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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
DANGERS OF PLUTOCRACY.
AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO
DESTROY OR BE DESTROYED.
New Orleans Picayune.

ANCW OIlcdIlS L lCdy uIlcs
The Presidential campaign entangle-
ment in the tentacles of that all-power-
full, as far as money is a power, octu-
pus, the Standard Oil Corporation, is
rapidly becoming one of the most fla
grant and hideous political scandals in
the world, and it is exciting comment
in every civilized country where there
is newspaper press.
1t has already twined its suaky folds
around leading men, who hold posi-
tiOns of high trust in national and
State governments. 1t has paid them
large sums of money TO command their
services in securing desired legislation
for or against measures in which the
octupus was interested, and it has been
claimed to be able to work its will
throughout the country, to exercise the
right to violate the laws with absolute
impanity, and by donations through
its chief owners, in cylleges and uni
versities, to be seeking to control the
education of the younger generations
of the American people to regard it
with favor.
Money is coming to be great pow
er in this grand republic of ours. 1t is
already becoming the basis of what is
claimed to be the highest American
social aristocracy, and that fact of it.
self creates a wonderful desire and mo-
tive power on the part of the American
people to get wealth. The ability of
great financial corporations to create
and control political conditions in their
interests has been demonstrated. If it
shall be developed that such sinister
instrumentalities shall be able also TO
dominate society and education also,
then there comes up the certainty,
sooner or later, that the American peo-
pie will have to destroy power so
deadly to civil liberty, to political
safety, to social purity, and to truth
and honesty, or their republic will be
destroyed by it.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
Cold Storage and the Worlds
Appetite.

The dinner tables of the nation, its
fauna and flora, have been profoundly
affected by the application of the prin-
ciples Of cold storage. Whole States
have been made over into kitchen gar
dens or orchards or pasture and ranges
because of the invention of the refrig-
orator car. The first international con-
gress Of refrigerator industries has met
at the Sordonna, in Paris, the members
of which believe that theindustries are
susceptible of vast future develop
ments. A fleet of 800 refrigerator
ships supplies Great Britain alone with
cold storage imports, valued at $780,,
600, 900 in 1907, compared with imports
of ST. 900, 600 in 1885. The annual cold
storage commerce Of the United States
amounts to $24O,OOO,0OO. By new in
ventions and economies that come of
organized effort these figures may soon
be doubled and trebled. The congress
at Paris is part of worldwide CASTRO
nomic and dietetic uplit.-New York
Times.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
so DECEPTIVE.
MANY STAUNTON PEOPLE FAIL TO RE-
ALIZE THE SERIOUSNESS.

MANY sTAUNTON PEOPLE FAIL TO RE-
ALIzE THE SERIOUSNESS.
Backache is so deceptive. 1t comes
and goes-keeps you guessing. Learn
the cause, then cure it. Nine times out
of ten it comes from the kidneys.
That's why Doan's Kidney Pills
cure it. Cure every kidney i'll from
backache to diabetes.
Joseph G. Clarity, living on Market
ST., Charlottesville, Va, says: 'Previ-
Gus to using Doan's Kidney Pills I
suffered severely from acute pains
across the small of my back. | was
confident that this trouble originated
in my kidneys, as the secretions from
these organs were irregular in action.
Frequently when L was in a stopped
position, l was hardly able to straight
en-, and sharp shooting pains would
catch me in the small of my back when
so doing. l would arise in the morn
ing feeling tired and lame and would
often have to lay off from work. l
tried many remedies but did not sue
ceed in finding relief until Doan's Kid
ney Pills were brought to my atten-
ton. ] used them and they went to
the seat of thestrouble at once, and cur
ed me. | have had no return of the
complaint since, and | earnestly en-
dorse Doan's Kidney Pills as a reliable
kidney ermedy."
Plenty more proof like this from
Staunton people. Call at b. f. Hughes
drug store and see what his customers
report.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cts
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's Sand
take no other.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
Dollar Bills by Weight

''Dollar bills are worth almost their
weight in gold," bank president said
the other day to depositor.
eyes, | suppose they come in handy
for change and are easy to carry" the
depositor replied absently.
"No; | was speaking literally" the
bank president said. "We got into an
argument in the bank here the other
day as to how much dollar bill weigh
ed. A twenty dollar gold piece weighs
$40 grains. We found that twenty-sev-
en- crisp, new one dollar bill weigh the
same as twenty dollar gold piece.
We tested some bills that had been in
use and found that it took but twenty
six of them to balance the gold piece
1 suppose that twenty-six used bills
gather an accumulation of dirt in pass
ing from hand to hand that weigh:
about what one new bill does. -
Kansas City Star.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
VIRGINIA FOURTH
IN SLATE Output
Pennsylvania, New York and Maine
Lead in This Industry.

ROOFING SLATE IN WHICH VIRGINIA
EXCELS, IS DOMINANT FACTOR IN
THE TRADE-MILL STOCK is NORTH
ERN SPECIALITY.
Slate valued at $6,019, 22O was quarri-
ed and sold in the United States in
1907, according to report by A. 7.
Coons, just issued by the United States
geological survey, as an advance chap
ter from "Mineral Resources of the
United States, Calendar Year, 1907"
AS compared with the value of the pro-
duction in 1906 this is an increase of
$3.50, S74, and the output has had great
er value in only one year, 1908, when it
amounted to $6, 256, 1856.
Commercial quantities of slate were
produced in 1897 in the following States,
named in order of value of output;
Pennsylvania, Vermont, Maine, Vir-
ginia, Maryland, New York, Califor-
mia, Arkansas and New Jersey. The
value OF the slate product by States in
1906 and 1907 is shown in the following
table:
Value of slate produced in the United
States in 1906 and 1907, by States.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
How is your Digestion !

Mrs. Mary Bowling of No. 228 Sth
Ave, San Francisco, recommends a
remedy,for stomach trouble. She says:
"Gratitude for the wonderful effect of
gestion, prompts this testimonial. l
am fully convinced that for stomach
and liver troubles Electric Bitters is
the best remedy on the market today"
This great tonic and Alternative medi-
cine invigorates the system, purifies the
blood and is especially helpful in all
forms of female weakness. soc at p.
F. Hughes drug store.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
Knew What He Was Doing.

For once the American had discover
ell something British that was better
than anything that could be produced
his own country. His discovery was
a fine collie dog, and he at once tried
to induce its owner, an old shepherd,
to sell it.
"Wad ye be takin' him to American"
inquired the old Scot.
ayes, L guess so, said the Yankee.
"I thoght as muckle," said the shep-
herd. 81 couldn' part VII Jock"
But while they sat and chatted an
English tourist came up, and to him
the shepherd sold the collie for much
less than the American had offered.
"You told me you wouldn't sell him, u
said the Yankee, when the purchaser
had departed.
''Na." replied the Scot: 81 said
couldna' part vii him. Jock'll be back
in day or so, but he couldna' swim
the Atlantic. y
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
IOWA BOASTS LARGEST
GOLDFISH HATCHERY.
HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS OF FINNY
BEAUTIES RAISED ON FARM
NEAR THORNBURG.

Iowa is credited chiefly with being
an agricultural State, but it does other
things besides growing corn and fatten-
ing cattle and hogs For instance,
down at Thornburg, Ia, is the largest
goldfish hatchery in the United States.
Very likely the goldfish that swim
around in the glass globe aquarium in
your home or your neighbours home
came from this hatchery, for practical
ly all of the little finny pets sold in the
Middle West came fIom there.
This unique institution is located on
an eighty-acre tract of land, in COM
Portable slough in which is a series of
eight ponds, rangiug from few rods
to six acres in area. Around them are
windmills and reservoirs of fresh water,
,gravelled walks and cultivated fields.
We are told that the first pond,
which CLEANS with gold, is inhabited
by ''comets." The owner calls sixty
thousand trough estimate of the
number of little fish in that one pond.
Comets, when salable are worth from
$40 to $40 d hundred. They ascend on
chromatic scale of values during four
years until in the fourth year all are
salable. Color, shape, fins and tail,
variety and age set the price of fish, in
much the same way that other animals
are sold.
The next pond is fairly alive with
japanese fantails, colored anywise
from bright red to black, white, silver
and orange. The pointed and fan
shaped tails, the wealth of fins and
their brightness soon distinguish them
from their fellows. 1t seems too bad
that the fins become whipped out on
the stones and roots in the ponds. These
fish are more valuable than the others
and range from $40 to $40 hundred.
When fully colored choice specimens
of all the different fish are taken up to
the fish house, where, in cemented
tanks, they await sale. The house is,
like horticulturist's made with glass
in the roof.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
Seven Years of Proof.

II have had seven years of proof that
DR.. Kings New Discovery is the best
medicine to take for coughs and colds
and for every diseased condition of
throat, chest and lungs says W. V.
Henry of Panama, Mo. The world has
had thirty-eight years Of proof that
DR.. Kings New Discovery is the best
remedy for coughs and colds, la grippe,
asthma, hay fever, bronchitis, hemorr-
hage of the lungs, and the early stages
of consumption. Its timely use always
prevents the development of pneumo-
mia. Sold under guarantee at B. f.
Hughes drug store, soc and 81. Trial
bottle free.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

Fewer New Workers own their ov n
homes than the residents of the other
cities in the world. The reason is a SIM
pie one; the land is so valuable that
none but the very wealthy can afford
its purchase OF the 391, ,6S7 families
living on Manhattan Island only 16, ,3i6
hold title to the homes they occupy.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
Opportunity.

The two sat on the park bench look
ing at the moonbeams dancing over the
lake.
'Just one, Dorisn' he pleaded.
"'Shn' she whispered. ''I feel as if
some other man were watching us!''
Just then the moon accommodating
ly went behind cloud-and the man
in it disappeared Chicago tribune.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
Her Identity.

Farmer Honk (musingly)-"They
say Deacon Klutchpenny's wife was
a paragon before he married her,
and"
Mrs. Honk (briskly)-"Nothing of
the kind! She was Smith! |
knew the whole family. Puck.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

The Cheat River Electric Railway
Co., it is stated, has made application
for charter to build line along Deck
creek via Deilslow to Cheat river in
West Virginia, and work is expected to
begin Immediately.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

The Southern Railway, it is reported,
has completed a connecting line four
the n. & w. belt line near Lynchburg
for the interchange of traffic.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

The Levisa Lumber Co. of Hunting
ton, w. Va, has been incorporated
with capital stock of 800, 600, for the
purpose of operating lumber plant at
Pikesville, Kentucky.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Items That Will Interest Many of
Our Readers.

Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Jackson River Power Co.
of Clifton Forge, to build water pow
er electric plant. The company's capt.
tai stock is $1,000.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

The Virginia Metal Culyert Co. of
Richmond, large manufacturing con-
cern, has purchased site at Roanoke
and announced that its big plant will
at once be taken to that city.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

Rails for the new electric line that is
to connect Keyser, w. Va, and Pied
mont, and Bloomington, Md, and
which will also give through connec-
ton to Cumberland, Westerport, are
being laid rapidly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

Manufacturers Record: Brief facts
as to the plans of the Craig Water
Power Co. of Roanoke have been re
ceived. The company was incorporat-
ed last week with maximum capital
stock of 5000, 900. A. L. Sibert is pres
ident; Louis A. Sch0lz, vice president,
and Henry Scholz, secretary-treasurer,
all of Roanoke. This company will
control two water power properties, the
first being Meadow Creek, with 800
cubic feet of water per hour as a mini
mum in the dryest weather and head
of 800 feet, estimated to furnish 800
horse power in "a hours. The Sec
ond property is Johns Creek, the min
imum horse power being 1900 in "a
hours. This property has head of
$50 feet. 1t is the plan of the Craig
Water Power Co. to build an electric
plant and transmission system TO fur
nish electricity for lighting and power
purposes in Roanoke.
The Pittsbrug-Buffato Company of
Pittsburg, mentioned last week, has
made an arrangement with Hanna q
Co. Of Cleveland, Ohio, whereby they
agree to handle all the coal for lake
shipment from the Francis, Hazel and
Rachel mines of the Pittsburg- Buffalo
Co., which is estimated for the present
year at 400, 900 tons, and will increase
from year to year for period of five
years. Hanna & Co. become the eX-
elusive agents for this company for coal
10 be shipped via lake from these mines
only. In addition to the cold sold to
Hanna q Co., the Pittsburg Buffalo
CO. is establishing selling agencies at
the head of the lakes for coal to be
shipped from West Virginia, Ohio and
mines in Pennsylvania other than the
three above named. With the new
mines now being opened in the States
mentioned the Pittsburg-Bufalo Co.
will have an annual production of be-
tween 100000 and 100000 tons by
the year 1910.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

Five is the sacred number of the Chi
nese, who have five planets, five cardi-
nal points, five virtues, five tastes, five
tones, five ranks of nobility
and five cOlOrS
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-06

For troublesome hiccoughs try tea
spoonful of granulated sugar and three
drops of vinegar or lemon juice.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16

terms OF ONCE. and until their SUCCESSORS
may be elected and qualified under the
provisions OF these amendments, and all
officers whose terms OF office would expire
after these amendments take effect and
prior to the election and qualification of
their successors in once, at the election
for the respective offices first held under
the provisions of these amendments, shall
continue in Office until their successors
can be elected and qualified, at the cleo
ton for such office or offices to be held
next after these amendments take effect.
according to the provisions hereof.
The Legislature shall pass all neces-
sary laws to arrange the terms OF ONCE
Of all statutory elective officers so that
said TERMS may be in harmony with these
amendments. and to carry into effect the
provisions hereof.
These amendments, IL adopted, shall
take effect and go into operation on the
first day OF February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16

roc MUCH BRAINS" TO DRESS WE'LL.
stenographer who goes to work dressed
as If for a party. Her shabby finery is
not only pathetic, buff you will ex-
cuse a strong Notwithstanding to me.
1t shows that we women cannot seem
to grasp the right idea of work or of
the fitness of things; that we cannot
progress beyond chiffon frills and
cheap but gaudy flowers in our hats,
but must have them even when they
are of poor quality.
But l have even less patience with
the clever emancipated specimen of
1myssz whu much Drafns to
dress well.
81 can't be bothered" she assures
you, and that's where she makes the
mistake of her life.
Brains and plain, tasteful dressing
are not incompatible. Far from 1t. A
woman is a woman first and her any
thing she wants afterward. No matter
how much gray matter she has, her ex-
terror should be sweet and attractive
and charming. By neglecting this part
of her personality she proves that she
Is not so clever as she thinks she Is.
When a woman does anything she is
apt to run to extremes. Let us be well
balanced and remember that we owe 1t
to the world as women always to look
u best. MARGARET ORDWAY.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
OF NEW JERSEY BY THE LEois-
LATuRE OF 1908.
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT REsoLu-
TON. NO. Q.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

Be IT RESOLVED (ths Senate concur
ring), That the following amendment to
the constitution of this State be and the
same is hereby proposed. and when the
same shall be agreed to by q majority OF
the members elected to the Senate and
House of Assembly the said amendment
shall be entered on their journals, with
the ayes n nays taken thereon, and re-
ferred to the Legislature next to be
chosen, and published for three months
prior to the first Tuesday after the first
Monday OF November next. in at least one
newspaper of each county. to be designat-
ed by the President of the Senate. the
Speaker of the House of Assembly and
the Secretary of State:
Amend by striking out paragraph seven,
section four, article four. and insert in
place thereof the following:
Z. Members of the Senate shall receive,
annually, the sum of one Thousand dollars,
and members OF the General Assembly
shall receive. annually, the sum of ten
hundred dollars during the time for which
they shall have been elected and while
they shall hold their office. and no other
allowance or emolument. directly or indi-
rectly, for any purpose whatever. The
President of the Senate. and the Speaker
of the General Assembly shall, In virtue
of their offices, receive an additional COM
pensation, equal to one-third OF their al
lowance as members.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
RAT cATcHERs.
One of the Methods by Which They
Make Big Hauls.

Make Big Hauls.
RAT catchers, like horse tanners, try
to make a mystery of their trade" said
a zoo keeper.
He pointed toward the large gray
rats that played about the corners of
the carnivora house.
But they can't mystify me in any
phase of the rat question" he went on.
Living as I do, surrounded by an
army Of the largest. finest rats, I know
the animals too thoroughly. 1 could set
up as a successful rat catcher tomor-
row.
"This Is the way the men work.
They go to the infested place late at
night with a pair Of tongs, a powerful
lantern and q lot Of bags.
'They walk softly about in the dark
ness, and they make a low, chattering.
whistllng noise, like this"
At the sound all the rats in the cor
ners of the big room looked at tho
keeper inquiringly. He went on:
This Is the signal whereby a rat
tells his mates that he has hit on good
feeding. That sound made In the dark
gathers rats as polasses gathers flies.
The catcher, having made II, opens his
strong lantern, the rats are dazed by
the light, and he picks them up with
his tongs and drops them in his bag.
"Of course there are other ways to
catch rats, but of the secret, mysteri-
GUS ones this is the best."-Exchange.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
HOLES IN GLASS.
They Are Too Tiny to See, but Air Can
Work Through Them.

Ordinary tumblers will hold water
because the globules of water are too
big to squeeze through the glass. But
glass is as full of holes as a sponge.
and air blows right through it because
the specks of air are smaller than the
holes.
Put a bell into a big globe of glass,
seal up the vessel, pump out all the
air, then ring the bell inside, and you
hear nothing. There is not air enough
In the globe to carry a sound. But lay
the globe aside for a month or SO, and.
no matter how carefully you have
sealed up the neck, you will find that
you then can hear the bell when you
ring it. Air has got into that globe.
Enough anyway to carry a sound has
glass.
The ordinary incandescent lamp is a
glass globe with the air pumped out,
and after a few months sufficient air
leaks through to dim the light which
comes from the thread of electrified
charcoal inside.
We can make plenty of vessels to
hold water, but nothing has been made
which will hold air without any leak
age. The air sneaks in through holes
which are too small for the human
mind to imagine.
In fact. everything leaks.-London
Answers.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
Don't Be a Morbid Girl.

When people have real trouble to
contend with they do not sit down and
nnalyze their emotions and remember
whether this person or that person
looked to the right or to the left when
they spoke to them and exactly what
the tones Of their voice and the eIeva.
ton Of their eyebrows meant, as the
morbid girl does.
Morbidness should be accounted 8
wicked deHsoh that can be driven out
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
Answers.
No School.

The teacher was giving an exposi-
ton on culpable homicide.
eff I went out In a small boat he
said, land the owner knew 1t was
leaking, and I got drowned. what
would that be?"
After a few minutes silence a little
boy stood up and said:
"a holiday, sirr"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16

Ladies' and gentlemen" said an
irish manager to an audience of three,
las there is nobody here I'll dismiss
you all. The performance of this night
will not be performed. but will be re-
pented tomorrow evening"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16

there's are of chocolate brown velvet
The coverings of the furniture are vel.
low. The furniture is of Santo Do
mingo mahogany. A rug combining
tints of yellow and buff adds to the
beauty of the room, as do also brown
prints which harmonic with the walls.
r. DE LA BAUME.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
Wearing Apparel.

Customs Officer Ito woman traveller
from the continent-I thought you
said, madam, there was nothing but
wearing apparel in your trunk. What
about these three bottles of cognac2
"Oh, those" said the lady, "are my
night caps."-Tit-B Bits.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
BROWN AND YELLOW ROOMS

They Are Becoming the Fad of the
Moment.
No longer are glaring tones the fash
ion. Soft wood browns and subdued
yellows are in demand for interior dec
grafton.
The illustration shows a room sim.
ply but effectively planned. 1t han
golden brown walls inset with panel
ings of dark brown wood. The por