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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
Tattooing by the Maori Race.

Major General Robley is the author
OF singularly curious book, ''Moko
or, Maori Tattooing'' The New Zea-
land war of 1864 6, in which the author
served, gave him this opportunity of
studying on the spot that now almost
extinct art. The expression, we'll CHS
seled face, meant one thing to Chris
tian sculptor and another to Maori
decorator. The work contains more
than $50 illustrations of designs and
tattooed heads. There is no DENYING the
fact that the Maoris could appreciate
The beauty of lines and curves. One
witnessing the really striking examples
Of their architectural ornamentation
exhibited in South Kensington cannot
but regret that they did not work less
upon the human skin and more unon
some other material In General Rob
ley's book, which is to be az guinea
quarto, beautifully printed, the history
Of the art is sketched and the yarious
processes explained. The second section
of the book deals with preserved heads,
many of which, dating from ITO, are
kept IN European museums It seems
there are few, if any, such heads later
than 1881. when the traffic in Maori
heads ceased" An illustration entitled
Preserved Heads of Maori Warriors
Arrayed In Robes and Displayed by
Their Conquerors' is singularly life
like. It betrays at least q documentary
sense of statuesque drapery. London
News.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
The irish Laborer In England.

It is asked, Why should the Irishman
come over to make the hay and reap the
crops in England and Scotland, and
how is it that he goes home again and
does not stay? That he comes over is
evidence that he is not unwilling to
work He is sent for by the farmer be-
cause his wages are low. That he re-
turns home is not matter of sentiment
alone, nor due to the fact that he returns
to Roman Catholic country. The win
ter is milder than i'll Scotland, the rent
is cheaper than paying for lodgings in
Scotland, the turf fire is warmer and
more cheerful than the small coal he
must buy at high price in Scotland.
The turf fire costs him perhaps Ed for
the family for all the year. While the
man works abroad the family live
cheaply at home and till the potatoes
and fatten the pigs. There are thus good
reasons why migratory labor should pay
the Irish peasant best, and the change
is welcome to him when life would 9th
erwise be very monotonous. Boys and
girls look forward to the end Of their
school days and to the time when they
may go to the harvesting; or, still bet
ter, to the coil works, where some 80
shillings week may be earned. The
Irish peasant requires no one to teach
him his own interests il this respect,
and he works hard for spell, looking
forward to the Idle winter before him
at home -Blackwood' Magazine.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
ECONOMY OF SPACE.
A Great Power Generating Station Which
Covers but Little Ground.

A Great Power Generating Station Which
Covers but Little Ground.
Probably no other kinds Of power
plants afford better illustrations Of the
tendency to concentration than some Of
the modern splendidly equipped electric
stations in large cities, where ground
area has closely approached the maxi
mum in value, and in which. therefore,
economic considerations have dictated
the putting Of as much generating ap-
paratus into as little space as human
ingenuity would permit, with due re-
gard to satisfactory performance. In
some of these stations vertical engines
and boilers in large units have been
installed to the entire exclusion Of hori-
zontal designs, and in others, again, the
saving in ground space thus secured has
been still further augmented by setting
engines and boilers in tiers, one above
the other, giving a ratio Of horsepower
per square foot of ground area which a
decade ago would have been thought
quite beyond the limits Of possibility.
In probably no station in the world
has this concentration been carried out
to greater degree, or to as great one
even, as in that of the Edison Electric
Illuminating company in Duane street,
in the city Of New York. The ground
covered by this measures 200 by "a feet,
and within this area provision has been
made for nine 1850 horsepower en-
gines, two Of 1850 horsepower each
and three Of 600 horsepower, giving a
total Of very nearly $4,000 horsepower.
with a corresponding boiler plant, Or
only little less than two horsepower
per square foot 1t would seem, indeed,
as though economy in space could not
well be carried much farther. Casters
Magazine,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
PIN HISTORY.
The Useful Articles Were Known In Early
Times to Egyptians.

The Useful Articles Were Known In early
Times to Egyptians.
Pins are, as the saying gees, as old as
the hills. In some form OF another they
have been in existence ever since ou1
first parents clothed themselves in fig
leaves, which grew wild i'll the garden
Of Eden. As IA matter of fact, pins claim
very high antiquity, the earliest form
being the natural thorn, which is still
used to some extent by the peasant
women of upper Egypt. In prehistoric
times pins were also made of the small
bones of fish and animals.
Among the remains Of the lake dwell
ers Of Europe have been found bronze
pins and bronze brooches, i'll which the
pins form the prominent feature, many
of which are highly ornamental and
very beautiful. A few copper and one
iron pin have also been found. 1t is es-
timated that 10, 900 pins have been col
lected at the lacustrine station Of Swift
zerland alone. A few Of these have dou-
BILE stems and were probably used as
hairpins There have been found at
Peschiere pins which are exactly the
same in form as the safety pins of the
present time. Among the single stem
pins are many ingenious devices for
preventing the. spike from passing en-
tirely through the cloth or other ma
terial it is used for fastening together.
Many Of them are so formed that they
are thicker in some places than in 9th
ers. A large number, both of bone and
bronze, had the head formed of loose
ring passed through an eye in the pin.
A few of them have the appearance Of
the scarfpin now in use In Egypt pins
with gold heads have been discovered,
while in ancient Rome bronze pins and
bone hairpins with ornamental heads
have been discovered among relics Of
Pompeii.-Philadelphia Press.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
Electricity and Vegetation.

As there are great many references
in our scientific exchanges of late to
the influence of electricity on germinat-
ing seeds and growing plants we will
state that such experiments are not
new. Researches in that, line were car
ried on away back in the fifties. In 1858
H. F. Baxter of Scotland wrote as fol-
lows in The British Botanical Review:
Gas it may be considered a law in
vegetable physiology that all plants
have tendency during the termination
of their seeds to develop in two diamet-
rically opposite directions, the root and
the stem, the question arose, Might
not this direction be influenced or coun-
teracted by submitting the terminating
seeds to current of electricity? Accord
ingly, u series Of experiments were I'M
dertaken which were carried out with
elaboration of detail. After months Of
patient experimenting feel justified in
announcing that no definite conclusions
were drawn from them as to the rela-
tive effect of the electricity, although
each series Of experiments was varied
and multiplied. st. Louis Republic.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15

Old johnson was very much given to
Htippling," not wisely but too well,
and would spend all his spare time al
his favorite pub. says Spare Moments.
His house was SO situated that it was
necessary for him to go through the
churchyard to reach it. One night, be-
ing bit fuller than usual, he managed
to fall into newly made grave. He fell
without hurting himself, and being tired
went off to sleep. When he awoke the
next morning, he couldn't make out
where he got to, but after a struggle
managed to reach the top of the grave
and look around.
A broad grin spread over his face as
he muttered to himself:
''Dear, dear, it's resurrection day,
and I'm up first.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
CARE OF BEDS AND BEDDING.
A Few shsewd Observations on an Ever!
day Topic.

A Few shsewd Observations on an Every
day Topic.
There is a vast difference in the way
different housekeepers manage and care
for their beds. Some of them fully be-
ieve in the fresh air theory and during
pleasant weather, as soon as their toilet
is made, up go the bedroom windows
and the pillows are laid upon the sill
for an airing; the bedclothing, if not
removed and thrown on chair, is
turned down over the foot of the bed.
If feather bed is used, that is also well
shaken up and left until the bed is
again made up, sometimes in the fore
noon. This management is in strong
contrast to the usual plan of never
touching Il slept in bed until it is again
prepared for the sleeper, yet in the item
of health there is perhaps no discernible
difference.
The children living in homes Of
squalor and wretchedness, whose bed
ding is perhaps not changed once a
month, are quite as healthy and cheer
full as those who sleep in bed linen
CndnSeQ udlly. Liz oHiHauaH VIII
sleeps on his pillow Of wood is quite as
strong and usually less nervous than
the "Mellican man. who rests his head
upon downy pillows. However, this is
no excuse why beds should not receive
proper care and thorough airing fire.
quently, if not daily. 1t is certainly a
matter of habit, and the daughters usu-
ally in this line follow the practice in
culcated by their mothers.
Bedclothes that are stored away
should be aired several times each year,
as moths and the carpet bug will raise
sad havoc with them-if not properly at
tended to. Camphor gum or fine tobacco
scattered between each fold will keep
out the former, but cannot be depended
upon as a panacea for the carpet bug.
If mice are known to be about the prem
ises, traps should be properly baited and
placed near their haunts, as at nesting
time they will riddle bedding to make
a soft nest. A close fitting chest or
trunk makes the safest storing place for
all unused clothing, bedding. etc. A
large plain trunk can usually be pur-
chased for a small sum, and will pay
its cost every year in the safety Of its
contents. Germantown Telegraph.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
WITH A BARREL OF OYSTERS.
How Great Russian Banker Bought His
Freedom From Serfdom.

How Great Russian Banker Bought His
Freedom From Serfdom.
One Of the best known banking houses
OF st. Petersburg and the one to which
most American visitors to Russia carry
letters Of credit is that of Messrs Shall
ounine & Sons, the founder of which,
father Of the present head of the firm.
owed his liberation from serfdom, 15
years before the decree of emancipation,
to barrel of oysters. Old Shalounine
was a serf belonging to Count She
remetief, one of the wealthiest mobiles in
Russia He had frequently entreated
the count to grant him his freedom. Of
fering him as much as $500, 600 for the
boon. But money was no object to the
count, and it gratified his pride to feel
that one Of the leading bankers of the
empire was one of his serfs, unable to
marry either his sons or his daughters
without his masters consent. Moreover,
as serf, the banker was liable to have
his money seized and confiscated any
moment by the count, since everything
that belonged to serf, including his
wife, children and property, belonged
ipso facto to his master.
One day Shalounine, who had Just
that very morning returned to the CAPT.
tai from Odessa. called at the Shere-
metieff palace for the purpose of report
ing his arrival. as in duty bound to his
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
Silenced.

A man who certainly must have tip
ped the beam at $40 and who looked as
if he could have handled Sandow with
ease stood on street corner the other
afternoon with scrawny, brow beaten,
pale little woman about feet in stat
ure and not above 80pounds in avoirdu-
pois. A gentleman who was waiting
for car at the same corner heard the
giant say to his pygmy:
"Gimme 10 cents, Matte. "
''See here, Bill Morrison" was the
icy reply, ''I've told you over an over
ag'in sence we left home that wouldn' t
give you 10 cents to fool away on this
trip, an if you say 10 cents to me just
once more you'll wish you hadn't l
sh'd think you'd been married to me
long enough to know that when say q.
thing I mean it. Now, you give me any
more trouble an we'll take the next car
for home, you tcrmentin thingP'-De-
troit Free Press.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15

A woman's headaches may come
from several causes She may have a
headache arising from nervousness. or
from digestive disturbances Nine
cases in ten, her headaches come from
disorders peculiar to her sex. 1t may
show itself in the symptoms which are
characteristic of dozen disorders
Thousands of times, women have been
treated for the wrong disorders. DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription was
compounded for the sole purpose of
relieving womankind of these ills and
pains. Thousands of women have
testified that after taking treatment
from several physicians without bene
fit. the "Fayorite Prescription" cured
them completely and quickly. 1t has
been used for over thirty years, and
has an unbroken record of success.
The woman who hesitates is invited
to send 81 one cent stamps to cover
only the cost of mailing a copy of
Doctor Pierce's Common Sense Medi
cal Adviser, which contains plain,
clear information about all of the or
gans of the human body and their
functions.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
Inxrowinp Hair.

The barber was talking. "Ingrowing
hairs in the face are often painful, he
remarked, "but they aren't in it with
ingrowing hairs under the finger nails.
Fact, assure you. Ask any barber, and
he will tell you the same thing. How
do they get there? Oh, that's simple
enough. In cutting mans hair, a
short hair very often flies off the shears
and lodges under the finger nail. We
dom notice it at the time, and it grad
ually works its way in until it is COM
pletely out Of sight. Then the trouble
begins. Sometimes it takes root and
grows out, but more often it just stays
there and testers. Does the razor hurt?
There you are, sir. NextP'-Philadel-
phia Record.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
DON'T STOP TOBACCO.
HOW TO CURE YOURSELF WHILE
USING 1T.

The tobacco habit grows on a man until his
nervous system is seriously affected, impair
ing health, comfort and happiness. To quit
as tobacco to an inveterate user becomes
stimulant that his system continually Graves
"Baco-CurO is a scientific cure for the tobacco
habit, in all its forms. carefully compounded
after the formula of an eminent Berlin physi-
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since 1872. without a failure. It's purely vege
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took your first chew or smoke.
Cured BY BacO-CurO and Gained Thirty
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From hundreds of testimonials, the originals
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
LIFE in EASTERN BENGAL.
Conditions Which Render the Profuse Use
0f Qnium a Necessity.

Conditions Which Render the Profuse Use
Of Opium Necessity.
In 1857 it occurred to DR.. Palmer at
Ghazipur to treat malarial fever with
anarcotine derived from crude opium
instead of with quinine. He was re-
markably successful, and the drug is
now in common use as an antiperiodic.
But the characteristic Of Indian opium
is the preponderance in it of precisely
this element. Can we, then, infer that
opium is prophylactic against malarial
fever? To certain extent we can, for
statistics show that those who take daily
45 grains and upward of opium take
enough anarcotine thereby to protect
them absolutely against malarial poison,
while any one taking over 16 grains
will be more or less fortified. 1t may be
mentioned, also, that the morphine ele-
ment contributes its share as prophy
Tactic. In the light of these facts, it is
interesting to note that in many dis
tricts opium consumption bears close
relation to the greater or less prevalence
of malaria.
LII ASS1l1s 1O1 OA04APAO, LII U1AO 0cAAl y
and low lying country on both banks of
the Brahmaputra, the average annual
consumption per head is 357 grains, the
average for the whole province being
al, and in the Bhagalpur district Of
the Patna division the most malarious
part has 40 per cent of the opium shops
Of the district for only ~ per cent of
the population. One of the medical wit
nesses gave the following lively descrip-
ton of the conditions Of life in eastern
Bengal: 'When man wants to build a
house, he first of all digs a tank, and
with the earth from which he has dug
the tank he raises a mound, and on the
top of that mound he places his house.
''The elevation of that mound de-
ponds entirely upon the height to which
the annual floods rise. The floods rise
with fair regularity, but sometimes
they go two or three inches higher than
the average, and then the inhabitants
of those houses have to live on RATS in
side their houses, and their cattle are
tethered up to their bellies in water.
These people have generally no boats
They paddle about on RATS made of the
plantain tree, and the boys go to school
in what I call wash hand basins They
are earthen gumlas-earthenware pots.
The boy sits at the bottom Of the gumla
and paddles to school. :" These poor peo-
pie are often five miles from their near
est neighbor, and some 1900, 900 OF
them are dependent for qualified med
ical aid on a single European doctor
with one assistant. What wonder that
opium is their household remedy, and
that when man, disabled by malarial
fever, finds that dose of quarter OF
half grain of pure opium makes him a
new man, and enables him to do the
days work without which his family
would starve he takes it.-Chambers'
Journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15

nne IN an english paper once called it
1.-THE Barter of Women In America. :"
But among those who see the satisfac-
tory after workings it is merely the
good natured consent of the girls to ad-
just themselves to their country, which
is yet new enough not to be as evenly
distributed as it will be when the TWEEN
ty-frst century man and woman come
Inst. Louis Globe Democrat.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15

The Rev. A. S. Steele, editor Of The
Epworth Era, describes how, when 9
years old, he was scared nearly out of
his wits by the sight Of locomotive 1t
was in the days when railroads were
few, and the boy had never seen a train
of cars.
first saw the cars at the place where
the L. and N. railroad crosses Hatchie
river, little west of Brownsville We
went there to take the train for Mem
phis. I was repeatedly assured by my
parents that there was no danger at all,
but their assurances only partly allayed
my juvenile apprehensions
We did not have long to wait. The
engine whistled some time before it
came into sight, and that whistle set
my nerves on edge chung to my ia
ther, and when the monster appeared
over the top of the grade I buried my
face in his coat and screamed, in spite
Of his efforts to quiet me.
just as the engine came opposite US
the steam began to escape with a horri-
BILE spluttering noise. This was more
than could stand I broke from my
father and started for the woods.
A big pile Of lumber was near by.
Owed under that, clawing and squeezing
up under the planks like a frightened
rabbit. My father caught me by the
heel and pulled me out.
Then, Selling me by main force, he
carried me to the train, while I kicked
and screamed like a savage, to the in
finite amusement Of the passengers. It
took my father and mother and the con-
ductor to get me aboard and push me
into seat.
My, my, how struggled and kicked
and scratched and fought and screamed!
Do you suppose WANTED to be murdered
straight out? became quiet by and by,
but still lodged every time we passed
telegraph pole.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-15
WANTED-ThREE THOUSAND WIVES
A City ON Vancouver Island Where Wome1
Are at q Premium.

WANTED-THREE THOUSAND WIVES.
A City ON Vancouver Island Where Women
Are at q Premium.
There is city in the western part Of
Canada, close to the Pacific ocean,
which is named by all who visit it the
most desolate spot upon the face Of the
earth. Its climate is good, its natural
resources excellent, it's houses fair, it's
streets well paved. yet within this town
there is an air of forlorn detection that
strikes the most careless traveller that
comes within it's boundary.
1t is on Vancouver island-a sweet,
fair spot. And the desolation is caused
by one thing-one only-the lack Of
women and girls.
This particular town is scarcer Of the
product than others of its locality.
There are many towns upon the island,
but this one lacks women so sadly that
in recent census of the place it was
found nearly 5000 short. This number
included a count of serving women,
women to do the work of the house,
cook and wash and iron. 1t also included
working girls and women Who are not
expected to marry And, of course, it
TOOK III the queens of the city, the fair
matrons of the homes and the mistresses
OF the pretty establishments.
Today the doorsteps of these hou ses
yawn vacantly and the vines futtering
over the portals seem tosay, "She comes
not yet
The greatest bargain sale of wives
ever known took place upon a recently
opened domain a few years ago. A
frantic call was sent to the cities for 100
women. And poor girls, out of fun and
curiosity and willingness to have a
home, went out there. The men met
them at the station. The girls looked
them over shyly. By evening all the
girls had found boarding places in the
wooden shanties of the "town." And
by Sunday the parson was kept busy ty
ing the nuptial knots. The prettiest
girls and the richest ones got the
wealthlest men. A girl with $50 was an
heiress and man with 800 a prince
The plain girls took up with poor fell
lows, with hopes and chances. It was a
quick, natural selection.
One very handsome fellow, with
blond curis, got a very pretty girl,
though neither had cent. It was case
OF beauty. The rude courtship was car
rled on Ill the three evenings between
the time the girls arrived and Sunday,
and within week there were nearly
100 small wooden houses going up in
the town.
There Is no name for this peculiar
state OF society where women are want
ed to make homes and where money is
laid down for them and paid to them to
queen it over a home. A g,aring bead