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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18
FACTS VERSUS HOT AIR.

Mr. NJ w. Mercereau has printed a
letter in the Richmond News-Leader
telling of II cent granolithic pave
ment laid in Staunton. The pavement
is right here to show for itself, we walk
over it every day. 1t seems to be as
good, if not the best pavement We have
ever seen laid here. There is no going
up against such facts. Theory, argu-
ment, chin music, hot air and all other
elements employed to discredit this
work, have been laid on the cooling
board. The pavement talks for itself.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18
From Long Glade.

Mr.. Ed Wade of Highland, who has
been attending U. s. Court in Harri-
sonburg, has been visiting relatives
and friends in this neighborhood for
the last few days.
Miss Walter of Staunton, spent sew
eral days this week with Miss Curtis
at Mr. g. d. Ruckman's.
Mr.. Charlie Hottinger spent several
days visiting in and around Lexington
the first of the week and reports hav-
ing fine time.
Mrs. Ella Lowman, who was thrown
from her buggy some time ago, has
been moved to the Kings Daughters
hospital.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

Professor Lowell of Boston has made
the discovery that the planet Mars has
a water vapor about it. AS long as
nothing stronger than water appears,
Mrs. Nation will not make visit
there.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

The President has had trouble ex-
planning the Panama canal deal. He
said the money, 40 millions, was paid
direct to the French government. 1t
now transpires, with due respect to the
presidents accuracy, that the money
was paid direct TO j. p. Morgan & Co.,
and there is one American who got
some rake off.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18
A Christmas Gift which will
Last A Lifetime.

Parents, while thinking of a suitable
Christmas gift for your children, have
you ever considered the value of one
that will last lifetime and increase in
value as the years go by? Can you
think of a present that will give more
joy, and happiness, and contentment,
and satisfaction, than one which will
assure your boy or girl good living,
self-support, ndependence-succes ?
The opportunity of presenting your
boy or girl with such Christmas gift
is offered you by the Dunsmore Bush
ness College. No more useful or valu-
able present could be given boy or
girl than business training course at
the ''Dunsmore. 1t will never be for
gotten, it will never wear out and it
cannot be lost or stolen. Its usefulness
and value will increase with use, and
it will make each succeeding Christ
mas brighter than the last by reason of
the increased blessings it will bring.
Such a gift only commences on Christ
mas. 1t continues year after year
bringing success to the receiver.
For further information address,
The DunsmOre Business College,
STAVNTON. VA
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

Senator Elkins is said to have pur-
chased the American National Bank
Of Washington. If reports be true as
to the dizziness with which "fne
Italian hand" is to manipulate his
finances, he has uot made the purchase
anV too soon,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

Should any newspaper men flee on
account of the threat of the president
to have some criminal libel cases insti-
tuted, they SHOULD avoid concealment
in the African jungle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

When the President some time ago
said with much emphasis in speaking
of the canal ssNow let the dirt fiy'' few
thought the job would be reserved for
the presidential spade.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

King Edward, we are told, is respon-
sible for the breaking off of the mar
rage between Miss Elkins and the
Duke of the AbruzZi. 1t it doubtful
whether Edward knew at that time
that Mr.. Elkins had purchased bank.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

Hon. Hal. d. Flood has appointed
Mr.. John T. Hartman, Jr., son of our
townsman, John T. Hartman, as ca
Diet to the Naval Academy. This is
one instance at least where the young
man is bona fide resident of this dis
trict.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

John l.. Sullivan, the old pugilist,
aas been granted divorce. 1t is
pity that in clinch of that kind, there
should ever have to be a break away.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18
Kind Words.
NEW PLYMOUTH, q.

NEW PLYMOUTH, o.
Ny Dear Friend:
Find incosed check for 81 for which
you will continue the SPECTATOR to
my address. You certainly do give the
enemy some hot shot. Ienjoy reading
your editorials. You must not give up
the fight, we will win someday. With
best wishes, | am,
Yours sincerely,
The following letter containing
subscription to the SPECTATOR has
been received
Baltimore, Md, Dec. s.
"Please send the old SPECTATOR, in
which appear your splendid editorials,
the only thing Democratic that | ever
see in print
J. f. Bryan has purchased from the
receivers Of the Va. Lumber Co., their
planning mill on Middlebrook Ave.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

Even Kansas has oily whited" its
schools. Whittier have the sweet in
auences of Mr.. John Brown been
waited ?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

Ammunition to be used by the Pres
ident in his African hunt is already be-
ing packed by various companies.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18


The kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fill
ter out the waste or
impurities in the blood.
If they are sick or out
OF order, they fail to do
their work.
Pains. achesandrheu-
natlsn come from ex-
cess Of uric scid in the
blood, due to neglected
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

1t is up to those eouncilmen and all
others who deny that II cent pavement
can be laid in Staunton, to put up. or
shut up.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
leart beats, and makes one feel as though
hey had heart trouble, because the heart is
ver-working in pumping thick, kidney
'oisoned blood through veins and arteries.
it used to be considered that oniy urinary
roubles were TO be traced to the kidneys
,ut now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ming in kidney trouble.
If you arc sick you can make 10 mistake
BY first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect cf Dr.. Kilrner's
Swanlp-Rooe, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures Of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits El
by all druggists il .ifty
cent and one-dollar siz- -
IS. You may hare zasls.: ssss .sss5sgs.
sample bottle by mail Home of swampRoot.
rec, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Dr.. Kilmer
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Don't make any mistake, but remem-
Der the name, "Swamp. Root" DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the adj
lress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every
hottie.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18

After free use OF the word 'sliar," a
wise man will betake himself to the
African jungle. A fool would probably
go about carrying chip on his should
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-12-18
Over-Work Meakens
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, 1908-12-18
A SENSITIVE JUDGE.

Chief Justice Mitchell of Pennsyl-
vania, at dinner at the Waldorf
Astor's hotel in New York last Satur-
day night given by the Pennsylvania
Society took the President Sharply to
task for his criticisms of the courts.
The courts are very sensitive but they
should recall that judges are public SER
wants, and as such are liable TO criticism
of fair and proper nature. They must
remember that offenders really build
the prisons. If there were none such,
there would be no prisons. If courts
commit no error or are guilty of no judi
cial or other sins, there will be no
criticism. 1t is the safeguard of this
country that all public functionaries
will be criticised when they do wrong.
and it is by US means contempt of
court on the part of an individual to
do SO. There is growing too much of
the LES MAJEsTE in the minds of the
Judiciary, They are still human.
The tenor of his remarks may be
gathered from the following extract
from his speech:
''The only just criticism of judges
law must come from a court which
knows the law and the Jurisdiction to
declare it. Dissent from his views,
based on individual opinion Of what
the law ought to be, whether it comes
from an executive or hoodlum, leads
directly and by short steps to anarchy
the assertion of individual will
against the settled law. The very
phrases so prominently put forward,
of Judges who have Jagged behind the
times, and judges who hold to "a TWEEN
tieth century economic philosophy
betray not only ignorance, but deplor-
able capacity to comprehend the funda-
mental principles of the American gov
eminent.
"If the law as declared by the con-
stituted tribunal is not what the peo-
pie want it to be, then let it be chang
ed; but let it never be lost sight of that
the authority to change it is legislative,
into judicial, still less executive"
The tariff will be left in the hands
of its friends, the laws regulating the
liquor traffic may find the same peace
full repository, but the idea, that only
a court can criticise a court, and that
the court criticiZing must be of high
er degree than the one criticised will
never prevail IN America, either with
the stexecutiveo or the "hoodlum."
The President has added two new
members to his Annanias club. One
is Delevan Smith, publisher of the In
dianapolis News, the other is Mr.. Lat
fan, editor of the New York Sun. VIM
Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Indiana,
is the hisser on. He clips and sends
the articles to the President for reply,
thus stirring him up. Mr.. Foulke
either wants the President killed, or
wants him to kill somebody.
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Evening star., 1908-01-19

The Defeat of Chief Red Cloud
By CARL HOVEY
Drawings by Frank Tenney johnson

plainsrnan's skill and soldiers discipline could
afford at their command at this fearful hour
Now they held their fire, order to send it in with
the most telling effect when the Indians nearer
at hand. The main body of warriors coming in
a wide semicircuar line; they a solid mass
living of sodiery, which stood out in the clear
atmosphere against the bright green levels. As
they drew and nearer with the war paint
glistening on their faces with their bounding and
ping, their hideous grimaces and unearhly vells
it looked as if nothing could stop them, if they
would overrun and efface the tiny corral like flood
Then of sudden they charged, and the rifles OF the
defenders began to crack with increasing rapiditv
The headlong rush of the Indians brought the
vanguard SO near that few could have leaped into
the corral if they had dared But they had left
slaughter behind them; their comrades falling
by scores, bullet nfctng in that press of forms
many wounds as half dozen could have caused
under ordinary circumstances. 1t not in the
nature of Indians to endure such mortal punish
ment, and at the last moment the whole band swept
to side. Again and again they rallied their forces
and charged the corral; but they reached it.
Their Fighting Spirit Gone
A FTER three hours their fighting spirit utterly
forsook them, and they returned to the hills To
their dead Red Cloud ordered the skrmishers
forward and this new movement was terrible dis
appointment to Powell's exhausted men Half
their guns were fouled and useless and they felt
themselves unable to resist another attack. Their
anxiety relieved, however, by the arrival Of
Ma or Smith with hundred men from the fort
For this battle Ma jor Powell rewarded by
promotion. Scarcely any contest with the Indians
has equaled it, and the tradition of it survives
among their superstitons. the day of terror and
calamity, when the Bad God fought against them.
Evening star., 1908-01-19

wish | could say kindler thing about them in
stead,-that they were burglars, hatrack thieves
something like that that wouldn't be utterly un-
complimentary. would prefer it; but l cant say
those things; they would not be true These people
were practical jokers, and | will not try to disguise
people; honest people; reputable and hkable
They played practical jokes upon each other with
success and got the admiration and applause and
uraly they were eager to try their arts on big game
and that was what the Governor But they
were not able to They made several efforts;
but the Governor defeated these efforts without
trouble and smiling his pleasant smile as
nothing had happened
Finally the joker chiefs of Carson City and Vir-
Evening star., 1908-01-19

ginia City conspired together to if their COM
bined talent couldn't win victory for the okers
were getting into very uncomforta BILE place: the
people laughing at them, instead of at their
proposed victim. They banded themselves together
to the number of ten, and invited the Governor to
what most extraordinary attention in those
days: picked oyster stew and champagne-luxu-
ries very seldom in that region, and existing
rather as fabrics of the imagination than facts,
The Governor took me with him He said dispar-
agingy, It's poor inve; ton. 1t doesn't deceive.
Their idea is get drunk and lea me under the
table, and from their standpoint this will be very
funny But they don know me- am familiar with
champagne and have no prejudces against it
The fate of the joke not decided until two
Continued page II
Evening star., 1908-01-19

could talk native language the tongue of every
feeling, every passion, every emotion. His eyes
could outtalk his tongue: and this is saying good
DEAL for he very remarkable talker, both in
private and on the stump He a shrewd
he generally through surfaces and perceived
what going inside without being suspected
Of having eye on the matter
When grown up persons indulge in practical
jokes, the fact cages them They have lived
row, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full
hood they still retain and cherish job lot of left
standards and ideals that would have been
discarded with their boyhood if they had then
moved into the world and a broader life. There
many practical jokers in the Territory.
! do not take pleasure in exposing this fact, for
liked those people; but what am saying is true
Evening star., 1908-01-19

O1e Ltute1ldIt tHHCy men.
The soldiers took their places in the bottom of the
gether, by blankets drawn the top. No
visible to the advancing Indians, and thus
effect of mystery gained. But pausng,
the cavacade swept on The wild riders brandish-
ing their shields and carbines, kept dashing to the
front, the young nephew of Red Cloud leading them
ALL while the Chief himself remained on the hill with
throng of warriors to watch the destruction of the
white men.
Then suddenly the sheeted flame broke from the
corral: it voey that never ceased, accurate,
death dealing, the like of which no Indian had en-
countered ever before Above all it continuous.
Although they split into two parties and surrounded
the barricade it met them everywhere, and the
heroicay they rushed into the teeth of it. the more
terrible and exhaustless it seemed to become. The
charging braves had almost reached the corral,
when, unable to endure the slaughter any longer,
they turned and scattered and rode out of rifle
Evening star., 1908-01-19

riors, moving at first in
small bodies, but gradu-
ally, as if in obedience to
the puffs of blush smoke
that arose ever and anon,
coming together in a dense
array.
The sun rose higher and
higher, flooding the level
prairie with its warm light.
Presently the soldiers saw
hundreds of horsemen is
sue from the wood, max
ing ready for a charge. A
single rider would dash
ahead, his wonderful war
finery streaming out, and
discharge his rifle; others
followed, wheeled, and
galloped back again. Soon
the whole troop was in
notion they came.
To meet this triumphant
charge Major Powell had
Evening star., 1908-01-19

L
saying, How, howl" When they were close
enough together Kennedy made lightning like
movement, running his sword through the Chiefs
body,-and was himself killed second after by
score of bullets from the infuriated band.
With such resoute, cool courage did the plains
veterans of that day 60 to their desperate work.
always outnumbered, always in such close peril as
Kennedy met. Take Powells fight with the Sioux,
Red Cloud, and his massacre bent hoIdes:
On day in midsummer Major Powell marched
out from Fort Phil kearney with small party of
regular infantry to guard wood cutting expedition
In the forest at the foot of the mountains several
miles from the fort the wood choppers were work
ing. Powell made his camp on the plain nearby.
Red Cloud on the War Path
A Ii knew that Red Cloud had taken the war path
4 with host of fighting men, and the smoke sig
nails frequently seen on the mountains caused them
to expect the worst. Therefore, an extraordinary
effort made to strengthen the position of the
camp. The commander had at his disposal number
OF wagon bod1es,-as only the running gear used
to haul the wood,-which were of a kind recently
issued by the Government made of boiler iron, with
loophoes in the sides. These were laid flat on the
ground, end to end, to form barrier oval in shape,
extending completely round the camp 1t CHANGED
that the men had been supplied with new breech
loading rifles of superior Sort and they had
eral OF these new guns apiece, together with large
supply of ammunition, the little company was now
able to offer determined resistance if attacked
Meanwhile the wood gathering parties worked
with might and ma in to finish their dangerous task.
As each wagon train left for the fort party of SOL
diers accompanied it. Other soldiers were detailed
TO guard the choppers at various points, while the
rest kept a close watch in the corral
One morning four cattle herders brought to camp
the news which each man had been silently expect
ing The Indians had ridden down the wagon train
driven Oft the escort and burned the wagons Large
bands massing in the mountains under the
leadership of Red Cloud and the great Chiefs of the
Sioux. They had brought their squaws and
children with them,-a certain sign that they
counted easy victory over the garrison at
the fort, and thought to plunder and hold
orgy of exult alton.
1t then a little after sunrise The morning
mist rolled away from the plain, and the hillside
above the forest could be the figures of the war
Evening star., 1908-01-19


When they reached the hills and re-
ported to the Chiefs their terrible 4
losses, the natural rage of the savages y
was mingled with vast surprise How ~
it possible for the little corral to ILlz4
contain many rifemen to keep up &
that continuous fire? They resolved to ANA
crush them at once with the whole enor- ~
nous force Three thousand braves "9&&1Z98
were Immediately assembled and or TEsMx
dered to strip for the fight, to carry ~
nothing but their rifles and ammuni- 4sIf@X
ton and shields of bulls hide. This
attack to be made foot. %&Ssssz
Hundreds of the best Shots who ys
armed with Winchester carbines
that had been captured from the troops
the year before, led the way as skr-
mshers. They warily stole along the ravines or
protected themselves in the tall grass, until they
encrcled the corral, upon which they delivered such
fire must have destroyed every man it but for
the impenetrable sides of the wagon boxes.
Powells returned their shots with the peculiar
grim composure of soldiers who facing death
Brave Lieutenant Jenness, having thought it neces-
sary to expose himself during the first charge had
been killed, and one of the privates had been shot.
But otherwise the little force unweakened
They had cleaned their guns and cooled the breeches
with water, and the poorer shots had been told off
to keep the marksmen supplied with freshly loaded
rifles All the power and indomtable spirit that
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-29

that he retract what he had put into that
lecture he wrote a reply, refusing, and
what he had to say to his archbishop ought
to be read by every man and women in the
habitable world. No Freethinker could
say aught more radical, or anything that
could be more expressive, or more clearly
to the point. 1t contains the sum of all
argument and indicates just what an in
dependent course of study will accomplish
when freed from the trammeling influences
of church domination. portion of that
reply made by Father Minochi is repro
duced as follows:
What? You ask me, as a man Of honor
and as a priest, to declare openly that i
believe which l do not believe? You want
me as a historian to say that a story in
vented by fiction writer several thousand
years ago, about the doings Of a God who
had a garden on earth and who took there
his evening constitutionals Is true? You
want me to say that l believe that in the
garden lived a man made of mud and
woman made of the rib of the man made
of mud and that from a certain tree in the
garden a serpent spoke to them and
tempted them to eat the fruit which that
God coveted for himself? l shall never be-
lieve anything of the kind, nor shall l ever
say that / do"