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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22
Virginia and West Virginia.

Mr.. Edward Snowden died in Spott-
sylvania county.
Wm K. Kreamer, formerly of Win
chester, was killed in De Land, Fla.
DIR. VIM. Terry, of Monroe county,
W. Va, aged about 70 years, is dead.
Hon. VIM. L. Wilson has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the
Rouss banquet in Winchester.
Prof N. M. Branch, a member of the
faculty of the Newport News Military
Academy, is dead.
The outstanding corn crop in Rock |
bridge county has been greatly damaged
by heavy rains.
Walter L. Graham. of Norfolk, and
Miss Fannie R. Welton, of Portsmouth,
were married in the latter city.
A Philadelphia firm proposes to fur
nish the city of Alexandria illuminat-
ing gas at GO cents per thousand feet.
Mr.Howard w. Silsby, of Washington,
D G.. will erect large office building
in Newport News.
1t is reported that there have been
three defalcations in Richmond lately,
the amount involved being, it is said,
over $25, 900.
Circuit Court Clerk R. w. McWilliams
was tried at Huntington, w. Va, on a
charge of disappointing city orders
and promptly acquitted.
: In the West Virginia Court of APP
, peals case was argued involving the
, re- location of the county seat of RAN
t dolph.
Rev. J. B. Funston, of Norfolk, has
not yet announced his intention as to
: whether or not he will accept the Epis-
l copal Bishopric of Boise, Idaho.
r The fish commission steamer Fish
e Hawk will take a government party tt
4 Porto Rico to study the fishing and ag
4 ricultural interests of the island.
s Governor Tyler has decided not tt
S further interfere in the case OF JohI
n Hancock, colored, under sentence o
dea th at Lynchburg for an infamou
offense.
T At Morgantown, w. Va, Jas. Mus
l. grave was discharged from Jail, having
S served six months for involuntary man
a slaughter. His cast was in court owe
b four years, and he spent a fortune il
= trying to escape punishment.
III Henry Bowden and Frank Woodson
- two desperate prisoners, were few
days ago detected in plot to kill Jaile
= Shanklen, and escape from the Jail a
70 Union, Monroe county, W. Va.
:. Miss Gretchen Parsons, of the Natu
a raj Bridge, who underwent an operation
for appendicitis at the Old Dominica
Hospital, Richmond, last week, is steac
|, lily improving. Her recovery is no.
, assured
+ Mrs. Semple, a daughter of the la.
!. President John Tyler; has invited ii
the Virginia members of Congress
visit her at the Louise Home, in WASH
ington, yesterday, where a toast VIZ
- drunk to Virginia.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22

Newton Ellinger, aged 40 ysars, died
very suddenly on Wednesday at his
home near Middlebrook, in this county.
The deceased had been drinking heavily
on she day II his ceath aud ruiuor bad
it that there was suspicion Of foul play
surrounding his death, as it occurred in
i'll such a strange manner, but an inves-
tigation proved otherwise.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22
Basic Must Drink Water.

Judge Letcher on Wednesday in the
case of j. W. Specie and J. T. Todd VS..
James A. Fishburn and VIM. A. Jones,
which was an appeal from the county
court, on motion to obtain license by
Specie and Todd at Basic City, which
application was opposed by J. A. Fish
burn and DR.. w. A. Jones, of Waynes-
boro, decided against the applicants for
the license.
Basic again must remain dry or take
water as beverage. Some how the
people of that town seem not to be able
to convince our circuit court that they
are safe repositories of so valuable a
franchise as the right to sell little ar
dent spirits. When they think they
have complied with all the requirements
necessary. some new one drops in, and
the whole business goes to pi. Basic is
unfortunately located. 1t is too near
some schools, and too near some manu-
featuring establishments, and too near a
railroad. The schools might suffer by
the boys being led astray, the manufac-
turing establishments might be injured
by the workmen imbibing too freely,
the railroad employees might partake to
inebriety and collision occur between
trains. If Basic could only move her
self back into Jarman's Gap, or move
Waynesboro back toward StauntoI
and tear up the railroad track, how
happy she would be. We learn thai
Basic has no police protection. Where
is Sergeant Van Lear? Maybe she is 81
orderly as not to need it. Must towr
have police force first and a bar after
wards2 This might put the cart befor
the horse. But if this be so, how d.
Millboro and similar railroad towns ge
their saloons? We cite these question
to be pondered by our Basic friends
Those who have watched the struggl
which Basic has made to govern hersel
and have in her own corporation wha
} she wishes regardless of what Othe
, corporations and people wish, hav
come to the conclusion that Basic wi
now cease this fight, as this is the thir
J unsuccessful attempt, and three tbs
out. The only thing for Basic to do
either to give up, Oh move away frol
the place where she now resides.
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beauty WRbout it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic ciean your blood and keep it Clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all inn
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, bols, blotehes, blackheadl
and that sckly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, SOC.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vgor, take No-To-
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strong. All druggists, soc or ST. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co Chicago or New York.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22

ARGE FARM FOR SALE.-A splendid
II farm in Augusta county, the richest
quarter of the Valley of Virginia. containing
about $50 Acres has on it good new eight room
dwelling, two new barns covered with slate
and painted, other new outbuildjngs, two Or
ton with turnpike leading to station. in splen-
did state of cultivation. fine spring, plenc OF
timber. in sight of churches, mills. stores, etc.
Price $37, 80 per acre, on one, two and three
years time Has on it now IL head horses, 81
cattle, 40 hogs. 150 sheep, 10 mich cows, raised
1000 bushels of corn last year, other grain II
proportion. Write for full description to this
ONCE.
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No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Death in the County,

Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC. 81. All druggists
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Female PILLS

The only original and genuine French-Fe-
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Unsurpassed as being safe, sure and reliable
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$lOO per box by mail. Sole agents for the uni
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22

Mrs. Semple, a daughter of the late
President John Tyler; has invited all
the Virginia members of Congress to
visit her at the Louise Home, in Wash
ington, yesterday, where toast wac
drunk to Virginia.
The times., 1898-02-20

tween her teeth, to passengers strap
ped in their berrhs, unable to move, BY
reason of the fearful tempest.
This jolly old lady cherishes the be-
lief, moreover, that she is a mascot.
and therefore absolutely indispensable
to the company, for her ship having
endured fearful gales and serious acci-
dents, has never failed to come into
port with honor. and invariably an i'm
maculate bill of health.
1t was reserved to a pretty German
stewardess. however. to gild her pro-
fession with romance, by the simple
device of coolly plucking a fishbone
from the throat of a small boy Under
ordinary conditions plump tip would
have been her reward, but as it hap
pened. the boys doting father was a
tender-hearted and appreciative Ger
an-American, returning unconsola BILE
and forever to his native land, plung-
ed in the sorrows of recent conjugal be-
reavement. The heavy Grape band on
the high hat he ostentatiously Wore at
sea did not prevent his keen apprecia-
charms, her deft promptness in re-
moving the bone, and her widowed
state. When the ship reached Bremen
the stewardess was invited to visit
church and parson in the widower's s
company. She accepted. and as her
husband had acquired in the brewing
business handsome fortune, she now
lives luxuriously and happy in Ger
many, the envy and tradition of
steWardeSSes all along the line.
The times., 1898-02-20

which curl out. hornlike, to either
side, full black ostrich plumes
The third woman in the group wears
costume in two tones. The upper
portion of the skirt is round, short,
kirtle of abbeSs blue cashmere CLOTH
cream wool velour Felours revers
falling upon an under petticoat of
turnover blue ones from a blouse
tucked front. and tucks distinguish the
sleeves, and to preserve the unities of
fashion a blue walking hat is worn,
made brilliant by a side ornament of
snowy pigeon wings
Every sensible woman whether
golfer or not, is sure to include,among
her most practical spring purchases a
reversible skirt. The garment is the
invention of a gifted tailor. who makes
q speciality of golfing suits, amid his
latest masterpiece being a skirt that
can be absolutely worn inside out.
The material is a Scotch wool of any
solid color, preferred on the one side
and checked on the other. II is made
up with seams so neatly and cunning
ly strapped to show equally well on
either face of the cloth. No lining, of
course, is employed. the checked face
is bordered at the bottom with broad
band of the same color to match The
whole border is stoutly stitched. A
woven linen reversible band finishes
the waist line and it is only necessary
to turn the pocket, an affair of mo-
ment. when the skirt is worn with the
checked or plain side out. With
percale or flannel Shirt-waist, and
leather belt, this skirt makes up the
most approved, simple and sensible
and inexpensive outing suit yet de-
yiSed
The times., 1898-02-20
FEMININE GUIDES.
A New work for Women Which IL
Popular iii London

In England. where the word lady"
does more strenuous service than al
most anywhere in the world; where
LADY" journalists flourish. and where
LADY help is familiar, new lady
has appeared. She is called the lady
guide" and although the name is
against her she is a popular parsonage
and a most convenient one. She is
so numerous that she has been banded
into an organization called the Lady
Guide Association.
At such a season as this, when Lon
don is full of visitors, the association is
particularly valuable. The duties
which the lady guides undertake are
shown by their circular to be numeT-
Gus.
Parties are met at station. or on
board ship; apartments, boarding.
houses, rooms at hotels recommended
and engaged: shopping. packing. dress
making and all needlewOrk undertake
en-: arrivals and addresses registered,
and letters and parcels received; ship
ping, steam passage and railway tick
cts provided; houses taken. furnished
rooms and flowers provided: at homes
attended, entertainers provided; din
ners and balls arranged: tvpewriting,
shorthand, copying, auto-cOpying invi-
tatiOns etc, undertaken: commissions
of all kinds executed; spring and au-
tumn house-cleaning and removal IN
dertaken."
The times., 1898-02-20
Ellen Terry.s Court Dress.

Fancy dress. both as fancy dress and
as an inspiration for modern modes, is
so much in evidence nowadays that the
following description of the court gown
worn by Ellen Terry in Peter the
Great is of suggestive interest: The COS
tune recalls the habit of the Duchess Of
Orleans in 100. The front of the under
skirt TO the knee is exquisiteIy embroi-
dered, while just below the waist q Sc
ries of arches appear to be formed with
broad gold braid. Il handsome icweied
ornament at each side and in the CEN
ter Very pretty is the arrangement of
the train at the sides; it is edged with
a jeweled gold braid. and this and the
contrasting satin are allowed TO be seen
being caught backward by three large
ieweled agraffes. The bodice is long and
stiff. brought up high on the bust. with
elbow sleeves. and the pleated lace head
dress is just the same az the gown in
which the great actress pOrtrays the
EMPRESS Catherine.
The times., 1898-02-20

cal plan with the Froebel and Pesta-
loZzi ideas for the general instruction
of children, all were found to have
sought out natures truths, and so to
have reached like conclusions In their
special directions. The principle OF ac-
quiring ideas by the sense of touch un-
derlies Miss Fletcher's system Ine
notes, rests, and musical signs, such as
clefs, sharps, flats, forte, plano. ETC..
are cut out of wood stained black, and
are then named and played with just
as dolls, soldiers, or other toys wouid
be. Delightful games, plays, songs, ana
stories. accompany the imparting OF
facts about these things they hold IN
their hands, the imagination is stinu-
lated and they are then ready for any
amount of knowledge. which they. read
lily absorb and tenaciously retain.
Besides the mental training thus
gained the physical development OF
hands and wrists is provided for by ex-
tremely pretty exercises, some OF them
combined with the singing OF, songs.
The aesthetic or emotional side IS not
neglected either, for the little ones are
made to feel the music as well as 10 see
it and think it. Some beautiful cornpo,
stion is played. and uring the recitai
they are taught to stand with eyes clos
ed, listening intently, and when tney
feel the rhythm, to begin to clap their
hands, keeping time to the music anu
accenting the beat and preserving Sill
ence on the unaccented notes.
Miss Fletcher's little pupils name notes
as quickly as their clever teacher points
from treble clef to bass, and they do not
hesitate, no matter how many added
lines above or below there are. They go
10 the blackboard and divide long lines
of notes and rests with dots interspersed
into correct bars, after their teacher mas
chosen the time.
They build quickly major and minor
scales: they indicate the rhythm OF COM
positions played to them lay clapping the
hands softly on the accented beat and
swinging them down on the ones unac-
eented; in short, they climb with ease
the thorny path bristling with sharps,
fats, accidentals. minor thirds. augment
ed iifths and similar musical mysteries,
and achieve in earliest childhood thcr-
ough understanding of music harmony,
which proves a lifelong pleasure and BEN
eft-and all because one intelligent wo-
man was thoughtful enough to perceive
the faults of her predecessors for CEN
turies, had charge of teaching the
young musical idea TO shoot.
The times., 1898-02-20
A Remarkable Experience.

Cardiff. in Onondaga county. New York.
appears 10 be the scene of remarkable
phenomena, the latest excitement being
over the experiences of Mrs. Eliza
Wright and her son. Mrs. Wright. who is
said TO be an estimable lady of eighty-six
years. has just awakened from a trance
in which she had lain for an entire fort
night. AS soon as consciousness return
ed. Mrs Wright called for her son. Tru-
man Wright, and asked him if he had ex-
perienced anything unusual while she
was unconscious. He replied that he had
seen a vision of heaven and the juds
ment Mrs. Wright then said that she
had been in heaven, had seen the Lord,
and received from Him, among other
messages, this word for heE sor. that his
vision was from God. Before her Illness
or trance Mrs. Wright was exceedingly
fnfirm, her sight being such as to require
the strongest glasses. Now she declares
she can see as well as she ever did, and
her general physical condition seems
vastly improved.
The times., 1898-02-20
The Consumers, League.

The work of Mrs. Pierce B. Brayton. of
Syracuse, y. Y, in organizing the Con-
sumers League. is causing favorable
comment among the clubs. and efforts
are being made to get women every
where interested in their plans Last
Wednesday the Women's Union conven-
ton was held; 1t was a gathering OF the
best element of Syracuse. Club and
working women were present, too, to
stand together for the organization of q
consumers league and the abolishment
of the sweating system Out-of-town
clubs had two representatives. Mrs.
Brayton; Miss Charlotte Wilkinson. of
Hartley House. the president of the
Trades Assembly, and others. spoke.
Mrs. Brayton's work has produced en-
couraging results in the organization of
the Garment Workers Union. which is
the outcome of the demand for clothing
bearing the union label, without which
the manufacturers found their goods
would not sell. In order 10 keep their
places the girls had to be members of
the union, so they organized at once.
The times., 1898-02-20
DAINTY EEEDLEwORK.
How Nuns supply the Wants of
Many Persons.

Women who calculate and economic
when they see it are in the habit OF
hunting out the nuns of large cities
and getting their underclothing made.
The odd hours at the eloister are fit
tingly and well filed turning out the
fine and dainty lingerie that nuns alone
seem to know how TO produce
The long hours, the quiet life there
and the pains required all help to bring
about the class of work that is Of so
much better grade than can be found
in stores. even in New York, that 1t
has become quite an industry for the
low-voiced. sweet-faced sisters to be
the manufacturers of vast quantities
of bridal clothing and baby linen. to
say nothing of handkerchiefs and much
close and wonderful embroidery on
white goods.
Table linen, sheets and pillow cases,
with the monograms of the owners,
are a speciality of the sisterhood. and
they make up their own designs as well
as their own system of application.
That is one reason they have been
growing in favor among good house
wives VINO appreciate the necessity of
fine linen and difficulty of getting
The ready-made stuff that is turned
out by large houses is not TO be men
tened in the anne breath with the nun
merry underclothing, for there you are
fitted if you care TO be, the sewing is
irreproachable and the finish all that
the most critical could require. The
cut is also something that makes the
sisters work desirable.
1t is not generally known outside of
swelldom that the nuns make these
things, for if it were they would be
too crowded with orders, maybe. to
keep up to the demand made by the
fashionable and wealthy connoisseur-
Night robes. petticoats and skirts are
10 be found in the convent ready to be
put on at once if one is a tourist or
has but little time to spare. but il
measures can be taken satisfactorily
perfect results can be obtained by
these dark-robed creatures who never
step outside of their four walls and
who give their earnings to 'the cause"
The times., 1898-02-20
DEEP.sEA sTEwARDEssEs.
American Women Shun Ocean Ser
vice for Good Reasons.

vice for Good Reasons.
OF the several hundred women who
leave or enter the port of New York
weekly in the capacity of stewardess
on the big ocean greyhounds. only two
are natives of the United States. The
salaries paid by the steamship COM
panies are evidently not thought suffi-
GENTLY remunerative, considering the
discomforts of the calling.
AS matter of fact, a stewardess'
salary is not much more than that of
an ordinary housemaid and often is
much less. Those passenger ships sail
ing to English ports pay not over SIS or
SIS month to the head deck stateroom
stewardess, and less to her assistants,
while on those vessels plying between
New York and continental ports
stewardess receives, at the end of
round trip trif1e in an envelope that
amounts to something less than 81. The
company does not supply her with
anything above and beyond the salary,
except her tiny little bunk and her
three meals day while the vessel is
at sea. The bunk is usually slowed
away in some corner, rather black
and airless, on the same deck with the
passengers, and, while the ship is at
sea, the SteWardeSS llVeS quite OH the
fat of the land. She has her share
from most of the dainty dishes, but in
port, if she stops on board the noisy
boat, her fare is the hard, simple ra-
tions of the workmen, watchmen, and
the few employees who must remain
with the ship.
In winter, when every transatlantic
line lays by number of vessels for re-
pairs, the stewardess goes home to her
family, to wait with patience for the
rush Of summer travel.
The big mail steamers carry corps
The times., 1898-02-20

wears a bow under its chin. A dashing
little French bow, made in two loops,
no ends appearing-of taffeta, or chif-
fon, or tulle that is accordion plated.
The three figures in the group are but
fair examples of what is being done
in the bow line and one of them ex-
hibits that latest and choicest element
in small fashion. an accordion plated
jabot. The feature of most Importance,
in the central figure of the group, is
the short coat she wears. A distinctly
jaunty wrap, but there is decidedly
assertive and undignif1ed air about all
the new coats that refuse yet awhile
to grow out even the briefest sort of
tails. According to measurement the
coats are one-half inch shorter than
last year, and with silk shirt waists
will be worn pretty meltonette jackets
of plum color green and brown, having
satin-faced revers and deep rolling
cuffs.
A tucked taffeta shirt waist of pale
yellow with a bow and jabot of the
same under the wearer's chin makes
up the distinctive portion of the cos
tune worn by the figure In, the middle
of the large picture. Her hat is a