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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-02-14

( COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VALUA
BILE PROPERTY IN MOSCOW
AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA The
undersigned, Sale Commissioner, appoint
ed as such by decree of date Novem Der 10.
1901, in the chancerv cause of H. s. Rus
misell, ct ais, VS.. F. q. Neff. pending In the
circuit court of Augusta county, Virginia.
house in the city of Stauhton, Va, about
IL o'clock NJ, on
Monday, the oath day of February, 1902,
that certain lot or parcel of land, together
with the improvements thereon situate,
and all rights, privileges and appurtenan,
ces thereuntO belonging. or in any way ap-
pertaining, lying and being in the village
of Moscow, Augusta county, Virginia. be-
ing the same property conveyed to the said
F. q. Neff by the said H. L. RusmiselI, ct
ais, by deed dated March 8, 1900. recorded
in the clerks Office of Augusta county
court, in D : B. No; 1S1. page 566.
H. H BLEASE,
Commissioner.
l. Jos B. Woodward, clerk of the circuit
court of Augusta county, do certify that
the bond required by the comm issioner in
the cause of II. L Rusmisell. ct ais. VS.. F.
G. Netf. by decree of date November IS,
1901, has been duly executed by IL. Ii.
Blease, Given under my hand this 18th
day of January, 1902.
jan "a st JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk
pUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
ESTATE IN AUGUSTA COUNTY,
VIRGINIA,-Pursuan to decree of the
circuit court of Rockingham county, rem
dered on the 22nd day OF April, 1901, in
the chancery cause therein pending under
the style of Geo w. HOllar's Crs., VS.. Geo.
W. Hollar's Heirs, we will, on
Thursday, the 9th day of February, 1902,
at 11:30 O'Clock a. NJ, at the front door of
the County Court House in Staunton, Vir-
ginia, make sale of the tract OF about sixty
acres of land in the county of Augusta
near Roman. adjoining the lands of Per-
ry, RoIlman, Huff and Switzer, with
buildings and improvements thereon sit
uate, upon the following
TERMS, o-wit:-One third cash and
the balance in one and two years from
date with interest from date, to be evi
denced by bonds of the purchaser with
approved security.
JOHN E, ROLLER,
JOHN T. HARRIS,
Special Commissioners.
John 7. Harris, who has already exc
cated bond in this cause, as Special Re-
ceiver, IS authorized to receive the pur
chase money Hereunder.
Atteste: D. H. LEE MA RITZ.
Jan "a At Clerk,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-02-14
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know it.
How To Find Out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours;
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-02-14
SATURDAY.. March 18th. 1902.

at IL O'Clock NJ, in front of the county court
house, in the city OF stanton. TO sell at pub
lie auction. to the highest bidder, that GER
tain tract or parcel of land situated ON the
waters OF Back Creek in Augusta county,
adjoining G. A. Conner and others, contain
ing one hundred and twenty-seven and one
fourth Q27A) acres, known as the s'Heizer-
man Tract being the same which was con-
Yeyed to the SAID Blue Ridge Mang & L. NJ
Co. by the heirs of Daniel Heizerman by
deed dated Sept 14th, 1896, of record in the
clerks office of tn county court of Augusta
IN Deed Book No. 1876, page 152, upon the
following
TERMS, O-wit:-One-tenth N-IO) cash in
hand on day of sale and the remainder in
three lual annual talments, due in one.
two and three years from the date of sale
with interest from the date of sale, said de-
ferred lnstalments of purchase money to be
evidenced by the bonds of the purchaser
with approved personal security, waving
the homestead exemption and the title to be
retained as ultimate security.
RUDOLPH BUMGARDNER,
Comm issiOner
I, Jos. B. Woodward, Clerk of the Circuit
Court OF Augusta county, do certify that
the bond required by decree of sale of date
the l4th day of November 1901, in the cause
of Settler, &C., VS., Blue Ridge Manganese
and Iron Mining Co., ct ais, has been execut
ed by Rudolph Bumgardner, Commissioner
Given under my hand this 4th day of Feb
ruary, 1902.
JOS. B. WOODWARD. Clerk.
feb Eats
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-02-14

II you have any repairing in the jewelry
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LEN
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-02-14

wonderful discovery
and a book that tells 6sfI;I!''::lss
more about it, both sent :s q:
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address DR.. Kilmer & Home
Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When
ton reading this generous offer
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-02-14
JOHN E, ROLLER.
JOHN IT. HARRIS

John 7. Harris, who has already exc
cated bond in this cause, as Special Re.
ceiver, IS authorized to receive the pur
chase money Hereunder.
Atteste: D. H. LEE MARTZ,
jan "a At Clerk,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-02-14

( COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, Feb IL, 1872.
Cootes' Admir-, etc.
VS..
COotes' Heirs, etc.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Uncle Sans Slot Machine,

A business man who wanted book
keeper stated his need in an advertise
ment The notice was seen by a young
woman who was out of work and who
had searched for employment day aft
er day without success. She had just
a cent left. This she spent for a postal
card on which she wrote a reply to the
advertisement and dropped the card in
a street letter box.
Her application impressed the bust
ness man favorably, and he wrote to
her, asking her to call at his office. She
did so and secured the position.
Her modesty and worth, no less than
her capability, so won upon her en-
ployer that before many months had
passed he offered her his heart and
hand, and she accepted and became
his wife
'And to Think" he said one day dur
ing the honeymoon, that it all came
from your spending your last cent for
postal card and mailing it at a street
corner
'Yes," she replied, with a smile and
a blush 81 dropped a penny in the slot
and got husband" youths Compan-
ion.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02

sumo that, even at the beginning of
the year 1901, the stocks Of copper in
this country were beyond the work
ing limit.
The copper market opened in 1901
rather dull at the official prices of
IL cents for Lake and 1914 cents for
electrolytic, but actual sales were
made at 1875 cents for Lake, and at
1914 cents for electrolytic. BY the
18th of January, 1902, the official pri-
ces had fallen to 111s cents for Lake
copper.
The worlds production of copper
in 1901 was 511,SO3 long tons, as
against 4S7, 2O6 tons in 1900, 463,-
693 tons in 1899, and 429,3 79 tons in
1898.
BY far the most important of the
new mines which have entered the
worlds market in recent years is
that of the Greene Consolidated Cop
per company, whose properties are
located at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
There is every reason to believe that,
before the close of the current year,
the production of this company will
reach 100000 pounds of fine cop
per month. Such a rapid devel-
opment has never before been wit
ressed in the copper-mining industry
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
THE GREAT JOKE, DEATH.
Funny Side OF Dying often Treated
of In Literature

Oh
"Death," said a publisher, has been
treated humorously in our literature
often. Indeed | am quite sure that
collection of many thick volumes might
be made under the title Of Deaths
Funny Side Thomas Hood was one.
of our best writers of this sort of
verse. Don't you remember his ballad
on the young sailor who died heart
broken over his girls unfaith? The
last stanza was:
ellis death, which happened in his berth.
At forty odd befel;
They went and told the sexton. and
The sexton tolled the bell.
"Hood did another ballad on the sub
ject of a soldier who lost both legs in
battle, who was in consequence Tilted
by his sweetheart and who then hung
himself Now. that is rather tragic, is
it not? 1t has a bizarre but none the
less poignant tragic note. Guy de
Maupassant indeed once handled al
most this same situation, but he ham
died it from the opposite viewpoint,
and don't you remember how he mar
rated the first, the crucial, meeting of
the lovers after Ben Battles double
amputation?
"But when he called on Nellie Gray
She made him quite a scott,
And when she saw his wooden legs
Began to take them off.
"This treatment drove Ben to de-
spair:
$50 round his melancholy neck
A rope he did entwine
And for the second time in life
Enlisted in the line.
"And there he hung till he was dead
AS any nail in town;
For, though despair had cut him up,
1t could not cut him down.
"There is a tremendous literature of
humorous epitaphs. There must be, l
fancy, 10000 of these. but two of them
are all can recall. The first goes:
''Here lies the body of mild Maria;
She went one day to start the fire,
But the wood was green,
So she used kerosene,
And now she's where the fuel is drier.
'The other is grimmer:
Life is a lie, and all things show it;
| I thought so once, and now 1 know it.
"Then there are songs on the side
splitting aspects of death, some Of
which have caused tender hearted Ia
dies to double up with mirth. Johnny
Jones and His Sister Sue is one such
song, and bet that six people out Of
| ten in America know it by heart.
EYES," the publisher concluded, "un-
der the title of Deaths Funny Side an
anthology of many, many volumes
could be made. The anthology should
be bound in black pigskin, with grin
ming skulls and crossbones fooled in
gold on philadelphia Record.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
He Ought to Know.

Here is something which might
well be read twice by young men who
are drifting into politics this fall
something for them to remember
when they see office-seekers trying to
curry favor with gamblers and i've
keepers-something to recall if the
idea creeps in that a man must drink
and treat and consort with the tough
crowd in order to win success in pol
itlcal life-something to think about
when fellows who do so and fawn and
toady about the beer and whisky ele-
ment are asking for his support.
When we come to the question of
good citizenship the first requisite is
that the man shall do every DAY, hum
drum duties well. man is not a
good citizen, | do not care how lofty
his thoughts are about citizenship in
the abstract, if in the concrete his
actions do not bear them out, and it
does not make much difference how
high his aspirations for mankin dare,
IL he does not behave we'll in his own
family those aspirations are not going
to be very visible fruit He has
got to be bread winner; he has got
to take care of his wife and chill
dren; he has got to be neighbor,
whom his neighbors can trust; he has
relations. In fact, he has got to do
a. those every day; ordinary things
or he is not good citizen.
That comes from man who may
safely be counted as a pretty success
full politician-one Theodore Roose-
Velt.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
ACCIDENT GAVE 1T ORIGIN.
Confetti Was COnceit of Frenchman
WITH a Yankee Genins

WIN u Yankee Genius.
Some things that fall under ones OBJ
seryation every day and are regarded
as commonplace are really somewhat
extraordinary. Among these confetti
may be mentioned The history of con-
fetti is rather curious. Several years
ago large printing works in Paris was
turning out immense quantities of cal
endars, through which small round
hole had been punched to receive an
eyelet for holding the sheets together
A heap of the little circular scraps of
paper cut out by the punch accumulat-
ed on table and one of the machine
men amused himself by scattering a
handful Of them over a working girls
hair. She Immediately snatched up
a handful and threw them in his face
Other girls followed her example, and
the first confetti battle began.
The head of the establishment came
in when it was at its height, and being
what the Americans call q smart
man." he at once realized that there
was money in it" He ordered special
machinery, placed large quantities of
the new article on the market, made a
fortune and created a new industry.
Paris now supplies nearly every part
of the civilized world with confetti and
single orders for fifty tons are not I'M
common
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
His Maiden Speech.

1t is related that when the Earl of
Rochester in the reign of Charles II.
rose to make his maiden speech in the
house of lords he said: my lords, my
lords, rise this time for the first time
the very first time. My lords, di-
vide my speech into four branches"
Here there was an embarrassing pause
of some seconds. "My lords" the earl
then calculated, "if ever l rise again
in this house you may cut me off, root
and branches and ALL forever"
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02

The Boston Journal tells story of
an actor who was accustomed to spend
his summers in Wilton, Me. There he
noted when, as the custom was,
farmer killed a critter" the liver,
sweetbreads, kidneys, etc, were
thrown away. He offered to purchase
these delicacies; but, though he got
the goods, the sturdy farmer scorned
his proffered gold" Not long after he
observed as he walked through the vii
lage that he was the cynosure of all
eyes and was followed by wondering
if not admiring crowd, chiefly of the
young. aha" thought he, 81 cannot
escape my fame. My glory as an actor
has followed me even to this obscure
hamlet" And he was nightly puffed
up till he overheard one yokel shout to
another, bill, there goes the Teller
what eats innardsw
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
The Arabs of Syria.

Among the Arabs of Syria a man
changes his name after the birth of
his eldest son, assuming the name
which has been bestowed upon the
heir, with the prefix Abu, meaning
"father Of" Thus, if the son is called
Fudle Allah, Goods Bounty" the IA
Their will be henceforth known as Abu
Fudle Allah, Father of Gods Bounty"
In like manner the mother would be-
come known as En- Fudle Allah, Moth
er of Gods Bounty" This custom is
not merely one of common speech, but
extends to all occasions and even to
legal documents. Still more strangely,
even when man though married has
no son the courtesy of oriental soci-
ETY. demands that he should be adj
dressed as Abu Salim or Abu NAH
mould, after an imaginary son whom
politeness confers upon him.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Necklace of Ants.

A necklace made of black ants is an
article of adornment of New Guinea.
The Anglican mission there gives par
ticulars of one which measured over
eleven feet long and was composed Of
as many as 1900 bodies of ants. Three
little pieces of shell and a dozen Eng
lish beads were incorporated into it,
and there was a native string holding
it together, yet it's weight only reached
2 drains 2 scruples Is grains. These
large black ants make big nests in the
native gardens, and the native women
and girls catch them, pull off their
heads, bite off and swallow the other
end and thread the thoraX.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Light ON an old Subject.

Old Mrs. Hubbard, several years aft
er the poem appeared in print describ-
ing her fruitless visit to the cupboard
in search of bone for her poor dog,
was speaking of the incident to her
next door neighbor.
'In the first place." she said, cit
wasn't worth making a poem about,
and, in the next place, the man didn't
get it right. l saw the dog was hun
CRY, and l went to the icebox and got
a nice piece Of raw beef for him. |
don't feed my dog bones. And if l did
I wouldn't keep them in the cupboard.
The cupboard wasn't bare, either. 1t
was just as well filled as anybody's''
what do you suppose made the fell
low say you went to the cupboard?"
asked the neighbor.
Gle couldn't think of any other
rhyme for Hubbard" replied the aged
dame, lighting her pipe with a fresh
coal of fire. "These puff poets puff,
puff make me Chicago Trib-
une.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02

The monks of the middle ages divid-
ed the kiss into fifteen distinct and sep
arate orders-the decorous, or modest
kiss; the diplomatic, or kiss of policy;
the spying kiss, to ascertain if a wom-
an has drunk wine; the slave KISS the
kiss infamous, a church penance; the
sli@per kiss, practiced toward tyrants
the judicial kiss, the feudal kiss, the
religious kiss kissing the cross, the
academical kiss, or joining a solemn
brotherhood; the hand kiss, the Judas
kiss, the medical kiss, for the purpose
of healing some sickness; the kiss of
etiquette; the kiss of love, the only
real kiss.-London Tit-Bits.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Travelling In Japan.

nese railways says when a native lady
enters the car she slips her feet
from her tiny shoes, stands upon the
seat and then sits demurely with her
feet doubled beneath her. A moment
later she lights a cigarette or her little
pipe, which holds just tobacco enough
All Japanese people sit with their feet
upon the seat of the car and not as Eu-
ropeans do. When the ticket collector.
attired in a blue uniform, enters the
car, he removes his cap and twice
bows politely. He repeats the bows as
he comes to each passenger to collect
the tickets from them.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
A PROPHETIC JEWEL.
The Peculiar Ring That Was Owned
by, Marquise du Barry.

Marquise du Barry, whose lovely
head fell into the basket beneath the
guillotine in eXpiation of her levity,
extravaganza and folly, had in her pos
session a stone of which the Paris
jewelers. were unable to tell the precise
nature.
There appeared upon it below the
surface and as if under water an out
line of picture containing human fig
ures. Strange to relate, when first the
gem was given to its afterward unfor-
tunate possessor this outline was not
clear, but after it had been some
months in her possession it grew more
vivid.
One day the negro boy, Lamor, who
was afterward instrumental, from re-
venge, in the downfall of the Du Bar
ry, declared, looking at the jewel that
he could decipher the figure of a wom-
an with disheveled hair leaning be-
fore a scaffold and surrounded by a
crowd, while beside her stood the exc
cutioner
A strange but authenticated circum-
stance is that the negro servant boy
precisely described the guillotine DR..
Guillotine had not then invented his
celebrated instrument of death, nor
had the horrors of the revolution be-
gun.
Snatching the jewel from the hand
of the servant Nine du Barry exam
ined it, saw the kneeling woman, the
angry crowd, the death knife falling,
and, with a cry of agony, fell sense
less to the floor.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
A Very Queer Custom.

A curious custom takes place in vii
lagos of the Luxembourg district, Bel
GUM, in May. After Sunday service
numbers of lads cluster round the
church entrance and as the girls come
out seize them one by one, one lad
grasping a girl by the shoulders and the
other by the heels, the two lifting her
well up while third pumpkin passes
under the human bridge thus formed.
This,is done in the presence of the par
ents, who themselves have passed
through the same ordeal.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02

II was at luncheon the other day."
said a north side woman, where the
hostess was a graduate of Smith col
lege, three of the guests were gradu-
ates of Wellesley, two went through
Vassar, two had been Bryn Mawr
girls, and the other ladies present were
graduates of Northwestern, the Uni
versity of Chicago and Wells. respec-
lively"
"Well," one of her hearers said, Iii
must have been very interesting. How
l wish l could have been therel What
did you talk about?'
LET me see. Oh, yes-about how
hard it is to keep helpr'-Cbicago Rec
ord Herald
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Why Americans Drink.

"Pleasureable emotional excitement
is a great relaxer," says a writer in
Ainslee's. Every kind of work is
liable to leave the muscles and nerves
tense and overdrawn. We often see
muscle tonus corrugating the brow,
rigidifying the face or attitudes and
showing that innervation impulses con-
tinue to flow out from the nerve cen
tiers after toll is over We Americans
lack the very words gemuth and esprit,
and it is very hard for us to entirely
forget the struggle for existence in So
cial intercourse. The careful studies of
Partridge and others show that the de-
sire for this kind of unbending is one
of the chief causes that lead Ameri-
cans to drink, because they have lost
the power to feel the normal eXhilara-
ton which inebriation stimulates. In
stinct points to this as a great boon,
and so it is sought over cups and glass
es in the conviviality that comes from
artificial stimulation. A little more roll
licking jollity, with jest and quip with
congenial friends, the tale the song,
perhaps the quiet, harmless game that
does not overtaX the system--of all
this we have too little in our stern
American life, with its tendencies to
overtonicity and cramps of will and at
tentiOn"
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Not to Be Sat On,

During a football match in Belfast
between Ireland and Scotland an en-
thusiastic supporter of the Irish team
kept crying out, "Sit on them, Irelandp'
There was an old Scotchman beside
him who endured this for time, but
at length, unable to stand it any longer.
he turned round and impressiyely 4e-
marked:
Eye can sit on the leek, mon, and
mebbe We can sit on the rose, but tell
you, mon, ye Gamma sit on the thistle. "
-Pearson's.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Great Water bumpers.

An acre of grass land, according to
experiments, gives off not less than
6,40O quarts of water in twenty-four
hours, and an acre of sunflowers would
give a relatively greater quantity. In
fact, swamps have been reclaimed and
malarial marshes rendered innocuous
by planting sunflowers or eucalyptus
trees, which are great bumpers Of wa
ter and also exert other influences
counteracting baneful conditions of air,
earth a&d water
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Orchard Park Addition.

Forty acres of choice fruit and gar
den land adjoining the plated por-
ton of the city, for sale in tracts of
from one acre up. Rich soil, good
drainage, excellent water, beautifully
located. An ideal place for a home.
Prices within the reach of all Easy
terms.
Apply to the Conrad National
Bank, or of J. B. Gibson, room 25,
Conrad Bank Building
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
Rats and Mice and Large Animals.

How many people are there who
know that elephants, rhinoceroses and
other large thick skinned animals have
formidable enemies in rats and mice?
These small, rascally rodents have
found that the feet of the elephant are
excellent eating and have no hesitation
in gnawing at them when the animal
lies down, when, owing to it's confined
condition, it is not very well able to
defend itself against it's puny enemies.
To protect these vast creatures it is
found necessary in most menageries to
keep terriers about the cages. These
little fellows very soon dispose of the
pachyderm's tiny adversaries. 1t was
recently discovered in a we'll known
menagerie that the mice and rats had
been very busy with the hide of rhi-
noceros. A Scotch terrier, Fanny, was
put into the cage of the huge beast and
in the first night she had killed no few
er than twentyseven rats. In a few
days there We're no rats left to nibble
the hide of the poor rhinoceros.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
The Whole Thing.

Seediman-I saw your advertisement
in this mornings paper and I've called
to see what you'd give me for these
half dozen volumes.
Bookman-But we advertised that we
would buy whole Libraries only.
Seediman-Well, this is my whole
hbrary.-Catholic Standard and Times.