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New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
Sailing Alone
Around the World.

BY Captain Joshua Sloeum. The
story of trip around the world
by Captain Slocum alone, in a lit
tie Sloop. After reading the book
Sir Edwin Arnold remarked, st
is the most extraordinary book, in
It's way, ever published" Fully
illustrated. Price $500.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
THE BIOGRAPHY
OF A GRIZZLY.
BY Ernest 5 eton-ThOmpsOn.

by Ernest Seton nOmpSOn.
The simple life-Story of a Rocky
Mountain bear is the theme of this
remarkable book, and with SYM
pathy for animal life scarcely to
be found elsewhere, the author
traces the career Of Wahb" from
cubhOod 10 the grave. Beautifully
illustrated, with twelve inSetS in
color and original pictures, S1.5O.
" Never will the reader Of the story Of
'Wahb' the grizzly forget its quaint, poetic
sadness and humoT. II is a gem in its
own original way. Tribune, N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
THE CENTURY CLASSICS.

,>,rvpENsrvE REPRINTS OF MASTER
PIECES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE-
The Century Classics is the title OF ne"
series of reprints launched by the century
Company. We have received six OF the Voiuihes
thus far published. We may speak hrst OF tfle
mechanical side of the enterprise. The page Is
an unusually handsome one as to disposition Oh
type and width Of margin. The form is a con-
venient octave, and is light in the hand. Inc
binding is OF attractive green cloth, bearing the
title in delicate gold letters. There are DAINTY
end papers also. Well reproduced portraits
serve as frontispeces. Turning to the contents.
we note good editorial selection and some no
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
DEACON
BRADBURY.

BY Edwin Asa Dix.
A very strong story of the SIM
pie life on a New England farm.
Seventh large edition..
g Ii is a profound study of a man Of
iron will and inflexible integrity, told
with simplicity, earneStnesS and force"
-LiffTIIr 5VclcS. 5V. Y. Price, ST so.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
BY Rudy ard kipIlng.

THE JUNGLE BOOKS.
Classics. The great animal
Storles ; OF the Indian jungle.
Si.5O each.
CAPTAINS COURAGE
SoS;-A fine book for BOYS.
considered by many the great
$t.50.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
DR.. NORTH AND
HIS FRIENDS.
BY DR.. S. Weir Mitchell.

y Ut . " Ut IFkII~II~Is
This book is in no way an autobi-
ography, yet DR.. North is undoubr-
edly the medium through whom
DR.. Mitchell relates many of his
most remarkable experiences and
impressions. Price S1.50.
- IL is full Of deep and pleasing phi
losophy; il scintillates with bright saw
ings; il entertains and il instructs. -
Pbil1dslbhia Item.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
Thumb Nail Series,

These exquisite little books, which have
been added TO from year to year since
the series was first started, have been
augmented this season By three new vol
umeS. Price S1.00 each. These are
RAB AND Ills FRIENDS, AND OUR DOGS
BY DR.. John Brown. With an Introduction bv
Andrew Lang, in whom the gentle Scottish doc
tor finds a sympathetic biogTapher.
EPICTETUS
Newly translated by Benz. E. Smith. Sc
lectiOns from the DiscOurses, with the Enchi-
ridion. Three tinted frontiSpieceS.
MOTIFS
BY E. Scott O'Connor. Apothegms on life
love, friendship, death, etc. Introduction by
Agnes Repplier.-S1 90 each.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
THE SWORD
OF THE KING.

BY Ronald Mcdonald. A cap
ital story for the holidays. Teens
with adventure and incident. The
heroine maSquerades as trooper,
and saves the life of her future
King. Price $l.50.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
My Winter Garden.

BY Maurice Thompson, author
of "Alice of Old Vincennes. A
delightful series of essays, with all
the charm of romance about them.
COlored frontiSpiece, $l.5O.
San intelligent observer of nature in
all her moods, no one can describe better
than be the delights of this genial cline.
In his Winter Garden are flowers of
thought that have lived perennially, for
he is lover OF all that is delightful and
refined in letters as in his plot of
ground. '"-COHrier-joHrHai, LOHsViIiF.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
PRETTY POLLY PERKINS.
BY Gabrielle E. Jackson.

ut is full OF wholesome sunshine thar will,
not fail 10 win the ingenious appreciarion os
the little people for whom il is expresslv u,ri,.
ten, and as IL stretches over into Santa-CIaus.
uile, i, VIII prove a most acceptable holiday
gift."-HOmf Journal Negr York IIluStratsd
Price Sl.5O. Ne
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
HERO TALES

From American History. A
book OF great battles and deeds
OF daring by Theodore RooSe-
Welt and Henry Cabot Lodge.
Illustrated, $i.5O.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
HARD PAN.
BY Geraldine BOnner.

BY Geraldine Bonner.
Primarily a love story, il also gives
some graphic and realistic pictures Of
San Francisco society Of to-day ma
terialiStic, mOney-loVing society TO the
core. The style is good, crisp, clear,
easy even the society slang is made to
sparkle. - The Outlook limo, 800
pages, price S1.5O.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
HUGH MYNNE,

DR.. Mitchell's great story Of the
Revolution, is issued this season
for the first time in one volume.
Twelve illustrations by Howard
Pyle. New cover, lower price,
Sf IN
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
CHINA.
The L0ng-Liyed Empire.

BY Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore.
A timely book on conditions in the
far East. A careful study Of Chi
nese politics from the inside. 1--WE
doubt If a better book than this on
the subject of China appears. -
TIE Springfield Union. Syo, 466
pages, fully indexed. Price $3.50.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
JoSEY AND THE cHIPMUNK.
By Sydney Reid.

Little Josey makes a trip TO Animal Land,
after the fashion OF Alice 20 Wonderland,
where everything happens thar ever happens
in the fancies Of children. 'sCOmical and fas-
einaung, says the COHgrsgatiOHliisf of Boston;
~one OF the best animal books for children"
Illustrated. Price Sl5O.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

president as far as may be possible 10 the mat
ters which are OF a strictly executive kind.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
Patriotic Books and Other Books for YOUNG FoIks
Century Series of Patriotic Books.

BY Elbrdge s. Brooks. Two hundred illus.
trations. Price S1.50 each.
THE CENTURY BOOK OF THE AMERI.
CAN COLONIES, which describes the trip of
party of boys and girls TO all the important
early American Colonies.
THE CENTURY BOOK FOR YOUNG
AMERICANS.
THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS
AMERICANS.
THE CENTURY BOOK OF THE AMER.
ICAN REVOLUTION.
All published under the auspices Of the different
patriotic societies.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
me ST. Nicholas Book O
Plays and Operettas.

A collection of plays in prose
and verse, oftentimes with
music, taken from St. Nicholas
MIgI5iEf. Illustrated, 225
pages, S1.OO.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

been leader of public thought and popular
sentiment. Its influence is felt in all lines of
intellectual work.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
PRACTICAL ESSAYS.
PHILANTHROPY AND Epu-
CATION.

TIE GOSPEL. OF WEALTH. AND OTHER
TfMEIY ESSAYS. BY Andrew tafneele' &c
tavo pp xxii S0. The Century company
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
COLONIAL DAYS
AND WAYS.

BY Helen Evertson Smith. An
authentic account of what was be-
ing done in colonial days through
out New England and New York,
founded upon letters and docu-
mentS of the Smith family of
Sharon, land going back two hundred
years. Frontispiece and decora-
tionS. $3.50.
"Such book possesses lasting and con-
stantly growing value. Congregational
ist, Boston.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02
An Interesting Statement.

W. S. Thompson, one of the Oldest
men in Highland county, furnishes the
following interesting statement as to
the number of centenarians he has
known during his residence of a life
time in Highland: James Black, pio-
neer settler, aged ia; Eli Wilson,
Revolutionary soldier, aged ITO; John
Burner. adventurer, aged 105; James
Gillespie, soldier of 1872, aged 1O4;
John Sharp, soldier 1872, aged 102; Will
liam Robertson, 104; Richard Killings
worth. 107; Bridget Brown and her
fifth husband. aged, respectively, 1O3
and 100, and Thomas SorreIl, now liv-
ing or Jackson's river, who was born
in 1899. and who is in fairly good
health.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02
500 Reward 500.

The readers OF this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded diseasethat sciencehas been able
to cure in all it's stages, and that is Ca
tarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to the medical fra
ternity. Catarrh icing a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken IN
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroyingthe foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and as
nature in doing its work. The
prOprletors have SO ~muchfaith in its Gu
powers, that they offer One Hun.
bred Dollars for any s. that it fails to
Send for list Of testimonials.
Address 4. J. CHENEY eco,
Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills arc the best.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

has the money, place any number OF
millions more in their hands. free Of
charge to be loaned at any sum they
can get, and during the last panic
money went as high as 1s6 per cent. 1t
is easy to see then how q Secretary
would be courted, tempted, bribed
if possible, by banks, to get him to let
them have the peoples money which
they get for nothing. that they might
loan it at 1876 per cent. Such power is
too dangerous to be entrusted to any
one human being, and it is little won
der that bankers throng and have
thronged the office OF all the Secreta-
ries for years as favored guests. But
these banks deposit government bonds
as security for this money. These
bonds bear 8, 4 and s per cent interest.
The banks then get interest on their
securities which is paid by the people,
and being the happy possesser Of these
securities. are thereby enabled to get
hold of the peoples money for which
they pay no interest al all, but on
which they may reap Il profit of 1876
per cent. There is a bit of doggeral
being sung, the refrain of which Is
"Wouldn't you like to be the Ice
man ?" which might be paraphrased
into "Wouldn't you like to be the Pet
bank ~
This deposit being then largely sup
ported or the principle that it is the
duty of the Government to prevent
panics, the banks which get the money
every time a panic occurs are deeply
interested in producing panics, because
they thrive on them. The practice. of
giving banks government funds to
handle has grown to such an extent,
that now the courts are holding these
banks to be parts and parcels Of the
Treasury, until nearly all the money
derived from taxation goes into the
banks and not the treasury. until a
bank trust which is to be leagued with
the government, and of course to be-
come a great political factor, is about
to form, until there is now a law be-
fore Congress making National banks
permanent institutions, and until it
has become to their interest to have
taxation high, instead of low, that
they may handle more of the hard
earnings OF the people.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

President Mckinley has sewed up a
number of mouths since he began
work on his second term mantle.
There is the mouth of Gen. Fitz Lee.
which was once very broad and ora
cular.
There is the mouth of the little Gen.
Joe Wheeler, which, though not SO
large, was a kind Of rapid firing ina
chine gun throwing lyddlte SHELLS.
There was also Gen. Rosser's mouth,
wide open once, as dangerous as a
thirteen inch ri1ed piece, known to
have a long and accurate range.
All these, and many others have been
silcnced, sewed up tightly and secure
". This il no machine work, 1t is Ill
hand made goods and warranted not
to rip. He has also taken about three
stitches in the mouth of Senator Dan
These are not warranted, but
hey sssm to b holding all right Just
VOW.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

Gov. Tyler is %rewardlng his friends
and possibly Furnishing his enemies.
He has begun on that noble ~. He
draws a distinction between paying
for a vote before and after the
election. Should his opportunity to
appoint the q to positions on the va
rlous State boards miscarry, be might
give those for whom he could not find
q place, a box of cigars.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02
Congressman Roberts Turned Out.

On last Thursday by a decisive vote
Congress refused to admit Brigham II.
Roberts, of Utah, to a seat in that
body. There were two reports in his
case. One to refuse him admission anG
the other to admit and then unseat
Congressman Quarles voted for the
latter on the first vote and for the for
mer afterwards. Thus ends d contest
which has attracted the attention o.
the entire country.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

The only criminal to whom the
doors of Congress are now barred, is
the man with more than one wife
whom be publicly acknowledges. Sol
ONION and David may have been great
Kings, but if selecting Congressional
timber, would have to be thrown into
the Gull pile.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02
Public Sale
Or
Personal PROPERTY !

The undersigned will offer for sale at pub
lie auction, at the residence of the late II. Z.
S1pe, situated on the Shenandoah River,
near Yancey, in the eastern part of Rock
ingham county, Virginia, on
Thursday, February %. 1900,
the following personal property now belong
ing to Jas. u. Sipe and John G. Weaver:
16 Head of Horses and Colts; 10 Cows,
nearly all to be fresh this spring; 81 head of
Fine Durham Steer Calves, TO BE SOLD FOR
CASH: 5 Helfers of different ages: l Thor
oughbred Bull Calf, short-horned Durham;
10 STOCK Hogs; 5000 lbs Bacon; a iot of Lard;
Cooking Stove and Kitchen Utensils; s or q
thousand feet Of Lumber; about 100 Locust
Posts; l Cider Mill and Press; Wagon Har.
ness tor eight horses, and Plow Harness for
same; 2 good Farm Wagons; 2 Bickford 4
Huffman Drills; 2 Mowers, l Champion and
l Deering; 2 Deer1ng Binders; 2 Harrows,
l spring toothed; l set Blacksmith Tools;
probably some Corn and Hay, and many
other things too tedious to mention.
TERMS-FOr all sums under $40. 90 cash
will be required, and for all am O lnts over
$l0, 10 on a credit Of six months, with approx
ed personal security; all bids are to be de-
cided by the auctiOneer, and no property to
be removed until terms of sale are fully com
piled with.
Sale at 9 a. m. sharp.
JOHN H. SIPE. Attorney-fn-Fact
for Jas. ID. Sipe. John c. Weaver
N Mary F. Weaver.
l. Hilbert, Auct1Oneer. ian 26-4t
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02
Nus IL HnirSE M ILor in n he

TRUSTEE s aoGsE Of End 4 Y IoF IA TIE
City Of Staunton. ALSO Ten ACRES
ON, in the County Of Augusta, and North
side OF Parkersburg Turnpike, about two and
one-haf miles from aunto
AS substituted trustee in q Deed of Trust
executed on the 3cth day Of April, 1892, by
Annie W. Frazier on record in d. b. No. IL, p.
246, of the Hastings Court for the City Of
Staunton to secure to the Atlanta National
Building & Loan Association the payment of
q bond in the penal sum Of s., 1900, DEFAULT
aving been made in the payment of said
bond and having been reques ed by the
beneficiaries under said deed, 1 will sell on
Saturday, February "a. 1900,
that valuable house and lot situate in the
City Of ~Staunton, known as Oak Hill or
Sears Hill. being part OF lot No. 9 on the plat
OF said hill which is on record in the Clerks
office in the Hastings Court for the City of
Staunton, D. B.. 8, p. $40. Said lot is situate
on the Northwest corner of winthrop and
| Hampton Streets (Or Sagg STREET. and fronts
fifty feet on Winthrop Street and runs back
| ty-ive and one-fourth feet. Also q parcel
orland with improvements thereon contain
ing ten acres, situate in the county of Au-
| gusta on the North side of the Parkersburg
| Turnpike, about two and one-half miles
from taunton part of which can be cultiva-
ted and the balance contains a good orchard
OF apples, pears and peaches and a number
| of grape vines.
TERMs:-For cash as to SO much of the
proceeds as m a be necessary to defray the
expenseS.Of executing this trust Including
trustee commission of five per centum, any
unpaid taxes on property and the amount
| due on said bond, to-wit: The sum OF 81, us. "a
/ with interest thereon from the 18th day of
september. 1899, and the residue Of a credit
OF six and twelve months from the day Of
| sale. The purchaser executing bonds for
the deferred payments with approved per-
l sonal security bearing interest and waving
the Homestead Exemption md the title to
be retained as ultimate security.
WIN. PATRICK,
| Jan 26-tds Substituted trustee.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02
General Butler Checked.

General Butler has met with a sever
check on his march to relieve Lady
smith. The Beers are entrenched d
few miles out from Ladysmith and
General Butler can't break through
this stronghold. The war in South
Africa is proving a sever burden up.
on the English.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

If the Kentucky Democrats have
h~ika now that they have the op-
portunlty they will take the governor
ship whether theirs or not. That's the
way the Republicans do. and that's
why they have all the officers. and are
praised a q great party. Latest indi-
cations seem to point to their having
the required sense.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

The Harrisonburg News says: "There
is destined to be a heavy emigration
from Canada to Virginia this year.
The advance couriers are already in
this county, and it is quite useless to
say that they are charmed by what
they have seen since here.n
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02
GOEBEL ASSASSINATED.

The shooting of VIM. Goebel, in Ken
lucky, is but the natural outgrowth OF
Republican party teaching there and
elsewhere. For years that party in
order to hold or gain power has not
scrupled over the means. Guitteau
assassinated Garfield that the party
might not be disrupted, and the foun-
ders of the party were John Brown,
the prince of assassins, and his coadju-
tors, and today Browns memory is the
idol it worshlps. For four years the
party waxed on arson, raIine and MUIR
der, evolved from an unjust and frati-
cidal war, and even now In what many
say is the height of its power and
glory, it every day dips its hands in
new blood, the blood Of a poor half
civilized people. who are being pur-
sued and slaughtered under the pretext
that they are rebels, when indeed they
have never yet been subjects. Since
the days Of Hayes it has been the GUS
tom of that party to get Office no mat
ter how, and when gotten. to hold it
no matter how, and while this desire
now manifesting itself in the assassi-
nation of Goebel is slightly in advance
of the usual methods employed, it is
the natural outcome of party tradi.
tions and teachings. This new blood
on the already besmeared, ~stifened,
CORY party government will freshen it
up, but the crime is no redder, no foul
or than many others in it's list. 1t,
however, gives fresh emphasis to the
fact that nothing stands in the way of
the imperialistic trend Of Republican
action and set purpose. which is that
the nation is theirs, and they intend
to hold it, that no Republican is ever
other than honestly. and none
defeated except by fraud and
corruption. and should there be those
who assume to question any Of these
assumptions, be OF they are outlaw
and may be hunted down and killed
with impunity.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

We believe the anti Boer sentiment
Of the Mckinley administration, is
the most dangerous bit of sentiment
ever INDUCED in by an American par
ty, and even now the administration
would let it 60 il it could, just as the
English let 60 of Spion Kop, being a
little too hot to handle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

The Bosr Is as quiet and peaceable
q citizen as our Dunkard citizens of
this Valley, very like them In feature
and dress, and war by us on these to
take their lands would be but little
less justifiabls than the war England
is making on these plain. hardworking
Dutch people of the T~ransvaal. with =
view of stealing their country. II
they capture Cecil Rhodes their first
act ough to be to shoot him publicly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

The Register of Land office was not
abolished any more than a certain cir
cult judgeship we know Of. No Office
is Eve abolished. Retrenchment and
reform do not begin and end that way.
They have their being in loud and
windy defamation, which usually has
neither brains nor back bone, and when
it Is confronted with g proposition to
abolish a real $1,000 OF 81. 900 job puts
ground behind it faster than a scared
rabbit.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

The Republicans should appoint a
a committee to wait on the mercantile
agency of r. G. Dun & Co. In their
last report appeared the following g.
Failures for the week have been 23l
in the United States against 224 last
wear, and SO in Canada against 80 last
year."
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

EOR RENT.-A neat eight room brick
] house with additional basement rooms
and a separate kitchen connected with
house, situated on Frederick street between
Augusta st. and Central Ave. not far from
the Postofice and market. 1t will make q
comfortable and centrally located home
for a family or any one who wishes to
keep ~boarders. The house has been newly
painted, papered and finished inside and
out. Apply to
T. G. MORTON,
Spectator Office.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

We thought Senator Clark, OF MOL
tana, was a "gold bug''Democrat, and
classed him as q Republican. We now
learn he ID a real Democrat. We beg
his pardon for chasing him as q Re-
publican. We always beg pardon for a
mistake which is calculated to injure
ones character and standing.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

SEEING that we are compelled to pay
$685., 900, 600 more taxes now than we
did when Mr.. Mckinley began his be-
nign administration, and that we do
not squeal. proves US to be the most
successful nation in the world, In
escaping the fool killer.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the passage, it is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as
mos people suppose.
Women as well as men are made mis-
cradle with kidney and bladder trouble.
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect Of
swamp-Root is soon realized. 1t is sold
BY druggists. in fifty fSk
cent and one dollar 5asszAs
sizes. You may have a g9@S + M5ss:::fszE
sample bottle by mail @sA.l!&asS8@
iree' also Pamphlet tell Home OF sw.npRoos
ing all about it. including many Of the
of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing Dr.. Kilmcr
g Co, ~Binghamton. N. X, be sure and
mention ms papeE.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-02

tA;ANTED-1C0 sucking calves, will pay
w from IS to SO for calves from one
to six weeks old. Apply at T. H. Powelrs
grocery store, No. 5 W. Main St.. or call
Mutual Phone 3O8, or drop Postal Gard to
Box 66S, Staunton. Calves from a distance
may be delivered at any depot along the
line of railroads. feb 2 Am