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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
STANTON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISERS

SWISS waJcnes could not be made more
methodically. A factory was built, en-
ticing rates of wages were offered to the
most skillful workmen, and the expert
ment was tried. But, alas, the Swiss
workman soon found that no regular
wages could pay him for his loss of lib
erty- To be on hand when the whistle
blew in the morning, to have his stated
hour for dinner and his fixed hour for
quitting at night-these restrictions he
could not long stand. Formerly he had
worked when he felt like it and stopped
when it pleased him, and when he was
paid for one job he took his own time
to begin the next. generally waiting
until his funds ran low. The factory
plan did not work for long, and the idle
building now bears silent testimony to
the Swiss love for independence, which
is as much factor in present life as it
has been in past history. Casters
Magazine.
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CATCHING COD IN MAINE.
The Fishermen Set Out Travis With Three
Thousand Hooks Attached.

The Fishermen Set Out Travis With Three
Thousand Hooks Attached.
In the herring fishery everything is
done with the seine. In fishing for cod.
halibut and hake hand lines are used to
limited extent, but most of the cap
lures are made by travis. All of the
craft are schooner rugged, and but few
Of them carry topmasts. This gives
them a slovenly appearance aloft, but
they do away with the spar because the
craft rolls less in sea when at anchor.
There are no fine lines about the hulls.
The object is room and stability, and
while they are good seaboats they are
not fast sailers. The owners Of the craft
find travis, small boats, salt and pro-
visions, and two trips year is the av-
erage for the craft which salts her fish
on board.
Out Of the fleet a few take ice and re-
turn to market with fresh fish every
two or three weeks, but the majority
catch and salt down. The crew go On
shares. When the craft returns, the
owners figure up the expense of the
outfit and add to it half the value Of
the catch. What is left is divided pro
rata among the crew. If the catch has
been good, each one of the 16 Or IS
men has made about $40 per month,
but it is quite as likely that he won't
have made dollar day, though he has
had free board all the time, and good
board at that. Fishing on the banks at
any time of the year is hard and dis
agreeable work.
Goldfish are very cratic in their
movements. A schooner may have fish
around her for 80 days, one day being
as good as another, or she may sail and
drift for three or four days without
getting q bite. If luck is with her,
down goes the anchor, and the trawlers
begin to work A trawl may be de-
scribed as a rope many hundred feet
long, to which at intervals of 38 inches
fishhooks are attached by lines about
two feet long. There are 5000 hooks to
the average trawl, which is attended by
two men. Each man has 1900 hooks to
bait and care for. The rope is weighted
to sink within few feet Of the bottom
and is then buoyed. The trawl is gen
orally set late in the afternoon and
overhauled the next morning.
If luck is with the fishermen, 500 cod
may be taken from trawl They are a
voracious fish, and in Selling the bait
firmly hook themselves. 1t often hap
pens that the 8, 900 hooks may be over
hauled without securing more than 30
fish, but again the catch may be 1850.
The boats of the trawlers look some
thing like ordinary river skiffs, but
are very buoyant and easily handled. A
schooner with 16 men aboard puts out
4 travis and men. The rest are
left to work the craft and attend to the
fish as they come in. Lewiston Journal
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BITTEN BY A SNAKE.
That Ii What the Victim of a Practical
Joke Thought.

That Ii What the Vlct1m OF PRACTICAL
Joke Thought.
"a good many years ago, said an
ex-congressman to a party OF congress
men, ''I was in Georgia. A party of us
decided to go, from Atlanta to Clarks-
Vile on horseback Tim Murphy, an
Irishman, was lieutenant of the At
lanta police force. He wanted to go,
too, and we consented. On our way to
GAINESVILLE, through the mountainous
sections Of the state, we killed two large
mathematics Murphy was amazed and
frightened. He wanted to know if
snakes were plentiful, and we told him
that they WERE We told HIM that at
GAINESVILLE they had often been found
in the rooms Of guests at the hotel. Tim
hated to turn back and SO went On.
ssWe knew that at Gainesville sa-
loon keeper had a stuffed bull snake. and
we concocted plan to make Tim wish
he had never left Atlanta. We got to
the old fashioned hotel all right. We
were put in big room, with four beds
in it. We drank good deal, and Tim
was in excellent spirits. 1t was warm
night, and most of us und1essed. Tim
pulled off everything but his shirt. He
lay down face foremost across the bed.
Then tied string around the rcck Of
the snake, put q fishhook at the other
end of the line and cautiously hitched
the hook to Tins shirt.
s'The next time he turned around he
got a glimpse Of the snake. Holy
schmoke! he yelled! 'Lools' And then.
he made dash for the window. AS he
jumped out the window the fishhook
pricked him in the back. He uttered an
awful yell, said he had been bitten and
went flying through the sandy streets of
the town dressed in Kongo style. We
followed and tried to catch him. At ev-
cry step he sworo he had been bitten,
and that he would die. We overhauled
him after the whole town had been
aroused. We took him back to the hotel
and filed him with whisky, telling
him that was the only cure for snake
bite. The next morning he went to At
lanta and took course under physi-
clan for snake bite. For years after that
Tim would brag about killing 20 snakes
at one time and Of having been bitten
by one of them. He did not learn of the
trick for five years, and then he threat
ened to take my life. "-Washington
Star
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CClnD2riSnu.

How l would like to live in a
house, said Miss Flatdweller, ''where
there was room to go about, and where
could go up and down stairs.
How delightful it is" said Miss
Northumberland to her friend,
Miss Flatdweller, whom she was visit
ing, ito have room to move about in,
to be able to go from one room to an
other when .Tca get up i'll the morningl"
New York Sun
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A Sympathetic Youth.

"Papa," said George, "I'm SO sorry
sometimes about all the trouble give
mamma.
'tShe hasn't complained.
''No, she's very patient. But she
often sends me off to the shops for
things, and they are a good way of, and
I know she gets cross waiting when
she's in a hurry"
"Not often, fancy"
ooh, she's nearly always in hurry.
She gets everything all ready for baking
and finds at the last minute she hash t
any baking powder, or she gets a pud-
ding all mixed and finds she hasn't any
nutmeg or something, and then she's in
an awful stew, cause the oven is all
ready and maybe company coming, and
can't run very long distance, you
know, and feel awfully sorry for poor
mamma.
"Humph! Well, what can we do
about it?''
ST was thinking you might get me a
bicycle. Boston Traveller.
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She Seemed Familiar.

An English paper tells a story Of the
late Earl of Portarlington, who was al
ways forgetting the names of people
whom he had met. Once, on receiving
a gracious nod from Queen Victoria at
a Marlborough House garden party, &C
companied by few words of kindly in
quiry after his health, he replied: "Yo Gu
are very kind, madam. Your face seems
strangely familiar to me, but for the
life Of me cannot remember youl
name -
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WHERE NO CLOUD oBscURES.
On the Planet Mars the Weather Is A
most ALWAYS Fine.

On the Planet Mars the Weather Is AL.
most Always Fine.
Let US now remark that the Marian
meteorology is less complicated and
more pleasant than that of the earth.
There the weather is almost always
fine, especially during summer. Very
seldom are there clouds even in winter.
Generally when we are unable to distin-
guish through the telescope the details
of the geographical confguration upon
the planet the fault is in our own at
mosphere and not in that of Mars. It is
very rarely the case that when cur at
mospheric conditions are good we are
unable to see these details During the
last period Of observation of Mars in
1894, I, to speak for myself, encountered
only 10 days {from Oct. 10 to 25) when
the surface Of the planet was yelled by
its own atmosphere. Clouds are excess
lively rare on the surface of Mars, and
perhaps exist at all only as fogs or light
cirrus; they are not clouds of rain Or
storm. These wells are very infrequent
there, while they are perpetual upon the
earth. Probably there is not single
day in the year when the entire surface
of the earth is uncovered SO that it could
be satisfactorily observed from space
The two planets have two meteorolog-
ical systems that are absolutely anti
thetical.
Furthermore, in the rarefed atmos-
phere of Mars there can be no powerful
winds, like the trade winds and the pre-
dominant atmospheric currents which
rule terrestrial climates. Occasionally,
however, observers have noted long
streaks of snow which appear to have
been produced by currents in tranquil
atmosphere. Schiapareili, for instance,
observed such streaks trainees'') in
November and December, 1881, around
the northern pole and extending con-
siderable distance from it. But such
things are exceptions. The normal con-
dition upon Mars is fine weather. Ca
mile Flammarion in North American
Review.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
Who Steals the Ribles7

Although nearly all the passenger
cars running out of Chicago have little
overhead racks marked "Read and Re-
turn" few Of these racks contain BIZ
bles, as they used to: The explanation
is that the Bibles disappeared SO system
atically that the American Bible society
discontinued furnishing them, believing
that they could employ their money in
fields in which it would be more appre-
ciated. The suggestion has been made
that the Bibles be attached to the Car with
chains, as city directories are in drug
stores and hotels, but the idea Of chain
ing down Bible is SO incongruous that
it has met with little favor. Chicago
Tribune
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Adirondack.

The word Adirondack comes to us
from the language of the Mohawks
With them it was Ha-de-ron-dack and
meant wood eaters. This term was ap-
piled in derision to few members Of a
once powerful branch of the Algon-
4uins, who were defeated by the Iro-
4uois and forced to seek refuge in a
3astness Of the mountains. They were
in great distress, and it is said they
sent messengers to their victors asking
them to make no further war upon
them, as they were reduced to the ne
cessity of eating roots and the bark of
trees. A few of them finally escaped to
the north. and others were captured and
held in slavery by the Mohawks. Utica
Observer.
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The Thought Switch.

st suppose" said Mr.. Glimmerton,
"that if a man is blessed with fairly
good health he ought to be able to sleep
nights, but, rs {; matter Of fact, many
people lie awake half the night very
ing over things not worth fretting
about, and waking up in the morning
tired out to start with
What is needed is q thought switch
that will switch the thoughts over from
unpleasant lines to lines that are pleas
ant and keep them there. There are
plenty of such switches low, but the
trouble with 'enl all is that they don t
lock. They're all open switches. A man
gets over all right, but it's always up
grade where this switch is laid, and the
first thing he knows be slides back on
the old line CT thought. What we want
is switch that will keep him on the
right track till he's gathered strength
enough to climb the hill to the level,
where the going is easy, and whore the
track lies straight fer dreamland
"There's mc.ey fer the inventor in
this, and what d bccn he would confer
'on his brother man. New York Sun.
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SOUTHWARK.
*Daily, except Sunday. sunday only.
CONNECTIONS:

Train No. 40s connects at Harpers Ferry
with Fast Limited Express trains, leaving at
LIB p. M, arriving at Columbus at ESQ a. m.
and Pittsburgh ct 5:45 p. NJ, and Chicago at
ll:00 q. m. next morning; with train leaving
M, St. Louis at 900 p. M. and connects at
Weverton with train arriving at Hagerstown
at 213 p. m and at Washington Junction with
train arriving at Frederick at 2:2O p m.
Train 416 connects with fast vestibuled trains
at Harper's Ferry at 1853 p. m. for Chicago;
1921 p: N. for Pittsburg, and 146 a. m. for Gin
cinnati and ST. Louis. Arrive at Pittsburg at
$3.50 a. M; Chicago at 900 p. M, Cincinnati at
$50 p. M, and st. Louis at 7:12 a. IN.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars run through
to Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago and Pitts
burgh on all express trains.
For rates, tickets, baggage checks and fur
ther information apply TO B. s. o. agents or to
g. E. Dudrow, Travelling Passenger Agent,
Winchester, Va, or G. Y. Hammond, Agent
Staunton, Va.
CHAS. o. SCULL, VIM GREEN:
Gen. Pass. Agt. Ger. Man.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
FACTORY SYSTEMS IN SWITZERLAND
Skilled Watchmakers Will Not Work BY
American Methods

American Methods.
It is most interesting to compare the
different methods by means of which
the highest grade Of mechanical perfec-
ton is attained in various countries.
Notwithstanding the high character Of
American watches, for example, the
finest Swiss watches will retain their
great reputation. The Swiss workman
receives the parts from the manufacturer
Id the rough, takes them to his home,
puts his best individual skill into the
finishing and assembling and brings the
completed watches to his employer.
The latter inspects the work, and out of
batch OF, say, SO watches he selects
i've or six as worthy of his attention
and puts the others into the regular
trade under some general trade name.
The selected watches he readjusts, work
ing over them for days, weeks and
months before he considers them worthy
to bear his own name, and it is these
watches which go to those who not only
have the money to buy, but also the
patience to wait.
A prominent firm of American lew
elers. chatting under the Inconvenience
of this old world method of doing
things, sought to introduce American
methods and see II the highest grade Of
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
Earl Grey.

Earl Gray, who succeeds DIR. Jim as
administrator Of Rhodesia, is tall.
good looking man OF As. He was the
nephew of the late earl and succeeded
to the title less than two years ago. He
is a quiet, rather reserved, man, but is
reputed to be possessed Of considerable
ability in business affairs He has lived
an adventurous life and has Travelled a
good deal i'll South Africa. His wife,
who was Miss Holford, has also seen
something Of South African life. Lon
don Tit-Bits.
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NASAL
CATARR Ri
LOCAL DISEASE

and is the result o.
colds and sudden
climatic changes.
Tt can be cured by 6
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For Your Protection
! we positively state
i that this remedy doe:
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or am other iDjGriOu:
drug.
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DON'T STOP TOBACCO.
now TO CURE YOURSELF WHILE
USING IT.

The tobacco habit grows on a man until his
nervous system is seriously affected, impair
ing health, comfort and happiness. TO quit
suddenly is too severe shock to the system.
as tobacco to an inveterate user becomes a
stimulaut that his system continually Graves.
"Baco-C uro is scientific cure for the tobacco
habit, in all it's FORMS carefully compounded
after the formula of an eminent Berlin physi-
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We give written guarantee to cure perma-
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Letter Comes For President Monroe.

In the White House mail on June
was letter addressed to Ellis Excel
1ency, James Monroe, President of the
U. So It came from British Guiana
and contained an urgent request for the
autograph of the author of the famous
doctrine against foreign Entertainments
on the American continent. The writer
is Venezuelan resident Of British
Guiana, who evidently expects great
things Of President Monroe" in the
territorial dispute between Great Brit
ain and Observation-Disclosures Star.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
1t Failed to Walk.

Speaking CT Hamlet with Hamlet
left out" said the weary and wayworn
erstwhile PoIonius, it amt a marker
to Hamlet with the ghost left out -
And the Rialto was 400 miles away.
indianapolis Journal.
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Brain Measures.

A machine in operation at the Uni
versity of New York is known as the
pendulant chronoscope. By means of
this experiments are made in measuring
the brains Of children and charts are
drawn out giving the results. A child
is shown a shutter and told to press a
button as soon as the shutter drops. The
interval between the pressing of the
button and the dropping Of the shutter
shows how quickly the child can re-
spond to an optical impression, and,
consequently how smart it is. The
charts show that boys average better
than girl in brightness and general ca
pability.
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Insect Bites.

The London Lancet remarks: "Many
people do not know how easily they can
protect themselves and their children
against the bites Of gnats and other in
sects. Weak carbolic acid sponged on
the skin and hair, and in some cases
clothing, will drive away the whole
tribe. We have no doubt that horses
and cattle could be protected in the
same way from flies, which sometimes
nearly madden them
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

like e5, 900. An English lady has col
leoted buttons for over 20 years and
now possesses over 5000 varieties, a
fact which suggests quotation from
Peter Pindar:
Rare are the buttons of a Romans breeches
In antiquarian eyes SURPRISING riches.
Rare Is each cracl'd, black, rotten, earthen
dish
That held OF ancient Rome the flesh and fish.
A Canadian gentleman has made
collection of the buttons of officers OF
every regiment and department Of the
British army, upon which he has spent
nine years of labor and expense. Tenn
pie Bar.
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learn several great truths-.as that
it is impossible to see into the ways of
futurity; that punishment always at
tends the villain; that love is the fond
soother of the human breast. Gold
smith.
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TWO MEETINGS.
A Very Old Man Tells of Something This
Awakened Tender Memories.

"A very O1O 18n l0llS Oh SOmeG0l0R Xn8C
Awakened Tender Memories.
IT came across something last Sun
day. said an old, very old, man one
day in 1866, something that brought
tears to my eyes and started flood Of
recollections that / could not control I
had been out with my son-in-law for a
little excursion, and feeling thirsty we
dropped down in the yard Of a neat
looking hotel and called for some Rhine
wine and settlers.
"'You will have to order a meal, ,
said the waiter, and we said, of course
two meals. In time the Rhine wine
was brought. The glasses were smaller
than they were when was young, but
their contents were otherwise well. ,
Then he brought the meals.
They were the ordinary Sunday
drink meals. My son-in-law's was or
binary in every way; but the waiter
had dropped mine, and, picking it up
in hurry, had placed it on the plate
upside down. Otherwise, of course,
should never have noticed it. On the
bottom Of the meal, carved deep into
the crust, were the initials B. G.. R.,
and the date 1896, May H.. Seventy
years old and more that Raines Sunday
meal was! The initials were my own,
and, as I looked at the figures, almost
as fresh as when they were first carved,
my memory went back to the bright
Sunday in May, 1896, when friend
and had ridden on our bicycles to the
self same hotel and ordered the same
drinks and meals OF course, it was
only coincidence, but it was interest
ing.
''It was just about that time" said
the old. very old, man, picking up his
cane, ''that the custom the boys had OF
carving their names on turtles backs
was given up; they carved them on
Raines Sunday meals, because they last
ed longer. And I think that was one
Of the pioneers Of the new custom" And
the old, very old, man went out.-New
York ST1n
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An Italian patent, including fees and
taxes for ore year, costs 800. 1t is
granted fc2 Is years and must be
worked within two.
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Wood For Food.

The veddahs, or wild hunters, of Cey-
Ion mlngle the pounded fbers OF soft
and decayed wood with the honey on
which they feed when meat is not to be
obtained.
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CATARRH
II WILL, CURE.

| A particle is applied directly into the nostrils
and is agreeable. Price so cents at Druggists
or by mail.
ELY BROTHERS. S. Warren Street, New York.
ian 8-1yr