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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
LINEN MAKERS.
ireland and Holland Have Most Women
Engaged In This Work.


Engaged In This Work.
Though Ireland today holds the first
place, SO far as America is concerned, In
regard to linens, Holland occupied that
position everywhere in the past and
holds it today in many parts of Europe.
The very word Holland is employed to
designate a fine linen cloth or linen
and cotton cloth and has been used for
this purpose from time immemorial. 1t
is roth glazed and unglazed and used for
wearing and household decoration. Flax
grows we'll in that part of Europe, and
the sunlight is said to be brighter and
to have more power in bleaching in the
Low Countries than elsewhere. The linen
industry is carried ON in Holland more
by women than by men. In the fields
there are almost as many female as
male cultivators. In the harvesting
there is an excess of women.
In the many processes, such as lining,
hacking and spinning, the women out
numbered the men three to one. In the
mills the women are in the majority.
The men preponderate when it comes to
the making Of damasks and fancy de-
signs For at least four centuries it has
been an honored custom in the Neither
lands for young women to begin making
their marriage portion in linen when
mere girls. Some go SO far as to start
with the sowing Of the seed; others be-
gin with the spinning, while those bet
ter off buy the finished cloth. All do the
cutting and sewing. A wedding outfit
consists of petticoats, nightgowns and
other underwear, several suits for sum-
mer wear, sheets, pillow cases, bolster
cases, pillow shams shirts for the hus-
band to be and number of rolls of the
uncut material for future emergency
or use. Nearly every girl Of marriage
able age has stock of these goods rang
ing from a trunkful to three or four
times that amount = Philadelphia
Press.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
Killed His Sentiment.

A newspaper correspondent at the
battle of Atbara tells good story about
a couple of Scotchmen. He was walk
ing softly about the camp so as not to
disturb the sleepers on the night before
the fight when he overheard senti-
mental Seaforth highlander say to a
comrade:
"Ah, Tam, how many thousands
there are at hame across the sea think
ing O. US the NIGHT"
Fright, Sandy" replied his chum,
"and how many millions there are that
DON'T care d-n. Go to sleep, you
fool"
And silence fell upon that corner Of
the square.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
The Teacher,

One cause of the low standing of the
teachers calling is lack Of extended
professional training. Professions easily
entered are not usually highly respect
ed. The medical profession has been
cited as an illustration. Not long ago,
when one could be physician without
special training, the profession was not
very highly esteemed. Now, when ex-
tended training is demanded both by
public opinion and by law, the profess
sion is respected as one of the highest.
In like manner the teaching profession
would undoubtedly increase in favor
were training Of a high order demand
ed. In fact, we find the respect for the
profession varying in different countries
and in different grades of the school
system almost in direct ratio to the
education and professional training re-
quired of candidates. Forum.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
MARRIAGE OF OFFICERS.
The Armies of Europe Have Various Rules
Regulating 1t.

neg uAdeAAk He
The restrictive conditions at present in
force with regard to the marriage of
officers in the Russian army forbid this
privilege under any circumstance in the
case of officers under the age of 80. Be-
tween the ages of % and % years the
dot of an officers wife must amount to
sum representing the minimum in
come of $50 rubles yearly.
On comparison of these conditions
with those regulating the same question
in other European armies it may be
noted that in the Austria Hungarian
army the number of officers authorized
to contract marriage is limited by fix
ed proportion assigned to each grade,
and, these totals being reached, all fur
ther marriages must be deferred pend
ing the occurrence of vacancies in the
married establishments.
The Italian army regula lions, which
fix the income of the fancee at mini
mum of from 1900 to 2, 900 lire, would
appear to be more rational in their
operation. Italian officers, however, ap-
ply q somewhat liberal Interpretation to
this law, with the result that the num-
Der of marriages occurring under actual
provisions does not exceed more than an
eighth of the total number, seven
eighths of the officers being united un-
der the conditions of the religious cere-
mony only, and thus exposing them
selves to all the Inconvenience which
| attend marriage not recognized by
| civil law.
Similar disabilities would now ap-
pear to be incurred by Russian officers,
and suggestions have been made by the
press in Russia that a general revision
of the law is becoming necessary. The
| question is assuming some Importance
from the fact that Russian officers,
reaching total number of nearly 40,
600, represent one of the most impor-
| tant classes in the state. Brooklyn Git
| iuor,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
Rough on Solomon.

The following incident happened at
one of the "catecheesms" which are
held periodically in Scotland for all the
members of the kirk of a certain dis
trict.
"The lesson was in Ecclesiastes, says
Mr.. Johnston, ''and one day they had
been discussing the verse in which Solo
mon says Among thousand men 1
have found one, but among thousand
women have I found not one, meaning
one just and good and upright. And
an old Scotchwoman, when she had
listened in silence and heard the rest
accept it as present and gospel truth, got
her dander up and rose to her feet.
'HootP she said Indignantly, her
eyes blazing. DO you find why that
was? 1t was because nae dacent woman
wad be seen in his company. '"-Mil-
Waukee Wisconsin.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
Didn't Gall Her Mary,

It is said that the native servants in
Hawaii used to call their mistresses by
their first names. An English woman
in Honolulu that her servants should
never call her Mary and instructed
them carefully in the presence of her
husband One day, when she had visit
ors, her cook put his head in at the
drawing room door and politely in
quired:
"What vegetables for dinner today,
my love?"
He had heard her called that and
seemed proud of remembering not to say
Mary New York Tribune
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
Chinese Diplomat Called Home

Berlin, July 27.-The sudden and I'M
explained departure from Berlin Of
the Chinese ambassador here, Hsuo,
has caused a sensation. He embarked
yesterday aboard the North German
Lloyd steamer Lain, at Bremen, bound
for China, by way of the United States
The members of the diplomatic corps
believe Hsuo has incurred the displeas-
ure of the authorities at Pekin by al
legged incapacity displayed during the
recent negotiations between Germany
and China on the subject of Kiao Chou
Bay and other matters.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11

A new invention is one to make tele-
gaph wire out of paper. The interior
cable is lead covered, and thin spirals
of paper are wound around each interior
wire. The cost is said to be one fifteenth
of rubber insulated cable.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
Second Degree For Double Muir
His Way of Finding IL.

Tourist-It wears me out completely
to travel
Chance Acquaintance-Yo our business
compels you to do it, presume.
Tourist-No, I am travelling fer my
bealth.-Chicago Tribune.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
Proof Of 1t.

II suppose Saxey and Sims are both
truthful men?'
Absolutely so. Neither of them il
capable of making a misstatement of
fact. Why?"
"Oh, l just heard them calling each
other liars. Detroit Free Press.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11

Beware of the man who smiles when
he's angry he's dangerous And be-
ware also Of the man who looks glum
when he's glad; he's probably humor-
t-k,xcbange
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
Drawing q Risk,

81 told you l would not marry you.
Why do you keep on asking me?''
II want you to understand that I'm
not afraid of your changing your mind :"
Chicago Record.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11

No restaurant in st. Petersburg will
be allowed hereafter to have its bill Of
fare exclusively in a foreign language.
By recent edict a Russian version
must always be added.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
THE CRYSTAL HOUR.

Amethyst, crimson and beryl,
A eplendor of infinite sea,
In fathomless floods Of beauty and peril
From the deeps of eternity.
With stately reverberant motion
And the breakers whish and din,
The ceaseiess anthem of turbulent ocean,
The surf comes rolling in.
While dim in the distance hover
The sea birds, white winged deet,
And exhausted waves, their ecstasy over,
Make ripple marks at cur feet.
Soothed Is the flush and the fever
OF earthly passion and power,
And the rested heart shall treasure forever
The touch of this cry stal hour.
Mary d. Leonard in Independent.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
CarSFu.s

1t is related Of a certain clergyman in
Edinburgh that he was SO careful of his
quotations and so fearful CT the charge
Of plagiarism that once, in addressing
The Deity, he surprised the congregation
by saying, AID thou knowest, dear
Lord, that, to quote a writer in late
number Of The Quarterly Review" etc.
safe Guardian.
do you Ike candy, rlamma?' asked
year cid Bessie
No, dear, was the reply. "It al
ways makes me sick.
I'm awful glad of it, " said the lit
tie miss. you're just the woman l
want to hold my candy while | dress
dolly. Chicago News.
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WIRE !! Wire !! Wire /!
TREE TRIlL TREATNEIT
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Indifference, etc.
Provided application be made at once, in
order that its inventions, appliances and never
failing remedies may receive the widest pos
Sible publicity, and prove their own merits by
actual use and permanent cures. No money
whatever will be received by the State Medi
cal Sanitarium from any one under its treat
ment until beneficial results are acknowledge
ed Its remedies and and appliances have
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STATE MEDICAL 5AHITkn.UM,
marl0-3m EVANSTON, ILL.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11

The peasant women of Japan do not
wear any form Of headdress,
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A Strong Fertilization.

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11

OF the eggs exported from Russia 70
other parts Of Europe 25 per cent are
broken or have to be thrown away be-
fore they get into the hands Of con-
SumerS
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
A Diabolicai scheme

In the public schools of Japan the
English language is required to be
taught by law
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11

Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 23.-Patrick
Huston, of Pittston, was lodged in Jail
here yesterday charged with the muir
der Of his brother John. The dead body
of the latter, with a bullet hole in his
head, was found on a lonely road at
Pittston last Sunday mroning. The
prisoner claims he is innocent
Second Degree For Double Murder.
New York, June 23.-John Olaf Peter
sen, Swede Al years old, who MUIR
dered Mrs. Laura M. Faulkner, the
proprietor of his boarding house, and
Matthew Henry Pole. one of her board
ers, in the early part of this year, was
yesterday. in Brooklyn, convicted of
murder in the second degree.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11
SOUTHERN
Railway.
Schedule in effect May 1, 1898,
For the South and Southwest.

No. 9.-Daily-Local for Charlotte and inter
mediate Stations.
No. 35.-Daily-United States Fast Mail
through Pullman Buffet Sleepers to Jackson
Vile via Savannah; to Atlanta, aud New Or
leans, connecting at Salisbury with sleeper
for Asheville. Knoxville, Chattanooga, and
Memphis and at Charlotte for Augusta.
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURIST ExCUR-
sIoNs, through car on this train every We'd
nesday, Washington to San Francisco with
out change.
No. 37.-Daily- Washington and Southwest
ern Vestibuled Limited through Pullman
Sleepers to Ashev1lle, Hot Springs and Nash
Vile, via Salisbury and Chattanooga; to
Tampa, via Savannah and Jacksonville to
Memphis, via Atlanta and Birmingham and
to New Orleans, via Montgomery and Mobile.
Dining Car Greensboro to Montgomery.
Trains from Staunton by Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway connect In Uniun Station at
Charlottesville with Southern Ry. trains.
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TEACHERS
Ex INATI0N KEY.

revised edition of this most popular book.
X. Hudnan Charleston W. Va. may264t
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-08-11

First Poet-I am going to have my
revenge upon the editor.
Second Poet-How?
First Poet lin hoarse whisper)-I've
sent him poem, and I've poisoned the
gum on the return envelope. London
Fun.
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30
The verdict OF History

EMILE ZoLA says: Spain has evi.
IDENTIFY not the art of governing
colonial possessions" That is the
verdict OF history. Spain has lost
within a century Mexico, Central
and South America and most OF
the West Indies, simply because
she had not "the art Of governing
colonial possessions. Her plan
has been to tax such possessions
to the utmost limit OF endurance,
and when they protested to make
merciless war not only upon their
men under arms but upon their
Old men, their women and their
children. Our country at last
calls halt. There must be an end
of Spanish methods on our side oi
the ocean.
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30
Stanaaya-London, April II.

The chief immediate importance OF
the victory is that it will,render iruitless
airy attempt on the part of the Khalifa
to disturb the steady progress Of prepar.
ations for the final advance on Omdur-
man. What may be its moral effect on
the many disconnected tribes who have
been hitherto kept in order mainly by
such prestige ofsuccess and terror Of the
Baggaras as have remained since their
ignominions expulsion from the Don.
gola province and from Berber, we have
as yet no means of Judging. 1t is by no
means impossible that so signal a re-
verse, and the loss OF so many Of the
most warlike Of che Emirs, Of whom no
fewer than twelve have been killed, NAV
permit revolt to raise It's head within
Omdurman itsell Otherwise the recent
victory will scarcely ha>ten, though it
will greatly facilitate, the fina, object Of
the campaign. The Sirdar's brilliant
campaign has at each stage been carried
through with equal judgment and skill
Each step has been taken at the right
moment, and, when decided on, carried
out with vigor and rapidity that leave
nothing TO be desired. n
Meantime, nothing succeeds like sue.
cess, and from all quarters congratula-
uons are pouring in. Among the first
to be received by our Government, we
are pleased to note. was a very hearty
one from the German Emperor, no
doubt with the distinct purpose of IN.
timating that in the Egyptian question
his sympathies are with us. Nor is It
too much to infer, from the courteous
and complimentary language which he
has employed, that in other spheres he
believes there is room for the benefcent
CO. operation Of Germany and Great
Britain.
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30
Times London, April II.

There is as yet no intelligence with
regard to the future movements of the
Srdar and his army, and no evidence
that gunboats will at present be able to
ascend the Nile to a higher point than
Shablukai but it may perhaps be just as
well that the recent deit at should have
time to sink into the minds of the Khal-
iia and his followers before further hos
tilities are undertaken against them,
Not the least remarkable part Of the
victory either in their eyes or in our
own, and certainly part not likely to
be the least important in its conse-
Quences is the manner in which the
Egyptian troops have responded to the
training and leading Of British officers,
and have held their own. side by side
with HiRhland and English regiments.
against enemies whom not many years
ago they would have been afraid to face.
The victory OF Good Friday will further
still increase their confidence, and the
fact that fourteen Egyptian officers and
3I9 men are returned as wounded is
AtOAAS ohlAlNAShl ~ phOW tndA AAEy llluSl
have borne their full share Of the work
that had to be done. Such a result is
emInently satisfactory, aud it IS not too
much to assume that il is due, to a large
extent, not only to British military train
ing, but to the new spirit which British
control and British reforms have Infused
into the people Of Egypt. Many
observers have borne testimony to the
benefits which our rule has conferred
upon Egypt, but none among these ben
efits is more conspicuous than the fact
that we have rendered patriotism posi-,
BILE, and have converted the peasantry
INTO the war material OF an army. How
this raw material has been dealt with
by our officers, the events Of Friday are
sufficient to show.
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30

dered 400, 900 people by starvation.
They have committed indescriba-
BILE outrages upon Csban non-com-
batants. They have slaughteredthe
wounded in hospitals. They have
assassinated patriot commanders
whom they could not overcome in
battle. And to crown all, they
have treacherously destroyed an
American ship in time OF peace and
taken the lives of 400 American
sailors.
And now the settlement is at
hand. The bloody tyranny of four
hundred years has reached its end,
Hope shines for tortured Cuba at
last.
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30
The California Drouth.

For lack oil rain in the rainy
season, and because of continued
drouth and unusually nigh tenn
perature In California, the wheat
crop will be failure to such an
extent that California will have to
exc out her home supply by pur
chase from other States. This is
real and very serious disaster
to California in itself and the
drouth will affect, though not in
equal degree, other important
crops in the State. The condi-
tions which so terribly affected
Australia and the islands in the
Southern Pacific seems to have
extended It's northern edge even
to our Pacific shores. While this
loss is great and severe to Califor-
MIA 1t has a direct effect which
should not be overlooked.
The development OF California
as a great wheat exporting State
had the same injurious effect on
the surplus wheat States Of the
Mississippi Basin as would have
had the like development Of ex-
port power in India, Russia or
Australia, and was one OF the i'm.
portant factors in breaking the
price to a level that, with trans
portation charges from producing
regions TO Europe added to the
cost Of raising the crop, left the
Western farmer no profit. Since
then the worlds consumption Of
wheat has grown largely and the
dependence Of other countries on
the United States has returned in
large measure, because India,
Australia, Russia and South Amer
ica have gone backward in export
power. There is room now for
California wheat, be her crop ever
so good, without injury to the
earlier wheat growers OF our sur
plus States. But the temporary
loss of the wheat crop in Califor-
MIA will add to the price OF wheat
in this country this year, and will
increase greatly the amount Of the
new crop to be exported from our
Western States, largely increasing
the purchasing power OF the peo-
pie, the earnings of the railroads
and general prosperity in the sec
ton east of the Rocky Mountains.
California will come back all right
and in good front line.
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30

beer. and any one who is posted at all
knows that. 1t has reduced the con-
SUMPTION OF whiskey, and there is less
drunkenness as a consequence.
After remarks by Messrs. Porter,
OF Joliet; Woolner, OF Peoria;
Fecker, Of Chicago; Nerny, of
Chicago; Henning, Of Aurora;
and Bender, of Belleville, the res
olutions were adopted unanim.
ously.
The meeting then passed to the
organization OF a permanent State
association. William Gebhardt, of
Morris was elected president and
Otto Huber, OF Rock ISla1 I'D, Sec
retary. A committee consisting
Of Theodore Oehne, Chicago;
Christian Henning, Mendoza;
Bender, Belleville; George Reisch,
Springfield, and John H. Weiss,
of ChicaPo. was appointed to pre-.
pare constitution and bylaws.
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30
The VrcroRv OF AFFAIR.

The British and Egyptian forces
marched out Of camp at 8 P. NJ. on Thurs.
day, April 2, and. having proceeded in
the direction of Mahmud's entrenched
position, bivouacked until one on Friday
morning. The attack began at dawn,
the main fighting being undertaken by
General Gatacre's British and General
Macdonald and General MaxwelPs
Soudanese Brigades. The enemy made
no response to the artillery, but when the
cannonade ceased, and the infantry ad.
Vanced 10 attack the zariba, they opened
a sustained rifle fire. In an incredibly
short space of time the zariba was torn
down, and a stockade backed by en-.
trenchments stormed, The British and
Egyptian troops drove their way through
the Dervlsh camp, and those who were
not killed we're scattered across the
river and into the southern desert. The
Dervish force was practically destroyed,
Four thousand prisoners were taken,
including Mahmud, who was found
Washington sentinel., 1898-04-30

THE Mangrove carries a crew OF
thirteeen men. The number is not
unlucky, as the Mangrove has cap
tured the very richest prize yet
made and the one whose capture
most help our cause. The Panama,
a large Spanish steamer, was al
lowed, strangely enough, to take
in at New York a vast cargo of
supplies for the Spanish army and
tn sail away with them just at the
time when our feet off Havana
was preparing to starve that army
out by blockade. The little Man.
grove has captured her. and now,
without unloading, we can send
her to Cuba to supply either
Gomez or some expeditionary
force OF our own.