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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick ST
between New and Market streets. services
II a. m. and p. m. Pastor. Rev. A. N. Fraser
Second Presbyterian church corner Freder.
lex and Lewis streets. Services at II a. m
and 8. Pastor Rev. VIM. Cumming.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship on
West Frederick st. Services at II a. M, and
p m,, Rector, Rev. r. C. Jett.
Trinity Episcopal church, Main street, be-
tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at
II a. M. and s p. N. Rector, Rev. W. Q. HUI
linen
United Brethren chUrel, Lewis street, be
tween Main and Johnson streets. Services at
II a. N and s p. m. Pastor, Rev. j. d Don
oyan.
Methodist church, Lewis street, between
Main and Frederick streets. Services at IL
NJ. and p. N. Pastor. Rev. j. III. Boyd. d.
Christ Evangelical Lutheran church Lew
is street, between Main and Frederick streets
Services at II a. m. and 8 p. m. Pastor. Rev.
II. F. Shealy.
Baptist church, corner Main and Washing
ton streets. Services at II a. m. and p. m
Pastor, Rev. M. L. Wood.
st. Francis Roman Catholic, North Augusts
street, Mass at and 1880 a. m. Vespers and
benediction of Most Blessed Sacrament at
p. m. Pastor. Rev. Father McVerry.
Young Mems Christian Association, corner
Main and Water streets. Services at 4 p. m /.
Sunday.
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VIRGINIA HOTEL RESTAURANT.
On First F1oor-Entrance on New street,

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ladies' Entrance and Front Restaurant DIN
ing Room. Nice Oysters served in any style
desired. The best service-Low cnaTges.
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23
A QUEER WEDDING.

WAYNEsBORo. Pa. September A.
A unique marriage ceremony was per-
formed here at the Reformed Mennon
ite Church yesterday by which Jacob
Frantz and Miss Annie Stauffer be
came man and wife.
A large congregation filled the edifice
at $50 O'clock. Bishop Jacob S. Leh-
man. of Chambersburg, preached a
sermon about two hours in length,
which was announced as being short
on account of tie hot weather, The
Duties of Husba nd and Wife, was his
theme.
At its close the contracting parties,
who had been seated on opposite sides
of the church. came forward and pres
ented themselves at the altar Aseries
of questions was propounded and,
these having been answered aflirna-
tiveiy. the yonng coupl. were pro
nounced married. Both resumed their
tormer seats and the chu -rh services
were concluded.
Courtshlp by members o. this church
| is pursued in manner peculiar to
themselves. Up until the engage
ment, which is several weeks before
the marriage, the bride and groom
| have no communication with each
other. When brother in the church
| wants to marry ''sister" lie does not
make his wish known directly to her,
but goes to the minister and tells him
his secret. The minister. if pleased
with the match, carries the brothers
message. The sister is usually sur
prlsed, as this is supposed to be her
/ first intimation of the plan. If the
proposal is received with favor the
negotiations are carried on by proxy,
the minister being the messenger.
The ceremony always takes place in
a church. No invitations are issued,
but the banns are proclaimed from the
pulpit two weeks beforehand. During
this period the groom is permitted to
visit his intended without the inter
vention of third party.
After the wedding dinner is always
lserved, after which bride and groom
4 60 to their respective homes and re
main apart for several days. The
marriages in the church are generally
happy ones and there is 10 record o.
any of the members ever suing fol
divorce.
A man may dress as we'll as his owI
good judgment and the assistance O
all artistic tailor may elect. He ma!
take his tubs" but if his digestive
organs are out Of order, he will have
/ an unwholesome appearance. Hi
! complexion and the white of his eye
, will have.a yellowish cast. His tongu,
> will be coated, appetite poor, his teetl
rusty, his breath abominable. He j
+ one big, unmistakable sign Of constipa
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They hunt down all impurities, an
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v practice. DR.. Pierce cannot afford t
:. put forth worthless article.
y Address with 81 cents in one-cen
q stamps, to cover cost of mailing ontS
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tion, Buffalo. N. Y. and get fire
copy of the Medical Adviser"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23
All that Glitters is not Gold !!
y. 30.


and yarns about high class musical instru-
ments sold at a sacrifice below cost
should be swallowed with large grain
of salt. People do not handle musical in
struments to lose money, but to make it.
Our method of making it is to deserve
good and large trade, and make a very
small profit on each instrument OF upon
each piece of music that we sell. Fine
finishing is sometimes resorted to. Re-
liable dealers handle reliable goods, that is
the kind we sell.
Our ParIor Organ for $45 Cash,
or $55 on time, can't be beat If you
look the world over. But There are
others" We make Ten other Styles.
Come and see them at
PUTNAM .Ss's sTeaz'
Staunt0n. Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23

"a DEMOCRAT NEVER STEPS BACK
wAPD- -n-Jacksonville, Fla, Sept: g.
limited States District Attorney Fran
Clark addressed letter to Mr.. Arthur
Sewau last week, asking the dlrec,
question whether or not Mr.. Sewail
would withdraw from tbs democratic
ticket. The following reply from INF
Sewall was receiveg today:
Il thank yo;, for your kind expires
sion You need haYe no ieaF OF ms
retiring from the ticket. am IN.
nominee of the democratic party
democrat never steps back ward. "
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23
SCOTS
Emulsion

Of Cod-1iver Oil with Hypo-
phosphites, viii makepo blood
rich. It is a food for over-taxed
and weak digestion, SO prepared
that It can easily be taken in
sumner when Cod-liver Olsor
even ordinary foods might repel.
sccTT & BOVINE. y New York
Rog sale ~ Sos, and sr.oe by al, araggisss. ]
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23
A Remarkable Recurd.

During the months of March, April,
Nav and June, 1896, the four Vestibul-
ed Limited trains on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway between Washington
and Cincinnati made a remarkable
record. Each train covered 500 miles,
or nearly If times the eaTth's circum-
ference, and yet tae four trains were
Hon time A63 times out of a possible 40S,
an average Of So per cent. Considering
the number of trains. the period COW
cred, the distance run and the noun
tainous natase of tie couatry travers
eo, .hese figures speak yolufaes for the
physical condition and management
OF the road, and account i'sgits popu
larity with trav elers betws':n the East
ana West
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23

While Ii Hung Chang was in Eng
land he sat for his portrait to MISS
Ethel Mortlock, a young artist, who,
at the age of Is, had her portrait OF the \
late Lord Sherbrooke hung. upon the
line line at burlington House, Miss Mort,
loci, was introduced to the Grand
Secretary at the Hatfield garden party.
The portrait. it is said, gives "a de-
liohtful. ouizzical. dryly humorous
exnression,n which is quite in keeping
with The idea formed of him from the
accounts of his doings and sayings.
Miss Mortlock says ''he has the VII, VII,
the humor, and the statesmanhke
qualities of Gladstone
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-23

Professor Stowe, the husband OF
Harriet Beecher Stowe, often said that
he saw visions of people il whom ne
was interested, and Mrs. Field recalls
an instance of this in the Review OF
Reviews. On one occasion Mrs. Stowe
was in her room when it was supposed
she was out of town. Professor Stowe
came in, looked about him with pre-
occupied air, but did not speak TO her;
She thought bis behavior strange, ana
amused herself watching him; at last
the situation became so extraordinary
that she began to laugh. Why" he
exclaimed. with a most asJonished air,
ssis that you? thought 1t was one OF
my visions"
The herald., 1896-07-12
Bergman, Cal.
The Sunday Law

Editor Herald: find in your issue of
July 9Th report of a talk given on Sun
day evening by ]. A. B. Wilson, pastor
of the First M. e. church of this city,
which appears to be very similar to the
remarks of that gentleman before the
committee of the council on Wednesday,
July 1st "A considerable portion of this
refers to the Seventh day Adventists as
a people or to me Individually.
AS to the fitness of such words to come
from Christian minister and by him to
be applied to a people who, in common
with himself, love the same Savior and
are striving to serve the same God, and
as to the appropriateness of such Ian
guage when used with reference to the
people in question the public can and will
judge. But as for me, personally, Ideem
them unworthy of a reply and notice
them now only to. correct one or two
mis-statements which appear concern
ing the protest and it's advocacy.
Mr.. Wilson is reported to have said:
= At the hearing of the petition by the
committee on publit morals there ap-
peared alsofa. counter petition signed by
2S00 people, every one who could be in
duced to, attach their signatures being
The fact is that the signatures to the
counter petition exceeded by several
The herald., 1896-07-12
July 8, 1895.
The wegs Garner and the no,,,r

- Editor Herald: In your issue of .ru,v
sth appeared an article under the car,
tton.. The Wage Earner, written bv IA
ward 7. Sumwalt, which. I trust y",,
VIII permit me to reply to through the the
Soiumns u lofl Ihe Herald. Mr.. sumwalt,
words of as alleged worlSingman whose
hands We're hard and rough thro,1ph
toll" He makes this workingman de-
clare emphatically against the free
coinage of silver, because, by the enact
ment OF such a law, few silver mine
he, the labprer, would not be rernem-
bered in the,i"rake off," This ''horny
handed son Of toil'' declares that under
existing conditions he iabors for $3.50
per day and is paid every Saturday in
gold. silver and paper money! He
The herald., 1896-07-12
-er mine owners in the far distant (they

yer mine owners in the far distant Chey
would like to add uncivilized. west" If
asked to do so they could not name one
legitimate industry, trade or honest
pursuit it has not injured, and that al
most beyond omputation-unless bond
selling and bond shearing be called le-
gitimate branches Of industry.
In 1885 the farms of our two mort
gagors had been foreclosed upon aud
sold, sold to the mortgagee; and then
their implements and other personal
property were levied upon and sold un-
der execution, to pay the deficits Des-
titute? Yes, rather so. Destitute Of
land, Of home, Of money, Of friends, save
those who took passage with them on
Capt. John Sherman, the American
agent of Lombard street, Baron Roths-
child and Barring Bros.
They, our mortgagors, came west
They came to seek mines, mines Of the
precious metals. They succeeded. One
soon had fine paying gold mine, out of
which he extracted large sums, and
had it freely coined at the United States
mints soon sold his mine for a small
fortune, and. locating in prosperous
town, went into the money-lending
business, wherein he yet prospers.
The other soon had silver mine,
Which, had silver never been demone
tiZed, would have been more valuable
than his friends gold mine. But II.
mined, nevertheless, mined industriously
and constantly; and while coinage of
silver was going on at the rate of about
$50,000.000 per month he had S10,000,0 900
coined and stored it away in. a safe
place, as he supposed. He, of course
under the ]. Sherman fraud, had to
stand seignorage-pay for coining his
bullion. 1t being the hated, dishonored
white metal. Soon the establishment
where he stored his silver coins burned
to ashes, and his coins We're relegated to
the capacity of bullion by the intense
heat. He again had his bullion coined,
stored. melted into bullion, which ope-
ration was repeated until Uncle Sam
had all his bullion by way of seignorage.
Reader. do you ask Sne why the owner
of the gold mine got his product coined
freely, and the owner~of the silver mine
had to pay for his coinage? The answer
is plain and pointed: 1t was so nomi-
mated in the contract which Sherman
took to demonetize silver and establish
the gold standard, in order to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer. And
it has fully met its iStended object.
T. H. WELLS.
The herald., 1896-07-12
The Story of Two Mortgages

Editor Herald: II knew two friends
who came to the new west a few years
ago for the purpose of regaining lost
fortunes. When silver was demonetized
in 1873 they were considered we'll do
FARMERS in the fertile valley of the
Father of Waters. Each had a farm,
ornamented, it is true, by a mortgage
But what was a mortgage Of $1,000 at 6
per cent per annum on farm that was
ready sale, spot cash, for $5000 and we'll
improved, implemented, and productive
as the valley of the Lower Nile? (The
mortgage of both was a Wall-street
capitalist, who. on making his loans, put
into the I. o. u. and the mortgage-he
scarcely knew why-the Shylock
phrase. payable only in gold coin of
the United States at its. present stand
ard of value.')
Time rolled on with our mortgagors as
rapidly as with any other class of men.
For three or four years after demone-
tization they paid their annual install
ments Of interest without much diff
Guilty. True, when making the last pay
ment, memorable demand was made for
gold coin," and when they remonstrat-
ed their cynical creditor leeringly re-
piled: "It is so nominated in the bond,
and henceforth nothing else will be ac-
cepted." Thence their financial doom
was sealed. Already, to the keen observ-
y,
the effects of the relegation Of silver to
the status of commercial commodity
was apparent, and as silver declined in
value in the market it was accompanied
by at least the leading products of farm
and herd. Cotton, wheat, flour, pork,
beef, ETC., were sharers in the decline
and sympathizers in the degradation of
silver. All were alike contemned by the
cormorants Of Wall street, while Eng
land gloated over the prOStration of
American agriculture and other indus
tries. and fixed the selling price of our
silver and other products to suit the
wanton caprices of her cruel avarice.
Actual statistics show that the agricul-
tural pursuit of the United States since
1875 has lost by the demonetization of
silver over an average of $3.50, 900, 900 per
annum. or during the last two decades
SO, ,000, 900, 900! And yet the men in New
York and New England. whose chief
physical exercise is shearing the semi
annual crop of coupons from bonds.
have the frigid effrontery to say that
''all this fuss and frenzy about free
coinage of silver comes from a few sill
The herald., 1896-07-12
Wiesendanger's South End Tract


Two hundred lots, 40 and so feet front:
month, at per cent interest.
A home of your own for the amount
you. would pay in rent. Cement side
walks, curbs, shade trees, pure water
piped to each lot: 800 feet frontage ON
Central ave. Absolutely pure water pip
ed to each street.
The best electric car line in Los An.
geles city: 20 minutes ride from the
business center: II minute service.
This beautiful tract is located in the
direct line of our progressive citys mar
velous growth.
During the last two years more homes
have been built and more substantial
improvements have been made along
Central ave. than in any other locality
No lot is further than two blocks from
the electric car line on Central ave-. a
sewer,with right to connect runs through
this property.
Think of it! A 4O-foot lot so near to
the electric cars. for only $3.50: $40 cash,
S. a month; own your own home. when
you can do SO by paying no more than
rent-only So monthly for one year.
Building restrictions on the four blocks
fronting direct on Central ave.. insure
high-class improvements and rapid in
crease of value.
Your last chance to secure al 40-foot
city for $3.50.
Take Central ave. electric car to the
South End tract.
Owners: r. WIEsENDANGER, 2N
W. Second St, tel. $40; NJ. F. ODEA, 35s
S. Broadway.
The herald., 1896-07-12
Republican Ideas of Protection

Editor Herald: Since my arrival in
Los Angeles 1 have been constant
reading subscriber to The Herald, and
fully appreciate the able efforts of its
editors to advance and zealously main
tain, by impressive and constant advo-
cacy, all measures for the betterment
of the condition of the vast army of
wage-workers throughout the country.
Your suggestive cartoon in Thursdays
issue, "The same old bait" prompts me
to. request space In your columns IN
which to ventilate this so-called protec-
tion of the Republicans. For verify the
moral of your cartoon is right; 1t is the
same old bait on the same old Mckinley
hook, thrown to catch the unsuspecting
gudgeons of our working class. AS an
American citizen and artisan, Injured
from boyhood up to manual labor, am
in direct and honest sympathy with all
whose lot compels for daily wage to
fight life's battle amid the antagonistic
and complex conditions of capital and
labor. In November next one of the
two contending parties, Democrats or
Republicans, will be chosen by peaceful
ballot to rule for veal or woe over the
destinies of our beloved country the COM
ing four successive years. Election day
is not far distant; it therefore behooves
every wage-earner in Office, factory or
field to decide by intelligent and earnest
investigation which party is Justly en-
titled to his or her sympathy and influ-
ence in the forthcoming presidential elec-
tiori. and having thus decided, impera-
tive duty towards their fellows demands
that they work with all the zeal they
can to aid the choice for rulers, of those
who best will aid the workers. The
champions of each party will strain all
efforts to elect their men. The rapa-
cious nabobs of our Republican plutoc-
racy, .millionaires begotten of manufac-
turing trusts, railroad trusts. oil trusts,
phohibitive tariffs, and every dodge con-
ceivable whereby to filch from honest
labor, will exert themselves as never be-
fore.
The holdings Of their plethoric money
bags, filled with hard learned coin wrung
from our nations workers by rotten
laws and unjust tariffs, will be thrown
galore to willing harpies. hired to try,
by bribe or threat, with tongue and
pen, to hoodwink, cheat and chouse our
working class by bowling for protection.
Protection! For whom? For our mil
lions of toilers on land and sea, whose
only chance for life is daily work for
daily wage; work, year after year, in
weary sequence, so long as Drawn and
muscle hold their own-protection, guar
dianship, preservation for these deserv-
ing ones? Most positively and surely
no. A plague upon their Infamous per-
version of the word protection-protec-
tion for every merchantable product Of
The herald., 1896-07-12

hundred names the number reported be-
fore the council, and the total result
represented but q few days work, over
500 names being secured in one day. The
pretestants did not depend upon num-
bers. but upon principle, and therefore
made no protracted effort secure
signers.
The following statement made by Mr..
Wilson also needs correction: THE dec
laration was openly made by this rever-
end ally of the saloonist and Ingersolian
that these working people would be bet
ter off without any such day at ALL Gre
ferring to a day of rest).
In reply wish to say that Mr. Wilson
misunderstood my words. What l did
say was that there were many who spent
Sunday In such way that they were un-
fitted for duty on Monday, and that
many of this class would be better off
had they been at work the day before.
This is a fact of common recognition, as
the term blue Monday" well shows.
1 am today. and have been from the
age Of 13 years. worker for days pay.
know how to appreciate day of rest.
And I am just as anxious as
any man can consistently be to
secure to all men day of rest.
But am not willing to invade the in
herent rights of any man to secure for
myself or anyone else by law or other
wise a weekly day Of rest.
AS a people, Seventh-day Adventists
believe that it is the duty Of every man
to have a weekly day Of rest, and that he
Is accountable to God alone for his choice
as to the particular day and as to the
manner of observing it. We believe In
allowing everyone to observe weekly
day Of rest or worship. but we do not
believe in compelling any man by civil
law to have such q day. We believe in
leaving every man free to choose which
day of the week shall be his day of rest.
IL any, and when he has made such
choice we do not believe it is right to
compel him to keep another day. con-
trary to his choice and convictions.
r. S. OWEN.
The herald., 1896-07-12
TO THE EDITOR

stThe Herald under this heading prints
Recommendations. but does not assume re,
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.)
The herald., 1896-07-12

These lots will double in value in six
months.
Save UP eight dollars each month
and in one short year you will
be the owner of a valuable piece of city
real estate, free. and clear-better than
any savings bank.
After your lot is paid for. any build
ing association will loan you the money
to build a comfortable, modern house
on the lot.