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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15

The resignation of State Secretary H. O..
Williams. to 60 exclusively into Y. M. G..
A. Railroad work in the South, will be
lamented by every well wisher of the Vir-
ginia Y. NJ. C. A. He was great power
for good i'm this State
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15

Wy ANTED-A farm hand. experienced, and
w capable of being head man. Must be
sober. Address by mail. X,
ct. care Vindicator Office.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15
MARRIED. A SECOND rIME.

MARRIED SECOND TIME.
There was little incident at the residence
of Mr.. Gould not down on the programme,
and which the Goulds had intended should
not become public. Immediately after the
religious ceremony Judge B. P. Andrews, of
the Supreme Court. of New York city, per-
formed civil ceremony of marriage. This
was at the request of George Gould. The fam.
lily had all along denied that any civil cere-
mony was to be performed, since Mayor
Strong had refused to perform it, except at
the City Hall.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15

Total ......................... 1915, 900
Add $1,000 for the entertainment of the
Marquis and Marquise de Castellane, for
steamer tickets for the happy husband and
wife. and for the hundreds of little trifles
that mus be purchased during wedding
and grand total of $3.50 900 is reached, which
was mostly spent in this CITY,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15
PUBLIC SALE!

1 will offer on the premises.at Mt Merdi-
n, Va, at public auction, to the highest bidder
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15

Two columns of the VINDICAToR is a
good deal of space for wedding-even
$500, 900 one, and we shall expect our fair
readers to be appreciative, seeing that it is
wholly for their benefit.
Our thanks are due ex-senator HuntOn
for Parts and II of the Compendium of
the Census, a very useful and acceptable
work.
The county of Amherst seems to be doing
pretty well in the way Of candidates. 1t is
over two months to the election. and yet
she has thirty seven candidates out.
POLITICAL NOTES.
A Democratic Convention to nominate
County officers for Rockbridge has been
called to meet at Lexington, April 9th.
The precinct elections Of delegates takes
place March Both. The district officers are
to be nominated by mass meeting in each
district, April 9Th.
The testimony Of the contestants in
Thorpe Us. Mckinney and Yost as. Tuck
er, has been received by the chief clerk Of
the House of Representatives.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15

L
going to a country greatly dissmilar to that
with which your life has made you familiar,
and you may not be able to cast from your
mind the influences of your early training
as those influences affect your judgment OF
the responsibilities of life So it may be that
you two are especially appointed to do a
special thing with your wealth and position,
a force for which God expects something from
you in return
BRIEFLY PRONOUNCED THEM ONE
Then followed the marriage ceremony,
which, when performed by Catholic for a
Catholic and Protestant. is very brief and
simple. When the Count placed the ring on
his brides finger his voice was scarcely
audible as he said:
"With this ring l thee wed and | plight
unto thee my troth."
A few words of admonition by the Arch
bishop were spoken to the couple at this point
in the ceremony. The Archbishop asked the
bride and bridegroom if they had weighe
we'll the responsibilities they were taking
upon themselves, and then spoke of the indis-
solubility of the marriage vow when taken
under the Roman Catholic faith.
Then, after admonishing the couple to have
''strong belief in our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ" and to be faithful to the
Church of Cod the Archbishop pronounced
these few words which made the Count de
Castellane and Miss Anna Gould husband
and wife:
"By the authority committed to me I pro.
nounce you man and wife. In the name OF
the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,
Amen"
KISSES AND CONGRATULATIONS.
The whole ceremony. which occupied seven
minutes, was over at about a quarter to one
O'Clock. At its conclusion Miss Helen Gould
first kissed and congratulated the bride and
bridegroom, who were quickly surrounded by
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
A WAR ECHO.
EVERY HONORABLE VETERAN
DESERVES HIS PENSION.
And the Lone Limb Is Not the Only
Reason for a Government Re-
ward Either.

F'rom the Journal, Lewiston, Me)
Samuel #. Jordan has just given the
Journal an account of his life which
in view Of his extremely hard lot for the
past few years is of great interest.
II am rs years old and have always
lived in New Portland. I enlisted in
the army in 1852 as private in Com
pany A, Twenty-eighty Maine Volun-
teers. My army experience injured my
health to some extent, although I
worked at blacksmithing some part of
the time, when suddenly several years
ago, was Frustrated with what able
physicians pronounced Locomotor
Ataxia. At first 1 could get around
somewhat, yet the disease progressed
quite rapidly until had hardly any
feeling in my legs and feet. they felt
like sticks of wood, and I grew so much
worse that ] could not move for three
years without help, as my neighbors
and friends could testify. I employed
several physicians in my vicinity, and
elsewhere, and they all told me that
medicines would not help me, that
they could do nothing to effect a cure
and that in time l should become en-
tirely helpless. / became discouraged
1 was a great care to my wife and
frie; 8. Shortly after 1 met an old
army comrade, Mr.. All. Parlin, a resi-
dem Il Madison, Me-, and he incidently
mentioned how he had tried Dr. Will
Jams Pink Pills for a severe case of
rheumatism and spinal and malarial
trouble, that he had suffered with con-
sequent of his army life, and had been
greatly benefited by their USE BY his
earnest recommendation l was induced
to try the pills. After taking them for
q time 1 began to feel pricllly sensations
in my legs and return of strength SO
could move them little. After a few,
weeks l began to feel a marked i'm
provement in my condition. I soon was
enabled to walk around a little with
the help of crutches. After taking for
some time I can now walk without
crutches, my general health is much inn
proved and l have regained my old
time vigor. can walk about and enjoy
life once more, for which I feel very
thankful, and this happy result is due
to the use of DR.. Williams Pink Pills"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie were first compounded as q
prescription and used as such in
general practice by an eminent
physician. So great was their eff
cacy that it was deemed wise to
place them within the reach of all. They
are now manufactured by the DR.. Will
Jams Medicine company, Schenectady,
N. Y, and are sold in boxes (never in
loose form by the dozen or hundred, and
the public are cautioned against num-
erous limitations sold in this shape at
80 cents a box, or six boxes for $3.50, and
may be had Of all druggists or direct by
mail from DR.. Williams Med. Co.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18

Elephants make capital nurses. In
dian mothers constantly place their
babies under the elephants care, and
within reach of it's trunk, while they
go to fetch water or wood, and no
jackal or wolf would be likely to pick
up or carry off a baby who was thus
tended. But any one who has lived n
life knows how very possible it is for
a jackal or a wolf to carry off baby
lying in a hut within a few feet of its
mother, If her back be turned.
The children thus brought up in the
companionship Of an elephant become
familiar with it. A little black child
about two feet high will stand on an
elephants back and take it down to
the water to battle.
On entering the water the huge ami
NAL will lie down and enjoy itself,
just leaving a part of its body, like a
small island, above water, on which
the child stands and yells. IL the
child slips off his island the elephants
trunk promptly replaces him in safety.
--Pearson's Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
The Automatic Photographer.

The latest development of automatic
machines will take the form OF self
acting Photographic apparatus. This
ingenious contrivauce, which will be
offered to the public some time in De-
cember, is the invention Of Spanish
genius. In outward appearance the
machine is very similar to the in
Vulnerable engines for Turing tho
humble penny from u curious public
that may be seen at any London
terminus. The mechanism is simple.
The person to be operated upon stands
on an iron plate and duly puts his
penny in the slot This brings into
play the machinery; the cap is re-
moved from the lens, at which the
subject is expected to look steadily
during tho few seconds Of exposure.
Then, by remarkably rapid process
lasting from two aud half TO three
minutes, the photograph is developed
and elected from the machine. The
photograph is not, of course, on tho
sensitized paper (Which would require
at least twenty-four hours for its de-
velopmenO; but 1t is developed on a
metal plate-some preparation OF tin
foil probably $780, and is really TN i'm
proved form Of daguerreotype.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
Missis sippi Navigation.

The first vessel that ever entered the
Mississippi from the sea was the
French frigate Renomnee and the Gil
ronde, January 6, 1900. and these yes
sells proceeded as far as the Tensas,
which they reached April II. The
first vessel built on the banks of the
Mississippi by white men was in 1871,
shortly after the death and burial Of
De Soto. The boatmen and early nav
igators of the present century were
long in danger from Indians and pi-
rates. A notorious resort for these
was Crows Nest, or Stock Island,
and many flat-boats and crews were
sacrificed there until these pests were
exterminated by mob law in 1909.
Previous to the adoption of steam
navigation the whole commerce from
New Orleans to the upper country
was carried in about twenty barges,
averaging 100 tons each and making
but one trip q year, while there were
not over $50 keel boats on the upper
Ohio, carrying about thirty tons each
and making the trip from Pittsburg
to Louisville and back in about two
months, or about three voyages in a
season. From 1911 to 1850 576 boats
were lost, valued at over $1,000, 900.
In 233 cases the killed and wounded
aggregated 1900 The average age
of all the boats lost was five years.
Nom 1916 to 1871 there were 80 ex-
plosions, involving loss of life in
each, varying from l to 1850. Mr..
Gould gives the story of some eve
witnesses of most OF the leadind disas-
tiers and presents the most graphic
pictures Of the terrible scenes sur
rounding these events. --Nashville Her.
aid.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
Wonderful Inventions

Even the simplest Of our necessary
implements, which are such a matter
OF course to us that it seems as If they
would be self-evident TO any one, res
ouired years of experience and
thought to bring about their present
efficacy, says the Portland Transcript.
This fact is exemplifed in the dcvel-
opmcnt OF the screw and the nail.
Forty years ago, as we are informed
by an elderly carpenter, all screws
were blunt at the end, like bolt, and
for their entrance into the wood it was
as necessary to provide hole OF the
proper size and depth, as it is to dig
one in the ground for the entrance OF
q post. Gimlets of as varied sizes as
the screws aided the screw-driver, and
were just US necessary. The "gimlet-
pointed" screw, which has been in use
for the past forty years, was not even
thought of then, and so the carpen-
tiers bored hole for every screw, till
some one happened to think Of COM
bining the screw and the gimlet, to the
lasting benefit of builders. We read
of the wrought-iron nails OF our ances-
tors, which split the wood like a
wedge, and which required a previous
ly prepared hole as much as the blunt
screw. The square point OF the present
nail must be placed in proper rela-
tions with the grain to prevent split
ting the wood; and it is only recently,
after all these years OF building, that
nail has been perfected that won't
split anything. 1t is the smooth. round,
sharp pointed, nail so extensively used
now in the making OF boxes, fruit
crates, etc, the narrow edges Of which
it penetrates with impunity.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18

birthday dinncr.' cried Ray, trailing
the bushy-tailed squirrel forward.
San see this, mother" said Alfred,
handing Mrs. Mullen the iron tube
which had been fired from the over
loaded gun.
"Oh! screamed the mother, as she
noticed the greenlsh paper protruding
from the rusty iron.
Further investigation. aided by AL
fred's ramrod, produced from the tube
long roll of the same greenish paper,
which proved to be bank notes OF
large denomination.
"roor, dear grandpa. He was queer
in his ways-but it's all right now"
laughed Mrs. Mullen. Take what you
need of the money, Mr.. Giles"
There being no further need for Off
clal stiffness Giles relaxed and once
more became Il friend of the family;
but Mrs Mullen never knew that one
twenty dollar bill of the amount due
Cobb come out of the kindly sheriff
own pocket.
You see, mother" said Alfred, tri-
umphantly, 81 know how to use a gun.
after ALL
"That you do" put in his father.
But l question if you ever again fire
such a lucky shot"
Easter Monday must be a lucky
day for hunters" laughed Alfred.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18

And one day in the Place of the Car
rousel, the great grand square in front
of the palace of the Tuileries, where
the Emperor held his weekly reviews
of the Imperial Guard, there came u
new surprise.
1t was beautiful August day. The
splendid palace, outlined against the
clear Partisan sky, made grand back
ground for the mass of moving color,
as battalion after battalion wheeled
and circled and charged and manoeuv-
red. Cavalry and infantry marched
and counter-marched, helmets glitter
ed, bands played, display was every
where.
Then, while the regiments stood at
rest, the gay strains of other mill
| tary bands were heard, and into the
square, beneath the triumphal arch
crowned by the great bronze horses
of St Marks Venice, came rank upon
in soldierly array, spick and span in
their new uniforms of green and gold,
eight thousand little foot-soldiers, not
one of whom was yet in their teens.
AS steadily as veterans, as solid as
the Old Guard itself, every boy doing
his best, every eye front" every
hand shouldering toy musket or
carrying a dwarf sword, the Lillipu-
tian battalionS halted and faced the
smiling veterans.
The emperor appeared. The boys
went through the manoeuvres with
precision and ease. And when the re-
view was over, the emperor standing
midway between his veterans and his
boy brigade, pointed to the little SOL
diers, and said to his grenadiers:
Soldiers of my Guard. behold your
children! These are the Pupils of the
Guard, the sons of those who have
fallen in battle for France, the defend
ers upon whose yalor tie future of
my empire must rest. To them con-
fide the guarding of my son, as l have
confided myself to you. For them 1
require, from you, friendship and pro-
| lection"
Then facing the boyish brigade, he
said: "My children, in attaching you
to my Guard, / give you a difficult
duty. But 1 shall trust in you. I
know that some day it will be said
of you: These children are worthy Of
their fathers Pupils of the Guard
from this day you are in the service
of the King of Rome. From "A Boy
of the First Empire" by Elbridge s.
Brooks, in st. Nicholas.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
A Busy Lady IrynIid,

A young woman residing near this
place in the river country has a pair
of pet wasps which are as interesting
as they are unique in their way. She
has trained them to perform great
many wonderful tricks, and it is in
deed marvellous to what degree Of in
telligence and agility her kindly care
and patient perseverance has brought
them. AS the young lady is an in
valid, she manages to get great deal
of profitable diversion from her queer
little pets.
Among other things she has taught
them to drink water from a thimble
and to perform the skirt dance" as
she calls it, by fluttering their wings
as they rest in the palm Of her hand.
They will sing at her bidding, making
faint, almost inaudible cheep, and
seem to be passionately fond of music.
The young lady is quite fine musi-
clan, and when she plays on the piano
the wasps take up their position on
the music rack and never bulge I'M
til the performance is over.
The wasps would seem to have quite
a good deal of vanity, and nothing de-
lights them more than to be allowed
to walk about and inspect themselves
on little hand mirror, which is kept
for their exclusive use. Strange to re-
late, the wasps have never been
known to attempt to sting anybody,
although they have free access to all
parts of the house, and are seldom
confined even at night.-Monroe La,
correspondent Philadelphia Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
DOMESTIC HINTS.

Tomatoes are nice with cream and
sugar.
Sugar loses part of it's strength by
boiling.
Sugar should be Drowned in dry
pan for sauce.
Wrap fruit jars with paper 10 keep
out the light
Wet and -four we'll the inside of
pudding bags.
Figs are good boiled five minutes
and served hot.
Never wash raisins; wipe them
with a dry cloth.
Keep preserves in dry place; seal
with flour paste.
Benzine answers admirably for
thinning gold paint.
Boil coffee in salt sack, it is nicer
than egg to settle it.
Put soda in sour fruit for pies and
they will require less sugar.
A little sulphate of potassa added to
preserves prevents fermentation.
After pairing fruit drop it in cold
water to prevent it changing color.
When sauce boiles from the side OF
the pan the flour or corn starch is
done.
Glaze the bottom crust of fruit pies
with white of egg and they will not
be soggy.
Salt will remove the stain caused
by eggs from silver. 1t must be APP
piled dry.
To whiten silver: Cream of tartar
l o., common salt 2 o., water so OF. !;
total, 90 OF.
Always put a little soda in milk
that is to be boiled, as an acid is
formed by boiling.
Seal the juice left from canning
fruits in small bottles and keep for
making fruit pudding sauces.
Do not boil vinegar for pickles.
Boil the vegetables in salt and water,
drain and pour the vinegar on.
For convenience ia cleaning lamp
chimneys, nothing is nicer than a
small sponge attached to the end of a
stick.
To remove tarnish from jewelry:
Carbonate of soda l o., bleaching
powder o., common salt J o.,
water OF.
To clean walnut stairs: Milk, sour
or sweet, we'll rubbed into black wal
nut stairs with an old soft flannel will
make them look perfectly new.
A pretty bangle-board is made in
the shape of a crescent. 1t is COW
cred with pale blue satin and has a
Il &c 10, 60
An effective "chair back'' is of pale
yellow pongee with design of spider
webs and conventionalized wild roses.
The webs are worked in white silk
and the roses IN pale pink with golden
stamens.
A bit of porous paper is better for
polishing eyeglasses and spectacles
than any thing else. The sort of paper
upon which newspapers are printed is
the best. Moisten the glasses and rub
dry with the paper.
Salt pork may be broiled or fried in
the same manner as bacon, and by
many is considered more wholesome.
Cut the pork in slices; parboil it in
boiling water; broil or fry and serve
with slices of lemon.
Do not throw away the tops of
mousquetaire gloves, but use them for
decorative purposes, painting them
with any fanciful design. They will
be serviceable for covering sachets,
boxes ard other articles.
Rats arc said to abhor chloride of
lime and will leave any place where
tits. AS it is HARMLESS, housekeepers
may place it in The haunts of these
denominations without, fear of the pet
dog or cat suffering from "cold pisen."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
HOW TO KEEP A STRANGE CAT.
Cut OFF Its Tall and Bury 1t Under
the DOOrStop


A lady in Washington, has recently
taken possession of an old house. To
her great sorrow, says the post, she
found the place overrun with rats and
mice. Rats and mice of the wariest
and most suspicious kind, too. Traps
were set in profusion, and in vain.
She dared not use poison, for fear the
rodents would die in the walls. Her
kitchen was presided over by her old
NANNY, n colored woman of ample
proportions and great age.
Il don't know what l am to do
Maum Becky, with these rats and
mice, 'said the lady in despair.
''What matter wild or cat?"
'But we have no cat, and before we
raise a kitten large enough to catch
rats they will have eaten us out of
house and home"
What matter wild SEN Jim out err
alley, ketch strange catp Plenty OF
cat in alley. Nobody keer bout one
catp"
"But what is the use Of talking such
nonsence. Maum Beckyp A strange cat
wouldn't stay in the house five minutes,
IL Jim should catch one.n
miss Lizzie, Maum Becl1's 'sprised
m 'shamed to year you talk so. | Is
done raised you FUN liz baby, N den
year you Tess such ign'ance? Not kip
strange cat in g house minute? You
don't know how kip strange cat in
house! Lemme tell you, an dom you
nebber forgit. Fus' you catch de cat
Den you talk or OF boot laig. N put
de cat head fus' dowd o boot laig.
Pull de cat him laigs froo do straps,
des so he kyarn' use he claw. Den
you put cat haid un'r 20 ahm, so, an
walk BACKYARD to the frs step Oh
po'ch. Den TEX err kyarvin' knife er O
sissors N snip off end or cat tail. Den
TEX yo finger N dig liz hole un'r step
m bury tip er tail in o hole. Fo' God,
dat cat nebber leah err place SO lang
dat cat tail stay in g hole"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
This Means Business

On the principal lines of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway passenger
trGins are electric lighted, steam heated
and protected by block signals. With
these modern appliances, railway travel
ing at high speeds has reached degree of
safety heretofore unknown and not attain
able on roads where they are not in use.
Electric lights and steam heat make it
possible to dispense with the oil lamp and
the car stove. Block signals have reduced
by maintaining an absolute interval of
space between trains
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
The Evolution

OF medicinal agents is gradually rele-
eating the old-time herbs, pills,
draughts and vegetable extracts to the
rear and bringing into general use the
pleasant and effective liquid laxative,
Syrup Of Figs. To get the true remedy
see that it is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co.. only. For sale by
all leading druggists.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18

/, $40 buys good Top Buggy, with Leather
Quarter Top. The Chicago Scale Co. are
the only ones who can sell al this price, they
furnish their customers q thousand articles
at less than the usual prices paid by dealers.
1t will pay to secure their catalogue which
they send free on application. This COM
pany is perfectly reliable and they make
specially of supplying the wants of farmers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
Had Been There Himself.

Mr.. Mildman-Professor, my wife per-
sists in saying, II seem" when | think it
ought to be Il saw" Which is right?
Professor nowall-Well, if your wife
says II SEEM" would say the same if l
were Won
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
Setting Himself Right.

"Your editorial" said the colonel, "does
me grave Injustice, SIR"
"ln what way, colonelI'
''Iu this way, sir: You coll me 'mer-
CHESS, when, as matter of fact. | never
yet killed man without first giving him
time to prayn
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18

He-I saw several persons take off their
hats in the theater this evening.
She-Of the gentler sex?
!. He-Yes. They were men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18

We have not been without Piso's Cure
for Consumption for 20 years.--LIzzIE FER
REL, Camp ST., Harrisburg, Pa, May 4, "a