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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

The body OF the late Prof Louis Passe1r,
the distinguished French scientist. was de-
posted in the vaults of Notre Dame on Satur-
day. The services at the Cathedral were I'M
posing. and were attended by President Faure,
Prince Nicholas of Greece, the Grand Duke
Constantine Of Russia
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10
are not tie

only ones who ara
sensitive about theif
ages. L man doesnst
like to be told THAI
he is getting old. A
man doesn't like 20
get old az all. Bus
worse than getting
old, is the appear.
ance Of age. Health
keeps a man young.
II doesn't make any
difference if he has
lived eighty years.
If they have been
healthy years, he
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10
Read Better than Pension" page 4
A Difference In Terms.

ILUeI
Teacher-What is an Indian massacre?
Bobby Bright-1t's when the Indians sur
prise the whites and kill them.
Aud when the whites surprise the In
dams and kill them
That's battle.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

Senator Hill was IL town last week. and was
;nteryiewcd as 10 the political situation in New
York.
III every Democrat in New York will do his
outy this Fall" he said. 1.-THE ticket will be
elected"
Upon what issues viii the fight be made?"
"of course. the Democrats will insist that
tho present revival Of business is due to the
operations Of revised tariff, and, on the other
hand, there are very few business men who viii
want 0 change in the tariff for some time to
come. This viii help us. ] believe too, that
she stand which we have taken in advocacy Of
The retirement OF the greeDbacks maintain
ing. ms we do. that this currency is q constant
drain upon the Treasury, will commend our
party to the commercial interests. In addition
10 these two National issues. however. we have
The question Of personal liberty as opposed to
narrow, illibersl, and puriianica excise law.
believe We can win upon this issue alone"
~ never 20 near the Washington NAVY
yard" said a veteran newspaper man. that /
do no recall ludicrous incident / witnessed
there. 1t was at the launching Of the Nipsic. /
think There was large crowd present-some
10000 or 3OOO0-including members. Senators,
Cabinet officers. and President, for ship lancIi-
frE in Washington did not occur often. Ar
rsngements had been made to FIRE the usual
salute In honor Of the President when he at
rived. There being no regular battery mounted
u the time, the gunner's gang loaded up half
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

Hon. S. W. Lamoreaux. Commissioner of the
General Land Office, in his annual report, says
the decline of Land Office business con tinues
Compared with 1894 there has been decrease
in land entries of i9, o95 and of 6.0l6,655 acres
entered upon; decrease of fnal entries to the
number of 65S4 and 356. o59 acres entered upon.
and decrease of cash receipts of 1874, $40. He
recommends legislation for the protection aud
disposal of public timber and creating the office
of SuTveyor-General of Alaska.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10
EVER A SONG SOMEWHERE.

EVER SONG SOMEWHERE.
There 10 ever a song somewhere. my dear,
There is a something sings Away;
There's the song of the lark when the skies
clear,
And the song OF the thrush when the skies are
gray;
The sunshine showers the grain.
Aud the bluebird trills in the orchard tree,
And in aud out. when the caves drip rain,
The swallows are twitterng ceaselessly.
There is ever song somewhere. my dear.
Be the skies above or dark or fair:
There is ever song that our hearts may hear
There is ever song somewhere. my dear,
There is ever n song somewhere.
There Is ever song somewhere, my dear.
In the midnight black or tile midday blue;
The robin pipes when the is here.
Aud the cricket chirrups the whole night through
The buds may blow aud the fruit may grow,
And the Autumn leaves drop crisp aud sere
But whether The sun. or the rain, or the snow,
There is ever q song somewhere, my dear.
There is ever a song somewhere. my dear,
BE the skies above or dark or fair;
There is ever song that our hearts may hear
There Is ever song somewhere, my dear,
There is n song somewhere.
-Jamss Uhiteon.5 Riley.
80
To John Adams. our second President. is
ascribcd this poetcal division of the hours:
Seven hours sleep
To law great study seven;
Ten to the world aIlot.
Aud all to heaven.
80
One of the pretty little jacket shapes with
lapels that fail in folds is shown in the picture.
The jacket is of tan broadcoth faced with
black satin aud trimmed with big black pearl
c,5seS3
ES2g
12s6M
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

The Carlysle house is built upon a vast stone
fort, Of whose birth history has no record, but
it is supposed TO have been erected by the very
earliest settlers as defense against the Indians,
and some place the date of its beginning as
carly as 1870. When, in 1872, John s. Carlysle.
Collector Of the Port Of Alexandria, and con-
tractor for the work on Christ Church, made
his house, he simply turned the old fort into
cellar and above il erected a mansion. Hero
it was that Washington. then an ambitious
young man. received his commission in the
British army from the hands of the English
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

There is this much truth, though, in all
schemes for guessing at character: One is
continually. consciously or unconsciOusly, be-
traying himself Nervousness or calmness
gentleuess, sternness, good temper, bad temper,
humor or the lack of it, sensitiveness pla-
cidity, directness or faltering cynicism or OPP
ticism, and many other characteristics reveal
themselves almost Immediately to the observ-
ing eye, and it is easy enough to read them.
but to read the story of how and when and
where these traits have been woven into the
temperament, or what they have done for their
owper in tho past, or what they will do in the
future is secret known only entirely to the
Maker. perhaps in part to the human being
himself, and only partly guessed at even BY the
shrewdest of his felow-men.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

A very dainty Scotch plaid waist is shown in
the cut. 1t is very simply made with hox
pleat down the front, and that is ornamented
with three velvet covered buttons. The collar.
belt aud bands around the cuffs are made of
dark velvet. One of the pretty dark-blue and
dark-g plaids thus made with either dark
blue dark-green velvet and a dark-blue or
green skirt is as pretty costume as can posi-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

Mrs Ulysses s. Grant has determined to
make Washington her permanent place of resi-
dence. She has had considerable difficulty in
finding residence suited to her, but ut last
found a mansion that suits her in almost every
respect, and that is the large and imposing
house at No 2ll1 Massachusetts, avenue, which
was built by ex-senator George f. Edmunds, Of
Vermont and occupied by him until he retired
from the upper branch of Congress. The ioca-
tion is unsurpassed in Washington. 1t fronts
south, or rather southwest, on Massachusetts
avenue and all around it are the imposing
homes Of prominent and wealthy people
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

Bids were opened at tho War Department
last week for supplying 10000 pounds of salut-
ing powder for the Army posts. The Latin &
Rand Company and the Du Pont Company
offered to supply the powder in barrels at 81
cents per pound, and without barrels, at eight
cents.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

There are many different schemes for divin-
ing tho mysteries of the human character and
each one has just enough truth in it 10 tantalize
one into believing that some of the puzzles of
the human mind may be solved. ard yet none
ever succeeded in making character less of n
mystery or can do more than vaguely hint ut
the secrets Of the future Phrenology seemed
marvellous in its revelations. aud it was stud led
and praeticed vigorously. but 1t has never made
any material difference in solving the problems
of living. A few years ago palmis,ry was a
great fad, and adopts pondered over the fine
markings in the hand and promulgated in
Vulnerable charts OF character and history of
individuals. Lut they proved Of no value, ex
ccpt for an evenings amusement. Shrewd
guessing easily masquerade as occult wisdom,
and now palmistry has about died ont. Mark
Twain made thumb marks conspicuous, but
nobody but Pudd'n Head Wilson used them
with any effect. apholory-which regards
the hand writ ing-falls short in its calculations
although it makes some clever analyses. And
the history of all the attempts is ever thus; a
little truth diluted With . great deal of non
sense.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

The Spaniards have provcrb that it takes
four persons to make good salad dressing-a
spendthrift for the oil. miser for the vinegar.
a counsellor for the salt and mailman to stir
them all together.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

And now VIC are told that we can read char
acter by tho teeth. Long narrow teeth mean
vanity; long, projecting ones-a sraspiug dis
position; small, white. separated denote
treachery: overlapping ones mean Inconsistency.
and wide, separated teeth belong to one who
will tell all that he knows; which is all very
interesting, il true.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

It is we'll to bear in mind while making pre-
serves this Fall that mixture of pineapples
aud apples is good, and is warranted to delight
the most fastidious sweet tooth that ever loved
sugar.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

Gen. Braddock. and from this point they set
ont on the expedition to Fort Duquesne, an
enterprise from which Braddock never re-
turned.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

Lincoln used to be as fond of telling stories
on himself as on anyone else. Someone was
smoking in the presence of the President and
complimented him on having no vices, neither
drinking nor smoking. THAT is doubtful
compliment" answered the President. al
recollect once being outside stage in Illinois,
and sitting by me offered me cigar.
told him ] had no vices. He said nothing,
smoked for some time, and then grunted out:
It's my experience that folks who have no
vices have piaguey few virtues
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ont on the expedition to Fort Duquesne, an
enterprise from which Braddock never re-
turned.
Tradition has 1t that it was at the Carlysle
House that Washington met his fate in the
person of the charming Widow Cnstis. after.
ward known Lady Washington. There is
Washington had with Sallie Fairfax, the young
sister of Lord Fairfax, in the ballroom ono
night when they were about to set out for a
ball. Washington caught sight Of her fresh,
smiling face as she came tripping down the
glistening stsirs her dainty toes peepng out
from beneath the soft folds of the huge satin
skirts, and with the gallantry OF a Chesterfield
he took her for a partner in a stately minuet,
where the two bowed and curtsied TO the strains
of an old violin in the hands of dusky slave,
while the tallow dips" 1ckered down on the
quaint picture. Sallie was a bit of firt. SO
the gossips say. and it is thought that she
caused the heart of Washington more uneasi.
ness than the bayonets of the British invader.
X
Among other Colonial relics in Alexandria
is Christ Church, in which Washington wor
SHIPPED, and his pew bearing his name on plate
is still preserved and shown daily 10 visitors.
In the yard of the church are many graves of
the last century, whose inscriptions are to us
ludicrous samples of ancient epitaphs Not far
from the Carlysle House is what has been the
old City Hotel. in which the balls of Revolu-
tonary days took place. and the balcony for
the musicians is still in good order in the dane
ing-room. The clock yet preserved in the Ma
sonic Lodge is the identical timepiece which
stood in the room when Washington died. and
the hands are still pointed to The hour when he
breathed his last Here also are the gloves
and other paraphernalia which Washington
wore on the occasion of civil and Masonic cere-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10

No. 20, i22--Fine white nainsOOk and embroidery
were chosen for this pretty apron The deep, sqafs
yoke is cut away at the front and back and ffe
sleeves are broad on the shoulder and narrowed corr
sderably under the The skirt falls with pretty
fitness and Is drawn In to the figure at the buck ~
ties. The edge of the skirt is deeply hemmcd. Lawn,
crOSS-barred muslin, chambray and nainsook IRE sur
able fabrics for aprons
Chiid's Apron requires for medium size 16 ynr5s
material So inches wide. Cut in sizes, from &c
years old.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
Paid or Compulsory Labor on the Pubic
Roads.

The last Legislature adopted joint res
olution proposing an amendment to the 5th
section OF Article 10, of the Constitution
of Virginia, which is "that the General
Assembly may impose upon every male in
habitant of the State, between the ages of
sixteen and sixty years, the duty of work
ing not exceeding two days in any one year
upon the public roads and highways there
in, subject, however, to such exemption
from said duty as may from time to time
be prescribed by law" This amendment
is to be referred, for adoption OF rejection,
to the General Assembly to be chosen in
November. If adopted, it will he submit
ted to the people for ratification.
There is little doubt that this amend
ment, which was brought about by the de-
cision of the old Court of Appeals declar-
ing the compulsory labor law unconstitu-
tional, will be defeated if it gets before the
people. The desire to return to the old
system is limited compared with the desire
to retain the paid system.
The compulsory system has seen it's time
and passed out of date, and the general re-
suit of experience everywhere under paid
system is against its revival. How candi-
dates for the legislature next November
stand on this question will be one Of the
things the voters will want to know.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
Two v. M. |. Cadets Killed by an
Accident.

Going from Norfolk to Ocean View, as
many Staunton readers know, much Of the
route over which the electric cars run
presents the appearance of going through
lake. 1t is the back.Water of Tanner s
Greek: the water is very shallow, but the
mud is deep. Friday evening a train OF
three electric cars was going from Norfolk
and at the Tanners Greek bridge was de.
rallied, Two of the cars went down the
bank into the deep mud, some of the pas
sengers getting in it up to their waists.
Among the passengers were MI. and
Mrs. Geo. D. Levy, lately of Staun
ton. Everybody, it was thought
Was safely gotten out. But OF
Saturday morning about dawn while
the wrecking train was lifting the cars, the
bodies of two Virginia Military Institute
cadets-Wm. G. Murdaugh, aged 10, son OF
Judge Claude W. Murdaugh of Ports
mouth, and Arthur Gatewood, aged II, SOL
of Rev. Robert Gatewood of Norfolk
found buried in the mud Both boys had
jumped, but had been caught under the
car. Their Institute caps, seen on the
track, had left the supposition that they
had not gone down with the rest, but were
all right. Young GateWood belongs to one
of the brightest families, intellectually, in
Virginia, 1t was his distinguished broth
! Ell, Naval constructor Gatewood, who was
accidentally killed in California last year.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
Stuart's Draft Farmers Club.

| STUART's DRAFT, Aug. 1O.-The Stu
art s Draft Farmers Club held it's regular
monthly meeting this evening. 1t was
called to order, the President, W. G. Alb
ney, in the chair, the following members
being present-Abney, Black, Cecil, Carr,
Churchman, Dickerson, Gilkeson, F. H.,
Guthrie, Harper. Lofts, Mcclure, Nc
Comb, McCray, OFT, Shields, Wallace. j.
L., Wallace, r. F., and Wallace ]. S.
MI. John W. Gilkesor was unanimously
elected member of the club,
Motion made and adopted that the fertl-
lizers bought by the club, be subject to the
analysis OF the chemist at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Blacksburg
| which analysis shall be final.
| Bids for furnishing fertilizers to the club
were placed before the club by its buying
committee. That of Mr.. H. A. Black
being the lowest. was accepted, and the
buying committee directed to close with
him, and have the goods ready for distri-
button by 25th Of August, one hundred an6
thirty-eight tons being ordered this
evening.
Orders for grass seed were placed in hands
of the buying committee with full power
to buy whenever in their judgment they
thought best.
W. G. Abney and S. B. Harper were ap
pointed special commi ttee to make ar
rangements for starting the clubs baline
and the route to be taken.
There was good deal of informal talk
which. your Corresponding Secretary not
being stenographer, did not catch.
The personnel of the lub is made up Of
good farmers and intelligent business men
but contains few orators. With many thu
idea seems to prevail that they can speal
more impressively and effectually from
| their seats than from their feet.
There being no further business, the clul
adjourned to meet the I'd Saturday of Sep
TENDER.
| j. w. CHURCHMAN, w. G. ABNEY,
| COr-Sec President
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
From ChurchviIIe.
THE HOT SPELL-INTERESTIN PERSON
AL NOTES-PIC-NIC, sc.

THE HOT SPELL-INTERESTING PERSON
AL NOTES-PIC-NIC, sc.
Reported for the Staunton VINDICAToR.l
CHURCHvILLE, Aug. 13.-We have beer
having some warm weather for a few days
past Farmers have been busy blowing
their fall crop, though it has been most toe
dry and the ground too hard to do good
work. We had a little shower yesterday
that laid the dust and helped us that
much, as it was getting quite dusty again
: Good rains have passed around both above
and below us, the last few days. The hum
of the threshing machine and the whistle
, of the engine is heard around our town IN
nearly all directions. About the first
thing that we hear after meeting neigh
Dor is, 'Well, it is hot" We have had to
J change the word cool for hot lately.
Miss Eliza Shuey from the upper Part OF
the county, accompanied by Mrs. E. Hol-
land of Salem, Va, who has been visiting
Miss Shuey, was in our town a day Oh two
the latter part of last week, calling on
friends and relatives.
Mr.. Ed. Hanger of Washington, d. g.,
who spent few days the past week i'll our
town, has returned home. He made the
trip on his wheel to and from Washington.
Mrs. James Hanger of Washington city,
Is in our village visiting friends and rela-
tives.
MI. Will Houston and wife of near
Fairfield, Rockbridge, are visiting Mrs.
,1e
and other friends in our town.
MI. Lou Doyle of the D., D. Il B. Inst-
tuition, spent few days the past week
with his friend, Prof. G.. D. Euritt, who is
spending his vacation at his mothers.
Prof. Euritt leaves for Richmond Tuesday
to attend the Deaf and Dumb convention,
to act as Interpreter for said convention.
MI. J. II. Lindsay of Charlottesville,
was in our town part of the day Sunday.
He left for Staunton Sunday evening ac-
companied by his wife; his children left
Monday morning. They spent several
weeks here at Mrs. Lindsay's mothers,
Mrs. Hederick.
Miss Allie Davis, daughter Of MI. Wal
ter Davis near Bridgewater, is visiting at
her uncles, Mr.. II. B. Sieg.
Mrs. Geo. Bear still continues quite i'll,
no improvement in her condition that can
be seen, except that she rests better at
night. Two of her sisters are with her,
Mrs Buchanan and Miss Hutcheson.
Mrs. Alex. Dudley has sufficiently i'm
proved to ride out occasionally.
Miss Ida Smith, daughter Of J. Lewis
Smith, who has been i'll for some months
past, has improved considerably lately.
The ladies of the U. B. church held an
ice cream festival last Friday evening in
the grove at the M. E. church. Quite a
crowd was present. [ think the festival
was successful.
The temperance folks of our village ex-
pect to hold picnic here on Friday next,
and expect to close the same with music,
vocal and instrumental, Rotations, &C.,
in the U. b. church.
To-day bids fair to be another hot day.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
Officers Of the Virginia State Bar
Association.

At it's annual session at the White Sui
phur Springs, last week, the Virginia State
Bar Association elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year:
President-Robert M. Hughes, of N Or
folk Presidents George Perkins, of
Charlottesville r. L. Parrish, of Gown G.
ton: H. r. Miller, of Danville William
B. Taliaferro, of Glouces ter, and s. C.
Graham, of Tazewell.
Secretary and Treas urer, Jackson Guy, OF
Richmond.
Members of the Executive Committee
John G. Williams, of Orange, and Thorn
as D. Ransom, of Stanton.
Delegates to the American Bar Associa.
tion-John Pickrell and b. B. MunfOrd, of
Richmond. and James Bumgarduer, Jr.,
of Staunton.
Judge Pryor delivered a carefully prepar-
ed paper entitled Influence of Virginia in
the Formation Of the Federal Constitu.
tion."
MI. Geo. Perkins of Charlottesville, de.
livered an address on 1.-The Lawyers r lace
among Men,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
Grand and Petit Jurors.

The following is the list of the jurors
summoned for the grand and the petit jury
for the August term of the County Court
which begins Aug. 26th:
Grand jury list for first day of term
John 9. T. Bell, David W. Drake, NJ.
Bruce Whitmore, Francis B. Carson, John
Shuey, M. D. Eutsler, John A. Stuart,
VIM. A. Freed, John H. Bowman, J. Alex.
Bumgardner, Geo. A. Brown and Jos. NJ.
KunkIe.
Venire for the second day of the term,
Aug. q, is as follows-Sam1 G. Wilson,
John II. Council, Jas. w. Southards, VIM.
G.. Hildebrand, DR.. NJ. G. HildebrAnd,
Harry L. Black, w. L. Haskins, Samuel
M. Sanger, Thos. F. Sullivan, S. M. Ster-
rett, T. w. Smith, d. G. M. Greiner, W..
J. Bosserman, David L. Hoover, W. G..
Gilkeson, w. III. Swartzel, Willard F. Gil
keson, J. Blackwood Patterson, J. A.
Lewis and Nathan II. Anderson.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.

7. c. Williams Co., tobacco manufac-
turers of Richmond, have pretty thorough
ly captured this section Of the State with
their Royal Colors tobacco. The quality
of the tobacco is of the best, and the liberal
offer of four onces for ten cents carries the
field.
MI. Jas. II. Blackley, on GreenVllle
Avenue, who does not sell fertilizers
through agents, gives some strong reasons
this morning why buyers should call on
him. For many years he has made the
sale of fertilizers a speciality, and is fully
competent to give good advice about them
as well as to furnish them at the lowest
prices.
Messrs. Baker & Brown advertise a
large line of fertilizers, seed and agricul-
tural implements of fertilizer that
have been used for years satisfactorily.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-16
An Outrage on Visitors to Lawn
Party.

On Thursday evening last, the eongrega-
ton of st. John s church near Arbor Hill,
of which Rev. J. Z. Ballet is pastor,
gave very pleasant lawn party for the ben
eft OF the church. The Stonewall Band
orchestra was there and everybody enjoyed
the evening. When the party broke NJ
persons had cut the harness of seVera
horses attached to the buggies, including
that Of Rev. G. A. Freed's horse, and had
defaced several of the vehicles by scrapinp
the paint off. AS the legal penalty for this
iy the perpetrators, to find whom every
effort will be made. will be caused to pa,
dearly for what they did.