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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
AMAZING THEFT.

In Everybody's Magazine for Octo-
Der, appears an article by Owen Wlster
on the graft practiced in Pennsylvania g
capital building. For their oppOrtu
mites possibly nothing like it has ever
been accomplished. He tells first of a
shoe shining stand made and sold to
SaDderson, the contractor, for $125.
Fifty dollars, be says, would duplicate
it. Sanderson added two chairs and
two brass foot rests, and resold it to
Pennsylvania for 81 ,6l9 20.
An Office table which cost Sanders0n
$40. as charged to the State at ST Az.
Two rostrums costing Sanderson 81 060
be put off on the State at $9O,74S ~.
Chandeliers ahd fixtures of this char
acter for which Sanderson paid 1868,
900, and which included profit of 50
per cent. to the makers, SandersOn
charged to the State at 81 O41 .522 81
This job be subcontracted and after
paying his subcontractor the amount
OF his contract price he, Sanders0n,
had left a profit of 81 800, 00O out of
the chandeliers and lighting fixtures
alone. So Oh in a Thousand ways was
the State robbed.
1t cost the State of Pennsylvania
So. $40, 600 to erect the building and to
furnish it. it cost SIS. 5SS. 740.55 These
figures actually are appalling. This is
almost unbelievable. When one reads
such figures be stands amazed, not
only at their enorIuity, but at the
holiness OF the his hw@y men who thus
hold up whole State. 1t would seem
to do such things and SO
clothe them as not to be discovered.
Yet these facts remained hidden unit
there was Democratic upheaval in
and Democratic Treas
urer, or as they called it Reform Treas
urer, elected, who began to enquire
into expenditures and ask questions.
Of course charges were made long be-
fore the real facts were known. While
these charges were pending and the
of 1905 Was in full sway, the
which resulted in the cleo
ton of Berry. the Reform Treasurer,
Senator PenrOse and other politicians
such as Gov. Pennypacker, we're de
the charges as false and
Senator Penrose said, The
Republican party has no apologies to
offer. What it has done in the past it
will do in the future" But Mat Quay
more far sighted than all the polite
ians who had lived at the States ex
pense and who had had his arm ia the
Treasury many and many time to
the shoulder, had said to bis friends
before his death, Keep out OF that
Capital Job, for every man in that will
60 to the penitentiary.
The results are that more than twen-
ty indictments have been made, and
the architect, Huston, AID the conlrac
tor, SandeIson, tavc f-d the State.
How many more will depart remains
to be seen. HOW different al Ibis from
our own capital building here III VIZ
giuia, We had the Insignificant SOM
of $3.50 600 appropriated TO improve
our building, and the careful expendl
ture of lhe money and the glorious
results achieved stand as an eternal
monument to the honesty of those
whom Virginia trusts in the manage
ment of her public affails.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
New HlqhInnd Bank.

A new bank, to be known as the
Citizens Bank OF Highland. was Or
ganized last week at Monterey with a
capital stock of $40 900. Tue following
are the officers Charles P !.
Jones, vice president. III. E Colaw;
cashier. q. NJ. LunsfOrd. Directors
L Fl. Stephenson, Il E. Colaw G. T..
Fleisher, Ehas p. Jones.J w Hevsn-
er, V. b. Bishop aud W M. McNulty.
AS soon as the charter is procured aud
a building equipped operations will
commence.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
ANOTHER CANAL.

The President is going down the
Mississippi to look out the route for a
canal from the Lakes to the Gulf. Pos
sibly be will allow the little job down
IN Panama to be completed before he
begins the Lakes and Gulf proposition.
But this does not prohibit the spying
out of the land, nor the gathering of
steam shovels. nor the bunting up of
Shonts, nor the visits of his cabinet
officers to the various States to see
how the land lays These all are nee,
essary adjuncts to such work. The
jobs and multitudinOus kinds of Graft
will come later
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
Have You an American Flag In Your
Homer

That splendid home newspaper, The
Philadelphia Press. offers beautiful
American Flag-size 3x5 feet-guer-
anteed fast to sun and rain, stripes
sewed. not printed. and the Daily edi-
tiOn of their publication for one year
for So so This is just about the price
of the paper alone-$3 80 is the total
expense to you, 80 that you get the flag
almost free. Hand your check Oh
m opey to your Postmaster or News
dealer or mail it to the Circulation De-
p lrtment of The Press, Philadelphia
aud the paper aud flag will be mailed
at once Money returned for the ask
ing if you are no satisfied.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
:, heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble. because the heart is
over-worki7g in pumping thick. kidney
poisoned t'ood through veins and arteries,
1t used TO be considered that ONLY urinary
troubles were TO be traced to TIE kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ming in kiGneJ trouble.
you are Sicl, you can make no mistake
By first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect CT Dr.. Kilner's
Swamp=Root, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. It stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits G1T
by all druggists in fifty f.r's
cent and one-dollar siz MI. lIs Ill.
es You may ha &c a 1=sss.. Es = :EIsEEsgsg
sample bottle by mail Home of swamp.Roos
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing DR.. Kilmer
& Co.. Binghamton. N. 7.
Don't make any mistake, but remem-
her the name, swamp Root" DR.
Kilmer's Swamp Root. and the ad-
dress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every
bottle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
frrom our REGULAR Uorrasoou len,

| ftTOm our - EGlar COrrhSCDn len J
Washington. ID c., Sept. % -Presi.
dent Roosevelt came back to Wash
ingtou this week to find ri immense
accumulation OF work Oh Ills desk to be
dispatched before he could S. art on bis
western trip. There were nun Der OF
details to be settled about the voyage
! of the battleship 20 ladron to the Pa
cific, the chief of these being the ques-
tion of coal contracts. There has
| been an attempt on the cart of the coal
trust and the ship owners to hold up
the United States on coal price. The
bids of the native producers both for
furnishing the coal and transporting
it have been decidedly higher than the
offers from abroad. There is no ex-
cuse in the case of the coal and some
but not much in it's transportation
The American ship owners claim that
they cannot transport coal or freight
of any sort as cheap in American bot
toms as in foreign vessels, and this is
true to some extent, owing to the
higher wages paid American seamen
and the greater expense of running
American vessels. The President says
he is willing to make some allowance
for this in favor of American bidders,
but that the total bonus for American
ships ought not to exceed $20O, Co.,
This is generous allowance and prob
ably will be accepted by the American
ship owners when they find that they
cannot get any more.
One of the first matters settled by
the President on his resumption of
work was the name of one of the new
20. 600 ton battleships. Secretary of the
Navy MetcaIf submitted the matter.
There had been great deal of pressure
brought to bear in favor of naming
the new ship the New York. But it
was pointed out that there is already
a cruiser New York and that several
other of the cities of the Empire state
low pCCA uOAOl GU Wy udViuE WdTSulpS
named after them, so the new 20 OO9
tonner which is as yet officially known
as mo. 49, will be called the North
Dakota. The sister ship will be named
the Delaware, rather an enOmoly by
the way, to have the biggest battleship
in the navy named after next to the
smallest state. But that is the deci-
sion and it leaves only the state of U tab
still unrepresented in the battleship
fotilla. There will soon be The new
state of Oklahoma putting in it's claim
for name and after that the territories
will have to be recognized and then
there will have to be some other means
found for identifying the battleships
than by naming them after the states
Speaking of Oklahoma, the Presi-
i dent has decided to approve the con
stitution adopted by the people not
w1thstanding that some of it's provi-
si0ns are not at all satisfactory to him.
1t is fOrgone conclusion that the new
state will be permanent addition to
the Democratic column. There has
been but one Republican representa-.
tive elected to Congress and the first
act of the new legislature Will be the
election of two Democratic Senators.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
Synod Of Virginia

The one hundred and twentieth an
nual session of the Synod of Virginia
Church, Charleston. w Va, on Thurs
day, October Gath. A large attendance
is expected. The opening sermon will
be preached by the retiring moderator.
DR.. Alfred Jones, of fredericksburg.
Mr.. g. e. Lewis is chairman of the
committee on entertainment.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
dOW'S This Z

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J.CaENEY & Co., Props. ,TOledo,O
We the undersigned have known FL
Cheney for the last IS years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions andhnanciallyable to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WALDING, KINNAN u MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, 0.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken int ernally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cOus surfaces of the system. TestimO-
mails free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all druggists.
Take 'i.ll's Family Pills for consti
patton.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
10 Admit Oklahoma

President Roosevelt announced last
Friday that he would approve the
Oklahoma constitution. He said he
had examir ed the document with the
attOrney-general, and that be felt that
the question Of his approval ought not
to be based upon his personal opinion
of the document. but upon whether it
act. His personal opinion of the docu-
ment, the president laughingly said,
was mot fit for publication. The
PRONUNCIATION of bis approval will be
m ade later.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Gen. Cecil q. CLAY who founded the
town of Ronceverte, W. Va, and gave
1t its name, died In Washington on the
23d of last month. He was prom oted
for gallantry at the battle of Chapin's
farm where he led the Union forces
over parapet. He was three times
wounded IN the charge. losing an arm.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

The Bishop of London preached IN
Old Trinity church, New York. few
days ago to the million aires and some
of them stood through the whole dis.
course His text was appropriate, but
he might have reminded them more
forcibly of their duty by telling of MIC
odemas. then possibly those who could
not get seats would have found 1t con-
venlent to leave the church before the
sermon WAS over.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Bids have been asked for carrying
coal to the Pacific for our fleet. For.
eigners bid much lower than our home
vessels. The President has stated that
be Will allow 5000. 900 more to our peo-
pie than be will give the foreigners for
the same work, and yet We claim to be
a free people.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Gen. Luke Wright who has been our
Minister to Japan, says that all talk
about war with the Japanese is not
even respectable romance" He does
not think any civilized nation would
have the Philippines as a gift-hence
knows The Japanese do not want them.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
NEVER DRINK COCKTAILS.

Vice President Fairbanks who was
a candidate for appointment AS DEL
egate to the QuadrennIal conference of
the Methodist church which is 10 meet
In Baltimore, has been defeated The
fight was one OF the bitterest, say the
dspat ches from Columbus, Ind. hat
W as ever Waged in d religious assem-
biz, and his defeat WAS brought about
by prohibition delegate, and grew
out of the celebrated ''cock-ta lei
lent of which SO much has been sa
Appropos, the Detroit Free Press re-
wise Mother Goose and asks:
Who drank the cocktail?
Not |, said Fairbanks;
II said mo thanks
l drank no cocktail"
Who ordered the cocktail?
Not l." answered Teddy
Nor my secretary,
We ordered no cocktail"
Who made the cocktail ?
Il" said the bartender,
II need no defender,
made the cocktail"
Who saw the cock tail
"I"' said the preacher,
A temperance teacher,
II saw the cocktail"
Who paid for the cocktail ?
Not we." they all said,
1--WE hope to drop dead,
We paid for no cocktail"
Who knows about it :
81" said Bishop Berry.
1.-The whiskey and cherry,
know about it..
Then such g talking,
And wrangling and chewing.
Denials and statements,
And much interviewing.
And upt this day,
1t has never been found,
Though cocktails were served,
Who paid for the round.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

he kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fill
ter cut the waste OF
impurities in the blood.
If they are sick or out
OF order. they fail to do
their work.
Pains, aches andrheu-
Matls!n come from ex-
cess OF uric acid in the
blood, due to neglected
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Joseph B. Scott, son of Samuel A.
Scott of Lewisburg, W. Va, took 30
grains OF sulphate of morphine 10 his
rooru at the Hotel Ruffner in Charles
ton aud died shortly after.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

The grave Of Gen. Robt. POrterfield,
a very distinguished man in bis day,
1, In field down on the banks of
South river with nothing but two un-
lettered limestone rocks to mark it.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Before Mr.. Taft gets back from bis
tour around the world, what is ''all the
world to him, may vanish into MOTH
iDgness.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Have you travelled the Churchville
road i? If not take a drive over 1T.
Possibly You will want just such a
road out your way.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Mr.. Choate says the Peace Confer
ence planted a great deal of seed. The
kind of peas they planted will never
make this OF any other land rich.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

One member of the police force Of
Staunton has made a decided hit. 1t
Is hoped more hits will be made by
them.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

While the lawyers at Newport News
talked the judge fell asleep. Who can
blame the judge?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

tennis court. and we blush for the
State.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

The Barr fight" at Jamestown
seems to be the leading attraction on
the Warpath.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04
OYer=WOrE< Weakcns
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Automobiles when they pass toll
gate. as they do about every five min
utes on the Valley pike, are required
to stop, sign their names in book,
give the number of their machine, their
place of residence and pay the toll.
The cussing they do on this account
is not statutory requirement, though
it is great relief to the weary travel
er, and frequently gives deep coloring
to the atmosphere looking toward the
Blue Ridge.
If President Roosevelt would arrange
with Congress to pass laws which
would allow us to build a few ships
like the Lusitania, instead of the
Dreadnaught, he would perform real
service. Our war is on with the COM
mercisl world, and we are in no shape
to fight. Let's win the war of trade
and the other wars will be easier, less
numerous and less to be dreaded.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-04

Entered at the Postof1ice al StauntOn, Va,
as second class mail matter.
Evening star., 1907-11-10

is dead; longing tor release IS IN their place. 1t
comes at 1ast,-the only imprisoned gift earth ever
had for them,-and they vanish from world where
they were of no consequence; where they achieved
nothing; where they were mistake and failure
and foolishness there they have left no sign that
they have existed-a world which will lament them
a day and forget them forever. Then another
myriad takes their place, and copies all they did,
and goes along the same profitless road, and van
ishes as they vanished-to make room for another
and another, and million other myrads, to fol-
low the same arid path through the same desert;
and accomplish what the first myriad, and all
the myriads that came after it, accomplished
nothing!
narily stating the foregoing details in her own
halting language, after long brooding over them
alone in the privacy of the nursery.
A year later, she was groping her way alone
through another sunless bog but this time she
reached lest for her feet. For week, her mother
had not been able to go to the nursery, evenings at
the chld's prayer hour. She spoke of it. was sorry
for it, and said she would come tonight, and hoped
she could continue to come every night and hear
Susy pray before. Noticing that the child wished
to respond but was evidently troubled as to how
to word her answer she asked what the difficulty
was Susy explained that Miss Foote the governess)
had been teaching her about the Indians and their
religious beliefs whereby it appeared that they had
thinking. AS result of this thinking, she had
stopped praying: She qualified this statement
that is, She modified itt;-saying she did not now
pray "i in the same way she had formerly done.
Her mother said:
Tell me about it, dear"
well, mama the Indians DelleVed tney knew
but know they were wrong. By and by,
it can turn out that wrong So now only
pray that there may be God and Heaven-or
something better"
1 wrote down this pathetic prayer in its precise
wording, at the time, in record which we kept OF
the childrens sayings, and my reverence for it has
grown with the years that have passed over my
head since then. Its untaught grace and simplicity
are childs; but the wisdom and the pathos OF it
are of all the ages that have come and gone since
the race of man has lived, and longed, and hoped,
and feared, and doubted.
A Precocious Inquirer
ITO go back year-Susy aged seven. Several
L times her mother said to her:
There, there, Susy, you mustn't cry over little
things.
This furnished Susy text for thought. She had
been breaking her heart what had seemed
vast disasters-a broken toy; rcIic Cancelled by
thunder and lightning and rain; the mouse that
was growing tame and friendly in the nursery
caught and killed by the cat,-and now came this
strange revelation. For some unaccountable reason.
these not vast calamities. Why? How is the
size of calamties measured? What is the rule?
There must be way to tell the great ones from
the small ones; what is the law of these proper
Continued page IS
Evening star., 1907-11-10
Her Childhood

THE summer of Susy's childhood were
mira, New York; the other seasons of the year at
the home in Hartford Like other children, she was
blithe and happy fond of play; unlike the average
of children, she at times much given to retiring
within herself, and trying to search out the hidden
meanings of the deep things that make the puzzle
and pathos of human existence and in all the ages
have baffled the inquirer and Knocked him AS
little child aged seven, she opposed and per-
picked by the maddening repetition of the stock
incidents of races eeting sojourn here just as
the thing has oppressed and perplexed ma
turer minds from the beginning of time, A myriad
of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle
for bread; they squabbe and sco1d and fight; they
scramble for little advantages each other;
age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; shames
and hunliations bring down their prides and their
vanities; those they love taken from them, and
the JOY of life is turned to aching grief. The burden
at length, ambition is dead, pride is dead, vanity
Evening star., 1907-11-10

days later when my wife and Clara were about
half way across the ocean, l standing in our
dining room, thinking of nothing in particular, when
a cablegram put into my hand 1t said:
Susy peacefully released to-day
1t is one of the mysteries of our nature that
man, all unPrepared can receive thundeIstroke
planation of it. The intellect is stunned by the
shock, and but gropingly gathers the meaning of
the words: The power to realize their full import
is mercfuy wanting The mind has dumb sense
of vast 1oss-that is all 1t will take mind and
memory months and possibly years, to gather to-
gether the details and thus learn and know the
whole extent of the loss. mans house burns down
The smoking wreckage represents only ruined
home that was dear through years of and pleas
ant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks
go on first he misses this, then that then the other
thing. And, when he casts about for it, he finds
that it was in that house Always it is essential
there was but of it's kind 1t cannot be replaced
II in that house. 1t is lrrevocably lost. He
did not realize that it essential when he had
it, he only discovers it now when he finds himself
baked, hampered, by its absence 1t will be years
before the tale of lost essentials IS complete, and
not till then can he truly know the magnitude of
his disaster.
The Last Tidines
THE eighteenth of August brought me the awful
tidings. The mother and the sister were out
there in mid Atlantic, ignorant OF what was hap
pening; flying to meet this incredible calamity.
All that could be done to protect them from the
full force of the shock was done by relatives and
good friends They went down the bay and met
til morning. and then only to Clara. When she re-
turned to the state she did not speak, and did
need to. Her mother looked at her and said:
Susy is dead
At half-past ten o'clock that night Clara and her
mother completed their circuit of the globe, and
drew up at Elmira by the same train and in the
same car which had borne them and me westward
from it one year, one month, and one week before
And again Susy there-not waving her well
the glare of the lights, as she had waved her
farewell to thirteen months before, but lying
white and fair in her coffn in the house where she
born
The last thirteen days of Susy's life were spent
in Our own house in Hartford, the home of her child
hood and always the dearest place in the earth to
her About her she had faithful old friends,-her
pastor, Mr. Twche who had known her from the
cradle, and who had a long journey to be
with her. her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Crane; Patrick, the coachman; Katy, who had
begun to serve. when Susy child of eight
years; John and Ellen who had been with us many
years; also Jean there.
At the hour when my wife and Clara set sail for
America, Susy was in no danger. Three hours later
there a sudden change for the worse. Menn-
gifts set in, and it Immediately apparent that
She was death struck. That Saturday, the
fifteenth of August
That evening she took food for the last tim" "