackens the rigging, too
dim to see anything but that more dis
tant ship that is away at the Banks or
at Iceland, in the fear Of storms and the
strange confusion Of the fogs, and that
will surely como back, unless 'Etoile
de Ia Mer, send as our men home from
the sea !''-Nacmillan' Magazine.
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An ExasDerated Lawyer.

'I've got q typewriter, began an ex-
asperated NAH ''She is very good at
copying, spells better than usual and is,
in some respects, more satisfactory than
any ever had. She is one of those
women's women, however, who always
have string of females running after
them at all hours. I spoke to her about
it, and she looked at me with hurt
expression and said, ooh, MIR. Il,
how unfair!' So I stood it awhile lon
ger and said something else. She gave me
a glad I'm-not- yourwife look and sniff
ed little Still the troop comes and
goes. Why doesn't the new woman learn
that business hours mean business hours
and do the social act outside? I would
gladly give her an hour every now and
then rather than to go into my own Office
and find set of idle girls. I can face a
jury without finching, but I wilt like
q gourd vine before the senseless Ct
ln&I sdgsls q s}ssq9ha4 zf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-04
The MaeIstrOnl.

From time out of memory up to with
in the last 25 Or so years, the geogra-
piers, the photographers and the COM
mon people alike believed in the exist
ence of an immense whirlpool in the
ocean off the coast of Norway
The English of the sixteenth and sew
enteenth centuries thought it to be d
subterranean abyss, penetrating the
globe in such manner as to communi-
cate with the ocean on the opposite side
of the earth, and the ancients of most
European countries had an idea that it
was i'll some mysterious way connected
with the waters Of the gulf Of Bothnia.
According to the popular accounts pub
lished and firmly believed down to the
middle of the present century, the mael-
strom was the most startling and gigan
tic of natures curiosities. Its mighty
whlrling current, it was said, was pow
erful enough to draw within its influ-
ence whatever approached within a dis
tance of several miles Of it's vortex. I'm
mense trees, lumber RATS, bears, ships,
whales, ETC., We're drawn in as though
they were straws and ground to pieces
by the whirling, seething waters miles
beneath the surface
What has become of this terror Of the
ocean? We never hear it mentioned
nowadays, and the very existence of
= even a rough piece of sea Ill the region
in which the maelstrom was formerly
located is denied by the very best. au-
thOrities On ocean tides, currents, etc.
Its existence was first questioned, I be-
lieve. by Bayard Taylor in a letter to
the New York Tribune Oh Oct 6, 1857.
A few days before the letter was writ
ten Taylor sailed over the spot where
the whirl was generally located without
noticing anything cut of the ordinary.
During tho same year (1S57) ". M.
Williams, in d lecture OF Norway, de-
ivered at Birmingham, England, de-
clared that no such whirlpool had ever
existed.-St. Louis Republic
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-04
tiE WAS A BAD SHOT.
Yet Every Time He Fired the Bullseye
Gong Rang.

Gong Rang.
A good story on the late General Dan
McCauley of Indiana is related by Judge
John n. Scott, now of Port Townshend,
Wash.
On Judge Scott's last visit to Wash
ington he, with his old college chum,
General Joe Fullerton, and General
McCauley, went On trip up the river
to one Of the clubhouses.
The two former gentlemen wanted to
indulge i'll some target practice. General
MeCauley protested vigorously.
Being pressed for his reason, he said
the fact was he was such bad shot he
had made Up his mind to quit it last
time he tried it. He had never hit the
bullseye in his life, he confided to them,
and he was IL little ashamed Of it.
After some little trouble they con-
vinced him that they were both worse
shots than he, and they'd shoot for
"place."
First the judge shot and made a fair
showing, and then General Fullerton,
making better, and last General Nc
Cauley, who hit the bullseye.
No one was more astonished than the
general himself. He began to be inter-
ested. They took another turn. Again
he hit the bullseye, and yet again and
again, and the ringing Of the gong was
music in his ear.
The others declared they'd shoot no
more with him and threatened dire re-
venge for his deception.
In vain he assured them that it was
the first time in his life he had hit the
bullseye. He treated literally, and they
all enjoyed the iaunt, particularly the
boy who tended the target, who was sew
eral dollars wealthier for their visit.
They came back to town, dined at Gen
eral McCauley's expense, and he de-
clared he had made the hit of his life.
''Dan never suspected u.s." laughed
the judge, ''of having bribed thatsarget
boy to ring the gong every time he'shot.
And he couldn't see the trick in it be-
cause his bullets never even touched the
target, not one !''-W Washington Star.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-04

Are you taking SIMMONS LIVER REG
-ULAToR, the "KING OF LIVER MEDI-
CINEs?" That is what our readers
want, and nothing but that. 1t is the
same old friend to which the old folks
pinned their faith and were never dis
appointed. But another good recon-
mendation for it is, that it is BETTER
THAN PILLS, never gripes, never weak
ems, but works in such an easy and
natural way, just like nature itself, that
relief comes quick and sure, and one
feels new all over. 1t never fails.
Everybody needs take liver remedy,
and everyone should take only Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
Be sure you get it. The Red q
is on the wrapper. j. H. Zeilin &
Co.. Philadelphia.
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Hours for Arrival and Closing Of Mails at Stdun-
ton POStO1ice.

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TO INVENTORS.

If you have made an invention you want a
patent. And you want good one. There are
various kinds of patents. Some of them are
not worth keeping around the house. They
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as to a lightning rod without a ground con-
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The Baltimore Weekly Sun.

The WEEKLY sun PUBLISHES ALL THE NEWS
of each week, giving complete accounts of all
events Of interest throughout the world. AS
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TO MY FRIENDS
And the Public Generally.

I have rented the stable on Water street
known as the Club stable, and am prepared, at
my Sale and Feed Stable, to board horses by
the month, week or day, at reasonable prices;
also to furnish saddle and driving orses,
double and single.
l can furnish you nice turn -out-Surry,
Buggies Buck-Boards, ETC., all in style.
accommodated at moderate prices.
Parties wanting first-claSS turnOutS can be
Fine horses always kept for sale.
Hoping to receive share of your patronage
and guaranteeing satisfaction, I am
Respectfully,
mar 13-tf R. A. CLEMMER.
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DI2ET RY OF LODc ES.
MASONIC LODGE,

nAOONlC LODGE.
Staunton Lodge No. 13, A. F. and A. M, meets
every second and last Friday night in each
month, in Masonic Temple, Main street. Jas
NJ. Lickliter,W W. NJ; B. A. Eskridge, Sec'y.
UNION ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER.
No. meet third Friday in every month, in
Masonic Temple, ON Main street. W. W. Me
Guffin, High Priest; A. A. Eskridge, Sec'y.
ODD FELLOWS LODGE;
Staunton Lodge, No. As, 1. o. o. f. meets ev
cry Thursday night i'll Odd Fellows Hall, ove-
Wayt's drug store, ON Main street. John G
Fretwen Noble Grand; C. A. Grafton. Sec
KNIGHTS OF HONOR ODGE.
Staunton Lodge: No. 756, Rights of Honor
meets every first a.;d third Tuesday in each
month, in Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L.
Olivier, Dictator; W. A. Burnett, Recorder.
MOUNTAIN CITY LODGE.
No. 116, !. o. G. T., meets every Friday night
in their lodge room over wayt's drug store on
Main street. A. s. woodhouse, Chief Templar
F. B. Kennedy, Sec'y.
DISTRICT LODGE.
No. e, 1. o. G. T.. meets every three months
G. G. Shipplett, D. G. t.; S. Fl. Bauserman
District Secretary.
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Augusta Council, No. 490, Royal Arcanunl
meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the
month, at Pythian Hall, Main street. W. w
Robertson, Regent; JOS B. Woodward, Sec
retary.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE
Charity Division, M. A, Sons of Temperance
meets every Monday night at Odd Fellows
all. w. A. Rapp, Worthy Patriarch; John
B. Cofrelt, Sec'y.
UNIFORMED RANK, KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIAs.
E. B. Stuart Division, No. 10, meets second
and fourth Mondays each month at Pythian
Hall. Sir Knight Captain, F. B. Berkeley;
Knight Recorder. S. II. Rosenbaum.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Valley Lodge, No. Is, K. of P, meets
Monday night ct Castle Hall, on West
street, over Dr.. Wayt's drug store. C. t. Ham,
SuduCSl1OI AiDtS
Keeper of Records and Seal.
KNIGHT TEMPLARs.
Staunton Commandery, No. s, Knights Tenn
plar, meets first Friday night in every month
in Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. B.
McChesney, Eminent Commander; A. A. E k-
ridge, Recorder.
ONEIDA TRIBE, NO. ss, 1. O. R. NJ,
Meets in their wigwam, in Valz Building
every Wednesday at Sth run 30th breath
setting of the sun. ]. D. Anthony, sacher-
James W. Blackburn, chief of records.
visiting brothers welcome.
AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR.
Valley Council No. 736 meets on the first and
third Mondays in each month. Commando
A. s. woodhouse; secretary, DIR. J. NJ. Hange
collector, Isaac c. Morton, Jr.
CATHOLIC HIBERNIAN BENEFICIAL
sOCIETY.l
Meets first Sunday in every month in tbelr
hall on the church lot. NJ. 7. B presi-
dent; J. J. Kilgalen, first vice-president; j. j
Murphy, second vice president: D.J. O'Connen
recording secretary.
ssTONEWALL" BRIGADE BAND.
Band meets every Monday and Thursday
orchestra, every Wednesday, at 8 p. m, in City
Hall. Mr.. j. NJ. Brereton, director
J. A. Armentrout, president. and G. Harry
Haines, secretary.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..
Monthly meetings, Fourth Tuesday in the
month at 73O O'Clock. Room In City Hal build
ng Isaac witz, presid t;J @. Shields, secrs
! tary.
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Cia1a--l Eedr yoar Ia;uer nus 7ozr

C:aIa--l Eedr yoar Iasuer nus TuaDT<r'
den Mr.. Higgins calling on you.
Cora-No; you are mistaken.
"Did he not tell him last night never
to darken his parlor again?"
''He did, but that referred to hie
turning down the lamp. ''-Yonkers
Statesman.
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"Her Speech an Accent"

No section may exclusively claim
Octave Thanet and say, "She is mine, y
in the sense that Miss Murfree belongs
to Tennessee or Miss Wilkins to New
England, writes Mary J. Reid in The
Ladies' Home Journal. Miss Alice
French was born i'll Andover, Mass.
her ancestors Oh both sides belonging to
we'll known New England and Vir-
ginian families, such as the Mortons
and Lees. When but years old, her IA
ther removed to Davenport, Ia, but she
was sent to Andover to be graduated
from the same seminary which her
Grandmother French had attended when
a girl There are strong fbers in her ma
ture which draw her to the south and
midwest Some portions Of those re-
gions she says she knows like her own
soul
Her fair complexion, fathomless blue
eyes, light brown hair and also her ten
der conscience and love of learning ally
her to New England. Her manners,
speech and magnificent physique are
southern, while her humorous mouth
and vigorous, practical mind bespeak
her daughter Of the west. A long resi-
dence at the south and study of vari-
GUS dialects have somewhat affected her
pronunciation. eff Miss French were a
foreigner, a New England poet re-
marked, 81 should call her speech an
accent" but have heard the same pro-
nunciation in old Virginian and Mary
land families.
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